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Artist: SPACE MACHINE Title: Modular Series, Model-201 (Space Time Echo) Format: 3" CD Label: P Tapes Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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This module contains: Maso Yamazaki (Maestro Echoplex EP-3 and P-tronic Sound Lab Mini-Synth). Recorded at Space Machine Systems Studio in Osaka, December 2004.
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Artist: 3/3 Title: S/T Format: Double CD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $40.00 |
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"Double CD reissue of this Japanese underground rock classic, exclusively available on P-vine. Originally released in Japan, 1975; reissued on LP on Shadoks in 2007. Disc 1 features the original 3/3 album (recorded 1974-5), plus 2 previously unpublished bonus tracks from the same timespan. Disc 2 features all previously unreleased live performances, recorded 1976-77 (all pre-Friction). Packaged in a gatefold mini-LP sleeve, with multiple inserts -- amazing package overall. "3/3 are Reck (guitar, vocals), Higo Hiroshi (bass) and Chiko Hige (drums). The name was inspired by a Japanese comic (4/4). In February 1975, 3/3 (Sanbun No San) released this album in a tiny pressing of 15 copies only to get a record deal. The cover was homemade and the recording sounds live but without audience. The music is ultra heavy guitar-dominated psychedelic rock like a mixture of Blue Cheer/Randy Holden/MC5 and early punk/new wave bands. The sound quality is mediocre but the music is a blaster. 3/3 has never released another recording. Both Reck and Hige then moved to New York where they stayed for over a year and played with James Chance & The Contortions, Lydia Lunch (Teenage Jesus & The Jerks) and others (No New York movement). They returned to Japan in 1978 to start a new group which became very famous: Friction. In 1979 Friction appeared on a compilation and in 1980 they recorded their first album. Friction released more than 10 albums in Japan. Friction has certainly had a heavy influence on the late 1970s Japanese punk and new wave scene. Reck is again active on the Tokyo scene and has teamed up with Haino Keiji and hardcore drummer Pill, with whom he performs under the name Head Rush. This album of 3/3 is the rarest underground album ever released in Japan." Number 43 in Japrocksamplers Top 50." - P-Vine
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Artist: AUNT SALLY Title: Live 1978-1979 Format: CD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
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"Aunt Sally was Phews first group; their debut album was released by the famous underground electronics label, Vanity Records in 1978." - FE.
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Artist: FRICTION Title: 79 Live Format: CD/DVD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $32.00 |
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"New series of reissues and archive vault material from Pass Records, licensed to P-vine. Pass was the quintessential Japanese no-wave/art-punk label of the late 70s, although they only released a handful of items (best know for Friction and Phew). This Friction CD/DVD is a new archival release, issued for the first time. The CD is live material from 1979, recorded live at Taku-Taku, 12/16/79. 10 tracks, 3 of which are not from their first LP. The DVD features Friction filmed live, from 1979, plus an 8mm movie by Reck and Mogi Emiko, simply called 1979-80 8mm Film. Dedicated to Sam Fuller." - FE.
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Artist: KOSUGI, TAKEHISA Title: Violin Solo 1980 N.Y.C. Format: CD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $24.00 |
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"A previously unreleased solo violin performance by the founder of the Taj Mahal Travellers and legendary Fluxus conceptualist. Active since the 1960s, Kosugi has more recently served as the music director for the Merce Cunningham Dance Troupe. He is currently involved with the composing and performance of impromptu music and electronic multimedia music. To be brief, Kosugi is one of the most important and influential Japanese experimental avant-gardists, alongside the likes of Yasunao Tone, Toshi Ichiyanagi & Yuji Takahashi. This album was recorded by Kazunori Sugiyama, 6/22/80, in NYC, and features a breathtakingly live solo violin performance." - FE.
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Artist: MIZUTANI, KIMIO Title: A Path Through Haze Format: CD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $31.00 |
| "Kimio Mizutani was the guitarist in the excellent Japanese freak out group Love Live Life +1 and this is a long-desired reissue of his first solo album from 1971, originally issued by Japanese Polydor." - FE. |
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Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS Title: August 1974 Format: Double CD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $38.00 |
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"Double CD reissue of the 2nd Taj Mahal Travellers album, originally issued by Japanese Columbia in 1974 as a 2LP set. The group was led by the infamous Fluxus member Takehisa Kosugi (electric violin, harmonica, voice, etc.), with: Kyo Koike (electric double bass), suntool, voice, etc.), Yukio Tsuchiya (bass-tuba, percussion), Beiji Nagai (trumpet, synthesizer Mini-Korg, timpani), Tokio Hasegaw (voice, percussion), Kinji Hayashi (electronic technique), Hirokeszu Sato (percussion, voice). Recorded live at Nippon Columbia Studio #1, Tokyo, August 19, 1974. Four side-long improvisations." - FE.
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Artist: V/A Title: Pass No Past - EPs & Singles Format: Double CD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $32.00 |
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"Artists: Friction, Tsunematsu Masatoshi, Phew, Boys Boys, Totsuzen Danball, Gunjogacrayon, E.D.P.S. (aka Tsunematsu). Pretty impressive double CD from Pass records vaults, including all of their original 7" 1& 12" EP material, plus a previously unreleased track by Tsunematsu Masatoshi (who was the guitarist/leader of Friction along w/ Reck). The first two Friction singles are featured, including non-LP b-sides - never seen records from the collector scum pantheon. The Phew material is her famous duo work with Ryuichi Sakamoto, from 1980. Totsuzen Danball later, somewhat famously, recorded an album with Lol Coxhill. All material here from 1979-82. With two booklets which feature large repros of all covers and other related flyers, etc. " - FE.
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Artist: VIRGIN INSANITY Title: Illusion of Maintenance Man Format: CD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $23.50 |
| Japanese-only CD edition of the lone album (at the time) from 1971 by this TX group - 200 copies pressed, recently reissued in very limited form on LP by Destijl. This P-Vine CD comes w/ 7 bonus tracks (from the same sessions?) released for the first time. Immaculate mini-LP jacket packaging, with booklet of liner notes (Japanese) and lyrics (English/Japanese). Heavy. Destijls description of the album: "Exact / legit repro of an unbelievably / unassumingly great / rare rec from TX, circa 71. 4 kids (one chick fatale) stoned / alone and aware of the big things. Tempted, yet devoted only to the shaft of light extending from the loin of god, on which we will all eventually sit, that slowly rises and lifts us towards the heavens... for the fan of gripped mind / dropped jaws, this is the regal beagle; austere / smart / aware vibes that slowly imply the king of American folk privates. Its connection within the deep timbre of the private / psych / folk family tree of references is hazy, but perhaps the dropped names of Arthur Lee Harper, Pete Fine, Fenner / Leland / OBrien, Timmothy, the Bachs will work for the astute customer." |
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Artist: VIRGIN INSANITY Title: Toad Frog & Fish Friends/The Odometer Suite Format: CD Label: P-Vine Country: Japan Price: $23.50 |
| "After releasing Illusion of Maintenance Man in 1971, Virgin Insanity evidently went on to record 2 more albums that never saw the light of day: Toad Frog & Fish Friends, also from 1971, and The Odometer Suite from 1973. This Japanese-only CD conveniently compiles the 2 together and throws on 2 bonus tracks of new 2005 recordings by the currently revitalized group. In a similar style to Illusion, but perhaps more freaked out, this is beautifully shambolic folk-rock from the edge of time, with parts of Toad Frog coming across like Texas answer to the Godz. The Odometer Suite is a lot more 73 than 71 (guess that "makes sense") - the naivete is a little wobbly for todays sophisticates. But the now easily achievable completeness that P-vine makes possible with these 2 CDs is hard to beat." - FE. |
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Artist: PLASTIC CLOUD Title: Plastic Cloud Format: CD Label: Pacemaker Country: Canada Price: $15.00 |
| "Bay Ridge, Ontarios contribution to the psychedelic pantheon, their self-titled LP (Allied/1968) is a swirl of gossamer vocals and Tolkien references, swathed in the some of the most relentless fuzz guitar you will ever hear. We feel its about time this fine record got the compact disc treatment it deserves, so weve gone all out for this reissue -- newly remastered from the tapes and the accompanying twenty-page booklet has all the lyrics, thanks to Don Brewer, the man who wrote them, as well as rare photos and a replica of the original press release that must be seen to be believed. Essential psychedelia." - Pacemaker. |
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Artist: PRITCHARD, DAVID Title: Nocturnal Earthworm Stew Format: CD Label: Pacemaker Country: Canada Price: $15.00 |
| "An incredible pioneering electronic album recorded in the early 1970s, from the first Canadian artist signed to Island Records. Serious headphone music made under the influence of Stockhausen, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Stravinsky, Frank Zappa, Weather Report, Charles Ives and others -- and with a sound thats often compared to that of early Eno and the first two Kraftwerk albums. Indefinable compositions integrate the earliest of portable synthesizers (ARP 2600 and EMS AKS) with acoustic instruments (violin, cello, dulcimer, electric violin, electric guitar), found sounds (short-wave radio transmissions and a summer thunderstorm) and random objects (instant coffee jar, scissors, chopsticks, among others) -- they also have special contributions from Nash the Slash (a.k.a. Jeff Plewman) and Martin Deller of famed Canadian band FM. Sixteen-page booklet has an abundance of photos, track by track information, and the odd history of these seminal recordings told by David Pritchard himself. Includes four bonus tracks not on the original 1976 Island LP release." - Pacemaker. |
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Artist: SOULS OF INSPYRATION, THE Title: The Sould of Inspyration Format: CD Label: Pacemaker Country: Canada Price: $16.00 |
| "Winners of the 1970 musical competition at Quebecs Man And His World (former site of Expo 67), this quartet subsequently played for two weeks at Expo 70 in Osaka, Japan and upon their return recorded this, their sole LP release, for the Canadian branch of Columbia Records. As with labelmates Jarvis Street Revue and Its All Meat, press runs for these LPs numbered in the four-digit range at best, nowhere near the quantities US counterparts The Byrds or Mitch Miller (or heck, even Hampton Grease Band) commanded, and all have become sought-after psychedelic arty-facts. So, what about the music you ask? A melodic bridge betwixt late psych and early prog, with a solid foundation of organ and driving rhythm, well-placed stinging guitar leads, and forceful vocals saying everything and nothing simultaneously. 33 minutes, seven tracks and not a loser in the bunch. From the mastertape, original cover artwork and liner notes preserved for the ages." - Pacemaker. |
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Artist: BLACK JOKER Title: Watch Out! Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: Belgium Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: DEVENS, MILES Title: Atlantic Woman Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "recordings from women of the heide sessions underdesert upside down pool drippers with simultaneous heide wanderings"- Pacific City Sound Visions. |
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Artist: FOURTH WORLD MAGAZINE Title: Presents: Spectacle of Light Abductions Format: LP + Book Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| The book is12 full-color pages of art, text and photos in the full size LP format."After many years as half of the highly influential SKATERS with James Ferraro, 2 solo albums on Olde English Spelling Bee (BLACK JOKER and MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS) and countless tapes and CDs, SPENCER CLARK has taken it to the next level. Layers of cosmic and alien sounds inhabit their own world and act as metaphors you can access subconsciously or explicitly. Clearer and more lucid than previous releases of his, this is a singular record of inner space exploration that operates completely outside the retro kraut-new age-synth trend so prevalent right now. Being more hi-fi than his past recordings, Spencer says I have made an Alien Space Fusion Music that is an Aural Symbol for the pre-birth outer space-selfs new Arrival. In this new zone, Spencer channels a more personal and spacious side of his vision, combining the rhythmic side of Monopoly Child with the abstractions of his VODKA SOAP project. This marks the first LP release on Clarks Pacific City Sound Visions label. It stands as his biggest statement yet and will surprise and please. A beautiful record. Now its yours to explore."-On location at Hotel California, Scott Simmons. |
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Artist: MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS Title: Infant Spirituality Rates Coconut Percent Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"Compositions constructed coconut excerpts recorded during parrot presentation of space sensed rituals within infant meditation camps.space cymbold visioning arrives within the imagined coconut nebula as a new star chart constellation. to inuit infant realizations-walking lucid meditation exercises-the study of meditation as an act towards the creation of a community spiritual awakening to be involved in the limboed levitation of futured star chart creations..."
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Artist: MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS Title: Mandala Levitations Format: Cass Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"The representation and actualization of patterned symbols for the integration within the communities temple (MIND)." - Pacific City Sound Visions
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Artist: MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS Title: Mandala Levitations Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"The representation and actualization of patterned symbols for the integration within the communities temple (MIND)." - Pacific City Sound Visions
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Artist: MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS Title: Prince of Parrot Shooters Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: Belgium Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS Title: Start Levitating Now Format: Cass Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Levitation for reconfiguration of star charts as limboed vertical parallelled light beams bevelled for vocalizers meditation. Meditation toward levitation facilitated new star charts for the development of life cycled community spiritualization, levitator an rites performer as collaborators on the meditation up the recreation of community, star charts to be reinformed by by newly appropriated cymbold visions as monopoly star child star searchers holds the levitators at meditations bay within a parroted starred nightlis as levitations provokes the fourth planed mind of symbol meditations to your coconuts content." - Pacific City Sound Visions. Spencer from the Skaters solo work.
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Artist: MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS Title: Start Levitating Now Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHES/ANGEL SNAKE Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Spencer and James of the Skaters split release. "monopoly child star searchers no jaw nite rights sky meetings reflected by the reaches of light totems as starways for skywatchers as hot sauce dippers drum cycle with the Choochi skin lifted patterns so as to reflect premeditated star chart reflections for the visitation of Panna Witchii Salitiou recorded 2027 Shopibo-Conibo, Pacific City.
ANGEL SNAKE: Snakinist sand form Snakinist morph in, the heads interface, in inner shapes Through which to contort the temple, controlled yogism Of the temples brain in circular concentrated morph with the ring of Surrounding snakes, the bell sings, the hand raises to smoke, The hyperbolic leather wears the temple pylon, beneath the bone Waves, snaking into the leather of sweat in liquid angels: evaporating In slow rates into pictures."
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Artist: VODKA SOAP Title: Oceansion Island Format: CDR Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: VODKA SOAP Title: Shee-Ro Gateway Temples.. Format: Cass Label: Pacific City Sound Visions Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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...A Fourth Tropical Experience Within The Stars, By Charles Berlitz. "The virtue of unearthly contents as experienced through the temples presentation of accessing the inner minds world as itself a gateway to the outerways of experience the shared dimensional space of the pacific city shee ro temple and outer space environment: the experience of the star movement within the space of the temples doorway as the correspondence between space and jungle temple sound. Using the temple as body (inner consciousness) for access outer consciousness and space. The mind reacting to its own consciousness as prepared within the temples doorway within ivy palmed structures starred within the woop gonged temple conversation to the mind and the temples door as a multipled gateway towards faceted points of conversation. Recorded within the see-ro universe meditation room Dimensions End, Pacific City 2028." Pacific City Sound Visions
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Artist: INNER TUBE Title: Mark McGuire and Charles Berlitz Present... Format: LP Label: Pacific City Sound Visions/Wagon Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Inner Tube is about the inner emotional reverie of a world where life has been seen through the tube of a wave. Its a new band from Mark McGuire of Emeralds and Spencer Clark of The Skaters and Monopoly Child Star Searchers. Spencer has this to say about the experience: "The bliss and ecstatic power of Australian beach music has kept me in this positive mental attitude that I wanted to communicate to everyone around me. Mark and I began to be in touch, and started to really connect in our exotic fascination with Australia and its surf culture. We decided to record an album together with impressions from these private movies and their tunes. Mark travelled numerous times to Pacific City Studios so that we could make this album together(and eventually moved here). At one point, a woman visiting Hotel California who I hadnt met before, mentioned she thought it was strange that I played so much Australian music. I told her about my fascination with Storm Riders, the sickest Australian movie of all time. She immediately told me that her Uncle had a big part in the movie. The guys name is Rabbit Bartholomew. He is a magical person in this Storm Riders movie and has been an inspirational to surfers everywhere. He wrote this letter to Mark and I: Hey Spencer, Great to get ya letter. Christel gave me a bit of insight. Really cool how you guys were talking about Storm Riders and our family connection, thats meant to be bra. For sure, send me a demo, Ill give ya some feedback. Thats really cool about inner tube and the beloved zone, thats it mate, right on the money. Best Rab We then realized that we were to travel to the Gold Coast in Australia to record Inner Tube Part Deux, and play a Surf Festival put on by Rabbit Bartholomews sister. The story just keeps on going, so Mark and I are really stoked to have you guys check this out with us..." - Pacific City Sound Visions/Wagon. |
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Artist: RITA, THE Title: Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence Format: CD Label: Pacrec Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "ABSOLUTELY UNCOMPROMISING. Pure sound influenced by Italian Giallo violence & harsh noise cassette culture. Extreme, dirty, low-end electronic crust. First proper cd release from this long-running Canadian cult act, following notable cdrs on Self Abuse Records & Chondritic Sound as well as several self released cassettes. Two tracks, 60+ minutes, including a collaboration with Texas sleaze sicko Mania (Taint). black gloves and razors." - Pacrec. "This has to be the harshest, most violent and extreme exercise in noise that Ive ever experienced" - Rue Morgue Magazine. |
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Artist: RITA, THE Title: Thousands of Dead Gods Format: CD Label: Pacrec Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "THE RITA returns with his second full length CD, an an ultimate tribute to the GREAT WHITE SHARK. Almost academic in his noise purity obsession, The Rita mercilessly charts every nuance of crunch and crumble, the space between demolition, white out and heavy flood. Dead Gods pushes nearly 60 minutes thick of RAW WALL, recorded live using source sound from great white shark cage diving." |
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Artist: KAKERA Title: 02.10.03 Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut & CDR Label: Pale-Disc Country: Japan Price: $18.00 |
| "..edition of 40 set. two live recordings of anti-mixer performance track1.02.10.03. track2.01.08.02. track 1 recorded at lethe.voice festival vol 4 warehouse No 20 , garden pair in port of nagoya. Since around 1994, he started his activities. His abstractive impulse and performance which are defined as deconstructive replacement and abstraction of the existence (Ugyudoh). These are sprouted from subversion. That is described [absolute infinite ido(himself)]. And it proceeds with his mixers. Those are highly distracting and passing through the fundamental function. And they obtain his abstractive notes. His biased love toward anti-mixer is getting deeper and deeper year after year. He is constructing indefinite auto-loop-mixer. He had been voluntarily surrounded by smoke that was emitted by him and fainted on one day at the previous voice.festival." - Pale-Disc. |
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Artist: TV POW + GENE COLEMAN Title: At The Renaissance Society Format: 8" Square Lathe Cut & CDR Label: Pale-Disc Country: Japan Price: $22.00 |
| "CDR contains two tracks: Stole our peaceful thunder and I have eaten all of the fake meatswith Todd Carter, Brent Gutzeit and Michael Hartman (all on electronic instruments) and Gene Coleman on bass clarinet. The acoustics of the performance space lend a haunting, echoing quality to these spare and somewhat dark pieces. The lovely, clear square 8-inch has two excerpts from Stole our peaceful thunder." - Monica. |
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Artist: PALELUNAR Title: Format: 7" Label: Palelunar Country: NETHERLANDS Price: $8.00 |
| "recorded to 4 track cassette using bowed strings, sampler and various filtering devices. Edition of 100 with numbered painting/ collage." - Palelunar. Released in 1999. |
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Artist: PALESTINE, CHARLEMAGNE Title: Godbear/Jamaica Heinekens in Brooklyn Format: Double CD Label: Palestine, Charlemagne Country: Italy Price: $36.00 |
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"Originally released on the Barooni label and sold out since a long time. Charlemagne Palestine and Alga Marghen have decided to make the two CDs available in a new 2CD set edition. The CDs are a new print of the original ones, both included in a newly designed slipcase. Godbear . Flying. In the stratosphere of the overtones. Turn out the lights. Close your eyes. Trance out. Into SONORAMAGNIFICATALAND. Pushed by Remy Martin cognac, the piano would replay the encoded performances exactly in three parts. Strumming. Lower Depths. Timbral Assault. A re-evaluation of work from the seventies, recorded in the eighties, released in the late nineties and available on CP Records now. A long fuckin journey, dont cha think? Nuf said! Jamaica Heinekens in Brooklyn . Charlemagne Palestine recordings on the 5th of September 1997, on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, of the Jamaica Day Parade. With a small Sony DAT player and a small stereo microphone, Palestine walked throughout the festival very slowly for several hours to let the ambient sounds of each block naturally change in real time. The 60+ minutes segment on this record is played without any editing. Superimposed upon this extract Palestine has composed three series of drone textures for Yamaha organs, 16 Serge & Rubery oscillators with bandpass filtering, and a thick Arp Synthesizer texture using oscillators, filters and other sound modulation devices. All together this work creates a dialogue between pure and mixed electronics and the real-time ambient sounds of a traditional urban ethnographic popular festival. Edition of 500 copies." - CP Records.
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Artist: HARRY PUSSY Title: One Plus One Format: Double LP Label: Palilalia Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Gatefold double LP compiled from hours of early walkman recordings documenting the duo of Bill Orcutt and Adris Hoyos. Recorded 1992-93, One Plus One combines the best of key early releases (the Vigilance cassette, the Planet & 2nd Esync singles) with 40 minutes of unreleased contemporaneous material" - Palilalia |
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Artist: ORCUTT, BILL Title: King or Something, Crossroads, The Man in the Mirror b/w Sad Michael, Solitary Habits, Die Then Come Back To Life Format: 7" Label: Palilalia Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: ORCUTT, BILL Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts Format: LP Label: Palilalia Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Solo guitar improvisations by ex-Harry Pussy guitarist Bill Orcutt. Crashes styles together with such energy that his guitar sounds in danger of splintering into matchwood... a frenzied maximalism that sounds like no other guitar sound youve ever heard in your life" - The Wire. Restocked!
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Artist: ORCUTT, BILL Title: All Tongues Format: 7" Label: Palilalia Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: ORCUTT, BILL Title: Tic Fit Format: 7" Label: Palilalia Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: ORCUTT, BILL Title: Way Down South Format: LP Label: Palilalia Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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One-sided LP. Originally a tour only release, repressed. Recorded May 22, 2010 at High Street Project, Christchurch, New Zealand. Clear vinyl with silkscreened cover art.
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Artist: ORCUTT, BILL Title: Why Does Everybody Love Free Music But Nobody Loves Free People? Format: Cass Label: Palilalia Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
 Recorded in the US and UK 2011. Orcutt describes it as "definitely the most aggressive thing Ive done with the acoustic" - its hard to argue. Self-released on Palilalia. Highly recommended! SOLD OUT
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Artist: ORCUTT, BILL & CHRIS CORSANO Title: The Raw and the Cooked Format: LP Label: Palilalia Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Gatefold LP compiled from tour recordings documenting the guitar/drum duo of Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano. Twelve tracks recorded August & September of 2012 in Brooklyn, Easthampton, Philadelphia & Baltimore.
Edition of 500"- Palilalia. "The Raw and the Cooked is not Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsanos book of recipes involving apples, marzipan, and rainbow sprinkles, all of which require a miniature blender and an Easy-Bake Oven. The Raw and the Cooked is not an experiment in which Bill Orcutt tries all the possible ways to eat raw kale and Chris Corsano tries all the possible ways to eat cooked kale. The Raw and the Cooked is not a musical soap opera set in the kitchen of a brunch restaurant in which Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano star. The Raw and the Cooked is an LP that consists of 12 tracks that guitarist Bill Orcutt and drummer Chris Corsano recorded on tour during August and September of last year, in Brooklyn, Easthampton, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Its slated for a June 1 release of just 500 copies on Orcutts own Palilalia label, and before it drops, you can stream the first track below, which showcases the duos penchant for a sound thats completely off the rails. Listen to it while you roast asparagus or slice strawberries or bake pie." - Caroline Rayner, Tiny Mix Tapes. |
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Artist: ORCUTT, BILL Title: High Wasted/Big Ass Nails Format: 7" Label: Palilalla Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: KAWAGUCHI, MASAMI NEW ROCK SYNDICATE Title: Cat vs. Frog Format: LP Label: Palindrone Recordings Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
| "Kawaguchi Masami is a Japanese guitar monster who has done time in Miminokoto, LSD March, and Broomdusters, and played with Keiji Haino for a time. This, his new band, also features bassist Akira Kikuchi and drummer Nao Shibata (Hijokaidan, Doodles). A track by New Rock Syndicate featured on the recent PSF compilation Tokyo Flashback Vol. 6. The new album is called Cat vs. Frog and clocks in at around 40 mins. Its exceptional wailing, burning garage psych-rock grounded in Kawaguchis trademark heart-breakingly melancholic emotional intensity, instantly hummable, head-nodding toe-tapping riffs and melodies and unavoidably air guitaring white light, white heat guitar solos. Cat vs. Frog is pressed on white vinyl, in an edition of 500."- Palindrone. |
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Artist: STUMPS, THE Title: Split Fleet Dodge Format: LP Label: Palindrone Recordings Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
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"The Stumps are an improvising psych/noise/rock band from Wellington, New Zealand. They have been described as a NZ underground super-group by one writer; a power-trio by others. Although no one is completely sure what these terms actually mean, what is certain is that The Stumps bring a wealth of talent and experience, and a certain heavyweight clout, with them to the table. The core lineup of The Stumps features Antony Milton (A.M., Mytyu!, Nether Dawn, PseudoArcana label, etc), Stephen Clover (Seht), and James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians, Gate, Black Boned Angel, etc). The band also regularly collaborates with other improvising musicians; on Split Fleet Dodge the trio team up on one side of the LP with Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, Black Bones Angel) on keyboards and electronics. The LP is an edition of 300 copies." - Palindrone Recordings.
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Artist: MANIAX Title: The Lost Tapes Format: CD Label: Palo Alto Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "In the annals of Hardcore Punk history, there are certain bands who stumbled their way on to many vinyl and cassette compilations of the early eighties that stuck out so severely you just had to ask yourself Why?. Although their intention and sentiment fit right in with the Reagan Sucks/Drugs Suck/You Suck vibe of the time, their ineptitude and spirit created something so unique that it hit a vein of expression that was entirely of its own. None of the mask sporting pre-conceiving art wavers of the time could have come up with statements as effortlessly bizarre as the ones presented by such brave and confused one hit compilation wonders as Church Police, B.I.U, and Demented Youth. On the tipity top of that teetering list is Fresno Californias Maniax who supplied us with the beyond classic anthem Off to War on the beyond classic Not So Quiet on the Western Front double LP compilation in 1982. For nigh on twenty five years now, this track has intrigued the fuck outta me. With the fidelity lower than whale dung, a truly buzzsaw guitar battles for space with a barely pubescent vocalist who drones on and on reciting the words Off to War over and over again for a good five minutes. I always wondered if their other songs were this disorienting and wonderful. Well, I need not wonder no more! Maniax vocalist Gregg Mitchell has finally found the time to share with us the lost tapes of Fresnos youngest early 80s Punk band and its every thing Ive dreamed it would be and more. 34 tracks of bedroom recorded early teenaged Punk Rock anthems about dead dogs, posers and having a crush on Wendy O. Williams. Are they using an air organ on track 29? What the fuck? THE MOST ESSENTIAL AND NEEDED POSTHUMOUS PUNK ROCK RELEASE OF OUR CENTURY AND I MEAN THAT. Even though I really hate how nothing of the past is left to the imagination anymore these days, I gotta say my brain is exhausted after twenty something years of wondering what those other Maniax tracks sounded like. Thanks for the rest, Gregg." -- Tony Rettman. |
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Artist: BLUES CONTROL Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Palsy Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"A seemingly straight-faced blues turn from the always great Watersports. Moves and hovers simultaneously. This just might be my favorite palsy release yet." - Palsy.
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Artist: CRANK STURGEON Title: Verde-on-the-fly (Meridian) Format: Cass Label: Palsy Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Inscrutable Paris-squat-aktion ripped on A. Peristaltic actions smeared on B." - Palsy. |
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Artist: LIVER & BACON Title: Format: 3" CDR Label: Palsy Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Fatty, pan-fried electronics from a Climax Golden Twin and the goon behind Secret Records. 2 Seattle shows mixed in a stereo slop. Edition of 48." - Palsy. |
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Artist: NYOUKIS, DYLAN Title: Inside Wino Lodge Format: Cass Label: Palsy Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Brother Dillz goes for delf. Tussin gargle plus solo tonsil polo. misnumbered edition of 12."
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Artist: ONES/HANDS Title: 1997-2005 Format: LP Label: Palsy Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "A collaboration between Jeph Jerman and Ones (Daniel Mitha and Nick Phillips). Recorded in Seattle, WA, Cottonwood, AZ, and Brooklyn, NY between 1997 and 2005. Compiled and edited in Brooklyn between 2004 and 2005. First released in a private edition by White Tapes in 2005. Remastered by Scott Colburn in Seattle 2007. Vinyl edition of 250 copies released in 2009 by Palsy. Hand-screened sleeves designed by Popular Noise." - Palsy. ⿿Lovely drifting music... guitars, footsteps, chimes, pipes. Distant field recordings, open-air countryside. A drifty-creaky dream of paradise found in the morning sunlight. - The Sound Projector. |
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Artist: SMACK MUSIC 7 Title: From Pot To Gut Format: Cass Label: Palsy Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Arthur pin-up girl Karen Constance slaves over a seering loop stew." Edition of 19.
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Artist: WITHDRAWAL METHOD/ONES Title: Rejected Ulcer House Format: Cass Label: Palsy Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Family planning advice from 197Drew. Youre gonna need a coat hanger.
Ones puffed some afghan goo and consulted inferiors betrayaI.
Anyone know how to get at Mizutani?" - Palsy.
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Artist: KRAUS Title: Sherry Format: 7" Label: Palto Flats Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Following a much-loved full-length, New Zealander Kraus (Klaus, drummer of Futurians, member of Olympus with Stefan Neville) really brings the goods on this four-song outing of pure Martian stomp. Analog synths, gritty low-end rhythm tracks, tangled/stumbled guitar melodies and above all DETERMINATION to get something done really push this one along in a way that the Kraus LP really didnt (or didnt need to, as these recordings may predate that work). These songs sound like progress, and its a doubly amazing feat as there arent really songs here; more like a bunch of low-tech machines set forth to follow a complex pattern, and listening to them complete it over and over is fascinating enough. Its like having a half-mile of slot car track, infinite terrain options, and the will to build something huge to scale. Also reminds me of those film clips of “The Worlds Biggest Domino Rally” that would get shows at the back end of local news or human interest shows on TV back in the 80s, where a bunch of dudes in a big room set off a huge chain reaction, patterns, etc. Really dig this one a lot."-Still Single/Doug Mosurock |
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Artist: ANKERSMIT & VALERIO TRICOLI, THOMAS Title: Forma II Format: CD Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Forma II is the first collaborative output by Thomas Ankersmit and Valerio Tricoli. Composed and recorded in Berlin from 2008 to 2010, the music consists of four electroacoustic pieces based largely on analog synthesizer material and one long-form, swarm-like composition for multiple overdubbed saxophones. Additional sounds range from metal foil floating on ultrasonic sound-beams to mechanical clickers recorded in the abandoned radar domes at Teufelsberg. The raw materials have been extensively processed and re-constructed using analog tape and digital methods. The five pieces shift between sharply detailed blizzards of electronic interference to passages of delicate balance, between calm and turbulence, between stasis and rapid shape-shifting, between multiple virtual spaces and non-spaces. Thomas Ankersmit is a saxophonist, electronic musician and installation artist based in Berlin and Amsterdam, who combines abstract, intensely-focused acoustic saxophone work with hyper-kinetic analog synth and computer improvisation. He also creates installation pieces that use sound, infrasound and "modifications to the acoustic characters of spaces" that disrupt the viewer/listeners perception of the exhibition space and their presence within it. He frequently works together with New York minimalist Phill Niblock. Other recent collaborators have included Kevin Drumm and Borbetomagus. Valerio Tricoli is a Berlin-based composer, improviser, sound installation artist, producer, sound engineer and curator bridging musique concrète and conceptual forms of sound with a radical interest in how reality, virtuality and memory relate to each other during the acoustic event. He mostly uses analog electronic devices (reel-to-reel tape recorders, synthesizers, microphones, light effects, ultrasonic speakers). The structure of the set-up is ever-changing however, seeking multiple relations between the performers, the device and the space in which the event takes place. He is one of the founders of 3/4HadBeenEliminated and the Bowindo label/collective. The CD is mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk, in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. It is packaged in a pro-press digisleeve jacket which itself is housed in a one-tone silk-screened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs, with artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan. |
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Artist: BILLY BAO Title: Urban Disease Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| 2010 release. "Urban Disease is the new radical work by Billy Bao, Mattin, Taku Unami, Tim Barnes, Barry Weisblat and Margarida Garcia. Its important to remember that before Mattin and anarchism ruined his life, Billy Bao was a bit of a troubadour who accompanied himself on acoustic guitar and warbled wild songs of protest in his native Nigerian patois. This new album, his third on vinyl, finds Billy in a transitional phase toward the end of 2006, before the gaztetxes of Bilbao burrowed into his marrow, before Mattin became the Merle to his G.G., before Billy turned into herpes sore in the mouth of global capitalism. "Billy doesnt believe in hypnagogia," were told, "because he always sleeps with one eye open, and when he dreams, all he sees is AIDS denialists, German shepherds, and soldiers disguised as UN peacekeepers." Before Taku Unami fucked it up, this session found Bao relaxed and in high spirits as he conducted a pickup band of itinerant improvisers through a song-by-song cover of Amon Düüls Psychedelic Underground. Margarida Garcia lent her astounding skill and highly personal idiom on the electric double-bass, in her hands an instrument with the tension of string on wood and the disruptive potential of a crackle box. Barry Weisblat, meanwhile, teased out a century of drone from a Cornell lunchbox of filament and circuitry. Who better to play drums and percussion than the sainted Tim Barnes? Mattin, thumb and forefinger compulsively pinching or stroking his Hitler mustache after every take, funneled Billys malaise through laptop, percussion, and folk instrumentation. There was even, astonishingly, a womens choir on hand, eerily filling out the atmosphere with wordless vocals and incantations. But this is after, and the result is a fragmentary, extremely loud hippie jam session punctuated by stretches of uneasy silence and scrape. The Lp is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a silk screened pvc sleeve with original artwork by New York artist HENRY FLYNT." - Pan. |
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Artist: BLOOD STEREO Title: Your Snakelike King Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
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"Brand new release from Brighton mongs Blood Stereo, duo of Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance. Your Snakelike King picks up where 2008s The Magnetic Headache left off, a shape shifting and strange mix of tape collage, free vocals and electro-acoustic mischief. Midnight to 3am recordings fueled by grape and smoke conjour up a blurred narrative, the meaning of which is never quite clear, like weird off camera sounds in some tripped out movie. Anal fins tucked in tight behind them, Blood Stereo look like a pair of ill-kempt roosters, fighting over a doughnut. The guy rooster is jibbering in some unknown tongue, turning his face inside out, while shoving the microphone slowly through a hole in his cheek. The girl rooster appears to be pecking at him, either that or shes picking at various trash they have strewn around the stage. Every time she ducks her head there is the sound of a jet passing overhead. But when you look up at the sky there is no sign of a contrail. After a while you think you are starting to get a handle on what they are doing, but the guy falls down and starts doing a spazz dance so utterly convincing you begin to worry about him. Then the girls starts screaming and it seems as though something is really profoundly wrong. And it is. But its not like theyre in any kind of trouble. Theyre just wrong, yknow? So savagely wrong from every angle that its really tough to imagine there s anything you could do to really help them. As if theyd even want in. In their masks or out, they sow confusion like wheat. -- Byron Coley. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with interweaving geometric designs." -Pan.
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Artist: BUTZMANN, FRIEDER Title: Wie Zeit Vergeht Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $32.00 |
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"The Berserker of Berlins uninterrupted stream of timbre-changing and alternating sounds takes influence from aspects of Stockhausens work, albeit certainly far from Serielle Komposition methods. Using an entirely different array of equipment and caring less for technical finesse, a raw and sometimes absurd quality emerges. In spite of the dramatic character of the compositions, FRIEDER BUTZMANN works with the same joy and intuition as when he first heard them almost 40 years ago. Manipulating analogue sounds culled from old electronic recordings that he made at STEIM in Amsterdam back in 1995 (using the infamous Black Box modular system), a dadaistic influence shines through in the semi-naive use of electronics, vocals and undefined sound sources. For Butzmannm the basic idea is always more important than the perfect realization. The lyrics are excerpts of ... Wie Die Zeit Vergeht ..., Telemusik and Kurzwellen by Stockhausen plus re-writings of lyrics used in the first section of the composers concrete and electronic composition Hymnen. 140-gram vinyl, color jacket, silkscreened PVC sleeve. Edition of 500." - Pan.
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Artist: DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE Title: Frequency Conquistadors Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $35.00 |
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"Words are more often then not the point of departure for many works of Das Synthetische Mischegewebe. The track titles here stem from El Mundo Alucinante de Reinaldo Arenas, which itself is inspired by François-René de Chateaubriands Mémoires doutre-tombe. It is about time rather than history and about being in history. Having lost the war of time, the only thing that remains to do is being, and here we go, being infiniment exigent in its means of expression. DSM began in Berlin armed with a visual education from the early 80s. They quickly became part of the international industrial cassette scene. Composing for light installations with open-reel machines, cassette recorders, microphone and guitar fuzz boxes with both loud, quiet, occasionally full blast and frequently sneaking in little sounds, all alternating within a few seconds, create an electroacoustic anti-music. With unusual concerts in the underground network as well as in high art institutions and museums (such as Centre Pompidou) and later on with performances for mixed media installation, exhibitions and conferences on cognitive science and neurologic research related topics, the group toured with changing casts since the early 80s, and participated in international festivals throughout Europe and the US. Since 1982 they continue to produce vinyls, CDs and tapes on many international labels: Discos Esplendor Geometrico, RRRecords, Hypnagogia, Vinyl-on-Demand, Auf Abwegen, Harsh Reality Music, Equation Records, Das Cassetten Combinat and many others. Live and recording collaborations with musicians such as: The New Blockaders, Ralf Wehowsky, Frans de Waard, Ios Smolders, Zeitkratzer Ensemble, Artificial Memory Trace, ERG, MSBR, Toy Bizarre, Roel Meelkop and others. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with interweaving geometric designs." -Pan.
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Artist: DILLOWAY & JASON LESCALLEET, AARON Title: Grapes and Snakes Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Grapes and Snakes is the first collaborative work of two of the most respected American underground experimental/noise artists, Aaron Dilloway and Jason Lescalleet. Using purely analog synths and tape manipulation, they build a foggy psychoacoustic mass that lies between dynamic yet patiently treated tape-music and industrial howl. Aaron Dilloway has been releasing and recording music since the age of 16. He was a member of experimental bands Couch, Galen and Universal Indians. He is a former guitarist and tape manipulator for the experimental band Wolf Eyes, which he left in 2005 to live most of that year in Kathmandu, Nepal. While his wife did her graduate work there, he roamed the streets recording every sound he could, many of which are used in his recent recordings and performances. Currently he runs the noise record label, record store and mailorder Hanson Records, which he began in Brighton, Michigan in 1994. Hanson then moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan for several years, before finally settling in Oberlin, Ohio, after a brief return to Ann Arbor. He performs solo using eight track tapes and vocal sounds, and records modular synthesizer music as Spine Scavenger. Recently, he has played with an ever-changing cast of sound artists under the name The Nevari Butchers. Jason Lescalleets sound world occupies a space between noise, contemporary composition, and minimal electronics. Using decidedly primitive tactics and equipment (e.g. antiquated reel-to-reel recorders, damaged tape, etc.), his work focuses on extreme frequencies and microscopic audio detail. Hes been a member of Due Process, performed and recorded with Keith Rowe, Joe Colley, Jason Kahn, John Hudak, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley (both separately and as Nmperign), and most recently Graham Lambkin in their Breadwinner project which has yielded unprecedented and glorious results in the electroacoustic music of today. He lives and works in the state of Maine. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, pressed on 140 gram vinyl and it is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silkscreened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas. Aaron Dilloway (synth and tapes); Jason Lescalleet (synth, tapes, and Dell XPS)." -Pan. |
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Artist: DURGAN, MARK Title: Plouging Furrows Into Rotten Burrows Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| "Made up of junk sounds, be they acoustic or electronic, Ploughing Furrows Into Rotten Burrows is informed by a caustic patience and steady pacing. With a concentrated approach, Mark Durgan makes the space, and even silences between sounds, an integral part of his constructions. He builds up tracks from the beginning with loops, samples or acoustic sounds, then the sound becomes quite automated due to the influence of the feedback generated from the electronic devices. For the past twenty years, Mark Durgan, known under the Putrefier moniker and his label Birthbiter (1986), is one of the few genuinely curious anomalies operating today. Disassociated with a lot of noise, he is more of a true outsider of this scene, somewhat akin to the older sound poets. Although their realm of art is very different to that of his, comparisons can be made. The lack of concrete documentation, both written and recorded, could be construed as an attempt at mystery, but the reality is that it all comes down to a total ambivalence about having a public persona. Despite that this is his first official work under his own name, it still bears similarity to the Putrefier concept. From the influences of power electronics and especially early nineties Japanese noise (Cog Dominance cassette, 1987 on Broken Flag), his music has developed into different areas of the avant garde spectrum, such as musique concrete, improvisation and electroacoustic music, demonstrated in one of his latest works done with The New Blockaders. Being able to appreciate other forms of experimentation, he takes noise to a different level. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs." -Pan |
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Artist: GAMBLE, LEE Title: Diversions 1994-1996 Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| Repressed. "The 30-minute Diversions 1994-1996 EP is made up entirely from samples from the collection of Lee Gambles jungle cassette mix-tapes. The audio has been subjected to analog and digital deformations, while trying to extract, expand upon, and convey particular qualities emblematic of the original music. The effect is that of a musical body scan, all that is solid melts into air. Sounds are unearthed, dissected on the operating table, melted and unlocked , evoking sonics not unlike the heavy dub processes of Jah Shaka and Scion in an INA GRM frame of mind or bearing a similar methodological approach with what Mark Leckey explored in his piece "Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore." It can be heard as a "memory" of a period of music and for some could work as a "cued recall," which is a form of memory retrieval. Lee Gamble started out as a teenager DJing on pirate radio and on the emerging jungle scene; however, his own approach to music has taken a more experimental direction. Exploring the outer realms of abstraction through digital synthesis/resynthesis, Lee has described his current compositional process as "the configuration of material (ex nihilo) via various digital synthesis methods, prompts further disfigurations and reconfigurations. What you then have left is often the detritus or debris of an idea. Phantasms of both previous and current musical, pseudo-scientific and sculptural influences are manifest as new material abstractions, created from the digital blank canvas. This abstraction allows several interests to appear in the works simultaneously." He is also a founding member of the UK-based CYRK collective and has curated/co-curated several CYRK events. He has also produced and curated three radio series for London-based radio station Resonance 104.4 FM and he continues to DJ. Lee has released his computer compositions on the Entracte label and has collaborated with composer John Wall and artists Yutaka Makino and Bryan Lewis Saunders. Diversions 1994-1996 is the beginning of a longer-term collaboration with Pan. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering. Pressed on 140 gram white vinyl housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." - Pan. |
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Artist: GAMBLE, LEE Title: Dutch Tvashar Plumes Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| Repressed. "Dutch Tvashar Plumes seems to map the changes in Lee Gambles approach to music-making over the last couple of years. From his initial exposure and subsequent immersion into jungle as a teenager, he soon began experimenting with structure and sound design, which led him to a more "academic" approach to "computer music." There were many self-imposed rules he adhered to during this time. These last few years he decided to break with that and make an intuitive venture forward. This record is the first real document of that. Lee Gamble started out as a teenager DJing on pirate radio and on the emerging jungle scene; however, his own approach to music has taken a more experimental direction. Exploring the outer realms of abstraction through digital synthesis/re-synthesis, Lee has described his current compositional process as: "The configuration of material (ex nihilo) via various digital synthesis methods, prompts further disfigurations and reconfigurations. What you then have left is often the detritus or debris of an idea. Phantasms of both previous and current musical, pseudo-scientific and sculptural influences are manifest as new material abstractions, created from the digital blank canvas. This abstraction allows several interests to appear in the works simultaneously." He is a also a founding member of the UK-based CYRK collective and has curated/co-curated several CYRK events. He has also produced and curated three radio series for London-based radio station Resonance 104.4FM and he continues to DJ. Lee has released his computer compositions on the Entracte label and has collaborated with composer John Wall and artists Yutaka Makino and Bryan Lewis Saunders. Packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silkscreened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering and pressed on 140 gram vinyl." - Pan. |
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Artist: HAMMER, JOSEPH Title: I Love You, Please Love Me Too Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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"With I Love You, Please Love Me Too, Joseph Hammer continues his journey into playful yet heavily focused idiot-savant infinite psychedelic inertia. Utilizing consumer audio technology and 20th century detritus, Hammer lovingly decodes his passion for mid-century sci-fi and AM radio stations beyond all point of recognition like a snake charmer. Multi-dimensional audio collage techniques to a freeform and completely unorthodox plunderphonic hypnosis. Baked devotionals for tape loop minds. Joseph Hammer, a sound artist from Los Angeles, has actively created experimental works since 1980 as a member of the LAFMS collective. His practice draws on the complexities of the process of listening and playing, reflecting on the role of the audience versus the performer, and uses music as it influences our notion of time, memory and intimacy as the basis for improvisation and abstraction. In various collaborations, solo, and as a founding member of the trio Solid Eye along with several other projects (Joe & Joe, Dinosaurs With Horns, Dimmer, Points of Friction), Hammer has performed widely and is an influential contributor to the Los Angeles underground scene. The LP is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket, which is itself housed in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. All artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan.
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Artist: HEATSICK Title: Deviation Format: 12" Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
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"Equipped with only a Casio keyboard, Heatsick has played alongside everyone from Omar Souleyman to DJ Harvey, Daniel Wang and Legowelt, and has demonstrated his ability not only to extend his keyboard to its limits, but to transcend its musical territory. Déviation features four tracks of kaleidoscopic house that combine a lo-fi aesthetic with clear, textured structures. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M and pressed on 140 gram white vinyl, housed in a silk-screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." -Pan. Heatsick No Fixed Address (PAN 29) from Bill Kouligas on Vimeo. |
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Artist: HEATSICK Title: Intersex Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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"Intersex is the debut LP by Steven Warwick aka Heatsick. The title references the work of German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, looking at how music and sexuality can operate in flux on a constantly sliding scale. Executed on just a Casio keyboard and manipulated loops via guitar pedals, Intersex deliberately evokes "ersatz" notions of electronic dance music and early electronics in the line of Roberto Cacciapaglias Ann Steel record, the work of Warner Jepson and the kaleidoscopic sound of Ron Hardy, pushing dance/body music through a saturated psychedelic lens. Steven Warwick is a Berlin-based performer, also known for his work in the electronic duo, Birds Of Delay. His approach is one of carefully thought-out loops which are then sent into varying interactions and play. Active in the club, art and music scenes, Warwicks work is one existing in a luminal space, meditating both at once in real time and the "just past." The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, in a limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk-screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Steven Warwick, Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." -Pan
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Artist: HELM Title: Impossible Symmetry Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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"Impossible Symmetry is the third full length record by Helm, the project of London-based artist Luke Younger. It marks a new chapter in the artists canon as its his first to be informed by live performance rather than studio experimentation. The recording and engineering was primarily a solo venture, with some technical assistance from John Hannon on a few tracks. Most of the compositions were created out of ideas/improvisations that were conceived in a live context and then fed back into the studio work. The album was recorded over the duration of a year in London with source material culled from acoustic sound sources in a similar methodology to his previous album, Cryptography, while also simultaneously incorporating more extensive use of electronic elements and moments of rhythmic dark ambience recalling the outputs from early Coil and Cabaret Voltaire to even Traversable Wormholes industrial minimalism. His last LP, Cryptography, presented a five-part suite of expertly rendered electro-acoustic study which uses processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and broken guitar strings. Younger creates a world where these instruments morph into spectral rust, a shimmering klang swims alongside passive noise and the relationship between acoustic and electronic derived sounds forms a solid foundation. This sound is steered through a mélange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback, all coalesced in a post-industrial fashion with a commitment to homemade exploratory zeal. For the past ten years, Younger has also performed extensively in Europe and the U.S. with Steven Warwick as pioneering avant-drone duo Birds Of Delay. The LP was mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, pressed on 140 gram vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silkscreened PVC sleeve with photos by Traianos Pakioufakis and artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan.
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Artist: ILIOS Title: Kenrimono Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "Kenrimono is a type of pachinko machine for advanced players which gives certain privileges during the course of a high-risk game. This LP is entirely based on field recordings and manipulations made from sounds in pachinko parlors in Kansai area, Japan in 2007. A very intense and meditative atmosphere to be played at maximum volume. Active since the early 90s in sound art and image, ILIOS has been exploring the extremes of sound and image derived phenomena. Through constant change in his sound palette touching and surpassing the limits of the sound spectrum he definitely advocates for an anti-career. By 2009 ILIOS has performed more than 170 times in various venues and festivals in Asia, Europe, South and North America, pushing the space and body resistances to a hard test pursuing a state of alert for the human senses. He has done studio and live collaborations with the likes of: Francisco Lopez, Jason Kahn, Keiichiro Shibuya, Mattin, Michael Gendreau, Norbert Möslang, Coti K, Xabier Erkizia (Billy Bao), Julien Ottavi, Bernd Schurer, Ralph Steinbruechel, Takehiro Nishide, Tzesne, Thurston Moore amongst many others. Since 1997 he runs Antifrost, a publishing label for sound media with more than 40 works published to date. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with interweaving geometric designs." -Pan. |
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Artist: JAR MOFF Title: Commercial Mouth Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Commercial Mouth is the debut LP from Jar Moff, an Athens-based artist working in collage forms. Following on from his previous remix on the Harald Grosskopf Synthesist/Re-Synthesist LP on RVNG, and a digital release for Leaving Records, this is his first full-length album. Both his visual and aural oeuvre take the form of cut-up and reformations in the manner of previous PAN stablemates like Joseph Hammer and Ghedalia Tazartes, remodeling the past in order to create something new out of the modern detritus, and nestles in nicely alongside the recent Diversions release from Lee Gamble. The result is a baffling-yet-functioning head-on collision between early plunderphonics and an abstracted futuristic hip-hop aesthetic. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, pressed on 140 gram vinyl. Packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silkscreened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." -Pan. |
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Artist: KESZLER, ELI Title: Catching Net Format: Double CD Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "PAN presents a 2CD set from experimental composer/artist/multi-instrumentalist Eli Keszler. The first disc features two ensemble versions of Cold Pin (PAN 021LP), previously released in a 2011 LP of the same title on PAN, plus a 26-minute, previously-unreleased live ensemble recording (mixed sextet and piano quintet; these are captured in contrasting acoustical spaces). The personnel for all three tracks is Eli Keszler (drums, percussion, crotales, guitar); Ashley Paul (alto saxophone, bass harp); Geoff Mullen (prepared guitar); Greg Kelley (trumpet); Reuben Son (bassoon) and Benny Nelson (cello). The second disc begins with the title-track, "Catching Net," a 17-minute score for string quartet and piano with the "Cold Pin" installation. It is performed by pianist Sakiko Mori and the Providence String Quartet: Carole Bestvater (violin); Rachel Panitch (violin); Chloë Kline (viola); Laura Cetilia (cello). The score is fully notated, timed with stopwatch markings rather than tempo or meter. Following are two recordings of Keszlers large-scale installations functioning on their own. "Collecting Basin" features piano strings/wires up to 250 feet long splayed from a two-story water tower in Shreveport, Louisiana, across two large, empty water purification basins, which acted as an amplifier for the sounds produced by the installation. A "solo" version of "Cold Pin" (without live performers) concludes the album. Tracks 1 and 3 on the first disc and track 2 on the second disc were recorded at the historic Cyclorama, a massive dome at the Boston Center for the Arts. "Cold Pin" was installed directly on a large curved wall in the dome, using micro-controlled motors and beaters to strike extended strings ranging in length from three to 25 feet. The 2CD is mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk, in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. It is packaged in a pro-press digisleeve jacket which itself is housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve with extensive images from the installations, program notes, sketches of the installations, scores, electronic schematics from the projects, and accompanying drawings and artwork by Eli Keszler and Bill Kouligas." - Pan. |
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Artist: KESZLER, ELI Title: Cold Pin Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Over two years in the making, Cold Pin is the new full-length record by Eli Keszler. Both a composition and stand-alone installation, 14 strings ranging in length from 25 to 3 feet are strung across a 15x40 curved wall, with motors attacking the strings, connected by microcontrollers, pick-ups and RCA cables. Recorded in Bostons historic Cyclorama, a massive dome built to house the Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg painting in 1884. The B-side features, in addition, a "dry" version of the installation with motor attacks on metal squares rather than strings, creating dense percussive clusters. Cold Pin works within the frame work of left-to-right time and vertical structure. The installation acts as the architecture of the music, surrounding and immersing the live instruments into incredible density and sharp, angular mass shapes, and functions alone as the performers stop. Rather than an individual sound, the sustained horns, strings, drums and metallic attacks function as a singular unit, and continue, too, when they stop alongside the installation. Cold Pin features Eli Keszler (drums, crotales installation and guitar), Geoff Mullen (guitar), Ashley Paul (clarinet, guitar, greenbox), Greg Kelley (trumpet), Reuben Son (bassoon) and Benjamin Nelson (cello). Eli Keszler is a composer, artist and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. In performance, he often plays drums, bowed crotales and guitar in conjunction with his installations. In his ensemble compositions, he uses extended strings, motors, crotales, horns and mechanical devices to create his sound, balancing intense harmonic formations with acoustic sustain, fast, jarring rhythm, mechanical propulsion, dense textures and detailed visual presentations. He has most recently won the Mata composers competition for the 2012 season. Eli Keszler is a graduate of the New England Conservatory in Boston where he studied with Anthony Coleman and Ran Blake. Limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering." -Pan |
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Artist: MOHAMMAD Title: Som Sakrifis Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Based in Greece, Mohammad make long-form drone works that explore the lower end of the frequency spectrum while retaining an intense emotional capacity. The results are monumental, slow-moving blocks of sound, both daunting and musical. The sheer weight of these recordings is impressive, the interplay of the musicians and instruments staggering, this end result being an album rich with harmonious abstraction which highlights years of dedication to their unique path. Following on from their previous releases (the highly-regarded Roto Vildblomma CD and the Spiriti 3LP box, both on Antifrost) Som Sakrifis follows the trio through three tracks of deep space experimentation where the acoustic and electronic blend together as a monumental whole. Listening to Som Sakrifis takes the listener on an expansive journey through the netherworld of the low range while retaining distinct traces of musicality. The time and space in these works have a logic more akin to that of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr than any contemporary music references. Monumental monochromatic movement is the order of the day. Sit back, strap in and let these fine explorers take you way out into the nether world. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, pressed on 140 gram vinyl. Packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silkscreened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." - Pan. |
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Artist: NHKKOYXEN Title: Dance Classics Vol. I Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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"Born in Osaka, Kouhei Matsunaga is a musician and an illustrator. He started drawing during childhood under the influence of his grandfather. He grew up listening to hardcore techno and hip-hop, studied architecture and has been mainly making music since 1992. Under many different aliases (NHK, NHKyx, Internet Magic, Koyxen) he has released numerous albums on labels such as Skam Records, Wordsound, Raster-Noton and his first-ever album Upside Down on Mille Plateaux in 1998. He has also collaborated with artists like Merzbow, Jungle Brothers Sensational, Autechres Sean Booth, Mika Vainio, Conrad Schnitzler, Anti Pop Consoriums High Priest, Rudolf Eb.er, Puppetmastaz crew, Asmus Tietchens, Ralf "RLW" Wehowsky and so on. His own label Flying Swimming was founded in 2002 with the main purpose of publishing and curating experimental contemporary music and art events. Dance Classics Vol. I documents his more dance-oriented material, as seen from his sets with Sensational and also his other minimal techno project, NHK. Not feeling tied down to one genre, Matsunaga nestles in the PAN roster, but that isnt to say that his is any kind of ordinary dance music. As witnessed from his recent collaborations with Conrad Schnitzler, the album focuses more on bass/base electronics, music for the dancefloor and/or altered state reflection. Having composed pieces for WDR based on Henry Chopin, Kouhei is equally at ease jamming with Sensational, while simultaneously executing an obsessively numerical sequence of dance pieces that border on Hanne Darboven-like compulsivity. Limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl in a poly-lined inner sleeve, packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk-screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering." -Pan.
