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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Genocidio 20 Format: CD Label: W.m.o/r Country: Spain Price: $13.00 |
| "I have no idea when Maurizio Bianchis Genocidio 20 was recorded but for various reasons it could be an old work, or perhaps something new, but if thats the case than hes playing some old tricks. The first of the six tracks starts out with a nazi speech (not Adolf, but somebody else, I think Rudolf Hess, but identifying voices of nazi idiots is not my science) and quite quickly piercing electronics. Other nazi people also have their say. This could be MBs Weltanschauung record from a quarter of century ago. I believe he lost interest in this kind of stuff, hence me doubting the recentness of this release. But the fourth piece starts out really soft, and that is very unlike early 80s recordings, so perhaps this is recent?" - Vital Weekly. "This is a real puzzler, as theres practically no information whatsoever.. which leads me to guess that it dates from the early 80s, Bianchis "nasty" period, before he became a Jehovahs Witness" - DW. |
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Artist: JUNKO & MATTIN Title: Pinknoise Format: CD Label: W.m.o/r Country: Spain Price: $12.00 |
| "Junko (Hijo Kaidan)- voice Mattin-computer feedback. mastered by Taku Unami, recorded by Masae Ito at Tanker Studios (Tokyo) on the 5th of April 2004." - W.m.o/r. |
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Artist: RUSSELL, BRUCE Title: 21st Century Field Hollers and Prison Songs Format: CDR/Book Label: W.m.o/r Country: Spain Price: $13.00 |
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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).
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Artist: KRAP Title: Live At the Common Ground Format: LP Label: Wabana Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| Limited release of a one-off collaboration between Mat Brinkman (see Forcefield, Mindflayer and last years Whitney Biennial) and friends. |
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Artist: NEWAGE PANTHER MISTIQUE Title: S/T Format: CDR Label: Wabana Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Newage Panther Mistique is the solo project of James Ferraro of San Franciscos vocal psych duo The Skaters. Edition of 100 numbered copies in Wabanas generic purple digipak with photo mounted to outside." - Wabana.
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Artist: SKATERS Title: Dispersed Royalty Ornaments Format: LP Label: Wabana Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"As the duo known as the Skaters and as solo artists, Ferraro and Clark,
who are flat broke and currently without phone or Internet service,
spend most of their days and late nights not working but huddled in
their bedrooms jamming, obsessively exploring through the use of
nontraditional instrumentation and the creation of abstract sound the
inside and the outside at the same time, and in the process
experiencing what Ferraro calls private imaginations. The end result
is not what you would expect -- i.e., a pretentious, painfully dry
avant-garde free-noise. Quite the opposite, its a totally out there,
vocal-dominated psychedelia, based, structurally speaking, on the
open-ended drone heard in industrial music, minimalism, experimental
electronics, folk, world music, and free jazz. And, like the best free
jazz -- the early, fiery stuff: Trane, Ayler, Sanders -- the Skaters
noise-drenched cosmic soul is driven by their need to, in the words of
Ferraro, grasp something that is beyond what you can verbalize." - Justin
Farrar.
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Artist: SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN Title: Sunburned Hand of the Man Format: CD Label: Wabana Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Sunburned Hand of the Man Self Titled is the third release in Wabanas CD re-issue series of limited live LPs. Recorded entirely at the Sunburned loft in Charlestown, Massachusetts, this musical journey takes the listener into the bands inner sanctum and sets them free. Occasionally a listener of two gets lost while swimming in the their drug induced hypnotic spiral but in most cases they find their way out, only to desire that feeling again. Comes in the standard generic purple digipak sleeve with clear sticker attached featuring the original LP artwork." - Wabana. |
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Artist: VODKA SOAP Title: Reactionary Meditations... Format: CDR Label: Wabana Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Vodka Soap is the solo project of Spencer Clark ofSan Franciscos vocal psych duo The Skaters. The full title of this CD is Reactionary Meditations With The Chandelier Of Our Head. Edition of 100 numbered copies in Wabanas generic purple digipak with photo mounted to outside." - Wabana.
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Artist: WARHEADS RETURN! Title: S/T Format: CDR Label: Wabana Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Relevant notes: WARHEADS RETURNS is a noise duo whose members were both born on May 15 inNorthern Maine(in the upper right corner of these United States.) That the two birthdays happened exactly 20 years apart, one in 1962, the other in 1982, may or may not have any relevance to the creation of these recordings perhaps as much relevance as any other coincidence. Regardless of these questions, there is no doubt that this effort is a blistering, harsh, multi-generational-yet common purposed, all out attack on the crippling effects of paternalism in our culture. Cover art by Ruth Garbus of the hippe clan known as FEATHERS. Limited to 100 hand assembled CDRs." - Wabana. |
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Fuck Pete Larsen Format: CD Label: Wabana Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Artist: BEHRENS, M. Title: Lecture Feedback/Source Feedback/The Aesthetics Of Censorship Format: LP Label: Wachsender Prozess Country: Germany Price: $15.00 |
| "M. Behrens is considered one of the most talented young artist in the experimental electronic scene of Germany. His music has been released by many national and international labels. Recently his intricate, intense sound objects and compositions have been celebrated in Tokyo and Osaka. Back in 1992, when the first parts of this record came into being, M. Behrens started to experiment with extreme frequencies, although less conscious and docmatic than in his later works." - Wachsender Prozess. |
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Artist: NON TOXIQUE LOST Title: Terre Et Argent Format: LP Label: Wachsender Prozess Country: Germany Price: $28.00 |
| "Second edition with blue silkscreen cover released on Wachsender Prozess. Release of cassette material of the 80s from this classical German old school industrial group. Youll hear rhythmical synthesizer work combined with aggressive guitar and kicking vocal parts in a abstract way between punk and avantgarde." - Wachsender Prozess. |
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Artist: COLORED MUSHROOM AND THE MEDICINE ROCKS Title: Sea Channels Format: Cass Label: Wagon Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Recorded in the same time frame as "Sundial," but on a different mission. Inspired by the soleilmoon release of charlotte bills short film scored by nocturnal emissions. Weird vocals, weird downer vibe, just weird. Slow washes of breezed out analog patching compete with crusing rhythm machines, string synth star scapes, and cold water rinses reveal the blackness of the sea and the mysterious light shining across the water barely in view. To live never reaching the light, or to die trying? Installment #2 from the medicine rocks crew, cleveland winter style. Pro-made on digital bin machines to chrome cassettes. 100 copies with double sided full color art on killer heavy stock, as per usual." - Gneiss Things.
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Artist: MCGUIRE, MARK Title: Dream Team Format: CDR Label: Wagon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"My new solo cdr, this time with guitar and vocals tied to a driving kraut-rock tempo, harmonizing in ecstatic distorted bliss. High energy stone zone. Full color art and insert with top secrets. Edition of 75." -Wagon
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Artist: MCGUIRE, MARK Title: Light Movement Format: CDR Label: Wagon Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Cdr reissue of the very limited and sold out double cassette released on wagon earlier this year. 40 minutes of acoustic and electric guitars flowing over eachother, vocals fading in and out and gradient sky tones that keep changing and changing. Full color art and insert. Edition of 70." -Wagon
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Artist: SCHEIBLE, NATE Title: Hawthorne Format: 3" CDR Label: Wagon Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"Cleveland improv giant and multi-instrumentalist Nate Scheible throws yet another curveball with "Hawthorne," a beautiful document of miles and miles of guitar cut-up and glued together into perfect synchronicity. Based on "The Artist Of The Beautiful" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scheibles guitar playing evokes a melancholy but serene mood, drowsy and reflective. Color art with three different covers. Edition of 60 copies." -Wagon
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Artist: SKIN GRAFT Title: Chernobyl Format: CDR Label: Wagon Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Repress of the very limited edition 2007 wagon cdr by one of the most refreshing and interesting noise projects in the midwest, Wyatt Howland aka SKIN GRAFT, who has been slugging it out with his electronics for more than ten years in the Cleveland underground. "Chernobyl," like all other Skin Grafts Wagon releases, delivers on every level. ALL KILLER, NO FILLER. Brutal and gritty electronics fester like smoldering toxic fumes filling the lungs of the unexpecting, with no time for escape. This one is a doozy, and like Under Seige 2 deals with some DARK TERRITORY. Black and white art with a double sided fold out poster insert. Edition of 75." -Wagon |
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Artist: SYNAPTIC FOLIAGE Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Wagon Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
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"The wagon debut and the follow up to his "astra" cassette, clevelands young julian g. (perhaps better known as chief operator of clevelands cylindrical habitat modules label) is the promise for the future. On this release julian crafts gusts of cloud static and waterfall white noise into an epic c60 of slow motion memory loss. Bleak layers never reveal what is hiding underneath. Limited edition of 65 copies w/full color collage art on heavy stock." - Gneiss Things.
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Artist: EMERALDS Title: Emeralds Format: LP Label: Wagon/Gneiss Things Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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"Self-released LP on dark marble swirl-colored vinyl of richly textured dream static and bonfire brain music from Cleveland Ohios hypnagod-like drone-trio Emeralds. Recorded in August and September of 2008. River and Buddhist cremation recorded by Aaron Dilloway, 2005. Mastered by James Plotkin. Includes glossy insert." - Wagon/Gneiss Things.
"Cleveland trio Emeralds may share many common aesthetics with their Midwestern noise brethren, but their sound has emerged as a distinct entity in a scene already stacked with analog electronics, psychedelic improv and industrial drone." -Dusted Reviews
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Artist: AME SON Title: Catalyse Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "The origins of Ame Son go back to the mid-sixties, when Bernard Lavialle (guitar), Bernard Stisi (guitar, vocals), Patrick Fontaine (bass) and Marc Blanc (drums) formed Les Primitivs circa 1965. They took the Parisian stages with a Yardbirds/Pretty Things inspired wild R&B set, and they kept active until Stisi left in 1967. At that point they changed their name to Expression, and with a more experimental approach they took their newly find free rock sound a la Soft Machine to night clubs and also to exhibitions of modern art. It was around that time that Marc Blanc met Australian ex-patriate Daevid Allen, who had been the guitarist with the Soft Machine until he hadnt been allowed to return to the UK after some south of France gigs of the band. Allen settled in Paris where he would form Gong, but before that he was to be joined by Blanc and Fontaine in his new project Banana Moon. After the Banana Moon period Lavialle, Fontaine, Blanc and flutist Francois Garrel regrouped under the name of Ame Son and were featured with great acclaim on some of the most important festivals of the era. The BYG label signed them and in 1970 they recorded their now legendary LP. The album was conceived pretty quickly and it has a spontaneous, energetic psychedelic/free rock feel with a pretty psychedelic prog sound that drinks from the same springs as bands such as Gong, the Soft Machine, the Pink Floyd or Guru Guru. Ame Son were one of the earliest French rock bands to go beyond the conventional rock and roll of the time, and Catalyse is considered to be one of the first truly progressive/underground efforts at thrity-three tours in France. The Wah Wah reissue features the original German gatefold cover, remastered sound, a repro of a very cool original Ame Son period poster plus photos and liner notes. Strictly limited to only 500 copies." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: AME SON Title: Primitive Expression Format: LP + 7" Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $32.00 |
| "Primitive Expression is an amazing collection of unissued at the time studio material that proves Ame Son were a really amazing band, since this material sounds equally good as that of their official LP, if not better! It will appeal to fans of Gong, the early Soft Machine, Pink Floyd and in general anyone with interests in the field of experimental free form underground psychedelic rock. It also includes the two songs from their only 45. Additionally, this LP features a PS 7" with the fabulous Sweet Georgia song by the Primitives for lovers of freakbeat floor killers. Includes an insert with liner notes and photos." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: AMON DUUL Title: Paradieswarts Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
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"Recorded in 1971, Amon Düüls only album for Ohr was a visionary slice of acid-folk which has gained cult status as years passed by. Ritualistic folk-rock, pastoral hippie songs, stoned jams, Eastern flavors, mystical passages and heavy hypnotic riffing which are in fact very different from the early Amon Düül epic freaked-out improvisations (Psychedelic Underground) or Amon Düül II complex and psyched-up progressive works (Phallus Dei). These were in fact archival recordings done by a different incarnation of Amon Duul, one that combined members of both factions into a floating line up welcoming many a guest, and which were released by R.U. Kaiser without the musicians knowledge or authorization, most likely in order to catch up with Amon Düül II rising popularity. All in all, a mythical recording featuring such underground classics as Love Is Peace, Snow Your Thurst Sun Open Your Mouth and Paramechanische Welt. Included also on our edition is their sought after Ohr single: Paramechanical World / Eternal Flow. Another legendary title from the Ohr catalogue rescued by Wah Wah for your listening pleasure. Strictly limited to 500 copies. Sleeve reproducing original artwork from the Ohr original issue. Featuring bonus tracks Paramechanical World and Eternal Flow (originally released as 7" single)." - Wah Wah
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Artist: ANIMA SOUND Title: Musik Für Alle Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "After the success of the previous Wah Wah reissue of Anima Sounds Stürmischer Himmel we are proud to offer a first ever vinyl reissue of their Musik Für Alle album, one of the rarest private pressings in the Krautrock scene. In 1971 Paul and Limpe Fuchs loaded their instruments on an old tractor and spent six months touring through Germany at 20 km/h. When the summer came, they stopped in front of Willy Neubauers recording studio in Düsseldorf and there they taped a music memory of the tour. Two long pieces, 17 minute long improvisations titled N Da Da Uum Da and Traktor Go Go Go, were to be privately released as an LP on their own Altepfarhof label. By some, these two tracks can surely be considered as one of the best psychedelic experiences ever created, due to the intensity of the recording. On their performance the group produced many wonderful and inspired sounds, many of them coming from Paul Fuchs self-built instruments, and counted with the post-production collaboration of Neubauers Echolette Ringmodulater. The Wah Wah reissue has been properly licensed from Limpe Fuchs herself, reproduces the original cover art and features an insert with photos." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: ANIMA SOUND Title: Stürmischer Himmel Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
| "Often described as one of the oddities in the Ohr catalogue, Stürmischer Himmel supposed the vinyl debut of Anima Sound, the radical free-music duo of sculptor Paul Fuchs and his wife Limpe Fuchs. Recorded at a thousand year cottage on a windy hill and opening with ambience recording of wind and sheeps, the album is an organic collection of improvised atonal pieces ranging from the atmospheric to the wild with much use of screaming, horns, percussions, ambience recordings, wordless vocals and all kinds of home-made sound devices (Fuchshorn, Fuchszither, Fuchsbass... ). Pure German counter-culture sounds from the early 70s. Limited to 500 copies. Sleeve reproducing all the original artwork from the Ohr press. Quality vinyl press inside a 350 gr. quality sleeve. Comes with an insert with info and photos!" -- Wah Wah |
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Artist: ANNEXUS QUAM Title: Osmose Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Japan Price: $33.00 |
| 2nd pressing on purple vinyl. "Annexus Quam had actually a quite long career, having their roots in the outfit Ambition Of Music, formed back in 1967 Kamp-Lintfort (near Dorf). By 1970, and paying tribute to their early name, they had incorporated a whole array of influences (most important one, the inclusion of jazz instrumentation) and brewed them in what was becoming a very personal progressive fusion of styles, best witnessed in their their debut album Osmose. At that time, the band had grown into a septet formed by Uwe Bick (drums, vocals, percussion), JJonuschies (bass, vocals, percussion), Werner Hostermann (clarinet, organ, vocals, percussion), Peter Werner (guitar, vocals, percussion), Hans K᭰er (trombone, Spanish guitar, vocals, percussion), Ove Volquartz (sax) and Harald Klemm (flute, vocals, percussion). Far from a typical jazz sound, they were able to integrate rock and jazz instrumentation into a unique style, which borrowed elements from the aforementioned genres but blended those into an ultimate cosmic fusion (which can recall at times the Third Ear Band, Xhol Caravan or even Ash Ra Tempel yet remaining totally their own). Actually, Annexus Quam were able to sound meditative, doomy, stoned, aggressive, exotic and lyrical in the same track without loosing any musical coherence or perspective. With their personal style that even today defies categorization (except for that big umbrella we call kraut rock),Annexus Quam had all the inventiveness and excitement of the 1969/1970 German bands. Osmose is a most unique album by an equally unique band, housed in one of the most luxurious, elaborated and tripped-out gimmix covers ever made, now reproduced in all its multi-folding glory. Gimmix folding-pyramidal cover!" - Wah Wah. |
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Artist: ATILA Title: Beginning Of The End Format: LP & 7 Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $25.00 |
| "Often hailed as one the hard psych masterpieces to come out of Spain in the early 70s, "The Beginning Of The End" was the vinyl debut of ATILA, a trio formed in 1973 by Eduardo Niebla -guitar- Joan Punyet -drums- y Francisco Ortega -keyboards-. Originally released in 1975 by the obscure New Promotions label in a alledged tiny pressing of 100 copies the album has reached "monster" status between die-hard collectors worldwide, sometimes reaching the $ 1,500 tag. An incredible progressive tour de force, the album combined the typical classical leanings, fierce guitar leads and dark keys all over in the best European tradition of the era (think Italian prog). Another rarity which finally reaches a wider audience thanks to Wah Wah in a well presented reissue that is completed by 2 BONUS tracks PLUS a 7" including two more extra tracks all taken from contemporany sessions (actually same month as the album recordings) which show the band delve into Pink Floyd-territory circa More/Ummagumma (think Careful With That Axe, Eugene and youll be pretty close)." - Wah Wah. |
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Artist: BESOMBES, PHILIPPE Title: Libra Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "When the bunch of filmmakers known as The Pattern Group (Roland Moreau, Georges Perdriaud and Jean Talansier) did Libra, their second movie, in 1973 they thought it would be a good idea to use bits from Pink Floyds Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother to create its soundtrack. The movie, a 90-minute film with no dialogue, depicts the story of four youngsters living in communion with nature, an idyllic life that is drastically changed when a U.S. satellite crashes in the area and attracts the attention of journalists and TV crews that come to destroy the peace of the place. Obviously, the Pink Floyd bits had been used without permission, and The Pattern Group saw they needed an original soundtrack if they wanted the film released without legal trouble. They approached Jean-Michel Jarre, who declined the invitation to create the new soundtrack, but suggested instead Philippe Besombes. Besombes was a sound explorer who walked similar paths as other avant gardist young musicians from his generation such as Richard Pinhas (Heldon), Paul Putti (Pôle), Jean Louis Rizet or Jean-Michel Jarre himself (way before he became the famed wizard of commercial synth music as we know him today). Besombes was requested to produce a soundtrack in the style of those Pink Floyd tracks used. However he came up with that and more. Always aiming to find new ways of musical expression, he produced music that fitted perfectly in what the filmmakers needed but which was totally of his own. Surrounded by a cast of friends, he locked himself in the basement of his girlfriends father (who even ended up providing the financial funds for the project to reach an end!) and taped the amazing sounds that form the Libra soundtrack, a landmark in French electronic tripping music. The soundtrack was recorded in 1974, and it was released as a vinyl LP on the Tapioca label in 1975. It has since become a highly sought-after LP among collectors of electronic music worldwide, and gets its first vinyl reissue on Wah Wah in a deluxe edition that features a lavish 12" sized, six-page booklet with plenty of photographs from the era and information on the making of Libra in texts written by Philippe Besombes himself and Raul G. Pratginestós." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: BETWEEN Title: And The Waters Opened Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $28.00 |
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"Formed in 1970 in Munich, Between was an international band devoted to explore the spaces existing between (hence the name) disparate musical currents: from ancient music to avant garde from Western classical to Eastern musics, from medieval to pop music in a fresh approach that perfectly fitted the experimentation dominating the early 70s German music scene. Whereas many of their contemporaries favoured the introduction of electronic elements, Between relied mostly on purely acoustic sounds, albeit so distorted they would pass as electronic. Roberto Detrees self-made motocello was a constant source of other-wordly sonorities which permeated many of the bands compositions. Add to this Peter-Michael Hamels Indian-influenced systemic organ minimalism and Cotch Blacks hypnotical percussion and youll get Betweens sound in a nut-shell. A mystical vision not removed from that of their contemporaries Popol Vuh that predated much of the new-age, meditation and world-music fusions that would blossom in the 80s. Originally released by Vertigo in 1973 and housed in a colourful psychedelic sleeve by Guntram Holdgrün, this is often regarded as Betweens most exotic and beautiful opus. A huge, majestic droning masterpiece with oriental nuances that might recall Popol Vuh, Fripp & Eno or Taj Mahal Travellers. Classic album from the early German 70s scene that deserves to be rediscovered by a wider audience. With Roberto C. Detrée (guitar, motocello, adapted harp), Robert Eliscu (oboe, oboe damore), Peter Michael Hamel (keyboards, vocals), Cotch Black (percussion) plus Duru Omson (bamboo flute, percussion, voice) and Fabian Arkus (electronics). Limited to 500 copies. Cover reproduces the original artwork by Guntram Holdgrün from the 1973 Vertigo issue. Insert with liner notes." -Wah Wah
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Artist: BETWEEN Title: Einstieg Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $28.00 |
| "The debut album by this multinational outfit, originally released by Wergo in 1971. A groundbreaking fusion of diverse sources and traditions: from ancient and medieval to avant garde, free improvisation or eastern meditation. A unique mixture that will blossom in their follow up And The Waters Opened. With Roberto Detree (guitar, motocello), Peter-Michael Hamel (piano, organ), Robert Eliscu (oboe, vocal), Cotch Black (percussion), Ulrich Stranz (viola) plus a young James Galway on flute." With 4-page insert." -Wah Wah. |
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Artist: BOOK OF AM, THE Title: The Book of Am Format: 2LP/Hardcover Book Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $105.00 |
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"..housed inside a 144-page book reproducing the original engravings by Juan Arkotxa, 64 of which are full color. Strictly limited edition: 500. Sold out in Spain, last copies. First reissue of this fabulous masterpiece of European and acid folk, originally released in 1977. Including for the first time a full reproduction of astonishing Book of Am engravings as an accompanying book, and the previously unreleased "Part II" disc." - FE. "We are proud to announce the reissue of the legendary The Book Of Am, a unique combination of recordings and artwork which stands up as an enduring testament of the fertile hippie scene which flourished in the Baleric islands during the seventies. Known to record collectors and psych/folk/prog music aficionados alike, this multicultural band formed in the island of Mallorca in the mid-70s and recorded a beautiful (and outrageously scarce) album which has gained cult status as years passed by. The Book Of Am was originally devised as a beautifully illustrated book focused on various world folklore and traditions, coupled with 4 LPs which would represent a musical. This (never completed) 4LP set would correspond to the four phases of day (Dawn, Morning, Afternoon, Night). Only the first of these records (Morning) would eventually see the light of day in a tiny private pressing which changes hands nowadays for obscene amounts of money. So now, alongside the reissue of the original Book Of Am album were very proud to present the first-ever release of the previously unissued Part II of the The Book Of Am, which leader Juan Arkotxa remastered recently from the original master tapes. Both albums are housed inside a 144-page book reproducing the original engravings by Juan Arkotxa, 64 of which are full color. Never released back in the day due to its high production costs, now, the central part of the The Book Of Am, can finally see the light of day. A round-the-world trip through the folklore, legends, lore and cosmogonies of some of the worlds cultures, from ancient Egypt to Celtic traditions." - Wah Wah.
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Artist: BOOK OF AM, THE Title: The Book of AM Parts III & IV Format: Double LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $48.00 |
| "Juan Arkotxa, Leslie McKenzie, and Carmeta Mansilla have joined forces with Will Z (of Cosmic Trip Machine fame) to finish the great project that was The Book of Am. As you may know, a few years ago Wah Wah released the book including the only LP that was originally released back in the seventies (part I) plus adding an extra LP (part II) which had been recorded in the same era while the book was being created, but the book itself hadnt been previously released. Now, thanks to the help of Will Z, original Can Am des Puig residents Leslie and Juan, plus original contributor Carmeta have joined forces again to finish what was left unfinished. The main body of parts III and IV is formed by those songs written back in 1970s Ibiza and Mallorca that never reached the recording stage. Will Z has also written part of the music, and has helped with all arrangements having in mind the sound of the original sessions and respecting the musical feel and spirit of the original Book Of Am recordings. It sounds amazing and will not disappoint fans of parts I and II. Lovers of the previous Book of Am know what to expect and will not be disappointed! Comes in a gatefold sleeve with cloth-like stamped spine that includes the lyrics to the songs and some photos and reproductions of original engravings by Leslie and Juan." -Wah Wah. |
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Artist: BUNN, ROGER Title: Piece of Mind Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "As K.J. Gustin wrote, Piece Of Mind is a work of exotic psychedelic free-jazz-meets-rock, East-meets-West, progressive and smoky moment in late Twentieth Century music history. Add to that a spice of jazzy brassed R&B and a touch of minor-key popsike sensitivity and you get an accurate description of the sounds contained in Roger Bunns astonishing 1969 LP, originally released in the UK on the Major Minor budget label, but issued in some European countries (Ohr label in Germany or Phillips in Holland) in a beautiful gatefold cover that is the one we choose for our reissue. When the LP was released in 1969, Roger Bunn was already a veteran British musician that had gained an astonishing CV since he began playing in the professional circuit. He spent the sixties moving through several outfits playing skiffle, jazz, beat, R&B, soul... whatever. As The Beatles did, he spent some of his forming time in Germany, playing with British formations there. A versatile musician on several instruments, he became a master of double bass. After the Piece Of Mind days he joined Pete Browns Piblotko!, played with members of Soft Machine, worked with Ornette Coleman, saw one of his songs recorded (though never officially released) by a major rock star like David Bowie and even became a founding member of Roxy Music for a short period in 1970-1971, among so many other things. An album that should be an essential addition to any collection that misses it, reissued in full colour gatefold sleeve, quality vinyl pressing and an insert with liner notes, with sound remastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering in a strictly limited edition of ONLY 500 COPIES, made in loving memory of this great musician who passed away in 2005, that we expect to sell like hot bread. Get yours before its too late!" - Wah Wah. |
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Artist: CACCIAPAGLIA, ROBERTO Title: Sei Note in Logica Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Roberto Cacciapaglias legendary 1979 composition for voices, orchestra, and computer. Recorded with the Ensemble Garbarino, conducted by Giuseppe Garbarino and featuring the voices of Elfriede Demetz, Alexandra Althof, Cettina Cadelo, and Eloisa Francia, plus the filtered reciting voice of Ann Steel. For fans of early minimalist composers, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley or even Moondog. First time ever vinyl reissue. Remastered at Abbey Road by Cacciapaglia himself and Simon Gibson. Limited to 500 copies." -Wah Wah. Included on Alan Lichts third "Minimalism Top Ten" list (written for Volcanic Tongue as a sequel to the first 2 published in Halana Magazine in the late nineties). |
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Artist: CACCIAPAGLIA, ROBERTO Title: Sonanze Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
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"Roberto Cacciapaglia had already gathered attention for his excellent work at the keyboards on Franco Battiatos legendary second LP Pollution before joining forces with Krautrock mastermind Rolf Ulrich Kaiser for the release of his 1975 masterpiece Sonanze. Cacciapaglia self-produced the album in Milan for the Cosmic Couriers label, and it certainly brings echoes of some cosmiche kraut experiments like those of Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze or Tangerine Dream, yet retaining a unique personality of its own. Actually its the feel given by Cacciapaglias mixture of classical sense compositions (he was trained in Milans Giuseppe Verdi conservatory) with adventurous experimentalism (he worked for the RAIs phonology research team and also at the CNR in Pisa) what makes the sound of Sonanze so unique. According to the Scented Gardens of the Mind book, good musical references might be Terry Riley, Franco Battiato (Sulle corde di Aries), Klaus Schulze (Cyborg) and William Scheller (Lux Aeterna). In a 500 copies only limited edition featuring an insert with liner notes." -Wah Wah.
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Artist: CEREBRUM Title: Cerebrum Format: 10" Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $19.00 |
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"Wah Wah celebrates the tenth release of the LPS series with this 10" vinyl that collects the four tracks originally released on the two 1970 Dimensión singles by Madrids hard rock legends Cerebrum. A deluxe package in astonishing cover art sleeve and with accurate liner notes by Angel Maeztu.." - Wah Wah.
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Artist: CLEARLIGHT Title: Clearlight Symphony Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Through Tim Blake, Gongs synth player at the time (one of Bransons first artists), Cyrille Verdeaux signs for Virgin in 1974. That same year Clearlight Symphony is recorded (clearlight stands for a type of LSD). For its recording sessions Cyrille uses two different line-ups, each in charge of each of the two parts of the work. On one side theres ex Babylone members Christian Boule, Lard Frees Gilbert Artman and bassman Martin Isaacs. They record along with Verdeaux on Virgins Manor studio. The other side will be canned at Kaleidophon studios, ran by White Noises David Vorhaus, where Cyrille is joined by Gong members Tim Blake, Steve Hillage and Didier Malherbe. Verdeauxs original idea was to feature the Manor studio recordings on side A, but thinking heads at Virgin thought better to flip sides to make more profit of Gongs commercial success. A curious decision, since you normally dont promote an LP with the same strategy you would use for a single! Clearlight Symphony was released in 1975 with small echo in press and public, although it has nowadays reached a cult status among followers of the symphonic -- cosmic -- progressive genres. In what refers to its musical content, Clearlight Symphony is a completely opposed concept to that of the other project in which Verdeaux was involved at the time: the collective album Delired Chameleon Family (also reissued recently on Wah Wah Records), a brilliant psychedelic dive into the French underground of the seventies. Clearlight Symphony, instead, is a much more author-controled work, where all the musicians adapt themselves to Verdeauxs circular, systematic composition. The alleged and collected improvisations, dissonances and atonalities (superb Boule), the rhythmic tension of Artmans enigmatic, Heldonian drumming, Blakes environmental VCS3 modulations, Hillages content cosmicism, Verdeauxs crescendos and counterpoints -- plus echoes of Debussy, Terry Riley, Soft Machine, Magma, and why not, the aforementioned Tubular Bells. In short, a work of honesty, an album of its time." -Wah Wah. |
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Artist: DE BYL, FRANZ Title: Und Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $25.00 |
| "Time to unearth another Kraut obscurity, sought-after by collectors worldwide since his inclusion on the legendary NWW list. Franz De Byls second album, released by Thorofon in 1971, was actually his debut as a solo performer, an eccentric collection of freaky acoustic folk songs with bluesy elements and an extra satirical, political twist (not unlike Floh De Cologne). Weird sounds and compulsive chanting from this master of the acoustic guitar, one of the most curious characters to ever emerge from the Berlin underground!" - Wah Wah. |
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Artist: DELIRED CAMELEON FAMILY Title: Visa De Censure Nº X Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Another lost gem of French underground music, Delired Cameleon Family was originally conceived as the soundtrack to Pierre Clémentis Visa de censure nº X, and was originally released as an LP in 1975. It was a host of reputed experimentalists who took charge of producing this soundtrack. Under the direction of Cyrille Verdeaux we found the likes of Yvan Coaquette (Música Electrónica Viva, Spacecraft...), Gilbert Artman (Lard Free, Urban Sax...), Christian Boulé, Tim Blake (Gong, solo recordings...), Ariel Kalma (Heldon, solo recordings), Jean-Claude dAgostini, François Jeanneau, Jean Padovani, Olivier Pamela, Joël Dugrenot, Antoine Duvernet, Aude Cornillac and Valérie Lagrange. Cyrille Verdeaux was, of course, the main force behind the better known French band Clear Light. Verdeaux was born the 31st of July of 1949 in Paris. At the age of 15 he became a student at the French National Conservatory of Music, specialising in studies of harmony, composition and piano. He won three times the first prize in student composition. After the 1968 student riots he left the Conservatory to join a band as a keyboardist. In 1972 he released Clearlight Symphony, thus forming the band Clear Light to tour through Europe performing his symphony. Clear Light would release three more LPs through the 70s, and also the soundtrack to Visa De Censure. The music form Delired Cameleon Family, as it has been told somewhere, is the synthesis of pianos technical, epic scales, psychedelic wah wah guitar sounds and electronic cosmic, molecular machines arrangements. We are proud to add this great experimental trippy soundtrack to the Wah Wah catalogue, reissued in cool vinyl, with remastered sound, housed in a faithful reproduction of the original sleeve and complete with an insert with liner notes and photos. Only 500 copies pressed, so better get yours before they are gone!" -Wah Wah |
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Artist: ELEKTRIKTUS Title: Electronic Mind Waves Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
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"Out of the mysterious mind of Andrea Centazzo came Elektriktus. Originally released on the PDU label, the LP Electronic Mind Waves offers a collection of eight synth-fueled songs that sound very close to what kraut/cosmische heads were doing at the time, think of Conrad Schnitzler, Deuter or Cosmic Jokers, and also other European experimentalists like Richard Pinhas Heldon, Spacecraft, Didier Bocquet, Seesselberg, F.G. Experimental Laboratory, Roberto Cacciapaglia or Hydrus. Along with Cacciapaglia and Hydrus, Elektriktus shows the most adventurous experimental sounds under a kraut/cosmische music influence to ever come out of Italy. Centazzo was already a highly experienced musician when he produced this LP in his home studio in 1976. He had been the drummer on Giorgio Gasslinis Quartet, with whom he also recorded several LPs, and also on his own jazz band Ictus (actually the name Elektriktus came out of melting his electronic experiments with his former bands name). Hes actually one of the key names from the Italian improv/free-jazz scene and the driving force behind the ICTUS label. Strongly recommended to fans of minimal electronic music, kosmische sounds and ambient soundscapes. The Wah Wah reissue comes in an exact repro of its original sleeve and features an insert with information and photos. Strictly limited to only 500 copies." -Wah Wah.
