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Artist: CAN Title: A French Gig Format: Double LP Label: C 0176 Country: Europe Price: $36.00 |
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"This previously unreleased soundboard recording documents a complete January 1976 performance in Lyon, France. With 8 songs spread over 4 sides, this includes "Citrus," "Red Hot Indians," "Dizzy Dizzy," "Chain Reaction," "One More Night," "Vernal Equinox," "More Spree," and "Vitamin C." Good sound, high-gloss gatefold sleeve, and some pretty darned stoned full color artwork." - C O176.
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Artist: REALLY RED Title: Crowd Control Format: 7" Label: C.I.A. Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue. "Nineteen seventy-nine debut single from one of Texas, if not the whole damn countrys, greatest punk bands. Immortalized on the second side of the finest of the original Killed By Death comps (#2), Crowd Controladdresses the hassles of serving the public, whether its food or propaganda, via brawny, agile punk and singer U-Rons full-throated roar. Corporate Settings features their soon-to-be trademark sarcastic post-punk edge , but also features some killer melodies underneath the well-deserved bile. Essential." |
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Artist: ALU Title: Autismenschen Format: CD Label: C.I.P. Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Alu was a seminal German synth-punk band active 1979-83. This CD is their unreleased first studio album from 1980. For those to whom Alu is a new name, comparable audio would be Suicide, Throbbing Gristle (circa 20 Jazz Funk Greats), Esplendor Geometrico, or Algebra Suicide, not to mention myriad electronic German bands who existed concomitant to Alu and have enjoyed recent reissues of their own, including Phonophobia, Die Todlich Doris, and Thorax-Wach. Labels with similar artists include Zick Zack and Twisted Knister. Alu was born from the ashes of the seminal project Sand, whose releases were issued a few years ago through the persistence and passion of David Tibet. Not coincidentally, David Tibet also provided liner notes for this release. This release comes with a booklet of lyrics (in German), photos, plus a short biography (in English) of the band." - C.I.P. |
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Artist: COLLEY, JOE Title: Disasters Of Self Format: Triple LP Box Set Label: C.I.P. Country: USA Price: $55.00 |
| "After a handful of releases on C.I.P., ranging from full-length CD to one-sided 7", my resolve solidified that Joe was a contemporary artist whose work deserved the focus, breadth, and depth of a multiple LP release. The all-new material in this collection includes fractured electronics, rich multi-level drones, digital bite, the sounds of decaying technology, analog twists and turns, and recording experiments and documents -- plus some other aural surprises that I leave to the listeners discretion as to whether they can be classified as pleasant or otherwise." - C.I.P. Stylish box containing inserts with images/tracklists for each LP; hand-numbered, limited edition of 500 copies. |
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Artist: DEMONS/VERTONEN Title: Split Format: LP Label: C.I.P. Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Demons is the synth duo of Nate Young (Wolf Eyes) and Steven Kenney (Isis, Werewolves). Their track was recorded live in Chicago in March 2007 and its like an underwater space journey. The Vertonen side is the atmospheric opposite, like an out of control fire scorching the chaparral. Edition of 500, co-released by the lovely SNSE." - C.I.P. |
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Artist: UNS (ZEV) Title: What Does The Brain Have To Do With It Format: Double CD Label: C.I.P. Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "ZEV has been exploring and breaking ground in the audio and textual fields since the mid 1970s. Although best-known for his metal-based percussive performances, uns, his electronics and vocal-based whirlwind, was one of the most innovative (and individual) audio experiments of the early 1980s. unss combination of sound poetics and voice treatments with dense sonic landscapes resulted in challenging, unique, and rewarding audio. A historical testament to the challenge uns presented appears on the first track of this 2 CD set, when some of the audience members -- in addition to repeatedly shouting Die! as the set concluded -- shout out for Flipper. Given the ire Flipper drew from their audiences, the fact that the audience preferred that disconnect to the disconnect uns was creating speaks volumes about the gauntlet uns had thrown down. Even when uns was active (1980-83), recordings were extremely difficult to come by and live performances were infrequent. This new 2 CD set presents four live performances, with only fractional snippets previously released anywhere. For fans of: uns, ZEV, Lieutenant Caramel, sound poetry, musique concrete." - C.i.P. |
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Lost Sockets Format: 10" Label: C.I.P. Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS Title: You Cannot Tell Cigars... Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
| "Bedroom legends ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS once more shower the parched earth with canonized filth and cheap-tape degradation, setting a brand new bench mark in foggy-psychic-swuzz. Six extended tracks that run the gamut of ooze, sliming a cast of guest contributors along the way." -C/Psi/P. "A trashcan antidote to LaMonte Young" - David Keenan, The Wire. 2004 release. |
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Artist: BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL Title: Tinfoilteeth Format: Square Lathe Cut 8" Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $18.00 |
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Artist: CONRAD, TONY + BARNES & MATTIN Title: Conrad Barnes Mattin Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
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"Time to dig out that old crash-helmet from the back of the wardrobe to meet the challenge of this head-wrecker. No folks, this recording will not go down in history for its subtlety. The obligatory chair-shuffling intro quickly gives way to the most withering scree-ee-ech and grubby microtonal shudder in a near-Stalinist attempt for total mind control. I can see the audience now... blubbering and gripping the chair in front like some kinda airliner catastrophe! A twenty storey Hoover gobbles the entire North East of the USA... pausing only briefly to empty the bag and replace smoldering fuse wire. Hard, harmful, full of choking dust... toasters are shorted out all over the northern hemispere and cassettes are erased in car stereos. Electricity decides upon a new master and casts off its cumbersome rubber shackles... free and burning! All hail the great cosmic soundcheck in the sky." - C/Psi/P.
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Latvasta Laho Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $14.00 |
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"Goodness gracious. Them freaky Finns that got the whole Finnish thing a-rollin, roll on in with this warm pool of clatter-bash, strum-n-clunk, and electro-forest ya-ya. There aint many acts sharp enough to go whittlin with this gang and Latvasta Laho (literally rotten in the head) shows just why you shouldnt go foolin with what you dont know nuthin about. Monophonic wood goblins wiggle trees and a retarded werewolf banjo orchestra leaves cute piles of stones outside your tent. Comes complete with fleeting hip-hop stomp-a-tronics, and freefallin spookified blast-athons... huh?. Quite possibly the most fascinating/frightening night of 2005. Cuppa tea anyone?" - C/Psi/P.
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Artist: KNEALE, CAMPBELL Title: Pink Stalingrad Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
| "Imagine... a SOLO album! Some kind of loose-as-hell rumination on human tragedy of a magnitude beyond imagining. Take the everlasting, golden-superchord of Birchville Cat Motel, the growling tectonic, under-par riffage of Black Boned Angel, and the Burzum-o-phonic, cassette-left-on-the-dashboard fidelity disruption of Ming. A white-knuckled ride through snow and smoke and blood and fire. SHOSTAKOVICH!" - C/Psi/P. |
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Artist: LUGOSI Title: Yellow Five Aluminum Lake Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: MALCOLM, GREG Title: Hung Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
| "Recorded live, without the cumbersome weight of newfangled techniques such as overdubs (gee-whiz!) which may seem a little commonplace for you hip-to-be-square cats until you realise that the good Mr Malcolm plays two guitars and percussion with his feet. His third guitar, the guitar he actually holds in his hands, has about half a million strings and a number of contact mics imbedded where the sun-dont-shine to amplify a host of springs, triangles, and other junkyard ephemera. This is a second-to-none ride through a world of sunshine, as viewed through net curtains from a darkened room in suburban New Zealand. Charming, stupifying, and profoundly accomplished. The noise of music!" - C/Psi/P. |
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Artist: WICKHAM-SMITH, SIMON Title: Two 4 Dancin Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $14.00 |
| "The latest from prolific musical explorer SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH, and one of his most out-of-left-field releases to date. Two 4 Dancin shows Wickham-Smith at his grandest, as his music explodes at the seams with wonderfully resonant contradictions with exquisite textures capable of blissfully enveloping daily life and driving ones neighbors batty. An infinite block-rocking beat melts into deep transparency, revealing a subterranean omniverse of Casiotone mantras, silicon chip psalms, and the mystical babbling of angels and derelict gutter drunks. Think Steve Reich, 50 Cent, and a Buddhist throat-singing Devo." - C/Psi/P. 2004 release. |
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Artist: WITCYST Title: Naru,ci(no doze) Format: Cass Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD & ALEX NEILSON Title: Road Is Open Life Format: CD Label: C/Psi/P Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
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"Oh yippee... another demo to listen to. I have to confess that listening to music can be a chore sometimes. After a hard evening on the 8-track all I can usually bare to put in my ears is the easy-listening pleasures of Judas Priests greatest hits. However, having witnessed these two weave such a serpentine spell under Jandeks live morose wanderings, would it be wrong to expect a little magic from these two? JESUSMARYJOSPEPH! What was supposed to be a quick listen as I tidied up the shed turned into an hour or so of utter drooling epiphany. I was typing my yes! yes! YES! email before the end of the second song! The finest Richard Youngs record since Lake and Advent... which I suppose means EVER, saddled high on the horse with the glorious ear of master collaborator, Alex Neilson. Shimmer, hum, twinkle... so SO masterful. These two should be knighted by the Queen. Gah... muh... awww, the english language fails me. Absolutely superlative." - Campbell Kneale.
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Artist: STONE COAL WHITE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Cali-Tex Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "The first offering from DJ Shadows Cali-Tex imprint in over three and a half years features Dayton, Ohios Stone Coal White. Perhaps the most underground act in a scene that was already vastly subterranean, bassist Melvin Payne, guitarist Tommy Mundy, and drummer Joey Lobo Rodrick released their sound from the deepest chasm of the black experience. Channeling Vietnam nightmares, grass, LSD, unhinged sexuality, poverty, and violence, Stone Coal White created a spiritual sound that was uniquely their own. Some will recognize You Know from the black-psych mix bible Chains & Black Exhaust, but as the groups two 45s exist in single digit quantities, only a handful have heard the rest of this Ho Chi Min City-damaged oeuvre. Their two 45s have been bolstered with four previously unissued tracks found in the basement of a now-condemned motorcycle gang hideout. Along with never before seen photos, this vastly unheard slice of gritty, hazed-out Ohio psych rock finally gets its due beyond the cranked out bikers it was originally intended for." -Cali-Tex |
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Flushing Meats Format: 7" Label: Calico Country: Canada Price: $8.00 |
| "Eric Copeland follows up his series of pop-minded psych singles on Post Present Medium with a further 7” single, this time leaning ever so further left field on Calico Corp. Reaching back into the warped depths of his instrumental work these two sides tear like Steve Reichs Come Out blindly crossfaded into some bent fiesta rave up. Dizzyingly abstract bangers in an edition of 300." -Calico. |
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Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: The Island Song Format: 7" Label: Calico Country: Canada Price: $8.00 |
| "Lead single off Meg Remys U.S. Girls on Kraak LP released on Belgian label Kraak. The A Side is a straight hit single with heavy Italo-Disco undertones, could easily slide between Julee Cruise songs on a Lynch soundtrack. The B Side, produced by Onakabazien is an incantation to the ghost of Mariahs 1990s. LTD to 300. Includes free download." -Calico. |
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Artist: REPULSE Title: Habershon Ways Format: 7" Label: Cameleon Country: France Price: $12.00 |
2012 reissue. Rough translation of the labels writeup...
"A Cardiff band featuring musicians from Brest,managed by Molly Edmunds, mother of Dave Edmunds. 4 tracks recorded live on an Akai stereo in their living room in 1981 in "sound on sound," without mixing, bass in the front, fuzz on all the songs, reference points are punk urgency, the Velvet Underground, sixties U.S. garage guitars, psych, a real curiosity. The band members are Alana Camus Holland, Jean-Pierre Jézéquel, Alec Ansons & Thierry Lefevre. The name REPULSE is one of the numerous names of English ships, that of the EP comes from the street in Cardiff where the musicians lived, Habershon Street. The front cover has a drawing by Thomas Maybank found in a directory of the 1920-1930 Royal Navy ("The Wonder Book of the Navy"), the back has a picture from a movie starring Christopher Plummer, 1979s "Murder By Decree." 500 copies were pressed by Kiosque dOrphée in 1982, the covers were handmade."
"Groupe de Cardiff, incluant des musiciens brestois, managé par Molly Edmunds, mère de Dave Edmunds, 4 titres enregistrés live sur un Akaï stéréo dans le salon en 1981. en "sound on sound" sans mixage, basse en avant, fuzz sur tous les titres, les références sont punk pour lurgence, Velvet Underground, guitares garage psyché sixties US , une vraie curiosité. Les membres du groupe sont Alana Camus Holland, Jean-Pierre Jézéquel, Alec Ansons & Thierry Lefevre. Le nom REPULSE est un des nombreux noms de bateaux anglais, celui du EP vient de la rue située à Cardiff où demeuraient les musiciens, Habershon Street, Le recto de la pochette est un dessin de Thomas Maybank reproduit dun annuaire des années 1920-1930 de la Royal Navy (The wonder book of the navy), le verso est une photo extraite dun film avec Christopher Plummer de 1979 "Murder By Decree". 500 vinyles ont été pressés par Kiosque dOrphée en 1982, les pochettes sont faites main." - Cameleon. Preview here. |
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Artist: SOGGY Title: Waiting For The War/47 Chromosomes Format: 7" Label: Cameleon Country: France Price: $12.00 |
Repress of SOGGYs first and only single from 1981. Limited to 300 copies.
 
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Artist: CAMPBELL, NEIL Title: Mizzlefield Ploof Kingdom/Muttertown Birdsong Cindy Format: 7" Label: Campbell, Neil Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
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"Two slices of sweet electronic/acoustic twinkle, one side recorded in yorkshire this year, the other live in John Olsons michigan living room at the end of 1999. 200 copies, plain black sleeve, nice Czech pressing."
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Artist: CHANDRA Title: Transportation Format: LP Label: Cantor Country: Canada Price: $19.00 |
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"Transportation is the story of Chandra Oppenheim, a 12 year-old girl who fronted an art-disco / post-punk outfit at the height of New Yorks adjective-punk scene in 1980. Showing considerable promise as a song writer by the age of 10, New York artist Dennis Oppenheim recruited local noisemakers The Model Citizens (who later became The Dance) and drummer Fred Maher (Material) to back his daughter Chandra in one of the most unique projects of the time. As Chandra penned her lyrics, the band composed abstract dance textures that gives the recording its unique and timeless sound: pulsing bass, resonant keyboards, and Chandras commanding voice. The original Transportation EP was released in 1980 on GoGo/On records, the bands own imprint. Cantor Records is proud to reissue the Transportation EP along with four unreleased tracks recorded by The Chandra Dimension (her touring band comprised entirely of teenagers) and packaged with a lovely 5"x7" booklet. Cantor Records is a new, Canadian label specializing in high-quality reissues of out-of-print recordings from the 60s, 70s and 80s. All reissues are packaged with historical liner notes and are done with full cooperation of the artists involved." - Cantor. Bound 68-page booklet loaded with detailed notes and rare photos. Last copies..
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Artist: SNYDER, DOUG & BOB THOMPSON Title: Daily Dance Format: LP Label: Cantor Country: Canada Price: $18.00 |
| "Daily Dance is a genuinely unique artifact from rural Ohio; a mythical frenzy of distorted guitar and improvised drums creating walls of psychedelic noise. Originally released in 1973, its sound is unparalleled for its time and precedes its closest kin, New Yorks no-wave explosion, by a solid 5 years. They generate waves of energy through cascading feedback squall and drumbo bash and shimmer. A few tracks will start with something vaguely resembling a groove, before they quickly deteriorate into their lonely Buckeye din. - Dante Carfagna. Cantor Records is proud to make Daily Dance available on vinyl for the first time in 35 years. Daily Dance was remastered from the original tapes, pressed at RTI, and is lavishly packaged with a heavy Stoughton paste-on jacket, informative Obi/U-Card, and an extensive 20-page booklet of liner notes. RIYL: Fushitshusha, Dead C, The Stooges, Velvet Underground." -Cantor. Finally available again after the now out of print 1998 CD reissue. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: FOOD Title: Forever Is A Dream Format: LP Label: Capitol Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Exact repro reissue on 180 gram vinyl. Eerie soft-edged psych rock originally released in 1969. Featuring lead vocals by Steve White, known for throwing a babys head in a garbage can in his role in Herschell Gordon Lewis film Just For The Hell Of It." "Mysterious, wondrous masterpiece that most collectors dismiss as the little brother to the other Capitol monsters (Gandalf and Common People) when its actually the best of the three. Intensely emotional and dramatic; these guys had a vision and multiple listens begin to reveal its depth. String-laden ballads hold hands with fleeting blasts of power chords. Bits and pieces that seem to have no purpose blend together to create a surprisingly coherent whole. Its hard to know if they even intended this to be a concept album, but its definitely a case of the whole being more then the sum of the pieces, good as the pieces are." - Acid Archives. |
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Artist: ANGELBLOOD Title: Masses Of Daggers Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $18.00 |
| "3 womens sivour mysterious punk! They are GTOS in the present age!?" - Captain Trip. Restocked for the first time in a few years, the second release. Features Liz, Tim and Brian from Gang Gang Dance, Dave Nuss of NNCK, Rita Ackerman and Jess Holzworth. |
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Artist: ANGELBLOOD Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $18.00 |
| "Featuring Rita Ackermann, And Lizi Dark (Gang Gang Dance) and Jesses band. All 3 members play drums, guitar, bass and sing. Like lo-fi Shaggs sound from wood. Recorded in 1999. Only Japan release." - Captain Trip. Restocked for the first time in a few years. |
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Artist: DER PLAN Title: Japlan Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $19.00 |
| Japanese-only CD reissue of what was originally a Japanese-only LP in the 80s, issued in support of a Der Plan tour. "Der Plan is a German music art group who is running an independent label Ata Tak. The original LP was released only in Japan in 1985. Including 12" EP track, 2 unreleased tracks. Japan only." - Captain Trip. |
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Artist: KLUSTER Title: Klopfzeichen Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $36.00 |
| "New, very limited versions of these seminal Krautrock albums. Special puffy plastic packaging thats actually pretty impressive! There are no "regular" editions of these albums in print at the moment, either. "Originally released by Schwann, 1971 & re-issued by Schwann, 1980, Hypnotic, 1996 & Think Progressive, 1998. In limited edition miniature plastic LP cover with a multi fold-out repro of original album insert. Includes additional track by Schnitzler, Seidel & Freudigmann, 1971. With Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius, Christa Runge, Sprecherin, Wolfgang Seidel & Klaus Freudigmann." Digital remaster + Miniature LP Jacket Series." - Captain Trip. |
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Artist: KLUSTER Title: Zwei-Osterei Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $36.00 |
| "New, very limited versions of these seminal Krautrock albums. Special puffy plastic packaging thats actually pretty impressive! There are no "regular" editions of these albums in print at the moment, either. "Originally released by Schwann, 1971 & re-issued by Schwann, 1980, Hypnotic, 1996 & Think Progressive, 1998. In limited edition miniature plastic LP cover with a multi fold-out repro of original album insert. Includes additional track by Schnitzler, Seidel & Freudigmann, 1971. With Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius, Manfred Paethe, Sprecher, Wolfgang Seidel & Klaus Freudigmann." Digital remaster + Miniature LP Jacket Series." - Captain Trip. |
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Artist: MARBLE SHEEP & THE RUNDOWN SUNS CHILDREN Title: Big Deal Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
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First Captain Trip release from 1992. Produced by Souichirou Nakamura of White Heaven.
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Artist: MIRRORS Title: Real State Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $13.50 |
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Artist: S.Y.P.H. Title: S.Y.P.H. Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $19.00 |
| "Classic German abrasion, originally released on the Pure Freude label. First album this by group, later produced by Holger Czukay." - FE. "Original was released in 1980. German punk/new wave group. Remastered by Pyrolator." |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER & WOLF SEQUENZA, CONRAD Title: Consequenz Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Early Self-Product Series. Collaboration with Wolf Sequenza (ex. Kluster-Eruption) in 1980. The original LP was pressed as 500 copies. Including previously-unreleased bonus tracks. 2008 digital remaster version with stickered paper sleeve, same as the original. First release on CD. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER & WOLF SEQUENZA, CONRAD Title: Consequenz II Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "The second release of the collaboration with Wolf Sequenza (ex. Kluster-Eruption) in 1986. The original LP was released on Discos Esplendor Geometrico, a great Spanish industrial label. Including 6 unreleased tracks as bonus. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same artwork as the original. Ltd. 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: 1.7.84 Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "The original LP was pressed as 222 copies and sold by mail order in 1984. Including 11 bonus tracks from the same time. 2008 digital remaster version with print + stumped paper sleeve, same as the original. First release on CD. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Con 85 Format: Double CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $34.00 |
| "The original was released as a double cassette on Transmitter Cassetten in 1985. Includes 52 tracks on 2 CDs. 2009 digital remaster version with special gate-fold paper sleeve. First time released on CD. Limited 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Concert Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "The original LP was released in 1986. Includes 3 bonus tracks from same time. Cover art design: Matt Howarth. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same artwork as the original. Ltd. 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Congratulacion Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Recorded in 1986. The original LP was released on Discos Esplendor Geometrico in 1988. Including 6 unreleased tracks as bonus. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same artwork as the original. Limited 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Contempora Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $27.00 |
| "The original LP was pressed as 500 copies in 1981. Including bonus tracks made at the same time. 2008 digital remaster version with stumped paper sleeve, miniature newspaper and debossed paper, same as the original. First release on CD. Limited to 1,000 copies." - Captain Trip. |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Context Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "This is a reissue of a cassette release on Transmitter Casseten in 1981. Sound materials for Schnitzlers street performance! Including one unreleased bonus track. 2008 digital remaster version with special paper sleeve. First release on CD. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Control Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Recorded between 1978 and 1981. Non-keyboard electronics! The original LP was released on DYS records, an American independent label in 1981. Includes 14 tracks from T5 cassette materials. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve + miniature insert, same as the original. Limited 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Convex Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "The original LP was pressed as 500 copies in 1982. Including 6 bonus tracks from the Container cassette. 2008 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same as the original. Limited to 1,000 copies."-Captain Trip |
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD Title: Electrocon Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $23.50 |
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""Recorded in 1980-1981. Previously unreleased full album, 14 tracks. With special paper sleeve. Digital remaster version, limited 1,000 copies!!
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Artist: SCHNITZLER, CONRAD & GREGOR Title: Conrad & Sohn Format: CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
| "Great split album by Conrad Schnitzler and his son, Gregor Schnitzler! The original LP was pressed 500 copies in 1981. Includes previously unreleased bonus tracks by Gregor. 2009 digital remaster version with paper sleeve, same artwork as the original. Ltd. 1,000 copies." -Captain Trip |
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Artist: YA HO WHA 13 Title: God And Hair Format: 13 CD Box Set Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $120.00 |
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"2nd edition now available. No longer comes w/ the original oversize box or booklet, but priced at a much lower price. This 13 CD box set collects the complete available recordings of 70s cult rockers from CA, Ya Ho Wha 13. Led by the late Father Yod, who supposedly died in a hang-gliding accident in the late 70s(?), Ya Ho Wha 13 released numerous LPs (and at least one 8-Track) on their own Higher Key label in the mid-70s. Only distributed locally at the time, some of these have been reissued in psuedo-legit (or outright bootleg) fashion in the UK over the last decade (although more recent Swordfish releases are fully authorized), but have never been widely available. These records epitomize the insanity of highly-personalized psychedelic exploration via the fringes of rock music and its subsequent private documentation better than anything else produced by the human race to date. Tribal-acid pound from the familys key group members (Djinn, guitar; Sunflower, bass; Octavius, drums) and freakish vocal output from Yod himself, wailing away on top like the king of the universe. The exact number of of Ya Ho Wha albums has never been clearly specified until now, but this incredible box set appears to put them all in place, plus a few CDs worth of unreleased material. This new edition features a wooden box with wax seal, with the 13 discs contained in 3 plastic cases. Its not as deluxe as the original packaging (which had 13 separate jewel case editions -- but that was for "then," this is for "now." The music still represents the ultimate in the weird & insane world of private press psychedelic documentation, not to be missed. Contains the following albums: 1) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF 76: Kohoutek (the debut release on Higher Key from 1973). 2) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF 76: Contraction (1974). 3) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRT OF 76: Expansion (1974). 4) FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF 76:All Or Nothing At All (1974, with 4 bonus 7" tracks). 5) YAHOWA 13 (1974, with two bonus 7" tracks). 6) YAHOWA 13: Savage Sons of Yahowa (1974). 7) YAHOWA 13: Penetration: An Aquarian Symphony (1974, the masterpiece, one of the 25 most destroyed rock records of all time for sure!). 8) YAHOWHA 13: Im Gonna Take You Home (1974, again! & and another monster record; lets not forget Gregg Breths words from the past -- after all, his copies were handed to him by wisdom: The ultimate acid album there is. Insane vocals and screaming, 100% twisted guitar and total permeated feeling of being completely fucked up! This album is the epitome of the term acid.). 9) YAHOWA 13: To The Principles For The Children (1974-75). 10) FIRE, WATER, AIR: Golden Sunrise (1977, the 8-track only release). 11) YODSHIP (undated, showed up as a UK boot/legit issue a few years ago; classic acid-folk floatation/chant from Osirus & Sunlight with the brothers and sisters). 12) VA: Related Singles (featuring Sky Saxon on most tracks). 13): VA: Unreleased Materials (jamming post-Yod psych from Djinn, Sunflower, Octavius, etc., with Sky Saxon on some tracks)."
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Artist: YA HO WHA 13 Title: Save The Dogs And Wolves Format: 7" Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $22.00 |
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a/k/a MYSTERY PEOPLE. 7" originally included in Captain Trips amazing Ya Ho Wha Box set. Limited to 300 copies.
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Artist: ZWEISTEIN Title: Trip Flip Out Meditation Format: Triple CD Label: Captain Trip Country: Japan Price: $82.00 |
| "First ever CD reissue of one of the most extreme Krautrock-era albums ever made. Originally released by Philips Germany in 1970, the triple LP edition came in an elaborate mirror sleeve and has been near-impossible to find for 35+ years; there have been a handful of suggested reissues over the years, but finally Captain Trip has brought it to fruition, in collaboration with founding member Suzanne Doucet. Incredible fold out packaging emulates the original, with front embossing and silver-foil printing on the quadruple fold-out jacket. Zweistein were a trio of Jacques Dorian, Suzanne Doucet and Diane Doucet. This perfectly done reissue (including 2 bonus tracks from their single at the end of disc 3) is heavily anticipated." - FE. "Musically, Trip, Flip Out, Meditation is largely a sound collage containing massive amounts of studio effects wizardry. Listeners are bombarded with an hour and forty-six minutes (106 minutes) worth of effects-laden voices, natural sounds, electronic effects, organ, guitar, drums and other instruments. The side-long compositions are virtually strewn together avant-garde improvisations in which anything goes. It is this fact which acts as a catch 22 and splits the Krautrock fan base into two factions. First there are those who hail the album as a masterpiece due to its avant-garde nature, wild approach, and inherent reference to a drug trip. Then there are those who pass the album off as a complete timewaster due to its evident amateur musicianship, lack of direction and avant-garde nature." - Doug Brotherton. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: NOTHING PEOPLE Title: Smells Like Metal Format: LP Label: Captcha Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "NOTHING PEOPLE keep getting stronger and their 4th LP, Smells like Metal, is proof of that. This record beautifully pulls together the sound of the bands three prior efforts, fusing dark synth, psych and proto punk with elements of an eastern vibe. It sounds like raw material that Nam June Paik would run through a mix of broken CRT equipment and fried transformers. The album breaks repeatedly from pop boppers into dystopic soundscapes replete with bleak auto-erotic frequencies reminiscent of J.G. Ballards Crash. It sounds like a high-speed joy ride rolling up to a 3-car pile-up at 80 miles an hour. It feels like the Nothing People are on that ride, understanding that our civilization is in decline, headed east into the hills wanting to escape it all, the buzz and the Hollywood madness. LP is housed in a deluxe gatefold sleeve containing multiple inserts and downloads." -Captcha. |
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Artist: ONYOU Title: White Waste Format: 12" Label: Captcha Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Chicago based ONYOU brings up two demonic, possessed cuts that will leave you bleeding. For fans of Goblin and perhaps Can. These cuts are much tighter than their earlier LP Poltergeist. Pressed on white vinyl with silkscreen on the reverse, and packaged with hand-typed inserts. Edition of 200 copies." -Captcha |
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Artist: RATAS DEL VATICANO Title: Tiempos de Austeridad Format: LP Label: Captcha Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "More primo, kick-ass punk rock from Monterrey, Mexicos RATAS DEL VATICANO. Pressed on one-sided vinyl with an etching on the B-side. Edition of 500 copies." -Captcha |
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Artist: AIAS Title: A La Piscina Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Aias are Gaia, Laia and Miriam. Gaia sings and plays guitar. Laia sings and plays drums and Miriam sings and plays bass. And the three together they try to make songs for anyone else to sing. Pop with distortion, lots of "oooos" and vocal harmonies in in a cave with endless ceilings sung in their native Catalan (not Spanish, mind you!) Aias began as a birthday party band and by surprise ended up being a band for real, or at least thats their current intention. The desire to win in the fight against the instrument itself, the need to shout a bit during the week, a Vivian Girls concert during the Primavera Sound Festival and the providential intervention of Cristian Pallejà (Nisei, Sedaiós) lead to a home made recording in a village lost in Catalonia and an unexpected winter signing with the New York Label, Captured tracks. "A La Piscina" is their first full-length release, for which they will be touring the US in the Fall." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: AIAS Title: A La Piscina Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Aias are Gaia, Laia and Miriam. Gaia sings and plays guitar. Laia sings and plays drums and Miriam sings and plays bass. And the three together they try to make songs for anyone else to sing. Pop with distortion, lots of "oooos" and vocal harmonies in in a cave with endless ceilings sung in their native Catalan (not Spanish, mind you!) Aias began as a birthday party band and by surprise ended up being a band for real, or at least thats their current intention. The desire to win in the fight against the instrument itself, the need to shout a bit during the week, a Vivian Girls concert during the Primavera Sound Festival and the providential intervention of Cristian Pallejà (Nisei, Sedaiós) lead to a home made recording in a village lost in Catalonia and an unexpected winter signing with the New York Label, Captured tracks." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: AIAS Title: Aias Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Aias is a three piece girl group from Barcelona. Their songs, sung in their native tongue of Catalan, draw listeners in with a sound of dreamy longing. Think Lush meets Dolly Mixture with a hint a Motown. WHITE VINYL!!" -Captured Tracks |
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Artist: BATS Title: By Night Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "This is an early Flying Nun release (1984) of The Bats first release. Forming new years eve 1982 by Bob Scott (The Clean), Paul Keane (Toy Love), Kaye Woodward and Malcolm Grant The Bats became of Flying Nuns strong holds with a catalog and influence spanning over thirty years. By Night establishes The Bats driven jangle sound that would find a mainstream audience some 10 years later and continue to influence bands today. As all early Flying Nun releases, ‘By Night original pressing was limited and as a result copies today are scares with a $50 price tag to reflect it. Re-issued for Record Store day as an exact facsimile of the original." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: BEACH FOSSILS Title: Daydream Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Brooklynite Dustin Payseur records dreamy, slightly fuzzed pop as Beach Fossils. Yeah, another "beach" band, but the word "fossils" rightly hints at nostalgia that goes deeper and more distant than a few summers past." - Captured Tracks.
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Artist: BEACH FOSSILS Title: Face It/Distance Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Phase two of Beach Fossils starts here. Gone is the "lo-fi" and the comparisons that go with it. More expansive sounds, John Pena and Katie Garcia on guest vocals, keyboard, electronic drums....
Consider it a taster of things to come." - Captured Tracks.
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Artist: BEACH FOSSILS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"The story of Beach Fossils starts with frontman Dustin Payseur writing and recording songs for their debut self-titled LP out of his tiny Brooklyn apartment in the Fall of 2009. His recent move from North Carolina that year had left him with a sense of longing to reconnect with his past and the lush open landscape he left behind. During that year Dustin experimented with innovative methods of self-recording (using a Tascam four-track and Logic Pro) and composing. He drew his inspiration from improvisational jazz, classical and shoegaze artists, such as Anthony Braxton, pre-Stereolab project McCarthy and Giuseppe Tartini. Playing all his own instruments (keyboard, drums, bass, guitar), he soon emerged with a shimmering array of sun drenched pop songs.
Dustin eventually linked creative forces with John Pena (bass), Sennott Burke (guitar) and Cole Smith (drums) who joined the band and helped collaborate on the songs Wide Awake and Gathering. The full bands immediate chemistry and unforgettable stage presence radiate with a wild, youthful-sincerity.
Beach Fossils offers warm and inviting melodies that evoke the haunted sounds of another era: straightforward guitar riffs, a kaleidoscope of psychedelic rhythms, and distant, faded vocals all come together to make the perfect soundtrack to an endless summer afternoon.
After hearing their demo last in the spring of 2009, Mike Sniper signed Beach Fossils to Captured Tracks." -Captured Tracks. Regular pressing.
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Artist: BEACH FOSSILS Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"The story of Beach Fossils starts with frontman Dustin Payseur writing and recording songs for their debut self-titled LP out of his tiny Brooklyn apartment in the Fall of 2009. His recent move from North Carolina that year had left him with a sense of longing to reconnect with his past and the lush open landscape he left behind. During that year Dustin experimented with innovative methods of self-recording (using a Tascam four-track and Logic Pro) and composing. He drew his inspiration from improvisational jazz, classical and shoegaze artists, such as Anthony Braxton, pre-Stereolab project McCarthy and Giuseppe Tartini. Playing all his own instruments (keyboard, drums, bass, guitar), he soon emerged with a shimmering array of sun drenched pop songs.
Dustin eventually linked creative forces with John Pena (bass), Sennott Burke (guitar) and Cole Smith (drums) who joined the band and helped collaborate on the songs Wide Awake and Gathering. The full bands immediate chemistry and unforgettable stage presence radiate with a wild, youthful-sincerity.
Beach Fossils offers warm and inviting melodies that evoke the haunted sounds of another era: straightforward guitar riffs, a kaleidoscope of psychedelic rhythms, and distant, faded vocals all come together to make the perfect soundtrack to an endless summer afternoon.
After hearing their demo last in the spring of 2009, Mike Sniper signed Beach Fossils to Captured Tracks. Since joining the label s roster, Beach Fossils have played CMJ,SXSW, toured the U.S. and are planning a European summer tour." -Captured Tracks
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Artist: BEACHNIKS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Four songs about the summer delivered to you in the early winter. Fuzzy bubblegum 4-track pop. Features members of Crystal Stilts and German Measles. Poster sleeve. Poster life. "The Worst Dressed Band in New York." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: BEETS Title: Locomotion Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Jackson Heights, Queens favorite sons THE BEETS return to the 7-inch format with two exclusive tracks. Recorded by JARVIS TAVENIERE of WOODS and featuring some lead guitar by JB TOWNSEND of CRYSTAL STILTS. Neither of these tracks appear on the forthcoming Stay Home LP due in October. As always, you get killer MATT VOLZ art to go with." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: BEETS, THE Title: Dont Fit In My Head Format: 7 Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Jackson Heights favorite sons make good and make their first recording in a real real studio. All the snarly, bratty fun of the LP with a newfound clarity and confidence. Stormer A-Side, sad-sack B-side. Full color sleeve, insert and labels featuring all of your favorite wrestling superstars, superheros and naked ladies with artwork by Matt Volz (The Fall) " - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: BEETS, THE Title: Spit In The Face Of People Who Dont Want To Be Cool Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Captured Tracks is Mike Snipers label (Blank Dogs). "Debut twelve-track LP from these proud sons of Jackson Heights, Queens. Sprung from seemingly nowhere to playing constantly in Brooklyn. Shades of Los Mockers, Chicos Electricos, pre 65 Stones, early Ramones and Shimmy-Disc era Daniel Johnston. I saw these guys almost start a riot at a Fashion Week event and then proceed to party down with Mickey Rourke. Absolutely amazing. Beautiful full-color sleeve by Matt Volz." - Caputured Tracks. Repressed with full color insert |
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Artist: BEETS, THE Title: Spit On The Face Of People Who Dont Want To Be Cool Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "The instant classic Beets LP, now available on the popular "CD" format. The songs you love, available for listening to in cars, shower radios, etc. These guys are currently blazing their way across the States on the "Nightmare of Sound" tour with the Vivian Girls. (Check out the promotional tour video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rTvnBG-gO8) The inlay and disc contain all new Matt Volz artwork, featuring even more professional wrestling, blood and disrespect for people who dont want to be cool." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: BITTERS Title: East Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "East" is the next installment of the Bitters story. Featuring Ben Cook of Fucked Up/Young Governor and the great voice of Aerin Fogel, The Bitters "cave pop" is doomy as it is infectious. Coming live soon to a theatre near you." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: BITTERS Title: Wooden Glove Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The Bitters are the Cave Pop stars of the future.." - Captured Tracks. Captured Tracks is Mike Snipers (Blank Dogs) label. |
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: Land and Fixed Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Mike Sniper never meant to be one of Brooklyns ‘most mysterious musicians. Things just ended up that way, as the singer/multi-instrumentalist released a steady stream of limited singles and EPs on such reputable indie labels as Sacred Bones, HoZac and Woodsist. Not to mentions Snipers own Captured Tracks imprint—a carefully-curated roster thats grown as quickly as Blank Dogs itself, thanks to such buzz-stirring releases as Dum Dum Girls debut EP and recent records by Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing and Minks. “The anonymous thing happened in the very beginning because I didnt even have a backing band to play shows with,” explains Sniper. “It led to some ridiculous rumors—that I wear a mask onstage, that Im Stephen Malkmus…funny stuff.” Another common misconception about Blank Dogs is that Sniper wanted his early recordings—starting with the speaker-crawling cold sweat cuts of 2007s Diana the Herald EP—to sound like a lo-fi gathering of queasy vocals, bruised beats and Chinese water torture chords. The truth is much simpler than that: Blank Dogs murkier mixes were purely a matter of having limited means. Things started to change around his On Two Sides (Troubleman, 2008) album, however, as rare slabs of Blank Dogs vinyl landed on the eBay circuit and influential blogs (The FADER, 20jazzfunkgreats) feverishly posted brand new MP3s. Between that cult following and the continued success of Captured Tracks, Sniper was finally able to buy better equipment and develop his sound into an expansive mix of clear (The Cure, Joy Division) and cryptic (The Go-Betweens, Neil Young) influences—a decidedly Blank Dogs direction that touches upon everything from the spare, sparkling synths of Frances cold-wave movement to the jangly guitars of classic indie rock. All of this progress was made with one particular record in mind: this falls Land and Fixed LP, a tight 12-song effort that took about a year and 13 scrapped tracks (some of which ended up on the Phrases EP) to complete. The result isnt just a clearer recording; its like going from stolen cable on a 15-inch set to a wall-swallowing HDTV. A headphone listen, in other words—literally mixed on the subway to enhance widescreen details like the heat-seeking hooks of “Blurred Tonight,” the elegantly-layered arrangements of “Out the Door,” and the moonlit synth melodies of “Elevens.” As it turns out, the next phase of Blank Dogs is an instrumental Woodsist record in the vein of “Elevens.” Sniper says hes “pretty psyched for it,” a dance 12-inch for Italians Do It Better and sessions with Blank Dogs live trio, which is rounded out by Craig Mileski and Pamela Garavano-Coolbaugh. “Were definitely more of a "band" now,” insists Sniper, although one thing hasnt changed: he still isnt Stephen Malkmus. " - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: Land and Fixed Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Mike Sniper never meant to be one of Brooklyns ‘most mysterious musicians. Things just ended up that way, as the singer/multi-instrumentalist released a steady stream of limited singles and EPs on such reputable indie labels as Sacred Bones, HoZac and Woodsist. Not to mentions Snipers own Captured Tracks imprint—a carefully-curated roster thats grown as quickly as Blank Dogs itself, thanks to such buzz-stirring releases as Dum Dum Girls debut EP and recent records by Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing and Minks.
“The anonymous thing happened in the very beginning because I didnt even have a backing band to play shows with,” explains Sniper. “It led to some ridiculous rumors—that I wear a mask onstage, that Im Stephen Malkmus…funny stuff.”
Another common misconception about Blank Dogs is that Sniper wanted his early recordings—starting with the speaker-crawling cold sweat cuts of 2007s Diana the Herald EP—to sound like a lo-fi gathering of queasy vocals, bruised beats and Chinese water torture chords. The truth is much simpler than that: Blank Dogs murkier mixes were purely a matter of having limited means.
Things started to change around his On Two Sides (Troubleman, 2008) album, however, as rare slabs of Blank Dogs vinyl landed on the eBay circuit and influential blogs (The FADER, 20jazzfunkgreats) feverishly posted brand new MP3s. Between that cult following and the continued success of Captured Tracks, Sniper was finally able to buy better equipment and develop his sound into an expansive mix of clear (The Cure, Joy Division) and cryptic (The Go-Betweens, Neil Young) influences—a decidedly Blank Dogs direction that touches upon everything from the spare, sparkling synths of Frances cold-wave movement to the jangly guitars of classic indie rock.
All of this progress was made with one particular record in mind: this falls Land and Fixed LP, a tight 12-song effort that took about a year and 13 scrapped tracks (some of which ended up on the Phrases EP) to complete. The result isnt just a clearer recording; its like going from stolen cable on a 15-inch set to a wall-swallowing HDTV. A headphone listen, in other words—literally mixed on the subway to enhance widescreen details like the heat-seeking hooks of “Blurred Tonight,” the elegantly-layered arrangements of “Out the Door,” and the moonlit synth melodies of “Elevens.”
As it turns out, the next phase of Blank Dogs is an instrumental Woodsist record in the vein of “Elevens.” Sniper says hes “pretty psyched for it,” a dance 12-inch for Italians Do It Better and sessions with Blank Dogs live trio, which is rounded out by Craig Mileski and Pamela Garavano-Coolbaugh.
“Were definitely more of a ‘band now,” insists Sniper, although one thing hasnt changed: he still isnt Stephen Malkmus. " - Captured Tracks.
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: Leaves Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: On Two Sides/The Fields Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: Phrases Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "...Occasionally calling in collaborators from the likes of Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls and Times New Viking, Phrases, Snipers latest EP in a long succession of vinyl-only releases, sees him going it alone for the most part. Indeed, its hard to envisage anyone else being allowed sufficient mindspace to create alongside Sniper, such is the vast propensity of ideas that fill the four tracks here. While the opening electro-tinged robotics of Heat And Depression resembles a Crystal Castles outtake, Sniper mumbling "Can you see yourself?" with surreptitious repetition over a distorted funky bassline, its on Phrases other three tracks that his more obscure influences start to take hold. Blurred Tonight takes The Cramps danse macabre schtick through the same backdoor as The Horrors managed so successfully last year, except with even more menacing vocal assertions courtesy of that man Sniper. His voice then gets the heavily reverbed treatment on Racing Backwards, a Cure-inspired number that sees the opulent Sniper make the offer "stay to the end" which becomes increasingly difficult to refuse as verse usurps chorus. Despite Blank Dogs NYC dancefloor tendencies, theres something inadvertently English about these compositions, suitably realised in the closing End Of Summer which takes Depeche Modes early Roland Jupiter-led blueprint before mashing it into a collage of post-punk ambience, beats and all..." - from Drowned In Sound. "4 track EP, all exclusive to this record." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: Seconds Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Four new tracks of Blankdoggica. Silkscreened sleeves." -Captured Tracks. New release on Mike Blank Dogs label. |
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: The EPs Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: The Singles Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: Under and Under Format: Double Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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Artist: BLESSURE GRAVE Title: Learn To Love The Rope Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Doomsday duo make it to the large format." - Captured Tracks. Captured Tracks is Mike Snipers (Blank Dogs) label. |
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Artist: BONADISH Title: The Zaragoza Tapes: 1981-1982 Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Bona Dish were a scratchy pop punk group from Hertfordshire villages, brought together by their love of the Velvets, Supremes and each other. They were cool, handsome and gorgeous. The songs are simple but at the same time complex. The two girls, two boys line-up added a tension that was both sexual and musically fragile. You felt it might all fall apart any second but it rarely did. After their cassette in a tube ploy worked for John Peel play, the band released a cassette on InPhaze and disbanded not long after. Collected here is a rediscovered gem showcasing the zest and spontaneity that gripped the UK DiY scene of the time, standing up to their contemporaries like Television Personalities, The Homosexuals and Marine Girls. This release marks the first vinyl and cd release for BonaDish, their complete recorded output compiled and newly mastered." -Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: BONADISH Title: The Zaragoza Tapes: 1981-1982 Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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“United by their love of the Velvets and the Supremes, the Hertfordshire four-piece got some radio attention from John Peel (they couldnt have been more of a Peel band if they tried, and they probably did try), but they only released two cassettes in their short lifetime. Captured Tracks have compiled their entire recorded output on The Zaragoza Tapes.