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Artist: NHKKOYXEN Title: Dance Classics Vol. II Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Kouhei Matsunagas Dance Classics Vol. II is the continuation of his ongoing development of his more dance-oriented material, as seen from his sets with Sensational and also his other minimal techno project, NHK. Not feeling tied down to one genre, Matsunaga nestles in the Pan roster. That isnt to say, however, that he is dance per se, as witnessed from his recent collaborations with Conrad Schnitzler. The album focuses more on bass/base electronics, music for the dancefloor and/or altered-state reflection. Having composed pieces for WDR based on Henri Chopin, Kouhei is equally at ease jamming with Sensational, while simultaneously executing an obsessively numerical sequence of dance pieces that borders on Hanne Darboven-like compulsivity. Born in Osaka, Kouhei Matsunaga is a musician and an illustrator. He grew up listening to hardcore techno and hip-hop, studied architecture, and has been mainly making music since 1992. Under many different aliases (NHK, NHKyx, Internet Magic, Koyxen) he has released numerous albums on labels such as Skam Records, Wordsound, Raster Noton, and his first-ever album Upside Down on Mille Plateaux in 1998. He has also collaborated with artists like Merzbow, Jungle Brothers Sensational, Autechres Sean Booth, Mika Vainio, Conrad Schnitzler, Anti Pop Consoriums High Priest, Rudolf Eb.er, Puppetmastaz crew, Asmus Tietchens, Ralf "RLW" Wehowsky and so on. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering and pressed on 140 gram vinyl. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." - Pan. |
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Artist: ORTMANN, ANDY Title: Provocative Electronics Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
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"Provocative Electronics is an exploration in analog synthesizers and recording techniques. As in the days of musique concrete and the beginning years of synthesizer development, Ortmann experiments with tones and his own brand of electronic tweakage. Provocative Electronics is not a homage, but yet another document in the ongoing history of Electronic Music. For fans of the 20th century Greek composer Xenakis, minimalist John Cage, or pioneer of musique concrete Pierre Schaeffer, Mort Garson, Milton Babbitt, Tom Dissevelt, Ruth White, Delia Derbyshire, Lejaren Hiller, Raymond Scott, Jean Jacques Perrey and Pierre Schaeffer. Andy Ortmann is also known for his work with the transgressive experimental group Panicsville, psych freaks Plastic Crimewave Sound and sole curator of the equally bizarre Nihilist Records label (USA). The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs." -Pan
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Artist: PARKER, EVAN & JOHN WIESE Title: C-Section Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $35.00 |
| "British free-jazz phenomenon Evan Parker with electronic and tape noise artist John Wiese in a set of real-time evolving improvisations intended for maximum volume. Vinyl version of the CD released earlier this year (2010), but slightly different, containing all the final mixes and edits of the sessions with a new and more intense mastering for the maximum listening experience. C-Section finds density in scarcity -- deep, glacial muck bubbles emerge beneath Parkers inhuman circular breathing, only to plunge into an incessant clatter of industrial landscape. Evan Parker is a free-sax legend, best known for his work with Keith Rowe (AMM), Anthony Braxton, Joe McPhee, Cecil Taylor, Peter Brotzmann (including on his epochal Machine Gun), Derek Bailey, and for his inspired, individualistic take on musical freedom. Being the U.K.s equivalent of Peter Brotzmann means that as far as free-jazz saxophonists go, Evan Parker has very few equals. Hugely respected with a rich and varied back catalogue, Parker has graced the cream of the free-jazz racks for the last forty years. John Wiese is an artist and composer from Los Angeles, California. His recent works have a focus on installation and multi-channel diffusions, as well as scoring for large ensembles. He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering the U.S., U.K., Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. He is also a founding member of the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek. The LP is mastered by Diane Maroney, cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket, which is itself housed in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. All artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan. |
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Artist: R/S (PETER REHBERG/MARCUS SCHMICKLER) Title: USA Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "2011 release. Archival release documenting the 2009 USA tour of Peter Rehberg and Marcus Schmickler under the R/S moniker. Real time extreme music improvisations recorded at Lampo in Chicago and No Fun Fest in New York City. USA is the second full length release by the leading electronic music duo, follow up to their 2007 One (Snow Mud Rain) on Erstwhile Records. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan |
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Artist: SENSATE FOCUS Title: Deviation Heat-Treated Format: LP Label: Pan Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "From behind your ear, PAN pluck a blink-and-miss exclusive: a 35-minute audio response by Mark Fell (aka Sensate Focus) to source material by Heatsick, somewhere between cover version, remix, and deconstruction. Along the A-side "X" plane, tones are exploded, harmonies refracted with HD dissonance; time is extruded, made ductile yet intangible. On the B-side, "Y" axis hydraulic undulations and roiling tones expand and contract between kinetic kink and gyroscopic funk with the pointillist, freeform choreography of a Merce Cunningham piece." -Pan. |
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Artist: SEWER ELECTION Title: Vidöppna Sår Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
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"Following on from his Kassettmusik release, Vidöppna Sår is an evolution in scum-brow field recordings and voice recorded to mono tape -- akin to OU Revue -- recorded on a building site. This record shows the development, as witnessed from his recent live performances, of aggressive blur build-up and ominous restraint, tape speed replacing effect pedals, going beyond the mere junk noise description and closer to the original idea of musique concrete, namely altering everyday sounds onto tape into a wholly other vocabulary. Sewer Election is Dan Johansson, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is most known for his extreme and nasty noise on often limited edition cassettes and obscure vinyl releases on labels such as iDEAL, Troniks, Chondritic Sound, Release the Bats!, Freak Animal, Segerhuva, and Gameboy to name a few. He is a member of the Swedish collective Utmarken and lo-fi group Attestupa. What separates him from the rest of the wall-of-noise heads is that he is great at creating uncomfort and filth. To experience his stuff is like experiencing pure power and energy through subtle and restrained soundscapes of a world falling into pieces. The LP is mastered by Viktor Ottosson and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket, which is itself housed in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. All artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan.
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Artist: TAZARTES, GHEDALIA Title: Repas Froid Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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"An extraordinary combination of culled found and taped fragments juxtaposed against drums, field recordings and mystery noises, sound loops, birdsong, keyboards and emanations of Ghédalia Tazartès own throaty drones and voice propelled by hypnotic, ritualistic rhythms balanced on a razor-sharp edge. This is the complete work of Repas Froid; previously released on CD in 2009 as brief tracks of source material and a palette of various sounds. It includes archival and as of yet previously-unreleased recordings from the late 1970s and early 1980s, strung together to form two long compositions. A French musician of Turkish parentage, Ghédalia Tazartès is an uncompromising character who defies categorization. Born in 1947 in Paris, he is one of Frances most idiosyncratic talents. He has spent over 30 years within musical practice and experimentation, letting his musical work wander from chant to rhythm, from one voice to another. Manipulating magnetic tape recorders into a rough collage and loose ethno-instrumental mulch, he paves the way for the electric and the vocal paths, between the muezzin psalmody and the screaming of a rocker. He traces vague landscapes where the mitre of the white clown, the plumes of the sorcerer, the helmet of a cop and Parisian anhydride collide into polyphonic ceremonies. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, in a limited edition repress of 350 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk-screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan
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Artist: VAINIO/KEVIN DRUMM/AXEL DORNER/LUCIO CAPECE, MIKA Title: Venexia Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
| "Pan presents a collaborative album from Mika Vainio (electronics), Kevin Drumm (electronics), Axel Dörner (trumpet, computer) and Lucio Capece (soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, shruti box). Vainio, Drumm, Dörner and Capece have strong points in common, that have been executed in different contexts. The musical map is generally divided into categories that are determined by its most evident and often banal elements; if it has beats or not, if it is quiet or loud, if it has raw material or a carefully worked aesthetic. These four musicians have been working using all the previous elements, but these elements did not determine the music, they were used at the service of deeper ideas related to time and perception. How the sound of our environment can become music, how can music be attractive without telling a story, the work of sound in its extreme: noise, granular and delicate, digital, electronic, instrumental extended techniques, preparations. The musicians involved in this project have worked with each other in various formations: Kevin Drumm and Axel Dörner started working together in the late 90s as part of a trio with Paul Lovens; as a duo they released an influential album on Erstwhile Records. Mika Vainio and Lucio Capece released Trahnie, an album they worked on for three years. Capece and Dörner worked on several projects together, including a residence with Keith Rowe working on Treatise by Cornelius Cardew. Capece and Vainio have been part of the Vladislav Delay Quartet. Capece has played and toured with Kevin Drumm in a trio with Radu Malfatti... finally, theyve all come together on Venexia, recorded in Venice and mixed by Capece with minimal edits. The LP was mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering, pressed on 140 gram vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silkscreened PVC sleeve with photos by Traianos Pakioufakis and artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas." -Pan. |
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Artist: VIDA, ANDRE Title: Brud: Volumes I-III Format: Triple CD Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Brud is a three volume compilation of recordings from 1995 to 2011 by Andre Vida, morphing seamlessly between a sense of total irreverence and the sublime. His spontaneous compositions and notated works are the angled mirrored counterparts of a transient saxophone-driven performance language, drawing on elements of 1970s performance art, new music, improvisation cult, folk and pop hybrids, channeling them into asymmetrical tunes of feral beauty. Brud traces the development of Vidas wayward language through 16 years of copious ruminations. The three delightfully polymorphic, perverse discs unite sparkling solo sax, pieces for cello and woodwind sextet, synth/concrete electronic music, nocturnal improvisations, rare 90s New York free jazz compositions, and the Kreuzberg suite -- a distilled culmination of a hundred nights of Berlin mayhem into ecstatic, swinging lyricism -- both solo works and as well as various collaborations with Anthony Braxton, Rashad Becker, Axel Dörner, Matt "MV" Valentine, Tim Barnes, Helen Rush, Olaf Rupp, Clare Cooper, Clayton Thomas, Brandon Evans, Elisabeth King, Steve Heather and many more. Andre Vida is a Hungarian American saxophonist, composer and lyricist living in Berlin. More downtown cheeky grin than mere caveman smile, he is cosmically notorious for continuing the Rahsaan Roland Kirk one-man horn section legacy with hydra-headed style. He has been at the forefront of several major developments in experimental music, being mainly in Anthony Braxtons original Ghost Trance Ensemble, as founding member of New York collective the CTIA, subsequent "freak folk" groups such as The Tower Recordings, and his extensive collaborations with electronic music visionaries Jamie Lidell, Tim Exile and Kevin Blechdom, Elton John, Gonzales, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, to name but a few, sewing up some heavy threads in downtown sax patchwork refracted through a Borgesian lens. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Packaged in a pro-press digisleeve jacket in a one-tone silk-screened PVC sleeve." -Pan |
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Artist: VIDA, BEN Title: Esstends-Esstends-Esstends Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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"In collaboration with Keith Fullerton Whitman and Greg Davis, Ben Vida explores cross-control voltage-integrated improvisation and real-time automatic group composition. Ben has worked with artists Hisham Bharoocha (duo as Soft Circle), Siebren Versteeg, Doug Aitken, Nadia Hironaka and Mathew Suib. He has played in ensembles led by Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham, and Werner Dafeldecker. As an improviser, he has performed with Milo Fine, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Chad Taylor, Kevin Drumm, Yamatsuka Eye and C. Spencer Yeh, among many others. He has released over 20 records on such labels as Thrill Jockey, Drag City, PAN, Amish, Bottrop-Boy, Häpna and Kranky. In 2011, Ben was Composer in Residency at Diapason Space, NYC and at EMS Studios, Stockholm and was awarded a Swedish Arts Committee Travel Grant, ISSUE Project Room Emerging Artists Commission and Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona "Composing with Process" Exclusive Works Commission. Esstends-Esstends-Esstends is a collection of spatial compositions in which audio focal points shift between external and internal emanation sources. The intent with this work is to escape the stereo image and create an activated listening space of expanded spatialization. Using just intoned pitch combinations to produce difference tones and harmonic distortions, sound materials are created that emanate from both the playback speakers and inner ear of the listener. By engaging the listeners sense of aural perception and sound localization in relationship to compositional structure, these pieces act to reframe the listening experience and encourage an engagement with, not only the form and aesthetic of the music, but the sonic space a recorded piece of music projects. Higher amplitude will help to reveal. Limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl. Housed in a poly-lined inner sleeve, packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk-screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." -Pan.
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Artist: VIDA, BEN Title: Esstends-Esstends-Esstends Format: LP Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $27.00 |
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"In collaboration with Keith Fullerton Whitman and Greg Davis, Ben Vida explores cross-control voltage-integrated improvisation and real-time automatic group composition. Ben has worked with artists Hisham Bharoocha (duo as Soft Circle), Siebren Versteeg, Doug Aitken, Nadia Hironaka and Mathew Suib. He has played in ensembles led by Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham, and Werner Dafeldecker. As an improviser, he has performed with Milo Fine, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Chad Taylor, Kevin Drumm, Yamatsuka Eye and C. Spencer Yeh, among many others. He has released over 20 records on such labels as Thrill Jockey, Drag City, PAN, Amish, Bottrop-Boy, Häpna and Kranky. In 2011, Ben was Composer in Residency at Diapason Space, NYC and at EMS Studios, Stockholm and was awarded a Swedish Arts Committee Travel Grant, ISSUE Project Room Emerging Artists Commission and Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona "Composing with Process" Exclusive Works Commission. Esstends-Esstends-Esstends is a collection of spatial compositions in which audio focal points shift between external and internal emanation sources. The intent with this work is to escape the stereo image and create an activated listening space of expanded spatialization. Using just intoned pitch combinations to produce difference tones and harmonic distortions, sound materials are created that emanate from both the playback speakers and inner ear of the listener. By engaging the listeners sense of aural perception and sound localization in relationship to compositional structure, these pieces act to reframe the listening experience and encourage an engagement with, not only the form and aesthetic of the music, but the sonic space a recorded piece of music projects. Higher amplitude will help to reveal. Limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140 gram vinyl. Housed in a poly-lined inner sleeve, packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk-screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." - Pan.
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Artist: WHITMAN, KEITH FULLERTON Title: Disingenuity/Disingenuousness Format: LP Label: Pan Country: Greece Price: $27.00 |
| "Keith Fullerton Whitman bursts back with his first full length record in four years, Disingenuity b/w Disingenuousness, comprising of two pieces of forward thinking electronic music with a deep exploration into the analogue sound. Live and studio recordings of the past two years (Cambridge-New York-Toronto) were used as source material, which were then realized into two longform compositions. Using a Musique Concrète approach of deconstructed sounds (ala Pietro Grossi, Costin Miereanu, Basil Kirchin, Dub Taylor, etc), Disingenuity b/w Disingenuousness encompasses various reference points from François Bayle, Jacques Lejeune, Richard Pinhas & Heldon to the minimal textures of Basic Channel / Chain Reaction axis... Both tape-collage pieces which derived from an hour-long improvisation based around a setup involving a tape of chance field-recordings (a helicopter, walking on snow, children) bounced to a mono nagra tape machine, which is covered in contact mics that translate not just the sound coming from the speakers, but the actual mechanical interface of the unit into control voltage & triggers that drive a modular synth thats processing said audio using the classic electronic music toolkit (i.e. ring modulation, panning VCAs, filters, etc). The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Bill Kouligas." - Pan. |
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Artist: WIESE, JOHN Title: Seven of Wands Format: CD Label: Pan Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "As a composer, John Wiese is an elusive one. Employing a very healthy range of conceptual framework throughout his oevure, hes unmistakably recognizable, but rarely easy to predict. No matter what the sound, we find it always sounds like Wiese. Seven Of Wands contains a romanticism only hinted at previously. Comprised of pieces from a range of eras and sequenced into a narrative arc, this very unique album has a quality of being beautiful, listenable, immersive, and transportive all at once. On this latest, we find more emphasis on beauty and musical qualities, employing strategies and techniques of musique concrete and electroacoustic music throughout, all the while further emphasizing the mixing desk as a true instrument. Two of the albums central pieces were developed while touring the U.S., UK and Europe with Liars, No Age, and (in quadraphonic) Matmos, and feature source material contributed by Angus Andrew (voice, field recording) and Julian Gross (percussion) of Liars. CD is a limited edition of 1,000 copies, packaged in a pro-press digisleeve jacket which is housed in a one-tone silk-screened PVC sleeve." -Pan |
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Artist: WISHART, TREVOR Title: Fanfare & Contrapunctus/Imago Format: LP Label: Pan Country: Greece Price: $27.00 |
| "Vinyl issue of two very important works by this early British sound poet and electronic composer, compiling one of Trevor Wisharts first ever pieces Fanfare & Contrapunctus (from 1976) and one of his latest, Imago (from 2002), documenting a modern approach in composition and an extremely unique progress in sound manipulation and music technology. Fanfare & Contrapunctus (1976): These two short pieces were made at the newly opened electronic studio at the Sydney Conservatorium, before the advent of music computer technology. The source material derives from free improvisations by Trevor Wishart and Martin Mayes using soft trumpets, pop-guns, French Horn and virtuoso eating noises, plus recordings of birdsong and other environmental sources. Imago (2002) ...the universe in a grain of sand... Imago is a piece of magical sound metamorphosis in which the single clink of two whisky glasses gradually metamorphoses into a multitude of other sounds, eventually alluding to the sounds of birdsong, a junkyard gamelan, the ocean and the human voice, but never entirely abandoning its links to this minimal source. The piece was made using sound transformation software written by the composer, available through the Composers Desktop Project, and the original source sound was taken from Jonty Harrisons et ainsi de suite. The LP is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 500 copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly- lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press color jacket which itself is housed in a silk screened PVC sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas." - Pan. |
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Artist: TONIUTTI, GIANCARLO & ANDREW CHALK Title: Tahta Tarla Format: LP Label: Pansurlo Panseri Country: Italy Price: $17.00 |
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"I worked mostly with micro-structural activity as a consequence of sonic morphologies of the sound sources. But I also developed a macro-structural map of densities through major analyses of the fields of perception." - Toniutti. Includes 24 page booklet. From 1993. Andrew Chalk was Ferial Confine (see Fusetron LP) and is currently in Mirror with Christoph Heeman.
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Artist: KITO-MIZUKUMI ROUBER Title: Boseki ki Tatazumu KMR Format: CD Label: Papa Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
 "Kito-mizukumi rouber is Acid garage Enka(style of Japanese old song) that failed music. They are strange dance bands. Factory-pressed CD in a mini-LP style card sleeve." - Papa.
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Artist: KITO-MIZUKUMI ROUBER Title: Ukkkara Tapeo Hikukmr Format: CDR Label: Papa Country: Japan Price: $17.00 |
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Artist: FOUR HORSEMAN Title: Horse dOeuvres Format: Book Label: Paper Jacks Country: Canada Price: $12.00 |
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Original paperback from 1975 by legendary Canadian sound poets Paul Dutton, bpNichol, Steve mcCaffery and Rafael Barreto-Rivera.
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Artist: BOHMAN, ADAM Title: Bunhill Row Format: LP Label: Paradigm Discs Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "In 1980, ADAM BOHMAN (MORPHOGENESIS, THE BOHMAN BROTHERS) made his first recordings using two budget cassette recorders, an ordinary trumpet, and a variety of other acoustic instruments and objects, many of which are still part of the current Bohman armory. Bunhill Row was Bohmans first complete album of material, but it and subsequent releases from the time remained in tiny cassette editions made for friends or exchanged through the mail art network. On vinyl for the first time, Paradigm Discs hand-numbered reissue opens another window into the incredibly fruitful astral alignment that occurred over London at this time." - Paradigm Discs. |
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Artist: DOWNES, BOB Title: Episodes At 4 AM Format: CD Label: Paradigm Discs Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Bob Downes is most often thought of as a jazz flautist, composer and group leader, but throughout his varied career that has included such diverse musical activity as working with the John Barry Seven and playing on Eggs second LP, he also had his own fluid conceptual group Open Music with principle bass player Barry Guy and drummer Denis Smith. Other players that passed through Open Music include Chris Spedding, Kenny Wheeler, Ray Russell, Ian Carr, Henry Lowther, Harry Beckett, Harry Miller, Barre Phillips, John Stevens and many others. Besides the free jazz and jazz rock influences, Bob Downes has also been involved in much experimental music. After his early 70s releases on Philips, Vertigo and Music For Pleasure there appeared a series of 3 private pressed LPs on his own label Openian that explored this more experimental style. Episodes at 4AM is the second in this series and is by far the strangest of the three. Released in 1974 and commissioned by the Welsh Dance Theatre, it consisted of 10 short duos performed by Wendy Benka on zither, dulcimer and small percussion, and Downes on flutes, various percussion and plenty of electronic manipulation. Nearly every sound on this LP was processed using a variety of shimmering delays, controlled feedback, reverb and speed change to create a haunting and delirious mix of musical styles and atmospheres. Taken from the master tapes, this 33-minute LP has been expanded for the CD release with 35 minutes of previously unreleased experimental works, mostly from the same period, that cover even more ground than the LP, including one piece made entirely from the sounds of various phone booths on the streets of New York." -Paradigm Discs. |
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Artist: EASTLEY, MAX Title: Installation Recordings (1973 - 2008) Format: Double CD Label: Paradigm Discs Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "This 2CD is essentially a retrospective of Eastleys installation work. As such, it updates and adds many new examples to the 1975 release New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, which was released as a split LP with David Toop on Brian Enos Obscure Records. This is Eastleys first solo CD. Of the 35 tracks, only the last two have any guests (the most virtuosic moment being George Lewis playing a grass blade). All the other pieces are either powered by the natural forces of wind and water, or else are motor driven gallery installations. The ethereal sounds of the aoelian harps, the haunting aeolian flutes, and the violent tension of his aerophone installations are hallmark Eastley sounds. These sounds, and many others, sit amidst a wide range of acoustic settings, from windy hill tops to quiet brooks, residential street scenes to coastal shores. The indoor recordings are no less varied, ranging across a rich variety of acoustics and gallery spaces from tiny micro sounds to large scale amplification. Wood, metal and stone are brought to life with electricity. Although there are many photos in the 20-page booklet, much is left to the imagination to work out how the sounds are made. With this limited access to the visual, the focus is pulled towards the musicality of the sounds themselves. This musicality is reinforced by the slow cross fades of most of the pieces from indoors to outdoors to form a series of suites. The recordings mostly date from the mid 70s, but there are pieces from later decades. Nearly everything was recorded either to Revox or Uher and occasionally cassette, using what microphones were available at the time. Recent recordings are digital. The varying quality of the recording set-ups across this 2CD adds yet another dimension to the shifting sound fabric of this anthology." - Paradigm. |
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Artist: GRAVITY ADJUSTERS EXPANSION BAND Title: One Format: CD Label: Paradigm Discs Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| The Paradigm label is back! First new releases in a few years, starting w/ this much in demand reissue of their first album from 1973. "Although the Gravity Adjusters Expansion Band (GAEB) started in 1967, they remain one of the long lost and underestimated groups that explored the areas of sound sculpture, improvisation, experimental music and free jazz. The group have their roots in playing in and around the San Francisco Bay Area, and finally recorded their first LP in Los Angeles. Free jazz drummer Lee Charlton seamlessly shifts the moods from jazzy phrasing into the far more abstracted ideas of the world of sound sculpture. It is this abstract world where the GAEB mostly reside, using the invented instruments of multi-media artist Richard Waters, many of whose percussive and bowed instruments incorporate water filled resonators to bend and tune the sound. Although many other improvisors at the time like AMM, MEV, Sonde and Taj Mahal Travellers all made extensive use of home made and adapted instruments, the GAEB are a very different concern with their own unmistakable identity. Their first LP One appeared in 1973 on Nocturne Records, a small Californian label. It was the first of their 2 LPs, the second appearing some 8 years later. This CD edition is a reissue of the first LP from the master tapes and also contains some 15 minutes of extra material from the time." - Paradigm Discs. |
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Artist: GREENHAM, LILY Title: Lingual Music Format: Double CD Label: Paradigm Discs Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
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"Britains best known sound poet is Bob Cobbing, but its hard to come up with a list of other sound poets working in Britain in the 60s and 70s. Its equally difficult to think of any female sound poets working anywhere. LILY GREENHAM was Danish, but spent her childhood in Vienna. After several relocations across Europe she settled in London in 1972 with her British husband (musician and poet Peter Greenham), where she lived until her death in 2001. Nearly all of her own writings and compositions date from after her arrival in London, but prior to her arrival in London she had been involved in two major European art movements. The Wienner Group in the late 1950s and the "Groupe de Recherche dArt Visuel in 1964. In London she began to record her own text based compositions that used a mixture of sound poetry techniques, electronics and multi-tracking. The term lingual music that she coined for her compositions refers to her technique of using tape loops of text to create complex and dense musical structures. This 2CD set compiles a wide variety of her own work, including live solo performances, film soundtrack pieces, as well as many tape pieces. The recordings date from between 1968 and 1984." - Paradigm
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Artist: GUS COMA Title: Color Him Coma Format: Double CD Label: Paradigm Discs Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "The guest musicians on this CD set are many and varied, but its all put together by GUS COMA, LEPKE Bs dwarfish cousin, who renounced show-biz to work as a Heavy Goods Vehicle driver. The kind of strange and experimental that makes a mutant proud to be defective. Expect gigantic tape loop symphonies, sundry plunderphonics, lo-fi Sparks and the voice of JFK, a WILLIAM BURROUGHS interview (on one track), and a worn out teach-yourself-English tape. Youre probably saying to yourself, "You had me at dwarfish," but read on: The first disc reissues an obscure C60 (Its War Boys 1983), half of which is formed around several mixes of an experimental track, constructed from a room-sized 24-track loop (a different version appeared on THE JUST MEASURES Flagellation LP (Its War Boys 1983), the other half of which is a tape collage of mostly unused (and some remixed) excerpts from what became the title track of the MILK FROM CHELTENHAMs Triptych of Poisoners LP (Its War Boys 1983 and Alga Marghen 2005); its a live mixdown of seventeen cassette recordings of locked record grooves, stray radio and an infernal matchbox. The second disc is an alternative version of the tape on disc one; it follows a similar blueprint but also contains some very different music, primitive disco drum programming, and a somewhat more sophisticated sound quality. Two bonus tracks are included, originally intended as working material for the unfinished second Milk From Cheltenham LP." -Paradigm |
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Artist: MORPHOGENESIS Title: Charivari Music Format: CD Label: Paradigm Discs Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "This third full-length by London improv collective Morphogenesis was released in 1996. Formed in 1985, Morphogenesis consisted of seven people at the time of recording, but for all the sessions, except the live track, the line-ups are amalgams of various members and instrumentation. All tracks are free improvisations that were recorded direct to two channels and later edited with no other post production. Recorded between 1993-1996. "Shorepoints" was recorded live at the LMC Festival 1994. Featuring Adam Bohman (prepared violin, balalaika, objects); Ron Briefel (vocals, electronics); Andy Cordery (percussion, mouthorgan); Clive Graham (springs, electronics); Clive Hall (objects, keyboards, electronics, piano); Michael Prime (water machine, biofeedback, radio, electronics); Roger Sutherland (percussion, piano); Andy Weir (guest on "Buttons")." -Paradigm Discs. |
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Artist: OLIVEROS, PAULINE Title: Electronic Works 1965-1966 Format: CD Label: Paradigm Discs Country: UK Price: $16.00 |
| "1997 release of three early electronic works from 1965-1966 by Pauline Oliveros. This material is exclusive to this release and is not included on the recent Important Records 12CD Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970. "I of IV" was made in July 1966, first released by CBS alongside works by Steve Reich and Richard Maxfield. "Big Mother Is Watching You" was also made in the summer of 1966 at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio, and track 3 was made at the San Francisco Tape Music Center in 1965. The three pieces on this CD are all live experiments, which at the simplest level use either an array of oscillators or filters, a mixer and one spool of tape feeding a series of (variously set up) stereo tape machines. Long delay lines, pile-ups of noise and rich sonorities are the stuff of this music. The third piece also samples a chunk of Puccinis Madame Butterfly, which only makes this music seem even more contemporary." - Paradigm Discs. |
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Artist: ORAM, DAPHNE Title: Oramics Format: Double CD Label: Paradigm Discs Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "DAPHNE ORAM is best known for her design of her Oramics system, and also for co-founding the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1957, but until now the only easily available piece of music by her on CD has been the 8-minute long "Four Aspects." There was also a 7-inch EP from 1962 on HMV, released as part of the Listen, Move and Dance series that was specifically designed to help children dance. Although the short pieces on this record are very basic it could be argued that this is the first ever electronic dance record! Now for the first time is a survey of nearly all the major pieces that she produced since her departure from the BBC in January 1959 until her final tape piece in 1977. The two and a half hours of music on this 2CD set covers the whole range of Orams post BBC output. All of the music is electronic with some occasional use of real instruments, especially small percussion and piano frame. There is also some use of musique concrete techniques. The works fall roughly into the following categories: works for TV and cinema advertising, film soundtracks, music for theatre productions, installations and exhibitions as well as concert pieces and several studio experiments. There are also a few short pieces that resulted from an experimental music course given by Oram at a high school in Yorkshire in 1967." - Paradigm. |
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Artist: V/A Title: I.D. Art #2 Format: CD Label: Paradigm Discs Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
| "When the Los Angeles Free Music Society 10 CD set came out I eagerly flipped through the contents to see what treasures had finally been made available again. Much to my surprise the early compilation I.D. Art #2 was not included in this otherwise major overview of the LAFMS. I.D. Art #2 was the second LP release on their label, coming after Le Forte Fours Bikini Tennis Shoes LP, and before the 2LP Live at the Brand, a split album between Le 44 and The Doo-Dooettes. It dates from 1976. It is also probably the most difficult LP on their catalogue to find. Originally released in an edition of just 200 copies, most of which were given out to the 44 artists and groups who appeared on this extraordinary LP. The deal was that each track was paid for by the contributor at a rate of $8 per minute in exchange for 4 copies of the disc. Consequently very few copies were ever made available via the LAFMS mail order service. With a running time of 66 minutes and the sheer variety of contributions, I.D. Art #2 remained for most people a mysterious and tantalising item. Among the known names from the LAFMS scene are: Le Forte Four, Joe Potts, Fredrick Nilsen, Mr Foon, Ace & Duce, Dennis Mehaffey as well as 6 tracks by Smegma." -Paradigm Discs. |
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Artist: WISHART, TREVOR Title: Journey into Space Format: CD Label: Paradigm Discs Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
| "an amazing aural journey recorded in 1972, and highly recommended (really his best work)." - Anomalous. from the liner notes: "A musical / allegorical journey, created on tape. A man wakes from a dream and sets off on a car journey. On his car radio, he tunes into the sounds of a space-rocket launch. The two journeys coalesce in his mind. Traveling on through many strange musical landscapes he arrives at a hall of doors. On passing through, the threads of his journey are drawn together. Made in the York University Studio, Journey into Space uses many improvised and composed musics for scaffolding pipes, steel combs, toy instruments, doors & the sounds of many other objects & situations, as well as conventional instruments, voices and electronics." Recorded in 1972. |
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Artist: WISHART, TREVOR Title: Journey Into Space Format: CD Label: Paradigm Discs Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
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"York Universitys music department houses one of the UKs first ever electronic music studios, and during the early seventies it was a hotbed of creative activity. Much of the released output from the studio at this time revolved around the work of the dynamic composer Trevor Wishart. Journey Into Space was his first release, composed between 1970 and 72, and was privately pressed (shortly before the formation of YES records), as two separate LPs in 1973. (The CD cover amalgamates the 2 original designs). Along with other early private releases of experimental music in the UK (ie the LP of sound poems by Cobbing/Jandl, or the LP of musique concrète by Desmond Leslie), this record is also a total anomaly in the canon of British experimental music and has little to do with the current, or even subsequent work by Wishart. The vast length of this piece has many different styles. There are acoustic sections, mostly of junk and toys (bike bells, squeeze horns, bottles, metal tubes, combs etc.) as well as flute and brass sections that are used as raw material. There are also sections of everyday field recordings, scraps of NASA Apollo transmissions, as well as plenty of multitracking, editing, vocal acrobatics and musique concrète. Among the 48 participants credited on the original sleeve are a whole roster of York University alumni including nearly all the artists who were showcased on the soon to be released 3LP box set Electronic Music From York, along with other noteworthy students as diverse as Steve Beresford, Jonty Harrison, Roger Marsh, Dominic Muldowney, Bernard Rands and Jan Steele. The co-operative spirit of Yorks music and drama departments, plus the raw enthusiasm and open attitude of the participants involved in the project gave this music an immediacy, similar to the later LAFMS scene." - Paradigm
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Artist: ORACLE Title: Nataraja Da Nada Format: LP Label: Paradise Lost Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
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"Warehouse find of this relic from 1989. Hard ass Texas psych/biker rock, with incredible "spiritual tangents" and a pretty cool overload of general stupidity and blabber. Includes insert." - FE. "The lyrics are obscure, but what I pick up spells L-S-D. About halfway through the track the trio takes off for the Andromeda Galaxy, a 10-minute space guitar jam with echoes of Manuel Gottsching and Terry Brooks, before Rameshwar the vocalist reappears to send a final transmission back to the Solar system. Whew! No coincidence they called their recording shack The Sponge - there must have been liquid acid running down the walls in there. Over on the reverse side is The oracle speaks, another 24-minute trip which Im pretty certain was recorded in a lysergic state - theres no other way to explain the strange wave-like in/out-of synch drumming. Beginning with ghostly whispers of Sanskrit the piercing Voice appears again to intone the LP title, before setting off on a bizarre imitation of rootsy garage rock interspersed with crude acid guitar leads.... A conceptual tribal basement acid space guitar trip that is as good as anything Ive heard from a modern - as I believe them to be - psych band... heads who enjoy Ya Ho Wha 13 LPs can find comfort in the fact that there were freaks as flipped out as Yods guys 15 years later, right in the middle of the Reagan-Bush American heartland." -- Acid Archives. Related to the Skuldedog CD we carried a few years back, this is a 1989 release of 1985 re-recordings of material originally written in 1976.. or something like that. Very Highly Recommended!
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Artist: HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER Title: Haw Format: LP Label: Paradise of Bachelors Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
| "Comes in a tip-on jacket with full color inner sleeve and digital download coupon. Haw, herein, is an album of eleven songs about family, faith, and an ill-prophesied future, an artifact almost as archaic, lovely and seldom heard today as directional commands for beasts of burden. M.C. Taylor, who wrote these songs, once lived hard by the Haw with his wife Abigail and their son Elijah ? Well I come from the bottom of the river Haw, he sings -- but he doesnt live there anymore. Having followed the slipstream to the relative bustle of nearby Durham, North Carolina, he has composed a new clutch of tunes that conjure the half-remembered dreams of peace promised by our pasts. Taylors writing and singing here achieve a tenebrous clarity, invoking -- and occasionally challenging -- a intermingling cast of prophetic characters both sacred and profane: Daniel, Elijah, the Apostles, and the Son of Man, sure, but also the Peacock Fiddle Band, Mississippi John Hurt, and by implication, Lew Welch, Waylon Jennings, Michael Hurley, and our friend Jefferson Currie II. Say whatever prayer you want: to Jehovah or Yahowah, or Red Rose Nantahala. More than ever before, the supporting players of Hiss Golden Messenger feature as tellers of the tale. Each episode earns a meticulously turned ensemble statement." - Paradise of Bachelors. |
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Artist: PLANT AND SEE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Paradise of Bachelors Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Paradise of Bachelors is honored to celebrate the life and music of influential songwriter, singer, and guitarist Willie French Lowery (1944-2012) with the first-ever reissue of the sole eponymous album by his interracial swamp-psych band Plant and See. Originally released in 1969 on L.A. label White Whale--home of Jim Ford, the Turtles, and the Rockets--Plant and See is the strange fruit of disparate people, places, and players in dialogue. Its humid, storm-cloud guitars, ductile vocal harmonies, and intuitive, loose-limbed drumming are redolent of a specifically Southern syncretic musical identity and sense of place, testifying to the outstanding, colorblind musicianship of Lowery, African American drummer Forris Fulford, Latino bassist Ron Seiger, and Scotch-Irish backup vocalist Carol Fitzgerald. Deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket." -Paradise of Bachelors. |
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Artist: RED RIPPERS, THE Title: Over There... And Over Here Format: CD Label: Paradise of Bachelors Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Paradise of Bachelors presents the first-ever reissue of the previously obscure 1983 LP by the Red Rippers. Written and recorded by Navy pilot Edwin Bankston, the albums nine battle-scarred country-boogie dispatches chronicle the experiences of Bankston and his fellow vets in Vietnam and back home. Scarce and seemingly inscrutable, the sole recording credited to the Red Rippers has long captivated and mystified record collectors. When we first encountered Over There... and Over Here, we were fascinated by the prescient, genre-dredging synthe- sis of Waylonesque honky-stomp with early 80s new wave production values and eerie, out-of-time psychedelic guitar leads, weirdly reminiscent of the Blue Öyster Cult and the Meat Puppets at their most desert-drunk. We were intrigued by the records ambiguous provenance (Oracle Records?) and moved by its complex, apparently deeply personal articulation of an enlisted mans efforts to break on through his fear, anger, and disillusionment during and after the Vietnam War." -Paradise of Bachelors. |
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Artist: RED RIPPERS, THE Title: Over There... And Over Here Format: LP Label: Paradise of Bachelors Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Vinyl edition housed in a thick 24 pt matte jacket, including a digital download coupon and insert. Paradise of Bachelors presents the first-ever reissue of the previously obscure 1983 LP by the Red Rippers. Written and recorded by Navy pilot Edwin Bankston, the albums nine battle-scarred country-boogie dispatches chronicle the experiences of Bankston and his fellow vets in Vietnam and back home. Scarce and seemingly inscrutable, the sole recording credited to the Red Rippers has long captivated and mystified record collectors. When we first encountered Over There... and Over Here, we were fascinated by the prescient, genre-dredging synthe- sis of Waylonesque honky-stomp with early 80s new wave production values and eerie, out-of-time psychedelic guitar leads, weirdly reminiscent of the Blue Öyster Cult and the Meat Puppets at their most desert-drunk. We were intrigued by the records ambiguous provenance (Oracle Records?) and moved by its complex, apparently deeply personal articulation of an enlisted mans efforts to break on through his fear, anger, and disillusionment during and after the Vietnam War." -Paradise of Bachelors. |
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Artist: GRUDZIEN, PETER Title: The Unicorn Format: CD Label: Parallel World Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
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"Repressed. Reissue of a very rare 1974 private press country-religious-overtly-gay real person extravaganza. One of Paul Majors all time top-ten personal faves. With 6 newer tracks not found on the original LP."
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Artist: NICODEMUS & MATCHEZ Title: A Light In the Dark Format: CD Label: Parallel World Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Nicodemus, Detroits web-spinning madman of wisdom and space, is a subcultural Renaissance Man. He and his brother Matchez have recorded, singularly and collectively, over 50 albums for Zedikiah Records, the record label Nicodemus started in 1970. He has published 14 books of poetry, prose and fiction. He has sired three sons by as many wives and presided over the infamous Satans Last Revenge Motor Club. He studied for 11 years the healing ways of the Mescalero Apache and is known as Whitecrow in Native American circles, proudly displaying the symbol of a healer over his left eye. He is a surrealist painter of some renown who signs his work Chongo. Nicodemus and Matchezs recordings have long been held sacred by a worldwide cult of fanatics of esoteric music. Their sounds are eclectic, ranging from future folk to heavy rock and even acid house... Jello Biafra said about Nicodemus in Incredibly Strange Music: My runaway favorite space-folk artist... an instantly recognizable voice thatll send chills down your spine." - Parallel World. |
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Artist: RSO Title: Row Format: LP + CD Label: Parkway Steel Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Debut LP from North Jersey downer-punk 3-piece, the spiritual brethren of those who fought their own war, saw god in the desert, lived in a hole and were a mess. "ROW" acts as the title and artwork implies - churning forward, adrift. LP comes with CD version including two non-LP bonus tracks." - Parkway Steel |
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Artist: V/A Title: Excavated Shellac: Strings Format: LP Label: Parlortone Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Subtitled: Guitar, Oud, Tar, Violin And More From The 78rpm Era. Jonathan Ward, a young 78rpm collector and music researcher who has amassed an absolutely incredible collection of rare 78rpm records from around the world. Generally sharing these through his well-known blog, Excavated Shellac, Wards one of a kind collection is showcased for the first time on Dust-to-Digitals vinyl imprint, Parlortone. None of these tracks have appeared prior to this release either on Excavated Shellac or on any CD or LP compilation. The Excavated Shellac archives are hosted on WFMUs Free Music Archive, and are essentially an (inter)national treasure. This LP features 14 outstanding compositions from the four corners of the world played on stringed instruments and recorded and released 78rpm records circa 1920-1950. Featuring fiddles, shamisen, charango, Paraguyan harp, Indian vina, Lebanese oud, Persian violin, Vietnamese moon guitar, and more. All previously unreleased, carefully transferred and mastered and presented with detailed liner notes. Pressed on high quality vinyl, full color cover featuring 78rpm record sleeve graphics, with an insert of extensive liner notes and photos." -Parlortone. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Luk Thung: Classic & Obscure 78s From The Thai Countryside Format: LP Label: Parlortone Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Fourteen outstanding funky performances of Thai country groove music from the 1950s and early 1960s. All previously un-reissued, carefully transferred and mastered from the original 78rpm records and presented with detailed full-color liner notes. Luk Thung is the down home, funky "Country Music" of Thailand that blossomed as rural Thais migrated to Bangkok for work in the 1950s and 1960s. Luk Thung evolved out of a complex stew of traditional folk styles and international influences. Wild accordions and Latin horn sections mingle with Thai hand drums and finger cymbals, while exquisite vocalists swagger and sing stories about lifes struggles. For fans of the Sublime Frequencies Molam and Thai Pop Spectacular series, as well as the Thai Beat A Go-Go LPs on Subliminal sounds, Luk Thung: Classic & Obscure 78s From The Thai Countryside is the missing piece of the puzzle: the origins, the home-spun, country roots behind the electric movements to come. All of the selections here are reissued for the first time for English audiences, with six pages of full-color illustrated notes and the typical attention to detail and ability to make the past present that audiences expect from Dust-to-Digital and Parlortone CDs and LPs. Compiled by David Murray, with notes by Peter Doolan. Murray is a 78rpm collector and the curator of Haji Maji, a blog dedicated to Asian music from the 78 rpm era. He also plays Greek Rebetika music, is a fiddler for the old-time Squirrelly Stringband, and is a graphic designer. Peter Doolan spent the last year in Bangkok researching the music of Thailand. He shares his passion for Thai music through his blog Monrakplengthai: Enchanting Sounds of Thailand. Pressed on high quality vinyl with a full-color cover featuring Thai 78rpm record sleeve graphics, and a full-color 6-page illustrated fold-out insert with extensive liner notes and photos." -Parlortone
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Artist: V/A Title: Qat, Coffee, & Qambus: Raw 45s From Yemen Format: LP Label: Parlortone Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s From Yemen is a compilation of rare Yemeni vinyl singles, showcasing the little-documented, evolving local music styles in the 1960s and 1970s. Vintage oud and vocal music inspired by the qat-chewing, coffee-sipping, qambus-playing culture of Yemen. Although part of the classical Arabic musical tradition, the music of Yemen takes its rhythmic lead as much from the East African coast (a mere 20 miles across the Red Sea) as the surrounding Arab Peninsula. Little has been written about the music and culture of one of the worlds oldest civilizations, and each 45rpm disc gives a small glimpse of the poetic tradition, the unique local oud styles as well as an insight into peoples day to day lives, or the highs and lows of human relationships. Overall, the compilation gives a flavor of the sights and sounds of Yemen, with detailed notes that tell the story of the hunt for music that has mostly lain forgotten in the antique markets of the capital, until now. Pressed on high quality vinyl with a full-color cover featuring 78rpm record sleeve graphics, and an insert of extensive liner notes and photos." -Parlortone
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Artist: V/A Title: A Gathering of the Tribes Volumes 1-5 Format: 5 CD Boxset Label: Particles Country: UK Price: $60.00 |
| "Collecting 68 of the rarest and trippiest tracks to emerge from North America during rocks golden age (on both 45 and LP), these essential compilations are presented together here for the first time, together with a previously-unissued fifth volume. Originally available in tiny vinyl-only runs in the 1980s, theyre essential for all fans of the further reaches of U.S. psych and garage, and make their long-overdue CD debut here, together with a detailed booklet, incorporating rare photos and background notes. Artists include: Josefus, The Unrelated Segments, Larry & The Blue Notes, The Deep, The Chants, The Plague, The Bards, Indian Puddin & Pipe, Music Emporium, Macabre, The Headstones, The Mystic Tide, The Humane Society, The Grains Of Sand, The Trolls, The Malibus, The Buck Rogers Movement, The Crystal Chandelier, The Missing Lynx, Jefferson Lee, D.R. Hooker, The London Fog, Canterbury Fair, Charolette Wood, The Escapades, The Bad Seeds, The Lyrics, Its All Meat, Talula Babies, Fraction, Mary Butterworth, Jeff Liberman, The Savages, Mystic Siva, Circus 2000, West Coast Natural Gas, John Wonderling, The David, Onion, Hartford Baby Grande, Neighbrhood Childrn, Perth County Conspiracy, Kak, The New Dawn, and Peter Tessier." -Particles. |
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Artist: BILLY BAO Title: Dialectics Of Shit Format: LP Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"The first full-length offering from BILLY BAO. Born and raised on the unstable streets of Lagos, Nigeria before relocating to the alleyways of a then-recently freed Bilboa, Spain, Billy Bao is a rough, dangerous, borderline example of societys woes turned against itself, of cultural repression made flesh, as it foments into a madness both gleeful and destructive. Befriended by world-renowned noise guitarist MATTIN, the two men formed a personal alliance through the community of punk rock and the blunt-force politics therein. Every musical action Bao makes is a statement of political and personal intent, of the persecution that boils within him, and yet, across his previous releases any notions of political punk rock of the tired, insipid Anglicized version are brutally choked out. Mattins musical backdrops swing with the force of Baos vocal delivery to rattling, devastating effect." - Parts Unknown.
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Artist: BILLY BAO Title: May08 Format: LP Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"The Nigerian monstrosity that is Billy Bao returns in agony. Bleeding. Pointing a colossal black finger at global capitalism, regular music, non-music and anti-music, at the food crisis of 2008, the moribund spirit of 1968, and especially at you, the record buyer, who maybe "really dug" his first LP, Dialectics of Shit, and will come back for more, or perhaps "heard a lot about him" and his bandmate Mattin in the "blogosphere" or even in print media (ooh!) (whatever that is), and are "curious to finally hear his music" because you find the stories "interesting" and this is even heavier and more fucked up than The Brainbombs at their heaviest and most fuckeduppednest, and you "get it," right? Yeah! Or wait, let me guess, you got the record for free along with this press release because youre an influential but too-modest-to-admit-it journalist or music critic or program director and so far youve had something to say about Billy, or not, and this is a wonderful opportunity for you to comment upon the work of someone whose primary subject is his own work, so that you can enter into a "dialogue" with "him," or maybe "introduce new audiences" -- maybe even some "kids"! Hooray for the kids! -- to some "awesome" new sounds that "engage the listener in a perceptual tug of war, a struggle to make sense of the unnatural experience of playing audience member to someone elses performer" -- or even better, outsmart Billy, outsmart this record, and call it out as bullshit or play along and pretend that youre in on some "joke" that, lets be honest, you sometimes suspect you dont really get yourself. It dont matter! Were all human beings here, except for those of us who arent, and none of us is more human than Billy. What matters is the way Alberto Lopez pounds the drums, the way Xabier Erkizia rips up the guitar, Mattin and Xabis computer dicking, and Billy right in the middle of it, channeling a desperation so total its embarrassing. This LP is so angry the songs dont even have titles. Some of em are really long, some are really short, but theyre all pretty goddamn infuriating, as they oughta be. The Dialectics of Shit LP and the Accumulation 7" didnt go out of print as quickly as any of us would have hoped, but at least the 10" on SS and the seminal and almost-legendary Bilbos Incinerator EP that started everyone puckering their cornholes are now almost impossible to get. May 08 is actually surprising, which is pretty goddamn surprising, because where do you go after those first four platters, honestly? Well, fuck, you make a record thats somehow noisier than all of those, more tweaked and fucked-with and digitally distorted than anything before it, crammed with grotesque and sublime samples from the noise of yesteryear: Nono, Kuti, Whitehouse, Brainbombs, and Billy, Billy Bao. What? What do you want? Look at the kindsa shit people said about Bilbos Incinerator: "Nigerias answer to Stickmen With Rayguns-era Bobby Soxx -- abhorrent pummeling scuzzrock that is [...]extremely harrowing." -Art for Spastics "He might not wallow in the same cesspool as Bobby Soxx, but Billy Bao has the shine." -Siltblog "Billy Bao is identical to Bobby Soxx of Stickmen With Rayguns in every conceivable way." - Acapulco Dance Party "Punishingly prescient. Vocals sound like the second coming of Kickboy Face, and this as a whole comes off as a terrifyingly real example of what human beings are capable of if pushed far enough. The real world equivalent to the Pissed Jeans 7�?�. An important record." - Dusted Magazine Wow!!! Punishingly prescient!!! Important!!! And whattabout Dialectics of Shit? That one came out on Parts Unkown too! "One heckuva magnificent achievement. " -The Wire "Difficult and entertaining, there is nothing here that would ever be mistaken for easy listening. Punk + experimental + challenging what you think an album should sound like." - Scott Sorianos Webtoons "When Billy Bao isnt making me blow nonexistent fluff off my needle, theyre swamping my stereo with a sickly twenty-generations-removed blues vomit. Its violently dissociative in the most life-affirming way." - Z-Gun It should be pretty goddamn clear to you why you want and need to purchase this record. If you dont care about "enjoying" May 08 the way the artists "intended," go download the music for free and completely miss out on the experience of listening to this record on your turntable in "glorious" analogue sound while fixing your gaze on the epic violence of Billys 12 x 12 cover artwork. Dont play this record if you dont want to." - Parts Unknown.
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Artist: DRUNKDRIVER Title: Born Pregnant Format: LP Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"With nothing more than guitar, drums, vocals and a red-raw recording, Brooklyns Drunkdriver recalls early, bleak, instrument-based noise/rock outfits like Ramleh, legions of spastic hardcore bands of the mid-90s, and a skein of ugly truth about punks rotten corpse. Guitarist Kristy Greenes singular tone and riff-based approach are clearly her own, amping up the proceedings to dangerous levels. Drummer Jeremy Villalobos plays with an unerring mechanical drive; his blasts and rolls across the kit sound like bombs hitting foreign soil. Tormented vocalist Michael Berdan is going to take it out on you the whole time. Drunkdriver is touring the East Coast, Midwest, and South all throughout November, and has shared bills with Pissed Jeans, Pink Reason, Eat Skull, Psychedelic Horseshit and all that other crap." - Parts Unknown.
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Artist: DRY ROT Title: Philistine Format: LP Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"I dont want to say Dry Rot are controversial, because to me theyre not. But their personal religious beliefs somehow get a lot of peoples panties in a bunch for whatever ridiculous reasons. Who cares if they thank God on their insert when theyve released what is probably the best hardcore full length of the year. For Christians they certainly are some weird fucking dudes, and thats all that matters to me. Philistine racks up some serious points for unrelenting and furious hardcore rippers, but its the stuff that happens in between that makes them a special band. Strange instrumental passages that sound as if they couldve come from some Nineties alternative band, a surprising array of odd guitar and bass sounds, the mellow jam of "Can A Game Kill Time?" and its tape-tricked vocals, some weird-punk breakdowns, some post-hardcore Touch&Go-ish moves, there are unconventional touches all over this LP. Its not often you get a hardcore record with this much character, and it makes you enjoy the crushing Die Kreuzen-like bring-the-hate moshers even more. A band has to be pretty good at the basics to pull off the weird stuff. And Dry Rot are just that, not some generic punk band trying to play the weird card (or using their religion to stir controversy/sales, but even if they are, who can blame em?), they are a genuinely blistering outfit at the base level which allows them to fit all the unusual moments into their work seamlessly. Nothing seems forced or contrived, no shoehorned in eccentricity just for the sake of it. The most interesting and individualistic band in hardcore punk today, theyve gotten better with each release and this LP is certainly and rightfully the high point of their path so far. I cant recommend this record enough, even to all you garage rockers out there who think you outgrew hardcore years ago. Dry Rot and their debut LP rise above genre confines and should appeal to all and any who appreciate idiosyncratic rock music in general. Scum stats: test/tour press version of 100 copies has been floating about for a bit with alternate silk-screened sleeves. Regular release should be widely available. And as a footnote, the drummer of Saccharine Trust plays on this LP." - Richard K., Terminal Boredom.
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Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Weird Wings Format: LP Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"This is the sound of a bedroom garage rock band getting inside a refrigerator carton and being pushed down a steep hill. The Home Blitz 12? bangs through five songs, including Slades ode to civic pride, "My Town". Internet superstar Sarim on drums. Highly American music from three guys into good times." - Parts Unknown.