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Artist: EMBRYO Title: Opal Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $28.00 |
| Gatefold sleeve. "Wah Wah brings you more essential Krautrock sounds, this time focusing on the pioneering innovative fusions born out in Munich in the early 70s which helped to bridge the gap between East & West. Were proud to offer the first four albums by one of the longest running bands in the history of German rock: Embryo. Formed around the core of jazz vibrafonist Christian Burchard and drummer Dieter Serfas, the band started their career in Munich in 1969. 40 years later, more than 300 musicians have passed thru their ranks, from their colleagues of Amon Duül II (Lother Meid, Chris Karrer, Jimmy Jackson), Xhol (Hansi Fischer), Between (Roberto Detree, Peter Hamel) to renowned jazzmen (Charlie Mariano, Mal Waldron) or countless musicians from around the world (Yoruba Dun Dun Orchester, Okay Temiz & Oriental Wind, Karnataka College Of Percussion, Mahmoud Gania, Xizhi Nie), making Embryo an ever-changing but always interesting collective of musicians. This is where it all began. Originally released by Ohr in 1970, Embryos legendary debut was an inventive piece of progressive jazz-rock spiced-up with free moves and soaked in a late 60s psychedelic atmosphere. The original blueprint which gave birth to the jazzier-end of Krautrock (Xhol, Kollektiv, Thirsty Moon, Kraan...). An absolutely must-have for any Krautrock buff and one of the best Ohr albums! With John Kelly (Ten Years After), Edgar Hofmann, Christian Burchard, Ralph Fischer plus guests Bettsy Alleh (voice), Roberto Detree (motocello), Holger Trülsch (bongo)." - Wah Wah. |
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Artist: GUALBERTO Title: Gualberto Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $24.00 |
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"The first album by this mythical Andalusian multi-instrumentalist, member of the legendary Smash, recorded in 1971 in Barcelona (another nice example of the fertile connection between the scenes in Seville and Barcelona at the beginning of the seventies), it remained unreleased until 1978 (when it appeared as one part of the double LP El Nacimiento Del Rock En Andalucía). Rescued by Wah Wah thirty years after, the album shows Gualberto in a phase of creative definition, half-way Smashs powerful sound and unique mix of psych & folk with some oriental touch (Gualbertos ubiquitous sitar and Jessicas characteristic vocals) which will became his trademark in forthcoming LPs. (A La Vida - Al Dolor, Vericuetos). Without a doubt, one of the unknown treasures of Sevilles early psych/prog scene... Limited issue of 500 numbered copies w/ gatefold cover." - Wah Wah
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Artist: GURU GURU Title: UFO Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $26.00 |
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"Deluxe gatefold edition, now in a second edition of 500 copies. "Killer debut by one of the craziest bands ever: Guru Guru. Mani Neumeier (drums), Uli Trepte (bass) and Ax Genrich (guitar) get together for what some still consider as the ultimate trip on record. Insane psychedelic action, from stoned to acid, reflecting the trios live impromptu freeform jams, albeit in a shorter format. A white-hot sound best witnessed in tracks like Der LSD-Marsch or UFO, originally released by Ohr in 1970 and now re-released on Wah Wah in a glorious gatefold cover. For fans of early Can, Kraftwerk & Faust." -Wah Wah
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Artist: HAMEL, PETER MICHAEL Title: Hamel Format: Double LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $41.00 |
| "First ever reissue of P.M Hamels debut album, originally released by Vertigo in 1972. An extended trip through meditative and minimalist territories that has its roots both in western avant-garde and Indian classical music. Organ and synthesizer drones mix with natural sounds in a flowing, ever-changing soundscape. For fans of Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Popol Vuh, Taj Mahal Travellers, Deuter and anyone into ambient and meditation musics. With Peter Michael Hamel (organ, voice, electronics, piano), Anatol Arkus (synthesizer), Ulrich Kraus (synthesizer)." Deluxe gatefold sleeve with 4-page insert featuring photos and liner notes written by Ulrich Kraus and Terry Riley." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: HELDON Title: Agneta Nilsson Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "After our acclaimed reissues of the previous three LPs by Richard Pinhas project Heldon, here is their fourth LP originally issued on Disjuncta/Urus in 1976. Agneta Nilsson is an interesting step in Heldons development: it gives a twist to their classic sound, which was mainly built around Pinhas Fripp-esque guitar work and ambient synth experiments to begin to explore a more rhythmic territory. Drums and bass take more presence here, offering a rockier feel, but somehow retaining the mysterious ambience of its predecessors, while adding an extra touch of sinister aggressiveness. Featuring among others Magmas keyboardist, Patrick Gauthier, it starts pretty much in the same ambient, spacey, minimalist electronic mood of the previous Heldon releases, but as the development of the main title Perspective goes ahead the move towards the more guitar and drums sound of the next to come Heldon sound is evident. Agneta Nilssons sound has been described somewhere as a more sinister Tangerine Dream mixed with a more jammy King Crimson. Our reissue comes housed in a faithful reproduction of the original sleeve. It is made in a strictly limited edition of only 500 copies." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: HELDON Title: Electronique Guerilla Format: LP + 7" Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "After our string of releases centered around the diverse German 70s scene, were happy to introduce the next installment in the Wah Wah LPS reissue series. This time we move over to France to re-discover the beginnings of one of the most adventurous, influential and innovative French bands of the seventies: Heldon. Centered around guitarist Richard Pinhas and featuring a floating cast of regular collaborators (Didier Batard, François Auger, Patrick Gauthier, Alain Renaud, Georges Grunblatt; Coco Roussel amongst others), Heldon will marry Pinhas personal obsessions of modern philosophy (Deleuze, Guattari), science-fiction (Norman Spinrad, Philip K.Dick), progressive rock (King Crimson, Fripp & Eno), American minimalism (Terry Riley, Steve Reich) and electronic music into a diverse musical cocktail that goes from the violent to the relaxed, but always retaining a dark and mysterious vibe. Often linked by critics and listeners to the experimental German bands of the era (Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel..), Heldon will release six crucial albums before being closed down by Pinhas in the late 70s. Since then, Pinhas has developed a long solo career that lives up to this day, releasing several albums and collaborations (Pascal Comelade, John Livengood, Maurice Dantec), including with Japanese noise king Merzbow. Dedicated to Robert Wyatt, Heldons debut contained a puzzling collection of tracks that serve as a perfect introduction to Pinhas universe: science-fiction, philosophy and musical experimentation collide in a harsh lo-fi tapestry of sounds dominated by Pinhas 1954 Gibson Les Paul guitar and AKS synth. Not unlike some contemporary German bands, Heldon manages to take rock n rolls language to a new experimental stage. Convulsive and evocative soundscapes recommended to all lovers of innovative and ground-breaking music. Strictly limited to 500 copies. High quality sleeves reproducing the original artwork from 1974s first press on Disjuncta. Includes insert with extra liner notes by Spanish journalist and long-time Heldon fan Paco Peiró. Bonus 7" EP with tracks taken from Heldons predecessor band Schizos two EPs. 7" tracklist: A1. Schizo (and the little girl) A2. Paraphrenia Praecox (originally released in 1972) B1. Le Voyageur B2. Torcol (originally released in 1973)" -Wah Wah |
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Artist: HELDON Title: Third (Its Always Rock n Roll) Format: Double LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $45.00 |
| "After our acclaimed reissues of the first two LPs by French electronic rock pioneers Heldon, we are proud to offer a lavish vinyl version of their third album (also known as Its Always Rock n Roll), where Pinhas and Co. follow the same paths he created with Electronique Guérila under the strong influence of works by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, and of course the contemporanean Krautrock movement. For those of you following our line of releases there will be no need to say that composer, guitarist & electronics innovator Richard Pinhas is recognized as one of Frances major experimental musicians and is a pivotal figure in the development of electronic rock. This third delivery of Heldons works was first released on Disjuncta in 1975 as a double LP and features Richard Pinhas (ARP & VCS3 Synthesizers, guitars, bass, Mellotron) and George Grunblatt (Mellotron, guitars) plus contributions from some other greats of the genre like Patrick Gauthier (ARP synthesizers), Gilbert Artman (of Lard Free fame on drums), Jean My Truong (also on drums) and Ariel Kalma (Indian Harmonium). The double LP set came housed in a beautiful 7-ink gatefold sleeve that we will faithfully reproduce in full glory (that is, including the two extra gold & silver inks print). Four page insert with notes by Paco Peiró relating the story of Pinhas early years is included. Only 500 copies will be pressed! Once they are gone, they are gone -- do not miss it!" - Wah Wah. |
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Artist: HELL PREACHERS INC. Title: Supreme Psychedelic Sound Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $19.00 |
| "A big classic from the psychedelic era, the SUPREME PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND exploitation album is said to have been recorded by DEEP PURPLE, which band members Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore and Ian Paice have always denied. In any case, this sounds more PURPLE than Lord & Co. themselves! Very close to the sound of SHADES OF DEEP PURPLE, it contains some great Hammond works, guitar pirotecnics with loads of wah wah and distortion and psychedelic vocals. The whole album is a sonic blast that will appeal to fans of Deep Purple, psychedelic hipsters and of course general collectors and afficionados." - Wah Wah. |
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Artist: IA-BATISTE Title: Un Gran Dia Format: LP/7" Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $32.00 |
| "Key duo from the catalan folk scene, result of the union between Ia Clua (from "2+1") and Jordi Batiste (one of the leading forces of Máquina! together with Enric Herrera), after thelater ones return from military service. "Un Gran Día".the duos first album, was recorded at the end of 1972 with the help of such outstanding musicians as Manel Joseph (ex "2+1", Ias early band)), Joaquín "Max" Suñer (Vértice, Tapimán, Iceberg y a neverding etc ) & Albert Batiste(Musica Dispersa). The result is an amazing & varied musical tapestry, best heard in the records first side, a long suite covering from orchestral folk-pop with some psych leanings ("Un Gran Día","Max") to straight in-your-face hard rock ("Sleeping Rock") via typicalearly 70s prog rock ("Oliba") or uncathegorisable experiments whichdefy all rules ("Reprise") and show perfectly the freaky stagereached by the catalan scene in its early years (as a matter of fact,the record is sung in english and catalan...). A piece of wax which went totally unnoticed when first released in a tiny pressing back in the days (thus becoming a big ticket item in the collectors market) and which Wah Wah rescues from oblivionthirty years after its original release. An excellent work which deserves to be discovered by a wider public... Limited issue of 500 numbered copies in gatefold cover reproducing the original artwork, including a colour insert, a colour poster and a bonus 7" single w/ one previously unreleased song." - Wah Wah. |
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Artist: IBLISS Title: Supernova Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
| "With several connections to the early Kraftwerk history and formed in the Rhineland area in 1971, Ibliss was a quintet formed by percussionist Basil Hammoudi (from Organisation, the band before Kraftwerk), drummer Andreas Hohmann (also from Kraftwerk), brothers Wolfgang and Norbert Büllmeyer (bass and guitar respectively) and Rainer Büchel on sax and flute. With the help of Conny Plank, they recorded their one and only LP at Hamburgs Windrose-Studios: four long instrumental tracks in a hypnotic style that takes cues both from the teutonic motorik style and way-out jazz techniques. Kind of a floating cosmic fusion sound with a great emphasis on the rhythmic section. Another great and unknown album from the jazzier end of krautrock (Kollektiv, Thirsty Moon, Annexus Quam, Embryo, Organistaion?). Strictly limited to 500 copies. Quality pressing. Gatefold cover reproducing artwork from the original Spiegelei issue. Includes insert with pics and information on the band." - Wah Wah. |
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Artist: ILOUS & DECUYPER Title: S/T Format: LP + 7" Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Bernard Ilous came from a music lovers family, his parents were into jazz and classical music and the young Ilous inherited that sensitivity to the point of teaching himself to play guitar and piano. He discovered R&R and started doing covers of The Beatles and Bob Dylan, but he soon showed skills to write his own compositions. He showed his work to music publisher Gerard Tavernier who signed him to his company and thus some of Ilous songs appeared on LPs by Francoise Hardy, Eric Charden, Johnny Hallyday, Dick Rivers, a.o. In 1969 his friend Claude Putterflam left his job at Vogue to create Flamophone records and he produced a single for Ilous, who was willing to release his own songs by himself. Very soon Ilous joined forces with Patrice Decuyper with whom he would record the amazing LP on offer here. Issued also on Flamophone in July 1971, its blend of folk & pop brings to mind echoes of The Beatles, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young or Joni Mitchell. The sound on the LP is amazing, they took one whole year to produce it, as they were using free studio hours now and then to stay into a budget, and they played most of the guitars and keyboards and were helped by friends from Le Systeme Crapoutchik on other instruments. The production is excellent and the compositions are amazing, probably one of the most impressive French-sung LPs of all time, and a must for lovers of 60s and 70s perfectly arranged & produced, well crafted works. It is reissued on vinyl for the first time since its original release, mastered from the original tapes and featuring a bonus 7" containing the two songs from their 1972 non-LP single plus an insert with liner notes. In a limited edition of only 500 copies, gatefold sleeve." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: INNER SPACE, THE Title: Agilok & Blubbo Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $28.00 |
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"The Inner Space is the stuff of legend. This obscure outfit is best known as the antecessor band of Can and not much is known about them except it featured the core members of Can (Irmin Schmidt, Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit) and lasted just a few months before renaming themselves The Can and releasing Monster Movie. They left two ultra-obscure seven inches as their only recorded legacy and only the first of them is credited to The Inner Space, it contained two songs taken from the soundtrack of 1969s underground film Agilok & Blubbo. Originally released by the German Vogue label in 1969, it currently fetches prices around the 300 euro mark in the collectors circuit. Given the obscurity of both the band and its recorded output, were proud to present, for the first time to the public, not only the aforementioned singles but the complete soundtrack to Peter F. Scheneiders offbeat political satire Agilok & Blubbo. Previously unavailable until now, the original master tapes of this soundtrack have been stored in the archives of legendary German producer and music publisher Hans Wewerka who produced the recording sessions back in 1969. Here you can hear history in the making, the first step of a group of musicians wholl go on to achieve fame, success and recognition over the 70s, helping define a sound (often called Krautrock) that has been highly influential to this day. Those familiar with Cans output will recognize some of the bands characteristic sound, albeit in an embryonic form. Songs like Agilok & Blubbo or Kamera Song already hint at their later pop brilliance whereas the short cues and extended free jams found elsewhere in this soundtrack reminds us from the heterogeneous roots of a bunch of musicians coming from rock, jazz and avant-garde backgrounds. All in all, an excellent glimpse into the early stages of an innovative band developing its own musical language. This reissue includes detailed liner notes by Wah Wahs very own Raül G.Pratginestós and comes illustrated by original b/w shoots from the movie production. CD issue contains two bonus tracks: Memographie, plus Irmin Schmidts 1967 composition Hexapussy. In all, over 28 minutes of bonus material!" - Wah Wah.
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Artist: INNER SPACE, THE Title: Agilok & Blubbo Format: CD Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $21.00 |
| "The Inner Space is the stuff of legend. This obscure outfit is best known as the antecessor band of Can and not much is known about them except it featured the core members of Can (Irmin Schmidt, Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit) and lasted just a few months before renaming themselves The Can and releasing Monster Movie. They left two ultra-obscure seven inches as their only recorded legacy and only the first of them is credited to The Inner Space, it contained two songs taken from the soundtrack of 1969s underground film Agilok & Blubbo. Originally released by the German Vogue label in 1969, it currently fetches prices around the 300 euro mark in the collectors circuit. Given the obscurity of both the band and its recorded output, were proud to present, for the first time to the public, not only the aforementioned singles but the complete soundtrack to Peter F. Scheneiders offbeat political satire Agilok & Blubbo. Previously unavailable until now, the original master tapes of this soundtrack have been stored in the archives of legendary German producer and music publisher Hans Wewerka who produced the recording sessions back in 1969. Here you can hear history in the making, the first step of a group of musicians wholl go on to achieve fame, success and recognition over the 70s, helping define a sound (often called Krautrock) that has been highly influential to this day. Those familiar with Cans output will recognize some of the bands characteristic sound, albeit in an embryonic form. Songs like Agilok & Blubbo or Kamera Song already hint at their later pop brilliance whereas the short cues and extended free jams found elsewhere in this soundtrack reminds us from the heterogeneous roots of a bunch of musicians coming from rock, jazz and avant-garde backgrounds. All in all, an excellent glimpse into the early stages of an innovative band developing its own musical language. This reissue includes detailed liner notes by Wah Wahs very own Raül G.Pratginestós and comes illustrated by original b/w shoots from the movie production. CD issue contains two bonus tracks: Memographie, plus Irmin Schmidts 1967 composition Hexapussy. In all, over 28 minutes of bonus material!" -- Wah Wah |
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Artist: KUHN BROTHERS & THE MAD ROCKERS, THE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Experienced jazz avant gardists Joachim and Rolf Kühn joined forces with Volker Kriegel, Gunter Lenz and Stu Martin to release this superb mixture of Krautrock, psych, funk and free jazz. With all kind of sound effects coming from distorted clarinets, Hammond organ, groovy bass/drums section, breaks and hot guitar licks The Mad Rockers paved the way for many Krautrockers to follow. Reissued in vinyl for the first time since its 1969 debut on the Metronome label, this is a basic record to showcase the rich mixture of different styles that would make the 70s German music scene so unique and appealing. The Kühn Brothers, Rolf and Joachim, were at first reluctant to the reissue of this amazing LP. They are highly trained musicians with a huge experience and a big sense of innovation and they felt they have many works which are much better than this one, which undoubtedly they do have since they started being really young and are still at it nowadays, but here at Wah Wah we do feel The Mad Rockers album is a landmark in krautrock story, since it anticipates the path that would be travelled by so many legendary krautsters of the seventies. Everything is there, the adventurous mixture of styles so diverse as psychedelic rock, jazz, funk... You name it, you find it. Plenty of excellent breaks, experimental in the quest for new sounds, with instruments run through distortion effects, the musicians involved are all key figures in the development of modern European of its era. You have Volker Kriegel, who besides his own solo recordings shall also be remembered for his great contributions to Dave Pike Sets classic albums or his work with Klaus Doldinger. There is Stu Martin, drummer also on other interesting projects like The Free Pop Experimental Concept also reissued on Wah Wah. Plus Günter Lenz on bass, jazz master who has worked among others with names like Krzysztof Komeda, Lighting Hopkins, Chet Baker, Coleman Hawkins or Olivier Nelson, and he has even done orchestral arrangements for Plácido Domingo! Jazz meets rock, funk and psych, absolutely amazing groovy LP! With 1 song compiled on Andy Votels Music To Watch Girls By, the rest of the LP is equally good! Gatefold sleeve." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: LARD FREE Title: Gilbert Artmans Lard Free Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
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"The first album by Lard Free, simply titled Gilbert Artmans Lard Free, is released in 1973 on the Vamp label. It has been recorded and mixed in April that year, the recording session taking place for only 36 hours in a London studio. But thats enough time for the band to showcase the adventurous spirit of Gilbert & Co. Theres drums and sax of jazzy, repetitive inspiration, free-rock guitar licks and an always present AKS synthesizer that produce one of the essential works of Europes musical avant-garde on its time. After this brilliant recorded legacy, Lard Free split in 1978, with Artman dedicating his time to his more successful project Urban Sax. Featuring : Gilbert Artman (drums, piano steinway, vibes), Herve Eyhani (bass guitar, arp synthetizer), Philippe Bolliet (all saxes), Francois Mativet (guitars). Gatefold sleeve." -Wah Wah
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Artist: LARD FREE Title: III Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
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"The third and last Lard Free LP is released in 1977 on the Cobra label recorded in two different studios between January and March that same year. Besides some new musicians, another step forward in Artmans constant evolution is the use of the recording studio as an additional instrument that offers a whole lot of possibilities to creative expansion. The results are amazing : under an apparently lineal structure theres thousands of sound brushtrokes that feed themselves back to create a strange and provocative post-industrial picture. Gilbert Artman (orgue, piano, arp synthesizer, vibraphone, drums premier), Xavier Baulleret (guitares), Yves Lanes (synthy-ems), Jean-Pierre Thiraut (clarinette). Includes a 4-page insert of liner notes and a poster on the other side." -Wah Wah
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Artist: LARD FREE Title: Im Around About Midnight Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
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"Lard Frees second LP, Im Around About Midnight, was recorded in Paris in a three day session and released in 1975, also on Vamp. There is a totally different line-up from that of the first LP and it features long time friend Richard Pinhas, with whom Artman explores (in his own way) some sound passages of strong Heldon inspiration, although in a less immediate register, building an organic layered sound that emanates a certain shadowy formal beauty. The strong Artman-Pinhas connection is also confirmed by the inclusion on Heldons Third of the track Pale violence under a reverbere, on a different mix and different title, Méchamment rock. Featuring : Gilbert Artman (drums, percussions, vibes, hammond organ, steinway piano, tenor sax), Richard Pinhas (guitars, bass guitar, arp synthetisers, synthi vks 3), Alain Audat (synthi vks 3, tenor sax, clb), Antoine Duvernot (alto sax, flute). Gatefold sleeve." -Wah Wah
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Artist: LARD FREE Title: Unnamed Format: LP + 7" Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Issued on vinyl format for the first time ever, Unnamed is a collection of 1971/1972 Lard Free lost recordings that documents an interesting, primitive period of the band and shows Artman & Co. moving freely in different directions : jazz, noise and the most radical musical improvisation. Contains a bonus 7" (tracks: A1. "Cuve Perpetuelle"; B1: "A Chacun Son Boulez") and a 4-page insert of liner notes and a poster on the other side." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: MAQUINA Title: Why? Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $19.00 |
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"Originally born as the backing band for spanish folk-singer Sisa after his electrification around 1969, this bunch of catalan youngsters led by the Batiste-Herrera tandem became soon the most prominent and visible heads of the grassroots movement which shake the foundations of the citys musical world at the beginning of the seventies and which can be considered asthe parting shot for progressive rock in Spain.. Why?, their debut album (also known as the "croissant" lp) is widely regarded in and out of Spain as one the best records ever to come out of Spain.. A wah wah (of course!), fuzz & hammond feast by this talented pioneering crew.
An astonishing freak-out croissant baked with love by JM Paris (fuzz guitar), Lluis Cabanach (wah wah guitar, bass), JM Vilaseca "Tapi" (drums), Jordi Batiste (vocals, bass, flute) & Enric Herrera (organ, piano).
Limited reissue (1000 numbered copies) of the album that was originally released on Diabolo in 1970." - Wah Wah.
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Artist: MUSICA DISPERSA Title: Musica Dispersa Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
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"1971 Spanish album that featured the talent of three of the most significant musicians from the Catalonian underground movement of the late sixties: Jaume Sisa, J.M. Brabo El Cachas and Albert Batiste, who after their Miniatura project with Pau Riba were joined by young hippie girl Selene. This sole effort by the group is a masterpiece of melodic tunes that pay a tribute to the English folk movement of the era, as it does to the early Amon Duüls freak out sound concept . Echoes of The Incredible String Band are present mainly in the guitar parts; drums are absent in all but one track on which they are played by Josep M Vilaseca Tapi, of Máquina & Tapiman fame, but percussion, harmonica, organ, mouth harp, piano and wordless vocals are heard throughout the album, as is Selenes flute work. All in all this is a strange, relaxing little piece of underground from Barcelonas early seventies hippie youth that has become a classic of Spanish pop music; available in a 1000 copies only strictly limited edition that respects the original gatefold artwork, including the slight relief of the cover illustration. Extensive liner notes and photographs." - MMS. Highly Recommended!
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Artist: ORANGE WEDGE Title: No One Left But Me Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $28.00 |
| "The 1976 follow up to Wedge was No One Left But Me. Due to the lack of offers the Orange Wedge also released their second LP as a private pressing that was to be sold at gigs and local shops, and it sold like hot bread making this one an elusive piece among hard rock collectors. Their sound here is still 100% high energy, though an evolution has been made and the band sounds a bit more sophisticated. It was their best selling album at the time with a pressing of 1000 copies that hardly made it out of Baltimore, so heres a very good chance to rediscover this amazing piece of pure rock power. Here at Wah Wah we have respectfully worked on its reissue to offer you a killer release in thick cardboard paste-up sleeve, and featuring an insert with the story of the band and lots of cool photos gently provided by original Orange Wedge guitarist and composer Joe Farace. This is a limited reissue of only 500 copies, so hurry to get yours before they just disappear from sight as it happened with the original pressing!" -Wah Wah |
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Artist: ORANGE WEDGE Title: Wedge Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $28.00 |
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"Wah Wah is proud to offer the two LPs by Baltimores high energy hard rock pride Orange Wedge. Having become one of the most successful live acts in Maryland, Orange Wedge nevertheless didnt get to sign a contract with a proper label, so in 1974 they decided it was time to invest some of their money into the self-production of their first LP. Wedge, the resulting work, shows a highly energetic band performing their own original compositions direct to your ears. Housed in a plain blue sleeve with the title stamped on front, 500 copies were pressed, some to be sent to record companies with the hope of getting a proper contract and others to be sold at gigs and a few of them at local Maryland shops. Needles to say they were quickly deleted and the record is nowadays a much sought after treasure among collectors of the hard rock genre. Here at Wah Wah we have respectfully worked on its reissue to offer you a killer release in thick cardboard paste-up sleeve with silver lettering stamping, and featuring an insert with the story of the band and lots of cool photos gently provided by original Orange Wedge guitarist and composer Joe Farace. This is a limited reissue of only 500 copies, so hurry to get yours before they just disappear from sight as it happened with the original pressing!" -Wah Wah
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Artist: PAN Y REGALIZ Title: Pan Y Regaliz Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $18.00 |
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"A reissue of one of the rarest psych/prog albums recorded by a Spanish band in the early seventies. A world class item featuring spaced vocals, effects, astonishing guitar work, flute... The Wah Wah edition respects the original gatefold sleeve and features extensive information on the band, plus nice photos, memorabilia and one rare bonus track from a single that was not included on the original 1971 LP." - Wah Wah. Also available on CD.
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Artist: PAN Y REGALIZ Title: Pan Y Regaliz Format: CD Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $18.00 |
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"A reissue of one of the rarest psych/prog albums recorded by a Spanish band in the early seventies. A world class item featuring spaced vocals, effects, astonishing guitar work, flute..." - Wah Wah.
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Artist: PRINCESS FLOWER & THE MOON RAYS Title: Dreaming The Magic Of Your Maya Format: Double LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $48.00 |
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"Recorded in 1968 and issued as a very limited run private pressing this psychedelic raga freak-out is the brainchild of multi disciplinar artist Loren Standlee plus his partner Ziska with the cooperation of Daevid Allen and Gilli Smith in what was an early incarnation of Gong. Loren and Ziska had been involved with the crowd of avantgardist free thinkers that settled in Formentera in the sixties, and back home in N.Y. they had also been connected to experimentalists such as Angus Maclise, Marian Zazeela, Tony Conrad, Henry Flynt, Pandit Pran Nath, a.o.
This bizarre selection of sounds was the brainchild of Loren Standlee and Ziska and features a very early Gong incarnation. Loren Standlee and Ziska were among the “Formentera” (small Island near Ibiza, Spain) visionary poets, musicians and psychedelic ‘researchers’ in the early sixties. In Paris, they began hand-painting silk and designing clothes for many of the rock luminaries of the time, among them The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as haute couture designers in Paris and London. They met Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth at a poetry reading where Loren was playing Alto Flute and Ziska was creating vocal sounds to intermix with the flute. They began playing together as a group utilizing Daevid’s Italian echo chambers and soon they had a two-night-a-week gig playing at the Vielle Grille, an avant guard club in Paris where you might hear Ornette Coleman playing upstairs or see Yoko Ono performing in a sack on stage.. Gong was formed and took two identities: one, only Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth’s material, and the other, the Gong sound of Daevid on ‘space’ guitar, crystals, feathers and other unpredictable objects, Loren on alto flute and jews harp, and Ziska and Gilli doing space whispering chanting sounds which built up to sound climaxes. For the time, it was extremely avant guard, and culminated in a gig to perform at Diane Von Furstenberg’s wedding where the group took LSD and both shocked and beguiled the party by performing for two hours, dressed in Loren and Ziskas hand-painted silks and making sounds that no one had ever heard before. It put them into a kind of cult status.. They were invited to perform at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm in 1967, where they once again stunned the audience with their not-heard-or-seen before sound and look. The great Don Cherry joined them at the end of the performance.. Because Daevid and Gilli had visa problems, they couldn’t return to Paris, and the group split up after Stockholm. Gong was re-formed elsewhere with new people. Loren and Ziska returned to Paris and then left for New York. In New York, they met Ira Cohen, poet, mylar photographer, and the creator of the cult classic film The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda. Quoting from Ira Cohen: “Sheldon and Diane Rochlin had just finished their great film on Vali, the witch of Positano, and were working on (their next film) Dope. Loren Standlee and Ziska, who had been in Dope, stepped into the magic mirror and became charter members of the “Universal Mutants”. It was then that I realized we were a special group of dedicated visionaries, electronic multi - media Shamans…”. Two of the tracks on the bonus LP, feature the line-up of Loren, Ziska and Raj Samyana, which is basically The Universal Mutant Repertory Company minus Angus Maclise and his wife Hetty.. The Universal Mutant Repertory Company are most known as a group that included drummer Angus MacLise, multimedia avant-gardist who was the original drummer of the Velvet Underground. The Company were formed in the late 1960s, and included MacLise, his wife Hetty MacLise (on organ, tanpura, and probably other instruments), Loren Standlee (alto flute), Ziska Baum (Indian dulcimer), and Raja Samyana (guitar). The Universal Mutant Repertory Company was a name devised by filmmaker Ira Cohen, to describe the people appearing in his film Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda. All of the musicians did an improvised soundtrack to that film at St. Marks Church in New York. A 39-minute tape of the performance, used as the title track, formed the core of the Angus MacLise retrospective CD collection The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda. On this piece, the group played drone-trance music propelled by MacLises charged hand drumming, given extra psychedelic coating by the employment of four microphones, each run through an echo chamber. Loren Standlee recalled in The Wire magazine that the musicians would play together for as long as eleven hours straight.. An original copy would cost you a small fortune (raising over 4 digits!), but here’s at last an accurate vinyl reissue that comes complete with liner notes plus an amazing poster of one of Loren Standlee’s psychedelic collages plus an extra LP with previously unreleased studio material. Limited to 500 copies only.. For fans of Gong, Angus Maclise, La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, Amm (Cardew, Prevost)..." -Wah Wah. |
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Artist: RAVERS Title: Bad, Bad World (Ravers Going Underground) Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Wah Wah proudly unearths another lost gem from the past, this time by studio-exploitation German band The Ravers, a.k.a The Tonics. Under the production of Herbert Hildebrandt (ex-member of The Rattles, credited on some internet blogs to be some kind of German Kim Fowley), members of The Rattles/Wonderland (Achim Reichel) and The German Bonds produced a series of studio albums as cash-in operations, among them some very known works like Hell Preachers Inc. or Bokaj Retsiem. Bad, Bad World is one of those amazing releases. Having in mind the hardest beat/psych rock sounds of the era (the LP was originally released in 1969) and the rhythms that move a dancefloor, they produced this superb collection of groovy Hammond/fuzz/wah-wah driven freak rockers. More than one song here should be on any genre DJs bag, the most direct one being What You Can Do For Your Country, but with the whole LP packed with cool songs moving from the Kinks inspired Weve Got Too Much to early Deep Purple Hammond versus lead guitar duels." - Wah Wah. |
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Artist: SCHICKERT, GUNTER Title: Samtvogel Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
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"There are records that come from the soul. No matter how primitive may be the recording techniques the musician has access to, the soul gets its way to the heart and mind of the listener. Samtvogel is one of those records. Günter Schickert recorded that amazing piece of human greatness in 1974, using the media he had at the time, putting his brain at work to find the best way of taping everything he had to say. When I was recording Samtvogel in 1974 I had only 2 Taperecorders. I played one track and while listening I added the second one. And so on. Four times. When I mixed all together I borrowed a 3rd taperecorder. And still added the last track to the master. I had a small mixer with 2 stereo and 1 mono but it was possible to pan tracks. No equalization. It all came out of my still living G2000 Dynacord guitar amplifier, of course valve, with no master, even the voice recorded through it. If I made a mistake in 1 track I had to repeat it from the beginning. And if while mixing I was not fast enough in changing the tape I had to start again. So it took me more than 3 months to get ready. Thanks to these three months of work, between June and September of 1974, Samtvogel was privately issued that same year. It would later be issued on the Brain label, with a small change in the artwork -- titles added to the front cover, which werent on the original private pressing. Brain also reissued it on the labels Rock On Brain LP series, this time with a completely different sleeve. The album contained two tracks on side one and just one on side two, and its sound has often been compared to the most explorative works of Syd Barret -- however it must be pointed out that Schickert did not need any mind spreading substances to allow his sounds to float out of his mind & soul, they just came out in the most natural way. It will also appeal to fans of the echoed atmospheric guitar work of other Krautrock innovators such as Ash Ra Temple, Manuel Götsching or A.R. & The Machines, and some may find on the vocal passages certain resemblances to Damo Suzuki on Cans Tago Mago era. The Wah Wah reissue is limited to 500 vinyl LP copies only, housed in a quality sleeve that reproduces that of the original 1974 private pressing and featuring a 4 page insert with liners and photos, sound remastered at Eastside mastering Berlin. Get this bird now, before it flies away!" - Wah Wah.
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Artist: SHOES Title: Black Vinyl Shoes Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "Here is, reissued in full 180 gr. audiophile glory and with faithful reproduction of the original album art, one of the biggest examples of the DIY philosophy in the history of North American music. Shoes issued Black Vinyl Shoes on their own Black Vinyl Records back in 1977, setting the path so many indie bands have followed since then. The album is a classic late seventies American power pop blast that drinks from the works of Big Star, The Byrds, and others. For our reissue we counted on the help of the Shoes members, especially Jeff Murphy who provided liners notes for the lavish 4-page insert that is included. It also features a reproduction of the original round sticker and an ironable transfer to make yourself a cool Shoes t-shirt! The sound has been remastered from the original tapes and pressed into quality 180 gr. heavy black vinyl. Limited to only 500 copies." -Wah Wah |
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Artist: SPACECRAFT Title: Paradoxe Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
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"French guitar/synth duo featuring John Livengood (Red Noise) on synthesizers and Ivan Coaquette on guitar (Clearlight, Delired Cameleon Family, Música Electrónica Viva). With sounds recalling pre-Zuckerzeit Cluster, Atem period Tangerine Dream, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Gong, Clearlight, or Heldon, this French private-press album is one of the most acid, dark and free-form records from the whole progressive era. First ever LP reissue housed in silver-mirror paper cover. Limited to 500 copies." -Wah Wah.
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Artist: TABACO Title: Desintegracion Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $20.00 |
| "One of the latest discoveries of the Spanish record hunters is this nice early seventies release by Tabaco, their only LP. Dubbed from the original master tapes features the smashing titletrack, a fantastic gallactic prog-groove instrumental with dazzlingsound effects, plus some nice progressive ballads and some hard R&Btunes. Original copies are rare as hell and change hands for obscene amounts of cash nowadays!" - Wah Wah. |
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Artist: UNFOLDING, THE Title: How to Blow Your Mind and Have a Freak-Out Party Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $29.00 |
| "A rare underrated freaky psychedelic LP that will appeal to those into The Summer Of Love meets The Mothers Of Invention sounds that will delight those ears into psychedelic exploitation albums like Love Machine, Mesmerising Eye, Fire & Ice LTD or Friendsound. Featuring a mindblowing production with harpsichord, sitar, chimes and anyting that makes freaky psych sounds. A trip back to the days of LSD and free love. Comes with a facsimile reproduction of the original insert. 500 copies limited edition." -Wah Wah. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Electric Toxic So - Vol 1: Barcelona Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $19.00 |
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"This album documents the beginning and development of Barcelonas progressive scene between 1969 & 1971, the genesis of progressive rock in Spain by the hands of a bunch of visionary youngsters grouped around Els 4 Vents label. Máquina!, Vértice, Estratagema, Génesis, Agua De Regaliz are some of the bands which appearedin that exciting period which had its most visible facts in Els 4 Vents/Diabolo labelsadventure and festivals such as Primer Festival Permanente de Musica Progresiva (organized by Oriol Regás, of Bocaccio nightclub fame).
Limited issue of 500 numbered copies including a groovy poster." - Wah Wah.
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Artist: V/A Title: Electric Toxic So - Vol 2: Sevilla Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $19.00 |
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"This compilations also cover the fertile Seville scenewith bands such as Mane-Gong, Green Piano, Nuevos Tiempos (with Gualberto as an exceptional guest), Smash or Gualberto himself. Many artists from Seville tried the Barcelona route, moving to the catalan capital torecord their tracks. Al promising start of a musical revolution which could have changed Spains musical landscape but failed to do so.... Limited issue of 500 numbered copies including a groovy poster.." - Wah Wah.
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Artist: VAINICA DOBLE Title: Vainica Doble Format: CD Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $19.00 |
| "Probably the rarest and most sought after LP in the Spanish collectors market, the first album by Gloria Van Aerssen & Carmen Santonja is at last reissued on CD as it deserves. On the twelve songs they wrote for their debut album, originally released on ÿpalo in 1971, Vainica Doble blended folk, soft rock, pop and a dose of psychedelia to describe a magical world of their own with splendid Spanish lyrics and great arrangements that bring you echoes of the Beatles, the British Psychedelic Trip or The Incredible String Band, without ever loosing their incredibly personal character that sounds so unique to todays ears as it did to those of 1971. Its fantastic, colourful pop cover was designed by Ivan Zulueta, artist and film director (he was the mastermind behind the cult movies 1, 2, 3... Al escondite inglés! and Arrebato), and is reproduced here in all its glory, housed in a laminated slipcase featuring praise texts by some of their biggest fans such as Andy Votel (Finderskeepers/B-Music), Luis Calvo (Elefant Records), Ibon Errazkin, Ferran Llauradó (Rockdelux) and Ramon Vendrell (El Periódico de Catalunya). Features a lavish full colour 20 page booklet reproducing photos and press clippings from the era, along with extensive liner notes by ÿngel Maeztu (written in Spanish) and printed lyrics. You wont get this through rapidshare! The twelve songs of the original 1971 LP are here augmented with 8 bonus tracks, six of them taken from non-LP Vainica Doble singles (including both sides of their mega rare first 45 from 1970 La Bruja/Un Metro Cuadrado) plus two songs from the obscure single by Tickets, their backing band at the time, who recorded Vainicas penned El Rigor De Las Desdichas, with Someone Like Me, a killer psychedelic fuzz-pop stomper, as its flipside. All their ÿpalo recordings collected in one fantastic edition made, as always, with love and devotion by the Wah Wah team." - Wah Wah |
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Artist: VLASMAN, TON Title: White Room With Disintegrating Walls Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $28.00 |
| "Ton Vlasman recorded this amazing piece of acid Euro folk back in 1970, making it sound like an outer space freaked out Bob Dylan with the help of Frans Schoonen (organ, flute and harmonica) and Leo van Vugt (chincha tumba and tambourine). The seven original compositions are stunning, drug inspired psychedelic pieces of acid folk that mix Dylan with Indian ragas and even add some Pink Floyd overtones, yet from an acoustic rather than electric point of view. And the album contains also a very cool version of The Velvet Undergrounds Pale Blue Eyes. If you ever wondered how Dylan would have sounded covering The V.U., heres a close example! The album, originally released on the small Flame label from Amsterdam, sold poorly back in the seventies -- thus becoming a collectors piece when it was rediscovered in the eighties. Since then it has been gathering new fans that pay small fortunes for a copy, no reissue has been available until now that Wah Wah offers 500 copies in a lavish edition that will probably sell out soon, so grab your copy before its too late! The beautiful cover art and full color poster insert with the lyrics are the work of Leendert Le Duc, and both are here faithfully reproduced as they deserve. The Wah Wah reissue also features an extra insert with a text by reputed Dutch collector Jean Jöbses and a couple of rare unseen period photos courtesy of the Frans Schoonen and Leo van Vugt archives. The album has been carefully remastered by sound wizard Denis Blackham @ Skye Mastering, making these songs sound like never before. Remember, 500 copies only -- dont miss it!" -Wah Wah |
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Artist: XHOL Title: Motherfuckers GmbH & Co. Kg Format: LP Label: Wah Wah Country: Spain Price: $27.00 |
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"The mysteriously named Xhol had already some years of experience on their back when Krautrock made its first impact. Having its roots in the late 60s rock & soul outfit Soul Caravan they eventually renamed themselves Xhol Caravan and released the crucial Electrip album on Hansa, one of the first efforts in bridging psychedelic, jazz and psychedelic styles in a really original way. Shortening their name to Xhol, they signed to the hip Ohr label where they released the live album Hau-Rauk and the mysterious archival Motherfuckers GmbH & Co Kg. Conceived as a varied collage of archive pieces, sound snippets and free extended jams, the album hints at the madness of Faust but retaining that freaky Xhol attitude. From the archetypical Radio, just some dial knob turning with takes us from the Soul Caravan days, to the cosmically tripped-out Orgelsolo and the chirps and flute exotism of Grille, this album shows Xhols more experimental side without forgetting their powerful fusion as hints of jazz, brass rock, soul and other grooves collide on the extended 13-minute Love Potion 25. An enduring testament to the talents of a band which went unrecognized too many years and which was one of the best and more inventive of the first wave of kraut rock bands. Strictly limited to 500 copies - single cover - upgraded with notes and photos courtesy of our friends at Garden Of Delights. Sealed copies w/ info sticker." - Wah Wah
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Artist: SUN RA Title: The Immeasurable Equation Format: Hardcover Book Label: Waitawhile Country: Germany Price: $95.00 |
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"The second book documenting the work of Sun Ra to be published by Harmut Geerken on this private press, Waitwhile. The last one, Sun Ra: Omniverse was one merely of the most coveted cultural documents of the last decade. This new one features the collected writings of Ra for the first time in one place, in extremely impressive fashion. "The collected poetry and prose compiled and edited by James L. Wolf and Hartmut Geerken. With introductions and essays by James L. Wolf, Hartmut Geerken, Sigrid Hauff, Klaus Detlef Thiel and Brent Edwards. Hardcover. Private print." 530 pages; limited availability." - Wait Awhile.
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Artist: VON EULER-DONNERSPERG, DITTERICH Title: Der Klein Fritz in Klopstockland Format: LP Label: Walter Ubricht Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
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"The spirit of Klopstock wrapped into Walter Ulbricht; the spirit of Walter Ulbricht wrapped into Klopstock. Both of them wrapped into little Fritz who has also stuffed some of his paintings into part of it. A work of Weltanschauung as of Non-Weltanschauung released in an edition of 500 numbered documents on the Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien Hamburg (also responsible for releasing: Throbbing Gristle Journey Through A Body , S.P.K. Auto-da-fe , Laibach Rekapitulacija 1980-84 +Baptism , Asmus Tietchens Die Nacht aus Blei and various Werkbund titles)." - Walter Ulbricht.
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Artist: WERKBUND Title: Weit Draussen Format: LP Label: Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien Country: Germany Price: $29.00 |
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"Latest release on the enigmatic Walter Ulbricht label, perhaps best known for their heavy-duty 10" Hafler Trio box (released in cooperation with Die Stadt) in the mid-90s. This is the sixth Werbund album on this label, the first of which goes all the back to 1987. Issued in an edition of 500, this features darkly processed keyoard sheets of sound on side 1, floating amorphous murk on side 2."
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Artist: MORDECAI Title: Waste Format: 7" Label: Wantage USA Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Absolute cacophony from fucking Butte, Montana of all places. The definition of a noise band, not some hipster flagrinos playing with laptops or pretentious concept artistes calling themselves noise. This is an actual guitar/bass/drum band making fucking noise. Its as if theyre learning how to play their instruments while you listen. And theyve apparently still got a ways to go. Ridiculous really, but give me this as a concept over any of that art-school crap. And I shouldnt really say this is a thought out concept, it just seems to be some young kids fucking up. Is this an enjoyable listen? Barely. Viscerally. Its so disjointed you cant even tell whats happening most of the time, vocals sound like theyre being relayed through a walkie talkie, its like a free-rock project gone to hell." -RK (Terminal Boredom). First pressing of 220 copies packaged in silkscreened jackets. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Top Notch - Hits From The Hive Format: LP Label: Wantage USA Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "This is Missoulas first exclusive, entirely vinyl compilation! Features EX-COCAINE (Siltbreeze, Not Not Fun, Killertree), POOR SCHOOL (Ecstatic Peace, Killertree, etc.), VOLUMEN (Wantage),JOHNNY APPLE (ex OBLIO JOES), and a pile of excellent, touring newcomers: CHIN UP MERIWETHER!, RAZZMTAZZ, DUEL, CABINET OF NATURAL CURIOSITIES, THE HILLS BROS, TRAVIS SEHORN & PEBBLE LIGHT, TWO YEAR TOUQE, EYES LIKE CANDY and RIDDILIN QUE. Top Notch! is an excellent example of the weirdo/punk/hippie amalgam that defines western Montanas independent music. NIKI hand-picked the gems that make this thing up, then hand silk-screened the covers (which features artist WALLY CATTONs psychedelic artwork). This comp rolls seamlessly from free-jazz locked-grooves, to Oneida-like space pummeling, back over to some of the "New Weird" stuff and back to thoroughly sticky, excellent pop and even some thuggy psychedelia. Hand-numbered edition of 312 copies on colored vinyl." -Wantage USA |
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Artist: BRILLANS, NARKI Title: Narki Goes Into Orbo Format: LP Label: War Extension Country: Italy Price: $29.00 |
| "A mysterious 1981 cassette masterpiece from Narki Brillans from the Its War Boys catalogue available now on LP. Remastered from the original tapes by Narki himself! Track listing: Worship Worship USA; Omnicode; Atom making a bomb; Fascist tea party; Dave got a job in the garage; Postcard from Space; Saw a great disc land; Ive got US dollars. There are more than half a million pieces of space junk floating above the earth, and of all of them, theres only one or two that Id rescue for the benefit of the human race. You know, when you think of all those dreadful Time Capsules and other vainglorious and redundant trivia - if you are someone of a discerning mind, one eye on the eternal fastnesses of our mighty Galaxy (only a suburb really, which is surely what makes David Bowies Space Oddity so very effecting for those of us born in the petit bourgeois utopia of the post-war world), the other on the profoundly mysterious internal life of the individual, the essentially irrelevant nonentity which our so-called culture has puffed up and reshaped with the vision of an expert sculptor into the soi-disant Self -- well then, if you are of such a mind, well then I say its my firmly held belief (one which I will carry to my grave, which I hope may be out there in Space, with Bowie and Meeks masterpieces alternating with a selection of out takes from the television series Lost In Space starring the immortal Jonathan Harris -- Spare me the compliments, Major!) that the only object really worth a candle among the essentially infinite objects floating in the upper atmosphere is that recording made by Narki Brillans which, if everyone in the chain does what they said theyll do and if my predictions for our future are correct, the reader of this transcript will soon hold in their hands. Four color sleeve with original primitive-futuristic-cosmic collages by Studio Shitless. Printed inner sleeve featuring an essay by Ed Baxter and a 1982 low-orbit interview by Narki Brillans from Teen Arts magazine. Label based on a original idea by Clive Graham. Edition limited to 265 private copies." - War Extension. Out of nowhere reissue of this way under-the-radar release from the Homosexuals related label, Its War Boys (Sara Goes Pop, Milk From Chelteham, Just Measurers, Nancy Sesay And The Melodaires, Amos & Sara, etc..). |
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Artist: URINALS Title: Negative Capability Format: CD Label: Warning Label Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "2008 repress! "Now in their 25th year, what better time to reissue this collection of songs that inspired a generation of punk, art-punk, post-punk, and pop-punk bands, from the Minutemen and Gun Club to Yo La Tengo and Butthole Surfers, in addition to newer bands such as The Dishes, The Reds, and ST-37. A 31-song collection featuring such Urinals classics as Im a Bug, Black Hole, and Ack Ack Ack Ack, in addition to a selection of madcap covers such as the Jetsons Theme, and songs by Soft Machine and Roky Erickson. Recordings were made between 1978 and 1980, during the heyday of American punk. Includes the complete Urinals, Another EP, and Sex/Go Away Girl 7" material, 3 tunes from long out-of-print compilations, several unreleased studio and rehearsal pieces, and samples from the bands archive of live tapes, including their very first performance as a three-piece." - Warning Label |
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Artist: GEORGIE D Title: Diedrich Diedrichsen Wird Getötet Werden Format: LP Label: Was Sol Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $30.00 |
Limited to 125 copies in a two color silkscreened cover. Includes the DIN A4 infosheet from the original cassette, which was released in 1982 on the Datenverarbeitung label (Die Klopferbande, Esplendor Geometrico, Cultural Amnesia, Hunting Lodge, etc..). |
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Artist: 4 KAISERLEIN Title: Die Welt der Musik Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"This record was announced in 1983 for ZickZack records but never became
reality. This is pure Minimal Synth Pop from Munich featuring wellknown
writer/artist/moviemaker Christoph Schlingensief as well as Tobias
Gruben (die Erde, Cyan Revue). Limited to 300 copies!!!" - Was Soll Das? Platten. One time edition of 300.
