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Artist: ANTI/UTON Title: These Rains were Tales Before Format: CDR Label: Haamumaa Country: Finland Price: $8.00 |
| "Acoustic and electric guitars, all sorts of percussions and keyboards make up a spooky sound racket that walks the tightrope between drone and noise. This cd-r would work eminently as a sci-fi soundtrack but works just as fine as headphone fodder while trying to ignore the strange steps from the attic." - Broken Face. |
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Artist: APNA Title: EP Format: CDR Label: Haamumaa Country: FINLAND Price: $8.00 |
| " Mr. Uton playing with his two little cousins. Primitive folk percussions and ambient ritual music." - Haamumaa. |
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Artist: DIO DAGA Title: The Lost Powers of Freedom Format: CDR Label: Haamumaa Country: Finland Price: $8.00 |
| �??His second solo guitar album, now with distortion and screaming feedback. Dark atmosphere trance music.�?� - Haamumaa. |
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Artist: UTON & TOMUTONTTU Title: Hevoset Format: Cass Label: Haamumaa Country: Finland Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: UTON/CLAY FIGURE Title: Split Format: CDR Label: Haamumaa Country: Finland Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: GRIM Title: Folk Songs For An Obscure Race Format: CD Label: Haang Niap Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
"GRIM is Japanese legendary industrial noise bands of the 1980s created by Jun Konagaya.
GRIM released one 7EP,one LP,one 12EP, and some compilation.
Sound that not only harsh aggressiveness but also festivity, unknown ethnicity, prayer included.
And, include mysterious, melancholic beautiful folk songs!
CD reissue by Germanys Drag & Drop label in 1999. But, Its out of stock now.
Haang niaps release is complete version includes every release track. It is not same as Drag & Drops CD.
Include some amazing art works. Supervision by Jun Konagaya.
This is an inheritance of surprising sound!!
Factory-pressed CD in a gatefold mini-LP style card sleeve.with 12P booklet and OBI." - Haang Niap.
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Artist: HASEGAWA-SHIZUO Title: I Know A Chord Buried Into The Ground And A Tongue On A Cloud Format: CD Label: Haang Niap Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Hasegawa-Shizuo is the duo of Hirotomo Hasegawa (Aburadako,Kito-mizukumi rouber) and Shizuo Uchida(Kito-mizukumi rouber, ex Shokubaiya,ex nijium). Central to our sound is Hasegawas hichiriki (a flute used in gagaku) and Uchidas bass. Our performances are all real-time improvisations with no-overdubbing. "I know a chord buried into the ground and a tongue on a cloud" is our third album - previous releases were on PSF and Tiliqua. Its a live-in-the-studio improvisation. Factory-pressed CD in a gatefold mini-LP style card sleeve." - Hasegawa-Shizuo |
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Artist: HASEGAWA-SHIZUO Title: 110724 Format: Cass Label: Haang-Niap Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
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"This recording is the result of an unedited improvised live performance in Tokyo, Japan. It is not a perfect recording. But, this material is document." - Haang-Niap. Self-released cassette from these two members of Kito-Mizukumi Rouber, Keiji Hainos Nijiumu project, etc. First in the "Rare Air Bootlegs" series.
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Artist: GEROGERIGEGEGE Title: Senzuri Fight Back Format: 7" Label: Hachimitsu Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"In their ultra-shit "rock" mode, these infamous perverts pound out 14 bass/drums/voice turds of brutal noise. Truly bowel-moving excretions of sonic slime." - Hachimitsu. Unplayed copies of this 1994 release.
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Artist: HALANA Title: #4 Format: Mag/CD Label: Halana Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Everything about this arty American New Music zine squeals quality, from its ridged cardboard, metallic-inked cover and enduring paper-stock, to the hefty price tag. But your bucks include a CD with tracks by Rafael Toral, Sun City Girls founder Richard Bishop, id battery, Motoharu Yoshizawa, plus a piece by David Tudor and more�??all of which feature in the mag. Opening with a brilliant, often scary travelogue by Richard Bishop (from spontaneous busking sessions in Morocco to self-induced vomiting in Calcutta), we get a long and fairly boring Joe Maneri Q&A; a piece on Portuguese guitarist Rafael Toral (just a monologue distilled from a long e-mail correspondence); memoirs of Yoshizawa and Tudor from various acquaintances, preciously poetic notes on location recording from id batterys Loren Chasse; and endless split columns of CD reviews. But the real gem here is the feature on little known American renaissance man (and pretender to Harry Smiths crown in the realm of eccentric sonic research) Ralph Haxton, who has had at least three groups including Californias rhBand, named after him."�?? Rob Young, WIRE.
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Artist: CACCIAPAGLIA, ROBERTO Title: The Ann Steel Album Format: LP Label: Half Machine Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| Repressed. "Roberto Cacciapaglia is an Italian electronic composer whos made albums using every possible permutation of the same six notes, right up to modern classical, with The Ann Steel Album as the weird anomaly. Made with an American model who moved to Italy to make it big in fashion, Roberto took her languid, Laurie Anderson-esque voice and created a detached futurist popstar. The odd sound of these European futurist pop songs make it sound like the machines are breathing, creating a weird organic/electronic rhythm section. It has to be heard to be believed. With fans ranging from Geologist and Avey Tare from Animal Collective, Deerhunters Bradford Cox and Banjo or Freakout/Walls mainman Alessio Natalizia. The first time this album has been on vinyl since its initial small pressing in the 70s." -Half Machine. |
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Artist: REAL ESTATE Title: Fake Blues Format: 7" Label: Half Machine Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: WOODS Title: To Clean/Rain On (Live WVKR) Format: 7" Label: Half Machine Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
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Artist: LOCH NESS MONSTER Title: Mosaic 44 Format: LP Label: Hamster Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
 Somehow we still have copies of this LP from the stash of Alan Jenkins, main man behind Deep Freeze Mice, Chrysanthemums, Cordelia Records, etc. "Steven Elsey met Martin Howells while at art college in 1983. They started writing and recording their brand of early industrial pop together in that year and produced two vinyl releases on Hamster Records as The Loch Ness Monster – Indusrial Poppies (1985) and Mosaic 44 (1988). These releases saw them both take on aliases – Steven Plesiosaur and Nils Phlamethrower. After the 1988 release they recorded one off tracks for compilations then had a 20 year rest." - Four Fins.
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Artist: CONSUMER ELECTRONICS Title: Crowd Pleaser Format: LP Label: Hand To Mouth Country: Germany Price: $32.00 |
| Recorded Berlin 2009 - Gary Mundy (Ramleh, Skullflower, Toll), Mattin (Billy Bao), and Philip Best (Whitehouse). Limited edition on Bests new label. |
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Artist: CRUTCHFIELD, ROBIN Title: For Our Friends In The Enchanted Otherworld Format: CD Label: Hand/Eye Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Robin Crutchfield cofounded the experimental no-wave art band, DNA, and later collaborated with varied artists (including Steven Brown of Tuxedomoon and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch) in the guise of his DARK DAY project. His new solo explorations have been described by Devendra Banhart as "beguiling, powerful, hypnotic, mesmerizing, commanding, delicately unnerving, lilting, mellow," and "tense as hell." A tiny treasure box from a lost garden, this album finds Robin further exploring his unique world; one of delicate harp compositions, glissando & deep drones. Soundscapes for daydreamers of this and other worlds."- Hand/Eye. |
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Artist: STONE BREATH Title: Shepherdess & The Bone-White Bird Format: LP Label: Hand/Eye Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Stone Breath returns with their first new album in over 5 years. A visionary creation of Eastern-influenced rural acid folk. From fingerpicked acoustics; to clawhammer banjo excursions; to the side-long exaltation that is The Shepherdess of the Fiery Wheels, Stone Breath manifest their best work to date; an entire set of originals with the strange and beautiful harmonies and instrumentation which graced their past work. They are clear in sight, united in purpose, and shining in the darkness. Comes with booklet featuring lyrics, info and full psychedelic illuminations." - Hand/ Eye. |
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Artist: STONE BREATH/MIKE SEED WITH LANGUAGE OF LIGHT Title: The Aetheric Lamp Format: LP Label: Hand/Eye Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "For their half of The Aetheric Lamp, Stone Breath cut an anomalous path through the field of experimental folk, joined by new band members Don Belch & Brooke Elizabeth, while creating enduring acoustic music - this time with a distinctly Middle Eastern influence; half composed, half improvised, intricate & driving. Mike Seed 7 Language of Light bring a collection of songs drifting from the downright dark & haunting to the decidedly wyrd-folk. Seed creates lyrics imbued with a profound sense of introspection & occult mystery in melodies reminiscent of English folk ballad or early liturgical hymns. Language of Light, with what can only be described as avant-drone and folk strangeness, lend an ethereal backdrop to this LP." -Hand/Eye |
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Artist: TREES COMMUNITY, THE Title: The Christ Tree Format: CD Label: Hand/Eye Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "The official, first-time reissue of this much sought after & highly collectible 1975 LP release by this alternative Christian commune formed in NYC, now lovingly remastered from original tapes. Presented here with nine bonus tracks; seven songs taken from the box set edition & two songs never before released. A simply stunning set of experimental music and a must-have for fans of psychedelic-folk, psalmody, choral music & commune jams." - Hand/Eye. This is the single CD version, which includes the entire original album, plus tracks from the now deleted boxset edition, plus 2 previously unreleased tracks. |
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Artist: BLACK BONED ANGEL Title: The End Format: CD Label: Handmade Birds Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "This is the final album from this New Zealand doom duo. Brainchild of experimental icon Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, Our Love Will Destroy the World, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon). Campbells previous projects have included collaborations with Yellow Swans, and Bruce Russell (The Dead C)." 7"-sized hand-assembled packaging, including three envelopes, custom folder, and oversized insert." -Handmade Birds. |
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Artist: BLACK SUN ROOF Title: 4 Black Suns & A Sinister Rainbow Format: Double CD Label: Handmade Birds Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Double album from Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Total, Hototogisu, Sunroof!, Voltigeurs) and Samantha Davies (Voltigeurs, Skullflower)." -Handmade Birds. |
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Artist: CAMINITI, EVAN Title: When California Falls Into the Sea Format: LP Label: Handmade Birds Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Caminiti is one half of experimental duo Barn Owl, and has released past recordings through labels such as Thrill Jockey, Three Lobed, Digitalis, Important, Root Strata, and more. Along with Barn Owl, Caminiti is also involved in other respected experimental outfits such as Higuma, Hanging Thief, and Garden Sound." -Handmade Birds. |
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Artist: KEY Title: Birch Skeletons, Skin Lanterns & Lake Of Stars Format: 3x10" Box Set Label: Handmade Birds Country: USA Price: $46.00 |
| "The vision of Kaarna of Somnivore and Rauta of CoO, this box set delivers the three demo cassettes that have been long sold out, on a trilogy of 10" vinyl records. Along with CoO, few have been able to present the clear evidence of a shift in the musical paradigm like these masters from Finland. The 3x10" records each in their own sleeves, each in their own color, and packaged in a box with foil stamping on the outside. Designed by Kaarna himself." - Handmade Birds. |
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Artist: ROSENBLUM, AARON Title: Among the Jackdaws Format: CDR Label: Hank Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Very sweet solo releases from son of earths hairiest member, and somehow that should give to an idea of the sounds here. alternating between vibratory ultra-minimal tones and acoustic folk minitures. a real fine listen for the micro-minded. beautifully packaged in a oversized screenprinted envelope, with classy letterpressed innersleeve & stamped cdr. self released & limited to 200." |
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Artist: DEEP POCKETS Title: Bellaire Afternoon Format: CDR Label: Hank the Herald Angel Recordings Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Alan R.T. - percussion, piano, horns, electronics. Aaron Rosenblum - percussion, piano, strings, electronics. Aaron Rosenblum and Alan R.T. performed together for the first time as members of Sapat in 2004, and both currently perform multi-instrumental roles in that bands mashup of jazz, psychedelia and experimental music. In Deep Pockets, both improvise on a narrower range of instruments and concentrate on the intense musical conversation that is made possible by the duo format. Alan is a member of Sapat, KARK, Valley of Ashes, and Boogie Brothers, and is featured on recordings by Rachels and Jackie-O-Motherfucker. He records and performs solo under several pseudonyms, including Arsenio, Raw Thug, and Arthur Kalow. Aaron Rosenblum performs in Sapat, KARK, Son of Earth, Shackamaxon (with members of Double Leopards and Magik Markers), and Pleasant Colony, and has been a guest member of Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Sunburned Hand of the Man, and the Cherry Blossoms. He also performs and records under his own name and runs the Hank the Herald Angel Recordings label ( www.hankrecordings.com). Their debut CDr features a slightly condensed record of a single days improvisations on electronics, percussion, trombone, and strings." - Hank the Herald Angel Recordings. |
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Artist: KREFTING, MATT Title: Man in Revolt Format: Cass Label: Hank the Herald Angel Recordings Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"When checking if I wrote about Matt Krefting before, I came to the
sad conclusion I didnt. Which is odd, since hes closely
connected to
my beloved Idea Fire Company. Krefting is also a member of many
other
bands, such as Son Of Earth, Duck, Itchy Pits, The Believers,
Destroyer and many more. He plays everything, everywhere and with
everyone. Man In Revolt is the total opposite: hes alone at the
piano, plus perhaps a bunch of electronics, most likely guitar
effects. These are kept however to a minimum, as the main thing is
the
piano. Its an utter lo-fi, hiss covered tape, but no doubt its
intended to be like that. Minor keys are played, while the sustain
pedal is pressed down hard to add that darker texture to the
music. On
the B-side there is a short track Forgets Breakfast which is made
with fog horns (or so it seems). Its a great release, along the
lines
of the recent Graham Lambkin CD, or even Organums recent work
(Amen). A pity that its on cassette and not CDR - maybe I could
ask
for a re-issue?" - FdW, Vital Weekly.
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Artist: 5001 RECORD COLLECTOR DREAMS Title: 5001 Record Collector Dreams Format: Hardcover Book Label: Hans Pokora Country: Austria Price: $48.00 |
| Hardbound, full color depictions of ULTRA-rare, upper echelon 60s & 70s (some 80s) private press psych, folk, prog, garage, underground and experimental LP jackets. Each book, categorized geographically (as in all have sections on the UK, US, NZ, Japan, Peru, Mexico, France, etc, etc.. ), features 1000+ images plus a bit of info on each release (label, year, catalog number, rarity and style). Restocked (all earlier volumes are out of print) |
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Artist: 6001 RECORD COLLECTOR DREAMS Title: 6001 Record Collector Dreams Format: Hardcover Book Label: Hans Pokora Country: Austria Price: $48.00 |
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Hardbound, full color depictions of ULTRA-rare, upper echelon 60s & 70s (some 80s) private press psych, folk, prog, garage, underground and experimental LP jackets. Each book, categorized geographically (as in all have sections on the UK, US, NZ, Japan, Peru, Mexico, France, etc, etc.. ), features 1000+ images plus a bit of info on each release (label, year, catalog number, rarity and style). Brand new, 6th volume!
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Artist: BEAST PEOPLE, THE Title: The Beast People Format: 10" Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"The Beast People "opera". The grunts and groans of The Beast People with a FULL ORCHESTRA backing them. Definitley the strangest recording released this year. Conducted by Vladamir Barfinski in 1999.
Limited to 300 copies only in unmarked generic green 10 inch sleeves." - Hanson.
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Artist: COYOTE UGLY Title: The Shining Format: Double Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Double c-30 reissue of COYOTE UGLY material recorded in 2000, and originally released on American Tapes in an edition of 10 copies only. Coyote Ugly = duo of John Olson and Aaron Dilloway. Recently relistened to this and played it for Olson...askin him to guess who it was... he guessed Prick Decay....ha! Fully mangled double tape manipulations." - Hanson. |
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Artist: DARKSMITH Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"First release from this KILLER new project. Tom Darksmith is from California and has been ruling my head. Great organic sound collage/Vaccuum cleaner shit.. Fans of Hands To, Yeast Culture, etc.. Need to wake up to this dude NOW... More tapes coming soon on Hanson as well. Keep ears PEELED OPEN." -Hanson.
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Artist: DARKSMITH Title: Total Vacuum Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Debut vinyl from California sound artist Tom Darksmith. Crude musique concrète made using tapes, voice, records, radio, guitar, drums, objects, domestic and field recordings. Assembled on cassette four track 2008-2009. A disturbing collection of sounds...lots of sounds...unknown sounds...I have no clue what is going on on this record....Tom says there is guitar, drums, etc on this...but I dont hear them...what I hear is: The sound of my neighbor weedwacking, the sound of being zipped into a suitcase then shipped via train, ghost voices roaming in sewers, the sound of riding in a helicopter with mid-grade noise reduction earmuffs on, a shitty metal door being locked on a crew of mumbling idiots...and every now and again...a garbage disposal....this is what I hear....no clue what you will hear. A total mystery of perfectly paced organization of dirt sound...not harsh...not mellow...just dirty, weird, and confusing...and to quote the sleevenotes of the first few Queen LPs....No Synthesizers!. Recommended for fans of Yeast Culture, Agog, Joe Colley, Graham Lambkin, Jason Lescalleet, Hands To, etc... Limited to 300 copies with hand-stamped labels, heavy duty two color silkscreened sleeves with the classic Hanson Droll Flaps featuring hilariously dark artwork by the man himself, Tom Darksmith." - Hanson. |
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Artist: DARKSMITH, TOM Title: Total Vacuum Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "CD reissue of debut vinyl from California sound artist Tom Darksmith. Crude musique concrète made using tapes, voice, records, radio, guitar, drums, objects, domestic and field recordings. Assembled on cassette four track 2008-2009. A disturbing collection of sounds...lots of sounds...unknown sounds...I have no clue what is going on on this record....Tom says there is guitar, drums, etc on this...but I dont hear them...what I hear is: The sound of my neighbor weedwacking, the sound of being zipped into a suitcase then shipped via train, ghost voices roaming in sewers, the sound of riding in a helicopter with mid-grade noise reduction earmuffs on, a shitty metal door being locked on a crew of mumbling idiots...and every now and again...a garbage disposal....this is what I hear....no clue what you will hear. A total mystery of perfectly paced organization of dirt sound...not harsh...not mellow...just dirty, weird, and confusing...and to quote the sleevenotes of the first few Queen LPs....No Synthesizers!. Recommended for fans of Yeast Culture, Agog, Joe Colley, Graham Lambkin, Jason Lescalleet, Hands To, etc." - Hanson. |
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Artist: DILLOWAY & KEVIN DRUMM, AARON Title: I Drink Your Skin Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "CD reissue of 2001 recording, originally released on cassette by American Tapes. Kevin and I traded raw material at some point in 2001. After discussing a collaboration I found a cassette of unreleased material of myself messing with Renaissance (the band) 8-track loops on the floor of my car as I was getting ready to leave for home from a Chicago trip. A couple days later Kevin sent me a mini-disc of his own unreleased material. His disc was caked in spilled coffee or something. I managed to clean it enough to make 8-track tape loops of some of the sounds here and there. One track is myself using Drumm sound sources, and one track is Drumm using Dilloway sound sources. Edition of 500 copies packed in black poly-jewelcase with insert." -Hanson. |
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Artist: DILLOWAY, AARON Title: Beggar Master Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "First Full-length by WOLF EYES member Aaron Dilloway. Recorded in Kirtipur, Nepal, March 2005. Tape manipulations, feeback, crude field recordings, & Nepali dirt." - Hanson. |
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Artist: DILLOWAY, AARON Title: Boggs Vol. 2 Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Boggs Volume 2 is a collection of two long out of print CDRs from Wolf Eyes member, Aaron Dilloway. This new release contains, in their original entirety, the Seizure CDR released by Hanson and the Appalling & Alive 3" CDR released by Chondritic Sound. Hound Dog Guy Still Alive Boggs? What the fuck is that? Its a lake filled with witch urine, the real scary type. Three parts expired turpentine, two parts glow-in-the-dark ghost pee & the murky rest filled the reel to reel scrape dust from a light-free candled basement. The soundtrack? This Brighton-born-alien-bird-celled-creature, Aaron Dilloway. Dudes intense, but drunk in a moldy cellar you can tip him upside down to get the change he owes you. Awesome sounds/primitive shit that smart types try to capture in academic wooden hideaways but end up sounding like Paul K & Weathermen. He is for real. These tracks lead to goblin hell that is a broken train built on years of instinct, beer, horror & intimacy. His tape & electronic work is nearly peerless, save for Santa Claus Black Gnome label cassette catalog. Pumping this serious Michigan shit on a half-mooned night will result in your blood planning a meeting to infect your brain with a mock party of jellied-filled balloons that when popped, turn your sanity into a maggot feeding frenzy while singing backwards to a Pepsi half-time ad. Seriously! These transparent audio diaries have been originally released in different forms. Who cares? Count your fingers instead. In life you have two choices: Stop and Be Rad or Stop Being Rad. Aaron Night Fighter Dills been doing his own thing since shorts were baggy & Stephen King was the master musician of horror. Be happy you have two rare boys in one bomb package. Spend the rest of your heart-blood pumping time searching for the third Los Tammies wax while getting to the bottom of Boggs Vol. 2 human tape message time eating symphonies. A one-man stereo Desert Barn Stormer. The only & best people person of horrible noise. I should know, I have been in nearly every possible good & bad situation with him from rock fights, underage beer blowouts, and 13 years in basements. A mangy man of many talents, hear the one in your claw-fist then check out our funk band Stupid Goose. You can wave at the UPS guy but he is still gonna deliver a box of razor babies to you. Local hip hop? Will take Rock Bottom over Slum Village any day of the week, hes just .. I dunno ... harder...." -- John Olson. |
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Artist: DILLOWAY, AARON Title: Chain Shot Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "With only tape loops, metal, and horns (and sometimes, it seems, metal on horns) the two side long pieces, Chain Shot and Execution Dock respectively, explore the ugly underbelly of noise before just scraping right through and aiming for the insides. In a genre that has quickly turned into a broad and often inaccurate description of a certain breed of every-man experimental music, Dilloway sticks to the old-fashioned definition of noise, doing battle with the materials in front of him as he continues the construction of his impressive body of work. Dilloway, a former member of noise-titans Wolf Eyes, has recently been releasing solo work that explores much more abstract and thoughtful terrain than his previous groups onslaughts. Chain Shot is more a sound collage than anything, and while it is a heaping glob of muddled debris, it is also a highly controlled one. Looping samples on top of samples, Dilloway builds a slowly encroaching beast before slowly disintegrating it, bone by bone. This is some highly textural and immediately emotive soundscape work. Execution Dock begins with a repeating loop of what sounds like the beginning and the end syllables of some nuts conversation with a lamppost. In the distance sounds a pained song of sorts, like a rodents death cry, or maybe its birth one. Im guessing maybe this is the horn, though it would be tough to be certain about much of anything here. Delayed creaks and groans float in and around as the vocal sample dissipates, leaving you sloshing through the mud puddle only to realize that its a tar pit the size of La Brea."-HENRY SMITH, http://earconditionednightmare.blogspot.com/ DIGIPAK CD reissue of my CHAIN SHOT LP which was originally released on LP by THRONE HEAP. Contains a 28 minute bonus track. |
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Artist: DILLOWAY, AARON Title: Modern Jester Format: Double LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "Aaron Dilloway on Tape Loops, Percussion, Synthesizer, Junk, Voice, and Tape FX recorded 2008 – 2011. Silkscreened gatefold sleeve. With the exception of ONE track (Eight Cut Scars), this is a COMPLETELY different release than the cassette title of the same name." - Hanson. |
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Artist: DILLOWAY, AARON & C. SPENCER YEH Title: The Squid Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Dilloway & Yeh recorded live to 4-track cassette Summer 2006 in Ann Arbor. Yeh on violin, Dilloway on Tape loops of Yehs Violin. Minimal and Murky. Edition of 500 copies, Housed in a blue and white silkscreened cardstock jacket featuring the usual HANSON outer droll flaps." - Hanson.
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Artist: DRUMM, KEVIN Title: Land Of Lurches Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
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Artist: DRUMM, KEVIN & AARON DILLOWAY Title: I Drink Your Skin Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: EMERALDS Title: Emeralds Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"CD version of the sold out self-released/self-titled LP by Clevelands Emeralds recorded Aug-Sept 2008. Proper follow up to their debut LP Solar Bridge, Emeralds takes the thick drone sound of that LP into an even more abstract and strange place. Visual music that lifts the listener up and transports them through tubes of sound occasionally to be swept into the opposite direction by an unexpected entrance into another world entirely. An intense journey that drops you off in a place just beyond death. Field recording contributions from Aaron Dilloway. Mastered for CD by James Plotkin. Contains a 16 page full color booklet featuring photo artwork by the band themselves." - Hanson.
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Artist: EMERALDS Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"These midwest druggies really know what they are doing... Guitar synths, and tapes hallucinations that sound like they could maybe be an unedited ULTRA recording. Fans of the surreal sound of NWW and company should check these boys out..." -Hanson.
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Artist: EMERALDS Title: Solar Bridge Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"Starting out in 2005, performing live sets using only television sets as sound sources, Emeralds has grown in recent years into a monster of HEAVY improvised drone using analog synths and masterfully-effected guitar. Born out of the Midwest scum-noise scene, these guys have taken the intense heaviness of their Midwest brethren to a place that is entirely their own. They have replaced the creepy atmosphere and abrasive harsh noise of their peers with a very different, though equally intense blast of cosmic drone power! Hanson Records is proud to announce Emeralds Solar Bridge, the trios first full-length album after numerous cassette and CD-R releases on such labels as American Tapes, Chondritic Sound, and the bands own imprints Wagon and Gneiss Things. "The album opens with the side-long Magic where the band builds a quiet drone into an extreme thick saw blade of swirling noise as beautiful as it is menacing. The flip is yet another side-long journey titled The Quaking Mess, a track that stabs your brain with fluttering sparks of synthesized needles before relaxing you into a Göttschingesque dream state while slowly bringing you back to earth with an electronic wave of molten rumble. Fans of the smooth tones of New Age Of Earth-era Ash Ra Tempel and the buzzing thick drones of Throbbing Gristles Heathen Earth should take note, as Emeralds may be their new source for electronic drugs."-Hanson. Limited to 668 copies on blue vinyl, housed in a 2 color silkscreened sleeve w/ the usual HANSON DROLL flaps.
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Artist: ENVENOMIST Title: The SIxth And Seventh Keys Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"SINISTER dark synth work from this mysterious Ohio project. I have no
clue what these keys open up but whatever it is...it CANT BE GOOD.
HANSON RECORDS take no responiblity to persons who harm themselves
while listening to this recording." - Hanson.
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Artist: HANDICAPPER HORNS Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Weird as shit older Olson project resurrected. Handicap - Retard - Slow - Horns..... Slow Bassy Horns... Rules. Alien music made on Saxaphone." -Hanson. |
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Artist: HARPER, TWIG Title: Twig Harper Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "First proper CD release from Nautical Almanacs Twig Harper. Twig was a big part in Hanson Records getting off the ground back in the mid-90s, so Im very excited to release his debut solo glass mastered CD! Hot off the barefoot of his collaboration release with Daniel Higgs on Thrill Jockey. Twig Harper continues in the alternate universe tradition of his three volume Intuitive American Esoteric LP series, with 43 minutes psychedelic tape manipulations and droning synthesizer, electronic and organic sound mixed to brain warping perfection. Bells, homemade electronics, synth, piano, strings, junk, horns and voice treated with tape for full-on musique concrete/sound poetry/electronic trance inducing confusion. Recommended for fans of Albert Hoffmann, Smegma, Pierre Henry, The Butthole Surfers, Maria Sabina, Dylan Nyoukis, Tobe Hooper, Criswell, Tod Dockstader, Sirhan Sirhan, The 13th Floor Elevators, Aliens, Humans, Jokes, and OBEs." - Hanson. |
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Artist: HATERS, THE Title: In The Shade Of Fire Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hanson Records is proud to present the first LP from The Haters, In The Shade Of Fire, reissued for the first time on the CD format and for the first time in its original entirety. Originally released on LP by Silent Records in 1986, this digipak CD edition has been remastered by Warn Defever from the original master reels, and includes the full complete album as two of the tracks had to be shortened to fit on the original LP issue. Back during my Bachelor of Fine Arts, one of my fellow students was a woman who was eventually obsessed with the idea, systems, and eventual remnants of process. One of her key pieces involved hundreds of raw eggs which she carefully emptied, cracked open, and systematically peeled the delicate membranes from inside of the eggs. She carefully laid out the hundreds of membranes as they assembled in a giant area to the side of the studio. I swear that she didnt even have some grandiose idea for the membranes as the peeling and assemblage system(s) evolved into something that was simply beyond any eventuality and initial idea for the piling skins of the eviscerated eggs. The deconstruction and conception behind the act of pulling apart the eggs into a vast collection of grimy, translucent membrane piles suggested something so much more than even a final constructed piece. Watching her as she realized that the true crux behind the piece was the process alone was astounding as the membranes were laid to rest to represent an almost sudden and powerful eventuality that acted as a piled testament to process. The harsh sound works of The Haters over artist GX Jupitter-Larsens long and established career also powerfully bring to mind the idea of process. Most of The Haters works are ideologies behind something being destroyed or manipulated; the amplified and sometimes distorted sounds of the processes representing a document that exemplifies the acts carried out upon the objects, machines, or otherwise. The act of recording the processes alone is evidence of an eventuality (to possibly be edited further) in the form of a possible final piece of vinyl, cassette, or CD, but the tendencies of The Haters material also intend the listener to experience the process of the audio lines as they were primarily constructed in the recording area. There is no doubt that GX appreciates the totemic quality of his personal objects physical aftermath, that is sometimes documented with video or photographs, but the powerful beauty of a The Haters audio piece is the experience for the listener that acts ALSO as a final document of sound that represent clearly the certain idea and sometimes violent act. The Haters celebrated early work In the Shade of Fire acts a document collection for the listener that also reflects The Haters strong textural aesthetic through object manipulation and recording that defines GXs place in the world of harsh noise. Listening your way through the material is a studied and defined testament to different representational fragments of heavy sound and source manipulation. The tracks Glsam and Diti are explosive introductory and side concluding / framing pieces that highlight and pronounce the breaking and crashing down of material, all gelled with bass driven strikes whose trails deteriorate into hints of cascading dirty and dark Americanoise distortion. Bebas powers through a heavier dynamic with conscious falling apart of source material, but in abstracted waves that suggest the material being rebuilt just to simply fall and crash apart again with a sense of powerful futility. Thuch enhances the textural elements of the explosions and crashing as the sharpness of the strikes are slightly rounded at the edges to expose an almost gurgling texture that moves and slaps with vicious perplexity. Taisic represents a very early Americanoise study of hiss manipulation that is accented with minimalist scraping that bring to mind the force of process on top of the white noise line. Cassas is the albums meditated example of sharp shot-driven violence; articulated and seemingly layered for optimum cutting and breaking which bring forth sound dynamism from very physical deterioration. Fire 5 is an amazing example of a highly textural wall of sound that, to the contemporary fan of gritty and dirty crunch waves, is a primary early example of powerful crackle lines that focus on the inner dynamism of the sound itself. All of the material discussed above is made up of elements of physicality and process, but the tracks Iny 1 and Iny 2 act, for the listener, as the notes for the ideology of process and falling apart as they act as a more minimal, subtle, and exacting study of the scraping, scuffing, and hands on work of the artist as he manipulates the deteriorating materials. In essence, Iny 2 is an amazing concluding track that reminds the listener of the core focus and ideology behind The Haters exemplification of grating sound via concept driven manipulation of tangible sources, the process, the aftermath, and the eventual recording that reflects all of the above sound qualities." -Sam McKinlay |
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Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Death Tone Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Weird dudes jamming synths. Alone. Social Problems. Problems. Recorded late into the night. Fucking A. That is the business, right there. Check Ze Wormnest or Matthew Young for bleary eyed-no-fan sound destruction. Shit is just creepy-gets under your skin. While most noise youth get their chocolate fingers lost in gadgetry and posturing-something about a synth jam thats just.... Human ... humanly wrong. But fucking right. Right on Hive Mind. Out of some strange comic miasma emerged this hulking thing known for playing in corners or under black sheets with short fingers churning out cosmic tales of bass heavy sheets of molten alien sound cut with xray pirate eyes. Dude is some serious Michigan shit. This sound-injecting terrorist is crew to all the like minded and total jag-off MI underground weirdo brethrens. I think he soaked his pyramid genitals in ice cold antifreeze to get where Death Tone lives in underwater-cave life. Jamz are just lurking around your chest buzzing like a Mike Tyson bee until a nuclear war-spear goes directly into your chest leaving your breath exchanged for Korean X-Files future creature Autopsy scenes. Ive been to Roswell, shit is creepy, even at Pizza Hut, mid day. None of my crew jamz synths, some dabble but dont have the slomo overbite terror vision of my man Hive Mind. Isnt your jellied brain a fucking hive? Mine has a really big queen in the center telling me to keep watching The Thing (remake) with the sound off in a super warm birth room while listening to Death Tone on a dying Walkman. I dont listen to the queen, or take advice. Me and my man the Kid thought all Hive Mind needed to hone in his awesome social synth prowess was to be locked in a room with Richard Pinhas for a year on a diet of nothing but snake burritos-but again-no one listens to advice, especially a homeboy. Psychotic drugs, cheap beer, shorties, the Roach, assholes, hung over at work... yesss, heroes to the High Life." - John Olson.
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Artist: HIVE MIND & AARON DILLOWAY Title: Forgotten Thrist Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| "While staying in Nepal I found a CDR Greh had givin me to listen to of his upcoming cassette FORGOTTEN THIRST on GODS OF TUNDRA. Haunting waves of organ drones. I tweaked it a bit and added some sparse tape disgusto. One of my personal favorite recordings. Misspelled title in tribute to my old band UNIVERSAL INDIANS. One sided clear blue vinyl with circle of fish screenprinted on the b-side. Watch em swim while it plays! screenprinted 12x12 insert in picture LP sleeve. Edition of 500 copies silkscreened by GREH HOLGER. Co-Released with CHONDRITIC SOUND." - Hanson. |
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Artist: HOLGER, GREH Title: Paralysis Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Breaking my recent c-30 rule to release this intense c-60 of Hive Minds main man Greh Holger. Two 30 minute sides of motionless, uneffected modular synth. Slow as hell modulations, which take a full side to change and I think the tape runs out before that even happens.. For fans of SUPER EIGHT LOOP." -Hanson. |
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Artist: HOLLOW BUSH Title: Negative Line Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "TOTAL SHIT-FI BRUTALITY from the new project of RODGER STELLA of MACRONYMPHA...Sickening walls of full blown scummy psychedelic HARSH NOISE! This shit is some live SCUM recorded by STELLA and BUSH partner BRYAN MARTIN." - Hanson. |
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Artist: MANNION, JOHN Title: Slice Through Or/In Glassmetal Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "John Mannion is a member of the Red Light Collective operating out of Rockaway, NY and breeding intense electronic music acts like Yellow Tears, Halflings, Cowards, Teeny Bopper, and Johns Cathode Terror Secretion. Slice Through or/in Glassmetal is his debut LP and is a three years in the making document of extreme electronic composition. An ultra dynamic mix of modern classical, electronic, noise, and power electronics techniques. Kind of makes me think of what it may have been like if Penderecki made a power electronics record. Whirling electric box fan, piercing electronics, junk metal clang, screeching violins, harsh and whispered vocals, and haunting vocals by opera singer Caitlin Haughney. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin. Limited to 500 copies. 3 color silkscreen sleeves with the Hanson Droll Flaps and featuring cover art by the artist plus 11 x 11 lyric sheet. Recommended for fans of CON-DOM, Krzysztof Penderecki, John Wiese, Iannis Xenakis, Kevin Drumm, Yellow Tears, Aaron Dilloway, Genocide Organ." - Hanson. |
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Artist: NATH FAMILY Title: Sounds Of The Indian Snake Charmers Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "For the first half of 2005, I lived with my wife Erika in Kirtipur, Nepal. During our days, while she was studying at the Kathmandu Association For The Deaf, I was roaming the streets and villages of the Kathmandu Valley in search of sounds and music. While kickin round the tourist district of Thamel picking up cassettes, I met a family of Snake Charmers from Hariyana, INDIA. An old man probably in his 70s or 80s, his 2 grandsons, and one of the grandsons sons. They asked if I wanted to see a show....I said Hell YES!! They gave me a show...a KILLER show... were talkin 3 fuckin king cobras dancing at once, while a giant boa chilled at the side and few other random lil snake dudes are wigglin around here and there. I became obsessed. I had met my new best friends... Though the kind of best friends you have to pay to hang out with. They were hustlers, yes.. But thats their job... The money was well worth the shows. I spent about 3-4 days a week for the next 2 months, recording their music and their snake shows on mini-disc and videotape. I Drank alot of chiyaa with them, smoked alot of cigarettes and bidis. They taught me how to make reeds out of bamboo, and I traded them some clothes for a snake charming horn. They call them Beens, they are also known as Pungis. These guys were the best. At the end of April they left Kathmandu, heading to Pokhara, after that it was time for them to head back home with their earnings. Man...I missed them. This LP is the BEST OF THE BEST of the recordings I made of them. There are some classic Bollywood tracks, a Nepali folk song, and side 2 is a 19 minute drone journey into the head of the KING COBRA. The recordings were done in stereo. A been on the left, a been on the right. A premtal (stringed percussion instrument) on the left, a premtal on the right. The stereo recording of the charmers sway creates a very disorienting stereo tremelo effect. Its almost as if YOU are the SNAKE! These tracks were recorded in an alley. There is the occasional rumble of a car passing by, and the low murmer of the locals checkin out the white kid with the fancy gadget hangin with the snake dudes. So here it is... pressed on wax, with a kickass silkscreaned cover.... THE SOUNDS OF THE INDIAN SNAKE CHARMER!!" -Aaron Dilloway, September 2005. CD issue of the LP. |
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Artist: NEVARI BUTCHERS, THE Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Hanson Country: US Price: $7.00 |
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"New recordings from myself (Aaron Dilloway) & Michael Travis, recorded in the Herbst Silo, resulting in two horrible cases of poison ivy. Abstract junk percussion and cassette taped organ drones recorded on my fathers killer pump organ. Limited edition of 150 copies on red vinyl w/ red inner sleeves." - Hanson.
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Artist: NEW BLOCKADERS, THE Title: History of Nothing Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Sheer sheets of onanistic sound ruin the rack and explode across the consciousness. Imagine what it wouldve been like to hear this in 1982, when it was completely new and very few frames of reference were hanging on any wall, anywhere. This is the hard rain thats promised to fall -- this sound is a rage against loneliness in one of the loneliest places on earth while pursuing one of the loneliest forms of expression. Totally interstellar, completely vital, utterly timeless." -- Freq. "Tracks originally released on History Of Nothing CD (Siren). This is their first appearance on vinyl! Recorded 1982-1992. Limited edition of 300 copies, B+W labels, B+W insert, heavy duty silk-screened covers w/ the usual Hanson Droll-Flaps." -Hanson
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Artist: NEW BLOCKADERS, THE Title: Meta-Klamauk (For Jean Tinguely)/Crincum-Crancum Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Meta-Klamauk seems to return us to that garage of doom featured on Changez Les Blockeurs, only by now the mechanics have installed a noisy fan-heater device, and they are getting a lot more work done. Crincum-Crancum is, relatively speaking, a near-musical concoction. Perhaps twenty plus years hath mellowed their saturnine psyche and dulled their appetite for relentless noise; this is less urgent, and theres almost an air of resigned weariness to this 2002 work. That said, it is no less bilious, the reservoir of hatred still fuells the evil intent." --The Sound Projector. "Both sides originally appeared on the Gesamtnichtswerk 4CD boxset (Hypnagogia). This is their first appearance on vinyl! Limited edition of 300 copies, full color labels, heavy duty silk-screened covers w/ the usual Hanson Droll-Flaps." -Hanson
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Artist: OUBLIETTE Title: Tape Fuckery Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: PAX TITANIA Title: Cult Of The Colonlist Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"So my love of progressive synth is taking me over. Pax Titania lives in Florida and makes his own synth modules...dude made his own SEQUENCER.... Which is ruling over this cassette like the 960s rule RUBYCON. One of the weirdest tapes Ive released..." -Hanson.
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Artist: PEARL DRILLS Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Voices From The Tapes." -Hanson. |
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Artist: RADIO NEPAL Title: Volume 1 Format: CDR Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Three CDs worth of shortwave radio recordings I compiled while in
Nepal last year. Includes everything...Static, Nepali radio ads,
Nepali folk, Bollywood hits, Elvis, Billy Joel, Nepali IDOL!!,
horrible dance music, and tons of other randomness..oh and TONS of
shortwave static!" - Aaron Dilloway.
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Artist: RAVEN STRAIN Title: Trisagon Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Ever heard of the NORTHVILLE TUNNELS?? Its these underground tunnels in Northville, MI that lead to an old abandoned Mental Hosptial. A teenaged RAVEN STRAIN aka MATT BILLINGS used to hang out in those tunnels... ALOT! This is totally the sound of creeping thru there high on paint, seeing only by the light of a shitty BIC mini lighter... runnin around the hospital and reading the forgotten files of the inmates that once lived there. I remember him telling me a story of snakin some old filing cabinet from there and draggin em home thru the tunnels. I think he recorded that and put it on this tape. Total abandonment, illness, and drugs." - Hanson. |
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Artist: RELAY FOR DEATH Title: Birth Of An Older, Much More Ugly Christ Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"This shit is DARK...and Im not talking about some fucking I sleep during the day dark. Im not talking some Cannibal Corpse shit -- Im a fucking mutilator dark. And Im not talking Im a noise dude into black metal dark. Im talking total fucking end of the world shit. Like everyone is going to die and its gonna be fucking terrible. Recorded in 2009 by sisters Roxann and Rachal Spikula while in a hospital doing some fucked up health study where all they could drink was Shasta for like 2 weeks. No joke! Master tape arrived wrapped in a duct-taped hospital gown with my address written on it in sharpie. Side A: The tape becomes un-paused and kicks in with a menacing organ drone that mutates into the lo-fi skree of an empty room, eventually becoming a swirling abyss of tape hiss and the sound of nothing happening in a hospital; distant creaks, buzz, and hums littered with hiss and garbage-sound layered into a very unsettling frenzied drone. Side B: A crunchy noise inferno that eventually leads us to what sounds to me like being in outer space watching the earth exploding. As you watch everything we know of destroyed, a saddening, descending synth wave appears, buried by blasts of destroyed earth. It ends...and you are disturbed. Limited to 300 copies. Pitch black vinyl with pitch black labels. Heavy duty black and silver silkscreened covers with the Hanson Droll Flaps. Take a break from yer most recent mediocre synth bliss-out tape and take a trip back to the real fucking world -- where everything fucking SUCKS." - Hanson.
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Artist: ROMERO, DAMION Title: Missing Link Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "30 minutes of Burl from the mysetrious boxes. Heavy thick piles of drone upon drone of heavy electronic buzz, creating an intense wall of multi-layered sound attack. INTENSITY." -Hanson. |
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Artist: SATAN PLACE Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"For 19 evil years this thing has been waiting to unleashed. Slated for release in 1985 on Ecstatic Peace this historical document finally sees the dark of night. A friend of mine by the name of Anton LaBaise was an Ecstatic Peace completist. When my band Universal Indians was asked to open for Sonic Youth - Anton said "You have to ask Thurston about Satan Place!!". Many of you may remember seeing this title listed in EP ads back in the day. Thurston said it had never been released and asked if Id be into putting it out. I agreed!! So he had his bud Byron Crowley dig it up in the Ecstatic Yod archive and mail it to me. That was about 4 or so years ago. So finally my slack ass has gotten around to dubbing these things off!!! So what is Satan Place?? Satan Place is a 70 minute interview conducted in 1985 by a man known only as "Phantom Tollbooth" with a group of Satanist Teenagers from upstate New York. What he uncovered is unbelievable... shocking tales of rituals consisting of eating live frogs; drinking urine mixed with oil; sex; drugs; Ozzy and Dio; and other hideous acts which must be heard to be believed. They have guitars too! And there is 20 minutes or so that sound much like Bruce Russell waiting around for the other dudes to show up at a Dead C practice. What we have here is a very important document exploring the twisted minds of the Satanist Teenager of the 1980s. Recorded just a few short miles away from where Satanic teen Ricky Kasso butchered his freind over a bad Angel Dust deal. This is a frightning recording. Recomended only to those with a strong mind and stomache. Ltd to 100 selfish copies." - Hanson.
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Born Again to Die Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "There are a lot of mugz you dont wanna know,: VD doctors, the Grim Reaper, the inside of a Fed Ex body bag, ex-mates, cops, silence, dentists, republicans, country music stars, ...list goes on and on....THEN= there are mugz you just want to get some sunshine from- you know who they are= just plain rad mugz, stokerz= and i gotta say....the Michigan Crew has Sick Llamaz BACK.....Heath AKA Juice AKA Fag Heath AKA Morellama= is just a ball of huge eyeballing goodness..how can you be mad at him? We used to have heavy skate shred sessions with the goofball and he would destroy the streetz, and still be smiling at the end, never breaking a sweat. You want this dude on your team. And you want the soundtrack to your boiling brain to be his Born Again to Die. Its got this amazing kinda arms-up-in-air-i-give-up-what-is -this-godamnn -sound style beaming through it. Heath man....dude aint really gonna give any clues back....cant count how many timez the crew has cornered the mug and been like: "Yo man....what the hell is going on inside "Live Birth"? Did you just record cars under an overpass and slow it down?" "....ha......that one...thats a weird one right?" "Well,...tell us....the fuck?" ".........." And repeat over the coarse of 120+ Fag Tapes, Heaths label AKA the Pyramids of Michigan. He never has properly answered a sound question, we all have our clues/ideas.. Probably wrong. Sick Llama holds the rotten essence of Midwest Basement Mystery Mind Sound inside the marrow of his weird skull, right behind the strawberry blond tuffs, unblinking bug eyes, and scandi-molded mildew skin. Born Again to Die is his debt, and any signs of progression are tossed out the windows of Ham Studios. I mean its electronics, tape hiss, and ....?????? Heath really doesnt get any better or more refined, just....... stranger AKA more strange. My man Connelly says every Fag Tape has at least a 30% "hands off" factor, meaning, seems like Llama has a nice mutant groove going on and then just jets for 10min, leaving the machine motionless. If you can tell what the hell is going on inside these grooves...bottle it and sell it, it would be ideal to have on tap.......it could be like taking a skinny dip inside the caverns of a black pool filled to the brim with soul-frying electricity waves. Born Again To Die= maybe our kids rat kids will COMPREHEND. Then maybe they can attempt to decode FUNKY PANDEMONIUM...." -JOHN OLSON (Wolf Eyes, Boy Dept. Boyz), May 2007/ "Originally released on cassette in 2004 on AMERICAN TAPES. This is the first full length LP and one of the first recordings ever from SICK LLAMA. Limited to 500 copies. Housed in a slick orange and blue silkscreened cardstock jacket featuring the usual HANSON outer droll flaps." - Hanson. |
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Artist: SKIN GRAFT Title: Dystrophy Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Debut CD release for Clevelands Skin Graft. Wyatt Howland aka Skin Graft has been blasting his crude noise in the filthiest Cleveland basements and scum punk bars every two or three nights a week for the past five or so years. He has a knack for writhing in the filthy underbelly of sound using junk metal, field recordings and primitive electronics. Dystrophy is complete audio horror texture pulverizing harsh sounds of fluttering static, feedback and crushed metal. This is the sound you hear when you are stuck upside down in the backseat of a hit and skidding car. Just horrible sounds! The complete opposite to the sounds of his past collaborators Emeralds and Bee Mask. Whereas they have aimed for outer space Skin Graft has aimed himself head first into a shitty old Cleveland gutter. Always touring, always playing gigs, and always recording solo and as a member of long running Cleveland noise punks Dead Peasant Insurance as well as Power Violence heavyweights Apartment 213. Recommended for fans of Wolf Eyes, The New Blockaders, Napalm Death, Taint, Murder Corporatrion, Negative Approach, Prurient, and Controlled Bleeding." - Hanson. |
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Artist: SMEGMA Title: Rumblings Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Considered by many the kings and queens of American free noise, Smegma have been confusing minds since 1973 when they helped form the Los Angeles Free Music Society. Theyve recorded with everyone from Wildman Fisher to Merzbow and more recently, with noise goons Wolf Eyes. This disc is their first full length in nearly 10 years and also the first to feature vocalist / punk beatnik / Blue Oyster Cult lyricist Richard Meltzer. Rumblings is a sound collage of turntable manipulations, electronics, horns, bells, junk, toys, marijuana, and surf rock band. Smegma have been around forever and show no signs of slowing down. They just hopped off a killer west-coast tour with Wolf Eyes, Rubber O Cement and Comets On Fire where they ripped the skulls off of everyone." - Hanson. Budget price.