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Artist: HOMOSTUPIDS Title: The Intern Format: CD Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "After two singles, Cleveland, Ohios Homostupids give up their debut full length to the Parts Unknown empire. A perturbing stew of full-bore garage spew and psychedelic punkaroo, this disc will be the soundtrack to many losers bad drug parties for centuries to come. "The Intern" LP is fourteen songs and one big headache." - Parts Unknown. |
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Artist: PIGEON RELIGION Title: Scorpion Milk Format: 7" Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "PIGEON RELIGION plays three songs that are the aural equivalent of a demented wrong-turn mescaline trip, something akin to a wastoid blow-job in the bathroom of a bad hippy party with Jefferson Airplane playing at 15rpm on a broken turntable in the background. Sickly and hopelessly noisy, churning feedback laden guitars recall nights of miserable, unprotected sex and getting your ass beat by punk rockers only a quarter your age." -Parts Unknown |
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Artist: SNAKE APARTMENT Title: Paint The Walls Format: LP Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Snake Apartment let twelve gross inches of ugly, noisy punk slither out of Rhode Island. Heavy scuzz rock drenched in syrup puts on its studio shoes and has a loose night out on the town, sounding like a shelved Am Rep gem just dusted off and released to cumsumers. Heres a small glimmer of hope for middle aged losers who enjoy late Black Flag, Flipper, Brainbombs, Drunks With Guns, God Bullies, and TAD, and neo hipsters and indie label CEOs falling over themselves with glee over bands like Pissed Jeans, Clockcleaner, and Nirvana. Limited to 500 copies, all on green card green vinyl. Get it while the gettins good." - Parts Unknown. |
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Artist: VILE Title: Solution Format: LP Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"A limited edition repress of this notorious New England ripper recorded at Radiobeat, which has gained legendary status due to its rarity and offensiveness. Limited to 500 copies" - Parts Unknown.
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Artist: VIOLENT STUDENTS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Eight tracks of brain throbbing annoyance that will draw the line in the sand between the real deal hardcore youth and all the other ironic moshers, noise losers, and various other butter users. Do you know The Brainbombs, The Fuckin Flyin A-Heads, The Sickness or Kilslug? Then you already know Violent Students. Best band from Philly since Circle Of Shit." - Parts Unknown. |
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Artist: YOUNG GOVERNOR Title: Hidden Love Format: LP Label: Parts Unknown Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "From the Great White North and the twisted mind of a one time child actor comes "Hidden Love" the first 12" EP from Young Governor. While no doubt people will jump to comparisons of Jay Retard, Home Blitz, and Kurt Vile, that is doing Young Governor a grave diservice. The perfect summer record just in time for summer, "Hidden Love" is the perfect blend of pop, singer songwriter, lo-fi, and dare we say folk. Ben Cook the mastermind behind it all has been a busy boy indeed. Its a wonder that he finds time to write and record not just Young Governor material but also releases music under the banner Bitters, all the while being a full time member of the much heralded outfit Fucked Up. Wonders will never cease and you will no doubt find yourself humming aloud the songs of pure pop class demonstrated here after just a few listens." - Parts Unknown. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Acid Dreams Format: CD Label: Past & Present Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Recognized as one of the truly great comps of all time, this 1979 selection of 60s U.S. hard guitar-psych, compiled by the owner of a record shop in Berlin, has often been reissued on CD with the wrong tracklisting and non-existent liner notes. Originally released on LP, only 77 copies were pressed and apart from a few that were given to friends and family, the remaining records were only sold through the compilers shop or shamelessly bootlegged. Unavailable on either LP or CD for years, the Past & Present label are pleased to make this important compilation available again. This reissue, which stays faithful to the original, comes with an 8-page booklet detailing each of the 18 tracks. Acid Dreams proved that punk rock was not a new thing; kids had adopted the same snotty attitude in the mid-to-late 60s. The opening track, White Lights "William," sets the standard for whats to come: a compulsive, classic, hard guitar-psych 45 rocker and 17 more psych diamonds follow in its wake. A true gem mined and polished by Past & Present. Artists include: White Light, Caretakers Of Deception, Outcasts, The Music Machine, Mystic Tide, Stereo Shoestrings, Velvet Illusions, Unrelated Segments, Beautiful Daze, Painted Faces, Teddy & His Patches, Vejtables, Faine Jade, Balloon Farm, Minds Eye, Zakary Thaks, Remaining Few." -Past & Present |
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Artist: OVERHANG PARTY Title: Otherside Of Format: 7" + 2CD Label: Pataphysique Country: Japan Price: $48.00 |
| "Tokyo psych mainstays from 1990 to 2008 who, according to Dusted, "mixed the melodies with the mope to achieve a Paisley Underground sort of effect, albeit with virtuosic guitar freakouts by leader RINJI FUKUOKA... [M]ajestic melodies, challenging and progressive outlines, ripping leads, and proper song structures... recorded in Japan rattle the cages of... young, tribal drug-pee band[s]... with the skill and professional freakout-making abilities they all lack." The seven-inch contains two songs from the bands 1999 US tour: "Le Few Follet" with its pop-psych layering and dueling lead guitars that are thick and confident and "Cut Up Us," a collage of sounds from the entire tour and symphonic tapeloops." - Pataphysique. |
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Artist: SHIRAISHI, TAMIO Title: Alto Sax/Live Performances:1992-1994 Format: CD Label: Pataphysique Country: Japan Price: $16.00 |
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Artist: DASKEN, PAUL Title: Speckled Ax Format: LP Label: Paul Dasken Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
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"(Speckled Ax) was finally shrinkwrapped and ready to go in 1988. I placed a few copies with indie distributors but the market took a pass. Im leery of manifestos--I think things should speak for themselves. Plus the thing was made so many years ago that Im a bit foggy about it all. Its fair to say that the record is a study of contrasts, and the result of diverging ideas about what music should be--this is to say that the ideas were more entwined in earlier projects, which sounded nothing whatsoever like anything on the record (starting with PUS, my first band (1978), whose instrumentation consisted of power tools). The piano pieces were an attempt to reconnect with humanity in the course of some years spent chasing wild geese across two continents (the record cover is a kind of document of this time). The earlier of the two piano pieces (Busy Day) had a more architechtural conception behind it while the other one was conceived more in terms of an accommodation to silence. For what thats worth. I dont know anything about writing music, I just feel my way along. The versions of Wichita Lineman (one of my favorite songs) can be put down to "frustration with the music business" in the broadest possible sense. Any further reference is left to the eye (ear?) of the beholder." - Paul Dasken.
"Each side consists of two elements: a plaintive piano recording and a reinterpretation of Jimmy Webbs Wichita Lineman as protest music. Dasken is a conceptualist first and a musician second; each performance is site-specific and unabashedly amateur. His piano pieces will resonate with anyone who ever sat down at a piano without a lick of training but the will to peck out a pattern of notes that almost resembles a composition, if only to the player. That is to say they are intimate, singular, �??real piano,�?� and beautiful.
The first Lineman finds Dasken taking on a manic street preacher, singing the song to a beat tapped out on a coke bottle, an abstract form of heckling that weirdly puts bogus fundamentalism in its proper, ridiculous place. The second take finds him at a 1988 campaign rally for Bush the Elder, where the wild applause that follows each of the candidates proclamations and an efficient team of secret service agents renders Daskens protest little more than a barely-noticed exercise in futility.
Speckled Ax has gained formidable resonance with the passage of time. Its a key piece of loner Americana on wax, as personal and unique as records come. In the wake of 9/11, the fears and upset of the Eighties seem almost quaint, but Daskens voice in the wilderness burns brighter than ever as a fire to warm oneself by in this very long winter in America."
Douglas Mcgowan , October 2006.
Original copies of this strange private release out of Michigan. Released in 1988, handpasted artwork over old LP jackets, limited to 300 copies.
"Sounds like Alvaro, The Native Hipsters & Charlemagne Palestine w/one hand tied behind his back". - Roland Woodbe, Siltblog.
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Artist: SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE Title: Maria Kapel Format: LP Label: Pavilion Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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Small handful of last years tour LP. 500 copies in striking hand-painted/drawn sleeves. Half recorded live in Tilburg Sept 19th, 2010, the rest at home in Holyoke, MA 2011. "..Ben Chasny has been able to convert the phenomenon of a simple chapel devoted to Mary into music. The physical and spiritual have found each other. What a beautiful world.. just listen!" - Paul Spapens (liner notes).
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Artist: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Title: Campfire Songs Format: CD Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Paw Tracks is proud to present the reissue of Animal Collectives 2003 album Campfire Songs. Since the CDs original issue on Catsup Plate recently went out of print it is our intention to simply keep the cd in print for as long as possible. An idea originally thought up by Dave Portner and Noah Lennox while in college, Campfire Songs is not a record of songs sung around a campfire but a record that hints at songs emerging from the fire itself: "We wanted to give the music the feeling and atmosphere of the outdoors and the warmth of a fire, so people could bring it indoors." A collection of five songs written over a period of four to five years, Campfire Songs is an escape from the clutter and electronic assault of the groups 2001 release Danse Manatee and the tour that preceded it. However, the tapestry quality of the songs and the lines that blur endings from beginnings and jams from compositions highlight a style that the boys had become comfortable with from touring and would continue to work on in the years that followed on records like Here Comes The Indian and Feels. While the songs were completed in the apartment that three of the members shared (Geologist does not play on this album) they chose to record the music on a screened-in porch in Maryland using portable mini disc players so as to allow the ambience of trees blowing in the wind, the birds chirping and the insects in the area to become an integral part of the sound flow. What remains intact are the melodies that have always been a part of the AC sound�??though here they have been stripped away of any electronic accompaniment and stretched and slowed to a calmer place than anywhere AC had been before and perhaps has gone since." - Paw Tracks. |
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Artist: ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Title: Hollinndagain Format: LP Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
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"Available again for the first time since 2002 is ANIMAL COLLECTIVEs rare live album Hollinndagain. Originally released in an edition of 300 hand-painted LPs, the album is a document of the group performing live during the first half of 2001. Seven tracks (none of which have ever been studio recorded), three of which are from a WMFU broadcast, the others from performances in New York, Nashville, and Austin." - Paw Tracks.
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Artist: ARIEL PINKS HAUNTED GRAFFITI Title: House Arrest Format: CD Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Think you⿿ve heard enough Ariel Pink? Well our favorite omnivorous media junkie from LA still has a few tricks left up his sleeve like the left-of-center ⿿House Arrest. Sure ⿿The Doldrums and ⿿Worn Copy had some hits and humdingers on them, but ⿿House Arrest never lets up. It⿿s hit after hit after hit. Sorta like if you listened to your friend⿿s boom box mix tape from Top 40 radio around 1985. Some people might think that sounds like a recipe for disaster. We say bring on the Doritos." -Paw Tracks |
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Artist: ARIEL PINKS HAUNTED GRAFFITI Title: The Doldrums Format: CD Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "After years of recording in relative seclusion in the hills of Los Angeles, Ariel Pink (the first non-Animal Collective member on the Paw Tracks roster) makes his official Paw Tracks debut with ⿿The Doldrums. Originally a handmade CD-R release a couple years back, ⿿The Doldrums by Ariel Pink⿿s Haunted Graffiti was discovered by the Animal Collective during one of their west coast tours and became an immediate favorite. Recording at home with a guitar, bass, keyboard, and 8-track (the drum sounds are all unbelievably created with his mouth), Ariel Pink blends Lite FM and warped lo-fi pop into something beautiful and confusing, yet highly addictive." -Paw Tracks |
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Artist: ARIEL PINKS HAUNTED GRAFFITI Title: Worn Copy Format: CD Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Ariel Pinks Worn Copy is a piece of work. Epic and grand in scale (seventeen songs clocking in over 70 minutes), Worn Copy is the history of popular music as revealed through the eyes and ears of Ariel Pink. It⿿s an impassioned combinatory view of popular and unpopular culture that takes in everything from The Cure, R. Stevie Moore and Amon Duul to forgotten episodes of The Gong Show, Its Your Move, and Whats Happening? Originally released in 2003 by the Rhystop label and now featuring a bonus video of ⿿For Kate I Wait,Worn Copy is re-seeing the light of day on the Animal Collectives Paw Tracks imprint." -Paw Tracks |
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Artist: AVEY TARE & KRIA BREKKAN Title: Pullhair Rubeye Format: LP Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
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"AVEY TARE is DAVID PORTNER of ANIMAL COLLECTIVE and KRIA BREKKAN is KRISTIN ANNA VALTYSDOTTIR formerly of MUM. Now married, the duo release their debut album together-a motley collection of fun and somber songs, some instrumental, textured and trancelike. Other songs are lyrically based, calmer and more introspective, and sound like direct transmissions from within. Eight songs in all." - Paw Tracks.
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Kokomo Format: 12" Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"Five tracks from Load Blown not previously released on vinyl. Includes 22" x 22" poster." -Paw Tracks.
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Load Blown Format: CD Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Load Blown is the fourth album by Brooklyns Black Dice. The beats drip and roll, tar-pit voices sing into an oil can, and the guitars crank like calliope. Some tunes crackle and burble like submerged television, others bump and click along like a Summer Jam concert series from another dimension. While a noticeable change in tone encompasses Load Blown (some tunes veer close to pop songs), this is a work of over-stimulation, a product of frenzied media culture, a sonic sifting of the gratuitous amount of "stuff" out there. The span of time (nearly 18 months of on-again/off-again work) encompassing the composition and recording of the album accounts for a sprawling variety of sounds and songs. Strange and abrasive, yet somehow more familiar, accessible, and celebratory than ever, this is Black Dice at their most palatable yet. Load Blown is a compilation of three 12" vinyl EPs that have been released with special edition posters plus exclusive unreleased tracks. The final EP release (released at the same time as the Load Blown cd) will be the remaining five tracks not previously released on vinyl." - Paw Tracks |
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: REPO Format: Double LP Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"REPO is the fifth album by Black Dice. The Brooklyn, NY-based trio has never worked harder at crafting a set of concise, sonically battering, or flat-out bizarre tunes than on this collection of fringe-surfing tone bombs. Yet a new roadhouse blues-band philosophy has simultaneously emerged, allowing the group to loosen up and toss off a record packed with blurry hooks and zoomed-in riffs as casually as a grizzled denizen of roadside dives might spew out aural alchemy in-between a few brews.
Brothers Eric and Bjorn Copeland and Aaron Warren have spent the better part of 10 years in daily contact, touring the world over, and sculpting their saw-toothed sound balloons under circumstances most reasonable people would wretch at. The resultant hive mind occupied by the three is an inevitable consequence of so much shared experience, both musical and simply day-to-day. Their communal consciousness is as packed with garbage as much as it is concerned with making catchy tunes, and often the songs pouring out of it contain equal parts bombastic infectious rhythm and chaotic detritus.
REPO is the sound of a disciplined group of cosmic jokers setting out to reclaim the landscape popular culture would have us believe we cannot afford. The record irreverently mulches the sounds and images of radio, TV and internet into a fertile compost pile squirming with new, raw life." -Paw Tracks
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: REPO Format: CD Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "REPO is the fifth album by Black Dice. The Brooklyn, NY-based trio has never worked harder at crafting a set of concise, sonically battering, or flat-out bizarre tunes than on this collection of fringe-surfing tone bombs. Yet a new roadhouse blues-band philosophy has simultaneously emerged, allowing the group to loosen up and toss off a record packed with blurry hooks and zoomed-in riffs as casually as a grizzled denizen of roadside dives might spew out aural alchemy in-between a few brews. Brothers Eric and Bjorn Copeland and Aaron Warren have spent the better part of 10 years in daily contact, touring the world over, and sculpting their saw-toothed sound balloons under circumstances most reasonable people would wretch at. The resultant hive mind occupied by the three is an inevitable consequence of so much shared experience, both musical and simply day-to-day. Their communal consciousness is as packed with garbage as much as it is concerned with making catchy tunes, and often the songs pouring out of it contain equal parts bombastic infectious rhythm and chaotic detritus. REPO is the sound of a disciplined group of cosmic jokers setting out to reclaim the landscape popular culture would have us believe we cannot afford. The record irreverently mulches the sounds and images of radio, TV and internet into a fertile compost pile squirming with new, raw life." -Paw Tracks |
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Roll Up/Drool Format: 12" Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Coinciding with their ten year anniversary, Black Dice release a new two-song EP. Reflecting another withering season in a Brooklyn basement rehearsal space, the band created a work of abandon, a sonic balloon to unfamiliar vistas. The tunes were debuted on a Peruvian network television show called, funnily enough, "Jammin," on the bands trip to Lima last fall. Limited to 1,000 copies, packaged with a special 24x24 inch full-color poster. Both tracks are exclusive to this release." - Paw Tracks
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Alien In A Garbage Dump Format: 12" Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Eric Copelands Alien In A Garbage Dump 12" represents part one of the forthcoming album from the increasingly prolific member of Black Dice. Taking off where his last record, Hermaphrodite, left off, these seven jams are steeped in modern media overload; dense, often fragmented blasts of ideas and sounds, representative of a half hour of prime-time television (or something like that). But rather than contributing to this problem (pissing in the ocean), Eric⿿s black humor teases and criticizes the American stimuli machine in which we all participate; a house of mirrors perspective where all is familiarly skewed, humorous but misleading, disorienting and searching. This is over-loaded, over-processed, over-dosed music thats rooted in the public sounds, but somehow a giant leap from any fashion dominating the public mind. A repeat listener for sure...Its a musical creation from an Earthling to our peers in the Universe." -Paw Tracks |
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Hermaphrodite Format: CD Label: Paw Tracks Country: US Price: $12.50 |
| "Eric Copeland is a prominent member of New Yorks Black Dice and Terrestrial Tones. For the past two years, he has amassed and twisted a variety of music and sounds, resulting in Hermaphrodite, his first proper solo album. Hopscotching a free range of structures, sources, and styles, this album is unlike any other, crossing the wires of foreign radio, space transmissions, artificial vocal ensembles, electronic street conversations and lost pop music. But these compositions dont highlight the sound dynamics as much as they let each song shake and unfold into a very open world, continually broadening. Like a good mix tape, Hermaphrodite flips the listener with each new song, engaging them to keep up, make the connections, and, ultimately, enjoy." - Paw Tracks. |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Black Beach Format: DVD/12" Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Come to a beach party Excepter-style! The ⿿Black Beach soundtrack LP features a DVD of the motion picture of the same name ⿿ Black Beach shot by Harrison Owen of the open-air performances conducted by Excepter in Big Sur during its 2008 West Coast tour. Bonus video footage includes the full show of Excepter at The Echo in Los Angeles and other surprises. Here, at the literal End of the West ... Watch as Excepter descends the great stair down to Sand Dollar beach, armed only with a flute and a small bag of percussion. Listen as Excepter walks on Morro Bay to the dread beat of the setting Sun. See Excepter dressed head-to-toe in black in the noon-day heat on a nudist beach (Parental Guidance Suggested). Feel the hostile surf continuously lash the last soundclash." - Excepter. |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Burgers/The Punjab Format: 12" Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Excepter is a freewheeling American vocal and electronics troupe dedicated to the illumination of unconscious rock through hypnotism and trickery, electricity city, aqua vitae. Excepter deliver two long dance tracks in a synthetic protest style, mapping the flipside of the sublimated global war machine inherent in the industrial food exploitation in the twin hubs of New York music subculture. Side A is a group groove on the cannibalistic struggle between capital and labor (ambition and drudgery) reproduced nightly on the Williamsburg gluttony scene. Side B is a techno imagining of the imperial threat of the comic strip girl on the Lower East Side as told from the point of view of the microwave ovens of a Sikh taxi stand. (45 RPM for maximum phase forgiveness.) War and peace in less time than it takes to get there." -Paw Tracks. |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Debt Dept Format: LP Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"DEBT DEPT is the FOURTH record by EXCEPTER.
Excepter is an electronic performance group devoted to the destruction of boundaries between the psychic friends network and reality television. DEBT DEPT is an album of protest songs played in anti-commercial style with a timeless message for todays election-year consumer:
?VOTE NO MAKE ONE MISTAKE, MAKE IT TWICE
DEBT DEPT was recorded in FIVE days, in THREE intervals, over the course of NINE months. Of SEVENTEEN tracks recorded, EIGHT tracks remain, molded by FOUR successive layers of building and erasing, TWO bands in ONE." -Paw Tracks
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Debt Dept Format: CD Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Excepter is an electronic performance group devoted to the destruction of boundaries between the psychic friends network and reality television. DEBT DEPT is an album of protest songs played in anti-commercial style with a timeless message for today⿿s election-year consumer: ⿿VOTE NO or ⿿MAKE ONE MISTAKE, MAKE IT TWICE DEBT DEPT was recorded in FIVE days, in THREE intervals, over the course of NINE months. Of SEVENTEEN tracks recorded, EIGHT tracks remain, molded by FOUR successive layers of building and erasing, TWO bands in ONE." -Paw Tracks |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Presidence Format: Double CD Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "EXCEPTER ⿿ PRESIDENCE ⿿LONG DISTANCE MUSIC PRESIDENCE is the eighth album in as many years by EXCEPTER. A double compact disc, PRESIDENCE explores the long-format side of EXCEPTER, focusing on continuous live performance and extended compositions. Over the course of more than two hours, PRESIDENCE spans the full spectrum of the EXCEPTER sound, from street-level electro to cosmic synth infinity and beyond. This is the sound of the band leaving Earth behind. EXCEPTER ⿿ PRESIDENCE RECORDING NOTES: TELEPORTATION A six-song suite improvised in one continuous, live recording performed at Nathan Corbin and Clare Amorys home studio on October 18th, 2008. Behind the final door is another door. LENG A multi-track instrumental recorded by Mitch Rackin at the Sea Side Lounge studios over the winter of 2007 during the DEBT DEPT sessions. Titled in tribute to a Lovecraft tale location. OG A live-to-stereo recording from the bands six-hour ⿿Return to Black Hole dog days performance at the Williamsburg experimental cinema-restaurant Monkey Town on July 17th, 2007. PRESIDENCE A solo synthesizer performance by John Fell Ryan recorded Presidents Day, 2003. (Pre-War) THE ANTI-NOAH Another recording from July 17th, 2007. Not in reference to our pal Panda, but rather to question the NOAA public closing of The Sound Garden since 9/11. Why would terrorists target meteorologists or an obscure sound sculpture park? Excepter wonder. THE OPEN WELL A selection from the bands 17-hour ⿿protest performance at Monkey Town on Election Day, 2008. Other recordings here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=969A9C4C8185 CEBA COME WHEN YOU CALL A dubbed-up monster mash of ALL live recordings of this Nathan Corbin program, from Echo Park to MIT. Los Angeles video version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD4W1IYO-T0 EXCEPTER ⿿ PRESIDENCE ⿿THE LAST COMPACT DISC PRESIDENCE is not designed for playback on laptop speakers. Listeners should plug into a stereo. PRESIDENCE: If you fall asleep while listening to this record, please to dream of only EXCEPTER. EXCEPTER is a six-member improvisational electronic and vocal group based in NYC. Founded in 2002 with the stated intent to use the tools of dance music towards esoteric ends, Excepter was behind many of the classic recordings associated with the 00s Brooklyn Noise phenomenon. Excepters 2008 Paw Tracks LP ⿿Debt Dept seemed to predict the global economic collapse that followed its release. The Excepter live experience remains an unpredictable, mystifying affair ⿿ always singular, never the same show twice." - Excepter. |
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Artist: FIRST NATION Title: Coronation Format: 7 Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "The debut single from New York City trio FIRST NATION-MILISSA LIVAUDAIS, NINA MEHTA, and KATE ROSKO. You get the songs "Antelope Attack," which is exactly that-all hoof stomping, melodic tones rustling in the wind, then a feverish rhythmic chase-backed by the cut "Braided Metal," which sounds like the Glen Branca Orchestra gone atonal before giving up and going twee pop. Have played with cohorts and friends The Animal Collective, Excepter, and Gang Gang Dance." - Paw Tracks. |
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Artist: JANE Title: Berserker Format: CD Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "scotty and i worked together at a record store in new york city. he was a dj around town and he still is i think. we both really liked dance music and dance music from the very beginning and i mean stomps and shouts and claps and stuff like that. of course we like all kinds of other stuff too but its the dance that gets us going on jane. we played once at the animal collective practice space but found it much more pleasant to play at scottys home in greenpoint where he had his mixer and simple microphones and we would drink brews and talk about all kinds of things and then play. i would usually sing about stuff i was thinking about that day and scotty would move with it playing jams and it would all kind of pour out. we liked all the mechanical robo dance jams from detroit and chicago and germany but we wanted to do something with less 0s and 1s and more souls. mostly it was about hanging out together and talking and playing music that was about talking together and hanging out and thinking and feeling and having fun and dancing most of all." -Panda Bear (of the Animal Collective) |
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Artist: PANDA BEAR Title: Young Prayer Format: CD Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"In the midst of 2002, with much of his attention focused on his work with the Brooklyn-based ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, PANDA BEAR stepped aside to a more intimate space to reflect upon the death of his father. The resulting Young Prayer, often coming much closer to classical composition than to the noise/pop experimentations of the ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, is a collection of beautifully personal and introspective songs. Young Prayer, recorded in Panda Bears childhood home by ANIMAL COLLECTIVE member DEAKIN and further produced by the mysterious ANIMAL COLLECTIVE brothers known as COME WINTER, guarantees a listening experience as interesting as any ANIMAL COLLECTIVE release thus far. A truly soulful album, Young Prayer is both sonically gorgeous and spiritually uplifting." -Paw Tracks
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Artist: PINKS HAUNTED GRAFFITI, ARIEL Title: House Arrest Format: LP Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Think youve heard enough Ariel Pink? Well our favorite omnivorous media junkie from LA still has a few tricks left up his sleeve -- like the left-of-center House Arrest. Sure The Doldrums and Worn Copy had some hits and humdingers on them, but House Arrest never lets up. Its hit after hit after hit. Sorta like if you listened to your friends boombox mix tape from Top 40 radio around 1985. Some people might think that sounds like a recipe for disaster. We say bring on the Doritos." - Paw Tracks. CD also available.
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Artist: PINKS HAUNTED GRAFFITI, ARIEL Title: Worn Copy Format: Double LP Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Ariel Pinks Worn Copy is a piece of work. Epic and grand in scale (seventeen songs clocking in over 70 minutes), Worn Copy is the history of popular music as revealed through the eyes and ears of Ariel Pink. Its an impassioned combinatory view of popular and unpopular culture that takes in everything from The Cure, R. Stevie Moore and Amon Duul to forgotten episodes of The Gong Show, Its Your Move, and For Kate I Wait, Worn Copy is re-seeing the light of day on the Animal Collectives Paw Tracks imprint." - Paw Tracks. CD also available.
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Artist: TERRESTRIAL TONES Title: Dead Drunk Format: CD Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Brooklyns Terrestrial Tones is the roommate duo of Eric Copeland (Black Dice) and Dave Portner (The Animal Collective). Over the years the two have been quietly making music in between Animal Collective and Black Dice commitments. Recorded in their apartment while living in Paris last summer, Terrestrial Tones third record Dead Drunk sounds like the duo spent a bit too much time in the Parisian flea markets. African food stands, forgotten European pop records, discarded American analog pedals and junk, old Soviet electronics, they all come together into something highly disconcerting, curiously pleasurable, and beyond new."- Paw Tracks. |
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Artist: TERRESTRIAL TONES Title: Dead Drunk Format: LP Label: Paw Tracks Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Brooklyns Terrestrial Tones is the roommate duo of Eric Copeland (Black Dice) and Dave Portner (The Animal Collective). Over the years the two have been quietly making music in between Animal Collective and Black Dice commitments. Recorded in their apartment while living in Paris last summer, Terrestrial Tones third record Dead Drunk sounds like the duo spent a bit too much time in the Parisian flea markets. African food stands, forgotten European pop records, discarded American analog pedals and junk, old Soviet electronics, they all come together into something highly disconcerting, curiously pleasurable, and beyond new."- Paw Tracks.
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Artist: NORD Title: Ego Trip Format: LP Label: PCP Country: Germany Price: $30.00 |
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"Originally released in a miniscule edition of 100 copies. ..two side-long workouts of layered dystopian pulsations. Ego Trip hews rather closer to the air free MB aesthetic that was more latent on LSD. Side A starts a mite tenuously but eventually settles into a pleasingly disorienting suctioning wooze. Side B begins rather annoyingly with someone playing Jefferson Airplanes "Somebody To Love" underneath the electronics for no compelling reason before settling into a very agreeable bit of extended synthetic claustrophobia." -Mutant Sounds. "Exact reissue of the very rare original release from 1985. In handmade/sandpaper cover with stamped insert" - PCP.
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Artist: NORD Title: L.S.D. Format: LP Label: PCP Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| Reissue of the second NORD release from 1984, his first being the 1981 self titled LP on Pinakotecha, an early release for the label after the legendary 愛欲人民十時劇場 compilation LP and KEIJI HAINOs 1st LP. Highly recommended! ".. L.S.D. features rough hewn sheets of ominous yet trippy pulsating textural electronics with an obvious debt to the stark teutonic soundworlds of Kluster and (especially) Seesselberg. Any glimmers of transcendence are immediately offset by a deadzone ambience that reeks of Maurizio Bianchi. Hiroshi Oikawas solo explorations of the galactic void seem considerably more enticing to these set of ears than the more formalized quotidian post-industrial con- structs he was fabricating under the Nord moniker with Satoshi Katayama on their Pinakotheca label debut LP from three years earlier. If this is cos-mic, than its the cosmos as viewed from the vantage point of a burned out cinder drifting into entropy. Gripping stuff!" - Mutant Sounds. |
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Artist: MEDIO MUTANTE Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: PDSW Country: Germany Price: $10.00 |
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"You know their songs from their MySpace site? You also have already ordered their great 12" from CitiTrax Records? You think Medio Mutante is the best SYNTH band around? Oh hell yes!!! So what are you waiting for? Go and get their brandnew 7" NOW!!! 2 Tracks-2 winners!!! Definitely the best record to start with in 2009!!!" -PDSW. "After more than 5 years of releasing only old and mainly german stuff, I made the decission to come out with a new label for actual NATIONAL+INTERNATIONAL Elektronik Minimal Artists. The name, oh what a big idea and hours of great thoughts, is PSDW what stands for whatever you want it to. Prisoners Should Declare War, Peter Sagt Die Wahrheit, People Should Dance on Water or whatever." - Statement from Was Sol Das? Platten re; their new side-label, PSDW.
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Artist: PERSONABLE Title: Spontaneous Generation Format: LP Label: Peak Oil Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Huddled behind a towering spire of modular synthesizers, Los Angeles M. GEDDES GENGRAS has amassed a following devoted to his epic ambient swashes of synthesized immersion across numerous cassette releases on Stunned, Digitalis and Ekhein, mention nothing of his recent collaboration with Sun Araw and the Congos on RVNG Intl. Last year, under his PERSONABLE alias, he staged a number of live performances of raw, epic, blisteringly melodic, ultimately psychedelic minimal techno that literally blew minds across Los Angeles. This is the first vinyl release of that material and a towering testament to its atavistic outsider techno. Three tracks spread across forty minutes, prepare yourself." - Peak Oil. |
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Artist: AI, ASO Title: Lavender Edition Format: CD Label: Pedal Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
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"The resonance of the name Aso Ai will not immediately cause tidal waves of excitement to leap up and hit foreign shores with a vehement power of overall upheaval and long awaited anticipation. No instinctive prevision whatsoever could gear up music aficionados for what was to come, since Asos debut recordings on the tiny and illustrious Oz Disc label had slipped by unnoticed through the mazes of the net. Aso Ai first appeared on the so-called music circuit around the year 2000 with the release of her debut single Amaihibiki, closely followed the following year by her full length CD Umerumono. Both releases slowly fell into slumber, disappearing into the gasping wounds of total obscurity until the freshly ignited Pedal Records label, led by former White Heaven guitarist Nakamura Souichirou, decided not to let Aso Ais exceptional talent go to waste and set out to conflagrate her sonic isolationism. Upon listening and witnessing Asos music, I could not but be struck by the bare stark nakedness and an almost less is more aesthetic that resonated out of every slow motion-like action she sings into being through her desolate tunes. Desolate as in stripped down of all artificial distractions, intellectual constructivism and violent sonic pollution, Asos musical universe is one of limited notation and well balanced fragile bossa-novelistic psychedelics. She quietly sets out, throughout the entire album, to show a graceful, yet sharp moving floating stride. From the first, almost minimalist approach, the atmospheric angelical quality and utterly erotic naïveté that breaths through her delicate vocals, one can feel a premonition towards an unprecedented relationship she beholds for a lyrical and soft poetic shape that feels like an introverted and at times almost religious affair her music embraces. Like the fragrance of a freshly picked cherry blossom, Aso Ais sonic universe is as fleeting and as fragile but in the mean time strong enough to face the seasonal climate changes the buds gets confronted with. Her whispering trade mark vocalizations are throughout the album backed up with some sparse but accurate and straight-to-the-point instrumentation provided by some of Tokyos finest scenesters around such as ex-White Heaven and Stars front man Ishihara You (who was also responsible for producing this sonic gem), Nakamura Souichirou (engineer of Nagisa Nite, Yura Yura Teikoku, Guitar Wolf, The Stars, etc), and Yura Yura Teikoku and Stars bass player Kamekawa Chiyo. When performing live, Aso gets backed by Ishihara, Nakamura and Kurihara Michio. The overall effect the individual musicians together with Aso evoke is that of a transcendental and arresting listening experience that will make you question the validity of all music you have been exposed to until this present day, rendering most your record collection oblique and utterly useless. That is the power stripped down simplicity and utter beauty evokes. You are warned�?� And if this initial release, which will massage your frontal earlobes to a big extent, is not enough yet, Pedal Records announced that its second release will be The Stars new full length album, which will be due at the end of May 2004. Stay tuned�?�.." - Johan Wellens.
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Artist: ISHIHARA, YOU Title: Passivite Format: CD Label: Pedal Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
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July 1997 release from White Heavens You Ishihara (vocals, guitar) featuring the incredible Michio Kurihara (guitar), Chiyo Kamekawa (bass), and Ken Ishihara (drums). Originally released on Creativeman Disc.
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Artist: KURIHARA, MICHIO Title: Sunset Notes Format: CD Label: Pedal Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
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"Stellar first solo adventure of former White Heaven and Stars lysergic guitar wonder Michio Kurihara. Comprised out of 9 tracks, Kurihara proves that he has more up his sleeve than merely being an extremely gifted guitar wonder. Here, he puts on display his song craftmanship and it surely stunned me. Kurihara sounds utterly mature, well structured and exciting compositions spared from guitar frivolics and instead focusing on the image of the composition. He gets assited by the rhythm section of Yura Yura Teikoku (Shibata Ichiro), Peace Music and Pedal Records spearhead Nakamura Souichiro and Ishihara You and Aso Ai who both breath some songs into being. This album grows on you the more you lend your ear to it and is, according to these humble ears, already one of the top 5 albums for 2005. Ultimate highest recommendation." - Pedal.
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Artist: STARS, THE Title: Perfect Place To Hideaway Format: CD Label: Pedal Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
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"This is the long anticipated followup to their first album , WILL, which was chosen by British magazine WIRE as one of the best albums of 2004. Perfect Place to Hideway has sensual grooves not heard on their earlier work, cold, icy riffs, and an overwhelming tone of nihilism in the vocals, all masterfully put together to create a multi-dimensional, grand listening experience. From opener Subway, with Michio Kuriharas guitar lines weaving through eternal, repetitive grooves and Ishiharas controlled, unique vocals, this album ushers in a new era for the band. From the slashing guitar riffs to the impenetrable grooves laid out by the rhthym section, from the anarchic, bold arrangements to the dark lyricism, the unique album creates an overwhelming, cosmic listening experience."
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Artist: STARS, THE Title: Perfect Place To Hideaway Format: LP Label: Pedal Country: Japan Price: $36.00 |
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Artist: STARS, THE Title: Will Format: CD Label: Pedal Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
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Features You Ishihara (vocals, guitar), Michio Kurihara (guitar, synth) and Soichiro Nakamura (organ), all formerly of White Heaven (plus Kurihara has done time in Ghost, Ha-Za-Ma, Cosmic Invention, Damon & Naomi, etc..).
Excellent Television-esque tracks filtered through their prior West Coast psych emulations (though they seem to be distancing themselves from this sound more and more..).
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Artist: BLACK SPARROW Title: Black Sparrow Format: CDR Label: Peippo Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "Black Sparrow is from UK and is also known for his works as Slow Listener, Hereharehere and so. These lo-fi drone works are spiced (and done) with voices, loops and voices again. Comes with beautiful hand assembled b/w covers drawn by the Duuser collective from Finland. All this, a great wood stick holds together." - Peippo. |
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Artist: LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT Title: Amis & Amish Format: Cass Label: Peippo Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "Amis & Amish is a solo split tape of Jaakko (side A) and Antti (side B). Jaakkos side is made with 2 violins and Anttis side with mouth harmonium and voice. Cheap, deep and sheep... Packed in a 7" sleeve with huge faces on it." -Peippo. |
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Artist: LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT Title: Taikaa Takataskussa Format: CD Label: Peippo Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
| "Once upon a time there was a world famous free jazz band Rauhan Orkesteri. All their instruments and half of the players were taken away, leaving only two peasant brothers and a pile of garbage. They abandoned melody, rhythm and the shine of chrome and started to build from the garbage the Stormy Temple of All Miniatures, which they open for You right now. This is the top peak of Lauhkeat Lampaats work." - Peippo. |
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Artist: TOLVI, ANTTI Title: Tanan Format: CDR Label: Peippo Country: Finland Price: $11.00 |
| "Antti Tolvi is known for his work in Rauhan Orkesteri, Lauhkeat Lampaat, Lau Nau live band, Päivänsäde and Taikuri Tali. Here Antti plays one long sound from harmonium. Hand assembled silk paper sleeves." -Peippo. |
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Artist: TOMUTONTTU Title: S/T Format: 10" Label: Peippo Country: Finland Price: $21.00 |
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"Where does Tomutonttu begin? From here. We have re-released the hunchbacks first tape (Tomutonttu, Huutomerkki!, 2003) on 10 inch vinyl that works as a gateway from Kemialliset Ystavat to the melted seduction song world of Tomutonttu. He is one of the most important characters in new music, and even though they say you should avoid looking towards him, everybodys a bit sweeter when being born." - Peippo.
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Artist: ATELECINE Title: A Cassette Tape Culture Format: LP Label: Pendu Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Many know Sasha Grey for her starring role in Steven Soderberghs �Girlfriend Experience� or as Vince Chases girlfriend on Entourage or as the starlet on the cover of October 2010?s issue of Playboy Magazine or as an acclaimed porn star who has taken home multiple AVN awards, been photographed by Richard Kern and Terry Richardson, and is taken seriously by universities and the NYTimes. Although Sasha has now released two full-length LPs and a 7�, she is not as well known for her music. Sasha is not a porn actress turned musician like a Traci Lords, Sasha has always made music. Sasha has been recording music since she was 15 years old and was influenced from the beginning by groups like Throbbing Gristle and KMFDM. She takes an experimental approach to making music in the form of sound collages which bring to mind artists such as Nurse With Wound and Coil. She has worked with Current 93 lending her vocals to �Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain�.
�A Cassette Tape Culture� is the second recording by aTelecine to be released by Pendu Sound Recordings, a NYC-based independent record label run by artist/curator, Todd Brooks. This 36-minute full-length LP continues where their �aVigillant Carpark� 7� on Pendu Sound left off and expands outward toward longer, more developed soundscapes rich in textures made from tape loops, synth-washes and sparse vocals. aTelecine originally began as a duo with Sasha Grey and Pablo St. Francis, but has since expanded into a 4-piece adding new members, Anthony Djuan and Ian C." - Pendu.
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Artist: ATELECINE Title: The Falcon And The Pod Format: LP Label: Pendu Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| Full color gatefold jacket and poster, pressed on colored vinyl. "aTelecines The Falcon And The Pod is the first in a trilogy of gatefold LPs (the next two installments: Sounds That Gods Fear, Are You Attracted To Wounded Animals). For folks whove heard the bands noisier previous work — for instance A Cassette Tape Culture — the spacey, smeary, drifting and droning "ambient death dub" will come as a surprise. Ditto folks still hung-up on the fact that the electro-industrial quartet features Sasha Grey on voice, synth, tape loops, guitar, etc: This isnt some easygoing vanity project. What we have is a patient, expansive collection, one that nods to interests in Coil, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle, Nurse With Wound, and Lustmord, among other things. Importantly, The Falcon drifts into its own hypnotic, weirdly insular and esoteric territories, ultimately sounding like nothing Ive heard all year." - Brandon Stosuy. |
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Artist: WOLFE, CHELSEA Title: Apokalypsis Format: LP Label: Pendu Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Its fitting that Chelsea Wolfes second album opens with a hair-raising, animalistic snarl — the sound of some beastly metamorphosis caught on tape. Ἀποκάλυψις (pronounced "apokalypsis") finds the L.A.- based artist perfecting her distinctly doom-drenched electric folk. Here she graduates from mobile 8-track experimentation to an actual studio, enlisting a few friends to help even as she maintains the strikingly visceral elements of her powerful debut, The Grime & the Glow (2010). The end result is a both a broader sprawl and a tighter claustrophobia, a serious heaviness of sound and spirit prone to unexpected moments of beauty and triumph. Rightly, the albums title is Greek for both "apocalypse" and "revelation." Wolfes gift for tense beauty reigns supreme on "Tracks (Tall Bodies)," where warm guitar, cavernous drums, and her beguiling voice engender an elemental feeling of regret in tune with the words: Its a machine were up against/Devoid of reason, devoid of sense." The upbeat "Demons" follows, seemingly as counterpoint, rolling forth on a damaged surf beat and becoming a careening steam engine of scratchy thrash and tortured cries. Later, "Moses" demonstrates what Wolfe may very well do best, cooing choral over grinding Sabbathy guitars, somehow hinting at an odd ebullience hidden in the dirging murk. Though Ἀποκάλυψιςs tone is decidedly dark, its a dynamic album, evidenced by buzzing, organ-soaked soul of "The Wasteland," the clanging blues of "Friedrichshain," and the haunted ambience of "To the Forest, To the Sea," which feels like a field recording from the bewitched woods of Wolfes youth. The LPs undeniable high point however, is the unforgettable "Pale on Pale." The seven-minute song slowly bores its way into the listeners skull thanks to Wolfes ghostly moan — which deals death at every lyrical turn — and the thick black metal chords that push it along. Somewhere between the blood-curdling scream and squalling feedback that close out the track, transcendence is achieved, and Wolfes transformation into a true force of nature is complete." - Pendu.
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Artist: GHOST MOTH/FOSSILS Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Pendu Sound Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"These two bands are perfectly juxtaposed for a split, complimenting each other in their unique ways. Both create atmospheric spontaneous primitivist jamms from junk and homemade electronics. Ghost Moth is a trio that features multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, a long time veteran of NYCs avant-garde. They open their side with a with a clarinet-led ecstatic ripper before collaging into a hissy live damaged flute jammy and lastly groping a clanging broken-scaper laced with late-night trumpet. Fossils begin their side with random scrapes and bluesey reverberations before heading into abstract scuzz and ghostly haunts. Must pick up a copy. Theyll be going fast!" - Pendu Sound. Edition of 75
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Artist: V/A Title: Getting Rid Of The Glue Format: LP Label: Pendu Sound Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "GETTING RID OF THE GLUE is a phrase first used by Henry Cowell before introducing the music of Christian Wolff, Earl Brown, Morton Feldman, and John Cage at a New School concert in 1950s. John Cage in his influential lecture entitled ⿿History of Experimental Music in the United States recounts the remarks of Henry Cowell. "That here were ... composers getting rid of glue. That is: Where people had felt the necessity to stick sounds together to make a continuity, we ... felt the opposite necessity to get rid of the glue so that sounds would be themselves." - John Cage This will be the first in a series of "Getting Rid of the Glue" themed LPs dedicated to improv / experimental / & noise music. Limited to 300 LPs so they wont last long. Includes a 11x17 xerox poster with art contributed by each of the bands." - Pendu Gallery. Includes Dirty Churches, Spin-17, K.P., BIG A little a, Fessenden, Eager Meek, Mialessot + Daniel Carter + Old Ghost, Maria Chavez, Talibam, and Excepter. |
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Artist: ISOLDE Title: On Waving And Drowning Format: CD Label: Penny Poppet Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
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Isolde = ANDREW CHALK and ROBIN BARNES.
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Artist: ISOLDE Title: Youre Alone In Red Riding Picture Format: 3" CD Label: Penny Poppet Country: UK Price: $11.00 |
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"The 1st "available" release by Isolde (ANDREW CHALK
and ROBIN BARNES), after a metal cassette released in
an edition of 30. A 3" CD released in an edition of
500 signed copies, in handmade packaging. Full length
album by Isolde released early 2006. "A stolen glance
at the day setting down its golden period, and as
brief for this very reason. Are you alone in the
world? No, youre alone in red riding picture." - Penny Poppet.
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Artist: LUIE LUIE Title: Touchy Format: LP Label: Penstar Country: Sweden Price: $28.00 |
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"Swedish import. Exact reissue of the ultimate incredibly strange/outsider/one-man-band. Privately released in 1974, originals of which are now extremely hard to find. You can check the Song In The Key Of Z CD comp for an exerpt of this LP, he invents a discombobulated dance called El Touchy, plays all the instruments, including guitars, drums, horn and the worst and most bizarre Moog synthesizer ever! This record will have strange music collectors, djs, rare groove hunters and samplers go in to orbit, when they hear it. Limited to 300."
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Artist: BRODIER, JACQUES Title: Filtre De Réalité Format: LP Label: Penultimate Press Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
 "The Filter of Reality is a machine imagined and built by Jacques Brodier - Le Havre, France.
Penultimate Press is proud to publish the first ever collection of recordings by this unique French artist, researcher, writer and inventor.
Between 3 and 30 MHz, radio waves have the property to travel around the Earth by bouncing on the ionosphere, which acts as an imperfect mirror, wave-agitated under the flux of suns particles. The machine explores this boundless electromagnetic ocean, where all radio broadcasts of Terran civilization mingle their voices with noise and strange signals from other places of the universe. That is how, during its odyssey through short waves, the Filter of Reality receives a wide range of this semantic noise and transposes it, so that it becomes audible for human ears.
The noise captured by the antenna feeds into the Filter of Reality bearing the traces of multitudes of languages and of the events encountered. One can hear swimmers riding on huge waves, the voices of distant lands, a crowd of Babel or the archipelago of terrestrial civilisation tearing away from chaos into a reality carved out in the strange dimension of meaning.
The Filter of Reality captures and distributes the ceaseless rustling of those spaces on a network of vibrating strings. This is made possible thanks to an optical modulator "played" with light and shade (also invented by Jacques Brodier). What results is a complex musical soundtrack, where the signals weave their own harmonics and rhythms.
The artefacts captured and compiled for this release are at once unique, ambitious, foreign and beautiful. This is not just a record. Along with the artwork and essays this is significant snapshot of one mans endless years of research and restless experimentation. It is safe to say this is a release is quite unlike any other.
Jacques Brodier Filtre De Réalité was mastered by Jason Lescalleet at Glistening Labs and comes in a limited edition lp of 400 copies adorned with 2 stunning full colour reproductions of Jacques Brodiers paintings and a lavish fold out 4 page insert featuring further images and two essays by Brodier, one in French and one English." - Penultimate Press.
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM Title: Dripping Junk Format: Hardcover Book/CD Label: Penultimate Press Country: UK Price: $52.00 |
| "Penultimate Press is proud to announce the publication of Dripping Junk- an all new collection of graphic work by Graham Lambkin (Shadow Ring). The 100 drawings gathered in Dripping Junk were made over a period of five days during a recent trip to Miami FL. Lambkins eye and pen guide us through a confusion of local observation. We find ourselves transported to the opulent sands of South Beach, the strip malls of Dade County, and the many tourists spots one would expect to engage. Yet Lambkin allows us to view these sites through his own distorted lens. This is not the Miami of common expectation. Lambkin throws us headfirst in to a hallucinogenic netherworld where logic and common sense cower in the shade of the palms. A world where fantasy and reality mix effortlessly and are drank as the cocktail of choice. A world where the skunk ape is king. Dripping Junk contains 100 black and white drawings printed on high-quality paper and comes as a beautiful limited edition large format hardcover book of 250 copies. The cd contains exclusive material to this release." - Penultimate Press. |
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM Title: Dumb Answer To Miracles Format: Hardcover Book/CD Label: Penultimate Press Country: UK Price: $38.00 |
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"Limited edition book - 250 copies. The first 100 are hardcover, signed, numbered with cd attached. The remaining 150 are hardcover, numbered with cd.
Cover Illustration Graham Lambkin."
"Dumb Answer to Miracles is the first official publication of writings by Graham Lambkin. Previously 20 copies of a signed private edition entitled Tomb of Speed were circulated amongst friends, collegues and mail order customers. This collection gathers all the Tomb of Speed writings, a handful of Lambkins lyrics he wrote for the band Shadow Ring and many unpublished works.
These writings entertain as much as they baffle, happily wandering the glorious pastures of open bewilderment. The ordinary dons the fantastic, the uncanny flirts with the comical and a private world is open to those with an explorative constitution. What response can one gain from such writings? Its this uncomfortable familiarity or comforting unease that haunts the entire oeuvre of Graham Lambkin. The beautiful odd. The eldritch normality. The leek in milk sauce." - Penultimate Press.
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Artist: LAMBKIN, GRAHAM Title: Millows Format: Hardcover Book/CD Label: Penultimate Press Country: UK Price: $29.00 |
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"The third release in series of publications focussing on the art of Graham Lambkin following Dumb Answer to Miracles" and "Dripping Junk" ("Dripping Junk" still available).
Millows brings together two previously unpublished works, both dating from 2004.
Full colour hardcover book with factory pressed cd (unpublished audio works from 2004, 20 mins running time). A limited edition of 500 copies." - Penultimate Press. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Music for Plants Format: Double CD Label: Perfectifon Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Compiled by artist Peter Coffin. It contains over two hours of music composed by the following musicians specifically for this project: Black Dice, Alan Licht, Jutta Koether & Tom Verlaine (of Television), HiM, Chris Corsano, Tim Barnes, Barry Weisblat, Sean Meehan & Michael Evans, seed( ) & Tetsu Inoue, Mice Parade, Weise & Koh, DJ Olive, Kenta Nagai, Ara Peterson (of Forcefield), Hiroshi Sunairi, Liam Gillick, Arto Lindsay (of DNA), Electrophilia (Steven Parrino and J. Koether), Delia Gonzales & Gavin Russom, David Grubbs, Deaken and Geologist (of Animal Collective), Carter Thornton, Fugu, Languis, Anthony Burdin, Phil Manley (of TransAm and the Fucking Champs), Zs, Roland Alley, Rusty Santos, Kites, Wiese & Koh, This Invitation, LoVid, Tony Goddess, Flanged Confection, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Ariel Pink, Dearraindrop, Christian Marclay and the No Neck Blues Band." - Perfectifon. |
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Artist: PG SIX Title: Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites Format: LP Label: Perhaps Transparent Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"This record mixes late 60s / early 70s pastoral English folk influences, rural American blues, and Appalachian mountain music. Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites recalls the finer moments of the Incredible String Bands The Hangmans Beautiful Daughter and the beautiful weirdness of Kevin Ayers Shooting At the Moon. The record also contains a cover of 60s English folkie Anne Briggs "Go Your Way." PG SIX is Pat Gubler, founding member of New Yorks enigmatic musical collective Tower Recordings. Tim Barnes (Quakebasket Records, Tower Recordings, Jim ORourke) plays percussion and engineers the record." - Perhaps Transparent.
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Artist: V/A Title: Nine//Underground Format: LP Label: Perimeter Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Cool comp of early to mid 80s Atlanta-based raw minimal synth/experimental electronics. Includes PVC Precinct, Pillowtexans, Clubfoot, Incest, Jarboe, Young Schizophrenics, Sequence 3, Accidents Of Culture and 349. Original copies of this 1987 release.
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Artist: CHAOS MAJICK Title: Maithuna Format: Cass Label: Period Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: MOTHER FLOCK Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Period Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Recorded during the Summer of 1991 in London, Mother Flock is the outcome of a one time jam featuring Morrison Edley of Psychic TV/PTV3 on drums experimenting with two cohorts on heavily effected bass and guitar. Never before heard by the public, the vocal-less result is at once eerie, hypnotic, droning and tribal." - Period Tapes. |
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Artist: NORTH SEA Title: Clean White Beds Format: Cass Label: Period Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: P-ORRIDGE, BREYER Title: A Reading From The Swiss Institute Format: Cass Label: Period Tapes Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"A spoken word performance by Breyer P-Orridge, the pandrogyne of Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge in body and in spirit. Recorded November 5th 2007 at the Swiss Institute in NYC. Performance and recording dedicated to the memory of Lady Jaye, 1969- 2007. Limited edition of 46 copies with original silkscreened sleeves." - Period Tapes.
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Artist: KUDO, REIKO Title: Rice Field Silently Riping In The Night Format: CD Label: Periodic Document Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "There are times when all the music your bruised psyche can take is the softest of whispers, the slightest of instrumental caresses. When an ounce too much pressure could make your veins cave inwards. At times like these, Reiko Kudos previous solo album ("Fire inside my hat", Org Records, 1997) has always been my balm of choice. A gauze-thin collection of songs with minimal piano accompaniment, sung in a voice half between a child and a deeply hesitant angel... For those who would rather trust a history lesson than their own senses, Reiko Omura, as she was known then, first came to light on the Tokyo underground in the late seventies and early eighties. She was part of the Minor circle (which also gave birth to Fushitsusha, High Rise, Kosokuya, Gaseneta and many others) of musical obsessives exploring new and highly personal collisions of noise, improv, rock. Reikos contribution was via groups like Worst Noise and Noise. The latters sole release, "Tenno", saw her trumpet and voice meeting the Bach-doom organ and drums of influential scenester Tori Kudo in a totally unique monument to no-wave noise depression. She later married Kudo, appearing occasionally with his avant-pop Christo-mystic idiot-savant group Maher Shalal Hash Baz, but releasing nothing under her own name until the Org disk in the late nineties. Rice field..." sees Reiko revisiting the pattern of short songs mostly based around one-finger piano motifs, so structurally simple as to be virtually transparent. This time additional flashes of sensitive instrumental colour are added by husband Tori and various members of the Puka-Puka Brians on wavering backing vocals, violin, guitar, percussion, euphonium and percussion. The music treads a sure and private path between a perfect childlike naivete and the amateur aesthetic that has long been Toris goal (he has spent twenty years arriving at a point of psychedelic mastery where he sounds like he bought his first guitar yesterday). Reikos songs and vocals are the weakly pulsing centrepoint though. She sings of life, dying flowers, love, and nursing home residents with the unforced naturalness of a mother alone with her child, a bird in the forest, her pellucid melodies seemingly accidental. It is nothing short of heart-stoppingly gorgeous. And as an honest-to-god example of happiness glimpsed through the quotidian, artistic perfection all the more perfect for not being striven for, you couldnt wish for anything more. A perfect prescription for those moments of fragility when you doubt your own pulse." - Alan Cummings. Highly Recommended!! |
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Artist: Y PANTS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Periodic Document Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Reissue of the complete works by this unusual NYC trio from the early 80s. Featuring Barbara Ess (bass, ukulele, thumb drum, vocals), Verge Piersol (drums, vocals), Gail Vachon (keyboards, ukulele, vocals). This features their debut 7" EP on the illustrious 99 Records label (produced by Glenn Branca, from 1980), plus their Tellus comp. track and their album on Neutral from 1982, Beat It Down (produced by Wharton Tiers). Barbara Ess was the co-editor of Just Another Asshole magazine, an ex-member of the Theoretical Girls and a pretty crucial figure in the whole NY no wave scenario. Their sound wasnt the atonal no wave screech I was desperately hoping for at the time, but more of a toy-instrument-inflected performance-art cache of weirdness." - Forced Exposure. Liner notes by Dan Graham, Lynne Tillman, Wharton Tiers, Barbara Barg, Kiki Smith & Gail Vachon.
