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Artist: V2 SCHNEIDER Title: Best Of 1981-85 Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"The LP is kind of an Best of Album of his cassette releases from 1981-1984. It«s like an industrial version of DAF with english and german lyrics." - Was Soll Das? Platten. One time edition of 200 copies.
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Artist: V2 SCHNEIDER Title: Document Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "2nd Longplayer from Rosenheim, featuring the 2 tracks of the WILDE GIER 7" and some other brilliant tunes. Edition of 250." - Was Soll Das? Platten. |
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Artist: V3 Title: Russian Roulette (Chinese Style) Format: 7" Label: Birdman Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"20 minute sound collage from these Columbus art rockers" - Birdman. Jim Shepard and friends.1995 release.
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Artist: V8 Title: Luchando por el Metal Format: LP Label: Beat Generation Country: Spain Price: $20.00 |
| "It was 1979, during the Argentine dictatorship, when Ricardo Iorio and Ricardo Moreno decided to start a heavy rock band called Comunion Humana. Two months later some tracks were arranged and Gerardo Osemberg joined ´em as drummer. Inspired by fast engines and the intensity of their playing, the band took V8 as their moniker. During 1980-1982 they played lots of shows that were filled with dramatic incidents: disturbances, arrests, detentions, and event deaths. For these reasons the image of the band was totally conditioned and people started to hate them. In 1982 they recorded their legendary demo-tape and started to receive more attention from others countries. They played lots of gigs, some totally sold out and others empty because crowds hated their rock image and attitude. In 1983 they recorded their debut album Luchando por el Metal ("Fighting for the Metal") with their classic line-up: Ricardo Iorio on bass, Osvaldo Civile on guitar, Alberto Zarmarbide on vocals, and Gustavo Rowek on drums. Before disbanding in 1987 they recorded more albums and their status grew, making them a reference and inspiration for many metal heads all around the world. V8 were chased, ill-treated, and despised for their social lyrics and also for the incidents that occurred at every show. As we mentioned before, there was a tragedy at one show in Estadio Platense, where fighting with the police resulted in deaths. Beat Generation is more than proud to release this record officially for the first time, a total cult piece of South American metal: a record perfect for the times we are living in now. 180 gram vinyl, limited to 500 copies. Comes in original cover with lyrics insert." -Beat Generation. |
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Artist: VACANT LOTS Title: Confusion Format: 7" Label: Mexican Summer Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Hailing from the wooded confines of Burlington, Vermont, THE VACANT LOTS are musicians as well as scientists, having built a time machine that will transport your headspace directly to the Sunset Strip in 1967. "Confusion" and "Cadillac" are both prime-cut psychedelic burners, heavy-lidded and strobing with the delights of the era, pristine examples of atmosphere and attitude lent to great pop-rock songwriting. Edition of 300 copies." -Mexican Summer
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Artist: VACUUM Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Although they only got a couple of spins around the earths axis, Vacuum were the band who wrote the clay tablets from which all great Christchurch groups worth a plug would glean substance to formulate THAT sound. Originating in 1977 & consisting of members Bill Direen, Stephen Cogle, Peter Stapleton, Peter Fryer & Alan Meek, Vacuum perfected an aural symmetry that fused classic Nuggets, Roxy, Elevators & Velvets moves as a template & this unique plonk would become germane for all that sailed after. Deep collectors will recognize these tracks by name from various prior releases, but these particular recordings-culled from 78/79 rehearsal tapes-are being made available here for the 1st time, EVER. Kicks would go on to become an early staple in Direens Builders discography, but the guitar on this version is particularly & wonderfully unhinged. The beautiful serenity of Cogles Shade - masterfully driven by Meeks keyboard--is as crisp out of the gate as the later honed version familiar in the oeuvre of the Victor Dimisich Band. The real thunderclap of the bunch is Accident (another take can be found on The Builders Beatin Hearts lp) where it sounds like someone spiked the Tia Maria with peyote & as a result, the band has psychically disemboweled Heard Her Call My Name & fed the guts to Amon Duul. Ive said it for years, electric liqueurs dont lie! One time edition of 300. File alongside; Six Impossible Things, Pin Group, Builders, Victor Dimisich Band, Above Ground, Scorched Earth Policy, Dadamah & Terminals." - Siltbreeze.
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Artist: VACUUM Title: Walking Slow Format: 7" Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Edition of 300. A long wait to be sure on this one, but well worth it. Second installment of archival tracks from this legendary Christchurch outfit, culled from cassette recordings circa 1978-78. For the uninformed, Vacuum were the genesis, the ground zero, the guys that forged the ChCh "sound". While the bands lifespan was short, its members would go on to soon after form Bilders, Pin Group, Victor Dimisich Band, Scorched Earth Policy & Terminals. Before Flying Nun, before ANYTHING, there was Vacuum. These recordings are being offered up for the 1st time, ever." -Siltbreeze. |
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Artist: VAGINA DENTATA ORGAN Title: Live In Berlin Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
 
Vagina Dentata Organ performance recorded live at NK, Berlin, March 31st 2012. Previously released as Allegory Of Cosmic Violence on Tochnit Aleph.
This edition released on the occasion of the Extreme Rituals Schimpfluch Gruppe festival at the Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, on the night VDO performed as part of the 3 day event (Nov.30th - Dec.2nd 2012). Comes with a flier for the festival. Limited to 100 copies.
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Artist: VAINICA DOBLE Title: Heliotropo Format: LP Label: Vinilissimo Country: Spain Price: $26.00 |
| "Heliotropo (Ariola, 1973), the second LP by Vainica Doble, strikes me as the discovery of the world in little more than half an hour -- a treatise on the human condition, from childhood until death, based on the small things. Themes on this album include disappointment and the necessary courage to face mistakes, the road that lies between perception and memory and that vital path that appears once we have cleared out the fallen leaves that were hiding it. Its the recalled memories that will make up our life, as life is just firm present and feeble past. Carmen Santonja and Gloria van Aerssen speak to us, sometimes as the worried mother, other times as the warm lover that whispers secrets in our ear and, finally, as the slightly older friend, wiser and more experienced, who tries to show us lifes twists and turns. They possessed an intellectual and vital knowledge light years away from their contemporaries, an unusual curiosity and talent, and their musical references were as wide as scarce were their prejudices. Often considered two kind and sensitive angels, they were indeed that and much more too: malevolent, sweet, sarcastic, intelligent. From each of their tracks flowed a power and talent that showed us a thousand ideas. Social commentary, folk and fuzz hand-in-hand, treatises of luminous psychedelia born out of a childrens tale, the scent of the southern seas, and more. They carried Spanish copla and traditional songs in their hearts and the old (even then) musical movies of the 40s in their memories -- all of it strung together by a decadent melancholy that provokes an almost unhealthy attraction. What in others were anomalies poured from Vainica Doble as something natural, fluent, truthful. Nothing in them seemed forced: rock, copla, folk, French chanson, nursery rhymes, etc. And standing behind it all is the great Pepe Nieto: arranger, producer, and artisan who was able to reproduce and support their natural, iconoclastic personalities. Their songs were and still are buoys of memory. Familiar places in which to find shelter. Every time we visit them something wonderful happens." --Ximo Bonet. Vainica Doble were one of the most unique artists in Spanish music. On Heliotropo, they brought together rock, folk, Spanish copla, French chanson and lullabies to create music completely their own. Deluxe gatefold 180 gram reissue with original artwork and liner notes." - Vinilissimo. |
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Artist: VAINICA DOBLE Title: Taquicardia Format: Double LP Label: Vinilisssimo Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl reissue of one of Vainica Dobles strongest and most experimental albums. Folk, jazz, pop and traditional Spanish music create a beautifully haunting and captivating LP. "In 1984, the Spanish Movida movement was in full bloom and the people taking part in it professed the same devotion to Vainica Doble that British punk displayed towards teen idols such as Marc Bolan. But it would be hard to find a record from those years more impervious to the Movida than Taquicardia, the authors of which seemingly didnt know about such admiration or didnt care about it. Eternal dilettantes, it wasnt strange that the career of Gloria van Aerssen (born in 1932 in Dos Hermanas, Seville) and Carmen Santonja (San Sebastian, 1934) moved forward, most of the time, due to the encouragement of a fan. But this jump without safety net, as Mario Pacheco described it, only could have happened on a label as pathologically respectful towards its artists as Pachecos Nuevos Medios imprint, and at a vital point such as the one the duo were going through during the middle of the decade. It was his enthusiasm which took them out of their silence to record their sixth album and the end of a cycle, as their later recordings would finally be an epilogue of what culminated here magnificently. Elegant, classic, austere and, nevertheless, sounding at times like genuine avant-garde, Taquicardia is the reflection of a critical stage in the life of its authors. Disillusioned by the poor repercussion of their two previous albums for Guimbarda, the outstanding El Eslabón Perdido (1980) and El Tigre De Guadarrama (1981), Gloria and Carmen had found themselves at the peak of mature age and empty-handed. The duo delivers here their most personal, introspective and bitter work, which surprisingly becomes, as if by magic, a superb collection of calls to chaos, libertarian fables and exultant love songs. Passion becomes idolatry, gallant coplas (Spanish popular songs) are touched by grace, pieces of marital bitterness, all of which culminates in an anthem of incredible beauty such as Sígueme, clean, stripped, overwhelming. Gloria declared being so ashamed of the tracks almost pastoral tone that she refused being credited for it. Of course, its her voice which will make the song remain forever. Stripped of the glitz they had displayed in the preceding years, its harder to find here the source of popular and academic music which could usually be heard in their music. But that clarity allows us, more than ever, to enjoy the boldness of many of their song structures and, of course, their vocal harmonies. These two pieces of vinyl contain their most refined work." --César Sánchez aka Fulgencio Pimentel; Liner notes in English and Spanish by César Sánchez." -Vinilissimo. |
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Artist: VAINICA DOBLE Title: Vainica Doble Format: CD Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $19.00 |
| "Probably the rarest and most sought after LP in the Spanish collectors market, the first album by Gloria Van Aerssen & Carmen Santonja is at last reissued on CD as it deserves. On the twelve songs they wrote for their debut album, originally released on ÿpalo in 1971, Vainica Doble blended folk, soft rock, pop and a dose of psychedelia to describe a magical world of their own with splendid Spanish lyrics and great arrangements that bring you echoes of the Beatles, the British Psychedelic Trip or The Incredible String Band, without ever loosing their incredibly personal character that sounds so unique to todays ears as it did to those of 1971. Its fantastic, colourful pop cover was designed by Ivan Zulueta, artist and film director (he was the mastermind behind the cult movies 1, 2, 3... Al escondite inglés! and Arrebato), and is reproduced here in all its glory, housed in a laminated slipcase featuring praise texts by some of their biggest fans such as Andy Votel (Finderskeepers/B-Music), Luis Calvo (Elefant Records), Ibon Errazkin, Ferran Llauradó (Rockdelux) and Ramon Vendrell (El Periódico de Catalunya). Features a lavish full colour 20 page booklet reproducing photos and press clippings from the era, along with extensive liner notes by ÿngel Maeztu (written in Spanish) and printed lyrics. You wont get this through rapidshare! The twelve songs of the original 1971 LP are here augmented with 8 bonus tracks, six of them taken from non-LP Vainica Doble singles (including both sides of their mega rare first 45 from 1970 La Bruja/Un Metro Cuadrado) plus two songs from the obscure single by Tickets, their backing band at the time, who recorded Vainicas penned El Rigor De Las Desdichas, with Someone Like Me, a killer psychedelic fuzz-pop stomper, as its flipside. All their ÿpalo recordings collected in one fantastic edition made, as always, with love and devotion by the Wah Wah team." - Wah Wah |
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Artist: VAINIO, MIKA Title: Rasputin 3000 Format: 7" Label: Comfortzone Country: Austria Price: $13.00 |
| "Mika Vainio, currently based in Berlin, is one-half of the groundbreaking minimal electronic duo Pan Sonic. Before starting Pan Sonic in the beginning of the 90s, Mika Vainio has played electronics and drums as part of the early Finnish industrial and noise scene. His solo works, under his own name and under aliases like Ø, are known for their analog warmth and electronic harshness. Producing either abstract drone works or minimal avant techno, Vainio always creates unique, physical sounds." -Comfortzone. |
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Artist: VAINIO/KEVIN DRUMM/AXEL DORNER/LUCIO CAPECE, MIKA Title: Venexia Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Pan presents a collaborative album from Mika Vainio (electronics), Kevin Drumm (electronics), Axel Dörner (trumpet, computer) and Lucio Capece (soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, shruti box). Vainio, Drumm, Dörner and Capece have strong points in common, that have been executed in different contexts. The musical map is generally divided into categories that are determined by its most evident and often banal elements; if it has beats or not, if it is quiet or loud, if it has raw material or a carefully worked aesthetic. These four musicians have been working using all the previous elements, but these elements did not determine the music, they were used at the service of deeper ideas related to time and perception. How the sound of our environment can become music, how can music be attractive without telling a story, the work of sound in its extreme: noise, granular and delicate, digital, electronic, instrumental extended techniques, preparations. The musicians involved in this project have worked with each other in various formations: Kevin Drumm and Axel Dörner started working together in the late 90s as part of a trio with Paul Lovens; as a duo they released an influential album on Erstwhile Records. Mika Vainio and Lucio Capece released Trahnie, an album they worked on for three years. Capece and Dörner worked on several projects together, including a residence with Keith Rowe working on Treatise by Cornelius Cardew. Capece and Vainio have been part of the Vladislav Delay Quartet. Capece has played and toured with Kevin Drumm in a trio with Radu Malfatti... finally, theyve all come together on Venexia, recorded in Venice and mixed by Capece with minimal edits. The LP was mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering, pressed on 140 gram vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silkscreened PVC sleeve with photos by Traianos Pakioufakis and artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan. |
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Artist: VAJRA Title: Chiru-Ha/Ozakijinjya Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "PSFs only 3" single, by the Haino/Mikami/Ishizuka trio, featuring 2 re-recorded versions of tracks off the Vajra album (PSF 62). "If somebody told me Chiru-ha is a Scott Walker tribute, Id be inclined to believe them." --David Newgarden." - FE. |
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Artist: VAJRA Title: Live 2007 Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Guitar, vocals: Keiji Haino; guitar, vocals: Kan Mikami; percussion: Toshiaki Ishizuka. "First live album by the Japanese rock power trio to end all power trios -- Kan Mikami, Keiji Haino and Toshiaki Ishizuka!! This presents the group at a thrilling peak of their rock deconstruction-reconstruction praxis, one of those all too rare manifestations of the musical sublime. Mikami is in top blues testifying form, his voice a thing of cracked beauty and weathered power. Haino and Ishizuka infuse the songs with telepathic engagement -- constant layered motion, percussive blast-bombs and eruptions of black lava. Simply a ferocious record. Limited edition of 1000 in mini-LP style paper-sleeve." -PSF |
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Artist: VAJRA Title: Tsugaru Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Vajra is a new trio made up of Kan Mikami (vocals, guitar), Keiji Haino (vocals, guitar) & Toshi Ishizuka (percussion; ex-Brain Police, currently with Cinorama & Tomokawas group). "The name Vajra is a sanskrit word which has many meanings, including outsiders and those people with the power to change an era. Tsugara refers to an area in the far north of Japan, which has given birth to many of Japans most powerfully unique musicians, writers and performers (it is also Mikamis birthplace). This CD represents an improvised studio performance of unprecedented force and musical empathy. Ferocious, bleak, beautiful and inspiring -- the true soul of Japanese spirituality!" |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: Creek to Creation Format: LP Label: QBICO Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
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Matt Valetine: (12 string guitar, yayli tambur, prophet 600, voice); Erika Elders: (sruti box, tambura, electric jug, percussion, spoons, voice); Nemo: (Moog & vox repeat, percussion); Chris Corsano: (drums, percussion); Dredd Foole: (voice). Rec. in MV Spectrasound, Winter 2004 at Maximum Arousal Farm, Guilford, VT (USA). "This rocket opens with a brief intro Lunette which set the mood for the 18 minutes 4et piece Variations on out of nowhere piece (from a Frank Lowe LP title), here sinister whispers/voices, hypnotic guitar playing and spare but propulsive long distance drumming, merge together wonderfully to create a music soaked with weird vibes and whichd go on and on eternally.... zun zun zu ha zu... The other side open with another short Lunette #2 which give space to the central 15 minute piece Ring of Yod, a meditative space cosmic raga trilogy in trio (guitar, tambura, electronics)... Moon Lotus brightly illuminate the end of the creek.... Let the creek to creation transport you in a vibrant place where youd complete bath yourself in rich spectrasounds..." - QBICO.
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: Glorious Group Therapy Format: Cass Label: Polyamory Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Matt Valentine of Tower Recordings. Second and final edition of 25.
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: I Burned One With God But Cocola If Im Peaking Which Way Is The Sky? Format: CDR Label: COM Relics Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
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"COM Relics is reissuing out of print Child Of Microtones releases in another limited edition set. This time around the reissue is an edited version of the original release with a standardized (but still nice) packaging in slimline jewel cases. I Burned One�?� features 12 long-unavailable performances recorded in NYC and on Privacy Mountain with MV exploring the Silvertone 6, 12 string, cumbus, shortwave, oscillator & beyond. Accompanied by Erika Elder on banjo, recorder, harmonium, bird calls and sruti box."
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: MV Fantasizes, Daydreams, Get Massaged and Shacks Up With Cocola Format: CDR Label: COM Relics Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
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"COM Relics is reissuing out of print Child Of Microtones releases in another limited edition set. This time around the reissue is an edited version of the original release with a standardized (but still nice) packaging in slimline jewel cases. MV Fantasizes features 15 long-unavailable performances with MV on Silvertone 6, 12 string, cumbus, amped classical guitar & beyond with special guest Erika Elder."
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: P.K. Dick Format: 7 Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "A-side is a dusty gem of a solo track, unearthed on a mysterious Space Shanties-era tape reel last New Years day, and now presented to the masses after quite a time lapse. A prime slice seeped in the lo-fi analog glow of Tower Recordings, with MV spilling some lucid lyrics & smokey vibes. B-side is a more recent counterpoint, a bit more bent on the rural/spectra solo wandering of his most zoned & serene acoustic/electric back porch pickings. Sweet vibrations, folks... packaged in a two tone heavy textured art paper cover, with silver/blue/black offset printing & silver/blue labels. Edition of 550 copies." - Time Lag |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: Ragantula Format: CDR Label: COM Relics Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Reissue of COM 4 offering 8 of the rarest Child of Microtones future raga and blues featuring performances from Erika Elder, P.G. Six and Tim Barnes. COM Relics offers reissues in slightly abbreviated form with standardized packaging to listening enthusiasts who may have missed these on its original release (only 99 copies)." - COM Relics.
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: Small As Life And Infinitesimally As Pure Format: Hardcover Book Label: Radical Readout Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
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"Of interest to the literati out there, Radical Readout Press, the publishing arm of the collective, in conjunction with Child of Microtones, is ecstatic to announce the publication of a new, slightly expanded second edition of Matt Valentines psychoactive pulp novella, Small as Life and Infinitesimally as Pure...Shazam to that! The book has cloth covered boards, foil stamping and a letter pressed demi-jacket...no stops left unpulled for this mother!
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...should you go toward the light, away from the light or inside the sound with hair? An analog fable of crystal powder trips to rare 78 hunts for food, from sacrilegious pagan idolatry to amorous love ins all in search of the mighty essence of grail overfloweth. Doc Caligari the record store casualty sips the Moretti, eats the Valdostana, snorts the white, leans hard left and makes all the scenes in a cosmic journey to the Psychic Commune..." - Matt Valentine is one half of the legendary MV&EE Medicine Show and a member of the oracular Tower Recordings. He resides in the lost mountain wilds of Vermont with Erika Elder and Zuma..." - Radical Readout.
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: Space Chanteys Format: LP Label: Fringes Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
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"Matt Valentine creates, has created, and will continue to create from inside of a continuum that unspools from a source that is also so distant as to be invisible. Mysterious Translucence is not just the name of his shoe. Space Chanteys is really the first honest solo album that Matt Valentine has created. There have been others that are somewhat like it, or are related to it, in shape, or in style, but they are not it. This alone is it. It is Space Chanteys. Recorded live, back in October 100, the ensemble here has run through all of Matts pockets on many occasions. Some were/are part of the Tower Recordings collective. Others are associated with the MVEE Medicine Show. Each of them has fingered keys and touched lint that has deep and private resonance in the Valentinian flow. They take a deep collective breath here and release it slowly, like a sigh trapped in the highest tower of Greasers Palace. And its a gasser. Those enlightened people who are aware of his recordings, have a tendency to think of Matts music as part of the American volk tradition. And, indeed, a portion of it does reside there. But as with so many of the interesting inventions inside out-culture currency, the soul of this volk music emerged from synchretic collisions between psychedelic rock and avant garde jazz and country blues and trance-drone-minimalism as well as a primitive form of volk-proper. The material on Space Chanteys is beautiful in its fracture. Its fissures phosphoresce in the darkness w/ an unearthly radiance: glow-in-the-dark teeth set into the gums of eternity.." -Byron Coley. Also includes PG Six, Dean Roberts, Samara Lubelski (Hall Of Fame), Erika Elder and Tim Barnes. Edition of 650 copies on 220 gram vinyl.
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: What I Became Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "If string theory is correct, this is approximately the thirteenth album MATT VALENTINE has released that definitely shouldnt be filed under a group name (TOWER RECORDINGS, BUMMER ROAD, GOLDEN ROAD, etc.). On the other hand, if string theory is correct, this might also be his 11,000th album. The truth, one suspects, is somewhere in between. Since bedding down in southern Vermont at the dawn of the century, MV has been as cussedly prolific as anyone. The gout of LPs, cassettes, CDRs, singles and 10-inches emerging from Maximum Arousal Farm has dwarfed the output of everyone cept maybe Sunburned or Thurston. Regardless, there can never be enough MV LPs in the world, and What I Became is a beaut. Most of it is as solo as Satan, apart from percussionist JEREMY EARL (of WOODS fame), whose presence is sometimes felt more than heard. ERIKA "EE" ELDER and MIKE "MUSKOX" SMITH also pop up on a track, but the general approach here is as naked-and-loaded as the soul of Icepick Slim. As usual, MVs tunes and procedures beggar easy generification. Elements of deep forest psychedelia brush against Crazy Horse guitar / vocal flourishes that explode to reveal volk-based form mayhem at its hickiest."-Byron Coley Limited to 500 copies with full-color jackets and inserts. |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT & ERIKA ELDER Title: Heroine Celestial Agriculture Format: CDR Label: Child of Microtones Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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C.C. Melotone > In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town (10:54) b/w Canned Heat Blues (26:27). 8 all analog recorded cds containing a different take of each composition from the Lunar Blues release with LONG organic outros of deep psychedelia exclusive to each disc, all with unreleased b-sides not available elsewhere. Some of the rarest Child of Microtones ever issued and the mv&ee medicine show at their finest featuring stellar appearances from many guests." - Child of Microtones. Vol 1 of 8.
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT & ERIKA ELDER Title: Pray For Less Format: Cass Label: Blackest Rainbow Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "With Willie Lane. Live in Oklahoma City, OK 11/02/07." -Blackest Rainbow |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT & ERIKA ELDER Title: Raggas of the Culvert Format: LP Label: Three Lobed Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Ragas of the Culvert, previously self-released as a CDR in an edition of less than 50 copies as well as a quickly sold out cassette on Fuck It Tapes, is a glorious revisiting of the lunar raga style that created so much of MV+EEs past. This meditative and purely instrumental six track voyage is guaranteed to transport you to distant worlds. Edition of 840 copies pressed on 180-gram RTI vinyl, packaged in tip-on style Stoughton sleeves." - Three Lobed |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT & ERIKA ELDER MEDICINE SHOW Title: The Sun Catcher Blossoms A Nova.. Rural Ragas Volume 3 Format: CDR Label: Child Of Microtones Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT/ERIKA ELDER/GABRIEL WALSH Title: The Tempatation To Zoology Format: DVDR Label: Child Of Microtones Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"A short film by Matt Valentine, Erika Elder and Gabriel Walsh (2003/20 minutes) (COM 15). An incredible myth of things seen in the skysea concerning an animal so human and its transfiguration during a journey to the trysting place of an aeon - Starring Dredd Foole, pi, mv, ee, Samara Lubelski, P.G. Six, Barry Weisblat, Alan Licht, Greg Anderson, Joshua Burkett, Noah Wall, Cynthia Meadows, Nouri Zander, Gabe Walsh, Pegasus, Boletus & Richy Midnight. Music by The MV&EE Medicine Show with Mr. & Mrs. Kuck. DVD-R issued in unbleached digipaks with a mini book of mvs 3 part zoology fable narrated (with some parts sung) by Dredd Foole in the film. Handwritten spines, stamping, VERY limited supplies issued in an edition of 99 copies." - COM.