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Artist: ALU Title: Ungesunde Traumbilder Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"Recorded in 1983 for their own label DER LETZTE SCHREI released as a cassette-only in a very small quantity. 6 har hitting Minimal-synth stompers for the Hard Core with female vocals. Remastered and with full colour sleeve." - WSDP.
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Artist: ARROGANTI, ANDI Title: Flucht ins 21.Jahrhundert Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"Andi was an electronic-terrorist in the 1980«s who released a bunch of tapes on the infamous WARTUNGSFREI Label. His music is minimal-electronic-synth sound with german lyrics. The recordings have
been remastered and are taking from his various cassette releases from1980-1982." -Was Soll Das? Platten. One time edition of 200 copies.
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Artist: BENE GESSERIT Title: Music For The Fun Of It Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"This LP is featuring 14 tracks from 1981-1985 with classic Minimal-Synth Sound sung in french and english with female vocals. A lot of songs are unreleased!!! BENE GESSERIT are from Belgium and are the 1st non-german act on wsdp. Comes with a silkscreened Cover to hurt your eyes." - WSDP.
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Artist: BODENPERSONAL Title: Produkt Eines Langweiligen Wochenendes Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
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"...a true MINIMAL SYNTH Classic, the BODENPERSONAL 12"!!! Featuring 7 songs from their one and only cassette release from 1980 on the classic KOMPAKT PRODUKTE Label from Berlin. On the record is also included their dancefloor-killer "O-TON", well known from their PLASSETTE." - Was Soll Das? Platten.
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Artist: CHEMISCHE AMEISEN SCHEISSE Title: Heute:Kühl Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $26.00 |
| "Finally a new release is born out of the WSDP womb...the 12" Dance-Maxi by CHEMISCHE AMEISEN SCHEISSE. Originaly born as a Cassette-Only release in 1981 on KOMMT NOCH SCHLIMMER Tapes. The baby features the complete 6 Song Cassette and comes with Handstamped labels and a silkscreened Cover including a booklet, so you can all singalong. The band was featured on my compilation LP GANZ EINFACH some years ago. As WSDP is going back too the roots, the record is limited to 200 copies and will not be repressed. Buy now or cry later.....Mhmmm what else to say? Oh yes, they do use a synth ....sometimes....this is MINIMAL as F***" - Was Soll Das? Platten. |
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Artist: DER DRITTE SCHRITT / DER PILZ Title: Split Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"..taken from the original cassettes from 1983/1984. DER PILZ and DER DRITTE SCHRITT are brothers and did the famous TRÿMMER Cassette Label in the 1980s. DER PILZ is some industrial noise with some very nice samples in it, while DER DRITTE SCHRITT sounds more like early early DIE KRUPPS." - Was Soll Das? Platten. Limited to 200 copies.
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Artist: DEUTSCH DENCK Title: Kalter Larm - Weisse Stille Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $32.00 |
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Vinyl issue of a cassette originally released in 1980 on Pure Fruede (S.Y.P.H., Can, Boss & Beusi, Red Crayola With Art And Language, Die Todliche Doris, Strafe Fur Rebellion, Imi Knoebel, Mittagspause, among others...) Featured Rolf Dorper, later of S.Y.P.H., Die Krupps and Propaganda , who "in addition to the Scorpions , Nena and Power Plant became the worlds most successful German pop band of the 80s." "Psychedelische Minimal-Synth und Industrial-Kraut-Drone Sounds." - X-Mist. Limited to 120 copies in silkscreened sleeves with an insert recreating original cass cover artwork. SOLD OUT
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Artist: DIE EGOZENTRISCHEN 2 Title: Der Aufstand der Chemiker Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"As if the release of the Tetchy Teenage Tapes of Felix Kubin(version Pop on Skipp, version Nerv on A-Musik in 2003) was not enough, another label from South Germany urged us to plunder our archive and come up with 14 unreleased tracks of Felix Kubins Teenager electro nerve-grinding band Die Egozentrischen 2 .All the songs were written and produced on 4-track between 1982 and 1985 by Felix Kubin and Stefan Grund. The record title is Der Aufstand der Chemiker (Riot of the chemists) which is also the fastes synthie punk track of that time. I guess." -Was Soll Das? Platten. Edition of 300 in slikscreened jackets.
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Artist: DIE KLOPFERBANDE Title: Barbarei Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"This release feautures Klopferbandes legendary tape which was released
on the wellknown DATENVERARBEITUNG label in 1981/1982. Klopferbande
sounds kinda like Darkwave with synth-Elements and is sometimes Punky
too." - Was Soll Das? Platten. Limited to 200 copies in silkscreened jackets.
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Artist: DIE SHADOCKS Title: Motor Im Kopf Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $34.00 |
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"Tracks A2 & A11 was originally released on the Lachend Strahlend Lebensfroh 7" on "No Name Label" (1982). Track A3 was originally appear on the Musik Aus Bremen compilation on "Heimat Records" (1982). Track B6 was originally appear on the Pesthauch Des Dschungels compilation on "Park Platten Records" (1984). All other tracks are previously unreleased. Limited to 150 copies with silk screened sleeves. Includes A3 poster. This one has a copy of the original tour poster from 1983 on the one side and the discography from the artists with rare photos on the other side." - Discogs.  SOLD OUT
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Artist: DINO MARTINI Title: Ferien Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "Believe it or not, its MINIMAL as MINIMAL can only be. A lonely boy and his Synthesizer along with some Longlegged Girls. These 8 Songs on 12 vinyl inches are made for dancing. The songs were originally released as a Cassette on the DISKRET Label back in some 23 years ago." - Was Soll Das? Platten. Edition of 300. |
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Artist: DUOTRONIC SYNTERROR Title: Zerstoer Die welt Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
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"..pure electronic-synth sound with Andi Arroganti and they had 3 cassettes out in 1980-1982.The name of the Band speaks
for itself." - Was Soll Das? Platten. As with all titles on this label, this is a limited edition of 200 or so.
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Artist: FLESH GOLEM Title: Flesh Golem Format: 7" Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| "I will offer you something new from my brand new started series of my new label PDSW. The FLESH GOLEM 7" is out and it has 4 tracks from this Greek Minimal-Synth outfit out of Athens. The songs are dark and gloomy minimal-synth as you all expect it from PDSW and the 7" is limited to 250 copies." -Was Soll Das? Platten. |
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Artist: FRAUEN VON AVIGNON Title: Blau-Grau Format: 7" Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
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"7 Minimal Synth blasts
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Edition
200 copies." - Was Soll Das? Platten.
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Artist: GORILLA AKTIV Title: Umsonst ohne Risiko Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"This is one is a real Synth Monster with 14 tracks from their 2nd and 3rd Demo-Tape from 1982/1983. There are also the 2 wellknown compilation tracks from the LAST SUPPER Cassette Compilation on it." - Was Soll Das? Platten. Edition of 300.
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Artist: HESSEN GANZ GROSS Title: Hessen, Ganz Groÿ! Format: 12" Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $18.00 |
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"6 Songs taken from their one and only Cassette on the DISKRET Label, recorded in 1981. 20 Minutes of pure Minimalism. "Unter der Achsel" aka "Die Urgesile" appeared on the rare KASSETTENTÿTER Vol.1 Bootleg LP. This one is a SYNTHETIK TANZHAMMER if you know what I mean." - WSDP.
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Artist: KARL GOTT Title: Jugend - Oh Susse Jugend Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $32.00 |
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"Featuring only classics from 1981-1984 released on private cassettes only. Including their hit Liebe ist Blaulicht known from the classic HEIMAT BIST DO GROSSER SOHNE. Oh yes, the band is from Vienna/Austria." - WSDP. Limited to 150 copies. |
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Artist: KEINMENSCH! Title: Keinmensch! Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
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"the 1st LP by KeinMenscH! (WSDP 112), is out now: 15 Tracks with finest German new-wave synth stuff originally recorded in 1982. Featuring the classic KeinMensch!/Süchtig-7"." - Was Soll Das? Platten.
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Artist: LORENZ LORENZ Title: Er Begann Sein Steak Zu Essen + Drei Minuten Ei Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $34.00 |
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Complete reissue of the 1981 cass, originally on Du Bist So Gut Zu Mir, plus "Drei Minuten Ei" (Three Minute Egg). 100 copies, silkscreen cover. Featured on the first "Kassettentater - Deutscher-Kassetten-Untergrund 1979-1983" LP from 2002.
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Artist: NEUE MODE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $32.00 |
  Limited edition of 150 copies in three-color silkscreened cover.
Recorded in Zweckfrei Studios, Oberursel.
Contains the original recordings of their 1983 cassette on the "Zweckfrei" label.
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Artist: P16.D4 Title: V.r.n.l Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"Finally remastered Version of this
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Artist: P16.D4 Title: Wer Nicht Arbeiten Will Soll Auch Nicht Essen Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"All tracks recorded November 1980-January 1981 in Mainz. B4 and 5 are live recordings. (This title) was released March 1981 on cassette (w 011) by WARNEHMUNGEN. When the labels name changed to Selektion in early 1982 it got the new catalogue number SC 003. Wer Nicht.. was copied by demand until 1983, and sold some 300 copies. Restoration for LP release by RLW May 2004." - Was Soll Das? Platten. RLW: guitar, electronics, tapes, vocals; Achim Scepanski: synth, organ, vocals; Gerd Poppe: drums, vocals; Roger Schonauer: bass, tapes, vocals. One time vinyl edition of 300 copies.
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Artist: PSEUDOCODE Title: Light Format: 10" Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
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"5 tracks on a lovely 10" piece of Vinyl. Brilliant Minimal-Synth Power from Belgium. All recorded in 1980/1981 featuring Alain Neffe from BENE GESSERIT. 2 completely unreleased tracks as well as some rare 2 tracks from early Cassette-Compilations and the final song has been taken from their LP "Europa"." - Was Soll Das? Platten.
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Artist: ROTER STERN BELGRAD Title: Revisited Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"Roter Stern was a project from Rainer Rabowski who did the Klar!80 Cassette store and label in dŸsseldorf in 1980. The sound is very hard to describe, some people call it pre-Techno, some people electronic world music. I just can say that this record has it«s very own sound and if you listen to it you wouldn«t think that the music is from 1981 and not from 2001. Experimental Minimalistic-Electronics, and actually sounding "top-modern" - this could have been recorded as well just recently...The recordings are taking from a cassette-only releasen called "Regenmacher" which was released on Klar!80." - Was Soll Das? Platten. Limited to 200 copies.
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Artist: SAUREKELLER Title: Nur der Gute Darf Leiden Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $24.00 |
| "After a longer Break its time to present you a true Pearl of GERMAN CASSETTE Underground from the early 1980s SAUREKELLER from Hamburg. Maybe you allready know their long gone and classic "Hiroshima" 7" maybe you dont. What we have here is a fine 180 gr. Vinyl Master featuring all kinds of NEW WAVE, youll get some MINIMAL SYNTH, some PUNK, some weird NOISE and some RAP too!!! These guys were cool and crazy and if you loved their 7" YOU NEED THE LP!!! As the title says it all "Nur der Gute darf leiden"..." -Was Soll Das? Platten. |
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Artist: SCHATTEN UNTER EIS Title: 1984 Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"5 track LP by SCHATTEN UNTER EIS. This is brilliant MINIMAL-SYNTH stuff from their various cassette releases from 1982-1984. Featuring Joachim of L´AVENTURE IMAGINAIRE!!!" - Was Soll Das? Platten. Edition of 300.
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Artist: SIEDLERHEIM Title: Westhafen Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $28.00 |
| "There are 10 Songs on the LP from various Cassettes released from 1980-1982 on the legendary KOMPAKT PRODUKTE label from Berlin. Some of the songs are taken from the legendary PLASSETTE. The sound is typical 1980´s style synth mixed w/some punk/funk." - WSDP. |
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Artist: SYNTHENPHALL Title: Laut + Deutlich Format: 7" Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $10.00 |
| "..3 tracks from their one and only cassette from 1982 and is featuring ANDI ARROGANTI, which you should allready know. Side starts with a tune called "Paul" which is really minimalistic. It has some synthesizers and sequencers on it and they sound great. The flipside starts with "Auf dem Teppich" which is totally DAF or LIAISONS DANGEREUSES like." - Was Soll Das? Platten. |
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Artist: TREIBEIS Title: Alpträume Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $32.00 |
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"Originally released in 1981 as a cassette-tape on "Kommt Noch Schlimmer Tapes" from Germany." - WSDP. Edition of 100 copies. SOLD OUT
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Artist: V/A Title: This Is An Insane Insane World Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $30.00 |
| "LP comes on 180 g HEAVY VINYL w/ insert featuring all the informations on tracks and artists. 11 Songs of FINEST BELGIAN MINIMAL SYNTH from the early 1980s featuring the following Bands: BENE GESSERIT, PSEUDO CODE, HUMAN FLESH and SUBJECT. Once again, this record is full of BELGIAN MINIMAL SYNTH TRUFFELS!!!"-Was Soll Das? Platten. |
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Artist: V2 SCHNEIDER Title: Best Of 1981-85 Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"The LP is kind of an Best of Album of his cassette releases from 1981-1984. It«s like an industrial version of DAF with english and german lyrics." - Was Soll Das? Platten. One time edition of 200 copies.
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Artist: V2 SCHNEIDER Title: Document Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "2nd Longplayer from Rosenheim, featuring the 2 tracks of the WILDE GIER 7" and some other brilliant tunes. Edition of 250." - Was Soll Das? Platten. |
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Artist: WEHOWSKY, RALF Title: eaRLy W - Three: Neue Deutsche Peinlichkeit Format: LP Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
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"Oh, hell yes another time you get what you deserve. This is Ralf Wehowskys Cassette xperience as NEUE DEUTSCHE PEINLICHKEIT originally released 1981 on Wahrnehmungen as a C-30. The LP is featuring 5 bonus Tracks from various Cassette compilations from around 1981-1982. If you love P16.D4 and PD you will not miss this one." - Was Soll Das? Platten. Third part of the series initiated by Swill Radio. Edition of 300.
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Artist: ZIMT Title: Verlonen/Gefunden Format: 7" Label: Was Soll Das? Platten Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
| "Zimt were from TÿBINGEN and were close friends to FAMILIE HESSELBACH and HEUTE. Its more jazzy punky synth-style and definitely not your typical WSDP pick. I have deceided to release it anyway to pay tribute to these KASSETTENTÿTERs. 4 tracks from various Cassette releases from 1981-1985. The 7" will be limited to 150 copies." - WSDP. |
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Artist: PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT Title: Golden Oldies Format: LP Label: Wasted Vinyl Country: UK Price: $19.00 |
| "Twenty tracks of PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHITs earliest 4-track recordings culled from the bands personal vaults. Includes liner notes by ROB from EAT SKULL, plus an insert." - Wasted Vinyl. |
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Artist: BATTIATO, FRANCO Title: Fetus Format: CD Label: Water Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Franco Battiato moved into the 1970s on the crest of the progressive rock wave. This 1972 impossibly strange record inhabits that nether world of pop music, electronics, politics and experimental rock. Fetus is an album beyond all definition. Its a masterpiece of daring and wild risks that work every single time. Battiato takes us through eight uniquely super-detailed songs that tug at the heart strings as no other experimental record ever could. New liner notes by Jim ORourke." - Water. |
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Artist: CLUSTER Title: 71 Format: CD Label: Water Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "First reissue of this one in many years; this is first Cluster (w/ a "C") album (following the 2 Kluster albums: Klopfzeichen & Zwei-Osterei), originally issued by Philips in, yes, 1971. The 2 equally classic albums that would follow this (II & Zuckerzeit) have pretty much always been available, but 71 has mostly languished (although it was reissued at times by Sky). Reissued here w/ original cover art (not the inferior Sky art), nice booklet of photos and new liner notes, no unnecessary bonus junk. Well done. "On the outer edge of German space rock, Cluster 71 stands as a testament to minimalist cosmische music. The three untitled tracks composed and performed by Moebius and Roedelius are exploratory, ever-changing pieces with focuses on guitar distortion and synthesizer wails, though each goes far beyond. This album deserves the many accolades its been given, and holds up as an early landmark in the history of beatless ambience." |
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Artist: FLIPPER Title: Album - Generic Flipper Format: CD Label: Water Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"The first record from San Franciscos legendary Flipper, originally released in 1982. Post-hardcore? Post-punk? Art-rock? Despite being a part of SFs punk scene, Flipper were really only punk in spirit, eschewing conventions and making no concessions. Sludgy, distorted, atonal, noise-rock jams that sound as urgent and heavy as they must have 25 years ago. A huge influence on bands such as Nirvana (their current line-up includes Krist Novoselic on bass) and The Melvins. Album - Generic Flipper contains the classics Sex Bomb, and Life." - Water.
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Artist: FLIPPER Title: Gone Fishin Format: CD Label: Water Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The second and final studio album for the original line-up of SFs Flipper was first released in 1984. Flipper took the punk tag to extremes, as no other band in the world was playing punk this slow, sludgy, dark and disturbed. Featuring the haunting Survivors Of The Plague and the public incrimination of Sacrifice, Gone Fishin is an art-punk classic that holds up alongside their more heralded debut."" - Water. |
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Artist: FLIPPER Title: Public Flipper Limited: Live 1980-1985 Format: Double CD Label: Water Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Public Flipper Limited was originally released in 1986 as a double LP of live material culled from 1980-1985. The sound quality and playing are both a grimy, distorted mess, which suits the band just fine. Always alternating between endearing and abrasive, Flipper left no room for the middle ground of like. The album title is a shot at John Lydon and his alleged plagiarism of Flippers artwork for his own PIL and it proves that Flipper was never opposed to alienating its audience, no matter how sanctified. Harsh, art-rock classics from one of SFs most important post-hippie-era bands. On CD format for the first time ever." - Water. |
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Artist: FLIPPER Title: Sex Bomb Baby! Format: CD Label: Water Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Originally released in 1987, Sex Bomb Baby! is actually a collection of Flipper material dated no later than 1982, comprised of singles, B-sides, and compilation tracks. The single version of Sex Bomb is an all-out classic, a frenetic, yelping punk answer to Louie, Louie and the rest is no slouch either, outrageous, harsh, sludge-punk from San Franciscos finest. On CD format for the first time ever."" - Water.
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Artist: PEARLS BEFORE SWINE Title: Beautiful Lies You Could Live In Format: CD Label: Water Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Pearls Before Swines fourth and last Warner/Reprise album originally released in 1971. Ten Tom Rapp originals, plus a beautiful cover of Leonard Cohens Bird On A Wire. There is a dark angels purity in these songs and all of them are of a piece musically and philosophically linked with all of the others." Liner notes by Joe Phillips. |
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Artist: PEARLS BEFORE SWINE Title: City Of Gold Format: CD Label: Water Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you. This is the third Warner/Reprise album from Tom Rapp and Co. Originally released in 1971." Liner notes by Lenny Kaye.
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Artist: PEARLS BEFORE SWINE Title: The Use of Ashes Format: CD Label: Water Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Their fourth album (second for Warner/Reprise) and released in 1970 features songs written by Tom Rapp while living in Holland. Subversive, tender, moving, goofy, maddening, and profound." 20 page booklet, complete lyrics, liner notes by Edwin Pouncey.
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Artist: PEARLS BEFORE SWINE Title: These Things Too Format: CD Label: Water Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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Previously available in the When Jewels Were Stars boxset on Water, you can now get all the classic post-ESP Pearls Before Swine albums invidually. These are the third thru sixth albums in the PBS discography. Each is exceptionally packaged in a deluxe hi-gloss 20-page booklet, with original lyrics, new liner notes, etc. "These Things Too was Pearls Before Swines third album (and their first for Reprise), originally released in 1969. Dreamy psychedelia, organic American folk songs, political and social utopias, personal brokenness and transformation, country-rock, and pure beatific vision are the elements that create Tom Rapps sonic architecture here." Liner notes by Nick Saloman.
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Artist: WATERS, PATTY Title: You Thrill Me Format: CD Label: Water Country: USA Price: $14.50 |
| Subtitled: A Musical Odyssey 1960-1979. "In the mid 1960s vocalist/pianist Patty Waters released a pair of groundbreaking recordings Patty Waters Sings and College Tour for the legendary avant garde/jazz label ESP-DISK. Sadly, since that time, very few recordings have been released by Patty, although she still performs. You Thrill Me is a collection of all previously unreleased recordings spanning a nearly 20 year time period, capturing this unique jazz vocalist at the peak of her powers. Theres several Patty original compositions as well as her own spin on various jazz standards. Among the highlights is a 1964 three song session produced by Tom Wilson (known for his work with Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground). Booklet includes many rare vintage photos, detailed liner notes by Byron Coley and Patty Waters, and an introduction by Masaki Batoh of Japanese band Ghost." - Water. |
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Artist: MINUTEMEN/SACCHARINE TRUST Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Water Under the Bridge Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Volume one of the early Sand Pedro split 7-inch series. Three songs from each band. Rare songs that were only available on early 80s compilations and are now out of print and only available on this 45. Some of the first recordings (1980-1981) from these two awesome and unique L.A. harbor area pioneering punk bands. Includes insert." -Water Under The Bridge. Tracks taken from comps on New Alliance and New Underground (Chunks, Cracks In The Sidewalk, Life Is Beautiful So Why Not Eat Health Food and Life Is Beautiful So Why Not Kill Yourself). Very excellent Pettibon artwork. |
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Artist: REACTIONARIES, THE Title: 1979 Format: LP Label: Water Under the Bridge Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"The precursor to The Minutemen. Side one documents a 10-song practice tape recorded in 1979, plus a bonus side of mostly knuckleheaded San Pedro people doing their renditions of the same ten songs. 12-inch vinyl-only release brought to you by Water Under The Bridge and 45 rpm Records. Practice tape recorded in San Pedro, CA at the shed in back of Georges house on 17th Street, across the street from San Pedro High School, January 1979. Bonus side features ten Reactionaries songs from Side A covered by 38 members of different San Pedro-affiliated bands, both past and present. Cover art by Joe Baiza. The Reactionaries: Martin Tamburovich - singing, D. Boon - guitar, Mike Watt - bass and back-up, George Hurley - drums." - Water Under the Bridge.
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Artist: ANDROIDS OF MU Title: Blood Robots Format: LP Label: Water Wing Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "THE ANDROIDS OF MU were a noisy all-girl early post-punk band that emerged from London, UK, in 1979, alongside the likes of The Slits and The Raincoats.They met up in the wild squatter-lands of west London. SUZE THE BLOOZ, CORRINA, COZMIC and BESS became immersed in the local counter-culture. They grounded themselves in psychedelic synthesizer and guitar music, playing with Planet Gong and Here & Now, and musicians from Hawkwind. When they finally got hold of a cheap synth and a noisy guitar of their own, they used them, at full volume, with fat bass and bouncing drums, to record an album in the form of their new, colourful and zazzy reflections of life, from under the long dark shadow of puppet Thatchers corporate new Britain. They gigged around, sharing bills with the likes of The Mob, Zounds and The Astronauts. Blood Robots was recorded at lo-fi cult studio Street Level in 1979, this was their only ever album, originally released on Fuck Off Records. Now, cruel world, it is time for you to receive it. (This 2013 release has been carefully remastered from the original tapes. Includes insert with early photos and complete songwords)." -Water Wing. |
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Artist: CAETHUA Title: Summer Is Over Before Its Begun Format: LP Label: Water Wing Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "CAETHUA is the project of Maine resident CLARE HUBBARD. With a handful of releases under her belt on a variety of labels, The Summer Is Over is one of Hubbards most realized works. Eight sonically perfect songs filled with heart-melting vocal melodies, and dream provoking lyrics. Tastefully accompanied by her piano, guitar, saxaphone and well placed soundscapes. She is joined on this record by the multi-instrumentalism of ANDY NEUBAUER (IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT, FLOWBEE, AU NATURALE), who compliments this masterpiece with bass clarinet and cello. Recorded at The Pool Recording Studio by ALEX YUSIMOV and artfully mastered by TIM STOLLENWERK. This is a split release between everyones favorite outsider label, Turned Word and the debut release on the new Mississippi Records imprint, Water Wing Records." -Water Wing |
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Artist: AMPS FOR CHRIST Title: Circuits Format: Double LP Label: Water Wing/Turned Word Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Circuits was originally released in 1999 on the Vermiform label. It was well received, even charting on CMJ. This reissue puts Circuits on vinyl for the first time as a deluxe double LP with a gatefold cover and a full bonus side of unreleased material. Circuits includes AFC collaborator Tara Tavi (ex-Blue Silk Sutures, Bastard Noise, Savage Republic, currently of Auto Da Fe) who plays yangqin (Chinese hammer dulcimer) and sings. Former Man Is The Bastard drummer Joel Connell plays tablas and percussion. Remastered for vinyl by Tim Stollenwerk (Mississippi Records, Sublime Frequencies, Fat Possum). Co-released by Turned Word Records. Limited to 1000 copies." -Water Wing/Turned Word. |
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Artist: AUTOMATON, MARK Title: A Peck Of Dirt Format: CDR Label: Waterden Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "The first of a series of NEW releases on the Waterden label, this is Marks first solo CD. Containing his first original writing since leaving the Instant Automatons, it also draws heavily upon a wide variety of sources: here are songs from the English, Irish and Scottish tradition, the Crimean War, the chain-gangs of Americas Deep South and the trenches of World War One, all given the distinctive treatment characteristic of The Automatons best work." - Waterden. |
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Artist: INSTANT AUTOMATONS Title: Archaeology (Live Performances 1980-82) Format: CDR Label: Waterden Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "A perfect example of the Art of Human Error. The Instant Automatons were always at their most endearingly ramshackle when playing live, and this CD captures 15 such performances, originally recorded between 1980 and 1982. This document serves as a timely reminder that once upon a time people didnt need Simon Cowells permission to be performers - they just grabbed their axes, got up on the stage and did it!" - Waterden. |
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Artist: INSTANT AUTOMATONS Title: Not So Deep As A Well Format: CDR Label: Waterden Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "A 27-track anthology following the UKs premier exponents of Free Music from the Peter Paints His Fence EP to the Love Not Devotion LP and beyond. Contains several previously unreleased tracks." - Waterden. |
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Artist: MYSTIC UMBRELLAS Title: Langton Freemans Summer House Tomb Format: CDR Label: Waterden Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| "The Mystic Umbrellas made their debut in 1980 on the Deleted Records tape Deleted Funtime with the ethereal, drifting keyboard composition Journey To The West. Compared then to the work of Popul Vuh and The Residents, the pieces meandering mournfulness won admirers, and an album-length release was recorded and planned, but did not come together. Now, over twenty years later, the rediscovered tapes of the lost album have been remastered and remixed for release on the Waterden label. As well as Journey to the West, the album features a suite of five pieces inspired by an eccentric 18th century Northamptonshire parson who decreed in his will that he should be buried on his feather bed in a summer-house in his garden. The story of Langton Freemans Summer-House Tomb is evoked by the gentle, wistful and also faintly eerie sounds of Mark Valentines reed-organ compositions, considerably enhanced by Mark Lancasters sympathetic production. So bid the butler fetch a pot of Earl Grey and a slice of Madeira cake, pull the overstuffed leather armchair up to the study fire and settle back to enjoy what may be the first ever Antiquarian/Chillout crossover album..." - Waterden. |
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Artist: PRODUCT OF REASON Title: A Cure For Insomniacs Format: CDR Label: Waterden Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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"The legendary "lost" Product Of Reason album, fully restored and sounding as good as ever. Includes 6 bonus tracks, including the single Man Of Your Dreams." - Waterden.
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Artist: V/A Title: Love And Devotion Format: CDR Label: Waterden Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
| Originally released in 1982 on LP by Deleted and Fuck Off Records. Features multiple tracks by the Instant Automatons, Hamburger All-Stars and Blue Midnight. |
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Artist: V/A Title: No Platform For Heels Format: CDR Label: Waterden Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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"The first of a series of reissues of classic compilation LPs. This was originally released in 1982 on Tender Hooks Records and features such legendary artistes as The Digital Dinosaurs, Missing Persons, Product Of Reason and the mysterious (but strangely familiar) Stan Tomato Band..." - Waterden. Tender Hooks was a subsidiary of Deleted Records ( Fuck Off Records, Door & the Window, etc..) and Stan Tomato Band is actually the Instant Automatons.
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Artist: V/A Title: We Couldnt Agree On A Title Format: CDR Label: Waterden Country: UK Price: $12.00 |
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"Released a year before No Platform For Heels on Colin Potters ICR label, this compilation album is a considerably more diffuse collection than its successor. While its unlikely to please all the people all the time, there is at least something here for everyone, whether its the ambient minimalism of Robert Lawrence and Philip Johnson (of Doof, who are included on I Hate the Pop Group), the galloping bedroom-electronica of Those Little Aliens and Mr Potter himself, the classic 80s jangle-pop of The Walking Floors or the Captain-Beefheart-in-a-West-London-squat craziness of The 012. This record also includes one of my personal favourites, the dark masterpiece 9am by The Victims Of Romance with its brooding instrumentation and Jo Jordans tortured, Patti Smith-esque vocal." - Waterden.
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Artist: RAINCOATS, THE Title: Odyshape Format: LP Label: We Three Country: USA Price: $25.00 |
| "The Raincoats own label, We ThRee, reissues Odyshape, originally released on Rough Trade in 1981. "Re-mastered from original masters." -We Three |
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Artist: FAXED HEAD Title: From Coalinga To Osaka -- Live in Japan 1995 Format: DVD Label: Web of Mimicry Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Beautifully shot on three cameras during Faxed Heads improbable 1995 tour of Japan, From Coalinga To Osaka documents the pride of Coalinga, CA in all their self-handicapped, brain-damaged glory. Live footage of the self-proclaimed "desk metal" quartet is interspersed with baffling but authentic footage of a Japanese junior high school class in which the students are being instructed on the subject of... Faxed Head! In addition to the electronics- and mayhem-heavy 1995 Osaka set, the DVD includes bonus live footage of a reconstituted (and much more metal-sounding) Faxed Head on tour in Canada in 2001. And, for the true fan, a 45-minute long hidden "Easter egg" showcases an entire concert by Faxed Heads long-time nemesis, pitiful Coalinga-area boogie-blues idiots The Bon Larvis Band." -Web of Mimicry |
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Artist: PURE ECSTASY Title: Future Nostalgia Format: 7" Label: Wee Pink Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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Artist: AMBARCHI/FENNESZ/PIMMON/REHBERG/ROWE Title: Afternoon Tea Format: Double LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $31.00 |
| "Who would have thought a relaxed sunny afternoon, newfound friendships and some spur-of-the-moment would have resulted in whats been described as one of the most compelling documents of both free improvisation and electronic?" -- All Music Guide. "Its the people involved in Afternoon Tea -- originally released in 2000 on German label Ritornell and now available on vinyl for the first time with a new master, bonus tracks and newly discovered live recordings -- that ensured it as more than a happy accident. The twin guitar presence of AMMs Keith Rowe and Oren Ambarchi and kindred spirits of the laptop -- Sydneys Pimmon, Viennas Christian Fennesz and Peter Rehberg -- made it a momentous day. With all the players coming together during the 2000 What Is Music? Festival, Afternoon Tea stands as a highpoint of the then-emerging intersection between Powerbook performance and guitar improvisation. All subtlety, nuance and detail, it is a revelation of restraint. Built on a steadying flow of burbling rhythm, the quintet slowly weave around each others sonics in layers to create a tonal palette immersive in its atmosphere and magnetic in its compulsion. Hindsight clearly reveals the heart of these pieces -- important to note, considering they were recorded at a time when laptop performance was an alien concept to many in experimental music, suffering controversy and backlash as well as an over-abundance of pale approaches from many who took it on as novelty as opposed to serious musical pursuit. Those involved in the Afternoon Tea session left their Australian tour inspired, citing their merry time in the country eating, drinking and hanging out at the beach as well as their performances as a direct influence on their following work. Afternoon Tea remains one of the quiet and real achievers for experimental music of the past decade. Remastered in May 2009 and packaged in deluxe Stoughton gatefold jacket with artwork designed by Stephen OMalley. Vinyl edition of the CD reissue from Black Truffle Records, includes the same bonus tracks. First time ever available on vinyl." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: BATHING DRUID Title: Beltane Loofah Format: 7" Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Its true of Bathing Druid, as its probably true of all major proverbs, 80-syllable titles of old-fashioned royalty and a good deal of e.e. cummings later poetry: it all started with a Madlibs-derivative word game. Despite the unbelievable weight of its results, the game is surprisingly basic. It requires three players, each of whom independently chooses one word to fill in a sentence, the structure of which is always the same from round to round (What is a (noun) but an (adjective) (noun)?). When the sentence is filled in with sufficiently vague, timeless words, the game can conjure some profound questions. In fact, if you read all of the obscure, sometimes omitted footnotes to the texts of the ancient philosophers, you will find one consistent source from which knowledge has been universally drawn since the dawn of time: The Sentence Game. (Modern technology has brought about the height of the games productivity, through a widespread experiment, being conducted in zoos everywhere: for years, chimpanzees have been arbitrarily pontificating, through machines designed to offer random words at the press of a button.) As previously mentioned, it was through this game that Bathing Druid got its name (the result of the fated round was, What is the midwest but a bathing druid?). Philosophical doors swung wide open when first this question was asked, and Bathing Druid like Brigadoon descended on the Earth -- an apparition, both quick to enchant and to disappear. Luckily, those who stumbled upon the band in its brief window of being need not wait 100 years for its next appearance. This 7" record is the only known artyfact of Bathing Druid. All songs were created within one week, and recorded in one day. May the Beltane Loofah wash you clean and make you new." -Weird Forest |
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Artist: BEE MASK Title: Hyperborean Trenchtown Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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Silkscreened jacket. "I think Chris Madak was born after impact in a car crash, and his Hyperborean Trenchtown will enter the world in a similar fashion. The album resonates a future sound vision that can only come from an old soul destined to further pave the paths laid by electronic and minimalist pioneers. Thorough audio examinations covering every facet of sound/tone property as a whole will reveal astonishing new layers listen after listen. Undeniably pure processes of creating and sustaining sound visually, sonically and otherwise brings a mathematical and scientific accuracy that hasnt been seen since the days of Lovely Music Ltd. or GRM. The albums two side-long cuts are divided into two displays of versatility with varied sound sources including amplified acoustic instruments, hand-made electronics, phonography and more. Brilliant textures and audio hallucinogenic time/space wormholes create infinite listening possibilities for this album. Few albums can create such a disorienting tunnel that it sounds as if the record has multiple albums locked within itself -- you can hear these sounds and interpret them in so many ways that only time can unlock its many possibilities. Great albums only gain significance and this is surely no exception. Listen to this record on your turntable and stop time completely or melt into the past or the future with it -- your choice." -John Elliott.
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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Das Platinzeitalter Format: Double LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"Have you ever looked into the abyss? Man, its scary! An infinite void of the blackest black where not even a gleam of light can escape its dark talons. Needless to say, its not the most popular destination, but hey, it is there. And believe me, sooner or later that day will come when you will sit on the cusp and fix your eyes on the vast nothingness that is everything. But until that hour beckons, you may as well prepare yourself by spinning Das Platinzeitalter by Maurizio Bianchi.
Dark ambient barely captures what is engraved in these grooves. Loops from the history of dust, ancient as the catacombs and spectral like the last rays of hope. Theres an eerie calmness to all four sides of this LP. Timeless and inevitable as the setting sun, as if this music has always been here. Which it has. It was up to Bianchi to find it. This recording captures the never-ending decay of beauty at the point when it is realized that resistance is futile and the metamorphosis has begun. There are not many musicians who can distill this essence: early Zoviet France, Nature Unveiled-era Current 93, Lustmord and Andrew Chalk/Mirror to name a few, but Das Platinzeitalter sounds like it comes from hallowed grounds, the once sacred is now profane. It forces your head to turn toward the abyss. Its up to you to open your eyes and look.
Then the next thing you know, its over. Its all over. �??Dennis Yudt. Screenprinting faithfully reproducing original CD art by Seizure Palace, Portland, OR.
Limited to 500 copies on silkscreen foldover covers and hand-numbered in silver ink." - Weird Forest.
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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Symphony For A Genocide Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
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"M.B., aka Maurizio Bianchi, has enjoyed a deserved renaissance in recent times as a new generation discovers his charred brand of industrial noise, particularly the artists formative early 80s period before he disappeared in pursuit of religion. In the ensuing years, many of these early records became prized collector objects, garnering hundreds of dollars -- if they could even be found. Bianchi has since returned to creating music and many of those pricey releases have been re-issued on vinyl except for whats widely considered to be his seminal work from that time, Symphony for a Genocide. Weird Forest is proud to rectify this situation. To the uninitiated, Symphony may sound like so much noise with its unyielding factory-of-death buzzsaw sound making Throbbing Gristles industrial music almost top-40 by comparison. But buried underneath the unrelenting martial rhythms and analog siren sounds is a great deal of musicality, including synth melodies and basic chord progressions. Bianchi uses all these elements at his disposal to create a gripping audio portrait of the grim subject matter. Re-issue is strictly limited to 500 copies and is a near-exact reproduction of the original Sterile Records release, including hand-stamped labels and inserts just like the 1981 issue." -Weird Forest
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Artist: BUK BUK BIGUPS Title: Buk Buk Bigups Format: 12" Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Weird Forest drops the debut 12" from Sacramentos newest, best-kept, filthy secret. Buk Buk Bigups was created as an avenue for Sacramento-based musician Aaron Zeff to explore the outer parameters of popular and experimental music. Influenced by industrial tones, Krautrock rhythms and disco humor, Zeff takes the forgotten sounds of 1999 pre-Brooklyn Sacramento and reinvigorates the disco-notdisco formula with some guitar freakazoid dead-pan party anthems and fried mutant bedroom funk. The A-side, Hot Mess, gives a nod to a DFA-style production through chopped high-end riddim, but with a classic vibe: Manzaneras Primitive Guitar-era axe soaring solos, Roger Troutmans blunted affected vocals, and unconscious Dirty Mind cat-calls. Endless Itch, the B-side, is a lurching oxycotin-laced slow burner not straying too far from a funkier version of Factums or a subdued Gary War, but channeling Bay Area legends Tuxedomoon. Weve already coined the default genre descriptor for your blog: plastic brown-eye soul or, if you like, valley downer funk." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: D YELLOW SWANS Title: Live In The Police State Capitol Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Im extremely honored to release this one-sided
twelve-inch by one of my favorite bands, D. Yellow
Swans. 1/4" Tape, Guitar, Voice, Drum Machines,
Microphones, Mixer Feedback, Various Electronics and
Two Wonderful Fellas (formerly of Mur*der and
Boxleitner) from San Francisco-via-Portland who craft
Wolf Eyes-style pieces that build up to mammoth walls
of noise via keyboards, guitars, processors, etc. This
record is live recordings from Sacramento and Arcata,
circa fall 2003. Theyve collaborated with Dead
Science in the past, as well as sharing the stage with
Nice Nice, Burning Star Core, Wives, and oodles of
others - just so ya know where these guys are coming
from. Forthcoming releases on Narnack, Deathbombarc,
and gobs more. They improvise off each other to create
the mesmeric, volatile yet controlled chaos of
electronic sear, rasp and burn. Full spectrum
tonality, sonic exploration, the opening of new doors
of perception, spiritual journey, and the
establishment of new, meaningful shared cultural
experience in the tradition of folk and native musics
from around the globe invoking Freedom, Happiness,
Love, and the sharing and incitement of these feelings
in others. Positivity. Total Liberation. Limited to
500 copies." - Weird Forest.
