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Artist: BRONZE FLOAT Title: No Sung Words Format: 3" CDR Label: R.C. Legacy Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "its got like a couple written tunes and it has some recorded noises and improv music but it has no sung words..." david brant, who you may know as the bassist of vollmar, has a good new thing going and its called bronze float" - Elephant Micah. |
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Artist: DEAD FARMERS Title: Go Home Format: LP Label: R.I.P. Society Country: Australia Price: $20.00 |
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"Long awaited debut LP after being the first release on Aarght Records (Eddy Current, UV Race, Super Wild Horses etc) a couple of years ago. I saw their first or second show three and a half years ago and havent missed many since. At the time it seemed everything around me was no-wavey or post-something and these three young men playing powerful, honest-to-god rock music felt like the most ambitious, genuine thing around. Somewhere between your garage punk and heavy pyschedelic rock (Groundhogs, Blue Cheer, Mainliner etc). These dudes feel like my local Stooges/Creedence/Minutemen." - R.I.P. Society
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Artist: ZOND Title: S/T Format: LP Label: R.I.P. Society Country: Australia Price: $20.00 |
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"ZOND are a maximum volume, minimalist soundrock group based in Melbourne, Australia. They are named after a member of the groups childhood dog and/or a Hi-God People track and/or satellite of the USSR. ZOND are broadcasting very dark grey ecstasy, not from space but from a place deep inside the automatic mind brain. They are an audio holographic Rorschach blot flatlining, or a Freudian analysis gone horribly wrong on E.S.P. fog medicine from the future. Their live shows and recordings vary from screaming psych punk car crashes to ambient alloy radiation field hum: all that can be known in advance is the intensity of the performance."-Goner Records
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: Small As Life And Infinitesimally As Pure Format: Hardcover Book Label: Radical Readout Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
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"Of interest to the literati out there, Radical Readout Press, the publishing arm of the collective, in conjunction with Child of Microtones, is ecstatic to announce the publication of a new, slightly expanded second edition of Matt Valentines psychoactive pulp novella, Small as Life and Infinitesimally as Pure...Shazam to that! The book has cloth covered boards, foil stamping and a letter pressed demi-jacket...no stops left unpulled for this mother!
"Small as Life....
...should you go toward the light, away from the light or inside the sound with hair? An analog fable of crystal powder trips to rare 78 hunts for food, from sacrilegious pagan idolatry to amorous love ins all in search of the mighty essence of grail overfloweth. Doc Caligari the record store casualty sips the Moretti, eats the Valdostana, snorts the white, leans hard left and makes all the scenes in a cosmic journey to the Psychic Commune..." - Matt Valentine is one half of the legendary MV&EE Medicine Show and a member of the oracular Tower Recordings. He resides in the lost mountain wilds of Vermont with Erika Elder and Zuma..." - Radical Readout.
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Artist: CRUSHED BUTLER Title: Uncrushed Format: LP Label: Radio Heartbeat Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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"Many bands are called legendary, few are. Among those few are CRUSHED BUTLER, whose assualt on the UK rock scene in 1969-70 laid out the dynamics that were to follow in the best punk, glam and pub rock records of the seventies. From the anthemic R&B classic "High School Dropout" to the pure punk mayhem of "Its My Life" and "Factory Grime," and the heavy Sabbath-esque psych of "Love Is All Around Me," this has long been a record deserving of wider accessibility. This edition adds a second version of "High School Dropout" and an previously unreleased instrumental recording, "Let It Ring" to the six tracks first pressed on the Dig The Fuzz 10-inch in the 90s to make this the definitive vinyl release with original cover art, inner sleeve, cartoon and poster by AVI SPIVAK (Humanbeing Lawnmower) and Crushed Butlers DARRYL READ that contains the bands complete surviving recordings." - Radio Heartbeat.
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Artist: HUBBLE BUBBLE Title: Faking Format: LP Label: Radio Heartbeat Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The second Hubble Bubble LP from 1979, faithfully restored to the vinyl format. This LP is a less a follow up to to the first than its own entity entirely. If not for the long shadow cast by the S/T LP, its easy to imagine that this would be more highly regarded for the brilliant blend of punk and edgy pop that it is. Theres much here to please fans of the raw punk of the first LP. However, "Faking" also exhibits more of an attention to hooks as it makes more than a slight nod toward Pub Rock and Glam: Just hear their devastating version of Kim Fowley and Michael Lloyds "Motor Boat!"" - Radio Heartbeat. |
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Artist: RAXOLA Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Radio Heartbeat Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Raxola hailed from the same classic Belgian punk scene as The Kids and Hubble Bubble. Amazing that three groups all put out such staggering LPs! Long regarded as one of the all-time best European punk LPs, Raxola finally gets a legit repressing. Winners such as "84s Man" "Wildcat" and "Old Rat" will continue to quench your sonic palette for years to come." - Radio Heartbeat. |
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Artist: BEAT OF THE EARTH Title: The Beat of the Earth Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Phil Pearlman, whose Relatively Clean Rivers album (RRLP020) has received universal acclaim, assembled Beat Of The Earth in 1967 with this, their first, eponymous album, appearing on the Radish label (AS0001) in the same year. BOTE is often compared with their illustrious East coast counterparts, The Velvet Underground, an apt comparison given the Velvets penchant for long, unstructured jams using a myriad assortment of acoustic and electronic instruments. This is the earliest incarnation of the band, and the one that is most familiar to collectors fortunate enough to own a copy of this incredibly rare album. The album consists of a single track per side, and this, the bands recording debut, is considered an unusual and singular item of significance from the California 60s alternative rock scene. Although guitarist Pearlman managed to keep Beat Of The Earth together for much of the remainder of the 60s, it is fair to say that no more proper recordings were made, although Pearlman continued to add to his personal collection of studio recordings, drafting in new musicians for impromptu after-hours recording sessions arranged at short notice. Another fascinating psych album from a true musical innovator." - Radioactive. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: BERMUDA TRIANGLE Title: Bermuda Triangle Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $17.50 |
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"Released as a private pressing on the aptly named Winter Solstice label, Bermuda Triangle who hail from Long Island New York released this gem in the height of Punk...1977. A combination of The Farm Band and Bobby Brown (the solo act from early 1970s California), Wendy Carlos meets Joan Baez the band were made up of a female singer/bassist/female drummer/violinist and a guy who sings and plays the electronic auto harp/organ and piano. The sound is totally lost in time and transports you back to the carefree days of the early seventies and is extremely trippy. You have to check out the wah wah auto harp, the weird percussion and bass, a great listen almost pre-dates the current folktronica scene. This wild album has to be heard and is quite superb from folk to reels to country all bathed in this misty auto harped glory." - Radioactive.
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Artist: COSMIC MICHAEL Title: After A While Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "I am a child of Woodstock nation, Ive come a long way from my home... So sings the one and only Cosmic Michael, on this the opening track of his second album released by the Bliss label in 1970. An album now high on serious psych collector wants lists too... Cosmic Michael. Well, some regard him as a Godhead, the ultimate spiritual hippy, with songs of love, freedom & peace, all delivered with just piano, vocals and kazoo(?)...A true guru... But, what of the music? I guess these days youd call it loner psych, but back then the term freak rock might have been applied to such a release. After his eponymous, and equally enigmatic debut album released a year earlier, hed witnessed the Woodstock festival, absorbed the vibe, and relocated to Los Angeles where he then recorded After a While, seemingly quite quickly...Ive seen The Who, and Ten Years After, Jefferson Airplane they nearly blew my mind.... The nine tracks on After a While are stoned 60s DIY rock nroll. You can call it lo-fi or home made, but the message remains: Cosmic Michael preaches love and freedom, and hes a mean boogie-woogie player too." - Radioactive. |
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Artist: CREME SODA Title: Tricky Zingers Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Hailing from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Creme Soda generated a fanatical following based on their legendary single (Im) Chewin Gum/Roses All Around which appeared on the Trinity label in 1975. Creme Soda are not an easy band to categorise as they were able to play virtually any musical genre with consummate ease. Their only full-length album, Tricky Zingers (which also includes their hit singles), also made its appearance on Trinity (Trinity CST11) in 1975 and despite the considerable interest the record generated, the band, perhaps mindful of the adage quit while youre ahead, did exactly that, never to be heard of again. Tricky Zingers is an impressive and relatively overlooked recording, which, despite being recorded in 1975, has a decidedly mid-60s feel about it. The albums style ranges from folkrock to wasted psychedelia, with two experimental tracks featuring drone effects and backwards guitar thrown in for good measure, as well as a couple of rootsy rockn roll numbers." - Radioactive. |
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Artist: FLOWER TRAVELLIN BAND Title: Satori Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Possessing the vision to select Akira Joe Yamanaka as their vocalist, the Flower Travellin boys elevated themselves above other Japanese bands of the time, whose efforts were largely confined to imitating British and American bands of the era. Satori , which was released in 1971, is a conceptual hard rockpsych 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 Easterntinged North African six string freak-outs and crashing tom-toms, the band flexes its collective muscle from start to finish." - Radioactive. |
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Artist: FOREST Title: Forest Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "New, official reissue (previous version on BGO is long gone). Like their COB reissue, this is a stepped up quality remaster from Radioactive. Originally issued by Harvest in 1969, this is one of the definite debut folk albums of all time." - FE. "As the 1960s progressed, almost every musical genre was affected by the psychedelic boom - and folk was no exception. Artists such as Bert Jansch, Davy Graham and Donovan had introduced elements of world music into their repertoires by 1965, and in 1966 the Incredible String Bands debut kicked the door wide open for a generation of young musicians to follow. Forest, whose two Harvest albums have long elated listeners and eluded collectors, featured prominently among them, and have become synonymous with so-called acid folk, inspiring - alongside Vashti Bunyan, COB and a handful of others - the current wave of successful underground folk acts. Originally called The Foresters Of Walesby the band abbreviated their name to Forest and were fortunate enough to meet John Peel at a local gig and he encouraged them to play in London. After a triumphant gig in Notting Hills All Saints Hall at Christmastime 1968, Forest were offered a management deal with Blackhill Enterprises, home to amongst others, Pink Floyd and Roy Harper. It wasnt long before offers of record contracts came their way and the band eventually signed to EMIs nascent Harvest label. This, their debut album was recorded at Abbey Road early in 1969 and featured completely original material, with their strangely-sculptured melodies and partially improvised accompaniment. The playing is often inspired and the albums recording quality excellent. Mastered at Abbey Road by NickWebb from the original analogue tapes. Featuring full participation from founding band member Martin Welham." - Radioactive. |
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Artist: FRACTION Title: Moon Blood Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| Repressed. 2004 reissue (previously done by Flashback and Rockaway). This record is in Paul Majors "Top Five of Weird Underground Psych/Folk", as revealed in Vice magazine. "This 1971 release on the Angelus label (Angelus 571) was limited to only 200 copies, so originals are worth a small fortune. Fraction, with vocalist Jim Beach bearing an uncanny vocal resemblance to Jim Morrison (although he was singing on Sunset Strip long before Morrison took to the stage), were often compared favourably with the Doors, although their quasi-religious message would probably not have found favour with the recently-departed Morrison. Indeed, this rather fine album was once famously described as the album the Doors probably wished they had made! Underpinned by guitarist Don Swansons superb Ritchie Blackmorestyle guitar work, this is an album full of beautiful psychedelia, acid and hard rock, at once emblematic of the era but not dated by its association. The five original compositions are all of the highest quality and the contribution of Beachs Morrison-esque vocals place a stamp of originality on the recording that endures from beginning to end." -Radioactive |
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Artist: GERMAN OAK Title: German Oak Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "During the summer of 1972, best remembered for the bloodshed of the Munich Olympics, the 5-man Dusseldorf instrumental group German Oak entered the Luftschutzbunker (Air Raid Shelter) studio to record their first, eponymous album. The purpose of recording in a bunker was to recreate the feelings experienced by German soldiers during the Allied invasion of 1944. The strange acoustic conditions in the bunker made the music, which was a series of long, spacious guitar jams, sound distant and filled with echo. Julian Cope, in his in-depth review of the album, describes the bands sound in unequivocal terms ...imagine a brutally recorded, brazen and ultra-skeletal industrial white funk played with all the claw-handed technique of the Red Crayola recording their famous Hurricane Fighting Plane. This is the sound of German Oak." - Radioactive. |
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Artist: HAPPY DRAGON BAND, THE Title: The Happy Dragon Band Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
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"Following the lack of success generated by The Phantoms Divine Comedy which briefly appeared on Capitol circa 1974, Tommy Court, the tortured genius behind the bands Doors-like facade, dropped the mask and wrote and produced this album of electronic gymnastics and fuzz guitars which appeared on the Fiddlers Music label (Fiddlers Music Company) in 1978 under the guise of the Happy Dragon Band. The album features loads of synthesizers, electronic sound effects and spacey, cosmic electronics. Every track is uniquely engaging, with the stand-outs being Positive People, In Flight and 3-D Free (the last being a total electronic freakout from start to finish), maintaining their high level of originality and a clear penchant for electronic experimentation." - Radioactive. Very highly recommended!
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Artist: J.D. BLACKFOOT Title: The Ultimate Prophecy Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "J.D. Blackfoots The Ultimate Prophecy, originally released on the Mercury label (SR 61288) in 1970, is widely regarded as one of the top US psych albums of all time. The band, which was from Columbus, Ohio, began as a combination of two local groups, The EbbTide and Tree, the latter winning a recording contract with Mercury as a prize in a local band competition. Craig Fuller, later a founding member of Pure Prairie League, joined the band, which by this time had changed its name to J.D. Blackfoot, after some of the material for The Ultimate Prophecy had been written. Shortly after the release of the album, Blackfoot left the group which continued to perform as Osiris, while J.D. himself assembled a new outfit which delivered two well-received albums for Fantasy. The Ultimate Prophecy with its killer psych guitar, combined a strong British sound with the distinctive song-oriented California sound of Grateful Dead and Neil Young, two of the main inspirations for many an aspiring rock musician of the time. However, despite the laid back rural West Coast sound that the band effortlessly cultivates, shades of UK progsters such as Jethro Tull and the Moody Blues often come to the fore revealing what is, in essence the groups true musical intentions. Nevertheless, this is a fine album, beautifully played (drummer Dan Waldron is in many ways the hero of the hour) and extremely well recorded." - Radioactive. |
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Artist: JOSEPH Title: Stoned Aged Man Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "This is a rare album indeed and much sought after, originally released on the Scepter label (SPS 574) in 1970 and recorded in Memphis at the legendary American Sound Studios. The Joseph was in fact Joseph Long or Joseph Longeria, discovered by the albums producer and A & R man Steve Tyrell playing in Houston in a battle of the blues competition. This is the only known foray into recording that Longeria made and he was a superb guitar player to boot. Stoned Age Man contains some of weirdest lyrics ever written. Check out I Aint Fattenin No More Frogs for Snakes and the eastern Cold Biscuits and Fish Heads. This is an obscure classic that lovers of blues rock should not hesitate to have in their collection... the voice you may ask... well think Roky Erickson, Jim Dandy and Beefheart....you cant really go wrong can you????" - Radioactive. |
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Artist: MAGICAL POWER MAKO Title: Super Record Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "New UK reissue of the second (and all-time best) Mako album, originally issued by Japanese Polydor in 1975; there have been a couple Japanese CD reissues of this in the past, which are no longer available. One of the key documents of Japanese underground psychedelic music, presented in truly sublime fashion. Although MPM went on to record 20+ more records after this one, he would never exceed the spatial exuberance of Super Record. From the liner notes: "Makos music possesses a certain strange kind of texture. Its certainly is what they call rock, but contains elements that 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. This Super Record shows Mako looking down upon the earth from above, wandering through Alaska and Siberia, the Near East, Okinawa, and South America. Adding to the variety of folk music of India, Turkey, and Russia, his mandolin or Taisho koto, and especially his marvelously performed guitar, expressing fully the odor of the soil and mankinds universality." |
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Artist: RELATIVELY CLEAN RIVERS Title: Relatively Clean Rivers Format: LP Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
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"Former Beat Of The Earth leader Phil Pearlman assembled Relatively Clean Rivers in the early 70s and eventually recorded this excellent rural rock album in 1975. Although it should be easy to pigeonhole the sound of Relatively Clean Rivers, it is actually anything but. At times sounding like The Grateful Dead in all their American Beauty pomp, or CSNY circa Déjà Vu, this tight, richly talented ensemble produces an album of almost majestic quality. The sound is superb, and clearly no time or expense were spared to produce an album which is probably the most flawless snapshot of Californian 70s under ground music that you will ever here. Originally there were 2 pressings of this unique album, each of only 500 copies each, and this is the first time that this, or any of Pearlmans other recordings has been reissued. An album highly recommended to anyone even remotely interested in 70s West Coast music or simply top-notch music in general." -Radioactive. Full color gatefold sleeve. CD version also available. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: RELATIVELY CLEAN RIVERS Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "Former BEAT OF THE EARTH leader PHIL PEARLMAN assembled this band in the early 70s and eventually recorded this magnificent rural rock album in 1975." - Radioactive. |
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Artist: STAINED GLASS Title: Aurora Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
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"Second, and generally regarded as the better of the bands two albums recorded for Capitol in the late 60s. Formed in 1966, Stained Glass began life as a Beatles cover band performing live in and around their native San Jose until an A&R man from RCA signed them to the label later that year. Disillusioned with life at RCA, the band decamped to Capitol in early 1968, where they were to record three singles and two highly-acclaimed albums which, despite attracting the critics plaudits, failed to make an impact causing the group to disband in November 1969 with vocalist/bass player Jim McPherson going on to join Copperhead. While the bands first album, Crazy Horse Roads was an eccentric amalgam of commercial tunes, fuzz guitar and psych touches, their second effort, Aurora, with its looser, more jammy feel, is the one that the general consensus rates as the better of the two." - Radioactive.
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Artist: STALK-FORREST GROUP Title: St Cecilia - The California Album Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Back in 1970 a five-piece band from Long Island, New York, inexplicably changed its name from Soft White Underbelly to Stalk-Forrest Group and made the journey to Los Angeles and the offices of Elektra Records, then riding high with their two rock-psych bands Love and the Doors. It is widely believed that Elektra viewed the band as a potential East Coast Doors, and the label wasted no time in getting them into the studio to record an albums worth of psychedelic tunes, rich in high harmonies and fluid, accomplished guitar interplay and trippy-hippy lyrics, under the watchful eyes of the co-production team Sandy Pearlman and Jay Lee although Elektra had originally intended for Don Gallucci (formerly of Don And The Goodtimes) to produce the album. Gallucci, however, slipped away without informing the label or the band of his departure. Around the same time bassist Andy Winters was replaced by drummer Albert Bouchards brother Joe, and sensing the project had all the hallmarks of an ill-fated venture, Elektra promptly dropped the band, but not before releasing a paltry 200 copies of a single taken from the unreleased album session. Obviously not deterred by this setback, the band promptly changed its name to Blue Oyster Cult, signed for Columbia and retuned its musical style to heavy metal. The rest, as they say, is history! This reissue of the unreleased Calfornian session, bearing the name of the 90s German bootleg, has been re-mastered to a particularly high standard, as befits one of the best West Coast-style psych albums ever made." - Radioactive.
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Artist: STALK-FORREST GROUP Title: St Cecilia - The California Album Format: LP Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
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Artist: TAMAM SHUD Title: Gooluntionites and the Real People Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $17.00 |
| "Although the Sydney-based Tamam Shud (the unusual name is probably a corruption of Taman Shud, borrowed from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) was formed in 1967 by singer/guitarist Lindsay Bjerre, the band only sprang to prominence when their superb debut album, Evolution , was issued by CBS (SBP 233761) in 1969. Having established themselves with Evolution , the band went on to record their opus major for Warner Bros in 1970 in the form of the ambitious Goolutionites And The Real People (WS 20001), a stunning and imaginative work dominated by the prodigious talents of 16-year old guitarist, Tim Gaze. Gazes precocious guitar work was conspicuously present throughout the album, although it was on A Plague and Stand In The Sunlight, both of which were to appear as 45s, that his playing really shone. Although Gaze left the band immediately after the albums release to join Kahvas Jute, he returned later the same year, and remained in the group until it disbanded in 1972. Goolutionites is widely recognised as one of the finest Australian prog-psych offerings of all time." - Radioactive. |
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Artist: YESTER, JERRY & JUDY HENSKE Title: Farewell Aldebaran Format: CD Label: Radioactive Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "First ever reissue of this cult-classic folk/rock album, originally issued by Straight in 1969. Super in-demand for the last decade plus (even if fucking Christgau gave this one a B+ upon release) and now finally available -- buy it now before the cops show up." - FE. "Timely reissue of this late 60s folk/psych classic from husband and wife team Jerry Yester and Judy Henske. Yester had previously enjoyed an element of fame courtesy of his stint with The Loving Spoonfuls, but following the bands demise in 1969, he set about producing this little gem with acclaimed folk singer Henske and a bunch of pals which were said to have included Ry Cooder and David Lindley. Farewell Aldebaran , which is often heralded as one of the most proficient and creative albums of its genre, with Henskes incredible range of vocal styles (during her short solo career she had effortlessly made the transition from comedian to folk singer and then on to an accomplished rock singer) elevating the album to a higher plane. Her mind-blowing vocals on the opening track, the hard-fuzz Snowblind, gives an early clue to Henskes talent and range, and although this particular vocal style only features on the one song, the sheer diversity of her singing makes every track on this highly original and experimental album a unique experience." - Radioactive. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: ELECTRONIC HOLE Title: Electronic Hole Format: CD Label: Radish Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"A raw, noisy, droning and completely
mesmerizing album recorded by PHIL PEARLMAN
between the first Beat of the Earth album and
Relatively Clean Rivers. Pearlman assembled the
ELECTRONIC HOLE in 1969 strictly for personal use
to audition musicians for his new band." Recorded
in local studios during off-hours, the album is
entirely different from Beat of the Earth, as it
abandons a freeform improvisational approach in
favor of "compositions," including a wild cover
of Frank Zappas "Trouble Every Day." Pearlman
plays sitar to great effect on the album, and
another track has the thickest wall of fuzz
guitars imaginable." - Radish,
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF/PER JONSSON/KENT TANKERD Title: UGN Format: LP Label: Radium 226.05 Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
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Original copies of this 1986 LP. Nice embossed sleeve with full color photograph attached.
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Artist: SMEGMA Title: 30 Years of Service Format: CD Label: Radon Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "In July 2003, SMEGMA celebrated their 30th anniversary as a musical collective with a series of concerts featuring STOOGES saxman STEVE MACKAY. These landmark noise spectacles were highly praised, most notably the exceptional performance at The Derby in Hollywood. At the end of the year, the set was recreated in Smegmas legendary Portland, Oregon, studio and painstakingly mixed and manipulated over the course of several months. From their mid-70s work in the LOS ANGELES FREE MUSIC SOCIETY up through last years critically exalted collaboration album with Wolf Eyes, Smegmas influential free honkngibber is like no other." - Radon. |
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Artist: TROPA MACACA Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Rafflesia Country: Portugal Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: VITAMIN B12 Title: System Six/68 x 32 Format: 7" Label: Raft Country: UK Price: $6.50 |
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"The Vitamin B12 is Alasdair Willis. Reclusive Brighton based author of contemporary surrealist artifacts. This single was commissioned for Rafts instrumental series, specifically with the 7? medium in mind. The two pieces are vastly contrasting and perhaps some small clue to their aesthetic may be placed within the titles themselves... 68 x 32 is a Musique Concrete assemblage so therefore must be art, and as such it can only be judged by posterity, no one yet can really say what the record is like. System Six is a melodic composition for tuned percussion sounds, with a surprisingly liberating, yet oddly mind-bending ascending motif, which calls on the infinite resources that can be gleaned from careful application of the laws of repetition, that can be gleaned from careful application of the laws of repetition laws of repetition of repetition. This record exists precisely because it was made to be." - Raft.
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Artist: WARSER GATE Title: Karneek Temple Format: 7" Label: Rafter Country: UK Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: RESIDENTS, THE Title: Meet The Residents Format: Flexi-Disc 7" Label: Ralph/File Magazine Country: USA/Canada Price: $7.00 |
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One-sided flexi produced for the Canadian magazine File in 1974. Includes extracts from the first Residents LP.
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Artist: JOSHUA JUGBAND FIVE Title: Damascus Doldrum Format: CDR Label: Ramadan Country: Sweden Price: $8.00 |
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"..pure grade-L instrumental psych-out + low-key wall-rumblin groove + heavy livin-room glow from Landskrona, Sweden. JJ5 = Jakob Olausson (Screamin Mee-Mees fan!)." - Slippytown.
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Artist: SMEGMA/KK RAMPAGE/INSECT JOY/GHOST MOTH Title: Tarantismo Summit Vol. 1 Format: LP Label: Rampage Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "4-Way Split 12" Limited to 400 copies (100 on colored vinyl). A softly boiled blob of gellatinous music, reduced into the primordial ooze of Earths most base forms of life, and regurgitated in the form of the Tarantismo Summit. A sadistic conglomeration of musical anomalies that have washed ashore from distant planets and convene bacterially inside the insidious caverns of the mind, four excruciating units of internal despair and reconstructed mindwashing sound are presented to the most adventurous of listeners. Rooted derogatively in the spirit of Nonesuch Records pioneering steps into the foray of primitive avant garde in the early 1960s, Tarantismo Summit ushers in a new age of reclamation of the broken and damaged arts, coercing the music enthusiasts of the present day to expand their horizons and explore new territories, still unfamiliar, yet unwavering. A satellite of unspeakable desecration in the free-jazz stratosphere of the 70s underground, Smegma is and were a pivotal point of aural disgust to many, and an unrequited love for the rest of the outsider population screaming for dissonance and catastrophe of modern sound. Dating back to the early 1970s, their lineage of cacaphonous skronk and slime drudge work has carved their name in the wall of the sonically absurd for the rest of modern civilization. An integral part of the Los Angeles Free Music Society in their early incarnation, they relocated to Portland in the early 80s and even included rock scribe extraordinaire Richard Meltzer (of VOM fame) in their later years, yet have to this day remained and institution of boundless creativity of sound. K.K. Rampage have lived in the squalor of Chicagos most egregious forbidden zones for years without sunlight or nourishment, and their inclusion is defaulted in their steadfast stance of perpetuating mental decay, along with an inherent unhinged velocity of self-destruction. Scraping themselves off the wheels of despair and calamity, they squirm with disgusting energy destined for status comparable to scraps left by golden insects looking for veins in the darkness of the inner circles of insanity. Caged animals are frightened, children are worried, and the rotting smell of America is what makes this work on so many levels, and why K.K. Rampage is more of a lifestyle than a change of pants, in all their lurid abomination. The Floridian influence on this damaged crop of poisoned sprouts comes in the larval state of Insect Joy, a duo of crustaceous origin who obliterate the tranquility of a Gulf Coast sunset with a barbaric and drilling groove of mindless gravel-toned noise. With stunning soliloquies transmitted through broken electronic devices from bygone eras, these ambient cockroaches infest and occupy the darkest corners of the stratosphere, pulling throbbing tones of deaths knell out of seashells worn on tourist necklaces. Let the buzzing commence as Insect Joy devours yet another species of sacred origin, and devolves into their parasitic mindset set to ravage the clouded judgment of greener listeners looking for the only way out of the bag. The last nail in the coffin comes in an electric storm of ghastly proportions, where spirits that invade Ghost Moth anchor their way into the filthy fabric of our lives, and result in the impending physical breakdown everyone knows is right around the corner. Only from the ruinous backside of Brooklyn, NY, where art and ejaculation are both serious career options will negativity like this be a possibility. Ghost Moth vilify an age-old premise where confusion of sound and disruption of parallax combine to create a horrendous vision of a world turned inside out, and a frigid vision of a future where no individuals are allowed to defect from their path. As they forcibly detract from the outer levels of humanity with unsettling sounds that can kill the weak and break the unbreakable, they surreptitiously cling to the wall and let the evolutionary survival process take hold." -Todd Killings, VictimofTime. com 2008 |
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Artist: KRAKEN FURY Title: Burn In Earth Format: Double CDR Label: Rampart Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Thad Watson, formerly of Warmer Milks ("Radish on Light" era). Wildly ambitious, overdubbed instrumental basement prog. RIYL early Sun City Girls, late-80s SST, Attempt." - Rampart. |
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Artist: THREE LEGGED RACE Title: Ringing Order Format: Cass Label: Rampart Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Robert Beatty (Hair Police, Eyes & Arms of Smoke, Burning Star Core)
solo. As with most of his work, here he conujurs a layered, fully
formed sound world, unpredictible and completely mind-altering." - Rampart.
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Artist: BLACK ARTISTS GROUP Title: In Paris, Aries 1973 Format: LP Label: Rank Country: Germany Price: $28.00 |
| "First ever reissue of this free jazz classic. Limited edition of 500 copies. Comes with an extensive essay on the Black Artists Group, printed on the inner sleeve. Written by Benjamin Looker, author of Point From Which Creation Starts: The Black Artists Group Of St. Louis." - Rank. "The Black Artists Group was an unit not unlike that of The Art Ensemble of Chicago. Except they only recorded this one document and it only came out in France on a label named after the group. This is squeaky, spindly stuff and very OPEN and a good indication of what was happening in the early 70s with members Oliver Lake (later of the World Saxophone Quartet) and Joseph Bowie (Art Ensembles Lester Bowies bro, later to start Defunkt). If you like Art Ensemble of Chicago (circa the 1970s) and the Human Arts Ensemble, youll like this recording." -Thurston Moore. |
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Artist: DOYLE PLUS 4, ARTHUR Title: Alabama Feeling Format: LP Label: Rank Country: Germany Price: $27.00 |
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"First ever LP reissue of this holy grail of free jazz. Limited edition of 500 copies on vinyl only. Under exclusive license from Arthur Doyle. Comes with original artwork and a printed inner sleeve with an article by Dan Warburton." A primitive, screaming blast of sound from 1978, featuring Doyle (Tenor Voice-O-Phone, Bass Voice-O-Phone, flute), Richard Williams (Fender bass), Rashied Sinan (drums), Bruce Moore (drums), Charles Stephens (trombone)." -Rank.
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Artist: KESZLER, ELI Title: Livingston Format: LP Label: Rare Youth Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Debut LP by drummer/multi-instrumentalist Eli Keszler. A distinct composition in four parts, Livingston is a brooding and dark meditation for drums, crotales, guitar, clarinet, bowed percussion, Fender Rhodes, nail violin, and tapes. This is a rare kind of solo record, in that Elis obvious instrumental virtuosity is tempered with a refined sense of composition and emotional space. You dont get the sense that this is the work of a single musician. Furious outbursts of raw percussive energy are kept in check by floating, distended melodies, and moments of silence are interrupted by the jarring clarity of high-pitched bells being bowed at close intervals. At times sounding like an Indonesian gamelan being put through the wringer, and at others like the massive drone of an aeolian harp being played by the wind -- Livingston effectively combines the influences of composers like Giacinto Scelsi and Iannis Xenakis with the improvisational energy and atmosphere of an artist like Keiji Haino. Clocking it at just over 23 minutes, this is a potent piece of music and an auspicious debut by a very talented young artist. Limited edition of 300, with hand-screened covers. Definitely recommended to fans of Mirror, Organum, ESPdisk, nmperign, Jandek, Evan Parker and Paul Lytton, Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Phil Niblock, etc." -Rare Youth
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Artist: MARSHALL, LARRY Title: Queer And Wonder Format: LP Label: Rare Youth Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "This album is a collection of songs from Larry Marshall, an elusive and mythic figure whose self-described Gothic Folk...from the future is presented here for the first time in glowing, psychedelic stereo-surround, etched on black wax. Larry has been living in Rhode Island for his entire life, and has performed at many of the storied (and now defunct) venues in and around Providence, RI. Despite this long history, his music is barely known outside of a small circle of close friends and die-hard local fans. Queer And Wonder is a collection of songs from Larrys catalog: three tracks were previously released on a small cassette edition from Unskilled Labor, and a track by the band Box Patrol (w/Larry on vocals and pitch-pipe), was previously released on a CDR by the legendary Fort Thunder Records. The LP is rounded off w/ a few live tracks from a solo gig in Manchester, England, a live radio session, and some collaborations unearthed from tapes found in Larrys apartment in West Warwick, RI. Edition of 350, covers designed by CF, w/ inserts / lyric sheet." -Rare Youth |
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Artist: MONSTURO Title: F-44 Format: LP Label: Rasbliutto Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Rasbliutto Recordings is very happy to make the transistion from a small run, cdr-only limited distribution label to a small run, vinyl and cd limited distribution label! We are celebrating with the release of this beautiful solo synth record from David Rothbaum, a major and humble force in the Los Angeles experimental music community. This record is a psychedelic study in stasis and density wonderfully realized on Dofner synthesizers as part of an ongoing project called Monsturo. limited edition of 200 in multi-color hand silkscreened and letterpressed covers." - Rasbliutto. |
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Artist: RATS WITH WINGS Title: Aide-Memoire Format: Double LP Label: Rats With Wings Country: Australia Price: $40.00 |
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"Double LP of material taken from CD-R releases: The Fish Rots From The Head (unreleased), Southern Oscillation Index (HoLR) CDR-RWW (MIR), Ratified Loopholes (AEN), Ashtray Cabbage (Fiend), Get And Put (Deadline), Out Vile Jelly! (Gold Soundz), Night Science and Underground Australia compilations (Cipher Productions). All covers with fried compact disc glue to the cover. Extremely limited."
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Artist: CHUZPE Title: Anarchy Bla Bla... Format: LP Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
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"Chuzpe were the first austrian punk band. Born in 1977, they were really popular in the Wiens underground circuit. Their early tracks are a marvellous examples of europunk at the same level of Kids, Ivy Green, Panic ecc…This anthology contains all studio tracks recorded between 1977-80 (the punk years of the band). Including the tracks appeared on Wiener Blutraush compilation and their first 7”.
Absolutely a must for every old Europe punk fan. 12 killer tunes!!! Buy it fast!!!!!Only 500 copies available!!!" - Rave Up.
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Artist: ED DAVIS BAND Title: Keith Richards Dead Format: LP Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
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"Heres a collection of archival material from this mid-to-late-70s Cincinnati proto-punk band, with influences from MX-80 SOUND, THE RAMONES and PATTI SMITH, who played around town (largely at loft parties) between 1976 and 1979. They did manage to release one 7" in 1978 that got some airplay on local radio, though apparently there were no other releases. There was also nobody named Ed Davis in the band, so there. This LP collects those 7" tracks as well as material from a radio broadcast, demos and a live track. Cover art includes photos, liner notes and a band bio." -Rave Up. Cool Unnatural Axe-meets-Vertical Slit 70s beard punk - the single, while a winner, is one of the less appealing things on here. Highly recommended!
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Artist: MACKENZIE, GREGOR AND THE MISANTHROPES Title: Torture That Girl Format: LP Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $16.00 |
| "The definitive anthology of this very unconventional Minnesota band (sometimes compared to FRANK ZAPPA, THE RESIDENTS, or THE GIZMOS), this includes all the tracks from their four rare singles on the cult label Breaker Records between 1978-81, some of which have appeared on various "Killed by Death" and "Hyped by Death" volumes in recent years, plus many previously unreleased studio tracks, 24 songs in all. With good artwork, plus liner notes and band history by Gregor."-Rave Up |
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Artist: MOUTH TO MOUTH Title: Gallery of Dolls Format: 7" Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $7.00 |
| "London-based punk band ft. Guy Greenhough and Jeff Jansen (both ex- VACANTS) plus Aussies Robert Crusti (guitar) and Andy Wright (farfisa) with sole (and sleeveless) single which was recorded at Grannys Studio in South London and mastered at RCA. Guy Greenhough in his own words: cant remember the drummers name, we had a spinal tap type thing with VACANTS as well. There was another song recorded at the session called Cruisin Soho which is more like an extended jam. 200 copies of Gallery Of Dolls / Life In The Subterrain were made and exclusively sold via Geoff Travis Rough Trade shop; comes with blank white, but rubber-stamped labels. Eventually the Aussies returned to Australia, Jeff Jansen went incognito and Guy Greenhough resurfaced in GREENHOUSE OF TERROR who released one 12 (Compulsion) on the Racket label in 1985." - Rave Up. |
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Artist: PLOD, THE Title: Neo City Format: LP Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
| "The Mighty Plod" were formed in May 1972 by Colchester Musician Steve Greenfield. The original line-up was Michael Natkansk (drums), Martin Newell (vocals), Carl Symanski (bass), John Fitzsimons (guitar). Their music was based on glam rocks hits of the day such as Slade and Sweet, and a selection of rocknroll standards like Johnny B. Goode and Shakin all over done in a fast thrash style. In 1975 the band recorded five studio tracks including the amazing Neo City. The Mighty Plod turned up again in a feature on lost treasures from the Glam Rock era, the most important bands that got away, in the January 2002 Record Collector." - Rave Up. Martin Newells band prior to his 80s/90s Cleaners From Venus/solo recordings! |
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Artist: PROJECTIONS Title: Detroit Punk Rock History Repeats Itself Format: 7" Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $7.00 |
| "Mario Micheli (bass, vocals and littering), Tony Samuels (drums) and Johnny Spark (known outside of Detroit music circles as John Micheli, guitars, vocals and attitude) were The Projections, a punk/power pop/detroit/garage band formed in Detroit in the early 80s. In March of 1982, the band recorded their 7" Hyperactive/Individual, a solid punk wave two sider now really collectable. This EP contains their original recordings, the re-mastered 2009 versions and one great unreleased original tune!" - Rave Up. |
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Artist: SAUCERS/ALLIES Title: 1978-81: East Bay Punks From The Streets Of Berkeley Format: LP Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
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"Disillusionment with the "mellow 70s" was turning to rage as the US waged a proxy war in Central America, and San Francisco ignited into fiery riots after the assassination of its mayor and first openly gay city council member. The Saucers reflected these times with caustic humor and impassioned social commentary.
In 1980, the band after the departure of first keyboard player, Joey Michaels, renamed themselves The Allies, adding dynamic lead guitarist Craig Magee, formerly with Dyan Diamond (Runaways). With the addition of Magee, the band pivoted from the Saucers Farfisa-dominated garage punk to a more muscular, guitar-driven sound.
Local music producer and KALX engineer Terry Hammer worked behind the scenes to get both bands into the studio, with varied results, on display here. He also recorded a number of live shows for the two groups, and its mostly thanks to his efforts that this music survives today. After the definitive split of the band, the drummer Jake Smith went on to join hardcore punk band Crucifix, played in an early version of Faith No More." - Rave Up.
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Artist: SHIT DOGS Title: World War III Format: LP Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
| "The definitive collection of tracks by this nutcase Baton Rouge punk band who have previously appeared on Killed By Death #5 and #8«, this includes the tracks from their two mega-rare 7" releases, plus their track on the legendary 1980 "N.O. Experience Necessary" compilation LP, as well as previously unreleased cuts. Imagine (if you can) a unique mix of 3-chord RAMONES-like melodies with HAWKWIND-style guitar freakouts and goofy lyrics and youve about got it. 16 tracks, plus liner notes and photos!" -Rave Up |
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Artist: SPECTACLES, THE Title: Re-Spectacled Format: LP Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
| "Previously unreleased studio tracks, recorded in 1980, by this fairly obscure San Francisco new wave/artpop band that might remind you of early DEVO or PERE UBU with its angular, slightly dissonant melodies and tight musicianship. Front cover art by Winston Smith; back cover includes photos and a band bio." -Rave Up |
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Artist: STORMTROOPER Title: Im A Mess Format: LP Label: Rave Up Country: Italy Price: $18.00 |
| "This British band first formed and disbanded in a fury in 1975, just before the birth of punk, recording a 4-song demo (universally rejected by labels) and playing one live show before calling it quits. The band reformed 2 years later, and 2 of those demo tracks were released on the Solent label with a total of 3000 pressed. Tony Parsons, reviewing the record in NME, called it "about as musical as the sound of a commuter being shoved under a tube train at rush hour," and Jon Savage in Sounds had something similar to say about this garagey early mixture of heavy metal, hard rock and hard punk. More studio recordings were made, though they remained unreleased until now. Cover art includes photos, band bio and vintage press clips." -Rave Up |
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Artist: PRINTS OF DARKNESS Title: Zindabad Format: LP Label: Ravi Country: USA Price: $27.00 |
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"Raw, exciting and really quite excellent... fans of fuzz will find a feast of it on this set. The Prints turn in enjoyable readings of Summertime, Morning Dew, and Country Joe & the Fishs Rock and Soul Music, but its their original numbers that really stand out
The bands bottled-up creative energy comes bursting to a head on the culminating number, Oh Color the Shadowy Distance, which starts out as an ramatic Doors-in-the-garage exercise atop a Tobacco Road-type stomp riff, before levitating into a psychedelic instrumental section that sounds a bit like Jorma Kaukonen jamming with the Velvet Underground. Thrilling stuff." Mike Stax, Ugly Things. "This is the story of a sixties garage band only this one was based in Lahore, West Pakistan, where there was a small American community and a funky school in an old British Raj-era bungalow. September 1967: Skip Boyce had a drum kit assembled from various shops in Penang during a family vacation and Danny Carr had a Framus bass and a huge amp. Lets start a band! New kid Steve Davy provided the missing link. Add his psychedelic Hofner guitar and small amp and the Great Flower Famine was born. "Lets just play songs with three chords (Gloria, Louie Louie and For Your Love were the first three); more followed: Stones, Animals, Kinks, Doors. Old friend Travis "Smokey" Henderson was in the States, but returned to Lahore and joined as lead guitarist. John Sligh was added as lead singer because he liked the same tunes the others did and looked cool. By the end of the school year, the Famine was a tight unitthe best rock band in West Pakistan. September 1968: a years worth of new music, and new influencesHendrix, Led Zeppelin, the San Francisco groups. Meanwhile, Steve bought a Hofner violin bass like Paul McCartney, Skip returned from the States with a full set of Ludwig drums like Ringo, and a new redheaded kid arrived by the name of Richard Woodbury. His addition and a new name for the band (Prints of Darkness) gave the group a new style. Their repertoire expanded. September 1969: One addition to the personnelRoberta "Bourbon" Kilgore as vocalist. The Prints started writing their own tunes in earnest. On May 22, 1970, they played their last show and for the first time in three years, the instruments went in different directions afterwards. And so did the Prints. In the bands final year, several of their shows were recorded using a single open mic and a standard quarter-inch reel-to-reel tape recorder. The best tracks have been cleaned up and compiled for this release on Ravi Records, a label set up by music mail order company Metro Music. The release is a true labor of love, with no corners cut, and no expense spared on the sound restoration, mastering and packaging. The heavy-vinyl LP is housed in a super-deluxe gatefold sleeve modeled on the Stones "High Tide and Green Grass," complete with a lavishly illustrated and annotated booklet. Hand-numbered limited edition." - Ravi |
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Artist: SHOES THIS HIGH Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Raw Power Country: New Zealand Price: $6.00 |
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"A long overdue 4 track ep re-issue from this Wellington art-punk band from1980. This is how a bunch of Wellington teenagers saw the rapid rise of the no wave of the late 70s & early 80s punk rock movement. Abrasive & jarring - this was Wellington punk at its finest! MRR called it "absolutely must-have for any DIY punk fan"." - Raw Power. "Absolutely essential must-have for the developing legions of UK late-70s DIY punk fans. First track last heard on the Killed By Death DIY comp from three or four years back that was mastered about 25% too fast. This reissue of their sole 45 is at proper speed and all four tracks are killer-diller slop-pop. New Zealand amateur hour genius from 1980. Compare to GORDONS, FALL and PRATS." -MRR. Features Brent Hayward (on "vocals, comb and paper" ?!!) who later went on to more DIY greatness with Smelly Feet and Kiwi Animal.