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Artist: VALLES, DAMIAN Title: Nonparallel (In Four Movements) Format: LP Label: Experimedia Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Nonparallel (In Four Movements), is composed and arranged entirely from samples from the recordings of avant-garde Western classical composers and computer music released by the Nonesuch label in the 60s and 70s. In working with the material, Valles wanted to enter into its very lineage, to forge a dialogue with it, to both extrapolate something essential from it and contribute to its legacy by using it to create an original work some three decades later. Divided into four movements, it is a nuanced album of subtle complexities that took roughly three years to complete. The process started with recording small sections, randomly selected from pieces written and performed by the likes of Elliot Carter, William Bolcom, Charles Ives, Charles Wuorinen, Stefan Wolpe, et al. The source material was then carefully cut up, rearranged, stretched & heavily manipulated. In addition, the decision to sample directly from the original vinyl editions was important in order to capture the crackles and noises generated from the records themselves. In using them to create a backdrop for the new pieces, the intent is for the old sounds to mix with those generated from the newly pressed work to create another aspect to the overall soundscape. A striking departure from Damians previous recorded output, Nonparallel is equal parts anthropology and alchemy, at once documenting the prescience, relevance and richness of his chosen source material and creating something bracingly new from it." -Experimedia. |
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Artist: VALLES, DAMIAN Title: Nonparallel (In Four Movements) Format: CD Label: Experimedia Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Nonparallel (In Four Movements), is composed and arranged entirely from samples from the recordings of avant-garde Western classical composers and computer music released by the Nonesuch label in the 60s and 70s. In working with the material, Valles wanted to enter into its very lineage, to forge a dialogue with it, to both extrapolate something essential from it and contribute to its legacy by using it to create an original work some three decades later. Divided into four movements, it is a nuanced album of subtle complexities that took roughly three years to complete. The process started with recording small sections, randomly selected from pieces written and performed by the likes of Elliot Carter, William Bolcom, Charles Ives, Charles Wuorinen, Stefan Wolpe, et al. The source material was then carefully cut up, rearranged, stretched & heavily manipulated. In addition, the decision to sample directly from the original vinyl editions was important in order to capture the crackles and noises generated from the records themselves. In using them to create a backdrop for the new pieces, the intent is for the old sounds to mix with those generated from the newly pressed work to create another aspect to the overall soundscape. A striking departure from Damians previous recorded output, Nonparallel is equal parts anthropology and alchemy, at once documenting the prescience, relevance and richness of his chosen source material and creating something bracingly new from it." -Experimedia. |
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Artist: VALLEY OF ASHES Title: Cavehill Hunters Attrition Format: Triple LP Label: Black Velvet Fuckere Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "In todays scene of hippy dippy two bit mystic miasmas and self-appointed avatars hung up high on hollow Shangri-La noose-notion-poses, one who plays psychedelic music is hesitant when choosing adjectives. Utter the term freak folk and Vallley Of Ashes might cut yr face. Approach with candor and they might peel back their own skulls and open their minds to you plain and simple -- straight from the gut. Cavehill Hunters Attrition is a sprawling triple LP collection that channels a huge spectrum yet maintains a distinct overall sound of their own that is not at all trying hard to be unique yet at the same time is not looking backward to the past. The sound is timeless -- is it 1972 or 2003? A marriage of refinement and roughness, killer chops and outer abandon, structure and spontaneity, private and public, introversion and extroversion, sobriety and derangement, abject orchestras and backwoods dirges, tuning up and tuning in, microtones and dead moon anthems, love and hate; delicate hazy acoustic smoke rings, primitivist-exorcist metal, esp/actual singed free drifts of strings-wood-skin, junkyard gamelan, sunday morning chamber pot clouds and a gritty analog warmth lazy river town opium den dwellers both vital yet polluted -- with catfish the size of barges lurking down in the mud below the surface. Points of reference range from the kommunial flow of Siloah, the delicate fog song-smithery of Stone Angel and the heaviness of primitive Amon Duul 2 and Trad Gras. Yet the sound is distinctly American -- Midwestern - Kentucky chrome held together with duct tape. This beautifully packaged box set culminates with a side long liveboot dream-frisbee of a Danny Whitten-era Crazy Horse-smoking some Algerian-bluegrass w/ the Velvet Underground riding that full moon mood elevator. Valley of Ashes contains members of endless Kentucky sound miners including Sapat (forthcoming LP on Siltbreeze), Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Raw Thug, Kark and the Magick Markers." - BVF. Restocked repress at a much lower price. |
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Artist: VALLEY OF FEAR Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Turgid Animal Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
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"Debut release by Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Mirag), Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu) and Samantha Davis (Voltigeurs, Harm). 4 tracks of off kilter and noisy black metal influenced experimental rock with trademark sounds from each members thrown into a melting pot. Harsh and glorious! Limited to 500 copies." -Turgid Animal.
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Artist: VAMPIRE BELT Title: Dead Is OK Format: CDR Label: Hot Cars Warp/Open Mouth Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"First release on Hot Cars Warp in a long, long time. Vampire Belt is Chris Corsano (Action Trio with Paul Flaherty & Thurston Moore, Kiyo Butai with Matt Heyner from Test/No Neck, Dredd Foole & the Din, auxiliary Sunburned Hand of the Man member) on drums, patch cords, bass, vocals & other junk with Bill Nace (Katellus, Ceylon Mange) on guitar, contact mics & etc. This is their first recording. 30+ minutes of loud, zero-fi, all-improvised noise/free(dom[freedumb]) rock gurgle. No overdubs or fancy shit like that--just the sweet sounds of simultaneous equipment malfunction and technical difficulties. With hand-designed covers. One attentive listener dropped an early-Swans comparison. Another a Cold Hands/Beaches & Canyons-era Black Dice. Another a Harry Pussy for tots. While we cant claim these descriptions to be accurate, we thought we should at least let you know about them." - Hot Cars Warp. 10 out of 10 in VICE. ??
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Artist: VAMPIRE BELT/MAGIK MARKERS Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: VAMPIRE CANT Title: Key Cutter Format: CD Label: Load Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "This 2005 recording collaboration of Vampire Belt, the long running Western Massachusetts duo of Chris Corsano (frequent YOD associate and collaborator with Jandek, John Olson, and Paul Flaherty) and Bill Nace (X.0.4.). Vampire Belt specializes in all over the kit percussion on deeply audio effected guitar histrionics. Cant is Jessica Rylans long standing vocal/electronic project. Her sound is self described as friendly, intimate and creepy like anonymous postcards sent to you by a rain soaked prisoner. And I am in no mood to argue... its got moments of beautiful song and scary blurt. The collaboration sound, you ask? Very much the collision of these two entities: the soundz of Rylans homemade electronics butting up against Naces splayed guitar, all the while punctuated by the free jizz drum rambo of Corsano. The record has several burners, and plenty of moments of parking lot moan and search. Really, a record like this has not come out since ESP-Disk released that last awful Godz record. FACT!" - Load. |
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Artist: VAMPIRE HANDS Title: Two E.P.S Format: LP Label: Neros Neptune Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "At Wizard Island Too Punk To Fuck/Cuz Its A Beach Funeral. Neros Neptune has bestowed the last copies of this ultra-limited, swankly-packaged, tour-only LP upon Forced Exposure to coincide with Vampire Hands Spring 2009 23-date tour with Wavves. Minneapolis Vampire Hands are a rather difficult-to-pigeonhole lot, one with so many disparately abundant ideas bubbling out of their collective skulls that they barely keep pace with them. Citing influences as diverse as Exuma, Can, Neil Young and Simply Saucer, Vampire Hands sound might (lazily) be described as Marc Bolan meets Mayo Thompson in Neil Haggertys cannabistro. Fuzzy, distorted guitars meet tribal, pulsating rhythms. An eerily affecting falsetto melds with a lower, drier voice to create delightfully off-kilter harmonies. Get this NOW before this band assuredly ascends the hype-ladder." - Neros Neptune. |
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Artist: VAN ACKER, LUC Title: VPRO RadioNome December 18 1981 Format: LP Label: Enfant Terrible Country: Netherlands Price: $25.00 |
| "Luc Van Acker is all except an obscure musician. Already from his solo records in the early 80s he has been building a name for himself as a multi talented musician and performer. While his early works are rather experimental he later joined forces with other musicians (who have become famous with bands like Front 242 and Ministry) to create a more rock orientated industrial / electronic act called Revolting Cocks. The session on this record is from 1981 and thus a very early piece of music in the discography of Luc Van Acker. For this occasion he performed with live electronics, a violin and various other gadgets and tools. The music must be seen as somewhere in between old style industrial music (thus experimental) and modern classical music. This live performance takes the listener from rhythmic pieces into more soundscape like baths of sound and was done as part of the legendary RadioNome radioshow broadcasted by the VPRO in the early 80s. The session has been tranfered from the original tape and is edited and re-mastered to make it available for a new audience. The liner notes have been written by Luc Van Acker himself." -- Enfant Terrible. Limited to 520 copies. |
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Artist: VAN ALEBEEK, RINUS Title: Moments With Mona Lisa 7 Format: Cass Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Field recordings made in the south of Italy and Sicily - processed and assembled at Castiglione del Terziere. "Lo-fi" / vague / hypnotic - for fans of Hands To and Smack Music 7 ? Edition of 50. 1 hour. Previous releases on Zeromoon and Foreign Lands" - White Tapes.
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $24.00 |
| "Music : Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen. Drawings : Marc Nagtzaam. Recorded at the "Absolute point Zero Installation. On side B Tonegenerators made by Hewald Jongenelis." - Cosmic Volume. 2004 release. Edition of 300. |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: For Ambrosius Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $22.00 |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Four Movements Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $24.00 |
| 2007 release, edition of 132. |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: ID-LP Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $30.00 |
| "All sounds are manipulated, nothing is what you think you hear. electric? acoustic?" - Cosmic Volume. 2000 release recorded 1995-99, playable at any speed. |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Make Over At Any Speed Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $46.00 |
| "Remade from 12">10" records and sleeves. Handcut Vinyl 10". Handcut Sleeves 10". 2 new holes in the label. All records and sleeves are one of a kind. Edition of 40. Assembled in a transparent heavy PVC outersleeve. " - Cosmic Volume. 2005 release. Co-release btw DayStorm and Cosmic Volume. |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Nr. 49 Format: 7" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: The Netherlands Price: $18.00 |
| 2012 release. "...deals with the Museum Le Secret, which I believe is a portable museum, a scale model of a museum, which can be presented in another gallery space. Van den Dobbelsteen, also a visual artist, exhibited in that small museum, and released this record. Like the museum has a scale of 1:200 and 1:87, the music is made from making a similar scale model, I guess by slowing down sounds in a similar scale. Or maybe just silence slowed down, as both pieces last 4 minutes and 33 seconds. The 1:200 version is barely audible and just seems to have some vague sound happenings, the 1:87 model is a more electronic piece of microscopic events being played around. Music wise that is the more musical side of the two. Like much of Van den Dobbelsteens work this is a highly conceptual record; one that leaves more room for questions than it is prepared to give answers." - Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly. Edition of 100 copies. |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Panorama Format: LP Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $30.00 |
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Lp is housed in a holographic sleeve and includes very large silkscreen poster. Limited edition of 200 copies. "The screen is from a building I designed as a artwork for public space and where the recordings from the record are made." - Jan. "Recorded at The Abri; Panorama Sculpture and Butterfly Garden. A work made for public space by Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen at the graveyard De Roosten,in Eindhoven ,june 2000." - Cosmic Volume.
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: The Absolute Point Zero Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $28.00 |
| "Part of installation in the Exhibition The Absolute Point Zero at Lokaal 01, Antwerpen, Belgium. There are no sounds on this record. Edition of 50." - Cosmic Volume. |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Three Variations Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $22.00 |
| Very nice Cluster-mixed-with-Conet-Project sound collage from this underappreciated artist. Limited to 150 copies. |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Trainsongs Format: 7" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $10.00 |
| "This trainsongsrecord is very little edited from two recordings First performance recording at the Crossing Border Festival.The Melkweg.Amsterdam.4-11-2000. Electronic toy train devices by Danielle Lemaire and Marc Geerards Second performance recording at the Exposorium Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.28-11-2000. Together with M.O.S.A. Museum Of Small Art. Electronic toy train devices by Roel QoQo and Remko Schultheiss With the help of The Ethiopians on Train to Skaville and Engine 54 On A+B Micro Soundsystem,train,railway and electronics by Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen." - Cosmic Volume. |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Two Proposals Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $17.00 |
| "Sleeve silkscreened at Graphics Studio Daglicht. Proposal 1 on A-side 15 minutes. Proposal 2 on B -side 15 minutes. SleepWellStudio Eindhoven The Netherlands . Edition of 250 " - Cosmic Volume. 2005 release. |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN & DANIELLE LEMAIRE Title: Jada Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $16.00 |
| Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen is a Dutch artist whos been releasing limited LPs, CDs and cassettes for over 2 decades. They usually feature recordings from gallery installations and performances with the sounds varying from raw vinyl collage to experimental electronics. This 10" is a collaboration between Jan and his partner Danielle Lemaire. |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN/DANIELLE LEMAIRE Title: Split Format: LP Label: Inner Landscapes Country: Netherlands Price: $26.00 |
| Jans sounds on this are from an installation utilizing 5 turntables; Danielles are more song based with a low key Mauve Sideshow/Azalia Snail-ish vibe. The jackets and labels are hand drawn/collaged. From 1999. |
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Artist: VAN KAYE & IGNIT Title: A Slight Delay Format: LP Label: Tegenwoordig Country: Netherlands Price: $26.00 |
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"A true synth-darkwave masterpiece which was released in 1980 on DingDong
records. The bands from Holland and released several cassette classics as well as a highly sought after 7" called "Picassos on the Wall"." - Tegenwoordig. Numbered, one time edition of 100 copies.
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Artist: VAN KAYE & IGNIT Title: A Slight Delay Format: LP Label: MBR Country: Germany Price: $38.00 |
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Artist: VAN KAYE & IGNIT Title: Anthology 80-85 Format: 5LP Boxset Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $145.00 |
| "Great, fantastic minimal-synth-tracks from legendary Dutch duo Van Kaye and Ignit. Van Kaye alias Ed Van Kasteren (studying history of the arts and being singer of Monomen in the late 70s) and Ignit Bekken (performing artist, painter and studying to become an art-teacher) meet in early 1980 and started working and experimenting with synthesizers. The result was the minimal/synth-classic and highly sought-after tapes A Slight Delay and With a Little Help, which they distributed and published through their own Ding Dong Discs label. Another ex-Monoman, William Wiusselink alias Wizzkopf, joined the project in 1982. VK&I did run the famous record-label Ding Dong Records & Tapes which published beautifully designed releases of independent/wave-artists such as Legendary Pink Dots, Bene Gesserit, Anne Gillis and many more incl. the all-time-classic-must-have-compilation Film Noir. This box includes both tapes A Slight Delay (as 8-track demo an 11-track original release) and With A Little Help as well as the ultra-rare Picasso on the Wall 7"-tracks, 17 compilation-contributions from 1981-85 (incl. the Radionome-tracks), 7 unreleased-tracks/demos recorded between 80-85 and a 30 minute live-concert held in Rotterdam 1983." - Vinyl-On-Demand. |
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Artist: VAN LUIJK, TIMO & FREDERIK CROENE Title: Voile au Vent Format: LP Label: La Scie Doree Country: Belgium Price: $25.00 |
| "Vinyl only edition of 400 copies. Extended piano improvisations embedded in a freely arranged instrumentation." - La Scie Doree. |
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Artist: VAN LUIJK, TIMO & KRIS VANDERSTRAETEN Title: High Noon Format: LP Label: La Scie Doree Country: Belgium Price: $28.00 |
| "LP from Timo van Luijk and improvising jazz drummer Kris Vanderstraeten. Spaced out improvised music, mainly acoustic and with a strong percussive touch. First album in their 10 year collaboration. LP on white vinyl with a silkscreened cover by Kris Vanderstraeten. Edition of 250 copies." |
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Artist: VAN LUIJK, TIMO /KRIS VANDERSTRAETEN Title: Costa del Luna Format: LP Label: La Scie Doree Country: Belgium Price: $28.00 |
| "Edition of 400 copies). 2nd album. Lunar psychedelic improvisations." - La Scie Doree. Timo Van Luijk = Af Ursin. Hes also collaborated with Raymond Dijkstra in Asra. |
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Artist: VAN PATTERSON QUARTET, THE Title: Live at F.W. Format: Cass Label: The Tapeworm Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| "This is a cassette-only limited edition of 250 copies. Who on earth are The Van Patterson Quartet? The Tapeworm stumbled upon the lost psych rock recording, Live at F.W. by The Van Patterson Quartet, late during a sleepless night. A link started a chain of events -- the Wormery would not sleep until the answer had been found! "Who on earth are The Van Patterson Quartet?" we asked ourselves. We sent out feelers via our contacts. We waited. Replies came back -- digital shrugs, all expressing a deep fascination that something sounding so splendid could remain unearthed for so long. Then, "Mr. Big" stepped in. Quite by chance, he was neighbours with one of the band. Such serendipity. He hooked us up. Letters were written, requests made, permissions granted, and a few short weeks later a copy of Live at F.W., mailed with a blurry Polaroid, landed on our desk. We sat back, and listened properly for the first time. We were blown away. We had just been given possibly the last great unreleased psych rock recording. Who on earth are The Van Patterson Quartet? This recording dates, we believe, from the late 60s. It features this hitherto unknown band in full flight, live. It needs to be heard to be believed. Funky, fuzzed- up, flipped-out, fucked and fried. Forty minutes of hallucinating Hammond and ferocious feedback. Thats who they are." - The Tapeworm. |
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Artist: VAN WISSEM, JOZEF Title: Ex Patris Format: LP Label: Important Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Limited to 500 copies. The title Ex Patris (From The Fathers) plays on the idiomatic baroque lute compositions presented here which emulate the classical repertoire. It also refers to this almost forgotten instrument, which was passed on by the fathers. The aim is to bring back and liberate the lute. The four compositions on Ex Patris form a circular narrative of interlocking repetitive melodic series. The follow up to Important release It Is All That Is Made kicks off with the pro apocalyptic track The Day is Coming. Amor Fati (Love Is A Religion) channels a deep interest in both love for religion and religious belief in love. Multiple palindromes are juxtaposed and linger. Son of Dawn consists of mirrored lute harmonics that serve as an intro to the 13 minute elegiac After The Fire Has Devoured All It Will Consume Itself. The piece builds and releases tension and puts layer upon layer of ecstatic melody. At the end even the work itself gets devoured but it remains eternal, with no potential beginning and without end." -Important |
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Artist: VANDERSTRAETEN, KRIS Title: Solo Format: LP Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $27.00 |
"although active in improvised music, sound art and mainly in re-building and modifying his self build drum set since the 70s, this is Kris Vanderstraetens first full solo lp! the bearded master of subtile madness tickles his set with anything he finds on his journey: cars, parts of a tree, shaking electronic devices, he even steals the toys of his own children to create a perfect roll! although most solo percussion records are filled to the brim with sauce, this one is percisely sliced charcuterie, no muffled sounds, all is in the open, no hidden secrets, u are in the middle of the box santa claus wanted to drop right before u robbed him. Timo Van Luijck, aka the great AF URSIN, with whom Kris plays with as a duo from time to time, recorded this masterpiece, the thick grey card board sleeve and fold open poster insert were drawn by Dennis Tyfus and silkscreened by the man with two first names Gerard Herman! its limited to only 150 copies, dont let that fruit turn into dry fruit, or worst: CANDY! worst means sausage in dutch." - Ultra Eczema.
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Artist: VANHOOF, FLORIS Title: Time Slime Format: LP Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $27.00 |
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"some creatures have too much energy, too much energy even to be caught on a picture, by the time the machine sez click floris vanhoof already ran off, cutting and glueing 56 meters of lurid 8 and 16 mm film together to create a cluster of filmloops all playing at the same time and interacting with a slimeball of thick synth/tape madness! a full time member of stoner ensemble R.O.T., though solo-soundwise very different, a full time visual artist and a full time body and synth builder/connaisseur! a lot to be full time, though stronger than the tape holding his filmloops or the elastic holding my stockings.
this records is a collage of home brew synth madness, fieldrecordings, detailed registrations of floris throwing a full drum kit 20 times of a staircase in a church, coincidences and liters of delicious tape delay spun together by a man who only eats fast food, as eating the real thing would take too much time, time that could be spent on more important things, like digging dick raaijmakers, art history, synths and long forgotten sound carriers!
finally, the first lp by one of my favorite belgians! after a bunch of self published tapes, cdrs and films it was about time!
limited to 300 copies, comes in a bright purple/black sleeve design by dennis tyfus and with 2 inserts, including the scores for these 2 side long pieces!" - Ultra Eczema.
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Artist: VANISHING VOICE Title: Daze On Days Format: CDR Label: Vanishing Voice Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "...made for our WWVV east coast tour with GHQ in April. It was an edition of 150." - VV. |
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Artist: VANISHING VOICE Title: Nordic Visions Format: LP Label: Gipsy Sphinx Country: Belgium Price: $18.00 |
| "While Wooden Wand and Satya Sai jammed with the Sky High Band in beautiful California, the Vanishing Voice dug in deep in the frozen northeast. Snowed in with utopian texts and mounting paranoia, Steven the Harvester, Heidi White Diamond Diehl, and Pete Wolfy Nolan joined Nonhorse in an abandoned textile factory, boiling out these ballads of suspended disbelief and hope for the better world." - Vanishing Voice. Limited to 525 copies. |
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Artist: VANISHING VOICE Title: Nordic Visions Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Nordic Visions was originally released in a tiny vinyl edition of 525 copies which sold out immediately. Here it is by demand, resurrected as a digital tiki for the original vinyl release. While Wooden Wand and Satya Sai jammed with the Sky High Band in beautiful California, the Vanishing Voice dug in deep in the frozen Northeast. Snowed in with utopian texts and mounting paranoia, Steven The Harvester, Heidi White Diamond Diehl, and Pete Wolfy Nolan joined Nonhorse in an abandoned textile factory, boiling out these ballads of suspended disbelief and hope for the better world." - Important. Vinyl and original hand-packaged CDR still available. |
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Artist: VANISHING VOICE Title: Road Of Trials Format: CDR Label: Vanishing Voice Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Recorded at Sarah Lawrence College, Nov 2006. Spraypainted leaf packaging. |
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Artist: VANISHING VOICE Title: Stone Tablet Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: VANISHING VOICE Title: Stone Tablet Format: LP Label: Important Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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Artist: VANISHING VOICE Title: Vellum Format: Cass Label: Meu Dia De Morte Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: VAPAA Title: Hum Hum Hum Format: CD Label: Last Visible Dog Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Vapaa is a loose collective of musicians but this recording represents the basic core group; Joel Kivela, Tiitus Petajaniemi, Keijo Virtanen and Jari-Pekka Koho. We met in Jyvaskyla, Finland in year 2003-2004 and after that we have made many records to different labels and played live shows around Finland and one tour in Europe as Keijo and the Free Players. Organic, drifting psychedelic improv without much in the way of modern equivalents. Easily compared to a few Krautrock favorites (early Amon Duul 2 and a very quiet Ash Ra Tempel) -- but in general a bit more relaxed (perhaps a little International Harvester?) For those well versed in the LVD sound, this is fairly definitive." - Last Visible Dog |
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Artist: VAPAA Title: Jännittävät Format: 3" CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
| "Simply typing the title of the newest Vapaa release was difficult enough, but if I had to recite it twenty times fast for the privilege of hearing this again, youd better believe Id practice for days. This release is great, great enough to warrant twisting our Anglophone tongues around the fronted and long vowels dotting Finnish vocabulary. Call this free-jazz, call it ritual psychedelia, call it whatever you want. No name will quite do anyway." |
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Artist: VAPAA Title: Koneitten Siritys Format: CDR Label: Imvated Country: Belgium Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: VAPAA Title: Vuoma Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "Gloriously deranged forest folk dirge from yet another excellent Finnish group. A thoroughly intriguing and mysterious musical fable of old twisted oaks, dead leaves and wild animals that can swallow you whole." - Sea of Shining Shoryobuni. |
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Artist: VAPOR GOURDS Title: Dagger Music Format: LP Label: Feeding Tube Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| "Vinylization of a classic 2008 Yeay! Cassettes release, which has cast an odd thrall over local heads since it was first issued. Vapor Gourds is the solo project of local DJ, sound guy and man-about-town, Jake Meginksy, who is perhaps best known for his work in X.O.4 with Bill Nace and Johnny T. For this project, Jake has opted for a bizarre pile of machine sounds, none of them overly grating, with all sorts of near-subliminal pulse work raging around inside of em. Very hard to put a finger on exactly whats going down here. As soon as you decide to categorically shorthand the sound, Dagger Magic skitters off to another corner of the room. Parts recall everything from Sky Records synth-gush to cough-syrup dub-beats to Voice Crack-style electro-derangement. And theres plenty of stuff that defies any kind of simple language at all. Dagger Magic is a quiet masterpiece of form destruction. The more you listen, the more there is to hear, and the dagger slips ever deeper. Let it slide, baby. Edition of 300. Eye-catching cover by Bill Nace." -Feeding Tube. |
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Artist: VARESE, EDGAR Title: Early Works Format: LP Label: Doxy Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
| "The French-born Edgar Varese (1883-1965), believed music to be both an art and a science. His pioneering use of electronic instruments like the theremin, along with his theory of organized sound has earned him the impressive title of Father of Electronic Music. Varese spent the early twenties as a starving composer in NYC, writing works like the percussionless Octandre and Integrales, his first piece to use the term spatial music. Upon returning to Paris in 1928, he composed the celebrated Ionisation, the first piece ever written for an entirely percussion ensemble (thirteen percussionists and forty instruments). His 1936 piece, Density 21.5, written for solo flute for the premiere of George Barreres new platinum flute, is one of the great masterpieces for unaccompanied flute. It is also one of the only compositions written by Varese during this decade. His next major work, Deserts, was in fact not written until 1950. It was the first piece ever written for magnetic tape and orchestra and was meant to be the soundtrack to a film which would juxtapose images of actual deserts with images from past wars (the great deserts of civilization)." Featured works: Integrales, Octandre (performed by New York Wind Ensemble, Juilliard Percussion Orchestra); Ionisation (Juilliard Percussion Orchestra); Density 21.5 (Rene Le Roy); Interpolation I, II, III (Varese)." -Doxy. |
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Artist: VAS DEFERENS ORGANIZATION Title: Eye Peels and Brain Picks Format: LP Label: Puer Gravy Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
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"A gilded lily pad for luxuriating polymorphs and a slapstick rug pull of a swamis magic carpet, Eye Peels & Brain Picks, the latest all points bulletin and consensus reality disruption from Vas Deferens Organization comes in a finite edition of only 100 numbered vinyl copies as the first salvo in the transformation of our record label into its new identity as Puer Gravy." - Puer Gravy.