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Artist: DEAD RAVEN CHOIR Title: Cask Strength Black Metal Format: Triple LP Box Set Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $45.00 |
| "A triple-LP box set collection from black metal/folk sound benders DEAD RAVEN CHOIR. Insanely loud and noisy blasts of sonic skree with strange folky melodic undertones of banjo, cello, mandolin, percussion, and extremely frightening vocals. Includes the tracks from the bands Sturmfucklinglieder, Grand Ravishing Extravaganza, Sevenfold Songs of Death, and Sheath And Knife EPs, all previously released in very small quantities. Pressed in an edition of 999, and packaged with seven inserts in a beautiful, dark forest-clad box. Previous releases on Last Visible Dog, Jewelled Antler, Digitalis Industries, and Foxglove. For fans of Leviathan, Gorgoroth, Draugar, Xasthur, Burzum, and the like." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: DMPH Title: s/t Format: 7" Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "DMPH is a new Sacramento-Oakland free improv trio consisting of Chad Stockdale (tenor sax), Kevin Corcoran (drums/percussion) and Derek Monypeny (guitar). This record finds them starting from intuitive scatter/splatter into a deep, dense windtunnel on Side A (Oakland), while on Side B (Sacramento) a similarly conversational beginning leads to a highly electricified freakout squall that might put some heads in mind of Last Exit. Clearly, these guys have done their homework. Derek plays guitar in the magnificent bay area group Oaxacan and Kevin has recorded with such luminaries as Tetuzi Akiyama and Christian Kiefer. Chad has previously appeared on records with Kevin and is one half of the free jazz duo Klondike & York. Limited to 200 copies." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: EIKENSKADEN Title: The Last Danse Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $13.50 |
| "You know it, you love it, by the unholy pestilent gods you cant get enough of it! Hailing from France comes the first ever vinyl release of one of THE greatest black metal albums of all time! Yeah, right. YEAH RIGHT! Baroque black metal! What the hades?!? The loudest, rawest, pummeling screech, fuzz, distortion and..classical piano?!?! You got it, some of the most innovative yet primitive, and dare I say, romantic (!?!) metal Ive heard in many a blood-soaked moon. You want experimental truly bizarre black metal? This is for you!" - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: EMERALDS Title: Allegory of Allergies Format: Double LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
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"About a month ago, as I watched Emeralds levitate a packed house at Brooklyns Glasslands, I couldnt help but wax a bit misty-eyed, recalling the years we all spent orbiting the basements of the upper Midwest with a cabal of like-minded fuckups. This opportunity to revisit Allegory of Allergies isnt exactly helping me regain my composure, and for that, Im profoundly grateful, insofar as time, distance and a seriously killer record can put a pretty impressive sentimental gloss on virtually anything, from spacing out and driving two hours past the gig in a thunderstorm to blasting the Gods of Tundra c120 on a half-dead portable deck while scrambling to dodge a sketchy eviction threat. Those, apparently, were the days. In its formal aspect, Allegory shares much with the recent and justly lauded What Happened, though in nearly every other sense, theyre night and day. Where the extended vignettes of What Happened share a certain crystalline expansiveness and astral sheen, Allegory offers a crumbling labyrinth thats at once humid and frigid, crammed to the gills with moss, lichen, cobwebs, brick dust, rotting boards, peeling paint, and narrow shafts of light. Its a blurry and bleary vision, in which John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt and Mark McGuire improvise on synths, guitar, voice, and tapes like three cats batting at an enormous calder mobile, a sound thoroughly native to the moldering interiors and indigenous dystopian/psychedelic culture of the American Rust Belt. Those approaching this work for the first time will have much around which to warp/wrap their heads. Emeralds are possessed of a slow-burning, Cluster-like sense of patience, an accompanying willingness to assume the appearance of burbling sideways in low gear while stealthily turning the universe on its edge, a rare mastery of perspective and scale and an ability to make audible the slipperiness of the slope between harmony and timbre. Just as crucially, they manage to be ambitious and sprawling without compromising their aura of raw immediacy and handmadeness. It is precisely this sort of fried grace that secures Emeralds place in the history of vernacular experimental music and situates Allegory of Allergies squarely in its hallowed canon of epic double LPs." -Chris Madak. Deluxe gatefold sleeve.
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Artist: FAMILY UNDERGROUND Title: Black Hole Format: Double LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "Family Underground drenched the east coast of the USA in molten syrup last year and they toted along a tour CD-R entitled Black Hole released by the fine folk of Secret Eye. Mega bummed I didnt get to feel their magic live but I ordered that tour disc post-haste. Man, when I got it I was slain. I thought it was their finest work to date so I had to invoke it on vinyl. I tapped into the bands communication network and together we figured this would make a killer double LP, definitely one for the record books. So The Underground sent me a half hour of unreleased musics to fill the vinyl sides to fruition. Holy Hannah was I unprepared for A! How well the new jams mind-melded with the other tracks. And B ⿿ the superb variation of the entire work with paramount peaks and deep arcane valleys. Get it and trip! Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl with full color gatefold jackets." -Weird Forest. |
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Artist: GANGLIANS Title: Monster Head Room Format: LP + 7" Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "11 tracks in just under 50 min. All completely new songs.. This album is pure naive headphone acid pop to drive to, at least thats what was going through our heads."- Ganglians Sacramentos Ganglians want an island somewhere where they can soak in the sun and prowl the canopy by night. Its not often that they do get out, but they can get down for that. Recording sometimes as one, sometimes as four its a real game to figure out where the entity comes from and where its going. First and foremost its about uncertain pleasures. Its a bit like choose your own adventure. Theres "codeine balladry"; a slightly upsetting tempo that is quickly flushed into an aural high, the next moment youre in the toy strewn abyss of the bedroom and then out to the tribal caves of the natives. The planets align and the sun beats down, palms tingling, and you are on the island theyve built, the scenery constantly shifting for a better view, of you. "If you ask them, Sacramentos Ganglians consist of "the whole of the Ganglian race" as well as "the squirrels in the walls that bounce acorns across the ceiling in the dead of night." So far, Ive resisted the urge to look too hard to find out more. What I do know is that the group, who creates all-over-the-map damaged-and-psychedelic noise-pop, is about to release an EP and LP on Woodsist. The labels already had a banner year and change via Crystal Stilts, Wavves, Blank Dogs, Vivian Girls, etc. Add this to the trophy case. Really, Ganglians sound isnt as easy to peg as some of their cohorts -- listen to three songs and youll hear three different approaches with some similar threads running through. See, for instance, "Hair"s rollicking dark surf and the more pastoral (and considerably epic) "Valiant Brave."- Brandon Stosuy /stereogum.com |
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Artist: GARRINCHA AND THE STOLEN ELK Title: Void Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "With a pair of cassette releases in recent months on the venerable tape labels, Stunned Records and 905 Tapes, Garrincha & The Stolen Elk may seem like neophytes on the scene but the truth is Davy Bui and Matt Kretzmann have been making music together in one form or another since 2002. I Dont Believe You kicks off the album with chiming bells and an upbeat church hymn slowed down and matched to a barrage of processed chanting voices. The song morphs into a hypnotic guitar loop layered with ringing synths, guitar washes and ghostly vocals, all building to a cacophonous climax replete with bleating saxes, a buzz metal riff and shredded guitar. Tower of Babble begins with sounds of rainfall and something sounding like slowed-down Gregorian chants as a chiming guitar melody softly repeats, eventually giving way to a buzzing organ drone, a tribal drum beat and belted German vocals before taking a final sinister turn with an insistent snare roll propelling the song towards its grand finale. The album concludes with the side-long, three-part First Rites, Last Communion suite. Heavily comprised of processed Asian church ceremony field recordings accompanied by occasional guitar and keyboard statements, the piece eventually erupts into a maelstrom of noise blasts, wild guitar and ringing bells before settling into a series of long, drawn out tones. Mastered by Graham Lambkin (ex-Shadow Ring), this album sounds like little else in the Weird Forest catalog." -Weird Forest |
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Artist: GOLDBERG, SAM Title: Current Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Clevelands SAM GOLDBERG (MIST, FREE TIME, RUMOURS, DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME) delivers a new album of synth heavy stuff in the vein of bands like The Emeralds. Limited to 300 copies." - Weird Forest.
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Artist: GROUPER Title: Wide Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
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2008 release repressed - new cover art and no longer gatefold. "Highly anticipated follow-up to the majestic Way Their Crept, Wide is another beautifully dazed float through wordless choral drones that touches on the early music of Hildegard Of Bingen and Palestrina as much as Popol Vuh, Two Daughters and Taj Mahal Travellers alongside hypnotic guitar lines that work the softest spears of flesh deep into your spine while illuminating imaginary frozen landscapes populated by pyramids of shimmering delay and melodies that you might well have dreamt of. Some of the tracks have a more dazed, avant-garage, almost Pink Floyd/Simply Saucer-esque guitar drone to them that wasnt quite so present on Way Their Crept and it adds a great psychedelic/Astronomy Domine feel to the wuzz of vocal tone. Grouper has collaborated with Jandek, Xiu Xiu, Ilyas Ahmed, Six Organs of Admittance, Jorge Behringer, Badgerlore, and others. This is the vinyl edition of the cd released on Free Porcupine Society." - Weird Forest.
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Artist: HAIR POLICE Title: Drawn Dead Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Whats inside the putrid, rotting, decrepid bandages ruined by the slow feral decay of time... its in your ears, that noise that creeps up in one small, rat-like, continous tonality of frozen windshields cracking from the chill of mortality that pulsates louder and louder and you caress the bandaged corpse and the dust of the long-deadened flesh shuffles from the caked, pale red cloth and the pulses turn to howls which are slashed quiet by the bludgeoning sterility of your mundane existence. Take this with you under the dirt. This is the lp version of the cd released on Hanson Records. Limited to 475 copies with insert." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: HEXLOVE Title: Want To Be Nice Format: CD Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Hey, sometimes everything gets a little too much and the ol nostrils feel constricted and the stomach feels empty and inside out. Just step out of it [like a transparent sphere]. I was always told to use a warm towel. However. What is this Hexlove shit doing to me right now? Putting me on the ropes, yo. West Coasting Zac Nelson double-doses and lifts this rump roast with layers of sprite-like bliss wafting; a come-and-go series of ghosts over spans of time then in fact here comes a complete cosmic sine-flute journey. I dont know, maybe Vangelis and Klaus Schulze get fed each others good vibes and then, oh yeah, the realness of the sound and a weight or extreme heaviness. Walls, sheets, large tarps of these good vibes get spun by a sampler dish of Sunroof-esque absolute humnburn clatter, completely searing, straight-up whopper, and somewhere around the near edge of celestial submerged polyorchestral non-existence emersion into microshard peaks of looping bucolic, stoney walk-on-the-water synth(?) fragment melody permeation you -- eventually, no matter where you are -- youre pretty much lost in a mellow excitement/familiar space I think someone whispered my name - type deal. All the mentioned unfolds in one 39 minute track." -Loren Shimanek |
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Artist: HEXLOVE/FAULOUAH Title: Free Jazz From Slavery Format: Double LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
| "If one were dim enough to go about explaining the new double LP from Hexlove/Faulouah by pointing up parallels between it and the future-thinking music which has surely influenced its creator, I imagine the task wouldnt be too daunting. One may first notice that Free Jazz From Slavery is awash in the sublimely complex percussion patterns of 20th century composers like Harry Partch, Eugene Kurtz, and Iannis Xenakis. Or one might wonder if Zac Nelson, the man in the cockpit of this thing, hadnt been listening to Another Green World since he was in the womb. And certainly it wouldnt be a stretch to say that the jibing spirit of early-80s Pere Ubu experimentation is all over the more flippant efforts like Dont Say I Didnt Warm Yah and the watery blurb that opens the record, Aztec vs. Dolphin. This, though, is the wrong way to go about listening to or talking about any of Hexlove/Faulouahs work. Musical ancestors are worn proudly on Nelsons sleeve, but as eagerly as he celebrates them, he also delights in taking them, along with himself, down a peg. The snarky punning of the albums title, the faux-shamanic chanting and cooing, the deliberately murked-up and buzzing arrangements, all belie an agenda that involves not only a glad embrace of the less austere reaches of avant-gardism but a pointed critique of its elitism and intellectual posturing. Tracks like the doom-laden Lots of Wings Carry Seeds, which pulses like the metabolism of some slumbering extinct beast, display a staggering sense of grey beauty but are quickly undercut when Nelson begins to take a more blithe and self-deprecating tack. This, though, is not to the records detriment; it never falls into mere novelty or self-parody. The sheer technical brilliance, evident on every track, earns quite a big spot on Nelsons cheek to put his tongue in. The most glorious moments, though, are those in which he is able to marry these two tendencies, as on the desperate and busy Grump up the Volume, which opens the second side of the first record. And this is just the first record. All doubts that may have been lingering about Nelsons seriousness or capabilities vanish completely after even the most cursory listen to the second record. Alone, it is a startlingly focused and beautiful ambient masterwork, but it shines all the more when it is coupled with the chaos of the first record. The long, breathing pieces are tranquil and meditative, yet never naïve or on the look-out for a place in The New Age. Under every track, however, spare and delicate, lurks an anxiety that constantly threatens to swallow all delusions of well-being. Though it drones and broods, it is never without texture. Alive with the haunting organ of Exits Very Damp or the subtle xylophone flourishes of Big Happy Lotus, it manages to maintain a clean, coherent spirit without becoming sterile or devolving into massage music. The side-long closer and centerpiece of the album, Psychopomp, though, is as sparse and heavenly as music gets, but it still attains such a raw human beauty that after you hear it, the last thing you want to do is lie down for a massage. Rather, you want to run out and find the human who created it and thank him." --Steve Rodgers |
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Artist: IIBIIS ROOGE Title: Hespherides Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
 "This one has been recorded for a while now – I think we finished it around the end of 2010, after starting it early that summer – but its been worth the wait, with Weird Forests usual high standards of presentation and mastering very much in evidence. We took a slightly different appraoch for this one too – instead of our more usual “virtual collaboration” method of sending files back and forward through the e-aether, we based this LP around some pretty intense live jams at a sweaty rehearsal space in Leeds. Of course we then took them apart and rebuilt them using our more regular method, but hopefully the sense of live abandon is there underneath it all." - Neil Campbell. "Iibiis Rooge is the high-powered collaboration of Neil Campbell (Astral Social Club, Vibracathedral Orchestra and A Band) and High Wolf (releases on Holy Mountain, Not Not Fun, and his own Winged Sun label). Their new album, Hespherides, is a welcome development in the duos trajectory, with its immersive propulsion more refined and synthesized than their 2009 self-titled debut. That earlier effort showcased the possibilities and capacities of the two artists collaborative spirit, each track exploring the individual aspects of a shared sense of sound with discernible cues from either Campbells or High Wolfs discography. In contrast, Hespherides is a meticulously sculpted document that embraces a total sound -- one that denies prominence of each contributor by melding the psychic duality of the pair. Shifting industrialized ethno-polyrhythmic structures are transformed by droning, blissed-out textural threads that seamlessly coexist and contradict one another; Through two side-long process-driven mechanical meditations, a shared space is constructed, one that satiates anyone willing to gorge on the global, post-acid house, rainbow hypnotism that is Iibiis Rooge." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: INCA ORE Title: Brute Nature vs. Wild Magic Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "INCA ORE is the solo voice of EVA, the singer of such fine bands as the ALARMIST and MALIBU FALCON. Traveling the cosmos, Eva uses her vocal range and delay complement to create the sounds of entire sorceress covens, as she mixes in lovely psychedelic drones and narcoleptic folk along the way. The A-side tracks were originally released on CDR in an edition of 100 copies by Collective Jyrk. B-side tracks are brand new and include an 18-minute interstellar trance-out. Upcoming release on 5 RC." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: KLONDIKE & YORK Title: Holy Book Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "You know, I get a lot of records in the mail, and Id say that most of em are CDRs. The way technology has gone, thats only natural for independent music, and I try to give all CDRs a fair shake, but its just never as nice as getting a vinyl LP in the mail. When its on vinyl, you just know its probably going to be good, or at least carefully considered, which CDRs almost NEVER are, even when they ARE good. Now if this primitive/outsider sax/drums/electronics LP by Klondike & York had been a CDR, I wouldve still really liked it, but having it pressed onto vinyl with a cool-ass color cover, well, as Al Pacino would say, "Forget about it!" Its top-notch! Its essentially a sax and drums free jazz duo, one Chad Stockdale on sax and one Nate Beier on percussion, with a lot of heavy blowing and space-out time-keeping, but Im tempted to not call it free jazz. I mean was The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing free jazz? No, it was psychedelic saxophone, and so is The Holy Book. And, to help sew it up as something other, theres also some synthesizer on here. Its not credited to any one musician, the word just floats in the space right after the credits. This is pretty much what the synth does on the record too, it just sort of mysteriously appears now and then. Trippy silk-screened labels too. Actually, the whole LP, from the home-recorded vibe to the shadowy appearance to the Northern California return address, reminds me of when the first Six Organs of Admittance LP appeared and left blown minds in its wake. There may still be time to get your mind blown, but I really doubt there are any more than 500 of these floating around, so hurry up!" -Larry "Fuzz-O" Dolman, Blastitude. |
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Artist: LIVING BREATHING MUSIC Title: Happiness Is Fabulous Format: CD Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "What would the soil say? A fair speculation from the lands oldest apostle..."God made the Earth and the Earth was round and the Earth stood still in its roundness... thus gave rise to the color green... the amorphic quality of this color sprang life ... the first sounds involved gurggling Cro-magnon hemorages ... the rest is adequate history ... hamburgers hotdogs hermaphrodites haunted house huge hard hair ... this is my recollection, I am soil!" A true testament of Northern Californian 4:20-vibe/freak-out unfurled for the rest of the world ... a live non-stop excavation of classic Impulse! ether fused a la Cro-Magnon(artists alone decide ...) with a utilitarian nod to "New Weird-ness" and Finnish-psych-spooge... recorded in Davis, CA "Live in Studio A" Sept. 2004 ... 4 colors, 500 copies, collaborative artwork... why does acid cost so much? Features members of Klondike & York, Antennas Erupt, My Whole Hand Was Wet, Tally Band, and Black Bottles." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: LOVE CRY WANT Title: s/t Format: Double LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $26.00 |
| "Nearly 40 years after its creation, Weird Forest is proud to release this seminal jazz album for the first time ever on vinyl. The incendiary grooves captured in this wax defy description. It is not free, funk, fusion or fire music it encompasses all of these sounds and then blasts far beyond them. Featuring the late great organist, Larry Young (Miles Davis circa Bitches Brew, Tony Williams Lifetime, etc), this album is mandatory listening for fans of Miles Davis Live Evil fusion era, Youngs own Lawrence Of Newark, Sun Ras cosmic explorations and even Japanese guitar terrorists like Keiji Haino and Masayuki Takayanagi. Beautifully packaged, Weird Forest-style, in a deluxe double-gatefold cover and remastered for vinyl by Weasel Walter, the Love Cry Want 2xLP is an essential document of a criminally unheralded group. Heres the scoop: June 1972. The times were filled with darkness and turmoil. This music, of loving, of crying, of wanting, makes a powerful statement. It is awash with the anguish of the times, yet it heralds the promise of better days to come. Love Cry Want was a legendary jazz fusion group based in Washington D.C., and led by guitarist, Nicholas. This recording took place during a series of concerts in Washington, held across from the White House in Lafayette Park, and featured the late, great jazz organist Larry Young, who had just recorded the historic Bitches Brew LP with Miles Davis and had left the Tony Williams Lifetime and guitarist John McLaughlin to combine forces with Nicholas and drummer, Joe Gallivan. This second incarnation of Love Cry Want featured the triumvirate of Nicholas, Gallivan, and Young performing some of the most important music in the history of jazz. No record company would release this music, which was ahead of its time. Nicholas, who pioneered the development of the first guitar synthesizer (in association with Electronic Music Laboratories) performs on the first prototype guitar synth along with fellow musician, Joe Gallivan, who pioneered the development of the drum synthesizer with inventor, Robert Moog. June 1972, Lafayette Park. Richard Nixon was President. There was a nasty war going on in Vietnam, good people were rioting in the streets and cities were aflame. During this series of concerts outside the White House, President Nixon ordered aide, J.R. Haldeman, to pull the plug on the concert fearing that this strange music would levitate the White House. This is that music, remastered for this first time-vinyl release by Weasel Walter. - Weird Forest. Personnel: Nicholas: prototype guitar synthesizer, ring modulator, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, water, hi-tension wires and wailing dervish Joe Gallivan: drums, steel guitar, moog synthesizer, and percussion Jimmy Molneiri: drums and percussion Larry Young: Hammond organ. Package design by Aaron Winters. Limited to 500 copies with deluxe Stoughton tip-on style gatefold jacktets. |
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Artist: MCGUIRE, MARK Title: Tidings/Amethyst Waves Format: CD Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Trying to put the last 15 years of music into context, youd be hard pressed to get anyone to agree on a single thing. If anything, this period has been a collective convergence of all things cool-sounding: naive experimentalism, academic composition, art-rock synthesis, electronic nihilism/flagellation, and, well, everything else. MARK MCGUIRE could muddy anyones interpretation of the contemporary canon with his buddies in the triadic mega-unit, EMERALDS, his collaborative outings in SUN WATCHER and SKYRAMPS (with Daniel "Oneohtrix Point Never" Lopatin), and his prolific, yet well-executed, solo work. "Have you heard his shredability, incomprehensible astral traveling and meditative neutron stasis on any of those solo jams, the dude must be ancient!?" Truth is, Mark Mcguire is a youngin, not a refuge of the 70s. Nor is he mining unfamiliar territory; he produces something old and familiar, yet it sounds so fresh and necessary for today. Originally released as limited edition cassettes and masterfully cleaned up for this definitive release by JAMES PLOTKIN, Tidings/Amethyst Waves finds McGuire packing 60-plus minutes with trance-inducing, melodic guitar intricacies, an occasional wall-of-squall reminiscent of Mizutani riding a thunder horse, and filaments of a drifting stratosphere where organic synthed-out solos are nestled in tight. With this release, Mark McGuire has hatched a true American Euro-vision utilizing major shifts in the music as language paradigm. No joke, this is where Wyld Stallyns is heading in the year 2398 A.G. and Tidings/Amethyst Waves is as essential as anything in the Emeralds catalog. Edition of 1,000." -Weird Forest |
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Artist: MCGUIRE, MARK Title: Tidings/Amethyst Waves Format: Double LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $29.00 |
| Limited to 1,000 copies. "Trying to put the last fifteen years of music into context, youd be hard pressed to get anyone to agree on a single thing. If anything, this period has been a collective convergence of all things cool-sounding: naive experimentalism, academic composition, art-rock synthesis, electronic nihilism/flagellation, and, well, everything else. Mark McGuire could muddy anyones interpretation of the contemporary canon with his buddies in the triadic mega-unit, Emeralds, his collaborative outings in Sun Watcher and Skyramps (with Daniel Oneohtrix Point Never Lopatin), and his prolific, yet well-executed, solo work. Have you heard his shredability, incomprehensible astral traveling and meditative neutron stasis on any of those solo jams, the dude must be ancient! Truth is, Mark Mcguire is a youngin, not a refuge of the 70s. Nor is he mining unfamiliar territory; he produces something old and familiar, yet it sounds so fresh and necessary for today. Originally released as limited edition cassettes and masterfully cleaned up for this definitive release by James Plotkin, Tidings/Amethyst Waves finds McGuire packing 60-plus minutes with trance-inducing, melodic guitar intricacies, an occasional wall-of-squall reminiscent of Mizutani riding a thunder horse, and filaments of a drifting stratosphere where organic synthed-out solos are nestled in tight. With this release, Mark McGuire has hatched a true American Euro-vision utilizing major shifts in the music as language paradigm. No joke, this is where Wyld Stallyns is heading in the year 2398 A.G. and Tidings/Amethyst Waves is as essential as anything in the Emeralds catalog. Deluxe 2xLP version comes in Stoughton, old-style tip-on gatefold jackets with color printed inner sleeves." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: MUDBOY Title: This Is Folk Music Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Raphael Lyon is the enigma known as Mudboy. From the incredibly detailed art/packaging to bizarre mp3 releases attached to scrap metal or plant matter to Freddy Krueger-inspired art installations, Lyon has always been one of the strangest cats on the scene. This unique perspective also infects his music. Whereas many of todays kosmiche-influenced artists bubble up from the noise scene (with knob-twiddling pedal pusher seemingly a prequisite to sequencing synth jammer these days), Mudboys work hints more toward the avant-garde as well as a touch of the classical. Originally released on CD in 2005, This Is Folk Music finds Lyon placing each sound with purpose and carefully sequencing the songs to create a dark, slightly twisted yet strangely beautiful soundscape. Listen to the gunshot crack that kicks the album into high gear on Solitron Wave, the seamless transition from the sparkling melody of Running into the jungle rhythms of Beirut Dance Party, even commonplace field recordings of waves and night sounds take on a different dimension in Lyons hands. This Is Folk Music may have been his first major release but already, all the trademark elements are present: the skewed aesthetic, the attention to detail and especially, the strong compositional sense. This is Mudboy. Art/layout by Raphael Lyon. Vinyl reissue specially re-sequenced by the artist. Limited edition of 500 includes 22" x 22" insert with mp3 download of the album in its original form." -Weird Forest |
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Artist: MY WHOLE HAND WAS WET Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "A poop stained, pajama wearing Mark E. Smith molested by the Muppet Babies would be a treat compared to this pile of rubbed rhubard crap. Skipping glitches massage the mundane into your palm(fair tempered crawl unit coaxing strangulated beatoffs grandeur), while the first dose of mutilated pop improv invokes flailing limpness in the vein of Costes and Mens Recovery Project. This wouldve fit uncomfortably onto the superb "I Hate The Pop Group" or "Killed By Death Swingalongamuck" comps. You wanna get wet? Northen California has never been so amused and constipated. Limited to 100 copies on white w/gold marble vinyl. Two variant covers, randomly chosen." - Weird Forest. Same label as Klondike & York, D Yellow Swans, etc.. |
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Artist: NOVELLER Title: Desert Fires Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "The solo project of Brooklyn-based guitarist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate (Rhys Chathams Guitar Army, Glenn Brancas 100 guitar ensemble, Parts & Labor, Carla Bozulich / Evangelista, Cold Cave), follows up her Red Rainbows CD (No Fun 2009) with this compositional evolutionary step from layered, loop-based drones to more expansive formal arrangements of swells, throbs, tones and shimmer. Almost Alright explores territory charted by Fripp & Eno or synth-heavy contemporaries Emeralds. Kites Calm Desert Fires is a sandstorm of rich, percussive guitar, warm humming bass and swirling rhapsodic chimes. Toothnest (for Chris Habib) arrives at an idyllic sonic plateau of windswept fuzz and tremolo, then charges blindly with a soaring guitar solo evocative of bagpipes triumphantly marking a return from battle. Art by Sarah Lipstate. Originally released on CD by Saffron Recordings. Limited edition vinyl comes with 11"x11" insert." -Weird Forest |
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Artist: NOVELLER Title: Glacial Glow Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Sarah Lipstate is Noveller and Glacial Glow is her most assured, accomplished statement to date. Lipstate largely sheds the distortion and feedback present in much of her earlier work. Instead, she relies on instantly memorable melodies, a wider sonic palette, and excellent pacing to deliver arguably her best album. Noveller announces her intentions from the opening track, appropriately titled Entering, as the syncopated rhythm of the melody represents a new twist from her previous guitar work. This is only the hors doeuvre for the stunning Glacial Wave, which drifts along serenely until Lipstate rains down gorgeous arpeggios like icy shards from the heavens. Other pieces feature sparse arrangements anchored by pulsing throbs which evoke a subtle, creeping anxiety more menacing than the feel-good retro-horror soundtracks making the rounds these days. Throughout Glacial Glow, Lipstate exercises restraint and a fleeting melancholy feeling pervades the album. It says something about an albums quality when the closing track, Ends, is chosen as the lead-off video. Ocean sounds combine with the lovely chord progression and guitar lines to create an uplifting, yet slightly wistful feeling and a perfect bookend to the record. "LP version on clear vinyl with full-color, double-sided insert." -Weird Forest |
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Artist: POCAHAUNTED Title: Mirror Mics Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"The hardest working ladies in show business are back! Pocahaunted offer up two side-long siren excursions into the other-worldly plains. On One Another our enchanted twosome ride a cindering tapestry of guitar string-propelled by other-worldly beats of oblivion. And Sister Calypso a haunting ode to the love-struck daughter of Atlas or uncanny Caribbean Sea breeze lullaby that transmogrifies into full blown tropical thunder? Who can say? This dynamic duo is on a roll! Likes: Billy Joel, cuss words, candy corn, diamonds and furs, psychic connections, African percussion, and kombucha. Dislikes: flat tires, the ocean, and silent movies. Extra skronk and skree provided by Andy Spore and Bobb Bruno. Label art by B&A. Beautiful full color covers with artwork by Olga Balema." -Weird Forest.
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Artist: PUMP KINN Title: Aunte Donne Format: 3" CD Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Pump Kinn is Michelle. Whether gliding on the diamond lakes on a porcelan swan or herding the wild equestrian hordes on top the tenebrous mountains she molds the loveliest concoctions of throat plumage confection and the most crepuscular cacophonous caterwauling of a thousand shrill stallions. Admirers of Diamanda and Fursaxa rejoice. Limited to 500 copies housed in a custom, full-color, 6-panel fold-out cover." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: PUMP KINN & DON/BRIAN MILLER & KEVIN SHIELDS Title: Virgin Passwords Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| Pump Kinn & Don write: "Our shredding side sounds like Hijokaidan remixed by DJ Screw! Pretty killer!" Brian Miller & Kevin Shields write: "Recorded at the end of nearly 9 months of touring, Virgin Passwords reflects a long evolution in sound and concept for Brian Miller & Kevin Shields. A combination of mechanical grindings and digital sweeps, mortal shovings and sudden transportations into secret chambers hold the secrets of the Virgins themselves. The Virgins that control the universe. The mafia of the cosmos. Beyond the cliched metaphor of purity and straight to literally not having sex at all. Because a Brian Miller & Kevin Shields performance prooves that a noise show can be (hyper)active, crowd-engaging and knock everything to the floor without invoking angst and self loathing. In other words, without hate-fucking everyone. Virgins." "One side apiece from each of these duos of destruction. Limited to 300 copies with beautiful DJ-Style jackets designed by Aaron Winters of abide visuals." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: SMEGMA / COLOUR BÜK Title: Split Format: Cass Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Some bands just have it - that special ability to consistently weave a magical soundweb out of nothing, taking listeners on a journey to places unknown. Smegmas been doing it for decades now and Weird Forest is proud to present this live performance from 2010. Colour Bük is weird. Not weird in a fashionably arty kind of way, either. Dont get me wrong, Ive hung out with them and theyre cool but these strange cats can vibe out both your hipster girlfriend and Republican grandma. This strangeness is just seeping out of their music too. After last years bizarre Our Favorite Fucking Day tape, Colour Bük returns with a set that sounds little like OFFD tape but retains that same twisted sensibility." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: SO SO MANY WHITE WHITE TIGERS Title: s/t Format: Picture Disc LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "San Francisco-based rock band So So Many White White Tigers play bad-energy propulsive, off-timed noise skree with lots of ballsy guitar moves and dysfunctional vocal shrieks and squeals from Liza that are sure to sting and cause infection. Gerald lays waste to the drums and guitarist Ned positively shreds the strings. Garage-y punk and chunks of mammoth wall of noise, like if Harry Pussy made rock songs or something. Whatever it is one things for sure-something just aint right with these kids, and So So Many White White Tigers were born to come to your town and freak you out. Recorded by Mr. Chris Woodhouse. Limited to 660 copies on kitty head collage picture discs." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: STARVING WEIRDOS Title: Path of Lighting Format: Double LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "The latest from NorCals finest, Path of Lightning is one of STARVING WEIRDOS most swell/swollen yet to date. Four flippin sides of confuse-adelia for both the farm-fresh kid to the well-heeled cad. Way noisier than the releases on Root Strata, Path of Lighting is chock full of mystery moves and dynamo hums, from the tripped-out textural flips on "Into the Flatlands" flickering in and out of foci to the almost-an-environmental-statement of "N.Y. Blues" with talk show jibber jabbing into the corrosive static as the grooves run out. The two dudes in Starving Weirdos are joined by yet another dude for two tracks and its tough to know exactly what hes adding (besides another layer of ecstasy gush). These two sides sound like the fine line that separates No Neck Blues Band from Sunburned Hand of the Man. The final track could/should have been in the movie Rosemarys Baby, right around the time Mia Farrow is screaming "What have you done to his eyes!" Deluxe gatefold jackets, limited to 500 copies." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: STARVING WEIRDOS Title: Self-Hypnosis Format: Double LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Whats going on here? Well, a couple sides of Self-Hypnosis were recorded in a concrete racquetball court (and a couple of sides werent) which has been mysteriously transformed into the legendary Black Ark Studios and Lee Perry is going NUTS with the ol echo effects. A tiny clatter in the background suddenly rushes up to your ear-bones, magnified into giant sheets of rubberized steel plates which bounces as high as you are. The backwards flow-motion is set on fire as the storm approaches. Various liquids are aerated while dub insects skitter about the killing floor. Little crashes, hither and thither, mostly between the buildings-not causing much damage at all. Limited to 500 copies on white vinyl." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: STOCKDALE, CHAD & KEVIN CORCORAN Title: S/T Format: 7" Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "This is the high and mighty speaker shredding first documentation of the duo of Chad Stockdale (Klondike and York) and Kevin Corcoran (Antennas Erupt, Get Get Go,). The idea behind this album was to make a hardcore record but through free jazz idioms. Chad played tenor saxophone through a rat pedal and Kevin got in touch with his inner hardcore monster for the drums. Chris Woodhouse (engineer extraordinare of A-frames, Hospitals, Coachwhips) recorded for maximum potency. This is a seven-inch of loud whirlwind sudden blasts of howling, house-flattening, molten meltdown compression chamber free core. Limited to 300 copies on yellow vinyl with fantastic see-through cover art. play at 33 rpm." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: SUGIMOTO, TAKU Title: Mienai Tenshi Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "This is Taku Sugimotos very first solo release originally released in 1988 by the artist himself in a small edition of 100 copies. Its a far cry from his current style. Back then Taku was very much influenced by MC5 and the Velvet Underground. This is a firey live in-the-red solo electric guitar improv blowout! Fans of Masayuki Takayanagi and High Rise take heed! Mastered from the original reel-to-reel tapes. Faithful reproduction of the original insert and the debossed handmade covers. Limited to 500 copies "- Weird Forest |
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Artist: TERRORS Title: Lagan Qord Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Perhaps the true test of an artist is taking common elements and fashioning a unique sound all their own. Elijah Forrest, as Terrors, is one artist who passes the test. A bi-coastal vagabond dropping tapes from southern California to Baltimore, Forrest has traveled many miles, seen a lot and judging from his music, not all of these experiences have been good. Terrors is relatively unprolific by underground tape culture standards, putting out a handful of well-received cassettes over the last few years. Each release is filled with simple songs built around his voice, guitar and at times, a healthy wallop of tape hiss ambiance and feedback. With these simple ingredients, Forrest injects a sense of weariness and sadness into his songs -- even the instrumentals which loop, layer and wrap back around themselves seem imbued with a touch of grey. The chords, melodies and progressions may sound familiar but in Forrests hands, a freshness and timelessness breathes within these songs. Weird Forest is excited to present Lagan Qord, a compilation of Terrors tracks culled from the last few years. Wonderfully remastered by Sean McCann, these songs have never sounded better." -Weird Forest |
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Artist: WINTER DRONES Title: Blood In The Coffin Format: CD Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Leon Dufficy is primarily known as guitarist in the hippie-jam outfit, Hush Arbors, but now he steps into his own as the driving force behind Winter Drones. Sounding like the perfect combination of fuzzed-out ambient drift, shoegaze swirl and propulsive pop sensibilities, Winter Drones have slowly gained attention in their native U.K. with a handful of obscure CD-R/cassette releases and compilation appearances. Earlier this year, the bands debut album, Blood In The Coffin, came out as a limited-edition tape on U.K. micro-label Sexbeat Records. While legions of artists are mining the ambient style, Dufficy stands out because of his ability to develop his soundscapes, infusing them with a touch of melody to impart a sense of emotion. Songs like the lead-off track, Watch Your Eyes, set the mood perfectly while Bongs Dream shows Dufficys intuitive understanding that the perfectly weighted note/chord can add tremendous emotional resonance to an atmospheric piece. But Dufficy isnt some common nu-age denizen and the album really shines when the drums come in and the band rocks out. Winnie Coopers Bones and Two Long Weeks Part 2 find Dufficy perfectly capable of crafting memorable songs that stick with the listener. The albums centerpiece, Stiff Wizard, serves as a thesis statement for the entire album. Over ten minutes, the track starts with flanged/fuzzed guitars swishing about and sounding like jet engines on a runway. As the piece builds towards take-off, a simple radar-like melody begins pinging and the song takes flight when the drums and driving guitar chords launch in -- a perfect microcosm of the whole record." -Weird Forest |
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Artist: WINTER DRONES Title: Blood In The Coffin Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Leon Dufficy is primarily known as guitarist in the hippie-jam outfit, Hush Arbors, but now he steps into his own as the driving force behind Winter Drones. Sounding like the perfect combination of fuzzed-out ambient drift, shoegaze swirl and propulsive pop sensibilities, Winter Drones have slowly gained attention in their native U.K. with a handful of obscure CD-R/cassette releases and compilation appearances. Earlier this year, the bands debut album, Blood In The Coffin, came out as a limited-edition tape on U.K. micro-label Sexbeat Records. While legions of artists are mining the ambient style, Dufficy stands out because of his ability to develop his soundscapes, infusing them with a touch of melody to impart a sense of emotion. Songs like the lead-off track, Watch Your Eyes, set the mood perfectly while Bongs Dream shows Dufficys intuitive understanding that the perfectly weighted note/chord can add tremendous emotional resonance to an atmospheric piece. But Dufficy isnt some common nu-age denizen and the album really shines when the drums come in and the band rocks out. Winnie Coopers Bones and Two Long Weeks Part 2 find Dufficy perfectly capable of crafting memorable songs that stick with the listener. The albums centerpiece, Stiff Wizard, serves as a thesis statement for the entire album. Over ten minutes, the track starts with flanged/fuzzed guitars swishing about and sounding like jet engines on a runway. As the piece builds towards take-off, a simple radar-like melody begins pinging and the song takes flight when the drums and driving guitar chords launch in -- a perfect microcosm of the whole record." -Weird Forest |
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Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: Sunset Sleeves Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice along with Weird Forest command you to dissolve caps in Grandma Moses? kool-aid and seep deep into a genuine American-psychedelic-industrial gospel--languid repetition of mechanical percussion, rural disrupted electronic meandering, haunting altruistic guitar melodies, hymns guided by deceased maritime constellations sucking life from borrowed resin--the sum of all parts is an exact, chance ability of preordained primitive precision: The way Metal Box/Second Edition shouldve sounded if the Godz werent so crazy. Travel north archaic gypsies-gather desert sustenance-keep praying!!!" - Weird Forest. Very last copies. |
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Artist: YELLOW SWANS Title: At All Ends Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "At All Ends is the third major record in the Yellow Swans vast body of work. This record is an assured record of chiming drone and heady pelvic sky fuckery. New sounds emerge from the Yellow Swans camp that are more hushed, and whisper with the logic of deep space. Whereas the last record was a laser beam guided minimal transmission with dark overtones, this new release injects sonic clouds full of pink oxycontin. Guitar lines sketch out a melodic vision that stupifies with hypnotic repetition with layer upon layer of rich and dense guitar chug build into multi-orgasm songscapes that leave the loins sore and the mind spent. An exhausting journey into pleasure and single-mindedness. Elements of lush drone stretch the proceedings in vast strokes. Yellow Swans veer towards krautrock territory with this new record, and it will go down in the big books as their most beautiful and vibrant record thus far. beautiful single pocket gatefold jackets with art by Jamie Potter." - Weird Forest. |
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Artist: YELLOW SWANS Title: Psychic Secession Format: Double LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "The second studio full-length from YELLOW SWANS. Originally released by Numerical Thief in Australia, the album has been remastered to bring out the bands whispered hush, disjointed polyrhythmic attack, and squealing crunch. Features guest appearances from DEAD SCIENCE, AXOLOTL, WHITE RAINBOW, CHRISTINA CARTER, INCA ORE, GERRITT, CHERRY POINT, and SILENTIST. Recorded by DANIEL VOSS (Leviathan, Lurker Of Chalice). Limited edition vinyl pressing of 1,000 copies." -Weird Forest. |
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Artist: YELLOW SWANS & MOUTHUS Title: Conan Island Format: LP Label: Weird Forest Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "An inevitable match made in Hades. Four titans workin it out in the primordial mulch and all the gods are cowering in their presence. The dual intertwining guitar-attack impacts and fragments into the dense concrete percussion forest surrounded by a shroud of pulsing caterwauling skree. A harum-scarum locomotive ride of thick, bombastic & heavy proportions..just like you want it to be. Play loud for optimum effect! Cover art by Brian Sullivan. Limited to 500 copies" - Weird Forest |
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Artist: V/A Title: Reverse Engineers; February 19 - March 19, 2005 Format: Book Label: Weird Shadow Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| Second Reverse Engineers catalog (this ones printed on glossy stock); this time featuring Tony Conrad, Ernest Gusela, Christian Jankowski, Natalie Jeremijenko, Barbara Lattanzi, John Olson, Paper Rad, William Pope.L, Dylan Reiff and Joe Korsmo, Aida Ruilova (!!), Brain Springer and Haim Steinbach. |
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Artist: COSMIC COURIERS Title: Take Your Headphones Format: LP Label: Weiss Country: Germany Price: $30.00 |
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"Strictly limited edition of 300 copies! Nice, handmade covers with wax sealing! 50x70 cm Full colour poster of the COSMIC COURIERS. Surely the oddity in the KOSMISCHE KURIERE sage, Take Your Headphones was a very, very limited sampler originally released in 1974, devised to introduce Rolf-Ulrich Kaisers troupe to the US market. Very much like Gille Lettmanns GILLES ZEITSCHRIFT, it took fragments of various Cosmic Couriers records & sessions, editing, mixing and splicing them up with spoken word messages (courtesy of Kaiser & Lettmann themselves), weird sound effects & even some classical music into a psychedelic headtrip. For sure, ONE OF THE MOST OBSCURE & SOUGHT-AFTER RELEASES FROM THE KRAUTROCK SCENE." - Weiss.