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Artist: ALBRIGHT, CHARLES Title: Im Happy, Im A Genius Format: 7" Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Charles Albright self-released a 7" last year (2009) that knocked us out. It obviously had the same effect on Scott Soriano at S-S Records, cuz he reissued it on his own label. Its long since sold out and highly sought after. Anyhow, heres Mr. Albrights (not the serial killer, unfortunately) follow-up, a killer 7-song EP. Its a blown-out, lo-fi, catchy punk jammer with loads of hooks and sweet riffs. A couple of the tracks are experimental guitar instrumentals that give you a chance to catch your breath before picking yourself up off the ground to begin pogoing again. Charles is a big fan of Black Flag and if you are too (especially the early stuff), youll probably dig this slab." -Permanent. |
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Artist: ALBRIGHT, CHARLES Title: Weight/I Am The Counter Culture (Drop Out) Format: 7" Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Were obviously not the only ones whove been anxiously awaiting a third record from Albright. And here it is?yet another blown‐out, lo-fi, catchy punk jammer with loads of hooks and sweet riffs to complete the trifecta. Albrights still a fine young man and hes doing so well. Hes still on drugs and hes still happy hes a genius (and so are we), but hes not singing about any of that on this record. This Sacto punk has brutalized us twice before, but never quite like this. The third times definitely a charm and even though Charles is no longer a loner he is still absolutely in charge on this one. Weight finds Mr. A drumless for the first time ever, but the repetitive riff-tensity hides the lack of percussion pretty damn well on this wham‐bam-thank-you-maam punker. For the B-side, Charles mustve taken a ride on the Silver Machine, but hes obviously still feeling mean, cuz the riff behind I Am The Counter Culture (Drop Out) sounds quite a bit like a certain Hawkwind jam we all know and love. But this aint no cover song, (Drop Out) stands on its own as a killer psychedelic punk number for the ages. This incredible single is limited to 300 hand-numbered copies and precedes the sure to be mind melting debut full-length due out this Fall. Turn on, Tune In, and (Drop Out) while supplies last." -Permanent |
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Artist: BITCHIN BAJAS Title: Krausened EP Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Fans of Terry Riley, Kraftwerk, Conrad Schntizler, and Kosmische Musik in general take note! BITCHIN BAJAS has returned to Permanent Records (following their split single with Moon Duo) with a brand new record of side-long transcendental synth workouts. This is Bitchin Bajas most accessible and autobahn ready delivery to date! Bitchin Bajas began as a side project, but COOPER CRAIN of CAVE and DAN QUINLIVAN formerly of MAHJONGG have been spending as much time, if not more, with Bitchin Bajas as they have with the aforementioned groups and theyve been progressing very quickly. In just two or so years, Bitchin Bajas have released three critically acclaimed LPs (one on Important Records and two on Kallestei Editions), two incredible splits (one with Moon Duo and the other with the Peaking Lights-related Faceplant), and one very limited edition cassette tape. The two side-long pieces on this nearly 40 minute EP were written on their 2012 European tour and recorded and mixed over three days by Bitchin Bajas at Minbal Studio in Chicago, Illinois. Edition of 500 copies." - Permanent. |
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Artist: BLACK MATH Title: Phantom Power Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "WFMU aptly described Black Maths debut LP from 2009 as Dark-wave buried in tape hiss, with grinding synth, electric cello, and drum machine. The three piece lists Depeche Mode and Big Black as influences, but theyre not straight up 80s. The band will also tell you that Siouxsie and the Banshees are a big influence, but Black Math has a completely compelling, catchy, dark and mysterious sound all their own. This album features 9 new tracks of killer dark- �?wave pop (with some pretty harsh sounding guitar and synth parts) as well as an amazing cover of the Anals Commando of Love (from Total Anal; PERM 006LP). First press is limited to 500 copies." - Permanent. |
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Artist: BRAIN IDEA Title: The Survival Scrolls Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Brain Idea is one of Chicagos most exciting new bands. Their second release is also their debut full-length on Permanent Records. Its full of stripped down, super upbeat, catchy, and totally DIY-style rocknroll jams, heavily influenced by New Zealands legendary DIY indie rockers, The Clean and 90s bedroom recording pop savants. Brain Idea took most of the material on their now out-of-print and highly sought after demo cassette tape and re-recorded it with much more depth and reverb, especially on the vocals. Theyve added some great instrumental interludes that tie the tracks together which are quite Kraut-y in nature (these guys were the ones behind that NOi! tape (classic Oi! punk cuts covered Krautrock-style), mind you). The dudes in Brain Idea also have a part-time Creedence Clearwater Revival cover band called Graveyard Train, so you know theyre of good taste. They even cover the Clean for chrissakes. Fans of lo-fi DIY pop, Krautrock, and CCR-esque pop genius will absolutely dig Brian Idea." - Permanent |
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Artist: CACAW Title: Cacaw Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "If you dug the brutal noise rock sounds crammed onto the one side of their debut EP, youre gonna flip over their brand new LP. Its heavier, louder, and longer. Thats right, two full sides of Cacaws signature noise rock brutality. A big selling point for their first release was the fact that two former members of the Coughs are in Cacaw, however, Cacaw have since garnered their own audience and the Coughs reference seems barely worth mentioning any longer. For those of you who havent heard them yet, Cacaw takes the Coughs sound and distills it down to a more minimal yet no less intense brand of really fucking groovy noise rock. Cacaw have quickly become one of Chicagos most popular underground rock bands. Cacaws second record, just like their first release, is a doozie both sonically and visually. The grooves on the marbled colored vinyl contain some incredibly intense jams. The card stock tri-color jacket has also been diligently hand screen printed by band members." - Permanent. |
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Artist: CHEVEU Title: Cheveau Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Metz, France seems to be teeming with great bands these days. Anals, Feeling of Love, Dreams, and A.H. Kraken are just the tip of this incredibly huge Metz iceberg. Many of these bands share members, but they all have their very own sound. CHEVEUs sound is similar to the aforementioned bands in their abrasive, weird punk base, but this group more obliviously influenced by the Fall than any of their peers. Their debut LP on S-S sold very well and is currently out-of-print. Heres another LP full of previously unreleased tracks of weird punk greatness" - Permanent. |
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Artist: COSMONAUTS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "COSMONAUTS are Orange Countys premier garage psych group and theyre barely old enough to drink legally. These kids have only been making music together for a short while, but theyve already shared stages with and are garnering comparisons to well-known garage and psych acts like Black Angels, Ty Segall, and Thee Oh Sees. Although Cosmonauts share some similar influences with these groups, their sound is much grittier, more repetitive, and more Spacemen 3 influenced. Cassette tape tastemakers, Burger Records, released the Cosmonauts debut on tape back in 2010 and now its available on wax for the first time courtesy of Permanent Records. Fans of the aforementioned bands will absolutely be calling themselves Cosmonauts fans before the year is out. First pressing is limited to 500 copies." - Permanent. |
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Artist: DRUNKS WITH GUNS Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Drunks With Guns were a nihilistic, noise rock / dumb punk band from St. Louis in the mid-80s. Their self-titled LP from 1987 included 9 songs worth of Brainbombs-meets-Flipper style punk with titles like Dick in One Hand..., Punched in the Head, and Wonderful Subdivision. This band is legendary and theres loads of rumor and heresy surrounding the legend. The band formed in 1984, released about a half-dozen singles and a couple LPs, played four shows and called it quits (well, in the same way Chrome called it quits anyway. The original singles and the LPs (and even the Complete Drunks With Guns tape) are virtually impossible to find these days. Among others, Monty Buckles of the Lamps is a big fan of the DWG and he wrote an excellent article in the last issue of Z-Gun that we definitely recommend reading at some point. Anyhow, weve reissued the Drunks With Guns self-titled LP in an edition of 100 tapes and theyre ready for consumption. This tape aint no bootleg neither. We actually took the time to get in touch with Mike Doskocil, the singer from Drunks With Guns and got permission for the release. We were hoping to do an LP reissue, but apparently the master tapes are in unusable condition. Dont fret, these tapes were professionally dubbed and the fidelity is about as good as your gonna get out of a cassette tape (read: they sound like they should, especially for a Drunks With Guns release). Dont have a cassette deck? What better excuse to get one than a Drunks With Guns tape! Tape decks are littering thrift stores everywhere. Save them from the landfills and enjoy some of the sweet jams that have been issued on the cassette tape format lately, there have been some great ones! Fans of Brainbombs, Flipper, and all things noise rock will definitely want to snatch one of these up before their gone." - Permanent
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Artist: HEATER Title: God and Hair Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "HEATER is a three-piece Columbia super group, if such a thing exists. Heaters guitarist and lead singer, ZACH "ZZ" MCLUCKIE, used to be a member of CAVE and SNEAKERS), among others. Heaters bassist / second guitarist, JEREMY "JERUSALEM" FREEZE also plays guitar in JERUSALEM and the STARBASKETS, and both he and Heaters drummer, JON "WUJJ", formerly jammed together in CALIFORNIA RAISINS (their only release was a split 10-inch with Cave, also on Permanent). God and Hair is a super upbeat, melodic pop record in essence, but as mentioned before, these guys come from a very DIY background. Its got some fast repetitive lo-fi punk rock jams with reverb enhanced vocals similar to those found on the Sneakers Children Into People EP, and some Clean-esque pop elements, but its also got tracks with a great laid back summertime 90s alt-pop vibe not too dissimilar from the least noisy 90s moments of Sonic Youth and Sebadoh. All of these elements come together and make for a unique sound, and make for one hell of a summertime DIY pop jammer." -Permanent |
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Artist: KING BLOOD Title: Eyewash Silver Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "In late 2010 a record came out of nowhere and blew our minds. That record was Eyewash Silver by King Blood. Unfortunately, it was issued in a limited edition of 100 copies and it disappeared faster than a fugitive at a busted up coke party. Eyewash Silver is an incredible, dumbed-down, shit-fi, riff-drenched instrumental psych record that will KILL fans of Wooden Shjips/Les Rallizes Denudes. This limited reissue contains the same astounding sounds as the original pressing, but the artwork has been glorified. Each one of these 300 copies was lovingly hand-assembled, diligently hand-numbered, and carefully handled by Permanent staffers." -Permanent |
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Artist: MOON DUO/BITCHIN BAJAS Title: Boppers Hat/Fresh Hair Format: 7" Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"We here at Permanent Records couldnt be more delighted to be sharing with you our very first Record Store Day exclusive release, a split 7" between (the brand new CAVE side project) Bitchin Bajas and Moon Duo (featuring Wooden Shjips guitarist Erik Ripley Johnson). CAVE and Wooden Shjips share a lot in common, but their respective side projects make an even better split pairing. Each band specializes in minimalist, repetitive psych thats obviously influenced by krautrock. However, they differ in that Bitchin Bajas focuses on melodic repetition while Moon Duo is heavier on the rhythm and quite a bit darker. This is Bitchin Bajas debut release. Moon Duo has released three critically acclaimed records to date. Both tracks on this split are exclusive to this release, which is limited to 750 copies, never to be pressed again." - Permanent.
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Artist: NO BALLS Title: Come Clean Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"The debut LP by BRAINBOMBS side-project, NO BALLS, old out immediately upon its first release on the Swedish Release the Bats label. Heres the much more affordable, domestic pressing of 500 copies on Permanent. The only difference is the artwork. If you like Brainbombs, but you dont particularly care for the vocals, then youll love this. If you like the Brainbombs, and the vocals, youll still love this. Come Clean is brutal, pummeling, repetitive, noise rock at its finest. Some folks are already calling it the RECORD OF THE YEAR." - Permanent.
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Artist: NOTHING PEOPLE Title: Youre Invited Format: 7" Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Nothing People, like Wooden Shjips, are one of our generations great bands, that doesnt tour much. Unless you live in or around their hometown of Orland, California, or you happened to pick up one of their excellent releases on S-S or HoZac, you may not have ever heard of them, but those who have, love them. On previous releases, theyve blended influences such as Chrome, Hawkwind, Roxy Music, and obscure proto-punk bands like Twinkeyz into a sound thats all their own. This new limited edition 7", housed in a texured glue pocket sleeve with gold foil stamping on the exterior, is the first release featuring former Monoshock member Doug Pearson! This release includes two of their most rockin numbers to date. Limited to 600 copies!" - Permanent. |
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Artist: OBNOX Title: Rojo Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Bim Only My Mom Calls Me Lamont Thomass legendary status as the drummer in the Bassholes, This Moment In Black History, and more recently, Puffy Areolas, may soon be overshadowed by Obnox. Rojo is some serious next level shit. If you dig noise rock, psych, free jazz, and most importantly, cacophonous repetition, youre gonna absolutely love this record." -Permanent. |
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Artist: PSYCLONES Title: Different Thinking People Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Psyclones are an obscure 80s artpunk band equally influenced by Devo, Chrome, and Cabaret Voltaire. They released LPs on Subterranean and RRRecords along with numerous cassettes on their own label, Ladd-Frith, throughout the 80s. They played shows with many legendary punk groups such as X, the Lewd, Hüsker Dü and appeared on The Gift Of Noise comp in 1983 alongside No Trend, F/i, Senseless Hate, and Smersh. Theyre a self-proclaimed industrial pop group. The Psyclones Different Thinking People LP on Permanent Records contains only previously unreleased material from the bands formative years. The full-color printed inner sleeve features vintage show flyers, lyrics, and discography album art. Limited one-time pressing of 500!" -Permanent |
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Artist: PUFFY AREOLAS/PURLING HISS Title: Record Store Day Split Format: 12 Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Phillys Purling Hiss have quickly made a name for themselves and in just over a year have already released 3 critically acclaimed LPs on Permanent, Richie, and Woodsist in addition to an upcoming 12" release on Mexican Summer. Theyve toured with Kurt Vile and the Violators and share members with Birds of Maya. Purling Hiss side is an epic (nearly 9 minutes long) psychedelic noise rock burner complete with Mike Polizzes signature shred all over it. Ohios Puffy Areolas have been destroying PAs and blowing minds at DIY venues for a couple years now. They are one of the best and most dangerous live acts going these days. Theyve released a handful of 7" singles and well-received LPs on Siltbreeze within the last year and are still raging across America leaving nothing but crushed beer cans, empty pill bottles, and roaches in their wake. Puffy Areolas side of this split is a doom-y noise psych annihilator that clocks in at just less than 8 minutes. Both sides of this deep groove 12" split EP were cut at 45 RPM for maximum volume. Not for the faint of heart. Limited to 750 copies." -Permanent.
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Artist: PURLING HISS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Purling Hiss is one of Phillys Best! Purling Hiss is the side-project of Holy Mountain recording artists, Birds of Maya, guitarist Mike Pollize. Birds of Maya are a full-on psychedelic rock band from Philly. Apparently, Birds just arent full-on enough to satisfy Pollizes far-out tendencies. On his debut solo record, Pollize plays bass, drums, and guitar, relentlessly, as if hes playing to save his life. This recording is so intense that the pressing plant told us theyd risk breaking their equipment if they cut the lacquers with the original master. We sent em a new master and it sounds great! For Fans Of: Birds of Maya, Earthless, Loop, High Rise, Les Rallizes Denudes, and Lo-Fi Blown-Out Psych." - Permanent. |
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Artist: RUNNING Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Running is one of Americas best psych/punk bands. Running sounds to us like Clockcleaner, if they played twice as fast and half as long. The vocals are reverbed beyond recognition, the drums are pummeling, and the bass and guitar are abrasive feedback-laden. After pumping out a couple of incredible cassette tape-only releases, Running went into the studio and recorded some of their material (semi) professionally. Those recordings have now been preserved to wax as Runnings debut 12" EP. This eponymous EP comes housed in a jacket with really interestingly created artwork and contains exactly 13 totally brutal weird punk songs. If these guys were jockier, theyd be a hardcore band. Thankfully, theyre too arty for that ish. This record fucking rips! The first pressing is limited to 500 copies!" -Permanent |
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Artist: UMBERTO Title: From The Grave Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"EXPO 70 bass/synth player MATT HILL has gone solo. His debut LP under the UMBERTO moniker is an analog masterpiece heavily influenced by the classic film score work of Goblin, except arguably better. From the moment you drop the needle, youll be transported to Italy as an extra in a vintage horror flick directed by Dario Argento. This is some of the most accessible, yet totally authentic sounding music of the "giallo" genre weve ever heard. It was previously only available as a hyper limited edition CDR and cassette tape via Sonic Meditations. For fans of Goblin, John Carpenter, Zombi, and classic Italian horror soundtracks."-Permanent Records.
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Artist: V/A Title: Busted At Oz Format: LP Label: Permanent Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Finally! After 30 long years since its original release, the definitive Chicago punk document is available again on vinyl! Busted At Oz was originally released in 1981 on Autumn Records. It has been long out-of-print and regularly fetches collector prices in stores and online. It contains some of the earliest recordings from well-known Chicago punk acts such as Naked Raygun and Effigies, as well as more obscure Chicago punk groups such as Strike Under, Subverts, Silver Abuse, and one of Chicagos first mostly-female post-punk groups, Da. The tip-on jackets for this 30th Anniversary limited edition vinyl-only reissue were reproduced by Stoughton to look exactly like the original by using the actual vintage print left over from the original pressing!" -Permanent |
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Artist: V/A Title: Persian Underground Format: CD Label: Persianna Country: Spain Price: $24.00 |
| "Subtitled: Garage Rock, Beat And Psychedelic Sounds From The Iranian 60s & 70s Scene. "Amazing collection that gathers some of the rarest Persian 45s, totally unknown outside of Iran until now. Here youll find an eclectic mix of styles, from garage nuggets to cool Persian beat, exotic rock&roll and prog/psych. Featuring female drummer & singer Zangoleah with some killer garage / rockin tracks, obscure bands like Takkhalha doing a fab cover of the Stones Play With Fire and an amazing take on the Persian traditional song Mastom, Mastom, Golden Ring-styled beat by Big Boys, exotic Persian beat by Saeed and Tigers, terrific garage-beat by Ojubeha and the two sides of the Kambiz 45, probably the major discovery from Iran in the recent years and one of the few, if not the only truly Persian prog/psych 45s ever recorded. Remastered sound, liner notes and pictures." - Persianna. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Persian Underground Format: LP Label: Persianna Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Subtitled: Garage Rock, Beat And Psychedelic Sounds From The Iranian 60s & 70s Scene. "Amazing collection that gathers some of the rarest Persian 45s, totally unknown outside of Iran until now. Here youll find an eclectic mix of styles, from garage nuggets to cool Persian beat, exotic rock&roll and prog/psych. Featuring female drummer & singer Zangoleah with some killer garage / rockin tracks, obscure bands like Takkhalha doing a fab cover of the Stones Play With Fire and an amazing take on the Persian traditional song Mastom, Mastom, Golden Ring-styled beat by Big Boys, exotic Persian beat by Saeed and Tigers, terrific garage-beat by Ojubeha and the two sides of the Kambiz 45, probably the major discovery from Iran in the recent years and one of the few, if not the only truly Persian prog/psych 45s ever recorded. Remastered sound, liner notes and pictures." - Persianna. |
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Artist: HAINO, KEIJI/LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS Title: Live At Downtown Music Gallery Format: CD Label: Persona Non Grata/Father Yod Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: DE WAARD, FRANS Title: Corona Rewind Format: Cass Label: Petri Supply Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "rough and harsh toned down processed screeching built from chain letter source tapes started by YC. Three tracks in a metallic cassette box. This tape is part of a series of the ongoing Composcila electrics project by Yeast Culture. Snazzy!" - Petri Supply. "Limited to 100, numbered in handmade art cassette box, sealed shut with electrical wire and CAUTION tape. Features printed metal cassette labels, and color transparency, and color collage inside the box". |
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Artist: HANDS TO Title: Flatline Format: LP Label: Petri Supply Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"LP on 2 one-sided screen printed color vinyl 12"s.
In totally hand-fabricated recycled paper sleeves with full color art. This is ambient rhythmic noise by Jeph Jerman decomposing his favorite musics, and at his best." - Petri Supply
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Artist: V/A Title: Red Light Remixes Format: Cass Label: Petri Supply Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"C95 featuring live tapes from the Paper & Plastic event in Atlanta with Achim Wollscheid, All Fours and Yeast Culture. Very rough and tumble mix of YCs weird percussive sounds with electronics and creaking from Wollscheid and microsounds of All Fours. One long mega mix repeats identically on the second tape side. In cigarette/cassette box (limited edition 100)." - Petri Supply.
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Artist: VIRFUL OBIRSA/ZERO ZERO ZERO Title: Fearful Oblation Format: Double Cass Label: Petri Supply Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"2 tapes C62 + C48. Late eighties electronic projects of Allen Russell (of Yeast Culture). Creepy pro-one synthesizers, vocals, with a full color printed interior
booklet and velour slip case. "000" tape is solo synth rhythms. (limited edition 150)." - Petri Supply
"1986...1990. Zero zero zero cassette (C48) title "Cut The Cards!" not shown on exterior cover.
Paper slide-open cover, with two tapes in a velour sleeve. Includes color 8 page 4" x 7" art booklet. Screen printed artwork. Copies number 51 to 150 in this type of cover; 150 overall" - Discogs.
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Artist: YEAST CULTURE Title: s/t Format: Cass Label: Petri Supply Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "first 1988 tape of electronics, long ambient work and mumbling vocal renderings. In antique wallpaper pack. " - Petri Supply. |
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Artist: YEAST CULTURE Title: Stick Men Format: Cass Label: Petri Supply Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"In gessoed shell with printed interior illustration. Two ambient drones from a public sculpture built in 1990 by Yeast Culture as an installation for the first Merzbow US tour. Minimal acoustical room resonances are formed by the sounds of a team of artists building a 1000 square foot stick forest environment. (limited edition 97)." - Petri Supply.
"Gessoed & screen printed plastic cassette shell. Front cover has eight versions. 1990/2010. Limited to 97"
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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Industrial Murder/Menstrual Bleeding Format: CD Label: Phage Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "An early work of MAURIZIO BIANCHI recorded at Mectpyo Studio in 1981. Originally released by Banned Productions in 1992 on LP. CD packaged in five-color screen-printed arigato packs. Two tracks, fifty minutes. Edition of 300." -Phage |
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Artist: BUNALIM Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Pharaway Country: Spain Price: $25.00 |
| "Turkish band Bunalim (Turkish for "Depression") is a true legend: They were the absolute wildest and crudest band from the Anatolian rock scene. Under the wing of Cem Karaça, who was their manager and producer, they released a few singles which are all collected here. Fierce Turkish folk-flavored psychedelic fuzz-rock circa 1970-1972. Remastered sound, including an insert with liner notes and pictures." -Pharaway. |
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Artist: AMPAX CATALOG Title: Dsr. Slit Format: Cass Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Debut release by the relatively unknown Ampax Catalog. A deviantly structured odyssey by a soul wrestling with alienated absolutes. Mutant rhythm boxes, synthesized sequences and cacophonic like avant decompositions, steadily revealing a machine like vocal approach that is oddly emotionless. Hesitantly and carefully recalling a toxicant paranoid inaccuracy. Two Color Letterpressed J-Card and Pro Duplicated Tape." - Phaserprone.
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Artist: BORG Title: Borg 1 Format: CD Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"The borg is born when white smoke go off in black rooms. Heroin-trance fills your veins like a hydrogen bomb going up in slow motion. Deep dark techno, modular-analogue basslines and distorted leads that build without mercy. Leave your laptops at home. 100% hand-made razor madness. Packaged in a One Color Letterpressed, 140lb Foldover. Bagged, with Inner Blank Sleeve, and Insert. Edition of 100." -Phaserprone.
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Artist: DUST Title: Ballet Format: Cass Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Hushed moments of lyrical voice, with fractured synthesizer. Hidden explorations of unfolding autonomous nuance. First and possibly the last Dust release, new identity as Five Mask. Formerly Earth Crown, formerly Copper Glove. Letterpressed J-Card and Pro Duplicated Tape." - Phaserprone. |
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Artist: GRASSLUNG/ PULSE EMITTER Title: Split Format: CD Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"One track from contemporary synth pioneer Pulse Emitter of Portland, OR. Pulse Emitter is more subdued, an opening of somewhat blissful drone in contrast to his signature space systems, while still retaining the style of which he is known for. Baltimores Grasslung presents a somewhat more doom laden sci-fi take on modular synth, compared to his more minimal, and constrained pieces of the past. Both artists tracks were made as an aural interpretation to that of the winged eye
that graces the cover of the album. Lovecraftian, and Alien inspired. Packaged in a letterpress, diecut, duplexed, fold-over sleeve with insert, and diecut CD folder." - Phaserprone.
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Artist: GRASSLUNG/PELERINE Title: Power Visions Format: Cass Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"Yet, when they entered the corridor, there was only darkness with no hope for light. So we looked one handed with unpleasant concept for an area of permanence. Unpopular schizms supplied a flimsy insulation, and then a spark. The pursuit of construction with a deathly chill in its veins, and all will be destroyed by fire of its own dynamism. Modular constructs of raw synthesis by Jonas Asher (UW OWL) and John McCusker (Southern Man). Hand dubbed C-30 with letterpressed wrap-around cover." -Phaserprone.
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Artist: HSDOM Title: No Title Format: Cass Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Biographical clues to old Germany. Four Compostions void of contemporary audio programming software, built around a complex self-written digital synthesis language, layered with outboard effects and hints of spoken word. Psychological Surrealism, recalling the more esoteric industrial of the past. Marking what could possibly be the most evasive release in the dystopian inspired HSDOM catalog. Letterpressed J-Card, and Pro Duplicated Tape." - Phaserprone. |
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Artist: HsDOM Title: VOMC Format: CDR Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Re-release of classic HsDOM album from 2001, that was originally released in unknown quantities with different packaging to friends only. Jochen Hartmann of UW OWL presents 12 tracks of sound collaged, apocalyptic, electronic renderings of 80s styled minimal taunts. In his own words - excursions to lakes, the apartment at the canal, branches on the shore and other subjects. Packaged in a self assembled hand razor scored, photo-tipped, letterpressed CD gatefold, with insert. Edition of 135." - Phaserprone. |
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Artist: MARK LORD Title: TACHYON FIRING SQUAD Format: Cass Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Infected mutant-punk and marauding rhythmic investigations, usurped by telegraphical radio transmissions. A strangely induced feeling of pervasive developmental disorder. With exception to the Discontinue Stardust album; this is perhaps, the most song oriented release in the Mark Lord catalog. Letterpressed J-Card, and Pro Duplicated Tape." - Phaserprone.
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Artist: MONSTURO Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Los Angeles Monsturo, aka David Rothbaum, presents two side long pieces of minimal, focused, consistent and masterful analog modular synth pieces. Future releases with Hanson are of key note, as well as contributing a side long piece to the upcoming 2xLP Modular synth record to be released by his own EMR label, which also has contributions by Aaron Dilloway, Envenomist, Rale and Pulse Emitter. Hand-dubbed C-10 in classic PPR style Letterpressed, duplexed wrap-around sleeve and letterpressed insert." -Phaserprone
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Artist: NIL Title: Nilmonic Process Format: LP Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Nilmonic Process by Jochen Hartmann and Jonas Ashers NIL project. Nilmonic Process was developed through a self formulated language of both loose form free-feedback (Nilmonic Process) and computer generated composition (Nilmonic Processors). Simple and raw, black-box pedal feedback in one regard, but meticulously structured and digital in another. Bent perception anti-synth. First all pro printed release in the Phaserprone catalog (and possibly the last pro printed release in the Phaserprone catalog?). Cut at D&M. Edition of 300." - Phaserprone. |
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Artist: ROE ENNEY Title: Damnatio Memoriae Format: Cass Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Loner voyeuristic psychedelicia, with a tendency toward the neurotic or the surreal, lamented with voice and occasional spoken word. A peculiar nod to the New Romantics. Letterpressed J-Card, and Pro Duplicated Tape." - Phaserprone.
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Artist: SOUTHERN MAN/PYKRETE Title: No More Love Format: CDR Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "Recorded sometime in 2005. Collaboration between North Carolina / Berlin duo Southern Man and fellow caroliner Pykrete. Five tracks of melancholy, unorganized, mangled and unknown electronic devices. Radiators, broken refrigerators, dilapidated architecture, fishing in a dead sea. "construction site techno" - Scott Mou/Other Music NYC. Packaged in a self assembled, hand razor scored, letterpressed CD gatefold, with insert. Edition of 135." - Phaserprone. |
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Artist: SYNB/HSDOM Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "11 collaborative tracks from Matt Brinkman (Mindflayer, Meerk Puffy, Forcefield) and Jochen Hartmann (UW OWL). Rythmic dark detatched synthesis, bordering on dark techno, with an elegant touch. Recorded under a full moon. Letterpressed, razor scored. Edition of 225." -Phaserprone. |
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Artist: THOUGHT BROADCAST Title: Up-Maker Format: 7" Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"Four song 7" by Thought Broadcast. A schizo blend of atonal post-punk primitivism and partially submerged rhythm-box dub. A perfect mainline through TBs singular vein of primitive calculation. This 7" being the first vinyl release in the already rarefied TB discography. Letterpressed and die-cut sleeve with insert." - Phaserprone. This is some serious cryptic-style Vanity worship - could easily be lined up along side Pessimist, Unable Mirror, Kiiro Radical, Daily Expression, Plasma Music, Nose, Arbeit, etc.. on the V/A "Music" box set, which is definitely a good thing. Edition of 150 copies. LP on Olde English Spelling Bee soon.
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Artist: UW OWL Title: Old Birth of New Death Format: Cass Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"First in a four-part series of recordings based on Gene Wolfes four-part "Book of the New Sun" series. Torture-meditation drones, spatial field recordings, acoustic guitar, gothic synthesizer washes, fragmented spoken-word, and a deeper investigation into the longer format. Hand dubbed C-36 with letterpressed wrap-around cover in metallic gold ink. Edition of 100." -Phaserprone.
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Artist: UW OWL Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Phaserprone Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"U W OWL has finally found their first proper release after making numerous small edition CD-Rs and contributing a track on United Bamboos They Keep me Smiling compilation curated by Hisham Bharoocha (x- Black Dice, Soft Circle). This LP features ten songs chosen from a mass of recordings between 2003 and 2004. Electrical currents, desolate sound scapes, dark tunnels, late night jams and structured waste recorded on a broken dust-filled concrete basement floor in Bushwick - Brooklyn, NY. 333 copies. 140g Vinyl. Packaged in a self assembled dye-cut and letterpressed jacket by Jonas Asher, with insert." - Phaserprone.
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Artist: PHFUDD! Title: #12 Format: Mag Label: Phfudd! Country: USA Price: $3.00 |
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Pre-Black To Comm mag from 1988. Features the Droogs, Crawlspace, Dredd Foole, Peter Stampfel, Rhys Chatham, MC5, Stooges and more.
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Artist: FRENCH FOLK MAGIC TIME GUIDE Title: Format: Book Label: Phileas Folk Country: France Price: $54.00 |
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"A great new comprehesive PRICE GUIDE for every FOLK vinyl collector om this planet has seen the light of day! The "FRENCH FOLK MAGIC TIME GUIDE", a fantastic cover book of all the rarest collectable French FOLK LPs released between 1965 and 1989. Over 1000 collectables french vinyls with album covers in full color, value, label and rarity indication !!! Including a wide range of FOLK MUSIC LPs, singles & eps, divided in the follwing chapters: FOLK ROCK/ PROGRESSIVE & TRADITIONAL FOLK/ ANCIENT MUSIC/ POP FOLK/ ACID FOLK/ XIAN FOLK/ ENCHANTING FOLK/ SONGSTERS/ MECHANICAL MUSIC/ AVANT-GARDE FOLK/ FRENCH SPEAKING FOLK. An indispensable guide with the most expensive folk albums from every part of France. A PRIVATE LIMITED EDITION printed in glossy paper, containing 14 sections/chapters, a book-mark and a cover illustrated by French underground drawer Mattt Konture. THOSE OF YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE BOOKS OF HANS POKORA CAN EXPECT THE SAME TYPE OF LAY-OUT AND VALUE INDICATION. EXTREMELY WELL-DONE!!!"
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Artist: SUN RA Title: Lanquidity Format: LP Label: Philly Jazz Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The album was originally on the micro-label Philly Jazz, owned by a Philadelphia recording engineer who knew Sun Ra from his live performances on University of Pennsylvanias WXPN. The album has become a much in demand rarity among the ranks of acid jazz DJs throughout the world. 180 gram vinyl version. Tracklisting: Lanquidity, Where Pathways Meet, Thats How I Feel, Twin Stars of Thence, There are other Worlds (They have not Told You of). Recorded at Blank Tapes Studio, New York, 7/17/1978." -Philly Jazz. |
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Artist: BRAST BURN Title: Debon Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Repressed, now in regular jewel case. Phoenix Records reissues Brast Burns Debon -- a classic of Japanese Kraut obscurity originally released in 1975 on Voice Records, now digitally-remastered. Brast Burn are often linked with Karuna Khayal, with many aficionados concluding that they were actually the same band. Whether this is true or not remains an unsolved mystery, but one thing is for sure: Brast Burns one and only recorded outing left an indelible stamp on those who were to follow. Nurse With Wounds Steve Stapleton thought highly of Debon and included it on his "legendary list" that appeared on the sleeve of his bands 1979 debut album. Featuring orchestrated fuzz guitar, echo-drenched percussion, reverbed bass, zithers, assorted taped sounds and vocals that are simply inspired, Debon is an album thats a must for headphones and for devotees of the likes of Faust and Can. A rare musical experience and a vital addition to any record collection." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: BRAST BURN Title: Debon Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Phoenix Records reissues on LP Brast Burns Debon -- a classic of Japanese Kraut obscurity originally released in 1975 on Voice Records. Brast Burn are often linked with Karuna Khayal, with many aficionados concluding that they were actually the same band. Whether this is true or not remains an unsolved mystery, but one thing is for sure: Brast Burns one and only recorded outing left an indelible stamp on those who were to follow. Nurse With Wounds Steve Stapleton thought highly of Debon and included it on his "legendary list" that appeared on the sleeve of his bands 1979 debut album. Featuring orchestrated fuzz guitar, echo-drenched percussion, reverbed bass, zithers, assorted taped sounds and vocals that are simply inspired, Debon is an album thats a must for headphones and for devotees of the likes of Faust and Can. A rare musical experience and a vital addition to any record collection. Features the original LP artwork." -Phoenix |
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Artist: CAESAR, J.A.
Title: Kokkyou Junreika Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Tokyo playwright, director and artist J.A. Caesar sprang to prominence in the early 70s largely through his work with Shuji Terayamas Tenjo Sajiki Theatre, specializing in vaguely sinister music reminiscent of a Hammer House Of Horrors soundtrack. 1973s Kokkyou Junreika release, often considered Caesars finest work, was culled from the 5 hours of music written for the original play, distilled down to an albums worth of ageless chants, Buddhist mantras, heavenly invocations and fuzztone guitar vamps supported by Caesars droning electric organ and the eerie female vocals of Yoko Ran, Keiko Shinko and Seigo Showa. An album that sits comfortably alongside early Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers and Atem-period Tangerine Dream. Those that like their music with a healthy dose of gloom, look no further. Digitally remastered. Numbered, limited collectors edition housed in a gatefold sleeve." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: CAESAR, J.A. Title: Jashuman Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "This mighty soundtrack for Shuji Terayamas nihilistic movie of the same name contains all the elements necessary to reach J.A. Caesars intended pleasure-centers. Here, turmoil, mind-numbing repetition, abject misery and grisly partriarchs abound, and all orchestrated by Caesars damaged proto-metal and choral-led psychedelic sound. Mind-infesting in the truest sense, this soundtrack played in the dark is as certified a Gateway to the Underworld as any acknowledged classic by Faust, Magma, the Cosmic Jokers, Ash Ra Tempel or early Amon Düül." -Julian Cope, Japrocksampler Digitally remastered. Numbered, limited collectors edition housed in a gatefold sleeve. |
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Artist: CAESAR, J.A. Title: Kokkyou Junreika Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Tokyo playwright, director and artist J.A. Caesar sprang to prominence in the early 70s largely through his work with Shuji Terayamas Tenjo Sajiki Theatre, specializing in vaguely sinister music reminiscent of a Hammer House Of Horrors soundtrack. 1973s Kokkyou Junreika release, often considered Caesars finest work, was culled from the 5 hours of music written for the original play, distilled down to an albums worth of ageless chants, Buddhist mantras, heavenly invocations and fuzztone guitar vamps supported by Caesars droning electric organ and the eerie female vocals of Yoko Ran, Keiko Shinko and Seigo Showa. An album that sits comfortably alongside early Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers and Atem-period Tangerine Dream. Those that like their music with a healthy dose of gloom, look no further. Housed in a gatefold sleeve." -Phoenix |
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Artist: CHEN, SHINKI Title: Shinki Chen & Friends Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Shinki Chen was one of the leading figures of the Japanese psychedelic rock scene in the early 70s, seen as a Jimi Hendrix-type figure in Japan at the time. This record, released in 1971 was some of his last recorded material (he also recorded with the band Powerhouse and Foodbrain) in addition to the different band line-up known as Speed, Glue & Shinki and their debut Eve released the same year. While the bands style is often compared to its Krautrock cousins, it lacks the dreamy directionlessness that a lot of them have as well as the bore factor of the lighter-weight progressive rock acts. Shinki Chen & Friends might lack Joey Smiths amphetamine-fuelled drumming, but it is generally bluesier with lots of strange keyboard effects, fuzzy bass lines and a relatively weeping guitar sound. Digitally remastered. Housed in an LP-replica sleeve in a numbered limited edition." -Phoenix |
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Artist: CHEN, SHINKI Title: Shinki Chen & Friends Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: USA Price: $23.00 |
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"Gatefold LP version. Shinki Chen was one of the leading figures of the Japanese psychedelic rock scene in the early 70s, seen as a Jimi Hendrix-type figure in Japan at the time. This record, released in 1971 was some of his last recorded material (he also recorded with the band Powerhouse and Foodbrain) in addition to the different band line-up known as Speed, Glue & Shinki and their debut Eve released the same year. While the bands style is often compared to its Krautrock cousins, it lacks the dreamy directionlessness that a lot of them have as well as the bore factor of the lighter-weight progressive rock acts. Shinki Chen & Friends might lack Joey Smiths amphetamine-fuelled drumming, but it is generally bluesier with lots of strange keyboard effects, fuzzy bass lines and a relatively weeping guitar sound. Digitally remastered on 180 gram vinyl." - Phoenix.