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Artist: AHLZAGAILZEHGUH Title: Misinterpreted Injury Format: Double 7" Label: Razors And Medicine Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "By now ahlzagailzehguh has become established as one of the current leaders of harsh/cut-up noise. misinterpreted injury, his first release on the 7 format deals with the trauma associated with the loss of a kidney at the age of 9. it consists of four meticulous side long tracks that display complete control of left-right speaker counterpoint, frequency manipulation, and overall compositional form. this is not your typical harsh noise study, but a true masterwork. the artwork was designed by james himself and is pro-printed folding on cardstock with front, back, and inner design. the first 7 is translucent red and the second is translucent yellow, both featuring printed labels." - Razors And Medicine. |
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Artist: MARK LORD Title: Pussy St. Tape Format: LP Label: Razors And Medicine Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Reissue of CFs tape originally released on Nazot. Pressed on vinyl in an edition of 100 copies for the Mark Lord / Stillbirth tour this past December. Essential Lord material. Best possible stasis. Christopher has mastered his universe and though there are plenty of followers, no one can touch the original." - Razors And Medicine.
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Artist: FUREKAABEN Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Røde Roser Country: Denmark Price: $22.00 |
| "Even rarer than their first LP, Prinsesseværelset, this is a masterpiece of experimental acid folk jams.Totally stoned, the music springs out of collective improvisation. Sometimes the playing is completely free with no other basis than the listeners and the room, At other times the improvisation centers upon Hans Vindings words and tunes." - Mutant Sounds. Reissue of 1971 LP. |
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Artist: FRIENDSOUND Title: Joyride Format: LP Label: RCA Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Exact repro reissue; originally issued on RCA in 1969. This is a true classic curio in the RCD catalog, with a look signifying a shared attitude with early Jefferson Airplane -- is an experimental free-jam LP with real musique concrete zonk... Officially the group was made up of ex-members of Paul Revere & The Raiders -- Drake Levin, Phil Volk & Michael Smith -- who had formed a group called Brotherhood who released two albums for RCA. In between those two releases, the trio teamed up with a few session musicians as Friendsound, releasing Joyride. This record isnt as good as After Bathing at Baxters -- because, frankly, nothing is. But its got the same spirit and a lot of the same effects -- swiped a year and a half later. A tribute? Or just an annoyance to JA (who could never realistically follow up Baxters?? If you want acid rambling about rhubarb pie, this record delivers in spades. Why it exists, or why it has been reissued -- the mystery continues." |
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Artist: COUNTRY WEATHER Title: Country Weather Format: Double LP Label: RD Country: Switzerland Price: $54.00 |
| "Long awaited release of the best unsigned San Francisco band of the 60s! Side 1 is the now legendary 1969 1-sided demo-only LP from the remastered mastertape. Side 2 are studio recordings from the Church in San Anselmo, CA in 1971. Side 3 and 4 are live recordings from the Walnut Creek Civic Center, CA in 1970. The front cover was done by the legendary 60s poster artist Randy Tuten. The booklet includes hitherto unseen photos and the story of the band told by the different musicians. Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl; comes with a heavy old style cardboard foldout cover and a multi page insert." - RD. Very highly recommended! |
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Artist: HARPER, ARTHUR LEE Title: Memories Format: LP Label: RD Country: Switzerland Price: $32.00 |
| "What we have here are songs Arthur Lee Harper recorded during the time of his 2 albums Dreams and Imagination and Love is the Revolution. These songs are on neither album. Imagine the best you know of him. Sadly, Arthur Lee Harper died in 2002 the night after his wife was killed in a car accident. What you hear on this album is his legacy, authorized by his children.Lp comes in ULTRA THICK DELUXE COVER!" - RD. |
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Artist: MAD DOG Title: Dawn of the Seventh Sun Format: LP Label: RD Country: Switzerland Price: $30.00 |
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"Monstrous & unreleased at the time heavy/psychedelic/West coast artifact of the highest order. This is one of the five best ever promo only releases to emerge from California. Only released in a quantity of a couple of copies to get a major record deal that never materialized. Three of the songs were used in a low-budget biker flick called Black Angels. The original demo LP had only a plain black label with no kinds of credits. We found this hidden gem looking for unreleased music by the band The Zoo of Presents Chocolate Moose fame. Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl, ultra heavy old style cardboard sleeve and an insert with unseen pictures and a band bio written by Morgan Cavett." - RD.
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Artist: NEW AGE,THE Title: All Around Format: LP Label: RD Country: Switzerland Price: $24.00 |
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"This is what can be called one of the major sensations in the raga-influenced psychedelic/acid folk field. Also some of the earliest recordings in this genre and hitherto unreleased. After the release of the Light of Day album in 1966 the now legendary Pat Kilroy and Susan Graubard went on with playing and creating music together. What you hear on this album is what they recorded for Warner Brothers in the summer of 1967, a true groundbreaking adventure of the highest order. They expanded in the direction they started in 1966 and the result is far beyond and superior to everything I heard from that time period before in this musical style except for Tim Buckley. No wonder that it didnt come out at that time because those recordings were for sure far too adventurous for Warner Brothers and also for almost every other leading music company at the time. Incredible -- and I mean INCREDIBLE raga-influenced psychedelic/acid folk with some of the best songwriting I know of with monstrous lyrics and deep lead vocals. Also a wide range of instruments were played like incredible raga-esque acoustic guitar, electric bass, Spanish cowbells, bell tree, silver flute, bamboo flutes, viola, tamboura, conga drums, tables, acoustic and electric bass and tambourine. Pat Kilroy sadly died of Hodgkins disease in December of 1967 at a very young age. If this record had a proper release at the time, it would be a major classic and a milestone today in the psychedelic history book. Be ready for an incredible musical trip along with an amazing, long and very intense story behind." Features long/detailed liner notes by Susan Graubard (who also played on Robbie Bashos The Falconers Arm,Vol.1) and a great package overall -- worthy of the hype as a major rediscovery!"-RD
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Artist: ORKUSTRA Title: Orkustra Format: LP Label: RD Country: Switzerland Price: $24.00 |
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"Here is what we would name some of the best, most important, unreleased at the time, historical and lost West coast psychedelic recordings ever. This legendary band includes none other that the famed Kenneth Anger soundtrack Creator Bobby Beausoleil as well as a very young David La Flamme, before starting his legendary band Its A Beautiful Day. As for the music, we are talking waaaaayyy out tunes here! The complete B-side features a single long tune which can best be described as Theatre of Eternal Music (the famed Pre-Velvet Underground La Monte Young/ John Cale Drone Band) meets Its A Beautiful Day. This is the missing link between the Drone avant-garde and the hippie scene symbolized by two people that couldnt be further apart. On the other side you will find Middle Eastern influenced hippie psychedelic jams that will remind you of bands like the Beat Of The Earth. No gimmicks, just a true slice of pure acid psychedelia. Sit back and enjoy a very bizarre ride." - RD
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Artist: PEACE, BREAD & LAND BAND Title: Peace, Bread & Land Band Format: LP Label: RD Country: Switzerland Price: $24.00 |
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...Spirito-Politico Folk Rock 1969-78. "This was basically Sid Browns band (ex Spike-Drivers). When he moved from the Detroit area to San Francisco he went to the Ali Akbar College of Music in Berkeley and formed Peace, Bread & Land Band. They made some recordings. After that the band moved north and released a 10" EP Liberation Music in an oversized envelope (full of 60s motives) and later on a 7" EP. They later changed their name to Peace, Bread & Land and made one album Sid is not very proud of. Thats why he parallelly did one record on his own: Modality Stew. The songs are from all periods with all the songs on the 10" EP." - RD.
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Artist: SPEED LIMIT 35 Title: Speed Limit 35 Format: LP Label: RD Country: Switzerland Price: $30.00 |
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"Unreleased at the time, recordings from 1970/71 by this band from North Carolina with member Stephen Scott ex Ladies WC, the legendary band from Venezuela. He was the main songwriter, bass player and lead singer on the monstrous Ladies WC album. He joined Speed Limit 35 in fall of 1968 after his departure from Venezuela. The band also rehearsed in a club called The Zoo along with the legendary Christopher, that released their mega rare LP Whatcha Gonna Do? on the Chris-Tee label. The music on this album was recorded partly in the studio and partly live when Speed Limit 35 was the opening act for Steppenwolf in April 1970. What you hear are fantastic long heavy psychedelic/West coast styled jams with great guitar leads. It sounds like a mixture between Kristyl, Chirco and Tayles. Pressed on heavy audiophile vinyl, ultra heavy old style cardboard sleeve and an insert with a bio written by Stephen Scott." - RD.
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Artist: SPIKEDRIVERS Title: Folk Rocking Innovation From The Motor City In The Mid 60´s Format: CD Label: RD Country: Switzerland Price: $19.00 |
| "Long expected for release and here it is -- one of the best hippie Westcoast releases with deep emotions, unique eastern influenced songwriting/ instrumentation, jingling guitars and mystic vocals -- a real masterpiece (most songs were never released)! The first incarnation of this band consisted of Marycarol and Sid Brown (both later in the Peace, Bread & Land Band), Ted Lucas, Larry Cruse and Richard Keelan (later in the band Perth County Conspiracy). They made a fantastic single on OM Records in 1966 and taught the Paul Butterfield Blues Band how to jam on these ethnic sounds you hear on the album East-West. They recorded for Atlantic Records where Ahmet Ertegun supervised and Tom Dowd engineered the sessions. They were offered a dream contract on the spot but Ted Lucas said that he didnt want to work for a Turk. Shortly afterward they split and the three without Lucas and Keelan added Marshall Rubinoff and Ron Cobb. In 1967 they recorded some tracks that are featured on this album. Side 1 is Spike-Drivers 1 (with the two songs of the first single). Side 2 is Spike-Drivers 2. Contains detailed bio and photos, great artwork by Sid Brown." - RD. |
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Artist: WEST COAST NATURAL GAS Title: Twos A Pair Format: CD Label: RD Country: Switzerland Price: $22.00 |
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"An album full of vintage 1966-1968 music by the band that brought you the incredible Hashish on the legendary San Francisco Sampler Fifth Pipe Dream. First ever release of this killer Westcoast psychedelic monster that took many years to complete!!! West Coast Natural Gas started in 1965 in Seattle. In early 1967 they went to San Francisco to work for a local music manager named Matthew Katz. Katz was the original manager for Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and later also Its a Beautiful Day. He talked West Coast Natural Gas into signing a contract with him but being young and stupid, they didnt realize at the time that they had basically signed everything over to him. They went into the studio and recorded some original tunes: A Favor, Go Run and Play, The Jumping Frog, Hashish, Water or Wine, Beyond This Place, and Twos A Pair. In early 1968 the band broke up and went back to Seattle. Katz released a single -- Go Run and Play / A Favor on his S.F. Sound label under the name West Coast Natural Gas. Later he released a compilation album -- the first San Francisco Sound sampler -- called Fifth Pipe Dream. The four songs mentioned before, Water or Wine, Hashish, Beyond This Place and Twos A Pair were the ones recorded by WCNG and relabeled by Katz as Indian Puddin and Pipe. This superb release includes all the above mentioned songs, plus others from acetates. As a big surprise we found another four never before heard songs. All recorded 1966 in a local Seattle Recording Studio before they even went to San Francisco, all of which are included in this great release. A pinnacle of the West Coast psychedelic acid scene." - RD.
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Artist: WEST COAST NATURAL GAS Title: Twos A Pair Format: Double LP Label: RD Country: Switzerland Price: $25.00 |
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"An album full of vintage 1966-1968 music by the band that brought you the incredible Hashish on the legendary San Francisco Sampler Fifth Pipe Dream. First ever release of this killer Westcoast psychedelic monster that took many years to complete!!! West Coast Natural Gas started in 1965 in Seattle. In early 1967 they went to San Francisco to work for a local music manager named Matthew Katz. Katz was the original manager for Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape and later also Its a Beautiful Day. He talked West Coast Natural Gas into signing a contract with him but being young and stupid, they didnt realize at the time that they had basically signed everything over to him. They went into the studio and recorded some original tunes: A Favor, Go Run and Play, The Jumping Frog, Hashish, Water or Wine, Beyond This Place, and Twos A Pair. In early 1968 the band broke up and went back to Seattle. Katz released a single -- Go Run and Play / A Favor on his S.F. Sound label under the name West Coast Natural Gas. Later he released a compilation album -- the first San Francisco Sound sampler -- called Fifth Pipe Dream. The four songs mentioned before, Water or Wine, Hashish, Beyond This Place and Twos A Pair were the ones recorded by WCNG and relabeled by Katz as Indian Puddin and Pipe. This superb release includes all the above mentioned songs, plus others from acetates. As a big surprise we found another four never before heard songs. All recorded 1966 in a local Seattle Recording Studio before they even went to San Francisco, all of which are included in this great release. A pinnacle of the West Coast psychedelic acid scene." - RD. Deluxe gatefold LP version.
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Artist: RESIDUAL ECHOES Title: First Album Format: LP Label: Re Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"Fried, DIY psych rock from a
devoted fan of Comets on Fire and Six Organs of
Admittance (theyre thanked for their wisdom) and
Pink Floyd. Long, distorted meandering tracks
featuring "that sound" from an indiscriminate
time where drugs reign above all and the clock is
always set for snooze. Years down the road, you
will be playing this for someone and you will
honestly have to tell them, "I dont know," when
they ask where they can get one. Packaged in
handmade sleeves."
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Artist: HANS-A-PLAST Title: 2 Format: LP Label: Re-Force Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "An official reissue of the 2nd album by this very popular German punk band, first released on the No Fun label in 1981. More catchy tunes in a style reminiscent of 70s British punk� meets German cabaret, with snotty, sarcastic female vocals and�lots of musical clowning around.� With 24-page booklet of lyrics, photos, artwork, rants, jokes, etc." - Re-Force. |
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Artist: BUKOWSKI, CHARLES Title: Reads His Poetry Format: LP Label: Real Gone Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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""This is Charles Bukowski. Well, let me just sit here and drink beer." Thus begins the September 14, 1972 poetry reading from which this 1980 release on John Faheys Takoma label is drawn. This is quintessential Bukowski, from the rude n crude drawing that adorns the front cover to the belches that punctuate the poems. As for the work itself, its not really what youd commonly conceive of as poetry, but rather observations and vignettes drawn from lifes darker side, focusing on perversions, poverty, drunkenness, gambling, and bodily functions. But Bukowskis bemused air and self-deprecating humor blunt the shock value of the words and emphasize the universality of the themes. "I want you to hate me," he says to the audience, but its hopeless-he is one of us. We at Real Gone are rescuing this recording from the clinical, digital world of the compact disc and restoring it to its proper vinyl format. If there were ever an echo of the analog world, this album would be it." -Real Gone.
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Artist: JODOROWSKY, ALEXANDRO Title: El Topo: Soundtrack Album Format: LP Label: Real Gone Country: USA Price: $31.00 |
| "Championed by everybody from John Lennon to Peter Gabriel to Marilyn Manson - and decried by establishment critics ranging from Vincent Canby to Gene Siskel - El Topo remains one of the most controversial movies ever made. Director Alejandro Jodorowskys bizarre, blood-soaked blend of spaghetti Western, druggy surrealism, Christian allegory, Zen Buddhist themes and avant-garde sensibilities gave rise to the entire midnight movie counterculture phenomenon of the early 70s and forever changed the way adventurous audiences viewed film. Or, for that matter, heard film; for no soundtrack, before or since, has embraced so many styles in its pursuit of spiritual and artistic goals. Atonal, Tibetan Buddhist thighbone trumpets clash with beautiful, even sentimental, chamber orchestra pieces alongside pan flute rhapsodies, brass bands and parlor jazz; that Jodorowsky himself composed the score - after, no doubt, intently studying the work of Morricone - is almost as impressive an artistic achievement as the film itself. Now, Real Gone Music, in partnership with ABKCO Music & Records, is issuing this one-of-a-kind soundtrack album on LP for the first time since the original release produced by Allan Steckler for Apple Records back in 1971. Whats more, the four-page booklet boasting some of the films hallucinogenic imagery that came with the original release will be included in the gatefold LP reissue. Mastered by Joe Yannece at Classic Sound in New York, and produced for reissue by ABKCOs in-house Engineer Teri Landi and Mick Gochanour, with tape transfers by Landi, lacquer cutting by Carl Rowatti at TruTone Mastering and a 180-gram vinyl pressing, Real Gone/ABKCOs release of El Topo on LP fully captures Jodorowskys singular sonic vision." - Real Gone. |
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Artist: FERRARI, LUC Title: Presque Rien Format: Double LP Label: Recollection GRM Country: Austria Price: $31.00 |
| "Recollection GRM presents four musique concrète masterpieces by French electro-acoustic innovator Luc Ferrari -- all of the Presque Riens collected together in one vinyl set for the first time. Presque rien n°1, le lever du jour au bord de la mer (1967-1970): "Following the complete disappearance of abstract sounds, we can regard this piece as a sonic snapshot and the culmination of an evolution. This is a realistic rendering (as faithful as possible) of a fishing village waking up. The first idea of minimalism." Presque rien n°2, ainsi continue la nuit dans ma tête multiple (1977): "Description of a landscape at night that a soundman attempts to define through microphones, but the night surprises the hunter and creeps inside his head. It then becomes a double description: the inner landscape transforms the outer night and by composing it, adds its own reality (a fantasy of reality) or, perhaps, a psychoanalysis of his nightscape..." Presque rien avec filles (1989): "Within paradoxical landscapes, a photographer/composer is hidden while girls are having a sort of picnic on the grass. Without being aware of it, they offer him the spectacle of their intimacy." Presque rien n°4, la remontée du village (1990-1998): "I always hesitated before releasing Presque rien. For instance, it took two years for the first one to come out and things went on this way. The fourth one took nine years of hesitating. But here it is. Perhaps because this is a real presque rien fake where reality and lies mix. This is the ascent into the old town of Ventimiglia." -Luc Ferrari; Produced by Peter Rehberg. Layout: Stephen OMalley. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, October 2012. |
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Artist: MALEC, IVO Title: Triola ou Symphonie pour moi-meme Format: LP Label: Recollection GRM Country: Austria Price: $23.00 |
| "Recollection GRM presents two electroacoustic works by Croatian composer Ivo Malec. Triola (1978): "This piece marked my return to the studio after several years of absence, a return, which for unknown reasons, needed to be part of a rather ambitious project -- a strictly personal idea. This is how my mind slowly turned towards the design of a musical narrative meant to stand for a relearning of the trade, the temptation to use purely electronic material so as change it into something other than itself, a wide range of form(s) and, when possible, a work, if not a musical piece. The title, Triola (triplet), was chosen to emphasize these three movements, each with their own title and which, just like the three equal values of the triplet, sustain a basic unit through interference. This is quite symbolic, as is the alternative title: the symphony for myself is not only named so because I wanted to offer myself something -- which I did -- but perhaps and above all, because I had a score to settle with myself. One could even say that the piece is autobiographical. We could do it but we do not need to: that is not the question." Bizarra (1972): "In order to understand this piece, it has always been possible to follow two paths, quite different if not divergent. The first one relies on imagery whose roots I would gladly trace back to Lautréamonts deserted swamps and emanations and to which I would add boiling lands, wet forests, volcanic landscapes, and all kinds of entrails. The other path is that of the realities of a studio where, like a craftsman, the composer manipulates, stretches and releases with his fingers a (magnetic) tape, facing the ears of a (magnetic) head, trying to find the narrow door for the real sound to pass through. The rest is mere work, stewardship. How can one bring these two distant paths together? It is indeed necessary, since the second one precedes the first one, while the first one transcends the second one." -Ivo Malec; Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, October 2012. Layout by Stephen OMalley. Produced by Peter Rehberg. |
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Artist: PARMEGIANI, BERNARD Title: LOeil ecoute/Dedans-Dehors Format: LP Label: Recollection GRM Country: Austria Price: $23.00 |
 "From the very first moment, caught by the musical tone heard from inside a train, the trip offered by this piece, woven with different materials, triggers in us various climates able to give our imagination power over sounds: the power to guide them through our secret mazes rather than to blindly follow them like Panurge. This form of (auditory) contemplation thus attempts to enable us to lose ourselves outside our far too familiar and usual territories. Perhaps, in looking too hard, man eventually stops listening. And, as I said when creating the piece in 1970, the eye, now a solitary wanderer only has ears for what assaults it." Dedans-Dehors (1977): "When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads the course of the musical suite, reflecting changes (fluidsolid passages: water/ice/fire) or movements (ebb/flow/wave, inspiration/expiration) or inside-outside passages (door/individual/crowd). Thus, the perceived object is not entirely what we would have liked it to be. Our music brings us closer to some while it takes us away from others: each with their own inside." --Bernard Parmegiani; Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, June 2012.
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Artist: REIBEL, GUY Title: Granulations-Sillages/Franges Du Signe Format: LP Label: Recollection GRM Country: Austria Price: $23.00 |
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"Franges Du Signe, the third part of an electroacoustic triptych completed in 1973-1974, is the first major "purely acousmatic" work composed by Guy Reibel. Franges Du Signe explores the mathematical idea of the limit by translating it musically, searching for unstable states of equilibrium. Thus, several conflicting tendencies or logics act upon the sounds. They overlap and fight, each one seeking to assert its trace on the phenomenon in progress, generating de facto an ambiguity that is unique to all phenomena that obey the "logic of the living." Granulations-Sillages (1976) develops an idea glimpsed at in Franges Du Signe: the existence of extreme times at the edge of our faculties of perception, which only the electroacoustic music tools allow us to realize. Two natures of phenomena, opposed in all respects (the "Granulations-Trails" and the "Tutti"), alternate through seven movements that constitute the piece. The work is designed for six channels diffused in concert on a main stereo system facing the public and two auxiliary stereos (group of crossing speakers: front-back and left-right in the room). Featuring bi-lingual (French/English) texts, with translation by Valérie Vivancos. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, March 2012. Layout: Stephen OMalley. Executive Production: Peter Rehberg." -Recollection GRM. SOLD OUT
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Artist: SCHAEFFER, PIERRE Title: Le Triedre Fertile Format: LP Label: Recollection GRM Country: Austria Price: $23.00 |
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"Recollection GRM is one more label within the Editions Mego family of labels. Its aim is to make available on vinyl the vast archives of Groupe De Recherches Musicales (GRM). Being released in batches of two every three months, it will present both known and lesser-known works. All releases will be re-cut at Dubplates & Mastering and packaged in new artwork by Stephen OMalley, featuring bi-lingual (French/English) texts. Some of these pioneering works have been out-of-print in this format for over 30 years, and would be a valuable addition to any serious collection of electronic music. It is worth pointing out that this series is neither a re-run of the original Collection INA-GRM series or the Phillips Prospective 21e Siècle series, but something new altogether. This is Pierre Schaeffers Le Trièdre Fertile, full version 1975-1976, with the participation of Bernard Dürr. This trihedron, Schaeffers last piece, echoes the physicists "reference trihedron," linked to the three fundamental measurements of sound: frequency, duration and intensity. The basic signs of traditional sol-fa that enable the transcribing of pitches, rhythms and nuances also correspond to these three measurements. However, it is precisely outside or beyond these parameters that, all through his life, Schaeffer researched music. Hence, qualifying this trihedron as "fertile" is the confession "of a late repentance." On the other hand, and against all odds, this piece was only composed from synthetic sounds, developed by Bernard Dürr. It is Pierre Schaeffers only purely electronic music work. Here, the synthesizer is rather monitored by sensitivity than by computation principles, thus letting uncanny structures emerge. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, March 2012. Layout: Stephen OMalley." -Recollection GRM. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Traces One Format: LP Label: Recollection GRM Country: Austria Price: $23.00 |
 "Beatriz Ferreyras "L Orvietan" (1970) is a work composed of two separate movements, the first drawing from electronic sounds, the second from concrète ones. These two sources do not meet, but tend equally towards sound antagonism and a complementarity of spirit. Philippe Carson Turmacs (1961) was created from machine-sounds from the Stuyvesant factories (Holland). Three movements follow one another: first, the spell of rhythms and a build-up that gradually removes the listener from mechanical reality. A more animated movement follows, full of contrasts. The third part is a long crescendo in terms of intensity, density and thickness, which results in a paroxysm. "The noise environment of the workplace is thus transposed, ennobled and magnified." (J. Roy, 1961). Edgardo Cantons "I palpiti" (1966) is described by the artist as follows: "For some time I thought that Gaetano Donizetti had written an aria called "I palpiti," but apparently this is not the case. Nevermind. This piece acquired an evocative value linked to the pleasure the music of this composer gives me. Just like the fervent prima donna donizetian choirs, anything that lives, also pulses, shivers and quivers. These are the qualities of life I have tried to convey here." "Chemins davant la mort" (1968) is one of the few works created by Francis Régnier at the GRM, where he was technical coordinator. It is a short piece, composed as a gesture, a dramatic sound blast stretched between two sound lines rising from and returning to silence. Mireille Chamass-Kyrous "Etude 1" (1960) consists of three sequences, the first two each develop a single sound object. The one that generates the first sequence is characterized by an asymmetrical crescendo-decrescendo and a material whose grain constantly fluctuates. The second sequence multiplies a sound object reduced to its attack in tiny elements divided into three zones that differentiate the overall density and size of the elements: Giant molecules, more defined constellations and fine dust sound. They gradually condense in the third sequence as a kaleidoscopic stretto. Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, June 2012." -Recollection GRM.
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Artist: V/A Title: Traces Two Format: LP Label: Recollection GRM Country: Austria Price: $23.00 |
| "Recollection GRM, a label within the Editions Mego family of labels, offers a second selection from the vast archives of Groupe De Recherches Musicales (GRM). "The idea of the Traces series is to unearth from the GRM Archives short, forgotten, or ignored pieces of music. This second volume, which gathers works prior to 1976, features the early works of four composers who each went on to leave a unique trail of music. In addition to reflecting the extraordinary vitality of the musical experimentation of bygone times, Traces aims to reactivate the audibility of such pieces, some of which have never been released before." --Christian Zanési & François Bonnet; Dominique Guiot, "Loiseau de paradis" (1974): "The composition of this piece was inspired by the rules of cinematic screenwriting. Indeed, the possibilities of an electro-acoustic music studio are very similar to those found in the audiovisual field (particularly editing). Based on this similarity, I thought it would be interesting to compose a series of scenes, dramatic atmospheres, and suddenly interrupted soundscapes." Pierre Boeswillwald, "Nuisances" (1971): Starting from microphone recordings of numerous sounds, the author chose not to systematically use the "best ones." Therefore, this construction always tried to refine itself while constantly being polluted by interferences which are nuisances. As in nature, man seeks to refine his environment but destroys it through his mistakes. Rodolfo Caesar, "Les deux saisons" (1975-1976): "This piece results from instrumental improvisations: the first one with the Baschet brothers glass organ, the second one with a frequency modulation device assembled by Bernard Dürr, who co-created the Trièdre Fertile (Fertile Triad) with Pierre Schaeffer. These were two input channels for a kind of anecdotism I was interested in." Denis Smalley, "Pentes" (1974): The main features of the piece evokes vast landscapes, with their ascents and descents, hence the title, Pentes (both French and Latin, meaning slopes, inclines, ascents). Most of the music was created by transforming instrumental sounds, but there are also synthesized sounds. However, the only recognizable sound source is the Northumbrian Pipes, whose drone is responsible for the slowly-evolving harmonies out of which its haunting traditional melody appears." - Recollection GRM. |
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Artist: XENAKIS, IANNIS Title: GRM Works 1957-1962 Format: LP Label: Recollection GRM Country: Austria Price: $23.00 |
| "Recollection GRM assembles Greek experimental composer Iannis Xenakis works for Groupe de Recherches Musicales circa 1957-1962. "Concret PH" (1958) was assembled for the Brussels World Fair. The industrialist Philips commissioned Le Corbusiers famous "Philips Pavilion": "Ill create an electronic poem for you, he said. Everything will happen inside: sound, light, color, and rhythm." Iannis Xenakis designed the architectural blueprint and composed "Concret PH" meant to psychologically prepare the public for the show created inside, accompanied by a musical piece by Edgard Varèse. The 400 speakers that lined the inner shell were meant to fill the space through the sound sparkles of "Concret PH" and achieve a joint emanation of architecture and music, conceived as a whole: the roughness of the concrete and its internal friction coefficient found an echo in the timbre of the sparkles. "Orient-Occident" (1960) was originally composed for a film by Enrico Fulchignoni for UNESCO. The film describes a visit to the museum comparing artifacts produced by various cultures and highlighting their interaction, dating back to ancient times. From an abstract point of view, the composer regards this work as a solution to the problem of finding highly diversified means of transition, meant to link a type of material to another. One indeed witnesses a varied gradation of mutations, interplays, overlaps, cross-fading, sudden shifts, and hidden junction points. "Diamorphoses" (1957-1958) portrays continuity and discontinuity within evolution. Here are two aspects of being, whether in opposition or in communion. In "Diamorphoses" this antithesis was illustrated sections of sound strongly opposed to others, and particularly in organizations of continuous variations of average or "statistical" heights. "Bohor" (1962): Bohor (referring to Bors the Younger, Lancelots cousin), is a character from the medieval cycle of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. "Bohor" is dedicated to Pierre Schaeffer. The author deliberately abstained from giving any descriptive information on his piece, letting the listener choose an imaginary route for himself. This release presents the 1968 version, revised by Iannis Xenakis himself and as yet not made available to the public. "Even though Iannis Xenakis never made musique concrète in the sense given by Pierre Schaeffer, the GRM was a locus for experimenting with his ideas about sound and sound structures. These works, composed between 1958 and 1962, show a boldness as advanced as in his orchestral approach. The relationship between Xenakis and Schaeffer was often tense. It nevertheless entailed mutual recognition and respect towards each others musical approach. Schaeffer found the piece disproportionate in terms of intensity but was indeed pleased by the dedication. The four pieces presented here, all produced at the GRM, undoubtedly demonstrate the experimental intent and the strictly physical character of Xenakis music, in that it provides the audience with a listening experience of a rare intensity." --François Bonnet & Christian Zanési; Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin, January 2013. Layout by Stephen OMalley. Executive Production by Peter Rehberg." - Recollection GRM. |
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Artist: BIOTA Title: Cape Flyaway Format: CD Label: Recommended Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "After 5 years of extensive and careful work, the new and much anticipated CD by this extraordinary collective, who have no parallels, no rivals and no peers, is at last complete. Its a dense and indescribable orchestration of electric and acoustic guitars, clavioline, trumpet, Hammond organ, micromoog, biolmellodrone, electric and acoustic violins, bass, mandolin, accordion, piano, rubab, kit percussion and sometimes voice, layered and radically processed in the unique Biota manner. There is a leitmotif of folk elements in this piece that emerge from the roiling, swirling quicksand of sound we now expect from Biota, with texts by WB Yeats and snatches, arrangements and influences floating by way of Christy Moore, June Tabor, Judy Collins, Sandy Denny, Bert Jansch, the Bothy Band and older traditional sources. Biota craft sonic worlds that relate to, but are not built like, the music with which we are familiar; for them time is a continuum rather than a sequence of events; a simultaneous present in which past and future possibilities exist conterminously. With a 24 page full colour art portfolio from the Biota collective." - Recommended. |
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Artist: BIOTA Title: Half A True Day Format: CD Label: Recommended Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Six years in the making, this is the sixth CD released by ReR from the visual/sonic art group Biota. Unique in their history and method, Biota painstakingly construct complex, organic structures that mix extensive studio processing and musique concrète techniques, with a highly eclectic orchestra of acoustic and electronic resources: from kit drums, through medieval winds, strings and barrel organs, to early experimental electronic instruments. Their works are always performance driven and interleaved with successive stages of lamination, imbrication of parts, and radical pre- and post-processing. As the title suggests, in this new work a portion of a cycle -- a repeating segment of time -- is explored. We employed repeating and overlapping motifs of different lengths, allowing their staggered interaction to produce varying degrees of harmonization, dissonance, masking and reinforcement. Unpredictability of outcome was furthered by electronic processing -- both manual and automated, random and predetermined -- and by the appearance, taken out of context, of unrelated passages taken from earlier projects. Real-time performers had to interact with this instability as they constructed their contributions, and later as they gave form to the final composition. Although there are elements of chance at work in the process, the eventual architecture is intentional, and carefully worked. Mixing was done by hand and without the aid of computers, then the composition was assembled and integrated digitally. --William Sharp, Biota. The interaction of staggered, overlapping elements reveals a changeable truth about the whole as the parts variously harmonize or dissent; reinforce or cloak one another in their unfolding. The project is, at heart, about uncertainty. Players encounter the shifting interplay between previously recorded parts juxtaposed with instrumental snippets -- out of context -- introduced from the groups archives. Electronic processing programs are employed to apply semi-random and semi-intentional alterations to the proceedings." - Recommended |
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Artist: CAMBERWELL NOW Title: Alls Well Format: CD Label: Recommended Country: UK Price: $17.50 |
| The complete works of this post-This Heat band featuring Charles Hayward, recorded 1982-1986. Featuring these original releases: Meridian, The Ghost Trade & Greenfingers LP/EPs. "This definitive edition collects the entire released output of Camberwell Now (two EPs and an LP), newly re-mastered by the band and repackaged with full notes, lyrics, additional photographs and artwork. Chronologically, Camberwell Now immediately succeeded This Heat, Charles Hayward continuing to work with This Heats last bassist Trefor Goronwy, and the two of them joining forces with Stephen Rickard who, for the new band, designed his unique cassette switchboard, a kind of proto-sampler -- though thats not the half of it (Steves article fully explaining the device is reprinted in the new, expanded booklet that comes with the CD). Musically, Camberwell both followed and departed from the style of This Heat. Formally and gesturally there are common elements, but there is far greater transparency and the sound palette is quite different: the music is more placed than grown, as the slow accumulation and evolution of material in This Heat gives way to a more immediate and orderly development of the material in Camberwell Now. The songs -- nostalgic, scary, and quietly desperate -- peer into the future to find harbour but confront only fragments of ruin. Debris and disturbance eat away at the root and corrode each shiny surface (mostly the musical work of the cassette switchboard). The juxtaposition of powerful, virtuosic playing and the eerie, often unidentifiable keenings, chords and constant motion of the cassettes is one of the things that make Camberwell Now so expressive of its time -- when the whole social and political fabric of a no-longer-great Britain was unravelling. Camberwell Now worked and recorded in Cold Storage, and toured intermittently through Europe between 1983 and 1986, when they disbanded." - Recommended |
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Artist: MOORE, R. STEVIE Title: Phonography Format: CD Label: Recommended Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Phonography was Stevies first LP release, and an out-of-the-blue masterpiece: terminally idiosyncratic but with all the compositional qualities of great pop. A gifted songwriter, R Stevie (son of Bob Moore, Elvis bassist) grew up and was steeped in Nashvilles countrypolitanism; but, as a recidivist rebel, he inevitably slipped into strange byways, following his own, unique path into celebrated obscurity - as this strange and compelling record attests. Hans Arp said, My paintings are like fingernails: they keep growing and I keep cutting them off. R Stevies songs seem to follow the same rule. They create worlds, tell stories, trifle wantonly with form, harmony, structure and execution, and throw off passages of casual brilliance on the way. Lo-fi is integral to its purpose. You cant pay to get a sound like that. So, when nobody seemed to want to keep Phonography in print, ReR Megacorp were happy to oblige - its history. We took the opportunity to re-master and restore it to its original form. Instruments used: Red plastic Hagstrom electric guitar, Gibson SG Junior electric guitar, Fender Precision Bass, Yamaha acoustic guitar, Alvarez classical guitar, Premier snare drum, upside-down cardboard box bass drum, various full drum kits, Fischer grand piano, Franz metronome, Maracas, Tambourine, Cry Baby Wah Wah pedal, Jordan Creator sustain pedal, Korg synthesizer, Elka string synthesizer, Magnus chord organ, Realistic frequency equalizer, Maestro phase shifter, Univox echo chamber, hi-hat cymbals, extra cymbal (old), Panasonic cassette player, Koss and Vanco headphones, Fender Twin Reverb and Eenque amplifiers, Cords, Picks, Voice." - Recommended. |
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Artist: CONGRESO Title: El Congreso Format: CD Label: Record Runner Country: Argentina Price: $17.00 |
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Artist: BENDER, JOHN Title: I Dont Remember Now Format: LP Label: Record Sluts Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
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2010 reissue, originally released in 1980.
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Artist: BENDER, JOHN Title: Plaster Falling Format: LP Label: Record Sluts Country: USA Price: $32.00 |
| Reissue of Benders second LP from 1981, recreating (slightly less elaborately) the originals plaster sealed sleeve. |
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Artist: BENDER, JOHN Title: Pop Surgery Format: LP Label: Record Sluts Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
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2010 reissue, originally released in 1983. "Absolutely winning, home-brewed experimental electronic pop, presented in impeccable, homemade fashion!References: Ike Yard, Food and Shelter, Men/Eject, Charles De Goal, Nurse With Wound, United Dairies, Pinakotheca, Vanity Records." - Mutant Sounds.
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: Glissando No. 1 Format: CD Label: Recorded Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"A trance-tape piece, constituting one of three known examples of the Illuminatory Sound Environment genre (the other two being Catherine Christer Hennixs The Electric Harpsichord (Die Schachtel 2010) and HENRY FLYNTs upcoming Celestial Power (Quadraphonic Version)). JOHN BERDNTs enthralling liner notes explain ISE as "an unfurling sound field of overwhelming but far from gratuitous sensuality, a highly tuned texture where all of the aspects are coordinated to make a deeply unusual whole, a new kind of perceptual gestalt.... The piece has a disorienting flow that does something strange to time. Its internal structural logic is fascinating but lacks the distraction of an obvious narrative drama-an eternal sound, implying a potentially endless process.... Glissando No. 1 is perhaps the darkest and most feverish expression of the genre, its massed strings and continual timbral transformations covering both a broad audio spectrum and saturating all points in the stereo field with a hallucinogenic and emotive canopy." Companion track "Stereo Piano" from 1978, performed by CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX, is also included (her "billowing cloud" piano technique applied to a scale of Flynts, subsequently layered by Flynt himself). With sixteen-page booklet." -Recorded.
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: Glissando No. 1 Format: CD Label: Recorded Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"The fifth Henry Flynt CD on Recorded is a masterpiece and quite different from any of his previous releases. The first of two releases documenting the Illuminatory Sound Environments project, Glissando is an amazing response to C. C. Hennixs The Electric Harpsichord (recently released after decades of obscurity on Die Schachtel). Both Glissando and Harpsichord are attempts to develop a truly hallucinogenic music, driven by the unique sensibilities of philosophers Flynt and Hennix. This is the secret history of experimental music of the 70s, revealing sounds and sensibilities that go beyond minimalism or trance music into something far more serious. A bonus track on the disk, Stereo Piano is a beautiful collaboration between Flynt and Hennix, a standout of tapestry-like-minimalism." - Recorded.
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: New American Ethnic Music Volume 4: Ascent to the Sun Format: CD Label: Recorded Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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"The final release in the New American Ethnic Music series (but not the last Henry Flynt on Recorded) is Ascent to the Sun, a brilliant, sparkling hillbilly raga in the family of You Are My Everlovin but with a unique double violin approach and a mind-bending structure all its own. The piece covers incredible ground in terms of specificity of mood and sentiment, and is deeply listenable and experimental at once. It is a new creation by Flynt circa 2004, engineered by Tim Barnes." - Recorded
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Artist: FLYNT, HENRY Title: You Are My Everlovin/Celextial Power Format: Double CD Label: Recorded Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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First volume in a series subtitled: New Americam Ethnic Music. "Two 45 minute sets of live improvised avant-garde hillbilly and blues music featuring Henry Flynt on (a rather gained) violin, one (YAME) is a duo with an unaccredited tambura player (drenched in reverb/background acoustics), the other (CP) featuring 1 track of violin, and 2 tracks of volume pedal guitars -- all performed by Flynt (drenched in reverb/background acoustics). Henry Flynt is a vanguard American conceptual artist, key Fluxus participant, ally to both La Monte Young (esp. in the early New York years, contributing to the key Fluxus document; the La Monte-edited An Anthology ) and George Maciunas (several mid 60s collaborations including Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture), author of many pamphlets and public propaganda works ( Blueprint for a Higher Civilization ,Down with Art ), magazine articles (Extracts from Personhoods Self Cancellation, perhaps more relevant The Meaning of My Avant-Garde Hillbilly and Blues Music), recently obsessed with furthering the ideals of Meta-Technology. An interesting set of performances, both extended extemporizations on extended alpha-state ascension through excessive application of overtone-series note relationships/harmonics over a single chord/form. Close in spirit to La Monte perhaps, closer in application to something like Tony Conrad or Arnold Dreyblatt, only with a unique country-fried holler-bent thats at once alienating to art-music lovers but at the same time much more personable. An important cultural and historic link, one of the only fully realized Fluxus audio documents (despite its 10+ year delay to the classic era) available in the CD age. Seminal" - Hrvatski.
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Artist: FLAHERTY, PAUL & CHRIS CORSANO Title: Last Eyes Format: LP Label: Records Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Saxophonist Paul Flaherty and drummer Chris Corsano are New England-based musicians dedicated to the promise and purpose of free improvisation. Paul has released over 20 recordings since the late 70s, while Chris first appeared on record in 1997. For the past 5 years, the two have operated together in duo format as well as in collaborations with some of the finest freedom thinkers around such as Nmperigns Greg Kelly, Thurston Moore and Jim ORourke of Sonic Youth, Tony Conrad, Matt Heyner of Test and the No Neck Blues Band, Daniel Carter, Christina Carter and Heather Murray of Charalambides/Scorces, Wally Shoup, and Steve Swell. Together, Flaherty & Corsano seek to champion the cause of total free improvisation, an often misunderstood, underestimated, and sometimes even hated artform." - Records. |
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Artist: FLAHERTY/CORSANO/SHOUP Title: Bounced Check Format: LP Label: Records Country: US Price: $14.00 |
| "Wally Shoup, Chris Corsano, and Paul Flaherty make up this Screamin free punk-jazz-liquid-solid-noize trio captured LIVE "in your face"-style in Seattle, WA. Totally improvised double sax and drum explopsions that break down into duos and solos and re-ignite as trio howlin paint splattered maddness gone butt-naked wilder. Recorded at an art gallery with Artwork melting off the walls and frightened fans nervously mopping their furrowed blood-stained brows (they were especially afraid one or both of the sax players would expire...... it did feel like attempted sax suicide), this limited LP, which will be the final volume in the RECORDS label plan, represents one half of the concert that emerged on that unsuspecting evening. The other half is being released at the same time (relatively) on the Tyfus label in Finland as BLANK CHECK. Thus creating another pair of sister releases much like the LAST EYES (RECORDS #8) & STEEL SLEET (TYFUS) LP pair released in 2005. The CHECK pair will serve as the document of the only event this trio has played to date, and it presents another blistering historical document of an underground movement that continues to go un-recognized and even un-noticed in most of the so-called civilized baby starvin world. Free music... hard to believe it can still piss people off just by rearing its ugly head... but someones gotta stand up and throw the metaphysical psycho love bombs... thankfully we still have volunteers like these notorious three to kick around the turntable. Sure to sell out within 10 years or my name isnt Bon Jovi." - Records. |
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Artist: IRONS, ASA & SWANN MILLER Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Records Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Recorded in 2003 as he was travelling around the country, this very simple, intimate, and home spun record continues to stun all who have heard it as a self released CDR. Asas vocals are complemented so perfectly by his dear friend Swann that the songs resonate with the mutual knowing only old close friends can share. If you are at all familiar with his efforts in FEATHERS, or watched him hunch over a guitar with WTICH, or have been perplexed and amazed at his saw blade solo work, this document will be an irreplaceable eye-opener to how well grounded and concurrently high reaching Asas music can be. Limited to 600 copies on opaque grey vinyl, packaged in black jackets with art by Hillary Irons glued to the front. This is one of those records, a classic." - Records.