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Artist: V/A Title: Eastern Standard Time Format: LP Label: Weltraum Country: Germany Price: $29.00 |
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"Eastern Standard Time! Despite the title, this compilation features all non-standard instrumentals of western influenced oriental music from 60/70s Egypt, Pakistan, India, Turkey, Japan, Lebanon and two eastern-American meetings. Hypnotic belly-dances, psychedelic surf-guitars, crazy organs, melancholic strings and oriental beat- and funk rhythms by Omar Khorshid, Naushad, Baligh Hamdy, Takeshi Terauchi, Sohail Rana, and many others. Silk-screened cover, limited to 500 copies." - Weltraum.
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Artist: V/A Title: Willkommen Im Weltraum - Nostalgia For An Age Yet To Come Format: LP Label: Weltraum Country: Germany Price: $29.00 |
| "Willkommen Im Weltraum - Nostalgia For An Age Yet To Come is a view back to the days when the future sounded best. Spaced out organs, obscure library grooves, astrosonic sounds and early electronica. Ancient science fiction, the Signs of the Zodiac, psyched-out drum-machines and the first singing computer. With music from Attilio Mineo, Mort Garson, Dorothy B.Carr, the Electrosoniks, Cecil Leuter, the Mindexpanders, Gerhard Narholz Electronic Studio Orchestra, Ma Jinao and many others. Vinyl only, in a beautiful silkscreened cover, limited edition of 1000. Artists: Michael Weisser / Otto Luening / Vladimir Ussachevsky, Mindexpanders, The Zodiac, Roger Roger, The Electrosoniks, Gary Schneider, Ma Jinao, Heinz Heindel, Dorothy B. Carr, Ataraxia, Karl Reger + Odo Warth, Cecil Leuter, Phillippe Besombes, P.Willsher + K. Chesher, Gerhard Narholz Electronic Studio Orchestra and Mort Garson. Comes with postcard." -Weltraum |
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Artist: WESTERN STANDARDS Title: Energy Centre Format: LP Label: Western Standards Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Combining atmospheric drones with dissonant guitars and carefully layered electronics, Western Standards paint an audio landscape as inspired by the early pioneers of tape manipulation and minimal composition as it is by contemporary artists use of cutting edge technology. Presented to the listener as a 12 inch, 33.3 RPM vinyl album, Energy Centre consists of 7 untitled pieces and is housed in a black die-cut jacket designed by Western Standards. The album is strictly limited to 110 hand numbered copies worldwide and will include a link to a high quality digital download.
So far its been compared to Brian Enos collaborative work with Cluster and Emeralds." -Western Standards
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Artist: WESTERN STANDARDS Title: Space Is A Place Format: LP Label: Western Standards Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Space is a Place, the second release from Western Standards, continues the mysterious journey that began with 2010s Energy Centre, which was praised by Boomkat Online as “a lovely slab of hazy, impressionistic audio landscaping… one of those albums that almost manages to pass under the radar undetected, but really deserves some wider attention”. Comparisons have been made to Tim Hecker, Roedelius and Evan Caminiti, just to name a few. The new record is comprised of carefully orchestrated tape loops and drones, Kosmische-inspired electronics and heavily processed bass and baritone guitars. Six tracks. Thirty-eight minutes. Thirty-nine seconds. Features artwork designed and assembled by Western Standards. Limited to 110 copies, includes CD-R of the album." - Western Standards
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Artist: WESTERN STANDARDS Title: Unraveling Designs Format: LP Label: Western Standards Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| “Whereas most other music squabbles for your attention whilst it plays, Unravelling Designs is content to remain in your subconscious mind, gently seducing you in an unhurried manner. The steady swelling of opener Recognition is a welcoming crescendo of highly atmospheric textures, seguing perfectly into the bubbling Down From The Sea, which is certainly one of the most carefully conceived and expertly executed numbers of the growing Western Standards repertoire. The monumental title track is the natural centre-piece of the album, like a single ebbing tide of hypnotic magnificence, replete with layers of gradually developing sound-effects and awash with droning ambience. As the song builds to a wonderfully understated climax, the hidden majesty is gradually revealed during an enormously satisfying conclusion. The insistent pulsing of The Needle is a pleasing contrast to the positively ghostly harmonics which sweep in and out of the mix before settling back to a simple, undulating loop. The following Terrain demonstrates some of the harshest textures present on Unravelling Designs, a veritable orchestra of horn like interjections, boldly metered above a fog of hazy distortion. Comparatively, the beautiful closing number Smokewalk is a borderline triumphant series of near musical harmonics which jangle and chime to an appropriately beatific finish. One of the more refined albums of the year but also one of the most rewarding.” - Tommy Dski, pocketjury.net. |
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Artist: RANALDO, CODY Title: Beating You Up Format: Cass Label: Western Unconscious Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Ranaldo here offers what we believe is his first available recording. Side A is a hypnotic exposition of a single eastern-tinged theme, delivered on a guitar whose beautiful open tuning clearly reveals his lineage. Side B is a foray into unexpected territory: damaged synth and drum machine with swirling feedback loops, just shy of confrontational. Ranaldo wisely presents his tape like the two sides of a coin; treasure hunters take note. Edition of 100."
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Artist: RANALDO, CODY Title: Boneless Format: Cass Label: Western Unconscious Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "a lot of really spare beats and exploring heavy drum sounds in a really loose format with no regard for beginnings or endings" |
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Artist: BACZKOWSKI/CORSANO/FLAHERTY Title: Dim Bulb Format: CD Label: Wet Paint Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "With a slight Ayler-esque quality to the horns and a build and collapse approach to songwriting, this trio cranks out abstract, quality free jazz that few combos approach these days. Thought to be a live-only experience, BACZKOWSKI, CORSANO, AND FLAHERTY treat their loyal fans to a take-home version of their way-out sound." |
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Artist: HOTOTOGISU Title: s/t Format: Mag Label: WFOT Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Twenty full color images produced by Marica Bassett and Matthew Bower from 2003 to 2005. Recommended for late night viewings when the windows are lit and the television is off. Limited to 125." - WFOT. |
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Artist: V/A Title: We Didnt Come Here To Make Friends Format: CDR Label: WFOT Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
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"A compilation benefiting the private publication, The 200 Pound Underground. Artists featured; DOUBLE LEOPARDS, MAGIK MARKERS, PENGO, MOUTHUS, HUMECTANT INTERRUPTION, THE DEMARS, RESIDUAL ECHOES, PISSED JEANS, DREMCRON and CHRIS BOZZONE. Limited edition of 100 with handmade covers and the whole bit. They are going fast, so act NOW or trade your copy of the Skin Deep "Football Violence" for it later." - WFOT.
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Artist: BEATTY, ROBERT Title: Solos Format: LP Label: What the...? Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"In spring 2009, Robert Beatty (of solo Three Legged Race and band Hair Police) Beatty travelled as a collaborating and touring member of Burning Star Core -- with whom he has collaborated and toured as a member of for a number of years as well. Written into the setlist performed every night was slot for an improvised solo by Robert, on
his special electronics rig, synthesizer, space echo, question boxes, etc. Anything sound he wanted, "make it sing." So imagine similar to three hour stadium show, the moment for the bass solo or perhaps drum solo, except this is a few minutes out of a 30 or 40 minute long set. Except the stage doesnt rise up or no additional smoke blows across. So imagine if almost every Burning Star Core performance was recorded on this tour and these "Robert Beatty" solos were cut out and strung
along into an work of their own ? This LP "SOLOS" realizes that concept. It is live, but it is not collage; it is a document, but it is not comprehensive to the originating context. So ten complete solos, in chronological order, on two sides of LP, about run time of 35 minutes. Paste-ons jacket with creepy Robert poster to get to know. 166 copies of this work for fans of detailed-driven minimum
electronics." - What the...?.
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Artist: DIETRICH/BEN HALL, DON Title: Spitfire Format: LP Label: What The...? Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "A cinderblock-sculpting freakout session from Don Dietrich (Borbetomagus/The New Monuments) and Ben Hall (The New Monuments). Highly-touted by Aaron Dilloway, deep sea creatures, and your local tire dealership." |
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Artist: ARA Title: Pick Up & Run 2007 Format: LP Label: What The..? Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Ara "Pick Up & Run 2007" LP captures two very performances of reed instruments, singing, percussion, and a very hazy thick atmosphere what might float over the flower fireworks captured in these two very performances. Ara is the Lexington KY-based duo of Sara OKeefe and Trevor Tremaine of such outfits as Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Hair Police, Burning Star Core, Sick Hour, Death Unit, and Rampart Tapes board of direction. However these adjectives of death sick police, of those maybe there need to be new descriptions in place -- were not quite sure what it is but in this alternate universe it could be the Peace Police, Skywatcher Hour, Life Unit, Colourful Star Party, etc. who are close neighbors. Fleeting "jazz" reference, male/female lowlife love vocals, drugstore basement electroacoustic, just warm and cloudy all over like a yesterday today. Feature the most complicated WHAT THE..? record covers so far, each unique handmade and silkscreened by Paul Coors; the materials you have grown come use to except melted together in rare effort. Paintspray turns into watercolours, perfume, and northern lights -- with a mini-poster and edition of 177 (there is no controls on Mother Nature)."-What the...? |
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Artist: BRENT LEWIIS ENSEMBLE Title: At The North Pole, Easter Day, 1982 Format: One Sided LP Label: What The..? Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "Well there is much to say about this record of voices with much to say, so perhaps best to allow one who would know to speak the most for all -- "As part of the 25th anniversary of the Butte County Free Music Society, At The North Pole, Easter Day, 1982 follows The Butte County Free Music Society boxset Induced Musical Spasticity and The Brent Lewiis Ensembles Three Christs of Ypsilanti. Recording and performing primarily in the mid-to-late 1980s, with sporadic efforts in the early 1990s, this barely organized enclave based in rural Northern California ingests and disgorges outsider free music à la Smegma and other bent LAFMS trippers, the UKs A Band, 5 Starcle Men, Gastric Female Reflex, Id M Theft Able, and the sort of visionaries currently promoted by labels such as Chocolate Monk, Destijl, and Ultra Eczema. Members of the Brent Lewiis Ensemble later migrated to Vomit Launch, Glands of External Secretion, The Idiot, Serious Problmz, and Bananafish magazine. In comparison to the only other available recording of a complete live performance by the group (the side-long “Industrial Barbecue,” on the above-mentioned BUFMS boxset), At The North Pole, Easter Day, 1982 is starker and more minimal overall. Performing as a quintet at a university open mic night in the student union cafeteria, the group had played live only once prior (a “bongos in the dirt” affair in the parking lot of an art gallery), they had yet to amass the collection of ubiquitous tape players and answering machines that accompanied most subsequent performances and recordings. The absence of overt forward progress in some (WHAT THE? note: there is more notes and they will be included with the record). "Previously released on the Mary Jane cassette in 1983." -- Brent Lewiis spokesperson, BUFMS. One-sided LP with silkscreen cover designed by artist Paul Coors, from an idea , along with a BUFMS-supplied glow-in-the-dark mini poster. 129 copies limit on a history which has no." - What The..? |
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Artist: BURNING STAR CORE Title: West Coast Spring 2004 Format: LP Label: What The..? Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| "For the curious and complete we present a new imprint seeking specific live experience on a vinyl format. Our first edition is from the Burning Star Core, this time caught in a duo of C. Spencer Yeh on voice and violin, and Robert Beatty (Hair Police, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Three Legged Race) on his self-style "acoustic appraiser" and electronics, during the spring in 2004 on tour with LA language Open City. Burning Star Core timeline watches would place this same time when the collaboration LP with Comets on Fire was recorded, and when "Lets Play Wild Like Wilcats Do" was first available as limited CD-R. Two complete sets from Seattle WA and San Francisco CA, what was felt was the very best ones from previous archive cassette collection on Yehs quiet vanity imprint Dronedisco. The flavor of this time is very stripped down with attention to destiny and velocity; for fans of raw electronics, vocal action and hyper-dry violin, with some brief drone for the complete trip. Only 300 numbered copies with inserts. Be sure to control an eye and ear out for the future of WHAT THE..? records!" |
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Artist: COMETA FEVER Title: Dead Light Format: One-sided LP Label: What The..? Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Debut wax debut from this young band, previous from Italy, now
residing in Berlin Germany. Five songs on one sided-LP, announces a
new presence in sound poprock one could easily describe in comparisons
-- we swear at reference points experiments crossing this with that
but -- and indeed the tuneful minimal tunes and noisy surfing churn
chord guitars, boy-n-girl vocals, anemic fuzz, brittle and cold snap
of drum machine, keyboard haze, endless sexy echo and reverb. You
know the sound and you have heard and loved it before, hear it again
through Cometa Fever. We hear recently the duo have added a third,
and are readier than every to be, probably new songs extending the
Cometa vibration. We wish them well!! An edition of 112 copies,
excellent silkscreen artwork and design by artist Paul Coors, captures
the electric thrill of hot and cold whips on the lonely body." - What the..?
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Artist: GORDY HORN Title: The Glue That Holds The Kids Together Format: One Sided LP Label: What The..? Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Vinyl debut of long-running Cincinnati Ohio/Northern Kentucky improv unit circling the center of saxophone/electronics Tim Schwallie (of The Wolverton Brothers) and doublebass/electronics Scott Hisey. Over many many many many years the core remain the same with various collaborators and members walking in and stepping or falling out, but the core remain the same, as they stepped in and fell out of modes such as free improv, free funk, free song, as evidenced in these on record. And included on record is a highly-picked sample of highlights from Gordy line-ups, including involving Clayton "Chicken" Gunnels (RIP, of the JBs, "America Eats Its Young"-adelic), Mark Perry (Heevahava), C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and names here. "So Mark Perry discovered Clayton wandering Covington streets. Clayton was too well-dressed to be just another homeless dude as Mark put it... Mark started a dialogue which turned into sporadic jams with Clayton, then Mark decided that Gordy Horn get-togethers were the best formats for Clayton and you know the rest... Do you know karate? Tara was a singer with a very sloppy and very loud noise jam thing in the early nineties that I liked a lot--in particular I liked this pretty quiet small young girl that would transform into a screaming banshee on stage... We talked and then they moved to LA; her boyfriend oded, she moved back, and we started talking again. Scott and I were in a collaborative mood. We met up with Aimee who was willing to bring her harp around, and Gordy was a four-piece for 8 months or so around June to Dec 1999... The quartet with Spencer and Adam was really the go-to quartet for a while there (2003-2006) and I am glad we got one of those jams on the record." - Tim Schwallie, Spring 2010, Cincinnati Ohio. One-sided LP with silkscreen cover designed by artist Paul Coors. 130 copies limit." - What The..? |
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Artist: LIEBERMAN, JUSTIN & C. SPENCER YEH Title: Object Lessons Format: Picture Disc LP Label: What The..? Country: USA Price: $24.00 |
| "Object Lessons" and what of this ten-song collaboration between artist Lieberman and Yeh ? Perhaps the influenced musically discussed is somewhere starting between mutual love of various artistic and musical genres certainly -- sound poetry, psychedelic rock, Japanese scum noise, Japanese psychedelic rock, listy lists, but certainly embodies more the present-time sensibilities and whims of both between the two artists to combine for something perhaps neither strictly adhering to any imitation. Perhaps to this record appropriately lets step back to New York artist Justin Liebermans 2009 sculptural and multimedea work "The Correctors Custom Pre-Fab House" -- a description from the debuting gallery follows -- "The Correctors Custom Pre-Fab House is inspired by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Browns 1972 book, Learning From Las Vegas, which provides an in depth examination of what they call the decorated shed, a simple structure with elaborate signage. Using the urban sprawl of Las Vegas as an example, they posit this architectural style as a means to enrich the symbolic content of post-modern architecture. The Correctors Custom Pre-Fab House is a steel dwelling covered with a multitude of objects including a 1970s snowmobile, a life sized Jolly Green Giant, foam filled inflatable toys, an illuminated Fedex sign, and a 7 foot shark. Accompanying the house is a sculpture of the Corrector, a character inspired by the fictional figure, Nobusuke Tagomi, from Philip K Dicks novel, The Man in the High Castle. The novel follows Tagomi in a fictional future fifty years after Germany and Japan defeat the Allied forces in World War II. Liebermans interpretation of Taogmi is that of an avid collector of all things pop culture, whose collecting habits extend to the exterior of his home. Within the house, there is a computer equipped with a program that enables the Corrector to archive each object with an informational text about the objects history, which is then projected onto the adjacent wall of the gallery. Created in the style of a Katamari video game, the program features texts on each object taking various forms such as objective accounts, plagiarized product descriptions, aesthetic meditations, poetry, short fiction, satire, and prose. The program is available to play at www.thecorrector.org. These texts were then transformed into the record, Object Lessons, a musical collaboration between Justin Lieberman and C Spencer Yeh. The record is a spoken rendition of select object descriptions that were reworked into an ... musical format." Full-color gatefold jacket, depicting abovementioned objects piled up in a grassy field, and the empty dome waiting for occupancy, and inside special ullistrations for both ten tracks -- with fullcolor picture disc LP showing the Corrector statues head in both sketch and final form. Manufacture stopped around 250 copies." - What The..? |
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Artist: MNDR Title: Caligula Format: One Sided LP Label: What The..? Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"12" maximum single (and only second ever vinyl ?) of MNDR, once and always aka Amanda Warner, of other projects such as 0th, Triangle, and at once techbrain/wingperson/producer for some number of bands and projects over many years. Consummate showperson, hard working, knowledge of soft and hard synthethic and analog sound -- we bet if she had even a minute of spare minute of time she may have decided to cut this vinyl herself with a pocket knife? So what we have is an original version of "Caligula" with a "pre-capella" version as its companion. Maximum vocal harmony and beat, synth lines twist around vocal lines and harmonize. Caligula, maximum pleasure in the your house. Cut at 45 RPM so that you can want to play it at 33 some days when?? One-sided LP with silkscreen cover designed by artist Paul Coors. You need to see the baby blue translucent ink on this. 138 copies limited and then poof, you blink." - What The..?
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Artist: SPECULUM FLIGHT Title: Live in Tokyo 1995 Format: LP Label: What The..? Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "We are proud and excited to present our second effort as the team What The..? Records in finest production and resurrection n of artifacts from some of the favorite artists. This time.... -- a lost long live set from California sound unit Speculum Fight (to some now known as Damion Romero), taken place back in a heavy time for sound of such density and heaviness, in one of the heaviest zones on Planet Earth -- Tyoko, Japan circa 1995 !!! These sides are cut striaght in vein from chrome cassette to cutting needle, as if drawing the very energy of analog spirit without the interference of digital approximation, and indeed it is pure anaolog these grooves you hear!!! Romero has stated this live set is in direct influenced by such dark-cloud recordings as "Milky Way" (infamous Keiji Haino live set) and perhaps ritualistic density of C.C.C.C., but we know the sound is also instead pure West Coast motor engine fog monster. Bonus slab of soundcheck included at the beginning, to set the stage for what surely will be known as a prime window into pure eyes-closed eclipsed darkness of highest mental order. Romero does not su much as "play" as he does just line up of cosmic and physical psychic energy to birth a creation of situation for top-notch psychic physical cosmos. Comes in silkscreened cover with heavy-duty resealable polyethylene bag, includes reproduction of original show flyer and numbered photograph from the trip in the eye of Romero himself. Hold inside cover in front of face while listening for best results. Edition of 300." - What The..? |
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Artist: WELLINS, MATT / ZACH WALLACE Title: Split Format: One-sided LP Label: What The..? Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Split" as in the side of record is split between two artists - one work each from two individuals Matt Wellins and one Zach Wallace (of such group Sun Circle). Two drone work from old 90s -- Wellins has "Dedicated to Lovely Music, Ltd." and indeed lovely one of our favorites from many years. We are excited to bring this to the vinyl format, finally. A saxophone and compyuter lovely patterns and just
skitters and dances over delicate bed; just beautiful and simply. Zach Wallace offers an earlier work, "We Are Here" with viola, modified harmonica, sing saw, many other earthen soundmaker objects
blending into a simple but deep and ever growing. We have edition of
111 copies, eye-catching silkscreen artwork and design by artist Paul
Coors." - What the...?
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Artist: WIESE, JOHN & C. SPENCER YEH Title: Live in Nottingham Format: LP Label: What The..? Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"So take serial collaborator John Wiese, seen recently (and heard)
with such sound monuments construction as Painjerk, Merzbow, Sunn
O))), not to mention his own squirm unit Sissy Spacek and then
improvisation leapfrog C. Spencer Yeh also of Burning Star Core (for
which we have released exactly one record live of) and with many other
mercenaries such as Paul Flaherty and Chris Corsano, Aaron Dillowye,
Thurston Moore and his Dream/Action and the list goes on. Double up
on gentleman in front of their best gear with loud speakers and room
full of wanting persons (this time in Nottingham England, surely a
rainy day -- turned noisy), their mind and hands like puzzle pieces
you never really thought about but, surely just a beginning but here
we have it, worth our time and attention to carve into plastic
history. And what results -- rude blast noises, deep-brain droning,
twisting tape press record, and just torn apart vocal and string in
imaginable electronic torture chambers!! What you would expect from
such a combination if you have imagination and is that a bad thing for
your ears really? Recorded direct from the board for maximum clarity
-- detail and quality. Edition of 330 ? with special insert and
silkscreen red covers. Truly the fourth volume from a library of love
signed WHAT THE..?" - What The..?
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Artist: YEH, C. SPENCER Title: Songs 2002 Format: One-sided LP Label: What The..? Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Songs 2002" are recorded from 2001-2002, having no home and no direction, just being one big question it was decided to pass along and eventually have released, so that the matter is settled and we can all move along to the next. Guitars and words. Another language to learn breathing and another see what dreams to come! Artist Paul Coors designs and silkscreens ghostphoto symmetry cover, 135 copies total at last count." - What the..? |
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Artist: P.L.O. Title: Ghaddafi Works/Fake My Shoes Format: 7" Label: Whats So Funny About Country: Germany Price: $12.00 |
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Cool modern German psych/underground from the same scene that brought us Black Vial (Hidden released their legendary debut LP "Frozen Morning" in 1995), 39 Clocks, Phantom Payne, Swamp Room Records, etc.. Long out of print single featuring recordings from 86 and 89.
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Artist: COLD CAVE Title: Edsel and Ruby Format: 12" Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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Limited tour 12"
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Artist: FUCKED UP Title: Year of the Pig Format: LP Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $8.50 |
| "The kings of punk and hardcore FUCKED UP return with a mammoth 12-inch single, second in a series of records based on the Chinese Zodiac. Year of the Pig is an 18-minute 34-second long prog-punk masterpiece featuring lush piano and organ arrangements by MAX DANGER (THE DEADLY SNAKES) and guest vocals by Torontos JENNIFER CASTLE. Year of the Pig starts with gentle guitar and soothing organ before heading into darker territory with gruff male vocals offset by Castles angelic singing and a meandering bass line. Its not until a full 7-and-a-half minutes in that the track explodes into a Keith Moon-esque drum workout, which is followed by a one note Neu! trick that builds up to a thrash attack. Its The Wall as written and recorded by Poison Idea." -Whats Your Rupture?. |
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Artist: FUCKED UP Title: Year of the Rat Format: 12" Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "YEAR OF THE RAT is the third in Fucked Ups series of records based on the Chinese astrological cycle. Year of the Rat is an 11 minute A Side that rationalizes the tumultuous year in the world, the band and their own homes. Expressed as the loudest Fucked Up record to date." - Whats Your Rupture? |
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Artist: ICEAGE Title: New Brigade Format: LP Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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Artist: ICEAGE Title: New Brigade Format: CD Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: NODZZZ Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Nodzzz is fun. Fun in the way that the second incarnation of the Modern Lovers and the first Weezer album are fun. Nick Lowe, Billy Childish, Feelies ⿿ you name it. The best moments on the album approach that classic garage-pop abandon, only shot through with a present tense ragged aesthetic. Nodzzz isnt a throwback, but a modern celebration. Its stunning that there arent more bands like Nodzzz and Eddy Current in this sweet spot between numbed revivalism and the noise garage. Other Whats Your Rupture? bands also have some success in this area, but Nodzzz wisely substitute real pop smarts for antic energy." -Dusted.com |
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Artist: NODZZZ Title: True To Life Format: 7" Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
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Artist: SILVER SHAMPOO Title: Jethro Skull Format: 7" Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Jethro Skull" is the debut EP from Texas party-rockers/mini-bike gang Silver Shampoo. The A-side consists of the title track "Jethro Skull" and "Contest". Its Whats Your Ruptures estimation that many a silent night in neighborhoods across America will be interrupted by the drunken slurring of "Jeeettthhhhrrrooooooo Skkkkkkuuuulllll". The B-side includes "Sonny Barger" and "Dogs". These are both subliminally sublime garage pop gems. "Sonny Barger" is a concise little masterpiece of bass slides, twinkling piano and "B-B-B-B-Barger" chants. "Dogs" is a sure favorite with pet lovers and simple math practitioners alike." -Whats Your Rupture |
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Artist: TRONICS Title: Love Backed By Force Format: LP Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Love Backed By Force registers as an instant classic of outsider folk-pop, a true mutant of an LP that never sounds the same way twice. It may take a few listens for its pull to take effect, but once you settle into its orbit, it?ll be difficult to remove yourself. Music will never sound the same again, and in the world of Love Backed By Force, it doesn?t even sound the same from song to song on the same album. Layer upon layer of close-talking lyrics are buffeted by mind-clogging guitar (even the acoustic tracks create immense blocks of light-absorbing interference in your brain), synthesizer abuse, and rudimentary drumming, made by a man who regularly discussed seeing ghosts to general disbelief." - Whats Your Rupture. |
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Artist: TRONICS Title: Love Backed By Force Format: CD Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Love Backed By Force registers as an instant classic of outsider folk-pop, a true mutant of an LP that never sounds the same way twice. It may take a few listens for its pull to take effect, but once you settle into its orbit, it?ll be difficult to remove yourself. Music will never sound the same again, and in the world of Love Backed By Force, it doesn?t even sound the same from song to song on the same album. Layer upon layer of close-talking lyrics are buffeted by mind-clogging guitar (even the acoustic tracks create immense blocks of light-absorbing interference in your brain), synthesizer abuse, and rudimentary drumming, made by a man who regularly discussed seeing ghosts to general disbelief." - Whats Your Rupture? |
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Artist: TRONICS Title: Shark Fucks b/w Time Off Format: 7" Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "A record that needs no introduction. UK DIY will never die." - Whats Your Rupture? "...the infamous "Shark Fucks" by the Tronics, This is another one of those inductees I into the Valhalla Of Amateurisms Hall of Heroes wing, Yeah daddy, this has got it all tinny cheapo guitar, plodding drums, and your typical English twit vocalist." - Jack Hemsley, Ugly Things. |
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Artist: TYVEK Title: Summer Burns Format: Double 7" Label: Whats Your Rupture? Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"New to the WYR? family, TYVEK-KEVIN (guitar/vox), HEATH (guitar),LARRY (bass/the law), and MATT (drums)-hail from Detroit; you can probably hear it in the music. Tyveks songs are a product of trying to understand their city: the empty spaces, poisoned ground, burnt-out building shells. In spite of all that, Tyvek love the land, the city, the infrastructure, and the soundä the sound of turning it up and then having your friends turn it up too, until youre all wired into some cheap frequencies and feeling some real buzz in the air. Alienated nowness banged out for love and bro-dom and drinks.Think half The Monks, half The Electric Eels, playing Half Japaneses gear." -Whats Your Rupture?.
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Artist: AUFGEHOBEN Title: Axiologue / Thermidor One Five Format: 7" Label: White Denim Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Crafted in their fine tradition, Aufgehoben continue to carve harsh chunks of noise with this, their first departure on 7" vinyl. Guitar and electronics sound like neither, while sprawling percussion tumbles across the rotten landscape. The two tracks on this monochromatic record jump right for the jugular, leaving little time for subtlety or reflection. Not recommended for antique styluses. There are 524 copies of this picture disc record." - White Denim. |
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Artist: CALL BACK THE GIANTS Title: Incidents of Travel Format: 12" Label: White Denim Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"CALL BACK THE GIANTS is the current project of TIMOTHY GOSS, whose work as a member of THE SHADOW RING will remain influential and bizarre decades into the future. Often along with his step-daughter CHLOE MUTTER, Goss uses his Call Back the Giants moniker to take us on a DIY komische journey, where labyrinthine synths guide us through dark corners and misty alleys. His vocals truly set Call Back the Giants apart, however, as Goss weaves these transfixing narratives of jungle sickness and primal fear, recalling a Denis Johnson novel trapped inside The Legend Of Zelda. Edition of 400 copies." -White Denim.
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Artist: GTC, THE Title: Columbus And His Robot Army Format: 7" Label: White Denim Country: USA Price: $4.50 |
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Artist: M AX NOI MACH Title: In The Shadows Format: LP Label: White Denim Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"M AX NOI MACH is Philadelphia-based artist, poet and musician ROB FRANCISCO. As M Ax Noi Mach, Francisco channels his most personal experiences, desires and paranoia into a foreboding world of night, chasing the listener into a maze of back alleys and city tunnels. Harsh club beats mingle with power-electronic squall, convulsing like a Baltimore club deep within the seventh ring of Hell. Combined with Franciscos menacing vocals, its a singular statement within the world of noise. Through these nine tracks, we are reminded of artists as varied as Intrinsic Action, Atari Teenage Riot, DJ Assault, Mammal, German Shepherds, Schleimer K, Brainbombs, and Macronympha, but M Ax Noi Mach is its own beast entirely." -White Denim
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Artist: NATIVE CATS Title: Catspaw Format: 7" Label: White Denim Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "White Denim is proud to release a new single form THE NATIVE CATS. Hailing from Australia, the band plays a minimal post-punk thing, somewhere between Young Marble Giants, Arab Strap and Joy Division, a weird mix, but its totally great. Cited as EDDY CURRENTs favorite Australian band. Edition of 370 copies with pro-printed sleeves." |
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Artist: PRIVATE ENTERTAINMENT Title: Four Tracks By Private Entertainment Format: 7" Label: White Denim Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Just released: 7" by a Russian group called Private Entertainment, 4 songs, clear vinyl, pro-jacket. For fans of Cabaret Voltaire, Ruth, Haus Arafna, that sort of thing." -White Denim |
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Artist: TIN MAN Title: Scared Format: LP Label: White Denim Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Following his masterpieces Wasteland and Cool Wave, Scared is Tin Mans latest foray into the realm of cold, mechanical, sensual darkness. This brand of narcoleptic techno is entirely his own, pushing true emotion and anomie through wires and electronics. Too pop for techno heads, too dancefloor-ready for ambient lovers, too weird for hipsters, too creepy for children, the eight songs on Tin Mans Scared are unlike anything else youll hear this year. Recommended for fans of Maurizio, Depeche Mode, Drexciya and Cold Cave, in that order." -White Denim |
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Artist: V/A Title: Closet Full Of Clothes Format: LP Label: White Denim Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| Includes MY NAME IS RAR RAR, SMALL ROCKS, PEARLS & BRASS, NICE NICE, BLACK EYES (NOT Wolf Eyes and Black Dice), HAIR POLICE, DOORMOUSE and MAMMAL. |
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Artist: LSD MARCH Title: Empty Rubious Red Format: CD Label: White Elephant Country: Japan Price: $10.00 |
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Artist: BURKE, PATRICK Title: Silence and Timing Format: LP Label: White Sea Music Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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Sealed original copies of this 1981 LP. "This fantastic and very obscure private press oddity is a solo outing from a member of the cult post punk unit Parasites Of The Western World. Silence And Timing may refrain from some of the balls out avant rock maneuvers heard on POTWWs recently reissued album on Destijl, but its a knockout in its own less overt way; Burkes idiomatic boundary blur in this instance being between dreamy psych and melancholic post punk, with passing overtones of both Brian Sands and Gignouxs The Broadway Boys, though this has got a darker overall cast than either of those.
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Artist: ALVARS ORKESTER Title: 1993 Format: Cass Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Recorded in Sweden in 1993. Synth + synth + sax. Previous releases on Börft / UFO Mongo, iDeal, RRR, Kning Disk, and Ash International. C46 edition of 100." - White Tapes. |
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Artist: BIG WHISKEY Title: Hats Off To (Ryan) Taylor Format: Cass Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Archival recordings from this now defunct suburban Jersey avant-scumbucket-improv-psych-trio. Not to be confused with their previous release, Jack Off To (Ryan) Taylor." - White Tapes.
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Artist: C.P.U. Title: Top Dog Format: Cass Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Joel Brindefalk of Sweden. Extremely raw computer music = rhythmic
and rough noise, and crystalline drones. Always dynamic / totally
rulin. Previous releases on Börft / Ufo Mongo, and iDEAL. C46." -
White Tapes.
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Artist: DIAMONDHEAD Title: Street Leaf Format: Cass Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Ugly, primitive/progressive rock dirges out of Austin TX. Features Lonnie Methe of Naturaliste, Seagull Tapes, Simon Joyners band, various drinking establishments, etc." - White Tapes
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Artist: HARPER, TWIG Title: Intuitive American Esoteric Vol. 1 Format: LP Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"New solo LP from Twig Harper of Nautical Almanac. Side 2 stamper mastered from home cut lathes - side 2 play varies depending on your tonearm setting. 180gram vinyl. Screen-printed paste-on covers. Edition of 555 co-released by Heresee, White Tapes, Ignivomous, No Sides, and Audiobot." - White Tapes. Higher price due to these being Audiobot copies.
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Artist: HZMT Title: Screaming Mirrors Format: Cass Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Anthony Miller aka Max Cloud, Michigan noise O.G. One side of creepy cut-up mumbled monologues, audio-diarist-style...and a flipside of supercrude electronics. Previous releases on Heresee and Mark Tapes. C24 edition of 100." - White Tapes. |
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Artist: ID M THEFT ABLE Title: Blue Jay Format: Cass Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"Skot Spear is Windham Maines preeminent Fluxus artist, and the
renaissance mang behind Mang-disc and Kraag.org. Previous releases on
Veglia, Imvated, Bennifer Editions, Humbug, and 8mm. C-67, edition of
99" - White Tapes.
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Artist: ONES / HANDS Title: 1997-2005 Format: CDR Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Live and mail collab with Jeph Jerman (Hands To, Blowhole), Daniel Mitha
(Ones, YKEO), and Nick Phillips (Ones, Nicedisc) - assembled by Ones. CDR
mounted on sanded and sprayed parquet floor tile. Edition of 38" - White
Tapes.
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Artist: SB, THE Title: The SB Format: LP Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Only seven years after its inception, the New York improv psych band
The SB releases its oft-promised, self-titled vinyl debut. Side
As guitar / synth / electronics jam "Glass" wallows in minimal, murky, and
melodic waters; side Bs "Tu No Notas" documents a slow-burning 9-player
seance in Ohio. Black and white marble vinyl. Brown chipboard disco sleeve
with color paste-on. Edition of 125" - White Tapes.
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Artist: VAN ALEBEEK, RINUS Title: Moments With Mona Lisa 7 Format: Cass Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Field recordings made in the south of Italy and Sicily - processed and assembled at Castiglione del Terziere. "Lo-fi" / vague / hypnotic - for fans of Hands To and Smack Music 7 ? Edition of 50. 1 hour. Previous releases on Zeromoon and Foreign Lands" - White Tapes.
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Artist: WATERSPORTS Title: III Format: CDR Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"Oooo "mysterious" and moody duo recorded live at Eat at Joes and N6 in Brooklyn. Ably assisted by a rose in bloom (Son Of Earth - note some overlap with the Hank tape). "Lavish" gatefold insert. Edition of 45. 9 minutes of no age...a graveyard on Grandparents Ave" - White Tapes.
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Artist: WATERSPORTS Title: Night Life Format: Cass Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
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"o_o" - White Tapes.
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Artist: WATERSPORTS Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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Artist: WILD GUNMEN Title: Wild Gunmen Format: Cass Label: White Tapes Country: USA Price: $7.50 |
| "Rarely documented but legendary, decades-spanning Cincinnati OH country/drug combo. Witt, Kristy, Iovae and other miscreants...Best served toasted." - White Tapes |
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Artist: ARTIFICIAL SUBTERRANE Title: Water Regions of The Southwest USA Format: CD Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.50 |
| "Third solo release by Paul Guilford/Locasta of the Dave Dove Paul duo, this time under the pseudonym Artificial Subterrane. Long and layered bass triggered synth pieces form some kind of oblique concept album somehow related to the fact that there are no naturally occurring lakes in Texas. Sounds involved range from appropriately aquatic to ambient (if your idea of ambiance is a construction site)." -Wholly Other. Last available release from the first era (90s) of the Charalambides Wholly Other label. Handpainted/assembled artwork. |
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Artist: BADGERLORE Title: Untitled Format: 3" CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"a really nice recording of the 2nd biggest badgerlore lineup to date, featuring rob fisk, pete swanson (yellow swans), liz harris (grouper), tom carter, and glenn donaldson (thuja, blithe sons, skygreen leopards, flying canyon, teenage panzer corps, etc.). big chunks of noise sailing over ravines of quiet and robs elegant song skeletons. recorded at the wires adventures in modern music festival in chicago last year, 24 minutes. covers hand painted, plastered with soil, and sewn into 8 page dirt books by rob fisk. 100 copies.!" - Wholly Other.