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Artist: VAS DEFERENS ORGANIZATION Title: Ninth Ward Fourth World Format: LP Label: F.D.A.F.I.T.S. Country: USA Price: $44.00 |
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"Vas Deferens Organization (Matt Castille, Eric Lumbleau, Christopher Moock), the crew responsible for several of Ariel Pinks recent endeavors (producers of Ariel Pink With Added Pizzazz and his bandmates in Shits And Giggles) as well as the proprietors of the notorious Mutant Sounds blog return with their first new salvo under their own banner in nine years with the release of Vas Deferens Organizations Ninth Ward Fourth World LP. This album is the first title out of the gate in the 33 1/3 degrees series on our Free Dope And Fucking In The Streets imprint, with all LPs issued as part of this series being limited to only 100 physical copies. In addition to the advance track "Pearly Gates And Electric Fences" (click to download), the remaining two songs from Side A are being offered up in advance to loyal fans of the Mutant Sounds blog and can be found HERE
Ninth Ward Fourth World represents the distillation of the VDO aesthetic to a 151 proof fine science; a collapsing of the sinister, the absurd and the sublime into a floor-sucking gravitational nexus. Weve spared no expense in the creation of this remarkable audio artifact, with both the front and back of the jacket sporting full sized four color hard plastic laminated panels and with eye-popping artwork laser etched into the center of the 180 gram vinyls in place of labels." - FDAFITS.
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Artist: VAST MAJORITY Title: What Do you Want to Be Format: CDR Label: Hyped 2 Death Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Vast Majority were highly-politicized stalwarts of the Houston punkscene with emphasis on the "do it yourself" part. They and AK-47 played their first gigs on the same Yippies-sponsored bill (Really Red was there, too) in April 79. A couple months and some personnel-changes later they recorded their only record- a stunningly angry (and inept) punk manifesto called "I Wanna Be A Number." What Do You Want to Be? adds a fourth studio cut (previously on Sacred Cattle ), a blazing live radio broadcast, and a high-energy assortment of live and rehearsal tapes. (The "Archive Series" bit, btw, means that some of the sound-quality is not exactly Live at Budokan]. An essential document." - Hyped 2 Death.
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Artist: VATICAN SHADOW Title: It Stands to Conceal Format: Triple LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $50.00 |
| "It Stands To Conceal contains the most recent Vatican Shadow cassettes on vinyl. This set includes Jordanian Descent, Ghosts Of Chechnya, and Attas Apartment Slated for Demolition. Total pressing of 911 copies with gatefold sleeve." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: VATICAN SHADOW Title: Kneel Before Religious Icons Format: LP Label: Type Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
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"Dominick Fernow might be best known for his industrial incantations under the Prurient moniker, but in recent months his attention has shifted towards a different outlet. Fernows interest in electronic music (from the clamorous grind of Muslimgauze to the recently-defunct Sandwell District imprint) has been well-documented, and it comes to a frothy head with his Vatican Shadow project. Revolving around themes gleaned from Iraq war propaganda and yellowing stacks of newspaper clippings, the tracks on Kneel Before Religious Icons are a perfect representation of Fernows modus operandi. Behind a wall of tape hiss, drum machine rhythms beat out memories of early Ministry and AFX while sickly FM synthesizer pads crawl and heave into the abyss. Like much of Fernows output prior to this, the emphasis is on societys darker crevices, but Vatican Shadow is steeped in an alarming mystery and sulfuric smoke that is sure to surprise recent converts. There is a scene slowly rising to the surface with acts such as Demdike Stare, The Haxan Cloak and Raime renewing our interest in the darker side of industrial electronic music, and Fernow has created a sound with Vatican Shadow that acknowledges this while retaining a faded and singular sound. Kneel Before Religious Icons is electronic music fished from the troubled depths of militarized suspicion, and all the better for it. Limited edition vinyl pressing, cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin." - Type.
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Artist: VATICAN SHADOW Title: Ornamented Walls Format: LP Label: Modern Love Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Ornamented Walls is the most intense, brutal and, in many senses, most substantial work from Dominick Fernows Vatican Shadow project yet. Released to coincide with his first tour of Europe, the album incorporates the live mix rehearsals of "Operation Neptune Spear" with tracks made in their aftermath, recorded straight to tape and mastered by Matt Colton at Air Studios. Anyone familiar with Fernows live set-up will recognize the distinct nature of this material -- making use of stems and partial tracks separated into a cassette system which is then re-layered and mixed, effected with electronic processing. In short -- Fernow uses his tape machines like turntables in a mix, weaving a hazy and intuitive narrative of sounds that never quite head in the direction you expect, all imbued with an almost feral attitude thats exhilarating to witness, their limitations (ever noticed how VS tracks end so abruptly? the tape ran out), and their mechanical machine qualities used to devastating effect. Side A features all three parts of "Operation Neptune Spear," originally made available in a measly edition of 17 cassettes and sold at the first-ever Vatican Shadow live show in L.A. back in May 2012. Side B features an additional 25 minutes of previously-unreleased work made in the aftermath of the show and using the same set-up, including an astonishing revision of "Cairo Is a Haunted City," dis-assembled and re-wired, lending it a shortwave quality thats nothing short of revelatory." - Modern Love |
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Artist: VATICAN SHADOW Title: September Cell Format: 12" Label: Bed of Nails Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Bed Of Nails is a new label curated by Dominick Fernow of Vatican Shadow and Prurient fame. Operating from his recently-consecrated L.A. compound, the label will focus on his reorientation towards industrial dancefloor rhythms and seductively isolated electronics. Fernow christens the label with September Cell, a four track 12" loaded with some of his most direct dancefloor assaults to date. Think hollowed industrial percussion, gloaming synths and caustic noise painting bleakly evocative visions." -Bed Of Nails.
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Artist: VATICAN SHADOWS/CONTREPOISON Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Split cassette of religious militant industrial and minimalist melodic industrial." - Hospital Productions
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Artist: VAURA Title: Selenelion Format: CD Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Its been said before that Stanley Kubrick seemed like a classical composer who created films instead -- that the images played out more like arias and overtures than a matinee movie. The inverse of that is probably the only way to approach Selenelion, the debut LP from Vaura. Less a collection of songs and more like an expedition into an elegantly foreboding universe, the eleven tracks that comprise the latest release from Wierd Records sound as if they were each crafted to evoke unearthly scenery and monolithic events. From harsh distortion and aggressive screams to cold and shimmering clean guitars and vocals, the spectrum of sound on Selenelion is both varied and atmospherically cohesive. Thunderous drums, droning synthesizers, percussive metals, acoustic guitars, and vocal arrangements that sometimes approach ritualistic plainchant recall artists like Ulver and Swans. Vauras particular blend of brutality and romantic melodicism can be attributed in part to the stylistic mesh of musicians: Kevin Hufnagel, Toby Driver, Josh Strawn, and Charlie Schmid also play in Gorguts, Dysrhythmia, Kayo Dot, Secret Chiefs 3, and Religious to Damn. Selenelion was recorded and mixed by Colin Marston of progressive black metallists Krallice, and signals a nod for Wierd Records to the roots of founder Pieter Schoolwerth who is also member of the seminal noise outfit Bloodyminded and a continuing supporter of acts like Locrian. The album title refers to a horizontal lunar eclipse: the moment at which the sun and the eclipsed moon can be seen at the same time. With song titles referencing everything from an Etruscan demoness to a Luciferian take on the conversion of St. Paul, and with artwork by the German photographer Alexander Binder, the unifying thread is an unmistakable sense of shadow-drenched enigma. "Drachma" refers to the coins that bought passage for the dead into the underworld, suggesting that everything following that track is part of an Orpheus-like journey. But repeated nods to the occult literature of Jorge Luis Borges, in particular to "The Aleph" and "The Zahir," two stories that deal with infinity and vision, suggest that beyond the the dark hallucinations there is also a serious meditation taking place on the limits and paradoxes of seeing. Approaching such subject matter by way of something as invisible and intangible as music, Vaura invites the listener to share in a visceral, yet intimate ceremony of sensuality and destruction." -Wierd. |
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Artist: VAURA Title: Selenelion Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Its been said before that Stanley Kubrick seemed like a classical composer who created films instead -- that the images played out more like arias and overtures than a matinee movie. The inverse of that is probably the only way to approach Selenelion, the debut LP from Vaura. Less a collection of songs and more like an expedition into an elegantly foreboding universe, the eleven tracks that comprise the latest release from Wierd Records sound as if they were each crafted to evoke unearthly scenery and monolithic events. From harsh distortion and aggressive screams to cold and shimmering clean guitars and vocals, the spectrum of sound on Selenelion is both varied and atmospherically cohesive. Thunderous drums, droning synthesizers, percussive metals, acoustic guitars, and vocal arrangements that sometimes approach ritualistic plainchant recall artists like Ulver and Swans. Vauras particular blend of brutality and romantic melodicism can be attributed in part to the stylistic mesh of musicians: Kevin Hufnagel, Toby Driver, Josh Strawn, and Charlie Schmid also play in Gorguts, Dysrhythmia, Kayo Dot, Secret Chiefs 3, and Religious to Damn. Selenelion was recorded and mixed by Colin Marston of progressive black metallists Krallice, and signals a nod for Wierd Records to the roots of founder Pieter Schoolwerth who is also member of the seminal noise outfit Bloodyminded and a continuing supporter of acts like Locrian. The album title refers to a horizontal lunar eclipse: the moment at which the sun and the eclipsed moon can be seen at the same time. With song titles referencing everything from an Etruscan demoness to a Luciferian take on the conversion of St. Paul, and with artwork by the German photographer Alexander Binder, the unifying thread is an unmistakable sense of shadow-drenched enigma. "Drachma" refers to the coins that bought passage for the dead into the underworld, suggesting that everything following that track is part of an Orpheus-like journey. But repeated nods to the occult literature of Jorge Luis Borges, in particular to "The Aleph" and "The Zahir," two stories that deal with infinity and vision, suggest that beyond the the dark hallucinations there is also a serious meditation taking place on the limits and paradoxes of seeing. Approaching such subject matter by way of something as invisible and intangible as music, Vaura invites the listener to share in a visceral, yet intimate ceremony of sensuality and destruction." -Wierd. |
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Artist: VAW/HELIOGABULUS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Difficult Fun Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
| "The new split vinyl LP featuring sides by Vaw and Heliogabalus will be out in the UK and Germany from the 7th November. Heliogabalus featured on the DF001 7" and Vaws track on the Game & Errancy compilation was described by Other Music as beautiful, meandering Eno/Fripp-style guitar work. Each side contains around 25 minutes of music.The cover features artwork from both bands, and the record comes with 2 inserts with track listings and information." - Difficult Fun. |
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Artist: VAZZ/LA BAMBOLA DEL DR. CALIGARI Title: Whisper Not/The Wrong Holiday Format: LP Label: Forced Nostalgia Country: Belgium Price: $20.00 |
| "The Forced Nostalgia label continues to expand and inform with the release of this split release featuring 1980s outfits Vazz and La Bambola Del Dr. Caligari. The A-side features six tracks from Glasgows Vazz, a duo consisting of Anna Howson and Hugh Small. Whisper Not was recorded at the legendary Hellfire Club in Glasgow in 1982 and was eventually released on limited edition cassette, before the band were signed up to appear on the 2LP compilation Antelopes & Alligators on Operation Twilight -- a sub-label of Belgiums infamous Les Disques Du Crépuscules. For one reason or another, the compilation never materialized -- but the reference to Crépuscules should give you some idea of where Vazz figure in the scheme of things. Whisper Not really is an astonishing collection of tracks -- a small but perfectly-formed companion-piece of sorts to Antenas Camino Del Sol (which appeared in the same year), with Anna Howsons distinctive voice accompanying guitars, bass, drum machine, percussion and the Casio MT-30 keyboard -- a classic configuration. But what set Vazz apart from their contemporaries is Hugh Smalls forward-thinking production signatures -- something thats most evident on "Cast Reflections" -- the standout track on this mesmerizing set. The way the drum machine and guitar have been treated and compressed sounds like something from The Cures Faith album reworked in a current electronic studio -- its just a profoundly beautiful and affecting piece. It really is hard to believe that these tracks have languished in the archives until now. The B-side features Italys La Bambola Del Dr. Caligari and five tracks recorded between 1983 and 1986. The band were a short-lived minimal synth trio from Bologna, Italy, consisting of the exotically named Judy Asquith (voice), Aurelium Spitty (sound engineer, synth, drum machines, effects) and J.R. Ewing (keyboards, effects). They recorded their first demo tape in early 1984 and sporadically played live in 1985/1986, eventually arranging the soundtrack for an installation at the art gallery Number Zero (Bologna) in Feb. 1986. Several self-produced tapes were recorded over the years but were never properly released. In 2005, Roberto Napoli mastered all the recordings from the analog tapes and kindly assisted in editing the selections made by Forced Nostalgia. The result features some of the finest lost-and-found musical gems from the 80s gloom-pop era, finally available for public consumption 25 years after they were recorded. 500 copies only, cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin." - Forced Nostalgia |
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Artist: VEE DEE Title: Public Mental Health System Format: Double LP Label: Criminal IQ Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Heavy times call for a heavy soundtrack, and thats what Chicagos VEE DEE has accomplished with their new double album Public Mental Health System. This record blurs the lines between garage, punk and psychedelia; it is the sound of desperate, no-compromise rock n roll of the past being absorbed and then re-interpreted for NOW. Short fast dark garage punk segues into heavy riffing and guitar freak-outs. Moody folk chords bang up against frantic fuzz turnarounds. Over it all, lyrics of abstract yet direct poetry are hollered and crooned, aided by well-placed backing vocals." - Heavy times call for a heavy soundtrack, and thats what Chicagos VEE DEE has accomplished with their new double album Public Mental Health System. This record blurs the lines between garage, punk and psychedelia; it is the sound of desperate, no-compromise rock n roll of the past being absorbed and then re-interpreted for NOW. Short fast dark garage punk segues into heavy riffing and guitar freak-outs. Moody folk chords bang up against frantic fuzz turnarounds. Over it all, lyrics of abstract yet direct poetry are hollered and crooned, aided by well-placed backing vocals." - Criminal IQ
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Artist: VEETIX Title: The Black Album Format: 4 x Lathe Cut 8" Label: Crawlspace Artist Series Country: New Zealand Price: $28.00 |
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"Kamos (from the winter less North) most famous son returns to the Artist Series with a compilation of his material of his etps tape label (600 + releases). Cut & paste electronics, a bizzare reworking of a leading US metal bands song, great refreshing noise, and music so out there I cant even define it. This man continues to astound and this is a rare opportunity to experience one of New Zealands finest fringe musicians.
Packaged in a hand cut & sewn (by a machine though!) black vinyl sleeve, it includes a colour copy of a Veetix collage titled N-I-C-E P-I-C-T-U-R-E (Sept 2002) and a complete discography of the epts catalogue. Limited to only 20 sets." - Crawlspace. Witcyst in disguise.
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Artist: VEGAS MARTYRS Title: Choking Doberman Format: 7" Label: Kitty Play Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "exportable world wide Providence noise fiend and current Thurston Moore collaborators Dominick Fernow (Prurient)s new noise/rock band. i booked their first show in March and their 3rd a month later in April, the crowd response was enormous so we quickly completed this 7" and we are THRILLED with the results. Noisey guitar riffs cut through wall of sound electronic noise with vocals and minimal drums also in the mix. Recorded direct to walkman and mastered for maximum rawness. limited to 500 white vinyl copies." - Kitty Play. |
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Artist: VELASQUEZ/THE GAG REFLEX, DONNA Title: Live Format: 7" Label: Vertical Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
| "Piles of noise & disruption, recorded live to the sound of no hands clapping. Dare I imply a Squirmbo relation?" - FE. Early 90s release. |
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Artist: VELVET DAVENPORT Title: Get Out Format: 7" Label: Shdwply Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Our previously loved psychedelic friends, VELVET DAVENPORT have just sent over their newest slice of 60s infused pop. On their recent LA vacay they met up with like minded nostalgists Ariel Pink and Gary War, the resulting Get Out is an acid flashback into a more liberal state of mind. Backed with the song Run."-Shdwyply |
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND Title: At the End of Cole Ave. - The First Night Format: Double CD Label: Keyhole Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "The Velvet Underground were arguably at their live peak in late 1969. Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker and Doug Yule (whod replaced John Cale a full year previously) had developed into a sensationally tight and adventurous quartet, and this show -- the first of two recorded on consecutive nights before a tiny audience in Dallas, Texas -- is unquestionably one of the finest surviving documents of them in performance. Remastered sound and background notes included." -Keyhole. |
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND Title: La Cave 1968 Format: CD Label: Keyhole Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "When this legendary show was recorded, The Velvet Underground were in a state of flux. Founding member John Cale had just departed, and his replacement Doug Yule had only been in the band for two days. Nonetheless, the quartet turned in a superb performance, including several then-unreleased songs (with alternative lyrics) and plenty notable guitar soloing, making it essential for VU devotees. Includes background notes and pictures. Digitally remastered." - Keyhole. |
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND Title: La Cave 1968 Format: Double LP Label: Keyhole Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "Gatefold double LP version on 180 gram vinyl. When this legendary show was recorded, The Velvet Underground were in a state of flux. Founding member John Cale had just departed, and his replacement Doug Yule had only been in the band for two days. Nonetheless, the quartet turned in a superb performance, including several then-unreleased songs (with alternative lyrics) and plenty notable guitar soloing, making it essential for VU devotees. Includes background notes and pictures. Digitally remastered." - Keyhole. |
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND Title: Live at End of Cole Avenue in Dallas, TX - 27 October 1969 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| A side ("The Songs"): "Sister Ray," "Lisa Says," "RocknRoll"; B-side ("The Jams"): "1st," "2nd," "3rd," "4th." Lou Reed, guitar and vocals, Sterling Morrison, guitar and vocals, Maureen Tucker, drums and vocals, Doug Yule, bass guitar. Clear blue vinyl in PVC sleeve with yellow lettering. Limited edition 500 copies. |
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND Title: Live in Dallas, TX, October 28, 1969 Format: LP Label: B13 Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| Clear purple vinyl in a transparent PVC sleeve with yellow lettering; edition of 500 copies. "After the release of their third LP in March 1969, the Velvets (with Doug Yule now on bass) embarked on a nationwide tour, playing over seventy dates all around the US. One of these included a stint at the End Of Cole Avenue club in Dallas--one of the Velvets few live performances where a professional sound engineer was actually on hand to record the sets. Some of the songs recorded over those few nights showed up in 1974 on their 1969: Velvet Underground Live album, but the sound quality was not great due to Mercurys use of third or fourth generation tapes. However, the first generation tapes have since resurfaced, and the difference in sound quality (heard here) is a welcome one. This version also features a few songs, like Im Set Free and One Of These Days, not found on the original LP." - B13. |
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND Title: Praise Ye The Lord Format: LP Label: VU714 Country: Europe Price: $20.00 |
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" A reissue of a famous 1988 fanclub release, these live recordings from 1968, 1969 and 1970 include a rare complete live recording of "Head Held High," a more full version of "Im Set Free" than on the third album, a somewhat subdued "Run Run Run," the only known version of "Candy Says" with Lou on vocals, a swinging and crunchy "Thats the Story of My Life," and a gripping and stark 9-minute "Train Round the Bend" that leads directly into "Oh! Sweet Nuthin," those two being their only known live versions and totally different from those on the "Loaded" album. Definitely a must for all Velvets fans!" -VU714
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND Title: Prominent Men Format: LP Label: Arkain Filloux Country: Belgium Price: $18.00 |
| "These amazing studio demos cut in advance of their debut and "White Light White Heat" albums include powerful versions of "Venus in Furs," "Prominent Men," "Heroin," "Im Waiting for the Man," "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams," "All Tomorrows Parties," "There is No Reason," "Sheltered Life," "Its All Right," "Im Not Too Sorry," and "Here She Comes Now." This comes in a 2-color silkscreened LP sleeve, in a limited pressing of 500 copies." - Arkain Filloux. |
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND Title: Something Different Format: LP Label: VU Country: Europe Price: $22.00 |
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"A selection of rare early demos: 6 acoustic tracks by Cale,
Morrison and Reed from 1965, 5 more from 1967, plus two live
tracks with the full band from 1967! A great and revealing
look at the folkie roots of one of the most influential
bands ever! Euro import."-VU
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND Title: Sweet Sister Ray Format: Double LP Label: No Label Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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2012 "reissue" of the legendary 1987 bootleg. Four live versions of Sister Ray, 1968-70. Spray-painted paste-on sleeves, hand-numbered edition of 300. One black LP, one brown.