Bona Dishs avowedly DIY aesthetic was coupled with a genuine pop flair, and songs like 8am stand comparison with the very best independent music of the era.” - Fact Magazine
"After their “cassette in a tube” ploy worked for John Peel play, the band released a cassette on InPhaze and disbanded not long after. Collected here is a rediscovered gem showcasing the zest and spontaneity that gripped the UK DiY scene of the time, standing up to their contemporaries like Television Personalities, The Homosexuals and Marine Girls." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: BRILLIANT COLORS Title: Brilliant Colors Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The out-of-print Make A Mess 7 inch coupled with the also out-of-print Captured Tracks 7 inch. San Franciscos indie-pop titans begin their world takeover here. One exclusive new track. This will be around forever but get it before anyone else does. Black and white reverse board sleeve." - Captured Tracks |
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Artist: BRILLIANT COLORS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "girl trio, like LiLiPUT meets K! Records-style. Their 2nd 7". You have the first on Make a Mess, right? The best." - Captured Tracks. Captured Tracks is Mike Snipers (Blank Dogs) label. |
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Artist: CHRISTMAS ISLAND Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Two song seven inch about the pits and perils of ages Nineteen and Twenty-Nine, respectively. Part Flying Nun, part Bubblegum. This coincides with a fantastic upcoming LP release on In The Red. One of our favorite bands." - Captured Tracks |
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Artist: CLEANERS FROM VENUS Title: Blow Away Your Troubles Format: Double LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Lol Elliot and Martin Newell, who together formed the legendary lo-fi band The Cleaners From Venus met in the small town of Wivenhoe, southeast England at the turn of 1980s. Newell, a rock ringer and part-time kitchen porter whod left his band the previous summer, and Elliot, a drummer and former hippy traveler, had much in common. They shared a love of sunny 1960s pop music, punk rock and musical comedy. Neither Elliot nor Newell cared much for any kind of musical rule book, bother were dismayed by the new right-wing politics which had taken over their country. Both were in their twenties, had time on their hands and were keen to create something new. "The Cleaners From Venus became one of the most influential bands of the early 80s. Blow Away Your Troubles was originally released in 1981 and only offered on cassette until now. The influential album has been completely remastered and on vinyl for the first time. This release offers a new way to listen to this important band like never before." -Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: CLEANERS FROM VENUS Title: Midnight Cleaners Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Martin Newell, founding Cleaner was, for the time being, alone and spent many long hours in an upstairs room of an old stable block, recording obsessively by himself most of 82. Lol Elliot, the other Cleaner, came back from time to time to time to help, but in effect, Midnight Cleaners-although not entirely a Newell solo project- was recognizably the last of the original Cleaners From Venus albums. It was also the end of the first chapter of their story. "This album, previously only released on cassette, has been completely remastered. Midnight Cleaners hold two of the bands biggest hits, "Only A Shadow" and "Factory Boy." These two songs and more are now on vinyl and CD for the first time. This release brings about a new way to the iconic band." -Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: CLEANERS FROM VENUS Title: On Any Normal Monday Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "With sleeves designed by Newells partner at the time-often hand-colored in by Newell and Elliot themselves- the Cleaners From Venus had their second album. The new issue was then packaged up and sent off the Sounds and NME, both of gave On Any Normal Monday honorable mentions in their cassette review columns. The biggest surprise however came from the more conservative Melody Maker, whose own Patrick Humpries gave the Cleaners project a glowing review in that paper. So far as Newell was concerned, this was a football kicked through the greenhouse window of the conventional music business. "This jangle-pop classic album has been completely remastered and offered on vinyl for the first time, keeping the Cleaners unique sounds, but also making the listening experience more audible." -Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: CLEANERS FROM VENUS Title: Vol. 1 Format: Triple CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| "Beautiful, 3xCD gatefold with booklet including album bios written by Newell himself and never-before-released photos. Lol Elliott and Martin Newell, who together formed the legendary lo-fi band Cleaners from Venus met in the small town of Wivenhoe, southeast England at the turn of 1980s. Newell, a rock singer and part-time kitchen porter whod left his band the previous summer, and Elliott, a drummer and former hippy traveller, had much in common. They shared a love of sunny 1960s pop music, punk rock and musical comedy. Neither Elliott nor Newell cared much for any kind of musical rule book, both were dismayed by the new right -wing politics which had now taken over their country. Both , were in their twenties, had time on their hands and were keen to create something new." -Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: COHEN, TIM Title: Bad Blood Format: Double 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "To coincide with the release of "Magic Trick" we have a double 7" with poster sleeve that plays at 33 1/3. All eight tracks are exclusive to this release and continue in the homegrown, earthy pop that weve all come to know and love from the Fresh & Onlys frontman." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: COHEN, TIM Title: Laugh Tracks Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "As the frontman for the already prolific Fresh & Onlys, it seems impossible that theres yet even more songs coming from the well of Mr. Cohen. More surprising is that they maintain a high standard of quality. "The Two Sides of Tim Cohen" LP came and went in the blink of an eye. Recorded after his stint in Black Fiction and before his current set-up in the Fresh & Onlys, "Two Sides.." was a fresh dose of pure outsider pop with drum machines and keyboards. For a follow up, "Laugh Tracks" finds Tim in a more fleshed out full-bodied approach, complete with horn arrangements. These are personal songs from a highly gifted songwriter and were happy to make them available. Tim does his own art for all of his solo material, you can find more on: http://www.timcohen.com" - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: COHEN, TIM Title: Magic Trick Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Tim Cohens third solo release, Magic Trick, finds him still fighting off the demons of a restless musical mind. In the 12 songs collected here, Tim traverses a wide range of conflicting moods while somehow always reenforcing his songs with messages of hope and positivity. "Dont Give Up", "I am never going to die", and "Flower" are perfect examples of the upbeat melancholy that has defined his solo work to this point. Joined by fellow Soul searchers James Kim (Kelley Stoltz band), Noelle Cahill, and Alicia Vanden Huevel (Aislers Set), along with other supportive friends, Cohen has taken long musical strides on this third LP, in terms of arrangement, recording, and overall risk-taking. Recorded at home on the reliable tascam 388 during breaks from a busy touring schedule with The Fresh & Onlys, "Magic Trick" captures almost every moment of solitude, longing, and wonderment that passed through Tims foggy mind throughout his transient 2010. Accompanied by a double 7" which includes songs from the same fruitful period, "Magic Trick" is a record for all seasons, and should be listened to in the earliest morning." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: COSMETICS Title: Sleepwalking/The Cries Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Finally, we have some more Cosmetics. As you can see by the catalog number, weve been eagerly awaiting this one for a while. "Sleepwalking" is their best track to date, spooky and irresistible synth lines that make you bob your head until it rolls off. Im afraid this is all we get until their LP is ready to go, so take it in. CLEAR WAX!" - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: COSMETICS Title: Soft Skin Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Cosmetics are a two piece from Vancouver, BC. Their music is made for dancing, and with feeling and attention to the details. Their trip is sleek and synthetic meets human emotion. Cosmic glamour meets do-it-yourself. Voice and a rhythm. Frosty tropics and hazy nites. Love on the beat. Nic M and Aja Emma formed Cosmetics in Summer 2008, the first band for both of them. In 2009 they put together the Tuff Trax 8-track studio in their home where they work on sound and visuals every day. Cosmetics is their lifestyle. "Soft Skin" is a bonechillingly cold track with an irresistable beat." - Captured Tracks.
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Artist: DIGNAN PORCH Title: On A Ride Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "A brief burst of sweetly melancholic garage pop reminding me of some mid-90s MTV vibe back when it had weird lo-fi videos in the AM that would kind of stick in your brain, or perhaps it was just me being easily susceptible at the time. Anyway, this new London band reminds me fondly of many things from the era, as well as having something of a more psychedelic Skygreen Leopards air to it. Definitely one to keep an eye out for." - Dont Die Wandering |
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Artist: DIGNAN PORCH Title: Tendrils Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Slightly tussled London quartet Dignan Porch have created an unassuming, but addictive rainy-day bedroom-pop gem with Tendrils, their full-length debut. The hushed, layered, hazy and downcast psychedelia might remind you of various early New Zealand pop crews of the Flying Nun sort (slowed to 1/4 speed). Or you could go back to the UK and talk about Sarah Records, though there⿿s often something weirder woven into the compositions. The 13 songs are brief ⿿ the longest is under three minutes, a handful shorter than two ⿿ but they work together as a larger patchwork. " - Stereogum. |
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Artist: DUM DUM GIRLS Title: S/T Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "We all know Dum Dum Girls by now, but this was her debut as well as ours. After being out of print for way too long, were putting it back out there. Now in standard jackets." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: FRESH & ONLYS Title: August in My Mind Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "...the San Francisco crews releasing a great six-song EP.. they kick up an excellent, hazy dust storm with the standout opener ⿿Diamond In The Dark. (Really, people should pay more attention to these folks)" -Stereogum. |
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Artist: FRESH & ONLYS Title: August in My Mind Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "...the San Francisco crews releasing a great six-song EP on Captured Tracks early next month called August In My Mind... they kick up an excellent, hazy dust storm with the standout opener ⿿Diamond In The Dark. (Really, people should pay more attention to these folks)" -Stereogum |
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Artist: FURTHER REDUCTIONS Title: Decidedly So/Not Unknown Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Brooklyn, NYs Further Reductions have been building up a reputation around town for a while and we finally have some vinyl to show it off. Working with electronic instrumentation but not limited to electronic influences alone, Reductions are carving out their own niche of sad, beautiful pop music." - Captured Tracks. "Thru the gates of forever and into the frozen vapours of Mannattans minimal electronic monolith in the night, Further Reductions, Shawn OSullivan (of Led Er Est knowings) and collaborateur Katie Rose are weaving a web of reverberatory wonderment. One of not just a few of the minimal synth couple outfit armies to emerge from New Yorks ever living and breathing clan of the same epithet, this masculine/feminine dream drone dichotomys synthesized incantations drift like gleaming analog jewels of dark incandescent dance dew. Voices with the echoes of youth sung wistfully into in the well and steeped in the myst of minor discord float inside Familiar Flights." -La Maladie Tropicale. |
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Artist: GANGLIANS Title: Blood On The Sand Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "If you liked the 12" EP and LP by these Sacramento weird-poppers, then youll love this, their first non-split 7". Two equally amazing tracks, and in our opinion, two of their best." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: GARY WAR Title: Galactic Citizens Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Six new songs of homespun psychedelic pop." - Captured Tracks |
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Artist: GARY WAR Title: Opens Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: GERMAN MEASLES Title: Demos Sorry Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Eight tracks of killer Bartlebees/Pooh Sticks-esque party pop from these Brooklyn goofballs. Strictly limited to 300 copies, this is one of the few Captured Tracks releases that will not stay in print. All 300 copies will be hand colored by the GERMAN MEASLES and their goofy friends. None of these recordings will appear on their forthcoming LP and only about half the songs will not be re-recorded for the LP. Featuring 2/4ths of CAUSE CO-MOTION! and 2/4ths of BEACHNIKS." - Captured Tracks.
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Artist: GERMAN MEASLES Title: Wild Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Out of control, drugged up, fucked up madness from Brooklyns premiere party freaks. Almost the polar opposite of this springs cassette release - these songs are confident, insane and beautifully recorded by Gary Olson. Some sort of funky mix of The Soup Dragons, Black Randy, Protex and The Fall had they recorded for Bhudda. All the subtlety of Sonny Bono trying to barge his way into a restaurant while wearing a fur vest. Features 2/4ths of the legendary Cause Co-Motion!" - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: GIRLS AT DAWN Title: s/t Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Right on the the heels of their debut 7" on HoZac comes this 4-song 12" EP. Drawing from post-punk, psychedelic and 60s pop influences, these three girls from Brooklyn make haunting melodies bridged with there/not-there ghostly arrangements." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: GIRLS NAMES Title: Dont Let Me In Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Formed in January 2009 with their first gig booked before even playing together, Belfasts Girls Names unabashedly hark back to the early/mid eighties shadow world of Beat Happening, Black Tambourine, Felt, C86 and the Sound of Young Scotland. In their short existence they have quickly honed their craft in creating their own self-styled ⿿disposable noise pop, masking subdued bittersweet vocals and melodic hooks with reverb drenched guitars and Mary Chain primal drums. Having sold out of their debut home taped demos on Cass/Flick (Belfast) last summer and after a string of support slots with the likes of Sic Alps, Wavves, Times New Viking, Lovvers and Gary War, Girls Names are set for their first release proper, with a 12" EP on Brooklyn⿿s much talked about Captured Tracks label and a full UK tour with label buddies, La La Vasquez in the spring." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: GRASS WIDOW Title: s/t Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Four new Grass Widow tracks including a cover of the Urinals "Black Hole." I cant gush enough about this band, but please pick up the LP on Make-A-Mess. The influence of The Moves bass sound and arrangements, 60s folk-rock vocal harmonies and the Neo Boys are present in the works, plus a whole magic power they have all their own. Thats right: magic power. Magick?" - Captured Tracks |
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Artist: HANOI JANES Title: Across The Sea Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Im getting majorly sore cheeks from grinning and top tapping to these freewheelin bung pop gems from Sachsen, Germany, while being simultaneously amazed at how they explode in rich technicolour with such a full sound - fried guitar licks, cheery vocal squeaks and twinkling xylophone runs - but are largely the work of one guy named Oliver Scharf. I found Oliver through his Zac Efron-channeling solo project Male Models, but soon learnt it was just "a one afternoon project" - and that his other moniker Hanoi Janes will be used for all future musical forays, along with a couple of pals banging some drums from time to time." -Rose Quartz. |
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Artist: HANOI JANES Title: Specks Ho! Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Hanoi Janes is back for his first release since the critically acclaimed "Year of Panic" LP. Five (FIVE) songs on this 7" in vein of his earlier 7" and LP, pushing the envelope in Olivers vision of cacophonous pop to the hilt. The soundtrack for the only party episode ever filmed for the Twilight Zone? Probably." -Captured Tracks |
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Artist: HANOI JANES Title: Year of Panic Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "With the obvious homage the name implies, youd expect Hanoi Janes to be a group of riot grrrl angnsty types, displaced in time by about 20 odd years. Having taken on the nickname given to Jane Fonda in the 70s because of her anti-war stance on Vietnam, these girls would be all bent up about, well you know, stuff. Youd expect that, but youd be wrong. It is in fact primarily the work of one guy from Sachen, Germany �?? Oliver Scharf. But then Hanoi Janes album, Year of Panic, is able to inspire all kinds of misconceptions. Name of the band aside, would you expect a German guy (whos a bit handy with an eight-track) to produce a series of beautifully lo-fi, sub two-minute, surf-pop tracks, full of buzzing guitar and bubblegum spirit. Maybe �?? maybe not. But thats just what Scharf has done. The sound is distinctly garage, reminiscent of a 70s surf sound, and like The 5. 6. 7. 8s, Hanoi Janes are able to launch into the genre with the luxury of being removed from the scene itself. Tracks like opener, The Boys Are Out and Beach Kids are unashamedly infectious, utilising catchy hooks, hand claps and the odd Ooo ooo ooo to great effect. The production is fuzzy, but that only adds to the overall charm of the album. Because charming is what it is, as Hanoi Janes have packed Year of Panic with some real gems. Summer of Panic offers something tinted with psychedelic sounds; Our Lives could have been an early track by The Strokes had they been influenced by the Californian sun rather than the New York shadows; Good Bone is a track which can only be performed if there are several oversized surf-boards nearby. Year of Panic is lo-fi, scuzzy garage surf-pop at its finest and it deserves to be the sound-track of your summer" -Bowlegs. |
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Artist: HANOI JANES Title: Year of Panic Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "With the obvious homage the name implies, youd expect Hanoi Janes to be a group of riot grrrl angnsty types, displaced in time by about 20 odd years. Having taken on the nickname given to Jane Fonda in the 70s because of her anti-war stance on Vietnam, these girls would be all bent up about, well you know, stuff. Youd expect that, but youd be wrong. It is in fact primarily the work of one guy from Sachen, Germany ⿿ Oliver Scharf. But then Hanoi Janes album, Year of Panic, is able to inspire all kinds of misconceptions. Name of the band aside, would you expect a German guy (whos a bit handy with an eight-track) to produce a series of beautifully lo-fi, sub two-minute, surf-pop tracks, full of buzzing guitar and bubblegum spirit. Maybe ⿿ maybe not. But thats just what Scharf has done. The sound is distinctly garage, reminiscent of a 70s surf sound, and like The 5. 6. 7. 8s, Hanoi Janes are able to launch into the genre with the luxury of being removed from the scene itself. Tracks like opener, The Boys Are Out and Beach Kids are unashamedly infectious, utilising catchy hooks, hand claps and the odd Ooo ooo ooo to great effect. The production is fuzzy, but that only adds to the overall charm of the album. Because charming is what it is, as Hanoi Janes have packed Year of Panic with some real gems. Summer of Panic offers something tinted with psychedelic sounds; Our Lives could have been an early track by The Strokes had they been influenced by the Californian sun rather than the New York shadows; Good Bone is a track which can only be performed if there are several oversized surf-boards nearby. Year of Panic is lo-fi, scuzzy garage surf-pop at its finest and it deserves to be the sound-track of your summer" -BOWLEGS, UK |
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Artist: HOLOGRAMS Title: ABC City Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: KID ROMANCE Title: Fuck Punx Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Two ultra-shambolic, lo-fi cuts from fresh-faced Massachusetts maniacs. This is the good stuff-dropouts, tape hiss, bad attitude and catchy songs. Packaged in an oversized envelope (a la Mayfair Set) with one of three Polaroid reproductions affixed to the front. Deluxe packaging at an economy price." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: LA LA VASQUEZ Title: Hello Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Get on the party train with La La Vasquez. After playing their first show at Upset The Rhythms Yes Way last year theyve run riot in in sweaty rooms up [and sometimes down] the UK matching laid-back vocal harmonies with wicked shouts. Now theyre moving on from their savage days with a melodic set of fuzzy jams that are a must hear in 2010. Au Pairs, Young Marble Giants, Bikini Kill, K Records... whatever, they love that stuff but theyre on their own track." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: LED ER EST Title: May Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Following up their excellent Wierd Records debut LP "Dust on Common" and a limited European split-12", Led Er Est return with a new 12" EP, the aptly named "May," their second release on C/T. The trio describe the record as a ".. collection of theme-based songs, almost like a dark sci fi film soundtrack..." The songs were written at various points some were written on the long drives over their last European tour. Side A opens with the dancefloor friendly "Lonsome XOXO", "a song about a girl obsessed with death" while "Plants" contains a cosmic disco bassline and use of 12-string guitar, showing their influences fall outside the narrow margins of electronic music. This is further evidenced by "Madi la Lune" a nod to British underground songwriter Bill Fay. Side B gets darker and heavier with the apocalyptic sci fi synth punk opener "Opto 5." This mood continues into "May" and ends with the instrumental brain melter "Drosophilia Melanogaster." "May" is available for digital and vinyl release and is a precursor to their forthcoming LP on the brilliant Sacred Bones label." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: LED ER EST Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Lunatic, freak-synth, perfect for gritting your teeth and flipping out in those chilly months." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: LITTLE GIRLS Title: Youth Tunes Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Canadian lo-fi creepazoids fuck about and blow minds. Fresh from their releases on Paper Bag and Mexican Summer and blog buzz, these manaics yet again deliever the goods. Two tracks, black and white sleeve." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: MAYFAIR SET Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Dum Dum Girls and Blank Dogs co-op band. More, more sad hits. (Reference intentional.) Slightly oversized envelope sleeve. Half w/ silver print, half w/ gold." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: MAYFAIR SET Title: Young One Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The Dum Dum Girls/Blank Dogs collaboration continues with six new spooky jams. Like the Legendary Pink Dots attacking The Primitives in an alleyway. Spooky 4ADish pop charmers. Beautiful full-color sleeve." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: MCTELLS Title: Expecting Joe Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: MCTELLS Title: McTells Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"The McTells formed in 1985 in Hertford UK. With a foot in the shambolic and aggressive sounds of The Fall and Swell Maps, they noisily stood out from a lot of their more soft C-86/noisepop contemporaries at the time. Initially a 4 piece comprising Paul Rixon on guitar and vocal, Bill on guitar, Stuart on bass, Mark Flunder from the Television Personalaties on stand up drums. Bill later left to form The Big Paintings but the rest of the band continued as a three piece releasing records on Pauls own Bi-Joopiter label. If you dont consider the 80s cassette culture a true DiY form of post-punk folk art, you really need to investigate the Bi-Joopiter discography. Comprising of painstakingly hand colored, bagged, stamped and xeroxed artwork, it truly does lift the medium of cassette-as-art that has carried on into todays aesthetic nether-regions of the resurged cassette culture movement. It is with that in mind that we at Captured Tracks, with the aid of Paul Rixon himself, have done our best to try to create as close a fascimile as possible to those first two McTells cassette reissues on Bi-Joopiter.
Consider it a teaser for a more complete vinyl/CD reissue in the near future, we find these releases stand the test of time both on a musical and aesthetic level. Please note: the higher than average price (while still affordable) for a C/T cassette is a reflection of the complexity of the packaging." - Captured Tracks.
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Artist: MINKS Title: Funeral Song Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "As generous a kiss-off to Summer as we could hope for, MINKS ⿿Funeral Song came virtually out of nowhere. Like if Robert Smith gave birth to a baby, and the baby was actually a cassette of Cure demos that had a lot more staying power than actual Cure demos. Ostensibly we could say this song is reactionary: abandoning the good vibes and surf jams of the warm months of 09 in favor of something colder. Rigid bass lines over icy, high-register synth whine. But the song has a lot more heart than that, so long summer time repeated endlessly until it not only makes sense, but makes frigid cold seem welcoming." - Fader |
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Artist: MINKS Title: Ophelia Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Minks penchant for crafting dark pop songs with classic sensibilities sees no end in sight. "Ophelia" finds them in more of a pastoral, reflective mood than the previous single, drawing on Felt/Durutti Column guitar textures and dreamy, whispy vocal melodies. Two more tracks on the B-Side and thats all you get until the debut LP comes out in the Fall." -Captured Tracks |
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Artist: MONOCHROME SET Title: White Noise: Early Recordings Format: 12 Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "The Monochrome Set have a huge legacy in post-punk and indie rock history. "White Noise" represents the period before their 1st LP or 7", before Punk really took hold in the UK, in fact. These seven songs from 75-77 have never appeared on vinyl before this release, and were thrilled to get it out there." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: NICELY, NICK Title: Elegant Daze: 1979-1986 Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The enigma of Nick Nicely has long been causing frustrations for his fans, since the release of DCT Dreams/Treeline out on his own imprint Voxette in 1980. He stands out as a highly influential figure in psychedelic 80s music, despite his relatively small number of releases. Captured Tracks is out to help these fans by reissuing a collection of his songs dubbed Elegant Daze." -Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: OH SEES, THEE Title: Dog Poison Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "We are proud to put out a full-length record by the prolific Oh Sees, and boy, is this one a monster. More layered and textural than previous Oh Sees releases while keeping all the typical Dwyer punch, oomph and weirdness. 10 fantastic new songs, terrifying pencil-drawn sleeve. Our second LP release, and we couldnt be more pleased with it." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: OH SEES, THEE Title: Dog Poison Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "We are proud to put out a full-length record by the prolific Oh Sees, and boy, is this one a monster. More layered and textural than previous Oh Sees releases while keeping all the typical Dwyer punch, oomph and weirdness. 10 fantastic new songs, terrifying pencil-drawn sleeve. Our second LP release, and we couldnt be more pleased with it." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: ROMAN SOLDIERS Title: Warmer/Yuppie Fires Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Two new tracks from this gloomy-lo-fi supergroup. Mister Blank Dogs and Mister Gary War collaborate on fuzzy, bad-dream almost-pop. Two tracks, color sleeve and color insert." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: SERVANTS, THE Title: Youth Club Disco Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The Servants was an indie band formed in 1985 in Hayes, Middlesex, England by singer and songwriter David Westlake. Their brand of the mid-80s jangly guitar-pop was intellectual, refined and classy as opposed to the shambolic and noisy lo-fi scene heralded by the C-86 compilation they would appear on and be connected with during their active career. After lots of lineup changes (including past/future members of The Auteurs and The Housemartins) and a string of great singles and one great LP (Disinterest) the band called it a day in 1991. Around this time, huge fan and Belle & Sebastian frontmn Stuart Murdoch was trying to locate David Westlake in the hopes of forming a band with him, before launching Belle in his school class instead. In 2006, the great Cherry Red label finally pulled together the unreleased tracks and singles into the CD Reserved from which this vinyl-only compilation is pulled. Combined with a copy of Disinterest (if you can find one) this collection is the essential vinyl document of a great band from a great era of music that can easily be thought of as what would be their debut LP. Includes mp3 download card." -Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: SILK FLOWERS Title: As Above So Below Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "A new six-track EP by this current NYC live staple. Eerie and experimental electronic pop from former members of SOILED MATTRESS & THE SPRINGS and CAR CLUTCH. Recent full-length album released by PPM." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: SILK FLOWERS Title: Days of Arrest Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Like any band worth paying attention to, New York trio Silk Flowers has been constantly shifting since they started. Beginning with a raw, punk-informed foundation to their damaged synth-pop leanings, each subsequent release saw the band shedding skin, bounding from reverb-heavy four-track hiss to disjointed murky instrumental sprawl, and most recently upping production to almost club-worthy standards. "Days Of Arrest" strays from the glossy veneer of their last full length and finds a much colder, hyper-focused territory than all previous work." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: SNAPPER Title: s/t Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "First EP from Peter Gutteridge (The Clean, Chills and Great Unwashed) lead Dunedin band Snapper re-issued as an exact facsimile forRecord Store Day 2013. Released on Flying Nun records in 1988 in such a limited quality an original press fetches $40-50. Snapper became synonymous for shows as diverse and osculating as their lineup. Snapper EP captures one of the earliest forms in all their space-freak-out glory. Comes with a poster and memo insert!" - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: SOFT HEALER Title: Gentle One Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Soft Healer began in 2008 in an attempt by Marie Butcher and Will Slack to cover Suicide songs on pedal steel and clarinet. The duo swiftly failed at this and decided instead to play music with a more forgiving set-up. They began playing bass and guitar and got a drum machine; they quickly found that all attempts to reconcile the stark, percussive landscape of Colossal Youth with a Staple Singers group hug yielded something that was distinctly neither, but went with it anyway. After their first show, Soft Healer became a trio with Sara Berger joining on sax and organ. A few shows later they were an even four with Nick Decarmine playing drums. At this point the band collectively owned all of the first nine Funkadelic albums." -Captured Tracks |
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Artist: SOFT METALS Title: The Cold World Melts Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Heres the debut vinyl from the Portland duo Soft Metals. Formed in 2009, the band have been playing a ton of shows on the West Coast and garnering new fans with every stop. Their music is tight, romantic, electronic pop with influences from a variety of dance and post-punk sub-genres. First 500 on White Wax." - Captured Tracks. "Soft Metals the Cold World Melts is a stealth fighter with a thousand lethal weapons bristling under its sleek carbon wings, buzzsaw Orlando bassline and invincible italo riffage, swirling spiral of mind melting EMP synths and spectral diva propaganda. We surrender as its threatening dragon-like shadow spreads over our positions." -20 Jazz Funk Greats. |
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Artist: SOFT MOON Title: Breathe the Fire Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"A group somewhat at odds with the rock and roll fairy tale town they call home, San Franciscos The Soft Moon are to release their debut 7" Breathe the Fire next week on Tally Hos favourite uber-label Captured Tracks. The single is a gem and will surely excite fans of Blank Dogs, New Order and moody 80s synth work outs." -Tally Ho!
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Artist: SOFT MOON Title: Parallels Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Heres a two sided burner from Luis Vasquez Soft Moon. "Parallels" features sprawling landscapes of jaunting rhythms and pulsating basslines, like some sort of weird meld where krautrock meets Blade Runner. WHITE WAX! "The band is one of the long line of lush, dark pop bands that sprouted out of the tail end of 80s post-punk and shoegaze. The Soft Moon pick up the very best elements of those movements and craft a sound thats not unlike anything out there." -Hypetrak
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Artist: SOFT MOON Title: The Soft Moon Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"On the heels of two sensually dark 7 inches, Luis Vasquez of The Soft Moon, has completed his self-titled debut full-length on Captured Tracks.
Raised under the burning sun of the Mojave desert, Vasquez channels both his punk upbringing and Afro-Cuban heritage to sculpt decidedly dystopian soundscapes for a new generation of torn romantics. Its a record set somewhere in the near post-apocalypse where technology enchants as much as it destroys." - Captured Tracks.
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Artist: SPECTRALS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"A young British man named L. single handedly produced this dreamy,
Sonic Flower Groovy fuzz-pop stomper, although it sounds like it could
have been recorded at Gold Star in 1965 for release on Creation in
1985. Two tracks, one million hooks. Were really proud to be putting
this out in anticipation of a 2010 Captured Tracks LP." - Captured Tracks
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Artist: TEENAGE PANZERKORPS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Icy post-punky songs with barked Germanic vocals. Three great tracks. Freaky color insert. These guys (also known as DER TPK) have also put out killer records on Stiltbreeze." - Captured Tracks.
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Artist: VERONICA FALLS Title: Beachy Head Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Veronica Falls have written a pop song about everybodys favourite place to top themselves and it is really really good. I mean, never has singing along to a graphical location where peepul choose to end it all seemed quite such top larks. This is indie of a very particular, very British, timeless and guileless sort, and its also enough to remind a person why they plumped for plaid over pop in the first place. Terrific." -Drowned in Sound.
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Artist: WAKE Title: Crush the Flowers Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| Reissue of this 1989 Sarah Records single. |
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Artist: WAKE Title: On Our Honeymoon Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| Reissue of this 1981 single. |
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Artist: WAKE, THE Title: Here Comes Everybody + Singles (82-87) Format: Double LP Box Set Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $37.00 |
| "Luxuriously offered in a full print slipcase boxed set with full LP sleeves and deluxe serigraph 12x12 booklet, we offer up a period of The Wake which has not been available on vinyl since its initial pressings on Factory Records two and a half decades ago. "Long considered their masterwork, Here Comes Everybody is post-punk at its lushest and most alluring. With its underlying urgency peppered with a frost of delicate melody, its influence has only really begun to make headways through a myriad of sub-genres within independent, often cited as a key influence on our own label roster. This impeccable LP is bolstered by the equally inspired EPs and singles that surrounded it, Talk About the Past, Of The Matter and Something That No One Else Can Bring have long been difficult finds for an aspiring record collection, until now. This will mark the first time any of these recording have been pressed on vinyl domestically in the US and the first time all housed in one package." -Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: WATERS, JUAN Title: Radio Uruguay Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Hey Beets fans, two full-length cassette-only releases by Juan of The Beets. Formerly self-released by the man himself were offering them
to the world at large. Each contains songs exclusive to the respective release as well as some that have, or may yet become Beets songs.
No CD, vinyl or digital release on here. Just tape to tape direct analog mastering." - Captured Tracks.
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Artist: WATERS, JUAN Title: Wandering Wondering Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Hey Beets fans, two full-length cassette-only releases by Juan of The Beets. Formerly self-released by the man himself were offering them
to the world at large. Each contains songs exclusive to the respective release as well as some that have, or may yet become Beets songs.
No CD, vinyl or digital release on here. Just tape to tape direct analog mastering." - Captured Tracks.
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Artist: WETDOG Title: Frauhaus! Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The UK-based band, composed of Billy Easter on bass, Sarah Datblygu on drums and Rivka Gillieron on vocals and guitar, excel in creating atmospheric, erratic sounds with a jaunty disregard for anything mundane . . . Wetdog count a variety of top notch influences on Frauhaus!, citing Micachu, Syd Barrett and Euros Childs, with legendary graphic novel illustrator Robert Crumb and 1979 cult British horror flick The Wicker Man also flagged, the latters flashing play between gentle pastoral and darker reveals most evident on the twittering bird song and thick, stop-start chords of Trees Fall. Though each of the albums fourteen songs has a disjointed style and rhythm of its own, they bob and weave into each other with a connecting sense of joyful weirdness, darkly irreverent rather than pretentious; menacing at times, but in a deliriously fun way. Fabulously uncompromising, its futile to attempt any generic labelling here; Wetdog delight in merging styles, setting keyboard and guitar melodies clashing gloriously against stubborn basslines, beginning songs in one manner only to change all the rules come the chorus. These helter-skelter tactics mean Frauhaus! has a kind of anarchic spontaneity to it, where the ground could shift at any moment. Its an exciting atmosphere that evokes the tumultuous ethos of The Slits, made even more potent by the darker, Halloween-style motifs of The Need, that cover the corners of their songs with spiderwebs and vampire fangs." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: WETDOG Title: Lower Leg Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Wetdog have a new 7" out called Lower Leg this week which is great. I immediately I get bits of The Slits and The Raincoats. Well this is far from cocks. Its great spiky pop music which sounds like its falling to bits but it somehow manages to stay in one piece relatively unscathed. Its a fantastic pop tune bursting with energy and Im already in my fifth spin... I will not leave this tune alone. Total single of the week if I ever heard one!!!" -Norman Records |
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Artist: WILD NOTHING Title: Cloudbusting Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Anyone who covers a Kate Bush song besides Running Up That Hill automatically gets S-Ms respect and attention, but when its one of her weirder, dreamier numbers and its somehow made even weirder and dreamier, well, those are the weeks we wish we had some kind of prize pack." -Rolling Stone.
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Artist: WILD NOTHING Title: Gemini Format: LP Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Wild Nothing, is the solo-project of Jack Tatum whose music is inspired by a longtime love affair with nostalgia. His debut full length album, Gemini, set to come out on Captured Tracks this spring, is full of dreamy, carefree synth-pop songs that linger with an inexplicable sense of regret.
Prior to embarking on this recent solo-project Tatum sang and played guitar with the Abe Vigodaish tropical punk band Facepaint and the singer/songwriter project Jack and The Whale. In the summer of 2009 The Virginia tech-college student decided to embark on his first creative-solo project playing bass, guitar, synthesizer and drums while recording in his home-studio. He soon emerged with a unique brand of dreamy pop-songs influenced by bands like, My Bloody Valentine, Shop Assistants, Go-Betweens and Cocteau Twins. In 2009 he delivered a memorable cover of the Kate Bush song Cloudbusting, making it clear that Wild Nothing transcended the lo-fi pop-mold. On his debut album, Gemini, Tatums frail vocals come warped in an oozing neon haze. Carefully orchestrated synth-pop arrangements, trebly guitar riffs and tattered drum machines blend together to create an intriguing,texturally rich glo-pop album that could come only from the young at heart.
Clear vinyl pressing." -Captured Tracks
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Artist: WILD NOTHING Title: Gemini Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Wild Nothing, is the solo-project of Jack Tatum whose music is inspired by a longtime love affair with nostalgia. His debut full length album, Gemini, set to come out on Captured Tracks this spring, is full of dreamy, carefree synth-pop songs that linger with an inexplicable sense of regret. Prior to embarking on this recent solo-project Tatum sang and played guitar with the Abe Vigodaish tropical punk band Facepaint and the singer/songwriter project Jack and The Whale. In the summer of 2009 The Virginia tech-college student decided to embark on his first creative-solo project playing bass, guitar, synthesizer and drums while recording in his home-studio. He soon emerged with a unique brand of dreamy pop-songs influenced by bands like, My Bloody Valentine, Shop Assistants, Go-Betweens and Cocteau Twins. In 2009 he delivered a memorable cover of the Kate Bush song Cloudbusting, making it clear that Wild Nothing transcended the lo-fi pop-mold. On his debut album, Gemini, Tatums frail vocals come warped in an oozing neon haze. Carefully orchestrated synth-pop arrangements, trebly guitar riffs and tattered drum machines blend together to create an intriguing,texturally rich glo-pop album that could come only from the young at heart." -Captured Tracks |
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Artist: WILD NOTHING Title: Golden Haze Format: CD Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Tracklist: 1. Golden Haze 2. Quiet Hours 3. Take Me In 4. Your Rabbit Feet 5. Asleep 6. Vultures Like Lovers." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: WILD NOTHING Title: Golden Haze Format: Cass Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Tracklist: 1. Golden Haze 2. Quiet Hours 3. Take Me In 4. Your Rabbit Feet 5. Asleep 6. Vultures Like Lovers." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: WILD NOTHING Title: Golden Haze Format: 12" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Vinyl Tracklist: 1. Golden Haze 2. Quiet Hours 3. Take Me In 4. Your Rabbit Feet." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: WILD NOTHING Title: Summer Holiday Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Emotive and well-crafted hazey pop from a 21-year old Virginian named Jack Tatum. His penchant for wistful melodies and full, gorgeous arrangements show a talent thats not just another bedroom pop one-man band. Debut LP on Captured Tracks coming next year." - Captured Tracks. |
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Artist: WOODS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Captured Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "WOODS are a real band. These are two of two of their best songs." - Captured Tracks. Captured Tracks is Mike Snipers (Blank Dogs) label. |
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Artist: HUDSON, JEFF & JANE Title: Flesh Format: Double LP Label: Captured Tracks/Dark Entries Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Dark Entries and Captured Tracks have teamed up to re-issue the debut album "Flesh" by Jeff & Jane Hudson expanded with an extra LP of singles and EP material. Jeff & Jane Hudson are a husband/wife duo from Boston who got their start in the art punk band The Rentals in 1977. The Rentals broke up in 1980 and Jeff & Jane relocated to Manhattan where they opened for Suicide and quickly signed with No Wave label Lust/Unlust. Their first single "No Clubs" was released in late 1980 and showcased a lo-fi avant garde all synthesizer band. The "World Trade EP came next in 1981, expanding their brand of post-nuclear electronic pop. The duo reached their pinnacle with 1982s seminal "Flesh," perhaps one of the United States biggest achievements in the entire "synth" movement of the era. The music was electro-pop employing early Roland synths and the TR-808 drum machine. Jeffs lyrics flirted with technology and politics, while Jane wrote about cultural and psychological situations. Completely self produced by the band, the record has since been oft-cited as a groundbreaking and pivotal LP of the post-punk era, whos original copies are now heavily coveted by collectors. Completing the discography is the "Special World" 7" released in 1983 before the band emigrated back to Boston and stopped recording and performing. This deluxe edition has been remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley directly from the original master tapes. Each double LP set comes in a gatefold sleeve with unreleased photos, original artwork and a lyrics sheet. The front cover is a photo by Mark Morrisoroe, downtown NY 80s punk and art photographer. This the first time since the original issue that "Flesh" is reappearing on vinyl format and the first wide-scale digital and CD release these recordings have yet to see." - Captured Tracks/Dark Entries. |
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Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: Hymn For The Crippled Mulatto Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "10YR.Series.10 - the tenth (and final release) in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. 30+ minutes of a beast emerging from a swamp of static. or a seismic mic on the tail pipe of my brothers Harley. kicks ass! [Blood Stereo is Karen Constance and Dylan Nyoukis]" - Carbon. |
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Artist: CARTER, TOM/SHAWN MCMILLEN Title: Colors For Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "10YR.Series.07 - the seventh in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. a beautiful collection of drones, tones and guitar magic. All of what you would expect from Tom Carter (of the Charalambides) and Shawn McMillen (Ash Castles On the Ghost Coast, Iron Kite) and more!" - Carbon. |
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Artist: COFFEE Title: Dik Mik Rabbitt Ear Antennae Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "10YR.Series.06 - the sixth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. almost a full hour of Coffee magic. consists of two live recordings from 1997 and 1998. includes the Coffee core of Dave Cross and Tim Poland, along with Brian Shafer (Nod), Phil Marshall, John Olsen (Wolf Eyes), Sticky Foster, Neil Campbell and Nuuj." - Carbon. |
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Artist: D YELLOW SWANS & JIM ALTIERI Title: Drowning Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "28+min of swelling and dro(w)ning guitar, glitched up blips and beeps, and ghostly vocal fragments. another amazing installment from D Yellow Swans, with help, this time, from Jim Altieri. connecting, connecting, connecting, click............." - Carbon. |
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Artist: DOYLE, ARTHUR Title: No More Crazy Women Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "20 minutes of Arthur Doyles trademark vocalizations. recorded direct to cassette, this is a great vocal only recording from Arthur, to celebrate his recent mini-tour of the NorthEast US. [limited edition. packaging started as 3 4x4 paintings on 1/4" plywood. the pieces were then cut into 6"x6" boards that serve as the cover/carrier for the release.]" - Carbon. |
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Artist: JOE N Title: Oil Leaks And Cicadas Format: Lathe Cut LP Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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Edition of 31. Recorded by Tom Carter, 2001.
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Artist: KAUFFMAN, NICOLAS & STEFAN NEVILLE Title: Owl Low Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "46+ minutes of acoustic guitar, bells, woodwinds, primitive percussion, patented PUMICE-style buzzing guitar, organ/keyboard, drone-vocals and more from Stefan Neville (aka PUMICE) and Nicolas Kauffman (part of FAMILY UNDERGROUND - Denmark) . recorded 2005 in a giant concrete room, this release is a fine companion to Stefan and Nicolas other recordings on various other labels such as Last Visible Dog, Soft Abuse, Audiobot, Chocolate Monk, QBICO, Into the Lunar Night). [packaged in hand-silkscreened cardboard cover in various colors]" - Carbon. |
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Artist: MAZZACANE CONNORS, LOREN Title: Lullaby Format: CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Im not scared," (of the dark), I used to say to my mother. But I was. A lullaby is sung to a kid, in the dark. Another great soulful collection of guitar investigations. This releases captures both a childs phobia, as well as a mothers comforting tenderness. [limited edition of 100, each packaged in pale green paper sleeve with color photograph affixed to front. design help from cara dugan]." - Carbon.
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Artist: PENGO Title: Alchemy and Bullshit Format: Double CDR Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "a double CDR document of Pengos migration from a 3-piece out-spazz-noise group to 4-piece drone-psych-noise-rock group. recordings ranging from the 2001 Phi-Tour series, 2002 live and "studio" pieces (including a show with guests Dave Cross of Coffee, Ed Wilcox of Temple Bon Matin and Charles Leport of Hinkley/Finkbeiner/etc), thru pounding live 2003/2004 sets, much in the vein of current configuration. 2 black-bottom cdrs, glossy print insert, sealed in a 6"x8" silkscreened and spray painted chipboard mailer." - Carbon. |
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Artist: REEG & TUNIS Title: ....shhh... this is for Derek Bailey Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "recorded in the days and weeks after Derek Baileys death on xmas of 2005, the daughter/father duos of Ella and Joe Tunis and Ada and Chris Reeg, joined forces for this ultra-limited split lathe-cut release. Joe plays in Joe+N, Hilkka and used to be in Pengo. Chris plays in Blood and Bone Orchestra and Ian Downey is Famous. Together, they play in Crush the Junta, Entente Cordiale and Ada le O. the Tunis side is sparse acoustic guitar, vocals and running, while the Reeg side is overblown cymbals and keys. the duos also go together to create the covers. 3 seperate 2x4ft wood panels, painted, stamped, rubbed, scratched, sprayed, walked on, etc, and then cut into 7x7in squares. [7" lathe-cut. limited to 50 copies!!!!]" - Carbon. |
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Artist: V/A Title: I Dont Think the Dirt Belongs to the Grass Format: Triple CD Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "a year+ in the making, and originally slated for a 10YR celebration, this compilation is documentation of amazing people/artists ive worked with over the past, now, 12 years. it also started out as a double CD project, but with the growing list of people i wanted to involve, and the overwhelming volume of confirmations, i had to grow it to a triple CD (and even had to do some trimming to fit that format). the release is packaged in a standard-size DVD case, with a full-color cover, and holds the 3 CDs as well as a full-color card-stock insert. the dvd case is then housed in a natural-color cotton bag with single-color ink stamp art/logo. the sounds range from quiet ambient sounds, to meandering guitar work, to outsider rock, to full on noise, as well as a folk/pop track here and there. [limited edition of 500]" artists include: aaron rosenblum, andy gilmore,anla courtis, antony milton, asthmatic, autumn in halifax, blood and bone orchestra, blood stereo, carlos giffoni, carpentry, caustic solution, chad oliveiri, chris reeg,cock e.s.p., coffee,craig colorusso, crawlspace, crush the junta, the davenport family, dead machines, entente cordiale, foot and mouth disease, g55, gastric female reflex,heathen prayers, hilkka, hinkley, howard stelzer, irene moon, joe+n, john charlton, justice yeldman, keith fullerton whitman, lunt, mike shiflet, nancy garcia, neil campbell, pengo, phroq, pumice, rainbeaux, sindre bjerga, sindre bjerga / jan-m iversen, sq, taiwan deth, taurpis tula, the body, the north sea, thurston moore, and tinnitustimulus." - Carbon. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Women Taken In Adultery Format: CD Label: Carbon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "a great compilation of heaviness/drone/noise/out sounds co-released with Glasvocht (Belgium). features Random reflections (Belgium), Noxagt (Norway, band of guitar anti-hero Kjetil D Brandsdal), Loren Connors (USA, legendary artist known from projects with Jim O Rourke, Alan Licht, John Fahey and much more), Flies Inside The Sun (New Zealand, including Peter Stapleton of the label Metonymic) and Lovely Midget (New Zealand, releases on Corpus Hermeticum en Ecstatic Peace of Thurston Moore)." - Carbon. |
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Artist: SPACE DUST Title: First To The Future Format: LP Label: Carburetor Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: STELZER, HOWARD & DAVID PAYNE Title: Swelter Format: 12" Label: Cardinal Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Hotter than hell. Might melt your face off! Swelter is a mail collaboration with tapes passed back and forth between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Hamilton, Ontario fall 2009. Howard Stelzer is head of the awe inspiring Intransitive Recordings label and king of cassette composition. David Payne is best known as the pilot of the strange ship Fossils. Together they create a new dimension of cassette culture. Tapes at every speed and strange sewer swirls. Mastered by Kris Lapke at Hospital. Full color cover by Graham Lambkin (hand-pasted on white jackets). B&W insert by Steve Smith. 200 numbered copies." - Cardinal. |
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Artist: GARY WAR Title: Zontag Format: 7" Label: Care In The Community Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Gary War has produced a highly-considered body of work thats mostly been described as otherworldly, intergalactic, acid-drenched, warped, deranged, often apocalyptic but mostly dystopian, as music journalists try to decipher his original aesthetic. Arguably amongst his best work, this double A-side release of "Zontag" and "Dont Go Out" (Sacred Bones Records, 2009) demonstrates the continually-evolving and dense language of Wars damaged viewpoint, developed since his debut album New Raytheonport (SHDWPLY Records, 2008, reissued by Care In The Community, 2013)." -Care In The Community. |
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Artist: HYPE WILLIAMS Title: S/T Format: 12" Label: Carnivals Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
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"The first full length record from Hype Williams. Through 35 minutes, Blunt and Copeland transmit their vision of a self contained plane, seamed by an index of long distance keyboard glaze, rent-a-car night coasters through to programmed and screwed constructs of songs, musical absurdities and free, lifted improv jams.