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Artist: FAR EAST FAMILY BAND Title: Nipponjin Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "CD version previously-released on Phoenix Records, now available in a vinyl version. Regarded by many as the first Japanese progressive rock group, the Far East Family Band featured the keyboardist and future new age composer, Kitaro. A keyboard-dominated space rock band, the Far East Family Band played extended compositions that brought comparisons to Tangerine Dream and early Pink Floyd. Nipponjin (1975), the bands second album under their new name (after their Far Out moniker), featured re-recorded material from the previous The Cave Down To Earth (1974) as well as Nihonjin and was produced by Tangerine Dreams Klaus Schultz. One of Japans earliest prog bands, Far East Family Band became hugely popular in Japan and also achieved considerable attention in Europe. Digitally remastered, numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only." -Phoenix |
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Artist: FAR EAST FAMILY BAND Title: Parallel World Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Originally released in 1976 by Nippon Columbia, this is the final album by legendary Japanese space/psych-rockers Far East Family Band. Unlike other albums where the band focused on Pink Floyd-esque psych ballads, on Parallel World, the influence of German producer/electronic music composer Klaus Schulze is more pronounced, merging prog rock with electronic music to create something rather weird and wonderful. Although Schulze oversaw the production of the album rather than playing on it (which he definitely didnt!), the synth star here is Masanori Takahashi who was later to find new age fame and fortune under the name of Kitaro. This is space rock at its finest and the bands extended compositions attracted favorable comparisons with both Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, and even at times the vocal style of the Moody Blues. Unfortunately, this was the bands last album, but they went out on a high, achieving the rare feat of appealing to devotees of both Krautrock and electronic psychedelia alike. Digitally remastered, numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only in a unique LP-replica card wallet." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: FAR EAST FAMILY BAND Title: Parallel World Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Originally released in 1976 by Nippon Columbia, this is the final album by legendary Japanese space/psych-rockers Far East Family Band. Unlike other albums where the band focused on Pink Floyd-esque psych ballads, on Parallel World, the influence of German producer/electronic music composer Klaus Schulze is more pronounced, merging prog rock with electronic music to create something rather weird and wonderful. Although Schulze oversaw the production of the album rather than playing on it (which he definitely didnt!), the synth star here is Masanori Takahashi who was later to find new age fame and fortune under the name of Kitaro. This is space rock at its finest and the bands extended compositions attracted favorable comparisons with both Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd, and even at times the vocal style of the Moody Blues. Unfortunately, this was the bands last album, but they went out on a high, achieving the rare feat of appealing to devotees of both Krautrock and electronic psychedelia alike." -Phoenix |
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Artist: FAR EAST FAMILY BAND Title: Tenkujin Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "The fifth and final release by Far East Family Band (if you include 1973s Nihonjin, released under the Far Out banner), 1977s Tenkujin was the first of the bands albums to be released in the U.S. on the small and short-lived California-based All Ears label. Without Kitaro, who by this time had departed to pursue a solo career, the band reverted to its earlier ballad-based sound, this time supported on drums by former Samurai alumnus, Yujin Harada. The expected Pink Floyd influences appear in abundance, although this time the songs are sung partly in English and in Japanese. Another solid album from what many consider to be Japans finest new age/psychedelic group. On 180 gram vinyl." -Phoenix |
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Artist: FAR EAST FAMILY BAND Title: The Cave Down To The Earth Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. Regarded by many as the first Japanese progressive rock group, the Far East Family Band, whose first album release was under the name Far Out, released "The Cave" Down To The Earth in 1975. Influential in the creation of the bands distinctive psychedelic sound was keyboard player Kitaro, who went on to establish himself as a major new age artist in the 80s. Although the band was often categorized as new age too, their sound was distinctly progressive and often brought comparisons with Tangerine Dream and early Pink Floyd. The ethereal, space-rock quality of the bands music is here in abundance but the centerpiece is without doubt the title track, which starts off in a mellow mood but then becomes a killer guitar jam. For music fans that have yet to discover the delights of 70s Japanese psychedelic rock, "The Cave" Down To The Earth is a fabulous introduction. Housed in a die-cut sleeve with a printed inner sleeve. Includes the original LP insert." -Phoenix |
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Artist: FAR OUT Title: Nihonjin Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Gatefold LP version. Fully-remastered, first-ever vinyl reissue. Prior to metamorphosing into Far East Family Band, Japans Far Out released this sole, space-y, guitar-drenched psychedelic prog album in 1971. Although the Floyd influences are highly apparent, the band produces an original sound which defines its own unique identity rather than being a reflection of the British and American bands that were dominating the genre. Although there is a keyboard-dominated opening, synthesizers are relegated to a supporting role, and their sparse presence is restricted to occasional sound effects. The psychedelic ambiance comes largely from the guitars, electric sitars and intelligent percussion. The original album contained just two single-sided tracks, and the intense guitar soloing, fantastic sound effects, including gongs and howling wind drones, combine to create an album of sparse beauty which effortlessly merges exotic Asian instrumentals with a psych sound occasionally reminiscent of Saucerful Of Secrets. Pressed on 180 gram vinyl." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: FIFTY FOOT HOSE Title: Cauldron Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| Repressed. "Deluxe LP format only; 180 gram pressing. Cauldron was Fifty Foot Hoses first and most famous recorded work, released on Limelight Records in 1968. Founded by Cork Marcheschi, the band played continuously around the Bay area of northern California throughout the mid-60s. Marcheschi, who had developed a taste for R&B and the avant-garde music of composers such as Edgard Varèse, started out as the bands bass player, but his interest in experimental music prompted him to develop his own musical instrument, similar in function to the hybrid developed by Simeon Cox, and which was the underpinning of the Silver Apples sound. The band played a lot of gigs, but the experimental nature of their music tended to perplex audiences unused to such sounds. However, a four-track demo led to the band signing on the experimental Mercury subsidiary, Limelight Records, and under the eye of producer, Dan Healey (later to work extensively with the Grateful Dead), Cauldron appeared in 1969. As the album didnt fit into any particular mold, it largely went un-noticed at the time, but to the modern listener, this is an album that has stood the test of time particularly as Marcheschi used just about every electronic device known to man, including audio generators, echodette, squeaky box, siren, ring oscillator circuits and two Theremins. Given Cauldrons lack of success, the band disintegrated, although several members were to quickly resurface in the musical Hair. However, by the late 70s and early 80s, interest in the bands singular sound was rekindled, with the likes of Pere Ubu, Throbbing Gristle and Chrome all deriving inspiration from its music. An important and influential album." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: FLIED EGG Title: Dr. Siegels Fried Egg Shooting Machine Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Japans proggers Flied Egg, consisting of former Strawberry Path alumni Shigeru Narumo and Hiro Tsunoda, supported by former Brush leader, Masayoshi Takanaka, released two albums in the early 70s, Dr. Siegels Fried Egg Machine being the first and undoubtedly the better of the two. Dr. Siegels..., originally released in 1972, is a much more keyboard-oriented affair, with Narumo adding a Moog, celeste and harpsichord to his usual Hammond and piano line-up. On this album, the musical influences are more Uriah Heep than the previous Hendrix-inspired leanings, although touches of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple, Birth Control and even Black Sabbath find their way into the musical mèlange. Dr. Siegels... presents a rich selection of musical styles, culminating with "Guide Me To The Quietness," a glorious prog epic that brings an inventive and enjoyable album to a climactic finale. Digitally remastered. Numbered, limited collectors edition housed in an LP-replica gatefold card wallet." -Phoenix |
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Artist: FLIED EGG Title: Dr. Siegels Fried Egg Shooting Machine Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Japans proggers Flied Egg, consisting of former Strawberry Path alumni Shigeru Narumo and Hiro Tsunoda, supported by former Brush leader, Masayoshi Takanaka, released two albums in the early 70s, Dr. Siegels Fried Egg Machine being the first and undoubtedly the better of the two. Dr. Siegels..., originally released in 1972, is a much more keyboard-oriented affair, with Narumo adding a Moog, celeste and harpsichord to his usual Hammond and piano line-up. On this album, the musical influences are more Uriah Heep than the previous Hendrix-inspired leanings, although touches of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Deep Purple, Birth Control and even Black Sabbath find their way into the musical mèlange. Dr. Siegels... presents a rich selection of musical styles, culminating with "Guide Me To The Quietness," a glorious prog epic that brings an inventive and enjoyable album to a climactic finale. Digitally remastered. 180 gram vinyl pressing housed in a gatefold sleeve." -Phoenix |
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Artist: FLOWER TRAVELLIN BAND Title: Made In Japan Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Following critical acclaim but meager record sales in their native Japan after their superb debut album, Satori (ASH 3002CD/LP), Yuya Uchida and his Flower Travellin Band decamped to Canada following an invitation to open for local jazz-rock outfit Lighthouse. While there, Lighthouse leader and keyboard player Paul Hoffert offered to produce the bands next studio album, the ironically-titled Made In Japan, originally released in 1972, although it must be said, Hofferts musical vision didnt always reflect the bands. However, Uchida was particularly happy with the results; although again, critical acclaim didnt translate into significant record sales and the band duly parted company following their half-live/half-studio release, Make Up (ASH 3033CD). Housed in a gatefold sleeve with slip case and original LP artwork. Digitally remastered. Hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: FLOWER TRAVELLIN BAND Title: Make Up Format: Double CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "When released in 1973, Make Up, with its incredible faux-leather imitation attaché case outer bag, looked every bit the last word in over-the-top packaging and now originals, complete and in good condition, fetch hundreds of dollars in the collectors market. However, despite the lavish packaging, Make Up did little to enhance the groups already considerable reputation and the various band members went their separate ways immediately after the albums release. Although the album has been described as "inconsistent," there are some definite stand-out tracks, and generally Make Up reflects the varied influences that the band drew on throughout their sadly short career. This double album consists of both live and studio recordings and features keyboardist Nobuhiko Shinohara. 2CD housed in a replica outer slip-case and deluxe gatefold sleeve, including the original LP insert. Numbered, limited edition." -Phoenix |
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Artist: FLOWER TRAVELLIN BAND Title: Make Up Format: 2LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "When released in 1973, Make Up, with its incredible faux-leather imitation attaché case outer bag, looked every bit the last word in over-the-top packaging and now originals, complete and in good condition, fetch hundreds of dollars in the collectors market. However, despite the lavish packaging, Make Up did little to enhance the groups already considerable reputation and the various band members went their separate ways immediately after the albums release. Although the album has been described as "inconsistent," there are some definite stand-out tracks, and generally Make Up reflects the varied influences that the band drew on throughout their sadly short career. This double album consists of both live and studio recordings and features keyboardist Nobuhiko Shinohara. 2LP housed in a replica outer slip-case and deluxe gatefold sleeve, including the original LP insert." -Phoenix |
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Artist: FLOWER TRAVELLIN BAND Title: Satori Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| New repress. "Satori is a conceptual hard rock-psych album driven by Hideki Ishimas furious guitar licks which erupt and explode over the harmonic heart beat of the drums and bass and Yamanakas banshee-like vocal style which was turning him into an occidental Iggy Pop or Ozzy Osbourne while the band itself was rapidly becoming Japans answer to Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. Satori is a huge album in every way. From power chords to Eastern-tinged North African six string freak-outs and crashing tom-toms, the band flexes its collective muscle from start to finish. In short, this is a real rock classic of the type they simply dont make any more." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: ICHIYANAGI/MICHAEL RANTA/TAKEHISA KOSUGI, TOSHI Title: Improvisation Sep. 1975 Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Originally released on the Iskra label in 1975, Improvisation Sep. 1975 is a mind-bending slice of drone improv from two of Japans post-war heavyweights; former John Cage student, Juilliard graduate, and Yoko Onos former husband, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Takehisa Kosugi, considered by many to be the father of what some called "Japanese Krautrock," and Stockhausen percussionist Michael Ranta. Heavy layers of reverbed ring modulators, threaded vocals, melodicas, pianos, violins, gongs and Japanese biwas and shamisens combine to elevate the improvisations into the region of Krautrock and in particular, courtesy of Ranta, into post-Stockhausen-inspired rock à la Amon Düül. An extremely rare and highly important album which paved the way for successors Taj Mahal Travellers and much later, industrial giants Nurse With Wound. Digitally remastered, numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only in a unique LP-replica card wallet. Includes a Japanese lyric sheet insert." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: ICHIYANAGI/MICHAEL RANTA/TAKEHISA KOSUGI, TOSHI Title: Improvisation September, 1975 Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Originally released on the Iskra label in 1975, Improvisation Sep. 1975 is a mind-bending slice of drone improv from two of Japans post-war heavyweights; former John Cage student, Juilliard graduate, and Yoko Onos former husband, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Takehisa Kosugi, considered by many to be the father of what some called "Japanese Krautrock," and Stockhausen percussionist, Michael Ranta. Heavy layers of reverbed ring modulators, threaded vocals, melodicas, pianos, violins, gongs and Japanese biwas and shamisens combine to elevate the improvisations into the region of Krautrock and in particular, courtesy of Ranta, into post-Stockhausen-inspired rock à la Amon Düül. An extremely rare and highly important album which bridges the gap between the likes of Taj Mahal Travellers and industrial giants Nurse With Wound. On 180 gram vinyl. Includes a Japanese lyric sheet insert." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: JOE WITH THE FLOWER TRAVELLIN BAND Title: The Times Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. Although post-Group Scene band Flowers were gaining increasing popularity in late 60s Tokyo, founder and guiding light Yuya Uchida was becoming increasingly frustrated that cult status was not translating into commercial success. Watching a rehearsal for the Tokyo version of the hit U.S. musical Hair, Uchidas wily gaze fell upon the Afro-sporting cast member Yamanaka Akira aka Joe. Uchida liked what he saw and heard so much, that he invited Joe to sing guest lead vocals at the next Flowers gig, and so impressed was he with the audiences response to the singers opening number, that he knew a direction-changing discovery had been made. Gone was Flowers and in its place, Flower Travellin Band emerged with a whole new sound and a charismatic and talented front man leading the charge, a relentless process that would see the singer become the sound of FTB with his career ascending as the fortunes of the band decreased. Eventually, the inevitable happened and Uchida disbanded FTB in 1975, after which the bands record label, Atlantic, offered the world one final, posthumous release in a greatest hits package, The Times, with the artist as "Joe With The Flower Travellin Band" becoming the bands epitaph. Sadly, Joe died of cancer in August 2011, but he will long be remembered as the voice of Japans most successful and enduring musical ensembles, Flower Travellin Band. Features the original LP artwork and includes the original Japanese insert." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: KARUNA KHYAL Title: Alomoni 1985 Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Karuna Khyals album Alomoni 1985, originally released on Voice Records around 1976, is widely acknowledged as years ahead of its time, preceding other Japanese underground experimental outfits such as Fushitsusha, White Heaven and Magical Power Mako by almost 20 years. The bands musical influences are, if anything, more Germanic than Japanese, with long, hypnotic free-form rock passages, a heavy use of tape loops, electronics, environmental sounds, distortion and backwards tapes underpinning some manic harmonica-playing on some gut-wrenching blues dirges. Can, Faust and Guru Guru clearly had an influence on the band, as did Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu. Not much is known about the bands line-up, although it is widely thought there was some crossover in personnel with Brast Burn, another significant outfit of the same era which exerted such influence over newer participants in the Japanese psych scene as well as Nurse With Wound. At No.19 in Julian Copes Japrocksampler publication, this is a true hidden treasure buried deep in time -- unearthed and digitally-remastered by Phoenix Records. Package includes a replica of the original full-color insert in a numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only, housed in a unique card wallet." -Phoenix |
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Artist: KARUNA KHYAL Title: Alomoni 1985 Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. Karuna Khyals album Alomoni 1985, originally released on Voice Records around 1976, is widely acknowledged as years ahead of its time, preceding other Japanese underground experimental outfits such as Fushitsusha and White Heaven by almost 20 years. The bands musical influences are, if anything, more Germanic than Japanese, with long, hypnotic free-form rock passages, a heavy use of tape loops, electronics, environmental sounds, distortion and backwards tapes underpinning some manic harmonica-playing on some gut-wrenching blues dirges. Can, Faust and Guru Guru clearly had an influence on the band, as did Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu. Not much is known about the bands line-up, although it is widely thought there was some crossover in personnel with Brast Burn, another significant outfit of the same era which exerted such influence over newer participants in the Japanese psych scene as well as Nurse With Wound. At No.19 in Julian Copes Japrocksampler publication, this is a true hidden treasure buried deep in time -- unearthed and digitally-remastered by Phoenix Records." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: KOSUGI, TAKEHISA Title: Catch Wave Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Takehisa Kosugi is an inter-media artist and performer who started his career back in the 60s in Tokyo. With his first band Group Ongaku (free anarchist-conceptual improvisations) he was introduced to the Fluxus avant-garde movement. During the 70s, he was a member of the mystical, psychedelic, droning rock band Taj Mahal Travellers. He co-founded the band in 1969. Since the end of the 70s until now, he has released several solo albums and commissioned works for events and sound installations. His album Catch Wave (1975) is an absolute progressive masterpiece, bringing Takehisa Kosugis musical talent to territories usually reserved to kosmic Krautrock. Digitally remastered. Numbered, limited edition housed in an LP replica sleeve." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: KOSUGI, TAKEHISA Title: Catch Wave Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Takehisa Kosugi is an inter-media artist and performer who started his career back in the 60s in Tokyo. With his first band Group Ongaku (free anarchist-conceptual improvisations) he was introduced to the Fluxus avant-garde movement. During the 70s, he was a member of the mystical, psychedelic, droning rock band Taj Mahal Travellers. He co-founded the band in 1969. Since the end of the 70s until now, he has released several solo albums and commissioned works for events and sound installations. His album Catch Wave (1975) is an absolute progressive masterpiece, bringing Takehisa Kosugis musical talent to territories usually reserved to kosmic Krautrock. 180 gram vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve. Numbered edition of 1000." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Legendary Japanese rock outfit Les Rallizes Denudés were formed in 1967 and incredibly, for a group that had only one official release (Oz Days Live, a double vinyl compilation release in 1973), played their last gig almost 30 years later in October 1996. The bands name apparently means "fucked up and naked," which more than adequately describes their music. Formed by band leader Mizutani Takashi, the music remained remarkably familiar over the years, and is best described as high volume, raw, lo-fi, repetitive, feedback-drenched guitar-noise fests with nods in the direction of The Velvet Underground and Blues Creation, but without the electronics. Radical left-wing politics were never far from the bands agenda, with one original band member (Wakabayashi) being involved in the Japanese Red Armys hijacking of a flight to North Korea. Consequently, the groups live appearances became less frequent and increasingly clandestine. All the bands albums were released in very small quantities, and because of the groups reputation for secrecy and violence, as well as the difficulty in tracking down their recordings, Les Rallizes Denudés has assumed almost mythical status. Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes sits at #11 on Julian Copes list of top Japanese albums. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies only, housed in a unique LP-replica card wallet." -Phoenix |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Legendary Japanese rock outfit Les Rallizes Denudés were formed in 1967 and incredibly, for a group that had only one official release (Oz Days Live, a double vinyl compilation release in 1973), played their last gig almost 30 years later in October 1996. The bands name apparently means "fucked up and naked," which more than adequately describes their music. Formed by band leader Mizutani Takashi, the music remained remarkably familiar over the years, and is best described as high volume, raw, lo-fi, repetitive, feedback-drenched guitar-noise fests with nods in the direction of The Velvet Underground and Blues Creation, but without the electronics. Radical left-wing politics were never far from the bands agenda, with one original band member (Wakabayashi) being involved in the Japanese Red Armys hijacking of a flight to North Korea. Consequently, the groups live appearances became less frequent and increasingly clandestine. All the bands albums were released in very small quantities, and because of the groups reputation for secrecy and violence, as well as the difficulty in tracking down their recordings, Les Rallizes Denudés has assumed almost mythical status. Blind Baby Has Its Mothers Eyes sits at #11 on Julian Copes list of top Japanese albums." - Phoenix |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Cable Hogue Format: 2CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Another crucial release from the highly influential and reclusive Japanese psychedelic noise band Les Rallizes D�nud�s. Originally formed in 1967, the band was known for its ties to avant-garde theater groups (as typified by Shuji Terayamas troupe) and leftist political groups, and their feedback-drenched live shows and use of strobe lights and mirror balls onstage earned them comparisons with The Velvet Underground. In 1970, bass player Moriaki Wakabayashi was involved in the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 351, orchestrated by the Japanese Red Army. Singer Takashi Mizutani was allegedly offered a role in the hijacking, but he turned it down. Cable Hogue is a CD release compiled by Mizutani from the original tapes he used for the Rallizes video which was released in 1992. Digitally remastered. Housed in a numbered, limited edition 2CD card wallet." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Cable Hogue Format: Double LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "Another crucial release from the highly influential and reclusive Japanese psychedelic noise band Les Rallizes Denudes, now available for the first time on vinyl. Originally formed in 1967, the band was known for its ties to avant-garde theater groups (as typified by Shuji Terayamas troupe) and leftist political groups, and their feedback-drenched live shows and use of strobe lights and mirror balls onstage earned them comparisons with The Velvet Underground. In 1970, bass player Moriaki Wakabayashi was involved in the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 351, orchestrated by the Japanese Red Army. Singer Takashi Mizutani was allegedly offered a role in the hijacking, but he turned it down. Cable Hogue is a release compiled by Mizutani from the original tapes he used for the Rallizes video which was released in 1992." -Phoenix |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Double Heads Format: 6CD Box Set Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $68.00 |
| "Between August 1980 and March 1981, Les Rallizes Denudes (or The Naked Larryz, as the long-lost acetate they are rumored to have recorded for Virgin Records in the mid-70s dubbed them) played seven concerts in and around Tokyo. Never officially released, illicit ninth generation cassette copies circulated in Japanese fan circles for many years, attaining a whispered, Holy Grail status amongst initiates to the Rallizes cult. High quality soundboard versions were finally released by the secretive Univive label in 2005. Three of the best of these concerts are collected on Double Heads, all recorded at Yaneura, a small club in the teeming neon teen shopping mecca of Shibuya in Tokyo. Together, these three concerts comprise a singularly pivotal moment in Les Rallizes Denudes development -- as well as some of the most glacially psychedelic music of their long career. This numbered, limited edition 6CD box set contains a booklet with liner notes. Digitally remastered." -Phoenix |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Great White Wonder Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $60.00 |
| "Originally released in 2006 on the Univive label, Phoenix Records presents this highly-collectable, numbered limited edition 4CD box set of three live gigs spanning 1974-1977 and one bonus disc of live material from a 1980 gig of legendary Japanese rock outfit Les Rallizes Dénudés. The group was formed in 1967 and incredibly, for a group that had only one official release (Oz Days Live, a double vinyl compilation release in 1973), played their last gig almost 30 years later in October 1996. As news of new rock music made it to Japan from the UK and the USA -- mostly via rock magazines and music papers, with most LPs tough to find even on import -- something was lost in translation in Japan that allowed it to mutate well beyond its original remit. Rallizes took rock music at its word while envisioning it as both unnecessarily complicated and too stupid by far. In doing so, they formulated an inspirational blueprint that would go on to have a marked effect on everything that came after them in Japanese underground music. Its a music thats as loose as it is uptight, as sophisticated as it is punk-primitive, as radical as it is simplistic. Digitally remastered. Includes a booklet with liner notes." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Great White Wonder Format: 5LP Box Set Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $92.00 |
| "Originally released in 2006 on the Univive label, Phoenix Records presents this highly-collectible, numbered limited edition 5LP box set of three live gigs spanning 1974-1977 and live material from a 1980 gig of legendary Japanese rock outfit Les Rallizes Dénudés. The group was formed in 1967 and incredibly, for a group that had only one official release (Oz Days Live, a double vinyl compilation release in 1973), played their last gig almost 30 years later in October 1996. As news of new rock music made it to Japan from the UK and the USA -- mostly via rock magazines and music papers, with most LPs tough to find even on import -- something was lost in translation in Japan that allowed it to mutate well beyond its original remit. Rallizes took rock music at its word while envisioning it as both unnecessarily complicated and too stupid by far. In doing so, they formulated an inspirational blueprint that would go on to have a marked effect on everything that came after them in Japanese underground music. Its a music thats as loose as it is uptight, as sophisticated as it is punk-primitive, as radical as it is simplistic. Includes an insert with liner notes." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Heavier Than A Death In The Family Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Phoenix Records releases the oft-bootlegged Heavier Than A Death In The Family by legendary Japanese rock/psychedelic noise band Les Rallizes Denudés. This "album" is in fact, a blistering assemblage of live performances (all recorded in 1977, except for "People Can Choose," which was recorded in 1973) which sits at an esteemed #3 position on Julian Copes Japrocksampler top 50 list. Reverb so heavy, it will split your frontal lobe in two. Limited edition of 1,000 numbered copies only, housed in a unique LP-replica card wallet." -Phoenix |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Heavier Than A Death In The Family Format: Double LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $34.00 |
| "Phoenix Records releases the oft-bootlegged Heavier Than A Death In The Family by legendary Japanese rock/psychedelic noise band Les Rallizes Denudés. This "album" is in fact, a blistering assemblage of live performances (all recorded in 1977, except for "People Can Choose," which was recorded in 1973) which sits at an esteemed #3 position on Julian Copes Japrocksampler top 50 list. Reverb so heavy, it will split your frontal lobe in two." - Phoenix |
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Artist: LES RALLIZES DENUDES Title: Mars Studio 1980 Format: 4CD boxset Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $60.00 |
| "The best-known studio recordings by Les Rallizes Dénudés is the legendary Mars Studio sessions from 1980. The tracks were laid down during the tenure in the group of guitarist Fujio Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi is one of the more notorious figures in the Japanese rock underground. He was born to a Japanese mother and a black British father, brought up in a reformatory before channeling his anger and energy into a series of rock bands including Group Sounds garage rockers The Dynamites and proto-glam stompers Murahachibu. Yamaguchis sojourn in Rallizes lasted just over a year, from early 1980 to March 1981, but the weightless, languid weird-form blues created by the meshing of Mizutanis billowing feedback and Yamaguchis acid-etched lines has been regarded by many Japanese fans as one of the groups peaks. The fourth disc in the set comprises a live show from the same period as the studio recordings. Recorded on September 11, 1980 at the Yaneura club in the Shibuya district of Tokyo, this show was previously released under the title Double Heads September, though it was not included in the Double Heads 6CD document of Fujios tenure in the group. Numbered, limited edition 4CD box set including a booklet with liner notes. Digitally remastered." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: LOVE LIVE LIFE + ONE Title: Love Will Make A Better You Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Phoenix Records releases a fully-remastered edition of the 1971 sole album by Love Live Life + One. There were several progressive psychedelic groups in Japan in the early 70s including the short-lived Love Live Life + One. The band played a few live gigs and released this lone album before disbanding. The group consisted of 9 musicians and the "plus one" seems to refer to vocalist Akira Fuse who had been a pop vocalist since the mid-60s, appearing on albums since 1967. Most of the musicians were obscure except for keyboard player Hiro Yanagida, who was a member of the highly-acclaimed Foodbrain and later Strawberry Path, whose album When The Raven Has Come To The Earth was released the same year as Love Will Make A Better You, and guitarist Kimio Mizutani who was in the band People that released the massively rare Ceremony -- Buddha Meet Rock. Love Live Life + Ones only record is a mix of blues-based psychedelia that pushes into progressive and even avant-garde realms at times, while the skronky sax-playing even recalls the edgier end of the jazz spectrum. An original, innovative and extremely rare piece of Japanese psychedelia. Limited edition pressed on 180 gram vinyl and housed in a gatefold sleeve with the original artwork and the original illustrated LP lyric sheet." -Phoenix |
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Artist: MAGICAL POWER MAKO Title: Super Record Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Super Record, the second of Magical Power Makos 20-plus recordings, originally released in 1975, is considered by those that know to be his finest, combining as it does strong elements of Japanese folk music alongside innovative psychedelic sounds and broad musical vistas of extraordinary imagination. Mako was born in Shuzeni Izu in Japan in 1956, and he began his musical education at a young age, making his first public performance in 1973 at the age of 16 with his band Genge in the famous Shibuya Club. Based on these impressive public performances, the precocious Mako was invited to play with one of Japans foremost contemporary composers, Toru Takemitsu, playing alongside the composer on three film scores, Inheritance For The Future, Petrified Forest and Himiko. The response to his performances was overwhelmingly enthusiastic, elevating Mako to almost god-like status in his native country. Makos music has often baffled pundits keen to place him in a particular musical slot. As one perplexed scribe opined "Makos music possesses a certain strange kind of texture. It is certainly what they call rock, but contains elements we cant describe so succinctly. It clearly goes beyond the various genres of music and while full of them all, it sends forth a fierce glow." Another critic wrote: "Adding to the variety of folk music from India, Turkey and Russia, his mandolin or Taisho koto, and especially his marvellously-performed guitar, expresses fully the odor of the soil and mankinds universality". This limited edition has been digitally-remastered and pressed on 180 gram vinyl with an LP replica sleeve." -Phoenix |
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Artist: MAGICAL POWER MAKO Title: Super Record Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Super Record, the second of Magical Power Makos 20-plus recordings, originally released in 1975, is considered by those that know to be his finest, combining as it does strong elements of Japanese folk music alongside innovative psychedelic sounds and broad musical vistas of extraordinary imagination. Mako was born in Shuzeni Izu in Japan in 1956, and he began his musical education at a young age, making his first public performance in 1973 at the age of 16 with his band Genge in the famous Shibuya Club. Based on these impressive public performances, the precocious Mako was invited to play with one of Japans foremost contemporary composers, Toru Takemitsu, playing alongside the composer on three film scores, Inheritance For The Future, Petrified Forest and Himiko. The response to his performances was overwhelmingly enthusiastic, elevating Mako to almost god-like status in his native country. Makos music has often baffled pundits keen to place him in a particular musical slot. As one perplexed scribe opined "Makos music possesses a certain strange kind of texture. It is certainly what they call rock, but contains elements we cant describe so succinctly. It clearly goes beyond the various genres of music and while full of them all, it sends forth a fierce glow." Another critic wrote: "Adding to the variety of folk music from India, Turkey and Russia, his mandolin or Taisho koto, and especially his marvellously-performed guitar, expresses fully the odor of the soil and mankinds universality." This numbered, limited edition has been digitally-remastered and housed in an LP replica sleeve." -Phoenix |
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Artist: MAKI & BLUES CREATION, CARMEN Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Released at about the same time as Demon And Eleven Children, the album the beautiful Carmen Maki recorded with the band Blues Creation, this 1971 heavy rock guitar monster reminds us that ...Eleven Children isnt the only heavy album from this ensemble. Maki was probably one of the strongest voices of Japanese rock and is featured here doing her finest Grace Slick impression. Lots of brutal, non-stop wailing guitar but some mellow, bluesy psychedelic rock numbers, too. Maki went on to form her own band, Oz, but this is the collaboration for which she will be best remembered. Highly recommended. Features the original LP cover. Digitally remastered." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: MAKI & BLUES CREATION, CARMEN Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Released at about the same time as Demon And Eleven Children, the album the beautiful Carmen Maki recorded with the band Blues Creation, this 1971 heavy rock guitar monster reminds us that ...Eleven Children isnt the only heavy album from this ensemble. Maki was probably one of the strongest voices of Japanese rock and is featured here doing her finest Grace Slick impression. Lots of brutal, non-stop wailing guitar but some mellow, bluesy psychedelic rock numbers, too. Maki went on to form her own band, Oz, but this is the collaboration for which she will be best remembered. Highly recommended. Features the original LP cover. Digitally remastered." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: MOPS Title: Exit Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "One of the innumerable bands to emerge from the post-Beatles Japanese tour of 1966 with Fab Four pretentions. The Mops were a Tokyo quintet led by drummer Mikiharu Suzuki who had cut his musical teeth in a Ventures-style combo in the previous spring. The line-up was augmented by the arrival of Suzukis older brother, Hiromitu, a lead vocalist with an Eric Burdon obsession who added hugely to the bands fuzzy garage soul sound. Not just a Merseyside homage turn, The Mops were a dedicated family whose love of garage rock and the nascent psychedelia would help them to create some of the most urgently deranged and musically disruptive music of the entire Group Sounds-era. Exit, a live recording, features in its entirety the bands 1974 last concert at Nakano San Plaza. Features the original LP artwork and includes the original Japanese insert. This is the first 180 gram vinyl reissue." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: PEOPLE Title: Ceremony -- Buddha Meet Rock Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
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"Previously released by Phoenix Records on CD, now available on digitally remastered 180 gram virgin vinyl, this is Peoples sole album, the legendary Ceremony -- Buddha Meet Rock, originally released in 1971 in Japan. Nobodys sure if the musicians on this recording ever performed as a group or whether Ceremony was simply a studio super-project. Certainly, guitarist Kimio Mizutani had already enjoyed a certain amount of critical exposure following stints with Love Live Life + One and Masahiko Satohs Sound Brakers, and it is Satohs jazzy fuzz guitar licks that help to lift this album to a higher level. Unfortunately, this was the ensembles only output, but this conceptual album is an absolute classic of hypnotic, psychedelic prog rock." - Phoenix.
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Artist: SATOH & SOUNDBREAKERS, MASAHIKO Title: Amalgamation Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
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"Reissue of this legendary album from 1970 featuring Hiro Yanagida, Kimio Mizutani, Mototeru Takagi. Number seven on the Japrocksampler Top 50. Divine excessive jazz-rock stylings by this batch of period-visionaries presumably recorded sometime in 1970 by Rudy Van Gelder and Creed Taylor at the Toshiba Records 1st Studio. All of that "real" psychedelic goo gets smeared about quite a bit; acoustic string flap AND electric gonzo-muff battle overdriven organ lines played by said Masahiko and his band of western pickups (Louis Haynes on drums, Jochen Staudt on bass). Furious jamming is meshed with some fine sub-George Russell 3rd-stream string/brass writhing and found-sound tape-spatter (machine guns, war-speak). Housed in a gatefold sleeve; on 180 gram vinyl." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: SATOH & SOUNDBREAKERS, MASAHIKO Title: Amalgamation Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "One of the most tripped-out albums youll ever hear from Japanese keyboardist Masahiko Satoh, and thats saying a lot, considering some of his other avant sessions of the 70s! This ones from 1971 and a really free-form jam -- recorded so that each of the two long tunes takes up a side of the record apiece -- one with really full-on, frenzied noise courtesy of some ring modulators played by Satoh, undercut with some really heavy drums from Louis Hayes, a surprising entry for a session like this! Side two has a sound thats a bit more organic -- some spare percussion at first -- but the record then moves into noisier territory too, and even features some cool, scatting female vocals. Highly recommended! Numbered, limited edition housed in an LP replica sleeve. Digitally remastered. Sits at #7 on Julian Copes Japrocksampler Top 50 list." - Phoenix. "...shaman Masahiko Satoh sends us through a sonic mind-field, baffling our senses and our sense of gravity." - Julian Cope. |
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Artist: SILVER APPLES Title: Contact Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "180 gram vinyl pressing with a double-sided insert. This is a reissue of the second album Contact by 60s electronic legends Silver Apples, originally released by Kapp Records in 1969. This enigmatic duo, armed only with percussion, vocals and an early, specialized synthesizer, is often credited with giving the musical world its first electronic album, as well as having a significant influence on bands which followed in their wake; bands such as Ultravox and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. Silver Apples, named after a W.B. Yeats poem, consisted of electronics wiz Simeon Coxe and percussionist Danny Taylor. Simeon built an impressive collection of electronic paraphernalia (dubbed the "Simeon") which ultimately included a dozen oscillators, six of them tuned to bass notes which he played with his feet, an assortment of sound filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, lab gear and a variety of second-hand electronic junk. Contact ushered in the bands recorded popularity and a national tour was quickly organized. Several tracks on Contact feature bass lines provided by Simeons banjo playing, but it is the clever use of the lead oscillator and new-found intensity of the lyrics that sets Contact apart from its predecessor. Such was the level of Simeons growing electronic proficiency that the intro to the albums opening track, "You And I" more than successfully recreates the sound of an airplane taking off. Silver Apples all but disappeared from the musical firmament when Kapp folded in 1970, only to re-emerge in January 1997 to perform before a celeb-packed audience at the Knitting Factory. Again, the critics were unanimous. As the MC waxed poetic during an introduction to the Silver Apples concert in San Francisco, 1968: "You are about to have probably the most unusual musical experience of your life. The music will enter areas of your mind never before opened until now. At times it may be hard to understand, but if you let the music penetrate, youll dig it." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: SILVER APPLES Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "Previously reissued on CD by Phoenix Records, now issued on a limited edition deluxe LP format as well; pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl. This is the first vinyl reissue of the self-titled first album by 60s electronic legends Silver Apples, originally released by Kapp Records in 1968. Fresh off their stint as The Overland Stage Electric Band, Simeon and Dan Taylor formed their own extravagant, two-man electronic space-odyssey, Silver Apples, to remarkable critical acclaim. "Whats so amazing is that they make absolutely mind-shattering music with all this junky equipment," commented one reviewer, astounded over the then-mindbending concept of build-it-yourself electronics combined with rock drums. The debut album features lyrics by poet Stanley Warren and is an absolutely essential piece of musical history from electronic/psychedelic/rock musics ground-breaking legends. Housed in a deluxe gatefold foil sleeve containing the insert from the original release in a numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies." -Phoenix |
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Artist: SPEED, GLUE & SHINKI Title: Eve Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Phoenix Records presents the first 180 gram virgin vinyl release of Speed, Glue & Shinkis 1971 debut album, Eve. Ex-Food Brain guitarist Shinki Chen, bass player Masayoshi Kabe (also known as M Glue) and Filipino Vietnam war veteran Joey "Pepe" Smith, who doubled as both the trios drummer and vocalist, released two legendary albums in the early 70s. Eve, the earlier of the bands two efforts, was probably the bands only "real" recording, as the self-titled second release in 1972 was put together by Smith from studio outtakes of Chens guitar playing and tracks omitted from Eve. This is a bluesy, psychedelic album, with Chens Hendrix-style guitar playing firmly underpinned by Smiths insistent percussion style modeled on the style and technique of his idol, Ginger Baker. The band dissolved immediately after the release of Eve, as the other two members found Smiths drug-fuelled lifestyle decidedly unappealing (he was a huge fan of amphetamines and diligently applied himself to establishing a prodigious habit). Chen decided he didnt want to record again, and became a successful live artist, Joey went back to the Philippines and started the immensely successful power trio Juan de la Cruz Band, and Masayoshi Kabe would win fame with the band Pink Cloud. In spite of their short-lived activity, Speed, Glue & Shinki were important first and foremost as pioneers of the Japanese psychedelic rock scene. Gatefold sleeve." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: SPEED, GLUE & SHINKI Title: S/T Format: Double LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "Following on from the gutsy blues-rock groove of the bands first and probably only genuine studio release, 1971s Eve, Speed, Glue & Shinkis second release, originally released in 1972 on Atlantic and often referred to as Tiger, brought together a number of tracks not included on Eve, as well as some new recordings that took a very different musical slant. Joey Smith decided that since he could he handle himself admirably on drums, it was time to challenge a new instrument, so he bought a synthesizer. Drafting in friend Mike Hanopol to take over the bass-playing duties from the departed Masayoshi "Glue" Kabe, Smith managed to produce an album of two halves, the first being some of the strongest SGS-esque material ever, the second being some fine electronic instrumentals in the Tangerine Dream mode. Following the release of the album, Smith and Hanopol flew back to Manila to become Filipino superstars, while Shinki Chen eschewed the recording of his music in preference to live recordings and Kabe found alternative employment in the highly popular band, Pink Cloud. However, the bands legacy lives on in Tiger, a compendium of the sound of Eve and a taste of where the band might have gone had time, personalities and huge amounts of illicit drugs not exerted their influences." -Phoenix |
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Artist: SPEED, GLUE & SHINKI Title: Speed, Glue, & Shinki Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Following on from the gutsy blues-rock groove of the bands first and probably only genuine studio release, 1971s Eve, Speed, Glue & Shinkis second release, originally released in 1972 on Atlantic and often referred to as Tiger, brought together a number of tracks not included on Eve, as well as some new recordings that took a very different musical slant. Joey Smith decided that since he could he handle himself admirably on drums, it was time to challenge a new instrument, so he bought a synthesizer. Drafting in friend Mike Hanopol to take over the bass-playing duties from the departed Masayoshi "Glue" Kabe, Smith managed to produce an album of two halves, the first being some of the strongest SGS-esque material ever, the second being some fine electronic instrumentals in the Tangerine Dream mode. Following the release of the album, Smith and Hanopol flew back to Manila to become Filipino superstars, while Shinki Chen eschewed the recording of his music in preference to live recordings and Kabe found alternative employment in the highly popular band, Pink Cloud. However, the bands legacy lives on in Tiger, a compendium of the sound of Eve and a taste of where the band might have gone had time, personalities and huge amounts of illicit drugs not exerted their influences. Housed in a unique LP-replica gatefold card wallet in a numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: STRAWBERRY PATH Title: When The Raven Has Come To The Earth Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Another lost gem for lovers of Japanese psych and hard rock, this time from the inspirational 70s prog outfit, Strawberry Path. From its extremely cool front cover to the last track, this is an album that will appeal to garage fans, psych heads, mondo music lovers and acid freaks alike, merging as it does a variety of Western influences, ranging from Jimi Hendrix (check out Shigeru Narumos hard psych guitar) to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. Originally released in 1971, Strawberry Path were the forerunners of Japans Flied Egg, one of the most influential Japanese prog bands to emerge in the 70s. This is hard psych rock at its best, and an album which has soared in value over the last few years. Highly collectable and highly listenable. All-analog pressing housed in a gatefold sleeve. 180 gram virgin vinyl." -Phoenix |
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Artist: STRAWBERRY PATH Title: When The Raven Has Come To The Earth Format: CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Another lost gem for lovers of Japanese psych and hard rock, this time from the inspirational 70s prog outfit, Strawberry Path. From its extremely cool front cover to the last track, this is an album that will appeal to garage fans, psych heads, mondo music lovers and acid freaks alike, merging as it does a variety of Western influences, ranging from Jimi Hendrix (check out Shigeru Narumos hard psych guitar) to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. Originally released in 1971, Strawberry Path were the forerunners of Japans Flied Egg, one of the most influential Japanese prog bands to emerge in the 70s. This is hard psych rock at its best, and an album which has soared in value over the last few years. Highly collectable and highly listenable. Digitally remastered. Housed in a unique LP-replica gatefold card wallet in a numbered limited edition of 1,000 copies only." -Phoenix |
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Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS Title: August 1974 Format: Double CD Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Originally issued as a double LP with each of the 4 tracks being roughly the same length as the side of a record, August 1974 presents the Taj Mahal Travellers at their most sophisticated. Although their stunning cosmic music was always improvised, the band, formed in 1969 by "six meta-music creators and one electronic engineer" played regularly throughout Japan and eventually found their way to Europe where they met up with avant-garde musicians such as Don Cherry. 1974 would be the bands last official release as they went their separate ways the following year with all but Takehisa Kosugi, leaving music behind them. Each track is distinct from the others, with several beginning with clearly-defined structure before departing into the realms of the abstract, with violin, harmonica, bass, tuba, trumpet and mandolin dueting in a subliminal and obscure manner. "Voices" both subhuman and supernatural, resonate with a universal inner voice. Digitally remastered, numbered limited edition. Includes LP insert."- Phoenix. |
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Artist: TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS Title: August 1974 Format: Double LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $33.00 |
| "Originally issued as a double LP with each of the 4 tracks being roughly the same length as the side of a record, August 1974 presents the Taj Mahal Travellers at their most sophisticated. Although their stunning cosmic music was always improvised, the band, formed in 1969 by "six meta-music creators and one electronic engineer" played regularly throughout Japan and eventually found their way to Europe where they met up with avant-garde musicians such as Don Cherry. 1974 would be the bands last official release as they went their separate ways the following year with all but Takehisa Kosugi, leaving music behind them. Each track is distinct from the others, with several beginning with clearly-defined structure before departing into the realms of the abstract, with violin, harmonica, bass, tuba, trumpet and mandolin dueting in a subliminal and obscure manner. "Voices" both subhuman and supernatural, resonate with a universal inner voice. Includes original insert. Hand-numbered limited edition of 1000; on 180 gram vinyl." - Phoenix. |
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Artist: UCHIDA & THE FLOWERS, YUYA Title: Challenge! Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "Following his self-imposed exile in Britain, soon-to-be Flower Travellin Band leader Yuya Uchida embarked on the task of creating a hand-picked band in the hope of achieving a home-grown outfit to rival groups hed been listening to in London. Legendary guitarist Hideki Ishima was his first recruit, followed by steel guitarist Katshiko Kobayashi and then the bravest move of all, the beautiful vocalist Remi Aso was asked to front the band, now named The Flowers. The bands debut LP, originally released in 1968, completely changed the Japanese musical scene, featuring as it did, hard covers of Big Brother And The Holding Company, Cream and Jefferson Airplane songs, and its ground-breaking cover art, featuring the bands members, including Miss Aso, naked in a cornfield, changed the musical landscape for ever. Digitally remastered. Numbered, limited collectors edition." -Phoenix. |
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Artist: WAY OF THE CROSS Title: Mind Of The Dolphin Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "In the Spring of 2007, a tour commenced from Latvia to Holland called Way Of The Cross: On The Path Of The Ninefold Muse, titled from Robert Graves book, The White Goddess. The tour spanned Polish clubs, Dutch radio, Berlin galleries, and the Latvian beach; Mind of the Dolphin documents the music spawned at these stops. WOTC members include Dave Nuss (NNCK), Stellar OM Source, The Skaters, Jan Anderzen (Kemialliset Ystävät), Kuupuu, Mik Quantius (Embryo), and Tiitus Petajaniemi and Jari Koho (Uton, Keijo). The White Goddess is far more than a long-discredited pagan deity. She is still alive, and her worship takes many strange forms both inside and outside the conventions of Western morality. In particular, she continues as the Ninefold Muse, patroness of the white magic of poetry." - Phoenix Records |
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Artist: YA HO WHA 13 Title: The Feather of Wisdom Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Sound at One is pleased to present the first Yahowa 13 album in 33 years on a new subsidiary, "Phoenix Records," releasing music specifically oriented towards the elevation of consciousness. This is a recording of the Yahowa 13 reunion show in San Francisco, November 2007, revealing that the bands music remains completely burnt. Hand silk-screened, edition of 500, full color fold-out poster insert designed by Arik Moonhawk Roper." - Sound@One. |
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Artist: YONIN BAYASHI Title: Ishoku-Sokuhatsu Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| Originally released in 1974. "Somewhere between The Doors and Santana, the fuzzy soul of 3 + 3 period Isley Brothers and the poppy English prog rock of Pete Banks-period early Yes and The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other-period Van Der Graaf Generator, is this romantic, soul-influenced album Ishoku-Sokuhatsu (trans. "Dangerous Situation"). This album is progressive pop music similar to that of solo Todd Rundgren or even The Zombies experimental LP Odessey & Oracle." --Julian Cope, Japrocksampler; Features the original LP artwork, including the original Japanese insert. |
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Artist: ZERFAS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Phoenix Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "The sole 1973 album on 700 West by the Indianapolis outfit featuring the Zerfas brothers David and Herman, is one of the best and probably best-known self-pressed U.S. psych records ever to have seen the light of day. All the material is self-penned, which comes as a surprise, as the tracks are all uniformly strong, with lots of keyboards, ring modulators, heavy reverb, backwards vocals, random sound effects, and some outstanding harmonies. One pundit was moved to write: "...a stunning psych album [which] can only be described as what might have happened if The Beatles had pushed the psychedelic experiments of Revolver into late-60s/early-70s territory," which gives you some idea of what this albums all about. As a fan wrote after discovering the band for the first time, "...as the prelude to the first track slowly faded up -- a wondrously thick mix of layered backwards and forwards voices and sounds -- I remember thinking that this might just be the best thing Id ever heard. Across the two sides you can get some sense of these musicians laboring for hours in a small studio to get just the right blend of harmony, guitar, drums and organ to reach for that fleeting glimpse of something larger than we are. This is a great LP." And really, theres not much more you can add to that, is there? Pressed on 180 gram vinyl." -Phoenix |
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Artist: IMA Title: Now Again For The First Time Format: CD Label: Phon Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Intense Molecular Activity worked diligently in the background during the zenith of New York Citys visceral post punk and no wave movements. Recording as a duo, Don Hunerberg and Andy Blinx pain-stakingly wove together their own textured songs and soundscapes from 1979 to 1982. No outsiders to the scene, Hunerberg was a recording engineer at the legendary Radio City Music Hall Recording Studio working with Sonic Youth, the Ramones, Blondie, John Cale, Richard Hell and many others. Blinx was a drummer who also pioneered LED fashion accessories for Patricia Field, Maripol, Grace Jones, Bill Aucoin plus more.
While bearing some comparisons to the likes of Suicide, Devo and Gary Numan, IMA looked beyond minimal synth/post punk stylistic trappings and "hosed them down in wetly psychoactive sense deranging treatments" (MUTANTS SOUNDS Blog). IMA left behind only one EP, 4 tracks, on Flexi-Disc in 1980 that was independently produced and then distributed worldwide by 99 Records. The recording has since become a rare and hidden gem for die-hard record collectors around the world. Tracks from the Flexi-disc, and an additional eight from the archives, are heard here, now again for the first time." - Phon.
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Artist: BRAINTICKET Title: Cottonwoodhill Format: CD Label: Phonag Country: Switzerland Price: $20.00 |
| "Reissue of one of the essential early 70s psychedelic freak-out albums, first issued by the Hallelujah label in Switzerland in 1971. Licensed to German Bellaphone soon thereafter, this is generally considered one of the peak Krautrock experiences, despite its Swiss origins. At this point in time, Brainticket were made up of: Joel Vandroogenbroeck (organ, flute), Ron Bryer (guitar), Werni Frohlich (bass), Coismo Lampis (drums), Wolfgang Paap (tabla), Dawn Muir (voice) & Hellmuth Kolbe (potentiometers, generators and soundeffects). This is their first album (sometimes referred to as "self-titled) and is quite different and more radical than anything else in their discography. It features an outlandlish churning groove of a sound (vaguely comparable to Can or Funkadelic at their most tweaked), is deeply immersed in LSD mythology and is littered with electronic effects and collage-like elements leading towards the covers warning: "Listen to the first recordings of this LSD/Hashish/Fixy/Jointy sound. Take a trip to your inner light. See the hallucinations of reality rise out of the groove. Youve got your Brainticket now!" " - FE. |
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Artist: MOORE, R. STEVIE/BILLY ANDERSON Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Piaptk Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"The Godfather of lo-fi pseudo Brit-Pop prolificness and his buddy BILLY ANDERSON. Limited edition of 400 copies on colored vinyl with download Packaged in hand-silkscreened arigato pak covers, and retail stickered." -Piaptk
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Artist: AMBARCHI, OREN & LASSE MARHAUG Title: Worried Friends Format: 7" Label: Pica Disk Country: Norway Price: $11.00 |
| "An inside-the-piano scrape-fest of anti-music and total freak-out by OREN AMBARCHI and LASSE MARHAUG. Recorded in Oslo, Norway in November 2006. Limited to a scant 300 copies." -Pica Disk. |
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Artist: LANZ, JOKE Title: Noise In My Head Format: Book Label: Pica Disk Country: Norway Price: $49.00 |
| "Insightful portrait of a remarkable artist who in 1989 launched the noise / performance art / installation project SUDDEN INFANT in connection with the SCHLIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE collective. One-hundred-sixty pages with photos from installations, performances and actions; drawings, paintings, poetry, manifestos; visual discography; concert posters and flyers; essays by RUDULF EB.ER, LEIF ELGGREN, DANIEL MENCHE, STEVE UNDERWOOD, MARK WHARTON, DREW DANIEL, and an interview with the guest of honor himself. Edition of 300 copies, hardcover." - Pica Disk. |
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Artist: MITTENS ON STRINGS Title: Pushing Buttons Format: 7" Label: Pickled Egg Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
| "culled from one of the earliest luddite (Elephant Micahs inhouse label) releases, this is four songs issued on vinyl by the great great british label pickled-egg. catches the strange secluded feel of our kentuckiana music making way back in 2001 - feel the infinite reverie of la talking box. probably wont be getting many more of these." - Elephant Micah. |
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Artist: AGENCEMENT Title: Boxe Consonantique Format: CD Label: Pico Country: Japan Price: $15.00 |
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"Born 1962, in Kanazawa. Violin improvisation started from 1980.Started in 1985 in the solo project for the tape music which makes multi-layered violin improvisation on magnetic tape under the name of AGENCEMENT. And the live performance using amplified violin & live electronics is also performed in concert." Agencement: violin, magnetic tape, pico strings, electronics. Released 2001.
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Gore Format: Book Label: Picture Box Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
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"Music enthusiasts may consider Gore, the first book from Black Dice - an extension of their highly visual melange of sound, performance, and art - a fifth album, but its something else entirely. The band grew out of the infamous Providence art and noise scene in the late 1990s, and has since drawn acclaim in New York and worldwide. Their longtime friend, photographer Jason Frank Rothenberg, has documented their work for some time. His images, often reworked and collaged by the band to illustrate their tastes and sensibilities, form the foundation of the book. In collaborating on Gore, the bands creative process parallel its musical one, each member making use of different skills in individual contributions that inform and build on one another. The resulting mix of found images, photographs, collages, and altered documentation explores the full integration of their creative processes and offers a glimpse into daily life in the genesis of their sonic persona." - Picture Box.
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Artist: SUPERSESSIONS Title: Rubbing Souls and Scratching Holes Format: 7" Label: Piece Of Mind Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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1992 recordings featuring Raymond Pettibon.
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Artist: JU SUK REET MEATE Title: Solo 78 & 79 Vol. II Format: Cass Label: Pigface Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
 "Recorded in various locations in Portland Oregon 1978 and 1979 as " Real Time " Improv. with no Overdubs, Edits, or Remixing . Some final EQing and Editing in Smegmas Studio January 2013. Recording Quality varies
Recorded at the same time as Pigface 004 (1980) This album embraces
a rawer esthetic. Many tracks were recorded on portable Cassette decks
with automatic level control . Ju suk plays Guitar, record Player, Bowed sheet
metal, Trumpet, Vocals, Gnome Synth. , 1880s Pump Organ, Bass Guitar
played with feet, and 1/4 inch Reel to Reel multi head tape loops all played in
" Real Time " no Overdubs, Edits, or remixing." - Pigface.
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Artist: MSHR/TENSES, THE Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Pigface Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "In studio Improv.Recorded September 2012, Edited and Mixed by Ju Su Reet Meate at Smegmas Studio (Planet Purple Room) February 2013. The Tenses: Ju Suk Reet Meate and Rock and roll Jackie of Smegma MSHR: Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper. In studio , informal in Studio Jam session Blends MSHRs new electronic dream world with The Tenses Old school organic psychedelic stew." - Pigface. |
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Artist: ROCKEY, LEE Title: Brass Ring Format: Cass Label: Pigface Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Recorded , Edited, Mixed and Played in Portland Oregon in the late 1970s By Lee Rockey. Final Editing for this Album by Ju Suk Reet Meate at Smegmas Studio January 2013.
Lee Rockey gave up being the best jazz drummer in Portland sometime in the
Late 1960s and started playing a modified flat bridge Violin, Cello , Oscillators
and free Drumming using a Teac 2340 4 channel tape deck as soon as they were available to layer tracks . Brass Ring is one of the very rare finished, named compositions that was originally a Cassette dub that I managed to borrow and copy." - Pigface.
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Artist: ROCKEY, LEE Title: Jazz Drummer Extraordinaire Format: Cass Label: Pigface Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
 " Side one Recorded at various NYC locations including Lees EXTRAORDINAIRE Apartment 1952-1955 .
Side two Mostly Recorded at the Way Out Club Portland Oregon
May 16 1961
Final EQing and Album Concept by Ju Suk Reet Meate
February 2013
One of the most unique and unsung Artists in Portland history,
Lee Rockey was born in Vancouver Wa. 1926 and from 1942 untill
1965 or so was the most modern and best "Jazz Drummer" in the area.
One of the" Vancouver Whiz Kids" he wore a Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat
and still spoke "Jive" when I met him in 1976. After playing all types of Gigs in Portland including sitting in for touring R&B acts such as The Treniers, he Moved to NYC in 1952 ,and was hired by Neil Hefty (who had just revitalized Count Basies Career with his great arrangements and written his last big hit Little Darlin ) for his first big band. Later he was in the studio for Herbie Manns debut 10" in 1955. Also on this album
are Homemade Tapes with his friend Pianist and vocalist Ed Beach Jamming
and being silly in there apartment in NYC.
Moving back to Portland Lee was the go-to Drummer for the most ambitious Jazz Musicians including Jim Smiths "The Way Out Band" 1961-63
featuring amazing arrangements by Bill and Ernie Hood and others. WARNING: This Album contains Serious High Class music originally intended for Adults of the Mid 20th Century." - Pigface.
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Artist: TENSES, THE & GIGGLES Title: Delusional Format: Cass Label: Pigface Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
 "Recorded at Smegmas Studio Portland, Oregon December 2011 by Ju Suk ReMixed may 2012. Except side B The Tenses Live in studio at East Village Radio June 2011 by Jeff Conklin.
The Tenses: Ju Suk Reet Meate and Rock and roll Jackie of Smegma.
Giggles: Madelyn Villano and Alieta Herrera-Train.
Side one features an informal , Real Time Jam between Smegma Alumni and the then, newcomers on the Portland Scene. Somewhat edited by Ju Suk reet Meate. Side Two was recorded "live" near the corner of 1st and 1st NYC in a tiny, crowded
studio that adds an extra layer of intensity to the performance." - Pigface.
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Artist: BACK MAGIC Title: Blood Plaza Format: Lathe Cut 5" Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| 2012 release, limited to 50 copies. Cut by Peter King. "HAIR EXP: Guitar/Vox TERROR TRANS: Drums Recorded at Opium Den, Bloomington, IL, 2011. P.S. Back Magic recently played in Tokyo with a special line-up --- video via Satoshi Yashiro's iphone..." |
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Artist: BACK MAGIC Title: Goldilocks Format: 8" Lathe Cut Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"In a departure from their famous neo-classical style, Back Magics surrealistic
anti-masterpiece is full of passion and adventure. Goldilocks takes us into a
world where sex and fantasy have no boundaries. This is the story of a Goldilocks
that redefines the "double standard," while becoming a free spirit in the process.
Includes 12 page zine. 30 copies" - Pilgrim Talk.
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Artist: CHEN, CHE Title: Pulaski Wave(Violin Halo)/Newtown Creek Mirror Lag Format: 7" Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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Violin, sine wave generators, feedback and tape delay (on Side B)
Recorded November 2010 on the banks of Newtown Creek in Brooklyn, NY. Edition of 300. "The Pulaski Bridge and Newtown Creek (over which it spans) are regular fixtures in my daily life, geographical features that I move on or over with great frequency. As I developed this system--which i did over very long durations of listening, mostly very late at night or early in the morning--and gradually felt the need to be able to differentiate certain settings from others, it made sense to name them, somewhat arbitrarily, for things that were close at hand. These systems and intervals had become very familiar to me, and during my long listening sessions in the hours on the edges of sleep, I often had the sensation of them moving from the foreground of my attention to the background and then back again. They became more like a kind of geography or weather than "music"." - Che Chen. "Che Chen = renaissance man. Producer of the massively beautiful/creative/perfect zine series, O Sirhan, O Sirhan, member of Jozef Van Wissems Heresy of the Free Spirit, half of "now wave" duo, True Primes, (Incidentally, True Primes We Have Won LP is one of my favorite albums EVER of all time. DEEPLY STRANGE sounds, but also MUSICAL in totally new and unexpected ways.No joke - get it.), and now archivist running the Black Pollen label (working with Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Yoshi Wada, and Sun Circle thus far). On this 7" Che is working with violin and reel to reel tape machines. Think youve heard it before? No way. Che has cautiously created a tape "accompanist" that interacts with the violins harmonic series in subtle, but tangible ways, often resulting in difference tones and creating a hypnotic violin/electronics hybrid. Now violin wave." - N. Hoffman. "New York improvisor who works extensively with violin drones, tape delay, feedback and electronics. The sawing is more cracked and fragmentary than Id expected, but it mixes beautifully with the generator drone." - Byron Coley The Wire. |
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Artist: HANKIL, RYU/ HONG CHULKI/ NATE HOFFMAN Title: Sonne Format: LP Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Recorded live at Art Space Mullae, Seoul, June 2009
Drawing and design by N. Hoffman. 108 copies." -Pilgrim Talk. |
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Artist: HOFFMAN, NICK Title: Anima Format: Cass Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Midwest tape scum from the Pilgrim Talk CEO... Trumpet and voice improvisations recorded on the “ancient tape machine” which itself acts as another instrument – changing speed, adding surface noise, unexpected volume changes, etc." -Pilgrim Talk |
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Artist: KANDA, SATOSHI/HOFFMAN, NICK Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Satoshi Kanda lives in Tokyo and plays milk bottles on this recording. Nick Hoffman lives in Chicago and plays computer programming on this recording. Uncomfortable..." -Pilgrim Talk |
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Artist: KATCHMARE Title: Palisade Format: 8" Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Katchmare is the solo work of Nick Hoffman. Operator of 3 labels: Scissor Death, Pilgrim Talk, Ghost & Son. He has performed in the U.S. and Japan. Hoffman received a BA in music composition in 2008. His focus was/is electroacoustic music." -Pilgrim Talk. Numbered edition of 21 copies.
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Artist: RUSSELL, DAVID Title: Architecture Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "What is it? No no no no no no no no no... 11 of Davids most potent loops (including one using sounds from Lake Erie[!]) emanating from the foggy lathe cut grooves. Some tracks pulled from out of print tapes, plus a couple newbies. In short, the loop maestros greatest hits all packed on to one 7-inch. Cut by Peter King. 50 copies." -Pilgrim Talk |
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Artist: VEYOU Title: Garden Format: 10" Lathe Cut Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "VEYOUs second release finds them ?!ing it up again in Bloomington, Illinois. A-side in mono, B-side in stereo. Basementronics by Nick Hoffman and Stephen Holliger. 30 copies" - Pilgrim Talk. |
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Artist: ZARZUTZKI, AARON & NICK HOFFMAN Title: Psychophagi Format: LP Label: Pilgrim Talk Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Recorded live at Elastic Arts, Chicago, November 2009. 118 copies." -Pilgrim Talk "And you thought punk rock was bad, hm? “Oh, theyre only playing three chords! I-IV-V-I-IV-V…, I could do that blindfolded while eating my organic fair trade smoothie, sounds like the singers vocal cords were crushed in a helicopter accident, etc, etc.” Well now I will reveal my cards: Zarzutzki and Hoffman play zero chords!!! Why does the poor mans stomach ache? Because he has no food!" -Stop Hate in America 2010 Record Guide |
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Artist: BRACES, THE Title: "Ill Kill You!" Live Format: DVD-R Label: Pineapple Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "What happens when the free music drummer, Chris Corsano, and "the self-proclaimed King of the Avant Garde," Scott Foust, hook up for an improbable duo? Well*punk rock, actually. Corsano and Foust plow through four songs like the Missionaries of Nihilism that they are: "Priests, Cops, And Psychiatrists," "U-Boat Flu/Abandon Ship" (done as a nautical medley), and "I Kicked A Mystic!" Corsano provides a whirlwind of in-the-pocket drumming that drives Foust, his Pete Creese-channeled guitar, and his drunken, shouted and highly theoretical vocals, to peak performance. A legendary show. Between Fousts withering critique and Corsanos incendiary percussion, this is as intense as it gets. One camera, documentation style. Just like you were there, except you can drink and smoke. Please do." - Pineapple Tapes. |
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Artist: FOUST, SCOTT Title: The Fighting Sensualist Format: Cass/Full Color Booklet Label: Pineapple Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"A retrospective of my career that was supposed to (or has) come out on Freedom From. I never got any copies. Thanks. Copies have been seen, but without the booklet. And the two Freedom From copies I did hear were 60s! The actual tape is a 90. I really do expect a bit more than this. I worked very hard compiling the music and even harder writing and collecting photographs for the booklet. So, Im going to release it myself. It isnt quite ready yet, and I dont know the price, but dont buy the one on Freedom From. Almost all unreleased material. Y Front, Red Light, Stabat Mater, XX Committee, Story of Failure, Anschluss, IFCO, The Red Disk, New Peculiars, Tart, The Motor of History. I still cant be stopped." - Scott Foust.
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Artist: FOUST, SCOTT Title: The Four Accomplishments Format: DVDR Label: Pineapple Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "The Four Accomplishments is a solo performance piece that I have been working on over the last few years. This version is from The Lucky Cat in Brooklyn in August 2005. The Four Accomplishments is a total entertainment package. Something for everyone. A lecture (Lecture Tour), a dance piece (Lessons), sound poetry (Sorry To Hear About Your Collapse) and a theatre piece (Der Saufer ). Just me, my wits, a microphone, and a backing tape. Also features my trademark temporal distortion, which is why I like to call it The Longest Half Hour In Show Business." - Pineapple Tapes. |
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Artist: FOUST, SCOTT Title: The Hero Retreats From The World And Fulfillment Format: DVDR Label: Pineapple Tapes Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Brand new DVD of my brand new solo show premiered in March 2007 at The Gladtree festival. Since there seems to be some confusion and bewilderment regarding my other solo performance, The Four Accomplishments, I thought I would explain The Hero in an attempt to clarify the processes involved. The Four Accomplishments was somewhat concerned with a live presentation of Cinema Discrepant. (The First Accomplishment, Lecture Tour, has no live sound whatsoever. This theme is continued throughout The Four Accomplishments although the sound poetry and weeping are live.) The Hero does not concern itself with this element at all except in the obvious use of the bird backing tape for my lecture that was delivered well after dark. I wanted The Hero.. to rely less on theatrical devices and more on my outstanding personality and performance skills. After the short dance introduction to set the mood, the backing tape for The Hero itself is just a somewhat oscillating synth drone that cuts out every few minutes and intensifies at the finish. Everything else is live voice and radio. The radio reception at The Tavern (The Tavern! You cant drink or smoke in there. Why not call it The Hospital?) was poor, so the radio is mostly hiss or shortwave sounds. I had specific areas for each segment of The Hero.. that I wanted to investigate. Since I am one of the best radio players in the world, the poor reception was no real hindrance. Let the viewer decide. The only thing that concerns me is results." -Pineapple Tapes. |
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Artist: FREIBAND Title: All In A Days Work Format: Cass Label: Pineapple Tapes Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Freiband is Frans de Waards solo computer music project. Frans joined IFCO for a short European tour and these recordings "should be seen as a remix of Idea Fire Company from March 2006". Two side-long (39 39" each) tracks. Faster But Slower is a beautiful sad shimmering piece that slowly, very slowly, changes. Active, but stuck in a cotton-wrapped slow motion world. A Solo Duo is darker and starker, and contains additional active elements. The last half hour of a spaceman: engines droning, electromagnetic distortions on the radio. Lonely and alone. Excellent! And, a fine cover painting- an expressionist work by Elise de Waard." - Pineapple Tapes. |
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Artist: TART Title: Live Volume 1: 2001-2002 Format: Cass Label: Pineapple Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"The best of the low-key live shows Tart has been wowing audiences with for the last two years. Compiled by Graham Lambkin. Essential." - Swill Radio. Swill Radio sub-label. 90 Minutes.