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND Title: Unripened Format: LP Label: Xtv Country: Europe Price: $22.00 |
| "Complete with a green banana on the cover, this is the original version of their first album, recorded in April 1966 and rejected by Columbia Records. Darker, more primitive and abrasive than the version eventually released, this features either different recordings or different mixes of each song, some with different lyrics, and in a substantially different running order. And since this was made from the original acetate masters, youll hear some glitches, scratches, pops and clicks along the way, so while not perfect, its certainly very listenable and the first chance weve had to hear the album as originally intended. With revealing liner notes. Euro import."-Xtv |
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Artist: VELVET UNDERGROUND, THE Title: At the End of Cole Ave. - The First Night Format: Double LP Label: Keyhole Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl. The Velvet Underground were arguably at their live peak in late 1969. Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker and Doug Yule (whod replaced John Cale a full year previously) had developed into a sensationally tight and adventurous quartet, and this show -- the first of two recorded on consecutive nights before a tiny audience in Dallas, Texas -- is unquestionably one of the finest surviving documents of them in performance. Remastered sound and background notes included on printed insert." -Keyhole. |
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Artist: VENOM P. STINGER Title: Tearbucketer Format: CD Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Features Jim White and Mick Turner of Dirty 3. |
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Artist: VENROOY, ESTHER Title: Shift Coordinate Points Format: LP Label: Entracte Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| ⿿K9 moved back into the combat area ⿿ Standing now in the Chinese youth sent the resistance message jolting clicking tilting through the pinball machine ⿿ Enemy plans exploded in a burst of rapid calculations ⿿ Clicking in punch cards of redirected orders ⿿ Crackling shortwave static ⿿ Word falling ⿿ Photo falling ⿿ Break through in Grey Room ⿿ Pinball led streets ⿿ Free doorways ⿿ In 1997, British maverick label Irdial-Discs collected a selection of so-called numbers stations or spy stations recordings under the title The Conet Project. This plays like a best of of more than 30 years worth of secret radio and contains fragments of American, German, Swedish and Russian transmissions. Belgian composer Esther Venrooy was given permission to work with the material and for the occasion of the celebration of 75 years of Belgian radio created a highly personal interpretation of the mediums secret history. Using manipulated sound and collage techniques she manages to distill an abstract poetry of sounds and thereby succeeds in extracting some meaning out of these hermetic transmissions." - Entracte. Highly recommened! Limited to 300 copies. |
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Artist: VENROOY, ESTHER Title: To Shape Volumes. Repeat Format: CD Label: Robo Country: Belgium Price: $14.00 |
| "Esther Venrooy resides in a constant snakepit of modular movements and sonic acupuncture. An imaginary. almost filmic world where gameboys morph into howling wherewolves. ravening the shattered bits of saxophone sounds with vague buzzing and popping crackles. Anchored by the subtle use of harmony and dynamism. she opts for processed meditations in maze examples. combining more traditional electro-acoustic composer techniques with frigid. slightly harsher shots of deconstructed digital fuckery. She sure sharps some sonic pencils with swirling layers that are cut up. mangled and dragged into the present. Not your average run of the mill cocktail waitress becomes Hollywood coddle story but pretty goddamn addictive blackened ambience. Bathing in a selfconsciously dense atmosphere. loaded with contrasting metallic chunks of noise. she manipulates the rumbles with rich expression and acute arrangements that develop into a desolate electronic landscape. The balancing cord between audio and visual thundering she aspires towards. Her approach never wears out and diving into the realms of film fragments and striking field recordings. she pursues a journey where the source material is anything but traceable. All that megaton sonic alchemy weighs up and shows this is way more than an angry lady that turned her back on academic audio processing. the kind of sweaty dust that belongs in retirement homes. Next thing you know you are fragmented into a non-executable floorplan. The storm has spent itself." - Audiobot. |
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Artist: VERCAMMEN, WOUT Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Ultra Eczema Country: Belgium Price: $28.00 |
| "Wout Vercammen (1938) is a highly influential visual artist from Antwerp, Belgium. A nonstop performer since the early 50s, described by Ludo Mich as the Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde from Antwerp. A tight dressed dandy, going bananas every night, and looking as tight and clean the morning after. He has been inspiring the Belgian underground art scene for more than fifty years. He was the youngest artist making real paintings at the end of the fifties. Abstractionism reduced to one gesture. One sweep. One movement of the sword. One twirling horizon. Pulling Hokusai into space and time, Vercammen organized and executed the very first happenings in Belgium in the early sixties. Great collages, the only real pop artist in Belgium, latex word paintings, pneumatic forms before someone else got bigger with it. Always on the move. The way Wout Vercammen acts, performs, talks and moves is perfectly captured on this LP! When living in Antwerp, chances are you witnessed a Wout Vercammen performance without even realizing it, this is possible at any given moment. Smuggling jenever into prison, painting the copper dome of the Carolus Borromeus church white, filling blue garbage bags with air, and especially howling like a wolf, primitive throat singing and using the whole bar as a percussive instrument! Wout Vercammen changes reality, and makes it a tiny bit better. This record is a collection of accidently recorded moments and a composition of a black, a yellow and a red paint bucket all shook up through a synth and a 4 track! All varying from percussive punk primitive madness comparable to Kommisar Hjuler, a strange conversation in a garden to soundpoetry, howling and screaming. I am absolutely psyched to release this, as Wout Vercammen along with Ludo Mich has always been my favorite Antwerp psycho! Reminiscent of Ludo Mich, Kommisar Hjuler, the Vienna Actionists, Hans Krüsi. The LP comes in a offset printed sleeve with pictures of the artist, an insert with more pictures and liner notes by art critic Hans Theys! Limited to 400 copies." -Ultra Eczema |
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Artist: VERDE & CLAY FIGURE Title: Kalliopora Format: CDR Label: Audiobot Country: Belgium Price: $13.00 |
| "It all started with a newspaper ad. On the morning of April 3rd, 2004 I was reading through a local newspaper. There I saw an ad where some store sold rock drills that they had got from Swedish army surplus. On the evening of the same day I was in another town to play my first gig as the guest bass player for Verde. I told Mika of Verde about the hilarious ad that I had seen in the paper. We had already recorded most of the material for the this collaboration, and Mika suggested that we should name the collaboration album "Kalliopora", which is of course Finnish for rock drill. Then he started fantasizing how he would buy one and drill his way beneath his neighbours house and set there a bomb. This recording doesnt sound much like a rock drill or even a bomb. Instead, there is the unique sound of Mikas self-built synthezisers, a bunch of guitars played by yours truly, and all kinds of other sounds that I hope you all like, even if they dont sound like rock drills. - Pekka PT/Clay Figure. Packaged in stencil-printed oversized covers by outsider rehab man Dennis Tyfus. Limited to only 150 copies." - Audiobot. |
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Artist: VERDUN Title: Two Archipelagos Format: LP Label: Eyland Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| ⿿Two Archipelagos looks at how different kinds of music-making machines interact, with human intervention often limited to making sure that various forms of noise interfere with each other. Verdun is generally preoccupied with oscillatory sounds, whether generated through analogue feedback loops or repeated digital synthetics. These are the vaguely pulmonary rhythms that come from the warp core aboard the USS Enterprise, or else from your CD player when something goes terribly wrong. Verdun also love to torture electric guitars. Beyond that, the sounds variety and singularity make it near impossible to describe. The opening track, ⿿Days of Being Wild, records the interaction between several textures of feedback and repetition, interrupting itself now and then with the static clipping of an over-distorted guitar, or else with the long drone of dissonant chords. The icing on this cake of noise, near the end of the song, is a crystal-clear series of descending synthetic notes, as might come out of a ray-gun. Similar interplay happens in ⿿(Oo). We hear the worlds worst garage band⿿a mutilated electric guitar, a cheap drum kit unskillfully played⿿but this is so muffled that the garage door might be shut. Then the robotic parents come to complain in their modem-language, and the rest of the song performs the two groups dispute: Verdun is about exploring just such contrasts between acoustical and digital noises. In Two Archipelagos, Verdun offers an insightful unfolding of the textural possibilities that our weird technological vector makes possible; this is a record that asks oblique questions and makes strange observations about what music today can and should do. Its a challenging and rewarding listen. ⿿ Seth Perlow. Hand-screened limited edition of 100 copies. |
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Artist: VERDURE Title: Cross & Satellite Station Format: CD Label: Lexicon Devil Country: Australia Price: $13.00 |
| "Originally released by Lexicon Devil in 2002. Verdure is Donovan Quinn, who resides in Walnut Creek, deep in the East Bay of San Francisco. Hes performed his songs with the Skygreen Leopards (collaborating with Glenn Donaldson) and can currently be found performing solo, occasionally being joined by various friends and collaborators under the umbrella of the 13th Month. His Verdure alias draws influence from heavy collaboration with the Jewelled Antler Collective, that loose-fitting West Coast group of artists known for bathing themselves in the glow of free-improv, rustic Americana, backwater psychedelia, electronic experiments, the outlaw spirit of classic 80s hardcore, and ghostly, folk-inspired sounds. Cross & Satellite Station is a strange beast to pin down. It could be called acid-folk or ramshackle pop with a nice, lo-fi mix of aching vocals, strummed guitars, tape loops, thundering organ, scattered percussion and the odd sample here and there. When the electric guitar breaks into that fuzzed-out solo on "Pope Innocent X," or when Donovan bursts into the chorus on the mesmerizing "Suns Gonna Come Take Over My Sky," it might make you remember that the "new weird" zeitgeist spawned some true gems. If youve ever dug the sounds of Tyrannosaurus Rex, Skip Spences Oar, Nikki Sudden/Epic Soundtracks, Syd Barrett at his most unhinged, or Jandek at just about any point in his recorded life, then youll dig this."- Lexicon Devil |
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Artist: VERMILLION SANDS Title: Miss My Gun Format: 12 Label: Sacred Bones Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The second installment in the Sacred Bones 12" EP series comes from Treviso, Italys Vermillion Sands who sound like they could be the house band at the dystopian oceanside resort that features prominently in the JG Ballard short story collection from which the group takes their name. The Vermillion Sands ramshackle female fronted country tinged garage rock gives off some serious Mekons-meets-Headcoatees vibes or a femme fronted counterpart to the records Dan Melchoir has been pumping out as of late. Reverbed whips and twangs and a little mouth harp underlie some serious hooks and melodies. Look out for the debut full length out soon of Fat Possum." - Sacred Bones. |
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Artist: VERMILLION SANDS Title: Something Wrong Format: 7" Label: Hell, Yes! Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: VERMONSTER Title: Holy Sound Of American Pipe Format: Double CD Label: Timebomb Country: Japan Price: $19.00 |
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Artist: VERONICA FALLS Title: Beachy Head Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Veronica Falls have written a pop song about everybodys favourite place to top themselves and it is really really good. I mean, never has singing along to a graphical location where peepul choose to end it all seemed quite such top larks. This is indie of a very particular, very British, timeless and guileless sort, and its also enough to remind a person why they plumped for plaid over pop in the first place. Terrific." -Drowned in Sound.
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Artist: VERTICAL SLIT Title: Slit And Pre-Slit Format: LP Label: Smudge Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Originally released in a vanity pressing of 100 copies, this debut by James Michael Shepard & Vertical Slit has long been a holy grail item on many a collectors list. Legend has it almost 1/4th of the pressing ended up in the hands of luminaries such as Todd Rundgren, John Cale, Robert Fripp & Peter Hamill to name but a few. Musically this stands toe to toe with the cream of Nurse With Wound list prog obscuros AND Acid Archives psych outsiders. Imagine a bridge between Magical Power Makos self titled debut lp & The Decayes Ich Bin Ein Spieglei. Mastered in the furnace of the future so to bask in the luminous glow of the past." - Smudge. Legendary 1977 LP of recordings made between August 1974 and January 1977. Very highly recommended! |
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Artist: VERTICAL SLIT Title: Twisted Steel and The Tits of Angels Format: CD Label: Spirit Of Orr Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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These are the final recordings (1992-1994) from Jim Shepards first band, formed in 1976.
Limited hand stamped/paste-on packaging. Out of print release from 1996.
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Artist: VERTICAL SLIT Title: Under The Blood Red Lava Lamp Format: CD Label: Siltbreeze Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Connecting all the dots to get the complete Vertical Slit picture has been a grail-like task for hundreds of record collectors since the band and its leader Jim Shepard were outed in Forced Exposure # 13 in the late 80s. Whether James Johnson counts himself among the minuscule number of V/Slit completists is moot; the impeti for initial digging around and eventual article-publishing were the basement roar and defiant outsider vibe of the Smudge seven-inch (New Age, 1981) and Under the Blood Red Lava Lamp cassette (Old Age, 1986). Apocryphal? Perhaps. Baloney? Perhaps not. Still, the end result remains the same: the word was out and here we all are. Save some room, theres pie. This CD collects all the tracks from both the Smudge EP and the Lava Lamp cassette, both of which were recorded live in the latter part of 1980. Vertical Slit-at any time-were an anomaly whose live sound was unlike any other band preening around the south campus of Ohio State. They most assuredly did not nod in the direction of either NME or NY Rocker. Instead they pinned back ears Creem-style; three meth-baked, beer-soaked shamen who concocted a unique midwestern prog/metal slobber somewhere between In the Court of the Crimson King and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Even though no onell read about em in The Wire, no less of an authority than Chuck Eddy immortalized V/Slit when he ranked Lava Lamp number 455 in his "seminal" book Stairway to Hell: The 500 Top Heavy Metal Albums of All Time, beating out not only the two aforementioned influences (at 460 and 488 respectively) but also Confusion Is Sex (number 459). Says Chuckles, "[Lava Lamp] adds up to a moss of pedal-mass not unlike Hearthan-era Pere Ubu." Get the picture? And for those of you who can only be moved by Joy Division covers (hello!), V/Slits version of "I Remember Nothing," done as a tribute to Ian Curtis (who had died in May of 80), absolutely (to be enunciated Eddy-like) gets atomized! So surrender your shekels and climb aboard. In the eternal words of Jim Shepard, "Its here/Its now/Eat it up/Youll enjoy." Contains original Lava Lamp liner notes as well as a remembrance from Old Age/New Age honcho (and Anyway recording artist) Mike Rep." - Siltbreeze. |
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Artist: VESTALS Title: Forever Falling Toward The Sky Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Forever Falling Toward the Sky is the first ever release by Bay Area based Vestals, AKA Lisa McGee. A taught set of haunting electric ballads, these five tracks weave together a number of layered guitars and vocals into a smokey tapestry of blown electricity. Rather than the ephemeral drones McGee has been involved with recently, most notably the group-mind ensemble Portraits & the duo Higuma, Vestals retains the clarity of song, with these hypnotic gyms having been slowly carved out over a year of recording & mixing. Filled out with drum machine & bass, Forever Falling Toward the Sky really does have the feeling of a group completely jelled, hammering out feedback in a California basement, high on guitar worship & sunsets. Edition of 300 copies, featuring guest appearances by Evan Caminiti (the Barn Owl dude!) and Trevor Montgomery (Tarantel)." -Root Strata. |
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Artist: VEYOU Title: Garden Format: 10" Lathe Cut Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "VEYOUs second release finds them ?!ing it up again in Bloomington, Illinois. A-side in mono, B-side in stereo. Basementronics by Nick Hoffman and Stephen Holliger. 30 copies" - Pilgrim Talk. |
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Artist: VIAN, PATRICK Title: Bruits et Temps Analogues Format: CD Label: Staubgold Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "Staubgold is proud to reissue the one and only solo album by Patrick Vian (Red Noise), originally released in 1976 on the Egg label. A wonderful and obscure gem of electronic music certain to please the fans of Krautrock, French 70s electronic music and kosmische musik. Patrick Vian plays Moog 2C, ARP 2600, Moog Sequencer and piano and gets help from jazz musician Mino Cinelu (who had played with the likes of Gong, Weather Report and Miles Davis) on drums and percussion. Georges Granier adds Fender Rhodes, marimba, noise and scissors. Bernard Lavialle (Ame Son) plays guitar. Together they create a unique hybrid of experimental electronic, jazz and world music. This highly original sound made Steven Stapleton include Patrick Vian on the famous Nurse With Wound list of adventurous music." -Staubgold. |
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Artist: VIAN, PATRICK Title: Bruits et Temps Analogues Format: LP Label: Staubgold Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "Staubgold is proud to reissue the one and only solo album by Patrick Vian (Red Noise), originally released in 1976 on the Egg label. A wonderful and obscure gem of electronic music certain to please the fans of Krautrock, French 70s electronic music and kosmische musik. Patrick Vian plays Moog 2C, ARP 2600, Moog Sequencer and piano and gets help from jazz musician Mino Cinelu (who had played with the likes of Gong, Weather Report and Miles Davis) on drums and percussion. Georges Granier adds Fender Rhodes, marimba, noise and scissors. Bernard Lavialle (Ame Son) plays guitar. Together they create a unique hybrid of experimental electronic, jazz and world music. This highly original sound made Steven Stapleton include Patrick Vian on the famous Nurse With Wound list of adventurous music." - Staubgold. |
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Artist: VIBES Title: Psychic Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Every family has a freak (or two). Every decks got a wild card. Weve got VIBES. Ante up. NNFs loosest cannons return to the recording fray with, Psychic, a blown-out briar patch of basement garage fantasy masquerading as obscurist protest funk-and the bands first vinyl statement. Recorded in Eagle Rock on a last legs-style 4-track, the EPs four songs are jacked deep in the red, with fuzz bass, wah shrapnel, vocal sloganeering, and drum racket all fighting for tape room. Competition is fierce. Recent live faves like Dead Horses and Night Court appear in particularly revved-up form, as do the first two Vibes songs ever written, Psychic and Prisms Of Fame. All bases are covered. All soul trains are derailed. Here comes the judge. Black vinyl 33 RPM singles in full-color fold-over sleeves with collage artwork and lettering by CAMERON STALLONES, photographs by CAITLIN C. MITHCELL, plus a rant-y revolution scrapbook insert. Edition of 400."-NNF |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: Dabbling With Gravity And Who You Are Format: CD Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "The latest and current pinnacle from the quintet of Neil Campbell, Bridgit Riley, Julian Bradley, Michael Flower, and Adam Davenport was assembled from recordings of their weekly sessions in Flowers kitchen. The tracks here represent the joyous, celebratory side of VCO - all forward motion, massed strings, percussion, horns, and little instruments rocketing forward in a swirl of sound. Compared to the more austere sounds of recent CDs like Lino Hi and Versatile Arab Chord Chart, the tracks here take off from the spot where the loose hippie-chant-and-drum action of collectives like Amon Düül intersects with the polyglot instrumental approach of mid-60s Sun Ra (ref. "Exotic Forest," "Shadow World," etc). "There is no chord formation that can be planned," says Bridget Hayden, "which creates elation or sadness, or any art which is profound enough to change anything fundamental about a person. There is just a resonance around us which musicians and artists are using or not using." - VHF. |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: Joka Baya Format: LP Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The ever-mysterious VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA returns from another relatively quiet period with an uncompromising set of outre jams on a trio of limited-edition LPs. Slightly reorganized around a line-up of stalwarts MICK FLOWER and ADAM DAVENPORT with frequent collaborators JOHN GODBERT (TOTAL) and JOHN MOLONEY (SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN), the band here stretches way, way out over these six sides. Joka Baya offers up a set of shorter pieces on the A-side in a high-fidelity style that contrasts the dark, smoky sound of the rest of the tracks. The percussive grooves are overlaid with SUNROOF!!-like shimmer, stabbing electric leads, gentle acoustic rain, and droning organ peeking through at opportune moments. The roaring side-long epic on the flip is a droning, phasing slice of psychedelia with Moloneys drums battering the tape in between long stretches of humming stasis." |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: My Gates Open, Tremble By My Side Format: CD Label: Lexicon Devil Country: Australia Price: $13.00 |
| "Originally released on the Lexicon Devil label in 2004; a reissue of their obscenely rare 1999 LP on the Roaratorio label, with three bonus tracks. Vibracathedral Orchestra started in 1998 with the core 5-piece line-up of Neil Campbell, Bridget Hayden, Michael Flower, Adam Davenport and Julian Bradley. Between the five of them, a musical CV would read like a history of UK underground experimental music from the last decade or so, with members having been involved with the likes of Richard Youngs, Simon Wickham-Smith, Sunroof, Skullflower, and others. The sound and aesthetic of VO is based heavily on percussive, improvised, minimalist drones that occasionally bear heavy resemblance to everything from very early Velvet Underground (and proto-/post-Velvets projects with John Cale, Angus MacLise and La Monte Young) to Popol Vuh and Amon Düül to essential UK cult artists like Third Ear Band and AMM. With a massive array of percussive, stringed and toy instruments (bells, recorders, flutes, mandolins, violins, whistles, organs, etc.), the band soon began wowing people over with their limited self-released CD-Rs and occasional live shows. So, in the intervening years, with a smattering of "real" releases on VHF under their belt, and various limited vinyl releases elsewhere, comes this Lexicon Devil CD. My Gates Open... was originally released on the Roaratorio label in 1999 in an addition of only 250 copies. Not only is the album considered by many fans to be their finest work, but the CD contains a bonus three tracks from the same recording session that until now have remained unissued. Musically, it all scorches in that patented Vibracathedral style: monolithic sheets of organic, repetitive drones that arch into quieter, more subtle territory, rhythms and grooves. This expanded edition is certainly an excellent place to start in exploring the world of Vibracathedral Orchestra. "-Lexicon Devil |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: My Gates Open, Tremble By My Side Format: CD Label: Lexicon Devil Country: Australia Price: $14.00 |
| "Originally released on the Lexicon Devil label in 2004; a reissue of their obscenely rare 1999 LP on the Roaratorio label, with three bonus tracks. Vibracathedral Orchestra started in 1998 with the core 5-piece line-up of Neil Campbell, Bridget Hayden, Michael Flower, Adam Davenport and Julian Bradley. Between the five of them, a musical CV would read like a history of UK underground experimental music from the last decade or so, with members having been involved with the likes of Richard Youngs, Simon Wickham-Smith, Sunroof, Skullflower, and others. The sound and aesthetic of VO is based heavily on percussive, improvised, minimalist drones that occasionally bear heavy resemblance to everything from very early Velvet Underground (and proto-/post-Velvets projects with John Cale, Angus MacLise and La Monte Young) to Popol Vuh and Amon Düül to essential UK cult artists like Third Ear Band and AMM. With a massive array of percussive, stringed and toy instruments (bells, recorders, flutes, mandolins, violins, whistles, organs, etc.), the band soon began wowing people over with their limited self-released CD-Rs and occasional live shows. So, in the intervening years, with a smattering of "real" releases on VHF under their belt, and various limited vinyl releases elsewhere, comes this Lexicon Devil CD. My Gates Open... was originally released on the Roaratorio label in 1999 in an addition of only 250 copies. Not only is the album considered by many fans to be their finest work, but the CD contains a bonus three tracks from the same recording session that until now have remained unissued. Musically, it all scorches in that patented Vibracathedral style: monolithic sheets of organic, repetitive drones that arch into quieter, more subtle territory, rhythms and grooves. This expanded edition is certainly an excellent place to start in exploring the world of Vibracathedral Orchestra." -Lexicon Devil |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: Ragged + Right Format: LP Label: Hot Boots! Country: France Price: $18.00 |
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"Ragged + Right was originally released (on CDr) in a miniscule edition of 60 to coincide with a live performance at the Holy Trinity Church in Leeds. Chances are, if you werent in attendance that night you probably missed out on this one. In this day in age where bands crank out limited edition CDrs on a weekly basis, another one slipping through the cracks would hardly merit further mention - simply add it to the pile of decaying plastic discs and move on. Such a fate for Ragged + Right however, would be a severe injustice given this release is certainly one of the highlights in the VCO discography (and is also notable for the inclusion of special guests John Godbert, Marc Orleans and Matthew Bower). With this in mind, weve taken it upon ourselves to bring this album to the masses with a fanclub edition reissue. You dont get second chances like this very often, so youd better be quick...this one definitely wont be around for long."
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: s/t Format: Double LP Label: Vibracathedral Orchestra Country: UK Price: $36.00 |
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"Edition of 250 - 13 tracks spread over 4 sides of vinyl. Hand screened cover. Wild zoned hoedowns from late 2003/early 2004, recorded at the chapel lab and in the barn. Grab it while you can." - VCO.
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: S/T Format: Double LP Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "VHF presents a public service reissue of this impossibly rare and choice title in the VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA oeuvre, originally issued by the band in 2004 in an edition of 250. Featuring the "classic" lineup (MICK FLOWER, NEIL CAMPBELL, BRIDGET HAYDEN, ADAM DAVENPORT, JULIAN BRADLEY) that made Queen of Guess and Dabbling With Gravity and Who You Are, this self-titled double takes a wild ride through the inner-workings of VCOs stream of consciousness. Many of the tracks (selected from research and development jams) cut in abruptly, continuing the informal, expansive vibe of the bands other self-released items. The thick blanket of signature drone-fog is never far away, anchoring tunes that veer from early Velvets-style rock jammers ("Thrift") to swirling electronic mystery ("Clear"). On side three, "Gist" builds up a looping, guitar-led rhythm like a lost AR & Machines track, sharing the same side with the pulsing "Floetz," which rides a taut electro-pulse bolstered by group small percussion. This lengthy two-disc album concludes with the almost side-long "Minkey," featuring the full complement of VCO sound signatures in one big, hallucinatory swirl. Exclusive to this release is a 35-minute DVD of three live performances selected by Flower. A rare chance to see some cinema verite of the group in action, the performances here (shot in the UK in 2005 and 2007) are all on the rocking side, with furious drumming and guitar strangling. Perhaps best of all is Flower and Campbells optional audio commentary track (!) on "Wisdom T," providing some insight on the how and why (and some witticisms, too)." -VHF. |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: Smash! Smash! Smash! Format: CDR Label: Vibracathedral Orchestra Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: Smoke Song Format: LP Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The third of three new LPs from the VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA. Smoke Songs more gentle exposition starts with ADAM DAVENPORTs santoor (a type of hammered dulcimer) leading the band into a lengthy mid-tempo groove on "Smoke Song," followed on the second half of the side by the short, quiet "Cholita Maria." The second sides 17-minute "Get It?" lays down the tremolo and phase in a manner reminiscent of the best Spacemen 3 comedowns, taking a pulse and riding it into organ- and percussion-fueled bliss." - VHF |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: The Momentary Aviary Format: LP Label: Manhand Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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Numbered edition of 600 copies. "Recordings from two consecutive hit-and-run shows in the south of the UK, August 2007. Special guest appearances from Wood(hush arbors, current 93) and Hayden. Frequencies adjusted for the birds full length, full color paste on fronts, 11x17 poster." -Manhand. 2008 release.