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Artist: CARTER, CHRISTINA Title: Scorpio Flower Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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Artist: CARTER, CHRISTINA Title: Tongue Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"For a long time now Christina has been slowly building & refining a guitar sound that is intensely personal and uniquely hers. These three unadorned solo electric guitar tracks are its clearest and purest distillation to date. Color xerox covers, edition of ???" - Wholly Other.
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Artist: CARTER, TOM Title: After Lunch, Only Devils Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "relentlessly looped fuzz wah spun into muzzy knots around dazed spectators heads, crumbling into fragmenting crumbs of varying bit depth. presented in two longish improv settings (recorded during a residency in louvain-la-neuve belgium by daniel duchamp, in paul labrecques basement), and one short blast recorded before a very zoned audience in berlin by steve gunn, laid down during the massively psyched out GHQ/ tom carter tour in europe, spring 2008. edition of 100, gatefold silkscreen covers."-Wholly Other |
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Artist: CARTER, TOM Title: For 4 Cs Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Tracks 1, 3, 5 based on a song by Christina Carter. For CC & CC, heavy presences (even in absence)." - Tom Carter. |
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Artist: CARTER, TOM Title: Glyph Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Strictly limited edition of 120. Two acoustic tracks sandwiching one long lap steel track recorded in the smoke filled center hallway at bullbabe studios. One last stab at channeling the gnarly mystery of Texas angst-blues-ecstasy. No effects, just fingers, glass, steel, nylon, and space." - Wholly Other. |
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Artist: CARTER, TOM Title: Sun Swallower Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "slithering guitar recordings via the same handheld cassette player that documented charalambides live hand held cdr (and in fact recorded on the same tour). this is a complete set recorded at the ecstatic yod mill outlet, in which i use a couple of slides and flattened pennies to coerce a japanese les paul copy into spewing forth some of its mysteries, sun sinking in the bay window for the whole ride. edition of 250 with handmade linoleum block print covers. " - Wholly Other. |
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Artist: CARTER, TOM Title: The Dance From Which All Dances Come Format: LP Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Brand new 2009 recordings of galactic guitar ooze, laid down in NYC USA. hand silkscreened gold on matte black covers..." - Wholly Other. Edition of 258. |
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Artist: CARTER, TOM Title: Whispers Toward Infinity Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Four live (mostly) improvised guitar & lap steel pieces, captured just before the delay pedals snuck back into the line signal. Shimmering modal folk/blues/raga frameworks collapsing under the weight of myriad microsounds, ebows, & slides and reforming into quietly pulsing soundscapes. A summation of all the solo fretwork motion up to the point where that approach was back-burnered in favor of collaborative efforts, wah, & electro harmonix. numbered edition of 150, hand-printed lino block & xerox card covers, artwork by Natacha Robinson (A Vintage Burden artist) front and back." -Wholly Other.
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Artist: CARTER, TOM & INCA ORE Title: Rainbow Trout Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"eva (inca ore) is a noted abyss whisperer and lung purger whose vox exertions have added a great deal of chokehold potential to JOMF in addition to a slew of other collaborations, most notably yellow swans. her new cd on 5rc is a heart-punching freedom grab that has folks across the globe falling bewildered onto either side of their self-drawn boundaries. this collab with tom partakes of some of the nursery rhyme fragility of her jyrk/weird forest debut, w/out fearing the blown open furnace door (nor the white heat inside. nor the wah pedal). 43 minutes, 150 copies, spraypaint stencilled by eva w/ an image of a popular medicinal plant of the western hemisphere." - Wholly Other.
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Artist: CHARALAMBIDES Title: Branches Format: CD Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "A rare document of a brief arc in Charalambides 17 year (and counting) trajectory, somewhere between the extreme spatial attenuation of the long gone Crucial Blast CDR Being As Is and the gentle intergalactic trio sway of the kranky disk Unknown Spin- and quite distance from both the exclamatory exhalations of Joy Shapes and the layered songcraft of Likeness. These are spartan duets of formalistic near-symmetry, a reminder that there was a time when Charalambides swung as close to the axis of Incus and FMP as to that of Takoma and ESP. Christina (voice) and Tom Carter (guitar) improvise non-textual melodic lines around an locus of mirror clarity, occasionally overlapping various strands using two DAT machines and a mixing board, in a nod to the pre ProTools digital scrap heap. Originally issued as a Peter King lathe cut LP on Eclipse Records in an edition of 100 in 2000, the reissue of this extreme rarity is remastered from a superior source for maximum clarity. Inkblot artwork courtesy of Heather Leigh Murray. The whole package is dedicated to Bruce Connor (R.I.P.). The reissue at hand is an edition of 500, with fold-over printed sleeves in the style of Electricity Ghosts."-Wholly Other |
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Artist: CHARALAMBIDES Title: Dead/Live Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Recorded Autumn 04 in San Diego, LA & SF."
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Artist: CHARALAMBIDES Title: Electricity Ghost Format: CD Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "an actual manufactured CD this time, with a real catalog number (first since 2000)! These are trio recordings (featuring Heather Leigh Murray on vox/ pedal steel/ psaltry) and date from the same sessions that produced Joy Shapes. Completely improvised, and similar in feel & instrumentation to Natural Light from Joy Shapes, these five pieces snake out of a gently detailed terrain of interlocking thought forms, eventually weaving themselves into towering thickets of monolithic spikes. Some of the most emotionally charged and harsh Charalambides sounds ever laid down, before or since, and unlikely to be repeated in the same way ever again. edition of 300, xeroxed cardstock sleeves w/ color insert." -Wholly Other. |
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Artist: CHARALAMBIDES Title: Emerald Message Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"see above. this particular disk is culled from the sessions of the two days preceding recording of internal eternal at the dog end of 1995. improvised detuned stumbling blues with crackling shortwave. much more raw and head-on than internal eternal, more like a scrambleheaded version of charalambides most aggro live mode. despite the folk/blues modalities, this is one of our wiggiest. edition of 250, signed and numbered handmade christina covers." - Wholly Other.
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Artist: CHARALAMBIDES Title: Glowing Raw Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"first in a somewhat hazily conceived series of disks documenting the charalambides woodshed years of 95-98, when we were busily (sometimes frantically) trying to come up with a rock trio record (our idea) for siltbreeze. we failed. instead, heres a handful of recordings that follow many of the vectors between market square and houston- from blatant backward psych fuzziness to spare gtr/ vox exhalations, from modal drone to 4 trk song-isms, and a lot of sheer what-the-hell gropings into the void. one track features jason bill and a disembowelled piano. edition of 250, signed and numbered handmade christina covers." - Wholly Other.
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Artist: CHARALAMBIDES Title: Strangle The Wretched Heavens Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"final chapter of the archival series begun with glowing raw and emerald message, this time consisting of trio recordings with jason bill from 94-96. at the time we were working on our big blown out rock statement for siltbreeze. our reasons for abandoning this LP are fuzzy to me now, as this is as big and gnarly as anything weve cooked up since. lots of open throated vox wail and acid guitar shredding, w/ some market square-ish minor key motion thrown in as well. a couple of these songs crept onto the setlists of our recent US tour. edition of 250, covers handpainted by christina, somewhat informative notes by me. note: this is the CDR that we were selling on tour (and had sold out of by the time we hit oklahoma)." - Wholly Other.
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Artist: FRIDAY GROUP Title: Crystal Eunuch Reversal Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "3 chunks from the 2005 friday group west coast tour from the unashamed masters of the stoned moan (tom carter, shawn mcmillen, matt martinez, brian smith). slow motion ethno blues drawl that piles up into balls of tentacled fury, with the occasional blast of blistering fuzz thrown in. far, far away from the tranquility of the beta-lactam debut LP (still available)! handpainted/ drawn/ xeroxed covers by shawn, edition of 150 copies." - Wholly Other. |
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Artist: FRIDAY GROUP Title: Who Wants To Look At A Bunch Of Broken Pottery... Format: One Sided LP Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| ..When You Can Haul Ass Down The Freeway "one sided LP of looped/ live collage action swirled up into mass gtr/ drum ritual terror. far darker than previous FG stuff.... blank LP side is a blood-red silkscreen. shipped in clear polyvinyl sleeves. " - Wholly Other. Friday Group = Tom Carter, Shawn Mcmillen, Matt Martinez, and Brian Smith. Edition of 214. |
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Artist: SARIN SMOKE Title: It Chars Our Lips Yet Still We Drink Format: One Sided LP Label: Wholly Other Country: US Price: $20.00 |
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"The second ever Wholly Other vinyl outing is a duo of Peter Swanson (D. Yellow Swans) and Tom Carter (Charalambides, etcetera). Despite the noisy pedigree of Mr. Swanson, and the latter day scrape of TCs Horton collaborations, this is a deceptively serene collection of electric guitar trance-outs, gently building to a spiders-down-the-shirt climax full of hiss and slithering menace. Eye-popping silkscreened crypto mandala art by Liz Harris (Grouper) on the blank side, on clear vinyl so you can stare while it spins (and youll want to)... packaged in a heavy clear sleeve. Edition of 308." -Wholly Other.
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Artist: SPIDERWEBS Title: Brighton Beach Format: LP Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Spiderwebs is the duo of Tom Carter (Charalambides, etc.) and Houston improvising guitarist Sandy Ewen. Starting from the sparse and sometimes pastoral base of Spiderwebs two previous releases, Strands Formerly Braided (Music Fellowship) and Away Away (Collective Jyrk), Brighton Beach constructs towers of fuzz, electronics, and naked scrape from which the duo launch deep into the inarticulate heart of sonic maximalism. Since Spiderwebs 2003 inception, Carters guitar playing has traveled a long, strange road from his spacious improvisations with Heather Leigh-era Charalambides to the immersive pyrotechnics of his current solo playbook. Ewens mangled percussive explosions, high-harmonic shrieks, and Bailey-esque realtime stereo panning echo the aesthetic terrorism of electric Donald Miller, and provide a perfect foil to Carters damaged looping psychedelia. Both push their sound to improbable extremes to launch Spiderwebs into the upper realms of higher-key incandescence. Edition of 255 hand-numbered & hand-titled copies with 2-color silkscreen covers and photo/ text inserts." -Wholly Other |
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Artist: ZAIKA Title: Live At Eat Records Format: CDR Label: Wholly Other Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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Artist: AUTOMELODI Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Wierd Records is proud to present the self-titled debut LP from Montreals Automelodi. Lead by vocalist and songwriter Xavier Paradis who has long garnered a cult underground following with his solo minimal synth project Arnaud Lazlaud active in Canada since the late 90s, the band was formed in 2006 and is a welcome new addition to the international wing of the Wierd Records community in Brooklyn. Like labelmates Led Er Est and Frank(just Frank) Automelodi combines guitars with synthesizers and drum machines to create a truly idiosyncratic, cerebrally sophisticated, and elegantly composed album of modern minimal electronic music!" -Wierd. |
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Artist: AUTOMELODI Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Wierd Records is proud to present the self-titled debut LP from Montreals Automelodi. Lead by vocalist and songwriter Xavier Paradis who has long garnered a cult underground following with his solo minimal synth project Arnaud Lazlaud active in Canada since the late 90s, the band was formed in 2006 and is a welcome new addition to the international wing of the Wierd Records community in Brooklyn. Like labelmates Led Er Est and Frank(just Frank) Automelodi combines guitars with synthesizers and drum machines to create a truly idiosyncratic, cerebrally sophisticated, and elegantly composed album of modern minimal electronic music!" - Wierd
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Artist: FRANK (JUST FRANK) Title: The Brutal Wave Format: CD Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Wierd Records proudly presents the debut album from Frank(just Frank) from Paris, France entitled The Brutal Wave. The Brutal Wave draws from many rich traditions of US and UK guitar driven wave, minimal synth, early black metal and new indie rock from Brooklyn respectively - layering lush washes of atmospheric anglophilic guitars above a warmly orchestral analogue synth and drum machine fueled minimal electronic backdrop. Equally of disparate origins are the band members themselves, Chris was born in New Jersey and grew up with half-Indian Kirti in the South of France, although both were schooled in London. Despite such varied influences and backgrounds, Frank(just Frank) indeed proudly embrace the French pop musical tradition and present a freshly recontextualized version of the french cold wave sound, which might well be most appropriately called ‘La Vague Froide Moderne in 2010. The album presents a carefully crafted set of nine trax in which shiver-inducing swathes of guitars, restrained and mournful, battle alongside and often it seems directly against bitingly insistent vocals, that effortlessly switch between French and English. No lyrical themes are off limits for the apparently fearless young band, as the poetically flowing voice espouses tales ranging from provocatively centrist takes on international politics to vulnerably personal epics of heartbreak and addiction, and these tensions between right and left, darkness and light, and private versus public consistently replay themselves throughout the record, both in the lyrical content and the musical dynamics at work. This powerfully emotional record is made with simultaneous confrontation and restraint, as well as viscerally sensitized homemade DIY intimacy and feverishly swaggering aggression, and it is this balancing act and interplay of extremes that Frank(just Frank) harnesses to carve out The Brutal Wave!" - Wierd. |
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Artist: FRANK (JUST FRANK) Title: The Brutal Wave Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Wierd Records proudly presents the debut album from Frank(just Frank) from Paris, France entitled The Brutal Wave. The Brutal Wave draws from many rich traditions of US and UK guitar driven wave, minimal synth, early black metal and new indie rock from Brooklyn respectively - layering lush washes of atmospheric anglophilic guitars above a warmly orchestral analogue synth and drum machine fueled minimal electronic backdrop. Equally of disparate origins are the band members themselves, Chris was born in New Jersey and grew up with half-Indian Kirti in the South of France, although both were schooled in London. Despite such varied influences and backgrounds, Frank(just Frank) indeed proudly embrace the French pop musical tradition and present a freshly recontextualized version of the french cold wave sound, which might well be most appropriately called ‘La Vague Froide Moderne in 2010. The album presents a carefully crafted set of nine trax in which shiver-inducing swathes of guitars, restrained and mournful, battle alongside and often it seems directly against bitingly insistent vocals, that effortlessly switch between French and English. No lyrical themes are off limits for the apparently fearless young band, as the poetically flowing voice espouses tales ranging from provocatively centrist takes on international politics to vulnerably personal epics of heartbreak and addiction, and these tensions between right and left, darkness and light, and private versus public consistently replay themselves throughout the record, both in the lyrical content and the musical dynamics at work. This powerfully emotional record is made with simultaneous confrontation and restraint, as well as viscerally sensitized homemade DIY intimacy and feverishly swaggering aggression, and it is this balancing act and interplay of extremes that Frank(just Frank) harnesses to carve out The Brutal Wave!" -Wierd. |
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Artist: FRANK ALPINE Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Beyond its facade as the fountainhead of American cultures glitz and glamour, Los Angeles has always had equally, if not often more alluring underbelly. Skid row squalor, gang wars, excesses of all varieties, and the stench of vanity gone awry permeate the city, poised to overtake the shimmering mirage of Hollywood idealism. Frank Alpines eponymous debut for Wierd Records is LA noir at its finest: a frenzy of claustrophobic, danceable dread that skirts the line between outer-directed nihilistic aggression and fragrant introversion. Nocturnal synthesizers, isolated, frenetic, and monotonous, plot a destination either to somewhere new and uncertain, or perhaps to nowhere at all. Frank Alpine is the alias of Rich Moreno, a veteran of LAs punk and darkened indie underground scenes, as well as a former member of New Collapse and The Boy Scouts of Annihilation. Alpine uses only consumer Casio synths to create a sound thats so thick and so harsh at times, to call it lo-fi would be to suggest something far weaker than the sounds themselves express. And while the atmosphere and gritty electronics might hearken to certain strains of industrial music or power electronics, the decided pep of the songs, and their almost blues-like simplicity situate Alpines music much more squarely in the realms of punk and even old-fashioned rock and roll. Whether "No Exit" intends to reference Sartres existential drama is irrelevant; the mood conjured is apropos of a post-death limbo. The albums second track, "Heart is Grey" finds Alpine crying out the songs title ad infinatum, as if to take the tired tropes of mope rock and give them new life as the ritualistic refrain of a headbanging electropunk dirge. And the wordless, relentlessly menacing "Through Your Window" invites one to nervously contemplate the voyeurism suggested by the songs title. Whats being seen, and by whom? Fascinating, yet remarkably uncomplicated tricks such as these carry Frank Alpines brand of minimal electronics to areas both cerebral and viscerally primal. While many contemporary electronic artists sound hints, however heavily or slightly, towards a European sensibility, Frank Alpine lives more in the realm of David Lynchs disturbed Americana, or the sinister aggression of No Wave. Somewhere between the warped intensity of the former and the acidic straightforwardness of the latter, Alpine has carved out his distinctive space: an eccentric loner squealing from inside the decay, making noise with a pulse thats paranoid and mechanical, yet unmistakably human." -Wierd |
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Artist: FRANK ALPINE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Beyond its facade as the fountainhead of American cultures glitz and glamour, Los Angeles has always had equally, if not often more alluring underbelly. Skid row squalor, gang wars, excesses of all varieties, and the stench of vanity gone awry permeate the city, poised to overtake the shimmering mirage of Hollywood idealism. Frank Alpines eponymous debut for Wierd Records is LA noir at its finest: a frenzy of claustrophobic, danceable dread that skirts the line between outer-directed nihilistic aggression and fragrant introversion. Nocturnal synthesizers, isolated, frenetic, and monotonous, plot a destination either to somewhere new and uncertain, or perhaps to nowhere at all. Frank Alpine is the alias of Rich Moreno, a veteran of LAs punk and darkened indie underground scenes, as well as a former member of New Collapse and The Boy Scouts of Annihilation. Alpine uses only consumer Casio synths to create a sound thats so thick and so harsh at times, to call it lo-fi would be to suggest something far weaker than the sounds themselves express. And while the atmosphere and gritty electronics might hearken to certain strains of industrial music or power electronics, the decided pep of the songs, and their almost blues-like simplicity situate Alpines music much more squarely in the realms of punk and even old-fashioned rock and roll. Whether "No Exit" intends to reference Sartres existential drama is irrelevant; the mood conjured is apropos of a post-death limbo. The albums second track, "Heart is Grey" finds Alpine crying out the songs title ad infinatum, as if to take the tired tropes of mope rock and give them new life as the ritualistic refrain of a headbanging electropunk dirge. And the wordless, relentlessly menacing "Through Your Window" invites one to nervously contemplate the voyeurism suggested by the songs title. Whats being seen, and by whom? Fascinating, yet remarkably uncomplicated tricks such as these carry Frank Alpines brand of minimal electronics to areas both cerebral and viscerally primal. While many contemporary electronic artists sound hints, however heavily or slightly, towards a European sensibility, Frank Alpine lives more in the realm of David Lynchs disturbed Americana, or the sinister aggression of No Wave. Somewhere between the warped intensity of the former and the acidic straightforwardness of the latter, Alpine has carved out his distinctive space: an eccentric loner squealing from inside the decay, making noise with a pulse thats paranoid and mechanical, yet unmistakably human." -Wierd |
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Artist: KINDEST LINES Title: Covered In Dust Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Covered in Dust the debut LP from Louisianas Kindest Lines, opens suitably with a beat that sounds a lot like like an industrial rendition of The Ronettes Be My Baby. Brian Wilson cited that song by the legendary New York girl group as the greatest pop recording ever, and many refer to it as the perfect example of Phil Spectors "wall of sound" production. Those artists established many of the templates for how modern music is made, but what still stands out is the sense of that music having been simply dreamed-up. With organic washes of layered melodic guitars and lush songcraft, this New Orleans-based trio is definitely doing some dreaming of their own. Kindest Lines are blazing a unique path into an enchanting realm of darkened electronic indie pop that is at once welcoming and foreboding. Just as Phil Spector clearly had his demons, and just as post-Katrina New Orleans in the wake of the BP environmental disaster has become as much an emblem of loss and destruction as of Mardi Gras festiveness and upbeat jazz, the tension between dancey jubilance and the cold heart of darkness lurks in each song. Lead singer Brittany Terry expertly navigates the listener through these terrains with a voice thats never so cold as to sound detached, and yet never saccharine. Her sultry earnestness effortlessly compliments primary songwriter Jack Champagnes moody, punchy compositions while her diary-like lyrics and unassuming delivery invite the listener into her charmed universe. The title of the albums second track sums it up: Destructive Paths to Live Happily. Its music by and for people who are neither committed to sullen defeat nor blind optimism, but rather for those that tend toward the kind of affirmative, outsider attitude that refuses to take either side and instead finds a way to embrace the ways in which the two coexist. As Running Into Next Year commences with its aggressive dance beat and ominous minor key synth melodies, the lyrics take an unexpected turn: its a song about the possibility of being happy in love. Colored though the scene may be by neurotic overthinking and booze-induced confusion, its an honest portrait of those most elusive pangs of longing that mean so much precisely because of the way that doubt interjects itself. Tracks like Record Party and Prom Song cement those themes as they play out like bittersweet, nostalgic audio snapshots. Produced by cerebral electro-experimentalists Alfredo Nogueira and Josh Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv, yet brimming with spacey guitar work and hooks aplenty, Covered in Dust is a record that thrives on harmonious disparities while maintaining all of its thematic and sonic cohesion. The Ronettes pined, "Oh wont you please be my baby." Updated by Terry? "Psychotic outbursts in the name of love, always wanting." When you get down to the bleeding heart of the matter, its kind of all along the same lines." -Wierd |
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Artist: KINDEST LINES Title: Destructive Paths To Live Happily Format: 7" Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The lead single from Kindest Lines forthcoming debut LP, Destructive Paths to Live Happily, is nothing short of a small Southern miracle. This New Orleans trio knows exactly how to craft a dancefloor anthem, and this track announces their darkly elegant arrival into the Wierd Records family with thumping rhythms, seductive vocals and chiming dream pop guitars. The b-side, Colors Treasured, adopts a slightly more abstract and apocalyptic industrial approach before opening up into a lilting, almost hopeful refrain." -Wierd |
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Artist: LED ER EST Title: Dust On Common Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Wierd is proud to present the debut LP by Led Er Est Dust on Common. This the bands first full-length release shows the three piece clearly breaking out of the Wierd minimal synth underground they have been a vitally integral part of since its inception in Brooklyn to create an undeniably contemporary set of highly crafted and restrained, icily psychedelic pop songs.
Synthesizing countless disparate musical influences from first wave British industrial music to house, disco, and the largely unknown cold wave (aka La Vague Froide) tradition in Northern Europe, the 9 killer trax on Dust fly by, straight out of the frozen hot, lonely cold plains of vocalist Samuel Kklovenhoofs native central Texas. After digesting a few songs of this rich dust, the listener can do no other than lie down in the wild wierd Laredo bunker to revel in the refreshingly brisk blast of hedonistic analogue pleasure dancing through the airwaves in the sky above...Ladies and gentlemen, presenting Led Er Est!" -Wierd
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Artist: MARTIAL CANTEREL Title: Occupy These Terms Format: 7" Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Occupy These Terms is the second single from Martial Canterels new album You Today. The A side is an aggressively raw uptempo dancefloor track backed by a fiercely melodic hook in the vain of Windscreen and so many classic MC trax. The Case is a moody midtempo song available exclusively as a B-side on this release." - Wierd. |
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Artist: MARTIAL CANTEREL Title: Refuge Underneath Format: CD Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
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"Wierd Records is proud to present Martial Canterels first full-length CD release entitled Refuge Underneath, a compilation of the artists first two long-deleted self-released cassette tapes Drilling Backwards (2006) and Sister Age (2004) as well as 5 previously unreleased tracks, all digitally re-mastered.
Over the past 5 years the state of electronic music has seen artists slowly remove themselves from their work and visceral musical expression in general. Traditional electronic machines have been replaced by the computer as the dominant generator of contemporary sounds. It is in this climate that Sean McBride, aka Martial Canterel, began performing at bars, clubs and private parties in Brooklyn, NY in 2002, functioning singlehandedly as the pioneer and instigator of what has now become a new movement of minimal electronic bands in the United States.
Martial Canterel records and performs using only vintage analogue synthesizers and sequencers, producing a highly-crafted, complex, and idiosyncratic form of electronic music that is simultaneously romantically melancholic and affirmatively aggressive. Inspired both by the first wave of relatively unknown minimal electronic bands in Northern Europe(a musical genre also often referred to as minimal synth) and the seminal industrial noise bands such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK, and Cabaret Voltaire, Martial Canterel presents a new optimistic paradigm for electronic music in which the analogue synthesizer functions anew as a folk instrument of humanist resistance to a virtual soft synth, iPod, and iTunes saturated world of click and drag dematerialized abstraction." - Wierd.
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Artist: MARTIAL CANTEREL Title: You Today Format: 7" Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Wierd Records is proud to present the first 7" single for the title track off of the forthcoming new full-length album from Martial Canterel entitled You Today. Since his first live performances in 2002, Sean McBride, aka Martial Canterel (who also performs as half of the duo Xeno & Oaklander), has produced a rich catalog of self-released and limited edition LPs, cassettes, and compilation tracks. The carefully crafted, private, raw, and often feverishly aggressive minimal synth sound he has pioneered has been a pillar influence for the Brooklyn minimal electronics scene and and beyond. You Today incorporates bright, urgent melodies that snake and and swagger between major and minor keys, emanating a subtle melancholic darkness and a rhythmic, militant propulsion keeping things moving against all odds. Thoughtful yet distinctly danceable and infectious, the two songs on this gem of a disc are the apex of McBrides icily idiosyncratic oeuvre." - Wierd. |
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Artist: MARTIAL CANTEREL Title: You Today Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Wierd Records is proud to present the new album by Martial Canterel entitled You Today. Since his first live performances in 2002, Sean McBride, aka Martial Canterel (who also performs as half of the duo Xeno & Oaklander), has produced a rich catalog of self-released and limited edition LPs, cassettes, and compilation tracks. The carefully crafted, private, raw, and often feverishly aggressive minimal synth sound he has pioneered has been a pillar influence for the Brooklyn minimal electronics scene and and beyond. Merging the influences of the first wave of relatively unknown minimal electronic bands in northern Europe, and seminal industrial noise bands such as Throbbing Gristle and SPK, with the smoothly stylish songcraft of early British New Wave, Martial Canterel records and performs using analogue synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines exclusively. Thoughtful yet distinctly danceable and infectious, this record is the apex of McBrides icily idiosyncratic sound. You Today incorporates bright, urgent melodies that snake and and swagger between major and minor keys. The songs emanate a subtle melancholic darkness and a rhythmic, militant propulsion keeping things moving against all odds. Lyrically, the album continues McBrides exploration of the increasing difficulty in trying to connect with real people and real things as technology renders the material substance of bodies and objects ever more abstract and distant. This yearning for unmediated human contact with the world is appropriately echoed throughout the album by the hands-on, entirely live approach to recording and performance ("the molding of electricity" as he has referred to his compositional technique.) "Market" and "Sidestreets" each delve into the disconcerting atmospheres of crowds, buildings, objects and intimates; the city with its boulevards, by-ways, and dead ends complicating the meeting of two lost and wandering figures (perhaps lovers?) The restrained, sensual haze of "The Empty Sand" conjures oceanic imagery while the title track is a lament to love lost, ambiguously addressing the listener as a memory image of potential connection and attraction. The solitary listener can certainly enjoy the music of Martial Canterel, but its visceral intensity also translates directly to the dancefloor. Amidst a flurry of flesh in motion, in a blissful atmosphere of material connection with others, the concepts that permeate the music and its creation become a reality." - Wierd. |
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Artist: PLASTIC FLOWERS Title: Strange Neighbors Format: 7" Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "When asked in a recent interview why he moved from Tallahassee to New York, Sean Earl Beard of Plastic Flowers replied, "My choice was to get comfortable or get out. And I can never get comfortable." Bittersweet melodies of alienation, the charms of romantic detachment, the possibility of coloring ones less-than ideal surroundings with sounds that dramatize and enhance what might be otherwise too drab to take -- these are the raison detre of Plastic Flowers. Beards story is in some ways fairly classic--small town boy from an unstable home leaves it all behind to come make music in the big city. But familiar farmboy rock and roll imagery dissolves as the picture of a former punk kid from sunny Florida transplanted to overcast Brooklyn making clever yet heartfelt electronic pop comes into focus. The Strange Neighbors 7" includes three tracks that appropriately showcase Beards knack for song craft--the title track, "Strange Neighbors" and "She Learned the Best Way"--as well has his talent for facilitating escapism through lush melodic compositions like the instrumental "Serious Pleasures", which begs to invade the headphones of a lonely dreamers walk home on an Autumn night after parting ways with an unrequited crush. The digital version of the 7" comes with an alternate b-side bonus track." -Wierd. |
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Artist: ROSENKOPF Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Tension develops at the points where modernity and the ageless meet. That tension has a rhythm that has incarnated itself in various forms of contemporary music, and sometimes the sound it makes stands out more than others. ROSENKOPF channels that deep, relentless sound that feels at once like urban ruin and primordial nature, as if the unyielding cycles of ritual and decay are echoing through each instrument. As the latest addition to the Wierd Records roster they embody one of those standout moment. Melding electronics, guitars, bass and live drums, samples, and confrontational vocals together in a seamless, non-hybridized way, ROSENKOPF has found a motley group of admirers, from those those attracted to the experimental end of black metal to those that gravitate toward the recent mutation of codeine-slowed hip-hop and demonic drone. But looking closer at the bands unmistakable spiritual bond to monolithic giants of the deathrock and crustpunk past, the gravity of their preoccupations and the singularity of their sound anchors them in a specific and unique place. While the band members have roots that reach far into the punk underground (Detestation, Question, Thriller, Dawn of Humans etc.), that serves only as the soil out of which ROSENKOPF has grown its poisonous flora. "Burning Spirits" opens the LP with bassist Saira Huffs hypnotic bassline. Groove-oriented drum machines are gradually washed over with vocalist Soren Rois urgently abrasive vocals and live metal percussion reminiscent of primitive industrialists Einsterzende Neubaten or Crash Worship. "Heed," with its charging drums and crushing guitars sounds appropriately like the fearless summoning of an as-yet-unnamed menacing force while still managing to sound anthemic. By the time "Troth" kicks in with its psychedelic overtones, the ever-increasing tempos evoke the ecstatic qualities of religious ceremony and carnal sexuality. Throughout the closing track, delicate synthesizers float atop more impatient rhythms and unwelcoming textures as moments of sonic violence are severely punctuated by pressure-inducing, almost ruthlessly patient restraint. Taken as a whole, ROENKOPF is a debut remarkable for its ability to conjure atmospheres that might have provocative names like "apocalyptic optimism" or "brooding grace." Its a darkly focused pandemonium of resistance that names no enemy. Instead, they paint its face and rally around its effigy." -Wierd. |
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Artist: ROSENKOPF Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Tension develops at the points where modernity and the ageless meet. That tension has a rhythm that has incarnated itself in various forms of contemporary music, and sometimes the sound it makes stands out more than others. ROSENKOPF channels that deep, relentless sound that feels at once like urban ruin and primordial nature, as if the unyielding cycles of ritual and decay are echoing through each instrument. As the latest addition to the Wierd Records roster they embody one of those standout moment.
Melding electronics, guitars, bass and live drums, samples, and confrontational vocals together in a seamless, non-hybridized way, ROSENKOPF has found a motley group of admirers, from those those attracted to the experimental end of black metal to those that gravitate toward the recent mutation of codeine-slowed hip-hop and demonic drone. But looking closer at the bands unmistakable spiritual bond to monolithic giants of the deathrock and crustpunk past, the gravity of their preoccupations and the singularity of their sound anchors them in a specific and unique place. While the band members have roots that reach far into the punk underground (Detestation, Question, Thriller, Dawn of Humans etc.), that serves only as the soil out of which ROSENKOPF has grown its poisonous flora.