Luckily, the majority of these descriptive translations probably fall short: At points it sounds rewardingly indescribable and yet as a full length statement, fully realised and formed. Embracing the crud and sheen of mainstream components and trading pound for pound with no-zone freedom. "All because the camels love Bubble Kush." Packaged in the starkly minimal and perfectly accompanying artwork of Ed Lehan. 300 copies." -Carnivals
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Artist: PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES Title: Low Fired Clay Escape Format: LP Label: Carnivals Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides is the duo of Kelly Jones and Pascal Nichols. Proclaiming a context far greater than the sum of their instruments, Low Fired Clay Escape is a remarkable record of visceral beauty, stark decay and translucence. One that inhales the smoke of martyrs and advances towards an unknown vocabulary, depicting barren worlds as lost as they are found. Limited to 530 copies and housed in the intricate work of Darren Adcock." - Carnivals |
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Artist: SCOTT, TOM JAMES Title: Crystal Format: LP Label: Carnivals Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Electronic structures of space and density, dividing. "Skire" mimics the rhythms of the sea. Saccharine phrases sweep through "Lown," and dissonance looms. The dense and transparent title track elevates tones, and cyclical melody strengthens and fragments throughout, creating swathes of luminous texture that shift the focus to new harmonic patterns. A record of candid disorientation and ecstatic effect. Clear vinyl. Edition of 350." - |
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Artist: TOBRUK Title: Ad Lib Format: LP Label: Cash Box Country: Spain Price: $28.00 |
| "Tobruk was formed by some North American guys living in Brazil, and this wonderful album got released in 1972 on the Cash Box label (sometimes you can see the album named as if Cash Box were its title). Its a pretty good psychedelic album with an astounding, original sound based in fuzz, organ, psychedelic effects and an eerie atmosphere. Its completely sung in English as well. With remastered sound." -Cash Box |
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Artist: MOON POOL & DEAD BAND Title: Patsy / Patsy (Jack Ruby Version) Format: 7" Label: Cass Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Oh shit! What happens when a dude from the SIGHTS/SSM hooks up with one of the geniuses behind noise-mongers WOLF EYES? Old-school Detroit techno jams, plain and simple. This single is MP&DBs debut on vinyl and the dirty danceable vibe is undeniable. Analog synthesizers and sequencers to the max. This may be just the thing Electrifyin Mojo needs to hear to bring his ass out of retirement." -Cass. |
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Artist: TERRIBLE TWOS Title: Crash the Circuit Format: 7" Label: Cass Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Blistering blitzkrieg from Detroits proud punk pongers. With equal amounts of inspiration gleaned from the Screamers and Adderall, the TWOS like to keep it weird. These songs show the band at their peak and are easily among the best things theyve ever committed to wax. Guaranteed enough energy to turn you on and float your boat. As a side note, they are also the best band to ever send Cass an unsolicited demo. On randomly mixed colored vinyl!" -Cass. |
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Artist: TIMMYS ORGANISM Title: Im A Nice Guy Format: 7" Label: Cass Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"I used to eat garbage / now I eat steak / I used to steal from the thrift store / now I donate." In a time when babies are seemingly born with mohawks and tattoos and everything fails to shock, how does one whos embodied the punk ethos for years survive? Easy...they become nice. In the decade weve known Tim Vulgar hes responsible for a large chunk of our favorite music. "Im a Nice Guy Now" is an all-out killer. Youre either already aboard this train or have been standing at the station for years, trying to figure out what in the hell is going on. Somber b-side shows the tender touch Timmy has. We predict tears...especially from the nice guys." -Cass
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Artist: B.U.G. Title: Black Fire Format: Cass Label: Cast Exotic Country: Canada Price: $8.00 |
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"Featured tighly edited unreleased recordings dating from 1996 to 1999. Classic Blown Out Noise Rock from Edmonton, (northwestern) Canada. Seriously fucked stuff. Sound sample on the web site. Features member of Staked Plain / former member of JOMF. Fans of Harry Pussy, early Chrome, Cromagnon, Black Flag, Brainbombs should dig. Breath the Fire!!!" -Cast Exotic
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Artist: JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER Title: Europe 2002 Format: Double CD Label: Cast Exotic Country: Canada Price: $19.00 |
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Artist: WERREN, PHILIP Title: Electronic Music 1968-1971 Format: Double CD Label: Cast Exotic Country: Canada Price: $17.00 |
| "Brand new CD reissue of an impossible to find early Canadian electronic 4xLP box by composer PHILLIP WERREN (only 100 copies where ever pressed of his early electronic work). Recorded at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), McGill University (Montreal) and Radio Warzawa (Poland) between 1967 and 1971. The album has heavy elements of tape collage, Modular Synthesis, voice, and experimental thought. Some of the pieces where conceived by psychedelic and occult influences. Much of the record was done with a Buchla System 100, the first of their modular synthesizers. Original cover artwork was created by local Vancouver Artist JAS Felter." |
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Artist: V/A Title: Cast Exotic Vol. 1 - Music For The Psyche-Eye Format: CD Label: Cast-Exotic Country: Canada Price: $12.00 |
| New comp featuring Ashtray Navigations, Eyelickers, Metabolismus, Las Dirty Arcades, Outhern Acific+, Bushwick Trio , Brian Ruryk, Glands Of External Secretion, This Was Your House Until We Moved In, Terminal Waste Band, Tonalmotle, Kopfende and Staked Plain. Mastered By Scott Colburn at Gravelvoice in Seatttle, WA. Limited to 550."This compilation roams from modern psychedelia, sonic constructions and remnants of a no wave past." - Cast Exotic. |
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Artist: FRESH & ONLYS Title: Debut Format: LP Label: Castle Face Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The groups self-titled debut full-length album strikes a balance between the psych-fried blur of the California sun and an amp-crackling, four-chorded garage basher."-Chris Sabbath/SF Chronicle. |
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Artist: OH SEES, THEE Title: Hounds of Foggy Notion Format: LP + DVD Label: Castle Face Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "A brilliant live performance collaboration between THEE OH SEES and video director BRIAN LEE HUGHES. Filmed and recorded, not on stages, but at a variety of hauntingly scenic sites in and around San Francisco. The LP features the audio recordings, the DVD features the performances along with dozens of stories, jokes and whatnots filmed during their four-day filming adventure." -Castle Face |
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Artist: OH SEES, THEE /TY SEGALL Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Castle Face Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"A new single split between two of San Franciscos hottest acts. THEE OHSEES deliver a cover of TY SEGALLs "The Drag," followed by Segall, who offers his take on Thee Ohsees "Maria Stacks." Limited edition of 1,000 copies." - Castle Face.
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Artist: WHITE FENCE Title: Pink Gorilla Format: 7" Label: Castle Face Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "A split release with TIM PRESLEYs own Birth Records, this sneaky preview includes "Pink Gorilla," a total blazer in steady rotation in his live sets and a standout from the upcoming LP Cyclops Reap (out April 9th, 2013), as well as exclusive B sides "Fragility" and "Cyclops Reap," both only available here." - Castle Face. |
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Artist: METABOLISMUS 2 Title: Anthem Of The Moon Format: LP Label: Catatonic Country: Germany Price: $35.00 |
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Artist: ALVARIUS B & DYLAN NYOUKIS Title: Sugar: The Other White Meat Format: LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"Sugar: the Other White Meat brings together two of the central figures of underground sound-whatzit and general audio curiosities: Alvarius B (of Sun City Girls fame) and Dylan Nyoukis (one-half of the UKs Decaer Pinga/Prick Decay). Side A of the LP features each of the two in solo mode: Alvarius with five songs of varying length and Dylan with one twelve minute piece. The B side of the LP is a side-long collaborative track. Sugar was originally conceived by Harmony Korine to be a four-way split between Alvarius, Nyoukis, Will Oldham, and Absalom (Korines "White Metal" band). But Korine went MIA and Oldham hadnt heard of the project when Dylan asked him about it later. By this point, Alvarius and Dylan had already finished their respective contributions and, rather than scrap the project altogether, decided to create a collaborative piece to take up the missing second side of the LP. Dylan sent over source material, which Alvarius cut, spliced and mixed in with his own sound sources (including some drunken answering machine messages from Mr. Korine). So whats the listener to expect from this stew? Those familiar with Alvarius B will find much of his range represented in his five songs: quasi-ethnic ramblings, wordless vocal ramblings (w/the TV on in the background), Django-esque guitar runs, and the absolutely amazing and unclassifiable "DJ South Bitch," which is sort of all of the above. Dylans solo contribution continues in the vein of his Shield That Pierces the Earth album, with a simple banjo (?) underpinning that eventually gives way to subtle tape manipulation, musique concrete, and generally engaging, but head scratching sounds of all sorts. The collaborative piece runs the gamut over its 24+ minute duration: broken electronics, field recordings near a gas n sip (or some such), shortwave radio, actual songs (!), the aforementioned answering machine rant, ambient cafeteria noise, thunderstorms - you know, pretty much everything. Edition of 500 copies. Hand silkscreened sleeves with two-color silkscreened insert printed by the kind and able folks at Parallel Lines Press. Nude cover rounds out the deal." - Catsup Plate.
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Artist: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Title: Animal Crack Box Format: 3LP box set Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $92.00 |
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***LIMIT ONE PER CUSTOMER*** "After almost three years of planning Catsup Plate is proud to announce the release of Animal Crack Box, a three LP collection of Animal Collective recordings spanning the years 2000 through 2003. These songs were recorded live, at practice sessions and in other non-studio environs and most have never been released in any form whatsoever. And those that have been release sound so markedly different that long-time fans will not be disappointed. Throughout their career, Animal Collective has existed at the crossroads of uncompromising experimentalism, classic song structure and ecstatic expressionism -- a crossroads that this set further underscores. The songs veer from the early percussion/feedback wailings to the Campfire Songs style acoustica to wall of sound forest children vocal chanting. The sonics are rough in places as these were originally recorded more for reference than for an actual release, but the power of the songs and the bands uncompromising intensity are apparent all the way through. Fans of the bands recent work may be surprised by the cacophony at times, but peel away the layers of sound and the essential compositional and performative brilliance is staring you in the face. Each record jacket is silkscreened in four overprinted colors and housed in a super sturdy four overprinted color silkscreened outer slipcase held together by a two color silkscreened "obi" strip. This thing is a 12 x 12 brick. The recording selections were overseen by Animal Collective themselves, who poured over hundreds of hours of tapes to come up with this tracklisting. The Hieronymus-Bosch-meets-the-early-Looney-Tunes-work-of-Max-Fleischer illustrations were drawn by Jon Vermilyea and the whole package was art directed and designed by Rob Carmichael. This is a single edition of 1000 copies, with no digital or CD version planned." - Catsup Plate. 
Tracklisting: A1. Jimmy Raven A1 and A2 recorded live to MiniDisc 18 September 2000 at the Cooler, NYC by Avey/Panda. A3 recorded live to MiniDisc fall 2000 at N. 4th Practice Space, Brooklyn by Avey/Panda. B1. Pumpkin Gets a Snakebite B1 and B3 recorded live to MiniDisc February 2001 at N. 4th Practice Space, Brooklyn by Avey/Panda/Geologist. B2 recorded live to MiniDisc 25 February 2001 at Mercury Lounge, NYC by Avey/Panda/Geologist. C1. Jungle Heat C1 and C2 recorded live to MiniDisc winter early 2001 at 67 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn by Avey/Panda. C3 recorded live to MiniDisc August 2000 at Mercury Lounge, NYC by Avey/Panda. D1. Oh Sweet D1 partly recorded live to MiniDisc summer 2002 at N. 4th Practice Space, Brooklyn by Avey/Deakin and partly recorded live to MiniDisc 18 October 2002 at Warsaw, Brooklyn by Avey. D2 recorded live to MiniDisc fall 2002 at Bard College, NYC by Avey/Panda. D3 recorded live to MiniDisc 18 October 2002 at Warsaw, Brooklyn by Avey. E1. Ice Cream Factory E1 and E3 recorded live to MiniDisc March 2002 at Tonic, NYC by Avey/ Panda/Geologist/Deakin. E2 recorded live to MiniDisc winter early 2002 at N. 4th Practice Space, Brooklyn by Avey/Panda/Geologist/Deakin. F1. Dont Believe the Pilot F1 and F2 recorded live to MiniDisc July 2003 at New World Brewery, Tampa, FL by Avey/Panda. F3 recorded live to MiniDisc June 2003 at a house party in Brooklyn by Avey/Panda. F4 recorded live to MiniDisc sometime and somewhere in 2003 (recording details are lost) by Avey/Panda. F5 recorded live to MiniDisc October 2003 at Concorde 2, Brighton, UK by Avey/Panda. SOLD OUT
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Artist: AXOLOTL/THE SKATERS Title: Split Format: LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Both Axolotl and The Skaters (the "The" is essential, by the way) have been smoking peoples brain stems around the bay area for some time, releasing the occasional audio document that, more often than not, disappears almost immediately upon release. After cobbling together a woefully incomplete selection of their musics--both as individual entities and, on occasion, as collaborators--we knew we needed to get more of both bands stuff out to the "masses." For this split LP
release (not a collaboration, mind you) we present "Holon" by Axolotl and "Bodydoor Procession" by The Skaters.
Though the band has been at times a two- and three-piece, on this record Axolotl is just Karl Bauer. "Holon" is a three part suite of some of the most beautiful crush and drone youre likely to hear. Specific instrumentation is tough to nail down, though most all of the Axolotl stuff is based on violin lines, which are twisted and warped using electronics and other effects. The result nods to folks like Tony Conrad and the Theater of Eternal Music, but also evokes some of
the cascading liquid drone that underpinned the more progressive shoegaze acts of the early 90s, though freed from the twee song structure and launched into the stratosphere. "Holon pt2" is a particular favorite around here, wherein Axolotl manages to create a drone piece with real soul and emotional content to it, something that most contemporary experimental acts cant seem to muster.
The Skaters are Spencer Clark and James Ferraro. Their "Bodydoor Procession" begins with a vaguely east-Asian vibe, an urgent distorted piano line and a wordless vocal line that alternately sounds like moaning, choking or a prayer in a heretofore discovered language. The Skaters have always been about building up their pieces with layers of sound and initial simplicity of "Bodydoor" soon grows and mutates, grounded by an insistent (and distorted) piano, with payer upon layer of vocal cries and moans, amongst other unidentified sound sources. By the time their side concludes, almost twenty minutes later, youve either been taken to a deeply meditative and psychedelic part of inner space or been subjected to the cries of the damned in hell, depending on your taste in these things.
Edition of 500 copies in generic black LP jackets with metallic gold screenprinted art and DIY-style photocopied insert." - Catsup Plate.
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Chocolate Cherry Format: 7" Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Black Dices "Chocolate Cherry" seven inch comes hot on the heels of their album Repo (which is Catsup Plates favorite Black Dice record) and finds the band pushing themselves further "out" and paradoxically making some of the poppiest sounds to come from their camp in some time. If Repo was the sound of Black Dice making a funk record then "Chocolate Cherry" veers more towards soul, if you can believe that. The title track is all clipped ecstatic vocals and stuttering disco soul. "POP STD" pins a laconic guitar line and backmasked vocals onto a plodding drum line. And the record closes with the amazingly titled "Bob" which somehow merges insect like buzzing, an incessantly lazy rhythm and what this writer likes to think is a sitar drone (but probably isnt) into a piece of druggy brilliance. Silkscreened on heavy chipboard in four colors by the fine folks at VG Kids. Single edition of 500 copies only." - Catsup Plate. |
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"While still mining the post-hardcore territories staked out by such visionaries as Void and Harry Pussy, BLACK DICE have continued to incorporate more subtle influences on this release: bits and pieces can be heard that recall the percussive and experimental elements of Swell Maps, Cabaret Voltaire, even Can. And the lead-off track on the album [which is a prime example of the bands genius in listener manipulation] nods to Musique Concrete or the experimental recordings of the Climax Golden Twins. All of which sounds much more academic than the record is. Rest assured that this is still a BLACK DICE record: theres all sorts of rock, dissonance, general noise and all-around frenzy on this record. Its just that while theyre throwing all that heaviness at you, its clear that theres a lot more going on than mightve been originally apparent. And thats why BLACK DICE [both the band and this record] is going to be remembered in twenty years." - Catsup Plate. Out of print.
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Artist: CAMPFIRE SONGS Title: Format: CD Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Recorded largely on a screened-in porch in rural Maryland, _Campfire Songs_ represents a significant change in sound and technique for the Animal Collective. Acoustic guitars have replaced the electronic effects of previous releases like _Danse Manatee_ and _Spirit Theyre Gone, Spirit Theyve Vanished_, captured live on three strategically placed mini-disc recorders (with field recordings added to two tracks at a later point). Though the sound is radically different from the digital processing and sound manipulation previously employed, the results are clearly of a piece with the percussive, almost incantatory feel of their earlier records. While these unorthodox recording conditions go against your traditional ideas of sound purity, the audible hum of the outdoors adds a real depth and presence impossible to achieve otherwise. At different points, one can hear the rush of wind, birdcalls, rain (?), and even an airplane passing overhead at one quiet moment. As the record/project name suggests, there is a comfortable warmth here; the palette of instruments and natural sounds are familiar and inviting. From there, the trio (3/4 of the Collective appears on this recording) knits together threads of guitar strum and pluck; chanted, nearly wistful vocalharmonies; and often a pulsing rhythm that seems like it might break apart at any moment, and sometimes does. The melodies are simple and repetitive, recalling the early work of the Third Ear Band, 70s German commune-music, and similar folk-psychedelic explorers. But these are all mere starting points: here, there is real insight into notions of "natural" sound, a retreat from technology and a return to traditional instrumentation, and conventional song structures broken down, drawn out, and reassembled. The resulting record is beautiful, heartfelt, mournful, and brimming with spontaneous energy." - Catsup Plate. This third edition comes in factory-made digipaks with a slightly different decal design.
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Al Anon Format: LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "_Al Anon_ concludes Eric Copelands two part album entitled _Alien In A Garbage Dump_. Where the first half offered a discombobulated collection of radio cross-signaling, here the alien finds its groove for a minute and tidies up the frequencies. There is still something outsiderish here, but with more of an effort to get inside, to play by the rules even? Or maybe the motivation is to sneak something subversive into the norms hideout? Since _Al Anon_ was recorded at the same time as two Black Dice albums, there are obvious parallels in the results; an uncompromised sonic landscape. But outside the group setting, Copeland has found places one can only find alone: small inner dialogues and isolated mind caves where an idea may only last a moment. He captures and tweaks these ideas into fragments of many memories; a déjà vu record déjà vu record. Funny characters drop in and out. Songs come and go. Al Anon proves to be a strangely curated time capsule of OUR time right NOW; music where birds beat-box with car-stereo subwoofers and the neighbors Espanol sings on top the Sabbath siren. With all this going on, Copeland sometimes disappears into the anonymity, playing a behind-the-scenes role, pushing cords and pulling buttons, laughing because the batteries are dying. Here the familiar becomes mysterious and the unknown feels normal and we can listen to this one all day trying to make those distinctions. Edition of 500 copies with jaw-droppingly amazing black and white collage artwork by Copeland, screenprinted by VG Kids." - Catsup Plate. Eric Copeland = 1/3 of BLACK DICE. |
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Artist: DOUBLE, THE Title: Palm Fronds Format: CD Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The Double that you hear on Palm Fronds is very different than what founding members David Greenhill and Jeff McLeod originally conceived. The band began as a guitar/drum math-rock-cum-outre-blues duo replete with intricate time signatures, multiple song sections, and an overall sense of angular complexity. After time, the two decided to focus on simplified musical structures and a more fleshed-out instrumentation and added two new members, Donald Beaman and Jacob Morris. But prior to recording what would be called Palm Fronds, Jeff hurt his hand⿿preventing him from drumming while it healed. Instead of postponing the recording, the band opted regroup and reconceive of the songs without the traditional drum kit. They experimented with drum machines and other electronic textures, learning as they went along. ⿿Mistakes that sounded good were left in (the band has a deep respect for Eno⿿s approach to music making a la Oblique Strategies, etc.) and discoveries used in one song influenced the sound palette in the others. The songs quickly took on a unique sound that was reminiscent of⿿but ultimately distinct from⿿the band⿿s live shows. Because of this, Palm Fronds is a compelling listen on a number of levels. The songs themselves could be described as singer-songwriter in scope; I hear echoes of mid-to-late period Smog and even ⿿Horse With No Name-era America (especially on ⿿Standing on a Levee, though some folks disagree). But the production, drum machines, and general vibe have a wonderfully overmodulated digital crunch, plenty of echo, broken electronics and all sorts of whatsit thrown into the mix. Which is to say that all that songwriter stuff, when The Double finally let you hear it, owes a lot to a bunch of digital dub and experimental electronic types. But through all this Palm Fronds has an impeccable balance; the production never overwhelms or obscures the essential song. So with Palm Fronds you⿿ve got ear candy AND brain candy when you get right down to it⿿lucky you." - Catsup Plate. |
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Artist: FRENCH PADDLEBOAT Title: Rome Loves Tan Format: LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Rome Loves Tan," though just now getting a vinyl release, was originally released in 1996 as a small-edition cassette on the esteemed Union Pole label. F.P. was never quite happy with some of the idiosyncrasies of the record, but later Paddleboat recordings and his work as one-half of Vote Robot commanded his attention and the songs were left as-is until now. This new version of Rome represents a more fully realized vision than the original tape did: F.P. tightened up and reworked the songs and loops. One song was replaced with a more fully realized piece ("Indication of Motion," track 3, side 2). In a sense, this version offers insight into both the earlier work of French Paddleboat, as well as what hes up to now. Edition of 300 copies in "paint-by-number" silkscreened jackets." - Catsup Plate. |
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Artist: JOYNER, SIMON & DENNIS CALLACI Title: Stranger Blues Format: One Sided LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Dennis Callaci and Simon Joyner are two of the foremost channelers of "the song." Simon is known for his solo recordings, with releases on Jagjaguwar, Truckstop, Shrimper, and Sing Eunuchs!, among others. Dennis plays in Refrigerator and was the sole voice behind the criminally underheard Paste. They are singer-songwriters in that they write songs and sing them, but that appellation dumbs down and sanitizes what they do. I think it is more accurate to say that both have a way of tapping into the stream of collective creativity that flows from God-knows-when through to the present and beyond. Their songs have a gravity to them, an old soul, as it were, that cannot be mistaken. There are a few stylistic precursors to their work -- precursors that have been well-documented previously -- but the songs they write and sing tap into something more ineffable, timeless, and grave. The Stranger Blues set comprises three of Simons songs and two by Dennis, all recorded live in the Callaci living room to what seems to be a single microphone. The nontraditional (or better: non-studio) setting adds a palpable sensation of space to the recordings -- by space I do not simply mean the warmth of the room tone, but actual space: backing vocals and spare piano or guitar lines arise in such a way that you are aware of the physical geography of the room. You can hear Simon singing along with Dennis from an actual distance away; his voice is (literally) distant and all the more forlorn. The guitar lines that Dennis adds to flesh-out Simons songs have the same eerie effect. This sense of space underscores two seemingly contradictory strengths about Stranger Blues. On one hand, these songs are beautifully lonely and spare, highlighted by the echoes and distance in the room. At the same time, it is clear that two songwriters who know and love the others work, who are very much working in tandem to build upon each others strengths. Single edition of 500 one-sided LPs. Silkscreened and hand assembled chipboard jackets in a "traditional" Catsup Plate brown butchers tape design scheme." - Catsup Plate. |
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Artist: LETTUCE PREY Title: Atlatl Format: LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Edition of 300 copies. Chipboard covers silkscreened with a Sufi-inspired design. Block printed titles in blue paint." -Catsup Plate |
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Artist: MOUNTAINS Title: Mountains, Mountains, Mountains Format: LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Mountains, the duo of Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, have been making some of the most beautifully epic music of the past four years. The two blend acoustic instrumentation with field recordings, subtle electronics and live sampling to create something otherworldly. Youve probably heard a lot of people running acoustic instruments through their computers and are probably pretty bored with that whole concept at this point. The last thing Catsup Plate would foist on the world is another twee laptop-folk project. Mountains is an altogether different entity. The Wire magazine described their music as infinite sheets of grainy sound build and renew themselves to immensely pleasing effect, and that pretty much sums it up for us here at C Plate. Mountains Mountains Mountains, though it feels of a piece, is actually a compilation of sorts. The whole of side B (Millions Of Time and Hive) constitutes the entirety of a 3" CD-R the band put together for a month-long tour towards the end of 2005. And interestingly, The Whale Years, the albums first track, was improvised in a hotel room in southern Georgia on that same tour (if only all improvisations sounded so beautiful and composed!). Nest was recorded in NYC in late 2007. Those who are familiar with Mountains will notice a more muscular sound on Mountains Mountains Mountains. Much of The Whale Years is built around a phased guitar line that, through manipulation of an unknown sort, takes on an overwhelming celestial grandeur. Nest finds Mountains returning to a fingerpicked acoustic guitar line, but with a ringing urgency that eventually falls away as the side runs out. Millions Of Time is based on a motorik-style repeating sample, upon which the band hangs huge washes of guitar that recall something like the dissonant melodies of early 90s shoegaze or the recent work of Axolotl. And the album ends with Hive, which may be the most forceful piece they have recorded. The first two and a half minutes begin with a ringing cloud of layered guitar picking that dies away momentarily, at which point a howl of dissonance and guitar wail envelops the song, eventually pushing the piece to a monumental drone that is totally unexpected and amazing. Edition of 500 LP-only copies in two color silkscreened sleeves." -Catsup Plate
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Artist: NYOUKIS, DYLAN Title: The Shield That Pierces the Earth Format: LP Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"The Shield That Pierces the Earth is the first solo LP from Dylan Nyoukis, the Scottish raconteur best known for his work in the prolific and somewhat controversial Prick Decay (a.k.a. Decaer Pinga). Im sure that Prick Decays very name has, in the past, led people to believe that their records contain some sonic equivalent of the contentious name: an abrasive mish-mash of horrendous screams, power electronics, guitars being chainsawed apart, or some similarly aggressive, but ultimately boring and pointless brand of noise. Thats a shame because their work owes much more to the weird and subtle minutiae of sound than any sort of "bombast"-the same goes for The Shield That Pierces the Earth. Dylan has described Shield as his "folk" record (theres some sort of pun to be made with Dylan and folk no doubt), probably because he is using more plucked guitar (cf. "Clays Festering Lungs") and less tape collage than his past recordings with Prick Decay. But theres very little in terms of structure or melody that might remind the listener of "folk" per se. If anything, the music that this bears the most resemblance to is that of Southeast Asia, though more in the way of the experimentation of the Sun City Girls or Climax Golden Twins than anything that might be termed "authentic." As Temp Webber puts it in the sleeve notes, this is more reminiscent of "folk music for insects" than anything else: mixed in with the guitar plucking and keyboard tones are alien clicks and squeaks and other audio detritus. At times it sounds like the music was recorded in some antiquated factory or by a mutant colony of ants or under some other set of conditions that might produce the organic weirdness contained in this record." - Catsup Plate.
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Artist: SMITH, STEVEN R. Title: Crown of Marches Format: CD Label: Catsup Plate Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Steven R. Smith is best known for his participation in Thuja and Hala Strana as well as his contribution to many Jewelled Antler projects. In the spirit of Keiji Haino, Popol Vuh, Dead C, and Flying Saucer Attack, Crown of Marches takes the possibilities of the basement psychedelic guitar excursion and fashions something very new and inspiring - a piece alternately beautiful and overwhelming. Crown of Marches begins with a low rumble of feedback and speaker hum; a lazy Eastern melody pokes through the haze and establishes a strong contrast with the rumbling. This is the basis upon which the piece will expand and contract over the next 40 minutes. At times the feedback rumble drops away and relatively bright guitar lines come to the fore. At other times faint keyboard lines or bowed cymbals add texture and additional gravitas to the proceedings, only to be pushed away with the wail of distant guitars and more distortion - like the heaviest rock with the skeleton removed." - Catsup Plate. |
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Artist: 6MAJIK9 Title: The Majik House Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $9.00 |
| "Australian icy psychedelia. universal earth tones and pulsating sound. because the stoners are winning. 7 tracks from the minds that brought you MYMWLY, BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD and TERRACID. xerox / full color cover, painted tapecase." -Cauliflower Dreams. |
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Artist: DEATH CHANTS Title: Valley Of Light Format: CDR Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $10.00 |
| "this disc will send you to the moon and back. 2 loooong tracks that sing about the deepest river on earth, your mind." - Cauliflower Dreams. |
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Artist: FOSSILS Title: Fly By Night Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: MUDBOY/MUDBOY & ORPHAN FAIRYTALE Title: Let It Be A Nightingale Then/ Whose Words Are My Words Format: LP Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $19.00 |
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"side A is MUDBOY solo atmosphere meditation. (with a little help from PUMICE on the first track). blurry HANS GRUSEL vibes mixed with early 80s sci-fi moods... its like watching VIDEODROME and feeling the gun (gung) crawling a way into your own hand... side B is MUDBOY together with Belgian 6 year old synthwizard ORPHAN FAIRYTALE. very deep meditation .... birds, wolves howl, beauty vocals and synthlayers, walking arm in arm into the dream of you. BO HANSSON checking things from the side... correct. heavy silkscreened collab cover! too many colors to mention. scratch and sniff paint!" - Cauliflower Dreams.
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Artist: REYNOLDS, BEN Title: Basic Consciousness Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $8.50 |
| "Ben from ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS, UNCABINETED DUO, etc... a real circular psych dreamer. 4 songs of muddy water." - Cauliflower Dreams. |
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Artist: UTON Title: Live In Death Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $9.00 |
| "UTON plays ballads for the new earth. covered under a blanket of tone colors and nature cones, this brain is transferring a total new spectrum of trance. including a super guest-appearance by BRIDGET HAYDEN. full color cover and insert, painted tapecase." - Cauliflower Dreams. |
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Artist: YAMASHIRUBE Title: Akaki Yume No Naka Format: Cass Label: Cauliflower Dreams Country: Belgium Price: $9.00 |
| "Tokyo damaged psych vibes from Hide Uchida, the brain behind the SUBJECTIVE SPIRIT SOUND imprint. nice acidloops and dusty downervibes. a truly trip in space that sometimes walks pretty closely next to the tape and electronic experimentspectrum of ANGUS MACLISE... YAMASHIRUBE will issue some players on the upcoming volume of the classic series TOKYO FLASHBACK on PSF. xerox cover, painted tapecase." - Cauliflower Dreams. |
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Artist: SHE Title: Outta Reach Format: LP Label: Causeway Country: Price: $16.00 |
| "She were an all-girl band from Sacramento, California, that operated between 1964 and 1971 and were led by sisters Nancy and Sally Ross. Unlike most acts ascribed to the "girls-with-guitars" genre, She was one hundred per cent authentic - they genuinely played their own instruments, sang and wrote their own striking but original material and copped one hell of a bad attitude that would put most self-proclaimed rebel boy bands to shame. Appealingly crude in their early incarnation as the Hairem, by their later years She was a force to be reckoned with. The group became a massively popular live attraction in northern California but unfortunately never made a commercial breakthrough, despite healthy airplay for their lone release on the Kent label, the classic Outta Reach. Far, far more than a mere novelty, musically and philosophically She were in a class of their own, with drop-dead good looks and such memorable tunes as Like A Snake, Piece Of You and Bad Girl. And indeed She were bad girls, getting thrown out of movie theatres and even the California State Capitol building for their disruptive behaviour and smart-ass punk attitude. Truly the female equivalent of the Stones." B Side features recordings as The Hairem. Limited.. |
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Artist: L Title: Holy Letters Format: CD + 7" Label: CCD Country: Japan Price: $30.00 |
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"Holy Letters is a barely-circulated masterpiece of deeply felt self-expression. Recorded in 1989/1990 by Hiroyuki Usui, Holy Letters beautifully captures the spirit and substance of a half-dozen of the key sub-underground pillars of sound. Working with guitar, vocals, vibes, harmonium, bass, drums, cello, field recordings, digeridoo, and more, Usui-san blends delicate folk, psychedelia, and experimental sounds into a mostly subdued but undeniably glowing suite. The layered but careful instrumentation on tracks like the epic "Holy Letters" and "Troll" backs the alternately plain-spoken and crooning vocals perfectly. Odd touches like snatches of throat singing and bowed vibraphone leap out of the mix at just the right time. There are overt references to the blues (the first track is an oblique cover of "Cold Was The Ground") - but other than the occassional slide guitar touch, the connection is overwhelmingly in the timeless feeling and atmosphere. I can hardly think of anything else like "Holy Letters," but suffice to say if you like Richard Youngs, Popol Vuh, Six Organs of Admittance, Tim Buckley, acid-folk, japanese underground - anything like that - this is an essential purchase. Really, Im not doing it justice.
Holy Letters was self-released by Hiro in 1993/1994 or so, primarily to be given away to friends. A handful of copies were sold via Tokyos Modern Music/PSF operation in Japan and by Forced Exposure in the US, but other than that, it disappeared completely. The copies we have are from Hiroyukis original numbered pressing. The CD is accompanied by a two song 7" and housed in a beautiful oversized color gatefold sleeve.
Hiroyuki Usuis name pops up in several intriguing places in the apparently still underdocumented Japanese underground lexicon. While he now concentrates mostly on Digieridoo (and his profession of garden design), he once played drums in Fushitsusha (late 70s/early 80s), A-Musik (with the legendary vocalist Phew), Marble Sheep, and several other true-underground outfits." - Bill Kellum.
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Artist: DIAL Title: 168K Format: CD Label: Cede Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"The third album from this experimental rock band comprised of former members of UT, GOD, FURIOUS PIGS, and EARDRUM. "A stuttering beast of guitar-driven post-no wave frenzy...rock music at its finest."-Bruce Russell (Corpus Hermeticum)
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Artist: LENS CLEANER TRIO Title: CD + Lenscleaner Format: LP Label: Ceiling Country: ARGENTINA Price: $15.00 |
| "This LP started out as a recording of an improvised by Jose Marchi (guitar), Marcelo Aguirre (drums). and C.D. (electronics). After which C.D. took the recordings disassembled them and constructed new sound shapes from the various pieces. C.D. calls the resultant sound "electro-acoustic rock". Early tracks on side A are faithful to the original recordings; strange polymorphous jams featuring nimble but muscular drumming, and a large vocabulary of guitar scrapes and molten distortion. But soon we start to hear the tracks fold into themselves, the sense of time and space distorting as if some powerful psychotropic drug is starting to kick in. Emerging from these folds in space, the listener enters new locations; guitars that echo like chimes through radio static into places both soothing and menacing, organic and manufactured- a deeply ambient space, yet jagged as broken glass." - The Ceiling. |
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Artist: CAR COMMERCIALS Title: Judys Dust Format: LP Label: Cenotaph Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
 "Judys Dust is the debut full-length LP by Car Commercials of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Here, the duo of David Sutton (Friends and Family, Current Amnesia, Ladderwoe) and Daniel DiMaggio (HOME BLITZ) expand on the rock/mumble strategies from the self-released Jar 7�?� (Leaf Leaf, 2006) and a couple cassettes kicked around the New Jersey underpasses. Contains twelve songs of missing spaces, too much Center Ice, drums and wires, varispeed recording techniques, and facing backwards �?? all from the other side of the E Street. Limited to 300 copies." - Cenotaph. 2008 release.
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Artist: EYES & ARMS OF SMOKE Title: A Religion of Broken Bones Format: LP Label: Cenotaph Audio Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The landscape of Central Kentucky is dotted with fields, trees and gently rolling hills, watched over by a bright sky. At night, under a thin moon, ghosts emerge from shadowy corners to work the land, pushing fingers into the soil among the roots and stems. In the earliest hours, the patterns of morning light dance with shadow, creating a network of intersecting dark spaces. Eyes and Arms of Smoke, from Nicholasville, Kentucky, conjure music from these hidden places -- music that is delicate and otherworldly. The quartet is comprised of Trevor Tremaine, Ellen Mollé, Sara OKeefe and Robert Beatty playing acoustic guitar, viola, clarinet and synthesizer/percussion, respectively. These instruments are not approached conventionally; eccentric arrangements and oddball tonality paint this music with thunder. The generally quiet temperament emphasizes tension in the compositions -- these songs are hymns to the onset of dusk. Attractive silk- screened artwork on heavy cardstock sleeve. Limited to 500 copies." - Cenotaph Audio. |
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Artist: EAR TO THE PAGE Title: Ear To The Page Format: Catalogue Label: Center For Book Arts Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Ear to the Page explores the interaction between recordings and books, using three categories: sound works thatreflect the structure and aesthetic of books; packages that thematically entail a book as well as a CD or vinyl record; and books that have a sound component or somehow serve to transcribe or document ideas that previously existed, or potentially can exist, as sound. Artists/Musicians included in the exhibition are: Vito Acconci, Juan Arkotxa & Leslie Mackenzie, Bernard Baschet & Francois Baschet, Cathy Berberian & Eugenio Carmi, George Brecht, Inge Bruggeman & Hank Lazer, Jose Luis Castillejo, Jon Gibson, Kenneth Goldsmith, Grace Jones, Jennie C. Jones, Allan Kaprow, Dan Lander & Micah Lexier, Christian Marclay, Marshall McLuhan with Jerome Agel, Quentin Fiore, & John Simon, Michalis Pichler, Steve Roden, Allen Ruppersberg, Tate Shaw & Andrew Sallee, Masumi Shibata, Michael Snow, Jan van der Marck/Art by Telephone, and Dennis Yuen & Morry Galonoy." -Center for Book Arts. Printed LP jacket containing large fold-out poster with information on the exhibition, overviews of various LPs, etc, written and curated by James Hoff (Primary Informaton) and Alan Licht. |
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Artist: CHAINSAW Title: #12 Format: Mag/Flexi-Disc Label: Chainsaw Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
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Original copies of this 1981 fanzine. Includes a flexi-disc with Instant Automatons, Tronics and Dancing Did.
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Artist: MELTED MEN Title: The Sheets Are Soaked Format: LP Label: Champaign Audio Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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Out of print LP from 97. Silkscreened jackets.