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Artist: BEE MASK Title: No Mutant Enemy Format: Cass Label: Pizza Night Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"No mutant enemy shows that chris madak (bee mask) already has mastered his NEW "zone"... bells, chimes, and intense synth droning... this tape similar to style on the B side of the Trenchtown LP on Weird Forest but darker ... really beautiful and weird at the same time..." - Pizza Night
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Artist: MCGUIRE, MARK Title: Pocket Full of Rain Format: Double Cass Label: Pizza Night Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"The absolutely most current recordings out by Mcguire having just been recorded a little over two weeks ago. hes in top form right now - these jams are thick and well thought out... sonically perfect ..obviously alot of big things happening with emeralds, but his solo work has become nearly its own thing completely..lots of LPs coming out plastic,weird forest etc" - Pizza Night
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Artist: ROYAL TRUX Title: Thank You Format: LP Label: Plain Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "This is their 1995 Virgin label debut produced by long time Neil Young collaborator David Briggs. Thank You was recorded almost completely live in the studio and Briggs production and influence is readily apparent in this grimy piece of rocknroll. Neil Hagertys guitar playing is wandering into noiseland via unique and memorable solos but also transforming into something resembling 70s riffs while Jennifer Herrema outdoes herself and actually sings. Thank You, giving way to some surprisingly catchy tunes, is as good as modern rock classics go. A great, greasy work of non-commercial alternative rock fueled by cigarettes and junk food." - Plain. |
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Artist: ACCONCI, VITO/NEW HUMANS Title: Disallow Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Disallow is an art-record presenting the recording of a collaborative performance by poet-artist-architect Vito Acconci and New York group New Humans. Taking place within the sculpture installation Disassociate by artist Mika Tajima at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, the release also includes the complete aural components that were present during the exhibition and live performances. For the public performances and private sessions within the exhibition, sculptures in the space were reconfigured to create divided recording spaces drawn structurally from Jean Luc Godards Sympathy for the Devil, an experimental film documenting the contentious making of the Rolling Stones legendary song and its parallel politics. During this improvised public performance with New Humans, Vito Acconci read permutations of text from a set of seminal audio works from the 1970s, recombining lines and phrases on the move against New Humans acute and minimally deadpan sonic and rhythm progression. Vito Acconci has been a vital presence in contemporary art since the late 1960s; his confrontational and ultimately political works have evolved from writing through conceptual art, bodyworks, performance, film, video, multimedia installation and now architecture and design. New Humans is a New York-based noise band and moniker for artist Mika Tajimas collaborative music, art, and actions. NHs recent releases continue a working use of piercing drones, sheer static, and low bass frequencies. Members are currently Howie Chen, Mika Tajima, and Eric Tsai. The release also includes two subtle sound pieces by New Humans that were the ongoing sound elements in the Disassociate installation in which the performances and recordings occurred. The first, a popular song stripped leaving only the minimal register of static noise, it now resembles the anonymous crackling prelude of a vinyl record. The second, the humming drone produced by a guitar amp in waiting becomes substance without performance. Edition limited to 300 copies with full-color sleeve." - Planam. |
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Artist: BELLOWS Title: Handcut Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti, two musicians from Italy with an extensive solo activity, started the Bellows project together in 2006 and released their first CD in 2007. Their second release, an LP available now on PLANAM, was recorded in November 2009 in Tübingen, Germany. Quite different from the first, this new project was developed around the simple technique of cutting/destroying and amplifying vinyl records with contact microphones, creating new grooves and physical loops while capturing the sounds on a Revox tape machine with long tape loops. No further transformations or processing were applied even if a couple of effect pedals and simple sine waves were sometimes used too. The result is a sort of very atmospheric and modern-electronic music as if these sonorities were recorded at the beginning of the last century on 78rpm shellac records. The sleeve features the original artwork by Italian artist Amedeo Martegani. Edition limited to 250 copies." - Planam. |
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Artist: CARDEW, CORNELIUS Title: Treatise Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Cornelius Cardews opus magnus Treatise is a 193-page graphic score written between 1963 and 1967 while he was performing with the improvisation group AMM. The scores graphic notation, with its intricately devised graphic lines, shapes and symbols, was intended to question the limits of compositional practice. Decisions concerning pitch, timbre and duration, along with the choice of instruments and the number of performers, are left entirely to the discretion of those willing to devise the rules and means for its performance. This realisation of 4 pages from Treatise by Keith Rowe (tabletop guitar) and Oren Ambarchi (guitar), possibly the most powerful ever achieved, was recorded live at Bimhuis in Amsterdam on Feb 8th 2009. Rowe and Ambarchi use the guitar as a point of departure for completely new techniques and sound environments. Already in the 1960s Rowe made a radical departure from traditional jazz, redefining the guitar in the British collective AMM. He prefers to lay the instrument on the table to manipulate its sound with springs, fans, office appliances and electronics. Ambarchi, also in Sunn O))), Menstruation Sisters and Burial Chamber Trio, predominantly mould guitar sounds into dark sonic patterns. Cornelius Cardew might be considered the most relevant contemporary composer from Great Britain. In the end of the 1950s Karlheinz Stockhausen was very impressed by Cardews abilities as a musician and his knowledge of new music and invited him to participate to the historical Kontrefestival concerts in Cologne (an important pre-fluxus event). In 1960 Cardew was at Darmstadt were he met John Cage, David Tudor and among others Walter Marchetti. Cages experimental techniques were very inspiring for Cardew who, in 1969 founded the Scratch Orchestra, a large, rotating group of professional and amateur performers committed to collective experimentation which might be considered as one of the most convincing collective experiments in the history of 20th century avant-garde culture. Edition limited to 300 copies, reproducing, on the sleeve and the innersleeve, the 4 pages from Treatise performed by Rowe-Ambarchi." -Planam |
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Artist: CORNER/DANIELE LOMBARDI, PHILIP Title: Le Son Des Tenebres Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $188.00 |
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"Art edition including an LP with the recordings at the Istituto della Calcografia Nazionale in Rome of two world premiere compositions by Philip Corner and Daniele Lombardi. Issued in 80 signed and numbered copies and including excerpts form the original scores. Philip Corner Tenebres: Lesson&Light (Studies in Shadow and Light), learning from the dark the grand lesson of music. The darkest sound in music is the tone-cluster. Approximation of the even denser aggregates existent already in nature: roar of waterfall and bubbling of cascade; boom of thunder; rustle of grasses and leale; winds; and swish of the sea. At least as close as our tuning can get. The smallest steps on our keyboard condense into compact masses of sound. One could truly say that this black hole of a fatal musical attraction will resolve all dissonances into themselves, even more completely. In full accord with those presences in the outer world we so lovingly (or not) like to call Noise! Daniele Lombardis Le Son des Tenebres, for prepared and amplified piano with live electronics. The piece starts with a simple and quite short sound cluster which develops through micro-variations into an increasing complexity. In the very dense central part the sound materials lose their context after which a process of simplification gradually brings us back to the initial sound cluster." - Planam.
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Artist: DECIMUS Title: 2 Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $22.00 |
| "PLANAM presents you the new Pat Murano solo project of abrasive atmospheric aggressions. Founding member of No Neck Blues Band, Pat Murano also established the K Salvatore highly enigmatic duo in the mid 1990s together with Jason Meagher (also of NNCK fame and more recently head of the Black Dirt Studios) as well as the black Malkuth beast. Decimus has existed as an entity for some years, privately kept secret in the abyss of New York darkest creation. Available now in very limited quantities, Decimus 2 is the first chapter of the Decimus sodality. With reluctance, we are driven into the desert rent from the sweet succor of slavery Under Malkuth we feed the senses failing to satiate the insatiable For Shimon bar Yochai Synthetic meditations on the zodiac as envisioned by Decimus Magnus Ausonius (310-395). First in a series of twelve Decimus LPs. Silkscreened edition of 250 LPs released by PLANAM. Multis terribilis timeto multos." - Planam. |
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Artist: DECIMUS Title: 4 Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: DENDOSHI Title: Dendoshi 2 Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Dendoshi is Keith Connolly (No Neck Blues Band), Raymond Dijkstra (Asra), Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band) and Timo Van Luyk (Af Ursin, In Camera). Dendoshi: "sent to propagate the ceremony" or "missionary" (Japanese). There had actually been a previous incarnation of Dendoshi (hence Dendoshi 2), which was a large group performance in New York that ventured upon elucidating the memories of a a fifty-plus foot tall dead Weeping Cherry Tree re-contextualized as a sculptural exhibit. Some thematic reference: The name "dendoshi" originates from the work of japanese filmmaker Kyoshi Kurosowa, whose films also inspired the content of the first performance. When the opportunity presented itself for Connolly, Dijkstra, Nuss and Van Luyk to come together to make a session, it was the perfect opportunity to realize Dendoshi not as a one-off performance on a theme, but as a recurring ritual in development. The resulting music widened the conceptual reflection of the band, drawing further upon the history and ideas of Franz Mesmer. Mesmer, the eighteenth century Austrian spiritualist healer, was among the first to put forth the theory of what he termed "animal magnetism", regarding a universal fluid which permeates all matter and can be influenced by the will, not dissimilar to some of Eliphas Levis concepts. What seemed to set Mesmer apart was an attention to mood and atmosphere, an aesthetic component to what were scientifically quite dubious theories, which lent to his work an aura of portent - thus the parallel with the music captured as Dendoshi 2. Reflecting the qualities that all four musical sensibilities had in common, the album is a statement upon the ephemeral nature of atmosphere and will, and the relation of reverie to oblivion as opposed to ecstasy. The symbol, or mark on the front cover created by Connolly came intuitively and without revision. Its applied function is that of distinction rather than that of protection or as a seal. It was first applied to the photograph by Clarence H. White form 1904, where the first resonant depiction, or personification, of reverie and oblivion as applied to Dendoshi was found. By applying the mark Connolly is ceremonializing the image, thus rendering it distinct from its original form, not as appropriation, but as recognition or acknowledgment. The other images followed, each of them coming without search. The last image of Vermeers, from Van Luyks basement studio where the sessions occurred, brings full circle the series of four inserts. There is a trace of fear and a sensation of suspended time in these images that suits the music very well. Edition limited to 300 copies with a gold cover." -Planam |
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Artist: DUNCAN, JOHN Title: The Nazca Transmissions Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "On Christmas Eve, 2004, John Duncan received a mysterious email from an archaeologist working at the site of the Nazca Lines in Peru. He claimed to have discovered, and over time recorded, a variety of sounds actually generated by the enigmatic lines themselves. Familiar with Duncans Infrasound-Tidal, composed from source recordings taken from tides, seismic activity and barometric data from the Australian coastline, he suggested to Duncan the composition of a piece with these sources. All of the sources were modified in the studio of John Duncan, some radically, to bring out an unsettling, haunting quality. In mid-June 2005, the glorious 5-track piece was finally ready. John Duncan sent several messages to the archaeologist, none of them ever answered or returned. A hard disk crash effectively destroyed all of the email correspondence between them. What remains are the notes he sent that ostensibly describe the details of sites and times for the source recordings. Those notes have been reproduced on the insert included in this edition, also presenting John Duncan liner notes. First pressing limited to 380 copies, with embossed total-black cover, insert and full-color inner sleeve with wonderful space images of the Nazca Lines." - Planam. |
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Artist: EPPLAY, VINCENT & SAMON TAKAHASHI Title: Soundtracks For The Movies Of Pierre Clementi Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "First performed at the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux in March 2009, Soundtracks For The Movies Of Pierre Clemanti is an electronic concrete music including many references to psychedelia, Krautrock, spontaneous sound creation of the 1960s-70s, building an intense dialogue with the specific universe of Pierre Clementi. Even if psychedelia and electroacoustic music seem to have little in common, they got intersected in the work of some advanced artists. On one side electronics entered rock and free jazz, on the other electric guitar and drums have been manipulated by adventurous modern composers. We could take Joseph Byrd, Friendsound, Faust, Supersister or Brainticket as a reference as well as Luc Ferrari, Jacques Lejeune, Bernard Parmegiani or Pierre Henry. A complete list of exchanges and collaborations would be too long to compile. Their common background could be defined as the need to enter our unexplored inner consciousness, either through the use of drugs and lysergic substances, or through mysticism or esthetic explorations. Vincent Epplay and Samon Takahashis music as pure experience and sonic-energy is the perfect soundtrack to the three movies by Pierre Clementi. The first two movies Positano - Bobine 30B01 (1969) and La Deuxième femme - Bobine J (1967-78) are the documentation of an intense period of experiences shared with Nico, Philippe Garrel, Frédéric Pardo, Tina Aumont, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Marc O, Viva and many others. The third movie, La révolution nest quun début: continuons le combat (1968), is a true hymn to freedom and is based around the May 68 events. Like a hallucinatory flux, the images of these three movies have been used by Epplay and Takahashi as the starting point for creating a unique sound experience. Edition limited to 300 copies with full-color sleeve, inner sleeve and insert, reproducing some very inspired scenes from the movies of Pierre Clementi." - Planam. Side-label of Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: ERIKM & LUC FERRARI Title: Visitation Format: One-Sided LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Visitation, created on April 1st, 2011 is a very unique kind of collaboration between two French sonic artists, master Luc Ferrari and eRikm. Here is eRikm direct testimony about this new work: When the sun set on April 1st, 2011 I heard through the windows of my house the repetitive song of a night bird. Madeleine brought me immediately back to Luc Ferrari¹s electroacoustic piece Presque Rien N° 2. I became curious about comparing the bird that was officiating in the garden of Cap15 (in the North area of Marseille) with the bird of Presque Rien. My curiosity triggered the desire to play Luc¹s piece in the acoustic space of my house. With my rudimentary recorder I moved inside and outside the house moving back and forth between both spaces. I played with the depth of field, the beat between these two birds separated by 34 years and immersed myself in these acoustic events. This Ursprung or temporal Klein bottle was recorded and edited in one single sequence shot." Very hard to confront with one of the all-time masterpieces of modern creation as Luc Ferraris Presque Rien N° 2... but listening to this piece you immediately get the impression of a perfectly accomplished work, published now on LP on your favorite label. So here is the first ever LP by eRikm, elegantly released with Presque Rien iconic mouth picture on the sleeve; dedicated to Brunhild Ferrari and to Natacha Muslera. Edition limited to 350 copies." -Planam |
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Artist: FERRARI, LUC Title: Exercices DImprovisation Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Luc Ferrari conceived this work in 1977 as a sequence of seven individually or collectively improvised exercises for tape and any instrument or group of instruments. Never performed before, Exercices dimprovisation have been released by the GOL collective and issued now on LP by PLANAM. The seven exercises follow each others in a suite of growing intensity where GOL acoustic and electric instruments react to Luc Ferraris tape, lively re-interpreted by Brunhild Ferrari: from a more meditative form, the music turns into free mental spiraling sections to finally culminate in a live musique concrete drama. The tracks were recorded at Ferraris Atelier Post-billig on April 12th and 13th, 2010, a few days before the world premiere performance at La Maison Rouge in Paris. Exercices dimprovisation on one hand presents a new perspective on Ferraris music and on the other pays a panorama-like tribute to his rich and eclectic corpus; somewhere between Tête et Queue du Dragon and Tautologos with a touch of Danses Organiques. GOL was formed in 1988 in Paris by Jean-Marcel Busson, Frédéric Rebotier, Ravi Sharda and Samon Takahashi. On this record GOL play flutes, electric guitar, bass guitar, melodica, janotron, ocarina, nagara, electric guembri, vocoder and message box. This LP is the forth in the gollaboration series after records by GOL with Dumitrescu/Avram, with Charlemagne Palestine and with Charles Hayward of This Heat fame. The front sleeve shows a four colour wild collage by the French artist, film-maker and Ferraris collaborator Jacques Brissot based on photo sessions done by Myriam Tirler, who also shot the back cover and inner sleeve images presenting GOL members and Brunhild Ferrari in Kagel-Exotica-like appearances. The edition limited to 350 copies also includes an insert with the complete score by Luc Ferrari. Please note: this previously unpublished work revealing a hidden part of Luc Ferrari poetics is not included in the INA 10CD boxset. Only available on this LP edition." - Planam. |
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Artist: GOL & CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE Title: Pandamoniahbleeummm!!!! Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Entering their 20th year of existence, the GOL orchestra, together with the label Planam, celebrates and starts a new program of collaborations: the Gollaboration series. Volume 2, Pandamoniahbleeummm!!!! marks the encounter with Charlemagne Palestine, pioneer of strumming music and piano maximalism, in the St. Eustache Church in Paris, known for its world famous church organ. The following battle, in the form of a long incantatory improvisation, Charlemagne Palestine playing the church organ and GOL doing the electronics, bass, guitar, and the flutes part, combines many attributes of a pagan ritual. Edition limited to 300 copies, also including a large insert with liner notes and great graphics by Jean-Marcel Busson who also designed the front and back cover." -Planam |
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Artist: GOL & CHARLES HAYWARD Title: GOL/Charles Hayward Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "For this new gollaboration the French combo GOL confronts the British drums legend Charles Hayward for a rough/delicate and intense/mellow paradoxical music delight. The studio side compiles four improvised sessions exploring some possible oblique acceptations of the word rock, while the live side recorded at 104, Paris, in Dec 2008 during the Sonic protest festival, takes the encounters into the realm of psychedelia. The apparently chaotic home-made electronics of GOL find a perfect counterpoint in Haywards This Heat-ish incomparable kickass-snare-cymbals style machinery of straightforward beats meet subtle and continuously reinvented variations. A touch of pop, gamelans from afar, an unexpected song underlined by a frenetic electric organ, make this LP a surprising journey into sonic explorations. GOL was formed in 1988 in Paris by Jean-Marcel Busson, Frédéric Rebotier, Ravi Sharda and Samon Takahashi. On this record GOL play modified synths, modified organ, bass guitar, home-made electronics, SH101 and crackle box. This LP is the third in the gollaboration series after records by GOL with Dumitrescu/Avram and with Charlemagne Palestine. The very minimal sleeve features a four color reversible double front side with sinister photo portraits of Charles Hayward and the GOL members. Black and white inner sleeve with title tracks and liner notes. Edition limited to 350 copies." - Planam. |
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Artist: GOL ORCHESTRA & TELINGA ENSEMBLE Title: Improvisations January 1997 Format: Double LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $50.00 |
| "An improvised music acid trip for instruments, voice and electronics by the GOL Orchestra and the now defunct Telinga Ensemble navigating on the darkest waters of psychedelia. Five long tracks recorded 14 years ago in an icy flat in Pigalle, Paris with Ravi Shardja (bass guitar), Olivier Maurel (cello, objects), Emmanuel Quentin (guitar, prepared guitar), Cathy Mai (drums, vocals), Frederic Rebotier (percussions, flutes, objects), Samon Takahashi (real-time mix, electronics). Listening to this record will fulfill the most adventurous and twisted ears engaging the freedom of the bodies and the mystery of not-yet-registred dances. Edition limited to 240 copies with sensational full color gatefold sleeve and breath-taking inside cover painting by Jean-Marcel Busson." - Planam. |
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Artist: GOL/ANA-MARIA AVRAM/IANCU DUMITRESCU Title: Musique Directe Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| "Entering their 20th year of existence, the GOL orchestra, together with the label Planam, celebrates and starts a new program of collaborations: the Gollaboration series. Musique Directe shows the band facing the leaders of Rumanian spectralism, Ana-Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu. Electric and intense spontaneous experiments, on the edge of electroacoustic music and primitive avant-garde. Live recordings in Marseille and Paris with the participation of Ansamblul Hyperion members Petru and Matei Teodorescu on one track. GOL was formed in 1988 in Paris by Jean-Marcel Busson, Frédéric Rebotier, Ravi Sharda and Samon Takahashi. The quartet embodies, within a post-Dada spirit, a lost rural tradition. GOL plays flute, horns, guitar, violin, toys, self-manufactured instruments, tapes, turntables, voices, various percussion instruments and electronics, an appropriateness of both traditional string instrument and handmade low fi equipment. GOLs first LP, issued in 1993, compiles their first items (88-92) based on vinyl-record scratching, tape cut-ups and acoustic instruments. The issuing of this LP was followed by a 9-year hibernation. Since 2002, the band is back together to pursue its common research and play together with instinct and invention. Their music, electroacoustic-oriented, is partially improvised and partly tense. At the time of a collaboration with Rumanian composer Iancu Dumitrescu, GOL developed a score system renowned as layers leaf . Through this system, they could elaborate a hybrid music between orchestral conduct and free interpretation of movements. Edition limited to 300 copies, also including the improvisation sketch for Musique Directe V (not on the record)." -Planam |
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Artist: INSTANT COFFEE! Title: Instant Coffee! Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "A bizarre love triangle strung between the Baltimore noise scene, contemporary electronics and the New York jazz world, Instant Coffee play improvised music which spontaneously assembles itself into song shapes that blossom, catch fire, explode and distort in ways that are unpredictable and disorienting. A trio comprised of Lisle Ellis, M. C., Schmidt and Jason Willett, the band members boast some unusually checkered pasts. Lisle Ellis is one of the foremost bassists in modern jazz, and having played with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Fred Frith and John Zorn, hes now exploring the electroacoustic combination of traditional jazz techniques with realtime computer processing. M. C. Schmidt has been one half of the conceptually oriented electronic provocateurs Matmos since 1997, and has made music with Bjork, the Kronos Quartet, Terry Riley and Zeena Parkins; in this band he plays a perverse array of percussive objects and many recalcitrant synthesizers. Jason Willett is a Baltimore veteran of avant and out music both on the fringes of rock and noise; he has been in too many bands to mention, but was a longtime member of Half Japanese and collaborator with Jad Fair, and also plays in harsh free noise ensembles such as Leprechaun Catering. In these sessions, Jason plays contact-mic-ed rubber band and an improbable cluster of custom electronics created by noted Baltimore instrument maker Peter B. You would expect the results to fall into a Bermuda Triangle between jazz, electronic music and noise, but in fact Instant Coffees sound rages further afield: unexpectedly lovely ambience, murky Italian movie soundtracks, humid mirages of drone that take sharp turns towards rhythm, and a closing brush with mittel-European mournful lyricism. There are no noodly solos and no tedious, predictably looped grooves: this music stakes itself on a casually surreal series of dissolves from one form to another." - Planam. Side-label of Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: K-SALVATORE Title: The Kermes Infestation Format: 6LP Box Set Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $182.00 |
| "PLANAM proudly presents K-Salvatore The Kermes Infestation 6LP box masterpiece. This is the first ever available edition as the elusive self published triple tape on Sound@One was originally released in 1996 in an invisible edition of just 10 copies. Pre-dating the glorious Four Impossible Puns double LP on Siwa these recordings represent one of the most solid and extreme accomplishments in a parallel to No Neck Blues Band early era universe. K-Salvatore is the enigmatic entity created by No Neck Blues Band founding members Pat Murano (Decimus, Key Of Shame, Malkuth, Raajmahal, Kelippah Records) and Jason Meagher (Black Dirt Studio and Records). During the summer of 1995, K-Salvatore purchased 10 copies of an instructional audio cassette package on remainder at a local Barnes and Noble. The group then endeavored to replace the originally contained instruction with their own. Over the course of the remainder of that summer, Jason Meagher and Pat Murano met once a week to record six continuous improvisations. One for each side of the Package. Once completed the 10 copies were distributed amongst friends and family for study. Akin to a 5+ hour kidnapping ordeal that culminates, not with freedom restored, but instead disembowlment in a sad mans bathtub. Available now on 6 LPs with individual silkscreened sleeves in a hand colored and silkscreened heavy box, in a numbered edition of 145 copies only." -Planam. |
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Artist: KEY OF SHAME Title: s/t Format: Double LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $34.00 |
| "Key Of Shame is the most extreme entity to come out from two cult collectives of the New York underground, or No Neck Blues Band and Sightings. PLANAM proudly presents their first recordings, four threnodies for Judas Iscariota as performer by Mark Morgan (Sightings) and Pat Murano (NNCK, Decimus). Jesus answered and said You will become the thirteenth, and you will be cursed by the other generations - and you will come to rule over them. In the last days they will curse your ascen... Atmospheric radical electronics at their highest peak. Hand stenciled and silkscreened edition of 270 double-LPs released by PLANAM. And Jesus replied Friend, Do what you came for Matthew, 26:50." - Planam. |
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Artist: MENSTRUATION SISTERS Title: Puppet Island Format: Double LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $50.00 |
| "Day 13. The green hell of the jungle stretches around us at all sides. I feel like I am being driven mad by the constant suffocation of its hot and terrible embrace. Everywhere, awful vegetable life fights for supremacy. The nights are more terrible for the noise and darkness. Day 14. Two of our bearers have fled taking most of our dwindling supplies with them. At least there is water to be found in the streams and lagoons but it is filthy and brown and if imbibed unboiled gives one terrible stomach cramps and diarrhea. The scotch and tobacco are gone and we chew coca leaves for the small comfort they afford. Day 15. Jenkins went mad last night. He is nowhere to be seen now. We hear occasional cries from the North which can only be him. Day 16. We found the ruins of an abandoned village today. There were what appear to be drums, much like those found in the Congo, hanging from trees surrounding the village. We saw piles of banana skins amongst the abandoned grass huts. In the very middle of the settlement we found a large flat round rock with a pile of hair, a good three feet high, on it. After a good deal of debate Filbert and I decided that the hair was of human origin. Day 17. We are restricting our diet to a small handful of cashew nuts each morning as we rise. We found several more hair mounds in the felled grounds surrounding the village. These seem darker and more like animal hair than the mound we discovered yesterday. Double LP masterpiece in full colour gatefold sleeve, issued in an edition of 280 copies." - Planam. |
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Artist: NO NECK BLUES BAND Title: Languid Red Marchetti Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Recorded close to the groups inception in 1994, Languid Red Marchetti is the NNCK sound in its empirical form, rhythmically a-linear and fundamentally abstract. While NNCK would go on to become a seven piece performing group, recording and touring extensively, this recording documents a smaller group of four original members engaged in the hermetically sealed sonic exploration which best locates their aesthetic origins. From the groups statement on Languid Red Marchetti: A proto-intuitive Latihan of feedback + pre-scaffold juxtaposition of layers which would come to constitute edifice, and eventually dwelling. Where we would soon occupy this sound, it here was a force in and of itself, its directionless propulsion compounding into substance and landscape. This deluxe edition Planam LP comes with a NNCK generated essay on sound imaging through improvisation and is packaged in a full color jacket depicting The hypothetical dissolve/corruption + subsequent inevitable repetition of Suprematism. Edition limited to 340 copies, with full-color cover, infra-Suprematist inner sleeve and ultra-liner notes insert by Keith Connolly." - Planam. |
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Artist: RODER, KLAUS Title: Kristallisationen Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Klaus Röder is a guitar virtuoso and electronic music artist who studied with Kelemen and joined Kraftwerk for their famous Autobahn LP. He often works with very small sound particles, whose sound comes from different sources, like tearing paper, the voice, a musical instrument, synthesizer or computer sounds. Sound structures are built by joining together those sound particles and, by mixing those structures, Roeder forms chords. Then the process of crystallization begins. Usually crystallization means that small parts are deposited around a germ and form a growing crystal. The shape of the complete crystal is a consequence of outer influences. A series of sound crystals form, then the complete musical composition. Side 1 presents two electronic music works: 10: 11: 12 (1980) for self-built Impulse Generator is an obscure, very minimal and abstract pulsating piece, while Kristallisation 4 (1991) for Computer Sounds and Yamaha DX 802 might be considered one of the peaks of Klaus Röder Kristallisation series. Side 2 introduces us to a different formal result of Röders crystallization process: the short Haenschen Blues (1993) for children singing and crying, Yamaha TX 802 controlled by selfmade programs for Atari TT is a both playful and sinister electronic assemblage anticipating the peak of this record, Potpourri (1985) a collage of short sound particles from German pop hits of the 1970s and 1980s. In the perspective on sound collages (from Battiato Ethika Fon Ethica to Bladder Flasks first LP, from NWWs most surrealistic works to John Oswald classic plunderphonics) Potpourri might be more close to the brut masterpiece InOut by Anton Bruhin, only constructed in a more advanced and scientific way. Edition limited to 300 copies, also including a series of inserts with the diagrams and schedules of the 4 compositions presented on this LP." -Planam |
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Artist: RODER, KLAUS Title: Kristallisationen 2 Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Planam proudly presents the second LP production by Klaus Röder featuring two more pieces from the electronic Kristallisationen series, or Kristallisation 5 (1993) for microphone recordings of children chimes (played by children), Yamaha TX 802 digital synthesizer and EMS Synthi A analog synthesizer, Kristallisation 7 (1997) for microphone recordings and computer sounds, as well as Frozen Sounds (2002) for electric guitar sounds and computer sounds and the more concrete Life-Music 1 (1999) for microphone recordings in the zoo of Wuppertal, computer sounds and Yamaha TX 802 digital synthesizer. Klaus Röder is the archetype of the challenging challenger -- the perfect outsider. Nothing bad about it -- true geniuses often are hiding behind their uncompromising ethic. Ethic in the attic would define the home-studio work of this ex-Kraftwerk banned banned banned auf Die Autobahn. The independent, time-stretching composer Klaus Röder is by necessity an inventor. Systems, machines, treatments, everything is (hand)made to provoke, to induce a musical result not only technically superb but loaded with the authors intimacy: humour, sound elements of a private life, a kid giggling... indeed a highly emotional and poetical approach. Klaus Röder mixes and plays with outside influences -- cut-up, musique concrète, psychedelia, plunderphonics, pop, even blues! -- in order to create a patchwork-like but coherent corpus over nearly 40 years of compositional activity. His music blends the warmth of strings and of humanity with the icy matter of electrical components and seems to have just one borderline: that of our ears. Edition limited to 420 copies. - Planam. Side-label of Alga Marghen. |
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Artist: VOGEL, MICHEL Title: Ronde Matutinale À Amillis/Berenice Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Planam proudly presents the second LP by the artist and sound sculptor Michel Vogel. Born in 1941 in Strasbourg, France, Michel Vogels artistic activities started in 1960 when, as a painter under the materic influences of Antoni Tapies and Jean Dubuffet, his mineral and sound experimentations built a universe influenced by free jazz, extra-European music and Olivier Messiaen. His research developed with new sculptures and the creation of his own resonating metal instruments. His friends of the minimalist group, and especially the Fluxus artists, supported and pushed him to carry on his acoustic explorations while his sonic creations got closer to the music of John Cage, Philip Corner, Morton Feldman and Giacinto Scelsi. After the deep cosmo night music of Une petite music de nuit (Vogels first LP) Planam decided to issue two more early-morning oriented realizations, or Ronde mattinale à Amillis and Berenice. These alfa-wave improvisations for prepared gongs and self-built metal instruments, selected in direct collaboration with the artist, will make you enter into luminous sonic dimensions. Edition limited to 270 copies with full colour space cover and inner sleeve." -Planam |
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Artist: VOGEL, MICHEL Title: Une Petite Musique De Nuit Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "Planam proudly presents the first LP by the artist and sound sculptor Michel Vogel. Born in 1941 in Strasbourg, France, Michel Vogel artistic activities start in 1960 when, as a painter under the materic influences of Antoni Tapies and Jean Dubuffet, his mineral and sound experimentations built a universe influenced by free jazz, extra-European music and Olivier Messiaen. His researches develop with new sculptures and the creation of his own resonating metal instruments. His friends of the minimalist group, and specially the Fluxus artists, supported and pushed him to carry on his acoustics explorations while his sonic creations get closer to the music of John Cage, Philip Corner, Morton Feldman and Giacinto Scelsi. For this first project, Planam selected, in direct collaboration with the artist, an improvisation for large size gongs prepared with metal rods, little gong, Chinese cymbal, caoutchouc ball, titled Une Petite Musique De Nuit. Recorded live with no over-dubbing the night of January 18th, 2002. A very deep and alfa-wave oriented listening that will make you discover very intimate, as well as stellar new sonic dimensions. Edition limited to 300 copies, with full colour space cover and innersleeve." -Planam |
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Artist: WELTTRAUMFORSCHER Title: Herzschlag Erde/Verdunkelt Die Sinne Format: LP Label: Planam Country: Italy Price: $33.00 |
| "Right on time for its 30th anniversary, Herzschlag Erde, cassette debut album of Die Welttraumforscher, is being re-released in a collaborative effort between the labels Planam and A Tree In A Field. The new, limited vinyl edition includes a large-format, 20-page booklet as well as the previously unreleased follow-up album, Verdunkelt die Sinne. Die Welttraumforscher is one of Switzerlands most enigmatic musical projects, with a catalog that not only spans more than 30 albums, but also films, stories and countless illustrations. These documents are the only proof that Die Welttraumforscher actually exists. Small creatures with big, gentle eyes, more reminiscent of friendly ghosts than of scientists (Forscher), are depicted with child-like innocence and painstaking attention to detail. Their universe also includes such characters as the Moon Pope, Kip Eulenmeister and Leguan Rätselmann. Together, they experience weird adventures with a touch of science fiction, metaphysics and dadaism. As Die Welttraumforscher themselves put it: We are working for the next world. No wonder that those of us stuck in the here-and-now are not always able to make sense of it. The man behind this phantom band is only mentioned in the small print: Lyrics, music and illustrations by Christian Pfluger for Die Welttraum-forscher. Not unlike musical kindred spirits The Residents, Pfluger remains in the shadows, creating a mystique. However, instead of concealing or disguising himself at shows, he just very rarely plays live at all. This veil of mystery, the borderline-esoteric mysticism, plus the fact that the lyrics are almost exclusively in German, might explain to some degree why Die Welttraumforscher have always led a niche existence. Among musicians, however, they have already gained cult status. Mouse on Mars, Neoangin, and Harald Sack Ziegler are just a few known admirers. Together with other musicians, they released a remix LP on Felix Kubins Gagarin label in 1999. Other well-known aficionados are Dieter Meier (Yello) and German astronaut Hans-Joachim Roloff. Herzschlag Erde sets a musical and artistic course that has remained largely unchanged in the following 30 years. New, affordable technology such as the 4-track-cassette home studio made it possible to record music alone and with simple equipment; We work with what we have, not with what wed like to have. Technological constraints are compensated by an unbounded imagination, yet the final result remains playful and intriguing. The opening track, Traum der Welt (i.e. Dream of the World), is also a manifesto of sorts: ...they are [...] coming to us. Die Welttraumforscher, music from the far end of our thoughts, Neither-Nor sounds, and dance ambushes. Edition limited to 350 copies including a large (20 page) booklet with sinister photos, surreal drawings and lyrics in German and English." -Planam |
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Artist: SHINING PATH, THE Title: Take You So Low So You Can Fly So High Format: LP Label: Planaria Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "One we heard is a real rock n roll monkey called Fly So High by The Shining Path, a duo comprised of Ilya Monosov and Preston Swirnoff. More known for their weirdo psych minimalism as Monsov Swirnoff, documented heavily by Eclipse Records the last few years, here they get down to some confused and slippery boogie-spazz with the finer elements of free spirit futurism informing the process. Fucking out there and great." --Byron Coley and Thurston Moore, Arthur Magazine. Side A is a reissue of the cassette released by TBTD Tapes. Side B is a bombastic unreleased live cut of The Path with Little Howlin Wolf and Peter Barry at Marquise Dance Hall (Brooklyn, NYC, 2006). - Planaria |
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Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: Challenger Format: LP Label: Plastic Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "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."-Plastic. Repressed. |
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Artist: GUSTOFORTE Title: Souvenir of Italy Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Plastica Marella Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
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"To describe GustoFortes Picture disc Souvenir of Italy - La merda che fuma, to give some dialect shape to the electro-magnetic throbbings that come out from the record , to try drawing, with grammatic help also that more basic, a logic or a descriptive way, its complex. GustoForte born in Rome in the 1984, develop its sonorous magma and then blend into the continuous beat of the peripheral roman nights. The dub, without echo, beats an ended time. The gloomy sound and silently shouting of the roman tradition dirty oneself with ground noises. Indistinct. Perennial. Limping ditties shake furious inside an old echos room. Take again the steady dancing of the not create thinking of age 70: Telaio Magnetico, I Fiori di Mario Schifano, Aktuala, Caludio Rocchi, Osage Tribe, Juri Camisasca, Albergo Intergalattico Spaziale, N.A.D.M.A, Lino Capra Vaccina, Pierrot Lunaire, Opus Avantra. And then The Carmelo Bene of wet of cockroach and stew cellars, the Cesare Canevari, Alberto cavallone, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Nico DAlessandria, Alberto Grifi, Ugo Nespolo, Piero Bargellini and Mario Schifanos Cinema. The Electronic music of Egisto Macchi whisk.. with the anti-art saliva of Cramps and BlaBla records. GustoForte whisks the crazy metaphor of the American no-wave with the violent throb of roman "barcaroli". Sonorous sandpaper flood of organic humours.To describe the sound and the Sounds that regurgitate in GustoForte its enough to say the word Malagrotta: the rubbish dump that embraces Rome from 40 years, 240 hectares of mud and refuses. GustoForte is a rubbish heap of the memory that shapes the useless mud of nationals vanguards to more new shapes full of faith popular mire. Its all. Only one record published in the spring of 1985 in 200 copies, sheet cover to keep the sonorous clue into the tracks. Only two live performances. About the second work on published only the lacquers.This picture disc contains two tracks composed around the half of years 80:Souvenir of Italy and La merda che fuma. Souvenir of Italy born in the 1986 and had to be print like second work of GustoForte some months after the registration. But the editor failed and everything remained unfinished. 12 record players hungry of Italian sound collide with the resonant mud of GustoForte: necrophile descent into the hell of the national memory. The second track La merda che fuma belongs to a live registration made in the 1985 at the Beat 72 Theatre in Rome, one of the places of old roman vanguard. The composition was made on a writing of Osvaldo Licini ⌡ merda che fuma ; Licini is one of the best modern Italian artist, painter, poet and immense agitator of Italian art." - Plastica Marella. Hand-numbered edition of 150 copies. |
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Artist: SEVEN, LARRY & JIM SHARPE Title: Burlap Fantasy Format: Double 7 Label: Plastikville Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Recent product from Plastikvilles analogue research studio. A deconstruction of the old rock hit "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain. You get two copies so you can mix your own version! The b-side ("Burlap Breaks") is a set of 4 discrete tracks spread out over 2 pairs of stereo bands (each side of a stereo channel being two separate tracks). So, with
a couple of turntables, a decent mixer, and some mischievous intent -
voila! youve got youre own version. Impress friends at parties with your
skills and taste! Tear it up in the more discriminating clubs... you
figure it out! If youre lazy, you can just play the A-side -- the
plastikville honchos do their own version..." - Plastikville. Limited edition package in burlap.
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Artist: SEESSELBERG Title: Synthetik 1 Format: CD Label: Plate Lunch Country: Germany Price: $16.00 |
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Long delayed reissue, finally released; officially remastered from original tapes. Early electronic music of Eckhart and Wolf-J. Seesselberg from 1971-1973 created with hand made synthesizers. Originally released on a private LP in 1973 in a quantity of 600. "DŸsseldorf was the electronic / industrial wasteland that spawned Kraftwerk, Cluster and Neu. It was also the stomping ground for Eckhart and Wolf-J. Seesselberg who partly produced this excellent album there (the other location being Hamburg). Rather than go for extended electronic drones, however, the brothers came up with a selection of shorter pieces, adding variety to their record which others failed to imitate. Seesselberg have been compared (somewhat clumsily) to early Kraftwerk and Conrad Schnitzlers Kluster, but to my ears they have more in common with New Yorks Suicide and The Silver Apples (minus the vocals natch!) than any of their German contemporaries." - Plate Lunch. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: SAMARTZIS, PHILIP Title: Soft and Loud Format: LP Label: Plates Of Sound Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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Deluxe U.S. vinyl version of an obscure Australian CD release by Samartzis. Luxurious quality production all around, #d edition of 500 copies. "Dr. Philip Samartzis, a senior lecturer and coordinator of sound at RMIT in Australia, is not a novice to the experimental music scene. He was one of the founding members of the Australian avant-turntable/noise group Gum in the 80s, and has since been composing abstract electronic music, w/ previous releases on Synaesthesia, Dorobo, Staalplaat, and For4Ears. Samartzis Soft and Loud is a modern day exploration of Japans culture and identity through the guise of modern day musique concrete. Soft and Loud was conceived in the winter of 1999 in Tokyo, Japan and meticulously completed in Melbourne, Australia in August 2003, using specifically derived field recordings (that Philip had recorded) from Japan that detail the daily existence of many of its people. The digitally altered sounds of the Japanese subway system, electronic bird calls, the mournful calling of a chestnut salesman, to the digital wash of a Japanese stream cohesively offers a sense of serenity, and calmness as well as the loud, busy and chaotic nature of a country that appears often reserved and guarded. We, the listeners, become voyeurs to the country and experience the key characteristics of Japan that defines itself as a country." - Plates Of Sound.
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Artist: FLOATING DI MOREL Title: Said My Say Format: LP Label: Play Loud Country: Germany Price: $17.00 |
| "Third album by Berlin rock n rollers Floating di Morel. Kai Drewitz (ex PLO), Sabine Blödorn and Thorsten Neu (former Kissin Cousins) "sound like Sky Saxon & the Seeds did float, uneffortless, it´s just there as it pops into yr head like a thumb stuck in the mouth." (39 Clocks Jürgen Gleue about FdM)." - Play Loud. |
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Artist: MUEHL, OTTO/AA COMMUNE Title: Aktions Analytische Musik Format: LP Label: Play Naked Country: Austria Price: $32.00 |
| "reissue of Otto Muehls AA Commune most sought after record from the 70s. "Musikalische Selbstdarstellungen 1974/75". Crazy group-therapy sessions, improvised music with different commune members coming forward and singing about their parents, how two-people-relationships kill sex-life, etc.. Record comes in fullcolour cover (reprint of the original), stamped label, plus A4 booklet with transcription of all spoken text to english, german and french. LImited edition of around 250 copies." -Play Naked |
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Artist: PINK NOISE Title: Gilded Flowers Format: LP Label: Pleasence Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Originating in Toronto and making his way over to Montreal, MARK SAUNER has seen THE PINK NOISE through several incarnations and the release of five LPs. The Pink Noise has graced the prestigious label Sacred Bones twice; selling out of the first record Dream Code so quickly that they were asked to do another. The album Gilded Flowers was first released in 2009 as a cassette with Campaign For Infinity and met with great acclaim." -Pleasence |
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Artist: IDEA FIRE COMPANY Title: Days Format: 7" Label: Plinkity Plonk Country: Netherlands Price: $11.00 |
| "A new IFCO single. This one went through the tortures of the damned, but here it finally is. The First Days is a different and more sprightly version of Romance from Impossible Salon. The Last Days was originally going to be on The Island Of Taste. I always thought it would make a great B side to a single and now I am vindicated.. Happy and sad. Just like life." - Swill Radio. |
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Artist: MIRROR Title: Viking Burial for a French Car Format: CD Label: Plinkity Plonk Country: Netherlands Price: $18.50 |
| "Through the past few years Mirror have gained a wide reputation for some of the most beautiful unearthly drone music. Mirror is usually regarded as a duo of Christoph Heeman and Andrew Chalk. Their Viking Burial for a French Car consists, partly, of a recording made by Mirror in Dundee, Scotland in October 2003, where Mirror was extended with David Keenan (author of Englands Hidden Reverse), Gavin Laird and Alex Neilson. The concert was an accompaniment to the film Haxan, about witchcraft through the ages. In an epic thirty-seven minutes, Mirror extends beyond the drone music and comes up with an orchestral piece, in an almost Xenakis style: building a large crescendo and in the middle an explosion Afterwards the piece slowly follows its course in descrescendo. A surprising piece for Mirror, that would not have worked on a LP release. Its length requires an uninterrupted listening. Viking Burial for a French Car is one of the rarer CD releases by Mirror, who usually release their work on LP, and will surely appeal to those with a limited music budget. Packed in the usual Plinkity Plonk sleeve." - Plinkity Plonk. |
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Artist: PICK-UP Title: Loop End Format: LP Label: Plinkity Plonk Country: Netherlands Price: $16.00 |
| "Martin Luiten and Frans de Waard are both from Nijmegen and both part of the same musical scene - if there is such a thing. They played together in 2003 when their bands Girlfriends and Beequeen played a collaborative concert, and the two met on the sunday afternoon improvisation concerts. Yet its not been until this year that they decided to work together, Martin on guitar and electronics and Frans picking the sound up with his laptop. Extremely fruitful sessions were held, and resulted in one LP to be released soon by Important Records and this LP, released by Plinkity Plonk. Five pieces of repeating guitars, swirling electronics and the finest drones. Laptop blues? Call it what you like. Sit back and relax." -Plinkity Plonk |
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Artist: TATE, DARREN & PAUL BRADLEY Title: Sometime Today Format: CD Label: Plinkity Plonk Country: Netherlands Price: $18.50 |
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"A collaboration between Darren Tate and Paul Bradley. In his own unique and intimate way, Darren recorded the basic tracks at his home in York. Including guitar, keyboard and various other techniques, these recordings were passed onto Paul who took them with him, along with a laptop, on a recent visit to Turkey. These original tracks were supplemented with various field recordings taken around the town of Fethiye and the piece assembled during this three-week visit. Voyeuristic, evocative, abstract and delicate, you are invited to spend some time in their sonic world. Darren Tate made his name in the group Ora, a floating collective that included Colin Potter, Andrew Chalk and Jonathan Coleclough. Paul Bradley started out with his first commercial release on ICR and this friendship and partnership has continued over two collaborative CDs with Colin Potter." - Plinkity Plonk.
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Artist: ALVARIUS B Title: Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset Format: Cass Label: Plus Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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""Its been seven years since we heard the last Alvarius B record ( Alan Bishop /Sun City Girls ), and Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset is the third released thus far. This is a collection of songs seemingly based on actual, but unnamed shady characters of the global underworld past and present, according to the brief statement on the insert. Regardless of intent, this is cryptic folk music of the highest order, with several tracks employing folk/rock/psych orchestrations featuring the talents of Eyvind Kang ,Tim Young ,Richard Bishop ,Andrew McGinnis and Randall Dunn . Twisted Americana folklore breeds with baroque Italian cinematic pop, dark ballads, and vagrant story lines. Eleven unique and varied tracks and the most "produced" Alvarius B record to date." - Abduction. Cassette reissue of 2005 LP.
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Artist: GRAY Title: Shades Of... Format: LP Label: Plush Safe Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Limited LP version, first released on CD in 2011. In downtown New York City, in 1979, painter Jean-Michel Basquiat and performance artist Michael Holman founded their industrial-sound band, Gray. Jean named the band after Grays Anatomy (the human anatomy textbook), an important reference source for his paintings and the perfect name to capture the haunting, machine-like ambient music the band wrote and performed. In the Whitney Museums catalog for Basquiats 1991 Retrospective, Robert Farris Thompson, professor of Anthropology at Yale, wrote this about Gray: "They worked the Mudd Club, CBGBs, and Hurrahs in New York, where Blondie and the Talking Heads were at that time emerging. They performed, in other words, at the epicenter of New Wave. Here they contended for space and recognition with a style that, in Basquiats own words, was incomplete, abrasive, and oddly beautiful." In an Interview magazine review (Jan. 1981) Glenn OBrien wrote: "Gray became an industrial sound effects band. They played on scaffolds ... Lately, theyve really developed their own groove... its sort of an easy listening bebop industrial sound effects lounge ensemble." Besides Basquiat and Holman, other members of the original group were Nicholas Taylor, Justin Thyme and Vincent Gallo. Just after Jean-Michel Basquiats passing in 1988, Holman, Taylor, Thyme and Gallo re-united as Gray and performed at Basquiats Memorial at St. Peters Lutheran Church in the Citicorp Building. In 1996, the making of the MiraMax feature production Basquiat brought Grays three original members (Holman, Taylor & Thyme) back together as they reenacted one of their legendary gigs at the Mudd Club with Tony Award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright playing Jean-Michel Basquiat. While reenacting their Mudd Club gig, the members of Gray realized that 1990s pop/ambient music sounded a lot like what Gray was doing in the past. Inspired by their own historic sound, the band decided to return to the studio to create and record new music. This "new" Gray sound evolved from industrial bebop to electronica with poetic vocals and groovy beats. Michael Holman and Nicholas Taylor have now reunited once again to produce the first Gray album ever, titled, Shades Of... on their own label, Plush Safe Records, that harkens back to Grays sonic roots -- industrial noise melded with electronic atmospheres. This multi-track compilation includes and involves sample tracks from Grays earliest recordings and performances, with samples of Basquiats music and voice. The other tracks range from Stockhausen-inspired fugues, to trip-hop lanced throw-downs. Holman & Taylor were fortunate to work with John Cales drummer Dean Anthony on this new music, as well as fabled Tubes drummer, Prairie Prince and downtown scenester/drummer, Lenny Ferraro. Shades Of... is not only a living piece of New York history, its also an audio interpretation of a journey to where Taylor & Holman see the future of music. #d edition of 1000, all copies signed by Michael Holman & Nick Taylor." - Plush Safe. |
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Artist: GRAY Title: Shades Of... Format: CD Label: Plush Safe Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"In downtown New York City, in 1979, painter Jean-Michel Basquiat and performance artist Michael Holman founded their industrial-sound band, Gray. Jean named the band after Grays Anatomy, an important reference source for his paintings and the perfect name to capture the haunting, machine-like ambient music the band wrote and performed. In the Whitney Museums catalog for Basquiats 1991 Retrospective, Robert Farris Thompson, professor of Anthropology at Yale, wrote this about Gray: "They worked the Mudd Club, CBGBs, and Hurrahs in New York, where Blondie and the Talking Heads were at that time emerging. They performed, in other words, at the epicenter of New Wave. Here they contended for space and recognition with a style that, in Basquiats own words, was incomplete, abrasive, and oddly beautiful." In an Interview magazine review (Jan. 1981) Glenn OBrien wrote: "Gray became an industrial sound effects band. They played on scaffolds ... Lately, theyve really developed their own groove... its sort of an easy listening bebop industrial sound effects lounge ensemble." Besides Basquiat and Holman, other members of the original group were Nicholas Taylor, Justin Thyme and Vincent Gallo. Just after Jean-Michel Basquiats passing in 1988, Holman, Taylor, Thyme and Gallo re-united as Gray and performed at Basquiats Memorial at St. Peters Lutheran Church in the Citicorp Building. In 1996, the making of the MiraMax feature production Basquiat brought Grays three original members (Holman, Taylor & Thyme) back together as they reenacted one of their legendary gigs at the Mudd Club with Tony Award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright playing Jean-Michel Basquiat. While reenacting their Mudd Club gig, the members of Gray realized that 1990s pop/ambient music sounded a lot like what Gray was doing in the past. Inspired by their own historic sound, the band decided to return to the studio to create and record new music. This "new" Gray sound evolved from industrial bebop to electronica with poetic vocals and groovy beats. Michael Holman and Nicholas Taylor have now reunited once again to produce the first Gray album ever, titled, Shades Of... on their own label, Plush Safe Records, that harkens back to Grays sonic roots -- industrial noise melded with electronic atmospheres. This multi-track compilation includes and involves sample tracks from Grays earliest recordings and performances, with samples of Basquiats music and voice. Included is a solo performance by Basquiat (recorded by Justin Thyme) called "Suicide Hotline," where Basquiat, in 1980, called a suicide hotline, and in dramatic, and darkly teasing fashion, reads bits of his poetry to the hotline operator, never allowing the operator to know for sure if the "caller" is insane, suicidal, or simply toying with him. The effect of the piece is powerful and disturbing, yet poignant and moving in a way only Basquiat could produce. The other tracks range from Stockhausen-inspired fugues, to trip-hop lanced throw-downs. Holman & Taylor were fortunate to work with John Cales drummer Dean Anthony on this new music, as well as fabled Tubes drummer, Prairie Prince and downtown scenester/drummer, Lenny Ferraro. Shades Of... is not only a living piece of New York history, its also an audio interpretation of a journey to where Taylor & Holman see the future of music." -Plush Safe
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Artist: SUBURBAN STUDS Title: Questions b/w No Faith Format: 7" Label: Pogo Country: UK Price: $6.00 |
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Unplayed "dead stock" from 1977. Remixed 2nd issue (NO sax). "..all housed in generic sleeves: a remarkable three-chord Punk platter which was badly distributed... and criminally neglected by the press. Steve Hearts saxophone, which follows the unorthodox paths of X-Ray Spexs Lora Logic, is particularly distinctive. A promising debut, recommended to Punk collectors. Both songs of the single were resurrected by Anagram Records on a 1993 CD compliation entitled THE COMPLETE SUBURBAN STUDS PUNK COLLECTION." - 45 Revolutions.
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Artist: LINDBLAD, RUNE Title: Objekt 2 Format: CD Label: Pogus Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: OTTE, HANS Title: orient:occident / minimum:maximum Format: CD Label: Pogus Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| minimum:maximum (1973): texts / sounds / pictures. An environment (simultaneous concert in Stockholm and Bremen) for two organists: Karl-Erik Welin and Gerd Zacher, keyboard instruments. orient:occident (1977): for two woodwind-players and tape: Ingo Goritzki, oboe; Hans-Wilhelm Goetzke, clarinet. "Perhaps best known for his piano work Book of Sounds these two works by German composer Hans Otte were composed in the 1970s. In that decade his aesthetic creed became increasingly clear: the search for the character and individuality of sound as such, which must be rediscovered and re-experienced independent of superimposed structures. The composer understands the dialogue with sounds as the discovery of their nature. (Ute Schalz-Laurenze). While Hans Otte was an enthusiastic, one might say visionary promoter of fellow composers, such as John Cage and David Tudor, whose impacts had registered to the general public long after their force reached the surface, he nevertheless remained deeply committed to his own music. Ottes writings, simple lines that say: words are just something added on; all great things laugh; when something is reminiscent of nothing; and, its really something - that voice that was once in the mouth, all direct us to his music, because: everything always happens: Now. It is Ottes music that betrays his particularity of thought to what (is everything), how (it happens), and when (is now). Words are just something added on. Collectively, these aphorisms reflect an aesthetic that dispenses with words which may address themselves to an understanding of the world. Here, however, the world to be understood is indescribable. What is everything? When is now? How does it happen? The message is that words tell, music is. Listen. The titles of these works: orient:occident and minimum:maximum, suggest a relationship between seemingly disparate things to remind us of Ottes adage: It is the gardener who owns the garden." |
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Artist: V/A Title: DIY Canons Format: Double CD Label: Pogus Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "The pieces on this CD are all based on the ideas in Larry Polanskys four voice canons, a series of pieces he began in 1975. These canons are usually mensuration canons, which means that the tempi of successive voices is proportional to their start times, so that the voices end together. They also use simple ideas of moving through a list of permutations, and applying the elements of those permutations to various musical parameters. A set of Polanskys canons was produced on Cold Blue Records as four voice canons. Polansky described these ideas in Four Voice Canon #13 (DIY Canon), a kind of open-source meta-canon score. He distributed this at talks and on the web as an open invitation to others who wanted to make four voice canons of their own. Composers responded with a wide variety of variations on the basic idea; a selection of these works is presented here." - Simon Wickham-Smith, curator. Features: Kyoko Kobayashi, Bruno Ruviaro, Mike Swinchoski, Mike Winter, Ross Craig, Giuliano Lombardo, Simon Wickham-Smith, Steven M. Miller, Masaki Kubo, Drew Krause, George Zelenz, Stefan Tomic, Bo Bell, Philip Corner. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Source Records 1-6 Music Of The Avant Garde, 1968-1971 Format: Triple CD Label: Pogus Country: USA Price: $40.00 |
| "The digital reissue of the Source LPs on 3 CDs: CD1: Source Records 1 And 2 featuring Robert Ashley - "The Wolfman" (1964); David Behrman - "Wave Train" (1966); Larry Austin - "Accidents" (1967); Allan Bryant - "Pitch Out" (1967). CD2: Source Records 3 and 4, featuring Alvin Lucier - "I Am Sitting In A Room" (1970); Arthur Woodbury - "Velox" (1970); Mark Riener - "Phlegethon" (1970); Larry Austin - "Caritas" (1971); Stanley Lunetta - "Moosack Machine" (1971). CD3: Source Records 5 And 6, featuring Lowell Cross - "Video II (B)/(C)/(L)" (1965); Arrigo Lora-Totino - "English Phonemes" (1971); Alvin Curran - "Magic Carpet" (1971); Annea Lockwood - "Tiger Balm" (1971). "Pogus is extremely proud to reissue the recordings included in the seminal new music journal, Source: Music Of The Avant Garde, Vols. 1-6, Issues 1-11, Source Records 1-6, 1967-1973. The original six ten-inch LP Source Records contained some of the most important experimental music of the nineteen-sixties to mid nineteen-seventies -- and they have now been reissued as a 3 CD set. Source ended publication in 1973, having published, since 1967, contemporary musical materials, scores, articles, interviews, photo essays and recordings over seven years, with up to 2000 subscribers to the semiannual journal: the subscribers avidly anticipated receiving two new and critically acclaimed issues each year during that period. Most of the original tape masters for the records, after over forty years, have vanished or have seriously deteriorated; hence, we have carefully transferred, noise-reduced, and crackle-removed all the actual LP record tracks to the digital medium, then mastered to the compact disc format for this reissue: the result is an authentic recreation of the original LP, characteristic sound." Includes 20-page booklet." -Pogus |
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Artist: WICKHAM-SMITH, SIMON Title: Love & Lamentation Format: CD Label: Pogus Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The Sandokai (The Harmony of Difference and Equality) is a prayer written by the eighth century Japanese Zen teacher Sekito Kisen. The basis for this piece was a tape given to Wickham-Smith by a nun of a recital at her monastery. He wanted to create of this sample a prayer without borders, a follow-up to an earlier work, Ave Regina Caelorum (2000, released on Extreme Bukake), in which he used the Latin plainsong of a prayer to the Virgin Mary in much the same way. The organ sample at the end is from a piece by Erik Satie, whose spirituality was equally strange and eclectic. All the samples have been stretched and pitch-shifted beyond (immediate) recognition; to the ears they have melded into something that seems at once both ethereal and solid. The Kin-kindness of Beforehand grew out of his Multiple Tongues project, a series of pieces in which Wickham-Smith exposed the spoken word in many different languages to a series of digital manipulations. The Kin-kindness of Beforehand is divided up into several distinct sections, each of which took on a particular persona during its creation. For the composer, this was the most complex of all the Multiple Tongues works, because he wanted to use specific strings of words and the quality of writer Rachel Beckers voice somehow to comment on each another. Love & Lamentation started life as a setting for voice and electronics of part of the biblical Book of Lamentation, but it quickly became clear to that the literal setting of words was not going to convey the melancholic intimacy that needed to be expressed. As a teenager Wickham-Smith had heard Alain Gheerbrants wonderful ethnomusicological recordings of a blind Turkish troubador and had fallen hopelessly in love with his voice and exquisite playing of the saz. About the same time, through his friend Richard Youngs, he had discovered also the ex tempore psalm singing of the Scottish Isle of Lewis. Fifteen years later, he decided that these two could be made somehow to work together to show the love and lamentation which he felt they both held in their deeper recesses, and which he wanted to present in this new piece. The result is a strange melée of feelings, repetitions and textures."-Pogus |
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Artist: LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Pohjoisten Kukkaisten Aanet Country: Finland Price: $7.50 |
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"..duo with flutes, table drums and little percussions. They play improvised music with some hints of ethnic or folk music, sometimes they can be really funny, sometimes meditative. I havent sold this record yet to foreign countries, but here in Finland people have liked it alot. Handpainted minimalisitic covers." - Pohjoisten Kukkaisten Aanet. Byron Coley mentions something in the new WIRE about these guys being like early Gods. Cool stuff and very limited.