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Artist: SHRIN Title: Ventilating The Corpse Format: LP Label: Records Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"The material here was recorded in 1991, 1992, and 1995 and is of the bowed cymbal, frenetic drumming, guitar, bozouki, and chant nature. Limited to 500 copies." - Records.
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Artist: SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN Title: Complexion Format: LP Label: Records Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "In 2002, records was privileged to bring SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN⿿s debut LP, Headdress (R6) to the listening world. This summer we are again honored to offer you their latest exploration, Complexion (R13). While SUNBURNED HAND has traveled fromEuropetoAlaskain the past two years, and will be releasing a massive double LPs worth of material recorded entirely outdoors in Wasilla,Alaska on Ed Hardys Eclipse Records, the urge to feel the home soil led the band to create Complexion. Recorded entirely in a small public garden outside of Union Square in Somerville,Massachusetts. Musically, and visually the album carries a local theme as the artwork is bySomervilleartist John Jågel. You can see Mr. Jågels work on other classic records such as Ornette Colemans Ornette! and John Coltranes Ole Coltrane. Each record will also come with separate poster rendering another of Mr Jågels work. There will be 1000 copies of this record available." - Records. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Poesia Sonora: Antologia Internazionale di Ricerche Fonetiche a Cura di Maurizio Nannucci Format: LP Label: Recorthings & Zona Archives Country: Italy Price: $28.00 |
| Second edition (orig. CBS, 1975) on clear vinyl. Feat. Brion Gysin, Bob Cobbing, Henri Chopin, Franz Mon, Bernard Heidsick. |
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Artist: FOX Title: San Francisco Session Format: LP Label: Red Lounge Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
| "Another RD Records surprise! An unreleased album from this post-Day Blindness band, recorded in 1969-70. This album is a heavy, bluesy, psychedelic masterpiece of the highest order. It is virtually the second Day Blindness album with slight personnel changes, but musically its in a more heavy psychedelic direction. The lead guitarist Gary Pihl is well known today for being the guitar player in Boston. Here he plays an amazing psychedelic guitar and it reminds us in parts of the mighty Marianis Perpetuum Mobile album. Superb bass guitar by Johnny V. Vernazza and crazy drums by Roy Garcia, who later went to play with the legendary band Gold (of Rockadelic Records fame). Only one 45 single was ever released of those fantastic sessions on Studio 10, and the single is mega rare these days. A treasure lost at the time that we are very pleased to present to you today. Deluxe gatefold cover with story and pictures. For Fans of Mariani, Groundshaker, Estes Brothers." -Red Lounge |
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Artist: JUNGLE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Red Lounge Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
| "Here´s a real surprise, the first legitimate re-issue of this mega rare Californian psychedelic monster. This is one of the best and most sought after psychedelic gems ever recorded, with amazing and fluid heavy fuzz guitars, superb organ, drums and fantastic songwriting. Recorded in New York in 1969 while the band was living in a farm in Vermont. The original was pressed in a run of 50 demo copies only! No names or hints are given on the original LP but after over a decade of excruciating search, Miguel Rodriguez, the man behind finding Darius, Garrett Lund, Stonewall and many more, finally found the band members! So here is your chance to listen to one of the great mystical albums of the psychedelic private press collectors realm at the fraction of the cost of the original, in amazing sound. This gem comes in a gatefold cover with unseen pictures and full band history, released in full collaboration with the surviving band members." -Red Lounge |
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Artist: NEW AGE Title: All Around Format: CD Label: Red Lounge Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
| Also including members Mark Levinson and Bruce Langhorne. "This is what can be called one of the major sensations in the raga influenced psychedelic/acid folk field. Also some of the earliest recordings in this genre and hitherto unreleased. After the release of the Light of Day album in 1966 the now legendary Pat Kilroy and Susan Graubard went on with playing and creating music together. What you hear on this album is what they recorded for Warner Brothers in the summer of 1967, a true groundbreaking adventure of the highest order. They expanded in the direction they started in 1966 and the result is far beyond and superior to everything I heard from that time period before in this musical style except for Tim Buckley. No wonder that it didnt come out at that time because those recordings were for sure far too adventurous for Warner Brothers and also for almost other leading music companies at the time. Incredible -- and I mean INCREDIBLE raga influenced psychedelic/acid folk with some of the best songwriting I know of with monstrous lyrics and deep lead vocals. Also a wide range of instruments were played like incredible raga-esque acoustic guitar, electric bass, Spanish cowbells, bell tree, silver flute, bamboo flutes, viola, tamboura, conga drums, tables, acoustic and electric bass and tambourine. Pat Kilroy sadly died of Hodgkins disease in December of 1967 at a very young age. If this record had a proper release at the time, it would be a major classic and a milestone today in the psychedelic history book. This CD release contains six superb never before released bonus tracks recorded at Warner Brothers Studios and KPFA-FM radio station during 1967. Be ready for an incredible musical trip along with an amazing, long and very intense story behind." -All Around |
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Artist: SCHIZO Title: Schizo And The Little Girl Format: 7" Label: Red Lounge Country: Germany Price: $9.00 |
| "Reissue of incredible single by pre-HELDON formation led by Mr Richard Pinhas, who personally gave permissions to use these tracks for re-release. This 3 tracks Ep features some of the heaviest PSYCHEDELIC rock outings ever. Young mr Pinhas blows you away with some amazing guitar trippery. EP comes with original artwork on thick cardboard. A must have for all PSYCH-HEADS around the planet." - Red Lounge. |
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Artist: SUICIDE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Red Star Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Repressed! Official 1999 reissue of the first Suicide LP from 1977, on the original Red Star label. Digitally remastered, iconic cover art intact. Beyond-essential late 70s underground listening which has carried near boundless influence. This edition contains two extra tracks not on the original LP: a remix of "Cheree," and "Keep Your Dreams." - FE. "Suicide were Alan Vega (voice) and Martin Rev (electronics). Classic punk-electronic trance that sounds as intense and vivid as ever and unlike some of their peers from the era, still as dangerously futuristic." -Red Star. |
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Artist: CARDUCCI, JOE Title: Rock and the Pop Narcotic Format: Book Label: Redoubt Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
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"New, amazing third printing of this historic rock book by ex-SST staffer Joe Carducci. First published in 1990 (and later reissued by 2.13.61 in 1994), this book has been painfully out of print for much of the past decade. Now up to 529 pages, paperbound, with Carduccis new preface and afterword; elegantly redesigned. Includes photographs and an illustrated appendix. Subtitled Testament for the Electric Church, this is Carduccis book of Rock Theory, which reads like "a speed freaks hallucination into a dictaphone." A modernized, but still wonderfully dense update of Meltzers Aesthetics of Rock, this book defined the literal "aesthetics" better than anyone before or since, connecting the dots from Sabbath to Black Flag like the ultimate mainline. Unlike just about every other book ever written about "rock", this one is absolutely required reading. If you havent read it, youre stuck on the goddamn wrong side of the fence. Third edition (May, 2005), 529 pages." - FE.
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Artist: CARDUCCI, JOE Title: Enter Naomi - SST, LA And All That Format: Book Label: Redoubt Press Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
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"JOE CARDUCCIs Enter Naomi began as the authors attempt to discover what had happened to music photographer NAOMI PETERSEN. She worked most notably at SST Records in the 1980s. At the May, 2005 premiere of the Minutemen documentary, We Jam Econo, word spread that she had died two years earlier. As Carducci found out more about her years before and after SST, his planned email death notice became a lengthy photo-essay for the web and eventually this book. "This is an absolutely mesmerizing introduction to L.A.s punk pantheon of outside musicians, artists, photographers, and performers. As Carducci reminds us, the wild kids on the Strip, the Strand, and the Desert created a potent musical underground in the shadow of the corporate-entertainment industry and it continues to subvert and inspire."-Mike David (City of Quartz, Planet of Slums). 270 pages, with photos, illustrations." - Redoubt Press
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Artist: V/A Title: Killed By Death - British DIY Vol. 1 Format: LP Label: Redrum Country: Price: $12.00 |
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Subseries of the long running KBD rare punk reissue program. This focuses on the late 70s/early 80s DIY/art punk side of things. Features 7" tracks from London PX, Hornsey At War, Petticoats, Mudhutters, Puritan Guitars, Disco Zombies, Sods, Fun 4, Spelling Missteaks, One Gang Logic, Atoms, 012 (from the classic Weird Noise EP on Fuck Off Records!) and Shoes This High (pre-Kiwi Animal). Small repress.
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Artist: V/A Title: Left of the Middle: Australian Soft Rock, Folk, Private Press & Otherwise Format: Cass Label: Redundancy Music Country: Australia Price: $7.00 |
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"A scattered collection of the forgotten and fringe from the back roads of Australian popular music, genre-less wanderers left behind in subsequent Australian archeology. Mixture of crude private press and slick major label recordings; teenage thug sharpie rock, progressive folk musicians playing with and against the strains of bush music traditionalism, Bobb Trimblesque psych-folk, brief glimpses of West Coast singer songwriter beauty, alien flamenco guitar, baroque jazz, Hazlewood aping country artists, and the sound of people missing the mark. For some this may be a tougher listen then the harshest noise, others will find it a strange and rewarding journey into the unknown losers of Australian music history. Pro press, 20 tracks, 71 minutes, full notes included on insert." - Redundancy Music. SIDE A Howard Eynon – French Army (So What If Im Standing In Apricot Jam, Basket Records, 1974/75, Tasmania) Danny Graham – Well Make A Deal (In Amsterdam) (s/t, Sinsemille Music, 1980, New South Wales??) Systems Go – Transatlantic Line (7”, no label, 1978, Adelaide) Jim Minchin – You Cant Do More Than That (Seven Whole Days, Move Records, 1970(?), Melbourne) The C.C.C. Band – Lemon Tree (Welcome To Cordial Land, no label, 1976, Brisbane) Chris Freeman – Dennis Hallucinating (Thesilger, no label, 1976, Melbourne) Cast of Cult – Red (Cult; A Musical About The Future, Reflection Records, 1973, Melbourne) Jade – Rockin Orgy Pt. 1 (7”, Jade Records, 1977, Melbourne) Greg Quill & Country Radio – Empty Pockets/Leaving The City (Fleetwood Plain, Harvest Records, 1971, Sydney) Lee Conway – The Other Man (7”, Sweet Peach Records, mid 1970s, Adelaide) Mike Quarmby – Muddy Murray River (Its Nothing You Could Ever Hang A Name On, EMS Gold Label, 1974?, Adelaide) SIDE B Doug Ashdown – Willies Shades (Leave Love Enough Alone, Billingsgate Records, 1974, Adelaide) Janette Geri – River (Rising, Arts And Grafts Records, 1986, Melbourne) Steam Shuttle – The Wee One/Rocking The Cradle (s/t, Larrikin Records, 1977, Sydney) Cathie OSullivan – The Orange Tree (High Places, Larrikin Records, 1983, Sydney) Margret Roadknight – Ice (Ice, Infinity Records, 1978, Sydney) Trevor Swadling – Wheel of Fortune (7”, Midway Records, 1983, Sydney) Tanseys Fancy – Aque Serven (s/t, no label, 1982/83, Sydney) Penny Davies and Roger Ilott – Galaxy Shanty (The Proud and Careless Notes, Restless Recordings, 1984, Sydney) SOLD OUT
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Artist: FITZ-GERALD & LOL COXHILL, G.F. Title: The Poppy Seed Affair Format: Double CD/DVD Label: Reel Recordings Country: Canada Price: $31.00 |
| "Electric guitar radical G.F. Fitz-Gerald and soprano saxophone subversive Lol Coxhill; dual masters of spontaneous art and intuitive music, unleash The Poppy Seed Affair, a three disc collection for your edification and confoundment. The Poppy Seed Affair film was produced in 1981 by Londons anarch-oholic troupe, The Matchbox Purveyors; Ian Hinchcliffe, Jeff Nuttall, Mark Long, G.F. Fitz-Gerald, Lol Coxhill & Foxy. Inimitable soundtrack by Lol Coxhill, sometimes in trio with drummer Robert Wyatt and bassist Archie Leggett. Now rescued from utter obscurity to DVD (NTSC all-region; run time: 30 minutes), this comedic tour-de-farce juggles the insane and the inane with a twist of the profane. Complementing this complete experience are two extraordinary compact discs mastered directly from true-to-life tape recordings out of the G.F. Fitz-Gerald archive. CD1 is an intimate, close-mic concert recording of Fitz-Gerald & Coxhill at Newcastles Spectro Arts Workshop, 1981. Here, the duos mercurial genius for spatial sonics is fully displayed. CD2 collects several works for tape, beginning with "Listen Collage," which reconstructs, à la Faust Tapes, random room sounds of bizarre hippie domesticity, bedroom radios, tape recorders and ambient street sounds from Londons Ladbrooke Grove during the spring of 1969. Unmistakably, this is a prodigious 20-minute audio adventure unique to its epoch. Following "Listen Collage" are two extended works for prepared guitars and sundry effects, leading to the sampled tape loop trip "Band In My Head." And lastly, a tape collage for The Matchbox Purveyors stage show, The Team. This entire disc transforms the magic of the creative moment into deeply experiential realms for our minds-eye. Furthermore, in refusing to impose any impure digital processing whatsoever, these analog recordings remain en vérité. Few guitarists have so audaciously scaled the sonic heights G.F. Fitz-Gerald has, no other saxophonist sounds as Lol Coxhill does, and Reel Recordings proudly presents a profusion of their unadulterated artistry throughout this rare archival collection. The Poppy Seed Affair is delivered as a numbered limited edition of 500 copies." - Reel Recordings. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Juddy In The Sky With Nazis Format: LP Label: Reep Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"Looney compilation album dealing with phonetic 60s rock. The cover art speaks for itself. A collection of tracks sung in English by bands from faraway countries that DONT! speak English. Just play the opening track Juddy In The Sky by Romanian band CVINTETUL MAMAIA from 1968 and you know what this album is all about. Limited edition of 500 copies, sky-blue coloured vinyl and coming with inlay, with extansive info on the bands involved. Featuring 60s garage bands from all over the world; ATLANTIS, OS SELVAGENS, THE OX, LOS WALKERS, GEN ROSSO, SYRIUS, LOS HURACANES, DIE KETTELS etc. Beautiful artwork and vinyl only." - Reep.
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Artist: DESPERATE BICYCLES, THE Title: New Cross, New Cross Format: 7" Label: Refill Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Limited copies of these recent reissues.
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Artist: DESPERATE BICYCLES, THE Title: Obstructive Format: 7" Label: Refill Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: DESPERATE BICYCLES, THE Title: Smokescreen/Occupied Territory Format: 7" Label: Refill Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Smokescreen EP on one side with Occupied Territory on the flip. Limited copies of these recent reissues.
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Artist: DESPERATE BICYCLES, THE Title: The Medium Was Tedium Format: 7" Label: Refill Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: SINCLAIR, DAVID Title: Take My Hand Format: CD Label: Regenerator Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Take My Hand is the ultimate Canadian Private Pressing LP from 1973, West Coast folk-rock-psych stylings with sudden tempo shifts from mellow dreamy acoustic with occasional female backing vocals to sudden bursts of electric guitar wailing. The album also has a couple of great downer tracks with sparse arrangements. Highlights include: A Tale Of Raven To Know You Three Hour Ride and This Time Around. Canadian singer-songwriter style music with some psych direction, and a strong and very pleasant West Coast feel. Fans of David Wiffen and Vernon Wray would greatly enjoy. The album was brilliantly recorded by legendary Canadian producer and artists Stan Cayer and has been fully remasters from the original tapes. Also included are 7 previously unreleased bonus tracks!" -Regenerator |
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Artist: V/A Title: The Cool-Aid Benefit Album: Deluxe Edition Format: Double LP Label: Regenerator Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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"At the end of the 1960s, there was a house in Vancouver that was a home solely for hippies and homeless youth; it was known to locals as the Cool Aid House. When the Canadian government withdrew funding in 1970, the house was in danger of closing. All of the top bands in the Vancouver area offered to record songs for a benefit album -- and since the local music scene produced some of the best bands in Canada, the album that resulted was stunning; it has long been a much sought-after collectors item. What no one knew until recently was that the original Cool-Aid Benefit Album was intended as a two-record set: contractual problems with Capitol Records forced Cool Aid House founder John Walsch to drop tracks by Mother Tuckers Yellow Duck -- tracks that are now restored to this package. Other cuts include the strange proto-electronic burbles of Mock Duck (quite unlike almost everything else they ever recorded) on As The Bullet Enters Anton and Pointillistic Scherzo; the vicious snarl of Black Snakes Carousel, and the strange Spalding Grey-ish acoustic song/poem The Planet Man. Hydro Electric Street Car have left little behind them, but their lovely High Memory sounds like a lost Grateful Dead track from their early, dreamy period. A terrific discovery! Obscure cuts available nowhere else, in a wide variety of styles: weird electronic sounds, heavy garage fuzz guitar freakouts, stoner rock, and acoustic folk. Housed in a gatefold sleeve. Limited, numbered edition of 1,000 copies." -Regenerator
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Artist: DIE TODLICHE DORIS Title: Liveplaybacks Format: LP Label: Reinhard Wilhelmi Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
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"A warehouse find brought this rare LP from 1986. The Tšdliche Doris ended their musical career with a live record. Listening to the record, one notices how the sound becomes worse from piece to piece. The reason for this is not the bad quality of the recordings, but a deliberate concept: The group played each piece live only once. For subsequent concerts the Tšdliche Doris used the original recording as a playback, to which they feigned. This was in turn recorded with the applause and sounds of the respective audience. This process was repeated several times, so that by the last piece of this layer cake on can hear the sound of seven auditoriums at the same time. The original music exits only as a distorted and blurred noise in the background." - Reinhard Wilhelmi.
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Artist: ASTER Title: Rel 016 Format: LP Label: Rel Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"Aster rel016 is the first release in the rel live series, which documents a show in Boston from 2009. Aster takes a different form in this set moving away from its distinct style of high pitch sustained overtone bends and song structure, pushing more towards a guttural blend of string scrapes and sustained tones in combination with an aggressive form of saxophone and drum textures. Blending guitars, drums and horn with Pauls unique green box set up. The music moves slowly and steadily through different areas ending, with a sustained drum, string and saxophone section featuring an aggressive but oddly mellow texture and energy. rel016 is a one sided LP housed in a silk screened black cover with a metallic fold over paper with a unique laser die cut design. The inside has printed notes with the instrument details and information. The record is a one-time limited pressing of 135 copies." -Rel
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Artist: KESZLER, ELI/ASHLEY PAUL Title: Aster Format: LP Label: Rel Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Aster is the debut LP release by the duo of Ashley Paul and Eli Keszler. Having spent the last 3 years performing all over the northeast, they have developed a unique sound, combining the piercing high pitched resonance of Keszlers bowed crotales and cymbals with altissimo sustains and drastic pitch bends of Pauls alto saxophone and clarinet. The split tone combinations from these instruments is surprising and overwhelming, creating continuous, multi-layered, dense, shifting harmonics and intense inner-ear sound. Spinning discs, invented resonating metal configurations, bending reed tones, and voice interference carefully blend, creating a wild texture that is both harsh and striking . This is contrasted with Pauls guttural string attacks, which meet the rapid-fire movement of Keszlers low end bowed cymbals and jittery crash. This is a live document recorded to 4 track, with no sound modification. This LP is the first official release in a planned series of releases by this long standing duo. Pressed on 160 gram copper plate pressed virgin vinyl with a black inner sleeve, the LP is housed in a textured paper cover that features a layered screen printed drawing. The inside contains grey pasted notes with an attached 8" x 25" 3 part multi-tone picture which has been printed across a fold-out frosted vellum book. All of this has been screen printed, drawn, and then hand assembled by Keszler and Paul. The record comes in a limited hand numbered edition of 300 copies." - Rel. |
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Artist: MULLEN, GEOFF Title: Accidental Guitars Format: LP + Book Label: REL Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Geoff Mullen presents a new side of his ever-changing and open language, dealing here with his rawest material to date, and in many ways finding himself in a homecoming to the guitar. On Accidental Guitars, Geoff expands his instrumental language with his unique variety of invented, accident-prone technique. Re-contextualized live performances are filtered through an intuitive sense of form and pretexts, leaving us with an intense, jarring, pointed, and textural compositional language. With little more than an electric guitar, he conjures abstract formations and clattering percussive tones that are starkly contrasted with tape hiss and sudden echoplexd delay. Sustains calm the mood throughout and create a beautiful and oddly soothing atmosphere that seems to move in all directions at once. The music on Accidental Guitars has an ability of creating form out of being lost, and achieves lucidity through this sense. This record is a unique document, finding Geoff between forms and excepted styles, and seeing him off, once again, in another new and exciting direction in his music. Accidental Guitars is pressed on heavy 180 gram vinyl, housed in a matte black inner sleeve, produced in a deluxe edition with multi screened designs on archival heavy stock with a insert and notes by the composer. Limited edition of 350 copies." -REL. |
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Artist: NMPERIGN & JAKE MEGINSKY Title: Selected Occasions Of Handsome Deceit Format: LP Label: Rel Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "REL012 is the recorded debut of the trio Nmperign with Jake Meginsky. Pressed on 160 gram copper plate mastered vinyl, REL012 features Nmperign in an energized, turn-on-a-dime form. Prodded by Meginsky into unnamable, angular textures, the trio is agile and unpredictable, occupying many angles of musical extremes. REL012 is a one-sided LP cut to 45 for Maximum Dynamic range. Featuring a striking cover, designed by Eli Keszler, printed by Ashley Paul. A light blue fold-over paper is integrated in to a heavy picture disc sleeve, labeled with a color sticker. Screened notes are featured on the inside. REL012 is a one-time, hand-numbered edition of 300 copies." - Rel. |
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Artist: PAUL AND MAUREY Title: Satellite Format: LP Label: Rel Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Paul and Maurey is the duo of Ashley Paul and Sakiko Mori. Satellite is an extended album with new and unreleased material, based off the micro edition cassette released on Wagtail in late 2010 that sold out in an instant. This version reveals their expansive, open ended and dynamic approach, combining Ashleys intuitive writing and vocals, with their propulsive and multi-layered rhythms, clatter and dynamics from the ensemble sound. Both perform on a wide range of instruments: Sakiko on keyboards, percussion, harmonium and Ashley on guitar, green box, reeds and even tuba. These two play multiple instruments at once and often switch in the middle of songs. Together they create a unique world of small scale/micro-sounds and non-musical gestures, somehow fitting this all within a song structure that really needs to be heard to be understood. In doing this, Paul and Maurey make something oddly beautiful out of the rawest material. Satellite is an LP edition, printed on clear vinyl, pink labels, with black matter innersleeves in custom, hand painted covers and silk screened jacket, in a limited edition of 340 copies." -Rel. |
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Artist: PAUL, ASHLEY Title: Line The Clouds Format: LP Label: Rel Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Multi-faceted composer and performer Ashley Paul releases her new LP. A hyper-intuitive record, where off-kilter instrumentation meets beautifully crafted melodies to convey the very essence of musicality, Line the Clouds contains 44.18 minutes of sonic paradoxes and dichotomies. Stirring up a zephyr of twelve blissfully cacophonous sounds -- singular moments of an indivisible whole -- the focus is on guitar, voice and saxophone, but Ashley also employs everything from flute, clarinet, guitar, bells, percussion and prepared strings in her melodic endeavours which simultaneously plugs in the ghost of American song. From Wide Expanse -- where high-pitched reeds and whistles collide with richer tones and Ashleys fragile voice -- through the simple, sparkling beauty of the LPs title track -- with the guitar at the helm -- and the multi-vocal flutterings of Watch Them Pass, theres also the freeing experimentalism and atonal clatter of Feb.21 -- a song which ably immortalises a feeling of stomach churning anguish -- and the albums gentle, abstract finale Youre a Feeling. This Brooklyn based artist is at the vanguard of the new wave of music currently rippling through the city where opposing strains of style and sound work in unison. Line the Clouds will be available in a limited edition LP available on colored vinyl in a custom sealed package with screen printed wraparound of Ashleys animal drawings, in addition to a digital version." -Rel. |
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Artist: USURPER Title: Lets Just See What Happens Format: LP Label: Rel Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "REL is proud to present the debut LP of the Scottish duo Usurper (Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff). Creating a sound nearly impossible to describe, Usurper combines obsessive metallic clunk, destroyed voices, broken horns and dropped marbles (?), into dense fields of activity. Working towards an intuitive sound logic all its own, Usurper creates a surreal, comic structure that is unmatched and an energy that will make you laugh as soon as you shake your head in bafflement. The B side features a trio set with the addition of Sticky Foster (A Band, Prick Decay, Coffee) who blends seamlessly into the group. The LP is a one time, hand numbered edition of 200 copies with bold design featuring Malcy Duffs illustrations silk screened by Ashley Paul. The inside features a liner note pocket housing the full 24-page comic 2.1.3 by Duff." - Rel. |
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Artist: ALTAR OF FLIES/SEWER ELECTION Title: Split Format: LP Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
| "Two of the best acts currently dwelling in the depths of the Swedish underground scene. Sewer Election should be well-known by now, previous releases includes a split 12" with Incapacitants, cds on Troniks and Chondritic Sound and the amazing Killing-tapes. Altar Of Flies has created quite a buzz over the last year with a huge amount of very limited tape/cd-r releases. On this split LP, Sewer Election contributes with the nasty Rotten Corpse. A crude and disgusting piece. Monotonous, freezing coldness. Altar Of Flies continues with his dark and eerie forest rumblings. Buried claustrophobic lo-fi insanity straight from hell. Heavy outbursts of feedback. Couldve been outtakes from an old Dario Argento soundtrack. Mean-spirited ugliness from both bands. Limited to 325 copies. Thick black printed sleeves with a sticker, black innersleeves, black vinyl. Photocopied inserts." -Release the Bats |
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Artist: BLESSURE GRAVE Title: Judged by 12, Carried by 6 Format: LP Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $23.00 |
| "Founded as a duo by T. Graves and Reyna Kay in September 2008, Blessure Grave blurs the lines between the goth, postpunk and neofolk genres. The pair has since developed the project into a full band while building a cult-like following, scattering various vinyl and tape releases on boutique labels around the globe. Citing Killing Joke, Death in June, March Violets and The Cure as influences, Blessure Grave injects a pop sensibility into songs otherwise doomed to dreariness, creating an interesting mix of old and new but dark all around. The music initially appears rather simple, but quickly reveals the fact that the songs are fully fleshed-out and genuinely memorable. The album provides the perfect soundtrack for contemplating todays troubled times or for simply being swept away with the nostalgic 80s vibe that permeates much of the recording. The band does not waste a lot a time allowing tracks to drone on: the songs are short and to the point, with the average track approximately three minutes in length. 12 tracks." - Release the Bats. |
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Artist: BLESSURE GRAVE Title: Making the Death Beds for Teenage Vampires Format: 7" Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER Title: Crows Eat The Eyes From The Leviathans Carcass Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| "Blackened mayhem from Seattles Blue Sabbath Black Cheer. Crows Eat The Eyes From The Leviathans Carcass is a collection of several older, long out of print cuts and included is also two unreleased tracks. Mastered by Hans Grüsel. Limited to 500 copies in a Stumptown Printers cardboard sleeve with artwork/design by FEEDING. Black on black print both on the cover and the disc. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer formed in late 2005, in Seattle, WA, USA, and is centered around the duo of wm.Rage: guitar, vocals, electronics and tapes - and Stan Reed: vocals, electronics, tapes and bass. The sound of BSBC is dark and heavy, violently bleak horror-noise: ⿿a demon network of scraping nails. 500 copies -Release The Bats |
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Artist: D YELLOW SWANS Title: Live During War Crimes #2 Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| "The second volume, this time a collection of darker and more sinister live recordings taken from their tour in Europe early 2006. 42 black minutes of creepy soundscapes painting a depressive picture of a world going down in dust and ashes. The 5 songs all has a weird desperate and dense apocalyptic feel to them, making this a haunting and very bleak experience. Trashy dark rumblings and total coldness. Again very well-edited stuff by Pete Swanson, works more like a full proper album than just a collection of random recordings. Amazing! Comes packaged in a Dual Plover full color sleeve with black felt. Cover drawings by Liz Harris of Grouper. 1000 copies." - Release The Bats. |
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Artist: DUCKTAILS Title: Backyard Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| "Ducktails is Matthew Mondanile from New Jersey and Backyard is an anthology of his first recordings. Raw-sounding and shimmering 3-minute diamonds, longer trance-inducing journeys into heated minds and blurred visions of the Pacific City... This is laidback music for late, late summer nights. Though being remastered to suit the CD format, the roughness from the casssettes are still here. Included here is all the tracks from the II tape, the 1992 demo tape, the split tape with Mudboy, some stuff from the Dreams In Mirror Field session as well as some new cuts. Playtime of close to 74 minutes. Glossy 4-panel digipack." - Release The Bats. 500 copies. |
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Artist: HEAVY WINGED Title: Spreading Center Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| "Two new long tracks from Heavy Winged, following up releases on Three Lobed, Archive, Not Not Fun etc. Massive and big-sounding stuff, but with more subtle and quiet openings and endings, and without ever loosing the abrasive feeling of being dragged in grit and dirt forever and ever. Driving and powerful proto-psych-metal that manages to sound very much improvised and extremely focused and precise at the same time. Both tracks recorded live, Loudun recorded in Davis, California on 6/30/08. Strigoi recorded in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York on 11/2/07. Limited one-time pressing of 500 copies. Dual Plover gatefold sleeve with black felt and artwork by Twin Vixen. Play it loud." -Release The Bats |
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Artist: LOOSERS/OWL XOUNDS Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $9.00 |
| "Loosers from Portugal continues with their psychedelic free noise jams after releases on labels such as Qbico, Ruby Red, Meudiademorte and Woodsist. A quiet and subtle guitar-driven piece, feels like a slooow and hot Sunday afternoon. The flipside has more crude and dirty out there jazz madness from Brooklyns Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy, featuring Adam from Holy Mountains La Otracina. 420 copies, all on black vinyl." - Release The Bats |
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Artist: NO BALLS Title: Come Clean Format: LP Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $26.00 |
| "No Balls is Drajan Bryngelsson and Dan Råberg from Brainbombs. Monotonous protopunk with some No Wave hints. Drums and guitars. Some vocals and trumpets thrown in occasionally. The sound is raw, intense and in your face. Kind of like a mix of Brainbombs, DNA and Ruins. 11 tracks, 35 minutes. Black print on brown cardboard covers. Limited to a mere 300 copies." - Release The Bats. |
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Artist: NTHnth sthSTH Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $16.00 |
| "Finland and New Zealand meets again on this second collaborative album from Uton and Antony Milton (first one released as a limited CDR on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon back in 2004). A perfect clash of two beautiful worlds over 2 sidelong journeys divided into 5 shorter segments intersecting with each other. Field recordings, layers of majestic droning sounds, buried voices, percussion... Recorded in Linnavuori and Wellington from 2005 to 2007. Full colour artwork by both Jani Hirvonen and Antony Milton and liner notes by Jon Dale." - Release The Bats. 2008 release. |
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Artist: RACCOO-OO-OON Title: Behold Secret Kingdom Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $14.50 |
| "Behold Secret Kingdom is the first proper fullength release from Iowa Citys Raccoo-oo-oon after several limited cd-r/tape/vinyl releases (including cd reissues on Time Lag and Release The Bats). The band spent the last year working with Behold Secret Kingdom, tremendous amounts of love and hard work has been put into this recording which now will be unleashed by Release The Bats! 8 new songs that takes the bands psychedelic and dynamic free-form punk from previous releases to new heights, this is definitely their most focused and perfected recording so far. Darker, denser and almost brutal at times, Behold Secret Kingdom is also the heaviest recording they have done. It only takes a few seconds into Black Branches and the mood is set for the rest of the album immediately. The stunning closer Tail At Prospect Peak could easiest be described as campfire-doom with its slow riffing, heavy use of percussion and chanted vocals (everything suddenly bursting out in a chaotic crescendo�?�). The trademark tribal-like drums is still present, as is the vocal drones and the furious saxophone swirls. Behold Secret Kingdom is a epic masterpiece, there is really no other way to describe it. Chaotic and all over the place, yet so beautiful. Puts earlier comparisons to bands like Excepter and Animal Collective to a shame! Recorded by Mike Dixon in Bloomington, IN. Full colour digipack with the bands now well-known amazing artwork." |
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Artist: RACCOO-OO-OON Title: Is Night People Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $16.00 |
| "Swirling sax-and-effects-heavy free-form punk from Iowa Citys Raccoo-oo-oon. Is Night People is their first magical recording, 7 organic rituals creating a majestic outlet of neverending energy. Beautiful cascades of manipulated vocals and layers of feedback melting together over sunny explosions of insane drumming. In the vein of Sun City Girls, Here Comes The Indian-era Animal Collective, Excepter etc. The cd comes in a letterpressed black Arigato Pak with gold ink made by Stumptown Printers and stunning art by Shawn Reed in the band." - Release The Bats. |
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Artist: SHEPHERDS Title: Loco Hills Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| "Loco Hills, the debut full length from these Brooklyn bush babies, is the sound of a rolling Southwestern road trip. It is the sound of unknown terrain, and appropriately Loco Hills finds SHEPHERDS entering full band territory for the first time. A fully realized jam document, toying at times with structure, Shepherds never lose sight of the "drop everything and make music" mentality that makes them so exciting. Swirling strings, tape manipulations. Bongos and wah, fire and bone. This is our music. Features members MENEGUAR, WOODS, and THE VANISHING VOICE. Digipack and limited to 500." - Release The Bats |
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Artist: SKULL DEFEKTS, THE Title: The Drone Drug Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $16.50 |
| "First there was Skkull then there was The Drone Drug... Continuing on the same path, the sound of The Drone Drug is of a similar relentless minimalistic nature as its predesessor. This could be seen as the electronic backbone to last years amazing Blood Spirits & Drums Are Singing (Conspiracy Records), creating a heavy beast with the most basic and stripped-down use of variations in drones and frequencies instead of guitars and percussion. Monotonous motor humming via drugged-out machinery and assaults of feedback attacking with a strong feel of claustrophobia. Compared to Skkull, The Drone Drug evolves more around a grim and abrasive sound, constantly toying with lo-fi aesthetics and a rough industrial edge. The atmosphere created is thick and black, bringing up visions of a dystopian society trembling on the edge of the world. Spreading the disease in a world slowly dying, The Drone Drug is poison and affect you it will. On this recording, The Skull Defekts is Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander. 4 tracks cut by an unsharpened razor. Total playtime of 52 minutes. 4-panel digipack with artwork by Daniel Fagerström." - Release The Bats |
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Artist: WARMER MILKS Title: Let Your Friends In Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| "The current line up of Warmer Milks is probably not what it was yesterday or what it is today. Hell, there is talk of it changing up for next month. Blame this on schizophrenia or an urge to not run in circles but its how things have always been for the loose group. Founder Michael Turner started Warmer Milks in 2003 and has refused to go backwards regardless of outside (or in house) opinions since its inception. Warmer Milks have toured by themselves throughout the United States as well with the likes of Six Organs of Admittance, Bonnie Prince Billy, Arbouretum, Howlin Rain and others The band did an extensive tour throughout Europe winter of 2007 and will be back on said continent Summer 2008. Let Your Friends In is another chapter in the more brash, aggressive side of Warmer Milks catalog. Leaning more towards skate punk and black metal, the group touched on intensities left behind from nerd critically acclaimed Radish On Light (Troubleman Unlimited 2006) but with a more street rock cum vomitorium feel. The flipside to the first track is a spook gang romper, drumless yet still punching the walls with a force no other rock can manage. The "Let Your Friends In" sessions went down in Shelbyville, Kentuckee at Rove Studios home to engineer Paul Oldham (Speed To Roam, Bonnie Prince Billy Band, ex-Broadcast Choir and Royal Trux) where various members present during the "Soft Walks" sessions (coming March 2008, Animal Disguise) took time to record this scorcher. Featuring usual WM attendees Michael Turner and Greg Backus the two lengthy cuts on "Let Your Friends In" also boasts the addition of Shawn David McMillen (Austin, TX solo artist, Iron Kite member and former member of Ash Castles) on guitar and Paul O. on dead wah guitar. Where the group has flirted with heavy rock in the past, it is easy to say that group now owns heavy rock." -Release the Bats |
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Artist: WET HAIR Title: Dream Format: CD Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $15.00 |
| "Wet Hair is Shawn Reed and Ryan Garbes from the now defunct Raccoo-oo-oon. It started out as a soloproject of Shawn but after a while Ryan joined in as well. After several tapes and a 12", the duo is now unleashing Dream, their first fullength album. Four long tracks of analog synth atmosphere and industrial trance punk. Sure some Raccoo-oo-oon echoes can be heard if putting an ear close to the speaker, but Wet Hair is in many ways different. Melodic, upbeat, focused, dark, warm, cold, catchy, and confusing at the same time. Hints of everything from Suicide and Public Image Ltd to Spacemen 3 shines through. Dream has a strong nostalgic feel, fragments from the past is passing by and at the same time we get a strange glimpse of the future... Glowing stuff." -Release The Bats |
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Artist: XIU XIU & GROUPER Title: Creepshow Format: LP Label: Release The Bats Country: Sweden Price: $16.50 |
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"A beautiful exploration in ambience and darkness by Xiu Xiu and Grouper. This 5-song collaboration was created out of a shared childhood trauma involving some horror film from the 70s. The recording is ranging from melancholic, cryptic passages to lush soundscapes, all the time with a weird cinematic feel to it." -Release The Bats.
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Artist: V/A Title: Disco-Mortem Format: Triple 7" Label: Releasing Eskimo Country: Sweden Price: $18.00 |
| 1998 release featuring C.C.C.C., Grey Wolves, Merzbow, Hands To, Macronympha, and No Festival Of Light. |
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Artist: LE STELLE DI MARIO SCHIFANO Title: Dedicato A Format: CD Label: Relics Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Mario Schifano was a leading Italian pop artist, and a friend of The Rolling Stones and other prominent 1960s countercultural figures. Inspired by Andy Warhols association with The Velvet Underground, in 1967 he decided to sponsor a band. The album that resulted combines a lengthy improvisation with five shorter, psychedelic-influenced tracks, and is a landmark in the development of Italian rock. Pressed in tiny quantities, it was released in November 1967 (with artwork designed by Schifano), and original copies have sold for thousands of Euros, making this long-awaited CD reissue especially welcome. Includes background notes." -Relics |
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Artist: RELIGIOUS KNIVES Title: Evidence: Vol 1 Format: CDR Label: Religious Knives Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "The long threatened live series of Religious Knives discs is finally ready, just in time for our european tour. 150 copies of each CDR, sold as separate volumes, will be available first in Europe and then more widely when we return. Both discs document relatively recent RK outings, and contain selected jams from various gigs, including a rare document of the �??RK2? duo live at Big Jar Books, RK inna �??Wierd style,�?� and more. The series is called �??Evidence�?� and thats what were trying to drop." - RK. Live @ WHOM 1/11/08, Hemlock SF 3/19/08, @ Death By Audio NY (with Pete Nolan of Magik Markers) 7/19/08, and Wierd NY 9/10/08. Remaining copies of Euro tour CD. |
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Artist: RELIGIOUS KNIVES Title: Evidence: Vol 2 Format: CDR Label: Religious Knives Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"The long threatened live series of Religious Knives discs is finally ready, just in time for our european tour. 150 copies of each CDR, sold as separate volumes, will be available first in Europe and then more widely when we return. Both discs document relatively recent RK outings, and contain selected jams from various gigs, including a rare document of the �??RK2″ duo live at Big Jar Books, RK inna �??Wierd style,�?� and more. The series is called �??Evidence�?� and thats what were trying to drop." - RK. Live @ 66 Hope NY 6/27/08, and Big Jar Books 5/31/08. Remaining copies of Euro tour CD.
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Artist: SHEARING PINX/STAMINA MANTIS Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Reluctant Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "A delicately-crafted relentlessness and precision smashing take on neon squawking with the big stack on this showdown arena 7-inch docu-drama to explain everything to you about all kinds of different infections. Trust us. Whether youre bleaching out the blood on not your sheets or trading in some stuff that you found on a construction site, its the emotional scars that will last, and you cant put a cream on those." -Reluctant |
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Artist: INDRA KARMUKA Title: Aadster Bovist Format: LP Label: Rendezvouz Radikal Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
| "After on 7" on Drone Records, this is the first LP of this Dutch project. Long undulating waves, pings, analogue sequences as counterpoints and deep drones. Relaxing ritual and psychedelic atmospheres." - Rendezvouz Radikal. 1998 LP. |
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Artist: CLARK-HUTCHINSON Title: Gestalt Format: CD Label: Repetoire Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| First CD reissue of the 3rd Clark Hutchinson album, originally released by Deram Records in 1971. "Andy Clark and Mick Hutchinson recorded four semi-legendary LPs of drug/scatter/raga-blues between 1969 and 1971. Mick Hutchinson was -- and still is -- a gifted guitarist who had began his career playing Indian style music with the tabla expert Sam Gopal. Although he never recorded with Sam Gopals Dream -- a young guitarist named Lemmy eventually fulfilled this role -- Hutchinson and Gopal played together at the legendary 14 hour Technicolour Dream at Londons Alexandra Palace in April of 1967. Later, he teamed up with the multi-instrumentalist Andy Clark. They both played a variety of instruments and this abundance of talent was brought to bear on the extraordinary two man album A=MH? which they recorded during two hectic 12 hour sessions in 1969. The bands last offering before splitting in 1971, Gestalt , was an altogether gentler, more reflective, disillusioned affair. Gestalt is eleven tracks shot through with sadness and regret. To some extent its like listening to an extended meditation on Peter Greens Man of the World. The lyrics are less explicit and less maudlin than on that particular track, but Andy Clarks vocals have the same poignancy, and Mick Hutchinsons guitar deftly and efficiently touches all the right spots. In case youre wondering, a gestalt is a pattern or structure -- an organised whole -- that is more than the sum of its parts. The idea originates with the German system of Gestalt psychology, which holds that perceptions and reactions are gestalts. A clear example is a melody as distinct from the separate notes that go to make it up. However you apply the term to this album, there is something here that transcends the eleven short tracks that go to make it up. Its elusive, like something half-remembered from a dream. Whatever it is, its enough to break your heart." - Simon Smith. |
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Artist: TRAFFIC SOUND Title: Virgin Format: CD Label: Repsychled Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| "In January 1970, Traffic Sounds second album, Virgin was released. It was the first Peruvian rock album to feature all original tunes. It contains the hit single Meshkalina, a fusion of Latin rhythms, power rock and hippie lyrics; it also includes beautiful acoustic tracks: "Virgin," "Simple" and "Last Song," and progressive rock tracks like "Yellow Sea Days" and "Jews Caboose." Influenced by bands like the Animals, Iron Butterfly, Jimi Hendrix Experience and Pink Floyd, Traffic Sound added their own original touches and created something new. Tired of gossip and hearsay? Now you can read a real biography of Traffic Sound, told by the band members. This re-packaged reissue includes a sixteen-page booklet with lyrics, band biography, and unseen photos. It was produced using the original master tapes, and remastered dutifully with tube amplifiers." -Repsychled. |
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Artist: ANTIMATION Title: Mono-Types Format: LP Label: Rerun Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "An obscure rarity from St. Louis! Decent to really good punky pop rock and sorta Paisley Underground-ish sounds. The band was led by Tony from the Camaros who were one of the first-wave Punk bands from the area. They had Mike Yaffe who was between his stints in Max Load and Bob Leach who was in Trained Animal (Test Patterns comp) and the infamous MRR-baiting White Pride. The drummer is Mike Doskicil, who was also in White Pride and the front man for sludge-core legends Drunks With Guns. Of course, this doesnt sound like any of those bands. The record was never issued in a cover. A few may have been sold in blank jackets, but most (probably all) without any jacket at all. 500 copies were pressed, but according to the band, as many as a couple hundred were tossed out or damaged in storage. They made an 8 1/2" x 14" piece of art with titles/info which was printed on red construction paper. The record was never distributed outside the St. Louis area, and less than 100 were sold when the band was active. Most probably came with the art work but many of those probably never survived the trip home after a gig. Some copies were later sold at local reunion gigs and other events, but the record is still virtually unknown outside of St. Louis. Almost every other copy of the art work was used for the blank backside for set lists, scratch paper or even lost in moves or just tossed out. We estimate that only 100-150 copies at most actually received the art, including any copies sold in recent years. We first learned about the record in 2000, and of the 10-12 copies weve seen in used bins or private collections since, weve only encountered a couple with the original art. We obtained the last remaining copies of the original, unplayed vinyl from the band. Weve housed them in a blank white jacket and made high quality (and now larger 11" x 17") reprints of the original artwork." -Rerun. |
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Artist: COLE, BRUCE Title: Oh, Lou Lost the Elvis Tapes Format: Cass Label: Rerun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"A solo release by Bruce of The Screamin Mee-Mees! Almost a full hour of just Bruce singing songs with his guitar.