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Artist: SESKIND, SCOTT Title: Chance Format: Cass Label: Chance Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "..impressively captivating and moving collection of four-tracked bedroom folk of the highest order, with an out-of-time vibe that didnt really snyc with its 1984 recording date. Definitely on the loner-ish end of the folk spectrum, with some aspects of the album harkening back to Skip Spences iconic Oar, while other moments revealed the urgency of the 80s lo-fi revolution. But most importantly, the songs were just really, really great and managed to remain haunting long past their leaving." - Michael Klausman (regarding his self titled debut LP). Original sealed copies of his 1991 private cassette, the only release after the 1985 LP, which is somewhat "known" amongst folk/psych/private collectors (and mentioned in Acid Archives despite the later date). These recordings arent quite as desolate and a bit more "lo-fi" than the LP, but still a very worthwhile listen.. |
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Artist: PRAN NATH, PANDIT Title: Earth Groove: The Voice Of Cosmic India Format: LP Label: Change Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Gray-area reissue of the first Western LP release from Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath. Originally issued on the Douglas label in the U.S., in 1968. Classic, late 60s performance by the master of Indian vocal music. Two sidelong pieces grace this record. A morning raga and an evening raga. Vocals with sitar and tabla accompaniment. Not easy listening by any means, but rewarding in the end." -Change
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Artist: DANNY & THE PARKINS SISTERS Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Chapter Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "Chapter Music is proud to resurrect from undeserved obscurity the scratchy beatnik art-punk stylings of early-80s San Francisco trio Danny & The Parkins Sisters. Surrounded by the classic SF punk sounds of the Dead Kennedys, Pink Section, Flipper and the like, Danny & the Parkins Sisters opted instead to head in a very different direction. Brash Arizona transplant Danny Vinik and chic, alluring sisters Debra and Beverly Parkins strummed on detuned guitars, banged on whatever was close at hand, and declaimed hilarious, incisive lyrics dissecting the scenes and tribes around them in visceral early-80s San Francisco. Their high-performance shows played out in legendary venues such as the Sound Of Music and Club Generic, with guests including Dead Kennedys drummer DH Peligro. In 1982, the band released an 8-song mini-album on the Modern Masters label, run by Richard Kelly of the cabaret collective Club Foot Orchestra. It included the all-time shoulda-beena classic, "War (Is On Your Doorstep)," a pounding, tribal punk-chant that sums up all the paranoia and posturing of the post-punk era. By 1983, the band were over, with Danny heading to South America and the Parkins sisters to New York, but their brief SF moment shone with a peculiar, musically naive but still knowing charm. Fans of angular post-punk luminaries like the Bush Tetras, The Raincoats or Y Pants will love this CD, which comes filled with bonus demo, live and rehearsal recordings." -Chapter |
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Artist: FABULOUS DIAMONDS Title: Fabulous Diamonds II Format: CD Label: Chapter Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "This is the second album by Melbourne duo Fabulous Diamonds. This odd duo makes overtly hypnotic music, full of lulling, sensual repetition, but theres also an edge of irritation, an undercurrent of friction that cuts through the drone and propels the songs forward. Fabulous Diamonds II begins with drummer/vocalist Nisa Venerosa yelling at keyboardist Jarrod Zlatic, as he counts in the first track, but they still start together in perfect unison. Its this combination of tension and intuitive understanding that makes Fabulous Diamonds so special. They have been playing and arguing together for more than five years now, and their musical bond has grown deeper and more expansive since their 2008 self-titled debut. That album made it into revered UK mag The Wires top albums of the year, and got glowing reviews from the likes of Pitchfork and The Fader. But this new record is still a remarkable development. Of its five untitled tracks, two extend well past the ten-minute mark, sustaining a kind of grumpy intensity that never lags. The album was recorded with budding producer Mikey Young of Eddy Current Suppression Ring, and was mastered by Quas Cornel Wilczek. Like their first album, it will be released on vinyl by venerable U.S. label Siltbreeze. Fabulous Diamonds toured the U.S. in 2008 with Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit, playing 26 dates in one month. In 2009, they were invited to perform at Belgiums Kraak Festival alongside Wavves, Kurt Vile and others. They also played in the UK, Holland, France, Switzerland, Portugal and Sweden on their 2009 European tour. In Australia, the band have played with Deerhunter, Yeasayer, Akron Family, Beach House, and many more." -Chapter |
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Artist: TULLY Title: Live At Sydney Town Hall, 1969-70 Format: CD Label: Chapter Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "Chapter Music presents two rare live recordings from quintessential Sydney prog group Tully, including their 1970 performance of Australias first-ever rock opera. These recordings capture the band in their first incarnation, before they joined forces with members of revered folk-psych band Extradition to explore more contemplative territory. Formed in late 1968, Tully The First were wild, expansive and unpredictable, their live shows now the stuff of legend. Terry Wilson (vocals), Richard Lockwood (reeds), Michael Carlos (organ), John Blake (bass) and Robert Taylor (drums) employed extended improvisation, spacious dynamics and an intuitive intensity, so impressing Australian jazz icon John Sangster that he called them "the best band in the world at the time." In mid 69, Tully became the house band for love-rock musical Hair, recording the original cast album later that year. They also starred in a six-part live-in-studio series Fusions, which premiered on ABC TV in August 1969. "Sights & Sounds Of 69," from a May show of the same name, is the only live Tully recording to have survived the intervening four decades, and documents a typically far-ranging, mind-expanding performance. Ken Firth (later of the Ferrets) replaced John Blake on bass in December 1969. Perhaps Australias greatest living composer, Peter Sculthorpe wrote "Love 200" specifically with Tully and vocalist Jeannie Lewis in mind. The work, commemorating Captain Cooks expedition to map the Transit Of Venus in 1769, was dismissed by the stuffy classical establishment at the time, but Sculthorpe now calls it simply "one of my best works." Heard here for the first time since the early 70s, "Love 200" is an astounding piece, both elegant and jarring, serene and chaotic. After Tullys 1970 self-titled debut, Wilson and Taylor left the band, which then assimilated Extraditions Shayna Stewart and Colin Campbell before releasing two more albums, Sea Of Joy (1971) and Loving Is Hard (1972), both markedly different from their fiery and often thunderous early form. Live At Sydney Town Hall, 1969-70 is a fascinating insight into the early work of one of Australias most heralded, but least-heard bands." -Chapter |
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Artist: BLOOM & LOREN CONNORS, KATH Title: Sing The Children Over/Sand In My Shoe Format: Double CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $18.00 |
| "Originally released by Chapter Music in 2008, this is the first of two double disc reissues by extraordinary early-80s folk duo Kath Bloom and Loren Connors. Meeting in 1976 in their hometown of New Haven, CT, Bloom and Connors formed a creative partnership that has haunted psych-folk fans ever since, releasing six albums of fragile, avant-garde folk-blues in miniscule quantities, all of which now change hands for huge sums. At first, Kath would act out monologues while Loren played his free-form guitar, extrapolated from Mississippi Delta and Chicago blues. But while Loren worked on his now-legendary nine-volume series Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations, he and Kaths performances gradually became more song-based. Kath began practicing guitar among the headstones of New Havens Grove Street cemetery, while Lorens idiosyncratic style had been developing since the 1960s. By the early 80s, after self-releasing two limited-edition live albums, the duo were playing occasionally outside of New Haven, and soon Boston independent label Ambiguous Records approached them to record their first studio effort. Acclaimed jazz critic and music historian Nat Hentoff wrote sensitive, insightful liner notes and Sing The Children Over emerged in 1982 and Sand In My Shoe in 1983. The albums mixed traditional folk and blues songs with Kaths originals, revealing Kath to be an accomplished and moving songwriter. It also set up the dynamic template that she and Loren would follow over their remaining recordings -- Kaths fragile voice and subdued finger-picked guitar set against Lorens playing: abstract, skittering, sometimes atonal but always intuitively supportive. Together the duo created a sound almost impossibly emotional and haunting, one unlike anything created before or since. By 1984, however, Kath was married with a young son, and Connors himself was entering a new relationship, so the duo found themselves drifting apart. And now, after almost 25 years, these original recordings are again available to be soaked up, marveled at and relished. Completely remastered, and containing extensive liner notes, original photos and artwork, and a treasure trove of bonus tracks." -Chapter |
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Artist: BLOOM, KATH Title: Finally Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $15.00 |
| "Kath Bloom is a fifty year old American legend of folk, country, blues and avant-garde music, but very few people have ever heard of her. She has been making records since the late 70s, and has had her music featured in the movie Before Sunrise by Richard Linklater (starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy), but since 1984 has released no new material of her own bar a few self-distributed cassettes and CD-Rs. The daughter of world-renowned oboist Robert Bloom, Kath was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, where she trained as a cellist. However, she soon gave away formal musical education for the acoustic guitar, which she taught herself over long afternoons spent among the tombstones of her local cemetery. After a brief romance and musical collaboration with journeyman songwriter Bruce Neumann, she met avant-garde guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors in 1976, teaming up with him for a series of now highly sought-after recordings of traditional blues and folk songs and Blooms originals. Some records were released in editions of as few as fifty, most no more than 200 copies, until the duo released their swansong Moonlight in 1984. While Connors astounding solo work from that time has been compiled into a four CD set by Sonic Youths Thurston Moore, Bloom and Mazzacanes duo recordings still languish in un-re-released obscurity, except for a single CD compilation that is now almost as hard to find as the original LPs. Although Chapter Music, unfortunately, cannot help in that regard, it can present a compilation of Kath Blooms heartbreaking, lovelorn and remarkably beautiful songs recorded since the early 90s, when after a period of child-rearing, family life and daily financial struggle, Kath began to return to the studio. These are songs recorded on the fly in friends lounge rooms or cut-rate studios, but they reveal a mother-of-three songwriter as accomplished and affecting as any of her more hallowed colleagues such as Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch or Hazel Dickens. In the mid-nineties US director Richard Linklater stumbled across her music and used the song Come Here in Before Sunrise, but despite an initial flurry of interest, little came of the exposure and Kath soon returned to domestic obscurity. Ten years later, perhaps Kath Blooms moment has finally come, and one of the best singer/ songwriters of the last 25 years will be accorded some long-overdue recognition." - Chapter Music. |
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Artist: COOLIES Title: Master Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "In the beginning, there was South Aucklands own Coolies, three teenage school chums Tina, Sjionel and Melissa, playing the kind of racket that might have caused Johnny Rotten himself to spin in his grave, had he actually been dead (might as well have been). Back then in the mid/late-90s, the Coolies punk/rocknroll/was inspired, it must be pointed out, by nobody... nobody at all. Nonetheless, their signature was a sweet and swinging rah-rah sound (a rah-Ramones/rah-Ronettes car-crash). That, and a burning teenage desire to actually burn things down. The trio recorded a 10-song tape on a ghetto blaster... the tapes circulated Aucklands oh-so-hip & scenester K Road and the Coolies built up a cult following amongst the crowd who were, er, not their peers at all. For a while, the band played support to virtually every decent touring band to come thru AK, and a bunch of terrible ones who deserve their fate languishing in obscurity. Eventually they got it together to release a self titled 7, with timeless fucking hits "Madonnas The Bomb," "Yr So 1960s," "Go! Hot Metal" and "Pimpmobile." Also around the turn of the century, Kill Rock Stars put a Coolies song on the Fields And Streams compilation which, at the time, was a big deal. So, not for the last time, the Coolies seized defeat from the jaws of victory and Melissa split. The Coolies either took the first of many breaks or just couldnt be fucked carrying on. In 2004-ish, Tina & Sjionel recruited Fiona to "man" the drums -- a real life drum machine. The Coolies ripped up the plans and returned with a fresh new sound for a new-era/new/no/wave -- Sjionel switched it up with synths and samples, Tina stuck with basic blitzkrieg guitar & blah blah lyrics. With a new buzz, the Coolies set off to take on the world. Like lightning, they released a self-titled album (produced by nobody), and toured NZ, Australia + America with a bunch of bands (Erase Errata/Ariel Pink/Bobbyteens/Wives/Mika Miko/Weird War/Coachwhips/Deerhoof). Later, the trio put out a tour EP, Bless The Babies And The Mothers, which was well received in the SF region. They decided to recruit legend mate and drummer Stefan (of Pumice un-fame), and their first show was at Sjionels house with Calvin Johnson. This reinvigorated line-up was the perfect scenario band-wise... new/old attitude to music/underground noise staple/post-punk/oioioi like a Shangri-Las and Crass tea party. Master is a collection of Coolies at their finest -- raw, lo-fi, annoying, brilliant, monumental, and totally necessary. An accumulation of material recorded and mixed by Stefan Neville reel-to-reel at random places around Auckland....mastered by Rachel Shearer (Lovely Midget) and loved by all." - Chapter. |
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Artist: COOLIES Title: Master Format: LP Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $18.00 |
| "In the beginning, there was South Aucklands own Coolies, three teenage school chums Tina, Sjionel and Melissa, playing the kind of racket that might have caused Johnny Rotten himself to spin in his grave, had he actually been dead (might as well have been). Back then in the mid/late-90s, the Coolies punk/rocknroll/was inspired, it must be pointed out, by nobody... nobody at all. Nonetheless, their signature was a sweet and swinging rah-rah sound (a rah-Ramones/rah-Ronettes car-crash). That, and a burning teenage desire to actually burn things down. The trio recorded a 10-song tape on a ghetto blaster... the tapes circulated Aucklands oh-so-hip & scenester K Road and the Coolies built up a cult following amongst the crowd who were, er, not their peers at all. For a while, the band played support to virtually every decent touring band to come thru AK, and a bunch of terrible ones who deserve their fate languishing in obscurity. Eventually they got it together to release a self titled 7, with timeless fucking hits "Madonnas The Bomb," "Yr So 1960s," "Go! Hot Metal" and "Pimpmobile." Also around the turn of the century, Kill Rock Stars put a Coolies song on the Fields And Streams compilation which, at the time, was a big deal. So, not for the last time, the Coolies seized defeat from the jaws of victory and Melissa split. The Coolies either took the first of many breaks or just couldnt be fucked carrying on. In 2004-ish, Tina & Sjionel recruited Fiona to "man" the drums -- a real life drum machine. The Coolies ripped up the plans and returned with a fresh new sound for a new-era/new/no/wave -- Sjionel switched it up with synths and samples, Tina stuck with basic blitzkrieg guitar & blah blah lyrics. With a new buzz, the Coolies set off to take on the world. Like lightning, they released a self-titled album (produced by nobody), and toured NZ, Australia + America with a bunch of bands (Erase Errata/Ariel Pink/Bobbyteens/Wives/Mika Miko/Weird War/Coachwhips/Deerhoof). Later, the trio put out a tour EP, Bless The Babies And The Mothers, which was well received in the SF region. They decided to recruit legend mate and drummer Stefan (of Pumice un-fame), and their first show was at Sjionels house with Calvin Johnson. This reinvigorated line-up was the perfect scenario band-wise... new/old attitude to music/underground noise staple/post-punk/oioioi like a Shangri-Las and Crass tea party. Master is a collection of Coolies at their finest -- raw, lo-fi, annoying, brilliant, monumental, and totally necessary. An accumulation of material recorded and mixed by Stefan Neville reel-to-reel at random places around Auckland....mastered by Rachel Shearer (Lovely Midget) and loved by all." - Chapter Music. |
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Artist: ESSENDON AIRPORT Title: Palimpsest Format: Double CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $19.00 |
| "Chapter is very excited to announce a 30th anniversary reissue of Palimpsest, the one and only album by Melbourne post-punk icons Essendon Airport. Recorded in December 1981, Palimpsest is now reborn as a double disc package with a whole bonus CD of live and unreleased studio recordings spanning 1980-1983. Formed in 1978 as a minimalist duo of guitarist Robert Goodge and keyboardist David Chesworth, Essendon Airport released their landmark 7" EP Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial on Chesworths Innocent Records in 1979. Chapter Music reissued Sonic Investigations way back in 2002, as a CD including second single "Talking To Cleopatra" (with vocalist Anne Cessna) and a raft of bonus tracks. Originally gentle and inquisitive, with beats supplied by a drum machine ripped from a home organ, Essendon Airport began to expand after Sonic Investigations and explore the possibilities of rhythm. First came classically-untrained drummer Paul Fletcher, and then saxophonist Ian Cox, to form the four piece line-up heard on Palimpsest. With its dryly-intoned vocals, flailing polyrhythms and a postmodern fascination with appropriation and quotation, the album is an eccentric post-punk classic. The album title means "a manuscript page from which the text has been scraped off to be used again," while the original liner notes state "all" "songs" "written" "and" "produced" "by" "Essendon Airport." After Palimpsest, Essendon Airport added bassist Barbara Hogarth and grew to become one of inner city Melbournes premiere live attractions. "Creative differences," however, saw them disband in 1983, with Cox, Goodge and Hogarth forming Im Talking that same year with singer Kate Ceberano. The bonus "Live+More" disc collates 18 recordings, from the duo period to the impressively muscular, previously-undocumented five piece line-up. The original 1982 vinyl version of Palimpsest was presented in a screen-printed plastic cover, and this has been faithfully replicated in 2011 as a nifty clear plastic overlay." -Chapter Music |
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Artist: ESSENDON AIRPORT Title: Sonic Investigations If The Trivial Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $19.00 |
| "The band Essendon Airport began in Melbourne, 1978, as a duo of David Chesworth (keyboards and electronics), and Robert Goodge (guitar). They released an incredible 7" EP in 1979 called Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial, on Innocent Records, a label run by David Chesworth with Tch Tch Tchs Philip Brophy. A track from this EP was recently included on Chapters Cant Stop It! - Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 compilation CD. In 1980 they released a 7" single accompanied by a singer named Anne Cessna. They also had a track included on the Innocent compilation New Music 1978-79. Essendon Airport later gained extra members and released the Palimpsest LP in 1981. They broke up in 1983... Chapter Music has gathered together Essendon Airports duo recordings onto one CD, along with the Anne Cessna tracks, and five previously unheard live recordings. Sonic Investigations Of The Trivial is a fantastic document of a band years ahead of their times. The reissue features liner notes written by Ralph Traviato of Tch Tch Tch, as well as reproductions of original posters, record sleeves, press clippings and even chewing gum cards given out at their shows." - Chapter Music. |
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Artist: FABULOUS DIAMONDS Title: Commercial Music Format: LP Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $18.00 |
| "After two albums and an EP without song or record titles, the presence of names on Melbourne duo Fabulous Diamonds third album is probably going to be the first thing that people notice. Its also the most irrelevant. What really matters is that Commercial Music is Fabulous Diamonds most textured, luxurious album yet. While their first record was baby steps and stabs in the dark, and their second album reached for an under-produced liveliness, Commercial Music -- titled with no hint of irony -- is high-brow, young adult contemporary pop music. As with their last album, 2010s Fabulous Diamonds II (CH 077CD), the band recorded with Eddy Current Suppression Ring/Total Control guitarist Mikey Young, this time taking over the upstairs room in Melbournes John Curtin Hotel for four days in mid-2011. Photographic assistance again comes from the inimitable Karl Scullin. But the deep shimmer of "Inverted Vamp" introduces a new, all-enveloping sound, and later "Wandering Eye" and "Lothario" display a newfound ease with canny song construction. Drummer Nisa Venerosa and keyboardist Jarrod Zlatics lyrics deal with cynical social observations and bleak character portraits, but over the billowing music, they take on a dreamy languor that makes them seem almost harmless. And as always, Fabulous Diamonds explore each of their ponderous grooves to its fullest, but now, the weight is lifted by nuanced arrangements and seamless digital production. Commercial Music is both deep and feather-light, the heaviest of transcendental pop." - Chapter Music. |
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Artist: KANENOBU, SACHIKO Title: Misora Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "Originally reissued in 2006 by Chapter Music, this is the 1972 debut album by Sachiko Kanenobu, an artist generally acknowledged as the first Japanese woman to release an album of her own songwriting. Its a near-perfect folk masterpiece, alternating full-bodied arrangements (produced by Harry Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra and Happy End) with Sachikos lonesome guitar and pure, soaring vocals. Discovered as a precocious 18 year-old in Osaka, Sachiko was signed in 1968 to Japans first real independent record label, URC (Underground Record Club), who changed Japans musical landscape irrevocably in the late 60s and early 70s with artists like Happy End, Folk Crusaders and Kenji Endo. Sachiko was the only female artist on this era-defining label. But just a few months before Misora (roughly translated as "Beautiful Sky") was released, Sachiko left Japan and secretly emigrated to America to marry music critic Paul Williams (Crawdaddy, Rolling Stone). She did not record again for almost a decade and didnt release another album until 1992. Instead, she settled with Williams in small-town California and raised two sons. Misora was released in her absence and promptly disappeared. World-renowned science fiction writer Philip K Dick, a Williams family friend, actually encouraged Sachiko to return to music in the early 80s. He was executive producer for a single recorded in 1981, but sadly died before he could realize his ambition to produce Sachikos comeback album. Still, Sachiko was inspired by his encouragement to reinvent herself as a "folk-punk" singer, forming new band Culture Shock in the mid-80s. Sachiko still performs to this day, and since Misora was rediscovered by Japanese fans in the early 90s, she has returned to her homeland many times to perform. Misora is now regarded as a landmark in Japanese musical history, and Sachiko is revered there as a true underground folk pioneer. Truly mellow, still relevant, and sounding as fresh as the day it was recorded, Chapter Musics edition of Misora is the first for the English-speaking world, featuring extensive liner notes, lyrics translated into English by Sachiko herself, and never-before-seen photos from the singers own archives." -Chapter |
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Artist: LOCKWOOD, RICHARD Title: In the Doorway of the Dawn: The Chronicle of a Song, Vol. 1&2, 1972-2012 Format: Double CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "Across two discs, In the Doorway of the Dawn presents almost 40 years of previously-unheard songwriting from Richard Lockwood, renowned as the driving force behind early 70s Sydney folk-psych icons Tully, and for his work with the similarly revered Extradition. In the process of working with Richard on the reissue of Tullys landmark recordings Chapter discovered that the very private songwriter had never stopped recording after the end of his much-loved band -- only that he had lost interest in making his beautiful, transcendental music available to others. It took some persuading for Richard to agree to a solo compilation, but In the Doorway of the Dawn justifies the effort beyond measure. Mostly recorded to cassette four-track, and played impeccably on every imaginable instrument by Richard himself, In the Doorway of the Dawn reveals a singular songwriter with an unswerving focus. Of the 33 songs presented here, virtually all are written in tribute to spiritual master Meher Baba, whom Richard discovered in the late 60s and whose influence wholly transfigured the remainder of his life. Suffused in equal parts with serenity and yearning, Richards songs have a grace that is almost unequalled. Of special note are the settings Richard recorded of works by Australian poet Francis Brabazon, named "the poet of the age" by Meher Baba. Over the course of decades, Richard interpreted many Brabazon poems, of which five are presented here. The span of these recordings begins with live solo performances in 1972 (just after Tully had disbanded and Richard had joined fellow adventurers Tamam Shud) and continues right up until late last decade, with home recordings made by Richard in Melbourne. For 40 years, Richard wrote songs that could have been classics. But he was content merely to write them, sing them, sometimes record them, offer them to his Beloved Meher and then put them away in a box of cassettes in his cupboard. Complete with extensive liner notes, lyrics and photos, In the Doorway of the Dawn is a revelation, the lifes work of a rare talent, even rarer for his lack of concern with public recognition." - Chapter Music. |
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Artist: MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ Title: Live Aoiheya January 2003 Format: CD EP Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $12.00 |
| "Maher Shalal Hash Baz is the oddly-named band for Japanese cult figure Tori Kudo and his wife Reiko (the name is apparently a Hebrew biblical phrase that Tori translates as ⿿be quick if you mean to steal something). Since the late 1970s, Tori has been a pioneering figure in Japanese punk, post-punk and avant-garde circles, beginning with bands such as GuysnDolls, Cock CNell, Noise and Tokyo Suicide (a cover band dedicated to New York synth-punk pioneers Suicide). Tori formed Maher Shalal Hash Baz in the mid 80s with neighbours who could not play any instruments, and for the better part of 20 years has been pursuing a single-minded vision of music as simple, spontaneous and unpredictable. The bands always changing lineup of anywhere from three to thirty people features mostly untrained musicians playing music often shown to them on the day of its performance, expressing the innate beauty of failure as much as of success. The band began releasing records in 1989, but did not come to worldwide attention until a decade later, when their marvelously ambitious triple album Return Visit To Rock Mass was released. MSHB were invited to tour outside of Japan for the first time. In 1999, when UK label Geographic released From A Summer To Another Summer, a compilation of Maher recordings. Soon the band were touring the US and Europe regularly, and Geographic released their most recent album Blues Du Jour in 2003. Live Aoiheya January 2003 documents an entire brief performance by this unique band, incidentally the first Maher show that Chapter boss Guy Blackman saw after moving to live in Japan in 2002 (he returned to Melbourne in 2004). It captures the band in a variety of guises unusual even for them, including an extended abstract instrumental, songs based on conversations between band members, passages by Japanese composers, vocal relays and a Brahms Waltz. In the EPs 26 minutes Maher Shalal Hash Baz manage to cover more ground than most bands do in their whole career, all the while maintaining a spirit and idiosyncracy that is idenitifiably their own." - Chapter Music. |
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Artist: PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS Title: Primitive Calculators Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "Melbournes Primitive Calculators met as teenagers in the early 70s, growing up in the grim outer suburb of Springvale. An older friend who lived in a bungalow behind his parents house provided an oasis of culture, and there they were introduced to music of a kind rarely heard in their neighbourhood. The Velvet Underground and The MC5 were obvious heroes, but they were also inspired by lesser known bands like The Fugs, The 13th Floor Elevators, and The Godz (they went on to dedicate their album to Godz singer Jim McCarthy) as well as the writing of obsessive rock journalist Lester Bangs. By 1977, they had deserted Springvale for the more musically liberated environs of St. Kilda, sharing a house in Park St and forming a band called The Moths. But they were a couple of years older than most of the punk bands starting up around them, and their uncultured accents clashed with the inner city, private school values of their so-called peers. Well-known figures like Nick Cave (The Boys Next Door, The Birthday Party) and Ollie Olsen (Whirlywirld) would often come by to listen to borrow records, but the Primitive Calculators were always outsiders in Melbournes punk scene. A move to Fitzroy in 1978 helped Primitive Calculators cement their own identity and develop a network of likeminded friends. The band set up a series of gigs called Little Band nights, where up to ten hastily-formed bands, with names like Too Fat To Fit Through The Door and Thrush & The Cunts, would play sets of fifteen minutes each. Their own debut single was also released that year, featuring the songs �??I Cant Stop It�?� and �??Do That Dance�?�. Pressed with plain black labels and stark monochrome sleeve, the single introduced many to the impassioned, atonal, electronic chaos that was the Primitive Calculators trademark, and it has gone on to become a highly collectable classic of Australian post-punk. The following year the band attempted to relocate to London, but seeing how difficult life was for fellow expats the Birthday Party and Whirlywirld, hey decided instead to take an indefinite break. A 1979 live recording of a gig supporting The Boys Next Door turned out to be the Primitive Calculators swansong. Released by friend and supporter Alan Bamford in the early 1980s, Primitive Calculators is a crucial document of a band whose originality, power and humorously belligerent Australian mindset has never since been duplicated. But the story didnt end there, as the Primitive Calculators had an unexpected renaissance in 1986, when filmmaker Richard Lowenstein included them in his feature Dogs In Space (starring a young Michael Hutchence). The Primitive Calculators reformed to appear in the movie and recorded their song �??Pumping Ugly Muscle�?� for the soundtrack (the song was also released as a 12�?� with some original late 70s recordings on the B-side). The Primitive Calculators revival continued a good fifteen years later when Chapter Music released the pioneering Cant Stop It! compilation CD of Australian late 70s/early 80s post-punk. The CD took its name from the Primitive Calculators track �??I Cant Stop It!�?� and included an original 1979 recording of �??Pumping Ugly Muscle�?�. Chapter Musics reissue of the Primitive Calculators album, twenty-five years after its original release, includes six bonus tracks (four by the Primitive Calculators, one by the Moths and one by a nameless Primitive Calculators/Whirlywirld hybrid band, recorded in the UK) plus a rarely seen video made for the �??I Cant Stop It�?� single by band friend Janis Lesinskis." - Chapter Music. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS Title: Primitive Calculators And Friends 1979-82 Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "After reissuing the landmark 1979 live album by Melbournes ferocious synth-punk snarlers Primitive Calculators in late 2004, Chapter Music follows up with a crucial compilation of tracks by Primitive Calculators and their friends from the legendary Melbourne Little Band scene. Including the Calculators only studio recording, the single I Cant Stop It b/w Do That Dance, plus the Little Bands compilation EP (both originally released in 1979 and now highly prized collectors items), plus numerous live and rehearsal recordings, the CD examines a particularly fertile and distinctive time in Melbourne music history, which has been discussed in hushed tones ever since. It takes in bands with names like Thrush And The Cunts and Too Fat To Fit Through The Door, and ranges from disaffected Fitzroy art-punk to Sudanese tribal chanting recorded in London. With liner notes culled from a revealing interview with Prim Calcs members Dave Light, Denise Hilton and Frank Lovece, plus rare photos and song lyrics, Primitive Caluclators And Friends is a revelatory companion piece to their live album, which received a rave review from Maximum RocknRoll and a 10 out of 10 Album of the Month feature in Australian Vice Magazine, amongst other stellar reviews on its reissue two years ago." - Chapter Music. Restocked! |
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Artist: PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS Title: Sick/Cunt Format: 7" Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $10.00 |
| "Primitive Calculators release their first new studio efforts since 1979. Thirty-three years after their classic first single I Cant Stop It, Melbournes hilarious synth-punk snarlers are working on a new studio album to be released in 2013. They reformed in 2009 at the invitation of the Nick Cave-curated All Tomorrows Parties festival. "Sick Of Myself" is a new song expressing all the ridiculousness of being in a synth-punk band in your mid 50s, while "Cunt Life" is a 1977 classic originally performed by pre-PCs band The Moths, now finally recorded for posterity." -Chapter Music. |
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Artist: TENNISCOATS Title: Live Wanderus Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $15.00 |
| "Tokyos Tenniscoats centre around the duo of Saya and Taskashi Ueno, a married couple who have been making music since 2000, and together run the highly regarded Japanese label Majikick Records. In that time, Tenniscoats have released three studio recordings, 2001s Theme Of Tenniscoats, 2002s The Ending Theme and 2004s We Are Everyone. Although each of those records is a fine, fine work, many Tenniscoats fans say that the bands meditative intensity has never quite been captured in the studio. It is for this reason that Chapter Music is releasing a compilation of their live work. Live Wanderus (named in Sayas imaginative English to reflect the words Wander, Wonder, Wondrous and Us) presents songs from each Tenniscoats release in distinctive new forms, as well as a number of previously unreleased tracks. It presents the band in its many shifting lineups, and includes collaborations with members of revered Japanese bands Acid Mothers Temple, Stars and Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Tenniscoats are a combination of hummable melody and a kind of innocent darkness, their unashamed fragility set against a restrained power that at times can explode into a psychedelic free-for-all." - Chapter Music. |
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Artist: TULLY Title: Loving Is Hard Format: LP Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $18.00 |
| "Includes download card for the entire album, plus a bonus 1971 single. Luminous third and final album, Loving Is Hard, originally released in 1972, is the latest in Chapter Musics reissue series of Australian psychedelic icons, Tully. This follows the 2010 release of Live at Sydney Town Hall 1969-70 (CH 076CD), and 2012s reissue of the solemn, dreamy 1971 surf soundtrack Sea of Joy (CH 080CD/LP). Even before they began recording Loving Is Hard in late 1971, Tully had officially broken up. Over the previous 12 months, they had shifted from the towering, organ-driven rock dynamics of their 1970 self-titled debut, to a serene, contemplative folk-psych sound. Show-stopping drummer Robert Taylor and original vocalist Terry Wilson had departed, replaced by guitarist Colin Campbell and singer Shayna Stewart, both of cult folk heroes, Extradition. Although the change created music of stark, unearthly beauty, Tully had been massively popular in Sydney as a rock band, and their spiritually-driven transformation left many fans scratching their heads. Audiences declined steadily, response to the Sea of Joy soundtrack was muted, and by the end of 1971 they realized they could no longer continue. Still, they had one more album owing on their record contract, and decided to make a final statement before going their separate ways. Thankfully for us, in hindsight Loving Is Hard is an elegant triumph, all the more affecting for the turmoil that went into its making. The records centerpiece is Colin Campbells seven-and-a-half minute masterwork "Ice," originally recorded by Extradition for their 1971 album Hush, and later covered by Margret Roadknight. Shayna Stewarts voice is sublimely dispassionate, while the string arrangement by keyboardist Michael Carlos gives the song an imposing grandeur. The title-track, with lyrics by Campbell and music by bassist Ken Firth, is a summation of what the band were going through at the time, and for that reason is perhaps the most emotionally resonant track on the record. Stewarts gentle vibrato matches Carlos pulsing Hammond organ, and the resignation in Campbells lyrics is reinforced by Firths slow, haunting melody. Saxophone, clarinet and flute player Richard Lockwood opens the album with the stately "Love Can Make You," and sets a poem by fellow Meher Baba-devotee Francis Brabazon to solo piano accompaniment. As bonus tracks, this reissue appends Tullys one and only single, the sparse and somber 1971 release Krishna Came/Lord Baba. Like Sea of Joy before it, Loving Is Hard possesses a profound, serene beauty worlds removed from anything else happening in Australia at the time. Along with Tullys other albums, it has had to wait far too long to be rediscovered." -Chapter. |
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Artist: TULLY Title: Loving Is Hard Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "Luminous third and final album, Loving Is Hard, originally released in 1972, is the latest in Chapter Musics reissue series of Australian psychedelic icons, Tully. This follows the 2010 release of Live at Sydney Town Hall 1969-70 (CH 076CD), and 2012s reissue of the solemn, dreamy 1971 surf soundtrack Sea of Joy (CH 080CD/LP). Even before they began recording Loving Is Hard in late 1971, Tully had officially broken up. Over the previous 12 months, they had shifted from the towering, organ-driven rock dynamics of their 1970 self-titled debut, to a serene, contemplative folk-psych sound. Show-stopping drummer Robert Taylor and original vocalist Terry Wilson had departed, replaced by guitarist Colin Campbell and singer Shayna Stewart, both of cult folk heroes, Extradition. Although the change created music of stark, unearthly beauty, Tully had been massively popular in Sydney as a rock band, and their spiritually-driven transformation left many fans scratching their heads. Audiences declined steadily, response to the Sea of Joy soundtrack was muted, and by the end of 1971 they realized they could no longer continue. Still, they had one more album owing on their record contract, and decided to make a final statement before going their separate ways. Thankfully for us, in hindsight Loving Is Hard is an elegant triumph, all the more affecting for the turmoil that went into its making. The records centerpiece is Colin Campbells seven-and-a-half minute masterwork "Ice," originally recorded by Extradition for their 1971 album Hush, and later covered by Margret Roadknight. Shayna Stewarts voice is sublimely dispassionate, while the string arrangement by keyboardist Michael Carlos gives the song an imposing grandeur. The title-track, with lyrics by Campbell and music by bassist Ken Firth, is a summation of what the band were going through at the time, and for that reason is perhaps the most emotionally resonant track on the record. Stewarts gentle vibrato matches Carlos pulsing Hammond organ, and the resignation in Campbells lyrics is reinforced by Firths slow, haunting melody. Saxophone, clarinet and flute player Richard Lockwood opens the album with the stately "Love Can Make You," and sets a poem by fellow Meher Baba-devotee Francis Brabazon to solo piano accompaniment. As bonus tracks, this reissue appends Tullys one and only single, the sparse and somber 1971 release Krishna Came/Lord Baba. Like Sea of Joy before it, Loving Is Hard possesses a profound, serene beauty worlds removed from anything else happening in Australia at the time. Along with Tullys other albums, it has had to wait far too long to be rediscovered." -Chapter Music. |
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Artist: TULLY Title: Sea of Joy Format: LP Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $18.00 |
| "Australian psychedelic icons Tullys solemn, dreamy 1971 surf soundtrack Sea of Joy. Sea of Joy documents a period of massive change for the band. For the previous two years, they had arguably been Australias most dynamic rock group, renowned for their wild, largely improvised concerts. Their rise was meteoric, from Sydney house band for tribal love-rock musical Hair in 1969, to starring in six-part ABC TV series Fusions and performing Peter Sculthorpe rock opera Love 200 at the Sydney Town Hall. By 1970, when they released their self-titled debut album, Tully were rock stars of a very rare order in Australian music, feted by highbrow critics and teenage groupies alike. Within a year, however, almost everything changed. Showstopping drummer Robert Taylor departed the band, swiftly followed by vocalist Terry Wilson, and the remainder of Tully joined forces with members of gentle, exploratory folk group, Extradition. Suddenly, Tully were rockers no longer. Flautist, clarinetist, saxophonist and de facto band leader Richard Lockwood had approached surfing director Paul Witzig after his now-iconic 1969 film Evolution (for which Tully had contributed some music alongside Sydney colleagues Tamam Shud), offering to record an entire soundtrack to his next film. Witzig had agreed when Tully were a towering rock band, driven by Michael Carlos massive Hammond organ and Lockwoods exploratory reeds, but by the time Sea of Joy came to be recorded, they were a drummer-less, contemplative folk-psych outfit, dedicated to spiritual guru Meher Baba. Although unexpected, the results were luminous. Sea of Joy radiates a serene purity, miles removed from what people generally think of as surf music, but as Witzig wrote on the back cover, "Tully are not surfers, but there proved to be many things common to both our worlds: a feeling for peace, beauty, simplicity and freedom." New member Colin Campbell contributes "I Feel the Sun," also recorded by Extradition for their lone, celebrated album Hush in 1971. The miraculous voice of Shayna Stewart is also heard for the first time on the Lockwood-penned title track. Humble, disarming and sublime, Sea of Joy is a record like very few others in the Australian rock canon. But like Tullys other albums, it has had to wait far too long to be rediscovered. Includes free mp3 download." - Chapter Music. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Cant Stop It - Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| ⿿A long overdue compilation of Australias incredible post-punk history, featuring the finest selection of bands from the period 1978-82, with many previously unreleased tracks. This is a fantastically inventive and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and asserted its own musical identity for the first time. All of the bands on Cant Stop It! released their music independently, either themselves or through the handful of visionary labels of the time such as Au-go-go, M Squared, Missing Link or Innocent Records. Unfortunately much of the music has since been ignored or forgotten ... until now! Restock/repress of this incredibly well done, indepth and legit comp (which has since received a full page write up in the WIRE) of the elusive Australian scene. Features The Moodists, Voigt 465, The Take, Essendon Airport, The Apartments, Ash Wednesday, Primitive Calculators, Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast, Ron Rude, Xero, The Limp, Fabulous Marquises, The Slugfuckers, Equal Local, Tame Omearas, The Particles, People With Chairs Up Their Noses, Wild West, The Pits and Tch Tch Tch. Highly recommended!! |
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Artist: V/A Title: Cant Stop It! #2 ⿿ Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "The second instalment of Chapters acclaimed Australian post- punk compilation series Cant Stop It! comes 5 years after the first, but makes up for the long interval by presenting another incredible array of inventive and often previously unheard music from the period 1979-84. This is a fantastically rich and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and asserted its own musical identity for the first time. Cant Stop It! #2 features tracks by bands such as Severed Heads, The Systematics and Scattered Order, and early work by the likes of Dead Can Dances Lisa Gerrard, Hunters & Collectors Mark Seymour, and Candy soundtrack composer Paul Charlier. The CD includes a 16 page booklet with extensive liner notes, rare photos and Josh Pethericks striking design." - Chapter Music. TRACKLISTING: 1. The Systematics - International Voltage 2. International Exiles - Lets Be Sophisticated 3. Asphixiation - The Crush 4. Tactics - Watch My Hands 5. Severed Heads - Lamborghini 6. The Goat That Went "Om" - The Pirate Song 7. Use No Hooks - Do The Job 8. Microfilm ⿿ Centrefold 9. Scattered Order - Swiss Like Knives And Forks 10. The Jetsonnes ⿿ Newspaper 11. Rhythmx Chymx - The Now Generation 12. Brrr Cold - Mothers At War 13. SoliPsiK - See Saw 14. Wild Dog Rodeo - Charging The Lighthouse 15. Belle Du Soir - Treasure Island 16. Ya Ya Choral - Gods Buzzsaw 17. Essendon Airport - I Feel A Song Coming On 18. The Swell Guys ⿿ Sidetracking 19. Scapa Flow ⿿ Somewhere 20. Nuvo Bloc - Never Mind. Restocked! |
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Artist: V/A Title: Songs For Nao - 14 Bands From Japan Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $15.00 |
| "Songs for Nao (pronounced "now") is a compilation featuring many incredible Japanese artists... Most work in a rarefied world of wide-eyed, folky psych-pop. Songs For Nao includes new tracks by Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Nagisa Ni Te, Tenniscoats, Kazumi Nikaidoh, Yumbo, Andersens, My Pal Foot Foot, Pervenche and more. Songs For Nao is a taste of an incredible music scene. Isolated from the music industry at large, these artists create genuinely inspired music, fresh even to the ears of the most conditioned music-geek. The release is accompanied by a full colour, 16-page booklet featuring extensive liner notes on each band, and beautiful photos by Eigo Shimojo (a member of Eepil Eepil, one of the bands on the compilation)." - Chapter Music. "I moved to Tokyo in September 2002 in search of new experiences, and ended up staying for a year and a half. I worked teaching English part-time at one of the big chain schools in Japan, which was neither here nor there, but when I wasnt working I was going to as many gigs as I could. I already had a couple of Japanese friends before I got there, and through them I was introduced to all these amazing bands, playing in tiny shoebox venues to audiences of usually about 50 people. Most of the best bands I saw seemed to be connected in one way or another to a record label called Majikick, run by Ueno and Saya, the husband and wife team from the band Tenniscoats. They were like the Prince and Princess of this small, vibrant scene, which was built on ideas about freedom, improvisation, fragile melodies and a kind of drug-free psychedelia. The most amazing thing about bands like Tenniscoats, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Andersens and My Pal Foot Foot is how they would sound totally different almost every time you saw them. They always had different lineups and instrumentation and played a completely new set at almost every gig. I couldnt understand how they could all write these incredible songs and then just throw them away and write new ones! Most of the bands had a CD or two on Majikick, or at least a CD-R that they would sell at gigs, and I bought whatever I could get my hands on. I listened to these CDs constantly in my little apartment, and maybe it was just being in a different country, not having my all my records and CDs with me, but it was the first time in years that I could just listen over and over to the same music, and find more to love each time. Apart from Nagisa Ni Te and Maher Shalal Hash Baz, who have had some records released in the US and the UK, it seemed like no-one outside Japan had any idea about these bands that I thought were just incredible. So it seemed like a great idea to put together a compilation, and Songs For Nao is what I came up with. I thought of the title because Nao is the name of two of the sweetest people I met in Japan - one a boy, one a girl - and they both play in bands on the CD." - Guy Blackman; Chapter Music. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Strong Love: Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972-1981 Format: CD Label: Chapter Music Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
| "Strong Love explores the first wave of openly gay songwriting, emerging after New Yorks Stonewall Riots kickstarted the modern gay rights movement in 1969. It took just a few years for the defiant chanting and interlocked arms of early 70s pride marches to reverberate onto record, and Strong Love begins with the earliest-known example, 1972s "A Gay Song" by London hippie collective Everyone Involved. Across 15 tracks, the compilation takes in disarmingly personal folk, uplifting soul, outsider country and dark synth-rock. But tellingly, none of its songs could be considered well-known. New Yorks Steven Grossman released the first major label album by an openly gay artist in 1974, and Tom Robinson hit the UK Top 20 with the fiery "Glad To Be Gay" in 1978, but these are the exceptions. The coy ambivalence of Lou Reed and David Bowie was about as sexually adventurous as the 1970s music industry got, and most Strong Love artists released their own self-funded recordings in very limited numbers. Unlike their lesbian counterparts, who joined forces to create long-lasting record labels, strong distribution networks and considerable sales figures for artists such as Cris Williamson and Holly Near, gay male musicians in the 1970s existed largely in solitary bubbles. Which doesnt mean they didnt carve out niches of their own. Eccentric one-man band Chris Robison played with the New York Dolls and Elephants Memory, while L.A. glam seducer Smokey saw members of the Stooges and Quiet Riot pass through his backing band. Steven Grossman was covered by Twiggy and Scrumbly & Martin are justifiably infamous for their work with San Francisco drag hippies The Cockettes. Whether known or not, what the songs on Strong Love illustrate is the vision, talent and raw courage that drove 1970s songwriters to sacrifice popular careers for the sake of honesty and self-expression. Compiled by Chapter Musics Guy Blackman, with an evocative introduction from drummer Richard Dworkin (who played with Blackberri and Buena Vista and is one of the few to have witnessed many Strong Love artists firsthand), the album is a powerful tribute to pioneering artists whose music has been neglected for too long." -Chapter Music. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Epitaph for a Legend Format: Double LP Label: Charly Country: UK Price: $36.00 |
| "Formed in Austin, Texas in 1965, the International Artists label is best known for the 13th Floor Elevators hit singles and seminal albums, but the label also released a series of ground-breaking records from such highly-regarded artists as The Red Crayola, Lost & Found, and The Golden Dawn. Epitaph for a Legend is a collection of rarities from the labels catalogue, which Rogers put together in 1980 for a double vinyl release. This enhanced deluxe reissue of the album features in its gatefold inner extensive new notes from The Mole. Jon Savage (of Mojo magazine) has written a new introduction to his fascinating interview with Lelan Rogers from the original release, which now appears as a separate insert." - Charly. Comes on 180 gram vinyl. |
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Artist: GOLDENROD Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Chartmaker Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Exact repro of this West coast acid psych album recorded in 1969. Goldenrod is the backing band of Darius and the play four meandering prog jams that the Acid Archives took a dump on. But this records a grower." -Chartmaker. |
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Artist: JIMMY JUKEBOX Title: Motor Boat/25 Hours A Day Format: 7" Label: Chattahoochee Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Fanclub release of Kim Fowleys glitter / glam alter ego. Originally released in 1973."Two solid cuts that will have you dancing on the ceiling...dancing with the feeling!" |
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Artist: FOSTER, JOE/KELVIN PITTMAN Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Cherried-Out Merch Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "a side each by two former-Super Unity members. You may know Joe (South Koreas flavorite whitey) from his group English. Really awesome/dynamic electronics+sound poetry, nice use of quiet parts and hiss. You may know Kelvin as "the black guy in the Portland Bike Ensemble", but also he is the most talented/interesting saxaphone free improviser in Portland. If you were to try to sell me a tape and tell me it was a dude sitting in your living room playing a sax, I would say no fucking thanks (dont really care for the instrument in most cases). Kelvin is the immaculate exception, trust me. Edition of 98. " - Cherried-Out Merch. |
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Artist: KEFFER, LESLIE/INCA ORE Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Cherried-Out Merch Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"After I pitched the idea for this tape to Leslie + Eva and they agreed to do it, I felt weird and gay like "oh god, a chick split noise tape, dum", but when I got their masters they worked perfectly together. Nice raw gutter scrape from both. Edition of 100." - Cherried-Out Merch.
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Artist: MY WHOLE HAND WAS WET Title: Docking Format: CDR Label: Cherried-Out Merch Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "After spending the day in a room with no light watching Golden Girls and Starting Over mix VHS-tapes all day, Sacramento, CAs MWHWW transforms into a horrible manic barf-troll gurgling starkly and proudly while fighting with water-proof radios and skipping cds. This is truly something special and unique. With artwork by Mr. My Whole Hand himself, its packaging is printed COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT in a jewel case w/ an 8-page booklet and tray card and a silk-screened disk. Edition of 100. " - Cherried-Out Merch. |
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Artist: WARMTH Title: Michi-Gone-Again Format: Cass Label: Cherried-Out Merch Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "the artist formerly known as Roxanne Jean Polise eloquently barfs up a rich haze of psychedelic/opiate combo-style, sounds like a really fucked string quartet in some spots. Edition of 90." - Cherried-Out Merch. |
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Artist: DEVIANTS, THE Title: Ptooff! Format: LP Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "Classic LP by Ladbroke Grove counterculture proto-Punks the Deviants. Founded by legendary counter-culture figure Mick Farren and Russell Hunter and inspired by The Fugs, the Deviants were first of the anarchic groups to emerge from the Ladbroke Grove area of London. Two years before Hawkwind burst on to the underground scene, the Deviants were preaching revolution and creating their own form of musical anarchy. Ptooff! was the bands classic debut album, originally released in 1967 and only available by mail order from the pages of International Times. Resplendent in a lavish fold out sleeve and with liner note by John Peel, the record caused a sensation, one of the first truly independent British rock albums to be released. This edition restores the original foldout poster artwork and has been re-mastered from the original master tapes." -Cherry Red |
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Artist: FANKHAUSER, MERRELL & HMS BOUNTY Title: (Girl) Im Waiting For You/Im Flying Home Format: 7" Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
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Warehouse find of 1968 recordings issued in 1985. New/unplayed copies.
