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Artist: ABE VIGODA Title: Skelaton Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Shit is cliché, but ya cant fight the fact that time changes EVERYTHING (or wait, maybe its money?). Either way: were pretty old but not so old weve forgotten the cradle days of early Abe Vigoda shows when they only liked Smashing Pumpkins, short shorts, and boating shoes, and their sets were short spiky blasts of post-Unwound lo-fi outsider-punk (a la the Sky Route/Star Roof LP). That was a long time ago. But like all good bands the Vigodans have re-invented themselves a half dozen times over since then, and its been a totally rad ride to witness the evolution/transformation, especially since their journeys culminated in the total sparkling tropic magic sunbath of Skeleton, the best AV record ever. Years of fiddling with delay pedal settings and intricate bass/drums equations somehow resulted in a weird, bright, upbeat island punk sound thats as catchy and life-affirming as it is tripped-out and overwhelming. Who knew? Catch these die-hards at a show in yr neck of the woods any day now; they are now on PERMA-TOUR. Pro-dubbed cassettes in a ⿿Columbia Records-style super legit J-card. Edition of 200. This album is also available on CD and LP from our friends at Post Present Medium." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: BARN OWL Title: Bridge to the Clouds Format: CDR Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Mesmerizing album of shamanic acoustic dread/bliss by this killer and evolving San Fran squad. This is a re-issue of the tour CDR they were slanging back when they rolled through the CURIO on a west coast cruise a
couple months back. An NNF full-length is looming, were amped as heck. Silkscreened, spraypainted, and stamped arigato paks tied with ribbon. Edition of 147." -Not Not Fun.
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Artist: BARN OWL Title: From Our Mouths A Perpetual Light Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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2011 repress, limited to 300 copies; originally a 2008 release. "Since first bearing witness to Barn Owls mythically desolate amplifier alchemy last year, weve been rabid fans/fanatics. But like lots of badass bands, BO are a rolling stone, heavy on the transformation tip, and the BO of today is an altered beast from the one that folkily fingerpicked Bridge To The Clouds and their self-titled disc way back when. And in case were not being clear: this is a beautiful thing. From Our Mouths A Perpetual Light burns with the sun-dead majesty of a Death Valley burial ground, all wasted waterless expanse and cracked earth smoke blowing in the dry wind. Heavy western drone revelations bleed into forlorn guitar drift, downcast percussion plods across the plain, a skull on its side lies in the sands. Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras have somehow flawlessly evolved Barn Owl into a blazing new universe, and From Our Mouths is the first mission statement from their new spectral/aesthetic outpost, a stunning and timeless eight-song suite of grim cinematic electricity. Tune in, drop dead, rot on. In swank matte jackets with four-armed demon warrior-yogi artwork by the band." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: BARRABARRACUDA Title: Abasement Tapes Format: CDR Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"deranged free-rock trio. chaos drums, ranted vocals, guitar crush. with
full-color wrap-around covers. hand-numbered & limited to 120." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: BELLY BOAT Title: Dear Robert Hanoy Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Outsider piano/accordion warped-pop ramblings. Debut album, 14 songs. In hand-decorated slipcases. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun
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Artist: BIRDS OF DELAY/DREAMCATCHER Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "UK wastoids Birds of Delay wing flighty electronics into a burbling ball of purple snarling sound. Montreals Dreamcatcher weave a chaos quilt out of turntables, voice, and collective unconsciousness." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: BLACK MONK Title: Flowstone Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Debut full-length by this introverted drum/drones duo featuring Roy of Changeling/Quintana Roo after several limited cassette releases (on Buried Valley, Maim & Disfigure, etc). In minimalist pro-printed jackets. Comes with a poster. Edition of 270. Co-released with Arbor." - Not Not Fun
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Artist: BLANK REALM Title: Heatless Ark Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Vinyl debut by this consistently impressive Australian psych collective with 2 previous cassette albums on NNF. This one finds them moving into weird-punk song terrain, almost a fried improv no-wave vibe in places. Beautifully silkscreened sleeves." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: BLANK REALM Title: Heatless Ark Format: LP/Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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overdue vinyl debut by this consistently killer Brisbane crew finds them
more form-destroying and ambitious than ever before. outsider psych rabble
burned through an art-punk eyeball. comes alone OR with a fantastic
companion cassette album, DIRTY ARK." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: CANKUN Title: Isalo Waterfall Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "St Flour de Mercoires patron saint of sunburned guitar and electric mirages issues forth this new homage to an exquisite natural wonder in Southwestern Madagascar which Monsieur CANKUN had the pleasure and privilege of witnessing first hand on a personal quest years prior. The strategies employed on last years debut, Jaguar Dance, are in even finer form here, fusing solar flares, feathery fields of guitar blur, and skeletal groove metronomes into multi-movement trance states of sunset skyway-psych. Moods crossfade between muted, spiraling, inner space loop-cruises ("Collages," "Stylo") and more revved up celebratory waverunners ("Blue Vanilla", "Jugular Rhythms") but all share his uniquely fried tonalism and magic touch. Welcome to the waterworld of the Waterfall. Pro-dubbed metallic gold tapes with ecstasy collage artwork by VALERIAN MARGUERY. Edition of 150." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: CARTER, CHRISTINA/POCAHAUNTED Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Stunning split between Charalambides Ms. Carter and local NNF lovelies. CCs side tiptoes through four brainwashing acoustic confessionals, spiraling and lost. And Pocahaunteds contributions span their psych canyon from doomy plodding to total cloud nine voice angel ascension." -Not Not Fun.
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Artist: CHANGELING Title: Into Great Peace Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: CHARALAMBIDES/POCAHAUNTED Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: CLOUDLAND CANYON/MYTHICAL BEAST Title: Split Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Fresh off a new killer Kranky full-length, bi-continental teutonic duo Cloudland Canyon grease the gears on a piston-pumping motorik ramp into futurist motion, gliding drones & mechanic rhythm. Seamless & dreamless. On the B NNF extended family M Beast drop 2 perfect soul caravan wanderlust blues drifters. real gorgeous, and a great teaser for their in-the-works full-length for Drag City subsidiary Language of Stone. with art by Crops + Rawber best friend Diva Dompe." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: CRUISE FAMILY Title: Were In Heaven Format: 12" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Vinyl debut by this Viennese rave abstractionist boils down pulsing LED beats and deep synth strobe FX into a cavernous laser-streaked fog. In blinding Alex Grey-style acid-body artwork by Mr. Cruise Family himself." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: CUTICLE Title: Mother Rhythm Earth Memory Format: 12" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "NNF debut (after an EP on 100% SILK) by this Iowa City electronic maximalist. M.R.E.M. is the first purely solo Cuticle release, after working with a series of part-time collaborators, and its freed him to let loose his wildest and weirdest impulses." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN Title: Ghost With Chains Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Long-running Twin Cities horsepower trio DAUGHTERS OF THE SUN have been subtly chugging out their faded-tattoo spirit-in-the-sky psych exhaust for at least half a decade now but we didnt catch the drift till March 09, when we got to witness a packed post-midnight smoke-soaked Minneapolis loft set and waved our lighter with the masses. Ghost With Chains is their third official full-length (not including some EPs and a killer split) and its as beautifully moon-burnt and highway-swept as anything theyve done." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE Title: ...On Sea-Faring Isolation Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The vinyl debut by this stunning Belgian new age trance wizard. DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE has released tons of tapes on his own Bread & Animals imprint, as well as releases on Pacific City (Skaters label) and many others. Hes also a member of MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS (Olde English Spelling Bee) with JAMES FERRARO. Beautiful and endless." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: DUCKTAILS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Matt Mondaniles self-titled debut full length has been hotly anticipated in the wake of his killer cassettes and single 7" appearance. Here he finally has the room to spread his imaginary surf-psych-pop across a full 2 sides of wax, and the wait was worth it. Mastered by Graham Lambkin (of The Shadow Ring), with cover art by Jan Anderzen (of Finnish folk-psych visionaries Kemialliset Ystavat)." -Not Not Fun. Repressed
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Artist: DUCKTAILS/RANGERS Title: Bored Fortress Club Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Ridgewood, New Jerseys patron saint of palm tree listening takes a break from the real estate market to strum out a couple summer sunset polaroid instrumentals. RANGERS serves up a similarly faded slice of TV bumper music, "The Bride Of Marin," that surfs down from the clouds on a rainbow-trailed wave of phasered guitar licks. Sleeve art by SPENCER LONGO." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: EARL, JEREMY Title: Skull Format: Book Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "after a series of printing doldrums we finally sorted matters & layouts OUT and pulled off production of Not Not Funs first ever art book, and were fucking proud of it, to be honest. weve loved jeremys art for ages, and this 40 page collection gleams with strange runic figures and bleeding serpents spanning a couple years of focused FUCK IT TAPES labor. glossy and glorious, this thing is everything we were hoping itd be. NNF100, dogs. future art books in the works by shawn reed and diva dompe." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ELEKTRONAVN Title: Black Zurnai Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Pink Luminous Invocations keynote speaker turns in a possessed pair of
solo trance-travels. voyages through visionary monastery hallucinations,
all chains, voice, heartstrings. edition of 99." -Not Not Fun.