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Artist: SPECULUM FIGHT Title: Lost Live 2 Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Thats right! From the Live archives of Damion Romero. Cassette contains 2 Speculum Fight gigs recorded in California in 1996. Ruling oldschool BZZZZZZZZZZ!!!" -Hanson. |
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Artist: SPINE SCAVENGER Title: Shameful Progress of the Human Face Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "New modular synth recordings from Spine Scavenger." - Hanson. |
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Artist: SPINE SCAVENGER Title: The Lodge Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Second electronic rattle release from SPINE SCAVENGER. Harsher this time, but still heavy on tape delay feedback pulse and slow moving sickness... Total flying insect air raid shit droppings...you are trying to run to saftey, but you keep just getting clobbered by rock hard insect balls. Your adrenalin is keepin you going, but your drug filled head has no idea what direction you are going! GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!" - Hanson. Edition of 100. Spine Scavenger = Aaron Dilloway. |
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Artist: TURMAN, ROBERT & AARON DILLOWAY Title: Blizzard Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Collaboration between myself and Robert Turman (ex-NON, Z.O. Voider). Recorded in January 2009 during a horrible Ohio snowstorm which delayed one of my more recent moves. I was stuck in a freezing house with everything I owned in boxes. Night before Im about to move...INSANE SNOWSTORM HITS....(If I remember correctly it was the same one that TOTALED AND STRANDED THE HAIR POLICE!)...drunk and missing my wife and kid who had left for Michigan a week earlier, I decided to camp out over at Turmans for a few days...On my insane drive a whopping 3 blocks away... my truck breaks down... TOTAL MISERY... Once I got there I settled in for a few days of late night recording. Myself on synthesizer and tape delays and Turman on tapes and effects. Very minimal, very slow, very cold. Frozen and stuck in the snow. Edition of 500 copies in jewel case with white tray." - Hanson. |
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Artist: TUSCO TERROR Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "The crudest project in the midwest... layers and layers of hiss and crackle piled at random thru broken EVERYTHING. Volume increases about 200% 3/4 thru the recording... Weird, harsh , CRUDE as FUCK." -Hanson. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Labyrinths & Jokes Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "CD reissue of HANSON comp LP released in 1998. Tracks from NAUTICAL ALMANAC, RON OF JAPAN, ISIS & WEREWOLVES, THE BEAST PEOPLE, MINI-SYSTEMS, AND ANDREW WILKES KRIER (now known as ANDREW WK). This is the birth of Hanson Records." -Hanson. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Labyrinths & Jokes Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Tracks from NAUTICAL ALMANAC, RON OF JAPAN, ISIS & WEREWOLVES, THE BEAST PEOPLE, MINI-SYSTEMS, AND ANDREW WILKES KRIER (now known as ANDREW WK). This is the birth of Hanson Records." -Hanson. Paste-on / spraypainted jackets. Original copies of this 1998 release. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Sounds Of Indian Snake Charmers Vol. 2 Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: V/A Title: Underground Series Vol 1 Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"First Volume in the long awaited HANSON UNDERGROUND SERIES. 6 artists
on a C-30. Only the most gutterball in experimental & noise music..
Except for maybe Wiese....This volume contains tracks from SYNDROMES,
THE NEVARI BUTCHERS, RAIONBASHI, LEE ROCKEY, JOHN WEISE, and TWIG HARPER" - Hanson.
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Artist: V/A Title: Underground Series Vol 2 Format: Cass Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Second Volume in the HANSON UNDERGROUND SERIES. 6 artists on a C-30. Only the most gutterball in experimental & noise music.. This volume contains tracks from SICK LLAMA, SMEGMA, FAILING LIGHTS, OUBLIETTE, TUSCO TERROR, & HIVE MIND." - Hanson. |
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Covered In Bugs Format: DVDR Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Contains one full show from Chicago - and a collection of live clips and videos. Also a great clip of Olson fucking up the driving directions." - Hanson.
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Dread Format: LP Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Finally, the first true full length LP from Michigans Wolf Eyes. 4 long tracks of ugly homemade electronic sounds. This band is constantly moving forward and constantly changing, making you dance and laugh one night, and crouch and vomit the next. Evil silk- screened covers and limited to 500 copies. Features ex-members of Galen, Nautical Almanac, and Universal Indians." - Hanson. "Wolf Eyes somehow tastefully combine the crude electronics of early SPK, the laid back delay of King Tubby, the mic swallowing of Henri Chopin, and the anti-social fuck you of Negative Approach. This record is a masterpiece." - Jim Merrill, Heartbeat Magazine.
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Mugger Format: CDR Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Newest live to Mini-disc recordings from Wolf Eyes. Heavy on the feedback harsh and ugly shit." - Hanson.
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Slicer Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Wolf Eyes roots are from a much hidden and very ugly world called the cassette noise underground. Here we have a proper CD issue of the most accomplished of their many cassette releases, Slicer. Unlike the heavy brutal beat vibe of last years Dread album, Slicer is a more minimal, tone heavy, and even slower recording. Deep electronic and horne generated tones stretch and separate overtop of glitchy electronics, ultra crude tape manipulations, and ear-piercing scraping glass. The most in the zone and stoned recording the boys have made yet." - Hanson. |
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Artist: WOLF EYES & JOHN WIESE Title: Collection Format: CD Label: Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "This CD is a collection of the WOLF EYES w/ JOHN WIESE 7-inch and two CD-Rs originally released in very limited editions on AMERICAN TAPES in 2003-04. Digitally re-mastered by Wiese this year, and finally available all together! note: This should NOT BE CONFUSED with the recently released WE&W - EQUINOX CD on TRONIKS." - Hanson. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Michigan Format: 6LP Boxset Label: Hanson/Chondritic Sound/RRRecords Country: USA Price: $55.00 |
| "HANSON & RRRECORDS present: "MICHIGAN", a 6-LP BOXSET featuring a full side each from TWELVE MICHIGAN NOISE projects. Full LP sides from: PRINCESS DRAGONMOM, RAVEN STRAIN, REDROT, AARON DILLOWAY, TOVAH D-DAY, CHARLIE DRAHEIM, HIVE MIND, MAMMAL, EVENINGS, COTTON MUSEUM, SICK LLAMA, and WOLF EYES. Compiled by Greh Holger and Aaron Dilloway. Limited to 600 copies. Packaged in fully silkscreened record mailers." -Hanson |
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Artist: V/A Title: Instant Pop Classics Vol. 2 Format: LP Label: Happy Lux Pop Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Collection of "Punks best witness," "forgotten singles" that defined the fervor of the late Seventies and early Eighties. Youll even find familiar names in case you require them. Everything and More by Dolly Mixture was produces by Captain Sensible, the Cult Figures are of course the Swell Maps, Essential Logic featured an X-Ray Spex member (Lora Logic). Quintessentially rare bursts of inspiration from when the boring polyester lifestyles and perms flew out the window and the door opened for fanzine making and bedroom labels, sometimes with only one or two releases- and here they are." -Nana Gold. Includes tracks by Blitzkrieg Bop, Ludus, Agony Column, Legs Akimbo & the Titanics, Krypton Tunes, Essential Logic, The Fakes, Desperate Bicycles, 48 Chairs, Static Routines, Disturbed, Moondogs, Versatile Newts, Dolly Mixture, They Might Be Russians, and Weekend. One of the first comps of late 70s/early 80s DIY/art punk singles. Mid 90s release restocked. Limited to 300 copies, fullcolor cover, insert. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB Title: Happy Horse Format: CD Label: Happy Prince Country: Japan Price: $18.00 |
| "Astral Social Club is the current project of Neil Campbell, formerly of the Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunroof!, The A Band and many more which has given tremendous impact and influences throughout the 2000s to numerous audience and artists. Campbell has been active since the early 80s, and The Wire magazine has said that, along with his friends Richard Youngs and Matthew Bower, he "provided the map co-ordinates for much of what passed for a post-punk UK underground during most of the 80s and 90s". With Astral Social Club, Campbell continues his quest to produce a truly vast 21st century psychedelic music, using alien electronics, overloaded strings, loop disorientation and rhythmic grids often more readily associated with the far end of dance music. "HAPPY HORSE" is a 7-piece, hour-long suite focussing on the more ecstatic, dilated side of ASCs music. Kicking off with a reworked version of the super-limited "Skelp" 7", the propulsive beats and tone float is ceaseless, in the manner of a DJ mix tape from some parallel universe. Sure, there are huge tracts of techno thud underpinning many of the tracks, as on "Horse Cortex" (a distant cousin to "Clarion super-cortex" from the acclaimed ASC/ALog split 12" on fat-cat records), but they dont mind sliding into delerious inaudibility when the free-flying celestial sonics really get into their stride. Although Astral Social Club is largely a solo project, "Happy Horse" includes sonic input from regular ASC collaborators John Clyde-Evans, Phil Smith, Paul Walsh and Stewart Keith." -Happy Prince |
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Artist: FENNELLY, JAIME / W.O.O. REVELATOR Title: Splitting Series #2 Format: LP Label: Happy Zloty Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "Jaime Fennelly is an electronicist from Brooklyn, New York implicitly interested in sonic feedback and the perverse use of electro/acoustic objects within performance groups including Pee in My Face with Surgery (with visual artist/musician Fritz Welch) and psi (Fritz Welch and guitarist Chris Forsyth). Since 2001, Jaime has been collaborating with choreographer/dancer Miguel Gutierrez on several projects including their improvised duet Sabotage as well as their most recent piece, dAMNATION rOAD which premiered in January 2004 at The Kitchen, NYC. A residency at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) last year, spawned Jaime⿿s duo with Swiss/UK drummer Nicolas Field. Other collaborators include Chris Heenan, Sean Meehan, Naval Cassidy and John Jasperse. W.O.O. Revelator are Bonnie Kane (Sax) and Chris Forsyth (guitar) from New York. In 1988, the W.O.O. Core of Bonnie Kane and drummer Ray Sage magnetically connected with electric guitarist Chris Forsyth. The recordings on the Splitting Series are the result of Chris and Bonnies european tour in 2002 (Ray Sage is not involved), a unique and intense free-form conversation between sax and guitar." - Happy Zloty. HAPPY ZLOTY is a small label from Bremen that has released a series of beautiful 7"s and LPs. All are editions of 200 or 300 in silkscreened sleeves. |
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Artist: HORMANN, VOLKER Title: Jungle Guitar Music Format: 7" Label: Happy Zloty Country: Germany Price: $6.50 |
| "-Working partly with atonal playing techniques, Volker Hormann creates a kind of impressionistic program music on this 7". The title track provides an audible jungle atmosphere, made with several layers of fx-pedaled guitars. Everythings there: the trees in the wind, animals and whatnot. Hen Music, the first track on the b-side is inspired by the way chickens move and search for food. The thing is, what Hormann really does here is creating free rhythmic structures and hilarious, picturesque sounds that leave much space for endless association. Oswaldo, the lyrical second track on the b-side comes up with an entirely different, pretty melodic approach. Played on a regular concert guitar, this song moves in between minor harmonies and the rough and cold sounds the steel strings produce. What a highly interesting contrast..." - Happy Zloty. HAPPY ZLOTY is a small label from Bremen that has released a series of beautiful 7"s and LPs. All are editions of 200 or 300 in silkscreened sleeves. |
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Artist: ISLE LAU Title: Cie.de Koe Format: CD Label: Happy Zloty Country: Germany Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: PERLONEX / JULIJUNI Title: Splitting Series #1 Format: LP Label: Happy Zloty Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
| "This vinyl only release is the first in German label Happy Zlotys limited edition Splitting Series. Its a similar idea to the Fat Cat series of 12"s-the two improvising trios Perlonex and Julijuni are each given a side apiece. Perlonex are Ignaz Schick on various objects, turntables etc, Jörg Maria Zeger on guitar and Burkhard Beins on percussion, all musicians who are active in various other improvising contexts. The Perlonex side begins with a drone and delicate, looping guitar arpeggio before heading into a post-industrial, post-AMM landscape full of feedback, clanking chains and unidentifiable scrapes and thuds. The piece gathers density as it moves along, becoming a thickly matted assembly of sounds, with a guitar loop as a constant. Perlonex are a cohesive unit and they all pull in the same direction when they play, producing a commited and intense piece of group communication. Julijunis sound sources are Powerbook, feedback and guitar, coming from Michael Rieken, Tim Tetzner and Ansgar Wilken respectively. Their three tracks are airier but less assured then the Perlonex side. As with Perlonex, recognisable guitar sounds are set against abstract, untuned noises. The music is light-footed and shifts readily from episode to episode. Their sense of space steers them away from thick textures. The guitar is again used gracefully but the laptop occasionally sound sluggish compared to the other sound sources. The music is fitfully engaging but none of the pieces quite hangs together as a fully on-the-boil performance." - WIRE, Will Montgomery, May 2004. HAPPY ZLOTY is a small label from Bremen that has released a series of beautiful 7"s and LPs. All are editions of 200 or 300 in silkscreened sleeves. |
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Artist: RUPP, OLAF Title: Eins, Zwo, Drei, Vier Format: 7" Label: Happy Zloty Country: Germany Price: $6.50 |
| "Olaf Rupp was born in 1963. At the age of twelve he began to play guitar. He was his own teacher and behind classical guitar repertoire pieces and Rock music especially free improvisation was always most important. He played with Paul Lovens, Rudi Mahall, Sainkho Namtchylak, Aki Takase, Toshimaru Nakamura, Wolfgang Fuchs, Butch Morris, Johannes Bauer, Jean Marc Montera and others. In the 90s he was mainly interested in improvised pop music in duos with drummer Hanno Leichtmann (EMAK BAKIA) and Stephan Mathieu (STOL). Now he focuses on acoustic and electric guitar solo performance." - Happy Zloty. Berlin guitarist with releases on Grob & Sieben/A-Musik. HAPPY ZLOTY is a small label from Bremen that has released a series of beautiful 7"s and LPs. All are editions of 200 or 300 in silkscreened sleeves. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Training Im Achter Format: 7" Label: Happy Zloty Country: Germany Price: $6.50 |
| "Compilation 7" with 8 different tracks and musical projects from Bremen/Germany, Austria and Lithuania. Silkscreened Cover... improv, electronics etc." - Happy Zloty. HAPPY ZLOTY is a small label from Bremen that has released a series of beautiful 7"s and LPs. All are editions of 200 or 300 in silkscreened sleeves. |
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Artist: AIRWAY Title: Live At Lace Format: CD Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
| "Reissue of this scarce LAFMS title in digipack, limited to 500 copies. This album was originally recorded and released as an LP in 1978; Airway was a group featuring Joe Potts, Chip Chapman, Rick Potts, Dennis Duck, Juan Gomez and Tom Recchion. Live At Lacewas later included in the Cortical Foundation/RRR 10CD LAFMS box from 1995, but this version has been remastered, using the original tapes for the LP. It is considered to exhibit a "pretty different feeling of sound" and features unique artwork that was only used on Japanese-export copies of the LP when it was first released." - FE. Crucial early-noise document from the Los Angeles Free Music Society heyday. "AIRWAY is a brainchild of Joe Potts. Here are COMMANDMENTS OF AIRWAY: AIRWAY is a hole through which our conscious passes. Sound of AIRWAY is not an object. Sound of AIRWAY has no fixed location. Sound of AIRWAY has no fixed location. Sound of AIRWAY has no fixed meaning. Sound of AIRWAY has no dimensions. Meaning and dimensions of AIRWAY sound constantly change in relation to the universe inside and outside listeners. Sound of AIRWAY has no fixed time. The "flow of time" in AIRWAY sound is psychological not physical. Sound of AIRWAY is a representation of the whole of sound existing inside and outside us. Because all sound of AIRWAY is interrelated, there is no such thing as innovative sound at AIRWAY performance. Sound of AIRWAY is an unfolded manifestation of hidden (enfolded) universe, consisting of all sound which will ever exist and has ever consisted inside and outside us." "The monster is back in its original nature! Human synthesizers!! Hijokaidan in its early days was heavily under its influence. Definitly a must for everyone in this era!" -Toshiji Mikawa (Hijokaidan/Incapacitants ). |
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Artist: AIRWAY Title: Live at LACE Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "A limited vinyl reissue of the ultra-scarce 1978 LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY album. Mastered by AIRWAY founder JOE POTTS during 2006. This set is limited to 500 copies with a sleeve based on the Japanese export edition of the original, along the same lines as the previous CD edition. Contains a portfolio of live flyers, etc. 41 minutes of bliss thats nothing like the shorter, messed with version that turned up on the LAFMS 10xCD boxset." - Harbinger Sound. |
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Artist: AIRWAY/HIJOKAIDAN Title: Split Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Released to coincide with the LAFMS retrospective in London. Legendary free jazz percussionist SABU TOYOZUMI joins JOJO HIROSHIGE on guitar, JUNKO on vocals and TOSHIJI MIKAWA and FUMIO KOSAKAI on electronics on this live recording from late 2009. The maddest of LAFMS mad dogs feature JOE POTTS, RICK POTTS, TOM RECCHION, DENNIS DUCK, JOHN DUNCAN, FREDRIK NILSEN, VETZA, LINDA PITMON, and AARON MOORE on this live recording from 2009." -Harbinger |
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Artist: BEAULIEAU, EMIL Title: Americas Greatest Noise Format: Double LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "The record is called Americas Greatest Noise and features two 12" discs: 1) has umpteen lock grooves & handcut grooves and 2) features more locks plus the pieces in full. Basically its Emil bashing the Pain Jerk (Japan ) & Putrefier ( London ) LPs I put out a few years back in his own style!! The sleeve would make George Bush proud." - Harbingersound. |
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Artist: CERAMIC HOBS Title: Shaolin Master Format: 7" Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $5.50 |
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"(first track is a) reworking of the track from the "Straight Out of Rampton" CD and the flip has samples of 22 blackpool bands from throught the ages ( Fits, Skrewdriver, One Way System, Section 25, Sign Language, etc etc etc ). The other song on the flip was written by Milovan Srdenovic."- Harbinger Sound. More DIY oddness from longtime (since the early 80s?) UK sub-underground, tape label stalwarts. See last issue of Muckraker for a full report on these mental-health rockers.
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Artist: CURFEW RECORDINGS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
| "The Curfew Recordings were made at a disused industrial site on the river Tyne in 1984 and feature John Smith (then publisher of Interchange magazine), Sean Dower (ex Death Magazine 52 & later of Bow Gamelan Ensemble) and John Mylotte (of the band Metgumbnerbone). The recordings were made inside a 10m tall and 26m wide, steel-plated cylindrical, structure, once used for bitumen storage. The instrumentation is acoustic and the recordings are unprocessed (the space however adds a remarkable reverb). Instrumentation included: bull roarers, spirit whistles, human thy-bone trumpet, chimes, pipes, gongs, flutes, drums, projectiles, scraped and bowed objects and other materials (glass, metal, bones and wood). This is the first digital transfer of the original tapes to become available." - Harbinger Sound. |
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Artist: DEATH MAGAZINE 52 Title: S/T Format: Double LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $30.00 |
| "Between 1982 and 1984 Death Magazine 52 played around 20 shows mostly within the Black Country region of the U.K. Sometimes they played under the name Spontaneous Human Combustion which was the moniker they originally started out with. These recordings capture the core group and its floating membership at various stages of their existence. Recordings from the studio sessions and live sets, including playing to a school hall full of teenage girls at 3pm one afternoon, and as the final band to play at the legendary Equinox Event before the plugs got pulled and the police arrived. The recordings are of a raw nature and should be considered as historical documentation. Features a pre-Con-Dom Mike Dando on 2/3s of the material, guest vocalist spot from Philip Best. The full DM52 story will be featured in As Loud As Possible #2." - Harbinger Sound. |
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Artist: DIETER MUH Title: Stockholm Monsters Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: Price: $15.00 |
| ⿿An album of prime - Muh headspin recorded live at the Fylkingen in Stockholm back in November 2001. Active in some form or other since 1979, this record captures the duo of Dave Uden & Steve Cammack in better form than their Tesco Org. releases." |
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Artist: ESP KINETIC Title: Want Some Of This? Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Harbinger Sound have been sitting for a long while now on a super-limited run of an LP recorded by my juvenille early 80s band ESP Kinetic. They’ve just told me the LPs are pressed, but awaiting “release” from the pressing plant, so perhaps these things will see the light of day this summer some time. No hurry, I suppose – some of this has waited nearly 30 years, so what are a few more months, eh? And what of the content of the LP? It’s called ”Want some of this?” (you don’t have to answer that question), it has a side of home recordings by myself and Andy Watson, recorded 1982-83, then another side of live chaos from 1984-85, where we were sometimes joined by our pals Dougie Smyth and John Larmour. It’s surprisingly varied... the LP continues in a fairly diverse way in varying grades lo/no-fidelity, including one longer track that appeared on Cause for Concern’s “Awareness is paranoia” compilation tape." – Neil Campbell, 2011. |
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Artist: EVIL MOISTURE/HANATARASH Title: Fatanarchy on Airtube Format: CD Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
| "The long-awaited collaboration by Yamatsuka Eye (The Boredoms, etc ) & Andy Bolus is available! Proudly co-released with Berlins Tochnit Aleph label. Performed, mixed & designed between 1994 to 2004, this is as weird & confusing as it can get. Includes draw-dropping takes on Eye of the Tiger and (The Exploiteds ) Sex and Violence. This CD edition is limited to #500 copies." - Harbinger Sound. |
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Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: The Empty Quarter Format: CD Label: Harbinger Sound Country: USA Price: $11.50 |
| "New 2007 recordings from the Beatty/Tremaine/Connelly trio. Digipack. 1000 copies." Recorded in Ypsilanti, MI, Jan/March 2007. |
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Artist: JFK Title: Teenage Fantasy 1987-88 Format: Double LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $30.00 |
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"Retrospective set" of pre-Ramleh/Skullflower recordings by Anthony DiFranco. From the "Il Pach Preservé" and "Woelf" cassettes on Broken Flag, the "Inna Inner Amen" cassette on Sound of Pig Music, and previously unreleased material. Highly recommended!
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Artist: KLEISTWAHR Title: Arsonicide Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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Reissue of a 1983 Broken Flag cassette (BF15). Kleistwahr is Gary Mundy (RAMLEH, SKULLFLOWER, S.P.I.T.E., TOLL, CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, etc). Edition of 250 copies.
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Artist: KLEISTWAHR Title: Myth Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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Reissue of a 1983 Broken Flag cassette (BF3). Kleistwahr is Gary Mundy (RAMLEH, SKULLFLOWER, S.P.I.T.E., TOLL, CONSUMER ELECTRONICS, etc). Edition of 250 copies.
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Artist: OLYMPIC SHIT MAN Title: Supercharge Format: Double LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $30.00 |
| "As all Mother Savage tapes begin their transubstantiation into the new holy relics of Noise, one seldom-heard act still stands at a comfortable distance from the rest of the roster. A collaboration between Andy Bolus (Evil Moisture) and Mark Durgan (Putrefier), Olympic Shit Man divorced itself from the ultra-saturated, no-mind quest for pure filth by combining velocity and density while compromising neither. Most cut-up noise of the time buzzed your ears like a Stuka, uncatchable but lacking heft, while the harshest acts demolished all, but maneuvered like a tank in winter. Boluss EMS synth blurts and Durgans tactile junk scrapes capture the full spectrum of frequencies, while the pairs tape splicing strategies create asymmetric constructions that rattle around the room like a washer with an unbalanced spin cycle. As with the collaborations between Evil Moisture and Macronympha (The Tentacles of the Octopus Sometimes Compete Against One Another), Mlehst and Macronympha (Macrosonic), and Ruzensturn & Gurgelstock and Masonna (Arschloch-Onna), Olympic Shit Man is ferocious yet fleet, vibrant yet filthy, jaw-clenching yet hilarious. This vinyl reissue trisects the original cassette content into three 20 minute sides of vinyl, giving you an extra index point with which to process the mayhem. Side four includes two unreleased live tracks from 1994 and 2006, the first a fizzy, spastic sugar rush, the second a cascade of synth and toy squiggles that curlicue onto a wide canvas. Wrapped in a full-color jacket and including a 24-page Bolus comic book, Supercharge accomplishes what all reissues should: it doesnt just narrate epic battles of the past, it reintroduces all-but-forgotten combat tactics to a new generation of aural guerillas." - Harbinger Sound. Originally released on Mother Savage Noise Productions (Macronympha) in 1995. Edition of 250 copies. |
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Artist: PAIN JERK & JOHN WIESE Title: Terrazzo Format: CD Label: Harbinger Sound Country: USA Price: $11.50 |
| "Collaboration between the golden boy of Los Angeles & the Tokyo noise legend. Jewel case. 1000 copies." -Harbinger Sound. |
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Artist: RAIONBASHI & KUTZKELINA Title: Aktion 091216 Berlin Format: One Sided 12" Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
Recording of a performance at Raum 18, Berlin, December 2009. Edition of 150 copies.
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Artist: S.P.I.T.E. Title: Violence Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Vinyl reissue of this scarce cassette (Broken Flag 1982) by GARY MUNDY, recorded just before the formation of RAMLEH, and his later solo workings as KLEISTWAHR. Simple, crude and effective power electronics created with the same equipment used on later classic recordings. Ink-stamped sleeve. Edition of 200." -Harbinger Sound.
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Artist: SLEAFORD MODS Title: Austerity Dogs Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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"Proper working class music with an edge and a vitality, a wit and wisdom all of its own. Something that those stuck in a hopeless job can relate to and use as inspiration, something to shove right up the gaffers arsehole. Jason Williamson writes the lyrics, Andrew Fearn mans the lap top, the pair of them share vocals with Williamson getting the lions share. Its a simple set up stripped to the basics, a hammering bass riff coupled to a series of rapid programmed beats. Its all you need. Everything is in the delivery though, lines are delivered in the northern vernacular, each line spat out in rapid succession, each song starts and ends the same, once the bass loop is there it pummels away until the song ends and then in a split second the next one takes its place. Fearn chips in with the odd line, theres the odd three note keyboard solo to fill in the gaps and thats about it. Twelve tracks in all, each one destined for greatness. Urine Mate, Welcome To The Club sets the tone with a rap intro by local Forest lad John Paul that mentions the the cunts in the armed labelled coats, looking at me like they want to slit my fucking throat … anyway Im enjoying mesen before it all kicks off with the single word Spectre which will mean absolutely nothing to anybody living outside Britain, there are no apologies to those who can not unravel the inner workings of the northern working class language, this is as raw as its possible to get, no concessions are made, its one of their greatest strengths. By now Im trying to think of comparisons, maybe the delivery of John Cooper Clarke, Steve Ignorant, Ian Dury, the pumping bass riffs of The Fall, the cheap synth beats of The Normal [as heard on Five Pound Sixty] but its the richness of the lyrics which linger. Some of it makes no sense at all, stream of consciousness, words repeated, wobble, wobble, wobble I dont like puddings…" - Idwal Fisher. "Just about the most brutal and bleak LP weve ever released. Debut vinyl by Nottinghams finest.No compromise, no refunds. Please acquire with due caution : this is not an extreme electronics record !" - Harbinger Sound. SOLD OUT
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Artist: SLUGFUCKERS Title: Cacophony: 1979-1981 Format: Double CD Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $17.50 |
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"This double CD set is a limited edition of #500 copies housed in a jewel case. The sleeve features photographs and a potted history of the group. The foldout insert features text, reviews, lyrics and drawings connected with the groups short history. The material on the first disc is taken from both ultra-scarce 7" Eps and the "Transformational Salt" album, whilst the second disc holds two live sets including the last ever show they did in 1981. This is an official releases done with the assistance of the band. This Australian group hold that much coverted legendary status with collectors of oddball DIY activity. It will catch the ears of those who can embrace abstract punk sounds or industrial harshness. To be filed alongside The Homosexuals, The Desperate Bicycles, The Instant Automatons, The Prats, Door and the Window, The Versatile Newts, etc etc. Avant / Post -punk madness that leave you scratching your skull . Noise historians will wonder over the use of Manson references, Burroughs samples and Anti-art manifestos way before the Industrial boys tried to claim them as their own." - Harbingersound.
"...noiser and more abrasive than most first generation industrial stuff, a hell of a lot more punk than, say, The Lewd and intelligent in a scary, vicious bullying kind of way" - Johan Kugelberg, Ugly Things Magazine. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: SMEGMA Title: Nattering Naybobs of Negativity Format: CD Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
| "The second in the series of Harbinger Sounds efforts to present the Smegma back catalog. This album originally came out in the UK only back in 1987 and is backed by the studio side from the 1988 cassette release, Morass. Twenty-one tracks in total. Dedicated to Tom (Pig Champion) Roberts. Limited to #1000 copies. CD features an eight-page booklet with photos and a pre-1988 Smegma discography." - Harbinger Sound. |
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Artist: SMEGMA Title: Pigs for Lepers Format: CD Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
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"CD reissue of great 1982 LP includes extra material. Limited to 500 copies. "Pigs For Lepers was Smegmas second longplayer, originally the seventh release on their own Pigface Records imprint back in 1982. This CD is a limited reissue and is U.K. label Harbinger Sounds first shot in an attempt to coherently catalogue Smegmas wayward non-career. The cover features the original picture that was thought in bad taste and upset local printers, as part of an 8 page colour booklet that also includes artwork and photographs from the Smegma archives. An extra track too - Mutant Baby - recorded live in 1979 and featured on an obscure Trap Records compilation from years back. The actual Pigs... recordings span 1962 right up to 1982. This is an excellent introduction to the world of Smegma - a band whose influence has slowly seeped everywhere over the past few decades - ask Nurse With Wound, Wolf Eyes, Merzbow or any of the New Weird America crowd whom would give anything to be as weird as Smegma! To parrot writer Richard Meltzer, youll never hear sound the same way again." -Harbinger Sound
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Artist: STORM BUGS Title: A Safe Substitute Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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Very limited vinyl reissue of 1980 cassette release on Snatch Tapes. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: V/A Title: Le Couperet Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "A vinyl reissue of the legendary Broken Flag compilation cassette from 1983. Featuring tracks by Ramleh, Vortex Campaign, The New Blockaders, Sir Ashleigh Grove, Citipati and the Depilate Corps. Limited to 300 copies. Complete with printed inner sleeve. Released with the full authorization of every contributing artist." - Harbinger Sound. |
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Artist: VAGINA DENTATA ORGAN Title: Live In Berlin Format: LP Label: Harbinger Sound Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
 
Vagina Dentata Organ performance recorded live at NK, Berlin, March 31st 2012. Previously released as Allegory Of Cosmic Violence on Tochnit Aleph.
This edition released on the occasion of the Extreme Rituals Schimpfluch Gruppe festival at the Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, on the night VDO performed as part of the 3 day event (Nov.30th - Dec.2nd 2012). Comes with a flier for the festival. Limited to 100 copies.
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Artist: CULVER Title: A-8.05 B-9.08 Format: Lathe Cut LP Label: Harbingersound Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
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Artist: PUTREFIER Title: Hypertension Classics, Vol 2 Format: 4CD Box Set Label: Harbingersound Country: UK Price: $32.00 |
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"Putrefier aka Mark Durgan has been an active member, albeit below the radar, of the U.K. noise scene since the inception of Putrefier back in 1986. Firstly, starting with his own Birthbiter label which as well as cassettes also was one of the first distribution services to start importing ZSF, Selektion and many Japanese oddities into the UK. Keeping a low-profile has enabled Putrefier to work at his own pace and keeping to his own vision. Throughout the last twenty years records and cassettes have been limited but this latest release should be the start of a fresh outburst of activity. His recordings have turned up on labels such as Broken Flag, Artware, MSBR, RRR and more. This boxset though is the latest release on Harbinger Sound a label with whom he has had a working relationship with now for many years. It features the long out-of-print "Hypertension Classics" double 7" which was sold at shows in japan during the year 1999 only, plus over four hours worth of quality recordings dating back to 1996 but with most constructed during the 1999 - 2001 years. If you want pointers think of the possibilities of good Voice Crack, the INA-GRM extremities & "Crash for Hi-Fi" -era Merzbow being dropped into a pinball machine ! Yes, it is that good !
After many shows alongside the likes of Ramleh, The New Blockaders, Merzbow, Pain Jerk, Incapacitants, MSBR, Thirdorgan, Emil Beaulieau. Morphogenesis, Schimpfluch Gruppe / R&G, and many others , Putrefier should be embarking on an East Coast tour of the USA during April 2006 alongside Smell & Quim, Onomatopoeia & Deepkiss 720." - Harbingersound.
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Artist: SMALL CRUEL PARTY Title: Stain on Pure Glass Format: LP Label: Harbingersound Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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Artist: MIKE REP AND THE QUOTAS Title: Its My Movie Format: 7" Label: Hard To Beat Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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"1975 and from the Ur Punk Ground Zero of Basement Land USA emerge Mike Rep & The Quotas. Assimilating all the usual suspects of pre punk rock (Stooges, Velvets , Deviants etc etc) and adding their own rock n roll mantra of no-fi sci-fi fuzz and plucky faith in the riff.
A classic 45 " Rocket to Nowhere" results in a vanity pressing of 200(100 with covers, 100 without, "Rocket to Nowhere" was cut on the same machine that cut the Kingsmens version of "Louie Louie" and so the Punk Rock continuum ) and then sinks into teen punk slime till 1979 when BOMP buys a few sleeveless copies off Dave "Moxie" Gibson . Johan Kugelberg and chums give the 45 a date of 1979 based on BOMP listing it at this point but it has been festering away in the vinyl graveyard for a couple of years at that point !!!!
Recorded at the same 1975 session as "Rocket to Nowhere" - "Its My Movie" was thought "lost to the ages" until it was found miss labelled on a reel to reel tape. "Its My Movie" has the riff condensed to its purest essence .... a bludgeon of distorted guitar wails and spastic "funky "chimp drumming drags the song to its inexorable tape splitting finale !!!! Imagine all this and crowd noise sampled from Lou Reeds "RockNRoll Animal" Lp......WHOAH baby its a down right CLASSIC.
Flip this baby over and you get the 1978 Quotas savaging Van The Mans anthem "G-L-O-R-I-A".No cool posing here just the spirit of freaked out over amped savagery is channelled and the Guitar Monster really does appear if you play this under a dead tree at midnight..I kid you not !!!!!!!
An important pre-punk/punk artifact before anyone knew what the hell lo fi fuzz punk was.....
Edition of 200 (mirroring the original release of "Rocket to Nowhere")....you will Dig This !" - Hard To Beat.
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Artist: CONSTANT PAIN Title: Shadow Of A Lonely Man Format: 7" Label: Harmony House/De Stijl Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
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Great and extremely raw psychedelic rock from this mysterious New Zealand band with relations to Space Dust/Brother Love. Predates the single on Crawlspace.
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Artist: A BURNING BUS Title: Anti-/Paranoia Paradise Format: 7" Label: Harvest Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "A Burning Bus is iconoclast/legend Don Howlands latest musical address from his mountain compound, an exhilarating blast of oppressive fear and hopelessness. With beloved bands like the Gibson Bros and the Bassholes, Mr. Howland has spent over 25 years on the fringes, preaching his misanthropic sermons to a loud but minimalist blend of blues, garage, noise, lo-fi, and whatever else served his muse. Burning Buss debut 7" enhances Howlands trademark treble-tastic menacing sound with three guitars, bass and drums. The results are as huge, thick and engulfing as a fog rolling through the Blue Ridge Mountains. On the A-side, Jayne Countys Paranoia Paradise is ratcheted to its greatest possible twitchy anthemic potential, and the group really cuts loose on the free form flip, where effects pedals, over-driven amps, echo and feedback provide the soundtrack to your own bouts of early in the AM isolationalism." - Harvest. |
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Artist: AHLEUCHATISTAS Title: Heads Full of Poison Format: Double LP Label: Harvest Country: USA Price: $32.00 |
| "With a moniker that screams enigma, Asheville, North Carolina instrumental rock duo Ahleuchatistas belong to the beyond-category sector of such iconic, genre-flouting combos as John Zorns Naked City, Captain Beefhearts Magic Band, Swans, Tortoise, and Sun City Girls. A duo armed only with guitar, bass, and drums, Ahleuchatistas combine wicked precision with intense abandon, droll humor with analytical construction, and a sly gregariousness with uncompromising vision. This pair interweaves elements of punk rock, jazz, classical music, speed metal, grindcore, progressive rock, noise, folk musics from Asia and North Africa, electronic music, and ambient aesthetics, along with volatile, unpredictable improvisation, flowing organically in a virtual world of their own. With a devoted international cult following, Ahleuchatistas is considered by many to be one of the most innovative and ever-developing instrumental groups of the past decade. Cerebral but never ponderous, Ahleuchatistas make immediate music that reaches for the mind, heart, and gut." - Harvest. Full-color gatefold sleeve; free download included. |
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Artist: GUNN, STEVE Title: Sundowner Format: LP Label: Harvest Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Native Philadelphian and current Brooklynite Steve Gunn has been paving a unique path in his solo career for years now, fusing elements of the American experimental scene (as a member of drone./noise ensemble GHQ) with complex finger-picking and raga-inspired styles to craft a new direction. Almost a full year since the release of the ecstatic Boerum Palace (Three Lobed Recordings), we are pleased to present Sundowner for the first time on vinyl. Sundowner was previously only available in limited CD form on Digitalis. Pressed at RTI for maximum listening pleasure, the album was remastered by Patrick Klehm (Lee Ranaldo, Comets On Fire, Yellow Swans) with an additional five minutes of work. This pressing is limited to 500 copies." -Harvest |
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Artist: HUSH ARBORS Title: Since We Have Fallen Format: LP Label: Harvest Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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"from the great state of missouri comes hush arbors, the lulling psych sounds of keith wood. the sounds of spring waking up from its winter slumber will massage your ears and open your eyes. wipe away those tears, as woods soft falsetto will guide you through the early morning fog. for fans of six organs, fursaxa, and others, this will be your new morning cup of tea. brilliant says the holy one. brilliant. " -brad rose "a limited pressing of 500 LPs. 180gm vinyl. letterpressed. beautifully bound. artwork by nathanael roney. packaging/letterpress by blue barnhouse. simply stunning." - Harvest.
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Artist: VILLAGES Title: The Last Whole Earth Format: Double LP Label: Harvest Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Asheville, North Carolina resident Ross Gentry performs and records under the guise of Villages. With dense layers and glacial droning, he creates engaging narrative soundscapes that evoke the shifting fragility of the early ambient movement as well as the elegance of symphonic composition. The Last Whole Earth is engagingly contemplative and meticulously well-crafted drone. With washes of guitar and synthesizer, subdued vocals, field recordings and minimal noise, Villages devises a beautifully pastoral narrative teeming with honest emotion. While the majority of drone artists are currently plotting a darker and harsher course, this offers warm radiance reminiscent of acts like Flying Saucer Attack, Labradford and Stars of the Lid that many are sure to find refreshing. This double LP is housed in a gorgeous gatefold sleeve with artwork from Asheville artist Lisa Nance. The pressing is limited to 500 copies." -Harvest |
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Artist: BLACK TO COMM Title: Stille Nacht Format: Lathe Cut 8" Flexi Label: Hasenbart Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Extremely limited lathe cut Christmas single. 1-sided 8" square picture disc (full colour printing on both sides, stamped on the back, audio on one side) with a plunderphonic version of "Stille Nacht" (aka "Silent Night"). This record will only be produced until Dec. 24, 2012 and then deleted forever." - Hasenbart. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Days Of Blood Format: LP Label: Hash Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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Limited "bootleg" recorded Fall, 2005 with Ben Chasny, John Moloney (Sunburned), and Keith Wood (Hush Arbors).
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Artist: HASSARA aka WOODEN WAND Title: Backyard Volume 3 Format: CDR Label: Hassara Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Third volume in this popular series of solo electric guitar improvisations by Wooden Wand in his �??Hassara�?� guise. For this one, Hassara is back to exclusively playing guitar (no vocals, harmonica, bass, etc as on Volume 2), with a heavier emphasis on drone. The trademark boogie of previous releases is still intact �?? in fact, the brief �??Zodiac Blues (w/ intro)�?� is the ruling-est stoned blues jam Wand has ever committed to tape �?? but for the most part, Volume 3 chooses to explore the dark side, with the two part �??Road to Nowhere�?� (a reference to the Carole King song of the same name?) taking up the bulk of the disc. A friend said: �??Sounds like brothers been sniffing around for affordable real estate in New Zealand.�?� WhatEVER, chump." - Hassara. |
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Artist: HASSARA aka WOODEN WAND Title: Backyard Volume Two Format: CDR Label: Hassara Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Second volume in this popular series showcasing the electric guitar-based music of Wooden Wand in his �??Hassara�?� guise. While the premiere volume was based conceptually around the Tarot and numerology, this latest installment deals with themes of displacement and alienation, and adds the occasional vocals, harmonica, drums and bass to the mix. Though defiantly repetitive, the music of the Backyard series is not what youd call �??drone music - this is seriously broken blues captured under the spell of the Private Press, and recorded, as per tradition, at the apex of High. Rumors that the entirety of this CD was recorded while other records played on headphones are entirely unsubstantiated at this time, but wholly probable, so try to spot the Fraction licks! Maybe... Strictly limited to 99 copies, with a full color cover." |
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Artist: ALTAR OF FLIES/DARKSMITH Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Hasten & Korset Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Concrete mixed with industrial. DARKSMITH does very little with not much at all-the sound of movement in an empty, open room captured on cassette tapes crudely and minimally manipulated. At once meditative and unsettling. Swedens MATTIAS GUSTAFSSON scrapes and grinds metal like a true demon. Drawings by TOM DARKSMITH. Artwork by DANIEL FAGERSTROM. With a postcard. Clear vinyl. Edition of 100 copies." -Hasten & Korset |
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Artist: V/A Title: Flesh Records Format: CD Label: Haswellediger & Co. Gallery Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Haswellediger presents FLESH RECORDS, a CD/Audio Exhibition with fifteen tracks from a new generation of artists excited by the intimacy of sound and its possibilities as a plastic art. The works, many of which were composed specifically for this project, range in shape and tone from Romantic to Pop to Cinematic and Sculptural/Body based. What they have in common is perhaps the idea that sound-art, with its lack of visual stimuli, connects us to an earlier time, both personally and collectively, when the body intuitively acted as artist, muse and medium. ARTISTS: RITA ACKERMANN (Diadal, Angelblood, etc..), RICHARD ALDRICH (Hurray), MIKE BOUCHET, BOZIDAR BRAZDA, OLAF BREUNING, C.R.E.E.,P, PIA DEHNE & MARK O, SARA GLAXIA, K8 HARDY, JOHANNES ATLI HINRIKSSON, MARIE-EVE JETZER, PAUL-AYMAR MOURGUE DALGUE, ANNA PARKINA, AIDA RUILOVA & NANCY GARCIA (Monotract) & TANER TUMKAYA." - Haswellediger & Co. Gallery. |
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Artist: FINE, MILO FREE JAZZ ENSEMBLE Title: Hah! Format: LP Label: Hat Hut Country: Switzerland Price: $12.00 |
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Recorded at Anwatin Middle School, Minneapolis, MN December 29, 1976.
Milo Fine: drums, bowed cymbals, piano, clarinet; Steve Gnitka: guitar.
Original copies of this 1977 LP on Hat Hut (now Hat Art)- the 5th release for the label, sandwiched between Joe McPhee and Steve Lacy.
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Artist: FINE, MILO FREE JAZZ ENSEMBLE Title: The Constant Extension of Inescapable Tradition Format: LP Label: Hat Hut Country: Switzerland Price: $12.00 |
| Recorded at Studio A, WCAL Radio / St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, August 20, 1977. Milo Fine: drums, clarinet, prepared piano, bowed cymbal, voice; Steve Gnitka: guitars. Original copies of this 1978 LP on Hat Hut (now Hat Art)- the 8th release for the label. |
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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Untitled 1980 Format: Cass Label: Hate Song Country: Japan Price: $13.00 |
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"and about MB tape, its originally right channel only recorded stuff
(+ low level white noise on left channel).
here is a MBs note:
"Concerning the description of why only the right channel, Ive only this in memory:
I was trying some experiments at my first approach on my new MS20 Korg synthesizer,
without any experience on it (because Im not a musician) and I pushed some button
by mistake and the sound came out only in a right channel." "The "UNTITLED 1980" tape is an old tape without title found
from a friend of mine, and I called it "UNTITLED 1980" because
its without title." - Maurizio Bianchi
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Artist: BURIAL HEX Title: Gripster Killer Format: Cass Label: Hate Song Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
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"A comedy of Ritual Abduction in two parts." - Hate Song (new side label of Temple Of Be Saint 777). Dark noise project from Clay Ruby (Davenport, Zodiacs, etc..)
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Artist: D.C.A./ODAL Title: Jap Evil Demon Format: Cass Label: Hate Song Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
| "D.C.A. is a collaboration by J.M. ONNI of Le Syndicat and Hitomi of Beast 666 did in 80s. ODAL is a dutch noise veteran since 80s and a member of the infamous FCKNBSTRDS. For the fans of early CE, Mauthausen Orchestra or pure shortwave radio noise. Art direction by Mike Diana Ltd.80." - Hate Song (new side label of Temple Of Be Saint 777). |
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Artist: PUTREFIER Title: Black Bramble Format: Cass Label: Hate Song Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
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"The latest work by Mark Durgan (Birthbiter, Broken Flag, A part-time member of TNB). Scrappin metal noise blast. Limited to 60 copies. Each copy numbered." - Hate Song
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Artist: DRMWPN Title: Bright Blue Galilee Format: LP Label: HBSP-2X Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| Silkscreened covers, edition of 200 copies. "Over the past 3 years, DRMWPN (pronounced Dreamweapon) has gradually evolved to become the premier band operating at the nexus of the many divergent strains of experimental music in Chicago. Originally intended to be an outlet to showcase the more Dionysian improvisational impulses of the core members of Town & Country (Ben Vida, Jim Dorling, Liz Payne, Josh Abrams), DRMWPN has grown into an amorphous collective that at any given show may include percussionist Michael Zerang, The Cairo Gangs Emmett Kelly, Califones Jim Becker, vocalist Dan Mohr, Million Tongues Festival impresario and rock historian Steve Krakow (a.k.a. Plastic Crimewave), pedal steel and guitar player Sam Wagster, or any other number of Chicagos free rock/jazz/experimental luminaries among its ranks. Drawing on a shared knowledge and love of minimalism, ethnic devotional music, jazz, rock and improvised ecstatic sound, DRMWPNs sublime live sets are augmented by the flickering hallucinatory generations of their Bryon Gysin-designed dreamachine." - HBSP-2X. Featuring Josh Abrams (guimbri), Jim Dorling (leslie, voice, electronics), Steve Krawkow (banjo), Mahjabeen (kalimba), Dan Mohr (voice, organ), Liz Payne (upright bass), Adam Vida (cymbals), Ben Vida (electric guitar), Sam Wagster (lap steel guitar) and Michael Zerang (drums). |
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Artist: FACTUMS Title: Roman Soldier Format: LP Label: HBSP-2X Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Three-piece unit FACTUMS and Captcha (HBSP-2x) Records, of Seattle and Chicago, present Roman Soldier, a multi-dimensional sonic experience of cinematic beauty. The first decaying hit of this record sounds like the approach of an apocalyptic army overheard from the inside of an insurgents desolate cave. Suspense builds as the cadence of the piece accelerates, the twists and turns of its theme provoking high anxiety and cold sweats. As tension climaxes and the sonic assault begins to fade, sounds evocative of dazed contemplation suffuse the aural space, creating an impression of crystalline clarity that might be reminiscent of an introspective montage, replaying the last conversation you had with the one you love. In its primal minimalism, calculated chaos and transcendental ambience, this record presents an opportunity to abandon the banality of modern life and lose yourself in the complexities of your imagination. The Roman Soldier EP follows up the exquisite release Flowers on the Sacred Bones label, arriving in advance of the highly anticipated release Gilding the Lilies. This record, featuring an etching on the reverse, is being produced in an edition of 500 copies and will not be repressed." - HBSP-2X |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: 3rd Gatekeeper Format: CD Label: HeadDirt Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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1991 release featuring Matthew Bower, Stuart Dennison and Anthony Di Franco.