Side A is Bruces solo cassette release from 1989 titled The Lost Elvis Tapes. Its just Bruce and his trusty electric guitar. The originally cassettes were mostly mailed for review or distributed to the patrons of a couple of Bruces neighborhood bars in Ferguson, MO. Very few, if any were sold to the public. The material was reissued on CDR by Slippytown almost a decade ago, but even that was a tiny edition of 50 CDRs. Side B is a collection of acoustic songs compiled from Bruces various basement tapes. About half was recorded in the early to mid 90s and the rest going back to the early 70s. Bruce does original material along with a few covers (Capt. Beefheart, Kevin Ayers, etc) in the Dog Face style.
Shrink-wrapped, pro-made, chrome cassette with full color cover. CS is limited to 100 copies." -Rerun.
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Artist: GRUBERGER BROTHERS Title: Greetings From Reading, PA Format: LP Label: Rerun Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "JAY and SOLOMON GRUBERGER were born to play music. They formed the legendary proto-punk/living room band O. REX in 1973, when younger brother Jay was a mere 12 years old. Future GIZMOS lead singer KENNE HIGHLAND joined the band for sporadic jam sessions in the Grubergers Brooklyn home. Beating most punks to the punch, O.Rex managed to release a three song maxi-single on their own Oral Records in late 1976. By that time, Kenne was a member of the Gizmos as well as a full time Marine! Within a few months, Kenne and the Grubergers would meet KIM KANE of the SLICKEE BOYS, and it was this meeting of the minds that would form the AFRIKA KORPS. They immediately set about recording what would become their monster, 22 song debut LP. Music To Kill By was released to great critical acclaim in late 1977, but the Grubergers would soon part ways with the rest of the Korps. Solomon and Jay relocated from Brooklyn to Reading, PA and tried to form a new band. Having trouble finding a drummer but determined to keep things moving, in early 1978 they recorded an eight song EP under the name SPIKE. They took photos for the cover and even titled the EP 90 Miles Per Hour, but the record never made it to press. The Grubergers would continue to record at the same studio over the next couple years but nothing was released from those sessions. It was during the production of Gulchers O.Rex double CD collection in 2009 that we learned of these recordings. We knew they shouldnt remain unheard, so we collected the Spike EP and the other, unreleased studio sessions from 1978-1980 for an LP that hints at what a second Afrika Korps LP could have sounded like if the Grubergers had stuck around. Mastered from the original tapes. Pressed in an edition of 500 copies on black vinyl, with full color cover and insert with liner notes." -Rerun |
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Artist: PEER PRESSURE Title: Sounds (A.K.A. Music) Format: Double 7" Label: Rerun Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"It was just a couple of guys from Connecticut, not a "proper" band in any sense of the word. One had great chops and songs while the other had lyrics and an endless supply of brilliant ideas. Even if they were never a functioning live band, the two recorded some of the most amazing homemade Punk Rock between 1979-1980.
A four song 7"EP was released on Mothers Day in 1980 (in celebration of "Thats Why They Call Em Moms") on their own Resistance Records. They intended the EP to look like something from the generic food/household products line. It was issued with appropriately designed labels and no picture sleeve. The band imploded soon after its release. With no live gigs in peoples minds, no real distribution and no cover screaming PUNK ROCK; the record and band quickly faded into obscurity.
The obvious hit of the EP ("Sound Of The 80s") was included on a Killed By Death bootleg compilation in the mid 90s, but it wasnt until a medal-worthy search in 1999 by world champion record hound Ryan Richardson that the band and their story was discovered. That contact also resulted in Ryan issuing the unreleased Eve of Destruction EP as a limited 7" titled 1979/1980.
This deluxe reissue includes remastered versions of both the Sounds of the 80s EP and the 1979/1980 EP. The vinyl is packaged in a folder style pocket cover and comes with a 5"x7" postcard and a 7"x14" insert including liner notes and other Peer Pressure evidence." -Rerun.
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Artist: SCREAMIN MEE-MEES Title: Comedy Hour Format: Cass Label: Rerun Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Although the Screamin Mee-Mees are best known for their 1977 EP, the D.I.Y. Punk masterpiece "Live From The Basement", the boys had been making tapes since the late 60s. They recorded goofball rock n folk songs on guitar and homemade drums, Kraut Rock-n-pot fueled white noise jams and the odd bit of comedy, organ music and other experimentations.
This cassette is a real gem Im proud to have re-discovered during one of our many excavations of Bruce Coles basement. Recorded around 69 or 70, the tape was long thought lost and not heard for a couple decades. The first side is Bruce and Jon of the Mee-Mees putting on a production of "TV shows" with songs and bits, including a variety show with the boys posing as a couple rock bands. The second side starts with Bruce and Jon recording their observations as they drove around Ferguson in Jons Javelin station wagon. After that trek, the boys head back home to play a handful of original songs. Vocals by both, with Bruce on acoustic guitar and Jon on coffee can drums. About a full hour glimpse into the minds of the Mee-Mees, a very, very scary place.
Shrink-wrapped, pro-made, chrome cassette with full color cover. CS is limited to 100 copies." -Rerun.
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Artist: POREST Title: Mood Noose Format: CD Label: Resipiscent Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "The Resipiscent catalogue only gets better! Here it is, the eagerly anticipated third release from Mono Pause, Sublime Frequencies maker, Mark Gergis. Lethal 14th c. field recordings cuddle with razor-scored melodies, swirled radio psychedelia. Flatline drunken domesticity and circuit murder summon a festive, fertile melancholy. Unguessable, peerless, a scrubber for the bloody stuff past your ears." -Resipiscent. |
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Artist: SMEGMA Title: Live 1991-93 Format: CD Label: Resipiscent Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Cassettes are hunky-dorky but this release, originally on Smegmas Pigface label, was destined to see the light of lasers. A mad trip that starts out comfy on the couch with your face planted in the boobtube til vacuum nipples suck you headlong into the horny dark. Indecipherable electronics, murderous guitar, scrapey bells, bottomless laughter and language in a surround of percussion, an absolute media nightmare from the creators of psychysterics. No two packages alike, built entirely from recovered urban detritus. Extremely limited copies." |
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Artist: V/A Title: String Of Artifacts Format: Double CD Label: Resipiscent Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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"Yep, this is the compilation you heard about. Solve the enclosed crossword with your ears or find the cheat sheet hidden inside; your clues include: Sun City Girls , Caroliner, Nautical Almanac , Metalux, Wolf Eyes , Mono Pause, Hans Grüsels Krankenkabinet , Tarantism, Tom Recchion ,Fat Worm of Error ,Sixes, Bran(...)Pos, Masonic Youth , Pod Blotz, Smegma & Wild Man Fischer, Panicsville, Tom Grimley, Points Of Friction, Stilluppsteypa, Spider Compass Band, Damon Romero and too many more." - Resipiscent.
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Artist: VON HARMONSON, NOEL Title: Born on the 4th of July Format: CDR Label: Resipiscent Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Bringing horror home to roost, NVH jellies your knees with this stripped down, no-place-to-hide assault. Masterful improvisations and the unadorned appeal of shredding sound viscera, fear will find your heart for you. If ever youve wanted to see the rest of Comets on Fire lying quietly dead in a pile while NVH goes completely off, nows your chance." - Resipiscent. |
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Artist: LUCEY, CHRIS Title: Songs of Protest and Anti-Protest Format: CD Label: Rev-Ola Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
| 2002 release, repressed. "Chris Lucey...the man who never was..... star of one of the most mysterious, rabidly collectable and expensive West Coast folk-rock albums of all. A monster on Ebay, revered by Julian Cope, and buzzing through every psychedelic web site on the net. Produced by Marshall Lieb, Phil Spectors Teddy Bears collaborator, sounding like Arthur Lee demos backed by a punk version of Tim Buckleys band, sung and written by a man who worked with The Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, Kim Fowley, P.J. Proby, Lowell George, and Curt Boettcher among other luminaries, but still managed to fall through the cracks of history. Bobby Jameson... subject of the most lavish and expensive Billboard ad supplement ever (for which the invoice is still outstanding), star of Mondo Hollywood and best remembered among L.A. scenesters for jumping off the roof of the Riot House on Sunset and walking away. A glimpse of that Mondo Sunset Strip underbelly that never really got represented at Monterey. On the mysterious Surrey Records, released under a pseudonym, and boasting a blurred snapshot of Brian Jones jamming in a club on the Strip as its front cover with a jazzy version of Bobbys song Girl From The East, better known as recorded by garage-meisters The Leaves... what was going on here God only knows. But a West-Coast classic from the Twilight Zone... yes, indeed." - Rev-Ola. |
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Artist: RETTMAN, TONY Title: Why Be Something That Youre Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979- 1985 Format: Book Label: Revelation Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "In the early 70s, Detroit was the musical hub of America, but by the early eighties, it was a wasteland. It took a group of skateboarders, a teacher and a census clerk to wake the city up and start one of the first hardcore punk scenes in America. "Why Be Something That Youre Not" chronicles the first wave of Detroit hardcore from its origins in the late 70s to its demise in the mid-80s. Through oral histories and extensive imagery, the book proves that even though the California beach towns might have created the look and style of hardcore punk, it was the Detroit scene - along with a handful of other cities - that cultivated the musics grassroots aesthetic before most cultural hot spots around the globe even knew what the music was about. The book includes interviews with members of The Fix, Violent Apathy, Negative Approach, Necros, Pagans, Bored Youth, and L-Seven along with other people who had a hand in the early hardcore scene like Ian MacKaye, Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson." - Revelation. |
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Artist: AYLER, ALBERT Title: Holy Ghost Format: 9CD Box Set Label: Revenant Country: USA Price: $105.00 |
| "Revanents most ambitious reissue project yet! "By 1958, Albert Ayler and his horn had made some rounds: from boy prodigy to teenage member of Little Walters Blues Band, from Little Bird of Cleveland to featured U.S. Army Band soloist. Then he resolutely set out to forget everything he ever learned about how to properly play the sax so he could channel symphonies to God out of his horn. Seeking nothing short of Truth in music, Ayler shortly became THE catalytic force in defining the sound of the tenor in Free Jazz, and was a heavy influence on John Coltranes later work. Holy Ghost is the first comprehensive attempt to construct a monument in sound to Albert Ayler, including his never-before-heard first and last recordings, book-ending rare and unissued music from every stage of his career. 9 CDs of rare and unissued recordings, 208 page full color hardbound book, new essays by Amiri Baraka, Val Wilmer, and other Ayler scholars, 10th bonus disc with Ayler as a member of the U.S. Army Band, all housed in a lavish 9.5" square by 3" deep Spirit Box cast from a hand-carved wooden original." Seven discs of live music (Hertb Katz Quintet with Ayler, Helsinki, 1962), Albert Ayler Trio (NYC, 1964), Ayler Quartet (Copenhagen, 1964; NYC, 1967), Burton Greene Quintet with Ayler (NYC, 1966), Albert Ayler Quintet (Cleveland, Berlin & Rotterdam, all 1966; Newport, 1967; Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 1970), Pharoah Sanders Ensemble with Ayler (NYC, 1968), Don Ayler Sextet w/ Ayler (NYC, 1969), Albert Ayler solo (NY, 1968). Plus 2 CDs of intereviews (1964, 1966, 1970), including a Don Cherry interview from 1971." |
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Artist: TAYLOR, CECIL Title: Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come Format: Triple LP Label: Revenant Country: USA Price: $35.00 |
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"The Cafe Montmartre recordings of November 23, 1962 capture the birth of the mature Taylor style. The boppish lines of Jimmy Lyons retain ties to the past, while Sunny Murrays coruscating, arrhythmic washes point the way to the future (just as they would for Albert Ayler only a few years later). Originally issued by Freedom in 1975, Nefertiti has attained cult status as one of the crucial recordings of Taylors career." - Revenant.
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Artist: FAMILY UNDERGROUND/MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Split Format: LP Label: Reverse Country: Denmark Price: $22.00 |
| 356 copies on transparent vinyl in clear silkscreened plastic sleeve. |
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Artist: JAZZKAMMER/OPEC Title: Split Format: LP Label: Reverse Country: Denmark Price: $22.00 |
| Limited to 323 copies. Transparent vinyl in clear silkscreened plastic sleeve. |
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Artist: SARAHS CHARITY Title: Atonic Feedback Consumerism Format: CDR Label: Reverse Country: Denmark Price: $10.00 |
| Edition of 70 in spray painted covers. Previous release on Marcia Bassetts and Matthew Bowers Heavy Blossom label. |
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Artist: CONGREGACION Title: Viene... Format: CD Label: Revista Country: Chile Price: $17.00 |
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Artist: SUDDEN INFANT Title: Geheimnis Format: Cass Label: RFTS Country: Germany Price: $10.00 |
| "I asked Joke (Lanz aka Sudden Infant) to record a 20-minute-secret of himself, which hes still not willing to give away. This cassette is the result. Limited edition of 100 copies!" - Micha Barthel/ RFTS. |
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Artist: POUR, RIP...NO! Title: Format: LP Label: Rhizome Recordings Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Basically the record button was hit and Pour, rip...no! recorded side one, took a short break, and then recorded side two. An additional space jam (played with Nicolas Vernhes of Brooklyns Rare Book Room studios) and a drum track (a couple hours of random drumming) were put to tape, and the results were layered, mixed, and then finally mastered by producing/engineering ace Kramer (Galaxy 500...), ending, finally, in an eponymous full length vinyl-only release (edition of 300). Influences could be construed as early Bruce Springsteen mixed with certain Jazz Actuel artists. The seemingly-randomness of Syd Barretts lyrics and song construction figures in as an obvious influence, as well as the humble quiet nakedness of Nick Drake or Jandek." - Rhizome Recordings. "forget anti-folk, this is anti-matter." - Other Music, NYC. |
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Artist: BOREDOMS Title: Bobobo Re? Format: 12" Label: Rhythm Republic Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
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Two song Japan-only remix 12". A: Voaltz (U-Bus remix by Altz/Kabamix). B: Rereler (DJ Coswamp mix).
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Artist: BIXOBAL Title: #2 Format: Mag Label: Ri Be Xibalba Country: USA Price: $2.50 |
| "features: - Uncle Jim going over the words hes damn sick of seeing half-asses journalists use - "Victrola Favorities" co-compiler Rob Millis musing on the place of the phonograph in human history - part two of former Sun City Girl Sir Richard Bishops Indian travelogue from last summer; codeine, monkeys, cows and Charles Gochers ashes floating down the Ganges, what more to you really need? - Keith of No Neck Blues Band laments the lost of instrument builder and musician Charlie Nothing - visual artist and Factums bass player Jesse Paul Miller on his habit of collecting bad records with several examples - improvising vocalist Phil Minton quizzed by Allan MacInnis - cult experimental musician Robert Haigh talks about the Le Rey label and his groups Sema, Fote and The Truth Club with John Podeszwa - former Muckraker publisher Patrick Marley talks about his latest listening from free CD with Indian meals to Michael Yonkers - reviews of vinyl, cassettes, compacts disc, DVDs and a book, both new and old - At Jennie Ritchie / Vertonen, The Beast, The Beautiful Schizophonic, Adam Bohman, Karl Bösmann, Olivia Block, Carpet Floor, Christina Carter, Sylvain Chauveau, The Christian Family Underground, Climax Golden Twins, Crappy Nightmareville, Dialing In, Morton Feldman, Kon Ichikawa, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Jason Kahn, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Aaron Moore, Norbert Möslang, Gabriel Paiuk, The Pitchshifters, Christian Renou, Replicock, Sarin Smoke, Michael Shannon, Sun City Girls, Supersilent, Tabata, Tarantism, Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, Yoshi Wada, Walter & Sabrina, @c & Vitor Joaquim and more"- BIXOBAL |
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Artist: BIXOBAL Title: Bixobal # 4 - July 2008 Format: Mag Label: Ri Be Xibalba Country: USA Price: $2.50 |
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"A massive overview of the life and work of avant garde percussionist Stomu Yamashta, including his first English-language interview in over 30 years. Akio Suzukis UK travelogue translated by the expert on Japanese underground, Alan Cummings. Michael Griffen, one half of Noggin, remembered by Aaron Gorseth. Andrzej Zulawskis films. A history of the beautiful limited edition releases by Raymond Dijkstra. Patrick Marley (former publisher of Muckraker magazine) with his column Nickels and Dimes. Reviews of vinyl, cassettes, compacts disc, DVDs and books, both new and old." - Ri Be Xibalba. 56 Pages, b&w.
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Artist: SUN CITY GIRLS Title: Piano Bar Format: LP Label: Ri Be Xibalba Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
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"47 minutes of previously unavailable material.
Pressed on high quality 180 gram vinyl and manufactured in the USA.
Hand screen printed covers printed by Alan Sherry at Siwa and featuring original artwork by Chris Crites.
Includes offset printed menu insert and napkin.
Limited edition of 497 copies." - Ri Be Xibalba.
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Artist: V/A Title: ...And Shiva Came for Charlie Format: LP Label: Ri Be Xibalba Country: USA Price: $32.00 |
| "This LP collects the monthly mp3 series hosted on the Ri Be Xibalba web site from June 2006 to June 2007. Each track was only available for one month and then deleted. In the midst of this, our friend Charles Gocher passed away. As an immediate reaction to this, I bumped Sir Richard Bishops track from the March slot and left the page silent in remembrance of Charlie. As all the artists in the series are based in Seattle, and many were good friends of Charlies, it was decided to dedicate this collection to his memory. These were the people around him most, and fittingly the album features images based on photographs of Charlie taken by his old friend Janet McCracken. Accompanying this is a 20-page booklet with a little about each artist here, many of which are still unjustly underappreciated in the larger scheme of things. Charlie himself was a unique human being. And of course rather than leave him in silence, it seemed better to represent him on this record in his voice, as he was rarely silent. So on this LP, alongside the mp3 tracks, is a previously unreleased Charles Gocher recording from the Sun City Girls archives. Unlike the other material on the album, which is quite contemporary, Charlies track dates from July 2, 1990 when it was recorded live on the air at CITR radio in Vancouver, B.C. As all but this track were previously available as free mp3s, and I just happened to have 320 useable black jacket left over from the Piano Bar release (which Charlie was quite thrilled by), this release is limited to that number of copies. The music on this release is quite varied. Experimental rock music from Factums and The Sea Donkeys, free jazz from Spider Trio and Michael Shannon, spoken word from Charles Gocher and Uncle Jim, acoustic guitar solos from Dave Knott and Michael Ohlenroth, creepy soundtracks from Wizard Prison and Sir Richard Bishop, Climax Golden Twins drone, Katharina Tunicatas catchy accordion and voice song and the utter disaster of Lung Wing not being able to play any instrument. Yet there are multiple connections between the various artists presented here, both musical and otherwise, not to mention a few players who appear on more than one track. This is a document of a group of friends and compatriots in Seattle who are poorer for the loss of our friend, but continue to create strong music. Includes a previously unreleased track by Charlies Gocher from 1990. Pressed on 120 gram vinyl manufactured in the USA by RTI. Hand screen printed covers and inner sleeves printed by Alan Sherry at Siwa. Includes 20-page booklet. Limited edition of 320 copies." - Ri Be Xibalba. |
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Mr. Impossible Format: CD Label: Ribbon Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Seminal NYC based art punk DIY enthusiasts / purists, BLACK DICE have returned with their sixth studio album MR. IMPOSSIBLE to be released April 10th on Ribbon Music. The nine song album combines 15 years of collaboration into one explosive electronic breakout monster mash. Over the course of their career Black Dice have refined a compositional palate that is entirely their own. Inspired by the banged up punk gallery art ethos of Mens Recovery Project, The Seeds and their own live shows Black Dice have arrived with the creation of Mr. Impossible. A being unto itself. Bridging a divide between the thrashings of punk and trance music, Mr. Impossible takes itself serious, breathes with melody and revels in a let loose , wild out , fuck off good time. Sound nuts? Well, its not. This is easy to enjoy fun for all frontier music! Get on it." -Ribbon. |
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Mr. Impossible Format: LP Label: Ribbon Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
 "Seminal NYC based art punk DIY enthusiasts / purists, BLACK DICE have returned with their sixth studio album MR. IMPOSSIBLE to be released April 10th on Ribbon Music. The nine song album combines 15 years of collaboration into one explosive electronic breakout monster mash. Over the course of their career Black Dice have refined a compositional palate that is entirely their own. Inspired by the banged up punk gallery art ethos of Mens Recovery Project, The Seeds and their own live shows Black Dice have arrived with the creation of Mr. Impossible. A being unto itself. Bridging a divide between the thrashings of punk and trance music, Mr. Impossible takes itself serious, breathes with melody and revels in a let loose , wild out , fuck off good time. Sound nuts? Well, its not. This is easy to enjoy fun for all frontier music! Get on it." -Ribbon.
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Artist: BLACK DICE Title: Rodriguez/Pissed In A Cave Format: 7" Label: Ribbon Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
 "An exclusive 7-inch for “Rodriguez” featuring b-side “Pissed In A Cave” with art by band member Bjorn Copeland. This b-side kicks ass, worth checking out for sure because you should." -Ribbon/Eric Copeland. |
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Artist: CORNER, PHILIP Title: Italian Air: Wind, Water & Metal Format: LP Label: Ricerca Sonora Country: Italy Price: $25.00 |
| "Three previously unpublished compositions by one of the giants of Fluxus, recorded in various locations: "Ear Wave" (Venice, October 1994) for Korean cymbal in water, ecstatic with acousmatic interjections of metallic resonances, subtle water, and the midnight bell of San Marco; "Gong/Ear" (S. Andrea di Rovereto, June 1990) for gong together with rain and thunder; and "I Respiri/The Breaths" (Teatro Scandicci, 1992) for alphorn and gong. Edition of 300 copies." -Ricerca Sonora. |
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Artist: CORNER, PHILIP/NEVILLE, PHOEBE/VOGEL, MICHEL Title: Musiques des Ailes / Winged Music Format: LP Label: Ricerca Sonora Country: Italy Price: $27.00 |
| "PHILIP CORNER and PHOEBE NEVILLE experiment and improvise with the metallic resonances, obscure low frequencies, drones, silences and pure vibrating sonorities of MICHEL VOGELs eight steel bells and gongs, modeled after flat bronze or copper placed in the doorway of the Kachins or Mungs of Burma. Recorded in Paris, 1999, at the Archipel (the atelier of French artist Polska)." - Ricera Sonora. Edition of 350. |
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Artist: KASTEL, SILVIA/KOMMISSAR HJULER /MAMA BAR/NINNI MORGIA Title: Live in Edinburgh Format: LP Label: Ricerca Sonora Country: Italy Price: $26.00 |
| "The two-part "Jericho" uses a backing tape group-prerecorded in a big theater-like room, a version of the lyrics spoken live onstage, and MAMA BAeRs video projections of the four standing against a wall. HJULER manipulates tape, Mama Baer and SILVIA KASTEL sing the lyrics, NINNI MORGIA bends, buffs and brushes guitar, and Kastels synthesizer growls from within the monsters belly. Tension, discomfort, love, pain, theater, music, art-four people immolating themselves for the cause. Silkscreened sleeve. Edition of 200 copies." - Ricerca Sonora. |
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Artist: BIRDS OF MAYA Title: Ready To Howl Format: Double LP Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Here it is. Its the most ambitious TestosterTunes release to date: a three-song, double-LP by the three men of Philadelphias BIRDS OF MAYA. Its called Ready To Howl and its the soundtrack to an upcoming feature length film of the same name. Formed in 2002, Birds of Maya is the finest meat n potatoes Neanderthal rock group operating today, and theyre undoubtedly the outfit most committed to creating throbbing, thoroughly relentless, blues-based hard rock. Astute listeners will note nods to the fried power-rock of Split-era Groundhogs or the relentless garage mayhem of High Rise recorded under claustrophobic sub-Funhouse decadence. Anyone with ears will hear fried-Hendrixisms all over this thing." - Richie. |
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Artist: BIRDS OF MAYA Title: Regulation Format: 7" Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Not ones to usually hit the road, Birds of Maya stormed the Midwest in May, and if you checked their merch table, this limited and unassuming little single was probably laying right next to Ready to Howl. ⿿Regulation is a heavy blues jam in the classic Birds of Maya style, but its special in that local man-about-town Harmonica Dan sits in on their session (Ill give you one guess what he plays). Dan doesnt mess around, he just takes off his backpack, cracks open a tallboy and blows harder than an office fan, psychically connected to Birds of Maya and the bluesy groove they stand for. Its pretty smoking and serves as an excellent petition to recruit him as a full-time member. The untitled b-side is sweet (a nice pairing to the savory a-side), starting off with some psychedelic swirl and guitar noodling, almost veering into art-drone territory (not that its a bad thing), but just as Im ready to put on my Keiji Haino wig and smoke a clove, it kicks right back into a standard Birds of Maya stoner riff with Harmonica Dan riding the rails once more. Not sure how easy this 7? will be to find, if it was tour-only or what, but please, make it your mission." - Richie. |
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Artist: BRAINBOMBS Title: Live at Smalands Nation Format: LP Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Live at Smalands Nation, Lund, Sweden, May 29 1993." - Richie Records
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Artist: CLOCKCLEANER Title: Frogrammer/Early Man Format: 7" Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: FACTORYMEN Title: Yellow Eyes & The Sound of Vomit Format: 12" Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "More Mensa material from the Rust Belt. FACTORYMEN is a sociopathic, meticulously crafted studio project that centers around Steve Peffer (Homostupids, Folded Shirt, Pleasure Leftists, etc.). It involves the targeted misuse of Rock & even Dance Music instruments and its certain to test the patience of your roommate, lover, or father. Yellow Eyes & The Sound of Vomit is an obtuse, off-putting, though catchy mini-album. These are the types of tunes that will roll around in your empty head and youll recall them, with horror, as you wait for the bus or write a check for rent or when you beg for forgiveness from your boss after your latest fuck-up. This record is the soundtrack to unpleasantness. 305 copies. Covers silk-screened by Neil Burke at Monoroid. Includes mp3 download for Yellow Eyes... + Shitman + the debut FACTORYMEN 45 on My Minds Eye Records." - Richie. |
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Artist: FNU RONNIES Title: Meat Format: 7" Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"FNU Ronnies aint in no way Chrome obsessed unless you call takin a huge shit on Helios Creeds head a form of tribute. The lip moves these guys gabble forth slur around the atmosphere like a mistve toxic mold spores before dropping into the wanton wire n drum carnage & the whole thing sounds like a drunken Borg short-circuiting to a lethal mix of equal parts Deutch-Amerikanischen Freundschafts debut & Wires Pink Flag. This one needs to heard to be coveted." -Siltblog
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Artist: FNU RONNIES Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "This record has been in the works for a little while now and we couldnt be more happy to see it finally out. FNU Ronnies find home turf in both Philly and Oakland and have a previous 7inch on Richie Records. This 12" contains the same material as the recent cassette/CD on Denmarks Skrot Up label but we think youll find the reissue well worth it. Deluxe art work by band member Jim Vail with silkscreening by Shawn Reed, FNU Ronnies are a weird almost indescribable mix of fucked up hardcore propulsion, industrial heaviness, electronics thrashing, and punked out cyborg nihilism. Aesthetic themes elude to psychedelic nightmares, Middle Earth monsters, and generally dark times. Seeing this band live last summer was a revelation into how musical genres could be mutated into something truly unpredictable and inspiring." - Richie. |
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Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Out Of Phase Format: CD Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Heres the music that weve all been waiting for. Its called ⿿Out of Phase and its first full-length album from NJs HOME BLITZ. Negotiating this deal took all types of backroom dealing and late-night, unsavory tactics. Some egos may have been bruised, but the slugfest was worth the coup in welcoming this high-profile act to the RR//TT roster. ⿿Out of Phase forges a blazing 13 track romp through hard rock, power-pop, and even oi territories, and its got some of the crispest licks since Meat Puppets II (or Priests Defenders of the Faith). HOME BLITZ broke out a few years ago as the recording project of Daniel DiMaggio, an under-aged jock on Princetons WPRB known for compiling playlists of deep depth and wide breadth. Early singles showed flippant naïviete and early live shows (with a somewhat stable backing band), were marked by purposeful self-implosion. This time around, HB trucks ahead with straight up, timeless, rock tunes." -Richie |
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Artist: HOME BLITZ Title: Out of Phase Format: LP Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Heres the music that weve all been waiting for. Its called �??Out of Phase�?� and its first full-length album from NJs HOME BLITZ. Negotiating this deal took all types of backroom dealing and late-night, unsavory tactics. Some egos may have been bruised, but the slugfest was worth the coup in welcoming this high-profile act to the RR//TT roster. �??Out of Phase�?� forges a blazing 13 track romp through hard rock, power-pop, and even oi territories, and its got some of the crispest licks since Meat Puppets II (or Priests Defenders of the Faith). HOME BLITZ broke out a few years ago as the recording project of Daniel DiMaggio, an under-aged jock on Princetons WPRB known for compiling playlists of deep depth and wide breadth. Early singles showed flippant naïviete and early live shows (with a somewhat stable backing band), were marked by purposeful self-implosion. This time around, HB trucks ahead with straight up, timeless, rock tunes." - Richie. |
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Artist: KING BLOOD Title: Vengeance, Man Format: LP Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"Second offering from KING BLOOD & its a motherfucker. Throbbing, claustrophobic, triumphant, room shaking, and chiming electric guitar worship. The type of record thatll lodge into your head & reduce your mind to a luminous toxic jelly. Enters the static void alongside Earth, Skullflower, & Les Rallizes Denudes. 320 copies." - Richie. On KING BLOODs debut Eyewash Silver, Marc Masters at Pitchfork: "There are at least two ways to look at a guitar riff-- as a building block for a song, or as an end in itself. Ryland Wharton, aka King Blood, has taken the latter viewpoint to a mesmerizing extreme. � he treats fuzzy guitar riffs not simply as ends, but as mantras to be chanted and monuments to be worshiped. Each track offers one simple figure devoutly repeated, as if musical nirvana is always just one more riff away.... The album drips with overload, creating a raw, gut-level immediacy. The idea behind each song is delivered unwashed and unrefined. In that sense, Eyewash Silver reminds me of Neil Young, particularly his solo guitar soundtrack to Jim Jarmuschs 1995 existential western Dead Man. Whartons songs arent nearly as sparse or forlorn as Youngs score, but both share a near-anthropological fascination with the primal force of repeated notes. (Besides, the swinging hooks of "Poison in Jest" and "Sinfull Woman" sound extracted and extended from Crazy Horse tunes). Youll hear other reference points throughout Eyewash Silver-- the noisy wash of Japanese bands like Fushitsusha and Les Rallizes Denudes, the motor-garage of Wooden Shjips, and, on the near-perfect "End of a Primitive", the classic amp-melt of great Velvet Underground bootlegs. But I keep coming back to Young and his exploratory wanderings, a standard to which Wharton measures up well." |
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Artist: PURLING HISS Title: Hissteria Format: LP Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Well its finally here. Its the new LP by PURLING HISS and its called Hissteria. Its two sides of hi-energy psychedelic punk rock & roll that manages to weld Funhouses dialed-in sleaze rhythms to the hungover excess of Hendrix at Woodstock. Or Ginn at Polliwog Park. Its full of clanging cymbals, howling vocals, fretboard heroics, and menacing vibes. PURLING HISS is the work of a well-mannered longhair named MIKE POLIZZE, who is best known for his reckless shredding as the guitar player for Philadelphias BIRDS OF MAYA. Hissteria is a suitable soundtrack for zonked drives across the dead highways of the USA. Or for predawn paranoid sessions as you pace back and forth in the kitchen trying figure out just what the hell youre going to do, man. Or just crank it real loud when the party gets strange. Some people will love it and the rest of them can go somewhere else and go fuck themselves." - Richie Records |
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Artist: SPACIN Title: Deep Thuds Format: LP Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"Debut LP from SPACIN, the newly formed Philadelphia act thats bringing together kick-flippers, arm-wrestlers, and hackey-sackers in head-nodding, beer swilling unity. Inhales the same fumes that fuel the Velvets workout at the gymnasium, the Stooges sleazy-fuzz with Asheton on guitar, and the groovy zen of Nigeria 70." - Richie. "The first pearl bestowed upon us in the form of a side project from Philadelphias finest gnarled-out Psych trio Birds of Maya was guitarist Mike Polizzes Purling Hiss, and now we have bass player Jason Killinger with his very killer and very screwy new project, Spacin. Originally a basement-only solo thing consisting of Killinger playing guitar through a pyramid of amps accompanied by a drum machine, Spacin has started to squeak itself above ground and into the barrooms of the city with a fully functioning lineup. The dude doesnt even need the drum machine anymore; hes got his wife Eva pounding the skins! Sneak previews of their upcoming debut full-length Deep Thuds, shows a unit who knows the economic gain to be had from a good, hypnotic riff. For those who have ever gotten lost for days in the strains of the Velvet Undergrounds "Sister Ray," Jonathan Richmans "Roadrunner," Hawkwinds "Silver Machine" or even Deep Purples "Space Truckin," repeated listening to Spacin is required in excessive doses." - Tony Rettman, Philadelphia Weekly. |
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Artist: TACO LEG Title: Printed Gold Format: 7" Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Three new songs from TACO LEG, ambassadors from the city of Perth, a seaside burg in Western Australia which, as any visitor can confirm, served as a model for The Village to which Number Six has been condemned. The principle mode of travel is hot-air balloon & the locals cheer a longneck of VB with a salute to favorite son Gus Chambers. Its a strange, isolated district inhabited by a society just a little too askew for general population. Taco Leg visited all the major United States markets in late 2010, and this is the first blast weve heard from the guys since that historic trip. Its also a preview to the forthcoming album on the Fan Death label. Printed Gold is a buzzy single-noting headbanger and it shows all the confidence of a Ryan Howard home-run. In fact, in a tribute to his American fans of the diamond, the guitar player wore batting gloves for the recording session. A certain high-ranking Aussie musician and writer pointed out to the band that their approach has a lot in common with FANG. The guys not only took the trouble to figure out just who the hell is Fang, they even learned the bands most memorable tune & put it to tape. The result? An interpretation of The Money Will Roll Right In thats a few degrees drier, more inspired, & more determined than the original. Certainly, these guys stand a chance at the film career that proved elusive to Sammytown & that crowd." -Richie. |
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Artist: VILE, KURT & THE VIOLATORS Title: The Hunchback E.P. Format: 12" Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Heres the timeless record for 2009. Electric studio (mostly) recordings from Philadelphias Constant Hitmaker. New fans of his last CD will cry into their pillows and accuse him of selling out the bedroom rock scene. The initiated few will know hes been doing it for years plugging in with a full on rock band called the Violators and gigging in all corners of Philly. With baritone guitar/bassist Adam Granduciel, rodeo slide & fuzz guitar from Jesse Turbo, and perfect percussion from Mike Zeng, the Violators are Kurts Crazy Horse, slugging it out with him when he feels like playing with a full band. Oddly pleasant singing, in-the-red fingerpicking, twisting swells of feedback, totally POUNDING drums, and Krautlike-zen fill both sides of this record. Loud and proud, The Hunchback E.P. looks right filed next to your Neil, Faust, and Spacemen 3 records." -Richie
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Artist: VIOLENT STUDENTS Title: Party Addiction Format: LP Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Heres the last gasp effort from VIOLENT STUDENTS, a defunct Philadelphia-based black hole Punk / HC outfit whose wasters have been and continue to be involved in some arguably more-refined and mature projects. This self-medicated, throbbing set was recorded live at their final gig inside a South Philadelphia firetrap before a crowd of black-clad pencil-necked geeks that shrank with each passing tic of the metronome. Most of those intensely posed youngsters left too early to witness an exploratory stomp through “Seekers of the Truth”. The Students here are joined by BLUES CONTROLs Lea Cho, who was a last second replacement on guitar when Jim Winters (of Earth Crisis, Conviction, etc) proved tardy. The flip side is A Handy Magician, originally infamously issued as a cassette in 2004 or so. And as a more articulate scribe has famously noted, if you remember a Violent Students gig, then you werent there." - Richie. |
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Artist: VIOLENT STUDENTS Title: Street Banger Format: CDR Label: Richie Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Listenin to the crunch n gutterous thud of Street Banger (not to mention a few belts into the Mr H* action) I got to thinkin; what if Oscar Goldman had decided to spend that six million dollars turnin Steve Austin into a human cement truck? Garglin all that gravel, limestone & concrete mix in slow motion woulda sounded alot like the sub industro-metal ejaculate spewed out durin Flying Priest. And who wouldnt want to see a remake of Godzilla vs. Mothra but w/Highrise & Boy Dirtcar dukin it out in them roles this time? I would! And by the sound of things on here, so would Violent Students. On this ep these guys have got a tiger by the tail. And when I say tiger, I mean as in Tiger Tank. And where does a Tiger Tank rumble? Anywhere it fuckin wants! You know that scene in Frankenstein where the monster picks up the girl & throws her in the lake? Its alot like that, except now its a Tiger Tank runnin over Mecht Mensch in a wheelchair flattin them to bits. Next time you play their Acceptance ep, imagin hearin it comin from the other side & mangled almost beyond comprehension. Or just buy the Violent Students Street Banger cd ep instead. Same difference but this time the warts are genital. Dig it, its not just the toad thats off the hook on this one. Buy & behold." - Roland Woodbe, Siltblog. |
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Artist: DEAD OF 24 Title: Blast Off Motherfucker Format: LP Label: Ride The Snake Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| ""Blast Off Motherfucker! is a reissue of the second of the bands cassettes, the originals likely decaying in the hands of a couple of dozen people. Its been seen fit for vinyl release over a decade later, and its aged right into the times were in, urgent despondence you cant fake. Named in honor of Peter Laughner, they played like Beat Happening as the Dead C., or maybe a more lit up Supreme Dicks or Pink Reason, indie pop songs slowed down to a crawl with thudding toms, all the brightness blotted out with sluggo catharsis. Its fucking wild, is what it is, wide open and leaving nothing to reason (any bands around today with the courage to write a song like ⿿Sodomy. Yes! please stand up). If youre trying to keep up with as many of these records as you can, this one should go to the top of your list. More reissues have been planned and I hope they see the light of day. Theres only 300 copies of this, theyre cheap, and theyre moving fast. Its somewhat painful for me to listen to this and admit that, as a 20 year old, I probably didnt get it. Kids are fucking stupid sometimes. This one is so good." - Still Single |
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Artist: LIFE PARTNERS Title: Teenagers In Trouble Format: 7" Label: Ride The Snake Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Still unsure how Life Partners morphed from one of the most painfully high-pitched live bands Ive ever seen into this uncircumcised Arab on Radar/Sockeye style party rock band, and doubtful Ill ever get to find out. But back to the heres and nows ⿿ theyre a four-piece again, with trumpeter Greg Kelley wiggin out up front with singer Dave Dougan. ⿿AIDS of Spades has a nice lowrider quality to it, woulda fit well in a Cheech & Chong movie. ⿿Teenager in Trouble is even sillier, with some really off lyrics about pregnant, at-risk teens fuckin and drinkin. Im smiling, and smiling again. Memorable shit from what sounds like the party foul of Boston; where others tear down, they build up. First release on a new label co-run by librarian Chris Strunk. Great work!" - Doug Mosurock, Dusted Magazine. |
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Artist: AUFGEHOBEN Title: Anno Fauve Format: CD Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Third CD release from Riot Season and the third album from the newly shortened monikered Aufgehoben (previously Aufgehoben No Process). Anno Fauve sees the band collaborate once again with stereo guitar virtuoso Gary Smith (Mass, Glass Cage, Powerfield etc). Anno Fauve is an album for those who like their music difficult with the density, dynamics and bludgeoning distortion levels that have become the hallmarks of an Aufgehoben release. Anno Fauve contains 6 tracks spread over 50 minutes and comes in a wonderfully weird designed sleeve." - Riot Season. |
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Artist: BLACK BONED ANGEL Title: Eternal Love/Eternal Hunger Format: LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $20.00 |
| "Formed in Lower Hell, New Zealand in 2004. The trio consisting of Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel), James Kirk and Jules Desmond have been referred to by heavy metal glitterati such as Terrorizer magazine as the heaviest band on earth. Compiling two totally out-of-print CD/CDR releases, Eternal Love/Eternal Hunger comes pressed on black vinyl in a black and metallic silver ink sleeve, limited to 500 only for the world." - Riot Season. |
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Artist: BLACK BONED ANGEL Title: Verdun Format: LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Black Boned Angel return with their second Riot Season release, following the Eternal Love/Eternal Hunger vinyl LP (REPOSE 013LP). Sharing a similarly bleak ground to Corrupted, Sunn 0))) and Earth, New Zealands Black Boned Angel return with their fourth full length album Verdun, and perhaps their most sombre and fully-realized work to date. The Battle of Verdun was fought between the German and French armies, and was one of the critical battles during World War 1 on the Western Front. It resulted in more than a quarter of a million battlefield deaths and at least half a million wounded. Verdun was the longest battle and one of the most devastating in World War 1 and indeed in history. Over the course of 50 minutes, BBA soundtrack that brutal conflict with their trademark dark ambient drones and doom-laden riffs. The CD version of this release contains an exclusive extra piece entitled Tears Strike The Mile High Gong and comes in a card gatefold sleeve (1000 copies only)." -Riot Season |
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Artist: CIRCLE Title: Empire Format: LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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"Not many bands continue to amaze with each new release these days, but Finnish legends Circle are an exception to the rule. The masters of the hypnotic riff return with a very limited vinyl only release called Empire containing two long tracks called Dragon & Empire. The album was recorded live earlier this year in Porvoo, Finland but youd never know it was a live record as there is so much stuff going on its mind-boggling, not to mention the production is superb. Dragon sounds like Can jamming with Sunburned Hand Of The Man whilst Empire sounds like the take-a-riff and beat it into submission Circle we already know and love. This release is vinyl only and limited to 750 copies for the world."