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Artist: EMACIATOR Title: Coveting Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Misery wears many masks, but Tulare, California fatalist Jon Borges has etched his mark on most of them. For at least half a decade, hes pursued increasingly suicidal tendencies under his Pedestrian Deposit guise (which is currently on hiatus), splicing subdued loops of morbid beauty against savage canyons of harsh noise histrionics. Lately, though, hes been straying more and more from this aggressive exercise in contrasts in favor of his Emaciator alias, which draws from the same dark wellspring of bitter memories and bipolar rage but, instead of unleashing it in grand frenzies, bottles everything up inside until it seeps out of the pores. Early efforts/cassettes retained a strain of buzzing nausea reminiscent of his PD days, but the last 12 months have witnessed a complete abandonment of any ties to the past. Times are still bleak, sure, but the grey prisms of brooding ambience Borges now conjures and slowly collapses convey a depth of mood and subtlety far surpassing simple signifiers like indifference, resentment, or remorse. Coveting collects together five exquisite Emaciator compositions (including two particularly riveting songs that were debuted live at Echo Curio) for a harrowing 40 minutes of troubled solace, crisscrossing suicide guitar lines, and entranced self-reflection. Meditation is a myth; desire does not sleep. Black vinyl LPs in shrinkwrapped jackets with photography and layout by Borges. Mastered by Pete Swanson, edition of 430."-Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE Title: Live In London Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "BRIAN PYLEs work under the ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE banner has been undergoing heavy shift lately, prompted by both creative restlessness as well as inner life upheavals. Hes quested out on 2 lone wolf UK/Euro tours in the past half-year alone, plus dropped an ace LP on the Dekorder label of ominous soundtrack menace. When rapid transformation takes hold, its best to just roll tape and make sense of it later. Thus, in anticipation of his forthcoming 2012 NNF full-length, we present EE: Live In London, an impressively recorded 37-minute performance at The Vortex in August of last year, comprised of all new material. Primitive drum machine rhythms stutter in primal-industrial patterns, cloaked in disquieting drones and oblique tape samples (police sirens, jungle bird calls, Sinead OConnor vocal raptures), accompanied by pained crooning, ragged squalls of electric guitar, and minor-key synth depressions. More song-based than his voodoo hallucination breakthrough, 2010s Psychical, but no less unsettling, the new Economique approach has shades of Eyeless In Gazas eerie, fatalist drift but the thrust is some sort of goth-psych/beat music hybrid that were not aware even really exists yet. A captivating document of an artist at the crossroads. White, imprinted tapes with high-art jazz-splatter J-cards designed by AMANDA BROWN. Edition of 150." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE Title: Psychical Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Brian Pyle is well-known for his enterprising shamanism as one half of Nor Cal improv gurus Starving Weirdos but when off-roading in his Ensemble Economique buggy he seems to stumble onto even weirder psychogenic artifacts. Psychical is Pyles freshest full-length and easily his most drugged and dense. Thick, humid banks of synth-fog descend over looped cult hand-drum patterns, strangely panned waves of brainwash tones, and snippets of third world voices mumbling about blood and marijuana. As the name half-jokingly implies, EE is 100% Pyles creation instrument-wise, although his wife Phoenix does intone some possessed doom poetry over the crushing war drums of Forever Eyes and Tom Carter (of Charalambides) cameos with some searing white light guitar shrapnel on the creep-out raga of Real Things. All the pieces dissolve into one another, giving Psychical a dark-trip soundtrack mood, an upriver lost soul convoy into hostile off-radar territories, a thousand spectral voices misting down like blackening monsoon clouds. A total haunter, and an LP weve been spinning many midnights around NNF HQ. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with occult VHS artwork by Manda Beth Brown. Edition of 470." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ETERNAL TAPESTRY Title: Invisible Landscape Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "A brand new full-length from Portland, Oregon based psych trio ETERNAL TAPESTRY. Edition of 500, lets do this thing." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ETERNAL TAPESTRY Title: Mystic Induction Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"after waaay too long (everything that COULD slow this down, DID slow this down), portland longhairs E TAP drop their vinyl debut long-player and its a long/strange trip. like Heavy Winged crossed with Jackie-O MF (which ET is) crossed with acid and mothers and temples. hanglide through clouds, through thunder. in art jackets designed by chief ET shredder dewey mahood." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: ETERNAL TAPESTRY Title: Vibrations New Dawn Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"heavy sheets of kraut rock color-wheeling by this Portland, OR trio
featuring members of Heavy Winged and Jackie-O Motherfucker. Hand-numbered
edition of 100 in one-of-a-kind fabric-adorned cases." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: ETHER ISLAND Title: Season of Risk Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Among the legions of bands weve worked with that have died natural (or unnatural) deaths, MYTHICAL BEAST was a particularly lament-worthy casualty. Fortunately phoenixes rise, creative energies get repurposed and reharnessed, and whats gone is not always lost. So it is that singer/kettle drummer CORINNE SWEENEY and guitarist/multi-instrumentalist JEREMIAH COWLIN abandoned Philly for the Nowheresville of Coyote, New Mexico to live off the grid with other address-less culture renegades and be reborn as post-apocalyptic grunge-drone doom-soul duo ETHER ISLAND. A Side opener "Season Of Risk" corrals a mud-flood of thick tectonic shred over a buried beat, Sweeneys vox tearing through in hot red flashes like a prairie flash fire (tonally, its total 4-Track Demos-era PJ, raw and sensual). "Be Light" vibrates more vertically, rising like a smoke signal, a threatening cloud of raga strings and delay-stretched witch-blues vox. "Black Wind Way" deathmarches across the entirety of the B, plodding like a dying mule over parched plains, tremolo guitar hatcheting down, a single funereal organ melody threading over the sands and into the silence. Three singular statements from two old favorites on this one perfect nomad-psych slab. Black vinyl 7 inches in color-photocopied covers, with art/design by EL. Edition of 325." -Not Not Fun.
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Artist: ETTINGER , DYLAN & THE HEAT Title: Smokin Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Sick vinyl debut by this Bloomington taper finds him teaming up with a backing band (The Heat) to soundtrack some sleazy Miami law enforcement noir via key motifs, smoky sax, and midnight vibes. Awesome. Edition of 380." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: ETTINGER, DYLAN Title: Lifetime Of Romance Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Heartland synthesist Dylan Ettinger follows up 2010s widely lauded New Age Outlaws imaginary cyber-soundtrack with a stark, dark, and intensely different collection of misshapen new wave weirdnesses, Lifetime Of Romance. Recorded at a proper studio, and written over the course of a year, the seven songs of Romance reflect a heavy influence from the fringier strains of bummed out quasi-industrial synth-pop in the vein of Fad Gadget, certain Cabaret Voltaire, early Human League, etc, but dragged through his own warped, wonky filter. The approaches vary radically, from abandoned factory dirges (Sport And Superstion, Maude) to dubbed-out man-machine paranoia (Disparager) to bouncy sine-wave robot radio singles (Arco Iris, Blue and Blue) and general electronic workshop exploration (18.0). Its always to be heralded when an artist braves terrain they havent traversed yet, so its a kick to hear Ettingers secret circuitry language channeled into the pop architectures of twisted synth-wave melancholia for the first time. Another engaging step by an always intriguing American original." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: ETTINGER, DYLAN Title: Lion of Judah Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Banging new single by this Bloomington Rogue Wizard finds him condensing the spatial sprawl of his New Age Outlaws style into actual keyboard-riff/basement vocals anthems. Cool sound system low-end brings a bizarre retro-futurist party mood to the table. Big-hole 45s in silkscreened sleeves. Limited to 330 copies." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: ETTINGER, DYLAN Title: New Age Outlaws Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Back in March of this year we released Dr. Ettingers New Age Outlaws album on cassette and it was great. But artists -- in case you didnt know -- aint easily satisfied, and so Dylan felt compelled to return to the master tapes and further articulate the new age sci-fi ambient drift jazz vision of those pieces into something even grander and more elegant. Sounded like a worthwhile cause to us, so heres New Age Outlaws: The Directors Cut, mastered fresh for vinyl and bedazzled with new layers of robot noir synth lines, back alley cyber sax, and insomniac drum machine heartbeats. Dylan even architected a new track sequence and re-named a couple songs. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with stunning alien vista artwork by Dan McPharlin, plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 490." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ETTINGER. DYLAN Title: Bringin The Heat Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Companion piece to the ⿿Smokin 7 that rules equally. Two more pieces to the neon police chase puzzle. Material repeats on both sides to save you flipping time." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ETTRICK Title: Feeders of Ravens Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Prepare for sudden death. San Francisco brutalizers Ettrick finally deliver the full-length destruction theyve been threatening for so long now. Feeders of Ravens is definitely the most potent collection of harsh jazz violence the duos ever laid to tape, showcasing all their classic kill-moves: slaughtering saxophone dialogues, jittery percussive fits, raging horn/drum self-annihilation, etc. What escalates their improv attacks above just blind frenzy is the warped telepathy Jacob Heule and Jay Korber exhibit in their playing, wordlessly intuiting one anothers energy upswings and downturns. And nowhere is this psychic connection more apparent (and demonic) than on "Raven Harvest, the LPs final onslaught. Searing sax blasts burn through the ear drum, giving way to splatter paint percussion flailings and scraping metal, which then slowly take shape, coagulating into a dense, aggressive avalanche of pummeling, white-hot drum rapture. Life into death into life. Black LPs in pro-printed jackets with majestically sinuous, Haida-style cover art (and memento mori raven back art). Limited to 350." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: EX-COCAINE/GHQ Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Not Not Fun continues to screw with the collectors market, delivering another fine 7-inch in the Bored Fortress series. EX-COCAINE features BRYAN RAMIEREZ of UNIVERSAL INDIANS and GHQ are an acid/drone/raga crew that can and often sports members of DOUBLE LEOPARDS, HOTOGISU, ZAIMPH, UN, MAGIK MARKERS, and VANISHING VOICE, among others. Limited to somewhere around 300 copies." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: EX-COCAINE/YELLOW SWANS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Total monster by these 2 old-tymey duos. EX-C give you a home where the ragged riffs roam (including a sick Meat Puppets cover!), and PDX colossus Y SWANS lay down a 10-dimensional lava lamp of frying wires and poignant dissolution. housed in a jacket with perhaps the boldest pair of Maya Miller art-damage compositions shes ever dreamed up. leave this one on the turntable forever." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: EXPENSIVE SHIT Title: Powwow With Chopper Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Wild brain-pillaging from this xxxtremely fried destructo unit from Austin, TX. Beyond in-the-red, in some other color, physical mayhem streaked with patches of junked space rock. In radical double-sided full-color J-card artwork by main man Spencer Longo. Edition of 128." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: EXPLORERS Title: Bermuda Telepaths Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Bermuda Telepaths is the latest title lifted out of the fruit-and-photocopy-strewn Outer Limits Recordings archive and into the ears of the world at large. Recorded under the never-again-used Explorers moniker and first edited into album form about a year ago, this hallucinatory patchwork trip into the ether synthesizes all of OLRs deepest loves -- boombox fidelity, quick cuts, keyboard loop sorcery, underwater pop, general mind surfing -- into a humbly hypnotic whirlpool of energies. Apparently there was a concept/thesis behind the albums genesis somehow involving psychic powers, lizard people, and the Bermuda Triangle, but the details are hazy. Which befits the audio in question. Read your palm. Take a walk in your thoughts. Explore away. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork designed by the artist, plus a copy shop poem insert. Edition of 330." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: FAMILY UNDERGROUND Title: Riven Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "crushing new full-length by this legendary Danish drone squad. 2 massive side-long black holes, mastered by Pete Swanson of Yellow Swans." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: FAMILY UNDERGROUND/QUINTANA ROO Title: Vengeance Valley b/w Horses Neck Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"A pair of implosion constructs from Denmarks finest and Eagle Rocks vaguest. Originally conceived for the Quintana/Underground doomed west coast tour dates, but car rental hostilities and passport chaos shot the drone team scheme dead. Alas. At any rate: the single still stands. Vengeance Valley finds FU at their most steeped-in-dread, channeling Spahn Ranch brainwash kill vibes into rumbling black hills of bad acid alchemy. Pure murder magick. Q Roos Horses Neck wanders its own Death Valley nothingness, loses contact/control, and carves slow sigils in the sand. A hovering aura of desert oblivion. Black vinyl 7 inches in hand-numbered, hand-screened grey cardstock jackets with skull-rider/ancient ruins cover art. Limited to 300." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: FOXY BABY Title: Smoke Opera Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Another hazy Sam Meringue (Explorers, Matrix Metals) project. This is probably a vinyl reissue of the Smoke Opera cassette released in 2008 by Outer Limits Recordings.... but these are uncertain times were living in. Bright pink neon sign vinyl housed in a printed inner sleeve." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: GHOSTING/ROBEDOOR Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"White-vinyl Bored Fortress series 7-inch split between two drone-storm duos. GHOSTING are from Portland, and have dropped previous brain-dissolving albums on Jyrk and Students of Decay. This is their first vinyl appearance. ROBEDOOR are an LA doom-trance duo, and have an upcoming full-length on Release the Bats. Packaged in two-color silk-screened sleeves, and limited to 325." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: GHQ Title: California Night Burning Dreams Format: LP/3" CDR Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"blissed/burning set of live recordings laid down during last summers west coast quest. the bassett/nolan/gunn axis has rarely sounded this tranced &
transcendent. on slate-blue vinyl, edition of 500." - Not Not Fun
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Artist: GNOD/ROBEDOOR Title: Bored Fortress Club Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Manchesters choicest chain gang lumber through the mildewed concrete of some abandoned-bomb-shelter-turned-hippie-commune, spewing molten wah and echo-vocal polemics. Turn off, dig in. The B sees LA drone thugs ROBEDOOR pitching Molotov cocktails of pure wraith blood through stained glass windows. Sleeve art by ZULLY ADLER." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: GOLIATH BIRD EATER Title: Blood Venus Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Crushing instrumental stoner-metal from this black-clad LA duo. With squid-witch blood art by the band. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: GOLIATH BIRD EATER / SASQROTCH Title: Split Format: 10" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Document of 2 of L.A.s more esoteric basement metal crews. GBE is a one-note highway to hell, with Eagle Rock expat Nels Cline stepping in to rip an absurd guitar solo. Sasqrotch go for a scummier and rawer approach, amp haze, low-end lurking, and hairy drums. Hand-numbered edition of 400." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: GOSLINGS, THE Title: Ocassion Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "brand new skull-soldering full-length from this unbelievable florida family. 8 dream/death moss metal tracks dug out of the rotting earth. mastered by james plotkin. in a metallic gold 6-panel wallet pak."- Not Not Fun |
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Artist: HARRIS, XANDER Title: Urban Gothic Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Debut full-length by this classically trained Austin synth/drum-pad whiz rips like an 80s horror-stalker VHS take on Umbertos 70s giallo/Goblin-isms. Creepy neo-Carpenter action in the best possible vein.." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: HAUNTED CASTLE/GRAYSKULL Title: Split Format: 10" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"He-Man used to live in Castle Grayskull. That place was fucking haunted (proof? you point a sword at the sky, chant "I have the power", and turn into a hulk). So is this black-on-black 10" of wretched hallows eve spook-noise. Haunted Castle are a suburban Detroit duo of tortured basement clatter and poltergeist attack thrash, and their cacophony ritual here ("Rainbow of Octopi") is a cauldron of psychic evil and wraith frenzy. Easthamptons Grey Skull are a little more physical, starting a skeleton brawl with harsh tones, seizure shriek, and occult war drums. A trio of rad dudes (and sweet artists), GS bury their record in a mean, dead haze. Insanely awesome screen-printed, die-cut covers by Shawn Reed of Raccoo-oo-oon. Also, first 40 copies come with a bonus 3" CDR (either Haunted Castle or Grey Skull)." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: HEATSICK Title: Perpendicular Rain Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"steven warwick is a wonderful character on the alien electronics
landscape, and the vast bulk of his Heatsick tapes are spools worth
hording. this one lands high on his heap, freaked out innerspace vision
trances that blow a lot of comparable types outta the water. pro-dubbed
tapes in double-sided full-color j-cards w/handcut labels and a stenciled
case." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: HEAVY WINGED Title: We Grow Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Today is the greatest. Cause time has come for total take off. Brooklyn/PDX instrumental interstellar overdrivers Heavy Winged deliver the most gravity-crushing pair of fight-flight journeys in their entire cumulative psych revolution thus far. And it is glorious. We Grow is the apex realization of every tectonic assault, wind tunnel vortex, and outer space meltdown HW have ever unleashed across the past 15 months worth of stunning CDRs, splits, and comp appearances. The A side, A Stretch of Time,slow-burns an ascent into explosive galactic violence, guitars, bass, and drums detonating into endless feedback fireworks. Then Shifting Cloudscloses the album, marching a drifting riff of haze and mass into a majestic no mans land of darkening space. A masterpiece record, and packaged accordingly. Blackened-blue vinyl LPs with collage center labels housed in full-color pro-printed jackets, in sleeves adorned with rad oval vinyl stickers." -Not Not Fun.
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Artist: HEAVY WINGED & INCA ORE Title: Ring Mining Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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Artist: HEAVY WINGED/BLUES CONTROL Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Brooklyn/PDX wrecking crew Heavy Winged lurch out a riff monster of concrete crush, while NY groove-riders Blues Control trip the cosmos with space-drug arkestral maneuvers." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: HEAVY WINGED/TAIGA REMAINS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"glorious & glorified re-issue of the long-gone split CDR on MYMWLY. HW
turn in one of the most blazing ragers of their entire discography (the
version here is a fresh edit, FYI) and Alex/Remains spins a stunning,
spiralized tone-fog that gleams off the wax (plus theres an unreleased
bonus track!). on coke-bottle clear vinyl, in intricately silkscreened pic
disc sleeves adorned with elaborate full-color textile sticker