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Artist: BASSETT, MARCIA/MARGARIDA GARCIA Title: The Well Format: LP Label: Headlights Country: Portugal Price: $30.00 |
| "Hand-numbered edition of 200 copies LP on Manuel Motas private Headlights imprint documenting a heavyweight duo set from Marcia Bassett of Zaimph, Hototogisu, Double Leopards, GHQ et al and improvising Portuguese bassist and guitarist Margardia Garcia. Garcia is one of the major new generation European free players, coming out of the same scene as Mota, and shes just as capable of generating Swans-style Industrial entropy as she is playing explosive fire music. Here Bassett uses keyboard and guitar to create austere arcs of Industrial-strength drone that Garcia anchors with tactile, questing strings, giving the whole thing an odd avant-classical backbone." - Headlights |
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Artist: CIRCLE Title: Sunrise Format: Double LP Label: Headspin Country: Belgium Price: $36.00 |
| "Finnish masters of HYPNOTIC and TRANCE-like HARD RIFFING mix of heavy KRAUT- and SPACEROCK. Hypnotising repitative heavy hardrock riffs running through whilst the familiar CIRCLE layered sound are added to the tracks, like violin, eerie keyboards and/or strong guitar-riffs. For anyone into HAWKWIND, CAN, STONER or HARDROCK. HEAVY, DENSE and mesmerizingly repetative. Bashing guitar, downright scary vocals. Their music is energetic, well crafted and always exciting. This limited DOUBLE VINYL has an extra unreleased track called Mustavuori taking all of side 4 of the album. A fullblown extensive psychedelic journey." - Headspin. Restocked. |
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Artist: CIRCLE Title: Sunrise Format: CD Label: Headspin Country: Netherlands Price: $15.00 |
| "Finnish masters of hypnotic and trance-like hard riffing mix of heavy Kraut -- and spacerock. Hypnotizing repetitive heavy hardrock riffs running through whilst the familiar Circle layered sound are added to the tracks, like violin, eerie keyboards and/or strong guitar-riffs. For anyone into Hawkwind, Can, stoner or hardrock. Heavy, dense and mesmerizingly repetitive. Bashing guitar, downright scary vocals. Their music is energetic, well-crafted and always exciting. This limited double vinyl has an extra unreleased track called Mustavuori taking all of side 4 of the album. A full-blown extensive psychedelic journey." - Headspin |
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Artist: CIRCLE Title: Tulikoira Format: LP + 7" Label: Headspin Country: Netherlands Price: $33.00 |
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"Headspin Records presents the limited edition vinyl version of the Tulikoira album by Finnish front runners of the psychedelic, Kraut, space & trance-rock scene of today with a blasting heavy guitar-drenched album. Three tracks on side A and a 24-minute trippy journey on side B. A true psychedelic testimonial! Housed with printed inner sleeve in deluxe gatefold sleeve! The inside of the fold-out showing the initials of what the album is all about: N.W.O.F.H.M (New Wave of Finnish Heavy Metal). The album
comes with a 7" single (with picture sleeve) featuring two unreleased and exclusive tracks with Bruce Duff (45 Grave/Jesters Of Destiny/ ADZ) on vocals." - Headspin
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Artist: SUN DIAL Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Headspin Country: Netherlands Price: $24.00 |
| "Highly regarded UK psych-rock outfit Sun Dial fronted by founder/ guitarist/singer Gary Ramon and ex-Chapterhouse bassist/lyricist Russell Barrett. This certainly is easily their heaviest album to date. Taking off where Acid Yantra left off (really if theyd carried on), but much heavier. The sound has been stripped down, and the bands now a mean 3-piece, quieter/vocals, bass and drums, no keyboards on the album either! Fits straight into the stoner/heavy psychrock genre. Limited edition 400 black vinyl. Cover designed by Hugh Gilmour (famous for doing 70s covers of famous albums of Led Zep, Sabbath and Deep Purple!). " -Headspin |
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Artist: SUN DIAL Title: Zen For Sale Format: LP/7" Label: Headspin Country: Netherlands Price: $27.00 |
| "This is their fifth album, and the follow up to "Acid Yantra" which was released years and years ago. Recorded at the legendary Third Eye studios (where "No Way Out" also was recorded) this album was recorded with the same philosophy. Containing their single "Out of space out of time", the album is full of trademark Sun Dial psych sounds. Limited edition 500 comes with a BONUS 7" single, with two unreleased tracks, Into The Sun and 657 from the ⿿Zen For Sale recording sessions, exclusive to this vinyl version." - Acme. 2003 release. |
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Artist: UNBORN UNICORN Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Heard Worse Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Bay Arean AARON COYES (MUMMERS EYPE, HEART OF SNOW, GROMSKULL, HISSEATERS and the Common Oracles label) fills your psych-folk-fuzz cochlea with echoes of Beefheart, Velvets, Spacemen 3, Dead C, and Kenneth Higney. Limited edition, imported from the big island of Australia, handmade recycled classical jackets."-Heard Worse |
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Artist: V/A Title: Ten Grand Tonearm Format: LP Label: Heard Worse Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Nodding to the fetishization analog audio, gear and vinyl, the Australian label Heard Worse presents a collection of noisy improvised music, side by side with more structured electronic noise. Features xNOBBQX (the Australian Harry Pussy); ARSE LUNCH (triple guitar feedback drone by an XNOBBQx side project); CASTINGS (improvised psychedelic rock with noisy electronics, releases on Chocolate Monk and American Tapes); CYGNUS (lo-fi guitar/synth jam by Sick Llama / Fag Tapes / Slither side project; LOACHFILLET (American noise blast); MARCO FUSINATO (another noise blast by Australian who has collaborated with Thurston Moore); MARK HARWOOD (processed field recordings by the Synaesthesia honch); MISTY LAVENDER DOUGHNUTS OF SHAME (electric violin with dialogue samples); PIGS IN THE GROUND (more American electronic noise); RAHDUNES (post-Unborn Unicorn; RLW (with Ralf Wehowsky on sitar and Johannes Fritsch on double bass); SUN OF THE SEVENTH SISTER (two separate recordings synched-up as a 25-piece big band); THE VITAMIN B12 (vocals and electronics from the UK); WEREWOLF JERUSALEM (harsh digital noise that sent the cutting engineer into a frenzy); WILLIAM DE CUNTING (locked groove shenanigans by this Texan). In recycled classical covers with attached poster."-Heard Worse |
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Artist: LITTLE GOLD Title: Completely Fucked Format: 7" Label: Heart Break Beat Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "LITTLE GOLD is CHRISTIAN DEROEKs new band. Christian was one of the two founding members of WOODS, as well as the beloved but deceased MENEGUAR. Little Gold is killer power pop-think Costello, Ted Leo, etc. This is his second release as Little Gold, the first was the well-received full length LP, On The Knife, that came out on Adagio830. The 7-inch is a limited edition of 300 on translucent orange vinyl with a download coupon included." -Heart Break Beat |
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Artist: ORCHID SPANGIAFORA Title: Tin Windows Format: 7" Label: Heart of Glue Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| June 2012 7" from Rob Careys long dormant project-- NWW-listed, featured on the I Hate the Pop Group comp, once involving Byron Coley, etc... |
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Artist: COLD CAVE Title: Love Comes Close Format: CD Label: Heartworm Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Love Comes Close is the debut full-length from Cold Cave. After releasing singles on Hospital Productions, Whats Your Rupture?, and Dais Records, as well as a compilation of early material (Cremations, Hospital Productions), Cold Cave is now releasing their first realized vision of modern pop music through their own publishing house, Heartworm Press. Balance is one of Cold Caves most dominant features, laced with equal parts of romance and nihilism. Somewhere in the realms of negative hiss and out-of-body bliss, there is a peak awaiting all who enter. Wesley Eisold is joined by an orbiting line-up that includes fellow allies Caralee McElroy (of the experimental indie phenomenon Xiu Xiu), Dominick Fernow (contemporary noise icon Prurient) Max G. Morton (celebrated author) and J. Benoit. Cold Cave is a force that has been compared to Erasure and Whitehouse, one that just does what it does, without forcing unnatural laws. They are a true rarity in this instamatic culture." - Heartworm
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Artist: COLD CAVE Title: Love Comes Close Format: LP Label: Heartworm Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Love Comes Close is the debut full-length from Cold Cave. After releasing singles on Hospital Productions, Whats Your Rupture?, and Dais Records, as well as a compilation of early material (Cremations, Hospital Productions), Cold Cave is now releasing their first realized vision of modern pop music through their own publishing house, Heartworm Press. Balance is one of Cold Caves most dominant features, laced with equal parts of romance and nihilism. Somewhere in the realms of negative hiss and out-of-body bliss, there is a peak awaiting all who enter. Wesley Eisold is joined by an orbiting line-up that includes fellow allies Caralee McElroy (of the experimental indie phenomenon Xiu Xiu), Dominick Fernow (contemporary noise icon Prurient) Max G. Morton (celebrated author) and J. Benoit. Cold Cave is a force that has been compared to Erasure and Whitehouse, one that just does what it does, without forcing unnatural laws. They are a true rarity in this instamatic culture." - Heartworm
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Artist: PRURIENT Title: Rose Pillar Format: Hardcover Book/ 11" LP Label: Heartworm Country: USA Price: $105.00 |
| "180 Page Hardcover Book with 11" Record. What separates Dominick Fernows Prurient project from the rest of the contemporary underground cannon is its unyielding personal subject matter. From the inception of Prurient the concept has always utilized intimate details, photographs, letters and other ephemera culled from places where most artists would choose to obscure. Prurient draws these details into focus more than ever on Rose Pillar, a 180-page hardbound book of Fernows collage work and text supplied by his mother Jean Feraca from her previously published memoir I Hear Voices. Feraca tells the story of the death of Stephen, the brilliant but troubled older brother, an anthropologist who was adopted into a Sioux tribe. Feracas text is juxtaposed with Fernows collages of fallen empires, plant-life and industrial decline. The imagery presented is both stoic yet strangely profound and revealing as an analogy of death. Rose Pillar also contains an 11 vinyl LP containing new material from Prurient that is the most profound and fully-realized work of his career. Prurient is not about an attack but rather a cry for help. Prurient takes the listener to the ends of human emotion as the range of sounds swell as the light of life fades. The climax of the album is the track ⿿spins the worlds wheel again which contains the most densely melodic frozen drone ever contained on a Prurient recording. Whats evidenced in these recordings is a sense of loss and destruction that cant be replaced. The sound feels more like an erosion of steady decline, ebb and flow, storms, power controlled and power unleashed. This multimedia project pries deeply through the depths of mourning on both a personal and societal scale. In conversation Prurient has exclaimed Rose Pillar to be the end of an era in both function and material. This is Prurient taken to its furthest and most satisfyingly complete conclusion. Nothing will be the same after this release as this is the ultimate result of Prurients process. Finality is a recurring theme with Rose Pillar and that says more than anything." - Heartworm. |
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Artist: T.A.S.K. Title: Relaxing Time Is Over Format: LP Label: Heartworm Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "The brilliant first LP by the Berlin troupe T.A.S.K., "Relaxing Time Is Over". All basic tracks on this album were recorded live in a Berlin living room studio in the winter of 2005 and the winter months of 2006 - NO SUMMER RECORDINGS. 11 songs of minimal psych pop with a Velvets air of cool by way of the German psychedelic underground. T.A.S.K. is comprised of members of the insanely underrated Floating Di Morel and Metabolismus. Band members have performed with artists such as KIM FOWLEY - "SOUNDS OF AN EMPTY ROOM" after GERMANS BECAME NEGROES, MEN AND WOMEN FIGHTING; F/I; FLlPPER, SAMARA LUBELSKI, HERMMANN HALB, DR. CHADBOURNE, JAD FAIR, MOE TUCKER, JG 39, MONSIEUR MORIOT, STERLING MORISSON, G. KRAUS (LIMBUS)" - Heartworm. |
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Artist: V/A Title: 23 Format: Book Label: Heartworm Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"23 was curated and compiled over the last year by Max G. Morton, author of the now vanished/banished Indestructible Wolves of the Apocalypse Junkyard. 23 features over 10 new pieces by Morton as well as new writing and artwork by Wesley Eisold, Eric Paul, Chris Leo, Mark McCoy, Elgin James, Dominic Fernow, Kid Congo Powers, Howie Pyro, Sara C. Gross, JW Buckley, William Pym, George Hirsch, Jeremy Gaulke, Tony(Da Neck) DeCou, J. Benoit, Arty the Greek and Matthew Gallagher. 150 page paperback in an edition of 1,000." -Heartworm
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Artist: YE OLDE MAIDS Title: God Blesses Us, Mother Dresses Us Format: CD Label: Heartworm Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Bedroom recording alias of Cold Caves Wes Eisold. Expanded CD reissue of the OOP LP, originally released on Art Fag. "This 2006-2008 collection of twenty-four electronic bedroom recordings features previously unreleased songs as well as all tracks from the out of print LP and demo." -Heartworm |
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Artist: NISENNENMONDAI Title: Tori/Neji Format: Double LP Label: Heartworm Press Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"A gatefold double 12" from Tokyos Nisennenmondai compiling two cds
previously released in their native home by Dot.Line.Circle records.
Primarily instrumental, these three girls play Kraut influenced beats
with fuzzed out bass and guitars, somewhere between experimental yet
memorable psych and the more adventurous sides of post punk. Limited
to 500. Heartworm Press." - Heartworm Press.
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Artist: CAKES OF LIGHT Title: Save Your Self Format: LP Label: Heat Retention Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "With this third release Cakes of Light explores lo-fi soundscapes where blasts of noise, disembodied voices, and strange loops infiltrate and punctuate the song forms. The result is two sides of aural magick and a collection of songs that reveals new facets with every listen. Originally released on cassette in January 2007. Limited edition of 100 w/ stenciled artwork on the jacket and an insert with text and images."- Heat Retention |
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Artist: GROUND MONKEYS/MOUTHUS/DOS DE DOS/TAN AS FUCK Title: Format: 7" Label: Heat Retention Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: OSBORNE, BRIAN / MARC ZAJACK Title: Split Format: LP Label: Heat Retention Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Brian Osborne invites each track with amalgamated percussiveness through analog fuckery, looped out texture and overall heavy handed craftsmanship. 3 tracks that hold a steady place in and out of normal time. Marc Zajack approaches his side of this record with low end synth spacial rhythm and slowwww moving grime. Feedbacked and forth in interval of dissolving time placing the listener inside the record with the quietness of its scratched surface and analog mishaps. Limited edition of 100 w/ screenprinted jackets by Marc Zajack."- Heat Retention |
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Artist: REVERSE MOUTH / BLASTOCYST Title: Split Format: LP Label: Heat Retention Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Blastocyst delivers free rock noise madness at its very unique best, here offering 4 spastic grooveable shoothing punk jams. The guitar duo of Reverse Mouth taking over side B w/ a 17-minute deodorant crystal filth statement, much different from they usually deliver. Limited edition of 100 w/ screenprinted jackets by Mr. frenchie-fabulous Marc Zajack + b&w insert."- Heat Retention |
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Artist: BASSETT, MARCIA & HELENA ESPVALL Title: Lapidary Format: Cass Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Guitar and cello pieces. Edition of 100. |
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Artist: GHQ Title: Pale Heat Of Summer Format: CDR Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"new cdr of the Bookmill, Montague, MA live show from the GHQ duo tour w/ Charalambides, plus two additional tracks recorded in Brooklyn as the trio of with John trucinski in the fold. The whole thing is packaged in heavy black card with gold screen print on front/back." - Heavy Blossom.
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Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Prayer Rug Exorcism Format: CD Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Most barbaric installment yet in the blood n groan saga initiated with Ghost From The Sun; Prayer Rug Exorcism is a monolithic single disc in four parts. Opening with a brooding nocturnal labyrinth, and ascending through a dark power-drone into sky-high ribbons of blasphemous feedback traceries, and the annihilating ghostly machine clank of part 4, like TGs old analog set up, running freeform and haunted in a hermetically sealed bunker. Recorded: The Black Chapel, Leeds; CCA, Glasgow; Holy Trinity Church, Leeds, and Brudenell Social Club, Leeds in 2005. Full color deluxe artwork delineates the unusual arcana, and some new clues for the pictorially fetishistic. Edition of 1000 copies." - Heavy Blossom. |
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Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Sculpture Built Upon The Graves Format: CDR Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "2006 cdr, recorded in bradford england, except for live track paris, noharm recorded at instants chavires, paris, spring 2006. A four movement midnight symphony of haunted electricity. one of the most evocative and strange hototogisu recordings." - Heavy Blossom. |
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Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: Under the Rose Format: LP Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Hototogisus first LP release on their own imprint Heavy Blossom! Under the Rose is a pair of incantations for the dark and vengeful animal spirits. Sung in two parts Malignant Coronation and Origami Skulls are blackened arias, dizzying vortexes and canyons of screams, guitars and chaotic rhythms. Arising from this richly recorded and mastered vinyl slab come black tarpits of malevolence and savage beauty, harking back to a pre-Christian universe of animating spirits and tutelary daemons . Comes in black jacket with a full color photograph attached to the front cover and thickly inked silk-screened backs. Edition of 600." - Heavy Blossom. |
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Artist: PURPLE HAZE Title: Eternal Weekend Format: Cass Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| New project from Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zaimph, Hototogisu) and Taylor Richardson (Sunburned). |
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER Title: Abyssic Lowland Hiss: Parts I - V Format: CDR Label: Heavy Blossom Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
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Live in Den Haag an Antwerpen, Feb 2007. Lee Stokoe: Icy Whirlwind Reaper; Matthew Bower: Cthonic Oscillation.
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Artist: ZAIMPH Title: Live Hasselt Format: CDR Label: Heavy Blossom Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| Recorded 5.06.06 "A frozen howl of anguish blacks out tevelvision skies and turns water to blood. This is not fashion or distraction. A tumultuous upsurge of lashing spectral form, a doom fug of revenge - a swirl, a swathe - a blistering exhalation, rising bloody. This is not a utopian attempt to build transparent cathedrals and unite mankind. This is war - pure and bloody - implacable - real." -Heavy Blossom. |
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Artist: ZAIMPH Title: Serpents Bite Format: CD Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Zaïmphs first CD release on her own label Heavy Blossom. Serpents Bite is made up of 8 separate pieces of vapory splendor, pierced metallic sounds, flickering radiance, and exquisite anguish. Culled from the Zaimph archives and recorded between 2005 - 2006; two previously released CDR tracks, now re-edited, rest aside six unreleased tracks. Multiple amplifiers channel dense, 3-dimensional sound played live with no overdubs. This is organic darkness. Grave-vaults of guitar tunnel through distorted clouds of smoke rising from the watery abyss. Vocals of dissolving thoughts recite mysterious incantations. De-tuned piano recordings and infectious drum machine beats dissolve through phantom empires of multiple effects. Complete derangement of the senses. The entirety was mastered by Christelle Gualdi at Loosduinseweg No. 9. Recorded primarily in England, with the exception of tracks 4 & 7, these recordings are as much of a reflecting back as a pulling towards -- Agrippas Mirror to an unseen Universe. The fox hunted and revered wears a golden breast of jewels reciting from Wordsworth via de Quincey: Fabric it seemd of diamond, and of gold, with alabaster domes, and silver spires.... Settle into the tranquility of repose. Sound is fractured oscillations." -Heavy Blossom |
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Artist: ZAIMPH Title: Unfolded Gold Format: CDR Label: Heavy Blossom Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: DOUBLE LEOPARDS Title: Live at 5000 Strings Format: CDR Label: Heavy Conversation Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Soundboard recording at the 5000 Strings Festival in Portland Maine, August 2003. Leopards descended on the church, took the stage full of lit candles, and replaced the cardboard covering the windows with millions of shards of positively charged stained glass. Third CDR in the "Skull" series documenting live Leopards performances, features a screened blue skull on red sprayed background."
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Artist: RELIGIOUS KNIVES Title: Format: CDR Label: Heavy Conversation Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Mike and Maya from Double Leopards.
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Artist: WORKBENCH Title: Volume 7 Format: CDR Label: Heavy Conversation Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| Mike from Double Leopards and Religious Knives. 2004 release. |
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Artist: DOUBLE LEOPARDS/SON OF EARTH FLESH ON BONE Title: Split Format: LP Label: Heavy Conversation/Apostasy Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"To commemorate the grand meeting of Double Leopards & Son of Earth Flesh on Bone comes this superlative live recording from March 24, 2001, Hartford, CT. In the depths of a lone Hartford house the spirit of Paul Ambrogios days as a rocker were smoked and transformed by the bands. Double Leopards build up deathly sonic drones, re-awakening to chants and rumbles from beyond. Son of Earth Flesh on Bone create a lovely huzz of space, fuzzed out guitars and tinkling bells. Edition of 300. Glow-in-the-dark Silkscreen cover." - Heavy Conversation.
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Artist: ZAIKA Title: Il Corral Format: CDR Label: Heavy Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards) "second release on the heavy other imprint. this is a complete set from los angeles in 2005, and is possibly the most blown out and massive zaika recording to see the light of day so far. a long way from the delicacy of the eclipse LP, more like a barbed wire q-tip. edition of 205, paper sleeves in plastic w/ stamped silver CDs." - Heavy Other. Heavy Other = Wholly Other + Heavy Blossom. |
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Artist: AFTERNOON PENIS Title: In The Evening Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Nate Nelson is the Afternoon Penis and "In The Evening" is his solo debut. Nate also pounds in Mouthus, White Rock, and Religious Knives, and brings a truly homemade vision that has managed to sustain several haircuts. Dont ask us to explain that. A truly "in-house" affair, with mysterious false start B-side and classic REAL REAL REAL zone -- grunts, unts, stunts, pounds, drounds and blown out sounds." - Heavy Tapes. |
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Artist: BLACK QUARTER Title: Sodomy ESP Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"After the Gematria debut, Maya Miller returns with her second solo
effort, the highly anticipated "Sodomy ESP." Recorded in one take in
deep-afternoon haze deer-skull-on-the-table statement style, Maya
closes her eyes, rocks back and forth, and blasts a magnetic mono hymn
with organ and tone-vox. Like trying to figure out how the hell
"Nelil" Young plays guitar and harmonica at the same time, on the same
beach, circa the invention of the honey slide. At 4 RPM. Last round of
warmup jams before the Ecstatic Peace LP drops. First black and white
HT cover since the first few tapes -- feel free to color "it" in." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: CAMPBELL, NEIL Title: Teasel/Thistle Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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""Teasel/Thistle" is a shimmering and bright reaction to bright stars floating in the fog above the Western Half of the United States. Meditation and meditation and meditation and meditation is listening to this tape -- like switching it on and off and on and off, this twenty-eight minute ride can ACTUALLY take you there! Take our word for it. Neil has played with the A-Band and Vibracathedral Orchestra, and has recently cut a million melted slabs as "Astral Social Club." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: DEAD MACHINES Title: The Last Pallbearer Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: DOUBLE LEOPARDS Title: Gematria Format: Double Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"The first of hopefully many cassette only full-length albums by Double Leopards
on
Heavy Tapes. Recorded in the Summer of 2005. Four sides, and we each get one:
Curtis (Chris), Black Quarter (Maya), Zaimph (Marcia), and Workbench (Mike)
recording
something privately and with the band in mind. Curtis and Black Quarter bring
it for
the first time solo, and Workbench and Zaimph are clearly channelling some new
heavy shit. If youve ever wondered who in Double Leopards is doing what, this
will
only make you more confused. These sides take you through vocal worlds and
guitar
streams, tape hiss and choking organs, beast speak and private conversations.
Please join us. In double cassette vinyl album with full color artwork, custom
labels,
and creeped insert." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: EX-COCAINE Title: Age of Time Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: FAILING LIGHTS Title: Dismal Winds Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Failing Lights is Mike Connelly, who also plays in Hair Police, Wolf
Eyes, and runs the Gods of Tundra label. His work in the mentioned
bands is incredible, deranged and shows his uncanny ability to work
with other powerful players, always to synergistic ends. With "Dismal
Winds," Connelly starts a strange dance with some electronic devices
that seem to be confounded by themselves: a sludgy, clogged, and
choked affair. A short and thick burst, this is dark, bass-heavy, and
"just right." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: FAMILY UNDERGROUND Title: Risen Under Altar Souls Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: FULLERTON WHITMAN, KEITH Title: A Bogan Apocalypse Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"One of the people on our original wish list for the "Solo Synth" series, Keith Whitman offers three pieces which invoke various intense mental landscapes through melodic sweeps, pulsing bass, scrambled signals, and more discernable electric speak. You think the ground is new and the water is still flowing, but its just inverted, and instead they stand to reflect your thoughts inward -- hard to explain, but easy to enjoy." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: GRIMLEY, TOM Title: Never Mind the Abstention, Heres the Semi-Automatic Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "This tape is a series of recordings of an automated electronic ensemble - independent agents designed and built by Tom Grimley to perform his music for him. Side "A" includes studies for the full piece and the full recording of "Never Mind..." while side B contains "Studies for a New Trio." Both of these recordings are remarkably new and fascinating -- new and unheard voices interact and produce something that warrants close attention -- there are layers of discussion and projection, hums, creaks, whistles, throbs, and more. First in a planned series of projects with Heavy Tapes and Tom." - Heavy Tapes |
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Artist: HEAVY TAPES Title: Format: T-Shirt Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Dark grey shirts with the Heavy Tapes logo in black and dark purple print. Only Small available at the moment. |
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Artist: HIVE MIND Title: Spectral Activation Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Creepy full color cover. Limited to 50.
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Artist: INSAYNGEL Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "LP edition of 500, full color printed covers We saw Insayngel play some time in 2008 or maybe the end of 2007 at Glasslands. Immediately we said to each other "This band needs to have a record out. Lets do it." We talked to the band after the gig and they were down -- it was recorded, mastered by our friend Todd Cavallo, and sent off to the plant. Insayngel is Calder, Caitlin, Richard, and John. Calder and Caitlin are Vizusa and used to jam Excepter, and Richard and John are the brutal rhythm unit of Sightings. An intriguing combination of players to say the least, this LP brings a 30th Century sound to the history of New York City. The locked, wrecked rhythms, desparate, gorgeous wails, and shredded, anxious guitars are symphonic, undulating, impossible. A serious now vision that impressed us deeply enough to be the first LP weve ever done. Art by Calder, pressed in Brooklyn, New York." -Heavy Tapes |
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Artist: JAZZFINGER Title: Tour of the Moors Volume 1 Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Jazzfinger have managed to span chronology and geography with their destructive path of sonic dedication and abandon. This tape collects two live performances where the group floats recorders, voices, and electricity through the channels and pipes of a true clutch of old school heads -- a very worthwhile picture indeed." - Heavy Tapes. |
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Artist: MAGNETICRING Title: Debris Magnetiques Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Magneticring is Josh Stevenson of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. "Debris Magnetiques" is the first in a series of "solo synth" tapes on Heavy Tapes. Here Josh uses a EMS Synthi, a cracklebox, and his ecstatic electromagnetic field to produce a cut up, deep sounding crack of electricity and momentum. Very different in flow and form from most Heavy Tapes releases, this focuses on the gush and rush and is a great head cleaner." - Heavy Tapes. |
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Artist: MILLER, MAYA Title: Notebooks Format: Book Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Notebooks is a collection of 113 drawings culled from notebooks,
scraps, and transparencies over a period of 5 years, perfect-bound in
a white glossy cover and brought to you by Heavy Tapes. Expect to
find yourself caught in a landslide of stony faces, worms, ying yangs,
nudity, recipes, slogans and aphorisms, all lovingly illustrated by
Maya Miller at her home in Brooklyn, New York. Signed and numbered,
2nd Edition of 100." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: MILLER, MAYA & MIKE BERNSTEIN Title: Notbooks 1-3 Format: Book Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"M&M have been drawing together since their first date almost four years ago,
when they
traced rappers from an issue of Murder Dog using disappearing ink. Here are the
first
three of many Notbooks which will continue to document (very irregularly) these
ongoing
experiments." - Heavy Tapes. Edition of 100.
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Artist: NELSON, NATE Title: Rope Pores Format: Book/CDR Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Rope Pores" is the second in a series of books presented by Heavy Tapes in an attempt to document the amazing visual talents and obsessions of some of contemporary experimental musics finest practitioners. Nate Nelson plays drums, percussion, and electronics in the 21st-century caveman destruction group Mouthus, and also lends his amazing talents to keep the beat for NY out-rock group Religious Knives. Fans may know his visual work from the series of covers he has done for the nearly 20 CDRs released by Mouthuss "Our Mouth" label, which range from tight and thin towers of ink to overblown contrasting visions. "Rope Pores" is a repetitive and incredible journey toward scraping away the painfully thin layer separating the concrete and the abstract. Through thin lines, tight pockets, and sprawling organic structures, Nelson presents an intense and storied vision, along with an accompanying and beautiful piece of music -- a tape composition composed over roughly the same period of time that the visual work was being completed. Edition of 100, signed and numbered by the artist." -Heavy Tapes. |
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Artist: ORGANS Title: What It Sounds Like Inside You Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Organs is Spencer Yeh and Ron Iovae and "What it Sounds Like..." is an audio
document of an internal ascent/descent that mirrors and mirrors and finally
collapses. Two pieces recorded probably crouched in a corner somewhere, freshly
ripped up magazines and negatively charged electrons everywhere -- this reaches
levels of total weirdo intensity and showcases some pretty out theories about
how
"music" should "flow." A great addition to the already staggering bodies of
work by
these two sound professors." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: RELIGIOUS KNIVES Title: Blackbird/Wax & Flesh Format: 7" Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: ROMERO, DAMION Title: Birth Twin Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Damion Romero is a Los Angeles based practitioner of power acoustics and intense low-level sound manipulation. He has recorded as Speculum Fight, and collaborated with MSBR, Astro, Spencer Yeh, and many more. He is a consistent source of fascinating buzz and drone and somehow manages to translate inherently physical and spatial sound amazingly onto analog and digitally recorded media. Birth Twin is a deeply focused and dense piece of sound that tests the limitations of concentration and movement." - Heavy Tapes. Edition of 150. |
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Artist: SEVEN DEPRESSIONS Title: Pillar To Post/Mauled By A Deer Format: 7" Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Recorded February 2006 at Burr Haven St by Shannon Walter and Damion Romero. |
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Artist: SHIFLET, MIKE Title: Elaborate Palms Format: Double Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Three intense sides of extended studies in synthesis and live performance.
Shiflet is
the kind of artist who can seemingly "turn it on" any time he wants, revealing
the
racket and buzz in his head and allowing us all to peak in. Side four is a
Workbench
"Stasis Style" remix of the Elaborate Palms material." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: SICK LLAMA Title: Alien Facial 3 Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: SOLVENT PEOPLE Title: Ancient Vow Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: VODKA SOAP/ACID EAGLE Title: Format: Double Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Vodka Soap and Acid Eagle are Spencer and James from The Skaters, who are
somehow managing to ensure that the most apocalyptic Mayan prophecies will come
true AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Violins, vocals, and the fogged air in the heart of
San
Francisco are translated and meditated upon. A rare glimpse into the legitimate
new
future and true musical language being developed in our midst. One-Sided LP
soon
on Heavy Tapes, and expect many more collaborations. Double Leopards / Skaters
east coast tour is entirely confirmed and will be posted very shortly." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: WALTER CARSON & THE THREE LEGGED RACE Title: Nocturnal Hymn Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: WHITE ROCK Title: Warm Cans Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Warm Cans" is a reissue of the "White Rock CDR" that nobody has because we
never
released it, except for some friends who got some defective copies. White Rock
is
Maya, Mike, Nate, and Brian in the Tar Pit, mostly at night, when we could get
time off
from our other more full time "gigs." The full length "Tar Pit" has just
dropped on
Troubleman, but check this tape for the "hot parts" Im always talking about.
"Warm
Cans" is true White Rock." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: WITHDRAWL METHOD Title: Live Letting Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "We first met Drew from Withdrawal Method / Since 1972 at the first No Fun festival -- he was selling tapes and hanging with the Nyoukis/Brighton crew, and his tapes were killer. After finding about his music project Withdrawal Method by a few bootleg live shows and officially released cassettes, we asked Drew for a master, and he gave us two live performances -- an optimal way to enjoy his sounds. Rough, live, purely electronic, these two pieces defy description -- just bury your head in the sand and trust us on this one." - Heavy Tapes |
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Artist: WOLF EYES & DOUBLE LEOPARDS Title: 1 Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"The day after No Fun 2004 Wolf Eyes came to the
Leopards HQ in Red Hook and we all sat in a circle.
This tape is an analog, grain by grain reconstruction
of the proceedings, unfortunately without the benefit
of Olson yelling "HEAVY DUTY DOT COM" right after the
first jam ends." - Heavy Tapes. Edition of 30.
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Artist: WOLF EYES & DOUBLE LEOPARDS Title: 2 Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"The day after No Fun 2004 Wolf Eyes came to the
Leopards HQ in Red Hook and we all sat in a circle.
This tape is an analog, grain by grain reconstruction
of the proceedings, unfortunately without the benefit
of Olson yelling "HEAVY DUTY DOT COM" right after the
first jam ends." - Heavy Tapes. Edition of 30.
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Artist: WORKBENCH Title: Hod Format: One Sided LP Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "A new kind of stasis, focusing on discernable layers buried in the sound mist, flavored with organs, bubbles, and metal. Two tracks, sixteen minutes. In custom die-cut chipboard sleeves, with Heavy Tapes 12" design screened on the A-side, printed logo labels, and screened workbench logo on cover B-side. Conceived and recorded in the Black Lodge, Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York." - Heavy Tapes. |
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Artist: WORKBENCH Title: Nothing Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Nothing" is a movement away from stasis in the form
of live practice recordings for self-sustaining
feedback creatures, birthed and supported by a thick
layer of transistorized fluid. Solo midday
reflections in the room with all the windows." - Heavy Tapes. Mike from Double Leopards. Edition of 30.
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Artist: WORKBENCH Title: Seeking Stasis Volumes 14&15 Format: Double Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The 14th and 15th volumes of the Seeking Stasis series which was initiated in January 2005 to explore the ability of frozen time to effect your perception and listening abilities. This double tape set comes in a vinyl box with sticker insert of the "Seeking Stasis" discography. Material for this set was stolen from various Hive Mind recordings, as a sign of ultimate respect and brotherhood." - Heavy Tapes.
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Artist: WORKBENCH & BLACK QUARTER/CORNUCOPIA Title: Live in San Juan Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "The trip from the Western part of the Island to San Juan is smooth and dramatic -- the trees melt away and a metropolitan bulb protrudes. Right in the shadow of the bulb is Santurce, where the Cubo space is a jagged realm of concrete and hyper productive thought and action. Workbench and Black Quarter were lucky enough to be invited to play in the San Juan Noise Fest and this is a partial document of the evening -- our live set on one side, and Puerto Rican noise mainstay Cornucopia on the other. A small slice of a magical evening in Puerto Rico." - Heavy Tapes. |
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Artist: WORKBENCH/YEH Title: Format: Cass Label: Heavy Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Spencer came to New York to jam and eat steak, and
this is a recording of one of those activities.
Spencer somehow plays six thousand violins at once,
while Psycho passes out in the corner in the room with
all the windows." - Heavy Tapes. Mike from Double Leopards and Spencer from Burning Star Core. Edition of 30.
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Artist: HIVE MIND/WORKBENCH Title: Permanence Format: LP Label: Heavy Tapes/Chondritic Sound Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: YOUNG, LA MONTE & MARIAN ZAZEELA Title: The Black Record Format: LP Label: Heiner Friedrich/Edition X Country: Germany Price: $320.00 |
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Got a few more signed, original copies (mint/unplayed) of Young & Zazeelas first LP from 1969. Includes sections from Map of 49s Dream... & Studies in the Bowed Disc. Very highly recommended.
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Artist: HAYNES, JIM Title: The Decline Effect Format: Double Lp Label: Helen Scarsdale Agency Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Parapsychology introduced the notion of the decline effect as a statistical phenomenon of diminishing results whilst investigating extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis. Where initial findings might substantiate proof of such abilities, further studies would almost always demonstrate the contrary. As such, this ontological disappearing act stands in allegorical parallel to the entropic art of Jim Haynes and frames his 2011 opus of the corroded drone and a compacted disintegration of sound. This San Francisco Bay Area artist has long defined his work through the pithy phrase: I rust things. The Decline Effect continues his investigations with electroacoustic decay through four bodies of evidence left behind from ephemeral aktions, shipwrecked electronics, re-engineered field recordings, and transmissions from the ether. Haynes composes through all of these sources through a patient suturing of sympathetic elements, whether they be textural, tonal, visceral, heavenly, sodden, or monolithic. Here, embers foretelling a nuclear winter gently waft upon industrial chorales amassed from an army of fidgeting motors; the sulfur-laden hiss from volcanic vents erupts from an organic thrum into boiling crescendos of environmental noise; geiger counter palpitations stream along a leaden sea of modulated radio noise; a warm explosion of sun-bleached distortion caresses the evanescent halos from an undulating mesmerism inexplicably not sourced from a guitar and/or digital patch authored by Christian Fennesz. Haynes broken minimalism orbits somewhere near the work Joe Colley, G*Park, Nurse With Wound, and BJ Nilsen. The 2LP of The Decline Effect is strictly limited to 350 copies, comes in a handsome gatefold sleeve, and sports the necessary download coupon. Zener cards not included." - Helen Scarsdale Agency. |
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Artist: OMIT Title: Interceptor Format: Double CD Label: Helen Scarsdale Agency Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"OMIT is the nom de plume of New Zealand electronic musician CLINTON WILLIAMS, whose homespun constructs detour from the sculpted grit and mottled distortion found in the work of his countrymen and-women. His masterful Quad 3xCD opus (Corpus Hermeticum, 1998) makes palpable the artists contentious argument with his own unwieldy mousetrap of tape-loops, modular electronics, effects pedals, drum machines, and the creaking sounds of his house. Interceptor is the result of an experiment with a portable studio outside his longtime home of Blenheim. With two suitcases of drum machines, effects, and analog synths, Williams recalls being "pissed off with myself wasting time recording this stuff when I was trying to find a job." His frustrations stripped away much of the grandiose sweeps of ambience and shadow, leaving behind a life-support system grid of overlapping, phase-shifted blip and click. An undertow of hypnotic tonalities pulls those rhythms toward a crepuscular gloom. Williams has always been at odds with his own work, yet his self-doubt continues to deliver magnificent albums which thrive in a symbiotic struggle with mechanical disintegration."-Helen Scarsdale
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Artist: OMIT Title: Tracer Format: Double CD Label: Helen Scarsdale Agency Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Obsessive electronic composer CLINTON WILLIAMS returns with a new album recorded under his OMIT moniker. As with all of his previous work, Tracer is an antiquated behemoth, constructed from analogue synthesizers, primitive drum machines, homespun electronics, and numerous effects pedals. Simple wooden rhythms trot, trudge, and even glide along taut metric grids hot-wired with bursts of mechanical splutter and the occasional creak from Pierre Henrys wooden door. An occasionally menacing, but more often melancholic orchestration of synthetic tones ripple, flex, and dissolve across the uniform structuralism, creating an ecstatic paranoia rarely heard with such splendor, rigor, and sublime blackness. If sonic references are required, then the Klaus Schulze masterpiece Cyborg remains the closest analogy to what may be found in Tracer." - Helen Scarsdale Agency .
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Artist: RV PAINTINGS Title: Samoa Highway Format: LP Label: Helen Scarsdale Agency Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "RV Paintings were born in California. Humboldt County, to be exact. It is nearly impossible to imagine their origins being elsewhere since the brothers Brian and Jon Pyle, who currently pilot RV Paintings, constantly mine the metaphysical properties of their homeland through a heavy-lidded psychedelia. The redwood trees that majestically rise from the rugged terrain may have been one of the endemic objects that inspired RV Paintings to "jam nature;" but Humboldt Countys other major cash crop -- marijuana -- cannot be far behind. As much as the Pyle brothers channel a psychotropic animism through sound, their diaphanous drones and foggy ambient tangles spring from a schematic intelligence that belies any method acting of getting stoned and jamming in a room. Samoa Highway is the second full album for RV Paintings, following the nature jam transmissions of Trinity Rivers published by Root Strata in 2007 and a well-suited split LP with Taiga Remains from Blackest Rainbow. Just as the debut payed homage to the rugged river system that cuts through forests and mountains of the region, Samoa Highway refers to the lengthy bridge that runs between two coastal communities in Humboldt County, one of which houses a municipal airport. A swarm of drone guitars announces the opening of the record on "Millions," with a shoegaze wash collapsing into rarified tone purity and bulging through a metallic buzz. Field recordings of airplane take-off and firework explosions punctuate the undulating bleary smear of the Pyle brothers guitars. The result is one of levitation, even as RV Paintings seem to be plugging their guitars and electronics directly into the moss, soil, and mycelia of the Humboldt forest. Echo-soaked flutes, maudlin strings, scabrous noises unearthed from the bottom of the Pacific, and a cinematic arcs of guitar shimmer complete the beautiful and haunted miasma of Samoa Highway that falls somewhere between Taj Mahal Travellers, Organum, and The Caretaker. Brian Pyle may be best known as one of the founders of the Starving Weirdos and records his solo work as Ensemble Economique. Samoa Highway stands the first piece of vinyl published by Helen Scarsdale Agency and includes a code for a digital download. Pressed in an edition of 500 copies." -Helen Scarsdale Agency |
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Artist: DYNASTY YELLOW SWANS w/ JOHN WIESE Title: Format: 7" Label: Helicopter Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: HAIR STYLISTICS/JOHN WIESE Title: Neu Dimension Format: 7" + Double Cassette Box Label: Helicopter Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
| "Two sessions, one recorded by mail in 2004, and one recorded at a studio in Shinjuku, 2009, alternating between sharp, cut-up collage, fleeting junk sounds, hard electronics, noise, and vocals. Boxset with many inserts from MASAYA NAKAHARA (formerly VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA)." - Helicopter. |
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Artist: JU SUK REET MEATE/OBLIVIA/JOHN WIESE Title: Inside and Out Format: 7" Label: Helicopter Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "A trio with JU SUK REET MEATE and OBLIVIA (of SMEGMA), recorded in the backyard and living room of their infamous pink house in Portland, Oregon. Very surreal and organic mix of electronics, recordings, percussion, and unidentifyable sounds. Edition of 300. Off-set printed cover." -Helicopter |
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Artist: V/A Title: Heat Directors Format: 7" Label: Helicopter Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "File Under: John Wiese, Damion Romero, Mitchell Brown, David Kendal Helicopter Records, limited to 300 copies. 4 part noise compilation curated by noise genius and collaborator with Bastard Noise, Wolf Eyes, Sunn O))), Dead Machines, Merzbow, Hive Mind, Cherry Point, etc, etc JOHN WIESE debuts the first installment in an ongoing series committed to supporting personal favorites in the noise scene. This volume contains new material from Mitchell Brown, David Kendall, Damion Romero and John Wiese." - Helicopter. |
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Artist: WIESE, JOHN & C. SPENCER YEH Title: Tiny Red Tables Format: 7" Label: Helicopter Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Handheld tape recordings of source material and stage clips that WIESE (SISSY SPACEK, BASTARD NOISE) and YEH (BURNING STAR CORE) used during the Free Noise tour sets - the first unofficial Free Noise document, in fact. Very low-fi, but sounds great. An astounding twenty-six minutes total, no joke. Edition of 150." - Helicopter. |
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Artist: FUZZHEAD Title: High In The Basement Format: LP Label: Heliocentric Worlds Of Sound Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Self released LP from 1995.
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Artist: FUZZHEAD Title: Mind Soup Format: CD Label: Heliocentric Worlds Of Sound Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Limited self-released CD from 1994.
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Artist: VERMILLION SANDS Title: Something Wrong Format: 7" Label: Hell, Yes! Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: MOLLS Title: Mushroom Live/2002.9.23 Format: 3" CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: JAPAN Price: $11.00 |
| Hiroshi on harp, vocals and keyboard; Kazuo (Pormm Circles) on bass; Masao on drums; Toku on guitar. |
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Artist: NAR, HIROSHI Title: 1978.Kobe Motomachi .Sound R Format: 3" CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: Japan Price: $11.00 |
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"Nar left Les Rallizes Denudes sometime in 1978, the same year as these recordings. Nar love for the Ramones is immediately apparent in the way he marries simple bubblegum melodies to skeletal rhythmic structures. Theres something so mocking and snotty about his delivery that situated the disc in the same neighbourhood as street toughs like Richard Hell and Tom Verlaines Neon Boys." - Wire May 2003.
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Artist: NAR, HIROSHI Title: All I Need Format: 3" CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: Japan Price: $11.00 |
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"The Japanese label Hello Good-Byes ongoing series documenting underground legend and ex-Rallizes Denudes bassist Hiroshi Nars more formally fucked experiments marches obliviously forward with these two beauties, Gacharn (Hello Good-Bye Studio UNC-0008 3"CD) and All I Need (Hello Good-Bye Studio UNC0009 3"CD). Gacharn is particularly disturbed. Recorded in 1974 while he was still a member of Toshiaki Ishizukas Zuno Keisatsu, its one of Nars patented attention-deficit assemblages, taking off from the burr of chainsaws and birdcalls before moving through episodes that highlight the sound of flesh on flesh, amphetamine piano runs, compositions for hollow pottery and the destruction of new Lego buildings. All I Need is a compliation, with tracks drawn from across Nars career. The title track is a great folk punker from the early 90s, shadowed by the same kind of deeply malvolent atmosphere that cloaked much of Sky Saxons work with Ya Ho Wha 13. The second track was reputedly recorded in 2000 and sounds alarmingly like the cast of Time Bandits re-interpreting Jimi Hendrixs Fire, while track three (no English titles) dates from 1977, while he was still active with Rallizes, and features Nar working snake-charming modal hurricans from an acoustic guitar like it was some kind of Venusian banjo. Neat." - David Keenan, WIRE.
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Artist: NAR, HIROSHI Title: Gacharn Format: 3" CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: Japan Price: $11.00 |
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"The Japanese label Hello Good-Byes ongoing series documenting underground legend and ex-Rallizes Denudes bassist Hiroshi Nars more formally fucked experiments marches obliviously forward with these two beauties, Gacharn (Hello Good-Bye Studio UNC-0008 3" CD) and All I Need (Hello Good-Bye Studio UNC0009 3" CD). Gacharn is particularly disturbed. Recorded in 1974 while he was still a member of Toshiaki Ishizukas Zuno Keisatsu, its one of Nars patented attention-deficit assemblages, taking off from the burr of chainsaws and birdcalls before moving through episodes that highlight the sound of flesh on flesh, amphetamine piano runs, compositions for hollow pottery and the destruction of new Lego buildings. All I Need is a compliation, with tracks drawn from across Nars career. The title track is a great folk punker from the early 90s, shadowed by the same kind of deeply malvolent atmosphere that cloaked much of Sky Saxons work with Ya Ho Wha 13. The second track was reputedly recorded in 2000 and sounds alarmingly like the cast of Time Bandits re-interpreting Jimi Hendrixs Fire, while track three (no English titles) dates from 1977, while he was still active with Rallizes, and features Nar working snake-charming modal hurricans from an acoustic guitar like it was some kind of Venusian banjo. Neat." - David Keenan, WIRE.