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: The Queen of Guess Format: CD Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "While certainly VCOs most upbeat and percussive music, the nine tracks on this immense, visceral slab of rackety action run through a wide range of styles. Ramshackle Sunrise has a gamelan-like, five-note melody overlaid with a hovering drone. The Silent Socket rocks with Sister Ray-style guitar careening along side actual drums. The two 20-minute epics that bookend the record are a study in contrasts: Your Head Shone Like A Stone has a heavy, excited buzz, while the closing Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air is a gentler acoustic epilogue, gliding into the rosy future." - VHF. |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: The Secret Base Format: LP Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The second of three new LPs from the VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA. The Secret Base starts up at full throttle, straight into a raw-sounding live outing, with MICK FLOWERs overdriven guitar occupying the same sonic space that gives his Japan banjo / shaahi baaja workouts with CHRIS CORSANO their urgency. The sound is dark and rough, almost Xpressway-like in its claustrophobic atmosphere. The percolating krautrock stylings of "If You Cant Smoke Em" chugs along hypnotically for over 13 minutes to close out the side. The entire B-sides 20-plus minutes are devoted to the clanging free sound of "Eyes of Wood," where gamelan-like metal percussion dominates the proceedings." - VHF. |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: Tuning to the Rooster Format: CD Label: Important Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "So far the first and only record ever made by The Vibracathedral Orchestra using a 24-track mixing board. Typically the group records on 2 tracks despite the fact that their eccentric and complexly arranged sound practically requires 24 tracks." - FE. "This is music as a shamanic aid, made as much for the players themselves as for the listeners. But as Im writing from the listening perspective, I have to inform yall that this is music to get you there. Every track sounds as though it has always just been there, its just you aint quite tuned into its peculiar frequency until now. The 12-and-a-half minute Wearing Clothes of Ash is like a piano-led Paradieswarts Duul-period drone-a-thon with John Cale and Terry Riley guesting on viola and keys. Following this, the sublime Baptism Bar Blues is proof positive that they can rock the riot house with pure adrenaline rush when the decision is made. Indeed, this track is magnificent and should be available to the masses free or in pill form." - Julian Cope. |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: Versatile Arab Chord Chart Format: CD Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The second full-length outing from the quintet of NEIL CAMPBELL, MICHAEL FLOWER, JULIAN BRADLEY, BRIDGET HAYDEN, and ADAM DAVENPORT. Like their UK cousins and fellow VHF recording artists Sunroof!, VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA usually works from a base of modal improvisation. Led by Campbells sawing violin, the group builds up arcs of lingering overtones beneath an undercurrent of melody. They cut the drones in their life with extremely effective bursts of near rock, in a style reminiscent of the pre-Nico Velvet Underground (circa 1966 or so). The bands combination of clattering percussion, droning strings, and considerable sense of where to put the "groove" makes them unique among their peers. If you have a subscription account at emusic.com, you can download tracks for purchase here." - VHF. |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: Wisdom Thunderbolt Format: CD Label: VHF Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Wisdom Thunderbolt marks the triumphant return of VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA (MICK FLOWER, BRIDGET HAYDEN, NEIL CAMPBELL, and ADAM DAVENPORT) after more than three years in the wilderness of intermittent performance, tangential projects, and unfindable limited editions. The seven tracks on Wisdom are the VCOs most rocking dispatch ever, neatly combining the Ra-like collage of tracks like "Wisdom Thunderbolt" with the insistent pulsing jams of "A Natural Fact" and "Order of the Broad Eraser." "Ochre Dust" and "Rainbow Whirlwind" are more in the old-school VCO thick-blanket of sound, with tuned-percussion melody peeking out from the fog. After a surprise opening, "Sway-Sage" heaves with raucous drumming (courtesy of MAGIK MARKER PETE NOLAN) under the swells of sound. Hard to imagine, but this is the first widely available music (except for the Tuning to the Rooster comp) from the VCO since 2003s acclaimed The Queen of Guess." - VHF. |
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA/THE TELESCOPES Title: Live At Audioscope Format: 10" Label: Fourier Transform Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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Recorded October 2, 2004 at the Zodiac, Oxford, UK. Limited to 500. All Fourier Transform proceeds will be donated to Shelter ( http://www.shelter.org.uk ) and all Fusetron proceeds to Habitat For Humanity NYC ( http://www.habitatnyc.org ).
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL STRING QUARTET Title: Play The Lost Musick Of The English Primevalists... Format: CDR Label: Vibracathedral Orchestra Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
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Artist: VICE VERSA Title: 1979-1980 Format: LP Label: Democratic Dancebeat Country: Italy Price: $26.00 |
| "Vice Versa was formed by Stephen Singleton and Mark White in 1978. They asked Martin Fry to join them after Martin had interviewed them for his fanzine Modern Drugs. They founded their own independent label called Neutron Records and produced their first release (Vice Versa -- Music 4 EP). This is probably one of the greatest minimal-synth releases ever without any doubts. Neutron Records most important contribution to the scene was the 1980 EP The First 15 Minutes, which featured four unsigned bands of Sheffield: Clock DVA, Im So Hollow, the Stuntkites and of course, Vice Versa. The band released another 7" (Stilyagi/Eyes Of Christ) and the cassette 8 Aspects of Love. As Vice Versa they played a numerous amount of concerts. Their first gig was together with the Human League at Now Society at the Sheffield University and it was called What no Drummers. When they went over to Holland on tour, they were invited to jam in a studio in Rotterdam. Martin started to improvise on vocals and everybody was surprised by the quality of his voice. They decided to make him the lead singer instead of Mark White and spent about a year writing new songs, thinking of a new name and concept. The result was ABC, one of the most famous UK pop bands of the 80s."-Democratic Dancebeat Records. |
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Artist: VICTORIA Title: Victoria Format: CD Label: Shadoks Country: Germany Price: $15.00 |
| "Local New Jersey demo-release (200 made) from Victoria, a band and album beyond rare, fantastic, conceptual psych-beauty. Sometimes dreamy, sometimes totally wild underground-psych, this release features female vocals, titanic horns and distorted guitars. Sweet tunes turn into dark psych-power. Totally stoned. This amazing album was first released on the Seven Little Indians label (before it became Shadoks Music) eight or nine years ago as a limited-edition with a red velvet cover and golden engraved artwork. A 500-copy limited-edition CD, also in red velvet, was sold out in a few months. Besides Jungle , this album is a famous Little Indian release. If you like Moby Grape you should check this one out. The album has remained unreleased until a few years ago.." - Shadoks. |
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Artist: VICTORIA VEIN AND THE THUNDERPUNKS Title: Rear Guard Action/Other Things Format: 7" Label: Anopheles Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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&"Previously unissued May 1974 studio recordings by this Debris precursor group finds Oliver, Chuck and company in a high energy glitter / R B mode ala the New York Dolls. Stunning full color sleeve, clear wax, fully annotated, limited to 500." - Anopheles.
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Artist: VIDA, ANDRE Title: Brud: Volumes I-III Format: Triple CD Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Brud is a three volume compilation of recordings from 1995 to 2011 by Andre Vida, morphing seamlessly between a sense of total irreverence and the sublime. His spontaneous compositions and notated works are the angled mirrored counterparts of a transient saxophone-driven performance language, drawing on elements of 1970s performance art, new music, improvisation cult, folk and pop hybrids, channeling them into asymmetrical tunes of feral beauty. Brud traces the development of Vidas wayward language through 16 years of copious ruminations. The three delightfully polymorphic, perverse discs unite sparkling solo sax, pieces for cello and woodwind sextet, synth/concrete electronic music, nocturnal improvisations, rare 90s New York free jazz compositions, and the Kreuzberg suite -- a distilled culmination of a hundred nights of Berlin mayhem into ecstatic, swinging lyricism -- both solo works and as well as various collaborations with Anthony Braxton, Rashad Becker, Axel Dörner, Matt "MV" Valentine, Tim Barnes, Helen Rush, Olaf Rupp, Clare Cooper, Clayton Thomas, Brandon Evans, Elisabeth King, Steve Heather and many more. Andre Vida is a Hungarian American saxophonist, composer and lyricist living in Berlin. More downtown cheeky grin than mere caveman smile, he is cosmically notorious for continuing the Rahsaan Roland Kirk one-man horn section legacy with hydra-headed style. He has been at the forefront of several major developments in experimental music, being mainly in Anthony Braxtons original Ghost Trance Ensemble, as founding member of New York collective the CTIA, subsequent "freak folk" groups such as The Tower Recordings, and his extensive collaborations with electronic music visionaries Jamie Lidell, Tim Exile and Kevin Blechdom, Elton John, Gonzales, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, to name but a few, sewing up some heavy threads in downtown sax patchwork refracted through a Borgesian lens. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Packaged in a pro-press digisleeve jacket in a one-tone silk-screened PVC sleeve." -Pan |
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Artist: VIDA, BEN Title: Esstends-Esstends-Esstends Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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"In collaboration with Keith Fullerton Whitman and Greg Davis, Ben Vida explores cross-control voltage-integrated improvisation and real-time automatic group composition. Ben has worked with artists Hisham Bharoocha (duo as Soft Circle), Siebren Versteeg, Doug Aitken, Nadia Hironaka and Mathew Suib. He has played in ensembles led by Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham, and Werner Dafeldecker. As an improviser, he has performed with Milo Fine, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Chad Taylor, Kevin Drumm, Yamatsuka Eye and C. Spencer Yeh, among many others. He has released over 20 records on such labels as Thrill Jockey, Drag City, PAN, Amish, Bottrop-Boy, Häpna and Kranky. In 2011, Ben was Composer in Residency at Diapason Space, NYC and at EMS Studios, Stockholm and was awarded a Swedish Arts Committee Travel Grant, ISSUE Project Room Emerging Artists Commission and Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona "Composing with Process" Exclusive Works Commission. Esstends-Esstends-Esstends is a collection of spatial compositions in which audio focal points shift between external and internal emanation sources. The intent with this work is to escape the stereo image and create an activated listening space of expanded spatialization. Using just intoned pitch combinations to produce difference tones and harmonic distortions, sound materials are created that emanate from both the playback speakers and inner ear of the listener. By engaging the listeners sense of aural perception and sound localization in relationship to compositional structure, these pieces act to reframe the listening experience and encourage an engagement with, not only the form and aesthetic of the music, but the sonic space a recorded piece of music projects. Higher amplitude will help to reveal. Limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl. Housed in a poly-lined inner sleeve, packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk-screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." -Pan.
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Artist: VIDA, BEN Title: Esstends-Esstends-Esstends Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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"In collaboration with Keith Fullerton Whitman and Greg Davis, Ben Vida explores cross-control voltage-integrated improvisation and real-time automatic group composition. Ben has worked with artists Hisham Bharoocha (duo as Soft Circle), Siebren Versteeg, Doug Aitken, Nadia Hironaka and Mathew Suib. He has played in ensembles led by Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham, and Werner Dafeldecker. As an improviser, he has performed with Milo Fine, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Chad Taylor, Kevin Drumm, Yamatsuka Eye and C. Spencer Yeh, among many others. He has released over 20 records on such labels as Thrill Jockey, Drag City, PAN, Amish, Bottrop-Boy, Häpna and Kranky. In 2011, Ben was Composer in Residency at Diapason Space, NYC and at EMS Studios, Stockholm and was awarded a Swedish Arts Committee Travel Grant, ISSUE Project Room Emerging Artists Commission and Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona "Composing with Process" Exclusive Works Commission. Esstends-Esstends-Esstends is a collection of spatial compositions in which audio focal points shift between external and internal emanation sources. The intent with this work is to escape the stereo image and create an activated listening space of expanded spatialization. Using just intoned pitch combinations to produce difference tones and harmonic distortions, sound materials are created that emanate from both the playback speakers and inner ear of the listener. By engaging the listeners sense of aural perception and sound localization in relationship to compositional structure, these pieces act to reframe the listening experience and encourage an engagement with, not only the form and aesthetic of the music, but the sonic space a recorded piece of music projects. Higher amplitude will help to reveal. Limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl. Housed in a poly-lined inner sleeve, packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk-screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." - Pan.
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Artist: VIDA, BEN & GREG DAVIS Title: Working Models Format: LP Label: Los Discos Enfantasmes Country: Canada Price: $24.00 |
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160g Vinyl, die cut jacket.
"Two expansive compositions in compact form evolved from sinuous convolutions
of electrical currents conducted through an intersection of Ben Vida and Greg Davis.
Recorded, assembled and mixed in Brooklyn, NY and Burlington VT from
September to June 2012, with both parties intervening on modular synthesizer
and computer.
Working Model 1 is a nodal piece, likened to a string of pearls, with each
pearl being a chamber within which a sound environment is revealed, developed
and transitioned to the next node seamlessly through gesture, rupture, and rhythm
changes. Moments of stochastic synthesis, chromatic interrupters firing, globular
pulsations, short lived melodic lines, and rhythmic arrangements keep the piece
moving and the ear engaged at the micro level. The flip side, Working Models 2
has more of an unearthly feel to it with interwoven frequencies giving way to
percussive structures, granular textures, and layers of synthesis that propel the
piece through its different movements.
Feast your ears and eyes on excerpts from the LP, with visuals by Charles Barabé." - Los Discos Enfantasmes. Ben Vida & Greg Davis - Working Model 1 (excerpt) from Los Discos Enfantasmes on Vimeo. |
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Artist: VIDA/KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN, BEN Title: Aggregatepulseripper (Damaged IIII) Format: LP Label: Amish Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Amish is pleased to announce the third iteration in its Required Wreckers Series, a split LP featuring new and exclusive work from Ben Vida and Keith Fullerton Whitman. Having collaborated over the last decade as a trio with Greg Davis, this release features new solo-work by two of Americas most important emerging sound artists. The first side of this release debuts a new composition from Ben Vida. In keeping with his recent patchwork-based compositions, Aggregatepulseripper (Damaged IIII) continues to explore Vidas interest in both digital and analog control sources, a compositional process that refuses to fetishize one technology over another and, more interestingly, appears to displace the musicians hand from the compositional process. The flipside of this LP features Keith Fullerton Whitmans third in a series of splits (previous releases have included No Fun Productions b/w Carlos Giffoni and Amethyst Sunsets b/w with Mike Shiflet) documenting a particularly productive period in his creative output--a series of synth concerts from 2007 and 2008. Recorded on January 14, 2008 at PAs Lounge in Somerville, MA, this piece documents the fourth in Whitmans solo synthesizer sets. Throughout the recording one can discern talking from the audience and ambient room--tone noise, as well as sound coming from different sources spread throughout the room--a small battery powered speaker on stage right, a giant Barbetta on stage left. Each speaker was fed into a different patch irrespective of its frequency response. Whitman uses a hybrid system of digital and analog sound sources that, with the exception of a single 4096 bd delay, is presented here without treatment, overdub, or sequencing of any sort." -Amish |
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Artist: VIDEO HIPPOS Title: Dolphin Format: One Sided LP Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Lightning Bolt giving birth to Japanther while at Video Light show....Spastic Drumming...Frantic Guitar with your favorite Video Game Samples...Limited to 150 copies w/ Screened Blue on Pink Covers on a White DJ Sleeve.." - Rococo. |
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Artist: VIDEO-AVENTURES Title: Camera (in focus) - Camera (al riparo) Format: LP Label: Spalax Country: France Price: $25.00 |
| A few more copies of this 1997 reissue of LP originally released in 84. With Dominique Grimaud, Monique Alba, Guigou Chenevier, Jac Berrocal, Cyril Lefebvre, Sophie Jausserand, Daniel Deshays and Gilbert Artman. |
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Artist: VIDNAOBMANA Title: 1984-1986 Testament Of Tape Format: LP Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $27.00 |
| One LP version, limited to 123 copies. "1984-1986 Testament Of Tape captures vidnaObmana in its most experimental phase during the obscure tape period, searching for its own musical voice... LP number 1 combines very beat-orientated-material in best manner of early Blackhouse or even Esplendor Geometrico." - Vinyl on Demand. |
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Artist: VIDNAOBMANA Title: 1984-1986 Testament Of Tape Format: 3LP Boxset Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $84.00 |
| "1984-1986 Testament Of Tape captures vidnaObmana in its most experimental phase during the obscure tape period, searching for its own musical voice. Dirk Serries (well-known sound-artist, especially known for his Fear Falls Burning releases) is moving on this box-set through various styles, from utterly relentless noise music to rhythmical industrial outbursts. This 3LP set features unreleased and extremely rare tracks from a personal friends private collection (music that was recorded exclusively for him) to songs from early cassettes releases. While LP number 1 combines very beat-orientated-material in best manner of early Blackhouse or even Esplendor Geometrico, LP 2 and 3 present the fundamentals and roots for his later works. 3LP box limited to 477 copies." - Vinyl on Demand. |
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Artist: VIKI Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Animal Disguise Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "THIS CD IS A REAL TREAT. A KILLER COLLECTION OF PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED AND EARLY/RARE VIKI SONGS FROM 1999-2004. INCLUDES SONGS FROM THE TRIPLE X CASSETTE, THE VIXEN HOTT AND FULL TIME CDRS, AS WELL AS THE HIT SINGLE PERFECT STRANGERS. ALSO INCLUDED ARE A LARGE CHUNK OF SONGS FROM ABORTED/CANCELLED RELEASES. 15 TRACKS TO GET YOUR FACE SHAKING AND YOUR MOUTH WATERING FOR THE DEBUT VIKI FULL LENGTH COMING SOON ON ADR. COVER DRAWING BY G. BEAUVAIS, MASTERED BY WARN DEFEVER." - Animal Disguise. |
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Artist: VILE Title: Solution Format: LP Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"A limited edition repress of this notorious New England ripper recorded at Radiobeat, which has gained legendary status due to its rarity and offensiveness. Limited to 500 copies" - Parts Unknown.
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Artist: VILE, KURT Title: Constant Hitmaker Format: CD Label: Gulcher Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"KURT VILE is the nom de plume of Philadelphian KURT VILE (!) whose shimmering home recordings reflect the artists admiration of everything from delta blues to the minimalist agro of Suicide, the downer psyche of 39 Clocks as well as the skiffle hum of Strapping Fieldhands. In other words, a real globe trotter. Kurt has shared bills--as well as wiped the floor--with the likes of Blues Control, Pink Reason, Clock Cleaner, Times New Viking, Magik Markers, to name a few. This is his debut release. Lend him your ears."-Tom Lax, Siltbreeze
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Artist: VILE, KURT Title: Constant Hitmaker Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Originally released on CD in 2008 on Gulcher Records. "kurt vile is the nom de plume of philadelphian kurt vile (!) whose shimmering home recordings reflect the artists admiration of everything from delta blues to the minimalist agro of suicide, the downer psyche of 39 clocks as well as the skiffle hum of strapping fieldhands. in other words, a real globe trotter. kurt has shared bills...as well as wiped the floor...with the likes of blues control, pink reason, clock cleaner, times new viking, magik markers, to name a few. this is his debut release. lend him your ears." - - tom lax, siltbreeze. "its like when u wake from a long and glorious slumber, then u realize u dont have to go to work, then u fall back into long and glorious slumber. kv-brand folk pop psyche to make chicks cry & blow maleminds as well...this gulcher collection compiles some of my best home recordings from all over the kv map and one studio smash hit freeway (track 1). jam it! it is the dopest!! ok, peace!!" - kurt vile, on the kv sound & constant hitmaker. |
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Artist: VILE, KURT Title: God Is Saying This To You.. Format: LP Label: Mexican Summer Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"More than a mere odds-n-ends collection, Kurt Viles latest LP is a compilation of tracks from Overnite KV, a tour-only CDR, along with a handful of extra tracks recorded specifically for this release. Here we find Kurt solo, four-trackin as usual, and blowing minds with his mix of bluegrass guitar, blazed singer-songwriterisms, and the knowledge of how to balance these contexts out with laidback precision. Psychedelic to its core, these twelve tracks speak to the will of the casual perfectionist, honing his craft with effortless aplomb. Youll be hearing plenty more from this Philadelphian wizard in the months to follow, and were happy to keep the ball rolling with God Is Saying This to You" - Mexican Summer.
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Artist: VILE, KURT & THE VIOLATORS Title: The Hunchback E.P. Format: 12" Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Heres the timeless record for 2009. Electric studio (mostly) recordings from Philadelphias Constant Hitmaker. New fans of his last CD will cry into their pillows and accuse him of selling out the bedroom rock scene. The initiated few will know hes been doing it for years plugging in with a full on rock band called the Violators and gigging in all corners of Philly. With baritone guitar/bassist Adam Granduciel, rodeo slide & fuzz guitar from Jesse Turbo, and perfect percussion from Mike Zeng, the Violators are Kurts Crazy Horse, slugging it out with him when he feels like playing with a full band. Oddly pleasant singing, in-the-red fingerpicking, twisting swells of feedback, totally POUNDING drums, and Krautlike-zen fill both sides of this record. Loud and proud, The Hunchback E.P. looks right filed next to your Neil, Faust, and Spacemen 3 records." -Richie
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Artist: VILLAGE OF SPACES Title: Alchemy and Trust Format: LP Label: Turned Word Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Having changed their name from Uke of Phillips, to Uke of Spaces Corners, this time around, on their fourth full length album, we see another moniker shift, to Village of Spaces. Collaborating with Michael Hurley, Big Blood, Ancestral Diet and Caethua, Alchemy and Trust might be this crews most potent release to date if not their most deliberate and un-compromising. Recordings made over the last three years make up this 34 minute LP, which was recorded at The Pool Recording Studios in Portland, Oregon, Big Bloods Tank 26 studios in So. Portland, Maine, and by Nemo Bidstrup at the bands home in MidCoast, Maine. Neo-traditional, butter fried homesteader volk, with extended vamps the g chord and beyond." - Turned Word. Includes a silkscreened, cardboard insert. |
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Artist: VILLAGE PISTOLS Title: Big Money Format: 7" Label: Last Laugh Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Official reissue of North Carolina KBD punk classic. I want BIG MONEY and I want it now!" - Last Laugh. |
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Artist: VILLAGE, KATE & WAYNE ROGERS Title: Quits Format: LP Label: Twisted Village Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Wayne & Kate have been dueling with their electric guitars for most of their adult lives, usually in the context of Crystalized Movements, Magic Hour, Major Stars, or one of the many imaginary ensembles theyve been a part of over the past 15 years. Here they cut out the rhythm section and go head-to-head. One side studio, one side live, both sides loud and free." - Twisted Village. |
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Artist: VILLAGES Title: The Last Whole Earth Format: Double LP Label: Harvest Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Asheville, North Carolina resident Ross Gentry performs and records under the guise of Villages. With dense layers and glacial droning, he creates engaging narrative soundscapes that evoke the shifting fragility of the early ambient movement as well as the elegance of symphonic composition. The Last Whole Earth is engagingly contemplative and meticulously well-crafted drone. With washes of guitar and synthesizer, subdued vocals, field recordings and minimal noise, Villages devises a beautifully pastoral narrative teeming with honest emotion. While the majority of drone artists are currently plotting a darker and harsher course, this offers warm radiance reminiscent of acts like Flying Saucer Attack, Labradford and Stars of the Lid that many are sure to find refreshing. This double LP is housed in a gorgeous gatefold sleeve with artwork from Asheville artist Lisa Nance. The pressing is limited to 500 copies." -Harvest |
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Artist: VILLE MOSKIITTO Title: Ylistyksiä Format: CDR Label: 267 Lattajjaa Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "Crackling mumbling free-association drone recorded in the deep and dark caves of Turku: drawing inspiration from the dim and snowless winter, sleep deprivation, sickness and alcohol. Try and catch the wind." |
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Artist: VILLEMONTE, JOHN Title: People Like You Format: LP Label: Sebastian Speaks Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Incredibly haunting and lush private press gem from the mid-seventies. Wisconsin singer songwriter John Villemonte may be a native of the Midwest, but this rich album conjures up the same sort of hazy Southern California vibe as David Crosbys If I Could Only Remember My Name. There are some smooth stoned vibes here a la Bread, but with a slightly unsettled edge, especially on tracks like the gorgeous I Am the Moonlight, a song also featured on the Numero Groups stellar Lonesome Heroes compilation."- Sebastian Speaks.
"This record reminds me of what music made on a perfect evening on the edge of the Hawaiian rain forest, stoked on primo weed and some nice Pinot Noir, might sound like. All the women look like Peggy Lipton, all the men like Merrell Fankhauser." - Stan Denski, The Acid Archives. |
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Artist: VINCENT OVER THE SINK Title: Dust Studies Format: 7" Label: Kye Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Memorial release from the Sydney-based duo of Matthauw Hopkins and Christopher Schueler (RIP). Over a handful of lathes/CDRs and the mind-boggling 22 Coloured Bull-Terriers cassette Vincent Over The Sink managed to cloud the backwaters of Australian culture with a haze of rustic elec...tronics, late-night guitar habitats and broken song. This is music made by and for those who find themselves "thinking about music but then digging a hole." Dust Studies offers up four distressed miniatures that put the fortunate listener somewhere between Ladder of Souls and Golem. The perfect place to pay a final respect. Dust Studies comes in a hand-numbered edition of 300 copies with cover art by Graham Lambkin." - Kye.
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Artist: VINDHARPEN Title: Regsentilyenan Format: LP Label: Orpheus Country: Denmark Price: $22.50 |
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"A true piece of Danish 70s underground. Originally released as private pressing in 1975. This musical journey leads you through a mystical world filled with exotic instruments and eastern vibes. Their sounds go from hypnotic soundscapes to fragile melancholic folk. Gypsy violin, stoned ragas and backwards voices. VINDHARPENs progressive and psychedelic folk rock is a garden filled with fairytales and flying carpets." - Orpheus.