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Artist: FIVE OR SIX Title: Acting On Impulse Format: CD Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "A timely retrospective of one of the less heralded groups of the classic Cherry Red era of the early eighties but one in whom interest is growing. Musically akin to such contemporaries as Wire and This Heat, Five or Six had the distinction of providing the opening track (Portrait) to Cherry Red¹s historic Pillows and Prayers compilation and this little masterpiece is duly featured on this Best Of collection. Also featured are such stellar singles as Another Reason (produced by the late and very legendary Kevin Coyne) and Polar Exposure and also the outstanding cuts from their impossibly rare and greatly sought after Spanish import album, Play Me That Song That Goes Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. After the group disbanded, its members went on to a multifarious range of artistic occupations, such as members of Spring Heel Jack, the Shock Headed Peters, at Factory Records and 4AD Records and in the drama department of the BBC." - Cherry Red |
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Artist: STACK WADDY Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Cherry Red is delighted to announce the release of another classic album from John Peels Dandelion Records catalogue, 1971s self-titled Stack Waddy, a raucous four-piece from Manchester. Peel had first seen the band at the Buxton Blues Festival in September 1969. Their performance made a big impression, and a first single, Kentucky/Roadrunner, was released just under a year later in August 1970, they soon became Peels favorite band on the label. Raw, rockin power bottled in 1971 and unleashed again here! On stage they were loud, aggressive, fairly pissed and remarkably unsubtle, as befitted musicians who were often forced to supplement their meager gig money by working days on construction sites. Their frustrations and energies were poured into music that it was impossible to ignore. In fact, you were better off not to try to ignore it because one of the many Stack Waddy atrocity stories has John Knail (lead singer) jumping off-stage to beat to the floor a man who was paying more attention to his lady than to the band. As the late John Peel OBE said Stackwaddy were absolutely incorrigible, everything a rock n roll band should be." - Cherry Red |
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Artist: SUN DIAL Title: Other Way Out Format: LP Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $32.00 |
| "When GARY ROMANs neo-psychedelic SUN DIALl debuted in 1990 with Other Way Out, it was almost unanimously lauded by fans and press. Taking the late sixties psychedelic approach of bands like Led Zeppelin, Hendrix and the Beatles, the LP sounded like one of the great lost albums from that era. The instrumentation was also a throwback to the period with crisp electric guitar backed by Turkish talking drums, bamboo flute, and Tibetan bells. Now, 20 years after the albums release, it is still cited as a neo-psych classic." -Cherry Red |
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Artist: TEENAGE JESUS & THE JERKS Title: Shut Up and Bleed Format: CD Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "The seminal no-wave band Teenage and Jesus and The Jerks were lead by primal screamer and guitarist Lydia Lunch, an individual who has fought her artistic way through the decades, always true to her own vision and always brutally honest. In early 1978, artist and producer Brian Eno attended a series of shows put on to benefit the Artists Space in Soho and influenced Island Records to finance an anthology LP featuring the four strongest bands -- Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Contortions, Mars and DNA. The resulting recording, entitled No New York and produced by Eno, remains as one of the most impressive and extraordinarily bold debuts of the time. Here we compiled all Teenage Jesus and The Jerks recordings, alongside some NEVER previously released live material. Simultaneous to Teenage Jesus, Lunch formed Beirut Slump, released one single and recorded an albums worth of material, which is also included on this remarkable release." - Cherry Red |
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Artist: TEENAGE JESUS & THE JERKS Title: Shut Up And Bleed Format: LP Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "Formed by underground music gurus Lydia Lunch and James Chance in 1976, Teenage Jesus flourished in an underground scene that eschewed the commercialization, triteness and idiocy of punk, dominated (particularly in the USA) by bands that, despite being decidedly marginalized, in some ways just wanted to have fun and get wasted on a Saturday night. Teenage Jesus and the Jerks were not about having fun. It was about nihilism and confrontation, about ripping mainstream society to shreds and dancing on its grave. The music, if you will, was more of a means to an end, almost a metaphor for how at odds the members felt with mainstream society, and it was this forceful message preached by this new prophet (the Teenage Jesus) that has spoken to the past three decades of disillusioned youth. These twenty-one tracks taken from their brief time together (1977-1979) represent the bulk of their recorded material, including the bands earliest material (recorded in Soho in NYC 1977, when James Chance was still in the band), their first single (Orphans/Less Of Me, 1978), their second single (Baby Doll/Freud In Flop/Race Mixing), songs from the Pink EP, produced by Robert Quine of the Voidoids, songs that appeared on the legendary 1978 No New York compilation, etc." - Cherry Red. |
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Artist: TIMES, THE Title: Pop Goes Art! Format: LP Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
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"Side project of Television Personalities guitar player Ed Ball and singer Dan Treacy, only here Ball does vocals and Treacy plays guitar. The Times was Balls own brilliant mod homage to the whole Carnaby Street scene. Pop Goes Art! was also the first release on Treacy and Balls Whaam! label, and featured the hilarious Ray Davies-influenced I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape (Patrick McGoohan, of course, being the doomed star of the T.V. series The Prisoner), Miss London and other forgotten classics." - Cherry Red
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Artist: V/A Title: Miniatures One + Two Format: Double CD Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Featuring artists as diverse as The Residents, Robert Fripp, XTCs Andy Partridge, Pete Seeger, Robert Wyatt and The Pretenders Martin Chambers, as well as cover artwork contributed by Ralph Steadman, Morgan Fishers 1980 release Miniatures truly was a first. Overwhelmed with concepts for potential releases, Fisher decided to see how many of these ideas he might be able to squeeze onto just one album. Rather than performing everything himself, he invited 50 musicians he admired to send in tracks of up to one minute in length. They responded with unanimous enthusiasm, and Miniatures was born out of Morgans precise editing and sequencing of these tracks, providing a unique snapshot of the cutting-edge music of the period and achieving legendary status amongst those who cherish such creativity and individuality in the process. Fast forward 15 years, several projects and the development of new realms of communication and data transfer afforded by the internet, and Morgan decided the time was right for a sequel. Little did he know that this project would take six years to complete and involve an international cast of players (taking in 18 countries across five continents), but it proved truly worth both the effort and the wait. The astounding Miniatures 2 brings together over 60 musicians and artists of all genres -- the bizarre, the eccentric, the contemplative, the rebel-rousers, the pioneers and the philosophers and no stone was left unturned in its creation. As with the original album, one minute creations were composed, then sequenced and edited by Morgan, again meeting with rave reviews and an acknowledgement that Fisher had produced something both original and vital to those with any interest in music existing outside the mainstream. Comprising both legendary tiny masterpiece collections, this new set brings together all one hundred and thirteen tracks (yes, 113!) in one two-disc collection for the first time, freshly boosted and tweaked for 2008. New artwork and sleeve-notes have also been provided by Morgan himself." - Cherry Red. Artists include: The Residents, Robert Wyatt, Fred Frith, Lol Coxhill, Steve Miller, Robert Fripp, Ron Geesin, Ralph Steadman, Trevor Wishart, Ivor Cutle, Metabolist, Gavin Bryars, 1/2 Japanese, David Cunningham (The Flying Lizards), Etron Fou Leloublan, Terry Riley, Meredith Monk, David Cunningham, & Moondog (Louis Hardin). |
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Artist: V/A Title: Perspectives and Distortion Format: CD Label: Cherry Red Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| “Although “Pillows and Prayers” is the best-known sampler of the label, its precursor “Perspectives and Distortions” (1981) includes many non-Cherry Red artists, which makes it very interesting. In fact, when I bought this compilation in 1981, it was a stunning overview of British experimental rock/pop/alterntive music, played by loads of people Id never heard of… and a few (like Robert Fripp) that I knew. Time tells us that experimental music can often date really quickly, but most of the music on this comp doesnt. It holds together beautifully, which is surprising because putting arch punks like the Virgin Prunes and Mark Perry in with Kevin Coyne and Robert Fripp, for instance, seems quite out there. Still a lot of names here that I don’t know/remember (A.Tent, the Lemon Kittens), but Matt Johnson (soon to be The The) and Eyeless in Gaza became crucial listening. Listen to it today, and you too might be inspired to check out some new names.” Totally uncommercial music which bordered on the Avant Garde; Outsider Music before anyone thought up the name." - Lion. Features CLAIRE THOMAS and SUSAN VEZEY (STORM BUGS), MATT JOHNSON, VIRGIN PRUNES, LOL COXHILL, LEMON KITTENS, EYELESS IN GAZA, KEVIN COYNE, MARK PERRY, BEN WATT, TWO DAUGHTERS, KEVIN HARRISON, THOMAS LEER, FIVE OR SIX, MORGAN FISCHER, ROBERT FRIPP, A TENT and DAVID JACKMAN (ORGANUM). |
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Artist: BUMMER ROAD, THE Title: Rural Dimensions Format: CDR Label: Child Of Microtones Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"5 trax - wahbez / star wanderer / moon mermaids / outer realms / how
much is enough? manufactured by hand in an edition of 99 with hand painted covers
and mini poetry book. design in the style of "suncatcher mountain" disc."
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Artist: BUMMER ROAD, THE Title: Suncatcher Mountain Format: CDR Label: Child Of Microtones Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
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Artist: LANE, WILLIE Title: Recliner Ragas Format: CDR Label: Child Of Microtones Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT & ERIKA ELDER Title: Heroine Celestial Agriculture Format: CDR Label: Child of Microtones Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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C.C. Melotone > In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town (10:54) b/w Canned Heat Blues (26:27). 8 all analog recorded cds containing a different take of each composition from the Lunar Blues release with LONG organic outros of deep psychedelia exclusive to each disc, all with unreleased b-sides not available elsewhere. Some of the rarest Child of Microtones ever issued and the mv&ee medicine show at their finest featuring stellar appearances from many guests." - Child of Microtones. Vol 1 of 8.
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT & ERIKA ELDER MEDICINE SHOW Title: The Sun Catcher Blossoms A Nova.. Rural Ragas Volume 3 Format: CDR Label: Child Of Microtones Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT/ERIKA ELDER/GABRIEL WALSH Title: The Tempatation To Zoology Format: DVDR Label: Child Of Microtones Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"A short film by Matt Valentine, Erika Elder and Gabriel Walsh (2003/20 minutes) (COM 15). An incredible myth of things seen in the skysea concerning an animal so human and its transfiguration during a journey to the trysting place of an aeon - Starring Dredd Foole, pi, mv, ee, Samara Lubelski, P.G. Six, Barry Weisblat, Alan Licht, Greg Anderson, Joshua Burkett, Noah Wall, Cynthia Meadows, Nouri Zander, Gabe Walsh, Pegasus, Boletus & Richy Midnight. Music by The MV&EE Medicine Show with Mr. & Mrs. Kuck. DVD-R issued in unbleached digipaks with a mini book of mvs 3 part zoology fable narrated (with some parts sung) by Dredd Foole in the film. Handwritten spines, stamping, VERY limited supplies issued in an edition of 99 copies." - COM.
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Artist: CHORA Title: Ruined Parabola Format: LP Label: Chironex Country: France Price: $27.00 |
| "A huge seventeen-minute blast kicks off side one with Gamelan-inspired percussion and metallic drones. The rich and expansive sound feels like the scouts of a storm have amassed with invisible bodies among the bones of a weathered shipyard. Warm tones ebb in cycles, while the percussion thins and a strangled horn blasts a Fire-styled cry. Vocals holler at a ghostly distance. Chimes and cymbals are met with thudding, hard wooden knocks. The end draws near with elongated guitar tones that add a sense of arid landscape to what originally feels like a nautical storm. Violent, caustic, organic noise and improvised calamity. Instruments twist and arch in suffocating formations." -Chironex |
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Artist: LE DRAPEAU NOIR Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Chironex Country: France Price: $27.00 |
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"This dream project of European improvised music-an octet comprised of members of HUNTER GRACCHUS, CHORA, and PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES-should get Euro-sceptics lathered. Rambling cacophony erupts in big-band formations, with the sound sitting somewhere between various Jooklo projects and the sprawling insanity of The A Band. Multicultural folk influences are strong; East / West primitivism escapes the vacuum of the trivial object, forging live and simmering performances." -Chironex
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Artist: ZASHIKI-WARASHI Title: Fog Fluid Format: CDR Label: Chironex Country: France Price: $12.00 |
| Solo release from Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter, Izititiz, Pigeons...) - edition of 80 copies in sewn, mesh packaging. |
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Artist: ALVARIUS B Title: Burmese Military Mandolin Format: 7" Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: AXOLOTL Title: Prophetic Ass Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "New psych damaged batch of nocturnal hookum from Karl Bauer. Zoned out crackling, tones and sweet SK-1 blowout all brewed up into a sweet load of tingling psychic non-songs and grot beats." -Chocolate Monk |
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Artist: BLITHE SONS Title: Rooms Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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"so most of the gamulas are used to hearing glenn donaldson & loren chasse knee deep in mud & insect droppings while the wind blows and the birds sing, but this release is the first by the Jewelled Antler boys to be recorded indoors. a live track recorded in sacremento and the other recorded in the "sun room". musically similar to their previous releases, creeping musics, late night head lick." - Chocolate Monk
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Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: For Heavy Lung Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "A one night only 5-piece when we were joined by Julian Bradley, Neil Campbell and Sticky Foster in Leeds. Just what you would hope for, tape loops, drone, vocal damage, confused percussion, reeds etc. A ten legged brew-up." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: Little Creeper Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Recorded live at Resonance FM. Full on duo in kick back mode, trying to burrow out of the airwaves into the listeners spine via tapes, voice, violin, oscillators, percussion and various other junk. A very pleasant magnetic headache. " - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: Live at Sonic Protest Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| ⿿Blood Stereo featuring Professor Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance and Milche Grand invaded the stage and spat a half-hour of pure sonic bliss. They offered an onslaught of ⿿hydrostatic⿿ sounds that made both my constipation and blood circulation problems avoid the need for any form of homeopathy. Hicham Chadly, Blastitude.com Joined by Milche Grand (Chrome Hoof), this is a mangled/remixed recording of the Blood Stereo show at Sonic Protest Festival in paris in 2004. - Chocolate Monk |
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Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: The Trunk Is Flexed Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "A late night whiskey jam with brain bent serenades. Nyoukis & Constance joined by Caroline Lewis (PSKB) and southern ladies man Billy Taylor (ex-Melted Men, ex-TL&SiLA)." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: BLOOD STEREO/MOYSK EN CHIMYSER Title: Split Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Super split. Belgian learning disabilites duo Moysk en Chimyser produce some wondrous low brow scum/shit noise, elbow deep in patch cords and cheap beer. Blood Stereo get all bent out of shape and try to explain the sounds of tape machines dying. This is xerox psychedelia." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: BRADLEY, JULIAN Title: Heel intercom Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "all new solo recordings from Julian Bradley of Vibracathedral Orchestra.. 30+ minues of late night electric-tape loop whatsist? a subtle brain massage with hidden huh?!" - Chocolate Monk |
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Artist: CAMPBELL, NEIL & JOHN CLYDE-EVANS Title: Live At Transmission Gallery, Glasgow Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Recorded 22 November 1998 this is a bliss blister of cello, violin, tapes and voice. Like some shortwave radio broadcast straight from the porch, the duo conjuer up Sticky Foster as a ghost presence. Karen Constance done did the artwork. You needs it." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: CROSSBREED Title: We Dont Need A Pain! Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Rie Lambdoll & Mayuko are a Japanese female duo from Osaka, performing their own style of electronic drone noise, heavy flowing. "We direct to fault of the cloudy society, listen to lifes scream, catch the feels from bottom of our soul, and makeem beautiful sounds. We active as crossbred for everything..." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: DECAER PINGA Title: Plate Of Failure Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "2 tracks. 1 is a high orbit clutter mong out with DP joined by Sticky Foster, the whole touchy/feely racket is mixed into putrid mindloaf by one Bad Ronald. Track 2 is a twilight gurner, lubricated sound collage with guests voices (including Hitomi Arimoto broadcasting truth!)." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: DECAER PINGA Title: The Brown Mouth Downer Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "DP 5tet of Dylan Nyoukis & Dora Doll with Karen Constance (smack music 7), Rhian Thompson (ckdh) and Drew Demeter (withdrawal method) recorded in Edinburgh in 2004. A snippet from a sweaty ear rot session rescued from Demeters erase button finger." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: DIRECTING HAND Title: A Old Soul At The Helm Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Alex Neilson is the UKs kid thunder, who may be known to you for playing drums in Jandeks band or being one half of Beating Stars with Richard Youngs, but Directing Hand is his own free form handshake. All kinds of joyous clatter in this baby. Guests players include Christina Carter." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: GAS SHEPERDS Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "These uk primitives are drooling. Salivating some wild liquids, most probably brought on from licking a finish mushroom, or toad. Bedroom plucking, strange clank and paranoid electricity. Its enough to send you back to the cave, asshole." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: GIFFONI, CARLOS Title: The Last Analogue Session Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Mr Monotracts final analogue throw up is a Chimo paste dripping brain tangle. Recorded in Bushwick in 2002, here we hear Carlos stumble into broken electronic/radio confussion, and emerge the other end with some kind of sonic afro." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: GLAMOROUS PAT Title: Starer Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "New recordings by the glitter coated pin-up/numbskull/genius. Amazing all over the place sonic ear hate. Highly recommended. ⿿....you need to change, and actually be more intense and real instead of some character of a character who just sits around and goes bwaaaaaaaaaaah........and you need to learn how to draw, and play some instruments, and how to be human, in stead of a cool monster, and i think your music should be funnier and you need stage presence sorry but you r last two performances can kiss a dick, I mean they were so boring, you were just standing there blasting noise, woooooooooo. Ultimately no one out side of a hand full of people dont care, - hate mail to pat from an old boyfriend." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: GREEN MIST Title: Attack Of The Centipedes Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "One Man Band of Dallas K playing dissected walkmans with guitar strings, tongue and fingers. Electricity improvised, heathen style. "My mouth tastes like batteries." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: KELLEY, GREG Title: 1 Hour As Something That Didnt Turn Out The Way I Intended It Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| ⿿Another exercise in failure. Spring 2003: With assistance from Vic Rawlings, I fill my room at Club Awesome in Somerville MA w/ electric keyboards, synth, a small organ and set them all for drone. A radio plays static. Record to MD, output MD through my stereo for low feedback. An electric fan is aimed at the microphone for the distorted vintage 78 effect (rpm, not the year). Vic bowed a single cello note at some point and a cymbal was scraped. The intent: record in mono for 2 hours, communicate with the dead. After 1 hour, I couldnt take it any more. My intended "Two hours as..." is now "One hour as..." I fussed over it for a while. Its kind of boring. I like boring, but... Late Winter 2004: I must do something with this recording. I decide to look backwards into the archives... January 8, 2000: I send out a call to arms: Meet me at Twisted Village Records, Cambridge MA at 8pm. Its Scelsis birthday and we will play a memorial drone for him. The call was met by Oliver Alden, Mike Bullock, James Baumgartner, Seth Cluett, James Coleman, David Dougan, David Gross, Tatsuya Nakatani, Howard Stelzer, Bhob Rainey, Vic Rawlings. Some automatic instruments played themselves. Others may have been there, but I dont remember. And you cant really hear them anyway. Back to Late Winter 2004: I record a new track onto my 4 track in my bedroom in Allston MA. Trumpet and radio static. (DJ Screws ghost inhabited my 4 track near the end of this track.) Then I record a burning guitar solo for the end of my new and improved "One hour as..." The mono drone, the Scelsi tribute band, the trumpet/radio track and the HOTT guitar track are all mixed down from 4 track to MD under the influence of Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout. A vocal intro and headphone feedback interruptions are then added. The task is complete. Its a bloodbath. What have I done? |
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Artist: LEXIE MOUNTAIN Title: Stone Shit Unicorn Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "The mighty Ms Mountain, Baltimores Queen of Tape Hiss and swagger squats down and lays another fine egg of head scratch. Lowbrow tape collage of all her chops, from backyard jam band to psychic accapella damage to ear/soul laceration and further still. All executed in her own street-level avant thug style. Like the sacred mushroom this will take you beyond mangled." -Chocolate Monk |
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Artist: MOKINOX Title: Im Your Chair Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Sonic Youth cabin boy Chris Habib gushing out audio tourettes with electronics and voice garble. Word on the street has it that he wheezed this baby out while wearing a full adult sized frog costume, no shit." - Chocolate Monk |
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Artist: MONGOLOID MEN Title: From The Void Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "For one night only the Mongoloid Men (connelly, olson, young and nyoukis) came lurching into a brighton basement. Cheap beer and indian food in their stomachs, beards and hair full of hash smoke. A swarm of metallic insects shitting debris into ears of those who attended. Horrible, horrible noise." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: NYOUKIS, DYLAN Title: norse fungi festivus Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Recorded in preperation for the No Fun Fest, "Norse Fungi Festivus" is a manky live piece for voice and prepared tape,, heavily delayed & lubed tonsils sending out throat claw signals... crivens!!!" - Chocolate Monk |
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Artist: NYOUKIS, DYLAN Title: Owl Tapes Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Two solo pieces for voice and reel to reels (well one also has oscillator), plus one interlude. Includes the first ever solo live joint. Like if Terry Riley had down syndrome when he hooked up his time-lag accumulator." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: POLLY SHANG KUAN BAND Title: Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "karen lollypops ever changing female outsider puff. two live pieces here by the first line up from 2001, a 5 piece which featured japanese writer akira kuroda. this release gave aaron dilloway flame in his teeth." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: POLLY SHANG KUAN BAND Title: Eye Of Horus Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "The second PSKB release, and the first to feature the three piece line-up of the last year. Really full on screamer of crunked up live recordings, non-fidelity satanic ear blister." - Chocolate Monk |
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Artist: POLLY SHANG KUAN BAND Title: For The Blood Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Latest hookum from the outsider aural ugsters. Joyous, hysterical, broken, fucked up primitive, drunken speaker invasion. PSKB laugh in Deaths face and spit into the eye sockets of skulls." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: PRICK DECAY & T. MOORE Title: Electricity Vs. Insects Format: 7" Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK/DECAER PINGA Title: Omiting The Troll Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Toy Walkie Talkie Format: 7" Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
| "heir sideburns (dead c) conjours no nonsense neck ache in a toys R us stylee. semen vinyl." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: SHIMADA, NAOMI Title: Starlight Express Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Pavilionous Miracles Of Circular Facet Dice Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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"Everybodys favourite cave people deliver another crud encrusted diamond. Over an hour of cracked throat wave insanity. A dark, smoke filled room, some lungs, and more smoke. Their best and most crazed release yet. Fucking wild!" - Chocolate Monk.
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Artist: SPECTRE FONE Title: Newsday Long Island for Nipsey Russell Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "New solo smooch from Pete Nolan (Magik markers/Virgin eye Blood Brothers) letting out some primitive apartment style electronic/raga strangeness." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: SUPREME REALITY Title: Universal Rundle Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Anne Eickelberg (TFUL282) and her two man bitches Rich Wells and Scott Simmons perform north west conjure music, too much coffee and lack of direction lead the listener into a non-nonsensical chase scene, featuring bad leather jackets." - Chocolate Monk |
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Artist: TAPE SALAD Title: Each Banana Is Unique Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Anders Artentoft (Bohman Family/Bimbo Sons) squats and lays a super Copenhagen retard style egg. Full on special needs anti-music with tiny face melt." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: TAURPIS TULA Title: Steel Rods Bruise Butterflies Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "This first recording as a trio (Heather and David Leigh are joined by Alex Neilson on drums) is a full on sonic avalanche. A wild exorcism, baby." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: U.S. GIRLS Title: Gravel Days Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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"Meghan Remy continues her one woman crusade to drain all humankind of bad blood and garbage, refilling our boots with hissed out affection while dousing us in white thunder. Hear the sound of a skull full of quartz being pounded by tiny yet powerful hands and listen to her inveigling vocals, the kind of thing Phil Spector hears in his pill poping nightmares. Note to Prog logs, this baby is a short and sweet slide (19mins)." -Chocolate Monk. Previous release on Siltbreeze.
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Artist: V/A Title: From The Lips Of Lepers Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Gloriously bent compilation of tape manpulation/loop madness/whatever with John Wiese, Ashtray Navigations, Justin Meyers, Ones, Smack Music 7, Julian Bradley, Luke Younger, Green Mist, Neil Campbell, Aaron Dilloway, Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, Dylan Nyoukis, Skaters, Sisprum Vish & Gas Shepherds." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Swissotic Commune Document Format: Cass Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
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"eb.er compiled ass/mind magic w/ runzelsturn & gurgelstock, sudden infant, d. phillips, fear of god, wash your brain & others." - Chocolate Monk.
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Artist: V/A Title: Swissotic Commune Document Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "eb.er compiled ass/mind magic w/ runzelsturn & gurgelstock, sudden infant, d. phillips, fear of god, wash your brain & others." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: V/A Title: White Music Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| With Smack Music 7, Golden Calves, J Bradley & Neil Campbell, and Damian Bisciglia & Dylan Nyoukis. |
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Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: Angel Hair Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "face tripping you since the golden calves went up in a puff of rink-smoke? then worry not as many of the players from that stinkship are back with wooden wand & the vanishing voice. the spirit is there but the skulls are way more warped, like ESP-folkies pulling on the hate chain." - Chocolate Monk. |
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Artist: WORKBENCH Title: Live From The American Snake Machine Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Mike Bernstein (Double Leopards) serves up some black electric goo. A humming attack on ghosts, full on primitive ear confusion from NYCs king of bearded wha?" - Chocolate Monk |
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Artist: YEH, C. SPENCER Title: The Strangler Format: CDR Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
| "Spencer is one wanted cowboy, so he makes more records than most have nosehairs. And many are droney records, which as all record nerds secretly know, are about as tough to lay hands on as your own boogers. But whenever he slides off into the uncharted desert like this, its worth extra attention. Carefully sculpted audio ping pong games are played with scatological rasberry sounds. Toilets flush, wind whistles, straw bubbles spew, Donald Duck talks to you on a fritzed cb radio, and bits of a strangled laugh track flop like dead fish. Go further into the dunes, and skeletal, all-thumbs acoustic guitar licks start to be circled by esophageal vultures who attack the spiney dead. Yessir, lets get lost." - Angela Sawyer, Weirdo Records |
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Artist: YKEO Title: Clot Too Brown Format: CD-R Label: Chocolate Monk Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Pretty boy Daniel Mitha serves up a diamond noise goiter. Arcade game cut-up hookum meets candle lit face drill romance. Dedicated to his future ex-wives 16 Bitch Pile-Up." - Chocolate Monk |
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Artist: V/A Title: Patchouli & Echoes Format: Double CDR Label: Chocolate Monk/Beast 777 Country: Uk/Japan Price: $18.00 |
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"finally in orbit, this is a hot smoocher with the beast people, universal indians, the mini-systems, the beserk metro quartet, ron of japan, blowhole & the climax golden twins, un, the lidz, tight white, malta, s*t*a*r, pork queen, points of friction, paekong mae, tower recordings, shadow ring, inca eyeball, gernols ( reynols plays germs), anti-nephi-lehis, musica transonic, kitten sparkles, don bolles and ex CGB, die todliche doris, beautiful music co, damian bisciglia, space machine, ashtray navigations. compiled, mixed and remixed by hitomi arimoto, don bolles and dylan nyoukis." - Chocolate Monk.
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Artist: BISHOP & W. DAVID OLIPHANT, SIR RICHARD Title: Beyond All Defects Format: CD Label: Chodpa Media Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This CD is the first in a series from Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant. It was composed and recorded live in the studio in Phoenix, AZ in December of 2011. The sonic landscapes presented here find their origins in Tibet, and are heavily inspired by Tibetan Buddhism -- specifically the body of teachings known as Dzogchen. Many of the musical ideas for this project were literally derived from dreams the night before they were created. The remaining ideas were formed centuries ago. Sir Richard Bishop plays acoustic guitar throughout. Often detuned, bowed, and beaten, the guitar was "treated" by Oliphant during the live recording process. SRB also provided audio from field recordings he captured in India. WDO used a variety of computer software with a midi controller to create all the other sounds. All tracks were captured in real-time, direct to disk." - Chodpa Media. |
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Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Metallic Thaumaturgy Format: CDR Label: Chondritic Sound Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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Artist: HIVE MIND & JOHN WIESE Title: s/t Format: 10" Label: Chondritic Sound Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: WORKBENCH Title: Synapse Transit Format: 3" CDR Label: Chondritic Sound Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
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Artist: ASHLEY/WALTER MARCHETTI, ROBERT Title: Oct. 25th, 2001: Merkin Concert Hall, NYC Format: Double LP Label: Choose Country: Germany Price: $55.00 |
| "Back in 2001, Thomas Buckner organized a series of concerts at Merkin Hall in New York City. The idea was to have a contemporary classic composer inviting another composer, a kind of alter-ego, to perform together. When Robert Ashley, whose concert was considered the peak of the whole series of events, decided to invite his old friend Walter Marchetti, it was immediately clear that there would have been something unforgettable going on. The night of October 25th, 2001, the audience at the Merkin Hall had the privilege of being present at one of the more dense, intimate and breathtaking sonic events in contemporary music history. Sides A and B include the live rendering of two Walter Marchetti sound works previously issued on CD by Alga Marghen. A 25-minute excerpt of Nei Mari del Sud. Musica in Secca and one painful variation from De Musicorum Infelicitate. The performance of those tape pieces was conceived as an action theatre event, the first concert of the legendary Italian composer in the States after more than 30 years! Side C includes the recording of Robert Ashleys Yes, But Is It Edible?, a composition for piano and voice dedicated to Thomas Buckner who performs it with the composer. This 27:30 min long piece is a true masterpiece, with Robert Ashley introducing us to creation and coincidence, space and time, private parts and characters, with direct references to the ONCE group and his friends David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, Blue Gene Tyranny, George Manupelli, as well as Maria Callas and Patsy Cline, Elvis and Lennon, Monteverdi, pop music, Irish and Jewish new-comers Broadway musical parody of America, Lloyd-Weber, Saturday Night Life, Chinese opera, mariachi bands, country music and much more. Side D includes Practical Anarchism, a touching homage that Robert Ashley dedicated to Walter Marchetti. Previously published as a text by Alga Marghen in the booklet of the Antibarbarus CD, this is actually the first time ever that this piece for solo voice, performed by the same Robert Ashley, is made available on record. Also on side D is Musica Per un Bicchiere non Molto Grande, an early ZAJ piece by Walter Marchetti, performed here by Robert Ashley. Edition of 300 copies." - Choose. |
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Artist: FULLMAN, ELLEN & KONRAD SPRENGER Title: Ort Format: LP Label: Choose Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
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"In 1981, at her studio in Brooklyn she began developing her life-work, the 70 foot (21 meter) Long String Instrument, in which rosin-coated fingers brush across dozens of metallic strings, producing a chorus of minimal organ-like overtones which has been compared to the experience of standing inside an enormous grand piano. Ort, represents a unique blend of musical styles, from hillbilly/country & western to contemporary minimal, with shades of art-rock. With this release the label seems to be pointing to a number of diverse musical directions, opening a vast field of possibilities for the future." - Arnold Dreyblatt. CD also available.
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Artist: SPRENGER, KONRAD Title: Miniaturen Format: LP Label: Choose Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
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"Miniaturen or in English: Miniatures is Konrad Sprengers first solo album. The dictionary defines a miniature as a representation or image of something on a small or reduced scale. Sprenger worked for over two years to find a grand form in which to represent his myriad bagatelles; drawing from hundreds of finished and unfinished recordings recorded over the last ten years with a diverse palette of musicians, artists and friends. The result is an unlikely juxtaposition of 32 abbreviated sonoric vignettes, each with its own internal logic, each a setting within a diverse range of musical styles (ranging from pop, Kraut, baroque, American minimalism etc.), recognizable on the one hand, yet always unexpected. The instrumentation is equally abstruse: from mechanical bird organs and automated musical machines from the 1800s to sine waves, harmonium, timpanies, steel drum, sirens and countless other examples; this is a sonic exploration of endless possibilities where each work takes the listener one step forward, building on perceptual associations, so that one never knows where one will end up next. The sonic miniatures function as reduced modules, always referring to some other music or sounds we must have heard somewhere, but which we are forever unable to pin down. After producing recordings by Ellen Fullman, Arnold Dreyblatt, Doc Schoko and countless others, and performing for years as Konrad Sprenger with such luminary bands as Ethnostress and Ei and the art group Honey-suckle Company, Sprenger has finally made his own artistic statement with Miniaturen once again adorned with a cover by artist Jonas Lipps." -Arnold Dreyblatt. CD also available.
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Artist: WOODEN WAND/UNEARTHLY TRANCE Title: Manson Format: 7" Label: Chrome Peeler Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "UNEARTHLY TRANCE and WOODEN WAND offer up an ULTRA-LIMITED split 7" from the songbook of CHARLES MANSON. UNEARTHLY TRANCE reach into the hole of the infinite with their haunting version of "People Say Im No Good" while WOODEN WAND programs the young love with his version of "Get On Home". LIMITED TO 200 COPIES." -Chrome Peeler |
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Artist: FRESH & ONLYS Title: Imaginary Friends Format: 7" Label: Chuffed Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"With their hallucinogenic brand of garage rock and eerie backing female vocals, THE FRESH & ONLYS are reminiscent of San Franciscos earlier Haight & Ashbury ancestors. Their music takes it easy and lets the rock-out take a backdrop to their swooning, heavy-set garage rock vocals, simple but strong chord progressions, all coated in droplets of keyboards and undemanding drums. They are set to tour with Thee Oh Sees early this year and have opened for psychedelic soul legend Rodriguez."-Caroline Partamian (Noisepop).
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Artist: BROTZMANN/BENNINK Title: Ein Halber Hund Kann Nicht Pinkeln Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $31.00 |
| "Peter Brozmann: soprano, alto, tenor saxophone, b-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, piano. Han Bennink: drums, piano, viola, banjo, bass clarinet. Recording: A1 & A2 recorded live by Bernhard Arndt on April 8th & 9th, 1977 during the Workshop Freie Musik at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. A3, A4, A5 & B1 recorded by Jost Gebers on March 26th, 1977 at the Quartier Latin in Berlin. B2 to B5 recorded by Jost Gebers on March 27th, 1977, at the Quartier Latin in Berlin. Produced by Jost Gebers. This album was originally released on FMP, 1977. Original FMP catalog number: FMP 0420." -Cien Fuegos |
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Artist: BROTZMANN/BENNINK/VAN HOVE Title: Balls Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $31.00 |
| "Cien Fuegos presents live recordings circa 1970 Berlin from the legendary free music duo of German free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist Han Bennink and pianist Fred Van Hove. Instrumentation: Peter Brotzmann (tenor saxophone), Fred Van Hove (piano), Han Bennink (drums, gachi, shell, voice). Recording: Recorded by Wolfgang Bukatz on August 17th, 1970 in Berlin. Supervision by Hans-Dieter Frankenberg. Produced by Jost Gebers. This album was originally released on FMP, 1975. Original FMP catalog number: FMP 0020." -Cien Fuegos |
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Artist: BROTZMANN/BENNINK/VAN HOVE Title: Tschus Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $31.00 |
| "Cien Fuegos presents live recordings circa 1975 Berlin from the legendary free music duo of German free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist Han Bennink and pianist/accordionist Fred Van Hove. Instrumentation: Peter Brötzmann (clarinets, alto, tenor & bass saxophone, vocals), Fred Van Hove: (piano, accordion), Han Bennink: (drums, cymbals, Schwirrholz, accordion, clarinets, floor, walls, megaphone, etc.). Recorded by Jost Gebers on Sunday afternoon, September 14th, 1975 at the Quartier Latin in Berlin. A6 was recorded live by Jost Gebers on September 13th, 1975 at the Quartier Latin in Berlin. Produced by Jost Gebers. This album was originally released on FMP, 1970. FMP catalog number: FMP 0230." -Cien Fuegos |
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Artist: BROTZMANN/HAN BENNINK, PETER Title: Schwarzwaldfahrt Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $31.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl reissue of this LP, originally released by FMP in 1977. Peter Brötzmann and Han Bennink -- e-flat clarinet, b-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, birdcalls, viola, banjo, cymbals, wood, trees, sand, land, water, air. Recorded open air on a Stellavox recorder by Peter Brötzmann and Han Bennink from May 9th to 11th, 1977 in the Black Forest near Aufen and the Schwarzenbach Talsperre. Produced by Peter Brötzmann and Jost Gebers." -Cien Fuegos. |
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Artist: BROTZMANN/HARRY MILLER/LOUIS MOHOLO, PETER Title: The Nearer the Bone, the Sweeter the Meat Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $31.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl, originally released in 1979 on the FMP label. Peter Brötzmann on soprano, alto, tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet; Harry Miller on double bass, and Louis Moholo on drums. Recorded by Jost Gebers on August 27th, 1979 at the FMP-Studio in Berlin. Produced by Peter Brötzmann and Jost Gebers." -Cien Fuegos. |
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Artist: DAMMERATTACKE Title: Tausend Seen Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $28.00 |
 "A psycho-motorik fit of epilepsy is probably the best synonym for "Dämmerattacke!," but this Austrian new wave band were not only set on attacking your bodily movements, they were also set on attacking your ears. Tausend Seen was originally released in a very small quantity in 1982, and is now -- after 30 years -- available again in a remastered edition. Punk rock is skillfully combined with new wave, and this album has the disturbing yet catching feeling of Joy Divisions Closer and it is still an amazing, stand-alone piece of music. Walter Leinwebers melancholic voice adds the perfect portion "anti-pop" to the mix. It all adds up to an extraordinary recording of Austrian underground music history, which has long been out-of-print and very sought-after in the international new/cold wave scene. The record was produced by Konrad Becker and remastered in 2012 by Amann Studios. Members include: Erich Allinger (keys); Michael Andersch (vocals); Thomas Guth (bass); Franz Heuschneider (bass, guitar); Walter Leinweber (guitar, vocals); Wolfgang Leinweber (drums)." -Cien Fuegos.
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Artist: EISLER/BROTZMANN/VAN HOVE/BENNINK Title: Einheitsfrontlied Format: 7" Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $16.00 |
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"This 7" was originally released on the legendary German FMP label in 1973. Features Hanns Eisler, Peter Brötzmann, Fred Van Hove and Han Bennink." -Cien Fuegos.
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Artist: HOTEL MORPHILA ORCHESTER Title: Schwarze Energie Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $28.00 |
| "The Hotel Morphila Orchester was founded in 1978 by Peter Weibel (voice/lyrics) and Loys Egg (guiter/composition). "In the old times in Vienna, every good hotel or coffeehouse had their own orchestra. Since this tradition is extinct today, we call ourselves after a hotel that doesnt exist either. Hotels have a good tradition in rock music: Heartbreak Hotel, Morrison Hotel, Hotel California.... The name of the hotel swings between morbid, morphium, Morpheus (god of dreams/sleep), Mephistopheles, Morphe, Godzilla and indicates the character of the hotel, the guests, the music: monster-rock by machines, music of the metropoles, neon-rock, code-breaker, clinic-music for patients of all kinds." --Peter Weibel; In his unmistakable flow of speech, where no syllable can be assured that it wont drown in the flood of words, Peter Weibel recites the sincere lyrics, pushed by a heavy beat. Peter Weibel is internationally-known for his work as an artist (conceptual, video, media), and he has worked with the Viennese Actionist group, lecturing at various universities since the 70s. Since 1999, he has been the head of the ZKM/Center For Art and Media Karlsruhe. In the 90s, Germanys Chicks On Speed had an underground hit with their cover-version of Hotel Morphila Orchesters "Sex In Der Stadt" (trans. "Sex In The City"). Their only full-length album Schwarze Energie from 1982 is an international collectors item; the re-issue was remastered from the original tapes and pressed to 180 gram vinyl. Includes lyric sheet." -Cien Fuegos. |
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Artist: SCHOOF ORCHESTRA, MANFRED Title: European Echoes Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $31.00 |
| "Cien Fuegos presents a 1969 album from the Manfred Schoof Orchestra -- headed up by popular European avant-garde jazz figure, Manfred Schoof. Originally issued on FMP, the labels first release. Features appearances from musicians such as Peter Brötzmann, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Paul Rutherford, Evan Parker. Born 1936 in Magdeburg, Manfred Schoof is one of the most popular jazz avant-gardists in Europe. He played in projects like Globe Unity Orchestra, Manfred Schoof Quintet, New Jazz Trio, and many more. Since 1990, he has taught music at the University Of Cologne and works for television and radio. He composed the music for "The Program With The Mouse." Enrico Rava (trumpet); Manfred Schoof (trumpet); Hugh Steinmetz (trumpet); Peter Brötzmann (tenor saxophone); Gerd Dudek (tenor saxophone); Evan Parker (soprano saxophone); Paul Rutherford (trombone); Derek Bailey (guitar); Fred Van Hove (piano); Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano); Irène Schweizer (piano); Arjen Gorter (double bass); Peter Kowald (double bass); Buschi Niebergall (double bass); Han Bennink (drums); Pierre Favre (drums). Recorded by an unknown engineer in June 1969, in Bremen. Produced by Jost Gebers. Cover design: Wolf Walt. Photograph by Johannes Muth." -Cien Fuegos. |
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Artist: VOGUE, THE Title: A Doll Spits Cubes Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $28.00 |
| "This legendary Austrian beat/mod/psychedelic band existed from 1978 to 1982. The album A Doll Spits Cubes was self-released by the band in an edition of 300, gone in days, once repressed as a bootleg and heavily sought-after in the years to come until today. The song "Frozen Seas of Lo" made it to #2 in the Austrian charts. With insert." - Cien Fuegos. |
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Artist: VON SCHLIPPENBACH, ALEXANDER Title: The Living Music Format: LP Label: Cien Fuegos Country: Austria Price: $31.00 |
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"180 gram vinyl reissue of German free improvisation pianist and composer Alexander von Schlippenbachs The Living Music, originally released on his own Quasar label in 1969. Recorded by Conny Plank, it features Peter Brötzmann (tenor & baritone saxophone), Manfred Schoof (cornet, flugelhorn), Michael Pilz (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone), Paul Rutherford (trombone), Buschi Niebergall (double bass, bass trombone) and Han Bennink (drums, percussion). The Living Music remains one of the paramount avant/free jazz records." - Cien Fuegos. "...the six pieces on The Living Music explore the concepts of open spaces and collective improvisation at least as much as they do everyone-solos-at-once clatter." - All Music Guide (4/5) . |
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Artist: NEW HUMANS Title: Super Loco Format: 7" Label: Circuit Country: Switzerland Price: $12.00 |
| "Contact microphones, analog synthesizer, electric drill, mirrored glass, hammers, electronics. Full blown military-entertainment complex hangover. From industrial assembly to abstract disembody -- Super Loco. 7" transparent blue vinyl with foldout cover. Pressing of 350. Performed by Mika Tajima, Howie Chen, and Eric Tsai. Two possible soundtracks for ⿿After Birds (2008), a film by Philippe Decrauzat. Cover design and images by Philippe Decrauzat." - Circuit. |
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Artist: NEW HUMANS Title: Undercover Format: LP Label: Circuit Country: Switzerland Price: $16.00 |
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"Color vinyl 12" "Undercover" produced with artist Philippe Decrauzat through Switzerlands Circuit. Featuring New Humans soundtrack for Decrauzats 16mm film, "A change of speed, a change of style. A change of scene; Part II". Includes solo beat track on reverse side. Jacket design collaboration by Decrauzat and Mika Tajima, and special poster insert. Brutal and concise." New Humans recently collaborated with Vito Acconci and C. Spencer Yeh.
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Artist: INNERGAZE Title: Mutual Dreaming Format: LP Label: Cititrax Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Our sublabel Cititrax, is proud to present new music from Brooklyn based synth duo Innergaze. Their second LP, “Mutual Dreaming” is a highly anticipated release and were ecstatic that the vinyl is finally out. “Innergaze drag us slightly further back into the glorious cradle of dance music. Their music, crushed and static, obscured by sound. EBM, coldwave, early techno fight it out for dominance of the drum machine. Casually brutal vocals force their way through from the Death Factory. As if Chris & Coseys dalliances with the Eurythmics had conjured a restless pioneering demon to duet with Annie Lenox but had instead ended up consuming her. Celestial synths coexisting with the industrial landscape bellow.” -20 Jazz Funk Greats. “Innergaze is the musical project of Aurora Halal and Jason Letkiewicz – Letkiewicz is known for his work with or as Manhunter, Steve Summers and Rhythm Based Lovers; Halal a video editor and director. Its pretty clear that Innergaze is a wholly collaborative effort, as Letkiewiczs penchant for pulsing beats and organic house mingles with the hazy, psychedelic new-age atmospheres that shine through Halals video work, together creating something that could loosely fall under the ‘minimal synth tag. Dont expect some sort of easily placeable sound, though – Innergaze has far more personality than your average electro duo, relying on intuition, emotion and a good jam session to create their music, not a rigid set of pre-determined parameters. Together, its like a robot coated in human flesh, sentient yet vaguely artificial, and like most cyborgs portrayed on TV, quite beautiful. Im pretty sure they are in love, too, which is an interesting dynamic for a sound that often relies on aesthetic impassiveness.” - YellowGreenRed. The “Mutual Dreaming” LP is a limited pressing of 999 copies on 160 gram vinyl, housed in a high quality full color printed sleeve featuring a collaborative artwork concept by Veronica Vasicka and Aurora Halal." -Cititrax. |
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Artist: KONTRAVOID Title: Native State Format: 7" Label: Cititrax Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "The tracks Native State and Cut to Cleanse are exclusive 7" only versions. The record is pressed on clear blue vinyl and comes in a hand silk-screened sleeve, limited edition of 999 numbered copies. The name Kontravoid belongs on a limited run cassette circa 1980-something, the type of tape buried in lost upstate dustbins of pre-MIDI analog electronics, wedged between Cabaret Voltaire and Das Ding. The dark industrial and new wave influences are strong on ex-Crystal Castles drummer Cam Findlays new project - his voice is scary, like an echoing underwater growl - but the underlying pop melodies always afford a degree of breathing room." -Cititrax. |
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Artist: MEDIO MUTANTE Title: Inestable EP Format: 12" Label: Cititrax Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Cititrax is proud to present Medio Mutantes debut 12 inch EP.
The six tracks on this record are the product of a serendipitous
meeting of minds and the feverish week of recording sessions
that followed. Mariana Saldana, Jose Cota and Seth Nemec met in 2007 in Austin Texas
and began recording the same night, writing the title track Inestable as
soon as the synths had been plugged in. Drawing on a shared love of synthesizers and drum machines, each had
worked as a solo electronic artist before uniting, the three immediately
found a shared vision. Having grown up listening to Hip-hop, Jazz, Latin
freestyle and New Wave records from Europe, America and Japan, Medio
Mutante wrings a mutated blend of raw and propulsive energy from their
limited analogue gear.
The bands name, literally �??Average Mutant�?� in Spanish, is also an
indication of their subtle perversion of familiar themes in their songs.
Love, science fiction, and disenfranchisement in a future gone bland are
turned on their ear in 6 danceable electro songs sung in Spanish and English.