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Artist: NAR, HIROSHI Title: Hiroshi Nar Format: 3" CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: Japan Price: $11.00 |
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"Recorded in 1977 while he was a member of Les Rallizes Denudes playing bass. "This disc features three punk plukes in the usual no-fi and infected with lip-curling levels of fuzz. Nars pipsqueak vocals work as an effective counterpoint to the aggressively angular arrangements." - David Keenan; WIRE, May 2003.
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Artist: NAR, HIROSHI Title: Koi No Karakuri Format: 3" CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: Japan Price: $11.00 |
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"This is referred to as another s/t cd in the Wire: Recorded in 1977 while he was a member of Les Rallizes Denudes. This is the most overtly psychedelic. The lazy lollop of his basslines is immediately recognisable from his Rallizes recordings, and the tracks sound similarly dislocated." - David Keenan; WIRE, May 2003.
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Artist: NAR, HIROSHI Title: Mew Mew Paradise Format: 3" CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: Japan Price: $11.00 |
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Recordings from the early 1970s.
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Artist: NAR, HIROSHI Title: School Days (1965-1970) Format: 3" CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: Japan Price: $11.00 |
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"School Days draws on Nars earliest recordings, primitive blues-based cassette sketches that are every bit as revelatory and personal as Syd Barretts solo recordings or Loren MazzaCanes work as Guitar Roberts, albeit much more formally degenerate." - Wire May 2003.
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Artist: NAR, HIROSHI Title: Wanted Dead or Alive $5000 Format: 3" CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: Japan Price: $11.00 |
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"Wanted Dead or Alive $5000 gathers more home recordings, this time from 1974, cut during his tenure with Toshiaki Ishizukas proto-punk Zuno Keisatsu. This is one of his wildest discs, especially the last two tracks: pop songs assembled with a concréte-punk sensibility that splices snatches of electric guitar, Beefheart-styled horn abuseand a hilarious fast rapping baby with doo-wopping rock n roll and frayed folk guitar." David Keenan, Wire May 2003.
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Artist: NAR, HIROSHI & NISHINIHON Title: Live Recorded At Mushroom (Himeji), Des.15.2001 - Official Bootleg Series Format: CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
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Hiroshi (on vocals and electric guitar) with Acid Mothers side project,
Nishinihon (featuring Tsuyama Atsushi (vocals, bass), Kawabata Makoto (electric guitar)
and Ichiraku Yoshimitsu (drums)). Limited to 50 copies.
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Artist: NAR, HIROSHI/KAZUO/YOUJ Title: Mushroom Live/2002.2.5 - Spoonful Format: 3" CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: Japan Price: $11.00 |
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Hiroshi on electric guitar & vocals, Kazuo (of Pormm Circles & Molls - see CDRs listed below) on bass and Youji (Port Cuss) on drums.
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Artist: NAR, HIROSHI/KAZUO/YOUJ Title: Studio & Live - Official Bootleg Series Format: CDR Label: Hello Good-bye Studio Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
| Hiroshi on electric guitar & vocals, Kazuo (of Pormm Circles & Molls - see CDRs listed below) on bass and Youji (Port Cuss) on drums. Recorded 2001 and 2002. Limited to 50 copies. |
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Artist: HERBCRAFT Title: Discovers the Bitter Water of Agartha Format: LP Label: Hello Sunshine Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "December 2009: Inspiration dependently arising; Blows Against The Empire in one hand, Admiral Richard Byrds secret diary in the other. Days after returning to Maine after three heavy months on the road, Matthew Lajoie (Cursillistas) awoke one morning having dreamt the existence of a lost 1973 private press concept record about the exploration of inner Earth and the advanced civilization thriving at its center. Agartha; Shambhala: the domain of the Arianni. Using Byrds account as the thematic framework for the album, he feverishly poured forth a representation of the dreamt record, writing and recording the entire LP in a single 24-hour period - guided by sonic Ouija. The result is a cosmic antenna with dials tuned to the Planet Earth Rock & Roll Orchestra, obscure psych-prog spacecasts, and classic rock radio, all refracted through the dusty, cracked and scratched Cursillistas prism. Performed entirely on a borrowed thrift store electric guitar and broken microphone, Herbcraft Discovers The Bitter Water Of Agartha was birthed in the Now to scatter the seeds of Agarthas message in our Aquarian Dark Age." - Hello Sunshine. New label run by the folks at Woodsist. |
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Artist: GARBES, RYAN Title: Sweet Hassle Format: LP Label: Hello Sunshine/Woodsist Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Sweet Hassle is the debut LP from Ryan Garbes (Wet Hair, Raccoo-oo-oon), fresh from his 7-inch on Arbor and his cassette on NNA. "A man in a small college town hours away from the influences that foul a musicians mind, Garbes has a lot of time to hang, especially in the recording studio. On Sweet Hassle, he incorporates heavy Velvets live bootleg vibes straight from the bedroom soundboard, with a touch of melodic electronic drone and a Byrds dusting." -Hello Sunshine/Woodsist “Garbes conjures boggling galactic plinking and trippy interlocking organ tones that make the sound of some sort of benevolent universal energy at work. When the vocals emerge, it becomes an alien hymn, used for space travel through the astral plane, of course.” -Foxy Digitalis |
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Artist: HERBCRAFT Title: Ashram To The Stars Format: LP Label: Hello Sunshine/Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "One of the most gifted abstract sonic pilots from the Vacationland stable, Portland, Maine, artist MATT LAJOIE enjoys a larger-than-Sasquatch reputation for his free folk personality and unpredictable takes on Spectrasound techniques. Although he and his merry band are one of the most charismatic tribes of the New England underground-you gotta see them live-they blossom from psychedelic occurrences that lead to bursts of pacifist oblivion which can only be redeemed inside their studio output. The momentum Lajoie deploys in his polar expressions indicates a supply of time-manipulated balance. An accretion of bucket brigades warping wildly at first breath, generally considered a condition of primitivism, this is searchlight abandonment with purely spirited jams more akin to the tapers pit than slam continuance. In fact, the only thing slammed here (other than the muted poetry echoing like buoys in Golowins harbor) are the in the red meters on fire signs from fire music providing ease with earth, wind and air. Long may we inhale. "This is a heady atmosphere, an atmosphere for heads, and it not only delivers the contempo dreamlike aspect at the apex of its form, but transcends it to those revolving with them. Take this fucker for a spin."-Matt Valentine, Vermont, 2011. "Limited edition of 500 copies. July 2011 US tour dates in the works." -Hello Sunshine/Woodsist |
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Artist: JOVONTAES Title: Things Are Different Here Format: LP Label: Hello Sunshine/Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "JOVANTAES are Lexington, KY. They emerge from (and possibly define) my towns peculiar skate / kraut / nihil / garage axis, evoking the smell of stale Miller High Life and burning couches: stumbling match-grip surf rolls; howling, chorused-out guitar; droning Adderall haze; and a singer who makes Will Shatter sound like Scott Walker. Imagine Moolah playing at a beach party on the edge of the Kentucky River, big gray globs of unidentifiable garbage drifting silently past and the dense wet air becomes gridlocked with mosquitoes." -Trevor Tremaine (Hair Police) "The current (and longest-running) lineup consists of MARK MURRAY on guitar and electronics, REID SMALL on drums and vocals, and JOSH BLAINE on bass and home modified electronics. Recorded mostly at Smalls Void Skateshop in Lexington, Things Are Different Here is a fresh look at the future of underground improvised music. Limited to 500 copies." - Hello Sunshine/Woodsist. |
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Artist: POLYPS Title: Ants On The Golden Cone Format: LP Label: Hello Sunshine/Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "RAF SPIELMAN was born and raised on the West Coast. He is active in the fringe music community through his Eggy Records label, and has released music on the Night-People, Digitalis and Not Not Fun labels, among others. A book of Spielmans drawings was recently published by Container Corps Arts Press. Following a handful of cassettes and a 7-inch under the POLYPS moniker, this debut LP was assembled from a year and halfs worth of sound and field recordings and is his most realized statement to date. "Its never right, because it doesnt have everything in it" (de Kooning). "[The Polyps Peixe is a] worthwhile little bedroom pop single.... A-side is some bouncy Elephant 6 type pop with the distortion cranked up; B-side shows a more sensitive, late-night brooding feel to it, with a prominent Xpressway bent-strongly reminiscent of the Jefferies Bros or Pumice. A solid effort from one Raf Spielman and guests, aiming to keep it pure." -Dusted. Limited to 500 copies. |
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Artist: DECAER PINGA Title: The Amplified Brick Format: CDR Label: Hells Half Halo Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: DECAER PINGA Title: The Space For Retired Music Format: CDR Label: Hells Half Halo Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: DOYLE , ARTHUR Title: Egghead Format: 7" Label: Hells Half Halo Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"arthur doyle is one of the great instinctual inventors of the american post-fire improv scene. even though he seems to have blown his lungs right off the planet, he still manages to create vastly weird tableaux of spirit, adventure and sound. his newest release is egghead, its a solo and combines his chant-vocal madness with roughshod flute passages that are as primitive as any one-string blues ever recorded by alan lomax. this is from a live tape, but it doesnt sound like it was done on the last tour with the electro-acoustic ensemble, so its origins are a bit mysterious. suffice to say that it plunges deep into the same vein as doyles recent work and should appeal to anyone who continues to believe in ecstatic propulsion." - Byron Coley.
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Artist: GATE Title: My Dear Sweet Reluctant Sweetheart Format: Double CD Label: Hells Half Halo Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"the idea of truth and memory meld to form a confusing and unreadable interpretation of the idea of pop-culture. generations of sound are made silent and a new monster is created. just as in the film "the night of the living dead" when the undead are continually searching and feasting on the brains of the living to transform the victims into hunters themselves, so to have the sounds previously held on the displayed silent records, been transformed into frightening mirages of their former selves." - Hells Half Halo.
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Artist: GATE Title: The Lavender Head/My Dear Sweet Reluctant Sweetheart Format: Double CD Label: Hells Half Halo Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"the idea of truth and memory meld to form a confusing and unreadable interpretation of the idea of pop-culture. generations of sound are made silent and a new monster is created. just as in the film "the night of the living dead" when the undead are continually searching and feasting on the brains of the living to transform the victims into hunters themselves, so to have the sounds previously held on the displayed silent records, been transformed into frightening mirages of their former selves." - Hells Half Halo.
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Artist: HAPPY BITCH HEAD Title: Kick It Fuck Amen Format: 10" Label: Hells Half Halo Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Naomi Shimada returns from her post-Superball hair vacation with a pants-off take on glass fires style disco for kidults and middlscents a like. With more menthol than a noxema menthol shave, this 10 inch reeks wilder than her infamous backstage demands. Poor pissy dhr-pukes can now taste the true techno python." - Hells Half Halo.
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Artist: TANAKA-NIXON MEETING Title: Twelve Inches Heaven Format: LP Label: Hells Half Halo Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"once only thought of as a strictly acoustic cello and guitar duo, tanaka nixon meeting have been secretly forging ahead into the realm of electronic dance music for some years now. danny butt and michael morley have been practicing in nightclubs and warehouses laying down solid slabs of distorted piano samples and wrenched from the collective archive of 18th century piano music through to the 20th century post-modern noodling."twelve inches heaven" is the bands second long player recording in the 12" vinyl format and reflects the groups growing involvement in random sequencing applications and the relevance of down right dirty funk in the now." - Hells Half Halo.
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Artist: V/A Title: Bring Me The Head Of Nick Cain Format: CDR Label: Hells Half Halo Country: Price: $12.00 |
| Features Reynols, Montract, Twig Harper, Carly Ptak, Lee Ranaldo, Crank Sturgeon, Staked Plain, Neil Campbell, Sun City Girls, Rubber O Cement, Angelblood, Jackie O, Electrophilia, Points Of Friction, etc.. Benefit CD for a west coast Decaer Pinga/Smack Music 7 tour. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Color In Absence Sound Format: CD Label: Hells Half Halo Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| Chocolate Monk tour benefit CD w/ Diadal, Monostat 3, ?????, Watt (pre-HP band for Bill Orcutt), Ash Nav, White Out , Idea Fire Co., Gar Funk & more. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Put Out C-Out Format: 10" Label: Hells Half Halo Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| Features Transmission (Adris Hoyos of Harry Pussy and Graham Lambkin), Shadow Ring & Bloodmouse. 1998 release. |
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Artist: RANALDO, LEE Title: Outside My Window The City Is Never Silent - A Bestiary Format: LP Label: Hells Half Halo/Chocolate Monk Country: USA/UK Price: $12.00 |
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"This compendium utilizes selected material from the following titles: Amarillo Ramp, The Bridge Deva, Spain; Fragments El Oido, first computer piece: the View From Here [Root (for TM)] Sudden Infant (remix) to Mary Walker Groves. Sounds by: Kim Gordon, William Hooker, Takehisa Kosugi, Alan Licht, David Linton, Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Jim ORourke, Lee Ranaldo, Sudden Infant, William Winant. The voices of: Charles Bukowski, Raymond Carver, George Cowdery, Thom Degesu, Kim Gordon, Courtney Love, Thurston Moore, Cody Ranaldo, Lee Ranaldo, Leah Singer. You Are Everywhere And Nowhere, All At Once: the sounds of forgotten conversations, voices of loved ones, talks delivered via wire, crosscut with various tone poems (music(s)), with the hope of formulating new dream theories. You are listening to a conversation that took place in heaven, some time ago. This piece grows out of recent works I have been creating dealing with the phrases constructed from various recycled bits of voice and sound, the silences between them, and the cross-pollinations which occur as they are combined in different ways. The sound components have been gathered from across a large number of works Ive done through the years. I decided to use these bits and selections as the raw material from which to create a sort of (Esonic journal or notebook. In the last few years Ive done a few sound installations based around a set of fragments of voices which Ive collected, and most of these are drawn upon here. The voices are those of friends, family, and loved ones, and other artists, and although chosen for personal reasons, my hope is that the various voices will overlay to create a narrative of their own. This piece was originally created for a Belgian radio broadcast in 2000." - Lee Ranaldo.
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Artist: WATKINS & BROOKS POSTON, PAUL Title: Young Girl Format: One-sided 7" Label: Helter Skelter Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Breathtaking, innocently sinful folk obscurity from Paul Watkins & Brooks Poston of the Manson clan, developed in their wholly insular community of impulse, drugs, violence and marked creativity. Young Girl reveals a softer, affecting beauty, the antithesis of their well-known exploits at the fringes of sadism and hatred: a spontaneous convergence of raw, self-taught instrumentation and the stupefyingly gorgeous voice of these outcastes. Fallen down a rabbit hole beyond their own comprehension, their song elaborates the fable of a similarly embattled youth, assaulted by the harsh landscape of adulthood and her struggle to retain the purity of childhood, free from the insanity of maturity and civilization. A search for key answers of adolescence and a simultaneous refutation of the intellect, Young Girl reminds us that even in the depths of darkness, ignorance and despair, the most beautiful specimens of creation and transcendence can flourish." -Helter Skelter |
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Artist: JOAQUIN, XAVIER Title: Percusion, Inerpreta Obras De Xenakis, Taira Y Lewin-Richter Format: LP Label: Hemisferio Country: Spain Price: $26.00 |
| Re; Percusion, Inerpreta Obras De Xenakis, Taira Y Lewin-Richter: "More early 80s action from the Hemisferio label, this time centered on contemporany percussion pieces. SECUENCIA I for percussion and magnetic tape, was comissioned by Josef Anton Riedl for the Munich Olympic Games (1972) and was originally previewed on that event by Michael W. Ranta. Cover is a painting by E.Fontecilla." Original, unplayed copies of this 1983 release on ANDRES LEWIN-RICHTERs label. |
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Artist: LEWIN-RICHTER, ANDRES Title: Musica Electroacustica Format: LP Label: Hemisferio Country: Spain Price: $26.00 |
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ANDRES LEWIN-RICHTER Biography: "Born in 1937 in Miranda, Spain, Andrés Lewin-Richter studied engineering at Barcelona Polytechnic University. In 1962 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to continue his studies at Columbia University, where he began musical studies with Vladimir Ussachevsky, Mario Davidovsky and Edgar Varese. He was Teaching Assistant at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City from 1962-1965. During this time he composed music for the film "The Gondola Eye" by Ian Hugo, and worked as the sound engineer for the Alwin Nikolais Theater Ballet.
In 1966 Lewin-Richter promoted the City of Mexico Music Conservatory Electronic Music Studio, and he established the Barcelona Electronic Music Studio in 1968. He is a founding member of the Phonos Electronic Music Studio in Barcelona, which opened in 1974. He has acted as Secretary of Música Abierta (1960-1962), Executive Director of the music ensemble Conjunt Catalá de Música Contemporánia (1968-1973), and Secretary and Vice-President of the Catalan Composers Association (1976-1991, 2000-2004). At present he is Secretary and Executive Director of the Phonos Foundation, and Lecturer of the History of Electroacoustic Music at Pompeu Fabra University and the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona.
Lewin-Richter has created compositions in the electronic music studios of Columbia University (NewYork), Phonos (Barcelona), Alea and CDMC (Madrid), GME (Cuenca), EMS Stockholm (Sweden) and Musik Hochschule Basel (Switzerland), and Aveiro University (Portugal). His compositional work is mainly electroacoustic, including numerous pieces for instruments and tape, and music for ballet, theatre, film and video." Re; Musica Electroacustica: "Early 80s issue, also on nice laminated cover, focusing on two decades of Lewin-Richters electro-acoustic compositions. From the Columbia-Princeton days of ESTUDIO I & II to his own personal tribute to the Baschet brothers sound-sculptures (BASCHETIADA) via his 70s collaborations with painter Ernesto Fontecilla (FONTECILLA MIX II). Cover (again) by Ernesto Fontecilla." Original, unplayed copies of this 1982 release on ANDRES LEWIN-RICHTERs label.
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Artist: LEWIN-RICHTER, ANDRES Title: Secuencia III Para Anna.. Format: LP Label: Hemisferio Country: Spain Price: $26.00 |
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ANDRES LEWIN-RICHTER Biography: "Born in 1937 in Miranda, Spain, Andrés Lewin-Richter studied engineering at Barcelona Polytechnic University. In 1962 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to continue his studies at Columbia University, where he began musical studies with Vladimir Ussachevsky, Mario Davidovsky and Edgar Varese. He was Teaching Assistant at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City from 1962-1965. During this time he composed music for the film "The Gondola Eye" by Ian Hugo, and worked as the sound engineer for the Alwin Nikolais Theater Ballet.
In 1966 Lewin-Richter promoted the City of Mexico Music Conservatory Electronic Music Studio, and he established the Barcelona Electronic Music Studio in 1968. He is a founding member of the Phonos Electronic Music Studio in Barcelona, which opened in 1974. He has acted as Secretary of Música Abierta (1960-1962), Executive Director of the music ensemble Conjunt Catalá de Música Contemporánia (1968-1973), and Secretary and Vice-President of the Catalan Composers Association (1976-1991, 2000-2004). At present he is Secretary and Executive Director of the Phonos Foundation, and Lecturer of the History of Electroacoustic Music at Pompeu Fabra University and the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya (ESMUC) in Barcelona.
Lewin-Richter has created compositions in the electronic music studios of Columbia University (NewYork), Phonos (Barcelona), Alea and CDMC (Madrid), GME (Cuenca), EMS Stockholm (Sweden) and Musik Hochschule Basel (Switzerland), and Aveiro University (Portugal). His compositional work is mainly electroacoustic, including numerous pieces for instruments and tape, and music for ballet, theatre, film and video." Re; Secuencia III Para Anna: "Early 80s issue on nice laminated cover from Lewin-Richters mid to late 70s pieces, many of them written specially for sorprano Anna Ricci. From pure electronic sounds, to deeply treated vocal bits via tape collage and sound poetry. Covert artwork is a painting by Ernesto Fontecilla." Original, unplayed copies of this 1982 release on ANDRES LEWIN-RICHTERs label.
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Artist: V/A Title: Bust! - A Compilation of Original Early Worldwide Punkrock Format: 10" Label: Henry Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
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"Fan Club" compilation released in 1998 which features Saigon, AntiBand, Blind Panic, Sperma, PVC 2, Steve Treatment (with memebers of the Swell Maps), Mono-Schtop
Problems?, The Crewsy Fixers, and S7 Kez.
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Artist: HOOKER, D.R. Title: The Truth Format: LP Label: Here Music Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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180 gram exact repro reissue of this legendary, super rare U.S. psych LP, originally recorded during the dawn of mankind or in Connecticut in 1972. "This is a messed-up, freaky mix of folk-rock, psychedelia and heavy rock. There appears to be somewhat of a Christian vibe lyrically, but not overt enough to make it too cheesy, just adds to the overall bizarreness of this almost indescribable artifact!" -- Cosmik Debris
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Artist: HOOKER, D.R. Title: The Truth Format: LP Label: Here Music/On Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "2013 repress; 180 gram exact repro reissue of this legendary, super rare U.S. psych LP, originally recorded during the dawn of mankind or in Connecticut in 1972." - Here Music/On. "This is a messed-up, freaky mix of folk-rock, psychedelia and heavy rock. There appears to be somewhat of a Christian vibe lyrically, but not overt enough to make it too cheesy, just adds to the overall bizarreness of this almost indescribable artifact!" -- Cosmik Debris |
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Artist: HARPER, TWIG Title: Intuitive American Esoteric Volume 3 Format: LP Label: Here See Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| 2006 release. "40+ mins of music on LP record with screenprinted cover in a numbered limited edition of 200." - Here See. Third entry in this series (volumes one and two on White Tapes/Audiobot and American Tapes/Gods of Tundra, respectively.) |
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Artist: D.R. HOOKER BAND, THE Title: Armageddon Format: LP Label: Here/On Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Exact repro reissue of D.R. Hookers follow-up to The Truth. Recorded in 1974, but not released until 1979 on Connecticut-based Here Music/On Records. A "demo tapes & rough mixes" album featuring a different line-up then featured on Hookers legendary debut: Carroll Yanni (lead guitar), Bert McDevitt (drums, Bob Reardon (keyboards) and Steve Malkan (bass). "The recordings you will hear are the result of the efforts of a group of talented and creative musicians. They are the finest of a two-hour live concert of completely original music.... This recording was not originally intended for public release." Some of the songs on here -- "Hello," "This Moment," "Free," "Winter," "A Tormented Heart" and "Kamala" -- appeared as bonus tracks on Subliminal Sounds CD reissue of The Truth (SUBL 015CD)." -Here/On |
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Artist: AMERICAN APOCALYPSE Title: De-Programming Cassette Format: Cass Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Artist: BERNDT, JOHN Title: Occupation 1980-1990 Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Music from the worlds original youngest Neoist and current Baltimore organizer of free-sound conceptual pardoxes. "1980s Avant Industrial Noise" Did i just type that? Classy Recycled Fold-Over Cd cases w pasted/painted limited edition of 100" - Heresee. |
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Artist: EISENBERG, MAX Title: Marrow Mission Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "straight from the artists mouth: Processed through the crux of an anxiety rich time and place, recording and mastering of Marrow Mission was finished at the finale of that experience. Meet face to face with a head of many faces, a short but emmense look at what drips with so much conflict. First Heresee release with a full booklet (8pages in all...two are hand colored)! Color copied covers! Special guests! Guaranteed sick shit!" |
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Artist: EVOLVE Title: Once It Was Easy To Give Up Everything You Had to Wander... Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "NOISE LABELS RELEASING HIP-HOP? HIP-HOP LAbels releasing Noise recordss???...good buisssiness idea? Hot sellers? ? !!This CDR is stoned, We must be too---- MUSIC OVER MATTER IS WHAT MATTERS!" -Heresee. |
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Artist: LEXIE MOUNTAIN Title: Boys Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Everything that is good and bad about the things you think, about the sound of your own voice as imagined in the mind of another person, each sound you made alone and some made not for speaking but for blaming. LEXIE MOUNTAIN "Boys" is a minor document of soul noise diva karaoke, collaborative cave-chanteuses rippling with roquefort vibes, and the slippery wet nightgown that is her songsmithy. Now available in seven tracks, thoroughly inconsistent and saucily inelegant, for your unjoyment. LEXIE MOUNTAIN embareasses her private sector and forms of it a gift, a suggestion or a collapsing wig: whichever suits you best." - Heresee. |
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Artist: LIGHTBULB Title: Live: First Show Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "LETS here it for the kids... technically they are 12 now, but this was recorded when they were 11 and it is a toasty oven cooker, sounds from the minds of children whove grown up in the belly of the music beast. Coming soonish will be their studio album which is already recorded and just needs to be mixed down and pressed, ((IM DOING THAT NOW, they be doing a BEATLES COVER))" -Heresee. |
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Artist: LITTLE HOWLIN WOLF Title: Brave Nu World Format: LP Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Finally this ones out and ready to ship!!! After 18 years James Pobeiga aka Little Howlin Wolf, Shadow Drifter, Buccaneer Bob, Deacon Blue, etc/// returns with his next LP- BRAVE NU WORLD/ Hands down this is his most challenged work to date! An instant damaged visionary outsider classic/ Recorded at Diamond Eyes in killer LHW style: flowing over dubbed/bounced 4 track. These will be flying outta here in no time, dont sleep on this one." - Heresee. |
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Artist: LITTLE HOWLIN WOLF Title: Cool Truth Format: CD Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Wolfs-1985-self-released-singular-vision-free-jazz-world-blooz-what- the-fuck-flow-unsynced-multi-tracked-masterpeice....available for the first time. Gots bar codes and shrink wrapped, nice! A MUST HAVE ! SEROOUIUSLLY" -Heresee. |
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Artist: LITTLE HOWLIN WOLF Title: Singles Vol 1 Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Collection of Wolfs self released 45s; raw sounds from this visionary american outsider." - Heresee.
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Artist: LITTLE HOWLIN WOLF Title: Singles Vol 2 Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Second collection of Wolfs self released 45s; raw sounds from this visionary american outsider." - Heresee.
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Artist: NAUTICAL ALMANAC Title: Cover The Earth Format: LP Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Recorded May-July 2005 at Diamond. |
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Artist: NAUTICAL ALMANAC Title: Cover The Earth Format: CD Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Recorded May-July 2005 at Diamond. |
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Artist: NAUTICAL ALMANAC Title: Rejerks4 Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: NAUTICAL ALMANAC Title: Videos 19994-20003 Format: VHS Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: NAUTICAL ALMANAC & LESLIE KEFFER Title: Live on the Radio Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Live on Art Damage WAIF 88.3, Cinci. June 24, 2004 |
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Artist: PTAK, CARLY Title: Both Format: CDR/DVDR/Print Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: SEJAYNO Title: Sedainty Format: LP Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Members of sejayno release a morphic aura into the air through the utilization of therapeutic breathing techniques, fumblings, and fantasies about sexual tourism. The Swedenbourgian airplane becomes reality along with the use of tubas and guitars and poetic resonance. You may know Peter Blasser as "ciat-lonbarde" or the next incarnation of dr.who imagining bob moog as interpreted by the paper circuit in the form of the seed of life. Carson Garhart is not only "cute" but was also the phantasmal skeleton in the skeletons and Severiano. Martinez is the man behind it all. Limited LP screenprinted covers." - Heresee. |
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Artist: TRIANA Title: Farewell to the Forest Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Triana is the main force behind Abuelo Hongo (which means grandfather mushroom by the way) and has decided to start using her name that way she can collaborate with other people easier. Zero-Fidelity Hazey Earth Wave Cello Digaree Doo and Crud." -Heresee. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Diamond Eyes Lathe Cut Trannsfers 2005 Format: CDR w/Lathe Record Edge Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Features Wolf Eyes, Carly Ptak, Twig Harper, Nautical Almanac, Buzzardstain and more..
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Artist: V/A Title: Eyes of the Mind Format: VHS Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Eyes of the Mind, Video, 53 minutes
1. nate young Nait Art
2. leif ritchey Flatbush Windows
3. carly ptak Funnel Take
4. aaron dilloway Stand UP
5. carly ptak Take a Look Inside
6. anthony miller Paws Pause on Pause Paws
7. nate young Nudes and Music
8. nate young & aaron dilloway Rambo & Bev
9. carly ptak & twig harper
Fragile house Bends and shakes Pliant in the wind"
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Artist: V/A Title: Quinta Essentia Vol. 0 Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Includes Twig, Max Eisenberg, Brian Chippendale, Carly Ptak, Blaster Al Ackerman and many more.
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Artist: V/A Title: The Answer Tapes Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"the answer tapes are a series of found and stolen answering machine tapes compiled by michael barker. the tapes were aquired from 2000-2005 in maryland, delaware, new jersey, new york, and pennsylvania USA. following in the footsteps of memorial day 2000 this release uncovers the underworld of the american psyche through abandoned media. Over 26 tracks and 65 minutes you will find such gems as the couple with alzheimers, gossip, angry parents, missing persons, cysts and scorned lovers. A sociological document of discarded human existance. screen printed covers/ edition of 150" - Heresee.
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Dog Jaw Format: CDR Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Dog Jaw Format: LP Label: Heresee Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
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"limited edition of 700, same music as previous CDR,
unlabeled sides mastered at 33 and 45 rpms,
heavy cardstock 2 color screen printed cover."
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Artist: COLD TURKEY Title: Brain Damaged Format: Cass Label: Hermitage Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Andrew Coltrane: sax/tapeloops/electrnx |
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Artist: KHOURY, MIKE/ANDREW COLTRANE Title: Sound Vibration Alchemy Format: Cass Label: Hermitage Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "part#1 mail collaboration tape=violin drones/improv/bowed metals: sounds of strange strings amped thru 1000 basements...B&W art blk. cassette shells w/ gold paint......" - Hermitage. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Reverse Engineers Format: Book Label: Herndon Gallery Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Catalog from last months Reverse Engineers show at Herndon Gallery, Antioch College. Includes Tony Conrad, John Olson (Amercian Tapes, Wolf Eyes, etc..), Paper Rad, Leif Ritchey, Daniel Bozhkov, Miguel Calderón, Christian Jankowski, and more. 15-page, b/w with silk-screened covers (printed at VG Kids), featuring curator comments and artist statements as well as images from the show. |
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Artist: FOX, TERRY Title: Berlino/Rallentando Format: LP Label: Het Apollohuis Country: Netherlands Price: $45.00 |
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""Berlino" (For Mitsuko Natori) (1980-81). A compilation of prerecorded tapes, performed and recorded by Terry Fox made from soundscapes recorded in San Francisco (USA), Liège (Belgium) and Berlin (Germany) between 1978-88. "Rallentando" (For Jürgen Glassmer) (1988) with Jan Van Riet and Paul Panhuysen on cello, Mario Van
Horrik on double bass and Terry Fox on piano wires. Recorded live at Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Aug. 13, 1988. Mastered at Tango Studio Eindhoven, August 18, 1988. Issued with a full-colour insert (approx. 12" x 24", folded)." - Het Apollohuis. A few more "new"/unplayed copies of this 1988 release.
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Artist: V/A Title: Hoera! Een Hex voor thuis! Format: LP Label: Hex Grammofoonplaten Country: Netherlands Price: $20.00 |
| "Since 2004 we organize the Hex nights at OCCII in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. At these nights the audience is being served all (sub)styles of new wave music from the past and the present... and more... The nights are known for their ever suprising live acts (and not only because of the fact that most of these bands have their live debut in The Netherlands at Hex) and the dj sets by connoisseurs dj M & Kramp... Although Hex is a relative small clubnight it has built a name for itself around the world among fans of obscure new wave music and many bands and specialized labels. To celebrate the existence of Hex there is now a compilation LP... so everybody can have a Hex night at home... On the LP are twelve bands that all performed live on stage at Hex. Ten out of the twelve tracks are exclusive recorded for this LP (and the other two are absolute hits on the Hex dancefloor). What you get is what we do... it is all there... from apocalyptic disco to post-punk, from elektro to Neo Deutsche Welle and from minimal electronics to cabaret ... The artwork is of course done by Dutch artist Edwin Stoutjesdijk (also known as dj Kramp)..." - Hex Grammofoonplaten. Hex Grammofoonplaten is new side-imprint from Dutch synth label Enfant Terrible. Artists include Vanishing, Frustration, Sixteens, Swann Danger, Saralunden, Cheveu, Laurence Wasser, Wermut, Kania Tieffer, Agent Side Grinder, Hval Mus, Punk Soul Loving Bill. |
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Artist: FLOATING DI MOREL Title: More Memory Than Now Format: LP Label: Hidden Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
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1995 release.
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Artist: P.L.O. Title: The Amber EP Format: 7" Label: Hidden Country: Germany Price: $10.00 |
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Restocked yet again. Cool modern German psych/underground from the same scene that brought us Black Vial (Hidden released their legendary debut LP "Frozen Morning" in 1995), 39 Clocks, Phantom Payne, Swamp Room Records, etc.. Long out of print single featuring recordings from 89 -92.
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Artist: PHANTOM PAYN ACT, THE Title: Bad Vibes Anyone?? Format: LP Label: Hidden Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"JG39, inventor of the term psychobeat and head of the legendary 39 CLOCKS, the most important german underground psych band after Can. Sounding like the Velvet Underground, Syd Barrett and 39 Clocks." Coming from the same universe as BLACK VIAL, P.L.O., BEAUTY CONTEST, FLOATING DIMOREL, EXIT OUT, THE COCOON, etc.. Original copies of this mid-90s release - numbered edition of 750.
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Artist: ALL SAVED FREAK BAND Title: My Poor Generation Format: CD Label: Hidden Vision Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"first album (1973) by apocalyptic Ohio contingent of talented drug addicts, pastors, activists (Tom Miller of the Kent State 25), and famous musicians turned Jesus Rock band; the main interest in this band is the lead and rhythm guitar playing by Glenn Schwartz, who left the James Gang (whom he joined just after his stint playing guitar on Pacific Gas & Electrics national hit Are You Ready?) because he had accepted Christ as his Saviorthis just after playing for Jimi Hendrix at what turned out to be Jimis last birthday party, and being chosen in a disc jockey survey as one of the worlds top five rock guitarists; when the first words of an album are out of the backwards of the Mississippi Delta, you know your in for something thats not just for Sunday school classes." - MMS.
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Artist: CONCRETE RUBBER BAND Title: Risen Saviour Format: CD Label: Hidden Vision Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| 2006 reissue. "Official reissue of this Christian underground basement psychedelic rock album, a massively-rare 1974 release on the Missouri-based American Artists label (AAS1164), of which only 2 or three copies are known to be exist in private collections. Despite the song titles, this is actually a strange and unusual rock album which just happens to have religious undertones. Organ, fuzz guitar, male and female lead vocals and masses of electronic embellishments. High-quality vinyl transfer, includes two [uncredited] bonus tracks from a later recording session. Previously pirated by Radioactive Records. Some of the most out there psychedelic sounds can be found on this Kansas trios mega-rare custom LP. One of the first Christian groups to tinker with synthesizers and be experimental at the same time. The song, Christian, for example, opens with a Bach fugue before laying in its steady rock beat punctuated with subterranean wah-wah guitar and a wild, heavily modulated synth lead. The song, Wicked, opens side two with a bizarre amalgam of what sounds like synthesized, bubbling lava pits, frequency oscillations, distorted, sci-fi vocals and shortwave, static patterns. This is Christian psychedelia at its most underground and extreme with all the ear marks of a bad drug trip which, given the songs dark subject matter, works just fine. Likewise, What Shall We Do? opens with a lengthy outpouring of some of the most vicious, distorted fuzz guitar ever then relaxes into a spooky, dream-like ballad before it climaxes with a flying saucer effect that sounds straight out of Dark Side Of The Moon. There are several fine and moody garage tracks here as well. Difficult to describe: they are highly listenable and quite creative. Dense echoes lend to the homemade feel of the entire project. A monster for sure with fewer than 500 LPs made at the initial pressing. Duncan Long, the main man behind the synths, guitars and song writing is now a published science fiction author." - Hidden Vision. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Holy Fuzz Format: LP Label: Hidden Vision Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Christian rock/psych/garage ranging from album tracks by well known groups like Agape, Search Party and All Saved Freak Band to singles by more obscure groups such as Concrete Rubber Band and Stonewood Cross; extremely high level of musical quality throughout, with varying degrees of fuzzed up guitar solos on all tracks; theres a message there for those who need it—but otherwise this is just great listening; fantastic Psychedelic Moses cover art. Ken Scott review from his excellent spiral-bound Archivist (Vintage Vinyl Jesus Music, 1965-1980): “All the songs on this album were specifically chosen for their guitar content… some of it mellow and subtle, and some of it mind frying heavy fuzz”. For the budget-minded heres you chance to sample tracks from rare pricey albums by Concrete Rubber Band and The Search Party, plus Agape, Exkursions, The Bridge, All Saved Freak Band, and Way International outfits Selah and Pressed Down Shaken Together & Rolling Over. And if youve already got all those theres a 1967 pre-Agape song (In The Light) and the six-minute stunner Magic Man from the elusive Stonewood Cross single (man, if those guys had only cut an album – yeow!). Neat b&w cover art with Fillmore-styled psych lettering.” -Hidden Visions.
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Artist: MUD BRICK COUCH Title: Mud Brick Couch Format: Cass Label: Hierodule Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Cassette Edition of 50; Handstamped, cobalt grade tapes.
"The debut release of Australia+s Jarrod Zlatic+s Mud Brick Couch project. Most know Zlatic as 1/2 of DIY unit, The Fabulous Diamonds. Mud Brick Couch expands that abstracted dub enigma inherent to so much of the Diamonds sound into a classic, minimal raw electronic field that is more mortar crumble than concrete or steel. The Mud Brick Couch debut has the immediacy of those classic early 90s French or Japanese noise tapes with the rhythmic, bleed-stretch dub and tape aura of every monolithic electronic industrial group up to Basic Channel. Ultimately, though, its the organically thick spirit of urban repetition and surveilled atmosphere in Mud Brick Couch that puts Zlatic+s process miles ahead of any of these plastic contemporary techno revisionists." - Hierodule Ed.
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Artist: THOUGHT BROADCAST Title: II Format: Cass Label: Hierodule Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Second release for this NYC post punk unit. A brand new batch of minimal mekanopunk crossed with atonal dub electronics straight from the afflicted mans rhythm box. Fans of the Unbalance/Pinakotheca side of the 80s Jap underground or the more atonal avantpunk from the same time in Germany TAKE NOTE" - Heirodule. Edition of 50 copies, on cobalt tape with stamped insert and label. LP coming soon on Olde English Spelling Bee.
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Artist: THOUGHT BROADCAST Title: Tribal War Format: Cass Label: Hierodule Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Cassette Edition of 35; Handstamped, cobalt grade tapes; Art by Ravi Binning.
"Last copies anywhere, instantly sold out late December, 2012 release. In the cameras, down in the trains, out on the street, exploding anywhere." - Hierodule Ed.
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Artist: FIREBALL Title: Blessed Be Format: 12" Label: High Roller Society Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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SUPER primitive/low-fi heavy jams from this all-female Brooklyn band. Includes a cover of AMON DUUL IIs "Archangels Thunderbird". Fold-out, silkscreened sleeves.
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Artist: HIATUS Title: Zero Equals Infinity Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: High Tension House Country: New Zealand Price: $12.00 |
| "Christchurchs premier free jizz trio create enough nervous tension to collapse the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Two conflicting pieces of abstract sound constructions... One hour beats your year." - High Tension House. Features Hamish Noonan, Tim McDonald, and Nick Hodgson. 1998 release. |
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Artist: BRINKMAN, MAT Title: Teratoid Heights Format: Book Label: Highwater Books Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
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"Highwater Books is honored to present the first major book from cartoonist/musician Mat Brinkman, a founding member of the Fort Thunder art collective. A widely influential creator frequently compared to the legendary punk cartoonist and gallery painter Gary Panter, Brinkman combines an anthropologists brain with a fine artists eye to produce comics that startle and amaze. Teratoid Heights depicts in dramatic, realistically observed fashion the lifecycles of multiple species found in the title locations cave-riddled terrain. Brinkman documents every detail of his world, from the basic relationship between predator and prey to the most" - Highwater.
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Artist: BLAWAN Title: His He She & She Format: 12" Label: Hinge Finger Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
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Small repress. "Blawan has always packed menace into his tracks -- his percussion doesnt just smack you in the face; it toys with you in a bear-about-to-break-his-fast kind of way -- but hes never really sounded as psychotic as he does here. Noisy, dissonant and packed with funhouse screams..." -Resident Advisor.
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Artist: PENGO Title: Blood In The Vacuum Cleaner Format: CDR Label: Hippie Overdrive Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "limited weirdness & abrasion packaged in dvd case." - Hippie Overdrive. |
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Artist: BLUNT, DEAN Title: The Redeemer Format: LP Label: Hippos In Tanks Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "London-based artist Dean Blunt presents his first official solo LP, The Redeemer, released via his own World Music imprint and Hippos in Tanks. The Redeemer proceeds with a yet more direct and heartfelt message, and a notable lifting of the veil of tape hiss and blurred signifiers that characterized Blunts previous work." -Hippos In Tanks. |
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Artist: DEON Title: s/t Format: 12" Label: Hippos In Tanks Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "dEon is producer, composer and singer based in Montreal, Canada who explores electronic counterpoint through house, funk and pop music. Using synthesizers to snake out melodies that weave and interlock with each other, dEons music straddles a space between pessimistic desperation and the longing for ecstasy. At the age of four, dEon began making music with synthesizers and sequencers and learning music theory. Over the course of 20 years, dEon has inhabited numerous musical spaces. As a small child in the early 1990s, making amateur tapes of synthesizer-based music exposed him to electronic music. As an introverted only child, music remained a constant fixation over the next 20 years. At the age of 11, dEon began studying piano at a local university in eastern Canada, and was there exposed to the music of post-minimalist composers like Steve Reich and Terry Riley. The shifting counterpoints and patterns in Reichs music made a considerable, permanent impact on his perception of music. The young musician then started composing and arranging various musics for violin, chamber orchestra and piano. After a childhood of music lessons, master classes and competitions, the teenage Deon dropped out of formal music training, and after increasingly disabling anxiety and schizoid tendencies developed into severe agoraphobia during his adolescent years, he began producing large quantities of ambient, minimal electronic music while shut in for weeks on end. Having eventually overcome these issues, dEon started on a path studying several music traditions and instruments as an adult, including the Arabic Oud, Iranian Setar, Turkish Saz and Indian Harmonium. He briefly fronted an industrial noise group in 2005, all recordings of which have since been erased by dEon himself. In 2008 he travelled to the Himalayan foothills to study Tibetan music. During this time he lived in a secluded Tantric monastery on the side of a mountain, where he spent months in relative silence, practicing and writing music. After returning to western society in 2009 to find the worlds economy collapsed and his job terminated, dEon moved to Montreal and began writing pop music with heavy influence from classic Chicago house, early 90s dance music from Britain, boogie-funk, as well as the influences that had accumulated through the years of musical learning. The songs on his upcoming debut LP Palinopsia (named after a vision condition that dEon was born with) evoke a sense of dread, but also longing, like the hope of getting into heaven after the apocalypse. Much more so than any superficial musical cues, it is the longing for divine ecstasy and the fear of divine judgment that motivated the music of Palinopsia. Lyrics like “The ocean is a sewer / The city is a whore” suggest a much more apocalyptic view of the world as compared to the blissful, sleepy escapism of chillwave. The tracks are a deceptively accessible backdrop for dEons vision of the inevitable horrors of the 21st century post-information-age hellscape that we all will likely have to endure." - Hippos In Tanks. |
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Artist: FERRARO, JAMES Title: Far Side Virtual Format: LP Label: Hippos In Tanks Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "James Ferraro paints a 21st century still life on his debut album for Hippos In Tanks. The record is called Far Side Virtual. Each song, a melodious reflection of the moment now, comes shrink-wrapped in HD fidelity as glossy as a 2012 Toyota Prius. Ferraros muse is some enigmatic modern metropolis, where the streets are as slick as i-Pads, and where the symphonies ring with Macbook message alerts. Through the steam rising from our latte mocha chinos, he invites us to gaze out at the dreamy disorientation of our digital lives. Imagine a Darius Milhuad-guided tour of 5th Avenue. Imagine a Whole Foods bakery that sells only cakes emblazoned with frosting replicas of Camille Pissarros Haying at Eragny. These are the surreal utopias Ferraro brings to life with sixteen swirly-pop concoctions sure to sell out at the candy stores. So slip in your ear buds, and welcome to Far Side Virtual." - Hippos In Tanks. |
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Artist: GAMES Title: Everything Is Working Format: 7" Label: Hippos In Tanks Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Oneohtrix Point Never teams up with long time collaborator Joel Ford with Games for their first release on Hippos In Tanks. Established in 1994, Games is a 4LYFE partnership between best friends. We met in a 6th grade science class and drew tape covers of fake bands that we dreamed we were in together. In high school we started jamming double synthesizers in Dans basement. This is when we were burning a lot, headbanging to 70s jazz-fusion, dubbing 88.9 blazer mixtapes and jamming them in cars ALL NITE while parsing the landscape data brain !!NORTH WAYLAND STYLE.!! After years of focusing on our respective musical projects (Oneohtrix Point Never, Tigercity) we decided it was time to make THE MAGIC HAPPEN. In February of 2010, we moved to Bushwick and started eating a lot of STREET MEAT and growing vegetables in a legit garden... EVERYTHING HAD TO BE SLOWER AND CREAMIER. From this profound environ GAMES WAS BORN. The sound is a blend of sampler/synth ecologies from across the globe. When we were hot teens, the synthesizer was our vehicle for blasting through THIRD LIFE during a time when all we had was a Daytona tape deck. Ever since, weve been ON THE CHASE." -Hippos In Tanks |
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Artist: GAMES Title: That We Can Play Format: LP Label: Hippos In Tanks Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The first EP from production duo DANIEL LOPATIN (ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER) and JOE FORD (AIRBIRD, SEX REAHB) under their GAMES moniker. The sound is a blend of sampler/synth ecologies from across the globe; Peru meets the futuristic visions of Valis undercut with Premier style chops all pulsating within a well-defined dynamic space reminiscent of Daft Punk. From a production perspective the record is massive. Joel Ford naturally takes the fader reigns and delivers production quality on par with Sade. In the context of Games, Lopatin voyages to new stylistic islands observing the nature of moments passed with stunning awareness and vision. Naturally, his observations circle back to us in the indistinguishable palates of that infamous oscillated vernacular." - Hippos In Tanks.
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Artist: HYPE WILLIAMS Title: One Nation Format: LP Label: Hippos In Tanks Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"What do we actually know about HYPE WILLIAMS? An obscure, lo-fi form of dub-inflected half-pop as much akin to the post-industrial funk of 23 Skidoo and early Cabaret Voltaire as the scratchy psych of The Skaters et al. Music which fascinates largely because of its refusal to commit"-The Wire. You have heard One Nation before. You remember hearing "Businessline" in the waiting room at your trustee-in-bankruptcys office during the OPEC oil crisis. "Your Girl Smells Chung When She Wears Dior" was playing on your boombox when you finally lost your virginity at the age of 25. you first heard "Warlord" at a K-Hole afterparty somewhere in Bavaria. Or was it Detroit? "Ital" was the music you heard during your private audience with Emperor Selassie. Or was Ghaddafi? "Unfaithful" is the sound of your childrens memories of suburban decay. One Nation is the sound that desaturated blue/grey/pink carpets and venetian blinds and ceiling tiles with tiny holes and the linering smell of perfume and nicotine make when you dream about the world you used to live in. One Nation has been mastered at the legendary Dubplates & Mastering in Germany, and has been imprinted onto 180-gram all white vinyl, with hand numbering. Very limited release of 1,000 copies." -Hippos In Tanks.