"Burning Spirits" opens the LP with bassist Saira Huffs hypnotic bassline. Groove-oriented drum machines are gradually washed over with vocalist Soren Rois urgently abrasive vocals and live metal percussion reminiscent of primitive industrialists Einsterzende Neubaten or Crash Worship. "Heed," with its charging drums and crushing guitars sounds appropriately like the fearless summoning of an as-yet-unnamed menacing force while still managing to sound anthemic. By the time "Troth" kicks in with its psychedelic overtones, the ever-increasing tempos evoke the ecstatic qualities of religious ceremony and carnal sexuality. Throughout the closing track, delicate synthesizers float atop more impatient rhythms and unwelcoming textures as moments of sonic violence are severely punctuated by pressure-inducing, almost ruthlessly patient restraint. Taken as a whole, ROENKOPF is a debut remarkable for its ability to conjure atmospheres that might have provocative names like "apocalyptic optimism" or "brooding grace." Its a darkly focused pandemonium of resistance that names no enemy. Instead, they paint its face and rally around its effigy." -Wierd. |
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Artist: STACCATO DU MAL Title: Desespero Format: 7" Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "Wierd is proud to present the first single Desespero from Staccato du Mals forthcoming debut album Sin Destino. SdM is the solo project of Ramiro Jeancarlo from Miami, Florida, who has long been a beloved member of the Wierd Records family - performing as a member of both Opus Finis and Flesh Graey Display and appearing on both of the Wierd Compilation collections. Staccato du Mal summons the hot and dirty post-coital Miami sun, performing on entirely homemade and modified analogue gear, to produce a menacingly nihilistic, sinister sound seething with wild confrontational energy. Sung almost entirely in Spanish, the forthcoming debut album is informed by Jeancarlos half Chilean, half Venezuelan background. Pervasive throughout the LP is an aura of dread and claustrophobia that is no doubt a product of living within the mini-mall infested suburbs that sprawl across the dry, lonely landscape of South Florida. Despite this disorienting feeling, there are inspired moments of resolution where warm, delicately sensitized melodies and sparkling psychedelic soundscapes counter the bleakness. On Desepero, Jeancarlos pleas to “let me in, I want in” are frighteningly forward but made inviting against a danceable and very accessibly inviting synthpop background." - Wierd. |
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Artist: STACCATO DU MAL Title: Sin Destino Format: CD Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Wierd Records is proud to present the new LP by Staccato du Mal, entitled Sin Destino. Freezing out the heat-seeking Miami scene with his cold minimal synth for the past decade, Ramiro Jeancarlo (1/2 of the industrial outfit Opus Finis) offers up ten tracks of analogue darkness. Sung in both English and Spanish, the forthcoming album is informed by Jeancarlos half Chilean, half Venezuelan background. Pervasive throughout the LP is an aura of dread and claustrophobia that without a doubt evokes the hot, dry, lonely landscape of suburban South Florida. But beyond the dismal swamplands, its possible to detect the mournful ambiance of cultures plagued for centuries by colonization, civil war and political turmoil. Whether Jeancarlo means to offer "Salvation Through Suffering" as an alternative to everything from Catholicism to revolutions-turned-tyrannies is not explicit, but the distinctive mood of dread conjures something more monolithic than plain nihilism. Therein lies the fascinating duality: "Lost Image" could as easily land in a soundtrack to a film about a lonesome teen in desolate suburbia as it could a film about Pinochets Caravan of Death. Despite the disorienting feeling of so much of the album, Staccatos own coup détat comes in the moments of resolution where warm melodies and nearly psychedelic soundscapes counter the bleakness. On “Desespero,” Jeancarlos pleas to “let me in, I want in” are frighteningly forward but made inviting against a danceable and very accessible synthpop background. The instrumental “En Sueños” has a sweetly bright melody atop sinister beats that plumb the depths, while the synthesizers in “Happy Endings” happily climb into major dimensions as the signature darkness shines through. While this album could be described as Wierd Records least commercial release so far, Staccato du Mals music is rich with sonic feeling that makes for infinitely rewarding listening. Working within the confines of the minimal synth genre, Jeancarlo manages to include elements of pop, noise, and industrial that slink to the surface with each eerie listen." - Wierd. |
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Artist: STACCATO DU MAL Title: Sin Destino Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Wierd Records is proud to present the new LP by Staccato du Mal, entitled Sin Destino. Freezing out the heat-seeking Miami scene with his cold minimal synth for the past decade, Ramiro Jeancarlo (1/2 of the industrial outfit Opus Finis) offers up ten tracks of analogue darkness. Sung in both English and Spanish, the forthcoming album is informed by Jeancarlos half Chilean, half Venezuelan background. Pervasive throughout the LP is an aura of dread and claustrophobia that without a doubt evokes the hot, dry, lonely landscape of suburban South Florida. But beyond the dismal swamplands, its possible to detect the mournful ambiance of cultures plagued for centuries by colonization, civil war and political turmoil. Whether Jeancarlo means to offer "Salvation Through Suffering" as an alternative to everything from Catholicism to revolutions-turned-tyrannies is not explicit, but the distinctive mood of dread conjures something more monolithic than plain nihilism. Therein lies the fascinating duality: "Lost Image" could as easily land in a soundtrack to a film about a lonesome teen in desolate suburbia as it could a film about Pinochets Caravan of Death. Despite the disorienting feeling of so much of the album, Staccatos own coup détat comes in the moments of resolution where warm melodies and nearly psychedelic soundscapes counter the bleakness. On “Desespero,” Jeancarlos pleas to “let me in, I want in” are frighteningly forward but made inviting against a danceable and very accessible synthpop background. The instrumental “En Sueños” has a sweetly bright melody atop sinister beats that plumb the depths, while the synthesizers in “Happy Endings” happily climb into major dimensions as the signature darkness shines through. While this album could be described as Wierd Records least commercial release so far, Staccato du Mals music is rich with sonic feeling that makes for infinitely rewarding listening. Working within the confines of the minimal synth genre, Jeancarlo manages to include elements of pop, noise, and industrial that slink to the surface with each eerie listen." - Wierd. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Wierd Compilation Format: Triple LP & 7 Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $35.00 |
| "Wierd Records in New York City is pleased to present as its innaugural release the "Wierd Compilation"(VR001), featuring 32 tracks by 15 bands which have performed live at WIERD - Brooklyns premier weekly DJ and live music party showcasing artists and DJs working within the post-wave, coldwave, and minimal synth genres of alternative pop and dance music since 2003. The sound of this international collection of bands ranges from uptempo analog synthesizer based electronic dance music influenced by early minimal synth and industrial dance to post-wave guitar driven music suggesting the influence of the European Coldwave and classic British and American post-punk sounds. The "Wierd Compilation" is made up of 3 vinyl LPs and a 7" vinyl single packaged in a deluxe gatefold sleeve, and is accompanied by a 26 page 12" x 12" glossy print book containing over 500 pictures of the bands, and live performances at the WIERD Party. The Wierd Compilation was Produced by WIERD Party founder, artist and DJ Pieter Schoolwerth, and engineered by Marco Rosales at Bonus Room Studio in Atlanta, and will be pressed in a hand-numbered edition of 1000 copies." - Wierd. Track Listing: 1. Silent Signals - Exit Out 2. Martial Canterel - Never Wind 3. Sleep Museum - Butterfly 4. A Vague Disquiet - The Lower Lifestyles 5. Xeno and Oaklander - Non-Senti SIDE 2: 1. Flesh Graey Display - Under Attack 2. Tobias Bernstrup - Surround 3. A Vague Disquiet - Heatshock: Type 1 4. Staccato du Mal - Departures 5. 2VM - Lets Play 6. Echo West - My Dream is Still There SIDE 3: 1. Blacklist - Dawn of the Idols 2. Column - She 3. Staccato du Mal - No Veo 4. Fanuelle - Here is a Life 5. Diako Diakoff - Western Ego SIDE 4: 1. Tobias Bernstrup - Into the Abyss 2. Three to Forgotten - Azuli 3. A Vague Disquiet - Splitting Image: Breakdown 4. Opus Finis - Havoc Heap 5. Sleep Museum - Porcelain SIDE 5: 1. Martial Canterel - Arctic Invention 2. Epee du Bois - Tracking Shot 3. 2VM - Unscathed 4. Diako Diakoff - By the Lake SIDE 6 1. Three to Forgotten - Ktano 2. Xeno and Oaklander - Cold Forever 3. Opus Finis - Scrying Formation 4. A Vague Disquiet - Instrumental: 1-2-6-2 5. Blacklist - Exit 7" EP A. Epee du Bois - An Image B. Flesh Graey Display - Insurmountable Typification. Restocked. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Wierd Compilation Volume II : Analogue Electronic Music 2008 Format: 4 LP Set Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $40.00 |
| "Wierd Records is proud to present the Wierd Compilation Volume II : Analogue Electronic Music 2008, an international collection of 39 trax by 30 bands producing contemporary music with analogue synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines. This release is made up of four vinyl LPs packaged in a deluxe gatefold sleeve and is accompanied by a 32 page 12" x 12" book. The book contains over 300 photos, many of which were taken from live performances at the weekly Wierd label DJ and music party active in New York City since 2003, as well as lyrics and band bios. Also included in the booklet is a statement of purpose for this vast project entitled 2008 : The Analogue Synthesizer as a Folk Instrument of Humanist Resistance that is as ambitious conceptually as it is musically. Over the past several years, electronic musicians have slowly removed themselves from the visceral aspect of musical expression as they have more completely embraced the computer as the generator of contemporary sounds. It is in this climate that the Wierd Compilation Volume II proposes that analogue electronic music no longer represents a post-apocalyptic vision of an uncertain post-human future as it once did at the inception of New Wave in the late 1970s. Today, the situation is precisely the opposite. In the world of click and drag virtual software synths, the analogue instrument represents a new form of resistance in which the supposedly outdated machine is reborn as a folk instrument not unlike the acoustic guitar, violin, or hand drum. The human presence is affirmed and preserved through the artists direct interaction with the machines and the electricity that runs through them. Inspired by the seminal compilations of early industrial music such as Xtract Records The Elephant Table Album and Three Minute Symphony, Third Mind Records Life at the Top, and the Insane Music cassette series, the Wierd Compilation Volume II brings together independent artists from the new minimal electronic music scene emerging in New York, Miami, and all throughout continental Europe with the the firmly established Noise scene in the US. In the same spirit that these early genre-traversing compilations brought together both pop and experimental artists who were united by their resistance to the superficial excesses of commercial New Wave, the artists on this release are united by their DIY attitude and their resistance to the virtual excesses of modern laptop pop. All have found analogue synthesizers to be the ideal instrument for producing raw, emotive music in a world where the human touch and presence is quickly getting clicked and dragged into oblivion." Wierd. Includes A Squared (Germany), A Vague Disquiet (with Mark Solotroff of Bloodyminded, ex-Intrinsic Action/Chicago), Angel of Decay(Jonathan Canady of Deathpile/Philadelphia), Audiodakt(Germany), Charlie Draheim(Ypsilanti, MI), Demons(with Nate young of Wolf Eyes/Detroit), Carlos Giffoni(No Fun Productions/NYC), Cadaver in Drag(Lexington, KY), Envenomist(Columbus, OH), Epee du Bois(Wierd Records/NYC), Flesh Graey Display(Wierd Records/Miami), Hive Mind(Ann Arbor, MI), Human Puppets(Athens, Greece), Led er Est(Wierd Records/NYC), Martial Canterel(Wierd Records/NYC), Opus Finis(Wierd Records/Miami), Ronin(Miami), The Siamese Pearl(Miami), Pax Titania(Tallahassee, FL), Private Entertainment(Moscow, Russian Federation), Sleep Museum(Wierd Records/NYC), Spine Scavenger(Aaron Dilloway, ex-Wolf Eyes), Staccato du Mal(Wierd Records/Miami), Three to Forgotten(Wierd Records/NYC), Tobias, Bernstrup(Stockholm, Sweden), Vendome(Andreas Sippel of Second Decay/Germany), Waves(Damion Romero and John Wiese/Los Angeles), Wave Tank(Athens, Greece), Xeno and Oaklander(Wierd Records/NYC), and Zug Im Veins(w Geert Coppens of Twilight Ritual/Belgium). Second volume of this true "labor of love" series from artist Pieter Schoolwerths Wierd label, this time expanding the sounds to include more experimental synth recordings along with the minimal/dark/cold wave. Very Highly Recommended! |
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Artist: VAURA Title: Selenelion Format: CD Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Its been said before that Stanley Kubrick seemed like a classical composer who created films instead -- that the images played out more like arias and overtures than a matinee movie. The inverse of that is probably the only way to approach Selenelion, the debut LP from Vaura. Less a collection of songs and more like an expedition into an elegantly foreboding universe, the eleven tracks that comprise the latest release from Wierd Records sound as if they were each crafted to evoke unearthly scenery and monolithic events. From harsh distortion and aggressive screams to cold and shimmering clean guitars and vocals, the spectrum of sound on Selenelion is both varied and atmospherically cohesive. Thunderous drums, droning synthesizers, percussive metals, acoustic guitars, and vocal arrangements that sometimes approach ritualistic plainchant recall artists like Ulver and Swans. Vauras particular blend of brutality and romantic melodicism can be attributed in part to the stylistic mesh of musicians: Kevin Hufnagel, Toby Driver, Josh Strawn, and Charlie Schmid also play in Gorguts, Dysrhythmia, Kayo Dot, Secret Chiefs 3, and Religious to Damn. Selenelion was recorded and mixed by Colin Marston of progressive black metallists Krallice, and signals a nod for Wierd Records to the roots of founder Pieter Schoolwerth who is also member of the seminal noise outfit Bloodyminded and a continuing supporter of acts like Locrian. The album title refers to a horizontal lunar eclipse: the moment at which the sun and the eclipsed moon can be seen at the same time. With song titles referencing everything from an Etruscan demoness to a Luciferian take on the conversion of St. Paul, and with artwork by the German photographer Alexander Binder, the unifying thread is an unmistakable sense of shadow-drenched enigma. "Drachma" refers to the coins that bought passage for the dead into the underworld, suggesting that everything following that track is part of an Orpheus-like journey. But repeated nods to the occult literature of Jorge Luis Borges, in particular to "The Aleph" and "The Zahir," two stories that deal with infinity and vision, suggest that beyond the the dark hallucinations there is also a serious meditation taking place on the limits and paradoxes of seeing. Approaching such subject matter by way of something as invisible and intangible as music, Vaura invites the listener to share in a visceral, yet intimate ceremony of sensuality and destruction." -Wierd. |
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Artist: VAURA Title: Selenelion Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Its been said before that Stanley Kubrick seemed like a classical composer who created films instead -- that the images played out more like arias and overtures than a matinee movie. The inverse of that is probably the only way to approach Selenelion, the debut LP from Vaura. Less a collection of songs and more like an expedition into an elegantly foreboding universe, the eleven tracks that comprise the latest release from Wierd Records sound as if they were each crafted to evoke unearthly scenery and monolithic events. From harsh distortion and aggressive screams to cold and shimmering clean guitars and vocals, the spectrum of sound on Selenelion is both varied and atmospherically cohesive. Thunderous drums, droning synthesizers, percussive metals, acoustic guitars, and vocal arrangements that sometimes approach ritualistic plainchant recall artists like Ulver and Swans. Vauras particular blend of brutality and romantic melodicism can be attributed in part to the stylistic mesh of musicians: Kevin Hufnagel, Toby Driver, Josh Strawn, and Charlie Schmid also play in Gorguts, Dysrhythmia, Kayo Dot, Secret Chiefs 3, and Religious to Damn. Selenelion was recorded and mixed by Colin Marston of progressive black metallists Krallice, and signals a nod for Wierd Records to the roots of founder Pieter Schoolwerth who is also member of the seminal noise outfit Bloodyminded and a continuing supporter of acts like Locrian. The album title refers to a horizontal lunar eclipse: the moment at which the sun and the eclipsed moon can be seen at the same time. With song titles referencing everything from an Etruscan demoness to a Luciferian take on the conversion of St. Paul, and with artwork by the German photographer Alexander Binder, the unifying thread is an unmistakable sense of shadow-drenched enigma. "Drachma" refers to the coins that bought passage for the dead into the underworld, suggesting that everything following that track is part of an Orpheus-like journey. But repeated nods to the occult literature of Jorge Luis Borges, in particular to "The Aleph" and "The Zahir," two stories that deal with infinity and vision, suggest that beyond the the dark hallucinations there is also a serious meditation taking place on the limits and paradoxes of seeing. Approaching such subject matter by way of something as invisible and intangible as music, Vaura invites the listener to share in a visceral, yet intimate ceremony of sensuality and destruction." -Wierd. |
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Artist: XENO & OAKLANDER Title: Sentinelle Format: CD Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "The long-awaited full-length debut album from Xeno & Oaklander is now available! Functioning as the absolute core of the electronic wing of the Wierd world since their beginnings in 2004, Miss Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride here present a carefully composed, restrained and complex form of moody electronic pop music that is simultaneously romantically melancholic and affirmatively aggressive. Recorded entirely live in the studio with exclusively analogue instruments, Sentinelle situates itself as a series of highly crafted cinematic vignettes which takes as its vantage point a fictitious era in a long-passed distant age: a time of wandering desert travelers, forgotten underwater cities, and exquisitely sculptural objects; of arid land, sea-farers and ferrymen, blinding light and lonely rooms, precious metals and poisonous corrosion. Themes of paranoia and disaffection associated with the transformation felt during the industrial revolution(a stand-in for our contemporary digital malaise), as well as odes to the many gifts of its legacy - motion pictures, cameras, synthesizers, and voltage control, are traversed throughout the epic journey of this minimal electronic masterpiece, allowing the listener to gaze out of the frozen cold window onto the many radical paradigm shifts of the twentieth century, and is a true sonic portrait of this eminently fragile era in transition." -Wierd |
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Artist: XENO & OAKLANDER Title: Sentinelle Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The long-awaited full-length debut album from Xeno & Oaklander is now available! Functioning as the absolute core of the electronic wing of the Wierd world since their beginnings in 2004, Miss Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride here present a carefully composed, restrained and complex form of moody electronic pop music that is simultaneously romantically melancholic and affirmatively aggressive. Recorded entirely live in the studio with exclusively analogue instruments, Sentinelle situates itself as a series of highly crafted cinematic vignettes which takes as its vantage point a fictitious era in a long-passed distant age: a time of wandering desert travelers, forgotten underwater cities, and exquisitely sculptural objects; of arid land, sea-farers and ferrymen, blinding light and lonely rooms, precious metals and poisonous corrosion. Themes of paranoia and disaffection associated with the transformation felt during the industrial revolution(a stand-in for our contemporary digital malaise), as well as odes to the many gifts of its legacy - motion pictures, cameras, synthesizers, and voltage control, are traversed throughout the epic journey of this minimal electronic masterpiece, allowing the listener to gaze out of the frozen cold window onto the many radical paradigm shifts of the twentieth century, and is a true sonic portrait of this eminently fragile era in transition." -Wierd. |
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Artist: XENO & OAKLANDER Title: Sets & Lights Format: CD Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "A portrait emerges in the video for the lead single from XENO & OAKLANDERs Sets & Lights: one of two separate yet unmistakably intertwined individuals. LIZ WENDELBO gracefully ascends and descends a menacing staircase while SEAN MCBRIDE stands patiently in the ambiguous, blurred distance. The time is warped, the architecture is unfriendly, and the relationship between both people and their physical environment is made anxiously questionable. And yet, dominating the proceedings is an air of exoticism and pervasive sensuality in the face of what feels like an impending violent event. The collision of these tensions, atmospheres, and personas is soundtracked on this latest offering from Wierd Records. Xeno & Oaklander create a universe where technology is beautifully timeless, where electricity pulses with vigor and effortless finesse. The standard meaning of "ghosts of technology," with its equally standard images of looming architecture and lifeless shells of machines, is rendered obsolete. Nimble electronic melodies sing, stretch and glow like elegant apparitions. Grandiosity and restraint live harmoniously side-byside, just as the dual vocals of McBride and Wendelbo weave in and out of one another, sometimes an isolated croon and sometimes a layered texture. The interplay between McBride and Wendelbo yields very little that is conventional, but quite a lot thats alluring. Theirs is an enigmatic combination of various sensibilities that nevertheless produces a singularly focused vision. McBride sings, "the theater, the stage, the sets the lights, masking some grand delight." This is a record that makes the most of the power of electronic instruments to set a scene, to evoke intrigue, and to invite the mind to wander into those shadowy places where grand delights hide." - Wierd. |
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Artist: XENO & OAKLANDER Title: Sets & Lights Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "A portrait emerges in the video for the lead single from XENO & OAKLANDERs Sets & Lights: one of two separate yet unmistakably intertwined individuals. LIZ WENDELBO gracefully ascends and descends a menacing staircase while SEAN MCBRIDE stands patiently in the ambiguous, blurred distance. The time is warped, the architecture is unfriendly, and the relationship between both people and their physical environment is made anxiously questionable. And yet, dominating the proceedings is an air of exoticism and pervasive sensuality in the face of what feels like an impending violent event. The collision of these tensions, atmospheres, and personas is soundtracked on this latest offering from Wierd Records. Xeno & Oaklander create a universe where technology is beautifully timeless, where electricity pulses with vigor and effortless finesse. The standard meaning of "ghosts of technology," with its equally standard images of looming architecture and lifeless shells of machines, is rendered obsolete. Nimble electronic melodies sing, stretch and glow like elegant apparitions. Grandiosity and restraint live harmoniously side-byside, just as the dual vocals of McBride and Wendelbo weave in and out of one another, sometimes an isolated croon and sometimes a layered texture. The interplay between McBride and Wendelbo yields very little that is conventional, but quite a lot thats alluring. Theirs is an enigmatic combination of various sensibilities that nevertheless produces a singularly focused vision. McBride sings, "the theater, the stage, the sets the lights, masking some grand delight." This is a record that makes the most of the power of electronic instruments to set a scene, to evoke intrigue, and to invite the mind to wander into those shadowy places where grand delights hide." - Wierd. |
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Artist: XENO & OAKLANDER Title: Sets & Lights Format: 7" Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "A brand new teaser EP to an upcoming full length of the same name from enigmatic electronic duo XENO & OAKLANDER (aka LIZ WENDELBO and SEAN MCBRIDE)." - Wierd. |
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Artist: XENO & OAKLANDER Title: Vigils Format: LP Label: Wierd Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Wierd Records is proud to announce the release of a vinyl edition of Xeno & Oaklanders Vigils EP, originally self-released by the band as a limited edition CDR in 2006, here remastered with a previously unavailable bonus track. Merging the cold, cinematic aesthetics of artist Liz Wendelbo with the architectural exactitude of Sean McBride (a.k.a. Martial Canterel), Xeno & Oaklander have been the sharpest spearheads of twenty-first-century minimal synth since their formation in 2004. Using analogue synthesizers and instruments exclusively, the duo record all of their songs live in the studio, a challenge to the common practice of cut and paste recording where immediacy is often sacrificed in favor of a far-removed drag and drop electronic pop. Recorded in one continuous take on October 1st, 2006, and played to loving death by all of the DJs at the weekly Wierd party for the past four years, Vigils has long been a cornerstone and inspiration to a new young generation of electronic bands in the Brooklyn synth scene and beyond. Uptempo, echo-laden synthesizers and drum machines provide a spacious backdrop for Miss Lizs ephemeral vocal presence. Their melodic, mournful oeuvre is an invocation of a lost future that was abandoned years ago in favor of something less human. These 8 tracks are both fragile and psychedelic, suggesting an electronic equivalent of the British shoegaze bands while maintaining the wildly aggressive stripped-down, raw and unmediated spirit of punk and the seminal industrial noise groups that informed the ideals of the original wave of European minimal electronic bands." - Wierd. |
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Artist: 大凶風呂敷 Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Wild Flesh Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
"大凶風呂敷 are Cammisa Buerhaus and Tamio Shirashi, a dash of twin impossibilities out of time yet essentially contemporary. They are the best new unit in lower New York City. 26 year old Buerhaus is a leader in the new wave of hand made sound. She puts a youth spin on the Broken Music approach of classically decadent avant-garde sonic events and the plastic esoterica of a figure like, say, Anne Gillis. With 大凶風呂敷, she plays her self built wood organ, half part sound sculpture, half part hallucinatory drone machine. Shirashi needs no introduction; he was a central figure in the Club Minor scene in Japan, jammed in Taco and A-Musik, helped form Fushitsusha, has released various works of site specific saxophone playing. His style is some of the most atom splitting minimalism to ever locate your body in space. Thus, the sound of 大凶風呂敷 is a tense drama whose nerve chilling minimalism literally encodes the space for terrifying truths to appear all around you. Theres nothing else like it right now. 大凶風呂敷 last year played everywhere from Bushwick rooftops with butoh dancers to Issue Project Room where Gozo Yoshimasu joined in. At the time of this writing, Keith NNCK Connolly has since joined 大凶風呂敷. Edition of 50 on Cammisa Buerhaus new imprint, WILD FLESH TAPES. "-Ravi Binning. 
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Artist: BRAUSEPOTER Title: Bundeswehr Format: 7" Label: Wild Isle Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
| "Never released before! Long-lost NDW/punk classics ripped from a VHS of two live performances from 1980 and 1981. This is the second and last ever release from the band." -Wild Isle |
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Artist: EASTER VOMIT Title: S/T Format: Cass Label: Wild Isle Country: USA Price: $4.00 |
| ".. first release from this drum & guitar duo features psychedelic New York garage/basement jams about young love and heartache. These guys will haunt you in your sleep if you're lucky. " -Wild Isle. Features Jacob from THE BEETS. |
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Artist: HIGGS, DANIEL Title: Surrender To Love Format: Cass Label: Wild Sages Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"Wild Sages presents DANIEL HIGGS hypno-poetry Surrender To Love and the door opts to open & blow off the hinges revealing the Milky Way. Drone riffs & banjo tide pools are the musical instrumentation a amidst reverbs & vintage Depression era EQs. Recorded by NATHAN BELL and remixed by N. SHINEYWATER. Two-sided cassette." -Wild Sages.
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Artist: IASOS Title: Inter-Dimensional Music Format: LP Label: Wild Sages Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"A remastered version of the 1975 classic made in 2010. Inter-Dimensional Music is considered one of the first (and finest) records of the "New Age" movement. IASOS is heralded as a new age pioneer along with Steven Halpern. His music has been used by NASA and numerous laseriums around the world. Fans include Alan Watts and R. Buckminster Fuller. We love Iasos! Iasos has performed music around the world and locally in Northern California for decades. Pressed on 180-gram colored vinyl. Limited quantities available. The first "New Age" record, now remastered for 21st century vinyl." - Wild Sages.
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Artist: GERMAN MEASLES Title: Color Vibrations Format: 7" Label: Wild World Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "The latest in out of control, drugged up, fucked up madness from Brooklyns premiere party freaks comprised of one-half of CAUSE CO-MOTION!" - Wild World. Features the tracks "Color Vibration" and "I Dont Like Your Friends." Released on the Vivian Girls Wild World imprint. |
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Artist: VIVIAN GIRLS Title: My Love Will Follow Me Format: 7" Label: Wild World Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "THE VIVIAN GIRLS return with a new single on their own Wild World imprint. "The single shows the Girls moving towards a more Spector-esque recording approach and showcases their intricate harmonies. Recorded in Brattleboro, VT with KYLE THOMAS of Happy Birthday and King Tuff, who, incidentally, also plays guitar on the B-side-a cover of the Chantels Hes Gone." - Wild World. |
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Artist: VIVIAN GIRLS Title: Wild Eyes/My Baby Wants Me Dead Format: 7" Label: Wild World Country: USA Price: $6.00 |
| "..released on their own Wild World imprint. Edition of 2,000 copies on black vinyl." - Wild World |
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Artist: HARANGUE Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Wilder Prior Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"This expansive LP from Pittsburgh mainstays HARANGUE is a dreamwalk through the minds of its makers, replete with unexpected vistas from this quartet of piano, guitar, bass and drums. Opening with the taut bounce of "Wisteria," the band jumps off with brisk melancholy, weaving and unraveling the layers and hooks of this standout track. Wisteria is a defined aesthetic statement, the sound is fraught with false nostalgia for nature, for simpler times.
"Uniformly Chaotic" turns on dimes, steadily driving through flowing melodies and subtly continual dynamic shifts. Harangues energetic piano and rhythm section pound while the guitar snakes in and out of contrapuntal bliss, hissing out reverb and fuzz like the Kinks Dave Davies, and countered with desperate lyrical themes suggesting Street Hassle-era Lou Reed.
Side B continues Harangues sojourn with "The Valley," an epic trip of yearning through noir-ish shadows yielding to brilliant glimpses of sunlight through spring-reverb guitar texture and earth-rumbling, feedback-laden solos.
The LPs closer "Whitewashed Wall" rides through the end of nights tunnel, using negative space like a magic marker. Talking deliverance and sounding dark before sunrise, the song sways between half-tempo slow dance and full-on haunt before the backbeat swings and ascends with a bubbling line of guitar triplets that bloom into grand sonic swaths--triumphant, immersive, nearly decadent, harkening back to an imaginary jam between George Gershwin and Pink Floyd in 75.
Harangues lyrics sketch images of uncertain futures and abandon--a personal search for clarity, perhaps. But the album as a whole should end that search; it is a gem shining amidst static and snow." -Chicago Independent.
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Artist: ONYEABOR, WILLIAM Title: Anything You Sow Format: LP Label: Wilfilms Country: Nigeria Price: $22.00 |
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"Exact repro LP of this album originally released in 1985. Hailing from Nigeria, William Onyeabor made a number of incredible Nigerian soul and funk albums towards the tail end of the 1970s. However, as the 80s kicked in William began to experiment with the new sounds and bleeps that could now be tweeked on modern synthesizers. Anything You Sow, William Onyeabors final LP was released in 1985 and is a true masterpiece of Afro-electro thats been rediscovered by modern acts such as Keiran Hebden AKA Four Tet and Caribou. Kicking off with the 12 minute epic When The Going Is Smooth & Good, which was used in Keiran Hebdens Essential Mix, this is a truly pioneering piece of Afro-electro-disco with a clear message in the music. Dipping in and out of intricate percussion workouts and driven by bleepy synth grooves, it has an irresistible lo fi charm. Followed by the up-tempo This Kind Of World, another percussive electronic workout that begs the question have you ever seen this kind of world?...it will appeal to fans of Nigerian Afro-funk and fans of more modern Shangaan Electro." - Wilfilms.
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Artist: DREAMIES Title: Dreamies 2006 Special Edition Format: CD Label: Wilmington Studios Country: USA Price: $17.50 |
| "Dreamies is ranked #37 on Mojo Magazines 2005 list of the Top 50 Most Out-There Albums of All Time (a list that includes the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, The Velvet Underground, and Miles Davis). This unique album by Bill Holt was first released in 1974, and then re-released to critical acclaim on the Gear Fab label in 2000. Now, Dreamies 2006 Special Edition gives fans what they asked for -- better sonic reproduction of these wonderful, playful, aural collages. This remaster and embellishment was crafted from the original 1974 vinyl, retrieving much of the previously lost stereo and audio detail. The two 26 minute tracks Program Ten and Program Eleven now include track listings for more cue and play points. And, for those who are curious about the legendary Moog Sonic Six Synth, Ovation acoustic, and Teac four track used to make Dreamies , this deluxe package includes a six page insert with never before published photos. Dreamies was always way ahead of the times in 1974 and became an international cult classic. Now in the age of sampling, electronica, and ambient, Dreamies is ready for primetime." - Wilmington Studios. |
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Artist: BIZARROS Title: Complete Collection 1976-1980 Format: Double LP Label: Windian Country: USA Price: $20.00 |
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"AKRON OHIOS BIZARROS EXPERIMENTAL POPPY DRIVE WAS SOMETHING VERY NEW IN THE EXPLODING MIDWEST PUNK/NEW WAVE SCENE. THE END RESULTS WERE A HANDFUL OF BONAFIED CLASSIC RECORDINGS. INCLUDES THE SINGLES, SPLIT LP WITH RUBBER CITY REBELS, THE LONE LP RELEASED ON MERCURY RECORDS, 6 UNRELEASED LIVE RECORDINGS AND NEVER BEFORE HEARD DEMOS THAT WERE RECORDED FOR THEIR SECOND LP THAT WAS NEVER RELEASED. PRINTED ON REVERSE STOCK, EXTENDED SPINE WITH DOUBLE SIDED INSERT, PLUS, FULL BIO WRITTEN BY JEREMY CARGILL OF UGLY THINGS MAGAZINE. MP3 CARD W/ 2 BONUS TRACKS INCLUDED." - Windian.
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Artist: CHENIERS Title: Trouble Format: 7" Label: Windian Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "Here Comes Trouble, in which the CHENIERS sound exactly like what they are-a band in a room, in this case pushing through a simple, catchy rock song in the vein of the Fall. The first track on the rough-and-tumble outfits debut 7-inch starts with a few stick clicks; a distorted, messy guitar; and then some atonal sax and synth. Its lo-fi, and intentionally so, which can be jarring if you dont know what youre in for. But listening to the two-minute tune feels an awful lot like going to a house show and hearing a rad new band for the first time." - Windian. |
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Artist: WIRE, THE Title: #245 July 2004 Format: Mag Label: Wire, The Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| On the Cover: Alvin Lucier. Features: Damo Suzuki, Devendra Banhart, Ellen Fullman, Bark Psychosis, Dengue Fever. Invisible Jukebox: Sunn O))), Gang Gang Dance review, etc.. |
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Artist: WIRE, THE Title: #250 December 2004 Format: Mag Label: Wire, The Country: UK Price: $7.50 |
| "The December 2004 edition of The Wire will be the magazines 250th issue. Over the course of those 250 issues, The Wire has developed from a quarterly fanzine covering avant garde jazz and modern composition into an award-winning and widely influential international monthly, with a total average monthly circulation of just under 20,000, that covers a vast array of underground, experimental and alternative music and culture. The December issue of The Wire will carry a special 40 track double CD cover mount, The Wire Tapper 12, the latest volume in The Wires ongoing series of exclusive new music compilations. The CD will be mounted on the cover and given away free with every copy of the issue worldwide. Cover story: The 100 Greatest Riffs Of All Time. From the repetitive, bass driven trance music of North Africa (birthed thousands of years ago, appropriately, in Moroccos Rif Mountains), to the world famous symphonic themes of Beethoven, to the blues hook, jazz head and rock lick, the riff has been a primary tool for injecting music into the memory. As this is a Wire guide to the riff, and not another rock magazine regurgitation of rock n roll clichés, the article will be ignoring the obvious stuff like You Really Got Me, Whole Lotta Love, Smoke On The Water, My Sharona, etc, etc. Instead, it will expand the notion of what a riff is or could be, covering all sorts of nagging repetitive aspects of music, from Techno and HipHop breaks to themes in jazz, avant rock, memorable funk motifs, riffs in world music from Inuit songs to Fela Kuti, Krautrock, lower case and minimalist/systems music, etc, etc." Features: The new finnish underground (starring Avarus, the Anaksimandros, Kemialliset Ystavat, Es, Kiila, Paivansade, Hetero Skeleton, Maniacs Dream and more), Joanna Newso, irr. app. (ext.), Greg Davis, My Cat is an Alien, Invisible Jukebox: Marshall Allen. |
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Artist: WIRE, THE Title: #252 February 2005 Format: Mag Label: Wire, The Country: UK Price: $7.50 |
| On the cover: Anthony Braxton ("the grandmasters apocalyptic new music is informed by a panoramic take on ancient civilizations"). Features: Mike Ladd (American Rapper in Paris), The Primer: Underground Metal (by Edwin Pouncey), Invisible Jukebox: Soft Pink Truth, Dylan Nyoukis (Prick Decay), Gang Gang Dance ("NYs shit-hottest spontaneous rock quartet") Oki (Ainu dubmeister), Hugh Davies (obituary by David Toop). |
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Artist: WIRE, THE Title: #253 March 2005 Format: Mag Label: Wire, The Country: UK Price: $7.50 |
| On the cover: MF Doom ("Hua Hsu investigates the many personae of one of Hip Hops most mysterious figures). Features: Bill Fay (creator of two recovered 70s masterpieces of British apocalyptic singer-songwriter music), Hijokaidan (Jojo Hiroshiges Osaka noise unit celebrate 25 years of bucking Tokyos cultural dominance), James Tenney (American electronics pioneer triumphantly reconciles experimentalism with timeless composition), Colin Potter (the UK underground producer blurs the lines between soundscaping and field recording), Wally Shoup (the free sax veteran ignites a coast to coast conflagration with Chris Corsano and Thurston Moore), M Ward (the utopian radio transmissions of the Portland, Oregon crooner). Invisible Jukebox: Ken Vandermark. |
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Artist: WIRE, THE Title: #259 September 2005 Format: Mag Label: Wire, The Country: UK Price: $8.50 |
| "On the cover: Richard Youngs (The naive shamans rapturous DIY minimalism is re-emerging the UKs free rock underground). Features: Okkyung Lee (The New York based Korean cellist and composer reveals the secret of Nihm); Alexander Hacke (The Einstürzende Neubauten bassist discusses sonic travelogues); Tracy + The Plastics (Nothing is real in the plastic universe created by the live video shows of Wynne Greenwood); Invisible Jukebox: Broadcast; Ralf Wehowsky (The Selektion founder and P16.D4 pioneer recalls 25 years of international noise networking); Hugh Hopper (The ex-Soft Machine bassist spools through his songbook and 40 years of tapeloop experiments); The Primer: Iannis Xenakis (Philip Clark gets his hyperbolic paraboloids in a twist over the Greek composers rigorous body of work)." - Wire. |
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Artist: WIRE, THE Title: #271 September 2006 Format: Mag Label: Wire, The Country: UK Price: $8.00 |
| On the cover: Kool Keith (Hiphops premier streetwise satirist and scatologist, Dr Octagon, is back - just one of the former Ultramagnetic MCs raft of comeback projects in 2006). Features: EXCEPTER (Marc Masters talk contrarian circuits with the style-mashing New York Techno/rock quartet); Jason Lescalleet (This New England Improv sound manipulators compositions capture the sound of decay); Digital Mystikz (Chris Sharp blags some rare facetime with DMZs Mala and Coki, South Londons dubstep dreamers); Cross Platform: Ira Cohen (Underground film maker, poet, photographer and multimedia shaman Ira Cohen has finally released his 1968 masterpiece on DVD; Invisible Jukebox: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge; Charalambides (Nick Cain traces the 15 year development of Christina and Tom Carters stream of cathartic song and crepuscular suburban blues); Merce Cunningham (Since his groundbreaking choreography with John Cage, Merce Cunninghams long career has always married New Music with motion); The Primer: AMM (A users guide to the recordings of a British free music institution, including solo projects by Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe, John Tilbury and more)." |
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Artist: WIRED UP Title: Wired Up! Glam, Proto Punk, and Bubblegum: European Picture Sleeves 1970 - 1976 Format: Hardcover Book Label: Wired Up Media Country: USA Price: $30.00 |
 "Wired Up! catalogs for the first time, some of the best and most sought after junkshop glam, bubblegum and proto-punk European 45 sleeves from 1970-1976. The book attempts to document this highly influential but seldom discussed movement in rock n roll through both the vibrantly colored and outrageously designed record sleeves as well as first hand accounts with some of the groups that were there, such as Jesse Hector of the Hammersmith Gorilas, Gordon Nicol of Iron Virgin, and Alan Gordon of Hector. The research for this book has taken several years of digging through record bins and scouring online auction sites for these hard to find records as well as collaborating with several prominent European collectors such as Phil King, Bass player for the Jesus and Mary Chain and the driving force behind the groundbreaking "Glitterbest" compilation among others, and Robin Wills, guitarist of the UK powerpop band the Barracudas and author of the Purepop blog, one of the longest running music blogs dedicated to junkshop glam and obscure pop 45s.
Wired Up! is a truly labor of love, compiled and self published by Mary Blount and Jeremy Thompson, both avid record collectors and designers living in New York." -Wired Up.
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Artist: EVIL Title: A True Untimely Atrocity Format: 10" Label: Wishbone Country: UK Price: $18.00 |
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David Mitchell of 3Ds and Ghost Club, Roddy from Constant Pain (early Destijl recording artist) and Snapper, and Liz Mathews from Goldifox and The Revengers, all New Zealand ex-pats living in the UK.
4 songs pressed on thick Czech vinyl with beautiful cover art work from David Mitchell. "..an ungodly evocation of gothic Dead C, like if their song "Helen Said This" had been turned inside out & eaten alive." - Roland Woodbe; Siltblog.
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Artist: BLEAKS Title: Haste, Error Format: LP Label: Wodger Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| ""Haste, Error" is the debut album from the aptly monikered trio Bleaks, consisting of Jeremy Lemos (White/Light, White/Lichens), Kyle Bruckmann (EKG, Lozenge) and Steve Silverstein (Christmas Decorations, Wodger pit boss). Thick, analog-synth black-hole dronisms and metallic percussive clatter meld with assorted reeds⿿all swimming in the deep end of 1980s industrial/improv sprawl, perhaps bringing to mind the work of Factrix or early Maurizio Bianchi. This is not noise as it is currently understood. Rather, Bleaks ravage with precise subtlety and a surgical moodiness that is frankly unsettling. ⿿Haste, Error was meticulously put to tape in Chicago over a three-day span in 2007. Post Script: A black metal band was recording across the hall at the same studio complex. Hearing Bleaks wafting through the hallways, they brought up the possibility of the boys guesting on some of their material. This didnt end up happening. Clearly, the metallers feared a pissing contest." - Wodger. Letterpressed edition of about 200 copies. |
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Artist: CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS Title: Far Flung Hum Format: LP Label: Wodger Country: USA Price: $17.00 |
| "Following releases on such labels as Kranky, 12K and Community Library, "Far Flung Hum, the third album from New York based Christmas Decorations, finds the group again broadening the palette used in their unique take on modern experimental electronic music. Conjured in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York over four days in summer 2007, the album is their boldest work to date. Including founding members Steve Silverstein and Nick Forte (formerly of Beautiful Skin, Rorschach, and solo work on Schematic records), the band has expanded to a quartet allowing for more interactive live playing then on past efforts. With scant preconception, the band used this session to explore group improvisational configurations and unconventional voicings, yielding a richness that at times even surprised themselves. Recorded both indoors and out, the sound of ⿿Far Flung Hum is both warmly present and otherworldly, think early Zoviet France or maybe Asmus Teichens remixing a Finnish folk collective. Acoustic banjo and pump organ drones meld with pedal-processed ethnic percussion, subtly treated guitar washes, and pointillistic analog synthesis, to create deep compositions that chart unexpected terrain and reveal new layers upon each listen. limited to 200 copies, hand made letterpressed covers, self released"-Wodger |
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Artist: WOLF EYES Title: Burned Mind Format: LP Label: Wolf Eyes Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"A rich tapestry of wires and pedals inextricably link Wolf Eyes Young, Dilloway and Olson, and their respective towers of homemade electronics, guitars, horns, gongs, etc. It all has fused into a single, monolithic machine-entity. Wires even slither up into their mouths for sonic purposes. It is an over-amplification of the humming spinal cord and the chatter of a billion cells sharing information. This machine-entity that Young, Dilloway and Olson have brought to life sprouts limbs and runs roughshod across America. This is the vinyl release of their new full-length CD for Sub Pop, Burned Mind. Wolf Eyes trademark boil-bursting thud has evolved into the roar of a lithe panther with rattling jackhammers for claws. Agility and quickness are now this beast?s most lethal attributes. Placed on the evolutionary charts, Burned Mind appears as the progeny of Throbbing Gristles Heathen Earth sound model. The complexity of muscularity and emotional range found in this Wolf Eyes release has rendered its apparent ancestry slow, clumsy and rather limited in comparison. Fuck, man, cite all the top-shelf noise and power electronics bands until you?re blue in the face Whitehouse, New Blockaders, Nurse with Wound, whatever.. but none possess the internal being of Wolf Eyes. The former were performance artists flirting with the dire circumstances of the human condition in the abstract. Wolf Eyes just ARE the dire circumstances of the modern human condition. Ever watch a movie about the future and the future is so oppressively grim, violent, foreign and insipid, that even a romance with nihilism seems way too quaint and inappropriate of a response? And then you realize we live in drastic fucking times, and Burned Mind is drastic fucking music." -Justin F. Farrar Burned Mind was recorded from October 2003 through June 2004 primarily by the band themselves. Bill Skibbe and Jessica Ruffins recorded parts at Key Club in Benton Harbor, MI. Mixing help came from Brendan M. Gillen.
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Artist: ALTER Title: Dusk-Dawn Format: LP Label: Wolvserpent Country: USA Price: $19.00 |
| "Debut release on PussyGutts private imprint Wolvserpent - a solo work by Blake Green of PussyGutt -- limited to 300 hand-numbered copies in wraparound silkscreened sleeves. A seriously epic doom-pop masterwork here." "In the mist a bell is tolling and the crow sounds his dire warning. The funeral shroud adorns its lifeless bearer. Alter creeps like the fog of a thousand weeping brides, a serenade of gothic tragedy consumed by loss and battered by countless defeats. Alter, one half of the bleak doom ghosts Pussygutt, sings a lament of sorrow under a cold full moon. A mystical tale of dark, dreary sadness told by candlelight in the graveyard of centuries past. Succumb to despair and taste thy grief everlasting." - Dave Adelson. |
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Artist: WOODEN SHJIPS Title: Shrinking Moon for You Format: 10" Label: Wooden Shjips Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
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"...tight-wound repeato psych guitar raunch with spoony (maybe even imaginary) percussion, surprisingly Rev-like keys, and vocals buried under burning driftwood. Its a nice one." -Byron Coley, Wire.
"...blissful lo-fi space rock meditations in line with Hawkwind, F/i, and a less amphetamized Comets on Fire...a sounding board for musical ideas that are immensely satisfying..." -Doug Mosurak, Dusted. "...Wooden Shjips seem to have their wagon hitched to a post psychedelic/punk damaged Krautrock environ that just not enough people are astute enough to homestead." -Tom Lax, Siltblog. "Intense, layered, guitar acid-wash motorbike rock from a San Francisco act who, with one record, are now one of my favorite bands on the planet circa 2006. Imagine an ear-blowing cross between Suicide, �??White Light/White Heat�?� Velvet Underground, the guy that did that "Get Stoned Ezy with the Afflicted Man" record and some nut with a tape loop machine, and you�??ve got Wooden Shjips on this wide-grooved psychedelic head trip." -Agony Shorthand . Second pressing. Highly recommended!
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Artist: WOODEN WAND/HUSH ARBORS/SATYA SAI Title: Tour CDR Spring 2006 Format: CDR Label: Wooden Wand Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
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"Totally homegrown song-based split release by this group of Knoxville pals and collaborators, featuring Wooden Wand, Satya Sai (Vanishing Voice, Totem, Oath), and Keith Wood (Hush Arbors, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Six Organs of Admittance) to raise funds and to commemorate the trio?s upcoming spring tour with John Vanderslice. Cover songs, group jams, and exclusive tracks. 100 to distributors, 100 for the road, no repress, no reissues. Id hurry."