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Artist: VINTER Title: Vinter II Format: LP Label: Tjärnen Country: Sweden Price: $25.00 |
| "Edition of 266 copies on vinyl with screenprinted covers and an insert. From the liner notes: "...these new songs werent found in one place, they didnt just flow from some horn of plenty, they were slowly plucked like flowers along the road-side, dried in the sun and put next to each other in an album that grew in the months that followed that first session, while winter turned into spring, and spring into summer. ... some turned out to be small gems of a song that belie their impromptu origins, others wear their spontaneous creation proudly like a crown of fallen petals. Some are kalimba and banjo back of the woods folk music, others two chord pop songs with pump organ or plucked cello. ... and Martinas sad, gentle, shimmering vocals fill the room from end to end, every little nook and cranny, with a language of vaguely familiar words, whose sense is obscured like something seen through an old broken and dusty window-pane. This new record is another spell-book of the fey and brittle magic that Vinter cast upon the listener..." Vinter collaborated with Lau Nau on last years Maailmas LP released on Tjarnen . |
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Artist: VINYL Title: Records And Covers By Artists Format: Book Label: Museu D Art Contemporani De Barcelona/Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen Country: Spain/Germany Price: $46.00 |
| "With over 800 artists records and other sound supports the exhibition Vinyl ⿿ Records and Covers by Artists shows the dual facets ⿿ visual and sound ⿿ of a unique dimension in art. All the major 20th-century art tendencies are represented, ranging from early avant-garde movements through the high point of sound art in the 60s and 70s, to present approaches. The entity of record as sound support and cover as visual support has enabled artists to explore a new, rich field of creation. Transcending the limits imposed by traditional art forms and having had no conventional musical education, visual artists took advantage of their freedom to discover the creative possibilities offered by music, sound and noise or by language, voice and instruments and their manipulation. Based on the Collection Guy Schraenen, an unusually complete anthology of artists record works, the exhibition presents an international overview: from Dada to Fluxus, from the Futurists to "Einstürzende Neubauten", from Eric Satie to John Cage, from Laurie Anderson to Laibach, from Beuys to Warhol. Artistic verbo-vocal experiments are shown in their full diversity ⿿ for example in the works of François Dufrêne, Sten Hanson, Ernst Jandl or the Beat-Generation. For the pop and rock world, visual artists have created impressive works of art in the 31 x 31 cm sleeve format, among them Roy Adzak, Roy Lichtenstein, Raymond Pettibon, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol or Richard Hamilton, whose "White-Album"-Cover for the Beatles became a classic work of this genre. Photographers like Robert Frank or Robert Mapplethorpe also appear in the visual word of the covers. The band "Kraftwerk" shows on the inside cover of their album from 1970 a full page photo by Bernd & Hilla Becher. Vinyl is an exhibition for the eye and the ear: graphic works, multiples and objects from the field of sound art complement the visual world represented by the covers. In terms of acoustic presentation, around 300 records are at the visitors disposal, including many compilations. The 250-page catalogue for this exhibition contains a fully illustrated discography. Artists in the exhibition: Roy Adzak, Pierre Alechinsky, Laurie Anderson, Karel Appel, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Harry Bertoia, Peter Blake, Ulises Carrión, Henri Chopin, Salvador Dali, Hanne Darboven, Peter Downsbrough, Jean Dubuffet, François Dufrêne, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brian Eno, Harald Falkenhagen, Peter Gordon, Franz Graf, Brion Gysin, Sten Hanson, Keith Haring, Bernard Heidsieck, Isidore Isou, Ernst Jandl, Joe Jones, Marcello Jori, Rolf Julius, Thomas Kapielski, Yves Klein, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Christian Marclay, Cildo Meirelles, Joan Miró, Meredith Monk, Otto Muehl, Carsten Nicolai, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Roman Opalka, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince, Vladan Radovanovic, Gerhard Richter, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Erik Satie, Tomas Schmit, Kurt Schwitters, Michael Snow, Die Tödliche Doris, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, La Monte Young and ca. 1.000 more" - Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen. If you missed out on the Broken Music Book this will do.. Incredible 250+ page collection - full color images and tons of info. Very Highly Recommended!!!! |
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Artist: VIOLENCE CONJUGALE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Born Bad Country: France Price: $20.00 |
| "This is the debut release on Born Bad Records from Belgian synth wave act Violence Conjugale. Hans and André met early in highschool. Their mutual love for Bowie and Kenneth Anger pushed them to flunk school and smoke in their tiny school movie room. There they dream of an ideal future, made of space travel and industrial music. Feeling the pressure from this private institution, they eventually decide to go to Berlin and see what taste has decadence there. They meet Marianne Katza, an eccentric woman who tells them to come to an artist squat in the Mitte district. Just like Warhols Factory, the place is an indistinct magma of ideas, music and drugs. Here, as André begins to fiddle with a Korg MS20 synth and dreams of exquisite performances, in another room, Hans tries to write his wildest nightmares to exorcise them. Marianne decides to introduce the future band to one of her lovers: Marc Berron, a young, arrogant and rich kid blessed with a perfect ear. He helps them to slow down their drug issues and take a new direction: to play a cold and personal music in pop format but with a feeling of urgency which characterized young Berliners. So, he kidnaps them in his own studio for several weeks to experiment, eventually finding Violence Conjugales definitive sound: 80s minimal synth-wave -- the frostiest ever." -Born Bad. |
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Artist: VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA Title: Pap Format: Triple CD Label: Bloody Butterfly Country: Japan Price: $44.00 |
| "3xCD compilation (1997) of early cassette releases. CD1 is a reissue of "Tenderly" without the tracks "Tenderly", "Deja Vu" and "Hi-Fi Dance Kingdom" and "Second Coming" edited. CD2 is a reissue of "Wagamama Na Ofukuro" without the track "Onna Bana". CD3 is a reissue of "Cry Baby Killer" without the track "Made In Yakuza". All CDs are encased in an individual soft pouch, packaged in a pictured silver foil-type envelope (various colours). Sometimes refered to as "Pap" due to the "patent pending" mark embossed on the envelope." -Discogs. Does NOT include the limited 3" CD. "In a world full of information overkill, Violent Onsen Geisha is a rare and mysterious thing! As in...theres very little info out there. Basically, Violent Onsen Geisha is the work of Masaya Nakahara although for years he created a history of VOG as a group whose members mysteriously died one by one (Spinal Tap drummer style, if you prefer). I suppose this provides the key to his work as Violent Onsen Geisha...sly and ironic, bizarre and sarcastic...creating a history which cloaks him in mystery so that he can enjoy himself in relative anonymity. Basically what you get is kitsch soundtracks and hippetty hop and blasts of disco and found sound and field recordings and spoken word and noise." -Bloody Butterfly. |
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Artist: VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA Title: The Midnight Gambler Format: CDR Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: VIOLENT RAMP Title: Strange Notes Format: Cass Label: Fag Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Fucking violent ramp! These mugs skate tough / you get in their way or snake em and its over. Raw pool coping hardcore circa 2001." - Fag Tapes. |
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Artist: VIOLENT STUDENTS Title: Party Addiction Format: LP Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Heres the last gasp effort from VIOLENT STUDENTS, a defunct Philadelphia-based black hole Punk / HC outfit whose wasters have been and continue to be involved in some arguably more-refined and mature projects. This self-medicated, throbbing set was recorded live at their final gig inside a South Philadelphia firetrap before a crowd of black-clad pencil-necked geeks that shrank with each passing tic of the metronome. Most of those intensely posed youngsters left too early to witness an exploratory stomp through “Seekers of the Truth”. The Students here are joined by BLUES CONTROLs Lea Cho, who was a last second replacement on guitar when Jim Winters (of Earth Crisis, Conviction, etc) proved tardy. The flip side is A Handy Magician, originally infamously issued as a cassette in 2004 or so. And as a more articulate scribe has famously noted, if you remember a Violent Students gig, then you werent there." - Richie. |
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Artist: VIOLENT STUDENTS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Eight tracks of brain throbbing annoyance that will draw the line in the sand between the real deal hardcore youth and all the other ironic moshers, noise losers, and various other butter users. Do you know The Brainbombs, The Fuckin Flyin A-Heads, The Sickness or Kilslug? Then you already know Violent Students. Best band from Philly since Circle Of Shit." - Parts Unknown. |
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Artist: VIOLENT STUDENTS Title: Street Banger Format: CDR Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Listenin to the crunch n gutterous thud of Street Banger (not to mention a few belts into the Mr H* action) I got to thinkin; what if Oscar Goldman had decided to spend that six million dollars turnin Steve Austin into a human cement truck? Garglin all that gravel, limestone & concrete mix in slow motion woulda sounded alot like the sub industro-metal ejaculate spewed out durin Flying Priest. And who wouldnt want to see a remake of Godzilla vs. Mothra but w/Highrise & Boy Dirtcar dukin it out in them roles this time? I would! And by the sound of things on here, so would Violent Students. On this ep these guys have got a tiger by the tail. And when I say tiger, I mean as in Tiger Tank. And where does a Tiger Tank rumble? Anywhere it fuckin wants! You know that scene in Frankenstein where the monster picks up the girl & throws her in the lake? Its alot like that, except now its a Tiger Tank runnin over Mecht Mensch in a wheelchair flattin them to bits. Next time you play their Acceptance ep, imagin hearin it comin from the other side & mangled almost beyond comprehension. Or just buy the Violent Students Street Banger cd ep instead. Same difference but this time the warts are genital. Dig it, its not just the toad thats off the hook on this one. Buy & behold." - Roland Woodbe, Siltblog. |
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Artist: VIRFUL OBIRSA/ZERO ZERO ZERO Title: Fearful Oblation Format: Double Cass Label: Petri Supply Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"2 tapes C62 + C48. Late eighties electronic projects of Allen Russell (of Yeast Culture). Creepy pro-one synthesizers, vocals, with a full color printed interior
booklet and velour slip case. "000" tape is solo synth rhythms. (limited edition 150)." - Petri Supply
"1986...1990. Zero zero zero cassette (C48) title "Cut The Cards!" not shown on exterior cover.
Paper slide-open cover, with two tapes in a velour sleeve. Includes color 8 page 4" x 7" art booklet. Screen printed artwork. Copies number 51 to 150 in this type of cover; 150 overall" - Discogs.
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Artist: VIRGIN EYE BLOOD BROTHERS Title: Fucky Mud Format: CDR Label: Veglia Country: Belgium Price: $12.00 |
| "2 new discs (VIRGIN EYE BLOOD BROTHERS and SPECTRE FLUX) from fulltime rocker pete nolan (magic markers, ghq and tons more). spaced out bliss. 80 copies each." - Veglia. |
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Artist: VIRGIN INSANITY Title: Illusion of Maintenance Man Format: CD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $23.50 |
| Japanese-only CD edition of the lone album (at the time) from 1971 by this TX group - 200 copies pressed, recently reissued in very limited form on LP by Destijl. This P-Vine CD comes w/ 7 bonus tracks (from the same sessions?) released for the first time. Immaculate mini-LP jacket packaging, with booklet of liner notes (Japanese) and lyrics (English/Japanese). Heavy. Destijls description of the album: "Exact / legit repro of an unbelievably / unassumingly great / rare rec from TX, circa 71. 4 kids (one chick fatale) stoned / alone and aware of the big things. Tempted, yet devoted only to the shaft of light extending from the loin of god, on which we will all eventually sit, that slowly rises and lifts us towards the heavens... for the fan of gripped mind / dropped jaws, this is the regal beagle; austere / smart / aware vibes that slowly imply the king of American folk privates. Its connection within the deep timbre of the private / psych / folk family tree of references is hazy, but perhaps the dropped names of Arthur Lee Harper, Pete Fine, Fenner / Leland / OBrien, Timmothy, the Bachs will work for the astute customer." |
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Artist: VIRGIN INSANITY Title: Illusions Of The Maintenance Man Format: LP Label: Destijl Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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"one time pressing of exact / legit repro of an unbelievably / unassumingly great / rare rec from TX, circa 71.
4 kids ( one shorty fatale ) stoned / alone and aware of the big things. tempted, yet devoted only to the shaft of light extending from the loin of god, on which we will all eventually sit, that slowly rises and lifts us towards the heavens...
for the fan of gripped mind / dropped jaws, this is the regal beagle; austere / smart / aware vibes that slowly imply the king of american folk privates. its connection within the deep timbre of the private / psych / folk family tree of references is hazy, but perhaps the dropped names of arthur lee harper, pete fine, fenner / leland / obrien, timmothy, the bachs will work for the astute customer.
there is a CD forthcoming, which will contain extras from the unreleased acetates "odometer suite" / "toad frog and fish friends", and will feature liner notes by patrick "the lama"." - Destijl.
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Artist: VIRGIN INSANITY Title: Toad Frog & Fish Friends/The Odometer Suite Format: CD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $23.50 |
| "After releasing Illusion of Maintenance Man in 1971, Virgin Insanity evidently went on to record 2 more albums that never saw the light of day: Toad Frog & Fish Friends, also from 1971, and The Odometer Suite from 1973. This Japanese-only CD conveniently compiles the 2 together and throws on 2 bonus tracks of new 2005 recordings by the currently revitalized group. In a similar style to Illusion, but perhaps more freaked out, this is beautifully shambolic folk-rock from the edge of time, with parts of Toad Frog coming across like Texas answer to the Godz. The Odometer Suite is a lot more 73 than 71 (guess that "makes sense") - the naivete is a little wobbly for todays sophisticates. But the now easily achievable completeness that P-vine makes possible with these 2 CDs is hard to beat." - FE. |
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Artist: VIRGIN SPRING Title: Excelsior Format: One Sided LP Label: Gods of Tundra Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Debut vinyl. Wander in the wetlands and get lost. Lines tangle and tighten and then disintegrate. The next step is never certain. Breath in this unclear atmosphere. Ever upward. Edition of 100." - Gods Of Tundra. |
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Artist: VIRTANEN, KEIJO/MATTI PIHL/SAMI NYBACKA Title: Do You Want Something Beyond All Seasons Format: CDR Label: Audiobot Country: Belgium Price: $10.00 |
| "One 24 minute track from Finnish forest-folk/organic ambient master Keijo Virtanen and friends. "Space-devouring minimalism combining oscillating/phased electronics with minimal bells and singings strings to birth a weird retro-futurist cave-space. 60s sci-fi synth pulled taut into thin wires of sound over a black hole of silence, with Keijo providing stormcloud rumblings of cymbal and drum." Limited to 150 copies in an oversized A5 sleeve." 2006 release. |
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Artist: VISIBLE/INVISIBLE WALL Title: Distant Realities 1 Format: Cass Label: Enterruption Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Levi hails from an insolated coastal town in Alaska, pop.300+ in summer, pop.70+ in winter. He grew up around cold sea, endless forests, glaciers bigger than most breadboxes by far, endless ice-fields, endless days and endless nights. All of these influences can be heard in the sounds that this guy busts forth. Levi has been a big creative influence around these parts �?? he was a forming member of the band I roll with: Blue Sabbath Black Cheer; and his art has adorned our walls for months now. Visible/Invisible Wall is Levi being Levi: endless minimalist stoned sounds and a societal misanthropic philosophy. Good stuff. Even Richard Rupenis, the mastermind behind The New Blockaders, is a fan of V/IW." - Enterruption. |
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Artist: VISIBLE/INVISIBLE WALL Title: Numbered 7 & 8 Format: Cass Label: Enterruption Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "These tapes, the V/IW and Demonlore, are from Levis short-lived uber-limited tape label, Numbered Tapes. Since hes moving back to his hometown in Alaska he gave us the masters at our insistence (and Stentorian Tapes as well) so that we could re-release them - a couple of the Numbered Tapes were in editions of 5x. This is more of Levis minimalist knife-hits noise jams, inspired by the bear bones he found half-buried in the frozen tundra near his home in Alaska." - Enterruption. |
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Artist: VISITATIONS Title: Visitations Format: LP Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Well, here you have it. Maines cosmic mystery trio captured in vinyl for eternity, just for you... while everyone & their mother seems to have some sort of bedroom folk/psych project going these days, youd be hard pressed to find another unit as pure in spirit & process as these here bodies/buddies. One of those rare vortexes of creation existing totally apart from all hype, pressure or pretense; in other words, timeless. Always balanced on that fine and beautiful line between cosmic joke & aching depth. A simple & unadorned unfurling of strummed & fingered instruments, heartaching female vocals, woodland creatures, earthy male vocals, contrasting half-written & totally spontaneous songs, twisting lyrics, haunted melancholy, lysergic joy, and a heavy dose of spooked New England lore. In a way, the recording scene itself is an almost perfect parallel to the sounds & vibes captured here: three shadowy figures laugh & sing around a dim campfire. No ones slept in days. Theyre nestled amidst ancient stone buildings, creeping foliage and mounds of exotic flowers. The sun is setting over the mountains. But its all frozen in time. The clouds arent moving. And that campfire, its a microphone, isnt it? And all those flowers: plastic. The stone: paint. Is it all fake? Well, it is an ancient stone church. And those three really are making some very sweet sounds. In fact, its almost hyper-real. Almost impossibly so... is that reel-to-reel rolling? Yes, it sure is... exquisitely packaged with a fold out double thick duotone art paper cover. Outside is white paper with edge-to-edge antique letterpress-printed eyeball melting hyper-detailed art by the band. Inside is black paper with red/orange screen printing. 180gm virgin vinyl. Numbered edition of 500 copies." -Time-Lag. |
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Artist: VISITATIONS Title: Visitations Format: CD Label: Time-Lag Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Digital version with the same music as the LP. Packaged in a slightly altered mini version of the LP cover, complete with letter press & screen printed art, tri-fold duotone art paper covers, woven Japanese inner sleeves, and a special surprise in total darkness. Two cover variations, limited to 400 each, for a total CD edition of 800 copies." -Time-Lag. |
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Artist: VITA NOCTIS Title: Against The Rule Format: Double LP Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Dark Entries and Minimal Maximal have joined forces to re-issue the complete discography of Vita Noctis on a double vinyl LP. Previously these songs were restricted to limited self-released cassettes, compilation appearances and a sole 12″ Mini LP. Beware, this is abrasive, primal music made by irritated teenagers full of angst! Vita Noctis were a trio from Vilvoorde, Belgium in the Flemish Region. Inspired by the post-punk movement twin brothers Kris and Jos Kips convinced Kris girlfriend Martine Genijn to start a band in 1981.They recorded their earliest songs onto a 2-track tape deck in their bedroom studio using second-hand equipment they could afford: Roland TR-808 drum machine, Casiotone MT-31, Ibanez bass guitar and a Korg MS-20 keyboard. Their first album “In The Face Of…DEATH” was self-released on cassette only in 1984 by the “Much Money Good Boy, No Money Good-Bye” cassette in 1985. In February 1986 the band recorded five songs at Studio Care in Gent, Belgium later released as the self-titled 12″ Mini-LP on Mad In Belgium Records. Their final recording session was November 1986 returning to the bands bedroom studio, resulting in the song “She Likes Me” which appeared on the “Climax Productions Presents” LP. “More “arthouse” than “goth”, Vita Noctis blend the sneering attitude of punk with the spartan structures of minimal electronics. The band had more in common with the early electronic Sheffield scene of Cabaret Voltaire, Vice Versa or early Human League than their Belgian contemporaries. Urgent vocals go from a whisper to a scream in seconds and sound restless, bored and irritated all at once. Fuzzy guitar, simple baselines and crude electronics take turns accompanying the dynamic vocal stylings. While lyrics tackle weighty topics like death and religion, the landscape they paint is as playfully bratty as it is grim. All songs have been remastered from the restored 1/4″ reel to reel tapes by George Horn at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley California. Each double LP comes in a deluxe gatefold jacket with cover art by original designer Stephan Barbery and never before seen band photos and lyrics for each song. Spanning three years and four recording sessions “Against The Rule” is the soundtrack to Armageddon, very fitting in the contemporary climate of dissatisfaction and social upheaval." -Dark Entries. |
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Format: Double 10" Label: Elica Country: ITALY Price: $26.00 |
| "More catchy than Dlin Dlon Cowboy. The Vitamin B12s music maintains an ingenious home-made sound in a refined bric-a-brac of experimental sound explorations, adventurous and successful juxtapositions and playful melodies and structures. This set presents 24 kaleidoscopic miniatures, like the images which adorn the cover, assembled with amazingly gracious do-it-yourself pop sensibility, groovy lounge tendencies and a passionate curiosity for noise and sound modification. The history of The Vitamin B12 remains a mystery for us too, so that not many words can be written on that. This is its first album which is not self-released, following an obscure four-LP box set and an even more obscure double LP set, which were mysteriously released in tiny editions in England in the last decade or so. A double 10" LP record set (as we decided that a Vitamin B12 release can only be a multiple one) with color gatefold sleeve, released in an edition of about 400 copies." - Elica. |
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Format: Double 10"/DVD Box Set Label: Elica Country: Italy Price: $80.00 |
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"special edition of 50 numbered copies of
the TWO 10" GATEFOLD SET in unique boxes each including a unique print
and Alasdair Willis eye-popping kaleidoscopic short film PATTERN PLANT on CD/DVD." - Elica.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: A Date At The Rendezvous With The Jim McAlister Quartet Format: LP Label: Tip Top Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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Unusual new LP from Alasdair Willis long running project featuring almost straight lounge jazz recordings. ?
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Candy Format: Triple LP Label: Tip Top Country: UK Price: $36.00 |
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Triple LP in a quadruple gatefold sleeve!! Numbered edition of 300.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Cant Be Bothered To Play Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"improvising as a quartet, The Vitamin B12 rapidly loosen themselves from any notion of music making and indulge in a kind of joyful blundering around. Its like when we stop bothering to play the noise just plays itself. I think it probably plays itself better than we do. The quartet consists of Kulo Murugaiyan, Hassni Malik, Stephen Drennan and myself." - Alasdair Willis. Editon of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Cuteys Carpet Format: LP Label: Tip Top Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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Yet another lp from Alasadair Willis and friends. 9th release over all , i think? (5th this year?!?!). Edition of 300.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Heads - Volume 1 - Blue Bag Format: LP Label: Vitamin B12 Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| After a double 10", three single LPs, two double LPs and a triple LP over the last few years (and a rare live appearance at the Vincent Gallo curated ATP), we now have an 8 LP Series (in a handnumbered, silk screened edition of 99 copies no less!) from Mr Alasdair Willis and friends! If you pick up all 8 LPs youll get 10% off the listed price."sequenced samples filched from a wide array of sources. an ideal supplement to our 2 lp gatefold set." - Vitamin B12. |
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Heads - Volume 2 - Punahou Format: LP Label: Vitamin B12 Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| After a double 10", three single LPs, two double LPs and a triple LP over the last few years (and a rare live appearance at the Vincent Gallo curated ATP), we now have an 8 LP Series (in a handnumbered, silk screened edition of 99 copies no less!) from Mr Alasdair Willis and friends! If you pick up all 8 LPs youll get 10% off the listed price."systemized editing techniques are applied to pre-recorded film soundtracks, whilst hawaiian high school revellers are forced through some basic tools of sound manipulation." - Vitamin B12. |
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Heads - Volume 3 - Okay, You Can Stop Thinking Now Format: LP Label: Vitamin B12 Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| After a double 10", three single LPs, two double LPs and a triple LP over the last few years (and a rare live appearance at the Vincent Gallo curated ATP), we now have an 8 LP Series (in a handnumbered, silk screened edition of 99 copies no less!) from Mr Alasdair Willis and friends! If you pick up all 8 LPs youll get 10% off the listed price. "live small group improvisations based around percussive sounds, saxophone and cheap electronics. the a-side trio of myself, kulo murugaiyan and hassni malik, is extended into a quartet for the b-side by stephen drennan." - Vitamin B12. |
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Heads - Volume 4 - Stay Outta The Tool Shed Format: LP Label: Vitamin B12 Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| After a double 10", three single LPs, two double LPs and a triple LP over the last few years (and a rare live appearance at the Vincent Gallo curated ATP), we now have an 8 LP Series (in a handnumbered, silk screened edition of 99 copies no less!) from Mr Alasdair Willis and friends! If you pick up all 8 LPs youll get 10% off the listed price. "a dress rehearsal for an ATP performance that took place a week or so later. jason williams, kulo murugaiyan, hassni malik, stephen drennan, andrew clare and myself clatter our way round a spiralling path of confrontations and misgivings." - Vitamin B12. |
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Heads - Volume 5 - Tangled Ears And Eye Knots Format: LP Label: Vitamin B12 Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| After a double 10", three single LPs, two double LPs and a triple LP over the last few years (and a rare live appearance at the Vincent Gallo curated ATP), we now have an 8 LP Series (in a handnumbered, silk screened edition of 99 copies no less!) from Mr Alasdair Willis and friends! If you pick up all 8 LPs youll get 10% off the listed price. "thirty-one little tunes and incidental melodies, similar in nature to the third side of the 2 ten inch gatefold set released by elica. founder member tim wells guests on mucus." - Vitamin B12. |
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Heads - Volume 6 - Pickpockets Format: LP Label: Vitamin B12 Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| After a double 10", three single LPs, two double LPs and a triple LP over the last few years (and a rare live appearance at the Vincent Gallo curated ATP), we now have an 8 LP Series (in a handnumbered, silk screened edition of 99 copies no less!) from Mr Alasdair Willis and friends! If you pick up all 8 LPs youll get 10% off the listed price. "found sounds from varying sources, including a pile of abandoned reel to reel tapes, suffer a series of rigorous sorting and editing processes. initially i had in mind making a spoken word record without the need for me to actually say anything." - Vitamin B12. |
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Heads - Volume 7 - Tiki Tomi Format: LP Label: Vitamin B12 Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| After a double 10", three single LPs, two double LPs and a triple LP over the last few years (and a rare live appearance at the Vincent Gallo curated ATP), we now have an 8 LP Series (in a handnumbered, silk screened edition of 99 copies no less!) from Mr Alasdair Willis and friends! If you pick up all 8 LPs youll get 10% off the listed price. "two live improvisations from the ongoing series of sessions held twice weekly at my home in brighton. iain paxon, david papapostolou, kulo murugaiyan, paul morgan, hassni malik, stephen drennan and d j ordeal are all lurking in there somewhere." - Vitamin B12. |
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Heads - Volume 8 - Wrong Notes Format: LP Label: Vitamin B12 Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| After a double 10", three single LPs, two double LPs and a triple LP over the last few years (and a rare live appearance at the Vincent Gallo curated ATP), we now have an 8 LP Series (in a handnumbered, silk screened edition of 99 copies no less!) from Mr Alasdair Willis and friends! If you pick up all 8 LPs youll get 10% off the listed price. "multi-tracked semi-improvisations. i provide each participant with only a computer visualization of the sounds the other players have made. fortunately frantisek sic, kulo murugaiyan and stephen drennan all contrive to bend these restrictions to their own advantage." - Vitamin B12. |
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Kikis Island Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"The words and world of Eden Ahbez are eschewed by Karin Moris faithful but thoroughly unique recital which subtly questions the exotic fantasies that swirl in Edens pacific island idyll. Karin was born and grew up in Hawaii. Side two, devoted to the words and voice of Xelis de Toro, dismantled and reassembled. The uncertainty of understanding what is spoken, the sounds, the words and the elusive essence of meaning"- Alasdair Willis. Edition of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Laleh Ladan Format: Double LP Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
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"Perhaps the only double album to be released that contains two sides instead of four. A big enough surprise three years ago when after a ten year gap to follow up the legendary and now unavailable 4LP box debut we actually got the follow up of 2LP Gatefold Set, and then with incredible speed came a seven inch on Raft Recordings, just when you might be shocked into thinking the B12 was threatening to become prolific (a double 10" has been slated for release by Italian label Elica for a couple of years also) the theory is confirmed by this new double album which almost literally turned up out of the blue with no warning or pre-information. A record of two halves, in two versions...the insert gives you track details
and input information for Sides One and Two, and indeed there are two versions of this album. The same tracks, but completely reworked. For once this ploy doesnt seem lazy or an unneeded addition, its all part of the process. The music itself is a real breath of fresh air, taking (mainly) saxophone, organ, drums, violin, voice and unidentifiable noises into the sample realm and playing havoc with the integrity of those precious recordings. not a jazz or an improv record, nor electronic or concrete, but they all play their part in the B12s unknown plans. A genuine experimental album from a genuinely independent artist, not following any particular genre or approach. A self-produced item on the B12s Little Gems label, Limited to 300 copies in totality... comes with full colour gatefold and small plastic folder of picture cards." - Little Gems.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Love Is Strange Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"A spluttering Casio SK-5 jostles with corroding saxophone spittle, a cheap plastic melodica vainly duets with a dysfunctional Stratocaster, old pop hits loop and dance around the chirps of an Roland MC-202. Xelis de Toro, Stephen Drennan, Monty Oxymoron, Kulo Murugaiyan, Hassni Malik, David Harkins and myself venture off on another B12 escapade." - Alasdair Willis. Editon of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Lush Life Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"A tribute to the Duke of Ellington, with Monty Oxymoron, Kulo Murugaiyan, Hassni Malik, Frantisek Sic, David Harkins, Beef and me." - Alasdair Willis. Editon of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Murugaiyan And Willis Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"Initial ferocity stretches into something more brittle. Electronic noise, mouth, and a cheap Yamaha synth. Just Kulo and me on this one." - Alasdair Willis. Editon of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: Sketchbook And Alvins Sax Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"Side one is a scrapbook of sound scribbles, side two, the misuse of an idea by Alvin Lucier." - Alasdair Willis. Editon of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: System Six/68 x 32 Format: 7" Label: Raft Country: UK Price: $6.50 |
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"The Vitamin B12 is Alasdair Willis. Reclusive Brighton based author of contemporary surrealist artifacts. This single was commissioned for Rafts instrumental series, specifically with the 7? medium in mind. The two pieces are vastly contrasting and perhaps some small clue to their aesthetic may be placed within the titles themselves... 68 x 32 is a Musique Concrete assemblage so therefore must be art, and as such it can only be judged by posterity, no one yet can really say what the record is like. System Six is a melodic composition for tuned percussion sounds, with a surprisingly liberating, yet oddly mind-bending ascending motif, which calls on the infinite resources that can be gleaned from careful application of the laws of repetition, that can be gleaned from careful application of the laws of repetition laws of repetition of repetition. This record exists precisely because it was made to be." - Raft.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: The Hang Twelve Suite Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"Last night I dreamt that I was in some weird 60s surf band, trapped within the tortured mind of Tom Baker" - Alasdair Willis. Editon of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: The Lazy Eight Project - Volume One Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"Each player records themselves as they respond to eight tracks I have already constructed. My eight tracks are then removed, leaving the players recordings to interact and produce something new and unexpected. Featuring Xelis de Toro, Ulrich Bohnefeld, Monty Oxymoron, Luke Fowler, Karin Mori, Judi Chrysanthou, Jason Williams, Iain Paxon, Hassni Malik, Douglas Bregger, David Sherry, Damien Dunnington, Blue Pin, Alistair Strachen and Adonis Christodoulou." - Alasdair Willis. Edition of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: The Lazy Eight Project - Volume Two Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"Each player records themselves as they respond to eight tracks I have already constructed. My eight tracks are then removed, leaving the players recordings to interact and produce something new and unexpected. Featuring Xelis de Toro, Ulrich Bohnefeld, Monty Oxymoron, Luke Fowler, Karin Mori, Judi Chrysanthou, Jason Williams, Iain Paxon, Hassni Malik, Douglas Bregger, David Sherry, Damien Dunnington, Blue Pin, Alistair Strachen and Adonis Christodoulou." - Alasdair Willis. Edition of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 & DEEPKISS 720 Title: DK720VB12 Format: 10" Label: Little Gems Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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"DK720 and The Vitamin B12 pool their resources, sending tapes and CDRs back and forth, mixing and re-mixing each others work. This has gone on for several years. I guess should mention that Albert Oehlen, Nomex, Karin Mori, Stephen Drennan and Frantisek Sic all make appearances at various points on this record, though Im not quite sure where." - Alasdair Willis. Edition of 99.