Medio Mutante are an American band, born of working class values,
with their feet planted in the past but looking to the future.
Limited edition of 600 copies." -Cititrax. New side label of Minimal Wave.
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Artist: SYLVI FOSTER Title: If Are You... Format: 12" Label: Cititrax Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "For those of you who missed it the first time around, some classic Italo disco for the dancefloor brought to you by our sublabel, Cititrax. Sylvi Foster was the brainchild of the young Domenico Ricchini (who also produced music under the pseudonyms: Bandanna, Bob Salton, Delanuà, and Joe Yellow). Domenico formed his first rock band in 1974 and his first disco band in 1978. In 1979, he recorded If Are You Master, Love Dawn and Flood and later recorded Hookey in 1982. This EP brings together four of his best songs, which were released on various hard to find 12"s throughout the years. This is the sound of early Italo disco, with its slinky pre-midi synth-funk elements and great tempos, dark synths and nonsense lyrics to match. Big thanks to Flemming Dalum for making this release possible. Limited to 999 copies." - Cititrax. Side label of Minimal Wave. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Futurisk-Lonely Streets Remixes Format: LP Label: Cititrax Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Minimal Wave takes an old sound in a new direction entirely, giving Futurisks classic Lonely Streets a modern shake-up through a remix package from current artists out now on MWs sublabel reserved for new music and old favorites, Cititrax.
Futurisk, an electro-punk group made legendary by their anarchistic records and explosive live shows, mysteriously disappeared from a thriving scene in 1984. With an electric and dynamically layered sound (created with pre-midi instrumentation), the South Florida group left an indelible mark in the crates of disco and minimalist collectors dotted around corners of the world, including LCD Soundsystems James Murphy (who gave a complimentary wink to Futurisk in 2003 by using Push Me Pull You (Pt. 2) on the delightful Colette # 5 DFA Comp CD). Minimal Waves own history with Futurisk runs a few years back, starting first by including an unreleased 1982 version of the track Meteoright on the labels Found Tapes vinyl LP in 2007. Subsequently, Minimal Wave released the retrospective full-length vinyl Player Piano LP to celebrate the bands 30th anniversary last year, culling material recorded between the years 1980 to 1982, with all of the tracks on their two 7-inch releases mixed in with rare studio recordings and early 4-track tapes.
The Futurisk Lonely Streets Remixes includes remixes by four of the bands biggest fans, each of whom have a sound as iconic as the band themselves: Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey), Tom Furse (The Horrors), Prince Language (DFA, Editions Disco) and Complexxion from the UK." -Cititrax
"For the remixes, we wanted to make sure that they werent modernized or techno versions of the tracks, but remixes with the same analogue and dance/rock sensibilities of the time when the original tracks were created, utilizing those very same stem tracks. I believe we have accomplished this with the forthcoming Lonely Streets Remix 12inch vinyl. The first remix 12inch will be dedicated to the track Lonely Streets, with a remix by synth legend Chris Carter, whose version is one that I would have dreamed of doing back in 1982, had we the time and funds and equipment. Prince Languages version captures the feel of the song beautifully with the utilization of all the stems, especially the real drum tracks that were part of Futurisks signature sound, stirring up the No Wave styles that also influenced us at the time. It was also a pleasure to hear Tom Furses Moroder-esque electropunk take, sounding like a missing track from a late 1970′s sci-fi flick and finally Complexxions track with the feel and approach of Arthur Baker, Martin Rushent, Daniel Miller and Kraftwerk of course, all of which were big influences on the members of Futurisk" - Jeremy Kolosine (founding member of Futurisk). |
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Artist: Z-FACTOR Title: Dance Party Album Format: LP Label: Cititrax Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "The first release on NYC based label, Cititrax, is a re-issue of Z-Factors Dance Party Album (originally released in 1984, 500 copies). Fronted by Jesse Saunders and Vince Lawrence, Z-Factor formed in Chicago in 1982, at the very beginning of the house era. Comes with a retro style ?12″ poster & pressed on 160 gram vinyl. ESSENTIAL! Hugely influenced by the Hot Mix 5 radio shows on WBMX, Z-Factor incorporated European synth-driven sounds that theyd heard on the radio with 808 rhythm tracks. This disco: the rhythms, the basslines, the spirit, made by amateurs was to become "house". Farley Jackmaster Funk recalls the early Chicago scene: "We started experimenting, playing with drum machines. Jesse Saunders was on board with me at the Playground at the time, and he was a musician. In the early days, the kick drum and the electric tom-toms of the 808 was enough to make people dance without even putting any music to it. So a lot of the stuff was just beat tracks in the beginning. Then we came to steal everybodys basslines. See, all we ever did was regurgitate disco again by just stealing everybodys music. Because all the original house stuff that came out was somebody elses bassline." But when drum and bass patterns once played by skilled musicians were copied on cheap synths that sounded like the real instruments, they didnt seem old or stolen. Stripped of their songs, these recycled riffs sounded alien and new, like raw, minimal messages transmitted from another world. It was only a matter of time before tracks started to appear on vinyl, and since Lawrences father owned Mitchbal Records, the group had their opportunity to release what is now known as the first full length house album. Nowadays, original copies of the Dance Party Album are very rare, and therefore expensive. And so we present to you the reissue of this important record." -Cititrax. Sidelabel of Minimal Wave. |
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Artist: CLARINETTE Title: Little Fluttery Screamy Thing Format: Lathe Cut 7" & CDR Label: Clarinette Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "With 2001s "Haze" on Ecstatic Yod and the forthcoming "Transmuting Fall" on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Clarinette has confounded a few, delighted some others and remained completely unheard of by just about everyone else. Drenching everything in blankets of echo (natural and synthetic) Clarinette has effectively evaded creating anything reasonably identifiable as proper music. Dusted Charlie Wilmoth called Clarinettes Haze a bizarre gem of a record describing it as like nothing a human being would try to make on purpose. Haze went on to take an impressive 916th place in The Village Voices Pazz n Jop Poll for 2002. 2004s Little Fluttery Screamy Thing EP and its accompanying album length CD-R explore what happens when too many equipment failures crash into an unhealthy obsession with the recent DNA CD anthology. It is nearly all guitar and echo and just barely appropriate for release. Lathe cut by Peter King in New Zealand and limited to 51 copies." - Clarinette. |
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Artist: BLEEKMEN Title: Seven Inch Format: 7" Label: Classic English Womb Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: JAZZFINGER Title: This Small Space Where The Salt Glitters Format: Lathe Cut LP Label: Classic English Womb Country: UK Price: $36.00 |
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Artist: COSTER, TIM & MARK SADGROVE Title: Untitled (23:03) Format: CDR Label: Claudia Country: New Zealand Price: $11.00 |
| "Crackles, Hisses, and drones from computers, guitar & mixer feedback." -Claudia |
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Artist: V/A Title: Procession Format: 3" CDR Label: Claudia Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
| Tracks by: Nigel Wright,Adam Willetts, Tim Coster, Helga Fassonaki, Mark Sadgrove. Edition of 120. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Spoken & Field Format: CDR Label: Claudia Country: New Zealand Price: $11.00 |
| Tracks by: Fuyuko Akiyoshi, Grace Blindell, Paula Booker, Oliver Campbell-Calder, Kah-Bee Chow, Fiona Connor, Tim Coster, Chris Cottrell, Zoe Drayton, Bex Ellis, ep highway, Helga Fassonaki, Finn Ferrier, Chris Fitzgerald, Richard Francis, Alicia Frankovich, Catherine Garet, Thomas Graden-Guy, Dave Hall, Sam Hamilton, Anna Jackson, Daniel Jacobson, Liana, Gaelen Macdonald, Rosy Parlane, Nova Paul, pNuomoc, Joshua Rutter, Mark Sadgrove, Nick Sala, Adam Willetts, & Erica van Zon. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Witching Hour - Field Recordings of night-time Format: CDR Label: Claudia Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
| "Limited edition cdr (200 copies) featuring Lau Nau, Richard Francis, Phil Dadson, Tim Coster, Paintings of Windows (Antony Milton), P. Westbourne, Un Ciego, and Felicity Ford." - Claudia. |
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Artist: CLE Title: Cle 3X Format: Magazine/CD Label: Cle Magazine Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| 1995 issue of Cle, a hand-numbered edition of 2000 copies, sealed, with John Morton cover art. In the magazine: "Long Walk Off A Short Pier - The Story Of Pere Ubu", "The Incestuous Kent/Cleveland Music Scene - A Family Tree", Mad Daddy R&R Radio, Cruel, Cruel Moon, My Dad Is Dead, Gem, Swank Motel, "Literature" by John Morton, Andrew Klimeyk & Ugly Beauty, Mirrors, and Scat Records (interview and discography). The CD includes Pere Ubu, electric eels, Cruel Cruel Moon, Andrew Klimeyk & Ugly Beauty, The Vivians, Mirrors, Swank Motel, Mad Daddy, etc. |
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Artist: ADN CKRYSTALL Title: COD-ADN Format: 7"/3" CDR/Poster Label: Clogsontronics Country: Netherlands Price: $18.00 |
| "Erick "CKrystall" Moncollin AKA Dr. Strange is active in art from the late 70s until today. In 1982 he released his first album Jazz Mad which is an undisputed masterpiece of electronic music. During the years he developed his style in music, drawing and performances but despite all he never changed. 2008 appears productive for Erick. Earlier this year he released the "Minilab" 12"/7" combo on Anna-logue records and now we present you 3 new born tracks. Again the Clogsontronics double media format was used. The 7" vinyl EP is accompanied by a mini CD containing the same tracks. To emphasize his 30 year activity in art in 2007 he decided to finalize the drawing of a poster he started in 1977. A high quality full-color reproduction in big A1 format is included with this Clogsontronics package so that besides the music all can enjoy another aspect of the work of this great artist. COD-ADN is limited to 450 hand-numbered copies." - Clogsontronics. |
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Artist: ENSEMBLE PITTORESQUE Title: For This Is Past Format: LP/CD Label: Clogsontronics Country: Belgium Price: $30.00 |
| "Ensemble Pittoresque, the music collective from the early eighties representing the minimal-electro genre created two classic albums. In 1983 they released For This Is Past on Clogsontronics records. In 1984 their second album Frequenz came out. In the heart of The Hague, Paulus Wieland and Richard Neumöller hooked up with whiz technician Ton Willekes. Recordings were made from 1977 to 1984. To overcome a lack of dynamics Wieland and Neumöller later turned to three fellow musicians: Ed van Hoven, Marion Prinz and Biko." Very nice 2008 reissue of this 1983 lp, chipboard, paste-on cover with printed inner sleeve, with CD. Numbered edition of 700. Previous archival release on Minimal Wave. |
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Artist: STORUNG Title: This Is Future Format: LP/CD Label: Clogsontronics Country: Belgium Price: $30.00 |
| "Störung was brought to life In 1981 by two young individuals from Europe. Eugenius and Arian Brunwin gifted the eighties their unique style of experimental minimal wave. Both in various recordings as well as on stage. Memorable songs originating from 1981 are Radio Lines, Two Miles, Enjoy Your Leather (Jacket), Macabre, Just Too Bitter, All Bow and Dreadfull Dance. Dreadfull Dance and B side All Bow was released on single (Clogsontronics) in 1981. In 1981 en 1982, Störung toured extensively around Europe and the band gave numerous concerts and radio appearances. In 1982, the band released their first album This Is Future on Clogsontronics records." Very nice 2008 reissue of this 1982 lp, with CD. Numbered edition of 700. Previous archival 7" release on Minimal Wave. |
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Artist: BEHRENS, M. Title: Architectural Commentaries Format: CD Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.50 |
| "German composer and sound artist Marc Behrens has put forth a beautiful installment of sound work for CMRs second CD release, entitled Architectural Commentaries. Marc has been working with sound (in one form or another) since 1986 and is probably most recognised for his digitally re-worked field material and composition. With a long history of installation work and live performance, he has exhibited alone and in group exhibitions; and performed live internationally in locations such as Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, and the UK. He has completed tours with fellow sound artists Francisco Lopez, Bernhard Gunter and John Duncan and has had notable CD releases on Gunters label Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Digital Narcis (Japan), Raster Music (Germany) and Intransitive Recordings (USA). Architectural Commentaries is comprised of five tracks. The first three pieces, entitled Architectural Commentaries 1-3, are some of Marcs most recent compositions arranged in 2001 using basic material recorded from 1990-2000 in various global locations. Taking title, sleeve images and sound together we are left with new audible environments for architectural structures; jets of forced air and amplified nothing, distant machinery and tiny bites of frequency, faded and cut together to create beautifully atmospheric soundscapes. Track 4 was previously released on RLWs Tulpas 5 CD set (Selektion 024) and was constructed using source material from Ralf Wehowsky. Track 5 was composed in 1992 as a soundtrack to accompany the video Der Raum by Torsten Grosch - stills of which feature on the CD sleeve. The album permits a smooth flow between Marcs earlier and more recent work and shows the artists continuing exploration into the depth and dimensions of sound recording." - CMR. |
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Artist: COSTER. TIM Title: Rowboat/Blackberry Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
| "Tim Coster, hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, presents on CMR his third solo release in the form of an acetate 7". Coster is a sound artist and improviser involved in a number of different projects: Plains (see new CD on www.scarcelight.org), his record label CLaudia (see www.cmr.co.nz/acroma for available releases), and solo practice recording works for CD, sound installation and performance. Working primarily with field recordings and various instruments Coster concentrates on short segments of recorded sound which he dissects, processes and loops. Over these he adds granular tones, field hums and live crackles creating delicate and peaceable sound works. This acetate is produced by Peter King in Mt Somers, NZ and shows Coster at his more musical, with two fantastic 5min songs showing his talent in the subtle mixing of tone and texture." - CMR. |
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Artist: ENGLISH, LAWRENCE & RICHARD FRANCIS Title: LERFAUSNZNWSD12006/LERFAUSNZNWSD22006 Format: 7 Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
| "This record was produced as part of an English/Francis collaborative sound installation for the Melbourne Next Wave Festival, 2006. Source sounds were recorded from old sound recording and playback equipment (gramophone, record players, magnetic tape machines, acetate and vinyl records, radio static). Recordings were exchanged and manipulated, resulting in two tracks pressed to vinyl." - CMR. Edition of 100 copies. Actual vinyl, NOT a lathe cut. |
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Artist: EREWHON CALLING Title: Experimental Sound in New Zealand Format: Book Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $40.00 |
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"Erewhon Calling: experimental sound in New Zealand
is a lavishly-illustrated new publication from the
Audio Foundation and CMR. It is a survey of how
a bunch of antipodean misfits and malcontents
have forged new ways and new reasons to make
noise, here at the end of the earth. Edited by Bruce
Russell (the Dead C.), in association with Richard
Francis and Zoe Drayton; the aim of this volume
is to survey the full range of non-standard audio
practices in contemporary NZ culture. The books
remit runs from the borders of composed art
music, through improvised noise, to deconstructed
rockn pop filth; and every genre, every scene,
every permutation of unconventional audio practice
in-between. The aim is not to be comprehensive
(there is literally too much vitality and diversity for
any book!). The hope is to throw a good handful of
gravel into the pool. While not every eel will have
been hit, the surface will have been rippled from
shore to shore, which is more than anyone else has
even attempted before.
Erewhon Calling makes room for many voices,
allowing multiple and possibly conflicting voices
and points of view. A range of artists and informed
commentators mainly tell their own stories, describe
their own work, and outline their own goals in
working on the fringes of audio culture. The readers
of this important new source book will be able to
discern their own meanings and make their own
connections from this thought-provoking and unique publication." - CMR.
Text / page works by Branden W. Joseph, Phil Dadson, Bruce Russell, Michael Morley, Byron Coley, Alastair Galbraith, Empirical, White Saucer, Clayton Noone, Andrew Clifford, Jeff Henderson, Daniel Beban and Nell Thomas, Su Ballard, Jon Bywater, Dan Vallor, Clinton Watkins, Witcyst, Andrew Scott, Campbell Kneale and Antony Milton, Vitamin S, Jon Dale, Mark Williams, Nathan Thompson, Beth Dawson, Sean OReilly, Kraus, Sean Kerr, Peter Stapleton, Stephen Clover, Dugal McKinnon, Omit, Peter Wright, Jo Burzynska, Ian-John Hutchinson, Kim Pieters, Paul Winstanley, Gentle Persuasion, Zoe Drayton, Simon Cuming, Stevie Kaye, Rachel Shearer, Richard Francis, Rosy Parlane, Kiran Dass, None Gallery, Zita Joyce. Designed by Richard Francis. 192 pages, squarebound in an edition of 800. SOLD OUT
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Artist: EYE Title: Eye Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $18.00 |
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"Lathe-cut 7" record and full length album on CDR packaged in blue textured paper outer sleeve with brown paper inner sleeve, CDR with
black ink artwork. Edition of 60 copies.
EYE are an improvising trio consisting of Dunedins Peter Stapleton (Flies Inside The Sun/Handful of Dust etc) on drums and shortwave radio, Peter Porteous on guitar and Tibetan bowl, and Ryan Cockburn on guitars and turntables. With three sold out releases on NZ labels United Fairy Moons and Metonymic, this release features new material from EYE, and perhaps the only EYE music available at the moment. Noise guitar and turntable journeying, breaking into sporadic "rock" style music, but frequently shattered and readjusted by Stapletons furious drumming. A must for any NZ South Island free noise fans." - CMR.
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Artist: FRANCIS, RICHARD/ANTHONY GUERRA/MATTIN/JOEL STERN Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
| "Two 5 minute cuts excerpted from about 3 hours of material. Recorded on 10 March, 2004 at the Kenneth Myers Centre, Auckland, NZ when Anthony, Mattin and Joel were on their NZ tour. Richard Francis - computer, electronics, field recordings, Anthony Guerra - electric guitar, electronics, Mattin - computer feedback, Joel Stern - electronics, field recordings. edition of 250 copies. blue textured paper outer sleeve with grey screen print, brown paper inner sleeve." - CMR. 2006 release. |
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Artist: FRANCIS, RICHARD/STEFAN NEVILLE/HOWARD STELZER/CLINTON WATKINS Title: Format: Lathe Cut 8" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $14.00 |
| "Side A is an improvisation recorded one evening in August 2003 by myself (Richard Francis, Eso Steel) on computer, Stefan Neville (Pumice, Stabbies Recordings etc) on drums, cartridges and buzzbox, and Clinton Watkins (Three, Doe, Whitebass etc) on guitar. Side B is piece constructed by myself and Howard Stelzer after a mail exchange using sound material recorded at the August session. Home made paper cover and insert." - CMR. |
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Artist: HAMILTON, SAM Title: Tropics Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
| "two lovely looping tracks made from electric guitar, sampler pedal, spring reverb, computer and lathe. Music thats perfectly suited to the format, loops that shift and change over the 4 mins or so per side. When the records came back I wasnt sure if my old Garrard was sticking on a groove or playing the piece. It was playing, nice... Sam is currently in South America on various recording projects, an old bio below: sitting free from the shallow waters of borderline music, watching stones sink and demanding rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty in the ripples: "hey dickhead,your guitar is out of tune!"" - CMR. Edition of 45. |
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Artist: HOMETOWN FEILDING Title: Clouds Across The Bay Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $14.50 |
| "Mark Sadgrove is the man behind Hometown Feilding, as well as his other excellent solo sound project MHFS. He⿿s also one part of Infinitesimal, one sixth of Plains etc. Hometown Feilding is defined by rough textural electronic sound generated by Sadgrove⿿s mastery of sound generation application C-Sound which he uses to twist sounds in on themselves - like a hard drive driven to self mutilation. Great stuff, especially cut by Peter Kings lathe machine to polycarbonate plastic in mono." - CMR. |
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Artist: HUTCHINSON, IAN-JOHN Title: An Utterbook Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
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"An Utterbook is fantastic and features one track made from combinations of various field recordings of birds, train stations, hums and noises, beautifully combined. The other piece is a recording of that described below ("integrating utterances into various sound environments") as Ian-John wanders around the streets of Taipei, check it out....top stuff. CMRs first primarily field recording based release for quite some time (since K Mizutani and R Meelkop CDs)" - CMR.
"Developing from an interest in poetry Ian-John began making field recordings in the late 90s, making collages with both a journalistic, documentary ethos and a flavour of audio-book narration and none of the above. Subsequently he has developed a fascination with the linguistic and extra-linguistic vocal products (utterance objects) of various social situations, an interest amplified through exposure to the sound environments of Taiwan and Japan. One strategy is a performance practise of integrating utterances into various sound environments e.g. hes that nutter in the street wearing headphones and talking into an expensive looking microphone. Starting in 2003 he has published a short series of field recordings of utterance objects collected around particular themes under the title Utterbooks ?? . Ian-John is an active member of the Auckland improvised music network Vitamin-S, and is a contributor to the online archive soundtransit.nl." - artist bio.
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Artist: JGRZINICH Title: Intimations Format: CD Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.50 |
| "Sound and Video artist John Grzinich has been working under the name jgrzinich since 1995. He has performed and worked extensively throughout Europe and the US. His sound compositions have been published internationally on such labels as Staalplaat (NL), erewhon (BE), Intransitive Recordings (US), Orogenetics (US), Elevator Bath (US), Pale-Disc (JP), Digital Narcis (JP). These works consist of collaborations with mnortham, Seth Nehil and Frequency Curtain (Josh Ronsen, Rick Reed, jgrzinich). Since 1994 jgrzinich has explored various approaches to sound generation, recording and production. His techniques range from the construction of original instrument devices and the capturing of acoustic phenomenon through environmental field recordings to digital multi-tracking and manipulation. intimations is the first solo release from jgrzinich. intimations began as a series of piano recording experiments in the spring of 2001 in Austin, Texas and continued as a sonic diary of life in transit throughout Europe. The resulting CD came from a culmination of experiences, continually worked through as dynamic and personal electro-acoustic reflections. intimations is comprised of recordings from Texas, Croatia, Italy and Germany and was composed at numerous locations from the Balkans to the Baltics. The CD includes an extended essay by the composer. "These are intimations of a different kind; as if listening was no longer about finding references in a mediated culture but is about sensing the coordinates of ones position through a set of precise signals present in the environment." John Grzinich currently lives in Estonia and works as a media lab coordinator for MOKS, an NGO organization dedicated to local and international cooperation in the fields of arts, social and environmental research." - CMR. |
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Artist: LUGOSI Title: Dawn Format: CD Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.50 |
| "Lugosi existed in Wellington, New Zealand from the mid to late 1990s and consisted of players Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, With Throats As Fine As Needles, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label boss etc), Andrew Savage (Sunship) and Leon Schutz, with a guest appearance on track two by Clayton Noone (Armpit, CJA, The Strange Girls, Root Don Lonie for Cash label boss etc). Dawn is the groups only CD release to date, following a trickle of fantastic and long out of print miniature edition lathe records and cassette tapes mostly published on Kneales Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label. The six improvisations on the album were recorded in the Lower Hutt Baptist Church in 1998. With electric guitars and keyboards the group creates multiple layers of swooning feedback loops, drifting guitar notes and riffs that interweave - sculpting rich harmonic drones that fall in and out of rhythm with sprinklings of intermittent percussion. CMR is delighted to bring this set of crisp recordings out of the vaults to a wider audience of wanting ears." - CMR. |
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Artist: MEELKOP, ROEL Title: (onkyo ok) Format: CD Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.50 |
| "Launching CMRs new line of hand-numbered 78rpm dust jacket CD packaging is Dutch sound artist Roel Meelkop. Roel was a founding member of audio art group THU20 in the early eighties who continue to perform and record, is currently a member of electro-acoustic live project Kapotte Muziek, and the electronic rhythm group GOEM (both along with Frans De Waard and Peter Duimelinks). Roel has a long history of visual art, sound installation, curation and organization of various live music events in Rotterdam, his city of residence, and abroad. His well-received solo work has been released on numerous labels including trente oiseaux (Ger), V2_Archief (Neth), line (US), Intransitive Recordings (US), Korm Plastics (Neth) and most recently Tariff Records (US) and Klingfilm (Bel). onkyo ok is composed of recordings made during Roels tour to Japan in summer 2001 (along with Frans De Waard and Peter Duimelinks). Where Kiyoshi Mizutanis Yokosawa-iri CD (cmr1) uses primarily rural sound sources from a selected area, onkyo ok may strike a special chord and familiarity with anyone who has visited Japans urban areas, cities and outlying regions. Various components of the rich Japanese soundscape (to name a few: pachinko parlours, train crossings, crows, electrical machines, people) have been captured, abstracted (or not), blended and re-composed creating unique sonic snapshots of this beautiful and at times bewildering country. The sound pieces are relatively constant over time (Roels characteristic silences are at a minimum) containing numerous complimentary sources simultaneously building together into broadband structures, then falling away to focus on various seperate objects and events. This album serves as a beautiful document and expression of the ever-changing Japanese acoustic environment as it was at the beginning of the twenty first century." - CMR. |
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Artist: MIZUTANI, KIYOSHI Title: Yokosawa-iri Format: CD Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $12.50 |
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"CMR is happy to present its first release by long term sound artist Kiyoshi
Mizutani. A former member of Merzbow, Mizutani has been creating his solo
work since 1989, delving into areas of electronic noise, structural sound
systems of feedback and instrumentation as well as natural compositional
arrangements of field recordings.
Yokosawa-iri falls into the latter category. All field recordings were made
at this Satoyama, a traditional form of agricultural environment
consisting of a mountain, a rice field and a small village where people and
nature coexist in harmony. With beautiful clarity Mizutani illustrates an
environment and its inhabitants through the delicate combination of found
sounds both natural and mechanical. The Satoyama is a very rare setting in
contemporary Japan, no doubt one of the reasons Mizutani chose to document
the area.
Constructed from overlapping forest sounds of wind, trees, birds, rocks,
insects, animals and children (to name a few sources) the tracks rise and
fall with intensity, at times suggesting the encroaching modern world on
this traditional area. Yokosawa-iri is a beautiful entry into Mizutanis
already impressive dossier of sound work." - CMR.
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Artist: PUMICE Title: Pipis/Onion Union Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $14.00 |
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"blue textured paper outer sleeve, brown paper inner sleeve. Two fantastic live tracks by Stefan Neville recorded in 2005 at two of New Zealands best bars. Sits in the noisier spectrum of the Pumice career which spans probably 15 years or so. Collectable and probably already gone." - CMR. Edition of 60.
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Acetate Blues Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
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"Solo recordings by one of New Zealands founding fathers of
experimental music and free noise, Dead C member, Corpus Hermeticum
boss, continues his exploration of the blues as heard in his recent
collaboration with Ralf Wehowsky Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder
Blues CD (A Bruit Secret).
Bruce Russell - acoustic guitar/vocal. Analogue recordings by Bruce
Russell, 2003. Surface noise digitally processed by Bruce Russell.
Mixed at the Temple of Music Digital Annex Oct 2005. Thanks to Sound
Archives/Nga Taonga Korero for their unwitting assistance.." - CMR.
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Artist: SCI HI Title: Lab Recordings Format: Lathe Cut 7"/CDR Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $18.50 |
| "Sci Hi is the moniker of musician and sound artist Paul Winstanley. Paul has been active for many years in numerous incarnations while in Texas and Auckland, New Zealand including P.H., LoCasta, Artificial Subterrane, Speed Cook, Paul Guilford from The Dave Dove Paul Duo, and more recently in Auckland groups such as Audible 3 and Plains. The Sci Hi sound is made from digital feedback. Sci Hi is like a school of small fish where each fish is represented by a tiny sine wave rising or falling in pitch. PW jumps in the middle of the school and all the little fishys go scattering in every direction, creating beautifully complex, multi-layered clouds of sound." - CMR. |
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Artist: UN CIEGO Title: L.A. Softcore Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: CMR Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
| "NZer Andrew Scott, formerly living in Auckland, now for a few years located in Los Angeles, California. This solo record features 7 short tracks, all made with acoustic and electric guitars. A mix of guitar note plucking and strumming, drone repetition, and heavy distorted noise. Somehow all tied together beautifully, almost as if its one track. At times sounds like there is a field recording component to the recordings, but I think this is more likely ambient sounds from the rooms/locations he records in (was that a pub? was that an abandoned warehouse?)." -CMR |
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Artist: FRANKLIN Title: Life Circle Format: Double LP Label: Cocodrilo Country: Spain Price: $45.00 |
| "Franklin were one of the first underground bands from Spain, formed in the late 60s by some of the best musicians based in Madrid at the time. Fuelled by the killer guitars of Pablo Weeber and Antonio Gª De Diego, they only recorded two sought after & excellent hard-psych 45s (the first one, containing their psyched to the max cover of the Stones Satisfaction was recently included on the Andergraun Vibrations comp). In 1974, the band recorded a whole album which was never released until now. Their new line-up for those sessions featured two drummers and a new keyboard player. Life Circle is a conceptual album which sounds more prog-rock than their previous 45s, in fact we must say this is a must for anyone into Spanish progressive sounds. Nine tracks full of hard guitar, mini-Moog, Mellotron, analog keyboards, some spacey and experimental-symphonic passages, English vocals. Titles like Renaissance, Intro for Cosmic Body, Takeoff. Double vinyl set, 500 copies limited, featuring the whole Franklin output: their two 45s, the unreleased Life Circle album remastered from the master tapes and a couple of rare live tracks. Includes insert with liner notes and photos."-Cocodrilo |
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Artist: AX Title: Metal Forest Format: CD Label: Cold Spring Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "AX is the project of British rock and electronic musician Anthony Di Franco (Ramleh, Novatron, Ethnic Acid, JFK, ex-Skullflower). Extreme and uncompromising, AX presents a unique sound world of blistering power electronics, pulverizing bass drones, feedback symphonies, and dark atmospheres. This CD includes tracks from the legendary, long out of print mid-90s vinyl albums, digitally remastered for the first time." -Cold Spring. |
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Artist: PRURIENT Title: Black Post Society Format: CD Label: Cold Spring Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
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"The Black Post Society embraces and accepts the depression of not having anything left to hunt. The mask without a face to hold. The depression of the hunter after the deer is killed. It is better to be hungry than to have eaten. As fantasy shatters under the whip of reality, erotic malaise settles in the nest of the mind inverting this dormant fuel to rekindle the endless cycle of sexual chaos. Black Industrial / Power Noise from this highly respected US act!" -Cold Spring
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Artist: PSYCHIC TV Title: Themes Format: 6CD Box Set Label: Cold Spring Country: UK Price: $45.00 |
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"For the first time, all Themes albums by Psychic TV released together, in a sumptuous, embossed box set. The music itself was designed not only as a soundtrack but also for subsequent use by Initiates of The Temple Ov Psychick Youth in their rituals as Functional music intended only to aid in the process of making things happen. It is a practical tool. Thee essential collection of rare, archive and modern PTV ritual/esoteric musick! Each CD is presented in its own matte laminate, spot-varnished mini-LP sleeve. The box also includes a 28-page booklet of rare photos and essays. Themes was originally released in 1982 as a limited bonus LP with the first 5,000 copies of the legendary Psychic TV album Force The Hand Of Chance. Musicians: Stan Bingo, Peter Christopherson (Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Soisong), Genesis P-Orridge, and David Tibet (Current 93). Themes 2 was originally released on LP in 1985 by Temple Records and subsequently reissued as an extended CD version by Cold Spring in 1997. Musicians: Genesis P-Orridge, Alex Fergusson, John Gosling (Zos Kia, Coil, Mekon). Themes 2 is presented here as a 2CD set, including the full vinyl version, plus the original Unclean 12" and its two B-side tracks that were recorded in the same sessions. Themes 3 was originally released on LP in 1986 by Temple Records and is presented here for the first time on CD, completely remastered. Musicians: Genesis P-Orridge, John Gosling (Zos Kia, Coil, Mekon), Mark Sangerman, Monte Cazazza. Themes 3 is presented here as a 2 CD set, with an unheard version performed in Boston, U.S. by Genesis P-Orridge and John Gosling. Themes 4 is a brand new Psychic TV album, recorded by the late partner of Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye and Psychic TV. Compiled by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Ryan Martin and Bryin Dall. Musicians: Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Larry Thrasher, Bryin Dall." -Cold Spring
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Fucked On A Pile of Corpses Format: CD Label: Cold Spring Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "The most remorseless, brutal Skullflower ever. Alternating between granular lo-fi primitive rock and granular lo-fi primitive power electronics, this taut disc is a chain mail glove of hate to any lazy minds whove tainted the air with describing Skullflower as "psychedelic." But thats not to say this is an all-out total assault. There are also moments of tender acoustic balladry, its just that they dont exist. The remorseless brutal sound is primitive, but as detailed and rich as a blood-soaked medieval canvas, somewhere betwixt The Rita and Clandestine Blaze, but more brutal! Long live the New Flesh! Kether is in Malkuth, Malkuth is in Kether, but in a different way." -Cold Spring |
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Artist: SUTCLIFFE JUGEND/SATORI Title: Split Format: CD Label: Cold Spring Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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Limited Japanese tour CD.
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Artist: TOLL Title: Christ Knows Format: CD Label: Cold Spring Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
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"A first-time-on-CD reissue of the legendary Christ Knows LP released by Broken Flag in 1986. Featuring TIM GANE (STEREOLAB) and PAUL LEMOS (CONTROLLED BLEEDING), and PACIFIC 231, the album is a classic of old-school British industrial. Features the complete Christ Knows LP, along with three previously unreleased bonus tracks. Thirteen songs in all. Imported from the UK."
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Artist: URANIUM ORCHARD Title: Four For Survival Format: Cass Label: Cold Vomit Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "Some of you out there might be aware of those crazy Christians who make up the truly disorienting SoCal based band, Dry Rot. Their debut LP from last year, Philistine, was one of the most bizarre and disturbing full lengths to come out in a coons age, referencing everything from This Heat to the Minutemen to Void within a scant album side. Drew and Jordan from the band have a new “project” called Uranium Orchard, and the four song demo tape they just did up might rival their other band in sheer fuckedness alone. Theres pretty much no reference to Hardcore in the sound, but just like they do in Dry Rot, they glop together a bunch of sound references unconsciously that shouldnt stick together, but somehow do. A lot of it sounds like the takes on Captain Beefheart that came out of the UK in the late 70s (such as the fore mentioned This Heat), but then theres all these weird electronic surges going on in the background and spacey parts that sound like “Angel Rat” era Voivod. Like I said before, these guys… theyre real weird." - Tony Rettman, Rettsounds. |
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Artist: COLONIAL, THE Title: #1 Format: Mag Label: Colonial, The Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Impressive debut issue of this journal from LA, this issue focussing on "Sound and Music". 124 pages, half full-color art-mag style, 1/2 b&w literary journal/fanzine style. Great design and approach, approximately half photography, half rumination, feels all right." - FE. Contents: "Ian Svenonius reconsiders Dylan. Alan Licht talks improv via Stan Brakhage. Oliver Hall talks noise with Yellow Swans and John Wiese. Rick Potts offers the first in a two-part epic on the Los Angeles Free Music Society. Kent Jones gets atonal on Robert Bresson. Michael Bracewell, Jon Wilde, and Stuart Bailey look at Mark E. Smith through the lens of the Vorticists. And Diedrich Diederichsen talks about the post-punk filmmaking of Mathias Poledna. Plus: Finnish folk, Luc Ferrrari, Ira Cohen, Ron Rege Jr, Richard Prince, and anagram record reviews." - Colonial.
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Artist: V/A Title: Color Supplement Format: LP Label: Color Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
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1988 release with Modern Art (pre-Sun Dial Gary Ramon), Mystery Plane, Lives Of Angels and WeR7.
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Gardens Of Blackness Format: CDR Label: Colour Sounds Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"A CD-R version of the now out-of-print cassette released last year on the Digitalis Ltd label. Adventures in psychedelic sound collage, improvised meditations, and sky-soaring ambient textures of LA OTRACINAs boundless sonic universe. 3 songs, 21 minutes, professionally printed CD-rs and full color inserts, limited edition of 50!" -Colour Sounds
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: The Risk Of Gravitation Format: CDR Label: Colour Sounds Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| ⿿The Risk Of Gravitation is the stunning new Summer 08 Tour mini-album by Brooklyns LA OTRACINA, who have long wandered and forged sounds in the hidden lands of heavy psychedelia and progressive space music. This 7 track 32+ minute excursion is a major paradigm shift for the group as drummer Adam Kriney is now on vocal duties as well, adding yet another layer of epic intensity to the swirling chaos of Evan Sobels Fender Bass VI low-end destruction and new guitarist Philippe Ortanezs ecstatically angular bliss-out. This disc shifts between tracks of classic LA OTRACINA free-form freakout brilliance and their current vocal-heavy jams, which put the progressive psych back into early heavy metal while exploring realms of dark doom-sludge thunder and the graceful complexity of early Canterbury jazz-rock. Refusing to be quantified, it is clear that LA OTRACINA remain in an orbit of their own, seeking out the cosmic weird and channeling it through hard rock power! First press limited edition of 100 numbered copies." - Colour Sounds Recordings |
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Woven Wanderers Format: CDR Label: Colour Sounds Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "BRAND NEW STUDIO ALBUM! Yes, these sonic spacemen have just finished yet another studio album, this one channeling yet even newer ideas into their boundless sphere of psychedelic transmissions! Quite different from their current "space-metal" live show, this new studio album swirls between worlds of loner cosmic psych-folk meditations, 70s european electronic-progressive space music (i.e. - HELDON/TANGERINE DREAM/CLUSTER/SPACECRAFT/PULSAR), overblown freak-rock improvisation and heavy-dark-brooding New Music-meets-Industrial sound-collage mind warp! 9 songs, 35 minutes, professionally printed CD-Rs and full color inserts, 1st edition of 100!" - Colour Sounds. |
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Artist: RUST IONICS Title: Moving/Pictures Format: LP Label: Colour Sounds Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Moving/Pictures" marks the first vinyl release on Colour Sounds Recordings, and drummer Adam Kriney declares "This is the most insane record Ive ever recorded", nuff said? A black sheet of improvised sonic skull-fuckery from the depths of the most mind-splitting free-noise/brutal-jazz movement, brought to you by the ad-hoc first/only recording of RUST IONICS, the trio of freak drummer Adam Kriney (OWL XOUNDS/LA OTRACINA/BLIZZARDS/CASTANETS), electric guitar wizard Doug Theriault (OFFICE PRODUCTS/DUAL, collab-er with Wally Shoup/Jeph Jerman/Brian Eubanks), and extreme sax-ist Ed Chang (DUAL/SPIN-17/AGENTS At MIDNIGHT, collab-er with Marshall Allen/Ravi Padmanabha). Full on grindcore/metal scapes clashed with fiercely extended saxaphone use and a dynamic whirl of free-improvisational magic, all together a blinding force, a drugged memory, and a leave-no-survivors presense. Comes on gorgeous transparent blue vinyl in a limited edition of 311 copies. Recommended for fans of BORBETOMAGUS, Keiji Haino, PAINKILLER, and Peter Brotmann10s more extreme work." - Colour Sounds. |
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Artist: TREES Title: On the Shore Format: CD Label: Columbia Country: UK Price: $13.50 |
| "Formed in 1969, folk/rock quintet Trees used a similar blueprint to that pioneered by Fairport Convention, whose influence was unsurprisingly evident in the two Trees albums made for CBS and both released in 1970, The Garden of Jane Delawney , and On The Shore . The most obvious similarity to Fairport was that both groups had a female vocalist, Sandy Denny of Fairport and Celia Humphris. The other members of Trees on the two albums were Bias (short for Tobias) Boshell (bass guitar on the first album and also keyboard player on the second), lead guitarist Barry Clarke, David Costa (12 string and acoustic guitars, dulcimer, mandolin, etc.) and Unwin Brown (drums)" |
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Artist: UCHIDA & THE FLOWERS, YUYA Title: Challenge! Format: CD Label: Columbia Country: Japan Price: $26.00 |
| "Legit reissue with mini-LP style packaging; includes 5 bonus tracks. "First incarnation of the legendary Japanese hard prog psych rock act Flower Travellin Band. Debut album by Yuya Uchida & The Flowers which was started by Yuya Uchida (born on 17 November 1939) who already was making some rockabilly singles in the early 60s and was one of the opening performers when The Beatles came to Japan in 1966. But when he traveled to Europe in 1967, he was immediately inspired by Cream, Jimi Hendrix and The Who. When he returned to Japan, he started the band The Flowers with vocalist Remi Aso, and the band caused a sensation in the Japanese music scene. Most of the tracks on this album are covers of songs by Cream, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, and one original song." - Columbia. |
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Artist: O ROURKE, JIM Title: Corona - Tokyo Realization Format: CD Label: Columbia Japan Country: Japan Price: $28.00 |
| Japanese-only release of two studio performances of Toru Takemitsus "Corona", performed by Jim ORourke. "Corona for pianist(s)" (1962), played by ORourke on piano, Hammond organ & Fender Rhodes. Recorded in Tokyo, 2006. "To be performed, Takemitsus score must be realized, either ahead of time or improvisationally; what ORourke plays here is his own Tokyo realization of the piece; there is also a well known London version recorded by Roger Woodward in 1973, reissued on CD in 2006 by Explore Records." --Seth Tisue. Booklet includes a 34 x 48 cm foldout print of a 1969 painting by Fumio Nambata. "An eloquent recording, one of the most crystalline of ORourkes serious works; with packaging to match." - Forced Exposure |
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Artist: DEATHLY FIGHTER Title: Completetely Dusted Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Fans of Gary Wilson and/or Nudge Squidfish as well as people who do bong rips of cooked vicodin will love this three-piece of malcontents. They started a decade ago as a teenage japanese-style hardcore combo, and then somehow transformed into an equally antisocial group of adults engaged in loud macabre instrumental electro in the lineage of Throbbing Gristle, Klaus Schulze, and Kraftwerk. Or as 20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk put it, "Somewhere in between Blues Controls single-headed psyche and Hyperdubs future Giallo OST where this Carpenterian bass-heavy creeper crashes". Completely Dusted is their moment. Long-labored, and worth the wait. Commence downer party now! " - Columbus Discount. Now in full color, printed jackets. Highly recommended!
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Artist: EL JESUS DE MAGICO Title: Funeral Home Sessions Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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"I couldnt help but to be taken aback when I finally heard this. Atmospheric yet propulsory, serrated by slippery synth-hooks and a newfound tightness (a step away from the larval, early-Royal Trux carelessness by which the band used to embody) and about as discomforting as the surreal experience of stumbling into a beerless after-after-party for the first time. It took a day or two to finally get a good handle on this, but I have no problem with a little work when the sounds are so riveting. Perhaps the most exciting thing about this EP is that, like Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments before them, and the band manages to counter such morally deflating atonality from left-field, with dynamic and youthful vigor."-Sean Wright the Z-Gun
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Artist: EL JESUS DE MAGICO Title: Just Deserts Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "This is the 8th release from El Jesus De Magico, one of our favorite bands of all time. Edition of 500 (100 Aubergine or Guinea Squash) with silk screened jackets." - Columbus Discount Records. "New Year, New LP. Sort of new anyway. This one has been strung along for months (how many of those in a year again?) but is finally available. Culled from the last sessions we did at the OShaughnessy Funeral Home and Columbus Discount from tapes & reels of varying fidelity and Unhappily Copulated With (I give) in New York, its been scrabbling its way to you for a while now. We hope you enjoy it." - El Jesus De Magico. |
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Artist: EL JESUS DE MAGICO Title: Klip Aught Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Lets start with a re-cap of the discography of El Jesus De Magico. Theres the crust punk rental property destroying Scratch Acid-ish x-tendo jams of their first CD, and theres the underground Taiwanese jungle kick boxing circuit bending chants of their last LP. Theres the darker side of Flying Nun indie by way of Skin Graft on their Unclean Ghost single and theres the AM radio conspiracy theorist Kennedy family bad vibes occultism of their Funeral Home Sessions E.P. And now theres this...KLIP AUGHT, their 3rd single and 5th release. This record swings from Spacemen 3 to Jesus and Mary Chain to Dinosaur Jr to the Puddle to Mayo Thompson without a lot of effort. All of the weirdness is distills into a single that hangs around in the neighborhood of their earlier singles. A tight pop music take on a thousand-million little bits of twenty-five years of underground music, all kind of run through the energy you get from recording and practicing around ghosts, corpses, milk crates full of fan club vinyl and pictures of obscure American Aristocrats in a downtown funeral home in Columbus, OH. This is another excellent single by a band that continues to build a remarkable and confounding discography." - Columbus Discount. |
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Artist: GIBSON BROTHERS Title: Build A Raft Format: Double LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"The legendary Gibson Bros. need no introduction. "Country" Jeff Evans, Don Howland, Ellen Hoover, and Dan Dow put the flag on top of the whole "twisted versions of obscure country and blues songs" hill. What we have in this Build A Raft 2xLP is a re-issue of the earliest of the Gibson Bros recordings. Its made up 2 LPs. The first LP is a meticulous master for vinyl that follows the original Old Age/No Age cassette format. It consists of a studio side that was recorded many long years ago in the village of Harrisburg by Mike Rep and Tommy Jay, and a live side that features material recorded in 85 at Bernies as well as excerpts from a grade school Rockn Roll assembly at Avondale Elementary. The second LP is made up of 6 bonus songs from the Harrisburg sessions, three of which were released on their rare first 7" on the bands own OKra records, the other ones were unreleased until now.