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Artist: LAUREL HALO Title: King Felix Format: 12" Label: Hippos In Tanks Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Hippos In Tanks proudly announces King Felix from futurist visionary Laurel Halo. On King Felix Laurel Halo says hello to the world in the most ingenious fashion: effortlessly blending the classical and modern worlds in a presentation of tonality via a production method that is wholly new and refreshing. Infused with extraordinary leads, pads and sequences Halo clearly demonstrates her skills with tone generators taking stylistic incentives from the likes of Air and Milla Jovoich. Above the steadily flowing ocean of sine waves lie some heavy vocal harmonies making a salient impact on our brains and their avatar like counter parts all the while accelerating life at a rapid pace - boyz to men. A guest appearance comes from fellow electronic romantic Oneohtrix Point Never who ends the record with an impassioned edit of Metal Confection." - Hippos In Tanks.
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Artist: SLEEP ()() OVER Title: Casual Diamond Format: 7" Label: Hippos In Tanks Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"The beauty of SLEEP ()() OVER emanates from deep memory and may well be qualified as a staircase for daydreamers and or a destination for light seekers. Reflective and arboreal, spirits fond of fountains and rainbow electronics will be beckoned by the transfixing voice of this benevolent siren. Casual Diamond floats you in an ethereal super natural make-out jam. LAUREL HALO joins SLEEP ()() OVER in the rebirth phase fusing these lush sounds into a Garage 3-Step reinterpretation of title track Casual Diamond. The wind eerily blows in your direction, be on the lookout for SLEEP ()() OVER LP, coming this summer via Hippos In Tanks!" -Hippos in Tanks.
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Artist: WHITE CAR Title: No Better Format: 12" Label: Hippos In Tanks Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "In the rough and humble south side of Chicago, 22 year-old Elon Katz and his counterpart Orion Martin manufacture an industrial space funk sound that taps Ballard and Dionysus on the shoulder to remind them their time hasnt run dry in 2010. The music struts a particular brand of artifice with a panache swagger that always finds new potential in its birth citys past revelations- think the Wax Trax lexicon with touches of classic Chicago House. Katz serenades the tracks of No Better with 16-bit crushed vocals and the listener is accosted into a paranoid tale of contemporary reality: the minds capacity in relationship to the abundance of databanks, hunting as hobby, sexuality as commodity and the ever entangling web of online identity." - Hippos In Tanks. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Ongaku 70: Vintage Psychedelia In Japan Format: LP Label: Hiruko Country: France Price: $24.00 |
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"Ongaku 70 is the ultimate beginners guide to the Japanese psychedelia era. A incredible set of 13 tunes released between 1969 and 1978 including Osamu Kitajima, Stomu Yamashtas Red Buddha Theatre, Akiko Yano, Sadistic Mika Band, Harry Hosono & The Yellow Magic Band, The Apryl Fool, Rabi Nakayama, Karuna Khyal, Kuni Kawachi & His Group, Toshiaki Tsushima, J.A. Caesar & Shirubu, Maki Asakawa and Les Rallizes Denudes. Neither group sounds nor hard rock here, only deep psychedelic rock with local instruments and native language. Be sure to hear the finest hours of Japanese 1970s music." - Hiruko.
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Artist: V/A Title: Ongaku 80: Alternative Waves From Japan (1979-1984) LP Format: LP Label: Hiruko Country: France Price: $24.00 |
| "An amazing collection of no-wave and minimal synth acts from the Japanese post-punk scene. Most of the tracks presented here are reissued for the first time. A must have for all vintage electronica and new wave lovers. This release includes: EP-4, Riuichi Sakamoto, Lizard, Portray Heads, Gunjogacrayon, Phew, Tako, Daisuck & Prostitute, Shinobu and Ptas." - Hiruko. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Ongaku 90: Underground Music From Japan Format: LP Label: Hiruko Country: France Price: $24.00 |
| "The Ongaku Vinyl Series continue with the third volume Ongaku 90 which brings you the best of the underground scene in Japan during the 1990s. All of the new emerging music styles during the decade such as neo-psychedelia, electronica, noise, and indie rock can be heard here. Weird stuff but always accessible as previous volumes; and maybe the most Japanese flavored one. Limited edition, dont miss it! This set includes: Jun Miyake, The Gerogerigegege, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Phew, Fushitsusha, Deme Semi Quaver, Ghost, Idiot OClock, Takako Minekawa and E*Trance." -Hiruko. |
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Artist: TRAVIS, DAVE Title: A History Lesson Part 1: Punk Rock in Los Angeles in 1984 Format: DVD Label: Historical Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"In 1984, a teenage Dave Travis decided to capture punk rock in Los Angeles on video tape, a fascination and hobby that he would continue until 1997, logging in hundreds of hours of Los Angeles area shows and interviews. In A History Lesson Part 1, Travis presents live footage filmed in the spring of 1984 featuring the Meat Puppets, Minutemen, Twisted Roots and Redd Kross interspersed with interviews of members from each group which examines and puts a perspective on the early years of psychedelic punk rock in Los Angeles and Phoenix, AZ. Each song by each group is presented from start to finish. Rare interviews with Mike Watt (Minutemen), Jeff and Steve McDonald (Redd Kross), Cris and Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets), Paul Roessler (Screamers, Twisted Roots, DC3) and Hellin (Killer) Roessler." -Historical
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Artist: CARETAKER Title: Patience (After Sebald) Format: LP Label: History Always Favours The Winners Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
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"James Leyland Kirby returns in 2012 with his long-in-the-making soundtrack to Grant Gees film about W.G. Sebald. Patience (After Sebald) is a multi-layered film essay on landscape, art, history, life and loss by the acclaimed documentary film-maker Grant Gee. It is an exploration of the work and influence of German writer W.G. Sebald (1944-2001), told via a long walk through coastal East Anglia tracking his most famous book The Rings Of Saturn (1995). The book mixes history, travelogue, memoir, meditation, fiction and images to explore the personal, public and often overlooked histories of Suffolk. In 2009, Grant approached The Caretaker to work on a soundtrack for this work and he sourced out-of-copyright Franz Schubert works from 1927 including the famous work "Winterreise." The soundtrack has been pieced together using snippets and fragments of this source material. The album artwork features another specially-commissioned painting by Ivan Seal. Mastered and cut at Berlins Dubplates & Mastering. Limited edition of 700 copies." - History Always Favours The Winners.
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Artist: KIRBY, LEYLAND Title: Eager To Tear Apart The Stars Format: LP Label: History Always Favours The Winners Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
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"James Leyland Kirby is a prolific artist with a remarkably long and varied career working inside, outside and beyond the electronic underground. From his roots as one-half of renowned audio pranksters and sonic agitators V/VM, to his critically-acclaimed work as The Caretaker and, most recently, Leyland Kirby -- hes always attracted the attention of an often bewildered audience, although his stature and position as serious auteur has somehow grown exponentially with every year that has gone by since his beginnings in rainy Edgeley back in the mid-90s. Eager To Tear Apart The Stars is his follow-up proper to the now-classic Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was trilogy of LPs, which were released in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim. Since then, hes quietly ushered in the demented white label vinyl series Intrigue & Stuff, and released another album as The Caretaker, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World. Eager To Tear Apart The Stars echoes and refracts the maverick solo synth classics of Roedelius and Harold Budd, but with a temporal warping and sense of decayed decadence individual to Kirbys oeuvre. Theres an ostensible sadness to these six pieces, but of a life-affirming and subtly ambiguous kind, evoking almost indecipherably mixed emotions of a rare and enigmatic variety which continue to haunt long after the record has come to a close. The album artwork features another specially-commissioned painting by Ivan Seal. Mastered and cut at Berlins Dubplates & Mastering." - History Always Favours The Winners.
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Artist: KIRBY, LEYLAND Title: Intrigue & Stuff Vol. 2 Format: LP Label: History Always Favours The Winners Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "James Leyland Kirby (aka The Caretaker) presents the second in a set of four limited edition vinyl pressings. Three tracks wide, 35 minutes long, all previously-unreleased retro-futurist recordings. Vinyl cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. 500 copies only." -History Always Favours The Winners |
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Artist: KIRBY, LEYLAND Title: Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was Format: 6LP Label: History Always Favours the Winners Country: UK Price: $65.00 |
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"One of 2009s most critically-acclaimed releases, Leyland Kirbys Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was is now available in an extremely limited collectors 6LP edition containing over 4 hours of music, shrink-wrapped and sealed with a custom-made obi-strip. The records themselves are packaged inside three beautiful LP jackets featuring artwork by Ivan Seal. As a document, its emotional and personal, heartbreaking and gentle, a 6-month fairy tale from the big city complete with heroes and villains, with winners and losers. Only 300 copies of this beautiful set have been made -- we strongly urge you to invest.
[Please note that the three Leyland Kirby LP sleeves are held together with glue spots. Please separate records very gently to avoid any damage to the sleeves.]" - History Always Favours the Winners.
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Artist: GRASS WIDOW Title: Internal Logic Format: LP Label: HLR Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "GRASS WIDOW—HANNAH LEW, RAVEN MAHON, and LILLIAN MARING—write their hypnotic, layered melodies collaboratively. Their haunting songs, rich in metaphor and couched in reference and allusion, are mined from the personal narratives of each member. Vocal duties, shared equally all around, complete the overall sensibility. Grass Widow has no front-person, and offers a musical experience not based on celebrity or spectacle. In line with these principles, they have maintained their objective of playing age- and gender-inclusive shows since their formation. Grass Widow formed in 2007; their first release was a self-titled LP on San Francisco’s Make a Mess Records in 2009, followed by a 12-inch EP on Captured Tracks and their second full-length, Past Time, which came out in 2010 on Kill Rock Stars. The band has toured Europe and China, and recently started their own record label, HLR. The ready-steady build for Grass Widow is representative of their music and overall band aesthetic, and it reaches a new high point with the release of Internal Logic, their third album." -HLR. |
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Artist: GRASS WIDOW Title: Milo Minute Format: 7" Label: HLR Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "San Francisco trio, GRASS WIDOW unleash a new 7-inch on their new HLR imprint. Milo Minute will be the first of the Common Chord releases, a series of 7-inches the band will be releasing on HLR, all of which are based around a theme of collaboration. The series will begin with Milo Minute, which features two covers, "Time Keeps Time," by Neo Boys and "Mannequin" by Wire. Future releases will include a split with Portlands Nature as well as a project involving the gorillas at Bostons Franklin Park Zoo." - HLR. |
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Artist: HOLDEN, RANDY Title: Population II Format: LP Label: Hobbit Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
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"Perhaps the first legitly authorized version of his absolute monster heavy guitar album by the one-time Other Half/Blue Cheer guitarist. Randys work with Blue Cheer (limited to side 2 of New, Improved!) is the stuff of legend, but with Population II, he re-wrote the books on what it means to be "heavy". Bootlegged many times (since its famous re-release on Line Records in the 1980s), this version is signed in gold marker by Holden himself (!), pressed on 180 grams, in an exact facsimile of the original Hobbit Records release. Briefly available in 1970, it was his only solo recording until Randys 1997 resurrection album on Captain Trip. Population II is merely the heaviest rock record of all time, deserving of its own genre: monster-plod, power-surge sonic deconstruction -- like nothing else before or since (forget about "doom"). A duo only recording, featuring: Holden (guitar, bass, vocals) & Chris Lockheed (drums). Special guest stars: Sunn Amps!" - FE. Highly recommended!
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Artist: ARIAN SAMPLE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Hogs On Ice Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"I was recently sent two records from an address in Chicago, in plain brown sleeves with the artists name stamped using a rubber stamp, one by Tommy Roundtree called Jungle Blood and the other by Arian Sample which appears to be untitled. There was no letter with the package and no return address. Both records are very haunting and moving, reminding me of Simon Finns Pass the Distance and a couple of other beautiful and obscure albums which usually get lazily classified as loner folk. I havent been able to find anything out about them at all from the internet or from record collectors. But thank you to whoever sent them. I was touched and intrigued." - David Tibet.
Totally out-of-nowhere, "unknown" LP received a month or two back, unsolicited, from an address in Illinois. Immediately we thought "Jim Collins", "Terry", "Boots/CC/Snake & Remus", etc, due to the similar geographic origins, and the sound doesnt negate that theory. Our source for the Collins and Terry LPs (sold out years ago) couldnt (or wouldnt?) give us confirmation about this or its apparent "sister" LP, Tommy Roundtree. The mystery continues.. Highly recommended.
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Artist: DECIMUS Title: 9 Format: LP Label: Holidays Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "Seventh in a on-going series of twelve electronic meditations on the zodiac of Decimus Magnus Ausonius (310-395) as played by Pat Murano of No Neck Blues Band, K Salvatore, Malkuth and Key of Shame. This one is for sure the creepiest and most disturbing chapter of the series so far, with swathes of electronics melting with the highest tones of misterious lullabies from somewhere far away, keeping the listeners ear firmly at ground level. Edition of 300 on black vinyl, with hand-stamped covers." - Holidays. |
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Artist: GEERKEN, HARTMUT Title: At The Face Format: LP Label: Holidays Country: Italy Price: $27.00 |
| "Hartmut Geerken is a writer, a composer, a musician, a film-maker, an actor, and also a lumberjack. He traveled the world and lived in Egypt where he founded -- together with Salah Ragab and Edu Vizvari -- the Cairo Jazz Band and the Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble. He also played with Embryo, in a trio with John Tchicai and Don Moye (with whom he made an extensive tour in Africa), and also with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. He worked with Sunny Murray, Don Cherry, Okay Termiz, Peter Kowald, Takehisa Kosugi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michael Ranta, and so many more. This longplayer captures two very different moments of his work. On side A -- recorded in 1994 -- he wildly plays the legendary Sun Harp, which Sun Ra gave him in Egypt in 1971 as a guarantee for the money Hartmut lent him to fly back to the States. Sun Ra promised that he would buy it back from him one day but this never happened and hes still the owner of this magical instrument. The last track of this side is joined by eight basses building an enchanting chorus. On the flip, a highly meditative song split into three chapters recorded in a cave on the island of Gavdos in Greece in 2007, playing a flexible roll piano." -Holidays. |
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Artist: GOLDEN JOOKLO & PEAKING LIGHTS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Holidays Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
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"An incredible instrumental jam in three chapters recorded at Black Dirt Studios in upstate New York in May 2008 when the two bands met for a tour in the East Coast of the United States. Golden Jooklo Age and Peaking Lights melted their fluxes travelling the astral ways of sound and this is the postcard they sent us from the lands of future psychedelia." -Holidays.
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Artist: KEY OF SHAME Title: Threnody for Marcus Junius Brutus Format: LP Label: Holidays Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Atmospheric radical electronics at their highest peak. Key of Shame is the creature born from the collaboration of Mark Morgan (Sightings) and Pat Murano (No Neck Blues Band, Decimus, Malkuth, K. Salvatore) revealing the black side of psychedelics. This session has been recorded live in the WFMU Studio (engineered by Glenn Luttman) edited by Pat Murano and mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. A journey through industrial minimalism evolving from bubbling metal drones into indecipherable structures of subliminal details. A perfect companion to their stunning double LP recently released by Planam. At word of your treachery, the head of Pompey is wracked with tears. The work of an unlucky XIII undone. 200 copies on black." -Holidays |
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Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA Title: Check Point Charlie Format: Double LP Label: Holidays Country: Italy Price: $37.00 |
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"Born in Paris in 1947, Ghédalia Tazartés started singing when he was twelve years old, creating his own language. He began a professional career in dance, theatre, and cinema while still giving some occasional concerts and publishing a few albums, each one of them an acclaimed masterpiece. Recorded in 1989 and originally released by Aaya in 1990, Check Point Charlie is the first work by Tazartés conceived for the compact disc format and its different time boundaries. The result is a 60 minute long collection of layered field recordings combined into a polyphonic ceremony filled by his typical multi-tracked vocals, between a gibberish scream and the muezzins call to prayer. A unique record that -- after almost 25 years -- is finally enjoyable with the depth of sound that only a vinyl release can give." -Holidays.
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Artist: ZOLA JESUS Title: New Amsterdam Format: LP Label: Holidays Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
| "New Amsterdam is a collection of four songs recorded live at WNYU plus seven unreleased songs from Madison, WI's Zola Jesus, one of the most intriguing and capable singers to recently emerge from the modern underground. The live set features a full band backing her and sounds somehow different from the previous material, while the homemade tracks on the other side consist of walls of fuzz drum machine melting with those unique vocal-driven melodies and atmospheres. Previously released as a CD-R by Sacred Bones Records, here it comes in its remastered vinyl edition with one extra song. 509 copies (69 on gold with silver and gold print, 440 on black) silkscreened covers on thick colored cardboard paper Artwork by Caleb Braaten printed by Serimal " - Holidays |
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Artist: AINOTAMENISHIS Title: Live 418 Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "AINOTAMENISHIS is a loud, heavy guitar group from Tokyo who were birthed from one oviduct marked "Velvet Underground" and a massive salpinx marked "Gaseneta." Their high-energy rocknroll action was first captured on an extremely limited CDR release, now released for the first time on vinyl. Ainotamenishiss brand of controlled panic is sure to spike the tongues of all those who purport to talk about the rock. It is primal, punk, eerie, harsh, and utterly essential. Featured on PSFs extremely cool Tokyo Flashback 6 compilation CD." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: AUFGEHOBEN Title: Fragments of the Marble Plan Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "The follow-up to 2008s Khora, Fragments of the Marble Plan adds an electronic carapace to AUFGEHOBENs cataclysmic noise-rock foundation. The prevailing sound evokes the Mego label before it added "Editions" to its name and became enamored of American guitar mavericks-back when it purveyed cyclotronic, abstract electronic music that had the centrifugal force of an irrefutable Ph.D. thesis. Such is the overwhelming power of Aufgehoben on the British groups sixth album that even exposure to the MP3s makes one relieved to have health insurance. Music this apocalyptic has few peers, but some approximate touchstones are the most radically "out" and knotty moments of Norwegian post-jazz ensemble Supersilent, This Heat after realizing that Brise-Glace didnt pay them a penny in royalties, or Farmers Manual after extensive immersion in Mainliners back catalog. Fragments of the Marble Plan is a terrifying force of nature, a Rube Goldberg machine run amok, the sound of civilization atomizing into controlled chaos. Its so cold, its hellish. Although Aufgehoben feels your need for catharsis, they convince you that being ready to jump out of your skin is the new normal. If Aufgehoben prompted cliches, one would say that they "take no prisoners" on Fragments of the Marble Plan. This music is war-with all of the fascinating horrors and grisly casualties inherent in that endeavor. Get a helmet. Includes digital download coupon." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: AUFGEHOBEN Title: Khora Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Khora is the fifth full-length by AUFGEHOBEN. Since the release of their previous album, Messidor, the group has somewhat relaxed their strict commitment to anonymity by allowing their names to be known and photos to be taken, and even playing a few well-received live shows. Messidor may have been mellower, but the progression displayed on Khora leads one to believe that full-on rock may be in the cards for this group, who have seemingly removed the elbow patches from their jackets and rolled up their sleeves for good. The album begins with three short pieces, sonic examples of texture meeting metal--like a djinn trapped in molten gold, attempting to burst free from his cage but only managing to express rage via infinie temporary sculptures ranging from the nightmares of the Muetter Museum to futuristic expressions of nature not yet captured by a conscious eye. The final track is 28 minutes of pure glory that will surely become one of noise rocks classics. Massively blown-out and beautifully recorded, "Jederfursich" lays down twin mirrors side by side as a model of infinity is allowed to morph through sounds that recall the energy of existence and the sand of time itself." - Holy Mountain |
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Artist: AUFGEHOBEN Title: Messidor Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Messidor is the fourth album from the UKs AUFGEHOBEN, who record unformed improvised sounds and then, over a period of time, mix and mutate them into a not immediately identifiable form of raw instrumental rock noise. It is the discordant and hostile sound of mechanical beasts locked in a cage against their will via incredible levels of distortion, clattering percussion and a wide spectrum of overtones produced by scraped and scratched guitar strings. In time a sense of structure is revealed and the musicality of Messidor unfolds la New Directions Unit, Throbbing Gristle, This Heat, and post-Nite Flights Scott Walker. Past releases on Junior Meat and Riot Season. For fans of Takayanagi Masayuki." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: BASEBALL ASTROLOGER Title: Famine of the Soul Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The Baseball Astrologer is Douglas Berman -- painter, astrologer, raconteur, chai-maker and dedicated walker. His ominous take is accompanied by the guitar and sounds of Steven Wray Lobdell (Davis Redford Triad, Faust) for an otherworldly post-game wrap-up where everything needs more orange, Neptune is in Capricorn, the casino of life is operating and where, even after death, we will have things to do. Darkness has no stare." - Holy Mountain. Early release on the label.. |
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Artist: BIGOT, FRED Title: Mono / Stereo Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "On Mono/Stereo, FRED BIGOTs early "Panasonic meets rockabilly" sides are compiled and sequenced such that you cant help but mistake it for a 21th century version of KLFs "Chill Out"-except the country and Elvis references have been replaced by things like the sounds of attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion and C-beams that glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. You know, shit youd read about in a Samuel Delany book or something. Culled from two 12-inches of murky, minimalist proto-Schaeffel-beat, this CD also features rare outtakes from the full spectrum of heaviness. T-Rex-like rock-groove head-nod decadence expands the notion of stereo separation so far that the Memorex dude on the couch would be reduced to a puddle of flesh. How do you explain this stuff? You cant-it was from the future." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: BIRDS OF MAYA Title: Volume 1 Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Its been said that Volume 1 is possibly the best rock release to come out of Philadelphia ever. While low on recording budget, attitude and pretension, BIRDS OF MAYA is high on stolen riffs and an energetic execution seldom seen outside of a Sunday ruling by Seamus McCaffery. Whether they are mangling riffs or stepping way out for fried boogie solos Birds of Maya oozes a dark chunky sludge with elements from all the colors of the classic rock rainbow. Do they really sound like "a GG Allin demo played through a megaphone?" Its a fair description and its certainly colorful, but it leaves out an awful lot. They are loud and they are chaotic, but they have way more groove than GG Allin could have ever imagined." - Holy Mountain"Birds of Maya did what countless garage rock geeks try and fail at: dust off 1968 and bring it back to life without making it look like museum piece. Bringing on the best of 60s power trios like Hendrix and Cream, a whiff of Blue Cheers bongwater, Black Sabbaths bass heavy paranoia, and Stooges bum-out, they were sloppy in all the right places. The jamming never got tired and held everyones rapt attention." -phawker.com
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Artist: BLUES CONTROL Title: Blues Control Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "As you may or may not know, it can sometimes get pretty hairy working at a record store when some smelly, denim-clad dude walks in asking for the blues. If youre lucky, hes at least wearing a belt when you point him over to the records that are now relegated to an open spot on the floor. Thats just one scenario; who doesnt love those other blues fondly recalled with names like Blues Addicts and Blues Creation? And lets not forget that other queen of the blues -- Barbara from Just Farr a Laugh. Blues Control might just be the missing link between Van Halen and legendary experimentalist Henry Flynt. They are a duo. Lea Cho plays swank but grounded atmospheric keyboard parts (think Harold Budd), through which guitar player and manipulator of assorted junk-on-table Russ Waterhouse cuts, whittles and lays to waste. Its a hazy, spaced world that exists between fuzzed distortion, jabbering electronics, and a lazy, stay-in-bed psychedelic glaze, with rhythmic keyboards pulsating below it all a la a guy named Florian -- and you can choose which one you want. Oh yeah, I gotta mention the humid bikini-vibe that permeates the entire album." -Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: BLUES CONTROL Title: Blues Control Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "As you may or may not know, it can sometimes get pretty hairy working at a record store when some smelly, denim-clad dude walks in asking for the blues. If youre lucky, hes at least wearing a belt when you point him over to the records that are now relegated to an open spot on the floor. Thats just one scenario; who doesnt love those other blues fondly recalled with names like Blues Addicts and Blues Creation? And lets not forget that other queen of the blues -- Barbara from Just Farr a Laugh. Blues Control might just be the missing link between Van Halen and legendary experimentalist Henry Flynt. They are a duo. Lea Cho plays swank but grounded atmospheric keyboard parts (think Harold Budd), through which guitar player and manipulator of assorted junk-on-table Russ Waterhouse cuts, whittles and lays to waste. Its a hazy, spaced world that exists between fuzzed distortion, jabbering electronics, and a lazy, stay-in-bed psychedelic glaze, with rhythmic keyboards pulsating below it all a la a guy named Florian -- and you can choose which one you want. Oh yeah, I gotta mention the humid bikini-vibe that permeates the entire album." -Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: CLOUDLAND CANYON Title: Fin Eaves Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Originally an all-things-not-PANTHERS outlet for guitarist KIP ULHORN swapping musical ideas with SIMON WOJAN (now in KING KHAN AND HIS SHRINES), CLOUDLAND CANYON spent several years interpreting the more structurally-challenged examples of Krautrock, 70s psych of the drone-discovering variety, spots of unnerving (in a good way) improv here and there, and the wonderful 90s bands that started out as head-scratchers and ended up as innovators (first-wave Siltbreeze and Kranky highlights). Fin Eaves, the bands third full-length overall, is the inaugural album from Cloudland Canyon Phase II. Joined once again by significant-other KELLY ULHORN and a rotating cast of contributors, Kip has crafted a unique take on really, really goddamned loud and noisy. Most important are big, unavoidable pop hooks clawing their way out of a pulsating, throbbing thickness of guitar, bass, who-knows-what-type-of-effects and understated but omnipresent drumming. Imagine a Flying Saucer Attack foundation supporting noise on par with the first two Iran albums, or maybe even Jesu, with flowing vocals providing the major pop-hook components. LP includs a download." - Holy Mountain |
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Artist: CLOUDLAND CANYON Title: Silver Tongue Sisyphus Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Recorded in Brooklyn, Germany, and Memphis, Silver Tongued Sisyphus follows CLOUDLAND CANYONs well-received Requiems Der Natur 2002-2004 released on the Tee Pee label. The albums secular calls to prayer with humming, looping, and loping ambient passages are interspersed with bursting rhythmic energy and agitated guitar lines. Pulling influences from the foggy ether of generations past, the band stakes their claim to the shadows of the cult musical culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s German underground scene. Live shows sound like unauthorized soundtracks to netherworld versions of The Swimmer or The Scorceror. Originally released on vinyl in an edition of 96 copies, Silver Tongued Sisyphus is now available once again. "... a stunning neo-psychedelic experience where the musical spirits of This Heat, Ash Ra Temple, and The Mahavishnu Orchestra are evoked, celebrated, and absorbed inside Uhlhorn and Wojans shifting cloud-formations of sound."-The Wire. Pressed on silver colored vinyl."- Holy Mountain |
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Artist: CLOUDLAND CANYON / LICHENS Title: Exterminating Angel Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "This collaboration between the mellow, Memphis-meets-Germany duo of KIP ULHORN and SIMON WOJAN (aka CLOUDLAND CANYON) and Chicagos great rock n roll concierge and knower-of-mystics MR. ROBERT LOWE (aka LICHENS) was born on a trip to the West Coast of the United States a few years ago. Exterminating Angels single 30-minute track uses voice, guitar, samplers, and ARP synthesizer. Youve heard of the unmade science fiction epic whose would-be director proposed using different big-name progressive bands to perform a soundtrack for specific planets used in the script; here then are the sounds accompanying a spacecraft thats a combination Death Star and Taco Bell from the 1970s filled with cement Mayan temples and pyramids populated by large, snappily dressed reptilian beings. Every so often a bell goes off to break the spell and presents convincing evidence of this records special journey." -Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: CRAZY DREAMS BAND Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Grooves that confuse? CRAZY DREAMS BAND presents its guitar-free "thug pop" dirge with creeping crooning and brassless horn blasts. Like the best Giallo films, youll be as turned on as you are terrified. As tender as Coco Rosie, as brutal as Magik Markers, and as cool as Royal Trux Radio/Video vibe. Imagine if Bruce Springsteen and Martin Rev collaborated on songs for Patti Smith or Catherine Ribeiro. Channeled inner voices are expelled as cave anthems into neon text in Linear A, while bones poke through the skin atop a witchs brew of venomous sludge. Crazy Dreams Band is the urban tribal music that survives whatever "end is nigh" theory you choose. Theyre jamming this music outside the thunder dome, beneath the planet of the apes, and the day after tomorrow. Features members of RELIGIOUS KNIVES, LEXIE MOUNTAIN, MOUTHUS." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: CRAZY DREAMS BAND Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Grooves that confuse? CRAZY DREAMS BAND presents its guitar-free "thug pop" dirge with creeping crooning and brassless horn blasts. Like the best Giallo films, youll be as turned on as you are terrified. As tender as Coco Rosie, as brutal as Magik Markers, and as cool as Royal Trux Radio/Video vibe. Imagine if Bruce Springsteen and Martin Rev collaborated on songs for Patti Smith or Catherine Ribeiro. Channeled inner voices are expelled as cave anthems into neon text in Linear A, while bones poke through the skin atop a witchs brew of venomous sludge. Crazy Dreams Band is the urban tribal music that survives whatever "end is nigh" theory you choose. Theyre jamming this music outside the thunder dome, beneath the planet of the apes, and the day after tomorrow. Features members of RELIGIOUS KNIVES, LEXIE MOUNTAIN, MOUTHUS." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: CRAZY DREAMS BAND Title: War Dream Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "...this latest lp on Holy Mountain has been gettin muchos spinnos on my Polynesian hi-fi & that aint likely to stop anytime soon. Good stuff? No, GREAT. ...if yous is someone what gets down n can slither w/the likes of Tractor, Gunjogacrayon, Älgarnas Trädgård, Medicine Head, Equal, Checkpoint Charlie, Stackwaddy, Brastburn, Hampton Grease Band, Occasional World Ensemble, Totsuzen Danball, Ahora Mazda, Moohlah, ZOA, Mad Tea Party, Plastic People Of The Universe, Far East,Third Ear Band, Xhol Caravan, Karuna Khyal, Brainticket AND Stone The Crows, well.....this platterve prime dunt oughta fit into your greasy repertoire like fried chicken on a waffle." - Roland Woodbe. "War Dream, the second album from Baltimores CRAZY DREAMS BAND, is saturated with heaviness, psychedelia, pomp and grit, and noticeably lacking any nostalgia hang-ups. This rock music is refractory and satisfyingly off; put on a slide, manipulated and projected on a screen, or felt through a chain-link fence. Lost love, genocide and forgotten histories collide with raw-dog vocal thundering, slippery bass frequencies, adventurous percussion and seductive guitar ripples. Opener "Feels So Good" is a swirling dirge that could be a half-figured-out version of "Carouselambra"; "Awkward for Everyone" showcases recent addition Jorge Martins of Lisbon duo Fish & Sheep playing what sounds like a deflating blow-up Les Paul copy that actually has strings-youve got to hear the killer solo! The side-long "Life Is the Knife" is like a secret ritual from an unreleased Billy Jack sequel where he went back to Vietnam and built a temple that bled the purest opium. Here, JAKE FREEMANs adventurous sub-frequencies and NICK BENDERs saucy space wanderings shine on to break the dawn in half. War Dream was recorded in three days at Beat Babies in Woodstock, MD, by CHRIS FREELAND (OXES, Frenemies, Long Live Death, Baltimore Rowdies Collective) with heaping platefuls of assistance from his brother MICKEY (Bow n Arrow, Height with Friends) and a cat that looked like a dirty snowman. Features NATE NELSON of MOUTHUS / RELIGIOUS KNIVES, JORGE MARTINS of FISH & SHEEP, and LEXIE MOUNTAIN of LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS. LP includes free digital download. " - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: CRAZY DREAMS BAND Title: War Dream Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "War Dream, the second album from Baltimores CRAZY DREAMS BAND, is saturated with heaviness, psychedelia, pomp and grit, and noticeably lacking any nostalgia hang-ups. This rock music is refractory and satisfyingly off; put on a slide, manipulated and projected on a screen, or felt through a chain-link fence. Lost love, genocide and forgotten histories collide with raw-dog vocal thundering, slippery bass frequencies, adventurous percussion and seductive guitar ripples. Opener "Feels So Good" is a swirling dirge that could be a half-figured-out version of "Carouselambra"; "Awkward for Everyone" showcases recent addition Jorge Martins of Lisbon duo Fish & Sheep playing what sounds like a deflating blow-up Les Paul copy that actually has strings-youve got to hear the killer solo! The side-long "Life Is the Knife" is like a secret ritual from an unreleased Billy Jack sequel where he went back to Vietnam and built a temple that bled the purest opium. Here, JAKE FREEMANs adventurous sub-frequencies and NICK BENDERs saucy space wanderings shine on to break the dawn in half. War Dream was recorded in three days at Beat Babies in Woodstock, MD, by CHRIS FREELAND (OXES, Frenemies, Long Live Death, Baltimore Rowdies Collective) with heaping platefuls of assistance from his brother MICKEY (Bow n Arrow, Height with Friends) and a cat that looked like a dirty snowman. Features NATE NELSON of MOUTHUS / RELIGIOUS KNIVES, JORGE MARTINS of FISH & SHEEP, and LEXIE MOUNTAIN of LEXIE MOUNTAIN BOYS. LP includes free digital download. " - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: DJ ILYA MONOSOV AND THE 21ST CENTURY PUNKS Title: New Music Format: 12" Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Like the best bit of bacon wrapped around the best cut of beef pinned with a handcut toothpick, these four sets of collage arrive pressed to vinyl-eliminating the potential confusion about how many multiple media players have been running. Grunts and gurggles hump circuit-bent glitches in the way an inhuman claw might select a fannypack from the racks of Forever XXI. The fact is: only one hand is needed to clap on a drum machine. DJ ILYA MONOSOV & THE 21ST CENTURY PUNKS are too rhythmic to call noise, too chaotic to call music. This four-track 12-inch is nothing like Nurse With Wound while sounding like an American counterpart. Akin to Plunderphonics without obvious gags. Best guess, this is what spying Martians hear coming from Earth." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: DORONCO GUMO Title: Old Punks Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "DORONCO GUMO is led by DORONCO, a bass player most well known for his stints with LES RALLIZES DENUDES, SUISHOU NO FUNE, and KEIJI HAINO. Translated as "Mud Cloud," the name is actually poetic in a Zen beggar / wandering monk kind of way. On Old Punks, Doronco is joined by members of MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ, a Frenchman, and an additional female vocalist. The band uses vocals, bassoon, and trumpet over a see-sawing battle of piano / guitar shrill balanced against warm rhythms. Their avant bar-rock style is not unlike Cinderellas Revenge recorded in the same studio as Vintage Violence with the conscious heartbreak of something like Even Serpents Shine. A bright-to-bummer-and-back-to-bright narrative flows throughout the albums nine songs. Resequenced to include an additional track not on the Japanese CD version, Old Punks nails down something for you didnt know needed to be nailed down. LP includes a free download" - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: FERRARO, JAMES Title: Clear Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Clear and Discovery were origianlly released as two companion CDRs by JAMES FERRARO (of the whole SKATERS / LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL / 90120 / SPLASH / NIRVANA axis) and comprise the August 1974 (Taj-Mahal Travellers) of his discography. Both albums contain absolutely beautiful whirling hall-of-knives-style synth drone that makes one want to reference Klaus Schulze or Bobby Beausoleil. Clear bursts with flam beats and a cluster of melodies muffled like a calliope wrapped in a soggy tarp, while Discovery is comparable to Daft Punks album of the same name but played in reverse at 16 rpm through a boombox in a boiler room. These two records contain the sounds of pulling out with tapping beats of fluid dropped on a soft convertible top (open), much like those fictitious Giorgio Moroder songs for the upcoming Olympics in Atlantis or a reworking of that award-winning song from Revenge of the Nerds-or is it "Wonderwall"-into a theme for a future ski jump at the Great Pyramids. Are you ready for the lizard people to compete? Now available as mastered vinyl LPs with a digital download." - Holy Mountain |
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Artist: FERRARO, JAMES Title: Discovery Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Clear and Discovery were origianlly released as two companion CDRs by JAMES FERRARO (of the whole SKATERS / LAMBORGHINI CRYSTAL / 90120 / SPLASH / NIRVANA axis) and comprise the August 1974 (Taj-Mahal Travellers) of his discography. Both albums contain absolutely beautiful whirling hall-of-knives-style synth drone that makes one want to reference Klaus Schulze or Bobby Beausoleil. Clear bursts with flam beats and a cluster of melodies muffled like a calliope wrapped in a soggy tarp, while Discovery is comparable to Daft Punks album of the same name but played in reverse at 16 rpm through a boombox in a boiler room. These two records contain the sounds of pulling out with tapping beats of fluid dropped on a soft convertible top (open), much like those fictitious Giorgio Moroder songs for the upcoming Olympics in Atlantis or a reworking of that award-winning song from Revenge of the Nerds-or is it "Wonderwall"-into a theme for a future ski jump at the Great Pyramids. Are you ready for the lizard people to compete? Now available as mastered vinyl LPs with a digital download." - Holy Mountain |
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Artist: FUTURE SHUTTLE Title: Waters Edge Format: 12" Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "FUTURE SHUTTLE is a Greenpoint, NYC-based duo (sometimes trio) comprised of JESSA FARKAS and CAMILLA PADGITT-COLES. Prior to the groups early 2009 conception, the pair studied electronic music at Oberlin College alongside their friends in Blondes and Teengirl Fantasy. Blondes member SAM HAAR also produced the Waters Edge EP, the groups first officially released recording. In Future Shuttles beautifully dense brew of psychedelic reprogramming, Tangerine Dream meets the KLF at the UFO Club, and their three-track debut layers distant chants, drones and throbbing, time-frozen strings on top of each other, swelling gradually to a pining, beautifully textured crescendo. As Visitation Rites put it recently: "Discover their mile-long pillow-scapes in higher resolution, revealing an attention to texture and dynamic variation that can only come from losing track of time inside the studio, trapped inside your own spell." Includes digital download coupon featuring three additional bonus tracks." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Ancestral Songs Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "A brand new solo release from legendary poet, painter, Jews harpist, tattoo artist, and singer and lyricist of LUNGFISH, THE PUPILS and CONE OF LIGHT, DANIEL HIGGS. Higgs has an unparalleled presence in both body and voice, and this, combined with hypnotic repetition, gives the material on Ancestral Songs both a loose discipline and an immense yet serpentine power. Ancestral Songs is comprised of apocalyptic tunes, a banjo raag, mellifluous birdsong, and the sci-fi-sounding duet of a searing Jews harp and toy piano. "Are You of the Body?" brings out the electric tamboura tone and an accompanying acoustic guitar to melt the spine. A distorted motorik guitar riff propels Ancestral Songs to a close by focusing on the consistent tone and vibration that flows throughout the album." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Metempsychotic Melodies Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "DANIEL HIGGS returns with his second full length recording for Holy Mountain after last years critically acclaimed Ancestral Songs and his contribution. Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot, to Thrill Jockeys series of books collecting art and music. Metempsychotic Melodies continues to document Higgs rise as a solo performer. Raw picked acoustic guitar drones dominate Metempsychic Melodies as the instrumental "Universal Salutation" fades into the waking dream soliloquy of observation "Love Abides." "Leontocephaline Rhapsody" is a long waltzy drone with enough spooky atmosphere for one to think that it could have been recorded at Sunshine studios as there is a heavy Vogel vibe to the whole thing. Rumor has it engineer TIM GREEN told Higgs that he had to fade the track otherwise they were going to be arrested. Vocals return for the closing track "All Cherished Things" an epic about change, sound and transformation." -Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Metempsychotic Melodies Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: HIGH WOLF Title: Atlas Nation Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Frances HIGH WOLF possesses a natural-born ability to produce tones most conducive to inducing transcendental states. Prolific without wearing out his welcome, the guitarist and effects box manipulator sets loose fervid streams of fever-dream drones. High Wolfs tracks sound as if theyve been sluicing since the beginning of time, siphoned for teasingly brief absorption before they shimmer off to the vanishing point. This elite droneur is one of the few musicians who could title a 7-inch A Guide to Healing without it coming off as an ironic gesture or a laughable boast. Atlas Nation-recorded in 2010 after a long trip to India and Nepal-deepens High Wolfs penetration into the mystic. It evokes an uneasy peace with a new breed of tribal psychedelia shorn of all hokey signifiers. "Fuji Descent" starts the album with what could be a languid, paradisiacal soundtrack to a scrapped Alejandro Jodorowsky film. "The Dawn of Man" is a stark, stoned processional burrowing into malarial climes where guitars squawk in ominous tongues while congas cave in chests and clear brush with a vengeance. "Raagini" magnifies and psychedelicizes Rapoons mantric, ritualistic hand-drum patter and tropical-forest drones while hinting at Don Cherrys jazz-raga peregrinations. High Wolf claims that "Haiti" was "recorded in a couple of hours [on] the day of the big earthquake in Haiti, so its the darkest / saddest High Wolf track ever." Its a fittingly miasmic, climactic threnody. Think of Atlas Nation as a surreal aural travelogue that takes a giant step beyond Jon Hassells "Fourth World" music-a humid milieu teeming with alien tonalities and oracular currents. Its as welcome as a new, improved entheogen on the streets." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: INTERNATIONAL HELLO Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "INTERNATIONAL HELLO is the perfection of California psychedelic rock in all its ecstatic glory. GRADY RUNYANs guitar playing is as fantastic, spacey and heavy as ever, as is SCOTT DERRs always-pertinent bass throb. Drummer and singer RUBIN FIBERGLASS is just perfect as a screaming maniac who can actually keep time while DOUG PEARSONs electronics consistently enhance the dominant power-trio rock that swirls in the sky like some kind of creation myth. In case you dont recognize the names, these guys were the prime movers and shakers behind the band MONOSHOCK. Does it sound like them? Yeah but its way back there, and this is about a new place theyre going. And its good. Youll see. LP includes free digital download coupon. CD version to follow." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: JULIE MITTENS, THE Title: Julie Mittens Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "THE JULIE MITTENS are a Dutch power trio who specialize in extended improvisation at extreme volume. Inspired by John Coltranes The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording and the knowledge that Fushitsusha has more to do with Thelonius Monk than Blue Cheer, guitarist AART-JAN SCHAKENBOS, bassist MICHAEL VAN DAM, and drummer LEO FABRIEK consistently wreak havoc with lavish, textural, speaker-blowing meltdown jams; they surge with psychedelic power and a stellar rhythm section on the four studio recordings here. "A kind of spiritual anarchy surfaces through the distorted bedlam, illuminating a full spectrum of frequencies which gives their most feverish moments the effect of coma-inducing psychical bliss landing somewhere between head banging and catatonia. These guys take it to edge and then push further out until there is literally no physical place left to go. Intense and just brilliant."-Todd Brooks, Foxy Digitalis. Features one of the founders of the WOT NXT collective, and members of the SUGAR COATED MIND BOMBS and TENUZU NO CHIIZU."-Holy Mountain |
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Artist: KLANGMUTATIONEN Title: WeiBe Messe Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "KLANGMUTATIONEN is composed of individuals who are quite possibly the only figures within Malaysias recent history of underground experimental/avant rock music-if there even was one. The word "Klangmutationen" means "Sound Mutations" or "Sound Changes." Klangmutationen (excluding American MR. G) hail from a small town on the west coast of Malaysia called Klang. Although no Teutonic connection has ever been found to exist between the German word and the origins of the towns name, it is nevertheless a happy coincidence for the group. Sonically, Klangmutationen marries the heavier and primitive side of Krautrock with the relentless ferocity of avant-jazz-in particular the style expressed by early FMP releases and the Japanese variety as chiefly approached by the Takayanagi/Abe school. Other influential elements are the countless avant jazz/rock outfits who have surfaced throughout the decades-particularly jazz ensembles with loud electric guitars: Last Exit, New Direction Unit, the Blue Humans (and the Arthur Doyle Quartet feat. Rudolph Grey), Music Revelation Ensemble, Tony Williams Lifetime, Moderne Nordeuropaeische Dorfmusik, Blauer Hirsch, The Giancarlo Nicolai Trio, Ray Russel, Derek Baileys Arcana, Sprawl, etc..." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Blood Moon Riders Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Dont be fooled by the King Diamond-style logo. This liberation of inverted progressive surf rock from psychedelic epithets plays like a fan-fiction account of Dick Dales meeting with Sonny Sharrock at Amon Dueuel IIs rehearsal space to discuss the "post-rock" epidemic. Unlike so many other instrumental soundtrack bands who employ ho-hum, choose-your-own-adventure tactics, LA OTRACINA sticks to the rails of their own twisting corkscrews and spine-snapping dives. This work does not lend itself to the standard-fare apathy of background music. Blood Moon Raiders is its own ride, with its own ticket, and the doors are locked after take-off. Pinch some headphones to your dome and situate the rest of your form into a beanbag as you navigate the fibrous landscape of a black-light poster. The tracks flow from a subtle new-age contingency to violent bouts with Laotian street gangs. Remember to pack a sack lunch and strap on a machete before mounting this electric buck-bot. Dont fret-the intention has always been to crack open your skull or drown you. Includes a free MP3 download." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Reality Has Got to Die Format: Double LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Since 2003, LA OTRACINA has been hell-bent on creating highly visionary music that melds sonic ideas from the outer reaches of heavy and weird. The Brooklyn group has released three full-length albums and twelve mini-albums, along with a slew of splits and compilation tracks on labels including Holy Mountain and band founder ADAM KRINEYs own Colour Sounds Recordings. La Otracinas new double-album is the first to feature drummer Kriney as lead vocalist, which catapults the trio into their most cohesive and focused release to date. Reality Has Got to Die showcases the bands mind-blowing ability to evoke the timeless space-rock magic of Hawkwind, the prog-improv wizardry of King Crimson, the fuck-yeah of early Metallica, and the synthesizer mind-warp of Tangerine Dream, all fused in a Krautrock state of mind. This musical journey through deep and heavy sound worlds envokes images of the emerald beyond and the darkest future alien universe, while also staying rooted in the tradition of rock n rolls ever-winding history. But dont confuse this for faux-New-Age blabber-this is street-wise and from the gut, straight from the minds of three men living their art, sacrificing everything and manifesting a boundless sphere of music, ideas, and imagery. LP version includes a download." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: LA OTRACINA Title: Tonal Eclipse of the One Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "La Otracina was formed in Brooklyn, NY, in the summer of 2003 by drummer Adam Kriney and guitarist Joshua Anzano (now of Tee Pee Records Titan) to penetrate the deepest and most surreal realms of psychedelia, prog, and Krautrock, with an emphasis on exploration. Taking heavy nods from psychedelic forefathers (Flower Travelin Band, Guru Guru, King Crimson, Neu!, Yes, Agitation Free, Blue Cheer, Amon Duul, etc.), their music is also rooted in a deep understanding and appreciation of free jazz/improvisation and the wizardry of minimalism - not to mention the extreme sounds of the Japanese underground. La Otracinas brew of cosmic music is a ride across the galaxy, a slice of magical lemon wedges, a rainbow of crystallized comet dust. La Otracina is Adam Kriney on drums, Ninni Morgia on electric guitar, and Jordon Schranz on electric bass. KindaMusik listed La Otracinas Love Love Love 2 CD as one of the top 20 best psychedelic albums of the new millennium, along with releases by Six Organs of Admittance, Bardo Pond, Ghost, and Tower Recordings." - Holy Mountain |
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Artist: LESBIAN Title: Power Hr Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Yep, the bands name is LESBIAN (members of GOLGOTHAN SUNRISE, ASVA, and THE ABODOX). Why? Well, equally cool names like Black Sabbath, Venom and Pentagram were already taken. But also, the name Lesbian evokes pure, sexually charged freedom-and thats what rock music is all about. But enough about the name, lets talk about the Lesbian sound; its heavy, melodic, dramatic and dynamic. The Seattle-based quartets multifaceted debut album Power Hr heralds the birth of The New Wave of American Psychedelic Metal. Each of the albums four tracks shifts moods, dynamics and styles. In any given song, Lesbian deftly lunges from black metal-style blast-beat-and-16th-note-guitar-lines into 70s styled stoner rock riffing and then leaps into lush melodic passages reminiscent of Godspeed You Black Emperor!. The band blends the best elements of many styles of metal: doom, thrash, black, progressive and, yes, even good old "heavy" metal. Produced by RANDALL DUNN (Sunn O))), Boris, Earth) and packaged with artwork designed by STEPHEN OMALLEY." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: LOBDELL, STEVEN WRAY Title: Live At Club Donut Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "STEVEN WRAY LOBDELLs (DAVIS REDFORD TRIAD) second full-length solo album for Holy Mountain was recorded live in December in a small Portland, Oregon donut shop (actually on a loft above the toilet), and unleashes some of Lobdells most over-the-top torrents of Echoplexed guitar frenzy. Elliptical, psychedelic rhythms merge with his trademark fat guitar signal to produce intense leads that demand comparison to an ocean on fire or planet-sized sunspots. John McLaughlin meets Wolf Eyes. Amazing stuff." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: LORDS OF FALCONRY Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "LORDS OF FALCONRY are a rock group with a spectacular psychedelic edge. Songs blast green, inferno-like hard rock, funneling clouds and stripping away sludge, turning it into the waltz-like sound of mastodons stomping across the tundra. Classic heavy psych is alive in tracks that interweave soft voices and loud guitars that continuously pummel and enchant at every turn like a seven-headed cobra. C.S. Lewis had better watch his step! If psychedelia is quixotically naive, then LORDS OF FALCONRY is its 21st-century doppelganger or spectral double wise to the ways of the fallen world. In an era of organized play dates and close parental supervision, there are already enough people ready to cooperate. LORDS OF FALCONRY offers what is missing-real rock music. Formed in a quest to find the lost note, LORDS OF FALCONRY examines the intersection of a mystical crossroads between the fourth dimension and their own 3-D universe. Since both members are a bit insolent and rather unrealistic about much of reality, the fact that LORDS OF FALCONRY even exists is remarkable in and of itself. LP includes a free download." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: MAMMATUS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "MAMMATUS are a new four piece rock band from Santa Cruz, California. The album consists of four long tracks, the longest, "Dragon of the Deep Part 2" clocks in at a staggering 25 minutes long. With an excess of fuzz and wah noise they manage to combine all the best b-its of 70s psychedelic rock with the sonic attack of early Monster Magnet as they simultaneously enter the realm of heavy drone sludge rock. The sleeve of this album was crafted by ARIK ROPER who has also worked with likes of Sleep, Sunn O))), Comets on Fire and Arthur Magazine. Since forming at the begining of 2005 Mammatus have been playing regularly in their native town of Santa Cruz and in venues in San Fransisco, which has gathered them lots of praise and interest. They are embarking on an intense nation wide tour with their friends Residual Echoes this summer. A deluxe vinyl version is upcoming." -Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: MAMMATUS Title: The Coast Explodes Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "MAMMATUS second album The Coast Explodes straddles the line between psychedelia and hard rock while introducing more progressive aspects. The music is heavily influenced by both the power and complexity of the natural world and the ongoing battles of light and darkness. "Excellent Swordfight" is a continuation of the same story told in the debuts epic "Dragon of the Deep." "Pierce the Darkness" explores being a light in a dark world. "The Changing Wind" is a pipe-led psychedelic folk tune that could have been sited by Ghosts Second Time Around and the shanga vibes of the forest in the Autumn. It unfurls into the title track which encapsulates the massive fury of the ocean. For fans of similar Holy Mountain artists Om, Lesbian, or Residual Echoes." - VHF. "The same heavy, spastic psych as Acid Mothers Temple, Psychic Paramount, Comets on Fire and Green Milk from the Planet Orange."-Dusted Magazine. |
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Artist: MONOSOV, ILYA Title: Sailor Man Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Utterances into a dictophone from a backdoor man hiding in the closet as the husband arrives home. The tales plod along in whispers, accompanied by defined guitar interplay, punctuated piano and snappy drums. Nearly every accent of guitar seems present. Fragile flamenco plucks, fuzz-to-the-front fumblings onto smooth lyrics of a detective attempting to resolve his own crimes. Vocals and acoustic guitar were recorded by GREG WEEKS. The arrangements, instrumentation and production were lovingly handled by JONATHAN WILSON. ILYA MONOSOV is a member of SHINING PATH and MONOSOV/SWIRNOFF DUO. While those musics were often meant to be visceral and joyous, Sailor Man presents whispers from one person to another, ruminative meditations on loss of places and people. Includes digital download coupon." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: MOON DUO Title: Silver Bells/Winter Format: 7" Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "New holiday themed single from MOON DUO. ERIK and SANAE add more lilt to the season than any combination of egg nog and booze ever will. On the B side the duo wrap a coat around the classic Goat Head Soup deep cut "Winter."" -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: OM Title: Conference of the Birds Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Comprised of two songs that build on OMs- (AL CISNEROS and CHRIS HAKIUS, rhythm section of legendary sludge and stoner rock pioneers, Sleep)-use of cyclical rhythm, riff, and vocal intonation, the duos new album Conference of the Birds blends metal, chant, drone, dub, and psychedelia. The bands lyrics expound upon the structure of the universe, potentiality, and freedom from the physical body. Engineered by BILLY ANDERSON and produced by the band, Conference of the Birds progresses beyond their debut, Variations on a Theme, with more fully realized songwriting and production. LP version to follow shortly." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: OM Title: Conference of the Birds Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Comprised of two songs that build on their use of cyclical rhythm, riff and vocal intonation, OMs 2006 album Conference of the Birds blends metal, chant, drone, dub and psychedelia. The groups lyrics expound upon the structure of the universe, potentiality and freedom from the physical body. Conference of the Birds is a fully realized work from a forward-thinking band at their peak." -Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: OM Title: Variations on a Theme Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "OM reunites one of the most powerful rhythm sections in rock music: Al Cisneros [bass, vocals] and Chris Hakius [drums], both ex-members of the legendary Sleep. Variations on a Theme is comprised of three long songs employing a series of rhythmic chants whose cadence-like textural drive conveys flight. The albums numerous lyrics serve as symbolist vehicles to a state outside the field of time and space. Variations on a Theme is a series of vibrations and flow. The opening track,On The Mountain at Dawn is the thematic blueprint of the entire album; a transportive series of differentiated verse with sets of solid groove. Kapils Theme furthers the motif while the closer Annapurna breaks the spell, where the final wash of sound reflects the infinite." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: OM/SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Doomcrunchbuddhafuzzspree. Thats what Misha Mengleberg wouldve called OMs side of this 7-inch single. If you think that once the music hits the air and it can no longer be "contained," then your needle hasnt slid through this groove because its heavier than a flightless bird. MR. CHASNY doesnt remove anything from the scale either. His side, "Assyrian Blood," contains what seems to be subliminal fuzz/noise blips-like bugs hitting your windshield except that you can hear them. Thankfully they coalesce into a stunning guitar solo that cuts through the chant and goes straight for the jugular. Both tracks are exclusive to this release." - Holy Mountain.