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Artist: VITAMIN B12/DJ ORDEAL Title: Vitamin Ordeal Format: LP Label: Vitamin B12 Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
| "d j ordeal provides the initial selection of fluctuating rpm speeds and disintegrating tape spools to which i apply more formal systems of sound processing." - Vitamin B12. |
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Artist: VIVIAN GIRLS Title: Everything Goes Wrong Format: LP Label: In The Red Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Brooklyns VIVIAN GIRLS are back with Everything Goes Wrong, released almost exactly a year after In The Reds reissue of their self-titled debut. The band have taken their time with this new album and recorded it in six days-rather than the three their debut took-though many of the songs were still recorded in single takes. Over the last year, the Vivian Girls have toured the US and Europe extensively and received a considerable amount of national and international press. Everything Goes Wrong is a slightly moodier album than its predecessor, with a couple tracks clocking in at almost twice the length of anything on their debut. That said, the influences remain the same; Ramones, 60s girl groups, surf, indie pop, etc., etc. This is immediately classic stuff. Watch for constant touring in late 09 and 10. No exports to Australia." -In The Red |
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Artist: VIVIAN GIRLS Title: My Love Will Follow Me Format: 7" Label: Wild World Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "THE VIVIAN GIRLS return with a new single on their own Wild World imprint. "The single shows the Girls moving towards a more Spector-esque recording approach and showcases their intricate harmonies. Recorded in Brattleboro, VT with KYLE THOMAS of Happy Birthday and King Tuff, who, incidentally, also plays guitar on the B-side-a cover of the Chantels Hes Gone." - Wild World. |
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Artist: VIVIAN GIRLS Title: Wild Eyes/My Baby Wants Me Dead Format: 7" Label: Wild World Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "..released on their own Wild World imprint. Edition of 2,000 copies on black vinyl." - Wild World |
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Artist: VIZUSA Title: Vizuza Format: LP Label: Seres Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Caitlin Cook and Calder Martin, formerly vocalist/players in EXCEPTER, resurface as a rock duo with Martin weaving holographic guitar riffs around Cooks wails and gloomy poems. The pair spent two years living in the skylight studio of the historic Matthew Brady Daguerreotype Building at 359 Broadway NYC, recording in the same vaulted rooms where Abe Lincoln, Felicita Vestvali, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglas, and Sitting Bull voluntarily screwed their heads into iron stabilizers in order to be photographed. The resulting album conveys a falsely two-sided pattern of epic American triumph, contemplative groovyness, and crumbling disaster in the guise of hyperactive fun. Cameo drum appearances blast through at key moments, courtesy of Spencer Herbst (Matta Llama), Nathan Corbin (Excepter), and the inimitable Fiz. Released on SERES, a longstanding label cohort of the NO-NECK BLUES BAND. At the right volume, the crackle of the amps will make your ass ripple." - Seres. |
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Artist: VIZUZA Title: eTTa aTTa oTo Format: DVDR Label: Viz Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Video and music by Calder Martin. Dance by Caitlin Cook. [both ex-Excepter] Assembled from live performances 2005. Synopsis: A cocoon of purple diamonds appears in vast darkness. It begins expanding and multiplying thousands of blades of shimmering light. A new being is molted, eTTa, who shape-shifts, duplicates, and dismantles as she plays in the colorful mechanisms of holographic regeneration." - Viz. Highly recommended! LP soon on SER (NNCK).
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Artist: VLASMAN, TON Title: White Room With Disintegrating Walls Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $28.00 |
| "Ton Vlasman recorded this amazing piece of acid Euro folk back in 1970, making it sound like an outer space freaked out Bob Dylan with the help of Frans Schoonen (organ, flute and harmonica) and Leo van Vugt (chincha tumba and tambourine). The seven original compositions are stunning, drug inspired psychedelic pieces of acid folk that mix Dylan with Indian ragas and even add some Pink Floyd overtones, yet from an acoustic rather than electric point of view. And the album contains also a very cool version of The Velvet Undergrounds Pale Blue Eyes. If you ever wondered how Dylan would have sounded covering The V.U., heres a close example! The album, originally released on the small Flame label from Amsterdam, sold poorly back in the seventies -- thus becoming a collectors piece when it was rediscovered in the eighties. Since then it has been gathering new fans that pay small fortunes for a copy, no reissue has been available until now that Wah Wah offers 500 copies in a lavish edition that will probably sell out soon, so grab your copy before its too late! The beautiful cover art and full color poster insert with the lyrics are the work of Leendert Le Duc, and both are here faithfully reproduced as they deserve. The Wah Wah reissue also features an extra insert with a text by reputed Dutch collector Jean Jöbses and a couple of rare unseen period photos courtesy of the Frans Schoonen and Leo van Vugt archives. The album has been carefully remastered by sound wizard Denis Blackham @ Skye Mastering, making these songs sound like never before. Remember, 500 copies only -- dont miss it!" -Wah Wah |
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Artist: VOADKA SOAP Title: Parallel Visitation Format: Cass Label: Simultaneous Hallucinations Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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2 new releases from Spencer of The Skaters.
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Artist: VOADKA SOAP Title: Un Chand Pyramdelier Format: Cass Label: Simultaneous Hallucinations Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: VOADKA SOAP Title: un/chand/pyromdelier Format: CDR Label: New Age Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: VOAG, L. Title: The Way Out Format: CD Label: Alcohol Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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Jim from the Homosexuals, Amos & Sara, etc.. Includes the 1979 LP The Way Out , the Move EP, plus 6 previously unreleased tracks.
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Artist: VOCODER Title: Cuadro Sinoptico Format: 12" Label: Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Dark Entries is thrilled to present a 4-song compilation from one of the finest groups of the Spanish New Wave/Tecno-Pop scene of the 1980s. Vocoder were a quartet from Zaragoza, Spain formed in 1981. Keyboardists Antonio Laval and Alfonso Olarte attended the same university and fell in love with a Korg MS-20 synthesizer in a music shop window. They met keyboardist Antonio Tenas at a local radio station and were later joined by vocalist Pilar Pellicer. They recorded several demos with synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines, creating a soundtrack for the clubs and dance floors. Inspired by the “Movida Madrileña,” they sent demos to various record companies. The band signed a deal with Aviador Dro’s sublabel Neón Danza and released two EPs, “What Happens Now”/”Radio” in 1984, “Mindanao”/”Amor de Robot” in 1985 and a self-titled LP which was produced by Michel Huygen (Neuronium) in 1987. Vocoder also appeared on the TV program “La Bola De Cristal”, presenting their music video for “What Happens Now”, in which the band danced in a supermarket with a shopping cart full of synthesizers. The group mutually disbanded in 1988 and continued to organize concerts for other groups touring in Spain.
“Cuadro Sinóptico” compiles both 2-song 12″ maxi singles as one 4-song EP. All four songs were recorded during 1984-85 at Doublewtronics Studios in Madrid, Spain, using the most advanced and sophisticated techniques of time in digital recording and Direct Metal Mastering (DMM). The band utilized many professional synthesizers of the time: Roland Juno 60, Prophet V, Korg Poly 61, Yamaha DX-7, Roland TR-909 and the Linn Drum, which was used by most Italo Disco artists. These songs were recorded in the highest fidelity with disc jockeys in mind. Genuinely catchy, Vocoder combined soaring melodies with cybernetic coldness. A futuristic sound for the modern age topped with Pilar’s charismatic vocals. Lyrically they address robotic love, disco dancing, and the tropical island of Mindanao, and sing in Spanish, English and French.
All songs on “Cuadro Sinóptico” have been remastered from the original reel to reel master tapes for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, CA. Each LP includes a double-sided insert with photos, lyrics and liner notes by Flemming Dalum, a Danish DJ who introduced much of the world to Vocoder in 2008 on his “French Spanish Italo Connection” mix. Vocoder want you to barricade yourself in the discotheques and dance away the depression." -Dark Entries. |
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Artist: VOCOKESH Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: VOCOKESH Title: The Tenth Corner Format: CD Label: Strange Attractors Audio House Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Vocokesh seriously tweak the standard rock trio infrastructure by processing the guitars beyond earthly recognition and inoculating the cacophony with an arsenal of vintage analog electronics. With seven songs totalling over an hour of music, The Tenth Corner explores some seriously alien terrain with an elusively mechanical, intensely lysergic sound. Unfurling like mellow smoke from some alien opium den, the title track introduces the sonic soiree in a pleasant mood, as distant acoustic plucking and electronic oscillations provide a pillowing backdrop for some elegant electric guitar flourishes. Imbued with an intense array of moods and textures, The Tenth Corner is a tremendously cinematic listening experience -- in fact, three tunes are envisioned as supplemental/alternate soundtracks to some particularly vivid cult films. Composition and improvisation coalesce into a sound that draws from the early flights of 70s German avant rock (Agitation Free, Cosmic Jokers, Ash Ra Tempel) and synth-powered cosmic (Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh) if it were created in the embryonic electronic music labs of the 60s and 70s. Transcendent, gritty, hallucinatory -- The Tenth Corner is undoubtedly Vocokeshs finest hour." - Strange Attractors Audio House. |
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Artist: VOCOKESH Title: Through the Smoke Format: CD Label: Strange Attractors Audio House Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "With Through the Smoke, Vocokesh expand upon the ominous acid soundtracks that saturated The Tenth Corner. Combining the swirling guitars of Pink Floyd and the Kraut-inspired mayhem of Ash Ra Tempel with the early analog electronic surrealism of Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, Vocokesh continue to place pressure on the boundaries of sound, incessantly exploring cryptic soundscapes via their oftentimes unsettling brand of electronics-drenched, drugged-out rock. On this outing, however, the soundscapes come mixed with some more prog-like elements and even a touch of psych/garage riffing. Vibe #6 stirs slowly with heady bass pulses, swooshing synths and subtle guitar lines, but quickly stumbles headlong into all-out mania as Franeckis guitar pyrotechnics spiral forth like alien tendrils, reverberations of a gong tolling the first wave of what is to be a long, dark trip. But a sidestep into garage-psych of Vocokesh Theme Song provides a nice respite, as the band exhumes the spirit of Electric Prunes-like fuzz and vibrato. The sojourn is short-lived, as Vocokesh continue on, taking the listener on their impressionistic journey woven from total sound exploration. Vocokesh manage to skillfully hybridize the best of the early 70s avant-garde into their cinematic improvisations. Florian Fricke, David Gilmour, Manuel Göttsching, Edgar Froese, Moebius & Roedelius and Fripp & Eno are all exhumed, but Vocokesh re-image the references into something far more extreme than the aforementioned ever imagined. Eerie and sonically provocative, Through the Smoke is one intense mind-moving hallucination." - Strange Attractors Audio House. |
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Artist: VODKA SOAP Title: Oceansion Island Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: VODKA SOAP Title: Reactionary Meditations... Format: CDR Label: Wabana Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Vodka Soap is the solo project of Spencer Clark ofSan Franciscos vocal psych duo The Skaters. The full title of this CD is Reactionary Meditations With The Chandelier Of Our Head. Edition of 100 numbered copies in Wabanas generic purple digipak with photo mounted to outside." - Wabana.
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Artist: VODKA SOAP Title: Shee-Ro Gateway Temples.. Format: Cass Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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...A Fourth Tropical Experience Within The Stars, By Charles Berlitz. "The virtue of unearthly contents as experienced through the temples presentation of accessing the inner minds world as itself a gateway to the outerways of experience the shared dimensional space of the pacific city shee ro temple and outer space environment: the experience of the star movement within the space of the temples doorway as the correspondence between space and jungle temple sound. Using the temple as body (inner consciousness) for access outer consciousness and space. The mind reacting to its own consciousness as prepared within the temples doorway within ivy palmed structures starred within the woop gonged temple conversation to the mind and the temples door as a multipled gateway towards faceted points of conversation. Recorded within the see-ro universe meditation room Dimensions End, Pacific City 2028." Pacific City Sound Visions
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Artist: VODKA SOAP Title: The Infinite Way Format: Cass Label: New Age Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"SEEKING IN CHANDELIER LAYERS OF INNER DIMENSIONS OF
TEXTURAL POOLS THAT ARE REOCCURING MEMORIES FOR
SPENCER CLARK THROUGH APRIL-JULY 2005 ON THE ROTATING
CONVERSATION WHEEL." - New Age. Skaters side label.
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Artist: VODKA SOAP/ACID EAGLE Title: Format: Double Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Vodka Soap and Acid Eagle are Spencer and James from The Skaters, who are
somehow managing to ensure that the most apocalyptic Mayan prophecies will come
true AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Violins, vocals, and the fogged air in the heart of
San
Francisco are translated and meditated upon. A rare glimpse into the legitimate
new
future and true musical language being developed in our midst. One-Sided LP
soon
on Heavy Tapes, and expect many more collaborations. Double Leopards / Skaters
east coast tour is entirely confirmed and will be posted very shortly." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: VOGEL, MICHEL Title: Ronde Matutinale À Amillis/Berenice Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Planam proudly presents the second LP by the artist and sound sculptor Michel Vogel. Born in 1941 in Strasbourg, France, Michel Vogels artistic activities started in 1960 when, as a painter under the materic influences of Antoni Tapies and Jean Dubuffet, his mineral and sound experimentations built a universe influenced by free jazz, extra-European music and Olivier Messiaen. His research developed with new sculptures and the creation of his own resonating metal instruments. His friends of the minimalist group, and especially the Fluxus artists, supported and pushed him to carry on his acoustic explorations while his sonic creations got closer to the music of John Cage, Philip Corner, Morton Feldman and Giacinto Scelsi. After the deep cosmo night music of Une petite music de nuit (Vogels first LP) Planam decided to issue two more early-morning oriented realizations, or Ronde mattinale à Amillis and Berenice. These alfa-wave improvisations for prepared gongs and self-built metal instruments, selected in direct collaboration with the artist, will make you enter into luminous sonic dimensions. Edition limited to 270 copies with full colour space cover and inner sleeve." -Planam |
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Artist: VOGEL, MICHEL Title: Une Petite Musique De Nuit Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Planam proudly presents the first LP by the artist and sound sculptor Michel Vogel. Born in 1941 in Strasbourg, France, Michel Vogel artistic activities start in 1960 when, as a painter under the materic influences of Antoni Tapies and Jean Dubuffet, his mineral and sound experimentations built a universe influenced by free jazz, extra-European music and Olivier Messiaen. His researches develop with new sculptures and the creation of his own resonating metal instruments. His friends of the minimalist group, and specially the Fluxus artists, supported and pushed him to carry on his acoustics explorations while his sonic creations get closer to the music of John Cage, Philip Corner, Morton Feldman and Giacinto Scelsi. For this first project, Planam selected, in direct collaboration with the artist, an improvisation for large size gongs prepared with metal rods, little gong, Chinese cymbal, caoutchouc ball, titled Une Petite Musique De Nuit. Recorded live with no over-dubbing the night of January 18th, 2002. A very deep and alfa-wave oriented listening that will make you discover very intimate, as well as stellar new sonic dimensions. Edition limited to 300 copies, with full colour space cover and innersleeve." -Planam |
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Artist: VOGUE, THE Title: A Doll Spits Cubes Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $28.00 |
| "This legendary Austrian beat/mod/psychedelic band existed from 1978 to 1982. The album A Doll Spits Cubes was self-released by the band in an edition of 300, gone in days, once repressed as a bootleg and heavily sought-after in the years to come until today. The song "Frozen Seas of Lo" made it to #2 in the Austrian charts. With insert." - Cien Fuegos. |
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Artist: VOICE CRACK Title: Kick That Habit Format: Video Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: VOICE CRACK Title: Shock_Late Format: LP Label: Entenpfuhl Country: Germany Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: VOICE OF EYE Title: Anthology One: 1989-91 Format: Double LP Label: Vinyl-On-Demand Country: Germany Price: $38.00 |
| "Anthology One is culled from the first three cassette releases by Voice of Eye; Isolation, Voice of Eye and Resonant Fields / Hot Gypsy Fink Hell, all three tapes released on their own Cyclotron Industries Label between 1989-1991. These are the earliest recordings by Voice of Eye. Voice of Eye can be doubtlessly described as the protagonists and godfathers of the special genre of Ambient-Ritual-Music. Their specialty is organic sound sculpting: a form of electronic ethnic ambient music that relies mainly on electronic drones and manipulated instruments including instrumentation with special self-built instruments. The music is all improvised over a period of two years and covers the evolution of their early sound. It will immediately catch your attention and pulls you into an altered but extremely positive state of mind. This is the first in a series of Anthology releases documenting hard to find Voice of Eye material and previously unreleased recordings to be released on several labels in the near future." -Vinyl-On-Demand |
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Artist: VOICE OF EYE Title: Live Format: LP Label: Anomalous Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "This recording documents two rare live performances: Anomalous Records [Whittier,CA] and Hangar 18 [San Francisco, CA], both from June, 1994. These shows followed the release of Vespers and contained material similar to it. Voice of Eye is centered around the duo of Bonnie McNairn and Jim Wilson who live in Houston, Texas. To best explore new avenues and allow them to shape sound, they have built several of their own instruments. Some these, like the Squawk Box are controlled by bioelectricity, the electrical aspects of the human body. The Squawk Box is a small device housed in plastic container and can be held in the hand. The device is played by touching two wires which yields a squealing sound. They see an instrument to be the physical manifestation of music, the inert form of sound. And with this in mind, Jim has developed stringed instruments which are bowed to extend the envelope, so the texture of each sound has time to be explored, expanding time so as to hear each part of the whole." - Anomalous |
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Artist: VOICE OF PUPPETS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Sing Sing Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Hailing from Newcastle, Voice Of The Puppets – Russell McDonald (b), Steve Stesh Millar (gtr/v), Chris Welton (k) and Stapps (d) – began playing together in 1978 and one year later recorded these two tracks at Impulse Sound Studios, Wallsend. A self-produced and self-financed single surfaced in mid-1980, by which time Voice Of The Puppets were reduced to a trio following Chris Weltons departure. The 250 copies pressed were all housed in a nice poster-sleeve featuring a cartoon history of the band drawn by Chris Welton. The two songs have their roots firmly in 1977 melodic Punk and are worth a spin with their infectious mix of Buzzcockian guitars and TVPs-like vocals. The combo had already split by 1981 with all members quitting music altogether. Steve Millar would sadly commit suicide in 2002." - 45 Revolutions. |
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Artist: VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Named after an 1870s tome of lectures on the Apocalypse, RICK TOMLINSONs VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS distills years of divergent musical exploration that followed his much-acclaimed VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS debut (Twisted Nerve, 2007). This time around, multi-instrumentalist and sound sculptor Tomlinson has assembled a full-fledged rock group. On their self-titled new release, infernal and primitive energies mingle with the bucolic reveries that won him previous acclaim. "Open Lighted Doorway" begins the album with a glimmer of the pastoral sounds that mark Tomlinsons earlier recordings, soaked in reverb as if corrupted by time; the monolithic "Kommune" follows with rolling guitars and rhythmic layers of primal percussion. "The Burning Mountain" erupts like flames from an Anatolian mirage-a tide from the East. The purely acoustic "Dry Leaves" offers the listener a momentary respite before "Dalaelven" breaks the spell with its vertiginous howl. This blinding acid haze is broken only by the stripped-down vocal harmonies of the introspective closer "Disappearances." Received a 9/10 rating in NME, a 4/5 rating in MOJO, and 4/5 rating in Uncut." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: VOICECOIL Title: BRB Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Muza Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: VOID VISION Title: In 20 Years Format: 7" Label: Blind Prophet Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Blind Prophet is proud to present as their first release the highly anticipated debut single from the Philly based coldwave act Void Vision. Already known for their incredible live performances, Void Vision will now appease the masses with the release of In 20 Years which is just as much at home amongst classic Depeche Mode or Fad Gadget as it is amongst contemporary material by artists such as Xeno & Oaklander. However, what sets them apart from their peers is a keen sense of composition and pop song structure, and Sharis powerful vocals.Limited to a mere 500 hand numbered copies, so act fast!" - Blind Prophet
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: All the Paint I Can Breathe Format: 10" Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This 10" mini album presents some of VTBs very earliest recordings. The sessions seem to indicate that VTB enjoyed a particularly powerful vintage of Winsor-Newton cadmiums while recording. And for lack of VTB really repeating themselves, I can only paint an abstract portrait of the present opus. Their obsession with small sounds is in place and they already make for a crack improv ensemble, giving their pigment soaked inventions the kind of life that beckons many repeat listens. ATPICB is comprised in nearly equal parts of surrealist/dada sound sculptures and of minimal wave/prog canvases. All tracks were culled from the earliest VTB tapes of 1996." - Beta-Lactam Ring. |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Golden Rhythm/Ink Music Format: LP Label: Rune Grammofon Country: Norway Price: $23.00 |