Put all of this together you get the definitive picture of the Gibsons pre-Homestead/SFTRI/Siltbreeze/ITR career! This is where their long and storied journey began... legendary stuff were peddlin here.
Gatefold includes some never before seen pictures of the Avondale Elementary performance. Both were LPs mastered for vinyl by John Hull at Musicol recording on his44 Scully lathe." - Columbus Discount
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Artist: GUINEA WORMS Title: Smiles Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Columbus Discount is proud to present Smiles, the new LP from THE GUNIEA WORMS. Despite a decade or so of CDRs and singles, and the Sorcererers of Madness retrospective double LP, this is actually Guinea Worms first LP of totally new material. That is to say it was written in the conventional, "band writes 12 songs" then recorded in the conventional "band walks into a studio, walks out with a record" style. This conventional record making style lends itself well in getting across the unconventional amount of "total crushing menace" the Worms are known for. The core elements of the Worms are intact in this record (the heavy riffs, the "animal smash" drumming), however, Smiles is a darker affair than FOSTER and Cos previous efforts; trading some of The Guineas usual creep-out whimsy for menace and self-loathing." - Columbus Discount. |
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Artist: GUINEA WORMS Title: Sorcererers of Madness (4rd Year in a Row!) Format: Double LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"For the past 10 or 12 years the Guinea Worms have been, in just about every way, the perfect rock band. They are loud and heavy and have a talent for playing songs that make the stupidest shit seem profound. They can also make normal shit seem gross and gross shit seem sexy. If youve ever experienced existential dread at the thought of hostess cupcakes, thought the B-52s Rock Lobster is a metaphor for premature ejaculation, or realized that for all their high falutin art talk, 95% of DEV-Os songs are about Mark Mothersbaughs foot fetish, you will understand the Worms. For us here in Columbus, OH they are the Ramones, Country Teasers, Budgie and Gary Glitter all rolled up into one creepy freakazoid package. Im not sure what it says about CDR as an organization, but theyve been one of our favorite bands for forever.
So, In early 2008, following the release of the Box of Records single (the fastest selling record in CDR history), we asked Will Foster (the King Worm and Comper) for an LP, and he turned in 12 CD-Rs. The vast majority of it was solid gold, it was all so good, in fact, that it took us about a year to get it pared down to 2 LPs. The end result is a mosaic portrait culling from over a decade worth of material in the Will Foster archive. It represents the Worms at various stages of intoxication/sobriety/Fall worship.
Anyway, Ladies and Germs, without further ado, the moment has arrived...
We are pleased to announce the long-anticipated debut album from the Guinea Worms...
22 songs, 2 LPs, & 82 epic minutes... Guinea Worms Sorcererers of Madness (4rd year in a Row!) has finally arrived.
Edition of 550, 100 sets on Pink/Orange, 450 sets on black. All in hand signed 2xLP gatefold sleeve w/ 5x7 photo." - Columbus Discount.
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Artist: HOUSE, RON Title: Blind Boy in the Backseat Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Reissued for the first time on vinyl! This is the second of three Old Age/No Age re-issues we will be releasing in 2010. Mastered directly from the original 86 cassette (not the bass-less re-mix that was used for the "New Wave As The Next Guy" cd compilation in 97). Blind Boy In The Backseat has been one of our fantasy releases since we started the label, so the fact that it has become a reality is a bit unreal. A true classic. You get selections from Houses two legendary pre-Great Plains bands - Moses Carryout and Twisted Shouts - as well as some solo stuff recorded with Mike Rep and Moses Carryouts Kim Workman, and to top it all off theres the version of "Chuck Berrys Orphan" backed by the True Believers! Definitive." - Columbus Discount. Highly recommended!
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Artist: JAY, TOMMY Title: Tall Tales Of Trauma Format: CD Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The long-awaited reissue of the 1986 Old Age/No Age cassette, Tall Tales of Trauma. A collection of DIY barn and basement-recorded classic from 10 years (out of 30) worth of recording by TOMMY JAY-member/songwriter and co-producer of EGO SUMMIT, MIKE REP & THE QUOTAS, and the (Ohio) TRUE BELIEVERS. The tracks are of a musical dark matter, an unseen cosmic force connecting 1970s Ohio punk/folk 4-track experiments to the Cowtown lo-fi explosion of the early-90s and beyond. Limited edition of 500 copies on both formats. CD includes eight bonus tracks."- Columbus Discount |
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Artist: JAY, TOMMY Title: Toms Tall Tales of Trauma Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"The Long awaited re-issue of the nineteen eighty six Old Age/No Age cassette, Toms Tall Tales of Trauma. Songs from ten years (out of thirty) of DIY barn and basement classics from Tommy Jay, member/songwriter and co producer of Ego Summit, Mike Rep & the Quotas, and the (Ohio) True Believers. Toms Tall Tales is musical dark matter, an unseen cosmic force connecting Ohio punk/folk 4-track 70s experiments to the Cowtown lo-fi explosion of the early 90s and on to todays New Generation of Ohio DIY 4-trackin freaks."- Columbus Discount
"Hes been my secret weapon all these years-Tommy Jay is he Pavarotti of Punk and so much more." -Mike "Rep" Hummel -Edition of 500 LPs
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Artist: JAY, TOMMY & MIKE REP Title: The Grim-O Comix Sequence Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"The Grim-O Comix Sequence was a cycle of songs recorded over the course of Tommy Jay & Mike Reps senior year at Grove City H.S. intended to be some sort of private-press folk rock opera, touching on all the concerns of the day - frustration of minimum wage work, unrequited love, insignificance, and hopelessness - which incredibly remained wholly unreleased and under tight lock and key for all of these years. Listening to these recordings, you can hear them experimenting with recording and songwriting techniques that would end up being staples of their respective musical identities. For example, on the rockers like Box Boy, you can hear Mike Rep hammering out the fuzzy mess of a guitar that would later become the Mama Was a Scitzo/War of the Worlds sound. On folkier numbers like Now is the Time you can hear Tommy Jay working out the sparkly guitar and vocal delay that would later be a major part of Toms Tall Tales of Trauma. Like everything everybody does in high school, this recording isnt without its cringe-worthy moments, but its great to hear the beginnings of two burgeoning songwriter/ producers with talents beyond their years. Its no wonder a year later they would break out of the basement and famously let loose as Mike Rep The Quotas on their seminal "Rocket to Nowhere" single." - Columbus Discount. Highly recommended!
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Artist: NECROPOLIS Title: Song for a Working Man b/w Cocksuckerbastardmotherfucker Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "Its not every record that makes you question the bands sanity. I can only imagine what Necropolis shows are like. They sound like fucking 19th century lunatics (but on guitars, drums, and keyboards instead of opium pipe). Seriously."- Rocket Reducer Edition of 500 |
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Artist: NECROPOLIS Title: Stumpf b/w Van v. Art Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: NECROPOLIS Title: The Hackled Ruff & Shoulder Mane Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "The sound of frozen fire and brimstone hits the streets just in time for summer! Necropoliss long-awaited debut long-player is nothing short of a triumph-a true encapsulation of their pummeling live show. A neon punk album with hints of pre-Fontana Pere Ubu, Lee Scratch Perry, the Stooges Funhouse, and that first B-52s album. But seriously...theres nothing else quite like this one. Edition of 500" - Columbus Discount |
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Artist: NECROPOLIS Title: The Hackled Ruff & Shoulder Mane Format: CD Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "The sound of frozen fire and brimstone hits the streets just in time for summer! Necropoliss long-awaited debut long-player is nothing short of a triumph-a true encapsulation of their pummeling live show. A neon punk album with hints of pre-Fontana Pere Ubu, Lee Scratch Perry, the Stooges Funhouse, and that first B-52s album. But seriously...theres nothing else quite like this one. Edition of 500" - Columbus Discount |
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Artist: NIGHT OF PLEASURE Title: Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "The official debut (a demo tape, recorded by Jared Phillips, had been circulating for a few years now) from Pleasure in the form of the Godard vs. Truffaut 7". Its the most "Columbus" sounding thing CDR has put out probably ever, which if youve been paying attention is quite a feat. Three tracks of varying fidelity, all pushed to maximum redness with plenty of swing and speed like the Turks loved to do it. Singer Jim Cowman sounds like a classic Cbus frontman: muffled, literate and pissed at your utter stupidity. Pick this one up if you forgot where the best punk scene of the 90s existed."-Doug Elliott |
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Artist: NUDGE SQUIDFISH Title: 20,000 Leagues Under Nashville Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"During a self-imposed exile in Nashville around 1985 ,frequent Quota and former "Peter Laughner" of the True Believers, Nudge Squidfish sent cassette transmissions back to his friends Mike Rep & Tommy Jay in Harrisburg, OH. From hours of cassettes Rep compiled this collection of psychedelic pop songs, synthisizer experiments, harmonic convergences, and fragments of his rockn roll past that rival Mayo Thompson or Brian Wilson in complexity, pop sensibility, authentic absurdity. Think were talking it up? Well, Hey!... this IS the gem that launched Reps storied cassette label, Old Age(/No Age). Upon Squids return to Columbus, he would link up with the late Jim Shepard to form the legendary V-3.
Painstakingly mastered for vinyl by Mike Rep from the original cassette.
Edition of 500 LPs." - Columbus Discount.
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Artist: OUTER SPACIST Title: The Mind Is As Outer Space Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Outer Spacist play a pummeling style of punk rock that sounds like Wayne County fronting Simply Saucer (or maybe weird period of early Alice Cooper). They have had a large cult of townies going giggly for years now. We approached them to do a single a long long time ago and for a while it seemed like a project that would never be realized, but lo and behold our day has come! The A-side has the band rockin heavy like the herd of Chocolate Watchband obsessives that they are, but the B-side is a steady trip that brings to the front the bizarre mind of their frontman DARTAGNON JONES KLETTING SALT, a man who truly escapes a singular adjective. Featuring members of Night of Pleasure and Day Creeper. Edition of 500." -Columbus Discount |
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Artist: PSANDWICH Title: Northren Psych Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"I dont really value my history very highly," Ron House (Great Plains, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Ego Summit, etc..) once said. "I dont want to be reduced to trivia. The music I love is living and its still going forward."
These days its going forward with Psandwich, a psychedelic supergroup of sorts. John Olexovitch of the Lindsay and Brett Burleson, a jazz guitarist who teaches at Capital University, provide a dual guitar assault. Bassist Bobby Silver plays in Brainbow and is currently touring with rapper Blueprint. Drummer Zac Szymusiaks resume includes the Dolby Fuckers, Everyday Heroes and the Washington Beach Bums.
Northren Psych is the debut LP from Psandwitch. Northren Psych reveals two sides of Psandwich: tight songs full of punk-fueled fury and sprawling, riff-heavy stoner jams, all with Houses clever lyrics intact.
House sums up his creative process this way: "Drink beer, smoke pot and create something that will storm heaven. Thats all I really ever cared about." Edition of 500 LPs" - Columbus Discount.
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Artist: REP, MIKE AND THE QUOTAS Title: Songs The Grackles Liked Format: 12" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "After a rather lengthy hold up in manufacturing, the new Mike Rep & The Quotas EP, Songs The Grackles Liked, is finally in stock. It is a 45RPM 12" EP. It contains the Quotas takes on Tommy Jays I Was There (which appeared on last years Tommy Jays Tall Tales of Trauma (LP/CD), T.A. Laffterys Time on My Hands, An early 70s Tommy Jay gem called Im Goin Down and Reps own Lemuria. Its the first new Rep record since 2005s Black Hole Rock and the first on vinyl since 2001s Mama Was A Schitzo, Daddy Was A Vegetable Man / Rocket Music On." -Columbus Discount |
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Artist: ROT SHIT Title: Youre Welcome Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Our favorite Pittsburgh-ers proclaim "2009: punks finally dead" on this the final(?!) entry of the Rot Shit saga (other entries include: 2006s The Worst Kids Ever, and 2007s on Have You Scene Rot Shit(?!) on Fashionable Idiots). Do we dare call it mature just because it has a free-jazz sax solo? NEVER! By the time the B-side rears its head, its 2010 and PUNK... has miraculuously returned(?!) Its about damn time I guess (?!) Edition of 500 (?!). 100 on red vinyl. Pivotal lyric sheet insert and full-color sleeve." - Columbus Discount. |
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Artist: TIMES NEW VIKING Title: Busy Making Love & War Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: UNHOLY TWO Title: Kutter b/w Porkys Format: 7" Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"�??Kutter�?� starts out in some plodding, kind of questionable James Williamson Stooge Explosion action, but once it lets loose it gets fucking crazy �?? fast rhythm and totally solid riffs, hurdled back and forth with reverb and delay, and benefiting from very sympathetic post-production. Buzzsaw jammer, will rock. Not too sure about �??Porkys�?� as it points into a Lightning Bolt/Dan Deacon sorta artjock thing, but the same production and killer mixing helps this one out too as it gets going. A pure noise-rock single in 2008, right down to the offensive cover art; everything old is new again. Pretty rad." -Doug Mosurak...Dustedmagazine.com
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Artist: UNHOLY TWO Title: Skum Of The Earth Format: LP Label: Columbus Discount Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Always a lightning rod of controversy, CHRIS LUTZKOs jihadist approach to punk has been beneficial in getting the word out about his local terror cell, the UNHOLY TWO. But after three years of live shows met with confrontation and polarized minds corrupted by conspiracy propaganda and subversive volume, the pivotal "put up or shut the fuck up" moment has arrived. As the countrys best hype man since Flavor Flav, Lutzko knew that all of his vitriolic soapboxing--not to mention the tweeter-busting feedback from the stage--had to be manifested in $kum of the Earth, the Unholy Twos debut album for Columbus Discount Records. On $kum of the Earth, Lutzko is aided mostly by ADAM SMITH on "power electronics" and BO DAVIS on drums, but he also invited a collection of townie notables, including the production team of TOM SHANNON (CHEATER SLICKS) & WILL FOSTER (GUINEA WORMS, and ANTHONY ALLMAN (EL JESUS DE MAGICO) on synth, to make for what seems like an all-night basement session in Washington Beach gone horribly out of control." -Columbus Discount |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: I Burned One With God But Cocola If Im Peaking Which Way Is The Sky? Format: CDR Label: COM Relics Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
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"COM Relics is reissuing out of print Child Of Microtones releases in another limited edition set. This time around the reissue is an edited version of the original release with a standardized (but still nice) packaging in slimline jewel cases. I Burned One�?� features 12 long-unavailable performances recorded in NYC and on Privacy Mountain with MV exploring the Silvertone 6, 12 string, cumbus, shortwave, oscillator & beyond. Accompanied by Erika Elder on banjo, recorder, harmonium, bird calls and sruti box."
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: MV Fantasizes, Daydreams, Get Massaged and Shacks Up With Cocola Format: CDR Label: COM Relics Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
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"COM Relics is reissuing out of print Child Of Microtones releases in another limited edition set. This time around the reissue is an edited version of the original release with a standardized (but still nice) packaging in slimline jewel cases. MV Fantasizes features 15 long-unavailable performances with MV on Silvertone 6, 12 string, cumbus, amped classical guitar & beyond with special guest Erika Elder."
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: Ragantula Format: CDR Label: COM Relics Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Reissue of COM 4 offering 8 of the rarest Child of Microtones future raga and blues featuring performances from Erika Elder, P.G. Six and Tim Barnes. COM Relics offers reissues in slightly abbreviated form with standardized packaging to listening enthusiasts who may have missed these on its original release (only 99 copies)." - COM Relics.
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Artist: VAINIO, MIKA Title: Rasputin 3000 Format: 7" Label: Comfortzone Country: Austria Price: $13.00 |
| "Mika Vainio, currently based in Berlin, is one-half of the groundbreaking minimal electronic duo Pan Sonic. Before starting Pan Sonic in the beginning of the 90s, Mika Vainio has played electronics and drums as part of the early Finnish industrial and noise scene. His solo works, under his own name and under aliases like Ø, are known for their analog warmth and electronic harshness. Producing either abstract drone works or minimal avant techno, Vainio always creates unique, physical sounds." -Comfortzone. |
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Artist: BOREDOMS Title: 77 Boa Drum Format: Double CD/DVD Label: Commmons Country: Japan Price: $117.00 |
| "Japanese-only live CD release from Boredoms featuring audio from their 77 Boa Drum performance July 7, 2007 in New York on two CDs. Also includes a bonus photo book and DVD. "Deluxe package containing the full 100-minute 77 Boa Drum performance on 2 CDs, split at the point in between the two sections of the piece. The two CDs are housed inside the front and back covers of a lovely 8"x12" hardcover book containing 28 pages of full color photos from the event. Also included is a DVD (NTSC format, All Region) including approximately 20 minutes of short segments from the performance. The presentation on this is truly top-notch. Its easily the most extravagant Boredoms artifact since 1999s Vision Creation Newsun box. The performance itself is an extraordinary example of the modern-day Boredoms approach to sprawling, rhythmic psychedelia. Their current lineup of three drummers (including mainstay Yoshimi P-We) plus EYE on electronics and vocals is further bolstered by an all-star cast of 74 additional drummers, including Hisham Bharoocha (Soft Circle, ex-Black Dice), Kid Millions (Oneida), Aaron Moore (Volcano The Bear), Tim DeWitt (ex-Gang Gang Dance), Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band), Andee Connors (A Minor Forest, Lumen), Sara Lund (Unwound), Ryan Sawyer (Tall Firs), Josh Madell (Antietam) and Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt) at #77." -ning nong |
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Artist: BOREDOMS Title: Live At Sun Flancisco Format: CD/DVD Label: Commmons Country: Japan Price: $52.00 |
| "2-disc Japanese-only release, from the same label that gave us Super Roots 9. The DVD features a 65-minute live performance, recorded in San Francisco, May 19th, 2005. The line up is Eye on vocals and electronics and general WTF, plus a circle of 3 drummers. The bonus CD features 2 new tracks: "U-bus" & "Relerer". The CD is a short EP, only about 11 minutes long. The info we received says: CD: "Yamataka Eye Original Breakbeats. DVD: Boredoms (V∞REDOMS) live DVD." The DVD is NTSC format, all regions, for worldwide play. Approx 65 mins., Color, 4:3 aspect ratio." -Commons. |
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Artist: BOREDOMS Title: Super Roots 9 Format: CD Label: Commmons Country: Japan Price: $30.00 |
| "Japanese-only edition. First release from The Boredoms "Super Roots" CD series in nearly 8 years featuring live audio from the bands Christmas 2004 concert. Being the first live album from the band, this CD also includes a deluxe booklet with sheet music and a live photo collection. 3 songs, 35 minutes in all. The line-up was: "3 drums sets, 1 turntable, 2 DJs & 24 Choir." Oversize jewel-case packaging and great Eye-artwork, as always." - Commons. |
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Artist: EYE, YAMATAKA Title: Re... Remix? Format: CD Label: Commmons Country: Japan Price: $34.00 |
| "Japanese-exclusive compilation of remix works by Yamataka Eye! Features various remixes that Eye has done over the past decade (most impossible to track down individually) of the likes of Gong, OOIOO, Atami, Flare (Ken Ishii), etc. Tracklisting: Walrus: "Moth (remixed by Eye)"; DJ Pica Pica Pica: "Spa"; Boat: "African Dawn Remix"; Flare (Ken Ishii): "Turbinates"; NXS: "Sleeper" (Micro Forest Mix 2000); Zeebra: "Smokin At The Lobby (Your Turn) (Magic Mushroom Mix)"; Gong: "Master Builder (EYE Mix) ; Wrench: "Cosmic Hierarchy (EYE remix)"; OOIOO: "Asozan" (EYE Mix)"; Atami: "Nightingale (x-mas mix)"; Black Drop Bomb: "When The Man Have Realized The Sound-Flow (its like that)" plus one more were too incompetent to figure out. Maybe its Kawamoto Makotos version of "Gimme Shelter"? One artist originally announced (Black Dice) didnt seem to make the final cut."- Commmons |
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Artist: YOSHIMIO Title: Yunnan Colorfree Format: CD/DVD Label: Commmons Country: Japan Price: $47.00 |
| "Japanese-only exclusive release, packaged in deluxe gatefold digipak. Yoshimio features Yoshimi from Boredoms/OOIOO w/guest vocals by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth (which includes a cover of "Death Valley 69"). Musically its mostly a solo release by Yoshimi (featured on steel guitar, vocals, shell syntheizer, percussions, electric guitar, shaker, bell, whistle, drum machine, keyboards, drums, field recordings, etc.). The music is a soundtrack to a documentary movie of the same name; the movie focuses on the women of Yunnan, a remote area in southern China -- near Tibet, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. This movie (which is included as the DVD in this 2 disc set) is 42 minute film with various street shots of these Yunnan woman -- in the markets, looking at food, in the fields and just standing around in total elegance, in the most colorful clothing imaginable -- with no-narration or overt linear intention. Not exactly Sublime Frequencies style, but not that far off, either! And Yoshimios ethno-trance soundtrack works perfectly. DVD is NTSC region free; Color; Stereo."- Commmons |
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Artist: PALMER, CLIVE Title: All Roads Lead To Land Format: CD Label: Communion Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"A founding member of The Incredible String Band, Clive Palmer is a virtuoso banjo player and distinguished folk musician who has recorded at least three (still sort of "lost") classic albums with ensembles C.O.B. (Clives Original Band) and The Famous Jug Band. Palmer has been in several other mythical bands, and has released a selection of awe-inspiring solo albums all the way up to the present time. Ten of the songs constituting All Roads Lead To Land were recorded during a 1999 session with two additional tracks culled from previous UK-only releases. The songs were picked by Steve Fellows, assigned songselector for an overview retrospective of Palmers long and varied career. However, upon hearing the 1999 sessions, it was decided that these magical tracks, previously unreleased, stood up with the best of his previously released material and deserved to be heard. Considering the high quality of Palmers previous work, this cannot be considered faint praise." - Communion.
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Artist: TOWER RECORDINGS Title: The Galaxies Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field... Format: LP Label: Communion Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The Galaxies Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field of the Tower Recordings comprises a full band expedition to an upstate New York church session around the time that songs used for the Folk Scene album were recorded. After reviewing the tapes with fellow tapenaut and TTR member Tim Barnes, Matt Valentine (MV) said: The music is some of the finest TTR has ever produced, encompassing all our nodes and distilled toward a universal sound like no other that the band ever touched on." - Communion. |
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Artist: TOWER RECORDINGS Title: The Galaxies Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field... Format: CD Label: Communion Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: CARDBOARD SAX/WASTELAND JAZZ UNIT Title: Split Format: LP Label: Community College Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"CARDBOARD
SAX is Holly (Uneven Universe), Dan (Uneven Universe, Haunted Castles,
Body Morph), and Olson (Wolf Eyes, Graveyards, Dead Machines) on saxs
and electronics. Amazing use of space and restraint on this killer LP
debut. Haunting excursions into the dark basement sax damage happening
across Michigan these days. Perfect recording and a great example to
introduce this trio to the world outside the midwest.
WASTELAND JAZZ
UNIT is Jon Lorenz and John Rich repping Cincinati s Art Damage Lodge
and ripping the B side up with their scathing sax assault. Walls of
feedback and distorted jazz take you on a 16 minute ride of beautiful
destruction.
Artwork by JASON ZEH
33rpm, Limited to 300 copies on Black
Vinyl." -- Community College.
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Artist: UNITS Title: History of the Units: The Early Years 1977-1983 Format: LP Label: Community Library Country: UK Price: $15.00 |
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"Community Library is proud to bring you the first ever legitimate reissue of San Franciscos synth-punk legends, Units! The LP features an abridged tracklist showcasing from the original 7"s and LP. Please note however the included download coupon card entitles buyers to the full 21 CD songs. The remastered audio is fantastic, for anyone who bought the original LP for $50++ only to find it had been ruined in mastering and has no low end whatsoever.....this is a chance to hear the songs in their intended synth punk glory!" - Community Library.
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Artist: FARNETI, MICHAEL Title: Good Morning Kisses Format: LP Label: Companion Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "the first licensed reissue of Michael Farnetis elusive Good Morning Kisses LP from 1976. This South Florida marvel has eluded collectors for eons and we are thrilled to get it back into circulation. 500 exact repro copies were pressed at RTI with crisp, heavy jackets produced by Stoughton." - Companion. |
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Artist: HUBBS, STAN Title: Crystal Format: LP Label: Companion Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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"..the official vinyl reissue of Stan Hubbs 1982 Crystal LP is available. 500 faithful repros were made of this confounding slab of stoner rock, each including a replica of the original 16 page booklet.
Crystal was recorded in Hubbs rural Sonoma county living room and just like the original, this reissue was mastered and cut by Paul Stubblebine, pressed by RTI and housed in heavy, old-style jackets." - Companion.
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Artist: LUIE LUIE Title: Touchy Format: CD Label: Companion Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Some years ago, a Los Angeles area collector stumbled across an orphaned copy of Touchy in a thrift store. It was shared through tape trading networks and bootlegged on vinyl -- now, Companion Records is proudly offering this first official Touchy CD release. Luie Luie has to be the most jaw-dropping one-man band lounge act found to date. Touchy serves as a conceptual dance album, an experimental album, as well as a sort of healing LP for 60s burn-outs. What can his music be compared to? Nothing that we know of. Luis Johnston is a Southern California screenwriter, painter, and musician whos spent the past 30 years working in almost complete obscurity. But hes also written and starred in a feature film and shaken hands with Elvis Presley. Luie has been playing live at various restaurants, lounges, and country clubs for three decades and is still going strong. He released a handful of 45s in the 70s and one full-length LP, Touchy in 1974. And he continues to record unknown quantities of yet-to-be-released CDs. This deluxe CD version is housed in a digipak sleeve, includes 2 Touchy buttons, a 20-page booklet with rare photos, concert flyers, art work, and a new introduction from Luie himself which sheds some light on his original inspiration for the album." - Companion |
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Artist: MUNDY, MARK Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Companion Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| A CD reissue of MARC MUNDYs self-titled 1971 LP; a truly unique, privately-issued curiosity rescued from obscurity by trailblazing collector Paul Major. Many (Mid)East/West crossover albums surfaced during the psychedelic era but none that sound quite like Mundys. "Youll have a hard time finding another LP to compare with this combination of feeling and sound," Major claims. The emotional effect of Mundys vocals coupled with his bands irresistible groove is a strange pairing-one could argue that the two are at odds with each other, but the result is a sound and feel so unique and compelling to the ears, it has to be in a class all its own. "In one stroke, impossibly good and charmingly average. How could this record exist? How could it not exist? Distant foretelling of East Coast new wave (recorded in 1970?!), but built on a Turkish rock, Marc sincerely doles out musical xs and os, eager to please, wanting to be loved. This was supposed to be top of the pops-it didnt work out but this record is still pure Turkish delight." - Companion. |
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Artist: NEW CREATION, THE Title: Troubled Format: CD Label: Companion Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Welcome to the first commercial release of Troubled, the sole output from Vancouver, British Columbias all-but-forgotten Jesus rock trio, the New Creation. Originally pressed in 1970 in the vinyl LP format in a limited run, this album never quite made it out of its hometown borders. It would be another two or three decades before anyone outside of the groups small circle would hear it at all. The obscurity of this album is impossible to overstate. Only 100 vinyl copies were ever produced and none were available commercially. The New Creation were partly inspired by the music of the Jesus People movement, a Christian adaptation of the 60s movement, which shared the same Haight-Ashbury district birthplace. Jesus People patterned their language, fashion, and music after their hippie neighbors in an attempt to update their expression of faith. This street level movement gained mainstream media exposure around 1970 and within a year cover stories ran in Newsweek, Life, and U.S. News and World Report. Musicians in this scene plotted their own course in an attempt to counteract what they saw as the destructive themes in much of mainstream rock music. Acts born out of this grassroots movement would inspire believers worldwide to cut their own record -- contract or no contract." - Companion. "A showcase of raw, inventive musicality. Categorically, its -- I dunno -- Sixties Garage Godcore? Yet it transcends being a mere period piece. The songwriting is deliriously brilliant, the lyrical perspective haunting. The bands sincerity is unquestionable, even if its meters are unfathomable." - Irwin Chusid.
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Artist: TWEDDLE, CHARLIE Title: The Fantastic Greatest Hits by Eilrahc Elddewt Format: CD Label: Companion Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Charlie Tweddles album The Fantastic Greatest Hits by Eilrahc Elddewt is an outsider folk gem. Try to imagine Bob Dylans unreleased basement tapes with the Band accompanied by French musique concrete composer Luc Ferraris masterpiece of natural sound Presque Rien, and youll get an idea of the brilliance to be found on this privately pressed, head-scratchingly amazing opus of Appalachian psychedelia. Originally from Kentucky, Tweddle found himself ensconced in the Haight-Ashbury scene in the late-60s where he experimented with a good deal of LSD." - Other Music. "Reissue of eccentric folk artist Charlie Tweddles self-released 1974 LP Fantastic Greatest Hits, a unique blend of psychedelic country and tape experiments. Charlie felt sure his new style of music would take the world by storm -- it didnt work out that way. Recorded in 1971, 500 copies of Fantastic Greatest Hits were pressed in 1974 under the name Eilrahc Elddewt with extravagant packaging. The LP was hand-distributed and received only minimal positive feedback; sales were poor. Why? Well for one, side two of the album is 25 minutes of chirping crickets and sound fragments. The abrupt patches of dead air on side one probably didnt help much either. More than a few of these albums were returned as defective. Of course, all of these production moves were intentional. The CD was transferred from a copy of the original album. It includes six unreleased tracks from the same period as well as all of the original artwork in a fold-out digipak." - Companion. "One of the more significant outsider 70s albums to finally get a reissue. Originally recorded in 1971 and rarely ever seen, never previously bootlegged even. High quality digipak packaging, with 6 bonus tracks." - FE. Highly Recommended! |
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Artist: ORGANUM Title: Submission Format: CD Label: Complacency Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Led by David Jackman, this legendary UK avant-noise outfits first album, released as a limited edition LP of 500 copies on the United Dairies label in 1987, is finally out on CD. Features performances by Nurse With Wounds Steven Stapleton, with Andrew Chalk and Dinah Jane Rowe. Haunting drones, moans and tortured screeching, as well as flute, bowed cymbal, environmental sounds, bells and mysterious acoustics." - Complacency. 1994 CD reissue.
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Artist: INDOOR LIFE Title: Indoor Life Format: Double CD Label: Compost Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
| "Discover one of the last U.S. cult bands from the creative early 80s disco and post-punk period. Indoor Life -- an undisputed delightful blend of rock, new wave and hypnotic grooves, at that time often compared and collated with Tuxedomoon. Their first EP from 1980 was recorded by the legendary producer Patrick Cowley. The four piece consisting of J.A. Deane, Bob Hoffnarr, Joseph Sabella and former Patrick Cowley collaborator Jorge Socarras (who has recently formed the duo Fanatico together with Mathias Schaffhäuser) was the epitome of New Yorks flourishing underground scene in the early 1980s. Indoor Life gave a strong impetus to Europes electronic music scene of the 1980s. Their records were released on their own Indoor Life imprint and renowned labels like Celluloid, Elektra and Relativity. On two CDs, Elaste Records and Compost "Curated" Records release the complete Indoor Life catalog. CD1 contains their debut EP Indoor Life and the first self-titled album. CD2 comes with the EPs Relativity, Searching and Sunshine Superman, plus alternative mixes, bonus and remix recordings (six of them previously-unreleased). All material has been digitalized, re-mastered from original reels or vinyl, and includes previously-unreleased bonus tracks and remixes by Soft Rocks, Quaid, Mathias Schaffhäuser, Discodromo, and more. More remixes will follow on vinyl. The CD artwork and poster were designed by Thomas Elsner in conjunction with Michael Reinboth, founder and publisher of the legendary magazine Elaste (1980-1985). The 2CD set contains a poster with photos, quotes and liner notes by Thomas Meinecke (FSK/Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle), Bruce Geduldig (Tuxedomoon), Jon Hassell (Fourth World), Stuart Matthewman (Sade), Finn Johansson (Macro Recordings), Mike Thorne (producer for Wire, Soft Cell, Nina Hagen, Bronski Beat, Siouxsie And The Banshees, and Laurie Anderson, amongst others)." - Compost. |
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Artist: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS Title: Live In Tokyo + Osaka, 1996 Format: CD Label: Compound Annex Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
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"Live recordings of DAM performances in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, from 1996. This 17 track, 72-minute CD contains early revamped DAM classics of You Cant Kill Kill and Evil Works, plus many newer exotic oddities like Indecipherable and Show No Shame. Included are cover versions of The Seeds 900 Million People Daily All Making Love and the most bizarre cover yet of Jon Andersons Yes classic, Clear Day. Stretching out into spacey sonic territory, DAM attacks live in Japan at their crusty best with original founding members Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw and Cary Loren supported by Art Byington and Dave Muller." - Compound Annex
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Artist: PENS/GRAFFITI ISLAND/MALE BONDING Title: Three Way Split Format: Cass Label: Conan Country: UK Price: $6.50 |
| Only a few of these available! Pens release next year on Destijl. |
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Artist: KUWAYAMA-KIJIMA & CARTER THORTON Title: Shrine Format: LP Label: Conduit Creations Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Shrine presents a Summer of 2004, post-midnight, outdoor field recording made on the footpaths of Japan⿿s largest Shinto shrine and documents the first time meeting of Japanese improvising duo Kuwayama-Kijima with NYC⿿s Carter Thornton (Izititiz, Zashiki-Warashi, Enos Slaughter). Constructed with a mixture of cellos, violins, guitars, sticks, leaves, rocks, toys, security guards and wind, the music drones, hisses, screeches and whines with the humid Japanese dark within which it was created. Limited to 500 vinyl copies." - Conduit Creations. |
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Artist: ZASHIKI-WARASHI Title: Floor Child Format: Double CD Label: Conduit Creations Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "floor child is a collection of field recordings, home assemblies and live documentations organized and mutated by New York based composer and improviser Carter Thornton. Spanning five years and two CDs, this initial release from the fictional collective of Zashiki-Warashi is sewn together with appearances by members of NNCK, Izititiz, Enos Slaughter, Floriculture and TEST. The music shrieks, drones, floats, superimposes unlikely realities and outlines a subconscious narrative inspired by travels ranging from a South Carolina swamp to a Moroccan graveyard. A mix of shortwave transmissions, ukuleles, bowed and plucked strings, distant drums and voices, nearby birds and guitars, chanting crowds and not quite discernable sounds recorded in places as diverse as a Texas parking lot, Harlems Hinthouse, Roulette Intermedium and a Virginia old folks home. Presented in hand painted sleeves. Limited to a pressing of 502." - Conduit Creations. |
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Artist: ZASHIKI-WARASHI Title: Garbage Archive Vol. II - Pulp Bulb Format: Cass Label: Conduit Creations Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "The second cassette release in a small series which covers the last ten years of activity. Volume II includes live cello performances, Texas sounds, harsh gurglings, broken piano in defunct bar hallways, basement duels with Count Hejnowski and much more. C60 limited to 50 copies. Hand painted/cut cloth packaging." - Conduit Creations. |
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Artist: ZASHIKI-WARASHI Title: Mail Wars Format: LP Label: Conduit Creations Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "In 2004 the Zashiki Warashi organization began sending out pieces of music through the mail to various parties in different geographic locations asking them to interact with it in some way and return it, which would then be assembled into a larger whole. This album is the result. Includes battles with: Burning Star Core, Alan Dubin (Khanate, Gnaw, OLD), Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zaimph), David Shuford (NNCK, Enos Slaughter), Pigeons, Kuwayama Kiyoharu, Marshall Avett (Zandosis), Greg Wildes (Gas Tank Orchestra), Carter Thornton, Carl Smith / Derek Phelps, Darwin Smith, Smith Harrison, Dr. Mijin Kim. Vinyl only. Limited to 550 Copies." -Conduit Creations |
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Artist: ZASHIKI-WARASHI Title: Meat N 3 Format: Cass Label: Conduit Creations Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The first cassette release in a small series. Archival material including various home and field recordings, pieces for radio, water, prepared guitar, rooftop performance and voice. C60 limited to 50 copies. Hand painted/cut cloth/scratched plastic covers." - Conduit Creations. Zashiki-Warashi is New York based composer and improviser Carter Thornton (Izititiz, Enos Slaughter, etc..). |
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Artist: V/A Title: U.S. Pop Life Vol. 17 Eclectic - The Adding Machine Format: CD Label: Contact Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
| "Post punk,No-wave....adding independent spirit and love of music. include 4 fantasitic visual artists. its eclectic explore. [BAND] Tallboys/ Moving Units/ Ssion/ Coachwhips/ Measles Mumps Rubella/ Numbers/ White Magic/Gang Gang Dance/ Blood On The Wall/ Tv On The Radio/ Kill Me Tomorrow/ Rogers Sisters/ Rah Bras [VISUAL] Paperrad/ Ssion/ Kill Me Tomorrow/LoVid [ARTWORK] Cody Critcheloe(Ssion)" - Contact. 2004 release. |
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Artist: ANIMALS & MEN Title: S/T Format: 12" Label: Convulsive Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "We are proud to announce the release of the first new recordings by legendary UK DIY band Animals & Men in nearly 30 years. Features 4 brand new songs and 2 new recordings of old favorites "Its Hip" and "Dreaming Of Babylon." Following the recent reissue of singles and demos on Mississippi Records and collection of unreleased material on Hyped2Death are brand new songs on par with the best of their old material and as good as the best of the modern bands keeping to their minimal DIY punk roots. It is rare for a band to come back after so many years and continue to be as fresh as they were in the early days. We at Convulsive have been fans of the band ever since we first heard them on the Messthetics compilations and follow up collection on Hyped2Death and are very happy to be the ones to release brand new material from one of our all time favorite bands." -Convulsive |
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Artist: MELCHIOR, DAN UND DAS MENACE Title: Dim Are The Lights Format: 7" Label: Convulsive Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Two more great ones from one of the best and most prolific songwriters around. A-side is a great dark stomper and B-side is a cover of John Cooper Clarkes classic keeping up his streak of quality and quantity. Fans will not be dissapointed with this one." -Convulsive |
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Artist: PHEROMOANS Title: It Still Rankles Format: LP Label: Convulsive Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Since their debut 7� on Convulsive Records in 2009 The Pheromoans have been leading the pack of the new batch of great UK diy punk bands and have released some of the most exciting singles in recent memory on labels such as Savoury Days, Night People and Sweet Rot. They now return to Convulsive with their debut album �It Still Rankles�, a 17 song shamble punk masterpiece in the tradition of such classics as �A Trip To Marineville�, �1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts� and �Detailed Twang.� Fans of the band will surely not be dissapointed� and for those unfamiliar this will surely be a great introduction to one of the most exciting bands currently operating in the world today. One of the first truly great albums of the decade. 500 copies." - Convulsive. |
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Artist: PHEROMOANS, THE Title: Revamper Format: 7" Label: Convulsive Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Debut EP by Britains best new band. DIY shamble avant garage at its finest in the tradition of The Keggs, Swell Maps, & Danny And The Dressmakers. B-side is a weirder spoken word number reminiscent of The Shadow Ring. One of the best bands on the planet at the moment and we are proud to be the ones to give you their first release." -Convulsive
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Artist: SEX CHURCH Title: 6 Songs By Sex Church Format: LP Label: Convulsive Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Sex Church is a band from Vancouver, Canada. Their music is inspired by depression, frustration, disappointment and other such inner turmoils that are the sources of great works of art. Like bands such as The Wipers and Cheater Slicks, Sex Church takes that gloom and doom and spews it out in a punk and garage blueprint mixed with some hard driving krautrock repetitiveness as well as melodic shoegaze elements and turn something ugly into something beautiful. "6 Songs by Sex Church", their debut full length LP, shows the world what this band is truly capable of featuring moody numbers like "Old Enough" "I Dont Wanna Die" and "The Floor", as well ripping hard driving numbers like "Not Anymore" "Ghost" and "Mistaken". A perfect follow up to their single on Sweet Rot Records and a perfect record for fans of bummer rock n drone. First edition of 500" -Convulsive |
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Artist: ARIEL PINKS HAUNTED GRAFFITI Title: Loverboy Format: Double LP Label: Cooler Cat Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Recorded back in 2001-2002, Loverboy was originally released as a bonus second disc with the first pressing of the House Arrest album. Later pressings did not include this record, and led many folks to freak out and obsess and do everything in their power to track it down! So it should come as a delight to outsider pop lovers and ARIEL PINK fans everywhere to discover that Loverboy is finally getting a proper release, as a super deluxe double LP. Its the one Ariel Pink record that features the most musical input from his buddy and big-time AQ favorite JOHN MAUS, who co-wrote a few of the tracks and whose instantly recognizable deep croon can be heard on a few other tracks as well. AP also gives a much deserved nod to one of his idols, R. Stevie Moore, kicking out a cover of "Hobbies Galore," and on top of all that, its also the record where we first got a sneak peak what would become the Holy Shit record that AP would make with Matt Fishbeck, as the track "I Dont Need Enemies" from that record first appeared here." - Cooler Cat.
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Demon Excercises (Ball Out Ra Jesus) Format: Book Label: Copeland, Eric Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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"20 pgs hand stitched hand glued silk screened cover. words and pictures fitting between dices gore and maybe mad magazine minus the cartoons...made in small batches but limited to 50 right now" Very nice hand made artifact from Eric Copeland of Black Dice.
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: RGAG Format: CDR Label: Copeland, Eric Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Songs aborted from soundtracks, album outtakes, and private jams. Letting things ride." Eric from Black Dice, Ninjas, etc.. VERY limited self-released CDR in red, gold and green taped packaging.
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Artist: LANE, WILLIE Title: Guitar Army of One Format: LP Label: Cord-Art Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Cord-Arts flagship artist returns with yet another exciting slab of guitar anti-heroics. And, as the title suggests, hes more confident than ever. In addition to the finger-style excursions upon which he has virtually made his name, "Guitar Army of One" shows Lane moving further into the realm of multi-track dabblery, where he constructs charmingly precarious platforms to support his more indulgent six-string ventures. Recorded at home to 4-track cassette, so poptones these aint; but we think that listeners with an ear for the veil of haze that clouds-up certain Impossible Recordworks will embrace the fidelity here. Numbered edition of 350 copies with paste-on cover and silk-screened lettering." - Cord-Art.
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Artist: LANE, WILLIE Title: Known Quantity Format: LP Label: Cord-Art Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"Willie Lane is a New England-born guitarist mostly known for his sporadic appearances (both live and recorded) backing Vermont duo MV & EE, but he is also prone to indulge occasionally in solo endeavors. Fans of MV & EEs cottage label Child of Microtones will remember Mr. Lanes "Recliner Ragas" disc of several years ago, documenting a legendary session from early 2003 that MV engineered and produced at his home in Guilford. "Known Quantity" finds Lane sequestered in Philadelphia apartments with a tape machine, coaxing ragas and abstract blues from acoustic guitars as well as walking the plank of a pedalboard with his dangerously heavy Les Paul copy. The recordings date from 2006 to 2008 - a span of time that encompassed a considerable range of shifting moods and approaches in Lanes playing, in addition to yielding ample refreshment breaks.
edition of 350 numbered copies with printed labels & a not-so-shabby 11"x17" folkways-style paste-on." -Cord-Art
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Artist: LANE, WILLIE Title: Sleepy Hands Format: 7" Label: Cord-Art Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"...hes gone & put out this most excellent 7", Arrested For Decay/Sleepy Hands, again on Cord Art & its easily my favorite little record thus far in this wee year. These two works spark n flare with Jesus Acedo like motifs, the harmonics & melodies on both sides fan glowin embersve desert ragas that seem psychonautically informed via moments found within grooves one might encounter on the 1st Black Sun Ensemble lp. Even the sleeve art...looks...vaguely...Why, the whole thing is a goddamn Pyknotic conundrum I tell ya! Hand numbered edition of 350 & once the words out, not even the snappiest department store Santall have a chance at it." - SIltblog.
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Artist: JUNG ANALYSTS Title: Sprockendidootch? Format: LP Label: Cordelia Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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From 1985. Restock of all the available releases from Alan Jenkins (main man behind Deep Freeze Mice, Chrysanthemums, etc..) late-70s-through-mid-80s Cordelia label and a few other related titles.
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Artist: MOORE, R. STEVIE Title: 1952 - 19?? Format: LP Label: Cordelia Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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1973 - 1986 recordings by this home recordist who has self-released tons of cassettes and lps over the years and most recently collaborated with Jad Fair.
Restock of all the available releases from Alan Jenkins (main man behind Deep Freeze Mice, Chrysanthemums, etc..) late-70s-through-mid-80s Cordelia label and a few other related titles.
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Artist: TRUBEE, JOHN AND THE UGLY JANITORS OF AMERICA Title: Beyond Eternity/Lavender Flesh Format: LP Label: Cordelia Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| Awesome 1986 LP of over the top psych/electronics/post-hippy rants/whatever by writer & musician John Trubee. Restock of all the available releases from Alan Jenkins (main man behind Deep Freeze Mice, Chrysanthemums, etc..) late-70s-through-mid-80s Cordelia label and a few other related titles. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Obscure Independent Classics: Volume 4 (Special Japanese Edition) Format: LP Label: Cordelia Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
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Strange LP from 1987 compiled by Yutaka Tanaka of S. Core. Unknown experimental and new wave. Restock of all the available releases from Alan Jenkins (main man behind Deep Freeze Mice, Chrysanthemums, etc..) late-70s-through-mid-80s Cordelia label and a few other related titles.