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Artist: RAUHANORKESTERI Title: Hyppy Tunti Format: 7" Label: Pohjoisten Kukkaisten Aanet Country: Finland Price: $7.50 |
| "We have just released a great party-7" of Rauhan Orkesteri, the best free jazz band of the whole Finland, at least! The records name is "Hyppy tunti" and it continues where the orchestras debut LP left. Birds are singing and the ceiling is coming off the walls. For some free-music diggers this has been the best Finnish 7" of the year!" - Pohjoisten Kukkaisten Aanet. First release since the Lal Lal Lal LP. Limited edition, hand painted sleeves. |
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Artist: KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT Title: Taju Live Format: Cass Label: POK Country: Finland Price: $8.50 |
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"Have you ever wondered what would happen if the
incestuous beasts known as Kemialliset Ystävät
would
go and improvise in Hyvinkää, the town known for
the
pyramid and satanic ritual slaughter??? We think
you
should. The blood stained are: Jan Anderzén,
Niko-Matti Ahti, Tomas Regan, Merja Kokkonen and
Sami
Sänpäkkilä. 4-colour sleeves." - Pok.
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Artist: LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT Title: Mystery of Hyyry Format: Cass Label: POK Country: Finland Price: $7.00 |
| "This is hot oat! Lauhkeat Lampaat have found new views for their sounds. What used to be a mountain is a huge pile of bubble gum now and what used to be a straw is now an old tree dropping its seeds on your head. Call it free, call it improv, anyway the brothers and their guest have done something special for you. Hand made sleeves." - POK. |
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Artist: PAIVANSADE Title: 2 Format: Cass Label: POK Country: Finland Price: $7.50 |
| "This is for everybody who hasnt got the Päivänsäde double cassette released by POK earlier! Its basically a re-release of the songs that you wont find on the LP Puhalluspelto, released by Eclipse. Berry good! Quality stuff!" - POK |
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Artist: V/A Title: Maan Matoset Format: CD Label: POK Country: Finland Price: $18.00 |
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"A beautiful compilation CD of 15 songs from Finnish
bands. Its called Maan Matoset and it comes in hand
assembled 4-colour sleeves with a twig. The artists
are Hertta Lussu �?ssä, Kemialliset Ystävät, Kiila,
Sala-Arhimo, Lau Nau, Pekko Käppi, Islaja, Taikuri
Tali, Kuupuu, Lauhkeat Lampaat, Keijo & Jussi
Karsikas, Tomutonttu, Avarus, Päivänsäde and
SewerPyysalos." - Lau Nau.
"truly one of the most lovely looking & sounding comps
in the history
of compilations, Maan Matoset is the sound of Fins
tinkering,
shuffling, strumming,,, some of it in the form of
gentle songs & some
in the form of abstract squeaking & droning
electronics or folk
percussion. it all flows like an album or a river of
broken church
bells. tomutonttu, kiila, pekko kappi & kuupuu & keijo
& taikuri tali
& lau nau etc. etc?..they are all here & more..." - Glenn Donaldson.
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Artist: EMERALDS Title: Fresh Air Format: 7" Label: Polarenvy Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"At long last, A Soundesign is pleased to present the first 7" record by Clevelands Emeralds. "Fresh Air" is a glimmering example of why Emeralds are one of the most loved progressive soundscape bands in the world. Side A is a cycling of sounds unlike anything youve heard from them before, truely beautiful and uplifting. Side B is a bit more subdued and hypnotic, a real space oddesy. >> Clear vinyl 7" record with full color glued slip package. The cover image is a scan of a hand manipulated slide by David Russell." -Polarenvy
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Artist: FACTUMS Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Pollymaggoo Country: France Price: $9.00 |
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"Factums are a dark and brooding bunch of lads from Seattle with membership directly descending from The Intelligence, Pyramids, Fruit Bats etc.. Factums play crazy wierd glitched out industrial punk rock. 4 songs EP in heavy cardboard sleeve, 11 minutes of gliding and seductive synth, insistent beat, and phone-tapped vocals, each one featuring another side of Factums fuzzed out scuzz." - Pollymaggoo.
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Artist: NIXE, THE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Pollymaggoo Country: France Price: $30.00 |
| "Original 1981 recordings 19 song LP anthology by the first all girl dutch punk band Gatefold full colour cover crammed with photos and other trivia Informative liner notes by Utreg punk rock historian Jeroen Vedder Fans of KLEENEX / LILIPUT, NOH MERCY, TEDDY & THE FRATGIRLS, PETTICOATS, SLITS take note!" - Pollymaggoo |
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Artist: FIREFLY WRECK Title: 20 Watt Format: 7" Label: Pollywog Smile Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
| "Portland group who mix sprawling improv and confused rock motions into a very confused and beautiful lo-fi stare." - FE. Hand-stamped/numbered labels. 1993 release limited to 300 copies. |
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Artist: CRANE/TOTH DUO Title: Live Format: CDR Label: Polyamory Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "First available recordings by this long-running freak jazz duo. Recorded over various U.S cities during the summer of 2005, Live expertly captures the primitive dynamism of these two sound-obsessed players. James Toth⿿s playing is feral and militantly unsophisticated, but Lucas ⿿Bones⿿ Crane, on trumpet, is the draw here. It is certain that aficionados will instantly recognize Crane⿿s mastery of his instrument in the traditional sense, but like many great players before him, Crane⿿s unique tone and fluid sense of melody are the byproducts of many years of defiant unlearning in the face of tedium and scholarship. What results is an exciting document of New Music not for the faint of heart or spirit. Strictly limited to 150 copies." - Polyamory. |
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Artist: DIEHL, HEIDI Title: Old Times / Year of the Stone: Videos by Heidi Diehl Format: VHS Video Label: Polyamory Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Another Polyamory first! Our first video is a collection of amateur videos created and compiled by Heidi H Reality Diehl of Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice. Archivo-futurism, collaborative myth-making, movements of wonder and dread. Includes a brand new film (featuring new music by WWVV), an older film on dumpster diving (a favorite and vital VV pasttime), and a found documentary / expose on would-be pop sensations Busted Bracelet. An existential peace of an ever growing pretzel. All that." - Polyamory.
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Artist: EGO PLUMMET Title: No Shoes Format: CDR Label: Polyamory Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Historic one-time only live collaboration between Kentucky / Brooklyn gravehole climbers Virgin Eye Blood Brothers (my favorite live band of 2004), New England purveyors of the hum scum Son of Earth, and NYC / Knoxville TNs depraved criminal conglomerate Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice. Recorded by Aaron Rosenblum of Son of Earth, this mind-melting session took place at a yoga studio in Indiana - barefoot, wasted, and enveloped by dark shadows. " - Polyamory.
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Artist: HALL OF FAME/GOLDEN CALVES Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Polyamory Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Unearthed stash of this 1999 single.
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Artist: JONES GANG, THE Title: High Eye: Live in Nashville Format: CDR Label: Polyamory Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Fresh collaboration before a captive audience between Trevor Tremaine (Hair Police, Eyes and Arms of Smoke), C Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core), Derek de Soleil (Tan As Fuck, Taiwan Deth), Wand Jehovah (Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice) and Satya Sai Jehovah (Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice). Imagine this collection of art noise freakazoids and psychedelic wise-apples under the Nuits de la Fondation Maeght spell, complete with double drum attack, bleating sax, crazed vocals, and stoned guitar. Part of Polyamory⿿s ⿿short enough to fit on a 3" but we don⿿t like how they look⿿ series, so price is reduced, but trust us, you get your money⿿s worth on this monster." - Polyamory. |
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Artist: TOTH, JAMES JACKSON Title: Plays Dead Machine Format: CDR Label: Polyamory Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
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"Polaymory co-founder James Jackson Toth reconfigures and reconstructs the debut cassette by Dead Machines (American Tapes), using cracked electronics. In handsome DVD case." - Polyamory.
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: Glorious Group Therapy Format: Cass Label: Polyamory Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Matt Valentine of Tower Recordings. Second and final edition of 25.
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Uglied Format: CDR Label: Polyamory Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Uglied compiles two American Tapes cassettes (Dead Hills and Black Rat Floods)issued in absurdly limited editions of 15. The official soundtrack to the imminent toymaker revolt." - Polyamory.
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Undertakers pt. 2 Format: Cass Label: Polyamory Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: The Book of FM Format: Cass Label: Polyamory Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Former Golden Calves spirits guide the cult-prone on this brand new, long overdue return. LP soon on DeStijl." - Polyamory.
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Artist: ROB JO STAR BAND Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Pomme Country: France Price: $19.00 |
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"One of the French mega-rarities, released on the same label as Zartong. The content is deranged psychedelic underground with strong guitars, studio effects and vocals in English. The album has been the subject of much hype among record dealers recently." -Asbjornsen-Scented Gardens Of The Mind.
"Very great & unknown French quasi prog/psych hard rocker originally released on the Dom label in 1975. Even amongst the European psychedelic cognoscenti, Rob Jo Star Bands sole lp is somewhat of an enigma. Careening forward & stumbling over 13th Floor Elevators bleeb alien moves, Velvet Underground sustained vibes & Stooges-like guitar fuzz, Rob Joe Star created a singular masterpiece that is truly incomparable to anything released in or around its time (circa 1975). Along with the Angel Face Wild Odyssey lp, one of Frances long obscured musical treasures. French import, edition of 300." - Pomme. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: HUBCAP CITY Title: Five More Minutes Format: 7" Label: Ponce De Leon Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "...Hubcap City plays a kind of loner-volk-whatsis with edges that recall mock trumpet-era Michael Hurley and some of Kweskins rare slow tracks. Its the type of sound that makes you think about sneaking onto a freight train, but theres a definite weirdo overlay as well. They certainly seem as though they have tuned themselves to some of the universes looser strings, and it sounds great. " - Byron Coley, THE WIRE. Painted sleeves with attached photograph. |
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Artist: ACNODE ONE Title: Acnode One Format: Double LP Label: Poobah Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"When one goes digging into the caverns of free jazz, underground, DIY, improvised or noise music, the Los Angeles Free Music Society is a group that youll find crawling alongside the greatest artists in its under appreciated history... and future! ACNoDE ONE was created by two of the LAFMSs key members: Dr. Id and Ju Suk Reet Meate of Smegma fame. Recorded in 1977 as a hand-made cassette, side A was Dr. Id and friends and side B was all Ju Suk. With influences ranging from Beefheart, Nervous Norvus, and Ron Geesin through the whole ESP catalog, this is one of the defining examples of the LAFMS sound. They travel with ease from Zappaesque freak outs, teeth rattling tape loop drones; psychedelic kiddy record cut ups, to a beautiful bowed bass solo in the vein of Scott la Faro or Henry Grimes. It marks an important turning point in Smegmas development. As Ju Suk points out, It was a time of great transition. With only one Smegma "gig" in two years, our music was going inward. The reel to reel tape decks at the time lent themselves to wild misuse... they were very exciting times experimentally." -Poobah.
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Artist: DUCK, DENNIS Title: Dennis Duck Goes Disco Format: Double LP Label: Poobah Country: USA Price: $26.50 |
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"A first-time widely available issue of this 1977 cassette-only release from LAFMS member and SMEGMA cofounder DENNIS DUCK, and an early example of turntable manipulation. Dennis Duck Goes Disco was made entirely with a phonograph and records, utilizing skipping and pitch changes for most of the effects. Originally released in an edition of 20 copies. Packaged with artwork by TOM RECCHION-vinyl in a gatefold sleeve." - Poobah. "DDGD is probably the LAFMS release I listened to the most."-Ace Farren Ford. Highly recommended!
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Artist: DUCK, DENNIS Title: Dennis Duck Goes Disco Format: CD Label: Poobah Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "A first-time widely available issue of this 1977 cassette-only release from LAFMS member and SMEGMA cofounder DENNIS DUCK, and an early example of turntable manipulation. Dennis Duck Goes Disco was made entirely with a phonograph and records, utilizing skipping and pitch changes for most of the effects. Originally released in an edition of 20 copies. Packaged with artwork by TOM RECCHION-vinyl in a gatefold sleeve." - Poobah. "DDGD is probably the LAFMS release I listened to the most."-Ace Farren Ford. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: POTTS, RICK & NATE COLE Title: Live At Poo-Bah Record Shop, July 30 2006 Format: CDR Label: Poobah Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Multi-instrumentalist Rick Potts is a founding member of cult influential experimenters Los Angeles Free Music Society in the mid-70s. Potts has been active in the L.A. area since then, and his involvement in recording and performing with LAFMS unit, Le Forte Four, lasted through the early 80s. In Le Forte Four, he played electric guitar with an electric toothbrush and other implements, in addition to playing saxophone, xylophone and musical saw. In 1982, Potts formed experimental ensemble Dinosaurs with Horns with analog synthesizer and samplist Joseph Hammer. In the mid-80s, Potts also became involved in Steaming Coils (with Medicines Brad Laner) and Debt of Nature. In 1992, he formed Solid Eye with Hammer and ex-Monitor Steve Thomsen." - Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide. Rick Potts: Samplers, Synths, Musical Saw, Hinge-Neck Electric Guitar and Drum Machine. Nate Cole: Drums and Percussion. |
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Artist: RECCHION, TOM Title: The Incandescent Gramaphone Format: 10" (78 RPM) Label: Poobah Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "This project was done as a cross between a community art project and an experiment with crossing new and old music technology. Recchion wanted to make an object out of its time but still utilize current methodologies as well as older mediums of sound reproduction. The output of that effort is this new 78. The compositions on the record all derive their sounds from 78rpm records- the clicks, the scratches and samples, as well as the sounds that the record makes as an object in 3 dimensional space. **This 78 is limited to 500 made, with 100 being strewn across Old Pasadena as a found object.**" - Poobah. |
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Artist: ARICA Title: Music In The Nine Rings Format: LP Label: Poodle Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| Recorded in NYC in 1972 and remastered from tape transfer. Silkscreened tip-on jackets. "Arica was the music branch of the Arica Institute, whose founder famously collaborated with Alejandro Jodorowsky and convinced him to indoctrinate his entire crew in the Institutes cultish new age teachings before filming The Holy Mountain. Piano, synth, hypnotic percussion and plenty of tape delay - Music in the Nine Rings is an immersive psychedelic new age masterpiece - think Agitation Free, Limbus 4, Deuter-D. This recording almost certainly includes some of the same uncredited musicians that played on Woo Soo/Audition in 1972 and Heaven in 1973, so its no surprise theres a jazz sensibility in the overall structure and the playing. This record is eminently listenable but its unhurried improvisation has more to do with a subtle manipulation of musical tension than the relaxation promises of 80s new age. As the history of new age music is slowly created by people that werent there, Music in the Nine Rings will be a celebrated example of when the genre coalesced and a way of thinking musically showed its potential." - Poodle. |
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Artist: ALVARIUS B Title: Baroque Primitiva Format: LP Label: Poon Village Country: USA Price: $32.00 |
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"By my count, Baroque Primitiva is the sixth album cut by Alvarius B. and is, like its predecessors, a deep swim through mysterious waters. The 11 tracks here were recorded at various sessions over the course of several years and range from "Humor Police" (a track that imagines what Syd Barrett might have sounded like had he been a devotee of rembetika) to a trippily Beatles-damaged version of "You Only Live Twice" (the sole surviving shard of the aborted Alvarius B. Plays The Bond Songbook project). Baroque Primitiva is the first long-format telegram from Alvarius B. since he lost his mothership (the Sun City Girls, with whom he employed his slave name, Alan Bishop) and it also feels like his most consistently non-acerbic -- perhaps even most beauty-oriented -- work. The songs often have a meditative pace and are filled with gorgeous lo-fi blends of vocals, guitar, bass and keys. Eyvind Kang guests on several tracks, but the bulk of the material was broadcast direct from the naked soul of Alvarius B., which turns out to be a warmer, sweeter place than you might imagine. The record also marks the return of the equally-legendary Poon Village label, whose 1993 Sun City Girls LP, Live At C.O.N. Artists, is a rare and lovely piece of that bands sonic puzzle. Poon Villages productions are always extraordinary in visual terms, and Baroque Primitiva is no exception. The covers meditative human mandala is a brilliant ocular ode to shifting visions of feminine pulchritude, and is worthy of the best framing job you can afford." -Byron Coley
"Screenprinted jackets feature a double gate, hand-cut spines, and metallic photo print featuring 16 naked girls. Heavy 180 gram black vinyl pressed in the Rust Belt. Limited edition - 300 copies available for sale for the whole world." -Poon Village
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Artist: GATE Title: Live In Boston, NYC 1994 Format: CD Label: Poon Village Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Gate is Michael Morley (Dead C., Precious Metal Inc.) and whoever he feels like working with. This CD features performances from the 1994 Gate tour, when Morley travelled around with Keiji Haino & The Thurston Moore Male Slut trio. Lee Ranaldo (who recorded a ton of studio Gate stuff with Morley around the same period that has yet to surface), joined him for a single-song 30+ minute guitar duo instrumental extravaganza in Boston, which is reproduced in its entirety here as the first track on this CD. Building layers of feedback, sonic delay and looped drones, this is a mesmerizing work of organic power. Its followed by six shorter tracks, recorded a few days later in NY, with a trio lineup of Morley, Ranaldo and electric harp improviser, Zeena Parkins; densely organized sectors of gloriously abstract noisic combinations are faded in & out for appraisal. Packaged in Poon Villages elegant trademark screenprinted card-folio." - Poon Village. |
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Artist: TOBARI, DAISUKE Title: Till The End Of the Dream Format: CD Label: Poon Village Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "First offered to earth on cassette available only in Japan circa 1995, these recordings prove Tobari as an eloquent ambassador from the hidden planet of the imagination. With a unique hybrid of bedroom ambiance and uni-versal atmospherics, singer-songwriter Daisuki Tobari weaves his folk stylings into a tapestry of oblique lullabies, introverted expansionism & timeless cosmic plunder. Obscure & sublime ruminations on the essence of endlessness draw parallels with the maverick visions of Magical Power Mako, Sun City Girls, Jandek & The Holy Modal Rounders. Fold-out sleeve (packed in CD jewelbox) screenprinted by the legendary original C.O.N. artists serigraph company. File Under: Turgid Clarity & Lucid Murk." "Its the Sgt. Peppers of lo-fi recordings -- ambitious and nuts and fun." -- Damon Krukowksi. |
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Artist: WHITE WINGED MOTH Title: I Can See Inside Your House Format: LP Label: Poon Village Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Dean Roberts (ex-Thela) project from 1996. Deluxe all-white screen-printed fold-out cover.
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Artist: WHITE WINGED MOTH Title: I Can See Inside Your House Format: CD Label: Poon Village Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The White Winged Moth represents the solo activity of Dean Roberts, of the New Zealand improv/drone trio Thela (whose debut CD on Ecstatic Peace was released in 1995). Beautifully ringing guitar tones of organic-metallic origin (sounding akin to some of the sweetest extrapolation of electric string activity since Sonic Youth took Bad Moon Rising on tour), occasional whispered vocals, bits of piano and taped-haze add together for the effect of ultimate dreamsearch ambiance. Simply, one of the most gorgeously resonating releases of the current millennium. Typically stunning Poon Village screen-printed, die-cut folio packaging wraps it all up." - FE. |
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Artist: SILVER, THE Title: Do You Wanna Dance b/w Popper Format: 7" Label: Pop Con Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Fan Club reissue of Finnish super-rarity that Kugelberg raved about
on his "DIY" list (It ranked # 9) in Ugly Things. Originally released
in 1980 in an edition of maybe 100 copies, the A-side is a primitive,
some would say inept, take on Bobby Freemans "Do You Wanna Dance"
that must be heard to be believed. Chuck Warner said it left every
teen incompetent from Tampax to Shonen Knife in its dust. And the
B-side was astounding Suicide-style noise as imagined by 12 year olds.
Somewhere, Austin Wiggins is clapping in his grave. Numbered edition
of 500 copies with insert and originally pressed to be distributed as
part of a paper delivered at the Experience Music Project Pop Conference in April, 2004." - Pop Con.
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Artist: V/A Title: Belgian Wave & Pop Songs From The 1980s Format: LP Label: Pop Wave Country: Belgium Price: $23.00 |
| "Very tidy comp of excellent 80s wave songs from some of the finest underground Belgian artists of that era. Artists include: Subject, Vitor Hublot, Kaa Antilope, BeNe GeSSeRiT and Pas De Deux. Heavy on synth, bass groove, effects and Casio drum machine action. Compiled by Rush Hour and DJ Koenie Van Immerseel of Antwerps Wallys Groove World." -Pop Wave |
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Artist: POPWATCH Title: #10 Format: Mag Label: Popwatch Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Interviews w/ Tall Dwarfs, Robert Wyatt, Rick Bishop, Alan Licht, R. Stevie Moore, the Frogs, Chris Smith, Simon Joyner, Slampt Records. Album and single reviews, illustrations by Conrad Capistran and David Nichols, and features on Kiwi Animal and the "New Zealand Vanguard". Winter/Spring 1999 issue.
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Artist: POPWATCH Title: #4 Format: Mag Label: Popwatch Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "excellent Chris Knox cover art, interviews with Peter Jefferies, Barbara Manning, Combustible Edison, Giant Sand, the Crystallized Movements and many more, plus the second installment of Lou Barlow and Bob Fays First Impression reviews, stories, etc." -Popwatch. 1994 issue. |
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Artist: POPWATCH Title: #5 Format: Mag Label: Popwatch Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "Guided By Voices, Trash, Bailter Space, Bridget Cross interviews, a St. Ink exclusive, and the usual ton of reviews. Eye-catching cover art by P. Shaw!" -Popwatch. Mid-90s issue. |
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Artist: POPWATCH Title: #6 Format: Mag Label: Popwatch Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "featuring stunning cover art by and interview with Alastair Galbraith. Also including the Grifters, Jim Shepard, Crawling with Tarts, and Bill Direen. Coverage of the first annual Fast Forward Festival, and tons of reviews." -Popwatch. 1994 issue. |
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Artist: POPWATCH Title: #8 Format: Mag Label: Popwatch Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "Jim ORourke, King Loser, Dump, Rafael Toral, RR Jerk, Dean Roberts, and more. Plus Tracy Mitchell cover art and loads of reviews... as usual." -Popwatch. Winter/Spring 1997 issue. |
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Artist: POPWATCH Title: #9 Format: Mag Label: Popwatch Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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"Michael Hurley interview and cover art, Malcolm Mooney, Coffee, Flying Saucer Attack, Pip Proud, Davey Williams, Xpressway history, and a massive article on soundtrack music with contributions from Alan Bishop, Holger Xzukay, Eugene Chadbourne, John Fahey, Roy Montgomenry, Robin Amos, Mark Davis and more." -Popwatch. Spring/Summer 1998 issue.
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Artist: V/A Title: Jewelled Antler Library Format: 4 CD Box Set Label: Porter Country: USA Price: $67.00 |
| "With thirteen groups, fifty-nine tracks and over 4 hours and 40 minutes of music and sounds, the Jewelled Antler Library box-set brings together experimental music from the US, Finland and New Zealand that ranges from psychedelic, abstract drone, soft psych, noise, folk and field recordings, to the outright strange and bizarre. This set collects together the entire twelve volume set of the limited edition Jewelled Antler CD-R Library, plus the limited edition recording of THE WAYS OF GOD TO MAN and also twelve new field recordings by LOREN CHASSE. Musicians include: FURSAXA, UTON, LOREN CHASSE, TOMES, THE IVYTREE, HALA STRANA, DEAD RAVEN CHOIR, THE FAMOUS BOATING PARTY, CLAYPIPE, MUONS, THUJA, KEMIALLISET YSTAVAT, THE WAYS OF GOD TO MAN. Limited edition box-set of 1,000 copies." -Porter |
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Artist: FORZA ALBINO Title: Infestation Format: 12" Label: Posh Isolation Country: Denmark Price: $22.00 |
| "Forza Albinos debut tape ”MOT” left quite a stir within areas of the industrial scene and to those people ”Infestation” should be no let down. Even if this new piece is somewhat different in approach, the emotional palet is very much the same and once again it leaves the listener in such an uncomfortable place. Strong analogue synthesis and piercing and drooling vocals that stick on to you.." - Posh Isolation. Edition of 250 copies. In plain white disco sleeves with a full-size insert printed on both sides. |
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Artist: JACKMAN Title: Bad Intentions Format: 7" Label: Posh Isolation Country: Denmark Price: $9.00 |
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"Perverted Copenhagen. One man Sex Punk!" - Posh Isolation. Edition of 350 copies.
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Artist: KIRSTEIN, TR & JACOB KIRKEGAARD Title: Imperia Format: LP Label: Posh Isolation Country: Denmark Price: $22.00 |
| "IMPERIA is an art work based on recordings from the now defunct Nuclear Power Plant Barsebäck located in southern Sweden, and is a recording unlike most. The incredible strength of the source sound dances delicate through the clear drones and balances the piece in a strange and alluring place, never too demanding yet never relaxed. An essential piece of danish modern sound art." - Posh Isolation. Edition of 300 copies. Letterpress jackets, a full-size letterpress insert, and an A4 insert. |
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Artist: MARCHING CHURCH Title: Throughout the Borders Format: 7" Label: Posh Isolation Country: Denmark Price: $9.00 |
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"When we described the first Marching Church tape, that came out about 2 years ago, we called it ”very strange music” – and now with his first 7” it is clear, that it is a label that still applies. On ”Throughout the Borders” Marching Church presents four very different pieces, that all manages to stand strong on their own ground. The artist behind should need little introduction at this point. Elias Bender Rønnenfelt has over the last couple of years made heads turn. First and foremost as the singer of notorious Iceage, and lately as part of the project Vår. Marching Church’s ”Throughout the borders” is another proof why the young man has rightfully earned his reputation. He makes music that sounds like nothing else and with such a pop sensibility that it makes you feel as if you have met it somewhere before. This does not sound like Iceage and it does not sound like Vår, it sounds like what it is; four new tracks from Marching Church, blood drenched music, carved from the chest of the young craftsman." - Posh Isolation. Edition of 500 copies.
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Artist: SKULLFLOWER/LIMEPIT Title: Split Format: LP Label: Posh Isolation Country: Denmark Price: $22.00 |
 2009 release (#10 on the label). Limepit is members of Sarahs Charity (Heavy Blossom, Arbor, etc). "Dark, clandestine noise from England and Denmark. Artwork by Rasmus Rosengaard. Silkscreened covers. Mastered at Dubplates and Mastering by FST. 333 copies." - Posh Isolation. With A4 insert. |
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Artist: STADSGAARD, CHRISTIAN Title: The Source of Disintegration Format: LP Label: Posh Isolation Country: Denmark Price: $22.00 |
| "Strong synth noise. Second edition with alternative covers." "All infrastructure, all foundations, have a crack, a breaking point, a dead end, a source of disintegration. This is the sound of collapse. Cold broken drone vanishing into stagnancy, sonic representations of the endless lifeless, the uncured, the cursed. An ocean of frequencies for the drowning, a meditation of endings." - Posh Isolation. Edition of 100 copies. Paste-on cover art and an A4 insert. |
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Artist: STREET DRINKERS Title: Dead Secrets Format: 12" Label: Posh Isolation Country: Denmark Price: $17.00 |
 February 2012 release. Limited to 250 copies. |
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Doo Doo Run/Fun Dink Death Format: 7" Label: Post Present Medium Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Eric Copeland is an experimental musician based in New York. He is a core member of Black Dice and forms half of the duo Terrestrial Tones with Animal Collectives Avey Tare. This is a 7" of two epic EC solo tracks. The A Side Doo Doo Run is a great twisted and mutilated dub like jaunt through the murk. It keeps you moving along in any pace you seem to choose. The B Side, Fun Dink Death, is an almost garage rock gone through the tubes, some would say a pop. Housed in a full-color fold-out poster sleeve." -Post Present Medium
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Get Along Format: 7" Label: Post Present Medium Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"On his 5th 7" for PPM Eric commits to a gentle onslaught of traditional sounding rhythms, ran through the busted copy machine of sound that defines his work. Get Along gets you going immediately with an infectious beat and a new wave-ish, almost Nigerian pop, scrambled, lost Prince demo vibe." -Post Present Medium.
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Hermaphrodite Format: LP Label: Post Present Medium Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"ERIC COPELAND is the amazing third piece of the puzzle to NYCs BLACK DICE. On Hermaphrodite he expands on ideas only touched upon on BD releases and takes us further into the mind of his solo genius. An amazing record that you can put on when you are tripping, or skateboarding or building a house. Powerful piece of artistic beauty and now in the 12-inch size the artwork is even more curious." - Post Present.
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Strange Days Format: LP Label: Post Present Medium Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Eric Copeland is an experimental musician based in New York. He is a core member of Black Dice and forms half of the duo Terrestrial Tones with Animal Collectives Avey Tare. Eric has found his unique voice as a solo musician, and no where is that more apparent than on his new recorded works PPM33 "Doo Doo Run" 7" and PPM35 his new full length LP Strange Days." -PPM |
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Artist: SILK FLOWERS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Post Present Medium Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Silk Flowers from NYC bring the 4 track mess and blips of pure bliss. Art world messing, samples and singing, drums, keyboard, and super original, think Kraftwerk in a garbage can wearing a trench coat. Be prepared to enter a new world. Minimal and even more minimal." -PPM |
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Artist: TOTAL ABUSE Title: Mutt Format: LP Label: Post Present Medium Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Total Abuse are from Austin, Texas. Since their first show in November 2006, TA have been recording and playing a heavy onslaught of feedback drenched hardcore soundscapes, taking hints from the Dead C, Black Flag (Chavo and Rollins era), Void and Harry Pussy. Total Abuses roster includes Rusty Kelley on vocals (who also makes harsh noise under the name Breathing Problem), Matt Lyons on drums, Ryan Foster on guitar, Dustin Pilkington on bass and, as of August 2008, they added former Snobs guitarist Duncan Knappen as second guitar. Members now live in New York, Oakland and Austin and get together as much as possible to record and destroy ears live." -Post Present Medium
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Artist: WIESE, JOHN Title: Circle Snare Format: LP Label: Post Present Medium Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Consider "Circle Snare" a hard-wrought souvenir. Composed and realized in the midst of a comprehensive Scandinavian/European tour in 2008, John Wiese found himself tangled deep in dialogue with his instruments and ideas. Wiese increasingly scrutinized his native tongue and vocabulary, seeking new forms of grammar and cadence, as only extensive dives in unfamiliar waters can inspire. His given electronic anatomy of drum machine, microphones, tapes, and MSP folded out of their hard accustomed formations, breaking out into a more cogent and vital arsenal. "Circle Snare" is the cumulative result -- a finely detailed and dimensional evolution of an already unique voice. Those who have been stalking Wiese all along -- through the landmark statement "Soft Punk," to the recent "Dramatic Accessories" LP -- will find "Circle Snare" to be a revelatory work. As Wiese continues to travel and work relentlessly and restlessly, we have no choice but to keep up; the circle is a spiral from the side, and the greatest trap is standing still." -No Fun |
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Artist: V/A Title: Going Format: LP Label: Poststjoost Country: Netherlands Price: $15.00 |
| Features Jan van den Dobbelsteen, Leon van den Langenberg, Peter Fengler, Majorca, Leon van den Langenberg, Tijmen Smit and Tom Verbruggen. "This Going Lp is a result of an invitation by The Lumpen Organisation Chicago to take part in a multi media festival in april 2004. The B side is a total freefolkwhistlingimprovisation and messedupedit to this piece by Tom. On the A side Great sounds and songs for Chicago The Empty Bottle,specialy for this LP. Traditional Chicago blues influenced stuff you wanna hear. Limited edition but Not Numbered black vinyl LP." - Cosmic Volume. |
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Artist: POUR, RIP...NO! Title: Mirror You, Mirror Me Format: LP Label: Pour, Rip...No! Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "After a 5 year hiatus, Pour, Rip...No! is back with two new albums. continuing in the vein of the songs "Archie Slept" and "The 10,000 Things" most songs consist of errant plinking guitar strings and random plunking percussion and cymbals. Lyrics, ranging from the existential questioning of "Why is the Orangutan so slippery when you trying to speak with him?" to the functional and thrifty "And this barn is cheap, saving our money for the next trip", are more spoken then sung, and like the last album, remain pretty upfront and prominent in the mix. though still are a fare share of both short and long instrumental bits, one a 7 minute work out on a studio drum set and another a 7 minute slow-paced electronic dirge (both these songs end their respective album in a late 90s sort of way). With stylistic and lyrical reference to Captain Beefheart, late Guns and Roses, J.J. Fad and Modest Mouse, intentions seem a bit difficult to place, and Pour,Rip...No!s position in the contemporary loner folk scene seems a bit vague." - Pour, Rip...No! |
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Artist: POUR, RIP...NO! Title: You Can Trust Us Format: LP Label: Pour, Rip...No! Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "After a 5 year hiatus, Pour, Rip...No! is back with two new albums. continuing in the vein of the songs "Archie Slept" and "The 10,000 Things" most songs consist of errant plinking guitar strings and random plunking percussion and cymbals. Lyrics, ranging from the existential questioning of "Why is the Orangutan so slippery when you trying to speak with him?" to the functional and thrifty "And this barn is cheap, saving our money for the next trip", are more spoken then sung, and like the last album, remain pretty upfront and prominent in the mix. though still are a fare share of both short and long instrumental bits, one a 7 minute work out on a studio drum set and another a 7 minute slow-paced electronic dirge (both these songs end their respective album in a late 90s sort of way). With stylistic and lyrical reference to Captain Beefheart, late Guns and Roses, J.J. Fad and Modest Mouse, intentions seem a bit difficult to place, and Pour,Rip...No!s position in the contemporary loner folk scene seems a bit vague." - Pour, Rip...No! |
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Artist: CIRCLE X Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Poutre Apparente Country: France Price: $9.00 |
| "Initially conceived in Louisville in 1978 from the ashes of two local punk bands by Tony Pinotti, Bruce Witsiepe (coming from No Fun) and Rik and Dave Letendre (coming from I-Holes), the band Circle X moved to New York soon after. They encountered there a young german painter, Ralph Neun, linked to the art school of Darmstadt. Ralph Neun was living in NYC for about a year, and decided to record a song evoking the city: Rolling Stones "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)". Ralph Neun booked and financed some studio time and asked Circle X to back him. As a deal, Circle X were free to record one of their composition on the other side: "look at the people". The tracks were recorded at Bayside recording studio somewhere in Long Island during a hot summer day of 1979. Rik Letendre being lost on his way to the studio, Bruce Witsiepe taught at the last minute the guitar riffs of "look at the people" to Ralph Neun who had never played any instrument before. Soon after, Ralph Neun and Circle X parted ways: Ralph Neun went back to Germany and Circle X relocated to Dijon in the center of France following an invitation by French manager Bernard Zekri. While staying in Dijon, Circle X were pleasantly surprised to hear again from Ralph Neun who invited them to participate to a festival organized by the Shvantz fanzine (to which Ralph was contributing). In the meantime Ralph Neun had pressed 200 copies of a 7" featuring the two tracks previously recorded in New York and representing the first Circle X vinyl output. The festival, held in november 79 in Darmstadt, was a multimedia art exhibition covering performance, installation, film, video, and music. Circle X, the only non german act, were performing there together with Bildstörung, Der Plan, Minus Delta T and Mittagspause amongst others. The festival was documented by a xerox catalog corresponding to the fifth issue of the Shvantz fanzine. Each of the 150 copies of the catalog included a copy of the 7". The record slipped into a slot made in the front page of the catalog, was coming with blank labels just decorated with an enigmatic pencil written Circle X symbol, and a plain white sleeve cover stamped with minimal credits. The 50 copies of the 7" left were sold or given without the catalog. We hope you will enjoy this present reissue which is the last missing piece of the puzzle and certainly the lesser known amongst the recent record reissues documenting the early developments of Circle X (check also the 10" "Live In Dijon79" on Fractal records from 2009 featuring unissued demos and live recordings from a concert held at the University of Dijon in 1979)." - Poutre Apparente. |
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Artist: CRASH Title: Pile ou Face/Vaughans Ballad Format: 7" Label: Poutre Apparente Country: France Price: $12.00 |
| "2 songs. first time on vinyl. "Pile ou Face" (unreleased mix, 1984) & "Vaughans ballad"(unreleased, 1984). "Early 80s, just after the release of Philippe Dorays album "Nouveaux modes industriels" and ILITCH "10 suicides," while I was working on the first recordings of "Polaroid/Roman/Photo", Philippe and myself decided to work jointly on a project for concerts: CRASH (both great readers of JG Ballard) was born. This project included adaptations of our own songs, new songs as well as improvisations. We made some concerts in France and the Netherlands. Both tracks are taken from rehearsal recorded in Studio Anagram and in Montérollier." -Thierry Müller april 09 |
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Artist: ICH BIN Title: Obeis! Format: LP Label: Poutre Apparente Country: France Price: $22.00 |
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"The brand new parisian label Poutre Apparente is proud to announce the reissue of 90s superb cybernetic electro renewal classic tape from South Corsica band, ICH BIN: Minimal wave beats, broken electronics, radical synthetizer and possessed vocals finely inspired by great philosophical ideas appeared in Europe since the industrial revolution. Colder than the coldest corsican winter, like Kraftwerk meeting Suicide in North Poland.
Warehousemen in a secret petrochemical factory in the north of Corsica, the four members of ICH BIN began to play together in 1988 with materials recovered on a failed boat transporting electronic instruments manufactured in Korea. They developed year after year this so particular manner to play and sing probably coming from the physical and mental state of the musicians regularly exposed to a great dose of chemical emanations during their work in factory." - Poutre Apparente.
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Artist: PLUS INSTRUMENTS Title: Februari - April 81 Format: LP Label: Poutre Apparente Country: France Price: $20.00 |
| "On a rainy night in November 1980 Truus went to see Rhys Chathams band in her Hometown of Eindhoven. Never suspecting that this evening would change the course of her life ! She met David Linton who played the drums with Rhys. They struck up a whirlwind friendship. Upon their farewell, David mentioned "come see me in New York". Fast forward two months later and Truus was in New York. Armed with backing track tapes, David and Truus started jamming around in his loft. Soon his roommate Lee Ranaldo joined and a new Plus Instruments was born. Full of enthusiasm and creative energy they started performing. Truus first visit was Jim Fourrats office in the West Village. Jim was taken by this three piece and booked them in various venues. All in a matter of weeks they were in a studio recording this album. During the months of February and April they played everywhere they could, including Europe. It was a short existence, but never a minute wasted ! After April, Lee went on to join Sonic Youth and David continued with his own unique live wired solo electro-acoustic drum kit performances as well as his sound score productions. Truus carried on with Plus Instruments in a variety of line-ups." - Poutre Apparente. |
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Artist: PULP MUSIC Title: Low Flying Aircraft Format: 7" Label: Poutre Apparente Country: France Price: $10.00 |
| ⿿Pulp: Low Flying Aircraft is what happens when avant-garde meets punk on neutral ground, a wonderfully delirious disaster area. I love it - New Musical Express, 1979. ⿿The excellent Low Flying Aircraft ⿿ a single whose potency and raw energy gave the punks a run for their money. - City Limits, 1979. "This enigmatic 7, released in 1979, is one of the most startling DIY record from this period: it originally comes in a plain white cover with Pulp Music or Pulp written and two signatures, no label but a white pen numbering and an extra hole burned instead. The music was as rough as you could guess from this strict design: a very ⿿intense mix of manic precise percussions together with vocal yelps, grunts and screams leavened with distortion and feedback. The so-called Pulp or Pulp Music (in fact the label name, not the band name) was a London based duo composed of the performance artist Anne Bean and the percussionist and instrument-maker Paul Burwell. Anne Bean has presented solo and collaborative projects incorporating visual art, sound, and performance since the beginning of the 70s. Active on the improvised music scene through the 70s, notably in a collaboration with David Toop and poet Bob Cobbing, Paul Burwell was also one of the founding member of the London Musicians Collective. This duo met several years before the release of this 7 and began to perform in various places until the beginning of the 80s. One of their last appearance took place in october 82 at the occasion of the Final Academy which was intended as a celebration of William Burroughs. During three days, this event featured readings by William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and John Giorno, together with bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Psychic TV, 23 Skidoo and a remarked performance from Anne Bean and Paul Burwell as described by Performance Magazine: ⿿(...) but Burwell and Bean put an incredible show of pyrotechnics preaching, pounding of drums and proclaiming of White mans gotta god complex by the Last Poets. A sample of the late Steve Cripps legacy of explosives had the battery of the exotic snappers, video and super eighters, minor celebs and their retinues, scampering for cover, as Anne bean raged, stamping her feet in the billowing smoke. Soon after this event, Anne Bean and Paul Burwell extended their duo with sculptor Richard Wilson, to form the influential and much noticed performance group, BOW GAMELAN ENSEMBLE, which lasted until the beginning of the 90s. Sadly, Paul Burwell died on Sunday 4th February 2007." - Poutre Apparente. Sort of unbelievable, "labor of love" reish of this amazing single. Color cardboard sleeve (different than the original obviously) and insert with photos, lyrics, info, etc... Highly recommended! Restocked. |
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Artist: RUTH Title: Mon Pote/Mescalito Format: 7" Label: Poutre Apparente Country: France Price: $10.00 |
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"...you oughta know about this reissue of primo Gallic swoon what was spawned by Ilitch mastermind Thierry Mueller. My details on Ruth is sketchy but I think this follows the Ilitch lp Periodicmindtrouble when Mueller decided to drum up a rock ensemble with Ruth bein the end result. Not sure what they was channelin (or ingestin) but this 7" is as jakeve an example of proto (Hearthan) era Ubu swoggle as Ive ever heard. Considerin this is culled from some 1978 recordings, could it be they was locked into a similar street wave? Hard to know, theres also some aggressive Psychedelic Warlords "thing" goin on too & Francoise Portes vocals (esp. on Mescalito) sound like theys bein blipped in from another dimension. Really, besides Pere Ubu, I cant think of anyone back then KNOWN who was minin a similar shaft in a space/industro/punk vein. This one is impressin the hell outta me. Right up there alongside Angel Face as one of the greatest "lost" French bands of all time. Nice to have it around. Again." - Roland Woodbe, Siltblog.
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Car Alarm/Brain Dead Format: 7" Label: PPM Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Eric Copeland is a member of Black Dice from New York. His solo work under his own name exhibits an exciting and intensely original take on song structure, delivery and approach. Since 2007 Eric has recorded and released a hand full of LPs and singles and lately has been cranking out the tunes on 7"s via PPM. On his previous three 7" releases Doo Doo Run b/w Fundinkdeath, Puerto Rican b/w The Eyeball and Whorehouse Blues b/w Guk & UFOs Over Vampire City, Eric has taken and warped pop song ideas and skewed them incredibly, crafting out some very killer tunes." -PPM |
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Puerto Rican/The Eyeball Format: 7" Label: PPM Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Eric Copeland is an experimental musician based in New York. He is a core member of Black Dice and forms half of the duo Terrestrial Tones with Animal Collectives Avey Tare. This 7" is a departure of sorts and is easily gonna twist your brain! Fantastic fun!" - PPM
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Artist: COPELAND, ERIC Title: Whorehouse Blues Format: 7" Label: PPM Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"Whorehouse Blues is an amazing new Eric Copeland solo effort and its a mind altering piece of work. Comprised as three tracks Whorehouse Blues, Guk and U.F.Os Over Vampire City it takes you on an intense journey ranging from full-on aggressive rage to pure pop psychedelcia. Pure late night public access body meridian style fun! Once youre locked in, it switches on you. An amazing turn in direction that started with last years PPM 7” ‘Puerto Rican. A fine compliment and progression that will end up leaving you exhausted and satisfied, play loud. This 7” is very limited with a small pressing of only 500 copies worldwide! Not to be slept on!!" -PPM.
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Artist: SILK FLOWERS Title: Ltd. Form Format: LP Label: PPM Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Silk Flowers are a synth-driven music trio based in New York. Their songs balance parts of pop and noise with melodies that evoke emotion from the listener. Countering typical notions of electronic music as a purely recorded listening experience, Silk Flowers write their songs for live performance, creating a visceral dynamic event that fluctuates between gleeful dance music and rough-edged dissonance." -PPM |
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Artist: VOLUNTEERS PARK Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: PPM Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| See previous single on Destijl. "Through the past 13 years Aviram Cohen has used varied music projects to explore different aspects of himself. He brought out his violence and aggression in the punk band The Bad Form, sought out the absurd and stupid in Soiled Mattress and The Springs, and held up a mirror to himself and his surroundings in Silk Flowers. And now hes managed to meld all of these notions into Volunteers Park." -PPM. |
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Artist: 100 FANZINES/10 YEARS OF BRITISH PUNK 1976-1985 Title: 100 Fanzines/10 Years of British Punk 1976-1985 Format: Book Label: PPP Editions Country: USA Price: $36.00 |
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"4to.; black-and-white and color illustrations on newsprint; printed wrappers; printed ecru dust jacket. First edition; 500 copies, the entire edition. This publication reproduces 100 British punk fanzines culled from the Mott Collection and features two essays “Glue Was All Over My Fingers” by Toby Mott and “We Are the Writing on the Wall” by Victor Brand. The zine is mass-produced grafitti, a love letter to an anonymous public, a black-and-white shout into the wilderness. As a product, it goes hand-in-hand so perfectly with the autochthonous priorities of the punk movement that it seems in retrospect almost inevitable. The youth of the United Kingdom—under- and unemployed, adrift and disillusioned in the aftermath of ‘60s utopianism—were the writing on the wall in the mid-1970s. The kids of punk werent all right: Punk was the return of the repressed. Even if they were only talking to themselves, they could express themselves without censorship through music and grainy, handwritten pamphlets." - PPP Editions.
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Artist: CRASS Title: Crass 1977-1984 Format: Book Label: PPP Editions Country: USA Price: $36.00 |
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"Large folio; 73 black-and-white and color illustrations on newsprint;
housed in publishers printed mylar ziplock envelope. First edition; 1000 copies, the entire edition.
Crass embodied the anarcho-punk aesthetic of the late 70s: they privileged politics over musicianship, substance over form, and above all independence over profitability. The group lived together in an open community and used much of the proceeds from their music to support other political causes and organizations and to promote other small punk bands, such as Poison Girls, Conflict, and Flux of Pink Indians, through their independent record label. The group was also remarkable for its multimedia approach, incorporating films, zines and books of essays and poetry—all with the distinct, coherent visual imprimatur of artist Gee Vaucher—into their activities.
Crass played four concerts in New York in the summer of 1977, at small, unexpected venues such as The Puerto Rican Club and the Polish Club. This exhibition represents the first opportunity since that brief visit for New Yorkers to experience the unique visual and aural mayhem that is Crass trademark. The material featured in this exhibition spans the high period of Crass endeavors, from 1978 to 1984, and constitutes a special segment of The Mott Collection. In addition to his own artistic activities as part of the Grey Organization, collector and curator Toby Mott spent much of his youth diligently collecting and preserving the artifacts of the punk movement in Britain. Major portions of his collection were featured in the exhibition “Loud Flash: British Punk on Paper” at MUSAC in Léon, Spain, in March 2010 and more recently at Haunch of Venison Gallery last fall in London." - PPP Editions.
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Artist: BOURBONESE QUALK Title: Qual Format: 12" Label: Praxis Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| Original limited edition DJ promo copies of this 1993 12" E.P. |
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Artist: ANWORTH KIRK Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Pre-Cert Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
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"Pre-Cert Home Entertainment is a new imprint releasing limited vinyl documents of contemporary musical and nonmusical material researched by Andy Votel (Finders Keepers) and Sean Canty of Demdike Stare (Modern Love) in the north of England. Part art/part trash, this open-ended disposable archive combines a cross-section of oblique influences such as sound research libraries, VHS video culture, electronic Folkways records, sound poetry, tape manipulation, European fumetti, outsider art and field recording, to name but a few. With a continued focus on the theatrical/macabre and a stylistic nod to the industrial landscape of its local history, Pre-Cert aims to expand an open catalog of man-made and mechanical music and disparate archival noise. The first release on the label embodies all the characteristics of Pre-Certs modus operandi, featuring collated compositions from the semi-fictitious Anworth Kirk. Combining influences from European folklore, Surrealism, Letterist poetry, tape loops, found-sound and armchair-cinematics, this eponymous album (Subtitled: The Old Mill Is Your New God) comprises 12 segued titles presented in two chapters. Clocking in at 22 minutes, Pre-Certs first release is pressed on vinyl at 45 rpm (similar to late-period Indian horror soundtracks). Vinyl limited to 500 copies. Cut at Berlins D&M." -Pre-Cert
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Artist: ANWORTH KIRK Title: Shacklecross Format: LP Label: Pre-Cert Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "Anworth Kirk casts a spellbinding sixth Pre-Cert edition with this mystic invocation of eldritch ritual music. Divining inspiration from myriad and disparate fake-loric sources -- Egyptology, drug abuse, early Freemasonry, Carnatic music, Oramics in Ardwick, Kommune pop and Letterist actions, to name a few -- this protagonist projects dank and discomforting electro-acoustic psych-scapes quite unlike anything already in circulation. Reclaimed fragments of degenerated second-class sound are dredged from silty memory banks, soaked in ether and draped across a skeletal framework of possessed percussions and concrète bridges, plotting a labyrinthine course through hallucinatory interzones seldom travelled by the sane of mind. Alchemical formulations of sampled textures catalyze noxious atmospheres; unheimlich apparitions bypass liminal dimensions, making connections between electric Smithsonian releases and primitive mechanical industry, muddying the waters of sonic fiction until its too dense to make sense of anything. Parts of this disc are presented in both Stereo and Mono and it is to be played at 45rpm with a low gram stylus pressure. Cut by Lupo at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. 700 copies only." -Pre-Cert. |
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Artist: N.RACKER Title: Flock Intoxicant Format: LP Label: Pre-Cert Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "After delivering a limited edition cassette release that sold out in a couple of hours, N.Racker unveils his vinyl debut for Pre-Cert Home Entertainment, a label run by Demdike Stare and Andy Votel. Were not at liberty to divulge his real identity for fear of the Pre-Cert wrath, however, we can tell you he hasnt previously appeared on the label; his roots reach further back into one of Cottonopolis most cherished imprints. The sound he makes is full of rumbling gloom, misery and arcane folk mystery, think somewhere between Sunn O))), The Haxan Cloak and Morricone/Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza -- albeit with a distinctly Northern English slant. The material on Flock Toxicant is based on an imagined alternative history of a sinister, pre-industrial pestilence among the ovine population and the people who work in wool processing, ending in complete devastation and dereliction. The atmosphere is chokingly heavy and nocturnal throughout, making use of self-constructed devices, antique electronics and altered acoustic contraptions made by the artist himself, designed to blacken every surface. You could think of it as a soundtrack to a low-rent steam-punk-sci-fi-horror, or just the latest in a line of immersive, conceptually-opaque transmissions from this ever-intriguing label. Cut by Lupo at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. 700 copies only." -Pre-Cert. |
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Artist: XIAN ORPHIC Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Pre-Cert Country: UK Price: $21.00 |
| "The newest addition to the Pre-Cert library comes from Xian Orphic, a new recording project from Andy Votel, and combines new automated analog music, positive meditational repeaters and neo-tantric sound collages presented in five parts. This multi-purpose music draws from a broad range of kindred influences and approaches synchronized transcendental/nu-religious/metaphysical and sensual music forms from a new perspective, drawing direct influence from private music pioneers such as Kat Epple, Marc Disler, Dariush Dolat Shahi, Mark Shreeve, Suzanne Ciani and Ramases while giving nods to sound sculptures by the likes of Egisto Macchi, Bernard Parmegiani and Bruno Spoerri. Like many Pre-Cert releases, this project is as a micro-archive of experiments and references, leaving an open-ended avenue for further volumes. By contrasting processed modular synth tones with recorded and transposed melodic pulses, Xian Orphic adds lo-fi domestic sounds and classic Kosmische to paint positive psychological relationships. The overall effect manages to reflect elements of German electronic records while re-contextualizing the more optimistic moments of popular horror soundtracks by artists like Alan Howarth, Klauss Schultze and John Carpenter. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, limited edition of 500 copies." -Pre-Cert. |
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Artist: GATE Title: The Lavender Head v.3 Format: CD Label: Precious Metal Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
| "The latest of what has become the favoured modus operandi of Gate. The infinite universe of sound and our obsession with the truth of it. Five tracks are featured in this ravers paradise. Ms Ciccone is thankfully absent from this most recent of party mix tapes constructed by Mr Morley alone. This cannot be true. There is also talk of a Bootylicious remix with video coming very soon indeed." - Precious Metal. |
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Artist: GATE Title: The Wisher Table Format: CD Label: Precious Metal Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
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"Recorded by a Gate band proper, this recording was completed in 1997 and is the final part in the trilogy of rock albums The Dew Line and The Monolake released by Gate in 1994 and 1997 respectively. In this recording Michael Morley is joined by Sally Millenium (Furr Grrls), and James Kirk and Nathan Thompson (Sandoz Lab Technicians. This album is the only total proof of a band that never performed live but rehearsed like their lives depended on it. Sadly they cease to exist." - Precious Metal.