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Artist: ONNA Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Reissue of this 1983 psychedelic punk single from Japanese artist KEIZO MIYANISH. "Cortigiana dal velo" and "Mune o tsutsunde" pair acid guitar and bass over tripped out drum programming and loops to produce a psychedelic masterpiece that fits somewhere between the first White Stains seven-inch and Les Rallizes Denudes oeuvre circa 1980. We hope this release and an upcoming retrospective CD will vastly expand their profile to music lovers worldwide." -Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: ONNA Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Underground cartoonist KEIZO MIYANISHI left behind one of the greatest documents from the 1980s. Self-released on his own Cupid & Psyche label, the single contains two songs, "Cortigiana dal velo" and "Mune o tutunde," which pair guitars and bass over some of the most tripped-out drum programming of all time. This psychedelic masterpiece ranks alongside the first White Stains 7-inch as one of the all-time greatest from the era. There is an outtake from these sessions, "Haha nareba koso," which is just as amazing, and the three songs would fit in a Terminal Boredom discussion about acid punk classics from Crawling Chaos to Chrome. In 2007, ONNA reappeared and released a double-CDR with his partner, dancer BARAE. A track appeared on PSFs Tokyo Flashback 6, and the label also released an album titled Katawa in 2008. In addition to the studio material from the 7-inch, this CD includes two outtakes from Katawa, a solo piece from an obscure cassette release, and four live tracks from 1983 featuring a young MICHIO KURIHARA (WHITE HEAVEN, GHOST, BORIS) on second guitar. These are the first Kurihara recordings and come from a long-deleted double live Onna CD released in the early 1990s. This CD is packaged in a mini-LP sleeve with a booklet reproducing flyers, photos and posters from the era. Miyanishi and Onna have made significant but largely unnoticed contributions to the Japanese underground. Hopefully this release will vastly expand their profile worldwide." -Holy Mountain. Split release with Tlon Uqbar. |
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Artist: PAYNE, ADAM Title: Organ Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Were you one of those kids who was distraught after discovering Black Flag was more influenced by ZZ Top and The Grateful Dead than The MC5 or Stooges? Well, you might wanna strap on a stronger carabiner before scaling these cliffs because youre more likely to discover pop gems than a stoned mystic in a cave. Organ is an anthem of Southern California patriotism with all the thrills of dragging in Lodi and peyote-munched soul-wandering in Silver Lake. This album is power-pop perfection, the Paisley Underground finally done right. Theres a big difference between playing every instrument and being a one-man band. Suffice it to say that ADAM PAYNE (RESIDUAL ECHOES) is a one-man band akin to Emitt Rhodes broadcast over solid-state transmitters. Maybe Grant Hart has the better voice while Bob Mould churned out better lyrics. What if the Kirkwoods melded into a creature that couldnt punch itself? Adam Payne, as one band, has made an LP that matches the chops and hooks of Captain Trundlows Sky Company or the bits of The Only Ones that are consistently lifted. The rumors that Payne was asked to produce the next Mudcrutch album have yet to be confirmed. Organ opens like Up The Academy but ends like Zabriskie Point in frustrated abandon that only leaves the listener wiser. Includes a free MP3 download." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: RESIDUAL ECHOES Title: California Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "After returning to their native state of California from a national tour, RESIDUAL ECHOES went in to the studio immediately, for their most cohesive effort yet. California is comprised of four songs. "White Cloud" and "Julie Patchouli" could be called "pop songs," and they are rock and roll to the fullest, but also ensconced in luscious, freak-out arrangements further enhanced by a select group of special guests. The second side of the LP is a suite dedicated to the state of California complete with references ranging from the construction of the railroads, the natural beauty of the land and the mating rituals of elephant seals. It ends with a distorted take on Los Angeles via UK-colored glasses with the title track which erupts into epic, pulsing, skronk-raunch riffs that cease to abate for the duration of the songs 10-minute length (all the while making references to summer, SST records, earthquakes and helicopters flying through the streets of Hollywood seeking out pillaging Slayer fans. Really. Its all there). The fourth release of deep-fried, DIY psych-rock from Santa Cruz guitarist ADAM PAYNE . For fans of Comets On Fire, Monoshock, and the Golden State." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: RESIDUAL ECHOES Title: Phoenician Flu and Ancient Ocean Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The sophomore release from ADAM PAYNE under his RESIDUAL ECHOES banner, and another seething mishmash of psychedelia, krautrock, and free-noise magic. A staggering seven-track blend of self-recordings and studio numbers that runs wild from endless riff-sanity to billowing aural smoke to fuzzy pop, reverbed noise, depraved psychedelic dub, odes to the acoustic guitar, and Monoshock-like rock glory. Were generally considered to be "most awesome" at the recent Arthurfest." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: RESIDUAL ECHOES Title: Phoenician Flu and Ancient Ocean Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The sophomore release from ADAM PAYNE under his RESIDUAL ECHOES banner, and another seething mishmash of psychedelia, krautrock, and free-noise magic. A staggering seven-track blend of self-recordings and studio numbers that runs wild from endless riff-sanity to billowing aural smoke to fuzzy pop, reverbed noise, depraved psychedelic dub, odes to the acoustic guitar, and Monoshock-like rock glory. Were generally considered to be "most awesome" at last years Arthurfest." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: RESIDUAL ECHOES Title: Residual Echoes Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "The Residual Echoes were formed by Adam Payne after he moved to Santa Cruz and met the encouraging forces of Ethan Miller (Comets on Fire) and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance). They have blossomed into one of that citys finest groups. Their sound is a vibrant collage of everything that has ever happened in music, all deftly manipulated and manicured by Mr. Payne into some of the most farfreaking-out jams ever heard." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: SHINING PATH, THE Title: Chocolate Gasoline Format: 12" Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The new 12-inch from THE SHINING PATH- ILYA MONOSOV AND PRESTON SWIRNOFF. While their eponymous album exists in the world of post-SST black-clad psychedelia and noise, the group decided that they had gone far enough in said direction and realigned themselves. Chocolate Gasoline has a less harsh demeanor, a la Accelerator-era Royal Trux if the Stones-meter was set a little closer to "Under Cover of the Night" than "Dancin with Mr. D," especially on the opener, "Lonely Hearts Killer." The remaining tracks stretch out via influences ranging from hard dub, early PiL, no wave, block-banging hip hop, and kraut-dance/industrial, if one could imagine a version of Viva more about bikinis than white overalls. Nonetheless, all of this can be played with real instruments and "rocked out" in a live setting, which is what the group intends to do." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: SHINING PATH, THE Title: The Shining Path Format: LP + CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The Shining Path is the rock band version of minimalist duo Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff. Like This Heat or Metabolist, The Shining Path are a Can/Faust-loving group that also exhales expansive psychedelic guitar excess with hints of Greg Ginn and the High Rise discography while tripping balls to a violent, throbbing, not-always-so-steady, Suicide-like rhythm. Lusciously packaged in an old school tip-on jacket, the package includes a CD version of the album because, seriously, its what youll want to listen to wielding a golf club with your upper body outside the sunroof of your car as you steer with your feet. The soundtrack to all that is good and true in this world." - Holy Mountain |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Compathia Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "While the acoustic based projections of Six Organs of Admittance have been pigeonholed by some as a chance-operated celestial jam unit, the group has always been about songs, and nowhere is this more apparent than on their fourth full length album, an eight-song cycle that mixes the strengths of Ben Chasnys acoustic and electric guitar with his knack for placing this on top of disparate and subtle atmospheric backgrounds. The live favorite (and rare single) Somewhere Between has been redone and finalized in a fantastic new version featuring sitar by Comets on Fires Ethan Miller. The delicate acoustic strum of the album is challenged at the end of the record on the epic Only the Sun Knows, which features some extremely heavy electric destruction guitar from Mr. Miller before Chasny takes back control and lands the album on solid ground." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Dark Noontide Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Dark Noontide is the third full length release from Six Organs of Admittance. While listeners were pleasantly surprised by Ben Chasnys out-of-nowhere acid-folk genius on earlier releases, Dark Noontide comes in a notch or two higher with another spectacular merging of dreamy, hypnotic, finger-picked melodies and psychedelia concrète, not to mention some very fine fuzz guitar. Eight incredible tracks seamlessly blend powerful blues foot-stomp, backward interludes, strange strings feedback, dark, tabla-infused vibrations, and the amazing debut of Chasnys electric guitar as a lead instrument.Minds can only be blown by this album. Initiation is only a matter of time. This is the dream follow-up release that fans of Six Organs of Admittance have been waiting for." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Dust & Chimes Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Holy Mountain is beside itself with the limited edition reissue of Dust & Chimes by Six Organs of Admittance, Ben Chasnys second amazing, underground folk-psych project from behind Californias Redwood curtain. Heavy, acoustic guitar and mumbled vocalizations merge with out-there jamming in a style that has been compared to guys with LPs on Takoma, though Dust & Chimes is actually closer than anyone else is ever going to come to pantsing the first two Tyrannosaurus Rex albums. The sun is tanging, people. Really. - Holy Mountain. "After a brief, textural opening, Dust and Chimes rekindles the aplomb of "Visnu" with a mortal vs. guitar death dance called "Assyria"; it soon subsides into a calmer, introspective mood. The simple riffs are rooted in American folk, but suggestive of an Ottoman court. Six Organs stick with bare-bones song arrangements - most cuts are just dressed up with overdubbed chimes and bells, and three are direct-to-tape acoustic slices. The understated nature of the songs - often serving primarily as launch pads for extended acoustic extemporization - dictates that the album grows on the listener rather than convinces in a single play. The solos are delicate, subdued, as is the album as a whole. The structure to the songs may be too similar, but the mood is so pleasant that one barely notices, especially since the songs are broken up by other types of pieces." -Muckraker. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: For Octavio Paz Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "CD reissue of sold-out limited edition vinyl. Since the release of Six Organs of Admittances selftitled debut in 1998, Ben Chasny has played pure guitar within individual songs, but For Octavio Paz is his first full record to explore the guitar inside and out, solo and over-dubbed, steel and nylon string (in fact, For Octavio Paz is the first Six Organs album to feature the reverberations of a nylon string guitar). What really sets Chasny apart from the other modern Fahey worshipers is that Chasnys pantheon is willing to accept a wider array of other guitarists into the lexicon -- Peter Walker or Richard Youngs, for example -- not to mention the fact that he can stand the sound of a Stratocaster. This is the definitive guitar record from Six Organs of Admittance." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Six Organs of Admittance Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "In 1998 Ben Chasny self-released an LP of his "acoustic based project[ions]" under the name Six Organs of Admittance. The resulting five-song LP is a masterpiece of diverse elements using acoustic and electric guitars, a detuned violin, organ, electronics and koto. The material covers a lot of ground: theres an acid folk duet, an epic, three-part space suite, and two short concrète-like pieces that entice hidden memories of having bees in your mouth. The final sting is the magnificent chaos of "Race from Visnu"-- a nine-minute raga in which the strings of the acoustic guitar are battled by Chasny who ruthlessly punishes them for their ability to make sound. In addition, Chasny has also included two bonus tracks from an elusive 8-inch lathe-cut that was sold to cover the cost of a plane ticket. Holy Mountain is proud to be able to make this music available once again. Rare 1998 LP reissued on CD with two rarer bonus tracks, all on CD for the first time." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: STARFUCKERS Title: Metallic Diseases Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Originally released 20 years ago, Metallic Diseases is the most intense blast of guitar squalling heat never to find its proper audience. Truly unhinged at times ("Cans"), sublimely dreamlike and understated at others ("Shake Off"), this debut album fuses the best lineage of droning, hard-rocking sounds ("USA" makes a perfect amalgam of Suicides "Rocket USA" and the Stooges "1969") with a gestalt that pushes it right over the cliff, as "Western Man" is the kind of prophetic call to arms that Spacemen 3 tried to communicate through "Revolution" (itself a rewrite of "Black to Comm"). The few who heard this LP when it was released flipped out, as it deserved to be lauded along with its immediate precursors like Union Carbide Productions and Les Thugs-that rare blend of punk / noise / psych / groove that they just never made enough of to go around. Indeed, the LP was almost impossible to find Stateside at the time, leaving the few diehards to put it on want lists in MRR. Now, Holy Mountain and Tloen Uqbar have made it easy for everyone to simply step up to the altar and take a sip of this precious fluid while it is in season-one more time. Includes a free download." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: SUFI MIND GAME Title: Shango-Grozny Format: 7" Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: SUISHOU NO FUNE Title: Prayer for Chibi Format: Double CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "SUISHOU NO FUNE originated in Tokyos fertile psychedelic scene. After landing a spot on PSFs Tokyo Flashback 5 and releasing Where the Spirits Are in 2006, the group ventured out from Japan and took every opportunity to play across the United States and Europe. During one of these trips in the spring of 2007, the group went into a recording studio for a few days and laid down these massive new tracks. Prayer for Chibi might be the ultimate Suishou no Fune album; with two disks and more than two hours of music, the group finally stretches out and lets their music flow like it never has before. Much about Suishou no Fune has had to do with volume, but this new set of duets adds forays into starker songwriting and a languid serenity that works to make one feel as if it were necessary to hold ones breath through the entire album." -Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: SUISHOU NO FUNE Title: Prayer For Chibi Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "SUISHOU NO FUNE originated in Tokyos fertile psychedelic scene. After landing a spot on PSFs Tokyo Flashback 5 and releasing Where the Spirits Are in 2006, the group ventured out from Japan and took every opportunity to play across the United States and Europe. During one of these trips in the spring of 2007, the group went into a recording studio for a few days and laid down these massive new tracks. Prayer for Chibi might be the ultimate Suishou no Fune album; with two disks and more than two hours of music, the group finally stretches out and lets their music flow like it never has before. Much about Suishou no Fune has had to do with volume, but this new set of duets adds forays into starker songwriting and a languid serenity that works to make one feel as if it were necessary to hold ones breath through the entire album." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: SUISHOU NO FUNE Title: Where the Spirits Are Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Formed in 1999 as a duo of female guitarist PIRAKO KURENAI and male guitarist KAGEO, SUISHOU NO FUNE have been making some of the most charmingly chaotic dream music coming out of Japan. Their sound contains subcutaneous elements of no-wave energy mixed with psychedelic rock à la early Fushitsusha or Kousokuya. Other songs approach balladry with oddly beautiful twinned vocals and distorted guitars. They have performed around Tokyo with a list of people who could succinctly be described as everybody and were even invited to play Scotlands Weekend festival in 2005." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: TIVOL Title: Early Teeth Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"A collection of tracks from Finnish acid rock combo TIVOL. Four tracks of throbbing, violent and aggressive psychedelic rock that has nothing to do with subtlety. The bands already hypnotic material is further enhanced by screamed vocals that do not seem to emanate from this earth. Comprised of four tracks taken from two extremely limited edition CDRs released on the 267 Lattajjaaa and Time-Lag labels, all of which have been re-released with vastly improved sound quality and charming new artwork silkscreened by ROB FISK of The Free Porcupine Society." - Holy Mountain. "Freaking genius! I cant recommend this enough. For any and all fans of the Finnish underground, and psych/kraut in general, Tivol is a must own. Totally fucking excellent. 9/10"-Brad Rosen, Foxy Digitalis.
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Artist: VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Named after an 1870s tome of lectures on the Apocalypse, RICK TOMLINSONs VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS distills years of divergent musical exploration that followed his much-acclaimed VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS debut (Twisted Nerve, 2007). This time around, multi-instrumentalist and sound sculptor Tomlinson has assembled a full-fledged rock group. On their self-titled new release, infernal and primitive energies mingle with the bucolic reveries that won him previous acclaim. "Open Lighted Doorway" begins the album with a glimmer of the pastoral sounds that mark Tomlinsons earlier recordings, soaked in reverb as if corrupted by time; the monolithic "Kommune" follows with rolling guitars and rhythmic layers of primal percussion. "The Burning Mountain" erupts like flames from an Anatolian mirage-a tide from the East. The purely acoustic "Dry Leaves" offers the listener a momentary respite before "Dalaelven" breaks the spell with its vertiginous howl. This blinding acid haze is broken only by the stripped-down vocal harmonies of the introspective closer "Disappearances." Received a 9/10 rating in NME, a 4/5 rating in MOJO, and 4/5 rating in Uncut." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: WHITE/LICHENS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "WHITE/LICHENS is the collaboration between MATT CLARK and JEREMY LEMOS heavy guitar drone group WHITE/LIGHT and ROBERT LOWEs LICHENS, who adds his voice, guitar and piano. While White/Lights name was inspired by the Velvets feedback-drenched "White Light/White Heat," they also claim as influences Earth 2, Fripp and Eno, and the guitar solo on the title track from Maggot Brain. The albums five tracks are named after demons from the Goetia, evoked and compelled into obedience by King Solomon, contained in a bronze vessel that was sealed with magic symbols. As a result, the music is alight with giant, pulsating fire storms of oceanic sound and shorter pieces that are the sonic equivalent to opening cans containing mechanical dreams. There is a magic to these sounds that surely goes back to that first electronic musician in Egypt over 2,000 years ago. The tools might be different but the spectacular results are the same." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: WHOS YOUR FAVORITE SON, GOD? Title: Out of Body Diva Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "... one LP what got a lotve play while I was gone was the debut by WHOS YOUR FAVORITE SON, GOD? and man, is it a keeper! Seeem live down at SXSW was great, but the record fans the flames of hybridized (post) prog-swoggle and (proto) metal-mania like just about nobody else. Whos Your Favorite Son, God? ably combine the dramatic and operatic pretense of Magma with the cool, aggressive delivery of MX-80 Sound and if youre thinkin "thats somethin I gotta hear," youre right. My mom (remember her?) says they sound like Mahavishnu Orchestra shouldve if they were men (once you hear this youll know what she means). Even the little Greek dude who delivers my beer opined "everything that Heavy The World isnt, Whos Your Favorite Son, God? is." And who am I to argue with a Greek? They invented civilization, buster! What have you ever done?"-Roland Woodbe, Siltblog. |
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Artist: WOODEN SHJIPS Title: Dos Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "How many music bloggers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, computer screens are backlit. Here we have a WOODEN SHJIPS record the world saw coming-not titled II, Sophomore, or Second, but Dos. The group maintains its strident pace like a silverfish rave in perfectly folded bedsheets, with more bounce per ounce as life goes jogging with bopping heads and digging heels. Five numbers whose style might fit as cozily at La Cave in 1968 as at Ibiza in 1988. Natural loops with just enough vocals take you where the khakis and the cut-offs play together. Dos sounds off as the inauguration speech of a group accepting the minimalist psych bop crown that once adorned the likes of Neu and Loop. If possible, their brand of whipping fuzz hooks have gotten groovier. Wooden Shjips debut album and various singles have established them as one of the best psych bands to inhabit this earthly realm. LP version to follow." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: WOODEN SHJIPS Title: Dos Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "How many music bloggers does it take to change a lightbulb? None, computer screens are backlit. Here we have a WOODEN SHJIPS record the world saw coming-not titled II, Sophomore, or Second, but Dos. The group maintains its strident pace like a silverfish rave in perfectly folded bedsheets, with more bounce per ounce as life goes jogging with bopping heads and digging heels. Five numbers whose style might fit as cozily at La Cave in 1968 as at Ibiza in 1988. Natural loops with just enough vocals take you where the khakis and the cut-offs play together. Dos sounds off as the inauguration speech of a group accepting the minimalist psych bop crown that once adorned the likes of Neu and Loop. If possible, their brand of whipping fuzz hooks have gotten groovier. Wooden Shjips debut album and various singles have established them as one of the best psych bands to inhabit this earthly realm. LP includes a free download coupon." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: WOODEN SHJIPS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: US Price: $15.00 |
| "Wooden Shjips are from San Francisco, but the concentrated ferocity of the freakouts on their two very-underground releases-a white-label ten-inch EP (the band gave away the first 300 copies) and a clear-vinyl single ("Dance, California")-arrives via the 70s Germanic-guitar lunacy of Guru Guru and the confrontational repetition of VU."-David Fricke, Rolling Stone. |
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Artist: WOODEN SHJIPS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "WOODEN SHJIPS, a quartet from San Francisco heavily influenced by the experimentalism of psychedelia, classical minimalism, and garage rock excess, started as an experiment in rhythmic primitivism and group improvisation. The current roster brings a more structured rock approach to its performances, utilizing a traditional lineup of drums, bass, organ, guitar, and vocals. "Wooden Shjips are from San Francisco, but the concentrated ferocity of the freakouts on their two very-underground releases-a white-label ten-inch EP (the band gave away the first 300 copies) and a clear-vinyl single ("Dance, California")-arrives via the 70s Germanic-guitar lunacy of Guru Guru and the confrontational repetition of VU."-David Fricke, Rolling Stone." - Holy Mountain. Now on vinyl! |
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Artist: WOODEN SHJIPS Title: Vol. 1 Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "THE WOODEN SHJIPS earliest material was released on vinyl, pressed in small quantities that were either free or hard to come by and are now hopelessly out of print. Who is Holy Mountain to keep you away from the rush of "Shrinking Moon for You"? Vol. 1 collects all the tracks from the free 10-inch, the Dance, California 7-inch, and the SOL 7-inch. The band will be out playing live, in their own nimble way, this spring and summer, road-testing new material for their next record. On tour this spring and summer. LP version forthcoming." -Holy Mountain |
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Artist: WOODEN SHJIPS Title: Vol. 1 Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "THE WOODEN SHJIPS earliest material was released on vinyl, pressed in small quantities that were either free or hard to come by and are now hopelessly out of print. Who is Holy Mountain to keep you away from the rush of "Shrinking Moon for You"? Vol. 1 collects all the tracks from the free 10-inch, the Dance, California 7-inch, and the SOL 7-inch. The band will be out playing live, in their own nimble way, this spring and summer, road-testing new material for their next record. On tour this summer. LP version forthcoming. LP version includes a 24"x24" poster." - Holy Mountain |
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Artist: YOGA Title: Megafauna Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Understand this: Yoga dispenses a sinister frailty of howling swells in hissing static that combusts into crawling shock heaps, to the effect of Mayhem performing Twin Peaks incidentals in a prairie recorded by The KLF. A brief description casts them as black metals answer to Throbbing Gristle. The texture-based rendering of their compositions sails them on a strange sea between song and sound effect as it bobs along the waves like a dead mans bottled message. Aspects of Goblin rehearsals in dead hills is interrupted as Monster Zero carves mountain sides with lightning breath. Oscillating leads pummel into churning riffs as if "Caledonia" was performed in an echo chamber near Lodi, New Jersey. The extrinsic properties of this work may result in disambiguation." - Holy Mountain. Features Sam Meringue (aka Explorers (Not Not Fun), James Ferraros 90210 etc). |
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Artist: ZDRASTVOOTIE Title: 2 Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "ZDRASTVOOTIEs 2 is a perplexing album. It folds the far corners of some of the worlds most out-there progressive rock with deep, deliberate singer-songwriter type vocals and lyrics. It is both a collection of confusing, dark and fragmented meditations and defiantly odd music, yet it is far more accessible and playful than one would expect. The recorded debut of DREW ADAMs vocals is imposing and grand-he sings like a crooner. The album is still marked by the groups gifts as songwriters and players, as the songs are disjointed and the arrangements abrasive. The material is achingly beautiful, and lovely melodies appear throughout the release. This new album will sound, to most, like no other music on Earth." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: ZDRASTVOOTIE Title: III Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: US Price: $16.50 |
| "ZDRASTVOOTIE creates ornate musical soundcastles with of guitars, bass, drums, sax and DREW ADAMs inimitable vocals. III is the spectacular new album from Portlands kings of angular progressive songcraft. The high point of the LP is the groups masterful take on the folk standard "Golden Ring Around the Susan Girl" which sounds like it was filtered through Sonny Sharrocks "Black Woman." The LP was pressed in an edition of 350 copies to be sold on the bands first tour of the United States and Canada. Silkscreened covers and a fully illustrated comic book insert complete the package." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: ZDRASTVOOTIE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "A few years ago Santa Cruz avant-rock group ZDRASTVOOTIE decided to ditch their vocalist and concentrate on the unique interplay they had begun to achieve with two guitars and drums. This new configuration recorded an album of material that was eventually scrapped because their sound had morphed into something different by the time everything was ready to go. Zdrastvootie are currently a very focused entity, with increasingly complex songs a la King Crimson, Hampton Grease Band or Doc at the Radar Station-era Magic Band. While they have recently added a bassist, and guitar-player DREW ADAMS has begun to sing, Zdrastvootie still orbits this zone and will continue to until you are very aware that they practice all the time." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: ZODIACS Title: Gone Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Deep one-percenter scuzz damage from THE ZODIACS (aka ZODIAC SPEEDCREEP), a group whose members-CLAY RUBY, EZEKIEL BLACKOUTS III (aka KEITH WOOD) and GRIM JIM GYPSY (aka JAMES TOTH) -are also involved in HUSH ARBORS, SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN and WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE. Gone is full of l-o-n-g jams that bring to mind such wild ones as German Oak, Magic Muscle and foggy dreams of The Stooges moonlighting as a Hawkwind tribute band during the off season. Zodiacs burn a heavy trail to the days when outlaw biker clubs roasted and consumed whole horses in celebration of the wild life. Get your wings!" - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: ZOMES Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Holy Mountain Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "A lot of people mention the "L" word when talking (or whispering) about Asa Osborne. Its not Lungfish were talking about here (he was their guitar player), but rather "Levine," as in Keith Levine. It seems Mr. Osborne witnessed a fight with Keith Levine as one of the combatants. Levine subsequently lost a tooth and--this is the strange part--Osborne grabbed it and has used the tooth as a guitar pick ever since. Weird. Zomes self-titled album is full of beautiful Seesselberg-sized chunks of loop-like melodies that effervesce while Osborne brings them to life. There is a cinematic quality to the material here that recalls "library music," East German Indianerfilmen soundtracks, and even Blues Control at their most humid." - Holy Mountain. |
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Artist: GENGRAS, M. GEDDES Title: Test Leads Format: LP Label: Holy Mountain/Intercoastal Artists Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Known for his recent collaborative record with SUN ARAW and THE CONGOS, not to mention as a member of ROBEDOOR, POCAHAUNTED and a host of other bands, M. GEDDES GENGRAS steps out on his own for a proper full-length, operating under his god-given name. Here Gengras lets loose with two LP sides of sprawling synthscapes. Test Leads calls to mind Klaus Schulzes Dune album or perhaps the Dune soundtrack scored by Toto and Brian Eno, but will also appeal to fans of Conrad Schnitzler and Manuel Gottsching, as well as Robert Hampson (Loop, Main), Bill Laswell, Roger Eno and Nurse With Wound. Thrown into the mix is some Sky Records / Wolfgang Riechmann-style (cold) poppiness. In a contemporary setting, Gengras could share a bill with anyone from the modern indie / pop / weirdo / drone scenes and fit right in. His suites range from odd pinball-esque plinking to cold, dystopian soundscapes, touching on all points between; Test Leads would sound good alongside releases on Mordant Music, Touch Music or Innovative Communication. These tracks could easily score the original Tron, The Black Hole or just about any episode of Nova. Includes digital download coupon." -Holy Mountain/Intercoastal Artists. |
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Artist: BURNT HILLS Title: Live Format: LP Label: Holy Room Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Hand picked from the treasure trove..a beautifully crushing live recording! professionally mastered and cut to sweet black wax. The full band blazing away at the pinnacle of their cosmic live explorations... Stunning dual sided screened artwork... As with all "Holy Room" releases, this will be a one time only pressing...limited to 139 numbered copies, black jackets with deluxe gold flake screen printing!" - Holy Room. |
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Artist: WOVOKA Title: Paste De Format: CDR Label: Holy Room Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "~this is the absolute pinnacle of the wovoka family jams with spaced chanted voice, melted down mountains of rippling and snarling electric guitars, waves of sweet strummed acoustic guitars and galloping hand percussion torching us all to join them in their journey to the outer limits of time and space, there are massive heavy vibes on this one, supreme paste on packaging with "vinyl" cdrs in a numbered edition of 199 copies" - Holy Room. Double LP "soon" on Time-Lag. |
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Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Apocalyptic Grades 2005 A.D. Format: 7" Label: Home Blitz Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"..great individualist punk rock much in the same way Half Japanese is. There are times where you have to say "What the fuck?" and that is good. Man, I really dig this record. Refreshingly no bullshit and all its own thing." �?? Scott Soriano, S-S Records. "Wow! A lotta punk singles pass through here and most go unnoted because theyre so by the numbers. The debut record by New Jerseys Homeblitz, Apocalyptic Grades 2005 AD (Homeblitz 7"), is a different kettle of stink. Although one senses that the underlying concept is not inimical to the concept of pop-punk, the execution goes far beyond that. The final track, "Hey!" does have the same kind of lost yard jumble classicism as, say, Mike Fornatales "Kickin Chickens", but the lead off tune has an avant-pumice edge that recalls nothing less than The Electric Eels "Cyclotron". And 28 years after the fact, I can still remember my first hearing of that side, in Andy Schwartzs old pad on East 10th Street. Since Ill be dead in another 28 years, this wont have the same kind of personal legs, but what the heck?" �?? Byron Coley, the Wire.
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Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Stupid Street Format: 7" Label: Home Blitz Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Princetons finest drag their equipment out to the corner of Mercer & Hibben Streets and perform a few songs to cars and a strange "figure that appeared in the distance." Two smart poppy songs that are held together with brittle string. The Modern Lovers and Velvets lurk in the background but the execution could have landed this on the Secret Center label. A great follow up to an equally great debut. Complete with passing car sounds. Hopefully more Home Blitz will come to the surface." �?? Scott Soriano, S-S Records.