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Artist: VRTACEK, C.W. Title: Learning To Be Silent Format: LP Label: Cordelia Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| 1986 LP of mellow, folky avant garde from this longtime composer. Restock of all the available releases from Alan Jenkins (main man behind Deep Freeze Mice, Chrysanthemums, etc..) late-70s-through-mid-80s Cordelia label and a few other related titles. |
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Artist: LANDED / SNAKE APARTMENT Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Corleone Country: US Price: $5.00 |
| "A vicious new EP split between SNAKE APARTMENT and LANDED. You get SAs "Ugly Poltergeist" and Landeds "Tip of the Whip." Only 500 pressed, so dont you sleep." - Corleone. |
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Artist: MINDFLAYER Title: Die & Mold Format: LP Label: Corleone Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Brutal third release from Mindflayer. Featuring Brian Chipendale (lightningbolt) & Matt Brinkman (Forcefield, Mister Brinkman, PPP, Jamburgini, Danse Asshole). 1000 pressed on 220 gram vinyl with silk screen covers." - Corleone Records.
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Artist: A HANDFUL OF DUST Title: Musica Humana Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
| "Corpus Hermeticum is Bruce (Xpressway, Dead C) Russells label. Handful of Dust is a free-noise group mainly made up of Russell and Alastair Galbraith (Peter Stapleton also appears on drums sometimes). Subtitled "Collected Works 1990-93", this is a compilation of all previously available material, including the now o/p Concord LP & "A Little Aesthetic Discourse" 7" on Twisted Village, plus various comp tracks. Also includes volume 2 of Bruces magazine of philosophy, music and culture-critique: Logopandocy: The Journal of Vain Erudition." - FE. |
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Artist: BRANDSDAL, KJETIL D. Title: Freedom -- Waaoh Waaaoh Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
| "The name of Kjetil D. Brandsdal has been bandied about the world increasingly over the last couple of years. Of Norwegian origin, though resident for the last three years or so in Northern Ireland, Kjetil has carved quite a niche for himself as a sound artist. Exhibiting a sterling self-reliance, he emerged first via a slew of self-released cassettes (about ten in all), then followed these with two self-released LPs and a slew of singles on labels such as Boblador, MykeDroner, and Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers. The LPs were manufactured in editions of 300, and got snapped up pretty damn fast, but not before he sent one to H-Corp HQ in the far antipodes. The CD currently under consideration was the natural result, once the Hermetically-tuned ears of the corporation got a whiff of the lo-fi, droning, tape-looped improv. spew that Kjetil was purveying, it was a done deal. The Freedom CD compiles choice tracks from both LPs, KDB and Kjetil D. Brandsdal, but also features the full-length version of III, originally restricted to just one whole LP side, it now closes the CD at a full 35 minutes. The recorded pieces are devoid of drums, most rhythms coming from tape loops or guitar parts, and generally levitate the consciousness pretty effectively in a ceilingwards direction. Production appears to be on porta-studio in most cases, and headphone listening reveals some pretty cool mix-work in a style not a million miles from our own Omit, but retaining a unique Nordic grittiness in sound." - Corpus Hermeticum. |
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Artist: DORAMAAR Title: Copula Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
| "Coalescing around the inspiration of Kim Pieters (Dadamah, Rain, Flies Inside The Sun), the line-up on this album includes Sara Stephenson, Adria Morgan and Andre Richardson. Favoring a revolving door policy with instruments, the group employ guitar, bass, synthesizer, organ, drums and voice to create sound-worlds that are at once enticing and threatening, like the paradigmatic songs of the sirens in Jacques Attalis Noise: The Political Economy of Music. Their approach is strictly free form; collective improvisation is emphasized at all times and the group have the uncanny cohesion and singleness of purpose which all truly great improvisational ensembles possess." - Corpus Hermeticum. |
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Artist: PHÉROMONE Title: Disparlure Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
| "Disparlure is the first release by French trio Phéromone. Comprised of Pascal Battus, Eric Cordier and Jean-Luc Guionnet, the trio have been together for some three years performing improvised music using guitar, hurdy gurdy, electronics and various electro-acoustic devices involving sundry objects with contact mics. Cordier and Guionnet have played together since the mid-80s in various settings, most recently in Schams and Synapses and also as a duo (discs on Shambala and Selektion). Battus is a new collaborator for them, a guitar player with an extended technique, recently praised in the Wire by no less an authority than Keith Rowe as one of the younger guitarists worth watching out for. This disc consists of a continuous piece (indexed as two tracks) edited from home recordings of the group by long-time collaborators Eric La Casa and Pierre-Henri Thiebaut. Their favoured concert set up is to occupy three corners of the performance space and seat the audience in the middle. The analogy is with the functioning of the eponymous insect hormones, which transmit messages to other insects at a distance. The audible messages of the three musicians transmit signals from one player to the next, with the audience hearing the interaction of the signals in surround sound. This is particularly apt as the overall effect of the music on this disc is of a darkened environment full of animal calls, as unseen predators stalk small mechanical prey and flocks of metal birds perch in the tinfoil trees. Actual sound sources are impossible to identify with certainty as the various stringed and amplified instruments surge and recede in a dazzling display of alternating synchronicity and conflict. The variety of sounds, the virtuosity of the interplay and the obvious mix of both seriousness and humour in their approach mark Phéromone out as a trio to keep an eye on in the future." - Corpus Hermeticum. |
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Artist: PIETERS, KIM/BRUCE RUSSELL/PETER STAPLETON Title: Last Glass Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
| Debut by an improvisational trio made up of Kim Pieters (bass, organ, synthesizer), Bruce Russell (guitar, perc., synth) & Peter Stapleton (drums, synth, guitar). "Pieters & Stapleton are known as the core of the now defunct Dadamah, as well as for new projects like Flies Inside The Sun & Rain. Last Glass is comprised of 6 instrumental improvisations which range from the near-ambient to the red faced and throttling, sometimes covering this range in a single piece. Obvious points of reference are AMM, Musica Elettronica Viva and the Silver Apples, but Pieters/Russell/Stapleton skirt these static reference points like downhill slalom skiers. All the pieces bar one are single takes, without overdubs, but the soundscapes are far from sparse as a result. Built around propulsive percussive rhythms, the other instruments provide plenty of the scrub and woosh youd expect from an outfit with this kind of pedigree. The CD comes in the trademark Hermescorp manila folder, which contains a 14 x 42 cm. folder of Kim Pieters artwork." - Corpus Hermeticum. |
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Artist: RST Title: Warm Planes Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
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"Second full length offering from this talented Kiwi sound sculptor. Guaranteed to pin your head to the floor with calm, carefully abraded and composed blocks of unrelenting noise. Nothing here is accidental, every sound event has a purpose and the result is a festival of physically impacting soundworks in the now classic NZ style. Andrew Moon is RST, a solo sound exploration project he launched on the unsuspecting world via the lathe cut LP Event Horizon in 1994. This LP, like the nearly contemporaneous Surface of the Earth double LP, marked the real beginnings of something new in the NZ noise scene, until then pretty fully occupied by offshoots of the Dead C and their close relatives. Andrews past was as a drummer in various post punk NZ combos, but RST represented a considerable broadening of his sonic palette, using guitars, electronics and recording processes to weld slabs of sound into very slow moving and all-enveloping sonic environments. He subsequently featured on Hcorps genre defining compilation Le Jazz Non, banged out a few select lathe cut rarities and put out his first CD, R136a, on Thurston Moores Ecstatic Peace imprint. The key to RSTs development was a spell spent in London in the early 90s, getting to grips with non-linear music and improvised stratagems for sound making. Once sound was freed to be itself, there was no looking back for Mr Moon. He rapidly came to master the techniques of painting with sound, enabling himself to create sound worlds that hang suspended in the ear of the beholder, adrift from points of reference, where tones and isolated rhythm events turn slowly, casting light in interweaving circles around the inside of your brain. The pieces on this new album range from carefully wrought filigrees of sound sparkling in mid-air to slow moving bulldozers of low end noise that grind across the aural foreground, obliterating everything in their path. What links them together is the total dedication and attention to detail that accompanies their generation and recording, as with label compatriot K Group, no sound is just allowed to be there, every noise is sculpted and carefully placed for maximum aesthetic effect on the listener. Once more, confounding the armchair cynics who claim it is a dead cypher in a universe devoid of meaning, in RSTs hands the electric guitar is reclaimed and made to do new work, uplifting the spirit and splitting the mind open to reveal yet new interior universes of signification. RSTs Warm Planes are like thermal pools for the mind, from which the listener emerges revived and renewed. Dip in." - Corpus Hermeticum.
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: Painting The Passports Brown Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
| "This, the third solo album recorded by the artist currently known as Bruce Russell, consists of three live slabs of improvised guitar, electronics, and analogue tape loops, recorded live in Melbourne, Australia in May 1999. This was the first of two visits he made to Australia in that year, the second being in the company of Alastair Galbraith as A Handful of Dust. These recordings are totally solo, built respectively around a pre-recorded seven metre loop taken from the Anabase LP by Dust (Black Flies #1 & #2), and a slowed down and reversed tape of thumb piano improvisation (With Rimbaud in Abyssinia). These extended works are less brutal than the pieces featured on the first two solo albums, with more space and attendant dynamics in evidence. They abrade, rather than assault, the ears. This album represents a step forward in BRs solo work, integrating the pre-recorded and live sounds ever more fully into a seamless whole. The recordings have been edited at the front and back, but otherwise are presented totally live as recorded to minidisc by Melbourne resident and Freeway Sound label curator Marco Fusinato. The Rimbaud track is subtitled Ass Backwards as the reversal of the backing tape was an unintended but fortunate accident, resulting from a failure to rewind the tape after the first show. These kind of random factors do so much to enrich the work of improvisers of all stripes, as witnessed by the music on this compact disc. Going on at length about the artist responsible for these recordings would be needless in the case of the very great majority of those reading these words. Suffice to say he performs and records with the Dead C, A Handful of Dust, and Pieters/Russell/ Stapleton, manages the label on which this excellent disc has been released, and takes the kind of holiday snaps of bridges and buildings with which the cover is decorated. A 10" vinyl postscript to this recordings is being released about the same time on the Smalltown Supersound label in Norway, that record being of a much more dense and apocalyptic guitar-squall nature, recorded solo at one of the Melbourne Dust dates referred to earlier." |
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Artist: WEHOWSKY, RALF & BRUCE RUSSELL Title: Sights Format: CD Label: Corpus Hermeticum Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
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"Take two collaborators, one a German sound artist noted for his painstaking micro-engineered computer compositions, the other a New Zealand noise terrorist with a reputation for making albums over his morning tea breaks. Put them in a basement studio in Karlsruhe for three days in February 2003, feed them on coffee and apple juice and let them out to walk in the woods once a day. What do you get? Sights, a dramatic collision of two very different but complementary approaches to the same problem -- what is this sound?.
This is a postcard from Bruce Russells 2003 European holiday, consisting of three duo improvisations, one recorded after the fact by mail collaboration, and two recorded live in Ralfs studio. Russell and Wehowsky take turns in the studio playing guitar and manipulating a range of tone generating electronics, while the mail collaboration includes clavioline and teaspoons. The recordings have then been subjected to Ralf Wehowskys characteristically careful mixing, where stereo placement and subtle tweaking of the recorded sounds grants a bewitching crystalline sheen to every click and whine. Its the combination of instantaneous composition and carefully-planned post-production that imparts the mystery to this particular session. At once quite unlike Wehowskys recent work, yet imbued with the same ethos of care and judicious consideration which marks all his productions, Sights if anything represents a return to the more carefree jamming practiced by the earliest post-punk incarnations of his first band, PD. In this we see some influence from the slap-dash New Zealander, but whereas the average Russell production has an unmistakeable air of accident about the fact that anything wound up on tape at all, in this case the beautifully-managed production does perfect justice to the audible excitement captured at the point of creation.
Theres a measured care to the way these sounds have been put together, but theres no slavish adherence to any tenets regarding how the results should sound. This is too rocking to be reductionist, too chance-driven to be minimalist, and too noisy to be lumped with any temporarily fashionable schools of micro-improvisation. What you get is the meeting of two well-made-up minds, which have spent upwards of two decades each deciding what the business of sound is all about, and then a long weekend putting the resulting experience into practice." - Corpus Hermeticum.
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Artist: DOO-DOOETTES, THE Title: Think Space Format: CD/7" Label: Cortical Foundation Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
| "Cortical Foundation releases #27, 28 & 29 are a series of deluxe packaged reissues of extremely rare and unreleased material from original LAFMS (Los Angeles Free Music Society). Each comes in a heavy duty full color gatefold 7" jacket, with inserts, etc., limited to 700 copies each -- state of the art packaging quality and attention to detail." - FE. "Group improvisations intended to accompany a film on the viking space probe in 1975. Includes the original Doo-Dooettes lineup; Dennis Duck, Juan Gomez, Fredrik Nilsen, Tom Recchion, Harold Schroeder. The 7" includes a Doo-Dooette version of Fausts Picnic On A Frozen River recorded in 1978. Packaged in 7" gatefold jacket. Limited edition. First time available. The release includes: The Doo-Dooettes performing Fausts Picnic On A Frozen River 7", CD of Think Space. Hand numbered edition of 700 copies. Designed by Tom Recchion." "The unearthing of the LAFMS recordings is experimental rock history at its most historical and hysterical -- a completely bizarro and further-out counterpart to the LA punk scene." -- Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth. |
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Artist: LE FORTE FOUR Title: Boris The Spider/Priceless Format: CD/7" Label: Cortical Foundation Country: USA Price: $34.00 |
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"This edit of Le-Forte Four is wedged between their former incarnation as The Patients and their debut LP that was put together in the electronic music studio at Cal Arts in 1974. Edited by Rick Potts in 1973. All the references made in their debut Bikini Tennis Shoes LP, from Speed Racer to Zappa to Looneytoons to the Moog, is very clearly foretold in the Boris The Spider/Priceless edit. Includes Extended Grunge and Arguments From The Patients reworking of The Whos Boris The Spider that was later submitted to the Norwegian Electronic Music Festival and rejected. First time available. The release includes: a 7" repro of the very rare Slimey Adenoid and the Pablums The Residents b/w Joe Potts Mother Daughter, CD of Le Forte Four Boris The Spider/Priceless. Hand numbered edition of 700 copies." - Cortical Foundation.
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Artist: RILEY, TERRY Title: Music For The Gift Format: CD Label: Cortical Foundation Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The earliest and most heavily anticipated release yet in the Cortical Foundation series of archival TERRY RILEY releases, and the first time any of these pieces have been commercially available. Four seminal tape works-The Gift performed in Paris in 1963 by CHET BAKER with tape manipulations by Riley, Bird of Paradise a very early and radical tape manipulation work, Mescalin Mix a tape-loop recording from 1960-62, and Concert For Two Pianos and Five Tape Recorders performed and recorded live in Berkeley in 1960 by Riley and LAMONTE YOUNG, with a humorous play-by-play broadcast narrative by GLENN GLASOW." - Cortical Foundation.
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Artist: WET ILLUSTRATED Title: Born Stoked Format: 7" Label: Corvette City Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Born Stoked" is the debut single from mystery San Francisco duo GARBAGE DOG & BOBBY MILKSHAKE, who may or may not be former and current members of PHOTOBOOTH and TY SEGALLs band. Simultaneously lazy and amped-up, "Born Stoked" and "Flying" bask comfortably in the glow of the early Flying Nun catalog, jangling up the pogo with itchy and agitated guitar hooks and scrappy abandon. FRESH & ONLYS main man of bearded mystery, TIM COHEN, twists the knobs and tweaks the treble into perfection. Beautiful full-color paste-up sleeves. Limited to 300 copies." -Corvette City |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: A Kingdom He Likes Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "39th Jandek album, the 4th to be (technically) released in the very prolific year of 2004. Acoustic guitar and vocals. Cover photo features a bearded man wearing a hat. Just like Darby, "Jandek" says "there is no God"." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Austin Sunday Format: 2CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "48th Jandek release, and 5th of 2006! Pictured on front: French doors slightly ajar, revealing a placid, grey sea. This 2CD contains such revealing track titles as "Wine You Devil" and "You Just About Killed Me." Recorded live: Scottish Rite Theatre, Austin, Texas, August 28, 2005." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Austin Sunday Format: DVD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "DVD version. Filmed live at the Scottish Rite Theatre, Austin, Texas, August 28, 2005. NTSC format, theoretically Region 0. Aspect ratio: 16:9. The music and artwork is the same as the Austin Sunday 2CD, released in 2006." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Blue Corpse Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 15th Jandek album, originally issued by Corwood in 1987. "Jandek breaks up with Nancy and gets real depressed over it. All-acoustic except for the closer, One Minute." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Brooklyn Wednesday Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "51th Jandek release. The first Jandek 4CD release, in a slipcase, nice presentation. Recorded live at the Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY, September 7th, 2005. This comprehensive release features both sets complete; Set One split up over discs 1 & 2 (78 minutes), with Set Two split up discs 3 & 4 (another 81 minutes). The performers are not listed on the packaging, but history has recorded that the Corwood representative played electric guitar during Set 1 and fretless electric guitar during Set 2. The backing for both was: Matt Heyner (double bass), Chris Corsano (drums)." -Corwood Industries. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Brooklyn Wednesday Format: 2DVD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "2DVD version in regular jewel case. Filmed live at the Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY, September 7th, 2005. Featuring both sets from the Brooklyn Wednesday 4CD, released in 2007. Disc one features the Corwood representative playing electric guitar during Set 1. On the second disc, he plays fretless electric guitar for Set 2. The backing for both is: Matt Heyner (double bass), Chris Corsano (drums). Aspect ratio 16:9." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Camber Sands Sunday Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Recorded live at Camber Sands Holiday Park, England on May 14, 2006. Featuring Richard Youngs (bass guitar) and Alex Neilson (drums). Continues the Corwood representatives "Mannequin series" of album covers started in 2003 with The Place (COR 0772) and The Gone Wait (COR 0773)." -Corwood Industries |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Chair Beside A Window Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Fourth Jandek album, originally issued in 1982 (the first of 3 albums to released in this very prolific year). Notable for the track "Nancy Sings" which features the first appearance by an outside vocalist on a Jandek record -- an absolutely riveting acoustic gospel-blues tinged track." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Chair Beside A Window Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Fourth Jandek album, originally issued in 1982 (the first of 3 albums to released in this very prolific year). Notable for the track "Nancy Sings" which features the first appearance by an outside vocalist on a Jandek record - an absolutely riveting acoustic gospel-blues tinged track."- FE. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Chair Beside A Window Format: LP Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "The grainy, haunted beauty of Jandeks early work went through many phases, never quite as varied and multi-faceted as the material on his 4th album, Chair Beside A Window released in 1982. The relatively wide range of Chair Beside A Window gives insight into the influences on the seemingly impenetrable Jandek sound. Hearing the blown-out harmonica bluster of You Think You Know How To Score its hard not to imagine it as the Jandek equivalent of a Dylan phase, however insanely translated. Most notable in terms of both variance and firsts is the standout track Nancy Sings, featuring the first time we hear an outside vocalist. This song, a sad and empty blues featuring stunning female vocals, could easily be argued for as the moment freak-folk was born. Nods to folk blues, early gospel and even some strange takes on group jams appear. The layers of intentions and emotional frequency are always a mystery, but the mystery is more colorful and relatable here than it ever was before. Vinyl for this album has been unavailable since the initial pressing and has been sought ravenously by collectors ever since. Working in direct collaboration with Corwood Industries, were thrilled to offer this exact repress, heavyweight-vinyl edition." -Corwood Industries |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Follow Your Footsteps Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 13th Jandek album, originally issued by Corwood in 1986. "A song like For Today, w/its sparsely-plunked notes and melancholically assertive vocals, could almost be an out-take from one of Michael Hurleys classic albums on Racoon... As the soul of individualism is being destroyed by the forces of evil, Jandeks flame is an especially bright beacon in the dark." - Byron Coley. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Foreign Keys Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "CD reissue of the 11th Jandek album, originally issued in 1985. More singing from "Nancy" and beautiful atmosphere permeates all over the place." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Glad To Get Away Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Jandek is an obscured Texan who has been privately releasing beautiful documents of fractured, internalized song genius, since the very late 70s. There have been no tours, no interviews, no public appearances but the representation of individualistic creation has never been more perfectly rendered than via the Corwood discography. Utilizing guitars (one at time, both acoustic or electric), voice and percussion, this is music from the ultimate void -- vaguely related to genres like folk, blues and avant-garde but in the end it can only be the sound of Jandek. And theres never been anything else quite like it. There were 22 previous LPs released, all of which are now out of print (CD reissues are happening & near complete). Graven Image was Corwoods first CD-only release (now o/p). Glad to Get Away is the 2nd Jandek CD, an all-acoustic masterpiece. Haunting, eternal genius, continued." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Glasgow Friday Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "53rd Jandek release. Pictured on front: a ruined castle on the sea. Recorded live: The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland, October 14, 2005. As with the other Jandek CDs recorded live in Glasgow, this features backing provided by Glaswegians Richard Youngs (bass) and Scatter percussionist Alex Neilson on drums. " |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Glasgow Friday Format: DVD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Recorded live performance on October 14, 2005 at The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland. Featuring backing provided by Glaswegians Richard Youngs (bass) and Scatter percussionist Alex Neilson on drums. NTSC format, theoretically Region 0. Aspect ratio 16:9." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Glasgow Monday - The Cell Format: Double CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "47th Jandek release, and the 4th of 2006! Features wandering piano strains, and whispered forlorn vocals. Pictured on the front, a stone cottage surrounded by hills. 10 tracks divided into parts, recorded live at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow on May 23, 2005." - FE. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Glasgow Monday/The Cell Format: DVD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "47th Jandek release, and the 4th of 2006! Features wandering piano strains, and whispered forlorn vocals. Pictured on the front, a stone cottage surrounded by hills. Filmed live at Center for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow, Scotland, May 23, 2005. NTSC format, theoretically Region 0. Aspect ratio: 16:9. The group is a trio, with Richard Youngs on bass and Alex Neilson on drums. The music is the same as the Glasgow Monday 2CD, released in 2006." - Corwood. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Glasgow Sunday Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "41st Jandek album, 2nd new release of 2005. Recorded live at The Arches in Glasgow Scotland, October 17, 2004. This was, at the time, the first ever known Jandek live performance. Backing provided by Glaswegians Richard Youngs (bass) and Scatter percussionist Alex Neilson on drums." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Glasgow Sunday Format: DVD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "DVD version. Filmed live at the Arches in Glasgow, Scotland on 10/17/04. NTSC format, theoretically Region 0. Aspect ration: 4:3. As a viewer you get to chose: "Camera 1", "Camera 2" or the "2 camera mix edit." Wow. This DVD features the complete set from Jandeks historic concert in Glasgow, his first ever public performance. The group is a trio, with Richard Youngs on bass and Alex Nielson on drums. The "representative from Corwood" plays a black guitar, wears a black hat and sounds just right. The music is the same as the Glasgow Sunday CD, released one year earlier, but the visuals here are exceptional (in a basic "pro" fashion) and allow all sorts of new & vigorous insights into the Jandek portfolio. No bonus material, no Easter egg." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Glasgow Sunday 2005 Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "54th Jandek release. Recorded live at The Arches, Glasgow Scotland on October 16, 2005." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Graven Image Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Repressed. Graven Image was the first Jandek CD (originally released in 1994) and when it went out of print a couple years ago, a whole legion of loafers freaked out and jumped into an extended Ebay clikathon. But now its back, thanks to Corwoods relentless pursuit of availabity. Jandek is an obscured Texan who has been privately releasing beautiful documents of fractured, internalized song de-con, since the very late 70s. There have been no tours, no interviews, no public appearances but the representation of individualistic creation has never been more perfectly rendered than via the Corwood discography. Utilizing guitars (one at time, both acoustic or electric), voice and percussion, this is music from the ultimate void -- vaguely related to genres like folk, blues and avant-garde, but in the end it can only be the sound of Jandek. And theres never been anything else quite like it. There were 22 LPs released by Corwood in the LP era (all reissued on CD now). With Graven Image Corwood moved into the CD era for the first time. Haunting, eternal genius, continued." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Hasselt Saturday Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "The Places You Left Me" performed in eight parts. Jandek performs solo on piano. Recorded live at Kunstencentrum Belgie in Hasselt, Belgium, November 12, 2005." -Corwood Industries |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Helsinki Saturday Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Recorded live on November 19, 2005 at Gloria Kulttuuriareena in Helsinki, Finland. One 60+ minute track entitled "Sleeping In The Dawn." No vocals -- the first entirely instrumental Corwood release! Jandeks fragile piano playing is joined by Iro Haarla on harp. On the cover: the suave representative stands on a pier. Destined to be a Corwood classic." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: I Threw You Away Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "A return to form album, the 32nd Jandek full length. Cover features controversial photo of a street in Europe(!), rumored to be from Cork City in Ireland, with the St. Marys Pro-Cathedral church featured in the background. On this album, the Blues turn Black." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: I Woke Up Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Fourth CD release. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Interstellar Discussion Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 9th Jandek album, originally released on LP in 1984. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Khartoom Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "43rd Jandek album, 4th one in 2005! Fantastic, acoustic, classic Jandekian masterwork in the vein of his mid-period work Graven Image or Glad To Get Away . Cover features full-on Shroud of Turin-esque visage of a bearded man in a stunning white prayer cap." - FE. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Khartoum Variations Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "44th Jandek album, the 1st in 2006. A riveting, stark cover features a man in black standing in front of a castle. Bent, acoustic guitar grapples with signature fractured howls of later releases. Best song title: "In A Chair I Stare"." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Later On Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| The third Jandek album from 1981, reissued for the first time ever. "Another installment in the digitization of the Jandek back catalog, and for those who have never heard his earliest records because of their scarcity, you can now own another piece of the Corwood catalog without having to fend off those cutthroat members of the Jandek community. This record, like Jandeks first (Ready for the House), is comprised of not just basically one chord throughout, but as far as I can tell he barely even touches the fret board of his guitar, using his instrument more for atmosphere and percussion than anything like a song. The usual lyrical motifs of the blues are all over the place, including women, roads, death, and even janitors, which in my tweaked view of the universe hearkens back to Howlin Wolfs paean to a custodian on his last record ca. 1972 (Watergate Blues), and much like the Loren Mazzacane Connors Unaccompanied Acoustic Guitar Improvisations Vols 1-9 1979-1980 box set reissue on Ecstatic Yod, this is proof that something that might be called the blues can be non-formulaic, just undiluted expression, and actually just a skeleton on which to drape a very whacked universe of your very own." -- Billy Kiely |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Living In A Moon So Blue Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 5th Jandek album, originally released in 1982. "The title for this one actually comes from a lyric from his track Can I See Your Clock from his second LP Six And Six, and so one can already see The Artist creating an oeuvre filled with allusions, hints, motifs that really dont point at anything in particular. Herein lies one of Jandeks peculiar charms: his songs resilience. We find him in a more aggressive mode here -- singing and playing here like he really means it; therein lies another charm: we are never really sure what he means. All in all, Living In A Moon So Blue is one of his best, the presentation and approach seemingly from a different time altogether, how about some grayish Eastern Bloc country, ca. 1962?" -- Billy Kiely |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: London Tuesday Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "55th Jandek release. Recorded live at Londons St. Giles In The Fields church on October 18, 2005. Quite possibly an extended song divided into eight parts entitled "No Mind Was A Good Mind." The cover features a man in black posed at a gate overlooking a town somewhere in the UK. The Corwood representative performs solo on acoustic guitar." - Corwood Industries. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Lost Cause Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of Jandeks 21st album, originally issued in 1992. "Side one has 7 non-datable tracks of depressed blues-destroying ramble... Early optimism on the opening tracks transmutes into full desolation by the closing hack-gulps at the end... The Electric End is a nineteen-plus minute excursion into frothful extremes. Piercing electro-search guitar, revolutionary ultra-primitive drumming, lost-mind vocalism of real cracked creation and some sort of high end squeal (a penny whistle?) combine in an incredibly wasted fashion." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Manhattan Tuesday Format: Double CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"50th Jandek release. Recorded live at the Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan, NY, September 6, 2005. The representative from Corwood plays Korg synthesizers (set to organ-like sounds) and sings; he is accompanied by Loren Connors (electric guitar), Matt Heyner (bass), and Chris Corsano (drums). Disc 2 is entitled: Afternoon Of Insensitivity. Very sympathetic playing from the backing musicians and in general, one of the heaviest Jandek albums in years." - FE.
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Manhattan Tuesday Format: DVD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "DVD version. Filmed live at the Anthology Film Archives, Manhattan New York, September 6, 2005. NTSC format, theoretically Region 0. Aspect ratio: 16:9. The music and artwork is the same as the Manhattan Tuesday 2CD, released in 2007. The representative from Corwood plays Korg synthesizers (set to organ-like sounds) and sings; he is accompanied by Loren Connors (electric guitar), Matt Heyner (bass), and Chris Corsano (drums)." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Modern Dances Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 14th Jandek album, originally issued by Corwood in 1987. Features "Painted My Teeth" and 10 other classics. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: New Town Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "The fifth Jandek CD release, his 27 album overall, has arrived. It features our man in acoustic mode, harshly stroking his guitar in a manner that suggests not penny of investment has been proposed towards technical advancement. The live-room, hiss-relevant recording quality is still omnipresent and if you were feeling good about your contemporary fortune its quite possibly that this album holds wordage of universal truth. Once again." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Newcastle Sunday Format: Double CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "45th Jandek release, and the 2nd of 2006! This is a 1.5 hour live performance recorded at The Sage Gateshead England, May 22, 2005. First ever Corwood double CD, as well!" |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Newcastle Sunday Format: DVD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "45th Jandek release, and the 2nd of 2006! This is a 1.5 hour live performance filmed at The Sage Gateshead England, May 22, 2005. NTSC format, theoretically Region 0. Aspect ratio: 4:3. The group is a trio, with Richard Youngs on bass and Alex Neilson on drums. The music is the same as the Newcastle Sunday 2CD, released in 2005. No bonus material, no Easter egg." - Corwood. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Nine-Thirty Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| Reissue of the 10th Jandek album, originally issued on LP in 1985. " A series of songs on side two forms a sort of travelogue of a trip Jandek took through the American Southeast." -- Seth Tissue |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Not Hunting For Meaning Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "57th Jandek release. No funk here, just more sparse acoustic guitar and a lot of particularly tortured, passing-a-kidney-stone-style vocalizing. Three tracks, with the last one, "Silent Wander," clocking in at just under thirty minutes. On the cover: the charming, Flowbee-haircut era Corwood representative adorned in flannel, in a classic hands-folded pose. The legend continues, now even hotly tipped by Mandy Moore." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: On The Way Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| 17th album, originally issued in 1988. Features a darkly obscured color photograph of a drum kit barely illuminated at dusk through a window shade. Im not sure it really translates on CD, but in original LP form it rated as one of the more staggeringly oblique jackets of all time. Working within blues-rock realms this one features "real" drums, bass, dual electric guitars, a possible guest vocalist on some tracks, etc. "Ill Sit Alone and Think A Lot About You" isnt far from Skip Spence-like detachment. "The most varied and easily-accessed Corwoodian brain-scrambler in a while... Of course, if you pay close attention you discover that the central core is as explosively cathartic as any of Jandeks previous recs." -- Byron Coley. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: One Foot In The North Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| 20th album, originally issued in 1991. "Electric guitar (sometimes one, sometimes two) and vocals, no woman singer, no acoustic guitar, drums about a third of the time. Yellow Pages is a kind of cousin to European Jewel. Alehouse Blues is a pretty straight electric blues. Upon the Grandeur is built around a very beautiful winding figure on the guitar; theres also a second guitarist and someone thumping along throughout on a kettle drum (?). (At the end you can hear two male voices speaking to each other, off-mike: I cant pick out any words except when one of them says What?)." -- Seth Tisue. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Portland Thursday Format: 2CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "58th Jandek release. Recorded live at Hollywood Theater in Portland, Oregon on April 20, 2006. Featuring Sam Coomes (Quasi) on bass, Emil Amos (Grails/Om) on drums and Liz Harris (Grouper) and Jessica Dennison on backing vocals. Pictured on the cover is a flower in a glass of water -- half full or half empty? Jandeks music suggests the latter." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Put My Dream On This Planet Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Record number twenty-nine in the ever growing oeuvre of Jandek, and its certainly a head-scratcher. No guitar, no drums, no piano, just him rambling on for a small eternity in a sort of song/speech mode on two lengthy and one very short tracks; all of it sounding kind of like it was recorded though a 15 watt Peavey Bandit amp with a broken reverb spring and a noise-gate pedal. Eerie (some might say annoying or god awful), almost bluesy hiss bathed vocals are separated by some rather lengthy periods of complete silence, covering some of the places and feelings that populate his other records so vividly. Reading into it a bit (for in this place everything means something), we see that his last record ended with The Beginning (!) -- a 15+ vocal-less (!) piano meditation which certainly clouded the waters when it dropped -- which can now be viewed as an intro to this new acapella recording...you get the idea. So then, as concrete poetry its not so hot, and as some kind of Out Blues piece, its actually rather dire, but viewed in the microscope of the Jandekian Canon, its pretty massive, and thats saying something too." -- Billy Kiely |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Raining Down Diamonds Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "42nd Jandek album, 3rd new release of 2005. Like some sort of spirit photography, the cover photo features the ghostly image of a bearded man wearing a startling piece of haberdashery. Perhaps some sort of prayer cap? The darker side of Jandek, with deep, rumbling bass and despairing vocals, i.e. "Jesus take my will/take mine and make it yours.""- FE. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Ready For The House Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "There were plenty of significant events in 1978, ("Youre The One That I Want" by John Travolta & Olivia Newton John was quite a popular track, for example), and one of the most low-key yet significant events was the debut LP release on the Corwood Industries label out of Houston, TX. Mysteriously enough it came out under the name "The Units", but it was obviously a singular vision and not a band. That individual would come to be more commonly known as Jandek, and a total of 28 albums have been issued on Corwood to date. In 1978 however, there was no telling what was to come. Ready For The House was a mostly acoustic guitar/vocal record, of ethereal, shambling post-blues form. It set the stage for one the most individualistic and fascinating bodies of work in contemporary music. The original LP was casually issued in a beautiful color sleeve, featuring a mundane but striking image of a living room chair & table (replicated with almost pop-art brilliance on this CD). No other information was ever offered. As it remains today. Ready For The House sounded like no other record, and its doubtful that more than a handful of copies were sold at the time (promotional copies sent to out radio stations and reviewers were more voluminous). A second Jandek album wouldnt come out till 1981. By the mid-80s a wealth of documentation had occurred and the early Corwood albums became notoriously unavailable just as people were finally getting up the gumption to consider buying them. This record has been "in demand" for over a decade now and Corwood has finally caved in and reissued it proper. Find out what youve been missing for the last 25 years." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Ready For The House Format: LP Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "The 1978 release of Corwood Industries #0739, Ready For The House, began one of the most compelling, disturbed, and singular legacies in musical history. In the 30 years since this unique debut, Jandek has released 53 albums of mournful, atonal music that continues to defy classification and accessibility. And while the past three decades of intense productivity have yielded a depth of discussion, a handful of legendary live performances and even a film documentary, no amount of time or experience can prepare a listener for the experience of Ready For The House. Beyond stark, beyond oblique, beyond outsider, the first Jandek LP (originally credited to The Units) explores musical territories no one even knew existed, with just a hollowed-out voice and a lonely, detuned guitar. In 1985, it had infamously sold less than ten of the 1000 copies originally pressed, however by 1999, when it was issued on CD, the vinyl had completely disappeared, with original copies changing hands for hundreds of dollars. This exact vinyl repress on Corwood Industries, is the first time Ready For The House has been available on vinyl for nearly 20 years, finally giving collectors and fans the opportunity to own one of the most peculiar, solitary, and strangely magnetic records of all time." - Corwood Industries |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Shadow Of Leaves Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "36th Jandek album. Three long tracks, including the 30 minute title track. "Jandek plays bass again, claims to no longer exist, sings about drinking "mechanically produced beverages," and announces plans to think about breathing. Recently he took a walk. The music seems improvised but is satisfyingly varied and tracks the varying moods of the vocals closely. During the long piece, moments of abjection or desperation occur, but they pass; mostly the voice we hear is lucid. Hes leveling with us. When he sings I wont drive my car for the rest of the day, its a fact. The most harrowing moment comes during the last track, a love song that turns threatening: please take my bait... I want to eat you up... youll never get away, you wont want to... you dont have a life, you live in me. The music plunges down to the bottom of the basss range, but by the last line, the point of view has pulled back again to encompass the grand scheme of things." -- Seth Tisue. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Six And Six Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "The 2nd Corwood album, reissued on CD. Originally issued in 1981, this was the first actual album to be entitled to an artist named Jandek (the first Corwood album, 0739, was credited to the Units -- although that practice has been abandoned in the CD domain, an epic travesty in the minds of a few hardliners). The cover features a crude black & white photobooth-style portrait of the man weve come to assume as the singer, depicted at his most youthful, ready to accompany the power & glory of the Jandekian muse. Upon its release Six And Six defined Jandek as a significant album artist (no mere one-shot), featuring some of his most mesmerizing variations of trance-blues, especially the 10-minute centerpiece, "I Knew You Would Leave". Crucial, all round." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Six And Six Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "epressed. The 2nd Corwood album, reissued on CD. Originally issued in 1981, this was the first actual album to be entitled to an artist named Jandek (the first Corwood album, 0739, was credited to the Units -- although that practice has been abandoned in the CD domain, an epic travesty in the minds of a few hardliners). The cover features a crude black & white photobooth-style portrait of the man weve come to assume as the singer, depicted at his most youthful, ready to accompany the power & glory of the Jandekian muse. Upon its release Six And Six defined Jandek as a significant album artist (no mere one-shot), featuring some of his most mesmerizing variations of trance-blues, especially the 10-minute centerpiece, "I Knew You Would Leave". Crucial, all round." - FE. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Somebody In The Snow Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "19th album, originally issued in 1990. Brightly colored photograph of a well-gelled man is a favorite in many circles. Musically similar to the Living End sessions." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Staring At The Cellophane Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Reissue of the sixth Jandek album, originally issued in 1982.
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Telegraph Melts Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| CD reissue of the 12th Jandek album, originally issued in 1986. From Seth Tisues Jandek web site: "In You Painted Your Teeth, Jandek frenziedly harangues an unknown second person: "Dont paint your teeth! You painted your teeth! DONT PAINT YOUR TEETH! The title Governor Rhodes may refer to James A. Rhodes, the Ohio governor who ordered the National Guard into Kent State; the song itself is a sort of incantation with Jandek and Nancy repeating after each other Celebrate our love, celebrate our magic, chant with love, chant always, etc., in endless variations." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: The Beginning Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"8 track album, from 1999. The last track is a 16-minute solo piano -- a Corwood first. Its called "The Beginning". Only one person knows where it leads to next." - FE
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Artist: JANDEK Title: The Door Behind Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: The End Of It All Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "37th Jandek album, from 2004. 4 tracks, including the 20 minute "One of Those Moments". Vocals, electric guitar, in what one would think of as the "contemporary Jandek style. Cover photo of Jandek is hard to date, but more formal than usual -- how suprising." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: The Gone Wait Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "35th Jandek album. "The Gone Wait" was a track on 1993s The Twelvth Apostle album, now its an album title. This has happened before, and will happen again. Five tracks, good titles: "I Went To Hell", "I See The Open Door", "I Was A King", "I Just Might Go Now", "I Found The Right Change". Cover photos features a continuation of the Cork window shopping theme that has developed through the 770 series of Corwood releases. This time: sale pricing. Musically, a new style: acoustic guitar and electric bass duoes, with Jandeks vocals teetering into almost-Steve Martin territory." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: The Humility Of Pain Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "The 33rd Jandek album. An acoustic guitar/vocal affair, with funny song titles like "I Cant Leave A Clue" & "Share My Life". As they say at Googlism.com, "jandek is jandek." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: The Living End Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "18th album, originally issued in 1989. Twelve shorter trackers, dual blues. Piercing b&w portrait photography graces the cover, "Nancy" sings "Crazy", which is the track youll put on your next mix tape." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: The Myth of Blue Icicles Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "52nd Jandek release, and his first 2008 release thus far. Cover art features a smiling man in a striped shirt having his picture taken high in a building against the Houston city skyline. Sparse acoustic guitar and voice, 4 tracks: "Too Course," "Blue Icicles," "The Daze" and "Theres No Door." "-Corwood Industries |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: The Place Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "2003 Jandek album, his 34th. A return to music (a form of music, anyway). Guitar & vocal." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: The Rocks Crumble Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Reissue of the 8th Jandek album, originally issued in 1983. From Seth Tisues data: " Jandek goes electric! Contains three eccentrically numbered (613, II, 501) versions of European Jewel and two versions of the rock anthem Message to the Clerk (refrain: "Take a message to the clerk/ Tell him not to work")." - FE
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Artist: JANDEK Title: The Ruins of Adventure Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "49th Jandek release, and the final release of 2006. Cover art is the same re-cropped cover art as 2006s What Else Does The Time Mean?, focusing more intently on the red-haired adolescent. This CD contains such compelling track titles as "Completely Yours" and "Mysteries Of Existence." More plodding bass and world-weary vocals." - FE. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: This Narrow Road Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "The 30th Jandek album. As with Put My Dream On This Planet, this is an all-acapella affair, recording in same hi-hiss/gated-silence ratio. Opening with a 29-minute track, it follows through with 11 shorter vignettes. I have no idea what to say." - FE |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Twelfth Apostle Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Reissue of Jandeks 22st album, originally issued in 1993. This had been the final release during Corwoods vinyl era and now with this release, their CD reissue program is at last complete. "The most pure Jandek album since Blue Corpse -- rock and/or blues overtones are basically absent. All-acoustic, one guitar only, no drums, three to four minute songs. Uniquely, a heavy echo effect is added to the guitar on several songs on side two. Mood is thorny, ambivalent, a little impersonal, serious but not depressed like Blue Corpse. This is the first album in Jandeks late period; stylistically, it resembles the CDs that follow, not the LPs that came before." -- Seth Tisue.
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Artist: JANDEK Title: What Else Does the Time Mean? Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "46th Jandek release, and the 3rd of 2006! Features strangled, tinny guitar and even a harmonica! Pictured on the front, a young man in winter, sitting on a bench, holding an axe. 8 tracks, one that is titled "Japanese Cup"." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: What Was Out There Disappeared Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "The title of track three, "Will There Be No More Photos," prompts an interesting question: just how many photos does this guy have of himself throughout the different stages of his life? What will happen when he runs out? Miraculously, after all these years, this album cover is another winner: just in time for the fall season, we are treated to a handsome young Corwood representative standing in a yard covered in beautiful fall foliage. Looking sharp in a suit and tie, he looks ready for the prom -- or a funeral... And the music? Well, Jandek is Jandek. World-weariness, isolation and some harmonica." -- Corwood Industries. |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: What Was Out There Disappeared Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "The title of track three, "Will There Be No More Photos," prompts an interesting question: just how many photos does this guy have of himself throughout the different stages of his life? What will happen when he runs out? Miraculously, after all these years, this album cover is another winner: just in time for the fall season, we are treated to a handsome young Corwood representative standing in a yard covered in beautiful fall foliage. Looking sharp in a suit and tie, he looks ready for the prom -- or a funeral... And the music? Well, Jandek is Jandek. World-weariness, isolation and some harmonica." |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: When I Took That Train Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: JANDEK Title: White Box Requiem Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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3rd full length CD, after a long delay. Fourteen tracks of detuned perfection, acoustic guitar and vocal.
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Worthless Recluse Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"The 31st Jandek album, this is the third document in Jandeks new solo-vocal style, following Put My Dream On This Planet & This Narrow Road. The cover photo depicts our man wearing a sweater I wouldnt be got dead in, standing in front of a red barn. Your views of the farming industry might just change ever so much..." - FE
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Artist: JANDEK Title: You Walk Alone Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Reissue of the 16th Jandek album, originally issued by Corwood in 1988. "A celebratory exorcism... His most hard-rockin, conventional record... The progression of the guitar playing is astounding... It recalls the savage beauty of Mr. Howling Wolf... A masterpiece." - FE
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Artist: JANDEK Title: Your Turn To Fall Format: CD Label: Corwood Industries Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Reissue of the 7th Jandek album, originally issued on LP in 1983. According to Seth Tisues Jandek discography, the track "John Plays Drums" features "the first appearance of an outside instrumentalist on a Jandek record." 16 short tracks." - FE
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $24.00 |
| "Music : Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen. Drawings : Marc Nagtzaam. Recorded at the "Absolute point Zero Installation. On side B Tonegenerators made by Hewald Jongenelis." - Cosmic Volume. 2004 release. Edition of 300. |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: For Ambrosius Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $22.00 |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: Four Movements Format: 10" Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $24.00 |
| 2007 release, edition of 132. |
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Artist: VAN DEN DOBBELSTEEN, JAN Title: ID-LP Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Cosmic Volume Country: Netherlands Price: $30.00 |
| "All sounds are manipulated, nothing is what you think you hear. electric? acoustic?" - Cosmic Volume. 2000 release recorded 1995-99, playable at any speed. |