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Artist: CULVER-COURTIS Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Limited edition, untitled 500 only clear vinyl LP by drone / experimental duo Culver-Courtis. This is a collaboration between Anla Courtis of Reynols (Argentina) and Lee Stokoe aka Culver (England). The album is based around beautiful hypnotic drones, kind of avant-garde and kind of calming at the same time. Slightly similar in style to some of Makoto Kawabatas solo work perhaps. Although there are only four songs on the record, it clocks in at near 50 minutes. The LP is a completely remastered reissue of a previous cassette only self release. For fans of : Makoto Kawabata, Sunn o))), Reynols." |
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Artist: MAKOTO, ANLA COURTIS & ROKUGENKIN, KAWABATA Title: Kokura Format: LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
| "Kokura is the fruit of a collaboration between Acid Mothers Temple/Mainliner main man Kawabata Makoto, Argentinian guitarist Anla Courtis (Reynols) and Japanese underground musician Rokugenkin. Based around hushed, mellow guitar drones and hypnotic, yet restrained guitar wails, Kokura captures the sound of life beneath a hurricane. Like Sunn O))) on half volume!" - Riot Season. |
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Artist: MAKOTOS MAINLINER, KAWABATA Title: Revelation Space Format: LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| "Pressed on 140 gram virgin vinyl in heavy-duty printed spined card sleeve. One of the most celebrated Japanese underground bands have returned. It may have taken over 12 years, but Kawabata Makoto, guitar guru and head honcho in Acid Mothers Temple, has finally decided to get his celebrated "psychedelic solid free attack group" back together. Joining original Mainliner members Kawabata Makoto (motorpsycho guitar) and Koji Shimura (drums) is new recruit Kawabe Taigen (bass/vocals) and the trio still kick up one hell of a sonic racket. Confusion surrounds the exact details of the recording, but they seem to date from December 2011, and from Kawabatas mountain-top temple studio-cum-home. The man himself, as always, is shying away from sharing too many of the magick details about the Mainliner rebirth. And the stark, minimal black-with-gold sleeve keeps the mystery intact, apart from the grainy band photo on the rear. All said, Revelation Space is a comeback statement of intent. And its firmly in the same in-the-red/raw camp as the original trios classic Mellow Out. From the initial speaker-shaking feedback burst of opener "Revelation Space," right through to the closing 20-minute epic "New Sun" (which showcases Taigens otherworldly howl perfectly) there is no let-up in the brutal delivery. This will no doubt delight those Mainliner diehards who never thought theyd see the day again, and all those with a love of guitar howls and punishing feedback levels, but always underpinned by some righteous grooves." - Riot Season. |
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Artist: SHIT AND SHINE Title: 229-2299 Girls Against Shit Format: Double LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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"Gatefold 2LP version, limited to 500 copies. Shit And Shine return with their fourth Riot Season album -- following Youre Lucky To Have Friends Like Us (REPOSELP04), Jealous Of Shit And Shine (REPOSECD011) and last years acclaimed Cherry (REPOSECD017X/LP017) -- after a link-up with the Load Records stable for their last release. Continuing in their usual Riot Season style, what we have on offer here is the bizarre, the puzzling and the downright groovy. The epic, drawn-out single-riff jams that make up their legendary live shows are replaced by their trademark off-the-wall lunacy, making for a fun-packed adventure akin to biking trips with friends, and the local mental as a child. 229-2299 Girls Against Shit could be the soundtrack to that summer, the beating of rats with sticks, the shooting of girls with gat guns, swimming in the rancid cut and the discovering of dead dogs and maggots. Ah, those were the days my friend." -Riot Season
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Artist: SHIT AND SHINE Title: Cherry Format: CD/DVD Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Now available as Limited edition CD & DVD pressing, 1000 copies for the world. Bonus DVD features a pro-shot 35 minute performance recorded for last.fm in London November 2007. What the press have said about Cherry so far: The kind of deranged collage that damaged psychedelic warriors like The Butthole Surfers or Bongwater used to come up with. Its an album that defies any kind of neat summation. Immense! --The Wire. Not since Royal Trux and Twin Infinitives has any band released an album as recklessly inventive and sadistically fun as this greasy double helping. --Rock-A-Rolla; Absurdist, addictive, obnoxious and usurped by a general air of alcoholic wrongdoing, feral psychosis and unsettling malice. A murkier, down-the-pub Locust Abortion Technician for a 21st century world hurtling ever closer to bloody-minded oblivion. --Terrorizer."-Riot Season |
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Artist: SHIT AND SHINE Title: Cherry Format: Double LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $23.00 |
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"SHIT AND SHINE isnt a band, its a state of mind. Theyre an afternoon spent tearing up betting-slips at the bookies. A stain on your shirt that wont wash out. Shit and Shine refuse to be categorized, commodified or caught with their trousers down. Theyre a blurred snapshot of bi-polar Britain, camera-phone footage of a nation thats slowly swallowing itself whole, one mouthful at a time. Theyre a requiem for back-street cafes and grubby little places that now only exist in our memory or in back-issues of Savage Messiah magazine. Theyre a brittle, defiantly distorted soundtrack to our own cultural demise: time at the bar, gentlemen, please! Limited edition of 500 copies packaged in suitably garish sleeves. "The kind of deranged collage that damaged psychedelic warriors like The Butthole Surfers or Bongwater used to come up with. Its an album that defies any kind of neat summation. Immense!"-The Wire
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Artist: SIGHTINGS Title: Absolutes Format: LP Label: Riot Season Country: UK Price: $16.50 |
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"Screaming out of New York City, fans of Mainliner, free rock like Wolf Eyes, quiet walks in the park, Harry Pussy, Yoko Ono and herbal tea will really dig this slippery slab. This is a complete baaad-ass hate fest with sub-dermal bass, paper thin razor guitar and Axis of Evil drumfuckery. The vinyl is a strictly limited pressing and will be accompanied by a CD version on Load Records." - Riot Season.
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Artist: RFD Title: Lead Me Home Format: CD Label: Riverman Country: Korea Price: $18.00 |
| "This is the first-ever authorized reissue of this 1971 Christian classic, now remastered in a 24-bit remaster. Housed in an exact reproduction paper sleeve. Pretty intensely amazing songs of devotion couched in lazy, laid-back, skillfully-crafted pop/country/psych tuneage, chock full of harmonies and vibes so mellow, you wont know whether theyre singing about God or really good weed. "The RFD stands for Russ, Fred, and Dan and heres the deal -- these guys (and girl) put out a record in 1971 that went onto become universally-hailed by the thousand or so people in the world with an opinion on the matter as one of the five or ten best Christian records of all time. Now if youre like me, the initial thought of good Christian music seems like more than a joke than anything else. But then you hear artists like The Search Party or Marj Snyder or The RFD and you realize that these people are the real deal. Good Jesus music doesnt preach or even really announce itself as Christian music, at all. You have to listen real close to hear a message, and if you do hear it, youre free to ignore it and go on with your sinful existence. Good Christian, or Xian as we call it in the record biz, is good music whether you get it or not, no matter what you may believe. It usually has a beauty and a purity you can hear in secular records like Linda Perhacs or Wendy and Bonnie. But usually, as with these albums, theres also a darkness there, lingering and undenied, feeding the music with added complexity and gravity. This isnt glassy-eyed Jesus freak music, and the best records are by real people living real lives full of pain as well as joy and love. I wont lie and say its anywhere as rich as the secular field, but there are some gems to be found and The RFD most definitely are one of them." -Douglas McGowan, Yoga Records |
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Artist: RYAN, COLLIE Title: The Rainbow Records Format: Triple CD Label: Riverman Country: Korea Price: $29.00 |
| "Yoga Records, in association with Riverman Music, is proud to present this 3xCD box set, the first-ever CD reissue of these breathtaking obscure folk gems by Texas Collie Ryan. Collie Ryan privately-pressed three albums in 1973, The Giving Tree, Indian Harvest, and Takin Your Turn Round The Corner Of Day. These records were funded in part by Collies friends at the New Age Farms carrot and fresh juice company in Lompoc, California, and shortly after their recording, Collie devoted her life to nature and moved completely off the grid. Collies mesmerizing sound remained largely a secret until "Cricket," one of the tracks from Indian Harvest, surfaced on Numero Groups stellar Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From The Canyon compilation in 2006. Collies cosmic music is almost solely based around her high, bird-like voice and nylon guitar picking, and her lyrics reflect her lifelong study of theosophy and naturalist living. Even today, Collie lives largely outside of what would be considered "regular" society, residing in a converted 1930s school bus in the middle of a Texas desert and painting mandalas on hub cabs, while continuing to produce her very special and personal music. This 3CD box set, entitled The Rainbow Records, features a new painting by Collie, fantastic liner notes by partner-in-crime Tommie Zook, and never-before-seen photographs. The tracks have been completely remastered from the original master tapes in a 24-bit remaster, and are housed in a paper sleeve and slipcase. A sun-kissed bevy of quirky, circular, acoustic guitar-picked metaphysical song cycles, topped by Collies unfailingly sweet, clear trill. Surely, Ryan belongs alongside such queens of the folk pantheon as Vashti Bunyan, Linda Perhacs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell, Sibelle Baier, Ruthann Friedman, etc. This is a haunting collection that simply should not be missed." -Yoga. |
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Artist: DOO SOO, KIM Title: Free Spirit Format: CD Label: Riverman Music Country: Korea Price: $18.00 |
| "This is the 2002 fourth album by Koreas true cult folk/singer-songwriter hero, Kim Doo Soo. Kim Doo Soo is perhaps the deepest and most introspective of Koreas acid folk singers. Legends surround his songs -- political oppression, alcoholism, suicide, a 10-year period of mountain seclusion. In spite of four acclaimed albums in Korea, most Western listeners only became aware of Kim through his tracks on Damon & Naomis compilation International Sad Hits Volume One: Altaic Language Group. On Free Spirit he mines productive veins of profound melancholy, animistic nature, and unfathomable, hermetic affection. These songs are couched in a veil of gorgeous, still melodicism, Kims quavering vocals and guitar shaded with subtle accordion, cello, organ and harmonica. A reflective and unearthly masterpiece. Housed in a digipak, including a 19-page booklet with lyrics in Korean and photos." - Riverman Music. |
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Artist: ELIZALDE, PETER Title: Winter Playground Mystery Format: CD Label: Riverman Music Country: Korea Price: $19.00 |
| "Unknown, brilliant all-original outsider loner singer-songwriter who completely sounds trapped in 1972 not 82!! One insane epic dueling guitar/synth prog stormer and also a quirky power-pop hard rock number and the rest sounds like early 70s FM radio or maybe Todd Rundgren coming down off a hard bummer! Cool hand-drawn acid-drenched cover reminiscent of Van Gogh. Maybe this guy was dipping into the turpentine, too! Dark, cold, underdeveloped and moody just like the music. A little something for everyone here: real people, soft rock, psych, folk, prog and more. An undiscovered gem thats bound to get props eventually from the big-time collectors." -Riverman |
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Artist: HAKANSSON, CARL Title: Candles Glow Format: CD Label: Riverman Music Country: Korea Price: $19.00 |
| "Completely obscure private press from central Massachusetts, 1979. Candles Glow was recorded predominantly in the attic of an old farm house in northern New Hampshire. This is the same little corner of the world where Bobb Trimble made two of the best psych records ever, also around 1980. This albums not as out-there as Bobbs, but its completely unknown as far as you can tell and several tracks have got a nice rural psych feel with great, garage-y guitar work from Richard Thyng, as evidenced on "Morning Bird." Neil Youngs definitely an influence here, and the rest of the record is a lot mellower, with a few solo downer-folk numbers by Carl Hakansson and one really spooky and somber kind of chanted mantra a cappella track "Alone They Ride," credited to The Thyng-Hakansson Chorus." -Riverman |
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Artist: LUCAS, TED Title: Ted Lucas Format: CD Label: Riverman Music Country: Korea Price: $19.00 |
| "The music of Ted Lucas has circulated through CD-Rs and blogs for years now. Although primarily known for this, his 1975 self-titled album (sometimes referred to as The OM Record), a legacy of hundreds of tapes decisively reveal one of the psychedelic eras most criminally-overlooked talents. Lucas studied with Ravi Shankar. He was the "exotic instruments specialist" for Motown and played sitar on many of their most famous productions. He rubbed shoulders with Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent and every other major player on the Detroit scene. His pioneering early psych rock bands The Spike Drivers and Misty Wizards managed to become legends with nothing more than a handful of singles. Stanley Mouse, prime image-maker for the Grateful Dead and friend of Ted, adapted the cover for Ted Lucas from his artwork for Jimi Hendrixs unfinished last album. Its the first appearance of the space scarab -- the UFO that would later become Journeys symbol. From brief, spontaneous ditties, predating the lo-fi indie movement by 20 years, to the epicly psychedelic sitar guitar ragas in Lucas signature loose string tunings, Lucas never wavered from his visceral, intensely honest vision. A self-taught master of many instruments and consummate do-it-yourselfer, Ted created a home studio and worked out new ways to tune his guitars. The pride he took in his craft and his attention to detail were inspiring and exasperating to all who knew him. His wit was legendary. The reasons for Lucas failure to break out of the Detroit scene would require, and probably deserve, a book-length investigation. His career provides insight on the difficulty of self-publishing and self-promotion in the pre-internet age. Without a doubt, things would have turned out very differently had he come up today. Lucas voice is unspeakably mellow, his guitar unbelievably gentle, and his arrangements absolutely impeccable. Do not miss this album." - Riverman Music. |
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Artist: OBRIEN & JAKE, JUSTEN Title: Time Will Tell Format: CD Label: Riverman Music Country: Korea Price: $19.00 |
| "The greatest album in the history of North Dakota is Justen OBrien & Jakes Time Will Tell (1978). Bootlegged twice already, Riverman Music presents the first artist-approved reissue of this mysterious, deep, UFO-inspired masterpiece. Featuring crystal-clear sound, the originally-intended cover art in a gorgeous gatefold cover, in-depth liner notes by Douglas Mcgowan (Yoga Records), and never-before-seen photos capturing the mystique of this long-gone psych/prog/lounge classic, even longtime fans will need to check back in with Justen OBriens unique vision of the cosmos. A truly MAJOR left-field rediscovery on par with Bobb Trimble, Jade Stone And Luv, or DR Hooker. A lot of questions remain. Was Justen OBrien in fact abducted by aliens? Where did he go after this record was finished? Why did one of the greatest rare record dealers in the world insist hes seen a second Justen OBrien album? And most importantly, how good does a record have to be to get reviewed on Pitchfork without the help of a high-powered publicist?" - Riverman Music. |
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Artist: PATTERSON & PULTS Title: Grand Tetons Format: CD Label: Riverman Music Country: Korea Price: $19.00 |
| "Very introspective and beautiful private loner/psych/folk rock from Texas in 1977. Heres what the Acid Archives has to say: "Introspective acoustic folk duo. Nice dark playing and stark, heartfelt songs about loneliness and the wonders of nature. There is also a second LP from 1984, Second Time Around with 1979-80 recordings." Grand Tetons, the debut album from this highly-regarded Texas rural folk rock duo, has a lot of fans. The follow-up, recorded in 1979 but not released until 1984, continues in the same style, as evident from the outstanding West Coast-flavored opening track and several more strong tracks. This CD reissue includes 6 tracks from the second album and demo recordings from newly-found tapes. Good one to file next to Kaufmann & Caboor, Will & James Ragar, John Villemonte, etc." -Riverman |
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Artist: SEVERANCE & CASSIDY Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Riverman Music Country: Korea Price: $19.00 |
| "Severance & Cassidy was a duo playing folk rock in the late 70s and early 80s in New Hampshire. Don Severance: songwriter, guitar and vocals Gary Cassidy: bass and vocals. In 1978, they were playing clubs, concerts, and parties full-time throughout New Hampshire and into Vermont. Their sound evolved from their interest in the acoustic, melodic, and harmony-driven music that was popular at the time. Don was strongly influenced by the guitar and harmony work of Peter, Paul And Mary and the songwriting and vocals of Simon And Garfunkel. In addition, bands such as America and Crosby, Stills And Nash were on the charts adding their brand of folk rock to the musical landscape. Gary came from a background of country music, and with his deep, rich, full-range vocals and his strong bass skills, they created a sound that felt larger than most other duos in the area. If you like obscure and mellow folk rock of the 1970s, this is a must-have album." -Riverman |
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Artist: STONEFIELD TRAMP Title: Dreaming Again... Format: CD Label: Riverman Music Country: Korea Price: $19.00 |
| "Very rare Stonefield Tramp album with a beautiful, dreamy quality. In 1974, members of the band Terry Friend and Rob Van Spyk met Brian Ballister. As a trio, they released the album Follow The Sun for the studio label, Acorn. After theyd failed to interest any major record company in their recordings, the group issued one LP, Dreaming Again..., on their own Tramp label. For this album, the trio were enhanced by additional musicians Chris Sutoris (bass) and Dave Lloyd (electric guitar). To reflect their new sound, the band adopted a new name and Stonefield Tramp were born. Some tracks show a strong Bob Dylan influence while others lean strongly towards the style we have now come to know as acid folk. Dreaming Again... is very eagerly sought-after by vinyl record collectors worldwide. A must for British folk fans." -Riverman |
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Artist: RIVIERE, ARNAUD & JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS Title: Monoface Format: One-Sided 12" Label: Riviere/Gross Country: France Price: $18.00 |
| "Jean-Philippe Gross and Arnaud Rivière are both using mainly mixing board and put the electric nature of this tool at the center of their music, playing with interferences and feedback. Improv & noise : from microsounds to high energy active masses of sounds. On the left channel "WHEN YOU GO TO THE SWIMMING POOL PLEASE THROW AWAY YOUR GUITAR AND REMOVE YOUR SHOES" played by Jean-Philippe Gross, recorded end 2006 in Metz. On the right channel "NANALOG SYNTH" played by Arnaud Rivière, recorded mid 2006 around Paris. In the middle an unexpected stereo made by hazards of collage. Cuted in early 2007 in Paris. One side cuted / one side silk-screened 300 copies." -Riviere/Gross. |
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Artist: SOUND ART Title: ..Beyond Music, Between Categories Format: Hardcover Book/CD Label: Rizzoli Country: USA Price: $50.00 |
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About this Book: "Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound arts roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism, Dada, and later the Fluxus group and the pioneering efforts of the American composer and artist John Cage. In the wake of this groundbreaking work, sound art began to mature into a movement, and artists explored the interactive possibilities of sound and in turn created entirely new modes of experiencing and engaging with art. In this volume, the complete story of sound art is told by one of the countrys leading critics and scholars. The author traces the history of this form of art highlighting the convergence of the indie world bands such as Sonic Youth with the art world looking at the critical cross-pollination that has led to some of the most important and challenging art being produced today, including work by Christian Marclay, LaMonte Young, Janet Cardiff, Rodney Graham, and Laurie Anderson, among many others."
About the Author: "Alan Licht is an American composer, guitarist, music writer, and a widely respected figure on the experimental music scene. He is not only responsible for important album reissues, but was a member of the cult classic NYC bands Love Child and Run On. He currently lives in New York City. Jim ORourke is an American musician and producer, and most widely known as a member of the rock band Sonic Youth. Considered an expert on experimental music, he has scored films for Werner Herzog and Olivier Assayas." Also features Maryanne Amacher, Harry Bertoia, John Cage, Brian Eno, Bill Fontana, Joe Jones, Rolf Julius, Christina Kubisch, Bernhard Leitner, Annea Lockwood, Francisco Lopez, Max Neuhaus, Hermann Nitsch, Paul Panhuysen, Steve Roden, Michael Snow, Stockhausen, Akio Suzuki, Jean Tingleuy, Trimpin, Stephen Vitiello, tons of great photos. CD includes Bill Fontana, Steve Roden, Jean Dubuffett, Destroy All Monsters (Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley, Cary Loren.), Anthony Burr & Charles Curtis, and Bernhard Gal. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: WHITE BOY & THE AVERAGE RAT BAND Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Roach Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Reish of heavy & fuzzed out Acid Archive proto metal jammer that will satisfy Heshers & Rockers alike. Word has always been this masterpiece is the work of a lone duder from Virginia yet cover has 4 bad asses spoiling for a rager. Sure sounds like a one man frenzy, but who knows for sure? Kenneth Higney gets some Schenker chops & becomes a fixture at Lamour where he functions as gangbang meat for Meanstreak. Yeah! How could you not be fucking stoked?" - Roach.
"This is stretching the limits of the Archives here -- its a 1980s and sounds much closer to the kind of post-punk hard rock that got college airplay in the late 80s than it does like anything else reviewed on this website. That said, its speedy not-quite-metal hard rock with a pulverizing distortion sound (to call it fuzz guitar is to understate it by a mile). One song is acoustic, but mostly this is just in-your-face blitzkrieg, and its really great." - Aaron Milenski, Acid Archives. "My eyes did a double take when I see this record perched in my mail trap (theys aint got no word here for box nears I can tell). Good lord I was happy, only cause Id been lookin for a copy since Robin Yount was a five figure Brewer. The writeup that Roach Records put togther kindve says it all, cept I aint got a damn clue whats Lamour is (or was) ors this Meanstreak theys reference. I guess Ill have to get to investigatinem! Wouldnt wanna miss out. Some nimble-toed piker once tried to tell me this was the same band as Mr. Ott & Jake Whip had but Id knowed that was a sack of shit n told him about it.He made a mess in his drawers what stunk up the bar to high heaven, but at least hes still around to deny it. The real word is the band aint but one feller & he hired them others on the front to look all tough. It sorta works. Takes me back to some dumbshits what tried to tangle w/yours truly in Parkersburg, WV in the early 80s. None ofem even seen the blade theys surrendered to, let alone feel it. Ah, youth, to be wasted so young. Feel free to quote me on that. So White Boy & The Average Rat Band.....hard to say exactly where theys (or he) was comin from but know this; when it wants to, this lp is as wild as a peach orchard hog. Theres also some screwy ballads goin on (Oriental Doctors, wow! Too bad Tommy Bolin aint around to here THAT one) + an outta nowhere acoustic number too. Locked into some current thats more metal than punk, it aint no joke, as funny as it may seem at times. In other words, Nig Heist it is not. Im hip to the Kenneth Higney reference too, and Michael Schenker. It woulda been cool if Kennyd aped Scorpions more than Cat Stevens, but he didnt & behold wes got both Attic Demonstration AND this here White Boy lp. Hows are any of us worse off for that? The best of both. Now if only that Higney lp would get rereleased...." - Roland Woodbe, Siltblog. Not related to White Boy on Doodley Squat. Highly recommended! |
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Artist: CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Road Cone Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"No, your turntables needle isnt fucked, its just Seattles playful, unpretentious experimentalists doing some really noiseful turntable manipulation on side 1. The flip has them exploring musique concrete montages and found sound on this elegant white vinyl release. The cover is equally nice, with black-on-black artwork." - Road Cone. Unplayed copies of this mid-90s release.
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Artist: CARTWRIGHT & DAVU SERU, GEORGE Title: Rag Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Rag captures the best from a series of freely improvised meetings between saxophonist George Cartwright and percussionist Davu Seru, recorded at various Minneapolis venues over the course of 2009. Cartwright -- longtime leader of Curlew, and owner of a musical c.v. which includes Ornette Coleman, Half Japanese, Alex Chilton and Loren Mazzacane -- can be restlessly melodic or jaggedly guttural on the reeds, although his bedrock lyricism is never far from the surface. Serus playing is a trompe loreille marriage of forward motion and suspended stasis; over the past decade, hes performed with Milo Fine, Paul Metzger and Evan Parker, among others. From the anthemic opening of Titus to the miniature coda of I Think Eudora Knows, Rag is a lively dialogue between two masters of their craft. Released in an edition of 300 copies on colored vinyl, each with a unique cover print by Anne Elias and a digital download coupon." -Roaratorio |
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Artist: CORNER, PHILIP Title: Gong/Ear: Dance-ing, 1 & 2 Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
 "A major figure in 20th century arts and music (and beyond), Philip Corner studied with Henry Cowell and Olivier Messiaen, and was one of the original Fluxus conspirators, among other highlights of his long and storied career. As part of the body of his Metal Meditations work, Gong/Ear is a decades-long series of improvisations with dancers. Utilizing his favorite Paiste tam-tam, these two recordings from Corners NYC Leonard Street loft in 1989 are a feedback loop of perceptions between gong and dance: the initiating sound (or is it the dancers posture?) is made physically audible. Responsive movement is turned back into sound. Musical attentiveness sends it back and it continues. Gong/Ear: Dance-ing, 1 & 2 is released in a limited edition of 305 copies, each with a hand-cut facsimile brass gong, silkscreened with Corners calligraphy and mounted onto the jacket. Download coupon included." - Roaratorio. |
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Artist: CORSANO, CHRIS & BEN CHASNY/PAUL METZGER Title: Split Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Chris Corsano (sparring partner of Paul Flaherty, Joe McPhee, Nels Cline, et
al) and Ben Chasny (aka Six Organs Of Admittance) had previously paired up for
the School Of The Flower LP on Drag City. As wide a stylistic swath as that
record cut, it was far from an exhaustive map of their topography. Here,
Corsanos drums and Chasnys guitar chatter & clatter with jittery
hyper-articulation, worrying the meat off the bone in short sharp strokes. A "Worm Confesses"
over the course of one side of this split record & is given an impassioned
absolution.
For over two decades, Paul Metzger -- guitarist for the on-again/off-again
punkjazz trio TVBC -- was one of the Twin Cities overly well-kept secrets. His
recent emergence as a solo artist, via a pair of glowingly-received releases
on the Chairkickers & Mutant Music labels (quoth WFMU: "the best banjo playing
ever"), has started to raise his profile to a level commensurate with his
devils-crossroads-deal talent. On a guitar modified with music box innards & an
accompanying tanpura, Metzger dives deep into the raga heart of a moonlit day
& returns with the jewels of "August."
Released in an edition of 766 copies, with silkscreened poplar wood covers." - Roaratorio.
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Artist: CRYSTAL SYPHON Title: Family Evil Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "Crystal Syphon, one of the greatest lost groups of the West Coast psych scene, came together in Merced, California in 1965. Originally a Beatles / Byrds-influenced unit called the Morlochs, they soon shed their original moniker and moved in a more psychedelic direction, becoming a fixture on the ballroom circuit from 1966-1970. Although their music may nod in the direction of the New Tweedy Brothers and Quicksilver Messenger Service at times, its imbued throughout with a distinctive sound that arose from practicing up to six nights a week. The band entertained offers from various labels during their existence, but as they insisted on complete artistic control and ownership of their music, no deals were struck. Now, some 44 years after its creation, Roaratorio is proud to make the music of Crystal Syphon available for the first time ever. Drawn from studio tracks, rehearsal tapes and a live recording from the Fillmore West, Family Evil is released in an edition of 500 copies, with cover art by Norman Orr and extensive historical liner notes on an old-style tip-on jacket. Digital download included." -Roaratorio. |
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Artist: CURLEW Title: Gussie Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "On a hot Minneapolis night in the summer of 2001, Curlew played a scorching gig at the now-defunct Gus Luckys Gallery. Gussie documents that evening: the veteran improvising group dispensed with their compositions altogether and took an eminently successful walk along the free-improv tightrope. With a lineup featuring George Cartwright (saxophones), Davey Williams (guitar), Chris Parker (piano), Fred Chalenor (bass), and Bruce Golden (percussion). A limited edition of 436 copies, with handpainted covers by Anne Elias." - Roaratorio. |
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Artist: DISSIPATED FACE WITH DANIEL CARTER Title: Live at CBGB 1986 Format: 7" Label: Roaratorio Country: Roaratorio Price: $6.00 |
| "Not since the early days of MC5 at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, circa 1968, had there been such an organic melding of sheer metal-esque maelstrom and free jazz. These archival recordings from the legendary punk club CBGB capture a moment in time when open-minded musicians from the downtown scene were exploring the possibility of bringing Lou Reeds feedback-infested Metal Machine Music together with Albert Aylers Love Cry. Dissipated Face guitarist Kurt Hologram Ralske and special guest saxophonist Daniel Carter provided that implausible link between punk rock and avant garde jazz on these 1986 live recordings. Fueled by the throbbing rhythms of Steve X Dream Popkin and Ben Face Munves, who alternated on bass and drums, Ralskes twisted, thrashing power chords and shrieking licks blend with Carters cathartic alto sax wailing to make the perfect union of disparate worlds. Ralske would go on to attain a certain level of indie rock fame with Ultra Vivid Scene and subsequently make an impact as a London-based producer-conceptualist-avant-popmeister and visual artist. Carter would become one of the most ubiquitous figures on New Yorks free jazz scene, recording with William Parker, David S. Ware, Billy Bang, Alan Silva and Matthew Shipp and the cooperative bands Test and Other Dimensions in Music. But for this one moment back in 1986, their paths crossed with band mates Popkin and Munves, and the results were frighteningly intense. - Bill Milkowski. Cover artwork by Raymond Pettibon. |
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Artist: GASTALDI, NELSON Title: Symphony No. 3: Siddhartha Gautama O El Poder De La Nada Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "When psycho-spatial composer Nelson Gastaldi passed away in 2009 at the age of 77, he left behind a unique musical legacy that is only now beginning to be unveiled. A self-described musical nihilist with noble and mystic origins (as well as an accomplished visual artist), Gastaldi supported himself and his family with a job at an electric company in Buenos Aires, Argentina, while creating an astonishing body of work that went virtually unheard during his lifetime. Synthesizing his wide-ranging interests (medicine, linguistics, Chinese and German philosophy) into his music, he welcomed paranormal/initiatic experiences into the compositional process, creating homemade Sibelius-meets-Sun Ra symphonies. The only previous publication of his work was in Bananafish magazine, which featured an excerpt of Symphony No. 3 on an accompanying CD. The same issue also contained his sole English-language interview, in which he waxed: The human being runs at the side of a river. When he is young, he runs faster than the river; in mid-life he runs at the same speed as the river; and at last he falls down and the river keeps going. Take a dip into the strange and beautiful river of Nelson Gastaldi. Download coupon included." - Roaratorio. |
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Artist: KEITH, RODD Title: My Pipe Yellow Dream Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Song Poems Wanted" read the ads. "We need new ideas for recording!" The send-us-your-lyrics business was a borderline scam, taking whatever lyrics came their way from would-be songwriters and for a fee setting them to music. None of the results ever came close to being a hit, and to be sure, the vast majority was sufficiently bland or clumsy to insure no great karmic loss in their instant obscurity and miniscule press runs. But Rodd Keith the late, great genius whose prolific output was almost completely confined to the song-poem industry had a knack for turning sows ears into silk purses. The nature of the business required him to work quickly, with no second takes, and his skill at writing and arranging on the fly was not unlike that of a master improviser. When at his best, he put his unique musical stamp on some lucky customers submission. My Pipe Yellow Dream is the second Roaratorio anthology of the highlights of Rodd Keiths work. Compiling fifteen previously unreissued songs from 1966 through his death in 1974 including a never-before-heard cover of "Choo Choo Train" My Pipe Yellow Dream showcases the full range of his talents. From exquisite mid-60s pop balladry ("Deep Velvet") to blue-eyed soul ("You Dont Have To Alibi") to folk-rock ("Tired Of Waiting") to solo Chamberlain creations ("Red Sports Car") to gospel testifying ("O Jesus My Savior") to a pair of patriotic screeds (the all-spoken word "America The Not So Beautiful" and the bizarre-world lounge funk of "Search Out Your Soul, American"), this collection continues the rehabilitation of Rodd Keiths recorded legacy from thrift-shop throwaway to celebrated cult artist. A limited edition LP in a gorgeous gatefold jacket, with artwork by Josh Journey-Heinz and liner notes from song-poem vocalist Dick Kent." -Roaratorio. |
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Artist: LACY, STEVE & JOE MCPHEE Title: The Rest Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "In June of 1977, when they shared a double bill in Basel, Switzerland, STEVE LACY invited JOE MCPHEE to join him for a duet to close his set, for which McPhee elected to bring out his own soprano saxophone. The main part of Lacys performance was issued on the classic Clinkers LP (Hat Hut 1978); after thirty-six years, Roaratorio delivers The Rest, a one-sided LP marking the first and only time theyve played together. The simpatico meshing of their distinctly individual voices points toward a shared history on a different plane. Includes download coupon." - Roaratorio. |
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Artist: MARANHA, DAVID Title: Antarctica Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "David Maranhas recordings stretch back over 20 years with the Portuguese avant trio Osso Exótico, as well as collaborations with Zev and Minit. A follow up to Marches Of The New World (2007), Antarctica is made up of two side-long excursions into monolithic drone-rock. In the vein of Tony Conrad & Faust, Venus In Furs, La Monte Young and Terry Riley, Maranhas ensemble is driven by keyboards, strings, and hypnotized-heartbeat percussion. Like the great white expanse of the titular continent, it can be taken in simply as a glorious wash of sound; listen to it closely, however, and youll hear the smallest details jump out in high relief: a feather can move a mountain. An edition of 300 hand-numbered copies in silkscreened covers. Digital download coupon included." - Roaratorio. |
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Artist: MCPHEE, JOE Title: Alto Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: MCPHEE, JOE Title: Everything Happens for a Reason Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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"In the ever-growing discography of master musician Joe McPhee, his solo albums have stood out as supreme ur-texts of his consummate improvising and compositional skills. Joining the ranks of such landmark records as Tenor ,Graphics , and As Serious As Your Life ,Everything Happens for a Reason is an unadorned showcase of this influential pioneer in the world of creative improvised music. Recorded live in Austria in November of 2003, Everything Happens for a Reason features McPhee on pocket trumpet, soprano and alto saxophones. A limited edition of 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl, with a Judith Lindbloom silkscreen print on rice paper and liner notes by McPhee." - Roaratorio.
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Artist: MCPHEE, JOE Title: Soprano Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
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"A document of Joe McPhees first solo concert devoted exclusively to the straight horn, Soprano is both a companion volume to his previous LP for Roaratorio (the critically lauded Everything Happens For A Reason) and a follow-up to his classic album Tenor, which raised the bar for solo saxophone music over 30 years ago. Recorded live in St. Georges Church at the Guelph Jazz Festival in 1998, Soprano was inspired by Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening performance at the venue the previous year. The acoustics of the church provided a natural web of reverberation and delay, and compose as much a part of the sonic palette as Michael Overhages farmhouse did for Tenor. McPhees art is informed by the head and the heart in equal measures, and Soprano is thoughtful, passionate music from one of jazzs most eloquent practitioners. A limited edition of 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl, with a Judith Lindbloom silkscreen print on rice paper and liner notes by McPhee and Oliveros." - Roaratorio.
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Artist: McPHEE, JOE & CHRIS CORSANO Title: Under A Double Moon Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "With a career now spanning over 40 years and more than 100 recordings, Joe McPhee has shown that emotional content and theoretical underpinnings are thoroughly compatible — and in fact, a critically important pairing — in the world of creative improvised music. Since recording The Hated Music with Paul Flaherty in 2000, Chris Corsano has been hyper-active in far-reaching corners of the free improvised world. Under A Double Moon, recorded live in Paris during a spring 2010 tour of Europe, is their first album together (and, given how phenomenally simpatico a partnership theyve forged, we hope its not the last). With cover artwork by Judith Lindbloom and liner notes by John Szwed. Download coupon included." -Roaratorio |
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Artist: METZGER, PAUL Title: Anamnestic Tincture Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
 "Anamnestic Tincture is a live album by virtuosic musical carpenter Paul Metzger, culled from many hours of concert recordings. Side one comprises
Metzgers public debut on his modified banjo, recorded in 2002 at a former church-turned-underground art space in Minneapolis. One of his most memorable compositions, "After Milo" later turned up as an untitled improvisation on his CD for the Chairkickers label. Jumping ahead six years
(and several more banjo alterations later) to side two, the glittering "Orans" gets a workout at a memorial show for the artist Matt Zaun. As an
acknowledgment of the occasion, Metzger also gave a one-time-only performance -- "Dark Green Water" -- on another of his mutant instruments:
an acoustic guitar with the body drilled out to accommodate a cymbal set into its face, and ten assorted strings of varying lengths laid over the
top, giving it a particularly metallic and dissonant sound.
Anamnestic Tincture is released in an edition of 425 copies, with an original vintage snapshot mounted on each cover." -Roaratorio.
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Artist: MUSIC ENSEMBLE, THE Title: Format: CD Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The first documentation of this important free improvising group, featuring Roger Baird, Billy Bang, Malik Baraka, Daniel Carter, William Parker, and Herb Kahn. Existing during the heyday of NYCs Loft Scene, their name has often been cited as a crucial stage in the development of its members -- the seeds of such current ensembles as Other Dimensions In Music and Test can be found here -- but their singular music has gone largely unheard, save by those who were present at their concerts. This CD has been compiled from archival tapes recorded by Roger Baird; one complete performance from Brooklyns Kingsborough College, on 24 April 1974, and excerpts from a concert at the Holy Name School Auditorium, on 15 February 1975. Packaged in a mini-LP gatefold sleeve, with liner notes by Parker, Bang, Baird, and Carter, paintings by Marilyn Sontag, and a reproduction of the poster for one of the shows, this is the recording debut of one of jazzs greatest "lost" groups." - Roaratorio. |
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Artist: OLIVEROS, PAULINE Title: To Valerie Solanas And Marilyn Monroe In Recognition of Their Desperation Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Shortly after it was published in 1968 the SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas fell into my hands. Intrigued by the egalitarian feminist principles set forth in the Manifesto, I wanted to incorporate them in the structure of a new piece that I was composing. The womens movement was surfacing and I felt the need to express my resonance with this energy. Marilyn Monroe had taken her own life. Valerie Solanas had attempted to take the life of Andy Warhol. Both women seemed to be desperate and caught in the traps of inequality: Monroe needed to be recognized for her talent as an actress. Solanas wished to be supported for her own creative work. Commissioned by the Music Department of Hope College, Holland Michigan, To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation had its premiere in 1970. Though everyone knew Marilyn Monroe hardly anyone recognized Valerie Solanas or took her Manifesto seriously. I brought the names of these two women together in the title of the piece to draw attention to their inequality and to dedicate the piece." -Pauline Oliveros "This LP contains both the 1970 Hope College premiere, performed by a 14-piece ensemble, and a 1977 recording from Wesleyan University, performed by a 43-piece orchestra. Roaratorio is proud to present the first commercially available release of this eerie, beautiful, and important Oliveros work. Cover artwork by Judith Lindbloom. Download coupon included." -Roaratorio |
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Artist: OLIVEROS, PAULINE & REYNOLS Title: The Minecxio Connection: Live! At The Rosendale Cafe Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "One of the most unexpected yet fruitful partnerships of recent years: in the mid-1990s, Pauline Oliveros, electronic music pioneer and sage of the environmental-drone, began working with Reynols, the prolific and resolutely undefinable Argentinian group. Their first joint effort sent Oliveros music through the rigours of Reynols heavily processed studio treatments; THE MINEXCIO CONNECTION : LIVE! AT THE ROSENDALE CAFE finds them collaborating on-stage in real time. Recorded in August 2000 during Reynols first trek through North America, they offered up a version of "Six For New Time" (originally composed by Oliveros for Sonic Youths GOODBYE 20th CENTURY LP), along with idiosyncratic throat-singing and hypnotic dream/dronescapes. The venue may have been a small cafe in rustic upstate New York, but the sonic results sound like emanations from the deepest of Deep Listening caves under the earth." - Roaratorio. |
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Artist: TALIBAM! WITH DANIEL CARTER Title: New Nixon Tapes Format: LP Label: Roaratorio Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Since 2003, NYCs Talibam! have been charting a course through the improv waters in a way that few other groups can pull off. Rock, jazz, noise and all stops in between collide in an aggressive mix that defines free music in the best sense of the term: nothing is deemed out of bounds. Too much fun to be a po-faced postmodern exercise, and too expertly played to be sunk in a morass of good intentions, The New Nixon Tapes hurtles through two side-long pieces in an agile cascade of rhythmic and melodic ideas. Kevin Shea (drums) and Matt Mottel (synthesizer) have worked with Cooper-Moore and Rhys Chatham, among others; here theyre joined by master saxophonist / trumpeter / flautist Daniel Carter. Recorded live in the WFMU studios. MP3 download coupon included." -Roaratorio |
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Artist: AUTOMATED NOISE ENSEMBLE Title: Turntable Strings Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Rob Gawthrop and Bob Levene Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
| "Limited edition of 186 picture discs. Originally performed as a live DJ set that produces complex, evolving rhythms and phase patterns all with simplicity of sound in which, no records were used, neither were the needles, in fact the only thing on the turntables are short pieces of string stuck onto the decks with masking tape that strike a transducer on their way round. From this ANE produced a 12 inch picture disc, with the image of the string printed directly onto the vinyl, on one side there is a lock groove where the sound seemingly coincides when the needle goes over the image of the string. The other sides includes tracks from the live performances and two remixes from Team Doyobis Chris Gladwin." -Automated Noise Ensemble. |
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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Violichte Format: Cass Label: Robert & Leopold Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Recorded in the spring of 2010, this has been declared as the final output of MB entitled ‘Violichte. As a fatal swansong, MB loops of his own violia performance, processed through Bianchis familiar distorted fog of suspended drone. Each resonant loop slowly taking form until reaching an ultimate apex, creating an audible deity complemented with MBs own hertzian generators carefully manipulated to create one of the most delicate abrasions that experimental sound has ever joined." -Robert & Leopold
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Artist: BLEAK RACE Title: Communication Breakdown Format: Cass Label: Robert & Leopold Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| Limited to 100 copies. "Communication Breakdown is the lost gospel for the final blueprint of Bleak Race. Theresa Smith cuts up her time between guitar duties in Home Blitz, tape destruction and noise bleeding in York Factory Complaint, and lo-fi cheek pinching behind the wall of Lemon Dots. Somehow along the way she lost all sense of reality, completely immersing herself in the fine art of analog seduction, which opened up a Pandoras box of hellish tone. Treated violin sliced up and left for dead, junk electronics gasping for air and schizophrenic editing that has no place in this world. A wretched drool of warped sex appeal and beautiful disaster wrapped up in 30 minutes, maybe that isnt enough." - R&L. |
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Artist: BROKAW, CHRIS Title: Tidal Mud Format: Cass Label: Robert & Leopold Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Best known for his work in bands like Codeine, The New Year, Come, The Pullman, Consonant, Brokaw/Farina Duo, and others, Chris Brokaw has been a musical mainstay in the underground / alternative post-rock scene for over 25 years. This latest release shows Brokaw in a far more experimental light, shedding his familiar structures and going head first into the unknown. Originally released in a private edition of 22 copies, this cassette reissues his solo organ drone works that encompass his non-linear use of keyboard composition and a withdrawn sound of vibraphone, guitar and rain. Perfection in solitude." - Robert & Leopold. Edition of 100. |
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Artist: DILLOWAY, AARON Title: Tractor Cuts Format: Cass Label: Robert & Leopold Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Tape loop deviant, 8 track delinquent…Aaron Dilloway is no doubt the master of the edit. Wolf Eyes founder whos solo endeavors have ventured in the dubbed analog void delivers his new cassette of rural joust. Using recordings from Dilloways grandfathers tractor, which were later edited together for use in Twig Harpers SoundBed installation in 2011, these cuts represent a startling collection of bouncy noise drag and farmland machinery anarchy. Edition of 100." -Robert & Leopold.