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Artist: DEMDIKE STARE/HYPE WILLIAMS Title: Meet Shangaan Electro Format: 12" Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "Essential installment in the Shangaan remix series, with futuristic pop duo Hype Williams turning out a mesmerizing tribute, lagging somewhere ages behind the party people, achingly soulful and lost. If you have to ask what the Demdike Stare side is like, then you dont deserve it." -Honest Jons. |
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Artist: MANGANYI, FOSTER Title: Ndzi Teke Riendzo No. 1 Format: Double LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Foster Manganyi is a pastor from South Africa. His sublime music shares with Honest Jons compilation Shangaan Electro (HJR 052CD/LP) a startling palette of sampled, synthesized sounds -- the signature whistle and marimba, no bass, a little wonky high‐life -- and rough, fast, skittering drum patterns. Yet these are gospel songs, intensely sincere, brimming with aching, plaintive, mournful spirituality, without a trace of R&B, mangled or not; and however fractured, multi‐faceted and fresh the music comes across, the surging lines and harmonies of the support singers are unmistakably rooted in the traditional vocal music of South Africa. Just in time for Christmas, this is the reissue of a hit cassette from 2008." -Honest Jons |
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Artist: MMM/OLD APPARATUS Title: Meet Tshetsha Boys And Shangaan Electro Format: 12" Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "2012 repress. Characteristically murderous MMM disco-house -- sharp and succinct, witty and hedonistic, light and hard-grooving -- gallops away like a thoroughbred with the original marimba synth-line, and expertly excavates the fragile soulfulness of the Tshetshas singing. Threaded by the same marimbas, the Old Apparatus workout is a cavernous, atmospheric, stately stepper, reverberating and suspenseful, with splashing cymbals, horror vocals and miasmatic scraps of melody." -Honest Jons. |
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Artist: MOONDOG Title: Moondog And His Friends Format: 10" Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| 7 track 10" release, originally released by Epic. "Originally released in 1953 - a fantastic collection of recordings from the eccentric genius that was Moondog. This mini-album features Moondogs pioneering techniques in tape overdubbing - he harmonises with himself on voice, double bass and home-made drums. Touches of his classical music education are underpinned by his signature and irresistible Native American rhythms. Epic, prophetic, naive - seriously lovable music. 10" vinyl only release." Tracks: "Dragon´s Teeth - Voices of Spring," "Oasis," "Tree Frog - Be a Hobo," "Instrumental Round - Double Bass Duo - Why spend the dark night with you?," "Theme and Variations - Rim Shots," "Suite No. 1," Suite No. 2" - Honest Jons. |
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Artist: MOONDOG Title: Playing Moondogs Music Format: 10" Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
| "Recorded in 1955, released on his own short lived Moondog label. 4 tracks of manic saxophone and snare drum mayhem. You will not find an original of this anywhere. Blind from the age of 17, classically trained in music, Moondog aka Louis Hardin left the countryside in the late 1940s to busk on the streets of New York, playing percussion instruments of his own creation. He later became the darling of the NY arts & music set. He also recorded for Folkways, Woody Hermans Mars label, then Prestige and CBS." - Honest Jons. CD of this was previously issued in 2003 by Moondogs Corner. |
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Artist: MOONDOG Title: The Viking of Sixth Avenue Format: Double LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| Tremendous gatefold presentation and one of HJRs most impressive documents to date. "This new release from Honest Jons is the first overview of Moondogs amazing artistic life -- including recordings spanning from 1949 till 1995, with numerous 78s and various other vanished records revived for the first time (not to mention a couple of Weegee photographs!). Though the compilation is rooted in the decades Moondog regularly lived rough in New York City, performing on street corners -- the Viking Of Sixth Avenue -- at the same time it lays the musics claim to the future. It makes vivid sense of his inspiration of fans from Igor Stravinsky to Bob Dylan, Mr Scruff to Frank Zappa, Charlie Parker to Elvis Costello, Janis Joplin to Anthony And The Johnsons. As Moondog put it himself in 1989 -- I still love horned helmets and swords and spears. I like to feel that Im loyal to my past. I wouldnt want to be on the street anymore. But, you know, that led to a lot of things. Moondog was born Louis Thomas Hardin on May 26, 1916, in Marysville, Kansas. Noting the five-year-olds interest in percussion, his father -- an Episcopal minister -- took him to see an Arapaho Sun Dance. During the ritual the budding musician was allowed to sit on Chief Yellow Calfs lap and play the tom-tom. This experience -- and later playing tom-tom and flute with the Blackfoot tribe in Idaho at another Sun Dance -- would have a profound and lasting effect on the development of his own music and ideas. The American Indians have this basic beat, Moondog said in 1995, a heartbeat in two speeds -- a walking beat (in twos) and a running beat (in four). I use those rhythms to this day. In fact it just came to me recently that American Indian music is just so syncopated that any jazz musician -- especially in the swing era -- would see a clear connection between jazz and Indian music. Those songs are not improvised -- theyve been handed down from generation to generation -- theyre extremely old. I think of America as an Old World too, maybe older culturally than Europe. And elsewhere: Harmonically, my music is the same as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms; rhythmically, it goes back to the past -- the swing rhythms of the Indians. You really couldnt find anything more syncopated." - Honest Jons. |
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Artist: TREMBLING BELLS Title: Abandoned Love Format: LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "LP version. Following on from the unanimous critical acclaim of their debut, Carbeth, Glasgow-based Trembling Bells second album deepens their signature synthesis of traditional folk forms with the romanticism of country music, the deceptive complexity of Medieval music and the swagger of classic rock. Anthemic visions of the British landscape as a fantastic and treacherous netherworld are set to vying country-style duets, Bowie-esque stomps and the mysterious, serpentine melodies of Earlie Musik. Baroque, stately, flowery, richly-orchestrated British folk, with moments of acid burn. Members include: Alex Neilson (Jandek, Taurpis Tula, Current 93, Six Organs Of Admittance, etc.), Lavinia Blackwall (Directing Hand), Simon Shaw (Scatter) and Mike Hastings (The Pendulums)." - Honest Jons. |
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Artist: TREMBLING BELLS Title: Carbeth Format: LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "This is the hotly-tipped debut of new new-folk outfit, Trembling Bells, masterminded by protean drummer Alex Neilson, one of the UKs leading young improvisers. From the ashes of Scatter, a Glasgow-based collective which long anticipated the free-folk phenomenon, emerges a new song-based venture. Having served apprenticeships with some uniquely talented songwriters (Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Current 93, Alasdair Roberts, Baby Dee, Red Krayola, Six Organs Of Admittance, Josephine Foster, amongst them), Neilson sets out with the group to reanimate the hidden, mythic landscapes of Yorkshire and Glasgow (in particular) via a love of canonical rock, early music, and traditional folk. Featuring the diverse musical talents of medieval music scholar and psychedelic siren, Lavinia Blackwall, Venusian bluesman, Ben Reynolds, Lucky Luke progenitor Simon Shaw, plus trombonist George Murray, and viola player Aby Vuillamy from Scatter and the Bill Wells Group. Carbeth is absolutely sweeping, grandiose baroque-folk like a newly-minted Pentangle or Fairport Convention, but with strange keyboard/horn arrangements, and sometimes thunderous percussion. This isnt music for tatted lace-wearers, but for folk-rockers wearing sturdy woolen travelling capes for backwards horse-rides through a long-lost Britain." - Honest Jons. |
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Artist: TREMBLING BELLS Title: The Constant Pageant Format: LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Glasgow four‐piece Trembling Bells release their third slice of Caledonia dreaming, following on from the acclaimed Carbeth (HJR 043CD/LP) and Abandoned Love (HJR 047CD/LP). From its very first notes, The Constant Pageant flies the flag -- a banner of arms -- with a more confident, anthemic sound than ever before. Trembling Bells are 21st century troubadours who know their history, on a quest to connect with the core tradition of Song, and live deep within its mysteries. Medieval ballads, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen are amongst the guiding lights in a music that embraces British folk‐rock, American roots and electric psychedelia. The album title pays tribute to folkloric culture as "omnipresent in my thinking, and a source of personal joy and affirmation," says the Bells Alex Neilson. "A kind of florid, seething, creative wellspring that taints everything I do. Though, with this collection of songs, there were a number of other influences too. I think of traditional folk music as being like my first serious girlfriend, and all subsequent dalliances with other forms have been indelibly affected by it." Its a record of windswept bitterness and joyous elation: "Cold Heart Of Mine" is a paean to embattled lovers written in the shadow of Veronas ancient amphitheatre; "Where Do I Go From You" and "Torn Between Loves" describe doomed romance, dramatized by Mike Hastings screaming fuzz guitar. Theres also a strong sense of place. Neilsons native Yorkshire is the setting for "Goathland" -- home of folks first family, the McCarthy‐ Watersons (not to mention the BBCs Heartbeat) -- and "Otley Rock Oracle," in which a small Yorkshire market town is re‐imagined as a place of dead roads, where severed golden heads and cauliflower‐clouds clue in a young adept. Classical and early music come to the fore on "Colour Of Night" -- in which a medieval feast seems to be taking place behind the songs stately gavotte -- and the melancholic closer, "New Years Eves The Loneliest Night Of The Year," a tribute to favorite modern songwriters like Gordon Jenkins, Nelson Riddle and Hoagy Carmichael (with a cheeky aside about stolen Roman marbles). The Constant Pageant is a rhapsodic celebration of the power of Song, from one of the UKs most eclectic and inventive groups." -Honest Jons |
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Artist: V/A Title: Bellyachers, Listen: Songs From East Africa, 1938-46 Format: Double LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "This is part 1 of a 2LP set of vinyl versions of Honest Jons Something Is Wrong: Vintage Recordings From East Africa CD compilation -- selections from an HMV run of more than 400 78s -- recordings made in Uganda and Kenya from the mid‐1930s to the mid‐1950s. Part 1 encompasses this material circa 1938-1946, entitled Bellyachers, Listen: Songs From East Africa, 1938-46. Three main types of performance are featured (not forgetting a lovely early Kenyan big‐band calypso, as if straight from the pen of Lord Kitchener). Most are minstrelsy, with songs ranging dazzlingly through subjects including loneliness and death, bastards and cut‐off trousers, trains of fire and no‐good rich people, a murder mystery and a drunken punch‐up at a rumba party in Kampala, and metaphorical cocks, hard pedalling and kettles which wont boil. Other minstrels accompany themselves on various sorts of lyre, and guitars carrying the influences of U.S. country music and Congolese 78s, the influx of Congolese musicians, and the harmonies of Christian church music. There are also tough, raw contributions on button‐accordion and taarab music from the Swahili‐speaking communities of the east coast, and Arab and Indian communities in ports like Mombasa, which had imported Egyptian and Indian music since almost the start of the century. Lilting melodies are provided by violins or Indian harmoniums, sometimes also an oud, along with Indian or Arab percussion. Luxuriously presented, in a gatefold sleeve, with full notes, including extensive translation and haunting photographs. Recordings brilliantly restored at Abbey Road." -Honest Jons |
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Artist: V/A Title: Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted: Baghdad, 1925-1929 Format: Double LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Double LP version, in deluxe gatefold sleeve.This is the second in Honest Jons series of albums exploring the earliest 78s held in the EMI Hayes Archive, featuring recordings from Baghdad, originally commissioned by The Gramophone Company -- soon before it became EMI.Restored and remastered at Abbey Road.Package includes a booklet with full translations, rare photographs, and notes -- including an extensive interview with a citizen of Baghdad who knew many of the musicians here personally."-Honest Jons |
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Artist: V/A Title: Never the Same: Leave-Taking from the British Folk Revival 1970-1977 Format: Double LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| "Never The Same celebrates the lost years of British folk: the 1970s. As far as mass popularity goes, the folk scene most definitely peaked in the 1960s -- with Bert Jansch, Anne Briggs, Martin Carthy, Davy Graham and all. By the end of the sixties, according to conventional wisdom, it had morphed into folk rock (Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span) or singer-songwriters (Nick Drake and John Martyn), prior to disappearing into a netherworld of beards and real ale. But what the pop histories dont tell you is that the seventies were the real golden years for British folk music. The scene had gone underground, disappeared into the now totally unfashionable world of the folk clubs But the musicians whod come up in the heady years of the sixties hadnt gone away: they were just getting better and better. The trouble was the major record labels werent interested, not even the more folk-friendly indies like Island and Transatlantic. There was one exception, a man called Bill Leader. Leader was the man who had been behind the mixing desk on almost every major British folk record of the sixties, from Anne Briggs first EP to Davy Grahams Anji to Bert Janschs bedroom debut. In 1969, seeing a yawning gap in the market, he finally started his own label. Some of the names he signed up were already familiar on the folk scene -- like Lal and Mike Waterson from the legendary singing family The Watersons. Most, however, were new names, emerging stars from the folk club scene. There was Dick Gaughan, a shy Scotsman who had to be talked into making records; and Nic Jones from Essex, who was close to giving up the unequal struggle to make a living from music when Leader signed him up. Over the next ten years Leader put out a series of albums of a standard unmatched by any other major folk label. Not all of it was straight traditional folk. Leader was always open to experimentation and released albums as varied as the psych folk of Dave and Toni Arthur, the singer-songwriting of Rosie Hardman, and the elaborate arrangements of John Tams Muckram Wakes. He also released the peerless song suite Bright Phoebus by Lal & Mike Waterson, and two of the songs here represent this lost classic. But at the heart of the labels output were very simple virtues: great singers and great instrumentalists playing and singing the traditional music of Britain. So here, for the first time, is a compilation of the lost wonders of the Leader label, repository of the hidden history of British folk music." Artists: Lal Waterson, Nic Jones, Dorothy Elliott, Alistair Anderson, Dick Gaughan, Dave Burland, Aly Bain, The Boys of the Lough, Tony Rose." CD also available. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Open Strings: 1920s Middle Eastern Recordings- New Responses Format: 4LP Box Set Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $52.00 |
| "Deluxe 4LP version in cardboard slip case with individual sleeves for each LP. Unbelievable packaging! This is the fourth release in Honest Jons series of albums exploring the earliest 78s held in the EMI Hayes Archive. Open Strings is a dazzling selection of virtuoso string-playing from Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Turkey, all recorded in the 1920s, and pretty much unheard ever since. In addition, Open Strings includes a disc of newly-commissioned responses to the themes in this music by underground luminaries committed to the drone such as Sir Richard Bishop of legendary Sun City Girls renown, West Coast psych-guitarist Ben Chasny aka Six Organs Of Admittance, UK folk-guitarist Rick Tomlinson aka Voice Of The Seven Woods, and Western Massachusetts raga-inspired duo, MV And EE. From resonant bow-drone, to frenetic fret-runs to delicate, circular acoustic musings to sitar fever-dreams, no matter the nationality, there is a resonance and truth in this music that is ancient, timeless and transcendent. Scorchers past and present, every one. Other artists include: Micah Blue Smaldone, Michael Flower, Charlie Parr, Bruce Licher, Paul Metzger, and Steffen Basho-Junghans." - Forced Exposure |
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Artist: V/A Title: Something Is Wrong: Songs From East Africa, 1952-7 Format: Double LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "This is part 2 of a 2LP set of vinyl versions of Honest Jons Something Is Wrong: Vintage Recordings From East Africa CD compilation -- selections from an HMV run of more than 400 78s -- recordings made in Uganda and Kenya from the mid‐1930s to the mid‐1950s. Part 2 encompasses this material circa 1952-1957. Three main types of performance are featured (not forgetting a lovely early Kenyan big‐band calypso, as if straight from the pen of Lord Kitchener). Most are minstrelsy, with songs ranging dazzlingly through subjects including loneliness and death, bastards and cut‐off trousers, trains of fire and no‐good rich people, a murder mystery and a drunken punch‐up at a rumba party in Kampala, and metaphorical cocks, hard pedalling and kettles which wont boil. Other minstrels accompany themselves on various sorts of lyre, and guitars carrying the influences of U.S. country music and Congolese 78s, the influx of Congolese musicians, and the harmonies of Christian church music. There are also tough, raw contributions on button‐accordion and taarab music from the Swahili‐speaking communities of the east coast, and Arab and Indian communities in ports like Mombasa, which had imported Egyptian and Indian music since almost the start of the century. Lilting melodies are provided by violins or Indian harmoniums, sometimes also an oud, along with Indian or Arab percussion. Finally, there is the startling sound of four larger Ugandan ensembles, with songs about getting drunk and the relative merits of prostitution and motherhood, and the kings deportation by the British, deploying "the man who crunches rocks between his teeth." The style dismayed the missionary Robert Ashe, who visited the court of the Kabaka in 1884: "Our ears were deafened with the din which a motley band of musicians were making. Kettledrums and hand drums were rolling, horns braying, flutes screaming ... while blind musicians twanged away on their banjos, the whole making a most discordant harmony." Luxuriously presented, in a gatefold sleeve, with full notes, including extensive translation and haunting photographs. Recordings brilliantly restored at Abbey Road." -Honest Jons |
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Artist: V/A Title: Something Is Wrong: Vintage Recordings From East Africa Format: Double CD Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
| "Thirty‐five precious, stinging selections from an HMV run of more than 400 78s -- recordings made in Uganda and Kenya from the mid‐1930s to the mid‐1950s. Three main types of performance are featured (not forgetting a lovely early Kenyan big‐band calypso, as if straight from the pen of Lord Kitchener). Most are minstrelsy, with songs ranging dazzlingly through subjects including loneliness and death, bastards and cut‐off trousers, trains of fire and no‐good rich people, a murder mystery and a drunken punch‐up at a rumba party in Kampala, and metaphorical cocks, hard pedalling and kettles which wont boil. Set to the deep grooving of an ndingidi one‐string fiddle, the very opening verses exemplify this fluency and range, within an account of the coming of the radio to the Ugandan capital. Some were angry and confused -- they could hear the talking but see no one, and would not believe that the voice came only from the loudspeakers. The singer SSekinomu weaves in asides about female creativity and the imprisonment of Prince Mawanda, the kings eldest brother, before the song ends as it began, with thanks and compliments for the new technology, to the Bazungu, the Whites. Other minstrels accompany themselves on various sorts of lyre, and guitars carrying the influences of U.S. country music and Congolese 78s, the influx of Congolese musicians, and the harmonies of Christian church music. There are also tough, raw contributions on button‐accordion: "Listening to this kind of Kikuyu song is more a feat of endurance than an aesthetic pleasure," noted the musicologist Hugh Tracey at the time. There is taarab music from the Swahili‐speaking communities of the east coast, and Arab and Indian communities in ports like Mombasa, which had imported Egyptian and Indian music since almost the start of the century. Lilting melodies are provided by violins or Indian harmoniums, sometimes also an oud, along with Indian or Arab percussion. Finally, there is the startling sound of four larger Ugandan ensembles, with songs about getting drunk and the relative merits of prostitution and motherhood, and the kings deportation by the British, deploying "the man who crunches rocks between his teeth." The style dismayed the missionary Robert Ashe, who visited the court of the Kabaka in 1884: "Our ears were deafened with the din which a motley band of musicians were making. Kettledrums and hand drums were rolling, horns braying, flutes screaming ... while blind musicians twanged away on their banjos, the whole making a most discordant harmony." Luxuriously presented, like a small hard‐cover book, with full notes, including extensive translation and haunting photographs; with the recordings brilliantly restored at Abbey Road." -Honest Jons |
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Artist: V/A Title: Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive Format: Double LP Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "This is the third in Honest Jons series of albums exploring the earliest 78s held in the EMI Hayes Archive. Honest Jons has spent the last two years delving through more than 150,000 78 records in the temperature-controlled steel vaults of EMIs Archive in Hayes, Middlesex. Following studious compilations of West African and Iraqi music of the 1920s, the latest release in the Honest Jons Hayes Archive series is a sparkling late-summer lucky dip, Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive. An eccentric survey of the Hayes shelves, Sprigs Of Time is thirty tracks recorded between 1903 and 1957, everywhere from England (Percy Graingers recording of the title song, sung by Joseph Taylor in 1908) to Japan (the bewilderingly beautiful "Seigaiha," by the Japanese Imperial Palace Band, five years earlier). Organ rolls from Georgia run alongside Tamils impersonating motorized transport, and rumba from Beirut; 40s fado sits next to the songs of Bengali beggars. As with the other Hayes releases, the tracks have been restored at Abbey Road and are beautifully presented, with extensive contemporary photographs included. There are recognizable names (Joseph Taylor, the incomparable Fairuz, Mighty Sparrow and an uncredited Rubén González, singing lead vocals on "Rumba Negra") and extraordinary oddities (Vengopal Charis rather unfunny "Laughing" and the peculiarly affecting hand bells of "Gas All Clear"). Taken out of the library and put back on the turntable, every track here is remarkable; every one worth the saving." - Honest Jons. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive Format: CD Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "This is the third in Honest Jons series of albums exploring the earliest 78s held in the EMI Hayes Archive. Honest Jons has spent the last two years delving through more than 150,000 78 records in the temperature-controlled steel vaults of EMIs Archive in Hayes, Middlesex. Following studious compilations of West African and Iraqi music of the 1920s, the latest release in the Honest Jons Hayes Archive series is a sparkling late-summer lucky dip, Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive. An eccentric survey of the Hayes shelves, Sprigs Of Time is thirty tracks recorded between 1903 and 1957, everywhere from England (Percy Graingers recording of the title song, sung by Joseph Taylor in 1908) to Japan (the bewilderingly beautiful "Seigaiha," by the Japanese Imperial Palace Band, five years earlier). Organ rolls from Georgia run alongside Tamils impersonating motorized transport, and rumba from Beirut; 40s fado sits next to the songs of Bengali beggars. As with the other Hayes releases, the tracks have been restored at Abbey Road and are beautifully presented, with extensive contemporary photographs included. There are recognizable names (Joseph Taylor, the incomparable Fairuz, Mighty Sparrow and an uncredited Rubén González, singing lead vocals on "Rumba Negra") and extraordinary oddities (Vengopal Charis rather unfunny "Laughing" and the peculiarly affecting hand bells of "Gas All Clear"). Taken out of the library and put back on the turntable, every track here is remarkable; every one worth the saving." - Honest Jons. |
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Artist: V/A Title: To Scratch Your Heart: Early Recordings From Istanbul Format: 4LP Boxset Label: Honest Jons Country: UK Price: $54.00 |
| "Luxuriously packaged deluxe 4LP version in cardboard slip case with individual sleeves for each LP. Honest Jons presents a package drawn from recordings made in Istanbul by the Gramophone Company and HMV, during the first three decades of the 20th century. Amidst the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, it crosses and mixes the folk and classical heritage of Turks, Greeks, Armenians and Gypsies, Muslims, Christians and Jews, urbanites and country‐people, and the demands of tradition and modernity, musical improvisation, composition and system. Most of the singers are hafız, versed in a musical reading of the Koran, and renowned for mastery of the exalted, improvisatory form of the gazel. There are several magnificent examples here, by legendary artists. Three of these gazelhans beautifully interpret folk songs, and another contributor, the folklorist Ağyazar Efendi, sings a long Armenian air with utter authenticity, but in the style of a gazel. Exemplifying the new political freedoms of the Republic, there are two heart‐melting female vocal performances of a kind of art‐song called sarkı. Also featured is the taksim, a kind of improvisation in which one‐off musical fireworks, designed to ravish the listeners soul, illuminate deep fluency in the makam. A whos-who of the pre‐eminent instrumentalists of this first half-century of Turkish recording, in performances which are simply stunning, breathtaking, exquisite and other‐worldly. The music here is so transfixing, intensely devotional and sublimely beautiful, that some contemporary listeners thought they were levitating. " -Honest Jons |
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Artist: BETTER BEATLES, THE Title: Mercy Beat Format: LP Label: Hook Or Crook Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"The first reissue of the songs from the rare 1982 "Penny Lane/Im Down" 7-inch from Omaha, Nebraskas BETTER BEATLES, along with eight previously unreleased songs. Unlike their DIY brethren in the punk scene, the Better Beatles sported no originals-just savagely wacked, de-tuned, deadpan readings of Beatles material in a manner no one save the Residents couldve imagined in 1980. The songs are dark, primitive, analog synth-driven and at times transcendent. The single was a John Peel favorite and was played often by him years after its initial release. For fans of early-80s minimal synth wave." -Hook Or Crook.
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Artist: SATAN ALFA BEEL ATEM Title: Delicior Ribbon Pink Beel Format: CD Label: Horen Country: Japan Price: $22.00 |
| "Satan Alfa Beel Atem is somehow related to Ziggy Atem. Ziggy produced a few cassettes that caused a minor stir a few years back and then completed his documentation with the Dry Ice System: Music Of Death videotape on the Augen video label. Satan Alfa Beel Atem takes off in a very similar vein to Ziggy Atem with this debut CD release, described as "strange technoise from outer space." Sheets of oscillating wind-like synth sounds slide all over the place and for pure screwball Japanese culture representation, this one easily maintains the pace. "Satan Alfa Beel Atem: voice, conductor; Neu Arz: computer, synthesizer; Aqua Zip: guitar, synthesizer." - Horen. |
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Artist: DUM DUM GIRLS Title: I Will Be Format: LP Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"As far as modern girl groups go, DUM DUM GIRLS are setting the new standard in fuzzed-out pop euphoria ever since HoZac unleashed their first 7-inch as part of the HoZac Hookup Klub a year ago, this month. With the astonishing full development from a solo home-recording unit to their first flights as a live band last summer, Dum Dum Girls have truly come full circle. This sparkling and ominous debut album was recorded in New York with producer RICHARD GOTTEHRER (member of the Strangeloves, co-author of The Angels 1963 hit "My Boyfriends Back", and producer of Blondie and The Go Gos), who truly worked his magic here, keeping the jagged scuzzy pop edge of the bands style tied effortlessly to the Girl Group sound he helped create. HoZacs most lavish release to date and its limited to 1,000, with black & white cover on black vinyl. CD and second pressing of the vinyl available on Sub Pop. " - Horizontal Action.
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Artist: FRANCIS HAROLD & THE HOLOGRAMS Title: Mirror of Fear Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Just as the Summer winds begin their sultry slide into place, one last gob of cold blackness swoops in on the wings of a fallen angel, as Bisbee, Arizonas FRANCIS HAROLD & THE HOLOGRAMS drop a ten ton anvil on your head, and crack your mind open like a petrified dinosaur egg. With a shell-shocking single last year on Going Underground and their debut LP just released this month on the same label, its time you left the safety and security of your homely hut and ventured out into the danger zone with these two throbbing death tomes of blunt force and gastrointestinal damage that will cause irreversible harm and shave multiple years off your lifespan. By far the most brutal and unsettling HoZac release to date, and the sleeve art alone will surely test the limits of your tolerance for full frontal male nudity. If you dont want a picture of a bloody dudes balls in your living room, you better go for the gold on this one." -Horizontal Action |
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Artist: FUNGI GIRLS Title: Turquoise Hotel Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The unlimited charm of Texas strikes again as FUNGI GIRLS release their first 7-inch single this month, following up an impressive 12-inch EP debut on Play Pinball! Records last fall, both of which will have you twitching with unexpected enthusiasm. The guys that comprise this power trio are all still barely over the legal driving age, but still not even close to the drinking age, so when the surprising and wise-beyond-their-years modern psychedelic/gaze sounds first bolted from our speakers, we had to do something about it. Their first impression sits heavily on the unique and subdued vocals that seem to lightly hover over the hazy, yet complex arrangements, forming an incredibly atmospheric blast that doesnt really sound like anything else. These promising teenagers somehow harness the confidence and proclivity to emulate compelling mid-tempo lo-fi pop songs that eerily deliver hooks that stick, and come out with a sound all their own that youll no doubt be hearing more of soon. Look for the Fungi Girls full length LP on HoZac to hit record stores later this year, and dive into their world head-first with this seductive single. 500 on black." -Horizontal Action |
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Artist: MESS FOLK Title: Something I Remember Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Nova Scotias underground punk output has been sorely ignored by most of the world, and with the debut 7-inch EP by Sydneys brilliantly belligerent MESS FOLK, hopefully a little more light will be shed on this systematically-neglected barren frontier. With an immediate slop/savant aesthetic that conjures a drooling, drugged-out, and agitated ball of putrescence, Mess Folk keep their blurry message straight to the point and deliver three devastating punk cuts simmering in anxiety, depression, and the delusional inner turmoil that sets in after months of cabin fever. The deranged, discombobulated vocals go so perfectly with the frantic razored guitar slashings and choppy songwriting that eeks out resemblances of discarded Electric Eels and Urinals ruination/infatuation, radiating with a sticky familiarity you just cant quite put your finger on. Anyway you cut it, Mess Folk have arrived and its gonna take a hell of a lot of zit cream and/or stain remover to eradicate their slimy presence from the ugly face of modern punk." - Horizontal Action. |
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Artist: MICKEY Title: Shes So Crazy Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "When it comes to local bands in Chicago, it definitely goes in phases, as no one would have assumed a band such as MICKEY with its assortment of random ex-band members could have come up with a sound this ridiculously compelling. Rather than run down the list of their various past projects, its best to take Mickey for exactly what theyve become: a top-notch gutter-level glitter punk band that runs circles around everyone else, both live and now on record. What makes them special are the combined forces of experienced and inexperienced nuances that really shine on their recordings and will soon show the world how their now signature brand of glammed-up/dumbed-down shambolic pop music can hold up incredibly well under any circumstances. Everything from the unexpectedly touching T.Rex-style backup vocals on the show-stopping, "Shes So Crazy" to the heartfelt and brazenly-delivered innocence they muster up on the already-classic "I Am Your Trash," Mickey are quickly becoming Chicagos most notorious and best-loved band and we couldnt be more excited to offer their debut single for your adoring eardrums." - Horizontal Action. |
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Artist: MYELIN SHEATHS Title: Do the Mental Twist Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Yet another Canadian entry in HoZacs new batch, Lethbridge (about 100 miles south of Calgary), Albertas MYELIN SHEATHS have boldly thrust themselves forward and erupt here with an incredibly powerful debut 7-inch featuring blistering production that jumps out of the grooves, and a wall of noise/pop vocals that sends chills down your spine and raises all hairs unshaven. As each song contained within offers up a thundering blast of icy guitars and pulse-pounding rhythms, each more intense than the last, Myelin Sheaths have found a perfect platform to desecrate the chill and melt the frozen wilderness around them. The endlessly reverberated dual male/female vocals blend together on the B-sides "Drugstore Pharmacy" so well that you can feel the sky open up and suck you straight into heaven, as it washes away the troubles clouding your weary consciousness. Like if someone plugged the entire C86 sound into a fried-out supergenerator, Myelin Sheaths have the potential to skyrocket straight to the top of your list of new favorites." - Horizontal Action. |
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Artist: NERVE CITY Title: Red Tops Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "As raw and bitter as the north winds blowing off the Virginia mountaintops, HoZac is proud to serve you a platter of new songs to ease the winter solitude with three impeccably satisfying noisy folk vibrations from NERVE CITY. As you may already know, Nerve City is one of the brightest home-recording projects thats been exploding into a gripping live band, all the while holding a line of desperate tension and aggressive simplicity that climbs inside your skull within seconds and never really leaves. With a strong handle on jangling 60s guitar instrumentation and misanthropic melody, coupled with brash, shell-shockingly savage recording methods and songwriting thats so far above its peers, its time you warmed up a spot in your withered soul for Nerve City before they blow up in your face. Look for their debut LP coming soon on Sweet Rot, along with a 12-inch EP on Sacred Bones right around the corner as well. Recommended if you like: Medication, Kurt Vile, Teepee, Thee Oh Sees." - horizontal Action. |
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Artist: PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND Title: Shockwave Rider Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "For years, this Chicago scuzz-punk psychedelic prog machine has been turning heads as the Midwests answer to Hawkwind, Can and other mind-expanding primordial brain-fryers. At long last, and after years of preparation, HoZac is proud to unleash the quintessential 7-inch single from PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND as they obliterate the blistering biker-psych formula, blasting the shrapnel deep into the innerspace of your mind. Presented here is their epic "Shockwave Rider," edited down from its 6-plus-minute format for maximum loudness and divinity. Featuring a lead guitar line from VEE DEEs NICK DVYNE that will turn your hair white and stir up your endorphins before it even hits the first chorus, all while displaying the gnarly heaviness that PCWS have made all their own." -Horizontal Action |
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Artist: RAYON BEACH Title: Memory Teeth EP Format: 12" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "We get really excited about bands sometimes, right? Well folks, RAYON BEACH are one of the most head-blasting, endorphin-rushing musical anomalies weve stumbled across in a while, and these six tracks of exotic punk psychedelia are just what the doctor ordered. Located terrestrially in Austin, TX but borne of outer limits only imagined by acid casualties trying to find where Syd Barrett lives, Rayon Beach take us on an incredible ride through surreal soundscapes and off-center arrangements, and pull it all together under a tight black umbrella, soaked in afterbirth and glowing like weird moon rocks. With aural slices so scrappy and inspirational, they effortlessly conjoin shards of obscure noise, not unlike the uncategorizable brilliance of The Deviants, Swell Maps, and The Soft Boys, in that inescapable running of the primal Pink Floyd nuance through the chainsaw-style state of mind. With no Gold edition, and only 550 black vinyl copies available of this high-powered 12" EPs maiden pressing, you might want to jump all over this before its morphed into something unrecognizable from its original state. Watch out for Cryptic Scissor as well, a side-project emanating from Rayon Beach and Woven Bones as part of the next round of the HoZac Hookup Klub, coming soon."-HoZac. Limited to 550 copies. |
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Artist: SHARP ENDS Title: Northern Front Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Calgary, Alberta has been unearthing gem after gem of exciting new post-punk outfits recently, and SHARP ENDS are the "gateway drug" into that inner circle people been waiting to find. With an icy Tubeway Army/Joy Division/Crisis vibe that blackens the circles under your eyeballs and causes your pores to contract with its clammy, cold-wave simplicity, this is the foreboding sign of impending doom weve been so anxiously anticipating from the mysterious North. If this alluringly stark, and monolithically dark pop piques your interest, dont pass up the chance to grab this, the Sharp Ends debut single." -Horizontal Action. |
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Artist: WIZZARD SLEEVE Title: Make the World Go Away Format: LP Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Just as the harrowing chill of summers slow death drifts across the land, the skin-crawling death-punk masterpiece debut LP from Alabamas confederate glue-wave goth tards, WIZZARD SLEEVE hits the shelves and drags all the sinister vibrations from the ugly side of psychedelia right up front where it belongs. As their influences have cited, and the self-described trinity of Chrome, Crime and Creedence settles into place in your chemically-damaged skull, and the unexpectedly danceable hits from their string of vile, self-depreciating 7-inch singles are reborn with a devastatingly murky effect that will drag you down into a hole faster than any over-the-counter anti-anxiety cocktail youve ever ingested. Like Peter Murphy sucking on a tailpipe, Wizzard Sleeve are the end of the line for your happy good times and the start of a new atrocious standard in head-expanding, zooed-out and shut-in true punk weirdness that wont be getting many brownie points with mom, dad, church leaders, or parole officers anytime soon." -Horizontal Action. |
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Artist: WIZZARD SLEEVE Title: Mommys Little Baby Format: 7" Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Alabama has more than one reason to worry, and WIZZARD SLEEVEs debut single is a testament to all the toxicity and torturous lineage built up into a vicious compound of corrosion, chemical damage, and overall bad vibes. They have the supernatural nuances and ominous grooves that can brighten any funeral and blacken any rainbow." - Horizontal Action
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Artist: WOVEN BONES Title: In and Out and Back Again Format: LP Label: Horizontal Action Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "WOVEN BONES need no announcement to herald their arrival, but as their irresistibly iridescent hazy pop grime drills itself deeper into your soft skull, its best to just stand back and experience them exploding out of your speakers. Like the eardrum-shattering noise pop icons that came before them, Woven Bones blaze their own trail of lascivious loudness and controlled snarl thats just what the world needs right now, and the perfect soundtrack to your screwed-up summer. The debut album, In and Out and Back Again delivers nine heart-stabbing hits that just keep hitting back, so without further hesitation, we give you the debut album that explodes heads on contact, by your new favorite band, Woven Bones." -Horizontal Action |
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Artist: ROGER & WENDY Title: Love Rog and Wem Format: LP Label: Horny Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Formerly of 1960s US psych-folk band Euphoria, Roger & Wendy financed this privately pressed album for family and friends in 1971, in an edition of 50 copies. They later renamed themselves Bermuda Triangle (their recently reissued 1977 album has garnered terrific reviews throughout the years). The Roger & Wendy album is the rarest of the lot ($900+), and is a top notch collection of psych-folk gems. A superb artifact from the early 1970s US underground psych folk scene. Taken from the original master tapes, and using the original sleeve artwork, this is a strict limited edition of 450 copies pressed on virgin DMM vinyl." -Horny. |
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Artist: AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT Title: Vampiric Treblinka Format: Cass Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"hateful surrealism and eastern death camp noise. new unit. new aktion. for fans of the way noise used to be. crunch and filth. tedium and lust. c48 edition of 66" - Hospital Productions.
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Artist: AKITSA Title: Au Crépuscule De Lespérance Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Dedicated to imperfection and obsessed by minimalism, Akitsa return after 3 years with their fourth full-length album. Brash primitivism, bitter atmosphere and youthful naivety clash together, firing the rawest hate anthems in the Akitsa cannon. The most undisputedly cruel faction of raw North American black metal seen thus far." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: AKITSA Title: Goétie Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "reissue of the first akitsa full length. masterpiece of distressed raw black metal with wide range of playing from blasting wall of violence to primitive and young punk to dilapidated and malevolent doom. essential for fans of bone awl, ildjarn, early absurd etc." - Hospital Productions |
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Artist: AKITSA Title: Sang Nordique Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "reissue of the second akitsa full length. very low end punkish primitivist chunky underwater black metal with hard youth spirit and epic minimalism. essential for fans of bone awl, ildjarn, early absurd etc." - Hospital Productions |
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Artist: AKITSA/ASH POOL Title: Ripped from Death, Forced to Live, and Die Again Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Strictly limited split LP of esoteric and violent North American Black Metal co-released by Tour De Garde and Hospital Productions. Four years in the making. Edition of 500." -Hospital. |
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Artist: ALBERICH Title: Psychology of Love Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"Long awaited first LP of heavy electronics command. For fans of Militia, Grey Wolves, Pal, and Esplendor Geometrico. Philosophies of war and love burn in the cauldron of mythology. Trade one power for another but be warned that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Includes the tracks from the infamous rumbala cassette that started it all. Edition of 200. Paste-on sleeves with insert." -Hospital
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Artist: ASH POOL Title: For Which He Plies The Lash Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Second full length. Eight songs of big bang black metal by Dominic Fernow (Prurient, Cold Cave, Hospital) and Kris Lapke (Alberich, Northern Cross)." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: ASH POOL Title: Saturns Slave Format: 7" Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "the wait is over. ash pool return with two new tracks of raw black metal from the cold gas of the cosmic crucifixion. blue vinyl." - Hospital Productions |
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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Symphony For A Genocide Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "reissue. zero explanation needed. master work. true industrial." - Hospital Productions |
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Artist: BIRDS OF DELAY/JAZZFINGER Title: Split Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "a long time in the works this rotting jewel of electronic drone finally births. jazzfinger has been operating under the radar for longer than most might think and exhibit boxes of butterflys pined to a board, a black globe of the black sea, the tail of a scorpion in the narrow hallway of lost information. birds of delay arrive with am ominous loop roving around a little to slow for comfort as if a machine could have an astral projection. very limited edition of 114 copies in handmade cover. " - Hospital. |
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Artist: BLACKDEATH Title: Katharsis: Kalte Lieder Aus Der Hölle Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Hot blood in the frozen wastes, tormented sleeps, no rest, no peace, always some war to be fought. Blackdeath keep fighting, living life as war. On this new album, all of the wildness and violence that Blackdeath have been renowned for have now hardened into an idiosyncratic and cracked style: manic vocals that switch between black rasp and psychotic singing, Nordic style riffs that are somehow bent into a weapon with sharper angles, and a song progression that is equal parts percussive brawl and wide-eyed revelation. After six albums youd think that they would have plateaued, or grown tired, but no. Rather, here, you find them in the strongest form since the bands inception back in 1998.They now have finally secured themselves a real drummer, and full-professional studio sound. For some underground black metal bands, that might equal an awkward combination, but Blackdeath have always been stubbornly focused on quality of riff and refined composition of song which translates perfectly in this level of production." -Hospital |
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Artist: BONE AWL Title: ..So, I Must Take From The Earth Format: Double 7" Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"uncompromising. existential. psychological. burning with disturbing anger and physical
abuse from the forefront of american black metal. double 7" reissue of a very limited tape
released on hospital prod. in traditional silk screened fold over covers." - Hospital Productions
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Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: Body Blues Format: 7" Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "opening panel in a three part series. two side long pieces drift between driving nostalgic road weary head long plunges into human mysteries and sombre lone rose-pedal synth write private and voyeuristic existentialism. bxc is one of the few independent voices of rapture emerging from the tunnels of noise. pro print glue pocket sleeve." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: Challenger Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Challenger is a composed work rather than his more improvised work, each piece revolving around a central melodic theme with field recordings, an audio diary bridging the gaps. Its emotions of a period of time set to tape. The sounds range from pure tonal mood to huge electronic crescendos. But whats most remarkable is the use of space, where parts come in and drop to build or recede .When the piano crashes in "Mysteries of the Organ" its almost a frustration of paradise, a rejection of perfection or maybe a jolt of inexplicable life, unable to be translated into proper `communication. Juxtaposed with the quiet haunting of "Hopelessly Devoted" which sounds like a love letter written to outer space, it makes for an album that is both dynamic yet consistent as a full statement." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: Inside The Shadow Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "A reissue of an obscure tour-only recording from 2005 brings to the light the flickering dance of Mr Yeh and his dives into organic drone music. Unlike the majority of his electronic compositions, Inside The Shadow reveals three textures brought to life with violin, chimes and bells that defy most of the contemporaries limitations to synth-only exercises. Yeh proves the heart of landscape-oriented linear composition is only limited by the imaginations of the creators and brings warmth to an otherwise cold genre with the flame of Inside The Shadow." - Hospital. |
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Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: Lets Play Wild Like Wild Cats Do Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Lush, driving, desperate drone engulfed in suspended introspection." - Hospital Productions. "So why pick Burning Star Core now after all these years? Aside from the obvious, theres an amazing confluence among Spencer Yehs own sound that hes been striving at for years and between various facets of an underground noise and improv scene thats virtually bursting at the seams. His music fits a number of certain tastes, be it catering to those raised on the tried and true avant garde-ians of yesteryear to the recent emergence of the post-hardcore set ripe for fresh sounds and new, more abstract and virulent noises. With all the attention being paid to left-field musicians at the left and right of America, now might be the time to head towards the heartland, and some of the seeds planted in Cincinnati courtesy of Burning Star Core." - Michael Crumsho. |
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Artist: CHRISTIAN COSMOS Title: Enthronement By God As The First-Born Of The Dead Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Released first as a limited 4 x cassette box set now condemned to vinyl. Among the trinity of electronic projects of Dominick Fernows studies in anxiety and fear from the mythic natures of rainforest spiritual enslavement, the info wars of Vatican Shadow and the creators observation of Christian Cosmos. Lightning drums pound the rhythms for lost souls as the fall from paradise abounds and the trumpets of the heavens command the threshold. Imagine a voiceless dead can dance sent through a black hole hence the ancient notes and structures are scrambled and returned with information loss while the cathedral floor is flushed with his sacraments. But there is a beauty in submission to belief. Some have said the book is not about self improvement but faith. Soundtrack for judgement of souls. Edition of 500." -Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: CIRCLE OF OUROBORUS Title: Tree Of Knowledge Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "mysterious occult shoegaze black rock from finland. newest full length of eight sinister spells. known from splits with urfaust and nuit noire." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: CLEANSE Title: The Prince/Succumb Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| Greh from Hive Mind, limited to 100 copies. |
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Artist: COLD CAVE Title: Cremations Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Cremations is a collection of early demo/live/and unreleased tracks from Cold Cave. From the projects isolated beginnings to the recent full band line-up the development of this singular musical entity is documented here in its icy electronic glory. From Cold Caves infancy sexual identity and oblique existentialism have been expressed through biting lyrics and electronic minimalism. Rarely has the human condition been exposed so brazenly as in ⿿Sex Ads. Melodies, noise and rhythms clash as stories from below the surface are retold. From the demo LP Coma Potion, which featured a rugged stripped down distortion, to the suggestive Electronic Dreams tour cassette (featuring the voice of Max Morton on the track ⿿Heavenly Metals). Cold Cave has developed its own brand of genre defying electronic music, without ever betraying its dark roots. Love and pornography, Industrial music and traditionalism, poetry and profanity all mix together in a hedonistic, cocktail of nihilistic nights and mournful mornings. Cremations collects all this work for the first and last time. contains painted nail ep, coma potion lp, electronic dreams cs and more." -Hospital |
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Artist: COLD CAVE Title: Cremations Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Cremations is a collection of early demo/live/and unreleased tracks from Cold Cave. From the projects isolated beginnings to the recent full band line-up the development of this singular musical entity is documented here in its icy electronic glory. From Cold Caves infancy sexual identity and oblique existentialism have been expressed through biting lyrics and electronic minimalism. Rarely has the human condition been exposed so brazenly as in "Sex Ads". Melodies, noise and rhythms clash as stories from below the surface are retold. From the demo LP Coma Potion, which featured a rugged stripped down distortion, to the suggestive Electronic Dreams tour cassette (featuring the voice of Max Morton on the track "Heavenly Metals"). Cold Cave has developed its own brand of genre defying electronic music, without ever betraying its dark roots. Love and pornography, Industrial music and traditionalism, poetry and profanity all mix together in a hedonistic, cocktail of nihilistic nights and mournful mornings. Cremations collects all this work for the first and last time." - Hospital Productions. First pressing still available. |
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Artist: COLD CAVE Title: Painted Nails Format: 7" Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"the first pressing of 500 sold out in 3 weeks via mailorder. this is the second pressing on
(clear vinyl) due to overwhelming demand on clear vinyl. i have seen the future, and its no
place for me. this is a special record for hospital. although we have always shared a
certain love for trance, power noise, synth pop, and 80s industrial music it is the first time
we directly venture into this controversial and rhythmic world. cold cave presents 3 tracks
of authentically morose epic anthems with the texture of a shattered champagne glass.
imagine a highly damaged downward spiral era demo hitting the raw nerve to heart where
all breaths freeze in rapture and all feelings croak in the blood of the beat-less heart.
clear vinyl repress." - Hospital.
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Artist: COLD CAVE/PRURIENT Title: Stars Explode Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"vinyl edition of the collaboration tape for the first uk tour (2009) originally limited to 100. pulsing heavy ambient electronics. alternate cover art and one new track exclusive to the vinyl release." - Hospital Productions.
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Artist: CRUMER, JASON Title: Ottoman Black Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Fresh off his solo breakthrough LP on the legendary RRR label, Future With No Chance, Jason Crumer returns with Ottoman Black, an album of midnight drones and true noise. Using powerfully clear electronics as a base for declarative noise bursts, Crumer manipulates the sounds with a resounding animosity. In the vein of past Hospital releases from Pedestrian Deposit and Air Conditioning, Crumer yields his mean streak to an array of silences over the course of the album. The theme here is personal relations; tracks like "Betrayal After Betrayal" have a conversational quality, both the screams and the muffles, the physicality. "Where Were You" is an actionist-influenced piece of torture. Theres nothing not painful here, especially the quiet; the peaks are almost a relief. Ottoman Black is a stern and unforgiving universe." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: DEATHPILE Title: G.R. Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "From 1995 to 2004 Jonathan Canady led the classic American power electronics band Deathpile, which culminated in the 2003 release of G.R., the bands final album. Co-released by Force of Nature Productions and Hospital Productions, the album instantly set a new benchmark in extreme music, providing a fully realized, investigative, confrontational intensity, while exploring the perspective of the perpetrator, in this case one Gary Ridgway. Longtime industrial and experimental musician David E. Williams provides masterful analogue synth work alongside Canadys devastating vocal performance, which stands as one of the most powerful in all of extreme musics history, a testament to controlled chaos and full immersion into the most challenging of subject matters." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: DIAPSIQUIR Title: Pacta Daemoniarum/Crasse Format: Double CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "having already left a strong mark on there two revolutionary double albums on end all life productions, which carry the rare honor of warranting the term avant-garde without regard of following any blueprints, here are the first two demos by this obscure and controversial french outlaw black metal band known for their decadent activities. pacta daemoniarum was originally released in 1999 and crasse released in 2001 and exhibited twisted, vociferus manic vocals spit on top of complex orchestrated highly distorted chaotic metal. never resting and fully absorbed in the savage, sexually violent, drug-laden nihilism of french subculture." |
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Artist: DOUBLE LEOPARDS Title: Savage Summer Sun Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"deep, turning, sinister industrial wrapped in existential undertow." - Hospital Productions. July, 2005 release.
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Artist: DRUMM, KEVIN Title: Imperial Distortion Format: Double CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"What does a person do when faced with a work like Imperial Distortion? There are rare moments in an artists work where they reveal a greater truth. Kevin Drumm has already made such a statement with his last major solo work, 2002s Sheer Hellish Miasma. Where that record took noise music to a new level of near-impenetrable exactitude, Imperial Distortion is an altogether different beast. Beauty as an aesthetic can be as terrifying as horror, desire unfulfilled, romance that lingers and never goes away, no matter how disappointing. A preoccupation with death can be the only result. On this extended long-form release, Kevin Drumm comes face to face with minimal drone music and confronts the genre by providing one of its absolute pinnacles at the forefront; movement. Drone music at its most concentrated and ably performed has build and depth in its tones. Although there might be the illusion of stasis, the opposite is true. From the opening 20-minute track Guillain-Barre, the mood of the album is laid clear. The arrangements are shadowy layers of soundtrack-like tones not entirely unlike the work that Popul Vuh provided for Herzogs films. By track two, More Blood and Guts, with its ominous bell tones, it becomes apparent that there is a true nothing thats associated with these sounds, other than the mood-inducing hypnosis and the feeling of drowning, yet having no ability to fight the slow pull. The middle portion of the record is Snow, which was released as a limited cassette last year on Hospital Productions. This material was a teaser for the full album Imperial Distortion. The tracks have an almost ballad-esque sense of elegance, using tone and frequency as melodic portals to nowhere. The sustain in the piece suggests a weight while remaining alarmingly pleasant to the ears. The tension suggests an anxiety that never truly dies. The alarm comes from the juxtaposition of tones and mood. While the tones may sound gorgeous in their purity, the mood implies a profound sense of unease and perhaps an acceptance of the inevitability of existential dilemma. This point is most thoroughly evidenced by the albums closer, We All Get It In the End. While the piece starts out with lullaby ease, a few minutes in, an equally severe dark drone eclipses the light and the night takes over. Here in the enveloped sounds, the clouds pass over the moonlight creating a spectral dark that is unforgettable in its intensity. To answer the initial question of Imperial Distortion, this is a work that commands intellectual and emotional commitment on the levels of the greatest works to come from this genre. Kevin Drumm has accomplished that rare balance to create a masterwork that no one has yet to come close to in this era. Your best bet is to surrender."-Hospital. Repressed!
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Artist: DRUMM, KEVIN Title: Imperial Distortion Format: Triple LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $45.00 |
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"What does a person do when faced with a work like Imperial Distortion? There are rare moments in an artists work where they reveal a greater truth. Kevin Drumm has already made such a statement with his last major solo work 2002s Sheer Hellish Miasma. Where that record took noise music to a new level of near-impenetrable exactitude, Imperial Distortion is an altogether different beast. Beauty as an aesthetic can be as terrifying as horror, desire unfulfilled, romance that lingers and never goes away no matter how disappointing. A preoccupation with death can be the only result. On this extended long form release Kevin Drumm comes face to face with minimal drone music and confronts the genre by providing one of its absolute pinnacles at the forefront; movement. Drone music at its most concentrated and ably performed has build and depth in its tones. Although there might be the illusion of stasis the opposite is true. From the opening twenty minute track Guillain-Barre the mood of the album is laid clear. The arrangements are shadowy layers of soundtrack like tones not entirely unlike the work that Popul Vuh provided for Herzogs films. By track two more Blood and Guts with its ominous bell tones its apparent that there is a true nothing thats associated with these sounds other than the mood inducing hypnosis and the feeling of drowning yet having no ability to fight the slow pull. On white vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve." -Hospital.
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Artist: DRUMM, KEVIN Title: Snow Format: Cass Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: DRUMM, KEVIN Title: Tannenbaum Format: Double CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Kevin Drumm returns to Hospital with a double album of malign electronic ambient music. Drumms subtle work with moving, roving drones keeps the pace and tempos moving with Hitchcockian tension while details of a story emerge with swells and fades as other sequences are lost in the clatter of long chambers of isolation adorned with the trimmings of pagan beauties. Edition of 500." -Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: FAILING LIGHTS Title: What Once Was Format: Cass Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
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"grisly rough and raw organ noise from mike connelly. bizarre organic noise wrought with tension and narrow minded singularity ? as if it could all collapse and suffocate at any moment. like an ill child preparing for a hike naively thinking they will last the mile. packaged in vinyl box with color cover." - Hospital Productions.
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Artist: GIFFONI, CARLOS Title: Severance Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "After developing his calling card on Adult Life and The Eternal releases, Carlos Giffoni defines his signature with compositional electronic music. Melding the analog drone colliding tonality of the past expressions and inducing minimalist sequencer details, a pure electronic landscape is cultivated that nurtures the formation a man makes in stepping from the mysteries of youth into adulthood." - Hospital. |
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Artist: GREY WOLVES Title: Judgement Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "reissue of our personal favorite cassette only release from the legendary uk industrial icon known as the grey wolves to celebrate their 23rd year of existence. despite their power electronics fame judgement exhibits the dark rhythmic industrial and ritualistic minimal synth half rarely heard. two side long oil slick tracks of filthy crumbling rotten beats hammer away with nihilistic chaos. militant synth lines raise the occult flag. ancient ethereal feedback howls voiceless language through the hallway of industrial fallout. the grey wolves are in the area!" -Hospital |
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Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Prescribed Burning Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "arising from the smoldering ashes of early morning fallout settles six reverberated blackened altars settled in the embers of industrial noise. slow motion feedback dissolve and dance macabre with raped guitar entanglement and roving percussive loops. scathing hard noise eruptions like drool through the hounds teeth that hold tight and lets loose the bizarre ordeal that is hair police. prescribed burning worships wet atmosphere and tape cut obsessive noise with raw chaos! always away from the pack yet defines the cult. limited to 600 copies with the traditional silk screened 2 sided fold out cover." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "basement noise dirge death skuzz hell. compiles the long out of print hospital cassette and mortuary servants ep while adding new exclusive mud/noise constructions from the drawn dead sessions." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: HOTOTOGISU & PRURIENT Title: Snail On A Razor Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "live in person collaboration of mid ranged feedback hell laden with raw human drones of cosmic existential turbulence from from matthew bower (legend of total, skullflower, ramleh etc) marcia bassett (double leopards, zaimph, ghq etc.) and dominick fernow (vegas martyrs, nihilist assault group, ash pool, etc)." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: LUSSURIA Title: Ghost Entanglement Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"Long awaited first LP of phantasmal electronics domain. Seamless sound collage taking you through all the various rooms in the house. While blindfolded you reach for things familiar but everything feels different in the dark. A state of ambience is interrupted by deja vu. For fans of early CMI, Mlehst, and the atmospheric end of Goblin. Paste-on sleeves with insert. Edition of 200 copies." -Hospital
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Artist: MACRONYMPHA Title: Melting Soflty Into Time Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"obsessive, domineering, explosive noise snared in scientific violence. excellent highly varried collage compostions of noise, tape manipulation, and atmosheric percussive electroacoustic cacaphony." - Hospital Productions.
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Artist: MAGIK MARKERS Title: Inverted Belgium Format: One Sided LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "one sided lp of the infamous bloody face cutting show in beligium.. instrumental noise assult edited and remastered to slow motion shit attack" - Hospital. |
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Artist: MALKUTH Title: Mutus Liber Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"raw dual guitar necro black metal in the vein of moonblood and blackdeath with its own
sense of harmonic tension. no bullshit. no intros. occult 4 track assault." - Hospital Productions. Featuring Pat and Matt from NNCK.
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Artist: MALKUTH Title: Sefirah Gevurah Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Featuring Pat and Matt from NNCK. "second full length album from this obscure occult black metal." - Hospital.
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Artist: MALKUTH Title: Sefirah Gevurah Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "second full length album from this obscure occult black metal. hail!" -Hospital |
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Artist: NEW BLOCKADERS/THURSTON MOORE/JIM OROURKE Title: The Voloptulist Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "two tracks... one collabing with tnb each track. corsano plays on the jo track... short...." - Hospital. |
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Artist: NIHILIST ASSAULT GROUP Title: Silent Movie Format: One-sided LP + DVD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| 2009 release. Richard Rupenus, Dominick Fernow, Ron Lessard. Paste-on sleeves. "silent movie documents the only known live performance of the alias of the new blockaders at no fun fest. the dvd holds only silent footage and one must spin the vinyl to hear the sound while witnessing this futile destruction. dvd features additional commentary by g.x. jupiter-larsen. edition of 500." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT Title: Eternal Format: Cass Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
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Artist: PRURIENT Title: Cocaine Death Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Since the inception of both Prurient and the Hospital Productions label, cassette releases have been an essential format for the communication and participation in the industrial/noise culture. For Prurient, these cassette releases contain some of the most visceral and beloved works in the Prurient catalog. Cocaine Death is a compilation of three of Prurients finest Hospital cassette releases as well as two unreleased tracks. The previously released material forms a triptych exploring the relationship between futile pleasure, substance and escape; escape being a myth. Cocaine Death (originally C-10 packaged in an envelope, limited to 46 copies) is perhaps the most sought after of the recent Prurient cassettes. The content is based on the glamour and destruction of toxic night life. The B-side features guest vocals from FFH and continues the themes with the addition of bondage. This material is a considered classic modern Prurient. Caribbean Overdose (originally a C-10, packaged in a standard shell package and limited to 100 copies) explores a different but strangely direct topic of the sexual reproductive life of plants. There is nothing common or typical about the sounds and direction of this material. Further examination into the life of scientific advancement and education. Tylenol Murders (originally a C-10, packaged in an oversized envelope and limited to 10 copies) takes the sounds and concepts of the aforementioned releases and expands the sounds to further limits of cracked static, strained vocals and strange melodic loops. This sought after limited material is seeing the light on this release to most Prurient listeners for the first time. This collection of cassette material is perhaps the biggest clue in the development of Prurient. This is where the edges blur and advancements reveal themselves. When Prurient material is released in the ether its shock-waves often take on a life of their own. For the first time, listeners of all levels can revel in their abstract longing and tension. For the diehards, two unreleased tracks of Prurient. Theres a reason why these releases continue to live on long after the cassettes disappear. This CD shows the power and depth of Prurient in the cassette world. For those whose spindles still spin and those who have moved on, Cocaine Death shows revelation. Digipack CD with 16 page booklet."-Hospital Productions |
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Artist: PRURIENT Title: The History Of Aids Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Massive, textural, throbbing, destructive, electronic, feedback-drenched power electronics and industrial noise with heavily processed vocals and field recordings dealing with vulnerability. Uses some of the thirteenth century love poems of the Persian poet Rumi as lyrics. Originally created in 2000 on CD with the Armageddon label, this was the first widely distributed prurient full length and appears on vinyl for the first time now." - Hospital Productions.