arrangements. limited to 300." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: HIGH WOLF Title: Ascension Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Pyramidal meditationist High Wolf has been highly active since last summers Animal Totem tape dropped on NNF: hes released three full-length CDRs, started his own record label (Winged Sun), begun a mail-collab with Astral Social Club (as Iibiis Rooge), embarked on two UK/Euro tours (one with heavyweights Gnod), plus trekked out on a month-long solo journey through India to collect field recordings and get deep. Whoa! Makes you feel lazy right? Well actually thats not all, as he also spent a few months somewhere in there recording, mixing, and re-recording the five multifaceted ethno-flux odysseys that comprise Ascension, his debut vinyl full-length. Utilizing his usual toolbag of looped tablas, fuzz guitar leads, chiming white light guitar, synth swells, and cloud-climbing electronics, the album safaris through a host of ecstatic ritual landscapes with more focus and magic than any other High Wolf hunt to date. A beautiful album for dissolving, dreaming, dancing (in a certain way). Been spinning this one weekly, share the flight. Black vinyl LPs mastered by Pete Swanson and housed in jackets with artwork by Kaugummi Magazine captain Bartolome Sanson. Edition of 400." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: HIGH WOLF/SAVAGE YOUNG TATERBUG Title: Bored Fortress Club Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Frances fave psych-snakecharmer trances a new coiled creature from the same thatched basket of white light fuzz, canned drums, and keyboard sign language. Over on the wrong side of the tracks theres Midwestern madcap CHARLES "FREE" TATERBUG, perched on a fence with a 2-string and some rusted tape machines, crooning to the crickets in the parking lot. Sleeve art by CARLOS GONZALEZ." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: HOLY STRAYS Title: Enlightenment Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Parisian Stereolabbers vinyl debut (after an earlier cassette EP on NNF) is a lovely pair of minimal keyboard hypno-pop sketches, tranced and translucent. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: HOLY STRAYS Title: Hyperion Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"French newcomer blends a spectrum of post-kraut elements into a fresh private hypnosis. been spinning this one a ton." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: INCA ORE Title: Silver Sea Surfer School Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "EVA SAELENS life quest has taken her from Michigan to Oregon to Oakland back to Portland and back again, with several overseas explorations and inner journey road trips thrown in for good measure. Whatever path shes on is long and winding and hidden in the shadow of overhanging cherimoya trees. Fortunately she maps her migrations with haunted, exotic breath-and-electricity sphinxes ranging from 2006s Brute Nature Vs. Wild Magic to last years brainwashing Birthday Of Bless You LP. 2009 finds her offering up another psychic harvest unto the world, Silver Sea Surfer School, a new nine-song pipeline ride that floats through a whole new web of voice orbs and tape hiss and keyboard balladry. If anything, Silver Sea is Saelens weirdest hour, layered in abstract environments, whispers, distant poetry, free percussion loops, with sudden passages of heart-dissolving ghost-piano beauty ("Shine On From The Heaven Above," "Adventure In Light"). Heavily impressive, and a brave pearl-dive into even more personal waters for the INCA ORE lifeforce. LPs come in jackets with art by Saelens, plus a full-color insert. Edition of 500 (40 on clear ocean-water vinyl, 180 on marbled blue/white, 280 on black)." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: INFINITE BODY/NO AGE Title: Bored Fortress Club Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "West coast light-breather INFINITE BODY emits a dense harmonic sound cloud that condenses in yr ear before evaporating into the ether. California DIY heroes NO AGE get minimal on the instrumental "Wintry KK," burrowing into tom-rolls and the poetry of distortion pedals. Sleeve art by CODY DE FRANCO." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: KWJAZ Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "San Franciscan Peter Berends mystery mixtape unit, KWJAZ, flashed forth this debut self-titled slab of post-plastic sublime decomposed luxury grooves on cassette via his own rarified Brunch Groupe imprint early in 2011 and the 120 listeners lucky enough to grip a copy know who they are. It only took half a listen before we green-lit this tape-degraded gem for vinyl treatment and we are dee-lighted to present it thusly. Comprised of two side-long suites, Once In Babylon and the oddly monikered Frighteous Wane, KWJAZ nimbly ebbs and flows the proceedings through airy cloud-jazz passages (complete with smoky crystal vibes keys and narcotic hiss-hazed horn sections), bouncy weirdo dub-funk vignettes, stretched-out syrupy synth stews, and smooth faux-Steely D soft-rock abstractions, all without ever sounding schizo or style-hoppy. A major feat, and a real riddle of an LP that deepens and ripens with each spin. Hopefully you were savvy enough to catch him on his recent coast-to-coast summer tour with Swanox and Sudden Oak; if not, tune in to this. Black vinyl LPs (mastered at Dubplates in Berlin) in jackets with cosmic floral artwork by Austin Cho/Casey Grr. Edition of 700." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: LA VAMPIRES & ZOLA JESUS Title: LA Vampires Meets Zola Jesus Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Virtual reality trans-time zone collab between So-Cal sample sister LA Vampires and Madison, WI (though soon to be LA!) neo-Siouxsie Zola Jesus. Despite the distance the respective vibes vibe beautifully. Cold dub rhythms echo down grimy corridors while heartbroken tag-team femme howls come bleeding out of the horizon drenched in spectral delay. Theres a few bangers (Bone Is Bloodstone, Looking In), a few ballads (In The Desert, Vous), and a couple quasi-covers (Searching, No No No), so every mood is given its due. Local photographer (and drummer) extraordinaire Caitlin C. Mitchell even lays down some smoky trumpet on one track. Additional deep space Moog and production duties were handled by City Terrace studio wizard M. Geddes Gengras. A dark, gleaming gem of a 12", and cool step sideways for both artists. 45 RPM black vinyl LPs in disco-hole sleeves with artwork and layout by Manda Beth Brown. Edition of 600." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: LA VAMPIRES FEAT. MATRIX METALS Title: So Unreal Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Episode two in season one of the LA Vampires Collab Chronicles finds her joining forces with elusive alien discotech-head Matrix Metals of the nomadic Outer Limits Recordings cabal. Blurry ornate cassette-loop architectures groove and grind under jazzy Casio canopies while Ms. LA Vamps screws it all down and layers in additional square wave keyboard lines, echo chamber FX, drum machine detailing, low-end throbs, and sings lead on a gold spraypainted microphone. The entire LPs got that melting-on-the-dashboard warped-world tonality of all the best Outer Limits tracks, and the fried radio-rhythm Matrix beats definitely coax out a cool hidden sunbleached LA V faux-pop vocal style not evident on any of her previous vinyl. Elaborately 4-tracked over the summer and microscopically mixed by M. Geddes Gengras, So Unreal is exactly that, and a rad synergistic statement by both parties. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with glamour-style Nagelized portrait/collage artwork by recent LA transplant/BFF Spencer Longo, plus a full-color insert. Edition of 600." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: LA VAMPIRES GOES ITAL Title: Streetwise Format: 12 Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Four-song 45 rpm EP of raw 90s-style body workouts by NNF head mistress LA Vampires and Brooklyn rhythm-head Ital. Gritty dancefloor anthems filtered through tape-hiss and graffitid concrete. Jacket art by Spencer Longo. Limited edition of 700." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: LITTLE CLAW Title: Human Taste Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Brand new LP by this fiery Portland, Oregon art-garage trio. This is the LP edition of the CD released on Ecstatic Peace! Records. Comes with a double-sided 11"x17" poster." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: MAGIC LANTERN Title: At the Mountains of Madness Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Epic gang of Long Beach psychonauts drop a blazing C30 of riffs, flutes, and collective meltdown. Amazing, and future NNF actions are certain. In full-color fold-out J-cards in cases studded with cursed jewels. Edition of 100." -Not Not Fun.
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Artist: MAGIC LANTERN Title: Platoon Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Its been a while since The Lantern shined its High Beams out into the world but lifes a maze of alternate paths (marriage, children, Portland Oregon, etc) and thats just the way it goes/went. Fortunately for all lovers of heavy male psych brotherhoods, the ML gang convened back in 2009 before parting ways temporarily to track their second full-length, Platoon, and here it is. As oughta be expected, its a monstrous hot-rod cruise into screaming dual wah distortions powered by the poker faced Gavin/Chip rhythm section and splattered with jazzy freak-out organ and the occasional Stallones echo yelp. Featuring most of their live classics from the pre-hiatus era (Dark Cicadas, Friendship, etc) and tracked/mixed by Best Coaster Bobb Bruno, this fills the hole in yr heart left by High Beams." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: MAGIC LANTERN Title: Platoon Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Its been a while since The Lantern shined its High Beams out into the world but lifes a maze of alternate paths (marriage, children, Portland Oregon, etc) and thats just the way it goes/went. Fortunately for all lovers of heavy male psych brotherhoods, the ML gang convened back in 2009 before parting ways temporarily to track their second full-length, Platoon, and here it is. As oughta be expected, its a monstrous hot-rod cruise into screaming dual wah distortions powered by the poker faced Gavin/Chip rhythm section and splattered with jazzy freak-out organ and the occasional Stallones echo yelp. Featuring most of their live classics from the pre-hiatus era (Dark Cicadas, Friendship, etc) and tracked/mixed by Best Coaster Bobb Bruno, this fills the hole in yr heart left by High Beams." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: MAGIC LANTERN Title: Showstopper/ Cypress Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Companion banger to the Platoon LP, this 33 RPM single finds the Lanterns firmly in retro motor city rave-up rockist terrain, covering the cult classic Showstopper on the A, backed with their own James Brown soul revue funk-rock shaker Cypress on the flip. Recorded during the Platoon sessions and mastered by James Plotkin. Black vinyl 7 inches in cosmic boogie collage jackets designed by Cameron Stallones. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: MAGIK MARKERS Title: Feel The Crayon - Second Pressing Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"A vinyl reissue of one of East Coast primal/poetry brawlers MAGICK MARKERS most deranged, intense, and satisfying releases. Originally released as a seven-song CDR, the album features the band in full frenzy/snarl mode, beholding demons and visions and entering the abyss with Kraut rock drumming, exorcist punk sermonizing, and infinite waves of feedback. Here two of the more emptier jams are shaved off the original to create a denser and better sounding whole. " - Not Not Fun. Second pressing.