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Artist: ELGGREN, LEIF Title: Sleepwalking Format: Cass Label: Robert & Leopold Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Swedish artist Leif Elggren has a monumental list of creative accomplishments in both the visual art world as well as a recording artist. His first recorded piece, Cu, from 1982 firmly established Elggren as a archivist of his own work using recorded source material and field recording techniques. For his newest cassette lucidly entitled Sleepwalking, Elggren taped notation of his recent performance which was debuted at the Sleep Disorders exhibition in NYC during the Summer of 2012. Listen in to full report of what happened after the artists eyelids have closed and the parallel universe unfolded. Edition of 100." -Robert & Leopold. |
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Artist: FUTURE BLONDES Title: Vila Gok 2 Format: Cass Label: Robert & Leopold Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Limited to 100 copies. With only a few sporadic recordings to document the hyperdelia nosebleed fixture that is the nomadic force of Future Blondes, only a select few have actually witnessed the collective myth that is only enhanced by the renegade trip that has been crafted by outsider artist Domokos and his Future Blondes creation. Previous endeavors with Helios Creed and current duties as evangelist for Rusted Shut, Future Blondes is a step sideways and around. This limited edition cassette documents one of their few live recordings to which Future Blondes have seen their sound evolve into part dance / part happening / part metaphysical freak out, taking place, with the help of Book of Shadows, at the Body Control performance space in Austin, TX of 10. Backside of this release switches gears in reverse to a previously unheard studio jam drone, employing the sound of ones higher self into the ethereal realm of white light." - R & L. |
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Artist: HOOR-PAAR-KRAAT Title: Elbow Drops Effortlessly Format: Cass Label: Robert & Leopold Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Most recently, Anthony Mangicapra has expanded his studies with his projected vision as Hoor-paar-Kraat, taking on a subtle form of layered density and broken theater to what some would call a step into the hypnagogic unknown. Always incorporating a sense of textural beauty found in everyday objects, each piece uses its own sculpted resonance that only HpK can bring out into the open for us, as listeners, to interpret. Typically releasing his recordings through his own imprint, Goat Eater Arts, and only on select occasion does HpK release compositions on outside labels. With the release of Elbow Drops Effortlessly, HpK encompasses an additional contribution by artist Ryan Lamm along side Mangicapra, focusing on taking this endeavor to a more mature, dream-like state." - Robert & Leopold. |
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Artist: YORK FACTORY COMPLAINT Title: Sentiment Format: Cass Label: Robert & Leopold Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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"Recent recordings by Brooklyn based industrial noise outfit, York Factory Complaint, with this release being the first output as a newly revised four piece consisting of original members Michael Berdan and Ryan Martin, including the addition last winter of Michael Yaniro (ex-Twin Stumps) and Theresa Smith (Home Blitz). Relentless feedback and nasty electronics, pulverized by heavy processing filtered through each individual interpretation of the moment. For fans of Hunting Lodge, Ramleh, Kleistwar, and Consumer Electronics" - Robert & Leopold. Limited to 76 copies.
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Artist: CROENE, FREDERIK & ESTHER VENROOY Title: Hout Format: CD Label: Robo Country: Belgium Price: $10.00 |
| "Esther Venrooy and Frederik Croene joined forces on a series of works that incorporates the piano as the primary sound source for electronic compositions. The pieces are subsequently recombined with the raw piano sound. Utilizing uncommon playing techniques such as prepared piano. The players/composers create a unique synergy between traditional instrumentation and contemporary electronica. Packaged in deluxe fold-out digipack cover. Designed by Iris Rombouts." - Robo Records. 2005 release. |
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Artist: VENROOY, ESTHER Title: To Shape Volumes. Repeat Format: CD Label: Robo Country: Belgium Price: $14.00 |
| "Esther Venrooy resides in a constant snakepit of modular movements and sonic acupuncture. An imaginary. almost filmic world where gameboys morph into howling wherewolves. ravening the shattered bits of saxophone sounds with vague buzzing and popping crackles. Anchored by the subtle use of harmony and dynamism. she opts for processed meditations in maze examples. combining more traditional electro-acoustic composer techniques with frigid. slightly harsher shots of deconstructed digital fuckery. She sure sharps some sonic pencils with swirling layers that are cut up. mangled and dragged into the present. Not your average run of the mill cocktail waitress becomes Hollywood coddle story but pretty goddamn addictive blackened ambience. Bathing in a selfconsciously dense atmosphere. loaded with contrasting metallic chunks of noise. she manipulates the rumbles with rich expression and acute arrangements that develop into a desolate electronic landscape. The balancing cord between audio and visual thundering she aspires towards. Her approach never wears out and diving into the realms of film fragments and striking field recordings. she pursues a journey where the source material is anything but traceable. All that megaton sonic alchemy weighs up and shows this is way more than an angry lady that turned her back on academic audio processing. the kind of sweaty dust that belongs in retirement homes. Next thing you know you are fragmented into a non-executable floorplan. The storm has spent itself." - Audiobot. |
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Artist: AEOLIAN STRING ENSEMBLE Title: Lassithi/Elysium Format: CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| 2012 repress. "The first full length release by the UK based Aeolian String Ensemble. Although originally set to be issued on the legendary United Dairies label, this material has now been remastered, includes a new piece, and is instead available in the US. The work was produced by David Kenny, a long time collaborator and engineer on many Nurse With Wound and Current 93 projects. Consisting of two evolving compositions, Lassithi (1992) and Elysium (a specially commissioned new work), this CD offers a more linear and fluid overview of this fascinating material than that of excerpted or early compilation appearances. Inspired by the tonal phenomenon associated with the Aeolian harp (a box shaped instrument with numerous strings tuned in unison on which the wind produces varying harmonic excitation over the same fundamental tone), The Aeolian String Ensembles post production (harmonic extraction) on sounds generated by the strings of various materials, recorded at sympathetic locations, create a hazy, shifting, and spacious atmosphere for your total aural immersion. Also features mind-bending cover illustrations by Christoph Heemann." - Robot. |
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Artist: AF URSIN Title: Murille Format: CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "A long overdue CD edition of Timo van Luijks first full-length album, originally released in 2002 as a small private edition LP on La Scie Dorée (Belgium). Murrille features a collection of extraordinary songs integrating a palette of acoustic instruments such as glass harmonium, flute, hand percussion, as well as voice with real time synthesis. With a host of bizarre inflections and aural investigations, Van Luijks music recalls some of the great experimentation of early krautrock, otherworldly atmospheres of the infamous Futura label, and a pure love of the moments when it all just falls into place. This newly remastered edition sounds fantastic and includes an additional track not included on the original LP release. Mixed by Christoph Heemann. Packaged in a Japanese style tip-on mini jacket that carefully reproduces the original album artwork." - Robot. |
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Artist: FERRARI, LUC Title: Archives Génétiquement Modifiées/Société II Format: CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Robot Records is honored and pleased to present two historic compositions for the first time on CD by the late, great Luc Ferrari. The programme opens with Archives Génétiquement Modifiées (Genetically Modified Archives), a work for memorized sounds from 2000. This composition (subtitled: Exploitation des Concepts No. 3) was the third in a series of later pieces in which Mr. Ferrari revisited aspects of his early concepts and compositional strategies to create wholly new works. The result here is a very bizarre, sensual, and beautifully-paced electroacoustic work of aural memories and (re)collections created by Mr. Ferrari utilizing sounds from his vast archive of musical activities. After a short intermission, the program continues with a true highlight of Mr. Ferraris early instrumental work entitled Société II from 1967. Subtitled: Et Si Le Piano ÿtait Un Corps De Femme/And If The Piano Were The Body Of A Woman (for 4 soloists and 16 instruments), this composition appeared opposite Presque Rien on the legendary Deutsche Grammophon LP. Société II may be viewed as an erotically-charged piece of musical theater where the soloists compete for the attention of a woman (the piano). This concerto, with its gestures and a fantastic kaleidoscope of styles and color, shows the extravagant qualities of the piano in its harmony, imagination, and brutality. Packaged in a full-color digipak with a 20-page bilingual (French/English) booklet featuring Mr. Ferraris early artwork, notations, and program notes, along with an extensive commentary by Jim ORourke and Jay Sanders. Remastered sound with audio restoration by fellow INA GRM alumnus, Jean Schwarz. A wonderful glimpse into the world of one of the most legendary, unique, and inspiring musical figures of the 20th century." -Robot |
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Artist: FUCHS, LIMPE Title: Vogel Musik Format: CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $15.50 |
| "Performing in the late 1960s and through the early 80s as half of the German duo Anima (with Paul Fuchs), Limpe Fuchs continues to explore music-making as a part of everyday life. Her vibrant live performances are numerous and consist of solo as well as ongoing collaborative works. With her new release, Vogel Musik (or Bird-music), Limpe is heard performing a series of duos with multi-instrumentalist Christoph Reiserer (saxes/clarinet). The duo then extends to a trio with Julia Schoelzel (on piano), featuring a piece recorded at Musikfest, Munich, in 2004. The themes that developed from these recent recordings revealed a beautiful and bizarre series of compositions that have now been collected on CD for the first time. Using her voice and violin, along with a vast assortment of custom and homemade percussion instruments, Limpes work emits a remarkable sense of space and otherworldly atmosphere that one may liken to acts in musical theatre. Vogel Musik takes flight with a fresh set of utterly unique pieces from a true musical visionary. Packaged in a full-color digipak with illustrations by Christoph Heemann." -Robot. |
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Artist: HEEMANN, CHRISTOPH Title: The Rings of Saturn Format: LP Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Originally only available as an artist-released CD, The Rings Of Saturn spans a lengthy narrative of music prepared over the years 1997-2008. Infusing early field recordings along with recently completed studio compositions, this new album of cinema pour loreille (cinema for the ear) transports the listener to discrete locations that evoke rich memories and sympathetic recollections. This remastered vinyl edition is pressed on clear wax in a beautiful, full-color jacket. Available initially during the recent Christoph Heemann US Tour (October 2010), The Rings Of Saturn is one of Heemanns finest and most anticipated new solo works." -Robot |
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Artist: HEEMANN, CHRISTOPH Title: The Rings of Saturn: Complete Edition Format: CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "This new CD edition features an additional 13 minutes of music not included on the previous LP and artist-released versions. The Rings of Saturn: Complete Edition encompasses a lengthy narrative of music prepared over the years 1997-2012. Infusing early field recordings along with recently completed studio compositions, this new album of cinema pour loreille (cinema for the ear) transports the listener to discrete locations that evoke rich memories and sympathetic recollections. This freshly remastered complete edition updates one of Heemanns finest and most anticipated new solo works. Packaged in a Japanese style tip-on mini jacket reproducing a beautiful variation of the original album artwork." - Robot. |
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Artist: HOFFMAN, KAY Title: Floret Silva Format: CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "1977 avant/folk progressive masterpiece from minimalist composer Kay Hoffman. Includes collaborative performances from Jacqueline Darby and Gaio Chiocchio -- members of the legendary, Italian progressive group Pierrot Lunaire. Originally slated for release on RCA/IT (Italy) in 78, the album was later rejected due to recording deadlines, release schedules, and requests by RCA for other artistic/musical considerations. However, many years later, Floret Silva did end up surfacing on a very different shore. Copies of the masters found their way to the highly eclectic Japanese label Belle Antique, whose musical director had heard rumors about the early project in the mid-1980s. As a result, Floret Silva was finally released eight years after the completed sessions in 1985 as a small edition, but very well received LP (Belle Antique 8502, Japan). Apparently, not many copies of the record were exported outside Japan. This merely created even more mystery surrounding the recordings as well as rumors associated with a Pierrot Lunaire-related project. The recordings were based on the Carmina Burana -- a collection of medieval poetry written by various authors of which little is known. Floret Silva was an attempt to find a voice for these anonymous authors in the late 1970s in Florence. Now, nearly 30 years after the completed sessions, Floret Silva blooms again...this time in the US. Available for the first time on CD with remastered sound, including a 12-page booklet with full lyrics and English translations. A lost (but now reclaimed) gem from the Italian progressive underground." - Robot. |
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Artist: IN CAMERA Title: Open Air Format: CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Remastered CD edition of the second album by In Camera (a collaborative project by Christoph Heemann and Timo Van Luijk). Open Air features very dynamic live material recorded outdoors, under the moon, in March 2004. Live improvisation integrating a stream of acoustic elements with continuous modulation. Packaged in a full-color digipak in an edition of 400 copies." - Robot |
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Artist: JACKMAN, DAVID Title: Up From Zero Format: CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Originally released in 1982 on cassette (Aeroplane Records AR3, UK), Up From Zero was David Jackmans third album of compositions. Integrating tapes, loops, shortwave radio signals, guitar tones, voice and a host of percussion elements, each piece accumulates into a complex collage of cycles that create a haunting set of movements and bizarre spatial relationships. These are the most sought after of Jackmans first, solo recordings. The proto-Organum sound. Also included is Offshore, (1980). This track, recorded with the assistance of Philip Sanderson (of Stormbugs/Snatch Tapes/Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey fame), is Jackmans earliest piece to appear on CD to date. Fluttering tones along with sustained slabs of bowed guitar create a droning crest and a fitting outro for these essential gems from the vault. Expertly restored from the original master tapes by Robert Hampson (of Main). Packaged in a card mini-jacket in an edition of 700 copies." - Robot. |
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Artist: MARTIN, ANDREAS & CHRISTOPH HEEMANN Title: Lebenserinnerungen Eines Lepidopterologen Format: Double CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Unavailable for over 10 years, this new edition of Lebenserinnerungen Eines Lepidopterologen (Memoirs of a Lepidopterist) collects the collaborative and early solo works of Andreas Martin and Christoph Heemann as an extensive 2CD retrospective. Moving between minimalist guitar compositions, tape-music narratives, and an array of cascading electronics, each of Martin and Heemanns solo recordings blend seamlessly within the milieu of their collaborative work. While one can hear how this forged the groundwork for much of the late-period H.N.A.S. material, the work here took the vision further, and helped shape a path toward their respective solo endeavors. Included are compositions from their first solo releases: Martins Doppelpunkt Vor Ort (1993) and Heemanns-Uber den Umgang mit Umgebung and Andere Versuche (1991), each originally released as small edition 10" vinyl. Also featured is a prime selection of previously unreleased material, obscure 7" tracks, and their collaborative opus from the (H.N.A.S.) Ach, Dieser Bart! LP (1988). This deluxe set includes two additional tracks (not appearing on the previous edition), remastered audio, and fully restored visuals. All packaged in a beautiful mini-LP gatefold jacket with an updated 4-page booklet. Over 100 minutes of music covering the years 1987-2000." - Robot. |
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Artist: ORGANUM Title: Ikon Format: CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Robot Records (in association with Siren Records, Tokyo) is very pleased to announce the re-release of the Organum Ikon EP in the digital domain. Appearing only for a short time as a small edition cassette on Aeroplane (1987), and then later as a 12" EP (1989) on Christoph Heemanns Dom Bartwuchs label, Ikon proved to be a monumental achievement in the Organum sound. Within the five compositions, Jackman combined self-made woodwind instruments along with vast droning environments to create spacious, haunting landscapes. These melodic undercurrents were paired with voice, percussive streams, and an assortment of textural elements that convey an incredibly eerie yet beautiful sense of space. Remastered and including an alternate mix of the title track, Ikon is an awesome document of one of David Jackmans most important works." - Robot. |
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Artist: ORGANUM/ NEW BLOCKADERS Title: Salute Format: CD Label: Robot Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Early collaborative material from 1984. Originally only available as a cassette (released initially by the UKs Frux label, then later on David Jackmans Aeroplane label) in very small editions. Salute is comprised of 8 parts and can be viewed as the first full-length collaboration between Organum and The New Blockaders following the release of the legendary Pulp 7" in 1983. These pivotal sessions, as the title suggests, were landmark recordings. The result was in essence an appreciative salute amongst the collaborators with respect to their individual as well as collective work. This remastered edition is a massive improvement in sound over the rare cassette versions. Not only do the intense tonal textures finally blaze through in their truly maximum form, but the CD edition also allows for an uninterrupted running program. Each disc is minimally packaged in a clear jewel box." -Robot. |
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Artist: ROCK MAG Title: #3 Format: Mag Label: Rock Mag Country: USA Price: $2.50 |
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Great Sproton Layer interview/article, no wave guide to Pink Floyd, reviews. See also Modern Rock Mag.
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Artist: ROCK MAG Title: #6 Format: Mag Label: Rock Mag Country: USA Price: $2.50 |
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Essay on late period George Harrison solo LPs, Superdope supplement, reviews. See also Modern Rock mag.
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Artist: AFFLICTED MAN Title: Get Stoned Ezy Format: LP Label: Rock Toilet Country: UK Price: $28.00 |
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"An exact reproduction of this early 80s scuzz pounder, first issued in the UK in early 1982. AFFLICTED MAN was the name acid-punk STEVE HALL chose to finalize his mark in history before his complete disappearance. Prior records documented some art-damaged UK DIY punk, but here he fully extended into a pre-High Rise no-fi blare of incredible proportions. Three long tracks."
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Artist: CRANK/THUMP THEATRE Title: A Night In The Cave Format: LP Label: Rockadelic Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"Heavy-Rock with progressive touch Split LP unearthed by the Rockadelic label featuring ultra-rare underground 70s hard rock sounds (c. 1971) with one side by each band. These tapes came from the Cavern Sound Studios (Stoned Circus, Bulbous Creation, Phantasia, Trizo 50); the Crank tape had Zep Jr.?written on the box, which is pretty accurate frame of reference. Thump Theater offers a more progressive rock sound with some good guitar breaks and catchy lyrics. Last handful of copies from a long gone edition of around 600 copies from 1997."
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Artist: JOSHUA Title: Opens Your Mind Format: LP Label: Rockadelic Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
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"When you think of 60s music from California the town of Sacramento doesnt immediately come to mind. But the state Capitol had a fertile music scene having given birth to mind melters Blue Cheer who paved the way for other locals like Joshua. Fronted by singer Mick Martin, Joshua were at the center of a scene that, for the most part, ignored the Flower Power shenanigans going on up north and worshipped at the alter of heavy Rock n Roll. Along with other locals like Sio Loris and Jericho, Joshua created guitar lead, blues based rock music with lyrics that reflected the current events of the day, War. Drugs. While the band never released any music back in the day, they did record an LPs worth of material along with some legendary live shows. Heavy guitar crunchers in a style that will remind you of one of our earlier release, Stone Garden." - Rockadelic.
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Artist: MILL RUN BAND Title: s/t (Pilot Meets Stars) Format: LP Label: Rockadelic Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| �"An album that is the product of the efforts of one man (Michael Golembesky). He plays almost all the instruments himself and sings on most of the tracks. He is by no means a virtuoso on any one instrument: the drums are recorded almost obscenely thin; his instruments sound mid-range in terms of price; his vocals sound as if they were recorded underwater through three wind screens. I can almost visualize the eight track, knocked around mixing board and duct tape. But who cares? This album reminds me of the time in college when the whole crew and I gathered some 40s, some blunts and headed to Lizards Rock to watch the meteor shower. I believe a few of us even brought little hand drums. I was a bit too neurotic to not approach this whole ritual with a bit of cynicism. There is something a bit too� "well adjusted�" in being able to merely enjoy good friends, cheap beer and the magic of the outdoors and the universe at large without the slightest hint self-consciousness. What this album offers, unashamedly, is the music of these experiences. Homegrown rock, with some nods to 1960s psych and folk. This is a quietly inspiring and at times transcendent album. It is the work of an uniquely attuned individual coming from a place Id like to visit. Im far too neurotic to live there but I have been known to slip into this state every now and then when I think about a lovely girl I used to know.�" - Rockadelic. 1997 release. |
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Artist: HILLARY BLAZE
Title: Exposure Format: CD Label: Rockadrome Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Official reissue of sought after 1977 metallic sci-fi hard rock private press record, featuring ex-members of the psychedelic 60s group Paper Garden. Available again for the first time in over 30 years! Recorded and mastered during the summer of 76, Exposure was originally released in 1977 on their own 30th Century Fox label. Music fans re-discovered this gem sometime in the 90s and the original pressing has since become a record collector prize. The spacey punk vibe, sizzling guitar and snotty vocals give the album a unique and ear-catching sound for its time. Re-mastered for compact disc from the original tapes, the resulting sound is nothing short of killer! Play this one loud! Enjoy another fine addition to Rockadromes Vintage label catalog." |
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Artist: IRON CLAW Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Rockadrome Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "First official release of early 70s Scottish underground heavy rock recordings from this group who were stomping around the UK with the likes of Black Sabbath, Hackensack, Pink Fairies, Juicy Lucy and others from the time, but never released a proper album. Their name, Iron Claw, was taken from the first line in King Crimsons song 21st Century Schizoid Man. In the beginning, Iron Claw probably became the worlds first Black Sabbath tribute band, as they incorporated the entire first Black Sabbath LP and single into their set! As they went on, their live sets included many originals as well as covers such as War Pigs, Fairies Wear Boots, Wicked World, Green Manalishi and Lady Whiskey. This collection of sixteen original studio tracks documents their existence from 1970 through 1974 and features a wonderful 16-page booklet with extensive liner notes, lyrics and photos!" -Rockadrome |
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Artist: JERUSALEM Title: Jerusalem Format: LP Label: Rockadrome Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
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"Gatefold cover vinyl reissue of stunning 1972 UK heavy rock monster produced by Ian Gillan, originally released on the Deram/Decca label. Requests have been pouring in for a vinyl version of this classic and now it has finally arrived! High quality gatefold cover near-exact reissue, right down to the labels, of this illustrious collector favorite and downright savage early 70s proto-metal hard rock beast of an album. Remastered for vinyl direct from the original master tapes. Includes insert with liner notes and photos. Lyrics are inside gatefold cover. File this under must-have reissue right alongside Truth and Janeys No Rest for the Wicked LP!" - Rockadrome.
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Artist: MARY BUTTERWORTH Title: Mary Butterworth Format: LP Label: Rockadrome Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Travel back in time to 1969 with our official reissue of one of the most highly sought after west coast psychedelic rock records ever recorded. A heady trip, filled with grooving reverb-soaked jams! Prized original pressings command more than $1000!! In the tumultuous Spring of 1968, the Mary Butterworth band was formed. Contrary to rumors, the group originated from Southern California and enjoyed being thrust onto the incredible scene that was developing during this remarkable time for music. After a year or so of performing throughout the region in places like the Marina Palace in Seal Beach and others, they decided to record and release a debut album on their own label. In 1969, on a shoestring budget, their album was recorded, manufactured and released. However, the limited pressing was pre-sold to fans and friends only, and never even made it into stores. It disappeared as quickly as it arrived, as did Mary Butterworth, who disbanded not long after the albums release, never to perform together again. After a decade or two, word of the album had spread to rabid collectors of vinyl records and late 60s music. Somewhere in Europe during this time, a bootleg vinyl was released and the legend of Mary Butterworth continued to grow, driving the price of the original pressing up into the hundreds of dollars. It would go on to be bootlegged a handful more times in various countries, further driving the price of the original pressing through the roof and continuing to enhance the reputation of this long lost piece of 60s psych rock history. Here it is 2011 and Mary Butterworth returns from the past once again, this time in the form of an official licensed, from the master tapes, limited edition vinyl reissue of the impossibly rare and sought after 1969 debut album." - Rockadrome. |
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Artist: NEGATIVE SPACE Title: Hard, Heavy, Mean & Evil Format: CD Label: Rockadrome Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Official reissue of ultra-rare 1970 underground psychedelic rock record born out of the early New Jersey scene and fueled by the revolutionary air of the period. The sound is raw basement fuzz guitar charged rock in its purest form, inspired by the likes of Cream, Blue Cheer, Jimi Hendrix, Nazz and others! Fueled by the revolutionary air that prevailed during his days at Rider College and the entrapment of marriage at a young age, Rob Russen drew upon his frustrations and anger as well as the influences of Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Blue Cheer, the Illusion, Steppenwolf, and Nazz among others of the era to create the material for Hard, Heavy, Mean & Evil. Russen recruited musicians Jimmy Moy (guitar/vocals), Bob Rittner (bass/vocals) and Lou Nunziatta (drums) to form the original lineup of Negative Space. Over a three year period, with minor variations, the group continued to perform, record and evolve into Snow. In the late 60s Rob Russen, with his cherry red Gibson SG, Baldwin Exterminator amplifier and fuzztone was a powerful force in the heavy rock emanating from the East Coast. Studio engineer Tony Pappa of MSI often commented about how difficult it was to contain and capture the power and fury of Russens music on the four track equipment used on these recordings. Negative Space and Snow recorded on Castle Records, a small independent label formed by Russen in 1965. All recording were limited issue with only a thousand copies of each single and 500 copies of the original Hard, Heavy, Mean & Evil album released. With the release of the album, Negative Space toured the East Coast extensively, opening for such national recording acts as Steppenwolf, Vanilla Fudge, Three Dog Night, Rare Earth, Eric Burdon & War and Grand Funk Railroad." -Rockadrome |
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Artist: OHO Title: Okinawa Format: CD Label: Rockadrome Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Official reissue of this rare tripped-out progressive psychedelic rock private press record out of Baltimore circa 1974. This release features the entire original recording as it was meant to be, but was shortened for release back in 1974 due to the time constraints of the original vinyl format. Package includes liner notes and photos and 20-page booklet with lyrics, short stories, quotes, poems and more. The unique progressive style of Oho should appeal to fans of the Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Gentle Giant school of progressive music as well as those looking for something original, psychedelic and/or bizarre and daring. Were they musical geniuses or just completely zonked out on acid? Housed in high gloss tri-fold digipak cover with 20-page booklet insert!" -Rockadrome |
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Artist: POOBAH Title: Steamroller Format: CD Label: Rockadrome Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Reissue of one of the top late 70s underground monster hard rock guitar feasts of all-time. Originally released in 1979 on the bands own label, it is a top collector item sought by vinyl mongers around the world. Experience this classic re-mastered from the original reels, complete with 12-page booklet containing an interview with guitarist Jim Gustafson, lyrics, photos, and 5 absolutely killer bonus non-LP tracks! Come with Poobah and Jump Thru The Golden Ring!" - Rockadrome |
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Artist: TRUTH AND JANEY Title: No Rest For The Wicked Format: LP Label: Rockadrome Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Limited edition, high quality vinyl reissue of this underground hard rock monster from 1976 by Iowas legendary power trio led by guitarist BillyLee Janey. Old style tip-on jacket and quality vinyl pressing. Includes insert with history of the group, lyrics and rare band photos. Since the release of No Rest for the Wicked in 1976, its stature among collectors of 60s and 70s hard rock and psychedelia has grown steadily, with original copies now fetching a large sum in the collectors market. It has often been lauded as perhaps the best independent U.S. heavy rock release of the entire 1970s." -Rockadrome |
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Artist: TRUTH AND JANEY Title: No Rest For The Wicked Format: CD Label: Rockadrome Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Brand new reissue of their classic 1976 heavy rock power trio album and underground collectable record featuring 4 bonus tracks! Chock full of powerful 70s guitar riffs courtesy of BillyLee Janey! Includes 16-page full color booklet with liner notes, photos and lyrics! A must-have release for any fans of 70s hard rock and groups like Budgie, Cactus, Bloodrock, Poobah, Cain, Buffalo, Granicus, Toad, etc." -Rockadrome |
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Artist: GRIM Title: 5eyes Format: Cass Label: Rockatansky Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
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"Devastating obscure industrial noise outfit GRIMs first new recordings from the 80s. Voice spelling spastic, sound aggressive for loudness but its also sensitive and stillness. The songs has many faces but doesnt change his point of view. Its realy apocalyptic. The new phase of GRIM is start from here." - Rockatansky.
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Artist: KITO-MIZUKUMI ROUBER Title: Concert at the Royal Albert Hall Format: Cass Label: Rockatansky Country: Japan Price: $12.00 |
| "First release for the last 7" from Siltbreeze and also their first live recordings. KMR is the weirdest dance band ever that broken avant garde blues and garage rock failed into Japanese soul music, enka. They are freak, play freak and this is the document to know freak. All intense, the punkiest." - Rockatansky. |
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Artist: YOUNG, NATE Title: Regression Vol. 3: Other Days Format: CD Label: Rockatansky Country: Japan Price: $20.00 |
| "The last volume in the Regression from Nate Young. The sound all ascetic that brings high voltage tension behind full of dead asleep ambience. Apocalyptic, hypnotic and also I can tell a ZEN Buddhism attitude. THis is a slow heavy lethal injection from him." - Rockatansky. |
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Artist: GNOD & WHITE HILLS Title: Gnod Drop Out With White Hills II Format: Double LP Label: Rocket Country: UK Price: $26.00 |
| "Rocket Recordings are pleased to announce the reissue of the now highly sought-after 2010 double LP Gnod Droput With White Hills II. This reissue comes packaged in different artwork from the original release. Gnod Drop Out With White Hills II is the first official collaboration between two of the most colossal cosmic manglers on the planet, that of astral rejecters Gnod (Manchester, UK) and space-rock juggernauts White Hills (New York). Hot on the heels of their Not Not Fun sold out release, as well as countless self-unleashed CD-Rs and various indie label alliances, Gnod have been stirring their galactic soup of flashbacked rituals with unpredictable, incendiary results, both on record and as a live experience. Having them join forces with White Hills for this record is akin to having the aural equivalent of those 3D magic eye stereograms -- looked at in one way, they just dont make sense, but seen through the repetition of the music, the result is out of this world. Since White Hills last outing with Rocket Recordings on the Collisions split with The Heads in 2009, the band have successfully released their debut album for Thrill Jockey and now have notched up an impressive back catalog of releases. Their fiery brand of heavy space-rock has seen them burning up live appearances over the years as they continue on the path towards uncharted territories. To celebrate this thundering union, Rocket Recordings have embarked upon the release of a double vinyl LP expanding into four phases of pulsating mantras, awash with all the hypno-propulsion both bands motor skills can pilot. Its brimming with surrendered NEU!-like patterns, like both bands driving through Dingerland with "L.A. Woman" blasting from the rushing air. We have 16-minute elegant Bel Air suites, whose ebbing and flowing mesmerizing grooves burst with swooping grandiose synths, like gentle waves hanging in time. Interjections of oscillating guitars and keyboards, designed to propel the captured listener into a trance-inducing sun roof of kosmische blur, rupture out through the expansive blue. The 8 tracks are embedded with four long 10-minute+ pieces and these anchor the whole experience firmly into an exciting haze of echoing psychedelia, electronic and experimental Krautrock trippo-nova. After which, all four corners of your minds eye have been consecrated in a world of undulating symphonies." -Rocket. |
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Artist: SERPENTINA SATELITE Title: Mecanica Celeste Format: LP Label: Rocket Country: UK Price: $22.00 |
| "This is the third official recording by South American space-rockers Serpentina Satelite. After the success of their album Nothing To Say, the band returned to their studio in Peru to record this more ambitious and accomplished-sounding follow-up. The album recalls all the great psychedelic bands from the past 40 years, from 70s bands like Ash Ra Tempel, Amon Düül II and Hawkwind; through to 80s bands like Monster Magnet (particularly Tab-era) and Loop and todays contemporary cosmic warlords like Eternal Tapestry, White Hills and Magic Lantern. Mecanica Celeste is a conceptually unique take on psychedelia, conceived by manipulating traditional religious songs, text ideology and poetry with heavy fuzz guitars, swirling drones, spaced-out wah solos, motorik rhythms and delayed vocals, to create a head-melting experience of an album which climaxes with the proto-metal riffs of track "Sendero," giving the band a fresh-sounding approach to the well-trod grounds of space rock: Serpentina Satelite tried to get to heaven but ended up in space." -Rocket |
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Artist: GNOD Title: INGNODWETRUST Format: LP Label: Rocket Recordings Country: UK Price: $24.00 |
| "Brothers and sisters, to prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries of Gnod, let us call to mind our sins. We believe in one Gnod, Gnod Almighty, makers of heavy black slab on Earth. We believe in one Chord, seamless, sublime, the one and only sound of Gnod, eternally begotten of the marcher. Gnod from Gnod, light from light, true Gnod from true Gnod, begotten, not made, of one Being with the maker; through Them all riffs were played. For us and for our salvation They came down from Manchester; by the power of Tonys (un)limit, They came to reincarnate and made the last discod beat. Tonys First Communion, if you choose to be blessed by this record, is the first reception of the Sacrament on vinyl; this long-standing favorite has been celebrated over centuries of incarnations and Rocket are proud to release its rite of passage. The ceremony of this Communion lasts 20 minutes and 2 seconds. On the second side, Gnod rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; They ascended into noise upon this Earth and were seated at the right hand of the Vatican. This 13-minute holy doctrine sees Gnod take away the sins of the world; it cleanses the incense (the in-sense-out-sense) from the all-seeing (third) eye, like a Faustian Butthole Surfers sharing bread with Shit & Shine and John Carpenter turning water into wine. Some ceremonies owe their institution to purely physical reason; for Gnod, its the mystical reason that They represent. INGNODWETRUST is founded on honor and soul, They for one are finally washing their hands with downcast eyes." - Rocket Recordings. |
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Artist: BAD TRIPS Title: Open Format: LP Label: Rocketship Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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“A year and some ago THE BAD TRIPS eased their debut album out of the wilds of Ventura, California and every fan of modern psych and/or MONOSHOCK / LIQUOR BALL stood up and cheered. Something new by GRADY RUNYAN! But it turned out that The Bad Trips was a sum of its parts and, man, those parts are good. Now the Trips are back with their second record and if the first was a moon shot, Open strands you on a cold, dark planet. Atmospheric mind melting while a far off sun dies. Killer stuff.” -Scott Soriano (S-S)
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Artist: LIQUOR BALL Title: Evolutionary Squalor Format: LP Label: Rocketship Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The infamous LIQUOR BALL return with another live dose of full-on blown rock action. Joined by legendary sax man STEVE MACKAY (STOOGES) among others, the band tears through a live set recorded at Gradys Record Refuge in Ventura, California, April 4, 2008." - Rocketship |
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Artist: X Title: Aspirations Format: LP Label: Rocknroll Blitzkrieg Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Just over 30 years after its original release, the classic Australian punk LP X-Aspirations is is finally back in print on vinyl! Originally recorded in 1979 and released in 1980, LOBBY LOYDE (Coloured Balls) produced this album in a blistering 5 hour session. To say its a raw, tough album would be a gross understatement. STEVE LUCAS ragged vocals and dagger-sharp guitar work with rhythm section in a way that makes you feel like youre getting worked over like a sorry punching bag. Over the past 30 years, as three of the four original members have died, X has carved a niche for themselves as one of those rare bands who truly sound like no other. And in the process, X-Aspirations has become a belated bonafide punk cult classic. On tour now." - Rocknroll Blitzkrieg.
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Artist: IS Title: Ostentatiously White Format: One Sided LP Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Ostentatiously White is an assault of abrasive elements dedicated to the active listener. Utilizing turntables, found sounds, pedal noise, home built circuits, vocal disembodiments and other various gadgetrys; this is not to be taken seriously in the most serious of times."...for fans of anything that John Wiese is involved in....Limited to 150 copies w/ Screened fold over Black on White covers.." - Rococo. |
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Artist: JULIE MITTENS, THE Title: April/June Format: LP Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Guitar/drum jams ala Fushitsusha, Ascension, etc... As described by the band: "April/June...recorded in our rehearsal room first part of 2006 in Leiden, The Netherlands. The tracks are from two different sessions hence April/June (we like to keep our titles simple). The idea was to make a cyclical work (round like an lp) so theres no side A or B. The listener can start anywhere. The tracks are just there...they do not really start or end and they seem to add to each other somehow after a while (at least thats my experience)... Although the tracks feel like a relaxed ride at times, they where recorded at the usual intense volume levels...really, really loud! Dont know how they came out this way... All four tracks had this same relaxed feeling about them so thats why we decided to put them together. Our tracks have no name, no number, they are what they are..." Still copies available of this 2006 release. |
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Artist: KK RAMPAGE Title: Start Format: 7" Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
| "Holocaust rockers KK RAMPAGE unleash a new EP of absolute terror, and the bands first true sell-out effort. Recorded by the man they call "The Next Steve Albini", Sides E & F is the heaviest record this side of 1977. It not only continues the amazing growth KK has shown since replacing the original drummer, but also takes it to a startling new level. Louder than sound and brighter than the sun, this record will blast you through the gates of Valhalla. Imagine SUN RA crossed with a gasoline fire, imagine THE BEATLES...actually in a gasoline fire. This record shows you that just because its violent, misogynistic and heavily drugged, that doesnt mean it cant be overwhelmingly beautiful. Just check the critics -- "Theyre seriously a bunch of no talent hacks." -- Liz Armstrong (Chicago Reader), "America has run out of ideas. Anyone whose heard KK RAMPAGE will agree with me." -- Tony Herrington (The Wire), "Those poor, poor instruments." -- Greg Kot (Chicago Tribune). |
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Artist: MY CAT IS AN ALIEN Title: Theres a Flame...Sometimes Format: LP Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $16.50 |
| "MY CAT IS AN ALIEN is the improv duo formed by the brothers MAURIZIO and ROBERTO OPALIO from Torino, Italy, in late 1997. They both primarily play electric and acoustic guitars, various toy-instruments and voice toy-microphones, percussions." - Rococo. |
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Artist: OLSON, JOHN & SPENCER YEH Title: Live At Kathys Birthday Party Format: One Sided LP Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| John Olson (Wolf Eyes, American Tapes, etc..) and Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) live. Numbered edition of 200. |
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Artist: PRURIENT & PANICSVILLE Title: The Rubber Baron Format: 8" Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Limited to 330 on red vinyl. |
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: 21st Century Field Hollers and Prison Songs Format: LP Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"This album has been made entirely from samples taken from the Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues album, which I made with Ralf Wehowsky for A Bruit Secret. Like that album it is a tribute to the spirit of the blues, viewed through a prism of 21st century cultural criticism. It evokes an earlier era when the relationship between a performer and a song arose out of a community, not a property relation.. In appropriating my own material I have short-circuited the prevailing ethos of piracy and bricolage, and returned in a sense, to my self. Despite being made in New Zealand, and using some recordings from the Rhineland, the two places that are really central to this album are the Mississippi Delta and the island of Jamaica. - Bruce Russell (Dead C)." - Rococo. Limited to 300 copies.
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Artist: VIDEO HIPPOS Title: Dolphin Format: One Sided LP Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Lightning Bolt giving birth to Japanther while at Video Light show....Spastic Drumming...Frantic Guitar with your favorite Video Game Samples...Limited to 150 copies w/ Screened Blue on Pink Covers on a White DJ Sleeve.." - Rococo. |
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Artist: WETHER Title: Stones and Light Format: One Sided LP Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Demon breath drone and peasant rust collating into an ancient spell. Dirty. Sick. Then dust. "Stones And Light" collapses just over the eleven minute mark, and in that time manages to stir the unholy in the throats of the malignant. Dust."..Limited to 150 copies w/ Screened Navy on Baby Covers on a Navy DJ Sleeve...." - Rococo. |
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Artist: WIESE, JOHN & ANDY ORTMANN Title: Grux Format: One Sided LP Label: Rococo Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| Die-cut metal cover, limited to 200 copies. Postage counts as 4 items due to weight. |
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Artist: RADIO SHACK/RADIO SHOCK Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Roger/Breathmint/Carbon/Ignivimous/Sunship Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "...this release includes a side of lo-fi electronics/noise and a side of one-man band driven rock/dance-party! packaged in a RadioShack-modified bag." - Breathmint. "a joint release with such other prestigious labels as Breathmint, Ignivomous, Sunship, and Carbon Records! RADIO SHACK is a pair of robots, rumored to have been built by members of ORTHO, who make electronic glitch soundscrapes. RADIO SHOCK is the one-man disco/no-wave band of M.P.Lockwood of COCK ROBOT." - Roger Records. |
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Artist: BUSH TETRAS Title: Boom In The Night Format: LP Label: Roir Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Early 80s funk/punk studio recordings from barbed wire feminists, remastered. "Imagine.. a female fronted Gang of Four. Bush Tetras could be that good." - CMJ.
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Artist: FLIPPER Title: BlowN Chunks Format: LP Label: ROIR Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"Recorded live at NYCs legendary CBGBs, November 1983, you get all nine tracks from the original cassette-only release, plus four bonus tracks. Features liner notes by CARLO McCORMICK, STEVE DePACE, and MICHAEL GOLDBERG."
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Artist: MIRRORS Title: Another Nail In The Remodeled Coffin Format: CD Label: ROIR Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "An expanded reissue of the classic but criminally under heard Another Nail In The Coffin album from 1970s Cleveland underground combo MIRRORS. Led by JAIME KILMEK, the band are as gleefully damaged or as bubbly brutal as anything that came out the Cleveland scene, delivering hook-and-harmony-loaded power pop like nobodys business. Includes all eleven tracks from the original release (last issued in 1989), along with fifteen bonus tracks culled from both the Nail sessions and some sessions done for an unreleased second album. Includes great liner notes by Klimek." |
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Artist: SUICIDE Title: Half Alive Format: LP Label: Roir Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| Repressed! "Earliest, most innovative Suicide material. NYCs pioneer electronic punk rockers with never before available 75 to 79 tracks. Original liner notes by Lester Bangs. 3 bonus tracks!" "What we got here is vintage studio Suicide from the archives and live tapes on a par in atmosphere if not violence with 23 Minutes In Brussels, their own notorious Metallic K.O. There is none of the onstage carnage which frightened early audiences, but maybe that wouldnt have transferred to tape anyway. Space Blue, Long Talk and Speed Queen were recorded at Suicide Home Studios in 1974/5, Dreams at Sun Dragon Studio in 75, and are not all that different from their later work except perhaps in murkiness which is all to the good. Dreams is very close to their later Island single Dream Baby Dream, and also sounds a lot like certain things Eno would be doing in the mid-to-late seventies. Similarly, Love You, recorded at Suicide Home Studios in 79, displays Suicides little recognized sense of (no joke) pure pop. Play the Velvets original Waiting For The Man back to back with the Ohio Express Yummy Yummy Yummy, then this back to back with Archives Sugar Sugar and the connections are clear. Cool As Ice from the same sessions is the coolest (only?) take on Stooges Penetration ever, and proves once again that Alan can scream like nobody since Iggy at his pinnacles." - Lester Bangs, 1981. |
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Artist: BROWN VELVET COUCH Title: Once In A Very Blue Moon? Format: 7" Label: Roof Bolt Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "This 1994 single finds the otherwise unheralded songstress Viv Crowe backed by the band Trash, and sounds a bit like Barbara Manning if she had been joined at her peak by Crazy Horse to record in a tin roof shed on the Otago plain. Features members of Dead C, Alpaca Brothers, and Cyclops." - Roof Bolt. |
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Artist: GALBRAITH, ALASTAIR & DEMARNIA LLOYD Title: Tae Keening? Format: 7" Label: Roof Bolt Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "Galbraith is a 2006 winner of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award. He has recorded for Xpressway, Corpus Hermeticum, Emperor Jones, Siltbreeze, Xeric, and his own Next Best Way label under his own name and with A Handful Of Dust. He sings two songs here. Lloyd, of Cloudboy and Mink, contributes vocals and lyrics to two otherwise unavailable tracks on this 1995 release. Pretend theyre singing in Finnish and youll think its the best thing Fonal ever released." - Roof Bolt. |
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Artist: TERMINALS, THE Title: Medusa Format: 7" Label: Roof Bolt Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Says Your Flesh, "a double-barreled shot of infectious, angst-ridden noise pop." The quintets blend of Southern Pacific Gothic and garage aggravation has never gotten its due, but longevity and patience may yet afford them the last laugh. After a moderately busy time in the early 90s, this 1996 single was their final studio release until 2008s Last Days Of The Sun. Features members of Flies Inside the Sun, the Renderers, Rain, Eye, and Sleep. " - Roof Bolt.