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Artist: PRURIENT/KEVIN DRUMM Title: All Guests Are In The House Of The Lord Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "digital version of the cassette collaboration. statues crumble, bronze corrodes, columns topple as the roman youth carry on towards death. new artwork." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: RASPBERRY BULBS Title: Nature Tries Again Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"We are proud to announce the first vinyl offering from this lone black metal band which calls into questions the dilemma we are faced with in this world of consciousness and the quickening pace that we approach the unknown. Recorded Winter 2010. Edition of 500." - Hospital Productions. Solo project from the drummer of Bone Awl.
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Artist: ROMAN TORMENT Title: Masculine Failure Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"first full length vinyl offering from the combined efforts of impregnable and moth drakula.
a bitter storm of jagged and sharp rage with escalating fury! opening with the perfect
servant and closing with shades of pain roman torment sews a disturbing thread of
sexual and fetishistic demise through a wilted fabric of introspective violence. reference
points to the incendiary violence of massona with the sinister mood of mlehst, and roman
torment churn forth a wall of trembling destruction set forth with erect tunnel vision
blurred with tender malaise. limited to 200 copies with the traditional silk screened 2
sided fold out cover." - Hospital Productions.
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Artist: SHALLOW WATERS Title: Equal Eyes Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"the first full length of this heavily active live unit from providence, ri. there is no solid footing in shallow waters. only a suffocating hail of falling rock, strangling vines, and sinkholes. it is with rare exception that voice spits the last of breaths, the dying breaths, with such spite. like a rabbit trapped in the hole of the snakes throat, this duo comprised of members of immaculate:grotesque and em dath rir batter and tear there way through 6 tracks of power electronics eco-fallout and revolutionary anger. although there is not one moment of relief in this litany of rage shallow waters separates themselves from the pack by creating what an album and not just a collection of tracks with the focus of a sniper and the fury of napalm. get into the fight."- Hospital Productions
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Artist: STILLBIRTH Title: From Cain To Christ Format: Cass Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "dna evidence clears jonbenets parrents. c10 edition of 100." - Hospital Productions |
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Artist: STILLBIRTH Title: Toward Sailor Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Long awaited first LP of imaginary electronics conversation. A story is told of people that never existed. Of happy depression. Of cures that never bloomed. A small bowl of grass is ground up by the pestle and gulf mist sprays the players on the rocky beach. For fans of Brume, Keith Rowe, and atmospheric Ramleh. Edition of 200. Paste-on sleeve." -Hospital |
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Artist: SUTCLIFFE JUGEND Title: The Fall Of Nature Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "As far as the history of Power Electronics goes, few acts have maintained as much interest and activity as Sutcliffe Jugend. The duo of Paul Taylor and Kevin Tompkins has released crucial early recordings on labels as revered as Come Organization, Broken Flagand Cold Meat Industry. The group has resumed actions under the Sutcliffe Jugend banner with a return album, This is the Truth last year also on Hospital Productions/Groundfault. While that record pleased fans old and new with the power electronics style SJ helped pioneer, the release of The Fall of Nature brings us a new level destruction using sounds almost unthinkable ambient yet no less disturbing. The Fall of Nature is a epic, grandiose drone piece almost one hour of pure electronics that echoes the masters of the form. The album grows in intensity throughout the recording making for an unexpected release. There are many sides of darkness and many ways to express it. The Fall of Nature is the balance of sound, in a listenable format. The initial feeling is that of an almost holy, heavenly sound, the skies opening in tribute to the nature which is falling. Yet fans of classic SJ will be plenty pleased at the psychotically manic conclusion that will not disappoint any fans of PE terror. This music takes aim at several nerve centers at once. This is not just noise, drone or PE but something new that mixes various elements of each together for the first time. co-release with groundfalut recordings!" - Hospital. |
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Artist: SUTCLIFFE JUGEND Title: This Is The Truth Format: Double LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Ground Fault Recordings and Hospital Producitons would like to announce the upcoming release of "This Is The Truth", the first Sutcliffe Jugend studio album in eight years. "This Is The Truth" quite possibly stands as one of the most original and perfectly balanced noise compositions of the last 10 years. It references and uses classic Sutcliffe Jugend of old while bringing in an entirely unique and fresh element one does not hear in noise. This album is a brilliant blend of foreboding tension, and anxiety while using the most lively, disturbing, and textural elements of noise. All of which are brought together with the phenomenal detail and balance of an accomplished electronic composer. Songs that you think will explode leave you hanging with tension, while others erupt with violence out of nowhere. Its an absolutely brilliant album that was worth the wait." |
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Artist: SUTCLIFFE JUGEND Title: This Is The Truth Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Ground Fault Recordings and Hospital Producitons would like to announce the upcoming release of "This Is The Truth", the first Sutcliffe Jugend studio album in eight years. "This Is The Truth" quite possibly stands as one of the most original and perfectly balanced noise compositions of the last 10 years. It references and uses classic Sutcliffe Jugend of old while bringing in an entirely unique and fresh element one does not hear in noise. This album is a brilliant blend of foreboding tension, and anxiety while using the most lively, disturbing, and textural elements of noise. All of which are brought together with the phenomenal detail and balance of an accomplished electronic composer. Songs that you think will explode leave you hanging with tension, while others erupt with violence out of nowhere. Its an absolutely brilliant album that was worth the wait." |
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Artist: V/A Title: Showtunes of The Condemned Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Two years in the making, Showtunes of the Condemned emerges not as a compilation, but a massive unified whole. Spinning, spinning, spinning. A dark, edgy, electronic epic, acting as a Pandoras Box of social and urban anxiety. Ranging from lo-fi ambient soundscape to high-tech industrial powernoise, and rotten sound collage, the varied styles on this cd merge into a compelling argument for despair. Featuring roughly fifteen minutes each from: Smashed Femur Dance Party, Sinking Body, Pleasurehorse, Work/Death, Kites, and Meerk Puffy, plus an extensive short story of contemporary mythology from Scott Wilson." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: VATICAN SHADOW Title: It Stands to Conceal Format: Triple LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $50.00 |
| "It Stands To Conceal contains the most recent Vatican Shadow cassettes on vinyl. This set includes Jordanian Descent, Ghosts Of Chechnya, and Attas Apartment Slated for Demolition. Total pressing of 911 copies with gatefold sleeve." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: VATICAN SHADOWS/CONTREPOISON Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Split cassette of religious militant industrial and minimalist melodic industrial." - Hospital Productions
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Always Wrong Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Always Wrong is a mantra of severity. Wolf Eyes has been scouring audiences across the globe with their acid drenched industrial noise and dub terror psychedelia, establishing themselves as the trailblazers of a genre and pioneers of the long-form noise tour. coming forth from the piles of tape loops and effects the bulk of tables reeling with electronics have been shed. This clarity never sacrifices intensity as paradoxically this is the most organic of the full lengths but also the harshest and most dissonant. Opening track ⿿Cellar immediately sets the pace of barraged edits and percussive electronics as startling vocals spit from the dry throat and remain unfiltered for the first time breathing a clear litany of scorn. a new voice is rising and it isnt happy. throughout the album non-electronic beats created from live drums replace programming while colliding tape loops and junk metal bring new unstable rhythm like a house with erroding foundation. ⿿Living Stone shows a more natural state of acoustic composition highlighting the despondent subtle plucking of controlled guitar improvisation that could come from natures ghost. forging ahead in ⿿We All Hate You loud tonal horns and architectuarly placed electronics. however their aesthetic core of pummeling hasnt been abandoned as the aggressive ⿿Broken Order takes hold with shrill feedback fueling industrial cannon blasts of white hot noise that burn the body from the neck down. an eerie harmonica driven death march straight out of "once upon a time in the west" cries on the closing track droll/cut the dog Immediately it is clear that Wolf Eyes have crafted a statement with maturity that stands at the top of their mysterious discography. Always Wrong is a denial against conformity and the triumph of walking a path alone. Young, Olson, Connelly." -Hospital |
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Always Wrong Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Always Wrong is a mantra of severity. Wolf Eyes has been scouring audiences across the globe with their acid drenched industrial noise and dub terror psychedelia, establishing themselves as the trailblazers of a genre and pioneers of the long-form noise tour. coming forth from the piles of tape loops and effects the bulk of tables reeling with electronics have been shed. This clarity never sacrifices intensity as paradoxically this is the most organic of the full lengths but also the harshest and most dissonant.
Opening track "Cellar" immediately sets the pace of barraged edits and percussive electronics as startling vocals spit from the dry throat and remain unfiltered for the first time breathing a clear litany of scorn. a new voice is rising and it isnt happy. throughout the album non-electronic beats created from live drums replace programming while colliding tape loops and junk metal bring new unstable rhythm like a house with erroding foundation. "Living Stone" shows a more natural state of acoustic composition highlighting the despondent subtle plucking of controlled guitar improvisation that could come from natures ghost. forging ahead in "We All Hate You" loud tonal horns and architectuarly placed electronics. however their aesthetic core of pummeling hasnt been abandoned as the aggressive "Broken Order" takes hold with shrill feedback fueling industrial cannon blasts of white hot noise that burn the body from the neck down. an eerie harmonica driven death march straight out of "once upon a time in the west" cries on the closing track droll/cut the dog
Immediately it is clear that Wolf Eyes have crafted a statement with maturity that stands at the top of their mysterious discography. Always Wrong is a denial against conformity and the triumph of walking a path alone. Young, Olson, Connelly." - Hospital Productions.
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: River Slaughter Format: Double LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"sinister tonal electronics boil under high stress percussion and churning down current
cacophony. the first WE double with heavy pro silk screen cover. a unusually ominous
standout from the WE catalog." - Hospital.
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Artist: WOLF EYES/PRURIENT Title: The Warriors Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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Artist: WOLF EYES/SICKNESS Title: There is a Part of Me That You Will Never Know Format: LP Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Hospital Productions is proud to release the first-ever collaboration between these two legends, Wolf Eyes and Sickness. This is not haphazard but a symbiotic collaboration bridging distant roads. This full length LP is a dark casket of scorched earth sounds, the remains of the cracks at the after shock of discovery. Reminding us of the peaks in either artists catalog, There Is A Part Of Me That You Will Never Know processes the deepest sounds of these four masters in a haze of lone atmosphere and true noise. This is not a terror shock, this is the end." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: YELLOW TEARS Title: Dont Cry Format: 12" Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Yellow Tears is the sound of a drop of urine being pushed through an infected urethra. An uncomfortable attraction to the golden realms of natural expulsion, this is the audio collage equivalent of a childs worst day at a carnival as an actionist nightmare of disturbing imagery and sounds. Dont Cry shows these young masters at work carving out sculptures of depravity using god knows what for source sounds. The listener is introduced to a mostly quiet, subtle psychology of fear, childhood trauma and locked cellars. Power comes from the absence the familiar. Separating themselves from narcissistic heard, the band requires decades of therapy to begin to solve their problems. Bad dreams are supposed to be frightening. 12" 45RPM EP. edition of 500." -Hospital |
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Artist: ZAIMPH Title: Sexual Infinity Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "marcia bassett of double leopards, hototogisu, ghq, fame on her first proper solo full length has given us one of our favorites in the history of hospital productions. sexual infinty stands refreshingly organized into six escalating pieces of her signature guitar, voice, and electronic moodscapes entrancing the listener with sinister seduction. comparisons to early 80s power electronics and industrial acts as uncommunity, mauthausen orchestra and ramleh reside in the underbelly of zaïmphs ability to generate ominous, gritty, and doom laden atmosphere cloaked in a thick lush drone. what begins with raw ethereal guitar shadows of longing delight closes with vital gripping electronic tension." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT Title: Fatale Format: CD Label: Hospital Productions/Hanson Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "pedestrians masterwork. metal clanging, field recordings, cut up electronic bursts, feedback manipulation, piano collages, tonal ambience all woven and smashed together creating hi tension noise fetishism and urban noir. split release with HANSON...." - Hospital Productions. |
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Artist: HOSPITALS, THE Title: Hairdryer Peace Format: LP Label: Hospitals Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"After a nearly Chinese Democracy situation, the new Hospitals LP "Hairdryer Peace" is being pressed and.. put out by the band. Its a ripper/apology for the bands previous two albums."-Hospitals.
"Doesnt really matter whether you loved or hated The Hospitals before, cuz this is some year zero shit. This is the most psychedelic fucking record in a long time and there are no rainbows - no feather earrings - no beards. Mixed for maximum hallucinations, it has the stoned riffs of a killer rock record, totally cracked pop, pure headfuck, but more than anything else just an all around perfect album. Its Chief Hospital Adam Stonehouse with oringal Hospital co-founder/shredder Rod Meyer and Rob Enbom from Eat Skull and Chris Gunn from an island off the coast of the future. Sounds nothing like any bands or anything else.. Seriously, if a better record comes out this year, next year, whenever.... I promise. Edition of 500. Dont be an asshole." - Scott Simmons.
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masterpiece and a real departure into a ZONE, theyre getting VERY
curious." - Hicham Chadly.
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Artist: VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA Title: Ragged + Right Format: LP Label: Hot Boots! Country: France Price: $18.00 |
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"Ragged + Right was originally released (on CDr) in a miniscule edition of 60 to coincide with a live performance at the Holy Trinity Church in Leeds. Chances are, if you werent in attendance that night you probably missed out on this one. In this day in age where bands crank out limited edition CDrs on a weekly basis, another one slipping through the cracks would hardly merit further mention - simply add it to the pile of decaying plastic discs and move on. Such a fate for Ragged + Right however, would be a severe injustice given this release is certainly one of the highlights in the VCO discography (and is also notable for the inclusion of special guests John Godbert, Marc Orleans and Matthew Bower). With this in mind, weve taken it upon ourselves to bring this album to the masses with a fanclub edition reissue. You dont get second chances like this very often, so youd better be quick...this one definitely wont be around for long."
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Artist: CORSANO, CHRIS Title: Blood Pressure Format: CDR Label: Hot Cars Warp Country: UK Price: $10.00 |
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"This ones no drums---all keyboard with the occasional unintelligible vocal.- CC. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: CORSANO, CHRIS Title: Cut Format: CD Label: Hot Cars Warp Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
 "After 15 years, a handful of LPs & CDRs, and even a couple of edition-of-one acetates, Hot Cars Warp Records releases its first proper CD just in time for the formats obsolescence. Timing is everything!
This all-acoustic solo outing--no electronics or overdubs--is more or less further development of what Chris Corsano started on his 2006 recording, The Young Cricketer: one drum set augmented by various re-purposed metal objects, modified reed instruments and bowed strings stretched across drums. 43 minutes/19 tracks--9 of which are interwoven throughout the record in a loose retelling of the Calonarang story often portrayed in Balinese gamelan music." - Hot Cars Warp. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: CORSANO, CHRIS Title: The Young Cricketer Format: CDR Label: Hot Cars Warp Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: CORSANO, CHRIS BAND Title: High and Dry Format: CDR Label: Hot Cars Warp Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| One man (aside from a bongo solo from "The Wizard") power trio recordings from 2008-2010. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: MILSTEIN, PHIL X. & THURSTON MOORE Title: Songs We Taught The Lord, Vol. 2 Format: LP Label: Hot Cars Warp Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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Artist: CORSANO/FLOWER/HEJNOWSKI Title: The Count Visits Format: LP Label: Hot Cars Warp/Flowerhouse Country: USA/UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Recorded at Brooklyns Issue Project Room, this live burble features Flower on Japan Banjo, Corsano on tubs and Heyner (or Bobby McGee or Count fucking Chocula or whatever hes calling himself here) doubling on bass (three tracks) and tubs (one track). Corsanos in his ferocious carpet bomb mode, laying down a thick lumpy rug of imaginary bubble wrap for the others to prance upon, and prance they do. Flowers doing a kind of China Pig upward spiraling wail on his axe, and Heyner (I mean Popeye or is it Count Floyd?) is bowing the shit out of his bass like some kinda arco dervish from the center of the earth. But its not all outward splange, here. No sir. There are other passages in the improv set that would make Matt Valentine put down his mug of butter beer, looks you right in the eye and say, Dude, that is smokin. What Matt would probably mean is that it sounds at times like these guys have been smoking cheeb and playing the kind of beautiful notes that reportedly fill the heads of those who indulge. And frankly, Im not sure if these three are users or not, but if they are, youll want some of what theyre using. Cause it sounds fucking tasty. Is it possible Corsano has been wearing a baldie-cap all these years and that hes actually a secret hippie? Not sure, but Flower has never been shy about his locks, nor has Heyner (or Emett Otter or whoever). So maybe Corsanos been packing inner hair all this time. Well, bully for him, I say. If this is what hippies sounds like, I declare peace with their whole tribe." - Byron Coley. |
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Artist: VAMPIRE BELT Title: Dead Is OK Format: CDR Label: Hot Cars Warp/Open Mouth Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"First release on Hot Cars Warp in a long, long time. Vampire Belt is Chris Corsano (Action Trio with Paul Flaherty & Thurston Moore, Kiyo Butai with Matt Heyner from Test/No Neck, Dredd Foole & the Din, auxiliary Sunburned Hand of the Man member) on drums, patch cords, bass, vocals & other junk with Bill Nace (Katellus, Ceylon Mange) on guitar, contact mics & etc. This is their first recording. 30+ minutes of loud, zero-fi, all-improvised noise/free(dom[freedumb]) rock gurgle. No overdubs or fancy shit like that--just the sweet sounds of simultaneous equipment malfunction and technical difficulties. With hand-designed covers. One attentive listener dropped an early-Swans comparison. Another a Cold Hands/Beaches & Canyons-era Black Dice. Another a Harry Pussy for tots. While we cant claim these descriptions to be accurate, we thought we should at least let you know about them." - Hot Cars Warp. 10 out of 10 in VICE. ??
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Artist: BLO Title: Step Three Format: CD Label: Hot Casa Country: France Price: $18.00 |
| "Hot Casa Records is proud to present this Holy Grail of Afro-Funk and rare gem from the 70s Lagos music scene. Reissued for the first time outside Nigeria, including an interview and photos of the original band members. The three core BLO bands members were "B" for Berkely "Ike" Jones on guitar, "L" for Laolu, "Akins" Akintobi on drums, and "O" for Mike "Gbenga" Odumosu on bass. BLO was formed just as a trio in late 1972 and split up in 1982. They developed their music on tour before they recorded their first album, Chapter One in 1973 on EMI Records. They built something unique, original and different than any other young African group at the time, blending rock with its African roots and transmuting it into soul-fusion. They left an indelible impression on the Nigerian music scene and became an institution for worldwide music lovers. From Clusters to Afrocollection alongside with the Lijadu Sisters, theyd been involved in many various acts. They also toured with Ginger Baker, the famous English drummer of both power trio Cream and Salt, whose influence has been considered by Laolu Akins as "another major player in the development of BLO." After their highly inspiring worldwide tour with Salt, leading them from Munichs Olympic Jazz Festival to the USA, BLO decided to work on their own concept album with the main ingredients of Afro, rock and dance. Immediately preceding their disco period, Step Three is a real and beautiful definition of Afro soul music." - Hot Casa. |
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Artist: BLO Title: Step Three Format: LP Label: Hot Casa Country: France Price: $25.00 |
| "Hot Casa Records is proud to present this Holy Grail of Afro-Funk and rare gem from the 70s Lagos music scene. Reissued for the first time outside Nigeria, including an interview and photos of the original band members. The three core BLO bands members were "B" for Berkely "Ike" Jones on guitar, "L" for Laolu, "Akins" Akintobi on drums, and "O" for Mike "Gbenga" Odumosu on bass. BLO was formed just as a trio in late 1972 and split up in 1982. They developed their music on tour before they recorded their first album, Chapter One in 1973 on EMI Records. They built something unique, original and different than any other young African group at the time, blending rock with its African roots and transmuting it into soul-fusion. They left an indelible impression on the Nigerian music scene and became an institution for worldwide music lovers. From Clusters to Afrocollection alongside with the Lijadu Sisters, theyd been involved in many various acts. They also toured with Ginger Baker, the famous English drummer of both power trio Cream and Salt, whose influence has been considered by Laolu Akins as "another major player in the development of BLO." After their highly inspiring worldwide tour with Salt, leading them from Munichs Olympic Jazz Festival to the USA, BLO decided to work on their own concept album with the main ingredients of Afro, rock and dance. Immediately preceding their disco period, Step Three is a real and beautiful definition of Afro soul music." - Hot Casa. |
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Artist: AMERICAN BAND Title: Low Friction Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "2nd full-length collaboration between Lee Counts, Matt Franco (of Air Conditioning, Holy Family Parish) and Jason Crumer -- power tools on scrap metal, and, by the way, one of the rawest light shows of any band ever (sheets and sheets of sparks). This record is more spare and moody than their first; lush/industrial, elegiac sanders and spareness building up to and blasted away by the brutal second side. 500 copies." -Hot Releases |
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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Armaghedon Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Reissue of the 1984 classic. Both sides mesmerizing time benders, ominous and beautific. This exuberant opus was conceived about one year in advance, during my final achievement to the so-called bionic music. Originally was finalized for an apologetic movie directed by myself, but this cardiotonic objective was fallen into demagnetizated oblivion. Remained just the palpitating gait of this apocalyptic soundtrack. -- M.B." |
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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Plays The Clockwork Orange Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Reissue of a February 1980 decomposition from the Italian industrial forereunner. Halting tape cut-ups of the classical score from the film. One of the strangest M.B. recordings! Pro-printed jacket." -Hot Releases |
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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: The Plain Truth Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Reissue of the 1983 LP. Classic eerie world-crumbling spacious beauty. Pro printed jackets, 400 copies." "This record is dedicated to all the redeemed people." - Hot Releases.
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Artist: BOYZONE Title: Menarche Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "A witchy mosaic of psychedelic haunted tape jams, exposed circuit melodies, EVP, Casio moaning, deteriorating cassette playback, ebbing dreamy confusion and harshness coalescing into a final metal echo from Southern U.S. live improv freak-out / dance / performance / noise ensemble featuring members of Relay for Death, Secret Boyfriend, and Jeff Rehnlund. Hand pasted art, 300 copies." - Hot Releases. |
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Artist: HORAFLORA/SECRET BOYFRIEND Title: Split Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "I met Raub of Horaflora during his tour down from New England when he had his entire set-up on a bicycle. Using a clever and economical system that included a hand drum, trumpet mouth piece, balloon, computer sub-woofer, transducers, hand-held tape recorders and various found objects, he created an immersive shuddering meadow mecha-organic sound environment. Empty cans and scrap metal rattled to the same pulse, balloons exhaled lost-in-the-fog tones on the taut drum skin, tapes whirred weird in their lascivious carriage in the front and back : the sum being a barnyard of coldly throbbing sounds from all angles harmonizing with the resident frogs and insects. Two years later we have this, the vinyl debut of both Horaflora and Secret Boyfriend. On his side, Raub wrings pleasingly alien sounds from his systems - taken in this instance from a live session with Andrea Williams on KALX. The electro-acoustic room-rattling is crisply recorded but still very inscrutable ... strange sounds mingling spatially guided by unseen hands of a restless poltergiest . . . The Secret Boyfriend side begins stunned in the still room where Horaflora left us, oozes and flirts with a baroque chamber mentality giving away to exquisite / blown speaker melodies and drooling song-form, morbid and tender. A sense of calm and peripheral melancholy is held, abrasion dialed back. One quarter alive in a cold apartment for twenty years. The windows are open. Pro-printed jackets, 300 copies." -Hot Releases |
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Artist: JEWELL, RYAN Title: Eschew Obfuscation; Espouse Elucidation Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The long-awaited first full-length LP from conservatory-educated Columbus OH free-improv and jazz percussionist and noise-maker Jewell is a mammoth statement. Side A is one long stereo-melting, ear-bending composition comprised of sounds recorded over the span of a decade, evoking the best sense shock of harsh noise, except with organic sounds manipulated with the class and finesse of Pierre Henry. Side B focuses on the deep drone/long tones wrought with patience and intensity from a snare -- a beautiful compliment to the classy frenzy of the first half. After collaborations with the likes of Spencer Yeh, Mike Shiflet, Wasteland Jazz Unity, Graveyards, Envenomist, Pink Reason, Psychedelic Horseshit, and Tatsuya Nakatani, this solo wax is a serious treat. Mastered by Bhob Rainey, with art by Dylan Nyoukis. 300 copies, pro-printed art." -Hot Releases |
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Artist: REHNLUND, JEFF Title: Gangnam Basement Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "A completely idiosyncratic and slippery album of honey religious field recordings, noise, tape collage with sprinklings of nitrous-damaged pop recorded during a year abroad in Korea. Highly listenable, Jeff has it going on. Handmade art, 300 copies. Paste-on front and spray-painted back cover." -Hot Releases |
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Artist: REHNLUND, JEFF Title: Smoke From The Mirror Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Mostly recorded during a year in Las Cruces, New Mexico with a reverb unit and other gear found in a spider- and cat-infested geodesic dome in the desert. Smoke is a mottled sound diary of sweltering mutant pop, distressed voices, sweaty-dense-and-deep drone in a wider, darker sky, wretching cassettes, sparse stone garden melody, gamelan, plus a lengthy field recording of an exorcism in India that was interrupted by a wandering bull. All tracks evoke an overwhelming sense of heat and empty space, life and death, distance, isolation -- carved with broader, more direct gestures than Jeffs previous releases, but still with flourishes of his trademark bewildering, confusing sonic style. Pro-printed jacket, 300 copies." -Hot Releases |
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Artist: RUSSIAN TSARLAG Title: Open Caskets Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: RUSSIAN TSARLAG/SECRET BOYFRIEND Title: Split Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Long in the works split LP finally made available. Two complimentary sides of otherworldly, out-of-time romantic/downer tunes evocative of a woman descending a glass staircase. An early review from P Maier: Grace is a distant glimmer, but at least champagne is in hand. This split is definitely needed by all." -Hot Releases. |
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Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA Title: Voyage a lOmbre Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Reissue of the CD originally released by Demosaurus in 1997, paired down to a lean LP length with the approval of the artist. This edition is an instance of the recorded material translating beautifully to the vinyl format." -Hot Releases. |
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Artist: UNICORN HARD-ON/CONTAINER Title: Split Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Killer and complimentary split from two of the US undergrounds finest. A vital document of this curious shift from noise to beats in the subterranean circuits. Two slammers with disorienting-ly haunted vox from Unicorn Hard-On, one epic slab of surgical techno from Container." -Hot Releases. |
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Artist: VVAQRT Title: Than On Eother And You Have 0 Answers Format: LP Label: Hot Releases Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "VVAQRT (say Vak-art or Vak-ert) are a dark, crumbling consciousness minimal synth pop duo from Saxapahaw, NC. Well-recorded, tightly-wound succinct synth sculptures are coupled with ornately mangled text, evoking a mind forcefed too much useless information that has begun to froth and die. This LP is party music for the modern apocalypse... were very proud of this one, the record with the strongest, bitterest pop appeal that weve released so far. Definitely not witch-house. Pro-printed jackets." -Hot Releases |
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Artist: BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD Title: The World is at War Format: CDR Label: House Of Alchemy Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "One long 45 minute epic piece of weirdness." - House of Alchemy |
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Artist: GOWN Title: On the River Format: CDR Label: House Of Alchemy Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Housed in a 11x17 folded double sided silkscreened poster designed by D. Norsen. Its sick." - House of Alchemy |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Pained Transformation Format: CDR Label: House Of Alchemy Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| Compiles two out of print cassettes with a new track and a badge. |
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Artist: BLACK BUG Title: Police Helicopter Format: 7" Label: Hozac Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The certified degenerate buzz thats surrounded BLACK BUG for the past few years has been dangerously bubbling under the surface and toxically spread over a handful of singles and their debut LP, as they have emerged as the truly most demonic and nihilistic of the minimal synth acts of the current suffocating wave. Hailing from the bowels of the Swedish underground, Black Bug are a terrorizing ambient noise duo of questionable origin, existing in a vacuous plane of reality, where simplistic noisy analog reverberation is the answer to all of lifes questions, and when isnt it? Here they offer us three more devilish cuts of unsettlingly echo-laden dance floor classics, undulating with such a depraved throb and squirm, they might be already embedding themselves deep into your skin, as to quickly dissolve and infect instantly. Black Bug revel in the ugliness of simple purity and the way it feels against your cold, wet skin. Theyve cornered the market on the vile nothingness of paranoid desperation and their songs here are as bleak and gut-wrenching as any of their fore bearers. First edition of 500 copies." -Hozac |
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Hozac Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: E.T. HABIT Title: Venomous Format: 7" Label: Hozac Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "My, how far weve come in this pithy, little universe weve created. Who would have thought that our interplanetary invasion would happen when we were least expecting it, and with such an extensively fancy percussion unit? Chicagos protozoic cellular mass of prog/psych outer space noise, E.T. HABIT has been inhabiting our secular sphere for many moons now, and were palpitating wildly in anticipation of their maiden vinyl forging on this debut 7" single. A nightmarish explosion of glitter and blood, culminating into their gut-wrenching, earth-moving early 70s je ne sais quoi, that cant clearly be quantified with its Alice Cooper Band/Hawkwind comparisons so much as its theatrical ambiance. Edition of 475 copies." - Hozac. |
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Artist: FAR OUT FANGTOOTH Title: Thorns Format: 7" Label: Hozac Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Philadelphias FAR OUT FANGTOOTH have been meddling within their own poisonous cloud of murky, atmospheric noise for a while now, and after a stellar debut LP on Siltbreeze last year, weve cornered their deliriously downtrodden din for a blurry 3-song EP of devastating caliber. Their solidly mid-tempo, gazey gait, braced with gothic flourishes of noise and carefully arranged explosions of angelic harmony are beautifully morose and radiant at the same time, combining the guit-architecture of Sonic Youths early primal scree with Circle Pits squalorous nuances to create a heavenly hypnotic, haunting haze. This is a band that seduces you when your guard is down, only to soar down and rip your heart out of your chest just at the moment when the rising tide of crashing noise hits you at full force, breaking any human down into their simplest parts. A deeply disturbing, yet fulfilling set of tracks that make that dark place in your heart seem like a nice place for a picnic, and a greater sense of anticipation for what Far Out Fangtooth will drudge up next. Edition of 475 copies." - Hozac. |
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Artist: IDLE TIMES Title: S/T Format: LP Label: HoZac Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Since their inception, Seattles eminently unique noise-benders, IDLE TIMES have enshrouded their unhinged pop dexterity in an entire soiled spectrum of illustrious cloaks, assuring every angle they pursue is leveled with deranged precision. From the instant the lead off track kicks in on their debut LP, its impossible to ignore the bands brainchild, BRIAN STANDEFOD, utilizing an unreal and otherworldly scorching guitar tone, which very well might be what locks you in at first. But on closer listens, its the scraps of distant-yet-familiar sound swatches, seamlessly patched together behind that inimitable guitar and vocal combination that make up the intensely diverse array of songs on their first full-length. Its never been more prominent than on their anxiously-awaited debut LP, where Idle Times are clearly pioneering a sound thats meshing so many degrees of varying styles from track to track, that it becomes easy to get lost in the staggering creativity of each intricate alcove. With such an intense collection of tracks that crush and crackle with deranged delight, Idle Times wield both noisy pop hooks with subdued melodic mastery, and prove that following up Sic Alps/Guided By Voices-style grungy, yet fully jangled scratchy pop hits, with the twang and clang of a fried-out later-era Byrds studio outtake, is truly something fresh and exciting in this never-ending world of recycled ideas and ripped-off innovation. It just doesnt sound like anything else, and as shocking as that may seem, thats most likely why its just so compelling. Initial vinyl pressing of 550 copies." -HoZac |
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Artist: KETAMINES Title: Line By Line Format: 7" Label: Hozac Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "How Calgary, Albertas KETAMINES can create such warming, vibrant sounds in the great white north is still confusing our team of scientists, but the three raw and sunny-sounding blasts of pop on this debut EP will surely have your chest pounding with excitement, and Im not even a doctor. Formed from the ashes of the revered MYELIN SHEATHS and ENDAGERED APE, and current Fist City and Mammoth Cave Recordings figureheads, Ketamines are truly the Calgary super group you need to hear. Its a rush of swirling pop psychedelia that doesnt veer too far off the deep end, and ropes you into a technicolor world conjuring visions of the UFO Club, cross-wired with luxuriously textured Simply Saucer vibes, all crushed comfortably around teetering lysergic pop song structures. Whether its the metronomically phased choruses and flanged nuances that shift effortlessly between the inescapable hooks, or the eerily cheerful songs you simply cant shake out of your head for days, the Ketamines debut EP is everything you wouldnt think theyd be based on their moniker alone. They still harness the hazy, confident stride of the dazed legends that came before them, and their psychedelic pop should carry them straight into the arms of todays most jaded with ease. First edition of 500 copies." -Hozac |
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Artist: MICKEY Title: Rock n Roll Dreamer Format: LP Label: HoZac Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: PUFFY AREOLAS Title: 1982: Dishonorable Discharge Format: LP Label: Hozac Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| *One of the most pivotal bands currently infecting the Midwest universe, PUFFY AREOLAS are a pummeling ensemble of free jazz skronk, laid mercilessly on top of a proto-punk nuclear waste dump, still throbbing with orgone energy. A Hawkwind cum-Lucifers Crank-era Dwarves killing machine that doesnt stop until no one is left breathing, or god forbid, unimpressed. A sophisticated mess of noisy, nihilistic bursts of agony and intangible hate-fuck hysteria, thats as captivating as it is alienating, pushing the boundaries of sanity, each and every performance. And yes, their second full-length is exactly what everyone has been worried about, a toxic bath of spoiled space juice dripping dangerously over the frayed circuits of their demonic WAH, sizzling with nightmarish night trips. A true Funhouse moment really kicks in on side B, a devastating document of human endurance, devolvement, and desecration, and sometimes it seems like this band is less of a musical combo and more of a flashing portal into an unknown Vietnam-like, mind-bending free punk power that summons the inner spirit of self-destruction like you wouldnt believe. LP edition of 600 copies." - Hozac |
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Artist: PUFFY AREOLAS Title: Gentlemans Grip Format: 7" Label: Hozac Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "One of the most pivotal bands currently infecting the Midwest universe, PUFFY AREOLAS are a pummeling ensemble of free jazz skronk, laid mercilessly on top of a proto-punk nuclear waste dump, still throbbing with orgone energy. A Hawkwind cum-Lucifers Crank-era Dwarves killing machine that doesnt stop until no one is left breathing, or god forbid, unimpressed. A sophisticated mess of noisy bursts of animosity and intangible hate-fuck hysteria, thats as captivating as it is alienating, pushing the boundaries of sanity, each and every performance. Once you tune your brains lower end into their freaked-out frequency, youll immediately FEEL THE NOIZE, and youll quickly see how those gut-churning riffs can peel the paint off the walls better than any crew of Ukranian contractors in this neighborhood, thats for sure. First edition of 500 copies." -Hozac |
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Artist: SUBTLE TURNHIPS Title: Terd Format: LP Label: HoZac Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "At long last, the French Cro-Magnon punque masters SUBTLE TURNHIPS have returned from the blackness with their third staggering LP of slobbering soiled savagery. Finally available to folks outside of their alcove of animosity and thrusting forth a sludgy, refreshing blast of toilet-wave toxicity that never sits well in pleasant situations, these three cave-dwelling cretins have created a modern masterpiece of rudimentary punk damage, never straying far off from each songs well beaten two-chord pummeling. For a band thats been surreptitiously releasing records for over twenty years now, the release of this new Terd LP is cause for rejoicing in that, at the very least, its accessible to the farther-down-the-food-chain life forms that will embrace it the most. Mining only the most slavish nuances culled from punks deepest grievances and stewed in an acidic bath of primal lunacy stemming from isolation, desperation, and overall sonic decapitation, its with great pleasure that we unleash the Subtle Turnhips latest poisonous blast of primordial perfection, the Terd LP upon your vulnerable and unprepared soul. First pressing of 400 copies." -HoZac |
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Artist: TORTURED TONGUES Title: Let Me Down Format: 7" Label: HoZac Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Its bad times all year round in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the castrated legions that makeup the by-product known as TORTURED TONGUES reside. The tar-like muck that licked your face endlessly for days upon the debut of their self-released 7-inch in 2009 has crawled out from those toenails once again and has brought the prime slime right up to the front, where its always belonged. Churning dawn-of-the-century Clone Defects slobberism, schitzo Screamers scuzz, along with Bobby Soxx-soaked backwash, this is one Puritan-polluting problem we can fully stand behind here, as Tortured Tongues will be a very hard stain to wash out. Three full-charge scum punk wonders gracefully degrade this EP over the two sides, with the rusty-gutting, strangulated delivery oozing out of all the facial wounds of your miserable existence, this record might just be the "end of that rope" people are always referring to. First press of 500 black editions." -HoZac |
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Artist: XRAY EYEBALLS Title: Crystal Format: 7" Label: HoZac Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The initial swooning rhythm thrust forth by Brooklyns quickly ascending XRAY EYEBALLS is a heady blast of creeping distortion beautifully bent into perspective by these insidious inhabitants of the dark corners of your mind. With these three tracks on their debut 7-inch EP, we get a glimpse at the mesmerizing range of slurred styles that they encapsulate so well, both throbbing along at a heartbeat-pace and quivering restlessly, XRay Eyeballs knock out the instant hits with an effortless ease that feels so right, it refreshes your cloudy state of mind instantly. Infectious pop filtered through a dizzying framework of noise and frenzy, this EP has that certain lovely nastiness that it takes to make an intriguing first impression. Edition of 500 copies on black vinyl." -HoZac |
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Artist: BOOTS/C.C./SNAKE & REMUS Title: Box Format: 3LP Box Set Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $40.00 |
| "These three LPs were originally privately pressed by the artist(s) in minuscule editions sometime in this new century. It appears that very few copies were circulated outside a close circle of acquaintances and it was only by chance/luck that they found their way to us. Each LP contained no information whatsoever, the only hint was the name stamped on the plain white jacket. Clouding matters even further was the fact that each of the three albums bore a different moniker. Musically the LPs share a consistent solitary vision, one that treads an inward-looking path that leads to far-reaching psychedelic excursions. "Boots" is a prime example of the range of these albums. Side one features five tracks of acoustic guitar and raw vocal accompaniment heavy on the loner vibes. The flip changes directions entirely, offering a wild ride of percussion and electronics. Likewise, "C.C - Live at Rainbows End" follows a similar course, although the mood is somewhat less solemn (though no less introspective) on the tracks featuring voice and guitar. The counterpoint here is the near side-long track of barely audible field recordings from an unrecognizable location. "Snake & Remus - No Tape Outside" is a continuation of sound and thought. Interchangeably piano, electronics and percussion supplement the songwriter, adding a haunting layer to the already subdued mood. The final side contains instrumental passages of processed guitar strum that weave delicate waves. The LPs are presented in a box, its own cryptic coffin perhaps, with individual stamped jackets consistent with the original LPs. As it says, "Its just a box man"." - HP Cycle. May or may not be related to the ultra-mysterious Jim Collins and Terry LPs that we carried a few years back, and/or last years Arian Sample and Tommy Roundtree LPs. Restocked! |
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Artist: CEYLON MANGE Title: The Maiming Path Format: LP Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $17.00 |
| "Ceylon Mange is the trio of Dylan Nyoukis (Chocolate Monk proprietor and sound molder in Blood Stereo, Decaer Pinga), Karen Constance (Blood Stereo, Smack Music 7) and Bill Nace (X.O.4, Vampire Belt). The Maiming Path extends from the groups previous mind melts with two side long (de)constructions that are assembled from a variety of mangled loops and electronics, guitar feedback/slaughter and cromagnon vocals. The results are a murky stew, as each emerging sound creeps upon the listener like a blackened sloth nightmare. Its the type of organic brain tangle that is rarely unleashed by the spirits these days. The LP is pressed in an edition of 410 and housed in a full-colour printed sleeve featuring Karens outsider artwork." - Hp Cycle. |
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Artist: KARK Title: The Hermit Format: LP Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $16.00 |
| "Debut album from this massive free ensemble from Louisville which features a revolving cast of over 50 musicians including members of Sapat, Valley of Ashes, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Son of Earth, Taiwan Death and the Belgian Waffles. The Hermit consists of three extended pieces that offer spaciously abstract atmospheres as well as moments of righteous cacophony. Utilizing a multitude of brass, reeds and percussion the album careens through numerous passages where intricate harmonics are created from the densely layered sounds. When the full force of the ensemble is unleashed individual elements appear and quickly recede into the squall. As the music nearly becomes unhinged, the sound disintegrates into a godzilla-like rockist thud propelled by the rhythm section and soaring horns before drifting to a sparse conclusion. The LP comes in a full colour jacket with homespun artifacts gracing the cover." - HP Cycle. |
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Artist: LSD MARCH Title: Kanashimino Bishounen Format: LP Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $13.50 |
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"Kanashimino Bishounen is the third album proper from LSD March following a
pair of Japanese only releases on the Gyunne Cassette and White Elephant
labels. These live recordings performed by the trio of Shinsuke Michishita
(voice,guitar), Masami Kawaguchi (guitar) and Ikuro Takahashi (drums)
feature five tracks that encompass a free form psychedelic approach to music
that is inimitable in spite of its customary points of origin. Song
structures are loosely pieced together and are distinguished by elevated
guitar work and washes of glorious noise. The music is as expansive as it is
destructive. Pressed in an edition of 415 and housed in a beautiful B&W
printed jacket." - HP Cycle.
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Artist: MANIACS DREAM Title: Die, Learn, No Way Format: LP Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $15.00 |
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"While sharing the zoned-out sensibility of their brethren (Avarus, The Anaksimandros, Pylon, etc.), Maniacs Dream distinguish themselves with a more eclectic, electric and raucous sound. Their musical vision is archaic and demented, providing the listener with a sonic interpretation of the groups namesake. It is something that can only be experienced, not learned. The tracks on Die, Learn, No Way are driven by ramshackle drumming, repetitive guitar riffs and gurgling/floating electronics - with the occasional mumbled vocal and scraped string thrown in for good measure. The LP is pressed in an edition of 420 and housed in a full colour printed sleeve with incredibly surreal and playful artwork." - HP Cycle.
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Artist: MAUSIM Title: s/t Format: CD Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $12.00 |
| "Two tracks capturing live/archival recordings of MAUSIM in its initial phase. Four guitars coagulate into a dense psychedelic mass...emerging from the squall are soaring sounds which disintegrate into an overpass pile-up. Only the rhythm of wind remains. Pressed in an edition of 300 copies and packaged in wood, twine, canvas, etc." - HP Cycle. |
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Artist: SHACKAMAXON Title: Shackamaxon Format: LP Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $16.00 |
| "Shackamaxon began back in 2001 when members of Double Leopards, Son of Earth and Magik Markers united to record and create music together. Since that time, the ensemble has quietly unleashed their psychedelic drift through a handful of live performances and a self-released CDr. Their self-titled debut LP presents four pieces of restrained beauty that encapsulates the Shackamaxon sound. The album begins with a side-long excursion where sparse organic textures become enveloped in cavernous layers of sound and perpetually fuzzed drones. It is a steady swell which builds to immense heights before fading into the expanse. Side two starts off with a brief introduction of fluttering tones, then diverges into an intricate passage of controlled feedback chatter and subtle reverberations. The album concludes with what sounds like a field recording from an alien rain forest, capturing strange creatures chirping and gurgling as the humidity drips from the canopy. ..beautiful cover art by Amy Borezo." - HP Cycle. |
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Artist: YAZIJIAN, ED Title: Gansrud Format: LP Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $18.00 |
| "Second solo full-length from Ed Yazijian, also known for his long running but sparsely documented collaborations with Dredd Foole, featuring eight disparate tracks recorded between 1996 and 2009. Each side starts off with some slow burning guitar (accented by bowed contrabass and violin on side two) that reverberates with an ease past midnight vibe. The album then weaves through a personalized space featuring eastern percussion, mainlined/cosmic violin drones and intercepted radio transmissions from an unknown origin. The record concludes with a contemplative guitar which is enveloped in tape hiss that eases its way in before fading away. The LP pressed in an edition of 350 copies and is presented in a full colour printed sleeve that is at one itself and with the spirits an opaque facsimile." - HP Cycle. |
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD & ALEX NEILSON Title: Beating Stars Format: LP Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $14.00 |
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"Beating Stars is the second release by Richard Youngs and Alexander Neilson and finds the duo working a celestial vibe over the albums four tracks. The LP begins with a cosmic folk interpretation of the traditional "Rolling In The Dew", with Richards voice transplanted amongst electronics, acoustic clatter and steady minimal percussion. From there the record ventures into more abstract territories where hovering electronics, searing guitar and explosive drumming all meld into a psychedelic haze. The album concludes with the side-long "Sent Onto The Stream", a twenty-two minute journey of skittering percussion and sustained tones of bent frequencies. Pressed in an edition of 420." - HP Cycle.
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD & TIRATH SINGH NIRMALA Title: s/t Format: LP Label: HP Cycle Country: Canada Price: $16.00 |
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"Debut album from the duo of Richard Youngs and Tirath Singh Nirmala (nee John Clyde-Evans) that has the pair creating a bucolic minimalist meditation. Side one interchangeably features hammered strings, gong/cymbal washes, droning vocals, and breathed shackuhachi/flutes. The second side leads with a melodious encounter before delving further into a glimmering psychedelia with sawed strings, fluttering reed organ and electronic drift. The results resemble a non-western approach to traditional musics filtered through the personalized aesthetic that runs through each of the artist?s prior works. The LP is enclosed in a full colour cover with suitable "of the earth" imagery." - HP Cycle.
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Artist: MOROSPHINX Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Hub Country: France Price: $25.00 |
| "Between sound art and free improv: Carine Léquyer : doublebass, electric harp, and medieval harp. Gabriel Vogel : acoustic and amplified sound sculptures, drums. A very limited edition of 50 copies." |
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Artist: BOW RIBBONS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Hueso Country: Chile Price: $18.00 |
| "Let it never be dismissed as some quaint value. Sincerity is perhaps that final, graceful pirouette towards what the Spanish name duende — an absolute and utter possession, a force of severance from consciousness — having soul. Bow Ribbons‘ self-titled album is a musical testament to the sincerity of its two authors Pete and Willow. A powerful yet un-imposing union between guitar and voice, keys a unique presence that is indicative of Bow Ribbons as both multi-timbral and able minimalist. As alchemically elusive as it is self-confessing — these polarities are much like the sinuous phantoms that glide throughout Bow Ribbons songs. Guitars that bloom and may appear to trail away in despondency or as if following some other train of thought, return just as quickly to invoke the vocal melody and shudder with admittance that, “I know lately that Ive been cruel/ I know lately Ive been mean, too.” The albums grand archaeological revelation, arcs with In Colors. Musical canyons into which Willow leads with lyrical wizardry, before dropping the listener into a free-jazz quake amongst chants of “To Be Love”. The sashay of cymbals and fluency of horns invoke the cavernous waves that eventually roll back to where all things began — at the horizon. Songs that impart the listener to stretch out and challenge the inclination to fill the void with static are increasingly hard to come by. Bow Ribbons is timeless music, for it acknowledges what existed before the embellishments that held the greater half of a century and consequently our habitude in dressing up the song. This does not mean that their music lacks production or pause. The warmth and tonal breadth of Petes guitar work is rousing by way of its subtleties. These songs remind us that space is not a listless vacuum, but instead what lies between is where the Bells Ring out, where the needle is thread through the fabric, where we are reminded to sigh, where we might reflect on a notes absence. At the edge, before the great dip into the void, theres the sense that we are standing with our noses at the tip of a flame or the iciest frost. One might see a flash. One may listen and hear silence as though it was the very first time doing so. Its any number of these things that make Bow Ribbons stand out in noble eloquence. -Nicky Mao, December 2010 "Bow Ribbons walks on each songs tightrope. Gracefully. Tenuously. But you will be the one floating at the end of a kite string; being pulled and |