| "Rune Grammofon presents the brand-new studio album from Volcano The Bear, a calculated, hysterical melting-pot of This Heat, Robert Wyatt, Faust and The Residents, of musique concrète and ethno-folk, all seen through a prism of theatrical improvisations and unhinged set pieces. Formed in 1995, and after several self-released tapes and CD-Rs, VTB so excited Nurse With Wounds Steven Stapleton, that he brought his United Dairies label out of cold storage to release their first album proper, The Inhazer Decline, in 2000. Since then theyve released music on such labels as Misra, Beta Lactam Ring, Textile, Digitalis, Pickled Egg, Alt Vinyl as well as their own imprints Volucan and Volfurten with the exceptional Classic Erasmus Fusion from 2006 being a possible highlight. On record, VTB offer stark and stunning absurdities in the most bizarrely beautiful way. Recycling and re-contextualizing their material is an innate habit, and the variety of recording options they might choose (be it a highly-equipped professional studio or a second-hand dictaphone) allows their craft to be formed in a myriad of different ways. VTB have toured extensively throughout Europe and North America and in concert they are the duo of Daniel Padden and Aaron Moore. Absurd humor and eclectic ways of producing sounds are characteristic of their live performances and their extensive knowledge of the traditions of experimental and folk music makes the band difficult to categorize. The band record everything they play and will often use these recordings as raw material for their albums. VTB have released a number of records since the start, often mixing studio, live and home recordings. Golden Rhythm/Ink Music is their first more or less "proper" studio album since Amidst The Noise And Twigs back in 2007. Largely based on the sonic fault-line between Aaron Moore and Daniel Padden, its also the most focused and driven of VTBs prolific output so far, showcasing the duos unique musicality and interplay, while retaining their trademark eccentricity and humor throughout. It presents "rock music" as seen through VTBs skewed eye, featuring more of Padden and Moores drum/guitar combination than on previous albums. Taking the bizarre energy of their live duo performances into a studio environment, and combining it with VTBs eclectic instrumentation and Clarence Manuelos singular audio-work, GR/IM shows VTB making their most vital work to date. Includes mp3 download code." -Rune Grammofon. |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Hotbite Live At The Nightlight Format: LP Label: Blastocoel Sound Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Hand-printed sleeves made by Matt Hart in a numbered edition of 100. Three men came to Chapel Hill in late November of 2006 to spread their sounds: the show happened to fall on a holiday and Aaron Moore, Daniel Padden and Clarence Manuelo played to a small crowd of fifteen or so folks in the friendly confines of the Nightlight Bar and Club. What ensued was an unfolding carpet woven from waves of tape, twang and beating of objects. The old piano even got in on the action - the floor was played and, as the gentlemen sang, the books lining the walls seemed to hum back. This was one of only four shows that the chimera-like trio shared in the fall of 2006. The LP was mastered by Kev Reverb." - Blastocoel Sound. |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Massive Furniture Invasion Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Planetary Bethlehem Format: LP Label: Beta-Lactam Ring Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "New planetary compositions by the always genre defying cosmic collective that is VOLCANO THE BEAR. For this journey, The Bear present reworkings / collages of material originally recorded in 1995/1996 performed by NICK MOTT, AARON MOORE and CLARENCE MANUELO. Electro-acoustique doom? One-time pressing of 300 copies on 220-gram vinyl. Packaged in custom book bound sleeves." -Beta-Lactam Ring |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Vol Fur Format: CDR Label: Volucan Country: UK Price: $12.50 |
| "volucan records, the bands own label, produced this set of live cdrs to document volcano the bears approach to live performance, always different from their approach in the studio. from some of their earliest gigs in 1997/98 to recordings from a usa tour of 2000 and european tour from 2002. each cdr comes with a hand painted cover insert by the band." - Volucan. Recorded live Feb. 6th, 1998. |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Voldozer Format: CDR Label: Volucan Country: UK Price: $12.50 |
| "volucan records, the bands own label, produced this set of live cdrs to document volcano the bears approach to live performance, always different from their approach in the studio. from some of their earliest gigs in 1997/98 to recordings from a usa tour of 2000 and european tour from 2002. each cdr comes with a hand painted cover insert by the band." - Volucan. Recorded live in Glasgow, Oct 2002. |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Volfurten Format: LP Label: Volucan Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "Volfurten is the new trip in to the odd and the strange from UK musically freaks Volcano the bear, its ltd to 300 copies each in a different hand painted cover. Which is a nice bonus,but what about the music- well this is as odd as anything they?ve done before, feeling like a very strange magic carpet ride- touch down musically in (their own) world music, jazz, odd metallic moments, dada sound tomfoolery, oh and no real vocals one this one either. The feeling, vibe or theme that starts the album and reappears later is very desert based in my mind. Though a very strange desert, one with muilt coloured sands and camels walking along the sky and strange arabic men with huge beards trailing behind them as they give audio swimming lesson backwards. Yes this is very odd stuff indeed, Track one drags us into this strange ethnic world with wonky snake dance guitar and ethnic percussion. Track two takes us deeper into the desert where we really seem to start to loose are mind as we meet all manner of manic chanting and strange audio shenanigans, before dropping into a very odd nightmare world of bent Bernard Herrmann string work, via strange building drone tones. Next it goes into a little surreal ballet dance practice, with clunky piano and all manner of bizarre calls and sounds over the top. It all ends off with a strange ritual air via distorted instrumentation and what almost sounds like typewriter key hits .Track three seems to ushers us into a black and white scene maybe something from a odd early Jess Franco film, where strange macabre female dances out a jerky and plainly disturbing death dance. As ragged violin hover and swirl in horrific air ,female voices chant like spirits calling you over the other side and goosepimply organ weaves on like the reaper seeking out victims. So as you can see you have to expected anything and everything to happen with in these audio confines. I wont detail any more as Volcano the Bear stuff is best tripped into solo and with out set vision." - Roger Batty. |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Volnono Format: CDR Label: Volucan Country: UK Price: $12.50 |
| "volucan records, the bands own label, produced this set of live cdrs to document volcano the bears approach to live performance, always different from their approach in the studio. from some of their earliest gigs in 1997/98 to recordings from a usa tour of 2000 and european tour from 2002. each cdr comes with a hand painted cover insert by the band." - Volucan. Live performances recorded 1997-2000. |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Volseptor Format: CDR Label: Volucan Country: UK Price: $12.50 |
| "volucan records, the bands own label, produced this set of live cdrs to document volcano the bears approach to live performance, always different from their approach in the studio. from some of their earliest gigs in 1997/98 to recordings from a usa tour of 2000 and european tour from 2002. each cdr comes with a hand painted cover insert by the band." - Volucan. Recorded live 19.6.98. |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Volve Format: CDR Label: Volucan Country: UK Price: $12.50 |
| "volucan records, the bands own label, produced this set of live cdrs to document volcano the bears approach to live performance, always different from their approach in the studio. from some of their earliest gigs in 1997/98 to recordings from a usa tour of 2000 and european tour from 2002. each cdr comes with a hand painted cover insert by the band." - Volucan. "Addle-headed and pleasantly isolationist, Volcano the Bears Volve punishes the listener for paying attention, but not necessarily in a damaging sort of way. This obscure little slice of avant-garde drone rock was second in a series of live cdrs issued by the bands own label, voluca. It has its moments, for the most part. "Organza," 11 minutes long, used feedback like a lonely violinist, embellishing its structure-battering pianos and unlistenable under-noise to dart under the legs of prog rocks manufactured philosophical extravagance. "Vast Banket" a-minute-and-a-half long, was the Boredoms being pushed down a flight of stairs. Enthralling, if a bit tuneless." - Dean Carlson, All Music Guide. Recorded live 22.3.98. |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Xvol Format: CDR Label: Volucan Country: UK Price: $12.50 |
| "volucan records, the bands own label, produced this set of live cdrs to document volcano the bears approach to live performance, always different from their approach in the studio. from some of their earliest gigs in 1997/98 to recordings from a usa tour of 2000 and european tour from 2002. each cdr comes with a hand painted cover insert by the band." - Volucan. Live at the Flywheel, East Hampton, MA. Nov 12th, 2000. |
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Artist: VOLTIGEURS Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Turgid Animal Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "Brand new project from Matthew Bower of Skullflower and Samantha Davis of GYR/Harm. This album definitely demonstrates the direction in which Mr. Bower has been taking with his other projects as of late and could easily be described as Black Metal in its purest form but this is no Skullflower rip off. Samanthas Davis input has certainly altered Matthews musical vision and it is easy to hear the sound of a true collaboration at work. Six long tracks of heavy music running in at a total of nearly 65 minutes." - Turgid Animal. |
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Artist: VOLTIGEURS/HORSEBACK Title: Split Format: 10" Label: Turgid Animal Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "VOLTIGEURS is a new project from MATHEW BOWER of SKULLFLOWER and SAMANTHA DAVIS of GYR/HARM. HORSEBACK is JENKS MILLER, who currently spreads his time playing in over six bands, including pop trio UN DEUX TROIS and spaz-and-metal melders YEAR OF THE PIG." - Turgid Animal. |
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Artist: VOLUNTEERS PARK Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: PPM Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| See previous single on Destijl. "Through the past 13 years Aviram Cohen has used varied music projects to explore different aspects of himself. He brought out his violence and aggression in the punk band The Bad Form, sought out the absurd and stupid in Soiled Mattress and The Springs, and held up a mirror to himself and his surroundings in Silk Flowers. And now hes managed to meld all of these notions into Volunteers Park." -PPM. |
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Artist: VOLUNTEERS PARK Title: Tragic Pote/Jerusalem Stone Format: 7" Label: De Stijl Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Aviram Cohen is a jerk. Who cares if he was in Silk Flowers, Soiled Mattress and The Springs, or the Germs rip-off The Bad Form? You can tell that his parents are immigrants. Hes a suburbanite from New Jersey, and now, another New Yorker with an attitude, who learned how to use a sequencer to program synths and drum machines, so that he can sing about how boring life can be. Its like hes creating all this atmosphere because its lacking in his life. It sounds like someone is blasting the 80s station out of their car, while parked under the subway overpass. And the train is roaring by overhead." -De Stijl. |
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Artist: VOM GRILL Title: Dont Ollie on Thin Ice! Format: One-sided LP Label: American Tapes Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "MORE INZANITY..WARNING...after a NON FAKE trail here is the mighty airwalker DENNIS TYFUSS in CRAZZYNESSS with more NON HEARING mastering, aka recorded, pressed and presented fully UNHEARD. you are the first...NO SPOILERS.... needless to say file under mcrad thrasher flexi ????????? crazy handmade lp edition of 100. WHOA" - American Tapes. |
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Artist: VOM GRILL Title: Overspannen Wordenpraal/Gezwollen Beelden Format: 8' Lathe Cut Label: Alt.Vinyl Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "This bad boy kicks off heavy vocal grind style giving way to eerie synth shrieks which pulse drunkenly toward the centre peg. The flip starts deep inside the throat before swerving through electrified rales and high tension neck, and ending up back in a wet mouth. The full gammut from this lowland hero (Dennis Tyfus)." -Altvinyl |
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Artist: VON BINGEN Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Amen Absen Country: Canada Price: $19.00 |
| "Von Bingen began life when husband and wife duo Jenni Pace and Daniel Presnell (Astral Blessing) temporarily suspended Hildegard (their east coast group of clangorous misfits), and relocated to Vancouver, BC where they soon met Josh Stevenson (aka Magneticring, and one-time JOMF member), and Richard Smith. Influenced by histories of conceptual art practices and electronic and outsider music native to the west coast, Von Bingens sound is at once reminiscent of distant sonics, such as those found in the labs of 60s SF pioneers, or overheard in Berlins Zodiac Club in the early 70s, while also anticipating the drone of future decades. Folk forms gleefully mutate, reborn as new hybrids, dignified by analog modular and semi-modular synthesizer systems from Serge, Buchla, and EMS. Instruments such as the flute, clarinet, guitar, and the drum are defamiliarized through quixotic treatments, originating from experimentations in the bands studio. By rescuing tones, processes and technology from dusty desuetude, Von Bingen happens upon a unique retrofit for advanced audiences that is sure to confound, if not altogether please. Within the grooves of this lp, you will not find full-fledged allegiance to current fashions, nor will you find some light loop of cheap sensations, hollow-core historical reenactments, or facsimile sentiments. In fact, we are not sure what you will find at all, and that is the beauty of nature, a potentially infinite system of chances, where the opportunity to un-learn is as important as the opportunity to learn; where memories possess the power to eclipse experience; where all history becomes synesthesia. Join Von Bingen in this new Eden, and by all means, have an apple." - F.O.L. Ministries, 2009. |
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Artist: VON EULER-DONNERSPERG, DITTERICH Title: Der Klein Fritz in Klopstockland Format: LP Label: Walter Ubricht Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
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"The spirit of Klopstock wrapped into Walter Ulbricht; the spirit of Walter Ulbricht wrapped into Klopstock. Both of them wrapped into little Fritz who has also stuffed some of his paintings into part of it. A work of Weltanschauung as of Non-Weltanschauung released in an edition of 500 numbered documents on the Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien Hamburg (also responsible for releasing: Throbbing Gristle Journey Through A Body , S.P.K. Auto-da-fe , Laibach Rekapitulacija 1980-84 +Baptism , Asmus Tietchens Die Nacht aus Blei and various Werkbund titles)." - Walter Ulbricht.
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Artist: VON EULER-DONNERSPERG, DITTERICH Title: O Du Frohliche/O Tannenbaum Dub Format: 7" Label: Meeuw Muzak Country: Netherlands Price: $6.50 |
| "And of course, the days are short, the nights are long and we must celebrate the birth of our saviour again. Christmas was no friend of mine. But there is one little bit of light in the dark days of christmas: Meeuw Muzak releases another fine 7". By now I can spend at least half boxing day listening to the crazy christmas tunes of Meeuw. The latest addition is by Dittrich von Euler-Donnersperg who has released some even more crazy music on his own Walter Ulbricht label and Die Stadt, with partly reading of texts and partly electronic music. Here he offers two soft electronic music pieces, which are like snowflakes (of course it never snows in Dutch christmas times). Almost kitchy and new age like on a super cheesy keyboard with all the wrong (and thus right) preset sounds, Dittrich is perhaps that great family man that such tunes under his tannenbaum for a wealth of happy children, who start unwrapping their presents as daddy finishes his tunes. Great stuff, once again. I cant wait for christmas with my Meeuw Muzak collection (isnt about time for a nice CD compilation, mister Meeuw)." -Meeuw Muzak. |
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Artist: VON HARMONSON, NOEL Title: Born on the 4th of July Format: CDR Label: Resipiscent Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Bringing horror home to roost, NVH jellies your knees with this stripped down, no-place-to-hide assault. Masterful improvisations and the unadorned appeal of shredding sound viscera, fear will find your heart for you. If ever youve wanted to see the rest of Comets on Fire lying quietly dead in a pile while NVH goes completely off, nows your chance." - Resipiscent. |
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Artist: VON HAUSSWOLFF, C.M. Title: A Lecture on Disturbances in Architecture Format: CD Label: Firework Editions Country: Sweden Price: $13.50 |
| "R. Buckminster Fullers voice on track one sampled from The Critical Path - Spirit of Health, recorded October 1982 in Maui, Hawaii (Dolphin Tapes, Big Sur, California). Track two is taken from the exhibition Red Code (CCA, Kitakyushu, 2001) and was recorded by Scott Olson and myself. A version of track four was also used in the exhibition 3D+ (Bruxelles, Berlin, Dublin etc., 2001 - 2002). Track seven is an earlier version of a designed sound used in Jesus_C_Odd_Size, a play by Hotel ProForma, Malm�??, 2000. A shorter version was also released on the CD Because Tomorrow Comes #4 (btc, K�??ln, 2001). Cover photograph from Red Code (CCA, Kitakyushu 2001) and from Hashima. Back cover photo from Red Code. All photographs by CM von Hausswolff. Special acknowledgements go to Akiko Miyake, Nobuo Nakamura, Scott Olson, Josefine Eriksson, Raytheon Fishfinder, Ericsson, Kirsten Dehlholm, Kyra Stratmann and the Esalen Institute. This record is dedicated to Marietta von Baumgarten All titles composed by C.M. von Hausswolff. Recorded between 1997 - 2002 and edited at the New Old Studio, Stockholm, 2002. All titles published by Touch Music, London." - Firework Editions. |
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Artist: VON HAUSSWOLFF, C.M. Title: Operation of Spirit Communication Format: 7" Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $14.00 |
| "Two unreleased tracks recorded in 2006 for this 7" meant as a companion release to the repress of DS31 LP. The 7" comes in a full colour sleeve reproducing the original artwork of the LP. 500 copies on clear vinyl." - Die Stadt. |
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Artist: VON HAUSSWOLFF, C.M. Title: Operations Of Spirit Communications Format: LP Label: Die Stadt Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
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Year 2000 release, repressed. Gatefold jacket, clear vinyl, edition of 300. "Die Stadt is very pleased to announce the release of a long time project, an LP by Carl Michael von Hausswolff. C.M. von Hausswolff is a prolific sound composer for almost 20 years now who lives and works in Stockholm/Sweden. He was the founder of now defunct Swedish label Radium and still is one of the two Kings of Elgaland-Vargaland (together with fellow artist Leif Elggren). His works (also under the name PHAUSS in his early years) have been released on labels such as Touch, Sub Rosa, Fire, Table of the Elements/Edition. The entire piece on this vinyl only released is dedicated to the research of Friedrich Jürgenson a Swedish artist and researcher who recorded The Voices Of The Dead from the radio with his tape recorder (for further information on his works you may consult the CD From The Studio Of Audioscopic Research on Ash. The 47 min. long LP comes in a color gatefold cover." - Die Stadt.
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Artist: VON HIMMEL Title: Rock n Roll Animal/Traum Esel Format: LP Label: Donkey Disk Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Second full-length, follow up to the much-loved "Space Communion". descending hieroglyphics implicated by percussion fluctuations and multiphonic undergrowths of upended guitar hero sound diagrams in a prism of vacuous moon secretions; horizons unfold with tingling sparkles on a phosphorescent mossy riverbed in unseen hinterland tombs as our bodies melt with coursing streaks of sublimity in finite journeys vis-a-vis primordial birthdeath interplay. drawings by bart de paepe of sloow tapes." -Donkey Disk. |
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Artist: VON HIMMEL Title: Space Communion Format: LP Label: Humito Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| 2011 release. Reissue of the 2009 cassette on Sloow Tapes. "Mysterious recordings by anonymous band that crashed my doorstep and skull. Never knew where it came from nor where it’s heading to. Headmusic for the Kraut gathered on Strawberry Hill. Combine the most spaced-out Ash Ra Tempel passages with late-period Cosmic Jokers sexy collage." - Sloow Tapes. |
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Artist: VON LMO Title: Tranceformer (Future Language 2.001) Format: Double LP Label: Munster Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
| Deluxe gatefold double LP version, with notes and photos, of VON LMOs post-RED TRANSISTOR solo LP. "2003 release. Sci-fi avant-garde music from futuristic punk pioneer, Von Lmo. Way before Devo, and while the first man was landing on the moon, this astonishing character who addressed himself as Von Lmo was already experimenting with drums and synthesizers. From his records, you could count on a muscular kind of insect music, like Devo, Chrome, Residents, Suicide or Silver Apples. Von Lmo ripped up heavy punk loops with really abrasive feedback and high-end hurting. He looked like George C. Scott towards the end of Hardcore, demented and shell-shocked. Munster Records now reissues this material as Transformer (Future Language 2.001), off of his Future Language album, originally released in 1981 -- a noisy and frenzied blend of wild-schizoid-futuristic punk." - Munster. |
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Artist: VON LMO Title: Tranceformer (Future Language 2.001) Format: CD Label: Munster Country: Spain Price: $18.00 |
| "2003 release. Sci-fi avant-garde music from futuristic punk pioneer, Von Lmo. Way before Devo, and while the first man was landing on the moon, this astonishing character who addressed himself as Von Lmo was already experimenting with drums and synthesizers. From his records, you could count on a muscular kind of insect music, like Devo, Chrome, Residents, Suicide or Silver Apples. Von Lmo ripped up heavy punk loops with really abrasive feedback and high-end hurting. He looked like George C. Scott towards the end of Hardcore, demented and shell-shocked. Munster Records now reissues this material as Transformer (Future Language 2.001), off of his Future Language album, originally released in 1981 -- a noisy and frenzied blend of wild-schizoid-futuristic punk." - Munster. |
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Artist: VON SCHLIPPENBACH, ALEXANDER Title: The Living Music Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $31.00 |
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"180 gram vinyl reissue of German free improvisation pianist and composer Alexander von Schlippenbachs The Living Music, originally released on his own Quasar label in 1969. Recorded by Conny Plank, it features Peter Brötzmann (tenor & baritone saxophone), Manfred Schoof (cornet, flugelhorn), Michael Pilz (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone), Paul Rutherford (trombone), Buschi Niebergall (double bass, bass trombone) and Han Bennink (drums, percussion). The Living Music remains one of the paramount avant/free jazz records." - Cien Fuegos. "...the six pieces on The Living Music explore the concepts of open spaces and collective improvisation at least as much as they do everyone-solos-at-once clatter." - All Music Guide (4/5) . |
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Artist: VOTE ROBOT Title: In Meorm NA Format: LP Label: Kraak Country: Belgium Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: VOX POP Title: Cab Driver/Just Like Your Mom Format: 7" Label: Munster Country: Spain Price: $9.00 |
| "1980 single by legendary L.A. punk band Vox Pop, featuring Jeff Dahl and members of the Germs, Grave 45, Consumers and Nervous Gender." -Munster. |
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Artist: VRAG Title: Greatest Hits 1967-2002 Format: CD Label: Karma Music Country: Denmark Price: $21.00 |
| "Compilation of the weirdest tracks by danish underground band VRAG, musically similar to bands like THE FUGS." - Karma Music |
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Artist: VRTACEK, C.W. Title: Learning To Be Silent Format: LP Label: Cordelia Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| 1986 LP of mellow, folky avant garde from this longtime composer. Restock of all the available releases from Alan Jenkins (main man behind Deep Freeze Mice, Chrysanthemums, etc..) late-70s-through-mid-80s Cordelia label and a few other related titles. |
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Artist: VULCAN Title: Meet Your Ghost Format: LP Label: Steece Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Exact reissue of a monster private psych LP from Iowa. Recorded in 1978, Vulcan is Lyle Steece, and this is his one-man-against-the-universe-rock-album. Dedicated to Jimi Hendrix, this features real primitive basement-psych guitar rock that is outrageously fucked, inspirational, distortion-overloaded and massively mindblowing. Of course, others just say its dull and poorly played." - FE. Highly recommended!
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Artist: VULCAN Title: Meet Your Ghost Format: Double LP Label: Lysergic Sound Country: USA Price: $31.00 |
| "Two discs of raw, distorted, overblown fuzzed-out sludge rock by the eccentric and enigmatic small town, self-proclaimed son of an intergalactic space traveler who claims to have been visited years ago by the guitar-playing ghost of Jimi Hendrix. Disc one is the first-ever authorized reissue of the original Meet Your Ghost album which was originally recorded in the late 70s. Its been restored and re-mastered here. Disc two is a collection of 11 previously unreleased tracks that were recorded before the original Ghost album These tracks had literally been lost for more than eight years. These new tracks have also been restored and re-mastered and contain almost every kind of guitar effect, feedback and sound imaginable, not to mention Vulcans eerie alien message and spooky backward masking effects. A very heavy and raw bit of garage rock with some bizarre psychedelic effects. One of a kind! This double album is housed in a spectacularly re-designed psychedelic gatefold cover with lots of never-before-seen photos of the reclusive Vulcan. Also includes a separate insert of a mind-blowing interview with Vulcan himself! Limited to 600 hand-numbered copies." - Lysergic Sound. The previous vinyl reissue is one of Fusetronsounds all time best sellers til the well ran dry 5+ years back.. Very highly recommended (though the original b&w cover is prefered around here)!! |
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Artist: VVAQRT Title: Than On Eother And You Have 0 Answers Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "VVAQRT (say Vak-art or Vak-ert) are a dark, crumbling consciousness minimal synth pop duo from Saxapahaw, NC. Well-recorded, tightly-wound succinct synth sculptures are coupled with ornately mangled text, evoking a mind forcefed too much useless information that has begun to froth and die. This LP is party music for the modern apocalypse... were very proud of this one, the record with the strongest, bitterest pop appeal that weve released so far. Definitely not witch-house. Pro-printed jackets." -Hot Releases |