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Artist: METAL ROUGE Title: Storm Veil/Desert Champion Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Helga + andrew transplanted to LA from New Zealand which should be severe culture shock but theyve made the move without losing the fire of their electric light darkestra. vertical guitar shred and rickety amplified
eastern instruments gathered on strange trips, this CS showcases their dense intensities, blown to hell, a million layers of stratospheric fry. have a future CDR comin up on Root Stra." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: MINERVA, MARIA Title: Cabaret Cixous Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Debut Not Not Fun full-length from the "Amazonian/Estonian goddess and self-professed hippy chick," following her Noble Savage 12" on 100% Silk. |
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Artist: MINERVA, MARIA Title: Cabaret Cixous Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Estonian Euro-beat enchantress Maria Juur aka Maria Minerva has had a lively 2011 already -- releasing a chic suite of glamour-pop abstractions via her debut, Tallinn At Dawn, as well as a sultry, sideways bedroom disco EP (Noble Savage) on 100% Silk. But time is money and money talks (or something) so rather than let a hot streak go cold Ms. Maria has crafted a fresh 11-song dream ride down fascination street, which were pumped and proud to unveil: Cabaret Cixous. Apparently theres a tradition/inside joke amongst a fringe strain of Estonian bands where you have to name yr album something with cabaret in the title, but regardless of ones knowledge of this micro-custom, Cab Cixous is a gorgeous, gauzy thrill, slip-streaming from cracked-crystal karaoke pop singles (These Days, Ruff Trade, Soo High) to slow-motion synth-washed ballads (Lovecool, Spiral) to radical miscellzanies (the alien soundsystem banger, Laulan Paikse Kaes, a cellphone-fidelity Abba cover, etc) and beyond. A beautiful, bizarre record, full of the weird vision and hazed-out soulfulness thats everything we love about music." - Not Not Fun. Includes glossy one-sided color insert. |
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Artist: MOON POOL & DEAD BAND Title: Human Fly Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Detroit deviants MOON POOL & DEAD BAND hardwire their gutter-disco waveforms with all the slime lab atmospherics and sci-fi circuitry scuzz that one might expect (and hope for) from a duo comprised of veteran garage-punk drummer DAVE SHETTLER and WOLF EYES noise lifer NATE YOUNG. Utilizing a swap meets worth of crusty synths, sequencers, drum machines and outmoded FX units, and adhering to a purists regimen of "all live and improvised, no overdubs," Moon Pool & Dead Bands rogue-wizard approach to basement beat music has already birthed some refreshingly unclassifiable tunnel-rat techno (see their self-titled 12-inch on Agitated for proof), but "Human Fly" feels like their unambiguous highlight to date. Motoring on a busted industrial-funk rhythm, the title track grinds and grooves through a maze of modular synth sparks, acid ooze and fried smoke before stopping suddenly to reveal a Cramps sample sputtering tinnily under all the noise; then, with almost a comic sense of timing, they re-bury it in the pumping pulse of duct-taped electronics. "Jagged Orbit" and "Cyber Rebels" ebb and flow with a lighter touch while looped percussion, jazzy house leads and synthesizer shrapnel echo across the stereo field like soft comets, the beats finally fading away in soothing waves of deep space hiss. An unusual synthesis of vibes and ideas, "Human Fly" is an ideal addition to the canon of inexplicable American EBM originators. Limited edition of 500." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: MURRAY, HEATHER LEIGH Title: Devil If You Can Hear Me Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Debut vinyl full length by this long-time H-town expat/pedalsteel visionary. Past CDRs on her and Dave Keenans VOLCANIC TONGUE imprint have sketched out the breadth of her possessed solitary vigils, but her three pieces here are even more untamed and unique. Voice, electric strings, song tendrils blowing in the souls breeze. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: MURRAY, HEATHER LEIGH Title: Jailhouse Rock Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Its been a while since Scorces sorceress, Jandek collaborator, and Volcanic Tongue branch manager Heather Leigh has ventured out on vinyl under her own name. And it may be a while longer, as Jailhouse Rock is in fact a wax reissue of a long OOP 2006 cassette classic on Michigan crud factory Fag Tapes. It was a fave of ours that year (and every year), so it feels extra celebratory to be able to offer up a freshly remastered (by Pete Swanson) LP edition of the album for global re-appreciation. Sprawling, long-form descent/ascents into mythic electric disorientation, powered by her trademark recipe of FX-soaked pedal steel and voice. Jailhouse feels loosely more aligned with a mid-aughts drone/noise aesthetic than the outsider dirt road Americana of her Devil If You Can Hear Me LP (also on NNF), but the distinction is a slight one. Side A swims in swooping sheets of vox and tempestuous wind tunnel dynamics before slowly dying away to wheezing disembodied harmonica. The B piece begins in a more overtly beautiful mode, a trinity of crystalline notes picked and stretched until theyre transformed into a rapturous sky of textural distortion. Sensual and vertigo-inducing in equal measure. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with brand new paint/collage artwork by Heath Moerland (of Sick Llama, Slither, Odd Clouds, etc). Edition of 400." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: MYTHICAL BEAST Title: Scales Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Yellow/black-speckled vinyl. Vinyl edition of this nomadic psych-soul trios beloved 2008 studio debut, released on CD on Greg Weeks (of Espers) Language of Stone label. This edition has swank glossy jackets, plus an 11x11 pro-printed insert, on colored vinyl. One time pressing of 500." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: ODD CLOUDS Title: Deceiving Illusion Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "A thousand years ago, in 2006, Michigan moonlighters Odd Clouds drizzled down their LP opus, The Cavernous End. Within the sphere of open-eyed freeform organized psych-jazz sprawl, nothing compared. Years later that album still kills, but not much has followed in its wake (there have been some loose tapes but those are more in the crude basement fuckaround vein). So we are personally xxtremely pleased to be able to finally offer up the bands latest album-length affair, Deceiving Illusion. A six-song spelunk into the deranged group brain responsible for noise scene mainstays like Fag Tapes and Tasty Soil Records, Illusion rumbles through a hall of mirrors of zones/styles, from freaky garbage punk to robot throat games to motorik brass meditations to unhinged 70s German commune beardo psych-blazers. The journey is the destination and all that. Abuse yr Illusion. Black vinyl LPs in 3-color pro-silkscreened jackets with artwork by Chris Pottinger and Jamie Easter, plus a double-sided photocopied insert. Edition of 400." |
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Artist: PEAKING LIGHTS Title: 936 Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Sometimes it feels so simple: two of our favorite people in one of our favorite bands release one of our favorite records of all time. 2009s Imaginary Falcons was its own genius slushpile of tape-hissy drift-dub haze anthems, no question, but 936 takes every facet of the Peaking Lights mighty diamond and shines it to fluorescent perfection. The songwriting is insane; All The Sun That Shines, Amazing & Wonderful, Tiger Eyes (Laid Back), etc, all seep into yr mindstream and float there like melodic gold dust. Indra Dunis silky soul-jazz keys and tranced vocals have never sounded so exquisite, and Aaron Coyes busts out the best bass/drum loops and sneaky dub guitar of his musical lifetime. Recorded by Luke Tweedy at Flat Black Studios in Iowa City (where both the NNF Wet Hair LPs were tracked) and mastered in Berlin, 936 retains the cool crate-digger grit of their earlier highlights, but within a much more vivid spectrum of sound. Could not be more jazzed and honored to unveil this total groove-wave classic." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: PEAKING LIGHTS Title: 936 Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Weve been feverishly waiting for Madison, WIs PEAKING LIGHTS to drop their new full-length on Not Not Fun. This husband/wife duo have toned down the experimental nature of their sound considerably, stripping away the noise to reveal beautiful, luminescent pop music. Their releases have always shown huge potential, subtly foreshadowing this new aesthetic. These guys could get huge." -OMG Vinyl |
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Artist: PINK LUMINOUS INVOCATION Title: Sings The Blues Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "one of our favorite danish crews dig deep into their dark side for a gripping four-tet of heavy soul dirges. chaingang sorrow and FX sorcery make this PLIs best album to date, worthy of repeat visitations. pro-dubbed & imprinted tapes in swank silkscreened, spraypainted, and handcut rebel portrait cardstock cases." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: POCAHAUNTED Title: Make It Real Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "After a six-month hiatus, a complete line-up overhaul, a trip to SXSW, a UK/EURO tour, and a full year-plus of only playing shows and writing songs and amassing totemic objects, finally Pocahaunted return to the recorded realm with their first album since 2008. Time flies when yr having not not fun and all that. Make It Real collects seven of the bands 2009 live staples for a 40-minute-ish collage of basement body music, garage dub damage, outsider funkadelic sprawl, voodoo rhythm workouts, duo femme soul vocal dynamics, dripping gold sweat, and dream fulfillment. Recorded barefoot and shirtless and direct to tape at Green Machine Studio in summer 09 by M. Geddes Gengras and featuring guest bamboo sax by jazzmaster Alex Gray (of Dreamcolour/Deep Magic) and mastered by James Plotkin. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with warped LA post-Parliament utopia artwork by vision wizard Spencer Longo. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: POCAHAUNTED Title: Make It Real Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "After a six-month hiatus, a complete line-up overhaul, a trip to SXSW, a UK/EURO tour, and a full year-plus of only playing shows and writing songs and amassing totemic objects, finally Pocahaunted return to the recorded realm with their first album since 2008. Time flies when yr having not not fun and all that. Make It Real collects seven of the bands 2009 live staples for a 40-minute-ish collage of basement body music, garage dub damage, outsider funkadelic sprawl, voodoo rhythm workouts, duo femme soul vocal dynamics, dripping gold sweat, and dream fulfillment. Recorded barefoot and shirtless and direct to tape at Green Machine Studio in summer 09 by M. Geddes Gengras and featuring guest bamboo sax by jazzmaster Alex Gray (of Dreamcolour/Deep Magic) and mastered by James Plotkin." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: POCAHAUNTED Title: Threshold/Echolocation Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, bands to solo projects -- its all the same arc. And here it is, the final RIP action by star-crossed NNF institution Pocahaunted and the only recorded document of the final triforce-vocal line-up featuring Leyna Noel on keys/crooning/dance magic. On the final day of their 3-week spring 10 US tour, the band booked a session at Louder Studios in San Francisco with Tim Green (Nation Of Ulyssess/Fucking Champs, etc) and it marks Pocas first & last time working in a proper studio setting. The results blaze/amaze. Threshold was written on the road and melts through a river mistress intro before revving into a tense kraut-funk burner with catchy (and surprisingly non-FX-soaked) femme-soul vocables cascading down from every side. The B, Echolocation, is a tranced ghost-reggae comedown ballad and classic slow-dance live staple. Nimble bass maneuvering by whimsy princess Diva Dompe leads the melody up through the choruses into the torch-song bridge climax that leaves everybody on the floor. Roll the credits, this is the end. Black vinyl 7 inches in sleeves with collage/paint artwork by Manda B Brown and Diva Dompe, plus a photocopied insert. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: POCAHAUNTED Title: Water-Born Format: 3" CDR Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"guitar/vocal chants. hazy drone sing-songs. hand-numbered & limited to 100." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: PRINCE RAMA Title: Utopia=No Person Format: 12" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Hare Krishna farmers/deep psych practitioners Prince Rama explore the link between music and utopia with music for exercise routines. This is a vinyl issue of "exercise rituals using music to explore the body as a vehicle for the utopian impulse..." originally released as a part of Impose Magazines cassette series and performed in an unshaved armpit of Brooklyn." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: PSYCHIC REALITY Title: Vibrant New Age Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Sadly (for us left coasters), in November Leyna Noel aka PSYCHIC REALITY decamped from SF to NYC, but before packing up her every worldly possession and road-tripping trans-America she eked out a sliver of precious time to hole up in the studio with Phil Manley (Trans Am, Jonas Reinhardt, etc) and record her long-awaited debut full-length on thick 2 inch tape. Vibrant New Age is the result. The name says it all. But Noels New Age is not the 80s redux fad of healing crystals, pastel fades, dolphin consciousness, etc, but a living, electrified awakening. From the high drama drum machinery of "Fruit" and "Expla" to the naked, airy avant-pop of "Hi High" and "Fanta" through to the stuttery, mechanized power ballad finale, "Soft Script," this is Noel at her most majestic and fully realized and its a wild life-force to behold. Vibe the Vibrant. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with art/design by Ms Reality. Edition of 600." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: PSYCHIC REALITY/LA VAMPIRES Title: Split Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Every days as new as you want it to be so take up the torch and light something unlit. Definite off-the-grid mentalities prevail on this genre-dissolving split 12" between San Fran anima soul voyager Leyna Noel aka Psychic Reality and So-Cal acid-jazz crate-digger LA Vampires. Noels toured the states coast-to-coast and dropped a couple potent tape/CDR effigies, but this is her vinyl debut and it captures everything searing and singular about her live alchemy in glowing, glorious detail. Four inter-flowing songs of tone-float piano keys, bedroom drum machines, and white light amplifier vox. Trance-damaged and truth-seeking. LA Vampires side madlibs through a more mercurial matrix, using slowed/screwed tapes, boombox Casio FX, low end theories, and bleached voice patterns to conjure a reverb chambers worth of dance floor mirages. Future collabs with Zola Jesus and Sun Araw should expound her rhythm method mission. Abuse yr illusion. Black vinyl LPs in glossy jackets with a boldly disrobed duo cover portrait by Caitlin C. Mitchell. Edition of 450." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: PSYCHIC REALITY/SEX WORKER Title: Bored Fortress Club Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Farmers market zen learner LEYNA NOE channels the swaggering lust of Jimis finest hour via stumbling drum machines and amplifier howls while her beau SEX WORKER mines Debbie Harrys telephonic anxieties for deeper fears, darker secrets: "I cant control myself." Sleeve art by JULIEN LANGENDORFF." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: RACCOO-OO-OON Title: Raccoo-oo-oon Format: Double LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "All things must come to pass, if you love something set it free, its better to burn out than fade away, blah blah blah. No platitude can mask the permanent bummer of a favorite band breaking up in their prime, and such is the case with Iowa Citys most untamed civic treasure, feral-psych foursome Raccoo-oo-oon, who decided to dissolve this year after nearly half a decade of radical and galvanizing activity (tapes, tours, t-shirts, etc). Fortunately theyre generous sorts, so their parting gift to the fans/haters/planet is a vicious, thorny wilderness of endless, nameless songs heaved across four fried sides of black vinyl. Crawl a mile in their shoes. As far as R.I.P. band statements go, this self-titled monster is tough to beat, by far the most ambitious slabs of sounds the RAC pack has ever put together. Doomed, desperate prog-rock flailings decay into hollow purgatories of dimly pulsing ambience, only to re-erupt into pissed percussion firestorms and experimental electricity. There are a few moments of Behold Secret Kingdom-style focus, but for the most part the mood remains raw and acidic, four souls on edge, backs to the crowd, channeling everything they have left inside. Its deconstruction time again. Nearly 80 minutes of music, mastered by Pete Swanson, housed in reinforced double LP jackets with Andy/Daren in repose photo artwork, plus a pro-printed 11x11 insert. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: RANGERS Title: Pan Am Stories Format: Double LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "Tape-warped phantom band Rangers finally unleash the lush, soaring, expansive prog-pop opus we always knew was floating inside the fretboard (and imagination) of multi-instrumentalist mystery maestro Joe Knight. The north Dallas-raised, San Fran-residing head Ranger grew up taking classical guitar lessons from a dude who claimed to have toured with the Dead, and some of that brain-wonked jam agenda obviously seeped into the young Knight, who began recording his own loose, lo-fi jangle sprawls in 2005. But whereas last years critically lauded Suburban Tours LP found him condensing his cassette-crushed alien pop into 3 minute radio nuggets, Pan Am Stories uses the reverse strategy, letting each blurry strum pattern coast away and ride the breeze a bit before steering it into a fresh counter-melody or flanged-out guitar comedown. The extra breath and space gives the 13 songs a real sense of freedom and lightness and flight, layered in gentle blankets of fuzz, silky reverb, and audio collage riddles. A total saga, and a summit achievement of next-level invention for Knight as a musician (its insane he played/recorded every instrument on this thing!) and artist. Have been soaking in these tracks non-stop since we first heard em this summer and are thrilled to get to share Stories with the world. Black vinyl LPs (mastered by Carl Saff, who worked on Suburban Tours too) in gatefold jackets with micro-detailed collage art by Mr. Rangers himself; interior artwork by Knight and Anthony Yuen. Edition of 850." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: REINHARDT, JONAS
Title: Music For The Tactile Dome Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The hermetic kosmische lexicon of San Fran-based synth synthesist/composer Jesse Reiner (Jonas Reinhardts founder and principal architect) has been simmering and swelling at a steady clip the past few years (2010s Powers Of Audition was def a highlight), but the added talents of drummer Damon Palermo (Mi Ami), bassist Diego Gonzalez (Citay, 3 Leafs), and guitarist Phil Manley (Trans Am, more) has levitated the JR Experience to a whole new head-music hall o fame. Recorded in Berlin, mixed in SF, then mastered/cut back in Berlin at Dubplates, Music For The Tactile Dome is easily the most deep-trip micro-focus Jonas odyssey to date, nine technicolor fractals of glittering synthesizer skyways and master-crafted pulsing kraut terrariums. A handful of tracks (Smokey Jotus, Hander Zader, etc) invoke more of the classic live JR vibe, with propulsive cold-grooved rhythm sectioning, but by and large Dome is designed for heavy headphone communion, an expanding magic eye tapestry of brainwave activity constellations. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with beautiful spectrum-assemblage cover art by Sean Patrick. Edition of 650." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Pacific Drift Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Way too much is made these days of looking back, memory, social network fantasias. What a bummer, cause realitys a bad experience and 2012 is on deck; we deserve whatever we get. Evolve or erode, dudes. LA visigoths Robedoor slip into another sinkhole of voidist shadow-rock with Pacific Drift, three new tracks recorded across the last greylight winter. The A side stirs into a jazzy apocalypto depression with flute-keys and an overdriven OM groove that spirals in a web of distortion before drifting out to sea/silence. The flip finds a pair of deeply mutated RBDR genetic codes, one a mantric death-punk protest song cloaked in smoke and speed, the other a 3 AM slow-motion soul implosion set to upright piano, descending bass, tear garden guitar, and acid rain. The coast is a ghost, the city seethes. Mixed and mastered by M. Geddes Gengras at Green Machine in east LA. Black vinyl 7 inches in sleeves with corpse-diver artwork and a band photo by Caitlin C. Mitchell. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Raiders Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Following their 2008 East Coast tour with Woods and Pocahaunted the Robedoor agenda has mainly been: hibernating in the City Terrace zone above east LA, adding a drummer/modular synth dealer, and letting the smoke rise. Raiders is the first RBDR LP since 2008s Endlessly Blazing and is the result of almost six months of slow-burn transformative tape machine meditation helmed by Mr. Ged Gengras. Bummed guitars, loner drone tones, low caverns of reverbed drums and rumble, echo dislocation, and dead voices cascade down into the isolated highways. Song modes are carved out and then left to rot. Features early trio live set staples like Indo Shadow and The Downcast Eye. You cant stick your hand in the same black river twice. Change or be changed. LPs in jackets with cover photo by Caitlin C. Mitchell. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Too Down To Die Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Not Not Funs most form-destroying release from Robedoor. Seismic future-primitive energies on side-long track "Parallel Wanderer." Continues the incarnation of Robedoor featuring MG Gengras (Personable, Pocahaunted) on drums, moog, bass and piano." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: RUSSIAN TSARLAG Title: Midnight At Marys House Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Vagabond American legend Carlos Gonzalez drops his first NNF full-length, and its 10 of his greatest junkyard surf-slime tunes of all time. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: SAND CIRCLES Title: Motor City Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "This is MARTIN HERTERICHs second pass around the NNF circuit in his SAND CIRCLES hovercraft (following 2011s Midnight Crimes EP), and though the general schematics and engine design remain the same-aged drum machines, afterhours analog tape echo, faded synth riffs, derelict metropolis atmospheres-Motor Citys grace and execution place it in a superior division to anything else hes tracked to date. A cool, loner narrative arc plays out across each side too: "Entering Motor City" across "White Sand" wherein theres a "Downtown Holdup" in the "Innercity Haze," before cruising back out of the urban sprawl, "Distant Lights" in the rearview, on through the "Endless Nights," "Descending Into Space." As with his last tape, the Sand Circles chemistry of transfusing reverb-refracted electronic horizon melodies with pulsing, primitivist warehouse-party drum machinery really succeeds in evoking this weirdly poignant bedroom/industrial reverie mood-sphere, and the 11 instrumentals of Motor City hit this interzone pressure point better than ever. Silver ink on black shells with torched-factory graphic-design J-cards by B BROWN. Edition of 150." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: SAPPHIRE SLOWS Title: True Breath Format: 12" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Stunning five-song debut EP by this young Tokyo producer. Ghost-in-the-drum-machine rhythms layered with her exquisite Cocteau Twins vocal haze, but impeccably crafted into nuanced multi-movement compositions. Will be doing a full-length later in 2012 as well. Our fave new female artist." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SCORCES Title: I Turn Into You Format: Double LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "NNFs first double lp and its a doozy. The carter/leigh murray duo digs up 4 deep sides from the vault and theyre as impressive as any weve heard. Severe quiet, lost moods, strange strings, etc. with fancy embossed jackets (designed by Marcia Bassett) plus an insert." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SECRET ABUSE Title: Violent Narcissus Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Secret Abuser Jeff Witscher is an enigma wrapped in a riddle rolled in cassette tape and plugged into a battered pair of towering PA speakers. Hes lived everywhere, met everyone, and inspired legions through his lifestyle, utopian fashions (refugee chic), and spellbindingly intense music. Up from Rainbow Blanket, through to Impregnable, and across the arid plains of Roman Torment and Deep Jew, Witschers maintained a singularity of vision and total commitment to execution that has wrecked us, personally, to the point of speechlessness at least a dozen times. But, despite his restlessly shapeshifting spirit, the past year plus has seen him settling slightly deeper into his Secret Abuse sinkhole style, and heres hoping he lingers a while longer, cause its a fucking winner. Brutal, pensive, blown-out tones crossfade into tortured minor key guitar laments before being slowly subsumed in a droning ocean of choked vocals and sulking, selfish electronics. Repressed, burning, and emotional like a young man pushing away everything, Violent Narcissus is as definitive a document as has thus far yet emerged from the SA canon (and lord knows theres been a grip of gems). Look long and hard; the mirror is a bitter mistress. Black LPs, mastered by Bill Hutson, housed in jackets designed by Witscher. Edition of 445." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SEX WORKER Title: The Labor of Love Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Still waters run deep but wild waters run deeper. Both when fronting San Fran free-punk body-music trio Mi Ami or performing angst-dance psycho-dramas under his solo alias, Sex Worker, Daniel Martin-McCormick always succeeds in generating total motion (and emotion) and breaking the fourth wall. His vision of tranced/anguished rhythm questing hits an apex on The Labor Of Love, his LP debut under the Sex Worker guise, and weve been soaking in its dark arts for months. Pulsing, lo-fi kraut electronics bubble and sputter under hazy arcs of weirdo vocal smear. Escapist disco drum machines cruise into the horizon under a canopy of dubby accents and FX percussion, sometimes peaking in harsh frenzies of echo-scream meltdowns. All three pieces function as anthems or elegies or protest songs articulating Daniels heavy anti-sex trafficking/enslaved bodies activist agenda but you dont have to know the depths of the ethical framework to grasp the vibe. An intensely unique and hyper-personal statement from one of our favorite West Coast music-dreamers. Black vinyl LPs in jackets designed by the artist. Edition of 450." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: SEX WORKER Title: Waving Goodbye Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "In a weird case of life imitating art imitating life, Daniel Martin-McCormicks sophomore Sex Worker full length, Waving Goodbye, coincidentally gets released on the very day he embarks on his transamerican relocation road trip from the Bay to Brooklyn. Waving goodbye indeed. Sad times for California, but at least his parting gift/LP is as haunting and poignant and vivid as these six dance-damaged life/love/loss anthems. A huge evolutionary pole-vault upwards from 2009s The Labor Of Love, here the SW art-pulse echo-anguish aesthetic has been refined and reborn into fresh neon-smeared street grime crooner ballads (Cool Boy, Tough Love), sprawling forlorn trancefloor fantasias (Next To You, Honeymoon Babylon), plus a killer loner-ized Corona cover. Recorded over several months in SF and mastered in Berlin, WG is clearly his peak achievement to date and weve been jamming the shit out of it. Live, he brings a bizarro entertainer/MC vibe to the proceedings so for sure go see him when hes passing through yr zip code. Black vinyl LPs in jackets designed by Mr. DMM himself. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SHEARING PINX Title: Poison Hands Format: Double 3" CDR Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"Seriously: fuck international borders. These Vancouver dudes sent us the sweetest demo EVER. Gnarly skronk-shred jams that morph into free shriekback post-jazz dead-zones (in a die-cut jacket no less!!). This is like that. Except even better!! And more epic!! One disc of harsh shrapnel free-punk distortion-wave action songs, and one disc with just a single sprawling twenty minute clatter-creep shakedown. Perfect brainless/Brainiac feedback attacks for summertime. Painted-and-stamped discs in an oversized printed pamphlet with sick hands art and a photo-cornered insert." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: SHEPHERDS w/SHAWN REED Title: Eyes Of The World Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"a handful of our favorite figures (J Earl, Xtian, Shawn, Lucas N-Horse)
all dog-piling on top of another into a blind ball of bewildering psych
regression. havent heard LOCO HILLS yet, but these are some of the
greatest tunes outta the (extended) SHEP camp weve heard in this
lifetime. totally pro-manufactured/mastered tapes with awesome full-color
collab-artwork/textwork J-cards by the whole crew. limited to 200." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: SIRATORI, KENJI Title: Harakiri Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"black hole silt sludge flowing ceaselessly into a pit by this japanese
cyberpunk rambler. edition of 64." -NNF.
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Weve only had the good/loud fortune to witness Matthew Bower perform live on one solitary occasion, but the infinite incineration he managed to detonate out of a single electric guitar and knee-high practice amp was convincing enough to last several lives. In the meantime, theres the gallons of celestial skree he bombards the listening universe with via his cavalry of audio aliases (Skullflower, Total, Hototogisu, Sunroof!, Mirag), all of which radiates with Bowers iconic, influential, two-decades-deep quest to fuse the bruised with the blissed in a single white-light fist held up high. And although his specific mission for each project seems to have crossfaded a bit in recent years, its still huge news to us to be able offer up Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver, the first full-length Skullflower album to be pressed on vinyl since forever (at least the early 90s). Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver finds Bower in the more blackened, doom-damaged terrains like those stripmined on the recent Desire For A Holy War or Pure Imperial Reform -- abrupt vertical baths of blinding distortion and harmonic override spiked with cavernous cultish riffs and deeply bleak ritual moods. The blood is fresh, but the bodys unrecognizable. Charred and forgotten, this is another stepping stone on the path to the upturned altar. Black vinyl LPs in fucked-up-and-photocopied matte jackets. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER/AXOLOTL Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: SOCIAL JUNK Title: Concussion Summer Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Masterpiece vinyl debut by this badass Kentucky crew, after a billion tapes and cdrs. Wanders around a ton of different aggro/hypno zones, intensely unique and uncompromising. On tour NOW, go see them!!." - Not Not Fun |
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Artist: SUN ARAW Title: Beach Head Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Debut vinyl full-length by Magic Lantern guitarist, Cameron Stallones. Gorgeous, tripped-out coastal melodies, psychedelic luau vibes, outsider grooves. In Fried Island collage jackets, plus an 11x11 full-color insert." - Not Not Fun
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Artist: SUN ARAW Title: Heavy Deeds Format: CD Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Long Beach psych-journeyman Cameron Stallones follows up last years Beach Head LP with a whole new universe of Sun Araw action. Heavy Deeds finds him ditching the coast and roaming inland. The grooves are hairier, heatstroked, howling. Still soaked in wah and farfisa mirage but closer in spirit to some of the wild electricity stomps of The Phynx. 5 tracks, all hits. Mastered by James Plotkin." Includes bonus track not on vinyl version." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: SUN ARAW Title: Heavy Deeds Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Long Beach psych-journeyman Cameron Stallones follows up last years Beach Head LP with a whole new universe of Sun Araw action. Heavy Deeds finds him ditching the coast and roaming inland. The grooves are hairier, heatstroked, howling. Still soaked in wah and farfisa mirage but closer in spirit to some of the wild electricity stomps of The Phynx. 5 tracks, all hits. Mastered by James Plotkin. Includes bonus track not on vinyl version." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: SUN ARAW Title: On Patrol Format: Double LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
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"A brand new double-album from CAMERON STALLONES of MAGIC LANTERN under his SUN ARAW moniker. Drawing equally upon 70s kraut-psych rock, Spacemen 3-style drug blues, and woozy tropical world music, Sun Araws universe is a rapidly expanding one." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: SUN ARAW Title: Sun Ark Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Sun Ark is the new 7" from cosmic explorer SUN ARAW "Live Mind" is the dubby, hazed b-side, which the label calls "a cool new boat trip on an evolved vessel." Were not quite sure what that means and prefer to think of it as a "leisurely, pond-tripped excursion around some dank space-jungled island on the aforementioned futuristic ark." Edition of 500, all with typically dope cover art by Cameron Stallones himself." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: TEETH MOUNTAIN Title: Live On Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Follow-up to last years well-received full-length of collaged live performances released on SHDWPLY. This is another half hour-plus of the Baltimore drum/drone collective at their most zoned and loose-limbed." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: THOUSANDS Title: Pig Cooks Pig Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: US Price: $6.50 |
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"2 side-long broasters from this kalifornia beard commune. fried and weird. silkscreened cases, edition of 73." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: TOPAZ RAGS Title: Capricorn Born Again Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Debut full-length by this sour times lurker trio. Recorded across four months in a time consuming 4-track/boombox assemblage style, this one leaks shadows and rainy piano riffs and faded heartbreak. Edition of 400." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: TOPAZ RAGS Title: Crown Center Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "West Coast ghost squad TOPAZ RAGS stalk back into the deadlights with a fresh vinyl single, their first new material since the Capricorn Born Again LP. Recorded in the heart of winter in a room with one blue light bulb, "The Crown Center" is pure nightprowler music: quaking bass, grime-jazz keys, dusty drums, witch choirs floating through the smog and into sleeping homes with the power lines cut. The sound of crime to come. The flip ("You Go On") slips deeper into the psych-psycho psyche, a bleached-brain riff-rhythm grinding away endlessly while voices and electric piano stabs arc across the stereo field, raining ash. A grimmer twist on the Topaz formula, the dreamers dream turned dark. 33 RPM 7-inch pressed on various colored vinyl in hand-silkscreened cardstock sleeves. Edition of 345." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: TOPAZ RAGS Title: Tarot Harem Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: TOPPING BOTTOMS Title: Towers Of Spines Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"killer weirdo tokyo crew drop a block of PSF-damaged warehouse guitar