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Artist: THIS KIND OF PUNISHMENT Title: This Kind Of Punishment Format: CD Label: Roof Bolt Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"This 1983 album was Peter and Graeme Jefferies? first foray into 4 track recording; at Chris Knox?s insistence it was initially pressed by Flying Nun but it was out of print for years before Roofbolt reissued it in 1998. This is what happens when a couple of New Zealand country boys shut themselves into a big city flat with a borrowed tape machine and their well-studied John Cale, This Heat, and Wire records. The Jefferies brothers have subsequently recorded under their own names and with the Cakekitchen, Two Foot Flame, and about a dozen side projects." - Roof Bolt.
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Artist: MOONDOG Title: The German Years 1977-1999 Format: Double CD Label: Roof Music Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
| "Originally released by Roof Music in 2004, this is a 2CD compilation of recordings from the last 20 years of visionary composer Louis Thomas Hardins (aka Moondog) life, when he lived in Germany and composed, arguably, perhaps the most vibrant and eclectic music in his whole canon. CD1 is comprised of studio recordings from 1977-1999 -- songs for pipe organ, chamber ensemble, piano and voice, string quartet, saxophone, etc., and CD2 is an exceptional recording of his last live performance from Arles, France, recorded a month before his death. Featuring pianist Dominique Ponty, who plays 34 of his pieces for piano. Includes a 44-page booklet of photos, notes, essays, interviews, lyrics, and more, housed in a deluxe hard cardboard package." - Roof Music. |
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Artist: BEE MASK Title: Vaporware/Scanops Format: LP Label: Room40 Country: Australia Price: $25.00 |
| "Bee Mask is a project from Chris Madak, a native of Cleveland, Ohio now residing in Philadelphia, and a vehicle for an intricate and deeply warped sensibility which remains coherent without being beholden to specific techniques or materials, drawing equally on the ecstatic human/machine couplings of 1970s West Coast synthesis, the fractured gloss of sampler concrète, the iridescent thumbprint of high minimalism on the IQ-decimating throb of trunk bass, and the barely-sublimated currents of vertigo and terror that course beneath the most unsettling moments in the canon of home-recorded psychedelia. Editions of his recent work are available on Spectrum Spools and Room40. His new edition for Room40, Vaporware/Scanops charts a new and at times unfamiliar musical universe, a galaxy of complex patterns in constant states of evolving and dissolving. These are pieces that unfold with an unerring organic sensibility that belies the sound-sources used. Like much of Bee Masks output to date, this is a world of controlled voltage and sequenced chaos. But there is a twist in the form of the unexpected and utterly welcome addition of voice. Over the two long-form pieces, Bee Mask reveals a juxtaposition of deeply electronic materials with a swelling cascade of vocal loops recorded by Autre Ne Veut and Katherine Brady. The resulting sound is quite unlike anything weve heard from Bee Mask before. Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Limited vinyl edition of 500 copies housed in a gorgeous matte celloglazed sleeve." - Room40. |
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Artist: ARMPIT/F.L.O.W.E.R. Title: Split Format: Lathe Cut LP Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $20.00 |
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Artist: CLARINETTE Title: Well-Sung Woes Format: Lathe Cut 8" + CDR Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: NZ Price: $18.00 |
| "Special numbered artist edition of the Root Don Lonie For Cash EP from Clarinette. After the Haze LP on Ecstatic Peace!/Father Yod, Transmuting Fall on New Zealands Celebrate Psi Phenomenon and Nul on Cassetto Editions, Root Don Lonie released this 4 track EP which is presented here in a numbered edition of 27 including a weather changing vellum transparency over cover and a stereo CD-R of the 8" EP. Featuring unintelligible loops of the velvety voice of an underground music legend on the early Clarinette recording "Music For A Honda Commercial" - Clarinette. |
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Artist: COURTIS, ANLA & CJA/VLUBA Title: Split Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
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"reynols courtis & armpits cja collabarate for an acoustic drone pink floyd heavy bread few minutes, vluba as alwaya amaze with their effortless pre-noodle swamplike tune" -Root Don Lonie For Cash
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Artist: FUTURIANS Title: Automatic Eyebrow Format: CDR Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
| "futurians doscover ther can make drone music as good as anyone else, still with the creative recording (ie: with old video cameras & tapedecks) so some bits come out pretty murky, 2 chords & a megaphone" -Root Don Lonie For Cash |
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Artist: FUTURIANS Title: Projektor Format: CDR Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
| "freeze! this is it, anything & everything, the futurians fuck up, make up songs, no tunes, just driven pounding stepmum hating music, sparse & energetic" -Root Don Lonie For Cash |
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Artist: FUTURIANS/DICK THE PHONE Title: Split Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
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"two of dunedin best noise-rock-blues-no-wave-pop bands make a mega split record, here it is, all guitars & drums & vocals & synthy noises" -Root Don Lonie For Cash
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Artist: NOYES, LEE & ALEX MACKINNON Title: The Bell Like Beat Up Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
| "two dunedin guys, up & comers, alex on homemade guitar & lee on free jazz drums, making a racket. expect to see these guys names pop up everywhere on the new nz free music scene" -Root Don Lonie For Cash |
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Artist: NYOUKIS, DYLAN/SMACK MUSIC 7 Title: We Against Bacteria Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
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"crazy brits" -Root Don Lonie For Cash
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Artist: RAHMANE Title: Islands Of Pathos Format: Lathe Cut Square 7" Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $16.00 |
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"nz recluse, lives in the bush with his old lady & son, when not being a house hubby he sneaks into the basement & tinkers on piano & saxaphone to make some wonderful spirit free music. square eastern style lathe record" -Root Don Lonie For Cash
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Artist: SWAGGER JACK/BJERGIN Title: Split Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $13.00 |
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"this being a split record of antony milton & those guys from gold sounds norway, drone tagteam wrestling dance off" -Root Don Lonie For Cash
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Artist: V/A Title: Menhir Format: Double 7" Lathe Cut Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $18.00 |
| "Featuring gfrenzy (onehunga, nz), autoharpies (dunedin, nz), criadero en seres (Buenos Aires, Argentina), kraus (devonport, nz), shelterdeath (orange county, usa), witcyst (whangarei, nz), fabio orsi (turin, italy), flushing device (turin, italy), cja & chrissie butler (wellington, nz), bright duplex(austin, texas, usa)." -Root Don Lonie For Cash |
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Artist: WITCYST Title: Mince Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: Root Don Lonie For Cash Country: New Zealand Price: $15.00 |
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Artist: AHMED, ILYAS Title: Goner Format: CD Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Portland, Oregon bedroom wanderer ILYAS AHMED emerges from the shadows and offers up his first new batch of songs in some time. Over a year in the making, Goner sees Ahmed telescoping his previous acoustic wanderings into fuzzed out rockers and a hypnotic set of beautifully tight knit nocturnes. The whole things kicks off with a massive rush to the head called "Earn Your Blood," which has Ilyas effortlessly channeling any number of stoned out trajectories found in a Topanga Canyon ditch circa mid 70s. Massive waves of hiss still penetrate the mix, and so do the smeared vocal trails, its just that its all a little more in focus this time around. The comedown into "Exit Twilight" with GROUPER at the helm is a haunting broadcast that will for sure knock around in your skull for days. Edition of 1,000 CDs in an offset buff case with maroon ink." -Root Strata. |
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Artist: AXOLOTL/YELLOW SWANS/GERRITT Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Originally released in 2005 as a limited edition CD-R on Yellow Swans JYRK label, this three-way collab now gets a proper run on wax. Recorded in Oakland at the Huffin House before the Swans made the retreat back to Portland. Despite the weight of these players when they rock alone, this jam really never gets into full on white out territory. Instead, its loaded to the brim with wavy neon distortion and soothing low end that occasional drops out into huge washes of emptiness. The opening passage of GMS guitar flecks sympathizing with Karls string wash is alone worth the price of admission. Red vinyl with lime green splatter." - Root Strata. |
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Artist: BARN OWL Title: The Conjurer Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"The Conjurer is the latest offering by Bay Area duo BARN OWL. This new long player finds EVAN CAMINITI and JON PORRAS finally (by way of an actual recording studio) documenting something that is a bit closer to their very heavy live sets, with expanded peaks of white light distortion and enormous valleys of bottom end. Each side opens with a brief funeral dirge to set the mood, a precession of bare bones drum beats and bell like guitar statements that bridge the gap to the wider open spaces of the almost side long "Across The Desert Of Ash" and "Ancient Of Days." It may seem obvious, or even a little overwrought, but it has to be said that these guys really do evoke all kinds of cinematic drama with their music. Apocalyptic westerns, bleak melodramas, mother nature fever dreams, it all seems to come to mind amid the evening guitar passages, incantations, flute tones, and finally, the solo piano that emerges lost among the electric mayhem to close the album. Considering the amount of terrain, The Conjurer is far from being scattered or rushed sounding. The record as a whole moves at a crafted even rhythm, slowly merging from one scene of violence to the next of almost silent recovery, then back up the mountain again. An edition of 500 LPs, half colored deep red, half black. Cover etching by Evan Caminiti." -Root Strata
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Artist: BARN OWL Title: The Conjurer Format: CD Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The Conjurer is the latest offering by Bay Area duo Barn Owl. This new long player finds Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras finally (by way of an actual recording studio) documenting something that is a bit closer to their very heavy live sets, with expanded peaks of white light distortion and enormous valleys of bottom end. Each side opens with a brief funeral dirge to set the mood, a procession of bare-bones drum beats and bell-like guitar statements that bridge the gap to the wider open spaces of the almost side long Across The Desert Of Ash and Ancient Of Days. It may seem obvious, or even a little overwrought, but it has to be said that these guys really do evoke all kinds of cinematic drama with their music. Apocalyptic westerns, bleak melodramas, mother nature fever dreams, it all seems to come to mind amid the evening guitar passages, incantations, flute tones, and finally, the solo piano that emerges lost among the electric mayhem to close the album. Considering the amount of terrain, The Conjurer is far from being scattered or rushed sounding. The record as a whole moves at a crafted even rhythm, slowly merging from one scene of violence to the next of almost silent recovery, then back up the mountain again. Cover by Evan Caminiti." - Root Strata. |
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Artist: BONUS Title: On Earth Format: CD Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "On Earth , is the first studio document created by the group, recorded with Marcelo Spinna at the Space in May 2006 with production assistance from Pete Swanson (D. YELLOW SWANS). While previous CD-R releases were entirely improvised, On Earth is comprised of three untitled pieces composed by the group with elements of restrained improvisation. Musically, each piece has a specific concern, ranging from extremely subtle microtonal shifts to distorted crashes of intervals against one another. On Earth captures the reductive BONUS sound with all the sustained tones and sparkling textures, but with a more focused and succinct delivery." - Root Strata. |
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Artist: BONUS Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: BROTHERS OF THE OCCULT SISTERHOOD Title: Preying In The Circles Format: CD Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Another transmission from the Australian house of Music Your Mind Will Love You. This one has been a long time coming. Taken from various recordings over a period from 05/06, the core duo of brother and sister Michael and Kristina Donnelly are joined by EON in a killer trio setting. Not as psych-acid as some of the recent BOTOS output. Not to say the group doesnt kick up a good racket, its just way spacious and soft sounding at points, like seeing various twinkling stars through hazy fog. Lots of dreamy moments of quite acoustic strum and subtle synth weirdness. The usual battery of instruments, toy and otherwise, are in effect. And of course, LOADS of percussive implosions...but not at all heavy handed. Sounds like a Sunday morning jam with your best friends outside in a garden just after tea. A joyful noise thats pleasing to the skull." - Root Strata. |
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Artist: CARTER, CHRISTINA Title: Lace Heart Format: Double LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
  "Double LP reissue of a 2005 CD-R released on Christinas own Many Breaths imprint. Six love songs comprised of elliptical bell like guitar phrases, barely there, sometimes even coaxing silence, set behind the extended vowel sounds of voice. Soft gentle performances here, like this whole record was cut very very late at night or in the early hours of the morning. An unhinged nowness is pervasive in Christinas work, and Lace Heart is no exception. There is a very private feeling here, some kinda intimacy that just feels really rare. Lovers of past, present & future all collapse into one. Memories of smells, tastes & textures all channeled into wide open song. No one really does it like this. Three sides of music & and an etching of one of Christinas drawings on the fourth side. Red vinyl with maroon splatter. Edition of 500." - Root Strata.
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Artist: COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER Title: Worn Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Now expanded to a four piece, Common Eider, King Eider have crafted yet another blast of high-end wind chill that whips through the empty spaces in your skull. More stories of flora and fauna that hang beautifully in dynamic rooms of piano, strings, voices; and stargazing guitar explosions born of layer after layer of feedback. This ghost world is all gray and black, with a high condensation of loss penetrating throughout. Moonlight occasionally lights the path, but for the most part, prepare to be lost in the woods. Liz Harris (Grouper) and Tom Carter (Charalambides) on the tracks Ennui and Earth Liver add to the overall sense of dread. Includes poster." -Root Strata |
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Artist: DATE PALMS Title: Of Psalms Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Music for the rain forests of the moon, straight out of Oakland CA. Of Psalms is the debut album by Date Palms, the duo of Marielle Jackobsons and Gregg Kowalsky. The two have birthed a suite of slowed-down music of the spheres, with a canopy of glowing fog and a heavy narcotic bass pulse that keeps the whole thing rooted straight into the earth. Its a heady mix of alap paced violin phrases, jewel-toned keys, harp swells, distorted tapes and ever present bass waves all crafted with precision detail in a humid space that leaves a dreamy imprint in the mind long after waking. Although separately Jackobsons and Kowalsky have made inroads into these types of landscapes before (Gregg with his Tape Chants series and Marielle with MYRMYR & Darwinsbitch), nothing really compares the world of Of Psalms that the two created together with its perfect balance of micro and macro, inner and outer, cosmic and earth bound, casting some sort of old world magic on everyone within range." -Root Strata
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Artist: EN Title: The Absent Coast Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "En is the duo of San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalists Maxwell August Croy and James Devane, and The Absent Coast is their debut collection of recordings. The pair utilizes a wide range of instrumentation - koto, guitar, vocals, rhodes, melodica, and piano, among other devices - which are processed and refined into rich walls of reverberant bliss. With its hazy atmospherics, microtonal drones, and plaintive tones, the album evokes the type of nostalgia that accompanies the imaginary landscapes of past memory. A diverse and carefully considered album, The Absent Coast is all soaring peaks, shadowed valleys and expansive plains. Edition of 300 LPs." - Root Strata |
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Artist: GOLDEN RETRIEVER Title: Light Cones Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Golden Retriever was formed in Portland, Oregon in 2008 by multi-instrumentalists Jonathan Sielaff & Matt Carlson, both long time participants in the citys potent music scene. Focusing on the relationship of two primarily monophonic instruments (Carlson on modular synthesizer & Sielaff on bass clarinet), and utilizing layering with a deft balance of improvisation & composition, the duo has created an infinitely varied approach to their sound world: dense, spacious, overwhelming, soothing and completely alien in equal measure. Light Cones is unique in the Golden Retriever discography as its their first release more akin to their live performances, with each of the LP sides consisting of one extensive track. Both sides find the group exploring the various colors of their pallet. From the electronic bog that opens side A, to the more zoned out meditations of the first half of side B. Sielaffs bass clarinet continues to be an anchor for the duo, with its lower organ-like register providing a wide earthly gravity for the layering of sound." -Root Strata. |
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Artist: GRASSLUNG Title: Sincere Void Format: CD Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Grasslung is the moniker of Brooklyn based musician Jonas Asher. Sincere Void is Ashers first major above ground release and were happy to help him migrate out of the dungeon and into the twilight. After a string of small run tapes & CD-Rs that ventured into the outer realms of damaged analog drone, Asher has taken on a whole new vision for his music. The opener Scarred Hands We Drift sets the tone, with lush waves of delayed notes that usher in the records various paths of gauzy atmospherics, piano drift, lost melodies and body rhythms built from static. This music is bare in the best way, with most of the tracks here held together by pings of electricity or faint loops of harmony shot from the other side, all slowly crafted into melancholic tapestries good for keeping you warm during midnight trips to the void. Edition of 500 CDs in offset printed sleeve." -Root Strata |
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Artist: GROUPER Title: Cover The Windows And The Walls Format: CD Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"First ever CD version of the LP Root Strata originally released in 2007. This one has everything youve come to expect from Portland, Oregon-based LIZ HARRIS. Cyclical vocal vapors and guitar / piano shapes levitate on the surface of hissy atmospherics dense with a feedback that conjures up all sorts of latent images from the subtle body / mind. Lizs songs always seem to be perched delicately between layers of blissful fuzz and her stark, gorgeous song craft. Its a mix that more often than not leads to dazzling results." -Root Strata. Edition of 1,000 CDs in a heavy black & white offset printed cover.
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Artist: HARRIS, LIZ (GROUPER) Title: Divide Format: Book/DVD Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $36.00 |
| "Divide is the long-awaited book of drawings and an accompanying video by Liz Harris, aka Grouper. Harris visual work runs in parallel to her music as Grouper, and often overlaps into the same vision. Divide maps out dense organic patterns, passages filled to the edges with overgrowth and fractured geometry. Minimal strokes are taken to maximal repetitions to form complex mazes in high contrast. Other images float in space like hex symbols from prehistory, portals to some other place & time. The accompanying video (with soundtrack) of black & white Rorschach voids should be familiar to anyone who has seen a recent Grouper show. Book is 7" by 7", 60 pages, soft cover with a color cover & black and white images. DVDR is all regions. Edition of 500 copies only" |
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Artist: HIGUMA Title: Pacific Fog Dreams Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Over the past few years Higumas Evan Caminiti (of Barn Owl) and Lisa McGee have slowly evolved their sound from shamanistic acoustic dirges into shimmering metallic blast-off hymns, hair-raising eulogies to the cosmos. Pacific Fog Dreams is a set of seven such songs, all beautifully distant and drenched in layers of earth-toned echo, balanced in dream time between melodies and all out electric whitewash. Delayed strums hang in a beyond background, a ghost world of songs from some other place and time, channeled onto the hiss of a cassette tape to remind you. Caminitis guitar is often on the verge of taking the whole thing down, sporadically billowing into colorful feedback, huge blocks of impenetrable sound. McGees vocals are sometimes discovered, but just as distant smears, or riding the peaks, coaxing out phrases of hidden origin, maybe singing of intimacy, memory, nature or magic." - Root Strata. |
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Artist: MESSAGES Title: Mirage Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Primordial moves and stone cold drones from this New York duo of Taketo Shimada and Tres Warren (Sacred Bones Records). Save for a small long-gone edition of CD-Rs, Mirage is the third full-length release by Messages, recorded in 2008 before their first two albums and has remained unreleased until now. This record documents the duos earliest long-form drone explorations and intonations, most of which were recorded during long sessions in Tres basement bunker in the East Village. Mixing orbits of homemade acoustic instruments, electric drones and percussion, Mirage is a humid transmission sent straight from the womb." - Root Strata. |
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Artist: PAYNE, MAGGI Title: Ahh-Ahh: Music For Ed Tannenbaums Technological Feets Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| ...1984-1987. "The music on this LP was originally composed by Maggi Payne from 1984 - 1987 for the performance group Technological Feets. Formed by video artist Ed Tennenbaum in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1981, the group combines dance, live video processing and music. This is the first time these recordings have ever been released on vinyl, and aside from the track Ahh-Ahh (Ver 2.1), the first time any of it has ever been officially released. Composed on an Apple II computer & various early sampling devices, Paynes compositions are a vibrant response to the call from the moving body. Populated with buoyant pulses, graceful analogue swells, dense fog-like drones and cascading rhythms that shift in space, AHH-AHH is a vital document of not only these early collaborations, but of computer based music as well. She studied with many greats in the field, including Gordon Mumma, Robert Ashley & David Berhman." -Root Strata. |
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Artist: PITRE, DUANE Title: Origin Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "The entirety of Origins musical material is comprised of the vibrating strings of Pitres ensemble of bowed harmonic-guitars, which are unconventionally strung electric guitars (utilizing multi-unisons) tuned to intervals corresponding with the Harmonic Series, a.k.a. Just Intonation. No effects processing (pre or post) was used in this recording. All effect-like qualities result from the multi-unison strings (phasing), sympathetic vibrations, combination/difference tones (of the chosen just tuning), and natural acoustic phenomena as such. Edition of 300 LPs." -Root Strata |
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Artist: STARVING WEIRDOS Title: Eastern Light Format: Double CDR Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Fascinating drone/Improv madness from this impossibly obscure Californian combo, with echos of the backwoods psychedelia of the freer end of the free folk scene and the no-fi wilfulness of The Dead C. The group strike a perfect balance between drift and purpose, sprawl and discipline, noise and non-noise. The results are rough but quite gorgeously radiant. "Plastic Gagaku" envelopes an irregular percussive snap, shifting lines of feedback and interjections from plastic toys in a dense fog of reverb. The 20 minute "Friday the 13th Pt II" moves dreamily through a series of vaguely narcotic atmospheres, but with great conviction. There are sections that sound rather like gamelan metallophones played through old 60s fuzzboxes, and if that doesnt pique your intrest, nothing will." -The Wire. Edition of 150.
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Artist: STARVING WEIRDOS Title: Harry Smith Format: One Sided LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"The first vinyl side from these Northern California mushroom farmers is a real doozy. A live soundtrack to the silent psychedelic films of American hero Harry Smith, this one sided LP is more free drift than free jazz...taking off from a shot in the dark and never touching ground again. Each one with punk rock paste on black & white collage art." - Root Strata.
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Artist: SWANSON, PETE Title: Feelings In America Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Despite asserting that he quit music in 2001..but kept recording in his basement because it helped him avoid interacting with others, Pete Swanson has been a very busy guy. As half of (the now defunct) Yellow Swans for most of the decade, Swanson somehow found the time to collaborate with scores of folks (see Badgerlore, Maggoted, and Sarin Smoke for starters) while also slowly carving out his own bleak vision of loner sound. Feelings In America is the most recent salvo from Swanson, and its as blown out and muddy as you would expect from a damp Portland basement. Three tracks of guitar & vocals lost in a sea of white hot electronic overload that, according to Swanson, sounds exactly like his old band, but funnier in a depressing sort of way. Edition of 300 LPs." - Root Strata.
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Artist: VESTALS Title: Forever Falling Toward The Sky Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Forever Falling Toward the Sky is the first ever release by Bay Area based Vestals, AKA Lisa McGee. A taught set of haunting electric ballads, these five tracks weave together a number of layered guitars and vocals into a smokey tapestry of blown electricity. Rather than the ephemeral drones McGee has been involved with recently, most notably the group-mind ensemble Portraits & the duo Higuma, Vestals retains the clarity of song, with these hypnotic gyms having been slowly carved out over a year of recording & mixing. Filled out with drum machine & bass, Forever Falling Toward the Sky really does have the feeling of a group completely jelled, hammering out feedback in a California basement, high on guitar worship & sunsets. Edition of 300 copies, featuring guest appearances by Evan Caminiti (the Barn Owl dude!) and Trevor Montgomery (Tarantel)." -Root Strata. |
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Artist: YOUNGS, RICHARD Title: Core To The Brave Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "With scores of releases both solo & in collaboration that stretches back for more than 20 years, Richard Youngs perhaps needs the least amount of introduction of any of the artists Root Strata has worked with. Were extremely excited to help Richard add another singular entry into his discography. Core to the Brave hits with a shock and never lets up. Composed of what appears to be blown out bass & spastic drum rhythms, these tracks cascade into shimmering loops of distortion, their weight reaching a critical mass that often feels likes its on the verge of ecstatic collapse. Everything is elevated further in & up by that one and only voice, floating over top like a lush wind come down from the mountains." -Root Strata. |
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Artist: ZELIENOPLE Title: Stone Academy Format: LP Label: Root Strata Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Cracked song poems from a basement in Chicago with no lights on. Zelienople create acoustic improvisations that have as much in common with Thuja as they do the late period work of Talk Talk. Slowly drifting guitar tones run head first into blown out harmonium drones and the broken edges of homemade instruments. These songs arent drifting as much as they are lost at sea. Each cover comes with a real photo by Bay Area photographer Dianne Jones. Six different ones in all. Hand numbered as well." - Root Strata. Edition of 300. |
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Artist: OFFSET: SPECTACLES, THE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Rose Mansion Analog Country: China Price: $15.00 |
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"This is the real deal completely blown out guitars and organ, frantic breakdowns, hypnotic chord sequences, and some of the best Lou Reed-styled guitar Ive heard in forever. From building repetition to wide open grooves, this thing is pure energy." - Foxy Digitalis.
"The Offset: Spectacles are probably the most stubborn band in Beijing. Their brand of precisely overblown Cantonese rock n roll condenses the urban scream of their native Hong Kong into blasting surrealist bangers that are as captivating as they are uncompromising. In concert, the band dispenses with pleasantries like stage banter or directly facing the audience and challenges the clangor of the Chinese capital with their own cathartic racket. Inspired by the massively influential Chinese band P.K. 14, the Offset: Spectacles moved to Beijing in 2009 in search of like-minded musicians. Within two years, they had started Rose Mansion Analog with three other Beijing bands: Soviet Pop, Hot & Cold, and Golden Driver. The boutique label is dedicated to analog recording and reproduction, documenting Beijings thriving scene through the lo-fidelity, one-room-and-a-mic tradition of early blues recordings. On stage, Vince Li and Ah Kis guitars strut and snarl against the steady pulse of Ou Jians bass, producing a darkly cinematic sound thats forceful and driving. The group aims for what they call phantom rhythm: without a drummer, the roaring percussive clash of pawn-shopped 1960s guitars gives the impression of ghostly snare-hits and echoing cymbals." - Noisey / Vice. |
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Artist: BOHMAN BROTHERS Title: A Twist For All Pockets Format: CD Label: Rossbin Country: UK Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: ZAFFIRI, ENORE Title: Riverberazioni Sonore N. 31 Format: 7"/Mag Label: Rossbin Country: Italy Price: $32.00 |
| "heres a nice mouth-watering item: a seven inch record by enore zaffiri (whom we all know from his fantastico lp on die schachtel) including two contemporary (1998) pieces and one from 1973 (which wouldnt be out of place on the la voce ed il sintetizzatore" disc"...) this comes with a very nice-looking art-magazine named "miele", which (amongst other things: articles on alan turing, ones titled "music math", "post-pythagorean ninja", etc...) includes an interview with zaffiri (in italian: the whole magazine is in italian) apparently the 7" is limited to 125 copies (the run of the magazine is obviously higher given the look/feel of the thing)." - Rossbin. 2005 release. |
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Artist: IASOS Title: Elixir Format: Cass Label: Rotifer Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"This second Iasos reissue on Rotifer Cassettes comes in 3-D stereo, covering the full sonic range - from thunderous lows to crystalline highs that challenge your hearing. It is offered as a vibrational gateway, through sound, to the celestial realms of light. Professionally duplicated on cassette for the first time since 1983 onto type II, chrome format. Original cover art by Andrew Annenberg, inner j-card artwork by Jonathan Dean." - Rotifer
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Artist: IASOS Title: Inter-Dimensional Music Format: Cass Label: Rotifer Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "This is the album that began both the legacy of Iasos and the genre of "New Age" Music in 1975. This can be thought of as a sonic journey through a great many realms - from etheric tropical to inter-planetary - great for "consciousness-travelling" via sound. Professionally duplicated on cassette for the first time in over 30 years onto type II, chrome format. Designed for focused listening - definitely not as "background music". R. Buckminster Fuller (in a letter to Iasos): "I find your inter-dimensional music needing new words to describe it. I feel as though I were entering a new world - a new and very profoundly beautiful world." Alan Watts, Metaphysical Philosopher: "Iasos is doing the classical music of the New Age." - Rotifer. Previously reissued on EM. |
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Artist: BAD DRUGS Title: Raw Powder Format: LP Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Permanent had the opportunity to put Raw Powder out on wax and squandered it. Well never forgive ourselves. BAD DRUGS is one of Chicagos absolute best noise rock bands, not just of now, of all time. And with the storied history of noisy rock bands formed by the oppressive nature of the Windy City, thats saying something. Raw Powder. Its an absolutely punishing, brutal, and gnarly noise rock record through and through. Other bands in the genre sometimes hide their lack of ability behind noise, which is fine and dandy cuz were all about non-musicians making a racket, but this is NOT the case with Bad Drugs. Each of these dudes is totally adept at their respective instruments. So adept that even the thick layer of noise that resides between phrases cant mask the skill residing in these dudes skulls. Each and every single goddamn one of these songs R-I-P. Oh yeah, and the vinyl totally glows in the dark. Each side ends in an obnoxious locked groove. The art is fucking amazing, just like the rest of the Rotted Tooth releases. And its limited to 300 hand-numbered copies. And YOU SHOULD BUY IT to avoid a life of in regret like us Permanent idiots (for not putting this record out ourselves)." -Rotted Tooth |
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Artist: BUTCHER COVER Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Oakland has a sordid history of violence, high unemployment, and widespread poverty, and none of these atrocities approach the level of negativity emanating from BUTCHER COVERs lair. Even the nearby San Andreas Fault cant claim to have caused more intense earth movement than the latest recordings by Oaklands premier noise-punk band, Butcher Cover. This brutal trio has been making shit-fi, KBD-influenced, noise rock for just over a year now, just long enough for the band to document their intensity properly within the mutant grooves of their debut 12incher on Rotted Tooth Records. Although Butcher Cover would fit in nicely on a basement show bill with underground nihilists like Puffy Areolas, Twin Stumps, and/or Rusted Shut, the band is essentially peerless. Nobody blends this set of obscure influences like these derelicts. Theyre bound to offend as many people as the Beatles did with their "butcher cover". This record is limited to 245 hand-numbered copies on swine blood red wax and each jacket has been hand screened by one MR. KYLE REYNOLDS (Cacaw, Heavy Times, Bad Drugs), which means you should probably handle your copy with rubber gloves - but trust us, youre gonna wanna handle one of these before they disappear into the tar pits of collector frenzy." -Permanent Records
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Artist: CAVE Title: Summer Flexi Series Format: 7" Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
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"CAVE doesnt waste any time. Four bars into this nameless cut and theyre all locked into the groove. The groove is hypnotic, but its in the subtle changes where Cave carves out a niche for themselves. There are loads of bands out there that can hold down a groove and improvise, but very few are as in tune with each other and tight as Cave is. Cave can trick you into believing theyre freely jamming and turn on a dime without notice. Not an easy task. Cave are excellent at sleight of hand and efficient to boot. Efficient one must be when limited to the finite space allowed on a 7" flexi disc and Id venture to say that no band has succeeded more wildly in filling up a flexi with a track that seemingly only lasts a minute. Actual track time: 5:01. This autobahn-ready instrumental picks up where 2011s Neverendless left off. 500 were pressed, if youre asking. Zero will remain, if youre sleeping. No sleep til winter! Endless Summer Flexi Series!" -Lance of Permanent Records. Numbered edition of 500 copies.
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Artist: EETS FEATS Title: Ghost Slacks Format: 7" Flexi Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| One of four installments in Rotted Tooths Summer Flexi Series. "Where the fuck did EETS FEATS come from? This shit is outta control good. Slightly surfy and fully creepy. Tejas Thrashing, Bashing, and Bumpin Eets Feats remind me of a cross between Cosmonauts and Solid Attitude. Amped up and reverbed out, but not too much. Like Baby Bears porridge, its just right. Apparently, these Austinians put out a tape and a split 7" prior to this release, which we missed (a mistake we plan to rectify quickly). If dark, surfy garage snot is whats in your hanky, then you better bet the two cuts on this mucus yellow flexi disc aint nothin to sneeze at."-Permanent Records. Limited to 250 copies on yellow flexi vinyl. 3-color screen printed jackets with artwork by Ryan Duggan of Drug Factory Press. |
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Artist: HEAVY TIMES Title: Lost Dogs Format: 7" Flexi Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| One of four installments in Rotted Tooths Summer Flexi Series. "HEAVY TIMES brings their A-game with their two flexi tracks. Lost Dogs is an upbeat windows-down, girl-on-your arm, open container summer jam if weve ever heard one. Try not to sing along with the chorus, I dare ya. The second cut, P.O. Box, is a more mischievous little critter. The opening riff runs circles around your hungover ass for a minute and casually transitioning into the catchy second part. Then back to part one, an extended part two, and a heavy outro and DONE. Wham bam thank you maam. Heavy Times at their finest."-Permanent Records. Limited to 250 copies with silkscreened jackets by Jo Dery. |
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Artist: MAYOR DALEY Title: Sand Bath Format: LP Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Mayor Daley (the Mayor) is out, but thankfully MAYOR DALEY is still here with us. After a brief hiatus and a bassist change, the trio has returned to Rotted Tooth with an LP of epic proportions. Mayor Daley have their roots firmly planted in the Chicago art rock underground, but these players aint playin. Theyve become a forced to be reckoned with over the course of the last few years. Gonzo Chicago agrees: Something happened when EMILY ELHAJ joined Mayor Daley over a year ago, alongside KELLY MARIE CARR and PAUL ERSCHEN. They seem more focused and a little more mellow, but in a way that forces your attention and breathes its own air in the room. They let the fuzz and rhythm ooze out slowly, but eventually, undeniably, youre encompassed. These are slow, building, sonic war-cries. Ive heard the term best band in Chicago multiple times over the last year..Fans of Gaan and previous Rotted Tooth releases by Rind and Dreebs need this. Rotted Tooth pressed 300 copies. Oh yeah, and Mayor Daley is STILL one of the sexiest bands in Chicago." -Lance of Permanent Records. Limited to 300 copies with silkscreened jackets. |
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Artist: MLU Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "MLU may or may not stand for MY LEFT UTERUS. If bands were forced to take names that described the way they sounded, MLU would be an acronym for MASOCHIST LOSERS UNITED. I mean that in the nicest possible way. Musical mascochists of the world, you know who you are, (the kind of folks who like to get blackout drunk and listen to Metal Machine Music at full volume late at night...alone) those are the kind of folks Im talking to, right now. Yeah, you...dude. Get off your fucking pathetic ass right now and pick up this fucking KILLER new MLU record. It will absolutely melt that mind you wasted oh so long ago. Repetitive riffs and misanthropic vibes permeate this feedback drenched, art-damaged slab of heaviness. So much so, that you may as well call the hospital right now, bud, to reserve your spot on the waiting list to see separate neck and ear specialists, cuz you cant help but bang your head full force to MLUs self-titled debut LP and by the time you finish the first side, your eardrums will be fried, just like the synapses in your brain already are. I only feel comfortable talking shit about you assholes because I consider myself one and the same. Suckers (like myself) for Twin Stumps, Rusted Shut, Homostupids, and Nihilism, have been warned."-Lance (Permanent Records). Edition of 300 colored vinyl copies packaged in hand-screened sleeves." -Rotted Tooth |
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Artist: OCS (THEE OH SEES) Title: Songs About Death And Dying Vol. 3 Format: LP Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"A reissue of the third album from THEE OH SEES back when they were flying under the OCS banner. "Rotted Tooth Recordings comes to the rescue of Oh Sees fans across the globe by reissuing the third Oh Sees LP Songs About Death & Dying Vol. 3-from the folky, lo-fi days when it was just JOHN DWYER & sometimes PATRICK MULLINS when they went under the moniker OCS. This is essentially the studio recordings of some of the material that ended up on the Captcha live release Hounds Of Foggy Notion-great, GREAT tunes like Second Date, If I Had A Reason & I Am Slow that pull from Dwyers love of loner Americana folk & blues as well as more experimental electro-acoustic music."-Permanent. Limited numbered pressing of 700 copies on white vinyl. Packaged in 2-color silkscreened jackets with inserts." -Rotted Tooth
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Artist: SEWN LEATHER Title: Summer Flexi Series Format: 7" Flexi Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "On his Summer Flexi, GRIFFIN PYN (aka SEWN LEATHER) declares war! He sounds pretty fuckin serious too. He aint rappin on "Unclear War", but this is some of the gnarliest booty shakin hardcore Ive heard since the first Death Grips LP. Post-industrial juke core, anyone? Anyone! Pyn drops the mic for the second cut in favor of sampling / chopping / screwing / etc. Subsonic throb, synth blasts, noise fuckery, and delayed beyond recognition samples comprise 120 lessons in Strinth. I dont know shit about The Nation Of Gods and Earths Book of Knowledge, but thanks to one of the barely audible samples, I now know that A set of 120 shouldnt be online...You need an enlightener to teach you 120 lessons...Thats a fact! WTF? Maybe Griffin is our enlightener. Thanks to a quick Wiki search, I also found out that the Nation of Gods and Earths (aka Five Percenters) coined the terms sup, G? (originally G means God, not gangsta), Word is bond, Break it down, and droppin science. Damn. Hows that for a weird history lesson? I can get down with that kind of language and, furthermore, I can get down with anybody who samples Five Percenters from Youtube. BTW, SICK artwork by Eighty-five Percenter OTTO SPLOTCH, Sewn Leather is droppin science. Are you picking it up? I am." -Lance, Permanent Records. Numbered edition of 250 copies. |
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Artist: SHAVED WOMEN Title: s/t Format: 12" Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Greatness of this caliber hasnt come out of Saint Louis since the late great Drunks With Guns! SHAVED WOMENs debut 12" is a pretty brutal piece of wax, with equal parts 80s hardcore and pigfuck noise rock. This eponymous piece of powerful brilliance mixes Black Flag-esque choruses and tough-as-nails AmRep-y verses, bridges, and breakdowns seamlessly. Just imagine what Black Flag wouldve sounded like in the early-90s, if they ditched Henry and hooked up with a fictional emphysema-riddled Keith Morris instead. Sounds pretty righteous, huh? Not as righteous as this record will once it hits your turntable. Its a 12" EP full of no-nonsense punk fucking rock that reminiscent of a seemless mix of Francis Harold and the Holograms and Pissed Jeans. This record feels like a mutant monster truck going In The Red. A fist-pumping, melodic, instantly memorable, hooky record with 7 full-on shout-alongs to pass down to posterity. Its fucking relentless, is what it is and it sounds way more like a crew of hairy-ass fat dudes than a shaved women, but Shaved Women is an awesome band name, isnt it? I digress, those with a little less testosterone under the hood, will be stoked to hear that the last cut on side A, Same In The End, has a killer mid-tempo, groovy, downer vibe that out-weirds most weird punks going all the way back to when punk first started getting weird and the band is tighter than a pair of the tightest skinny jeans. In fact, this author would go as far as to say that Shaved Women must bring a serious amount of mosh with them when they perform live. Furthermore, Choices contains some of the most damaged bass playing Ive heard in ages and the last cut on the underside is a fucking killer Die Kruezen cover (Think For Me). This slab is on Rotted Tooth Recordings so you know its decked out with some killer screen printed artwork."-Lance (Permanent Records). Second limited edition of 150 copies with 4-color silkscreened sleeves and insert. |
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Artist: SUPERSONIC PISS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Rotted Tooth is still a very young label, but its one thats already established a distinct, if eclectic, aethetic. This SUPERSONIC PISS LP is a pretty precise cross-section of all things Rotted Tooth. Remnants of the snotty tude of Solid Attitude, gnarliness of Shaved Women, and intensity of Mr. Rotted Tooths own fucked up arty noise rock band Cacaw are all audible in the sound of Supersonic Piss, a Nyquil-addicted, nightmarish, GBD noise punk band from Iowa City. Amidst the grooves of this supersonic piss-colored foot-longer, the listener is treated to 10 dirty dirges of punky brewster (lower case) proportions and 2 fuckin S-I-C-K Teenage Jesus covers, jerk. Apparently, Iowa City is the new Providence and this is THE sound of the alcoholic baby boomer moms and dads grown-up offspring. Fronted by a female named PAIGE thats got more balls than most dudes. Scummy statisticians will be happy to hear that theres only 255 hand-numbered, hand-screened copies of this record. If you dont dig it, you can eat a bag of dicks."-Permanent Records. "Edition of 255 copies on piss yellow vinyl. Packaged in 3-color silkscreened sleeves." - Rotted Tooth. |
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Artist: UNMANNED SHIP Title: For Whom The Bowl Tolls Format: LP Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"UNMANNED SHIP are active stoners. The difference between active stoners and lazy stoners is obvious. The active ones do cool shit while theyre baked and the lazy ones do lame shit. Unmanned Ship stay busy as bees in Chicago. One of the rad things the Unmanned Ship dudes do is make fucking killer instrumental rock jams. The three of em concoct quite a hypnotic brew. Its the kind of bubbly, dark, sweet porter I bee nectar fermenting into at the end of summer under less honey-friendly conditions. Coincidentally, their brand of stoner rock has the geometric and psychedelic qualities of a honeycomb. These grooves are repetitive and techincial, but never too flashy and by no means boring. A grounded rhythm section is nicely complemented by hydrodynamic guitar lines and extraterrestrial effects. Not exactly what Id deem space rock, but a bit arthropodic to be sure. In fact, this whole record would score an Apoidean documentary quite nicely. With the majority of the footage shot within the hive and featuring a substantial amount of bee carnage of course, this would make the PERFECT soundtrack to a Planet Earth chapter on bee fights. Id buy that for a dollar! This hyper limited, hand-screened, hand-numbered LP full of heavy, buzzing, intoxicating rock is HIGH-ly recommended for stoned drones. The Queen would never approve, but fuck that bitch-shes fucking all of us." -Lance Barresi (Permanent Records) Limited to 300 copies with silkscreened jackets.
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Artist: WUME Title: Distance Format: LP Label: Rotted Tooth Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "AL (ALBERT SCHATZ) from BIRD NAMES and Wham City artist APRIL CAMLIN used to be called ALTERED STATES, then they were called WUMME (presumably named after German city where Faust formed), and now theyve dropped an m and theyre simple called WUME (prounounced woom). Regardless of what theyre calling themselves these days, Wume are currently making some of the most tasteful (read: not cheesy) music under the mutant new age music umbrella. Bits of Wumes debut LP couldve scored 2001: A Space Odyssey, or more contemporaneously, Moon perfectly! The influence of synth maestros and Krautrock legends like Cluster, Brian Eno, Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream is very apparent, but Wume have taken these influences and combined them with what can only be described as a Goblin / John Carptenter-esque cinematic quality that puts them in a league of their own. Distance may be a document of new, new age music, but it aint no drone record. Wume wisely chose to keep the motorik beat. If Simeon from Silver Apples had been slipped more Benzos, Contact may have sounded a lot more like Distance. Eash listen definitely makes the heart grow fonder. Edition of 200 copies." |
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Artist: HOBO SONN Title: Thundering Nature Of Reality Format: LP Label: Rotten Slushy Country: UK Price: $25.00 |
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"Highly recommended slab of bedroom concrete, electronic blurb and lo-fi tape mangle"- Chocolate Monk, D.Nyoukis.
"This ones a big-time winner, and just in time for those wretchedly cold winter nights. Hobo Sonn is the solo guise of the UKs Ian Murphy. Hes in a bunch of groups like Gryn Brvs and Copper Mahks. This is one thick slab of luscious wax, gritty to the bone and full of spastic, electronic drones. What makes this thing so great, though, is how it seamlessly alternates between harsher landscapes and sickly sweet drones. Add in some mangled tape loops and buckets of hiss and youre getting in the ballpark. Its like a twisted acid flashback for someone whos never dropped acid. You want on this scuzzy ride and youll just want to keep riding it over and over and over. Big time recommendation" - Foxy Digitalis, B.Rose.