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Artist: MASAYA NAKAHARA/SISTER IODINE Title: Meth Format: LP Label: Premier Sang Country: France Price: $30.00 |
| "Twenty-five minutes of joyful fracas and live euphoric free-noise by the animal HAIR STYLISTICS / VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA leader and the French trio founded in the early 90s who collide the savage energy of no wave, tape collage, primitive noise, and a primal free rock approach. Recorded live at Showboat, Tokyo, January 18, 2010." -Premier Sang |
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Artist: MESA OF THE LOST WOMEN Title: I Remember How Free We Were Format: LP Label: Premier Sang Country: France Price: $19.00 |
| "Free rock by a former DUSTBREEDER (and others, presumably), with a guest vocal appearance by JUNKO (HIJOKAIDAN) on one side." - Premier Sang |
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Artist: JANDREUS, PETER Title: The Encyclopedia of Swedish Punk 1977-1987 Format: Hardcover Book Label: Premium Publishing Country: Sweden Price: $62.00 |
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Beautifully produced hardcover edition, 320 pages, full color. "Do you get nostalgic shivers down your spine when someone mentions the word punk? Are you a real geek when it comes to record collecting? Have you ever wondered what was out there -- deep in the underground of the Swedish punk scene? Then this book is for you! Find out everything you want to know about leading acts such as Ebba Grön, KSMB, Attentat, Anti Cimex, Mob 47, Asta Kask and Strebers. But also about every other band that ever released a record during the first ten years of punk music! In this book you will find all the facts: line-ups, home towns, biographies and complete, fully illustrated discographies with all sleeves depicted in full color. The discographies detail variations in vinyl pressings and covers, colored vinyl existence -- and just about everything else of interest for any serious collector of Swedish punk records. Finally, you get to see the full output from legendary bands such as Vicious Visions, Shas, Absurd, Kriminella Gitarrer, 57 KEZ, Kessler Jugend, Bad Boo Band and other similar acts. Over the years, early Swedish punk has obtained a cult reputation among music fans all over the world and some records will fetch ridiculously high prices at auctions. Those records were often pressed in a very small series by private labels. This book includes Premium Publishings established price guide indication ratings, showing the current status among collectors for each and every entry! It has taken the author some ten years to collect the massive amount of information contained in this book. Premium Publishing is now very proud to present the definitive reference guide to all the recording acts during the first ten innovative years of the Swedish punk era!"
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Artist: PETTERSON, TOBIAS/ULF HENNINGSON (EDITOR) Title: The Encyclopedia of Swedish Progressive Music 1967-1979 Format: Hardcover Book Label: Premium Publishing Country: Sweden Price: $50.00 |
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Subtitled: From Psychedelic Experiments to Political Propaganda. Incredibly nice looking hardcover book, in English-only, that totally lives up to expectations in regards to documenting the Swedish musical underground, 1967-1979. Includes a Baby Grandmothers bonus live CD (recorded 1967, completely different content than the recent Subliminal Sounds release). 236 pages, amazing artist photos & perfect quality printing. "This lavishly illustrated discography is the definitive statement on Swedens legendary progressive music movement during its most flourishing and innovative period -- from 1967 all the way through the 1970s. It has become one of the most important areas among record collectors all over the world. Meticulously researched, the book guides you through every single artist and group that ever had a progressive record released on major labels as well as the small independent offerings. They are presented in detail along with all the individual musicians that made it all happen. It covers the fuzz guitar groups, the experimental bands, the power trios, the radical political groups and the psychedelic acts. Early pioneers like International Harvester, Made In Sweden, Hansson & Karlsson and Mecki Mark Men paved the way for renowned acts like November, Träd, Gräs & Stenar, Hoola Bandoola Band, Blå Tåget, Nationalteatern and Kebnekajse, as well as the mavericks of Knutna Nävar and Rävjunk. All are included, as well as highly collectable acts like Radiomöbel, Taste of Blues, Gandalf and Epizootic. This superbly produced full-color book presents all the essential facets of 400 artists and their records with a collectors valuation guide for the original vinyl records and with all sleeves lovingly depicted! Albums, EPs and singles, as well as all international releases are included! An exclusive BONUS CD is included inside the book! Its a previously unreleased 32-minute recording by Baby Grandmothers, from the legendary Club Filips in Stockholm, 1967." - Premium.
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Artist: ATTACK WAVE PESTREPELLER Title: Nug Yar Format: LP Label: Prescription Disc & Acme Country: UK Price: $48.00 |
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PRESCRIPTION SERIES: These are the remaining copies of the ACME labels late 90s Prescription series. This run of 8 LPs was inspired by the private pressings phenomenon of the late 60s early 70s. All are editions of 99 copies on 180 gram audiophile vinyl (cut from original quarter inch master tape by direct copper plate lacquers) with handmade jackets and were until now only available via yearly subscriptions of 4 LPs for 100£ (which comes to about $170.00 for 4 LPs). "To Insure the mystique of these recordings, we will be destroying the master tapes and metal work of each release ensuring that these releases can only be accurately enjoyed via this vinyl format" - Acme. "Second album by cult London outfit faves of Sonic Youth. Their first was issued by SFTRI in US several years ago and remixed by Sonic Boom (Spaceman 3). This album features Gary Ramon from SUn Dial on drums and on production. Experimental freak outs like Amon Duul but more focussed and musical. Featuring tabla/drums/moogs/organ." - Acme. Features Edwin Pouncey aka Savage Pencil (formerly of Art Attacks, Kray Cherubs, etc..).
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Artist: HOLY ANGELS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Prescription Disc & Acme Country: UK Price: $75.00 |
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*PRESCRIPTION SERIES: These are the remaining copies of the ACME labels late 90s Prescription series. This run of 8 LPs was inspired by the private pressings phenomenon of the late 60s early 70s. All are editions of 99 copies on 180 gram audiophile vinyl (cut from original quarter inch master tape by direct copper plate lacquers) with handmade jackets and were until now only available via yearly subscriptions of 4 LPs for 100£ (which comes to about $170.00 for 4 LPs). "To Insure the mystique of these recordings, we will be destroying the master tapes and metal work of each release ensuring that these releases can only be accurately enjoyed via this vinyl format" - Acme. "All girl psychedelic band from Tokyo featuring Nanjo from Seventh Seal/High Rise and Mainliner. Long psychedelic tracks! Comes with insert and paste on sleeve." - Acme. "Japanese underground psychedelic group centering around female members. This album curiously fuses delicate trip-psychedelic vibes with heavy progressive sounds. Cult female group who base their activities around ideas of the microcosmos as a holy space. Also features Asahito Nanjo on electric sitar." - Holy Angels. Recorded in 1994.
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Artist: LEITKEGEL Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Prescription Disc & Acme Country: UK Price: $48.00 |
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PRESCRIPTION SERIES: These are the remaining copies of the ACME labels late 90s Prescription series. This run of 8 LPs was inspired by the private pressings phenomenon of the late 60s early 70s. All are editions of 99 copies on 180 gram audiophile vinyl (cut from original quarter inch master tape by direct copper plate lacquers) with handmade jackets and were until now only available via yearly subscriptions of 4 LPs for 100£ (which comes to about $170.00 for 4 LPs). "To Insure the mystique of these recordings, we will be destroying the master tapes and metal work of each release ensuring that these releases can only be accurately enjoyed via this vinyl format" - Acme. "Recorded at Sun Dial studios,this band is the project of ANTHONY CLOUGH keyboardist/flutist from the original line-up of SUN DIAL presenting his first recordings for over 7 years!!! Features Gary Ramon on some tracks and represents the first recorded reunion of original Sun Dial members since "Other Way Out" period. Neu/early kraftwerk direction with mesmerizing hammonds/spaced moogs/keyboards ,fuzz bass." - Acme.
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Artist: MOTHER YOD Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Prescription Disc & Acme Country: UK Price: $48.00 |
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PRESCRIPTION SERIES: These are the remaining copies of the ACME labels late 90s Prescription series. This run of 8 LPs was inspired by the private pressings phenomenon of the late 60s early 70s. All are editions of 99 copies on 180 gram audiophile vinyl (cut from original quarter inch master tape by direct copper plate lacquers) with handmade jackets and were until now only available via yearly subscriptions of 4 LPs for 100£ (which comes to about $170.00 for 4 LPs). "To Insure the mystique of these recordings, we will be destroying the master tapes and metal work of each release ensuring that these releases can only be accurately enjoyed via this vinyl format" - Acme. MOTHER YOD is a side project of the UK space/psych band Chemical (LPs on ACME).
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Artist: OHR MUSIK Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Prescription Disc & Acme Country: UK Price: $48.00 |
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PRESCRIPTION SERIES: These are the remaining copies of the ACME labels late 90s Prescription series. This run of 8 LPs was inspired by the private pressings phenomenon of the late 60s early 70s. All are editions of 99 copies on 180 gram audiophile vinyl (cut from original quarter inch master tape by direct copper plate lacquers) with handmade jackets and were until now only available via yearly subscriptions of 4 LPs for 100£ (which comes to about $170.00 for 4 LPs). "To Insure the mystique of these recordings, we will be destroying the master tapes and metal work of each release ensuring that these releases can only be accurately enjoyed via this vinyl format" - Acme. "Featuring members of ACME label band SPIRAL SKY. This is their first album (2nd album Friction Burns issued by Captain Trip several years ago). Top notch Krautrock freakouts featuring Gary Ramon from SUN DIAL (uncredited)." - Acme.
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Artist: QUAD Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Prescription Disc & Acme Country: UK Price: $48.00 |
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PRESCRIPTION SERIES: These are the remaining copies of the ACME labels late 90s Prescription series. This run of 8 LPs was inspired by the private pressings phenomenon of the late 60s early 70s. All are editions of 99 copies on 180 gram audiophile vinyl (cut from original quarter inch master tape by direct copper plate lacquers) with handmade jackets and were until now only available via yearly subscriptions of 4 LPs for 100£ (which comes to about $170.00 for 4 LPs). "To Insure the mystique of these recordings, we will be destroying the master tapes and metal work of each release ensuring that these releases can only be accurately enjoyed via this vinyl format" - Acme. "2nd album recorded by GARY RAMON leader from SUN DIAL. Lengthy spaced out tracks mostly instrumental with sitar,fuzz leads, mellotrons and such like! Mezmerizing inner and outer grooves!" - Acme.
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Artist: CHATHAM, RHYS Title: Reve Parisien Format: LP Label: Primary Information Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Primary Information is pleased to announce a new LP by Rhys Chatham. REVE PARISIEN was produced and designed by Chatham in collaboration with the artist Jacob Kassay. The album features four new compositions that were performed live at Kassays exhibition at Art: Concept in Paris in 2010, and loosely functions as an audio catalogue to the exhibition.
REVE PARISIEN contains compositions for solo trumpet that were both performed live and used as a soundtrack through Kassays exhibition. These compositions mark a change in direction for Chatham, who has abandoned the trumpet style he developed in the nineties for a non-distorted, less effects-driven sound that compliments his minimalist compositions and his free jazz training. The LP is packaged in a stunning gatefold with an arced die-cut cover, which was designed by Jacob Kassay in collaboration with Frank Napolski.
Rhys Chatham is a composer, guitarist, and trumpet player from Manhattan, currently living in Paris. He was the founder of the music program at The Kitchen in downtown Manhattan in 1971 and was its music director between 1971�73 and 1977�80. Chatham studied under, was influenced by, or has collaborated with Maryanne Amacher, Don Cherry, Tony Conrad, Jon Hassell, Charlemagne Palestine, Eliane Radigue, Terry Riley, Frederic Rzewski, Morton Subotnick, Serge Tcherepnin, and La Monte Young, among others.
Jacob Kassay, born 1984 in Lewiston, NY, studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He currently lives and works between NY and Venice, CA. Kassays practice includes painting, installation and often collaborative works�deployed with an economy of means, and engaged with site specificity of light, space, and time. Solo exhibitions for 2011 include his first museum show at The Institute for Contemporary Arts, London; and L&M Arts, Los Angeles, CA. Edition: 1,000" - Primary Information.
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Artist: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS Title: Destroy All Monsters Magazine 1976-79 Format: Book Label: Primary Information Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "Primary Information is pleased to announce the release of�Destroy All Monsters Magazine�a compilation of the magazine that was originally published between 1976-1979. The publication contains all six published issues as well as a seventh �lost� issue and is 278 pages. Destroy All Monsters was a Detroit-area band and collective that was formed in 1973. Its initial members were Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Destroy All Monsters were art students and musicians who used performance art tactics to create noise music that evolved out of influences like Sun Ra, Nico, horror movie soundtracks, and local bands like MC5 and The Stooges. The band later took on new members and briefly reunited in the 90s. Destroy All Monsters Magazine�was edited by Cary Loren and contained artwork, photographs, and flyers from Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Printed using any papers and techniques available to the band, the issues combine the cut and paste tactics of punk zines with a psychedelic affinity for color.�Destroy All Monsters Magazine�functions as a kind of manifesto, providing insight into the band through densely layered pages with movie imagery, kitsch, cartoons, delicate drawings, and counter-culture collages. While�Destroy All Monsters�has been the subject of recent exhibitions and partial reprints, this is the first time that all issues have been reprinted." -Primary Information. |
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Artist: DISBAND Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Primary Information Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Primary Information is happy to announce the release of the first ever DISBAND CD. Compiled from over three years of performance around New York from 1979 and 1982, the CD features 21 songs. While the DISBAND collective featured many members in its brief lifetime, the CD captures the group as Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Barbara Kruger (briefly), Ingrid Sischy, Diane Torr, and Martha Wilson. Wilson, inspired by the no-wave scene and club culture around her, in particular the Y-Pants, Theoretical Girls, Bush Tetras, and James White and the Blacks, started DISBAND in 1978. As Martha Wilson herself explained: ⿿Bands played at the Mudd Club, Tr3, AREA, CBGBs. But they all knew how to play instruments and I didnt, so I called up artist girlfriends who were long on concept and short on skills, and DISBAND, the all-girl band of artists who couldnt play any instruments, was born. While this sounds like the equation for badly played instruments and screechy vocals that became a hallmark of the late-70s New York music scene, DISBAND left the instruments behind and focused their efforts on crafting melodic all-vocal pop songs that were both sharp-tongued and tongue-in-cheek. Taking on the role of both band and artist collective, they blurred the line between performance art and live music. DISBANDs lyrics contributed to ongoing discussions on the art and social issues of their time yet they remain relevant. Sexual identity, gender inequality, cold war politics, and the daily struggles of artists and art workers all play a role in the bands lyrics. Mirroring the chaos and temporarity of that time, the band split up in 1982 having never produced a record. This is the first comprehensive look at their all-too brief career." - Primary Information |
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Artist: GRAHAM, DAN Title: Rock/Music Writings Format: Book Label: Primary Information Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Primary Information is pleased to announce the release of the first English language collection devoted entirely to Dan Grahams writings on music. Having initially appeared in small journals like Extensions, magazines such as Fusion or REALLIFE, or the artists catalogues the publication titled Rock/Music Writings covers Grahams most prolific period of writing on music and its relation to popular and visual culture: the late 60s to the late 80s. Most of these essays are out of print or available here for the first time in anthologized form. While Dan Graham is known widely for visual art, he began writing about Rock n Roll in the late 60s and remains an active writer on music and popular culture, both of which remain major tenants of his work. In the late 70s, Graham became influential to the now infamous New York no wave scene through his friendships with Glenn Branca, Lydia Lunch, and Kim Gordon, to name but a few. Through this influence, Graham became a touchstone for many musicians, and he was responsible for helping form and inspire many bands of that era, among them the Theoretical Girls and Sonic Youth. Graham gave back to this community with his seminal video and essay Rock My Religion, as well as the essays New Wave Rock and the Feminine, and Punk as Propaganda. Other works on punk rock included in the book are The End of Liberalism, McLarens Children, Untitled, and Artist as Producer. Rock/Music Writings also contains Grahams now-infamous and hitherto unavailable texts on the Kinks, a band Graham is not shy about pronouncing the best Rock band of all time. Another rare text, All You Need Is Love (1968) is included, which exemplifies a poetic style that was then an active part of Grahams practice. Dan Graham, based in New York, has exhibited widely since the 1960s, beginning with conceptual magazine inserts and moving towards performance, video, and architecture. Recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened a survey of his work, Dan Graham: Beyond. This exhibition originated at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and is traveling to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in the fall." - "Primary Information. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: KAPROW, ALLAN Title: How To Make A Happening Format: CD Label: Primary Information Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The point is to make something new, something that doesnt even remotely remind you of culture. Primary Information is pleased to announce the CD release of Allan Kaprows How to Make a Happening LP�??making it available on a wide scale basis for the first time in the titles history. Originally released by Mass Art in 1966, the record never saw thorough distribution as the publisher went bankrupt shortly after its release. Later, in 1968, How to Make a Happening was distributed on a limited basis through Something Else Press�??A laminated and silk-screened cover by Alison Knowles distinguished this edition from its predecessor. Simple in construction, yet profound in context, How to Make a Happening is Allan Kaprow delivering 11 rules on how, and how not, to make a Happening, an movement begun by Kaprow in the late fifties that is known for its unpredictability, open scores, and constantly-evolving form. On the first track, Kaprow speaks plainly into a microphone, delivering a private cut-to-the-chase style instruction on Happenings that is both informative and contradictory. Kaprow, known as a great teacher of the avant-garde (from Rutgers to Cal Arts to finally University of California, San Diego), delivers both a practical and theoretical how-to with an oftentimes dead-pan humor. On the second track, which is constructed like the first, Kaprow reads the program and notes of three recent Happenings (Soap, Calling, and Raining), which serve as loose instruction, as they involve improvisation and forces beyond human control, such as acts of nature and other uncontrolled environmental forces. These elucidations further provide a clear, if somewhat circumstantial, distinction of what does and does not constitute a Happening. Perhaps, one of the more astonishing values to this recording is that it reflects and informs on a movement that fifty years on has come be seen as a seminal shift in postwar contemporary art and performance, yet is discussed by its founder without this hindsight�??it lacks sentimentality and most of all it lacks a sense of its relevance within this history. In fact, Kaprow shrugs off its place in the arts�??its rejections of their strategies become a starting point if not a hallmark of the Happening, as he claims in rule number one: Forget all the standard art forms�??dont paint pictures, dont make poetry, dont build architecture, dont arrange dances, dont write plays, dont compose music, dont make movies, and above all dont think youll get a happening by putting all these together. How to Make a Happening is being re-issued with the cooperation of the Estate of Allan Kaprow and the Getty Research Institute. Each CD is packaged in a hand-silkscreened jewel case that replicates the laminated edition by Alison Knowles and Something Else Press while preserving the original artwork carried out by Mass Art." - Primary Information |
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Artist: MIRROR/ME Title: Mirror/Me Format: Zine Label: Primary Information Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Edited by Brandon Stosuy. This Zine was developed from a collaborative exhibition and performance organized by the writer, Brandon Stosuy, and the artist, Kai Althoff in the Summer of 2009 at Dispatch Bureau in NYC. It was displayed during the White Columns Annual 2009, during which pages were added by the original exhibitions various participants. The Zine features new materials by artists, writers and musicians such as Adam Helms, Brandon Stosuy, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Kai Althoff, Karlynn Holland, Lionel Maunz, Matt Zaremba, Matteah Baim, Mitch Kehe, Nick Z., Peter Sotos, Philip Best, Scott Campbell, Theo Stanley, Yair Oelbaum, Zach Baron." -Primary Information |
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Artist: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS Title: Double Sextet Format: LP Label: Printed Matter, Inc. Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Recorded in Ann Arbor in 1975, this long lost Destroy All Monsters gem features the group as a Sextet (Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, Jeff Fields, Kalle Nemvalts, and John Reed). Missing are the lovely lyrics and goth scrawl of Niagara but in her place we see the collective brainstorm through 30 minutes of an underground music/non-music and B-culture genealogy that is unmistakably Destroy All Monsters. A melted mind, reconstructed with duct-tape, bent circuits, saxophone drips, and fuzz that will lead you into dark corners with bright futures. DOUBLE SEXTET was lost for 35 years; witness the (re)birth with this incredible LP. 2-track 12-inch record with cover art designed by Mike Kelley!" - Printed Matter
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Artist: ANGELBLOOD Title: Labia Minora Format: CD Label: Printed Matter/Captain Trip Country: USA/Japan Price: $14.00 |
| "On Angelblood⿿s new CD, Labia Minora, musical styles and influences mesh and collide in a simultaneously jarring and hypnotic sonic netherworld of hope and despair. Gnarled chants and incantations alternate with ethereal floating singing, conjuring the images and emotions of pagan ritual, blood sacrifice and the quest for redemption. Crunching rhythm guitars and bass pierced by screaming leads form the dark heavy metal undertow of the album⿿s sound. This is set to repetitive melodies with something of an earthy folk bent, creating a unique, swaying, dirge-like atmosphere ⿿ only to be disrupted by the blistering drums and the chainsaw drill of the speed metal reprise, the growl of the hunter-wolf, the bellow of the slain beast. The epic final cut balances on the edge of dissonance and noise, the croon of the sister-brethren, the blood of the slaughtered pig. Angleblood is Lizzi Bougatsos (vocals), Rita Ackermann (vocals), Brian DeGraw (bass), Dave Nuss (drums) and Anders Nilssen (guitar). On Labia Minora special guest Mick Barr (of Orthrelm and Chromtech) plays guitar. Angelblood was formed in the year 2000, and has played internationally in both music and art venues. Labia Minora is their third CD. In addition to being a band, Angelblood is also a performance art group, whose dark motifs and ritualized actions match the concerns of the band. Finally, Angelblood also creates collaborative art works, distinguished by a combination of distinctive drawing and edgy collage. In all of its various incarnations, Angelblood is characterized by a raw, almost desperate approach to art and life, realms which, in the Angleblood ethos, are indistinguishable. It is this rebellious attitude of refusal and iconoclasm, coupled incongruously, yet sincerely, with a sense of pathos and reverence, that sets Angleblood apart from the monotonous drone of monolithic culture." - Printed Matter. |
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Artist: ONO Title: Machines That Kill People Format: LP Label: Priority Male Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Priority Males reissue of the Chicago trios debut album (Thermidor 1983) revisits their unique mixture of love pulsations from the deep end of odd, no-wave guitar collage clatter, churning and clanging repetition, exuberant freak-flag-flying, and powerful quasi-sermonizing cautiously and passionately delivered by legendary frontman TRAVIS. 150-gram vinyl. Hand-screened jackets. Poster insert." - Priority Male. |
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Artist: GOZ MONGO ALLIANCE/INYURMANIA Title: Goz Mongo Alliance/Inyurmania Format: LP Label: Pripuzzi Country: Germany Price: $28.00 |
| "A split-LP with two of Swedens finest industrial bands. Same members in both groups. The three members are old fans of the analog sound, old machines, and the way they behave and dont behave. Perfect and fascinating mixture between old-school industrial, avant gardish NWW-like style and early minimal sounds like Clock DVA and Cabaret Voltaire. Two editions available with 199 copies each. All LPs are handmade -- all different in pure old school style. Inyurmania (IYM) experiments with tape loops, feedback, raw analog synthesizer sounds and screaming vocals. All recorded in their studio. A collaboration between man and machine. Goz Mongo Alliance explores the attitude of rhythmic industrial funk. Rhythm boxes, synthesizers, bass and guitar are the fundamental core. Structured patterns and pure analog sound." -Pripuzzi |
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Artist: BERGE, SIGURD Title: Early Electronic Works Format: CD Label: Prisma Country: Norway Price: $16.00 |
| "Prisma Records is proud to present the first release dedicated to the music by the late Norwegian composer and electronic music pioneer, Sigurd Berge (1929-2002). This release showcases some of Berges earliest experiments with tape-machines and early synthesizers. The music is taken from three reels found in the Henie Onstad Art Centre music archives in 2009. The reason why these tapes were located at the art center is probably because Berge worked for several years at the NSEM - Norwegian Studio for Electronic Music, located at the art center. Berge also was a central part of the electronic music concert series Elektrofoni which took place at the center from 1968 until 1983. On the first tape were the unreleased pieces "Preludium," "Ritual" and "Sørgemusikk" and the pieces "Erupsjon" and "Eg Beisla Min Støvel." On a different tape, was the musique concrète piece "Delta," which Berge also used in collaboration with the avant-garde jazz group Svein Finnerud in 1970. The second part of this release is dedicated to one of Norways first multimedia art installations entitled "BLIKK." The work was commissioned for the Henie Onstad Art Centre in 1970 and created by the artists Irma Salo Jæger, Jan Erik Vold and Sigurd Berge. The installation consisted of Jægers kinetic sculptures, Volds abstract poetry and Berges electronic music, all blended together with one of Norways first computer-generated laser-light shows. The multimedia piece was so complicated to produce that the engineers Halvor Heier, Birger Komedal and Harald Schiøtz were hired on for technical assistance. The pioneering work "BLIKK" was exhibited at the Henie Onstad Art Centre between April-May in 1970. Prisma Records is proud to release one of Norways most acclaimed experimental composers and electronic music pioneers for the first time on a complete CD release." -Prisma. |
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Artist: KOLBERG, KÅRE Title: Electronic Works 1970-1973 Format: LP Label: Prisma Country: Norway Price: $23.00 |
| "Kåre Kolberg (b. 1936) is one of Norways foremost contemporary composers and is regarded as one of the pioneers of early electronic music and cross-disciplinary art in Scandinavia. He has composed music for film, theater, and chamber orchestras and for jazz acts such as Svein Finnerud Trio and Jan Garbarek. This LP contains three early electronic pieces by Kolberg and comes in a limited edition of 300 copies." - Prisma. |
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Artist: ORNING, TANJA Title: Hommage a Anna-Eva Bergman Format: CD Label: Prisma Country: Norway Price: $16.00 |
| "In 2002 the performer and cello player, Tanja Orning, was asked by the director of the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Karin Hellandsjø, to play at the opening of an Anna-Eva Bergman exhibition. Tanja Orning decided to compose a completely new piece inspired and dedicated to Bergmans art. The piece was entitled Hommage À Anna-Eva Bergman. In February 2009, the large retrospective exhibition Surrealism, line and form – Anna-Eva Bergmans formative years 1949-52, opened at the Henie Onstad Art Centre. Once again Tanja performed and a couple of months later she was invited by the art centre to record the piece for the in-house label Prisma Records. On April the 13th Tanja Orning and sound technician Thomas Hukkelberg came together in the centres Studiohall, to record the piece. Tanja Orning is a performer, improviser and composer. After studies in Oslo, London, and Indiana University, she held the position as a co-principal cellist in the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra for 5 years until she left for Oslo in order to realise a number of projects. She is currently playing with groups such as Christian Wallumrød Ensemble, asamisimasa, Dr.Ox and Polygon as well as her solo-project Cellotronics which resulted in a CD in 2005. Orning is currently undertaking research in contemporary performance practice at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Prisma Records is proud to present this entrancing and lyrical composition on a single track CD release, pressed in a limited edition of only 300 copies." - Prisma. |
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Artist: POPOFONI Title: S/T Format: Double LP Label: Prisma Country: Norway Price: $28.00 |
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"This 2LP is a reissue of the Holy Grail of Norwegian free-jazz and electronic music, Popofoni, released by Sonet in 1973. It features compositions by Arne Nordheim, Terje Rypdal, Kåre Kolberg, Gunnar Sønstevold and Alfred Janson, played by an extended Jan Garbarek Quintet. The Popofoni project was initiated after a heated debate on Haagen Ringnes TV-show Åpen Post in autumn 1969, which dealt with the subject of pop music. Standing on one side, you found the defenders of pop, actress and singer Elisabeth Grannemann, comedian and record producer Rolv Wesenlund, and artist and record label owner Arne Bendiksen, who defended his 1969 Eurovision winner "Oj oj oj så glad jeg skal bli." In the other corner were the "cultural elite," represented by literature researcher Erling Nielsen and pianist and Beethoven expert Amalie Christie. Both sides expressed grave concerns that their opponents music impaired their listeners abilities. During the broadcast, Grannemann performed a parody of an avant garde composition which included throwing dishes and yelling, with direct reference to composer Arne Nordheims music. Some weeks, later Nordheim responded by composing a pop song with avant garde qualities, "Solar Plexus," performed by an expanded Jan Garbarek Quartet. Because of the great media attention this quarrel attracted, the organization Ny Musikk (IRCM) and Henie Onstad Kunstsenter decided to ask the experimental composers Kåre Kolberg, Alfred Janson, Gunnar Sønstevold, Terje Rypdal, and Arne Nordheim to write new compositions in the meeting point between pop and avant garde. Hence, the name "Popofoni." The result was performed at a concert at the art center in April 1970 and later documented on a double LP release on Sonet in 1973. It was pressed in 500 copies, and is now one of Norways rarest records. This reissue is produced by Lars Mørch Finborud and Lasse Marhaug for Prisma Records, 2012. Limited edition of 500 copies. Gatefold sleeve." - Prisma. Highly recommended!
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Artist: V/A Title: I Want the Beatles to Play at My Art Center! - Video from the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Archives 1968-2012 Format: DVD Label: Prisma Country: Norway Price: $19.00 |
| "This DVD presents seminal works of music, performance, dance, theater and installation art from the nearly 50-year history of Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK). When HOK founder Sonja Henie exclaimed that she wanted The Beatles to play at her art center, in essence, she expressed its founding ambition to produce and stage a lively cross-artistic program that captured the contemporary spirit of the day in live form. This release is filled with previously-unreleased material from HOKs history, and shows for the first time Kjartan Slettemark dressed up as a poodle in 1975, Mauricio Kagels commissioned piece "Ex-Position" from 1978, and the brilliant recording of John Cage reading "Muoyce" in 1983. "And now we take the first step into the future." Former director Ole Henrik Moe added this bold statement when HOK opened its doors to the public in 1968. The museum of the future at Høvikodden would position dynamic time-based art alongside its collection of modernist masterworks of paintings and sculpture, demonstrating how the various forms art elaborate and collaborate with each other. Instead of expanding its art collection, the majority of HOKs budget would go to events and exhibitions, to the production of new time-based works, and not least, to document ephemeral art. I Want the Beatles to Play at My Art Center! presents a small selection from Henie Onstad Kunstsenters video archives. The DVD contains a newly-restored version of Pål Bang-Hansens promotional feature "A Forum of the Arts" from 1969, where amongst others, Arne Nordheim performs his commissioned work for HOK Solitaire. For the first time one can see what the Norwegian Studio for Electronic Music looked like in 1975 and view an excerpt from Terje Rypdals opera "Orfeus vender seg og ser på Eurydike." In addition, the DVD contains more recent productions with artists like MoHa!, KILLL, Stephen OMalley, and Christopher Nielsen/Masselys. This release accompanies the exhibition I Want the Beatles to Play at My Art Center! -- Tidsbasert kunst ved HOK 1968-2011, opening October 28, 2012 at HOK with performances by Deathprod and Nils Bech. The exhibition and releases are curated by Lars Mørch Finborud. *DVD is only available in European PAL format (not compatible with North American NTSC DVD players), region free." -Prisma. |
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Artist: V/A Title: I Want the Beatles to Play at My Art Center! - Video from the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Archives 1968-2012 Format: Double LP Label: Prisma Country: Norway Price: $28.00 |
| "This 2LP presents seminal works of music from the nearly 50-year history of Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK). When HOK founder Sonja Henie exclaimed that she wanted The Beatles to play at her art center, in essence she expressed its founding ambition to produce and stage a lively cross-artistic program that captured the contemporary spirit of the day in live form. This release is filled with previously-unreleased material recorded at HOK by artists such as Jim ORourke, Deathprod, Arne Nordheim, Soft Machine, John Cage and Jenny Hval. I Want the Beatles to Play at My Art Center! presents a small selection from HOKs vast sound archives. For the first time, one can hear excerpts from Kåre Kolberg and Paal-Helge Haugens commissioned work "Rekviem for Janis Joplin" from 1972, Håkon Kornstad improvising in 2012, Hal Clark playing the legendary Buchla-synthesizer in The Norwegian Studio for Electronic Music in 1975, and Soft Machine at its prime in 1971 with Robert Wyatt on drums. The LP also contains commissioned works by Jenny Hval, Deathprod, Lasse Marhaug, and Jim ORourke, all produced by HOK over the last years. Other artists represented on the 2LP are Bjørn Fongaard, The Aller Værste!, Svein Finnerud Trio, Sigurd Berge, and Spontaneous Music Ensemble. This release accompanies the exhibition "I Want the Beatles to Play at My Art Center! -- Tidsbasert kunst ved HOK 1968-2011," which opened on October 28th at HOK with performances by Deathprod and Nils Bech. The exhibition and releases are curated by Lars Mørch Finborud. Housed in a gatefold sleeve." -Prisma. |
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Artist: GRASSHOPPER Title: Calling All Creeps Format: LP Label: Prison Tatt Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "The first release on vinyl by the acclaimed Brooklyn duo. Spine-shuddering drones and subtle melody; improvised electronics and horns that sound through-composed, but arent. Nothing less than the Irrlicht of contemporary noise/electronics. This is a horrid dungeon, no question, but one where hope has not quite died, and pretty things, alluring demons in service to Jon Hassell or Miles Davis, occasionally flutter by the window bars." - Prison Tatt. |
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Artist: YA HO WHA 13 Title: The Source, The Untold Story of Father Yod Format: Book/CD Label: Process Media Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"It was 1972, time of the cult-occult-commune explosion. By day, the Source Family served organic cuisine to John Lennon, Julie Christie, Frank Zappa and others at the famed Source restaurant. By night, in a mansion in Hollywood Hills, they explored the cosmos through the channeled wisdom of their charismatic leader, Father Yod. Father was an outlandish figure who had 14 �??spiritual wives,�?� drove a Rolls-Royce, and fronted the rock band Ya Ho Wa 13, now considered by collectors to be one of the most singular psychedelic bands of all time.
7 x 10 �?� 280 pages �?� over 200 original period photographs." - Process Media. Highly recommended!
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Artist: FORMERLY FAT HARRY Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Prog Temple Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
| "180 gram LP version. Led by Bruce Barthol (bassist with San Francisco psych heroes Country Joe & The Fish), this oddly-named quartet coalesced in London in 1969 and soon gained admirers for their laid-back country-influenced sound. They became a fixture in the citys underground clubs and at free festivals, but their sole album appeared in late 1971, by which time their moment had passed. It makes its long-awaited return here, complete with background notes." - Prog Temple. |
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Artist: BATH, JANINA ANGEL Title: Gypsy Woman Format: CD Label: Prophase Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This is the music of Now...potent magic of unspecific era and dimension...the Love child of Eastern-tinged folk Raga roots meeting the lysergic depth of psychedelic free jazz only to arrive at its own unique voice...as iconoclastic as it is immersed in tradition, spontaneous as it is rehearsed, ephemeral as it is eternal. And that voice belongs to Janina Angel Bath, who is that rare breed of magician -- a sonic high priestess who resonates with her place in the spotlight as if it were her own personal ziggurat. Time bends under the trance of her musical spell; from the swell of nomadic chants to flights of fantasy lore to ancient cries of goddess invocation -- she effortlessly radiates...with unequivocal grace, passion and mysticism; illuminating scenic tours not only thru the effervescent haze of the subconscious mind, but also spiraling aural trips upon whirling astral spheres." -Joe Niem |
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Artist: DJIN AQUARIAN & PLASTIC CRIMEWAVE SOUND Title: Save The World Format: LP Label: Prophase Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"Over 3 years in the making, at last the Djin Aquarian and Plastic Crimewave Sound Save the World LP is ready to be unleashed on this troubled planet. Upon meeting in 2009, an immediate kinship was established between the legendary Ya Ho Wha 13 guitarist/sage Djin Aquarian and Chicagos acid-punk minimalists Plastic Crimewave Sound. Through meditation, repetition, herbs, mountainous amplification, and a deep understanding and reverence for thee almighty Father Yod, mutual/musical sacred ground was immediately established, from the first devotional practice session. During an east coast tour pilgrimage the magical ties that bind grew tighter, and lo and behold, a recording studio residing in the remains of synagogue appeared in the wilds of Pennsylvania. Following in the tradition of Father Yods ancient mystery school Source Family jam sessions committed to wax in LA in the 70s, which resulted in true psychedelic cult classics like Ya Ho Wha 13′s Penetration: An Aquarian Symphony and Im Gonna Take You Home, this quartet channeled the frequencies around them into 5 extended numbers - even revisiting the latter LPs immortal title track ode, and YHW13-offhsoots Spirit of 76s/Golden Sunrises savage We are the Dinosaurs. Housed in a gatefold sleeve." -Prophase.
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Artist: MAKOTO & MICHISHITA SHINSUKE, KAWABATA Title: Maru Sankaku Shikaku (Circle Triangle Square) Format: LP Label: Prophase Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Acid Mothers Temple main man Kawabata Makoto links up with LSD March guitarist Michishita Shinsuke to create another amazing platter of fantastic sounds and vibes. Maru Sankaku Shikaku (Circle Triangle Square) finds the duo moving on from the electric guitars of their previous duo releases to an all acoustic album featuring ethnic instruments from around the globe. Two side long pieces mesh drone music with an ebb and a flow usually found on soundtracks or the soundtrack in ones head. New psychic territorial landscapes the cosmic cartographer mapped yesterday before tomorrow. Limited to 500 copies on swirled colored vinyl in a gorgeous gatefold sleeve." -Prophase |
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Artist: NOTEKILLERS Title: Were Here To Help Format: LP Label: Prophase Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "Gatefold LP version on red vinyl, limited to 500 copies. The Notekillers, who originally slugged it out during the punk wars of the late 1970s, continue their improbable reincarnation march with this barely-hinged celebration of rock & roll noise. Woefully under-documented back in the day, their only official recording -- The Zipper, a self-released 7" -- was a favorite amongst the cognoscenti in the experimental underground and a secret influence on some of the most important avant-bands of the past 30 years. Now, following an acclaimed archival release on Thurston Moores Ecstatic Peace! label, the Notekillers complete their leap out of the shadows and land solidly in the present with Were Here to Help -- a brand new LP with material developed exclusively during their second life. This is the CD version which includes a bonus track not found on the vinyl. Rich with tuneful, neck-snapping hooks that explode at any and all times, this album will connect deeply with anyone who lives for the dizzying, defibrillating power of positive audio aggression." -Prophase |
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Artist: NOTEKILLERS Title: Were Here To Help Format: CD Label: Prophase Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "The Notekillers, who originally slugged it out during the punk wars of the late 1970s, continue their improbable reincarnation march with this barely-hinged celebration of rock & roll noise. Woefully under-documented back in the day, their only official recording -- The Zipper, a self-released 7" -- was a favorite amongst the cognoscenti in the experimental underground and a secret influence on some of the most important avant-bands of the past 30 years. Now, following an acclaimed archival release on Thurston Moores Ecstatic Peace! label, the Notekillers complete their leap out of the shadows and land solidly in the present with Were Here to Help -- a brand new LP with material developed exclusively during their second life. This is the CD version which includes a bonus track not found on the vinyl. Rich with tuneful, neck-snapping hooks that explode at any and all times, this album will connect deeply with anyone who lives for the dizzying, defibrillating power of positive audio aggression." -Prophase |
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Artist: YA HO WHA 13 Title: 2013 Format: Double CD/DVD Label: Prophase Country: USA Price: $37.00 |
| "Brand new limited edition (300) double CD and bonus DVD documented from the psych legends 2009 East Coast tour. Disc 1 CD Fire: Recorded live in Washington DC and Baltimore MD March 16 & 17, 2009 by Steve Sanford. Disc 2 CD Water: Recorded March 17, 2009 at the Welfare Line Studios by Mike Kerchner. Disc 3 DVD Air: A film by Robert Hoffman documented during Yahowha 13s March 2009 East Coast tour. Includes bonus psychedelic wallpaper! Triple gatefold digipack packaging with extensive liner notes by Djin Aquarian." -Prophase |
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Artist: YA HO WHA 13 Title: Sonic Portation Format: CD Label: Prophase Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Back in the early 70s a curious group owned and operated a health food restaurant in Los Angles. The Source Family was a religious group of young people centered around the father figure of Father Yod, a WWII flying ace and spiritual searcher. This group of young people also performed improvisational music backing Father Yod under the name Yahowa 13. When Father Yod died in a hang gliding accident in 1975, the group dispersed. In 2007, with the publishing of a book about the Source Family, the original Yahowa 13 reunited for some shows and did some studio recordings. These are the long awaited results, the first studio recordings in over 30 years by Yahowa 13! Original members Djin, Octavius and Sunflower jam out like the ensuing years never happened. Incredible improv pieces with mind melting guitar and the psychedelic low end throb that all Yod fans will immediately recognize. Literally, the best reunion album of all time!" -Prophase |
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Artist: YA HO WHA 13 Title: Sonic Portation Format: LP Label: Prophase Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Back in the early 70s a curious group owned and operated a health food restaurant in Los Angles. The Source Family was a religious group of young people centered around the father figure of Father Yod, a WWII flying ace and spiritual searcher. This group of young people also performed improvisational music backing Father Yod under the name Yahowa 13. When Father Yod died in a hang gliding accident in 1975, the group dispersed. In 2007, with the publishing of a book about the Source Family, the original Yahowa 13 reunited for some shows and did some studio recordings. These are the long awaited results, the first studio recordings in over 30 years by Yahowa 13! Original members Djin, Octavius and Sunflower jam out like the ensuing years never happened. Incredible improv pieces with mind melting guitar and the psychedelic low end throb that all Yod fans will immediately recognize. Literally, the best reunion album of all time! Limited to 500 copies." - Prophase. |
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Artist: YA HO WHA 13 Title: Sonic Portation Format: CD Label: Prophase Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Back in the early 70s a curious group owned and operated a health food restaurant in Los Angles. The Source Family was a religious group of young people centered around the father figure of Father Yod, a WWII flying ace and spiritual searcher. This group of young people also performed improvisational music backing Father Yod under the name Yahowa 13. When Father Yod died in a hang gliding accident in 1975, the group dispersed. In 2007, with the publishing of a book about the Source Family, the original Yahowa 13 reunited for some shows and did some studio recordings. These are the long awaited results, the first studio recordings in over 30 years by Yahowa 13! Original members Djin, Octavius and Sunflower jam out like the ensuing years never happened. Incredible improv pieces with mind melting guitar and the psychedelic low end throb that all Yod fans will immediately recognize. Literally, the best reunion album of all time!" -Prophase |
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Artist: V/A Title: Little Band EP Format: 7" Label: PRS Country: Australia Price: $16.00 |
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"In late 1979/early 1980, the Champion Hotel in Melbourne held weekly Little Band nights, where 10 small, barely rehearsed groups would take the stage one at a time and play for ten or fifteen minutes each. Bands with names like Thrush And The Cunts, The Oroton Bags and the Soporifics all took their turn to shine briefly, and than as quickly disappear. Mostly, synthesized art-punk was the order of the day, although anything was fair game. In early 1980 a four band seven inch was released which came to be known as the Little Band EP. Morpions, Too Fat To Fit Through The Door, Ronnie And The Rhythm Boys and The Take each contribute a track. The Take included Frank Lovence from the Primitive Calculators." - David Nichols; Cant Stop It liner notes. Primitive Calculators and friends in different configurations (and using all the Calculators equipment) playing gnarly electronic/experimental no wave. Original 1979 release.
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Artist: CJA Title: Silent Blood Format: CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
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"New Full length from Armpits CJA. Even though a recurring theme throughout is a reflection upon the amount of time spent on his PC (the same analogue sound as ever, but the use of digital layering tech adds extra depths to the hum) this disk still has that wonderful lofi droniness, and CJA is as resolutely himself as ever. Includes an epic that threatens to rival the incredible headache. Degradation can be a beautiful thing." - Pseudoarcana.
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Artist: CLAYPIPE Title: Crescent Format: CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
| "Finally the 1st recordings (from the duo of Clayton Noone (cja) and Antony Milton) are transferred to acetate. Its verging on sold out already however (see Eclipse for copies). The good news is that we have decided to do a cdr run as well (Which will at least be in stereo... (Lathes are a warm textured mono)). These recordings actually pre-date the releases on Jewelled Antler and catch Claypipe engaged in clattery huge epic dronings which were in no small part fuelled by a peculiarly green tinged cake (ahem..). Organ, sampler, violin, guitar and percussion - not so many vocals on this one ⿿ the instruments sang for themselves, with nuanced and articulate tongues! " - Pseudoarcana. |
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Artist: DEL Title: Der Lehnstuhl Sagt Alles Format: CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
| "A re-release of the limited edition LP on Ohm, Der Lehnstuhl Sagt Alles features 3 epic live tracks from Norways Del. Drums, guitars, and electronics create an edgy and exciting racket that is up towards the ecstatic end of the free drone-rock spectrum." - Pseudoarcana. |
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Artist: KEIJO Title: Unfolding Emptiness/ Decomposing Dawn and Dew Format: Double CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $17.00 |
| " Celebrating PseudoArcanas 50th release is a new double album by Finlands Keijo Virtanen. Keijos cdr on LalLalLal last year was one of my favourites of the year, and "Unfolding Emptiness" follows on from where that one left off. Keijo uses harmonic singing, home-made 2 string, chimes, electronics and maultrommel to create a hyper-atmospheric soundworld that somehow manages to convince one that Mt Kailash is perhaps actually in the middle of a forest in Finland, rather than in Central Asia... "Decomposing Dawn and Dew" is, if anything, even better! On this disk Keijo is joined by Juri Joensuu and Sami Virtanen. Where the 1st disk celebrates the chaos of eccentric juxtaposition, the 2nd focusses more resolutely upon the drone itself. All packaged in a fancy gatefold sleeve with art work by Keijo." - Pseudoarcana. |
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Artist: MHFS Title: Driving To Rawene Format: 3" CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $9.00 |
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Artist: ONCE AND FUTURE HERDS, THE Title: Lion-Colored Hills Format: 3" CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $8.00 |
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"The Once and Future Herds are a Jewelled Antler offshoot made up of Glenn Donaldson, Donovon Quinn and Loren Chasse. Lion-coloured Hills documents a journey to said hills as manifested through bowed and plucked strings, drones and utterences." - Pseudoarcana.
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Artist: SKATERS, THE Title: Gambling in Ohpas Shadow Format: CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
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"Does anything more need to be said about The Skaters? They exploded into the consciousness in early 2004 with Dark Rye Bread (an album about to get a vinyl reissue courtesy of Norways Humbug imprint) and blew minds everywhere with their exceptionally JOYOUS music. For those who havent heard them yet The Skaters are the duo of James Ferraro and Spencer Clark. The main instrument used by these 2 geniuss is voice, but not voice as were used to it. Ecstatic chants are looped live through archaic delay units and played at a monstrous volume through old and broken amplifiers. Occasionally a broken-leaded guitar is strummed, or a very bent tribal sounding percussion looms into the mix, but overall its those crazy gnostic-gnomic voices that dominate.
As with James Ferraros solo Wooden Cupboard project (see below) the immediate comparison that springs to mind is that of Angus MacLises Kathmandu recordings. Not everything is so chaotic on this disk, there are poignant moments of relative calm, but overall it is a remarkably distorted, energising - and joyous - affair.
Note that some of the distortion on this disk is digital in nature, a further manifestation of Ohpas will sings morsecode clicks from out the void..." - Pseudoarcana.
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Artist: V/A Title: A Lowtides Rising (Explorations Around The Theme Of NZ Acoustic Music) Format: CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
| "A year long adventure comes to a close with the release of this compilation. Explore the semantic indeterminancy of the word acoustic alongside such luminaries as: Peter Wright, Sleep, Pumice, CJA, Birchville Cat Motel, Richard Francis, 1/3 Octave Band, Antony Milton, Kunst/Veet (Witcyst), seht, Donald McPherson, Tim Cornelius, James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Techs), Swagger Jack, gFrenzy, and Kieran Monaghan. Includes short sweet folksongs, shrill drone epics, gestural collages and more besides." - Pseudoarcana. |
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Artist: WOODEN CUPBOARD Title: Boiling the Animal in the Sky Format: 3" CDR Label: Pseudoarcana Country: New Zealand Price: $8.00 |
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"One of the most exciting listens Ive had this year was the Skaters and Wooden Cupboard releases that have come out on Nature Tape Limb. Based around the core pair of James Ferraro and Spencer Clark (The Wooden Cupboard is Ferraros solo project) they sure manage to make a hell of a joyous and utterly insane ecstatic racket on their disks. The overall sound they capture is reminiscent of the recordings by Angus MacLise of tripping screaming hippies involved in dodgy rituals in Nepal in the early 70s, with crazy drumming and loops of lo-fi noise, except that rather than hippies it sounds more the ritual is being conducted by a cult of hyperactive and demonic elves... But its GOOD!
Extraordinarily energising music and one of my all time faves for the label so far." - Pseudoarcana.
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Artist: V/A Title: Smorgasbird Format: Double 7" Label: Pseudopsonic Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"last version of the set first known as "Circusirus" (then credited to the label Petri Supply). the double record features one side each by Northwest weirdos Smegma, Ultra, Strength Through Joy, and Yeast Culture, and was pressed in edition of 400 copies sometime in the early 90s (probably around 1992). however, the records and their beautiful silkscreened envelop lay in storage in a basement in Seattle waiting for some as yet undecided element to finish them. then in late 1996, they were finally unleashed, though only 100 copies, as it was decided that each batch of 100 would be a different variation on the set, and work on the each batch would seem to start only well after the last one had sold out, seeing as it is now a good way through 2001 and we are finally getting the copies from the fourth batch. through this long process, Mark Schomburg a.k.a. Abo of Yeast Culture varied the title of the collection as well as of the label, though essentially containing the same material. as with previous batches, the actual appearances varies from copy to copy, though they do feature the same silk-screened pocket (now with an additional layer to distinguish it from the previous versions) and printed inner sleeves; some of the later versions often feature handdone collages, as do some of the labels." - Eric Lanzilotta.
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Artist: ABE TRIO, KAORU Title: Shinjuku Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Earliest recordings yet released by the late/great alto sax player of the Japanese underground, from March 1970, in a bs/drums trio setting. Two long, powerful, exploratory improv blast-outs. If youre into Ayler-like stamina displays, heres your lost man." |
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Artist: ABE, KAORU Title: 1972.4.11 Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| Three solo alto sax improv-screech sessions from 72. "Another side of Abe. Warm and tenderly sounds. This is also previously unreleased." - FE. |
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Artist: ABE, KAORU Title: Jazz Bed Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Duo performance from 1971, featuring percussionist Yamazaki (best known for his 20 year association with the late guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi in the revolutionary New Directions Ensemble)." |
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Artist: ABE, KAORU Title: Mokuyobi No Yoru Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Aka: Thursday Evening 1972. Three solo alto sax improv pieces from 1972. This is the third disc of solo Abe work on PSF. When youre talking about sheets of sound-motion, little can approach this stuff; waves of shimmering sound build repeatedly, essential if youre into a certain kind of blare. Supposedly there is a feature film out in Japan about Abe and his cult status, which also features Keiji Haino (playing himself)." |
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Artist: ABE, KAORU Title: Solo 72 Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "The late Kaoru Abe is a legend in the Japanese free Jazz underground, who died at the age of 29 over a decade ago. A few years ago the DIW label issued a fairly astounding 10 Volumes of his solo improv (his main instrument is alto sax, which he plays in a very free-form style). I believe he was friends with Haino (who wrote liner notes for Vol 6 of that series), although there are no available recordings of them together." - FE. |
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Artist: AHOSEN Title: 1st Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "Tokyo underground group! Avant-psychedelic." - PSF |
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Artist: AIHIYO Title: Live Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Second album from Hainos covers unit, who specialize in pulling apart hoary old Japanese MOR classics and rebuilding them into single-minded masterpieces of grunting/floating garage-psychedelia. The groups debut album appeared a couple of years back on the Japanese major label Tokuma, and was doubtless missed out upon by billions still bemused by that labels mischievous foreign distribution policies. Since their inception though, Aihiyo have played out around Japan roughly once a month, and this release is a document of some of those marathon, thrilling shows. Possibly the last document too, as Takahashi has since left the drum seat in favor of smoking his pipe in a rural setting, and bassist Kawaguchi (of Tokyos finest garage-Fushitshusha hybrid Broomdusters) is talking about taking a sabbatical. Anyway, this new release features nine long tracks, including covers of a Spiders tune, the Ronettes Be My Baby, and lots more you wont know. Most staggering of all is the cover of the Stones Satisfaction, which neatly transforms Jaggers baby-in-a-Perspex-box mixture of rage and boredom into truly on-the-edge jumpy paranoia, encapsulating the songs mental entirety without replicating the riff, rhythm, faux-Americanisms or any other elements of its external whatsit. As a textbook example of how to do a cover its right up there with, what? Fushitsushas Marianne? Jandeks Rite of Spring? Not much else, for sure." - Alan Cummings. |
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Artist: AURAL FIT Title: Aural Fit II Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "The reincarnation of the in-the-red psych aesthetics of early High Rise. One of the biggest underground psych/noise rock discoveries was Tokyo-based Aural Fit. A heavy, bludgeoning cudgel of a band, all distorted grime and redlined aggression, their 2004 self-released first album burst over the scene like a big bag of heavy spanners. They followed up with a track on Tokyo Flashback 5, but then line-up changes seemed to sideline their juddering, thundering rock juggernaut. Leader Mondo Bohachi has gone about reassembling the group from the ground up, and these are the first recorded results. If anything, its even scarier, noisier and more rock than last time. Loud and psychedelic are still the watchwords, needles in the red all the way, and all the Stooges, Blue Cheer, TG, etc., references you might require are present and correct. Loud, vicious and dumb -- it doesnt really get much murkier or animal-mind-melding than this. Turn it up. Four tracks, 38 minutes. Mini-LP style card sleeve with obi and insert." -PSF |
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Artist: BERTOIA, HARRY Title: Unfolding Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
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""Ambient and strange atmosphere" from the late sound sculptor. This reissues two of this American geniuss many self-released LPs as a great public service. His "sounding sculptures" consist of "ranks of tall slender rods, placed either upright or at special slants in rectangular formations. These metallic faces are not rigid, but give when stroked -- at the same time releasing lingering musical chords of a weirdly haunting nature."" - FE.
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Artist: BON NO KUBO Title: Bon No Kubo Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Formed in 2007. An improvising trio consisting of guitar, contrabass and percussion. The group aims at the sublime, whispered in a uniquely Japanese sensibility." - PSF. Previously featured on Tokyo Flashback Vol. 7. |
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Artist: BORBETOMAGUS Title: Live At Inroads Format: CD Label: PSF Country: Japan Price: $21.00 |
| "Reissue of a long deleted casse |