strobe light sludge. in insane art-packing by Create Evil chief Ryo." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: TRACEY TRANCE Title: Mummy Fingers Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Moonrock-eating keyboard madcap T TRANCE lays down one of his best outings yet, 30 minutes of warped drug circus pop disasters. or something?" -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: Me & Yoko Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "There⿿s no disputing the truth that certain formats befit certain artists. Think about it: where⿿s the logic in Tangerine Dream rocking a 3-way split 3 CDR? Those fools need room to roam. Conversely, why would Orthrelm drop a 4xLP? Who needs 160 minutes of 8-second spazz songs? The medium is a message, man. And for Megan Remy⿿s brief, brave re-imaginings of guitar/voice pop rapture done under the U.S. Girls flag, the 45 RPM 7 inch single is the absolute dream medium for transporting said sounds to the interested earhole. Short and sweet (and chemical) like a sugar rush, Me + Yoko is her latest reverb-gaze drug nugget in a string of strong singles (following releases on Hardscrabble Amateurs and Cherry Burger), and it⿿s another keeper. Whistling to life with a scrap of found sound/dialogue, the song then wings into a vague, hazed-out stone-toss between 2 tired notes (a dead ringer for that famous Les Rallizes Denudes bass riff), ebbing and flowing beneath smeary streaks of white-washed vocal blur. A Top 40 single for a universe of ghosts. The B, ⿿Rise + Go, might actually be the more aching of the two, a broke-down bedroom ballad, awash in sad seas of reverb, lapping at the shores of isolated islands, gently sailing into heartbreak. Sounds lo-fi but lush, like it was recorded high on a cloud on a cheap 80s boombox. Imagine that. Black vinyl 45 RPM singles, mastered by Pete Swanson, in photocopied sleeves with art by Remy. Edition of 380." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: UMBERTO Title: Confrontations Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Kansas Citys goblin king of neo-Giallo, brood-blooded dark fantasy soundtracking returns with his fourth official full-length, two years after the badass psychodrama of Prophecy of the Black Widow. The time betwixt was well spent, on tours (Europe twice, including the Mogwai-curated All Tomorrows Parties fest), one-off tapes and 12-inches (Welcome to the Chill Zone, Final Exit, etc.), and tweaking the mixes and minutia of the seven undead invasion omens comprising Confrontations. What instantly distinguishes this new album from the previous two is its ominous, slow-burn compositional model, building its evil temple brick by brick, basking in the tension of each new chiming, Carpenter-esque synth line or monkish doom Om for multiple measures before stirring the next substance into the cauldron. This elegant sense of patience gives the tracks a more oozing, operatic aura; these confrontations arent hostile showdowns in the woods but the creeping dread of alien-nation body snatchers infiltrating the populace. Death comes slipping. Can someone hire this genius to score the They Live remake already? X-filed highway cover artwork designed by Dionysian visualist TIM GOODWILLIE." -Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: UMBERTO Title: Freeze! Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "After 2 full-lengths mining vintage horror scores and Italo/Goblin-isms for inspiration, Kansas City riddler and composition whiz Umberto slow-pans his focus out of the graveyards and black widow cobwebs into the celluloid-stained artificial streets of Beverly Hills police beats and pop culture ghost-busting. Freeze! is an inscrutable but impressively legit reinvention of Jan Hammer-style 80s soundtrack cheese: soaring keyboard lines, fast-tappin piano, locked-in bass grooves, goofy canned drums, baroque purple haze soloing, etc. Put An APB On Those Bastards kicks things off with a tension-ramping Corvette cruise into the heat of the night, while Illegal Entry With Intent To Zuul is a pitch-perfect rooftop chase scene that ends with somebody falling fifty stories into a posh private pool (and is apparently also somehow about that horned dog demon that possesses Sigourney Weaver in G-Busters?). A bizarre and thoroughly enjoyable curveball from one of our fave current music-makers. Black vinyl 45s in pro-printed jackets with hilarious/hijacked Eddie Murphy artwork by Derek Goon. Edition of 500." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: UMBERTO Title: Prophecy of a Black Widow Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The one Umberto performance we had the rad fortune to bear witness to involved at least a dozen dudes, dads, and ladies all on stage wearing sunglasses at night and shredding keyboards/keytars bathed in a sea of fog machinery and strobe lights and extraterrestrially-costumed interpretive dancers. Shit was BEYOND. Umberto mastermind Matt Hill allegedly went to legit music school back in the day and used to play bass for Expo 70 (Justin/Expo released the debut Umberto tape/CDR, From The Grave, on his Sonic Meditations label) before splintering into his current electro-satanic Goblin worship guise -- and we for one cant get enough. Prophecy Of The Black Widow is his sophomore LP and though the badass evil Italo goth-synth horror-score blueprint of Grave remains, the main variation is subtle vibe-shift from 70s Argento/Carpenter-isms into more early/mid-80s new wave creep-scapes. Theres still plenty of eerie nightmare keyboard riffs and vintage witch-disco breakouts but the synths squelch with more of a neon retrofuturist bent and theres even one brazenly feel good soaring-into-the-sunset closing credits anthem (the literally-titled Everything Is Going To Be Okay). Whatever prophecy Prophecy is foretelling, were on board. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with sick fake-3D lettering and art by Seth Johnson." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: V/A Title: Free Beasts Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"All animal-band-name themed comp with tracks by: Hive Mind, Raccoo-oo-oon, Pterodactyl, Mammal, Non-Horse, Apple Snails, many more. In silkscreened plastic cases with full color covers." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: V/A Title: Free Beasts Format: Cass/Stuffed Animal Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"All animal-band-name themed comp with tracks by: Hive Mind, Raccoo-oo-oon, Pterodactyl, Mammal, Non-Horse, Apple Snails, Polar Goldie Cats and many more." - Not Not Fun.
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Artist: V/A Title: Heavy Sets Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Raw tape documenting a trio of crushing, sweat-soaked, heat-wave sets by Robedoor, Pocahaunted, and Sasqrotch. In splatterpainted cases. Limited to 100." - Not Not Fun
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Artist: V/A Title: My Estrogeneration Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Over-a-year-in-the-assembling 12 comp of all femme musical energies. Spans the spectrum of modes and moods. Includes NNF friends/fam like Zola Jesus, Tickley Feather, Inca Ore, Pocahaunted, Talk Normal, Valet, etc. In a beautiful art-jacket designed by diva dompe plus comes with a full-color double-sided insert. Edition of 500." - Not Not Fun. |
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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: 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: WAGON TONGUES Title: Shadowrock Destroyer Format: Cass Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"You can live in LA/Southern Cali for 40 years and still not traverse all the fucked up fringe boroughs and forgotten neighborhoods sprawling outwards in every direction, no matter how hard you hit the highways. And as long as weve been rooted out here, weve only had reason to venture into the sun-dead desert no mans land of Beaumont on one occasion, but the place speaks volumes about the weird water which hometown garbage-folk-chaos ensemble Wagon Tongues have clearly been drinkin their whole life. A creepy meeting ground of olde-tymey Wild West relics and trashy meth-dealing truckstop culture, its an ideal breeding ground for drifters, criminals, and creative youth with singular visions. Which is pretty much the name of the game on Shadowrock Destroyer, the Tongues most recent EP of deranged collective chemistry. The A, �??Fire In The Hole,�?� is a raw free ritual of stomping drums, loops, teen screams, guitar noise, and pots and pans, conducted in a crappy basement with cavernous reverb and black mold on the walls. Confusion is king. The B rises up in a similar cloud of clatter but swings with a folkier gait, sunlight brain-fry chords, dusty horns, and possessed babble bubbling over into an ecstatic tumbleweed hayride into the sunset. Squint yr eyes, raise your hand, seek the shadows. Pro-dubbed yellow cassettes with hand-brushed tape labels in cases with hand-numbered full-color masked band photo cover artwork, and wrapped with a hand-cut patch of brown picnic cloth stickering. Edition of 100." -Not Not Fun
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Artist: WET HAIR Title: Dream Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "When Iowa City freak-out free-rockers Raccoo-oo-oon called it quits last year it left a bummer scar in the Midwest underground scene. But time is a great healer, and so are new bands. So out of the ashes of the RAC pack comes Wet Hair, a synth-punk-trance duo composed of keyboardist/vocalizer Shawn Reed and keyboardist/drummer Ryan Garbes, and Dream is the bands debut vinyl full-length after a series of increasingly shredding limited-edition cassettes on their own Night People label. Piling together an unlikely trash heap of Suicide-style drum machine beat-bops, zone-droned Krautrock keys, and fucked up outsider crooning, the LPs four tracks careen across a spectrum of moods and mangled melodies. Recorded at Flat Black Studios by Luke Tweedy and mastered by Pete Swanson, Wet Hairs cult electric annihilation has never gleamed with such razor-edged weirdness; this is their dream made real. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Reed and Garbes, plus a pro-printed full-color 11x11 insert." -Not Not Fun |
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Artist: WET HAIR Title: Glass Fountain Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Welcome back. One of NNFs total favorite active bands return with a second full-length (most of which was recorded during the same sessions that birthed their debut LP, Dream) and we are pleased as spiked fruit punch. The Reed/Garbes duo mainly sticks to their guns, mining the same post-Suicide art-trance vein they perfected on Dream, but with Glass Fountain theres an added emphasis on the disembodied, oscillator pop mode that Wet Hair often toy with. Fountains five tracks include some of the bands simplest but catchiest songs (Crucifix In The Waves, When The Right Time Comes, etc), mesmerizing organ melodies over plink-plonky vintage drum machines with weirdo soulful singing and outer space electronics, like an outsider-punk Silver Apples or something. Hard to say exactly what universe Wet Hair are operating in and thats probably part of why we love it so much. A killer record that gets better each spin. In jackets with art drawn and designed by the band, plus a pro-printed 11x11 insert." - Not Not Fun. On opaque lavender-colored vinyl. |
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Artist: WET HAIR Title: Radiant Lines Format: 7"/Book Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "An amazing new pair of singles by this ever-evolving Iowa City kraut-pop duo-turned-trio. Packaged in a stunning full-color 22-page pro-printed art book of brand new works by WET HAIR main-men SHAWN REED and RYAN GARBES. Limited to 500 copies." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: WET HAIR/PEAKING LIGHTS Title: Bored Fortress Club Format: 7" Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Iowa City silver apple-pickers WET HAIR pitter-patter into yet another picture-perfect futurist synth-pop raga, "Blessed." Yes you are. On the flip, kindred Midwestern matrimony team PEAKING LIGHTS hotbox a basement of black ark basslines and waterlogged reggae 45s. Sleeve art by ROBERT BEATTY." - Not Not Fun. |
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Artist: WEYES BLOOD Title: Outside Room Format: LP Label: Not Not Fun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The debut full-length by NATALIE MERING, a young itinerant whos spent time in Portland jamming in JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER, traveling abroad alongside Zxolotl, played basement art-rock with a single drummer in Philly, and now resides in Baltimore, where she crafts sprawling, strange, haunted songs with darkly beautiful mourning vocals a la Nico or private press drug-folk sides, sprinkled with odd clanking sounds and creepy FX. The whole record was recorded and mixed by GRAHAM LAMKIN (The Shadow Ring) and has some of his meticulous sound-art thumbprint. Black vinyl LPs with 11"x17" cardstock lyric sheet/mini-posters." -Not Not Fun. |