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Artist: FALLEN ANGELS, THE Title: Its A Long Way Down Format: LP Label: Roulette Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "1968 album from the Baltimore psych group. Exact repro, manufactured by Rhino. The opener Poor Old Man is an inspired leadoff track that features a strong west coast influence, both Love & The Doors immediately come to mind, it sports a killer bass riff along with loose, John Densmore style percussion and a myriad of psychedelic effects, about midway in, the whole piece breaks down and singer Jack Bryant does this totally off the wall jazz type scat vocal that completely derails the song, luckily it doesnt last long as the group leap back into the opening riff and its back to the races. A Horn Playing On My Thin Wall is next and it is a dead ringer for Da Capo era Love (both Orange Skies & Que Vida), this track becomes better as it rolls along, it ends with a rush of great harmony vocals. Something You Can Hide In is full tilt psychedelia that features every psychedelic trick in the book with fabulous results, this number reminds me a great deal of Loves underrated Four Sail album." -Head Heritage |
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Artist: HALLELUJAHS Title: Niko Wo Kuraite Chikai Wo Tateyo Format: LP Label: Rover Country: Japan Price: $32.00 |
| "Hallelujahs were a band led by Shinji Shibayama, during the mid-eighties. This was their sole album, released in 1986 in an edition of 300 on Shibayamas fledgling ORG Records label. ORG went on to release some great records by Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Reiko Kudo and Love Beach (Shibayamas current dream-pop psych band). Musically, pop psych is about as close as Im going to want to get to a description of what they do. Theres something about this record thats hard to get a grip on. It seems to float on layers of melody rather than rhythm, and in places it has an incomparable start of autumn melancholic atmosphere. Subtle, but a grower if you give it enough time. Part of yet another invisible Japanese scene." - Alan Cummings. Highly recommended! This is the remastered, 180 gram vinyl reissue which came out in 1997 in an edition of 500 a few years prior to the PSF CD. Includes obi strip and an insert (with lyrics and newly found photos). |
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Artist: J.K.S. Title: Ancient Dreams Format: LP Label: Royal Foulup Country: Finland Price: $25.00 |
| "I made these recordings at the time with a very limited and primitive set of equipment: a reel to reel tape recorder with a ping pong facility, a standard mic and a few instruments which my friends kindly borrowed me. Nearly everything was pure improvisation, even the lyrics. The reason I made them was simply to get them safe, to remember them later. They were made out of joy of just creating, even though the skill was limited..Young Mans Dreams! Time forgot these tapes, til after 30 years i found them again and thought why not..." - J.K.S. |
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Artist: J.K.S. Title: Ancient Echoes Format: LP Label: Royal Foulup Country: Finland Price: $25.00 |
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"Recommended by HANS POKORA of RECORD COLLECTORS DREAMS . JKS carries on where he left off on his first effort. Genuine 6Ts and early 70s home recordings in the vein of St.Mikael etc. -limited edition of 300 copies with superb gatefold artwork." Finnish Psych/ Experimental recorded 1969-1974. Highly recommended!!
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Artist: J.K.S. Title: Ancient Future Format: LP Label: Royal Foulup Country: Finland Price: $24.00 |
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Artist: BUSRATCH Title: Tokei Nikki Format: LP Label: RRR Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Japanese turntable project probably best known for their work with Otomo Yoshihide and Hijokaidan. After numerous CDs, this is their 1st LP -- it also happens to be their final recording. The band has decided to part ways so the members can pursue new projects. Side 1 = two elegant contemporary avant garde compositions -- kinda reminds me of AMM if they were DJs. Side 2 = 99 lock grooves. Edition 500 copies." - RRR. |
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Artist: SCHIMPFLUCH-GRUPPE Title: Aktion 950908 Taipei Taiwan Format: 7" Label: RRR Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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1995 release featuring Mike Dando of Con-Dom and the Haters. Recorded live in Taipei in 1995. Schimpfluch-Gruppe is Rudolf Eb.er (Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock) and Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant).
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Artist: V/A Title: Record Store Record Format: Double LP Label: RRR Country: USA Price: $40.00 |
| "If you cant come to our shop, then maybe our shop can come to you. No, this is not a collection of in-store performances, there are no bands or artists trying to impress you with their skillz and technique - this is a collection of location/environmental recordings made inside our record stores, just the sound of regular everyday customers looking at records, talking about records, buying records - oh yeah, and record store owners boxing up records for mail-order customers - audio verite, sound poetry and a touch of musique concrete, 2 tracks are processed/cut-up/collage and 3 tracks are straight open mic recordings - participating record stores are: Hospital Productions, RRRecords, Sarvilevyt, Second Layer Records, and Weirdo Records. For the optimal experience, it is recommended you listen to this record while looking through your record collection. Housed in a deluxe full-color gatefold sleeve and includes a bonus LP; comes in a heavy duty silkscreened nylon bag." -RRR |
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Artist: ALVARS ORKESTER Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: ANGST HASE PFEFFER NASE Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: BOY DIRT CAR Title: Instinctual Format: Triple LP Box Set Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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Artist: CHERRY POINT Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: CLANG QUARTET Title: Revival of the Wretch Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Clang Quartet is the musical project of Scotty Irving (drummer for Geezer Lake, Eugene Chadbourne, Benjomatic, and others). Live, Clang Quartet is predominantly an improvisational percussion/performance-art show, based metaphorically on his life as a follower of Jesus Christ. The recorded output features standard instruments like guitars, keyboards, and drums as well as Irvings own electrified crutch mixed with sound collages of family tape recordings from his childhood and field recordings. Truly experimental music in the spirit of Swans, Whitehouse, Merzbow, and AC/DC."- Silber |
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Artist: CONNELLY, MIKE Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: CONNELLY, MIKE Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: COURTIS Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: CRANK STURGEON Title: Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Crank Sturgeon? A babbling what-does-it-mean portable fish-costumed bacchanal. Imagine if you will, something of a man-fish, bashing about with spiels and mantras and stories of nonsequitur while joyfully defiling himself or his homemade noise instruments. Performance art complete with alchemy, dada trickery, irreverence, and heaps of unwieldly volume. A Sturgeon man, not your average new millenium man, working the autonomous free zone of improvisational performance, with sound, visuals, lectures, and commotion. Glib tongued, tugging the tape out of cassette players, violently bowing any substance that will submit to vibration, screaming circle breaths through snorkel tubes or deer calls, and hammering away at consumer electronic fuzz. Always in some capacity inciting the audience to join in, breaking down that nonsense barrier between performer and viewer. His nibs Crank Sturgeon is something of a bipolar purgative: a noise collage creature let loose in the airwaves... or right there in front of you." - RRRecords. |
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Artist: GX JUPITTER-LARSEN Title: Big Time Crash Bang 2008 Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The next time someone makes that old joke about noise sounding like a car crash can offer this LP as proof: its nothing but the sound of car crashes, all mangled up as only GX can do it -- tires squealing, glass shattering, metal crunching, wrecked, totalled -- SCREEEEEEEEEEEEE SMASH CRASH SCREEEEEEECH SMASH SMASH CRASH -- quite possibly the perfect noise album. GX says its his best LP to date. Im inclined to agree -- wear your seatbelt. 500 copies." - RRR. |
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Artist: HALFLINGS Title: Self Esteem Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| Debut LP, limited to 500 copies. "The Halflings are one of the best and most intense up-and-coming power electronics artists in the U.S. right now." -- Blood Ties. |
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Artist: KARLHEINZ Title: Fucking Format: Picture Disc LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| Karlheinz: "Right now, my music is noise - possibly harsh noise, possibly power electronics, depending upon your definition and which piece youre talking about. I used to do slightly different things - tape manipulations, junk instruments, classical samples, etc. Now its mostly just synth noise and effects with incomprehensible vocals." |
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Artist: KITES Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: MILLER, ROGER Title: "Pop" Record/Evolving Format: 7" Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
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Artist: NOISE NOMADS Title: Nose Picker Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "First solo LP from member of Grey Skull, dirty ugly scum-noise, straight from the dumps + landfills of Springfield & Providence -- sounds like amplified snot, not nice."- RRR |
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Artist: OMIT Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: OSWALD, JOHN Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: PHILLIPS, DAVE Title: They Live Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $21.00 |
| "An anarchist protest / actionist record, like Otto Muehl having his way with Herman Nitsch. Avant excursions of guttural excess and militant pounding, almost academic in its scope, by this current member of SCHIMPFLUCH and the former big cheese behind FEAR OF GOD. Caveat emptor: the cover is plastered with swastikas front and back. No exports to Germany, seriously." -RRRecords. |
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Artist: REALICIDE Title: Ready to Fight! Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| "Edition of 350 copies, silk-screened cover -- 1st LP from noisecore/gabber/screamo project from Ohio." - RRR. |
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Artist: RITA, THE Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: RITA, THE Title: Snorkel/Skate Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Recording specs of the SKate material: For clarification - the first track on the SKATE side of the LP is the best cut of the original amplified railing work/video above, but for the LP the audio was isolated from the original tape by Christian Nicolay (who is the artist manipulating the effects at the table during the skateboarding) and then heavily remastered by myself for the official RRR vinyl release. The audio is obviously very poor on the youtube video and the performance never saw any kind of official release so i thought it was best to master and rework the material for an optimum audio version (vinyl no less) that can be played through a proper stereo system. The material ends up being a much different and real experience after the remastering and heavy amplification. The second track on the SKATE side is a completely new recording that take cues from the first, but is working with different distortion chains and ideologies to try and fully manipulate the live skateboard trucks to the steel and their tendencies when effected. We originally were supposed to skate/perform the railing live in SF, but customs denied Christian from entering as they, to make a long story short, didnt believe that two artists with our international resumes were only getting paid what was actually stated in the invitation/paperwork. Christian drove ahead of me in a van with the gear as I had to work when he got stopped and turned away. They said that if i tried later - wed both be banned from the US for some time. Hence, the impromptu making of the short video instead (which still amazes me that i landed that many 50/50 grinds in a row). I am extremely happy that Ron made it possible to release the audio in a properly mastered format plus even more railing recordings and alongside the snorkeling foley work that prompted the release in the first place." - Sam McKinlay, The Rita. |
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Artist: SICKNESS Title: Fuck Your Punk Rock Format: Picture Disc LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
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Artist: ST37/VOCOKESH Title: Derobe Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: SUTCLIFFE JUGEND Title: First Official Live Action Ever! Format: CD Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Sutcliffe Jugend were formed 1980-81. Along with Throbbing Gristle, SPK and Whitehouse, and others SJ were amoung the earliest pioneers of Industrial/Noise/Power Electronic noise music. Extreme both musically and lyrically, the sheer brutality of Sutcliffe Jugends music has rarely been equalled. The first live appearance by Sutcliffe Jugend was at the Red Rose London 27th August 2005. The show was filmed for Redemption TV. Personel: Kevin Tomkins: Vocals, Instruments Paul Taylor: Instruments" - Sutcliffe Jugend. |
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Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS Title: Ptomaine Format: Triple LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Three records on clear vinyl seeing Tietchens working only with the locked grooves on the RRR-100 7"." |
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Artist: TIETCHENS, ASMUS Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: UNIVERSAL INDIANS Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: V/A Title: American The Beautiful Format: Double CD Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Includes Borbetomagus, Rougeux/Negativland, Lee Ranaldo, Randy Grief, Barry Dalive, Mono Pause, AMK, Chop Shop, The Haters, Vampire Rodents, John Wiggins, Thomas Dimuzio, ST37, Mandible Chatter, Idea Fire Company, Gregg Turkington, Luxurious Bags, Grae-Com, Small Cruel Party, Hands To, TAC, Slughog, Out Of Band Experience, Faxed Head, Neil Hamburger, Phil Milstein, Horse-Cow, Commode Minstrals In Bull Face, Goosewind, The Easy Goings, Philip Perkins, Blowhole, Shrilltower, Specula, Nisi Period, Nicolas Collins, Crawling With Tarts, Con Demek, Scott Marshall & Mark Giagrande and Kings Of Feedback. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Best,The Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Extreme noise and power electronics, mostly all new artists. I asked people to submit the best track they ever recorded and voilà, The Best -- features Halflings, Cathode Terror Secretion, Ichorous, Is, Brutophilia and Cherry Point, including 10 inserts, all covers hand decorated, 200 copies only."-RRRecords. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Journey Into Pain Format: 4 Cass Box Set Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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Includes New Blockaders/Organum, PGR, P16.D4, Helene Sage, Merzbow, SBOTHI, The Haters, Asmus Tietchens, Hijo Kaidan, The Boredoms, Hanatarash, John Duncan, The Gerogerigegege, Masonna, Incapacitants, Odal, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Kallabris, Muslimgauze, Function Disorder, Autopsia, Cranioclast, Frank Dommert and Core. Originally released on Beast 666.
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Artist: V/A Title: Moby Dick Format: VHS Video Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| With Die Todliche Doris, F/i, Emil Beaulieau, Big City Orchestra, Borbetomagus, Bulge, Dilaudid, Lance Gargoyle, The Haters, Japanese Torture Comedy Hour, Joiesko, LAFMS, Macronympha, Rougeux, Adam Spellman, The Whales and John Wiggins. |
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Artist: V/A Title: New England Format: 5 LP Box Set Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $40.00 |
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"Various 5LP box, 10 artists each getting 1 full side: Brutum Fulmen, Sickness, Cant, Skin Crime, Immaculate Grotesque, Prurient, Matt Brinkman, Human Is Filth, Diagram-A, Karlheinz. Basically the 10 best noise bands from New England (that I know of) the box is ltd 500 copies, each hand-decorated by one of the artists." - RRRecords.
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Artist: V/A Title: Portland Format: Triple LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $32.00 |
 2006 release. A side each from Smegma, Pulse Emitter, Daniel Menche, Bdong, Nkondi, & Okha. Hand-screened/painted edition of 300.
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Artist: V/A Title: Rising From The Red Sand Format: 5 Cass Box Set Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
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Includes Chris & Cosey, Attrition, Legendary Pink Dots, Konstruktivits, Pseudo Code, Nurse With Wound, Sutcliffe Jugend, DDAA, Human Flesh, John Hurst, Section 25, Metamorphosis, Fan Tan, Test Dept., Nocturnal Emissions, Portion Control, Lustmord, Tone Death, Un Department, Scram Ju Ju, Five Or Six, Bene Gesserit, David Jackman, Bushido, James Braddell, P16.D4, We Be Echo, Onnyx, Aeolian String Ensemble, Ian Boddy, Muslimgauze, Cultural Amnesia, Two, Nexda, Dave Jones, Hula, Colin Potter, Smegma, David Knight, Die Todliche Doris, Radio Free Europe, Sirius B, Irsol, Philippe Laurent, Ptose, Kopf Kurz, Merzbow and Conrad Schnitzler.
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Artist: V/A Title: RRR-1000 Lock Groove Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"RRR-1000 LOCK GROOVE LP has 1000 lock grooves!!! Thats 500 per side by myself, FRANCISCO LOPEZ, TNB, INCAPACITANTS, DAMION ROMERO, and..." - GX Jupitter Larsen. "50 grooves each - AMK, Aaron Dilloway, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Drumm, C.Giffoni, Incapacitants, GX Jupitter-Larsen, J.Lescalleet, F.Lopez, L.Marhaug, New Blockaders, J.Noetinger, D.Romero, Prurient, RLW, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Sudden Infant, Keith Whitman, C.Spencer Yeh, Otomo Yoshihide." - RRRecords.
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Artist: V/A Title: RRR-500 Lock Grooves Format: LP Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Features exclusive lock-grooves from Sonic Youth, Derek Bailey, Terry Riley, Red Krayola, Otomo Yoshihide, John Oswald, Ryoji Ikeda, tom Recchion, L@N, Jan Werner, Voice Crack, Free Kitten, Bertoia, Rehberg & Bauer, Omit, Charlie Parker and 484 other artists. Heavy duty gatefold cover.
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Artist: V/A Title: Texas Format: 3 LP Box Set Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
| "1 side each - A Fail Association, Concrete Violin. Goat, Inhalant, Steel Hook Prostheses, TEF" - RRRecords. |
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Artist: VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA Title: The Midnight Gambler Format: CDR Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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Artist: VOCOKESH Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: VOICE CRACK Title: Kick That Habit Format: Video Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Recycled Format: Cass Label: RRRecords Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: V/A Title: L.A.F.M.S. (Los Angeles Free Music Society) Format: 10 CD Box Set Label: RRRecords/Cortical Foundation Country: USA Price: $88.00 |
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"The Los Angeles Free Music Society was a complete screwball fringe music collective that peaked in the true heart of darkness -- America in the mid 70s. They self-released LPs, 7"s and cassettes in the dawn before real independent distribution and the myth that surrounds those sacred pressings has in recent years become feverish. Mixing pure sonic weirdness, musique concrete, free improv blare, fringe-noise-nonsense and much more, the musicians involved with LAFMS created a unique bounty of individualistic art. This unbelievable box of 10 CDs, which took a number of years to finally assemble, creates an awesome overview of this inspired, largely ignored scene. Features music by Le Forte Four, The Doo Dooettes, Airway, Tom Recchion, Rick Potts, Dennis Duck, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Chip Chapman, Monique et Aviv, John Duncan and CV Massage, and more. Comes with a stunning 36 page booklet of full color photographs, 60 page book of extensive notes by the many contributors, a full color poster depicting all the original releases; all encased in a sturdy, letter-pressed chipboard box." - FE. An amazing collection! Very Highly Recommended!
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Artist: V/A Title: Fuck Like A Nigger, Think Like A Jew Format: 7 x 7" Box Set Label: RRRecords/Stomach Ache Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| With Malta, Gar.Funk, Kandalini Nivagretski (Classic Mpls "Power Violence" featuring Rick Smrrstckk), Kostas DLary, Monostat 3, Sticky Foster, Neil Campbell & Stewart Walden, Mitch, Cunt Eats Cock, Witcyst, Wagstaff, Medieval Hendrix, Chupa Chups, Subs, Erotic Shergar, Shite Girls, Rev. Larry Parker, Cavaties, Arterial Slash, Rubber-O-Cement, Jim Roach and Hidden Treasure. |
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Artist: V/A Title: California Format: 10 LP Box Set Label: RRRecords/Troniks/Ground Fault Country: USA Price: $72.00 |
| "1 side each - Amps For Christ, Cherry Point, Joe Colley, Control, Gerritt, GX Jupiter-Larsen, Moth Drakula, Open City, Oscillating Innards, Damion Romero, Rubber O Cement, Sixes, Skaters, Solid Eye, Spastic Colon, Tralphaz, John Weise, Xome, RHY YAU, Yellow Swans. - RRRecords. |
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Artist: NORTH SEA Title: Grandeur & Weakness Format: LP Label: Rubber City Noise Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "The final album from Brad Roses The North Sea, a project that has traversed a wide range of phenomenal sound territories, and it is an sublimely uncanny farewell from one of experimental musics most ambitious names. Rose(best known as the polymath mastermind behind Digitalis and scores of projects) oversees an assemblage of sound sources evoking the history of electric music. From synthesizer soundscapes that seek to reconcile the limits of timbre to concrete sampling and collage, G&W plays a crash course in sonic evocation. Clearly in control of The North Sea sound, Rose notes that he has never spent more time on any solo project than on this record, and this is apparent throughout the scale of sound and emotion of G&W. Theres a sense of the uncanny, a mysterious unsettling, throughout the album and this is directly attributable toG&Ws aesthetic basis in Franz Fanons The Wretched of the Earth, African percussion, and progressive drone." - Rubber City Noise. |
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Artist: FISH & SHEEP Title: Double Banana Format: LP Label: Ruby Red Country: Portugal Price: $20.00 |
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"Amazing off shoot of Portugal outsider freaks Loosers . Scrabbling guitars and drums making waste of any concept of presentable fidelity. A sweet sick and captivating motion not too unlike Lambsbread minus the holy smoke."- Byron Coley & Thurston Moore; Bull Tongue.
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Artist: LOOSERS Title: Otha Goat Head Format: Double CDR Label: Ruby Red Country: Portugal Price: $18.00 |
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Artist: KNOTH, FELIX aka FELIX KUBIN Title: Die Pein vom Haupt entfernen Format: LP & Film Object Boxset Label: Rund um den Watzmann Country: Netherlands Price: $36.00 |
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"This box-set combines a mini-LP with 8 musical tracks with a primitive film projector called zootrope containing 8 short films. The 8 musical pieces are connected to the 8 short films, which can be both listened to and seen on your record player. No complicated assembly kit, no risk for your record player, everything is quickly installed and again adds,
as usual with these Rund um den Watzmann releases, a new dimension to the medium long player. Felix Knoth, also known as Felix Kubin, 1/2 Klangkrieg or 1/2 Liedertafel Margot Honnecker, realized a short film with the same title back in 1994. Both film and music are a restless self-reflection. This object is an archetype in the tradition of the Tšdliche Doris Box or the Vegetarian Bavarian in Exile Box. Apparently it has to be in a box. Edition of 500." - Rund um den Watzmann. When calculating postage count as 4 items.
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Artist: BT.HN Title: Black Mirrors and Dark Planet Alignment Format: One-sided LP Label: Rundownsun Country: Canada Price: $14.00 |
| "Over a year in the making, and well worth the wait. BT.HN. (LA BETE HUMAINE) brings you to a place where profane ritual meets barbaric violence! domineering waves of crushing bass and crackling electronics bury slithering spoken rites, and crest in thundering commands. a steady, measured rumble peppered with heavily effected vocals breaks into volatile metal abuse. vocals shift from paced incantation to frantic possession! similar to the abrasive works of TAINT, ATRAX MORGUE and IUGULA-THOR, but underpinned by a raw, ritualistic violence. 2-sided black and white offset-printed cover on heavy paper. One-sided 12" 33rpm vinyl record with silk-screened b-side. housed in a crystal-clear, heavy polyvinyl sleeve. featuring art and layout from the artist." - Rundownsun |
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Artist: CHRISTA MIN Title: The Devil And Tex Watson Format: 7" Label: Rundownsun Country: Canada Price: $5.50 |
| "Lessee...walking down Robson...hot summer day. Never go near that street usually, but woke up in some dudes penthouse near Hooters. I woke up, grabbed a shirt off the floor and put it on...and some sunglasses...and a leftover Heneiken from the fridge. Tiptoed out, stepping over the sleeping bodies on the floor. Now Im outside in the part of town that most needs a firebombing....and the sun is so...fucking...bright! Still stoned...no cash in pocket. Had enough money for a dollar store keyring that reads "Take me to Yr Dealer" with a drawing of an Alien smoking a joint. Bought it and immediately afterwards wished I bought a hot dog instead. Hot dogs. Swamps. Tex Watson. To my right theres an Asian businessman eating a hot dog. Drank the Heinenken down in one long drink. My minds in the everglades. My minds on Tex and Squeaky and Susan and Krenwinkel and dunebuggies and Ed Sanders and the Fugs...and that fucker Bugliosi...swamps. Swamps can hold you under. Until you cant breathe. Wouldnt want to fall into one...but I did. So hot! The sun is on its way out, but not soon enough. Gotta shield...myself. One 13 minute track of PNW style lo-fi garage psych blown-out and broken up over 2 sides(ala little johnny jewel) from members and ex members of: jackie-o-motherfucker, staked plane, magneticring, nasty on, esp snake, anemones, sun arise, the countless jibes, video tokyo, the cinch, vancouger, and many, many others. packaged in 2 piece, silk screened millboard cover. art by nicholas bragg. xerox insert. " - Rundownsun |
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Artist: FLATGREY Title: xxxxxx Format: One-sided LP Label: Rundownsun Country: Canada Price: $14.00 |
 "Long-awaited vinyl debut from vancouver underground noise legend flatgrey. Industrial noise. harsh, industrial noise. pure sound. Mechanical, electrical, valve and tube. scrounged, rescued and
resurrected. filtered through obsession. Menacing roars of bass pushed along grinding mechanics, like millions of rows of pneumatic teeth. Heaving, gnashing. compressor hiss, and blast furnace tongue. Incendiary atmosphere, superheated, and forced through junked magnets and shredded cones. A nameless exercise. 1-sided gold offset-printing on heavy black paper. One-sided
12" 33rpm vinyl record with silk-screened b-side. Housed in a crystal-clear, heavy polyvinyl sleeve. Featuring art and layout from the artist." - Rundownsun.
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Artist: TUNNEL CANARY Title: Jihad Format: LP Label: Rundownsun Country: Canada Price: $22.00 |
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"Formed nearly 30 years ago at the height of Vancouver BCs early punk scene, amidst Canadian HARDCORE progenitors like D.O.A., NO EXIT and SUBHUMANS, TUNNEL CANARY emerged with a sound more in common with the then still incubating UK POWER ELECTRONICS scene and a militant attitude/lifestyle more in-line with straight edge hardcore or East-Asian asceticism.
Influenced by avant-garde guitarists like Fred Frith and Keith Rowe, contemporary electronic composers like TUDOR, STOCKHAUSEN, and CAGE, and NO WAVE bands like MARS and DNA, TUNNEL CANARY produced a volatile and often violent mix of pure-noise, synthesizer music, free-improv, and confrontational performance art. Centered around the chaotic guitar-noise antics and synth compositions of guitarist Aleh Kaheen (now: Nathan Holiday) coupled with the accusatory and often absolutely-hysterical caterwauling of vocalist Ebra Ziron, and supported by the tasteful and powerful bass punctuations of David Sheftel, TUNNEL CANARYs unique sound sits somewhere in the spheres of POST-INDUSTRIAL, PROTO-POWER-ELECTRONICS, and NOISE while remaining outside the aesthetic trappings of any one of these genres.
RIYL: early SPK, early RAMLEH, early CONTROLLED BLEEDING, MARS, DNA, HARRY PUSSY. 400 Copies." - Rundownsun
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Artist: TUNNEL CANARY Title: Jihad Format: Double LP Label: Rundownsun Country: Canada Price: $34.00 |
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"Formed nearly 30 years ago at the height of Vancouver BCs early punk scene, amidst Canadian HARDCORE progenitors like D.O.A., NO EXIT and SUBHUMANS, TUNNEL CANARY emerged with a sound more in common with the then still incubating UK POWER ELECTRONICS scene and a militant attitude/lifestyle more in-line with straight edge hardcore or East-Asian asceticism.
Influenced by avant-garde guitarists like Fred Frith and Keith Rowe, contemporary electronic composers like TUDOR, STOCKHAUSEN, and CAGE, and NO WAVE bands like MARS and DNA, TUNNEL CANARY produced a volatile and often violent mix of pure-noise, synthesizer music, free-improv, and confrontational performance art. Centered around the chaotic guitar-noise antics and synth compositions of guitarist Aleh Kaheen (now: Nathan Holiday) coupled with the accusatory and often absolutely-hysterical caterwauling of vocalist Ebra Ziron, and supported by the tasteful and powerful bass punctuations of David Sheftel, TUNNEL CANARYs unique sound sits somewhere in the spheres of POST-INDUSTRIAL, PROTO-POWER-ELECTRONICS, and NOISE while remaining outside the aesthetic trappings of any one of these genres.
This 2LP set is the definitive TUNNEL CANARY document; Culled from material recorded between 1980 and 1983 representing the bands most prolific and powerful period. Included on this set is the bands sole released work JIHAD; Edited and re-named "Erdang" and released on the cassette compilation "Stitching Small Tears" in 1981; here the track has been restored to its complete length and original title. Also included are two extended live recordings from 1983 (included on LP 1) and 1980 (included on LP 2) exemplifying the immense power and range of the group in a performance setting.
RIYL: early SPK, early RAMLEH, early CONTROLLED BLEEDING, MARS, DNA, HARRY PUSSY.
Absolutely no expense has been spared in the manufacturing of this record: expertly mastered by Joshua Stevenson (magneticring, samara lubelski band, caste-exotic archives, etc). Cut twice for quality assurance. Imported black paper poly-lined inner-sleeves. Quality offset printed, double-sided, 2-panel heavy card-stock covers. A HUGE 25.5" x 34" offset printed poster! And a beautiful vinyl-ink screen-print on the b-side of the live LP. Less than 200 copies" - Rundownsun
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Artist: WORKBENCH/MAGNETICRING Title: Live In A Room With All The Windows Format: Double Cass Label: Rundownsun Country: Canada Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: VOLCANO THE BEAR Title: Golden Rhythm/Ink Music Format: LP Label: Rune Grammofon Country: Norway Price: $23.00 |
| "Rune Grammofon presents the brand-new studio album from Volcano The Bear, a calculated, hysterical melting-pot of This Heat, Robert Wyatt, Faust and The Residents, of musique concrète and ethno-folk, all seen through a prism of theatrical improvisations and unhinged set pieces. Formed in 1995, and after several self-released tapes and CD-Rs, VTB so excited Nurse With Wounds Steven Stapleton, that he brought his United Dairies label out of cold storage to release their first album proper, The Inhazer Decline, in 2000. Since then theyve released music on such labels as Misra, Beta Lactam Ring, Textile, Digitalis, Pickled Egg, Alt Vinyl as well as their own imprints Volucan and Volfurten with the exceptional Classic Erasmus Fusion from 2006 being a possible highlight. On record, VTB offer stark and stunning absurdities in the most bizarrely beautiful way. Recycling and re-contextualizing their material is an innate habit, and the variety of recording options they might choose (be it a highly-equipped professional studio or a second-hand dictaphone) allows their craft to be formed in a myriad of different ways. VTB have toured extensively throughout Europe and North America and in concert they are the duo of Daniel Padden and Aaron Moore. Absurd humor and eclectic ways of producing sounds are characteristic of their live performances and their extensive knowledge of the traditions of experimental and folk music makes the band difficult to categorize. The band record everything they play and will often use these recordings as raw material for their albums. VTB have released a number of records since the start, often mixing studio, live and home recordings. Golden Rhythm/Ink Music is their first more or less "proper" studio album since Amidst The Noise And Twigs back in 2007. Largely based on the sonic fault-line between Aaron Moore and Daniel Padden, its also the most focused and driven of VTBs prolific output so far, showcasing the duos unique musicality and interplay, while retaining their trademark eccentricity and humor throughout. It presents "rock music" as seen through VTBs skewed eye, featuring more of Padden and Moores drum/guitar combination than on previous albums. Taking the bizarre energy of their live duo performances into a studio environment, and combining it with VTBs eclectic instrumentation and Clarence Manuelos singular audio-work, GR/IM shows VTB making their most vital work to date. Includes mp3 download code." -Rune Grammofon. |
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Artist: STELLAR OM SOURCE Title: Heartlands Suite Format: CDR Label: Ruralfaune Country: France Price: $12.00 |
| "Beautiful & fragile recordings by the stateless visionary icon Christelle Gualdi. Neo-kosmic oceanic wave and deep synth meditations." - Rural. |
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Artist: HOLTER, JULIA Title: Ekstasis Format: Double LP Label: Rvng Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Julia Holters second album,Ekstasis, is a collection of songs written and recorded across the span of three years in Los Angeles, California. Ekstasis marks a return to the playful searching of her 2007 Eating the Stars EP, but guided by newly-learned disciplines, slightly better technology, and nearly limitless home recording time. Holters songwriting stems from a mythological reverence of that which is incomprehensibly beautiful. Stars was a first attempt at musically transcribing this beauty, while discovering the honest enjoyment of unadulterated creativity. Holters critically acclaimed debut album Tragedy (Leaving Records, 2011) embraced Stars strains of shimmer, but used sparser textures in a narrative context. While Ekstasis reflects the conventions of her classical training, the album is also uncannily, if unknowingly, poppy. Holters approach to crafting the songs of Ekstasis centered around what she describes as, open ear decision: what seemed to sound best for that moment. This blindness to reverence unintentionally steers Ekstasis along the experimental pop spectrum most commonly associated to New Yorks Downtown music micro-universe of the 80s, specifically the works of Laurie Anderson and Arthur Russell. Repressed with mp3 download." -Rvng. |
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Artist: SUN ARAW & M. GEDDES GENGRAS MEET THE CONGOS Title: Icon Give Thank & Icon Eye Format: LP/DVD Label: Rvng Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "For the ninth volume of FRKWYS, a music and film series pairing contemporary artists with those that may have preceded them in style and / or approach, Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras meet legendary dub reggae group The Congos in St. Catherine, Jamaica and create the full-length album,ICON GIVE THANK. In conjunction, RVNG will release ICON EYE, a feature film documenting the young musicians time spent living and learning The Congos way. "In hindsight, the FRKWYS Vol. 9 timeline takes on dream-like qualities. In a matter of months, the idea for the collaboration was divinely inspired, The Congos reassembled in their original formation, and Sun Araw (earthly name Cameron Stallones), Gengras, alongside filmmakers Tony Lowe and Sam Fleischner, traveled to St. Catherine, Jamaica (45 minutes outside of Kingston) for ten days to undertake the unknown. "What events would transpire in the Portmore neighborhood of St. Catherine can only be described as blessed. The gates opened wide and warmly, the musicians and filmmakers ate, slept, and smoked at The Congos headquarters, their mural-emblazoned studio, home, and spiritual compound. An environment steeped in the Ital lifestyle, Rastafarian reflection and meditation, and a rich community bubbling with musical energy, both young and old artist would learn an unspoken creative language. "Having recorded some loose musical themes in LA to help inspire the creative process, Stallones and Gengras could only count on the shared respect for the sacrament of music to guide their work with The Congos. This respect is the foundation upon which Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras meet The Congos - ICON GIVE THANK is built. "GIVE THANK is not a dub reggae album, though it shares some of the genres production characteristics. Rather, its an album of Stallones and Gengrass melodically experimental meditations ornamented with The Congos soulful vocal leads and four-part harmonies. The four kings of the The Congos share the vocal throne over the course of GIVE THANK. "Congo Ashanti" Roy Johnson tenor, Cedric "Bongo" Mytons falsetto, Watty Burnett baritone, and Kenroy "Tallash" Fyffe cosmic vocal glue command singularity and create an essence combined. "The visual companion to the musical fruit of GIVE THANK is ICON EYE, a feature-length travelogue executively produced by Christine Vachon (Killer Films) and Randall Poster & Gelya Robb (Search Party Music). Shot by Lowe and Fleischner, ICON EYE evokes a musical and cultural intersection through refracted atmospheres and a feeling of magical, rhythmic synchronicity. ICON EYE shares dubbed-out editing techniques inherent in the reggae sub-genre, rendering a visual "version" of the album. "Through the diaristic yet cinematic lens of handheld HD cameras, secret moments from the studio, fishing villages, late night dances, abandoned hotels and The Congos yard are blended into a strange tapestry. Musicians, computers, children, and food reveal mystical resonance. ICON EYE is the first RVNG Intl. film production. Director / editor / cinematographer Lowe and producer / cinematographer Fleischner previously collaborated on Below the Brain (2011), a documentary about Brooklyn Carnival." -Rvng. |
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Artist: BARWICK & IKUE MORI, JULIANNA Title: FRKWYS Vol. 6 Format: LP Label: Rvng International Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Frkwys Vol. 6 features four pieces composed and performed by artists Julianna Barwick and Ikue Mori as part of a month long installation curated by RVNG Intl. at White Columns gallery, New York City, NY. For the installation, a particle board cubicle was custom constructed and placed at the center of the Project Space. The cubicle wall separated Julianna and Ikue to their respective seated work stations, while stationary web cams captured the musicians at work/play and became interactive projections auto-manipulated by video artist Erik Mika, illuminating this exercise in simulated engagement. Each of Julianna and Ikues improvised performances on October 29th, 2010, were cut live to vinyl via portable lathe. Julianna and Ikue met a second time three weeks later at White Columns, November 16th 2010. This time the two musicians collaborated without an audience, cubicle, web cams, or lathe, but with past experience and spirit in place, an exercise in actual engagement. The four pieces of FRKWYS Vol. 6 include two performances from the first collaboration, and two performances from the latter collaboration. The LP is available in limited edition, packaged in thick black jackets with a two color adhesive wrap. All LPs come with a 24 page black & white zine featuring photography by Mayer and Rogac." - Rvng. |
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Artist: BLUES CONTROL & LARAAJI Title: Frkwys Vol. 8 Format: LP Label: Rvng International Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Volume 8 in the ongoing FRKWYS series on RVNG Intl. is a double album-length collaboration between Blues Control and Laraaji. Following the "fodder first" tradition of previous FRKWYS installments, Vol. 8 was birthed over e-mail dialogue between RVNG and Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho of Blues Control. Blues Controls evolved output gracefully arcs with influence and innovation that gleams electronic, New Age, and hard rock terrains. Laraajis name came up early in that conversation and felt intrinsic to Waterhouse and Chos own musical calling. After learning various instruments in his formative years and studying composition at Howard University, Laraaji eventually found his musical conduit in an electronically-modified zither. Laraajis 1979 album Celestial Vibration (recorded as Edward Larry Gordon) places the stringed instrument at the forefront on two side-length excursions in rhythmic ambiance. The 1980 album Ambient 3: Day of Radiance, produced by Brian Eno for his ambient record series, further documented Laraajis zither explorations alongside Enos soundscaping. Laraaji continues to pursue music both in its recorded form and as a healing tool. Blues Control and Laraaji convened at Black Dirt Studio in upstate New York on December 9th, 2010. Over the course of a single studio day, the three musicians (accompanied on certain jams by Laraajis "musical friend" Arji Cakouros) improvised on several themes, providing nearly four hours of material and the basis for FRKWYS Vol. 8. After meticulous note taking, sharing, and rough edits among Blues Control and Laraaji, the album was fully fleshed out. Without context, its hard to imagine that these musicians never creatively collaborated before this juncture. The dynamic breadth (and breath) of the album feels both effortless and epic, a line usually straddled only after years of playing together. Its clear a cosmic force is at play, and that this playfulness is the creative mediator of the music. Over two album sides, the listener is transported from the urban sound garden of "Awakening Day," through the soulful yow of "Light Ships," into the texture bliss of "City of Love," and finally the reflective pool of "Freeflow". The first bonus track "Somebody Scream" demonstrates Laraajis dexterous zither-playing over thirty-five minutes of music, while the second, "Astral Jam," starts with a Wu-like beat (courtesy of Laraaji) and warps into a rolling snare trance. The limited edition LP version of FRKWYS Vol. 8 is packaged in thick black jackets with a two-color adhesive wrap, both printed on post-consumer goods papers at Stumptown Printers." - Rvng International. |
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Artist: BORDEN, FERRARO, GODIN, HALO & LOPATIN Title: Frkwys Vol. 7 Format: LP Label: Rvng International Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "The full-length player of FRKWYS Vol. 7 features pieces improvised in various forms by DAVID BORDEN, JAMES FERRARO, SAMUEL GODIN, LAUREL HALO and DANIEL LOPATIN. When Lopatin (ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER, FORD & LOPATIN) and RVNG Intl. began discussing this FRKWYS collaboration, Bordens work in MOTHER MALLARDS PORTABLE MASTERPIECE CO. and his seminal Music For Amplified Keyboard Instruments album were mutually / ecstatically acknowledged. While rooted in academia, Bordens minimalist compositions deal in natural themes, evoking expansive environments. Over two days in August 2010, the ensemble played infinitely, taking breaks only to discuss next directions, past pursuits, and, of course, gear. During tour breaks the following fall and winter, the endless hours of recordings were paired down to the selections of FRKWYS Vol. 7. The music of the album represents full session takes, edited only for time. The limited edition LP version is packaged in thick black jackets with a two-color adhesive wrap." - Rvng International. |
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Artist: CFCF Title: The River Format: 12" Label: Rvng International Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "CFCF treads dark waters on The River. Where the 22-year old Montreal based producer CFCFs (Michael Silver) debut album Continent (Paper Bag 2009) hinted at primal and ambient themes, The River fully transports the listener to a heart of darkness. Inspired by Werner Herzogs visual masterpiece Fitzcarraldo, The River follows a dream-like arc, lucid sound sequences from a lunatic mind. The Rivers voyage begins with Before and After Light, a track based around a cyclical finger-picking sample and ghostly tones that could form the core of an Ambient Eno album. It Was Never Meant to Be This Way furthers the vessel along on a wash of synth waves and a melancholy chopstick piano figure. Around the bend to the A-sides end is the choral, Popul Vuh-inspired cosmic guitar shredding of Upon the Hill. Frozen Forest heightens the grandeur opening the B-side with a slow-mo break beat and arpreggiating bass work out. The title track casts doomsday shadows before the best use of a master blaster drum attack since DJ Shadows Stem/Long Stem. After the unrest, Orage drifts on a bed of wreckage into an uncertain dusk. The first pressing of The River is limited to 550 vinyl copies. The first run of jackets are printed black offset with a bronze letterpress overprint on heavy news board. Jacket concept and design by Kevin ONeill of Work For Good, based loosely on the weathered map that lead Fitzcarraldo to madness and freedom. 6 new songs + full digital download including remixes from Games, Jacques Renault, and Coyote." -Rvng |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Frkwys Vol. 2 Format: 12" Label: Rvng International Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "RVNG is proud to announce a new 12" series entitled FRKWYS. A play on the name of the legendary Folkways record label founded by Moses Asch in the late 40s to document sound and movement in music from around the world, our FRKWYS (think Freakways) 12" series pairs contemporary artists and their progenitors by way of remix, reinterpretation, and original collaboration. Like the Folkways releases, each installment in RVNGs FRKWYS series lives under a thematic banner (albeit sometimes loose) and explores a different facet of electronic music. The first release in the series features collaborations from NYC avant-pranksters Excepter with Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti of Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey, and JG Thirwell of Foetus and his many alter egos. The result of this premiere series edition is a new and entirely relevant industrial revolution. Chris & Cosey draw from their early output (Heartbeat, Trance) and turn Excepters Shots Ring into a whip smart primitive techno mix while JG Thirwell orchestrates Stretch as a wildly percussive, brassy acid track. We are housing these limited edition 12"s (900 copies / pressing) in a classic package using heavy stock jackets applied in leatherette and tip on adhesives, creating a truly substantial and archival feel. You have to see / hear this record to believe it." -RVNG International |
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Artist: GROSSKOPF, HARALD Title: Synthesist/Re-Synthesist Format: LP + CD Label: Rvng International Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Synthesist, the landmark 1980 solo album by Harald Grosskopf, the enigmatic percussionist behind Ash Ra Temple, Klaus Schulze, Cosmic Jokers, and YOU. A melodically rich and celebratory symbiosis of krautrock, kosmische, and new age, restored and remastered for RVNG Intls debut reissue. Includes a bonus album compilation CD Re-Synthesist, featuring reinterpretations of Synthesist by Oneohtrix Point Never, Blondes, Arp, CFCF, Stellar Om Source, James Ferraro and more. The Synthesist LP comes in a deluxe package including a unique reverse-bound record jacket and full-color liner notes in English and German." -Rvng. |
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Artist: SENSATIONS FIX Title: Music Is Painting in the Air (1974-1977) Format: Double CD Label: Rvng International Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Essential collection of new mixes and unreleased material from Sensations Fix, the cosmically conscious, defiantly DIY enterprise of Franco Falsini and his band of psychedelic renegades." - Rvng. |
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Artist: SENSATIONS FIX Title: Music Is Painting in the Air (1974-1977) Format: Double LP Label: Rvng International Country: USA Price: $28.00 |
| "Essential collection of new mixes and unreleased material from Sensations Fix, the cosmically conscious, defiantly DIY enterprise of Franco Falsini and his band of psychedelic renegades." - Rvng. |