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Artist: ART MUSEUMS Title: Rough Frame Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Cult new wave band THE ART MUSEUMS tell sordid tales of artists, lovers, and poseurs. Bay Area psych burnouts JOSH ALPER and GLENN DONALDSON converged in San Francisco in the summer of 09 to record Anglophile jams on a Tascam 388 tape machine (state of the art home-recording circa 85). Rough Frame is their debut LP for the Woodsist label. They would make a hi-fi studio record if they had the money, but reviewers would probably still say it was lo-fi. The Art Museums are into: art, poetry, Whaam! Records, and films about Mods. The Art Museums are not into: flared trousers, drip coffee, or dirty sneakers." - Woodsist. |
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Artist: ART MUSEUMS Title: Rough Frame Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Cult new wave band THE ART MUSEUMS tell sordid tales of artists, lovers, and poseurs. Bay Area psych burnouts JOSH ALPER and GLENN DONALDSON converged in San Francisco in the summer of 09 to record Anglophile jams on a Tascam 388 tape machine (state of the art home-recording circa 85). Rough Frame is their debut LP for the Woodsist label. They would make a hi-fi studio record if they had the money, but reviewers would probably still say it was lo-fi. The Art Museums are into: art, poetry, Whaam! Records, and films about Mods. The Art Museums are not into: flared trousers, drip coffee, or dirty sneakers." - Woodsist. |
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Artist: BLANK DOGS Title: The Fields Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "BlankDogs are actually singular: Its the insanely prolific one-man Brooklyn-based band of Mr. Blank Dog. We dont know too much about the biography of the guy behind the bedroom new-wave pop/punk and hes usually covering his face with masks or bedspreads, but thats fine. The aura of anonymity allows you to focus on the sounds -- and, really, he might be releasing a ton of things, but theres definitely a higher jam to crap ratio. Its like Joy Division vocal lines with the Cures synth and guitar melodies filtered through ancient submerged keyboards and eroded recording equipment. And that voice? All the feedback in the world cant hide his knack for melody. Blank Dogs have been making plenty of rumbles in the noisier and more secretive outposts of the underground (half his discographys sold out), but Troubleman Unlimiteds just repressed his very recommended full-length On Two Sides (on yellow vinyl in an edition of 500) and In The Reds releasing a 20-song double LP (or single CD) Under And Under in January. Its all new material. Hes also playing his first shows this month in NYC, so if you want to take a peek, you can. All this to say: Seems like BlankDogs is on his way out of the basement."-stereogum. |
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Artist: BLUES CONTROL Title: Puff Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| Repressed. "BLUES CONTROL is LEA CHO and RUSS WATERHOUSE, a piano, guitar, and tapes duo from New York. Puff is their first full-length record, after two cassette-only releases. "Puff is the work of two modern gris gris chefs, and the most righteously authentic stoner gumbo this side of Twin Infinitives or Jungle Rot. Glittery framed sunglasses and dopers remorse. The finest racket of 2007 so far."" -James Jackson Toth. |
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Artist: CHRISTIAN FAMILY UNDERGROUND Title: For the Depth of Your Union Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Summer 06 Family Underground (DK) recorded with Dave Nuss of NNCK at Black Dirt Studios in the woods of upstate NY. The yield was as characteristically unhinged as one might expect: sweeping electronic sounds backed with wood and bone percussion spirit-conjure. However also harvested was some new and especially tasty crop: sung and spoken song, electric guitar/conga "rock," and an odd ghostly sheen coating the entire proceeding. Nuss comments on the session: "I remember when we were recording, momentarily leaving the studio and going out into the night and feeling it thicken like a partition separating us from this intense state of clear consciousness we had in the recording, which was like humankinds natural state. And then thinking about Jesper from FU, an adopted Vietnamese living in DK, and how much he resembles Michael Jackson, and realizing that across continents no man can be divided from himself. We had to make this music to provide for us some fantasy of fulfillment that would carry us through the weekend like rejuvenated suns born again climbing to heaven, after being washed in the deepest bluest sea." Jacket by designer Susan Cianciolo and screened inserts by Stellar, NL." - Woodsist. |
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Artist: CRYSTAL STILTS Title: s/t Format: CDEP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "Crystal Stilts started in Brooklyn in 2003 as Brad Hargett and JB Townsend. Not really trying to be a "band" they recorded and self-released their single "Shattered Shine" on their Feathery Tongue label in 04 with friend Sean Mafucci (producer of Gang Gang Dance, Psychic Ills, Kid Congo Powers etc.) With no shortage of lazy Jesus and Mary Chain and Factory records comparisons, (more like VU, Felt, and Blue Orchids) in 2005-06 they continued to play in New York with bands such as the Long Blondes, 1990s and The Monochrome Set and recorded a 4 song ep. Kyle Forrester (Ladybug Transistor etc. etc.) joined them at gigs playing organ as well. After a brief hiatus to record there back catalogue for upcoming LP (Slumberland) they adopted Andy Adler (who played bass on Eric Copeland of Black Dice fuzzpop outfit Ninjas) to rock the bass. After opening for the Clean in November, Frankie Rose (Vivian Girls) waltzed into their life to play the stand-up drums and complete the equation. CD compiles their 12" ep and the "Shattered Shine" 7inch."- Woodsist |
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Artist: DOOZER, THE Title: Keep It Together Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Keep It Together is the fourth full-length album from the Fenlands shadow puppet master THE DOOZER. Relocating to a village hall, little-theatre-style, he sets the task with a cast of eleven players dipping in and out, old Mrs. Mallows holding the keys. Previous albums are primarily lonesome affairs, so this group activity holds sway on the albums all-enveloping sound. Chords are the name of the game, and its certainly got them! You hear guitars, bass, piano and drums; slipping in to lift those harmonies, a string quartet and horns.... Is that a tuba from the Salvation Army, you say? Yeah it is, and salvation is at hand. Just let it come down from the "Aluminum Dome." Perhaps you know what the weathers like here, but if you dont, take some advice from "Fen Drayton." Or, if youre in doubt about what flowers to get your girl, then check out "Fold Up Chair." Are you undecided on your God? Thats "Oh Unbelievers!" But none of its good advice, its just a crack at the seam. Limited to 500 copies." -Woodsist |
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Artist: DUCKTAILS Title: Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "DUCKTAILS is the one-man psychedelic pop project of MATTHEW MONDANILE, guitarist for New Jerseys REAL ESTATE and, more importantly, a proud son of the mid-1980s. At 22 years old, he started releasing his own cassette albums. His first 7-inch came out on Breaking World Records and was followed by a string of LPs, cassettes, and CDs on independent labels like Not Not Fun, Olde English Spelling Bee, Release the Bats, Arbor and Goaty Tapes. Now surrounded by a crew of young songwriters, Mondanile spends his time either touring or recording in the basement of his parents house. Categorized by David Keenan as part of the "hypnagogic pop" movement, Ducktails realizes a shared cultural memory and nostalgia through various genres." -Woodsist. |
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Artist: DUCKTAILS Title: Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "DUCKTAILS is the one-man psychedelic pop project of MATTHEW MONDANILE, guitarist for New Jerseys REAL ESTATE and, more importantly, a proud son of the mid-1980s. At 22 years old, he started releasing his own cassette albums. His first 7-inch came out on Breaking World Records and was followed by a string of LPs, cassettes, and CDs on independent labels like Not Not Fun, Olde English Spelling Bee, Release the Bats, Arbor and Goaty Tapes. Now surrounded by a crew of young songwriters, Mondanile spends his time either touring or recording in the basement of his parents house. Categorized by David Keenan as part of the "hypnagogic pop" movement, Ducktails realizes a shared cultural memory and nostalgia through various genres. Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics is Mondaniles third official full-length LP and first for Woodsist Records. Full US tour in the works. LP version includes a download with an exclusive bonus track-an alternate version of the track "Killin the Vibe" featuring Panda Bear. Received a 7.4 rating from Pitchfork." -Woodsist |
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Artist: EAT SKULL Title: III Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "While you were out kicking an empty Sparks cup around SXSW, world class musical talents EAT SKULL were busy creating their third opus, entitled III, on a fever train between states, cities, community colleges and jails. Nearly four days or four years in the making (depending on who you ask), III is a more psychedelic and perfectly circular outing then their previous classics of paranoid ecstasy Wild and Inside and Sick to Death. Somewhere in between the subatomic joy of Primal Screams "Keep Your Dreams" and the desperate loneliness of Same Place the Fly Got Smashed-era Guided By Voices lies the weird and wonderful world of III. Throw a dash of Iron Maidens Wasted Years in the cauldron, stir and dip a cigarette in it to smoke. This is music to drink to, die to, fall in love to and quit your job to. Drive to Alaska. Fuck it. Includes free digital download coupon." -Woodsist. |
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Artist: EXCEPTER Title: Late Format: 12" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The 23rd EXCEPTER record: The Late EP. The Black Rust Rush Tour of "High Noon" lore. One track recorded at Oberlin Dionysus Disco, Fall 2009, in I-94 palindrome dub by R/N. One track recorded at 382 Jeff Street by LALA with the TR-808. 2009-2010 edit. Two tracks live on "Presidence Day" at the Glass Lands, February 16th, 2010, by DEREK MAXWELL, sound engineer. The Late EP returns Excepter to Woodsist. All four tracks are previously unreleased. The Tank Tapes are included as a complimentary bonus digital download with the record. Excepter is New York Citys premiere improvisatory, vocal-and-electronics cosmic beat-box band. Whether on stage, on record or on video, Excepter never gives the expected, and this is no exception. LP features a download for a cassette-only release from 2007." -Woodsist |
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Artist: FERGUS & GERONIMO Title: Harder Than Its Ever Been Format: 7" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| "Fergus & Geronimo are Jason Kelly (of Wax Museums) and Andrew Savage (of Teenage Cool Kids) from Denton, TX, with a sound that is reminiscent of motown, proto-punk, hardcore and garage influences." |
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Artist: FOLK SPECTRE Title: The Blackest Medicine Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Black vinyl with silk screened covers. Limited to 500. Solo tunes by Pete Nolan of the Magik Markers, GHQ, Vanishing Voice, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, etc.." - Woodsist. |
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Artist: FRESH & ONLYS Title: Grey-Eyed Girls Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "When Tim Cohen told Shayde Sartin he was writing a song called Be My Hooker, the Fresh & Onlys bassist looked at the singer/guitarist and said, Theres no way were gonna have a song with that title, dude, explains Sartin. But sure enough, he laid a riff down and I was like, Jesus christ, I cant believe you pulled something meaningful out of such a stupid line. Welcome to the push/pull dynamic thats fueled the Fresh & Onlys steady stream of releases over the past year, including last springs self-titled LP (Castle Face) and Grey-Eyed Girls (Woodsist). And to think it all started the old-fashioned way -- with Sartin and Cohen simply hanging out after work, playing their favorite punk (Buzzcocks, The Mekons) and classic rock (Country Joe and the Fish, cued up alongside slabs of psych from the groups homebase, San Francisco) records alongside a growing collection of empty beer cans. I cant really explain what happened or why, says Sartin. I guess we listened to records until we were on the same page, and from that point on, we never stopped recording. As simple as all of that sounds, the duo first bought a tape machine five years ago. When that failed to produce any concrete cuts, Cohen focused on his previous avant-pop band, Black Fiction, and Sartin split his time between session and live work for such bands as the Skygreen Leopards, Papercuts and Citay. Not to mention his close friend Kelley Stoltz, who ended up releasing the first Fresh & Onlys 7" (the limited Imaginary Friends EP) in early 2008. With so much music hitting shops in such a short time (Sartin says the band already has boxes of backlogged tapes), you might think the Fresh & Onlys camp have a problem with quality control. Quite the contrary; Sartin and Cohen are very careful about what they release. And while the duo writes and records the bands songs, the arrangements are usually fleshed out with guitarist Wymond Miles, drummer Kyle Gibson, and backup singer Heidi Alexander. If we take a song into the studio or a live setting and it doesnt have wings, says Sartin, Then we just ditch it and keep the charming demo version. The final mix of Grey-Eyed Girls sounds like a natural bridge between the raucous garage rock of the groups debut and the full-on studio record they plan on wrapping for In the Red later this year. That goes for the galloping grooves of Happy To Be Living, the shadowy post-punk of Invisible Forces, and the firework finale freak-outs that drive The Delusion of Man. Not to mention a stack of hook-slinging tracks that nix any shitgaze assumptions you may have. Were not trying to hide melodies or do the blown-out thing, says Sartin. A lot of those bands are great, but I dont want to ever cater to whats popular. Its not that Im being reactionary; were just trying to make recordings that are as rich and ear-friendly as possible. Its working." - Woodsist. |
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Artist: FRESH AND ONLYS, THE Title: Second One to Know Format: 7" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $5.50 |
| ""Second One To Know" b|w "Hated or Loved." Recorded Spring 2009. Both tracks taken from the super limited "Bomb Wombs" cassette on Fuck It Tapes. Full color glue pocket sleeve. Two of their best songs yet!" - Woodsist. |
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Artist: GANGLIANS Title: Monster Head Room Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "All completely new songs.. This album is pure naive headphone acid pop to drive to, at least thats what was going through our heads." -- Ganglians. "Sacramentos Ganglians want an island somewhere where they can soak in the sun and prowl the canopy by night. Its not often that they do get out, but they can get down for that. Recording sometimes as one, sometimes as four, its a real game to figure out where the entity comes from and where its going. First and foremost its about uncertain pleasures. Its a bit like choose your own adventure. Theres codeine balladry; a slightly upsetting tempo that is quickly flushed into an aural high, the next moment youre in the toy strewn abyss of the bedroom and then out to the tribal caves of the natives. The planets align and the sun beats down, palms tingling, and you are on the island theyve built, the scenery constantly shifting for a better view, of you. 11 tracks in just under 50 min." -Woodsist |
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Artist: GANGLIANS Title: s/t Format: 12" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Sacramentos Ganglians want an island somewhere where they can soak in the sun and prowl the canopy by night. Its not often that they do get out, but they can get down for that. Recording sometimes as one, sometimes as four its a real game to figure out where the entity comes from and where its going. First and foremost its about uncertain pleasures. Its a bit like choose your own adventure. Theres "codeine balladry"; a slightly upsetting tempo that is quickly flushed into an aural high, the next moment youre in the toy strewn abyss of the bedroom and then out to the tribal caves of the natives. The planets align and the sun beats down, palms tingling, and you are on the island theyve built, the scenery constantly shifting for a better view, of you." - Woodsist. |
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Artist: GOLDEN CALVES Title: Collection: Money Band + Century Band Format: Double LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Collection gathers pre-WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE material from JAMES JACKSON TOTHs GOLDEN CALVES project. "It was really all about The Godz, Jandek, The Shadow Ring, Strapping Fieldhands, Swell Maps and Tower Recordings. Beyond these, I had only heard the classic and most available free jazz, krautrock and noise albums. I was a long way from, say, the second Comus album or Charles Gayle. But this music changed my life. It was a record store owner named Eric McCarthy and a man who needs no introduction to anyone reading these notes, Matt Valentine, who taught me that there was a world beyond Dischord, Vermiform and Ebullition. I went to college, met hip people, and got a job at both the local record store and the college radio station. I was taking drugs. I bought a four track and began emulating my heroes. I called the project Golden Calves. I was eighteen years old.... In hindsight, I like to think that the noise scene liked us and responded so positively to us because, in our own naive way, we were subverting a very rigid paradigm. Touring with noise bands and moving in experimental circles but playing proper songs is what made us weird. It was an exciting, unforgettable time. These are not perfect records. Perhaps worse than so-called naive art is only-marginally-informed art and thats what this is. I should have let my talents marinate for a while before rushing out records that now sound to me like thinly-veiled love letters to Siltbreeze. But fuck it, man. I was hopelessly arrogant then and remain so today. Why else would I greenlight this fucking thing?"-James Jackson Toth, Lexington, KY, Summer 2010. Originally released in 1996; reissue is limited to ,1000 copies." -Woodsist |
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Artist: HUNTER, JANA Title: Carrion Format: One Sided LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Half of the six songs on Jana Hunters Carrion are unreleased hangers-on from the writing sessions that produced her most recent full-length, Theres No Home, while the other half are alternate renditions of works that appeared on that release. But this is no mere grab bag of remnants; its a real tight product, all around. "Paint A Babe" is a throw-back to Hunters earlier material, written and recorded simultaneously on a borrowed four-track recorder. A real sad, longing song. "A Goblin, A Goblin" took a little more time to create: this strong, sturdy number, replete with violins and creepy harmony, tells the tale of an indignant outcast. "You Will Take It and Like It," turns one central, pretty and proud guitar part over and over and over, with others mirroring it, leeching from it, grabbing on like little parasitic danglers. The original version of "Theres No Home" is here, the track that spawned an entire record title, followed by "Sleep" (titled, as it was originally, "Ooh Uuh"), from the recording that ended up on a lullaby compilation. Concluding Carrion is an acoustic re-presentation of the country-minded "Oracle," stripped down to one guitar, one melody, and one harmony, as it was originally conceived in its creation as homage. CD on Gnomonsong" - Woodsist. |
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Artist: IDLE TIMES Title: Get Your Feet Off the Ground Format: 7" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Debut release from 27 year old Brian Standeford. After the quickdissolution of his previous band Tall Birds, Standeford began recording songs onto cassette in his Seattle home using a Tascam 4-track, practice amps and a toy drum kit. Loner bedroom psych at its best. Edition of 500 on black vinyl." -Woodsist
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Artist: LOOSERS Title: Logic On Its Head Format: 10" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Portugals greatest export (besides cork and textiles) continues its dusky, creeping bleed of six-limbed psychedelic windmilling. Loosers have always excelled at ripping strange spatial curvatures out of drums, electronics, and exotic moods, and Logic On Its Head serves up two more classic black platters of sidelight ritualism. The A drapes incense and chimes atop an old copper bowl of ringing tones and tentacle percussion fusion that slow-burns a sweet smoke you never wanna exhale. Dont. The B, Daeh Sti No Cigol, is even more perverse, as backwards as its title and dusty as a mosque. Sudden gestures flutter in the dusk and the sky turns purple. Really commanding and liberated in a way few improv outfits achieve so easily. Impending double LPs on Eclipse and Qbico should only escalate their visionary aura."- Britt/NNF. Two-color silkscreening on fabric-photocopied, hand-stamped sleeves. Black vinyl. Edition of 340. Split with Not Not Fun |
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Artist: MAGIC LANTERN Title: Magic Lantern Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"Magic Lantern came into being at the mid-point of the decade, sparked into existence by a simultaneous period of musical discovery for Philip French, William Giacchi, and Cameron Stallones. Inspired by the psychedelic approach to musical tone and structure in various eras and genres of rock (not at all excluding Germany and Japan in the 70s), the three realized they ought to make use of the new creative tools theyd stumbled upon, and began jamming the summer away in twin poles of Long Beach and Whittier, CA. Over the course of a year, they recorded every jam and compiled a full-lengths worth of home-studio demos which later became their self-released CD-R. At the same time, each member was developing solo and side projects to channel parallel universes of sound. A year after their first jam together, Magic Lantern decided to make the leap to playing live and recruited good friends and like-minded musicians Chip Knechtel and Gavin Fort to be their marathon rhythm section. The jams from their CD-R were used as the blueprints for the band to develop a raw, stripped-down sound that emphasized hypnotic rhythms and improvised guitar duels. After being invited to play at the Tee Pee Records showcase Manifest Destiny in August of 07, th Lantern kept up a steady diet of shows in L.A. and Long Beach for the next year, earning a local following and two highly limited tapes on Not Not Fun Records. Through the spring of 08, they began writing new material as a band and developing the new songs live. In the summer, they recorded these jams with sound wizard Bobb Bruno, which led to the Not Not Fun LP High Beams that September. At this point, the band had fully emerged from transition into a shared creative vision of five musicians, each possessing a singular voice, all united in the common goal to engage both mind and body through good vibrations." -Woodsist. Repressed.
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Artist: MENEGUAR Title: The In Hour Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Switching instruments and experimenting with recording techniques, Meneguar has cooked up a totally unique(and surprising) record. The In Hour channels the spontaneity and aesthetics of Swell Maps, the pop hooks of the Zombies, and lyrical collage of Guided By Voices. Everything was home recorded at their little Xanadu in Brooklyn, Rear House, home base to Jeremy Earls Woodsist label (Blues Control, Sic Alps, Wooden Wand, Jana Hunter) and the changing roster of Meneguars alter egos (Woods, Shepherds). Only six months since their last record, The In Hour represents a serious departure that still holds true to the bands undeniable pop sensibility." -Woodsist |
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Artist: MENEGUAR Title: The In Hour Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "Switching instruments and experimenting with recording techniques, Meneguar has cooked up a totally unique(and surprising) record. The In Hour channels the spontaneity and aesthetics of Swell Maps, the pop hooks of the Zombies, and lyrical collage of Guided By Voices. Everything was home recorded at their little Xanadu in Brooklyn, Rear House, home base to Jeremy Earls Woodsist label (Blues Control, Sic Alps, Wooden Wand, Jana Hunter) and the changing roster of Meneguars alter egos (Woods, Shepherds). Only six months since their last record, The In Hour represents a serious departure that still holds true to the bands undeniable pop sensibility." -Woodsist |
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Artist: METH TEETH Title: Everything Went Wrong Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Meth Teeth reside in Portland OR. and in some ways embody the rainy day big country vibe of the city with its youth culture dreamers, old druggies, and rustic history. There is something that is really hard to pin down about Meth Teeth, the songs rely on simple ramshackle rhythms, upbeat shinny guitar interplay, and big fat chord churners, and alot of tambourine banging away on the snare drum. Ultra catchy summertime rockers keep you sad and lonely, and upbeat and hopeful all at once."- Shawn Reed/Night People. |
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Artist: MOON DUO Title: Escape Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "San Franciscos MOON DUO was formed in 2009 by SANAE YAMADA and ERIK JOHNSON (WOODEN SHJIPS). Inspired initially by the legendary John Coltrane and Rashied Ali, Moon Duo counts such variant groups as Silver Apples, Royal Trux, Moolah, Suicide, and Cluster as touchstones. Utilizing primarily guitar, keyboards, percussion, and vocals, the pair plays space against form to create a primordial and disorienting sonic stew. They released two acclaimed records in 2009: the Love on the Sea 12-inch single on Sick Thirst and the Killing Time EP on Sacred Bones. Escape, their debut long-player on Woodsist, marks the fullest realization yet of the young groups evolving sound." - Woodsist. |
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Artist: MOON DUO Title: Escape Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "San Franciscos MOON DUO was formed in 2009 by SANAE YAMADA and ERIK JOHNSON (WOODEN SHJIPS). Inspired initially by the legendary John Coltrane and Rashied Ali, Moon Duo counts such variant groups as Silver Apples, Royal Trux, Moolah, Suicide, and Cluster as touchstones. Utilizing primarily guitar, keyboards, percussion, and vocals, the pair plays space against form to create a primordial and disorienting sonic stew. They released two acclaimed records in 2009: the Love on the Sea 12-inch single on Sick Thirst and the Killing Time EP on Sacred Bones. Escape, their debut long-player on Woodsist, marks the fullest realization yet of the young groups evolving sound." - Woodsist. |
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Artist: MV & EE Title: Home Comfort Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "Here is the first ever all live LP of MV & EE material and it is the perfect example of the scene in the tapers pit. The familiar tunes which have become staples in their set shine with an unheard intensity with killer solos and sonic excursions into the unknown, and then there is the deep of their singular environments, their space which manages to showcase the pastoral freakouts and cosmic raga forms so singular to this unique band. Home Comfort distills the gems of their live shows onto sweet wax. For those familiar with MATT and ERIKAs cottage label Heroine Celestial Agriculture, known to the heads as Heroine, this LP reads like a best of curated by the you are there Swingin Pig and the results are a stunning cross section of their duo exchange, funky trio with WOODS JEREMY EARL and big band exploratory stomp with DOC DUNN, MUSKOX, and WILLIE LANE of the GOLDEN ROAD. Here is the true sound of MV & EE with the songs, the extended jams and the feeling. This seminal duo and all they sail with need to be heard live and need to be heard live often, what a glorious document from the tapers pit. Thats tapers pit twice in a paragraph, class. Peace. Limited to 550 copies."-Woodsist. |
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Artist: NODZZZ Title: Innings Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Innings is the second full-length from garage-pop trio Nodzzz and their first for New York imprint Woodsist. Its simple title is a nod to their origin: songwriting core Anthony Atlas and Sean Paul Presley met playing baseball in Olympia, Washington, and started Nodzzz upon relocating to San Francisco. "The album offers fourteen discretely memorable songs in the bands growing idiom—neurotic power-pop antics and jangly, shambolic post-punk—and follows a string of acclaimed records that began with their debut single in 2007, I Dont Wanna (Smoke Marijuana), which jumpstarted San Francisco cult-DIY label Make a Mess Records (subsequent home of similar debut records by Grass Widow, Brilliant Colors, White Fence and more), and was followed by a beloved, albeit short, seventeen-minute self-titled LP and the True to Life single, both on NYCs Whats Your Rupture? label." -Woodsist |
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Artist: PINK REASON Title: Winona Format: 7" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
| "During a show with hardcore punks Hatefuck, DeBroux and company traveled to Winona, Minnesota. After a five-hour drive to the town, wasted locals, angry punks and gnarled three-legged dogs greeted them by leading them into a commandeered park. Inside the park, DeBroux found "the ultimate punk rock experience" with townies huffing rubber glue and mohawk-brandishing kids starting fights with crusties. The show ended and the locals gave the band three dollars for their troubles. A few kids asked DeBroux and company to chip in the three dollars on a keg. Soon, the crowd dispersed and left the band with no money or place to stay. The band wound up sleeping on an island between Minnesota and Wisconsin and breaking up soon thereafter. He wrote the first Pink Reason song, "Winona," about this experience." - Steve Kobak from Blastitude #25. Second press on red vinyl. |
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Artist: PSYCHEDELIC HORSESHIT Title: Shitgaze Anthems Format: 12" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "After about a 2 year absence, Psychedelic Horseshit is back with an EP of alleged B-sides from an upcoming full length. And what has happened since we last peeked in on these "shitgaze" innovators? Well, in parts all over the world that famous "distorto-lo-fi-sound" has been popping up in quite open spaces. No Age has become the new Brittany Spears, Wavves crashed in outta nowhere like a mid-nineties major label grunge signing, and cute and sweet Vivian Girls are playing on the speakers in Target stores nationwide. What does this have to do with the new Psychedelic Horseshit EP? Well, nothing really, except that if you expect to hear that tired and true lo-fi sound, that is now so en vouge, you might be a little disappointed cause these boys have cleaned up a little bit, and from the sound of things this might only be the beginning. "I only listen to OK Computer and Cranes. The Fall sucks, DIY sucks, we suck, you suck." said Matt Horseshit in a recent interview. "Why should anyone listen to you then?" replied the reporter. "Because were FUN, duh." And even though you wanna hate em, you gotta admit, they kinda are fun. Matt is a dick, of course, and Rich is hilariously clueless mostly, and by all means most of the stuff on this SHITGAZE ANTHEMS EP shouldnt work, whether it be the white-boy dub section, the cliche acoustic ballad with backwards guitar, the blatant Dylan rips, or the overall amateur playing, but for some reason these elements that usually reek of pretention and failure actually endear you to the band and their songs. Yes, theyre called Psychedelic Horseshit. Yes, they do suck, but Ill be damned if they arent one of my favorite bands in the world, and theyre only getting better, but if I tried to tell you why itd only make em sound worse. So it goes..." - Woodsist. |
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Artist: PURLING HISS Title: Public Service Announcement Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "Resident guitarist / noise-smith MIKE POLIZZE of Philly jam-punks BIRDS OF MAYA takes another one-off vacation with PURLING HISS. Public Service Announcement take a more song-oriented approach than Polizzes self-titled debut LP (Permanent Records) and its follow-up, Hissteria (Richie Records). With the treble down and the tape-heads bleeding, the LP is a montage of flange-covered tunes, in-the-red and submerged below sea level. "... reminds me of some of my other favorite mystery rock albums, like High Speed and the Afflicted Mans Get Stoned Ezy, or any Les Rallizes Denudes or Vermonster records-not necessarily in style or attack, but certainly in spirit. This is full-on destroyer guitar rock, with a palpable sense of nothing to lose and everything to prove. To me, it sounds like a serious, sincere statement-and you dont hear that every day."-Ripley Johnson (Moon Duo, Wooden Shjips). |
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Artist: REAL ESTATE Title: Fake Blues Format: 7" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"REAL ESTATE is songwriter MARTIN COURTNEY on vocals and guitar, MATT MONDANILE (DUCKTAILS, PREDATOR VISION) on guitar, ETIENNE DUGUAY (Predator Vision) on drums, and ALEX BLEEKER on bass. Having grown up playing shows with friends from Vivian Girls and Titus Andronicus, the members of Real Estate have played together in a variety of incarnations since their middle school years in Ridgewood, NJ. Real Estates songs reflect influences from Paul Mccartney and the Grateful Dead to the Clean and New Jerseys own Yo La Tengo and The Feelies, all the while crafting unique pop songs about what they know: growing up in suburbs and hanging at the shore." - Woodsist.
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Artist: REAL ESTATE Title: S/T Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Real Estate waft in on vibes of hazy summers past. The New Jersey quartet of Martin Courtney IV, Matthew Mondanile III, Etienne Pierre Duguay and Alex Bleeker cut the sleeves short and the pop smooth to shade you from the midday heat. Every song works its way to that part of your consciousness that reveled in the fleeting waves of freedom that eked in once classes broke and the sun lingered a little longer over suburban roofs. And with three quarters of the band holding down Garden State roots its no surprise that a bit of Jersey indie-pop heritage sneaks its way into their sound, lifting the most sun streaked moments from The Feelies and Yo La Tengo and filtering them through the kaleidoscope of memories aimless drives through parched neighborhood streets. Martin Courtneys songwriting has a way of wrapping up the immediacy of youth with the ennui of age for the perfect shade of bittersweet bliss, mind you though, much heavier on the sweet than the bitter. Add to this Mondaniles (Ducktails/ Predator Vision) shimmering guitar strains full of equal parts sea foam and beer foam, pepper in the boardwalk clatter of Duguays drums Bleekers staccato low end and the perfect afternoon is just a lawn chair and boom box away." -Andy French/raven sings the blues |
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Artist: ROBEDOOR Title: Endlessly Blazing Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
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"Eagle Rock, CAs Robedoor are back with another doomed out K-hole.
Slow creeping drones building to some nice loner caveman pound/ real
song territory. Three tracks in just under 40 minutes. edition of 500
with full color jacket. Artwork by Jeremy Earl." - Woodsist.
"Another bowl of black wax lit up and littered into the smogset. Another
half hour in the haze, burned and overturned. "Endlessly Blazing" loads
together a trio of semi-recent resin sessions: the A is a sidelong
sinkhole into lava and quaaludes, the B starts with a sprawling spiral
sweetleaf ballad before convulsing into a pissed withdrawal of dread
drums, electronic fumes, and damaged howling. Hold it in as long as you
can" -?
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Artist: ROYAL BATHS Title: Litanies Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "ROYAL BATHS havent had it easy. In a city where garage rock reigns supreme and new bands form and fade away with the blink of an eye, its tough to get noticed unless your songs can satisfy punk rock attention spans. But with four- to six-minute tracks and slow, methodical drum beats, ROYAL BATHS have won their way into the hearts of even the most raucous audiences-a testament to both the ability that San Franciscans have to recognize talent when they see it, and also to the incredible music and spectacle that the ROYAL BATHS have created. The band has its obvious influences-The Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3-but to define them by these comparisons would be to vastly oversimplify their sound. Songwriters JEREMY COX and JIGMAE BAER draw from psychedelic soundscapes; dark, personal, and esoteric subject matter; and a bit of punks apathetic humor and exigency. They conjure up haunting, reverb-heavy hymns to the degenerate and the broken."- Emily Rose Epstein (SF Weekly, Thrasher Magazine, drummer for Ty Segall). Vinyl includes coupon for free digital download. |
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Artist: ROYAL BATHS Title: Litanies Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "ROYAL BATHS havent had it easy. In a city where garage rock reigns supreme and new bands form and fade away with the blink of an eye, its tough to get noticed unless your songs can satisfy punk rock attention spans. But with four- to six-minute tracks and slow, methodical drum beats, ROYAL BATHS have won their way into the hearts of even the most raucous audiences-a testament to both the ability that San Franciscans have to recognize talent when they see it, and also to the incredible music and spectacle that the ROYAL BATHS have created. The band has its obvious influences-The Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3-but to define them by these comparisons would be to vastly oversimplify their sound. Songwriters JEREMY COX and JIGMAE BAER draw from psychedelic soundscapes; dark, personal, and esoteric subject matter; and a bit of punks apathetic humor and exigency. They conjure up haunting, reverb-heavy hymns to the degenerate and the broken."- Emily Rose Epstein (SF Weekly, Thrasher Magazine, drummer for Ty Segall). Vinyl includes coupon for free digital download. |
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Artist: SIC ALPS Title: Strawberry Guillotine Format: 7" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $5.00 |
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"Sic Alps toss back 3 new tracks for this seven inch. Title track
"Strawberry Guillotine" takes the listener on a guided tour of an
imagined war between the sprawling Golden Gate Park homeless
population and the more established model yacht community.
Musket blasts sound off as shopping carts laden with gasoline and
styrofoam emerge from the silent bushes and charge the blood
dimmed shores of the cement bottomed Spreckles Lake. Cover art
co-opted from 90s LA anti-legends The Summer Hits who
themselves stole it from the Walker Brothers in the first place.
Apparently Rex from Summer Hits is now homeless in London
where his long beard is black on one side and fully grey on the other.
This record is humbly dedicated to him." - Woodsist.
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Artist: SPECTRE FOLK Title: Blackest Medicine II Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Pete Nolan has been Spectre Folk since before drumming and strumming in Magik Markers was his main gig, and will be Spectre Folk long after he shuffles off this mortal coil. The main benefit of ghost folk is, you can play it way after youre dead, and while youre alive the Spectre can haunt any decent willing body with a gift for the unreal. This time around fellow Michigander Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) ran drums, Peter Meehan ( The Grey Lady) glued guitar and Aaron Mullan (Tall Firs) slithered bass in the Folk, creating an alchemy the Spectre hasnt floated since the days of basement wig wearing, in the short-lived Norman Bates era. The band entered Echo Canyon West with the intention of recording a 7" of the "up-tempo" version of Blackest Medicine, the title cut from the 2007 home-fi Woodsist debut. After several sessions, they emerged with a four song studio collage monster that wont fit in your locker and smells like smoked banana peels and undies blowing down an alleyway. A vibraphone, piano, and a plate reverb unit the size of a brooklyn apartment were all employed by the Spectre like Uri Gellar used spoons, inappropriately, desperate and bent. They physically turned the 2 inch reel of tape over so Peter Meehan could put subliminal backwards masking under his Erkin Koray worthy guitar solo on "4th Dimension Refs"and Nolan put the Temple Screamer to good use on tracks one and two, using samples of Shirley Temple Blacks Good Ship Lollipop as vocoder harmonies on choruses. As far as we know, this record also features the first gong solo by legendary skinsman Steve Shelley, since the gong heavy debut Crucifucks LP. Oh yeah, its full of burning psych-pop jammers too! Earmarking Nolans long standing but unspoken obsession with personal hygiene, "Keep Your Teeth Clean!" is a krauty suite that betrays Shelley and Mullans recent stint as the rhythm section for Neu! Their teutonic influence has the effect of putting the dreamy psych-fuzz that Nolan exhibited on last years "Compass" lp through a blender.. with a frog... that spills out into a wide open milky way head zone. You cant snuggle with this record, so strap yourself in and feel the Gs! Fearless as a lemming, Nolan has created a private universe here, a Society of the Spectre-cal if you will, and his gift is his freedom. Lets have a drift."- Elisa Ambrogio. |
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Artist: SUN ARAW Title: Boat Trip Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
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"Boat Trip might be some hidden soundtrack to Donkey Kong
warp-whistling straight into Ayahuasca Country. In about twenty
minutes Sun Araw manages to navigate a psychedelic jungle cruise
through canopy din & spooked drone, then he noses the boat out of the
water and lifts into uncharted dub-spheres. The back half of this
entranced tour is like being (fortunately) trapped inside an old
Upsetters jam played at half-speed with twice the shaman-chant and
reverb drenched percussion. Normally we wouldnt trust taking this
kind of trip with just anybody, but with wheel and rudder alike in the
hands of Magic Lantern co-captain Cameron Stallones, we can sip our
yage-of-choice in peace and share the Sun Araw vision as one. Limited
to 500 on black vinyl." - Woodsist.
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Artist: SUN ARAW Title: Off Duty Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"When the On Patrol test presses hit the turntables, an epilogue burst from the side of the SUN ARAW cranium immediately, before it was even cold on wax. The camera jumped all by itself, spontaneous framing and new perspectives: "Last Chants" grips you in heavy, end-of-shift panic; who knew "Holodeck Blues" got so rowdy? Surrounded and staring down the barrels of some serious forces, the scum is rising. No worries: you got backup, dont forget whos wearing the badge. Flip the vision and make it all the way down, its your party. "Midnight Locker" is one chilled exhalation, all cold sweat and steam vents. The cab ride home comes with AM radio ghosts, whispering again of that heavier zone, its time to get back. The flip side is pure secret sun-day, sacred rest: the stairway to the stars. "Deep Temple," float on up, the Heavy Deeds are waiting." - Woodsist. CD version includes the tracks from the groups out-of-print Boat Trip 12-inch. Vinyl includes coupon for free digital download (including CD-only bonus tracks)
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Artist: SUN ARAW Title: Off Duty + Boat Trip Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "When the On Patrol test presses hit the turntables, an epilogue burst from the side of the SUN ARAW cranium immediately, before it was even cold on wax. The camera jumped all by itself, spontaneous framing and new perspectives: "Last Chants" grips you in heavy, end-of-shift panic; who knew "Holodeck Blues" got so rowdy? Surrounded and staring down the barrels of some serious forces, the scum is rising. No worries: you got backup, dont forget whos wearing the badge. Flip the vision and make it all the way down, its your party. "Midnight Locker" is one chilled exhalation, all cold sweat and steam vents. The cab ride home comes with AM radio ghosts, whispering again of that heavier zone, its time to get back. The flip side is pure secret sun-day, sacred rest: the stairway to the stars. "Deep Temple," float on up, the Heavy Deeds are waiting." - Woodsist. CD version includes the tracks from the groups out-of-print Boat Trip 12-inch. Vinyl includes coupon for free digital download (including CD-only bonus tracks) |
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Artist: V/A Title: Welcome Home/Diggin the Universe Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "A fantastic collection of exclusive tracks (save "The Love Between" by WHITE FENCE) from some of todays best new groups. You get cuts from WOODS, RUN DMT, FRESH & ONLYS, MANTLES, SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, ALEX BLEEKER, MOON DUO, CITY CENTER, CAUSE CO-MOTION, ART MUSEUMS, NODZZZ, DUCKTAILS and WHITE FENCE. "Its true-the sons and daughters of Homestead, Xpressway and first-wave Drag City (et al.) are now making good music. The 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s are all there, bound together by shitty tape machines, reverb and easy chord changes, but melody is back and so is the joy of jamming a perfectly mangled pop song. Welcome Home might hit some new kids the way Human Music or Nuggets did back in their day. In any case, its one of those rare compilations you can play straight through and over again." -Glenn Donaldson |
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Artist: V/A Title: Welcome Home/Diggin the Universe Format: Cass Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $10.00 |
| "A fantastic collection of exclusive tracks (save "The Love Between" by WHITE FENCE) from some of todays best new groups. You get cuts from WOODS, RUN DMT, FRESH & ONLYS, MANTLES, SKYGREEN LEOPARDS, ALEX BLEEKER, MOON DUO, CITY CENTER, CAUSE CO-MOTION, ART MUSEUMS, NODZZZ, DUCKTAILS and WHITE FENCE. "Its true-the sons and daughters of Homestead, Xpressway and first-wave Drag City (et al.) are now making good music. The 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s are all there, bound together by shitty tape machines, reverb and easy chord changes, but melody is back and so is the joy of jamming a perfectly mangled pop song. Welcome Home might hit some new kids the way Human Music or Nuggets did back in their day. In any case, its one of those rare compilations you can play straight through and over again." -Glenn Donaldson |
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Artist: VALENTINE, MATT Title: What I Became Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $16.00 |
| "If string theory is correct, this is approximately the thirteenth album MATT VALENTINE has released that definitely shouldnt be filed under a group name (TOWER RECORDINGS, BUMMER ROAD, GOLDEN ROAD, etc.). On the other hand, if string theory is correct, this might also be his 11,000th album. The truth, one suspects, is somewhere in between. Since bedding down in southern Vermont at the dawn of the century, MV has been as cussedly prolific as anyone. The gout of LPs, cassettes, CDRs, singles and 10-inches emerging from Maximum Arousal Farm has dwarfed the output of everyone cept maybe Sunburned or Thurston. Regardless, there can never be enough MV LPs in the world, and What I Became is a beaut. Most of it is as solo as Satan, apart from percussionist JEREMY EARL (of WOODS fame), whose presence is sometimes felt more than heard. ERIKA "EE" ELDER and MIKE "MUSKOX" SMITH also pop up on a track, but the general approach here is as naked-and-loaded as the soul of Icepick Slim. As usual, MVs tunes and procedures beggar easy generification. Elements of deep forest psychedelia brush against Crazy Horse guitar / vocal flourishes that explode to reveal volk-based form mayhem at its hickiest."-Byron Coley Limited to 500 copies with full-color jackets and inserts. |
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Artist: VILE, KURT Title: Constant Hitmaker Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| Originally released on CD in 2008 on Gulcher Records. "kurt vile is the nom de plume of philadelphian kurt vile (!) whose shimmering home recordings reflect the artists admiration of everything from delta blues to the minimalist agro of suicide, the downer psyche of 39 clocks as well as the skiffle hum of strapping fieldhands. in other words, a real globe trotter. kurt has shared bills...as well as wiped the floor...with the likes of blues control, pink reason, clock cleaner, times new viking, magik markers, to name a few. this is his debut release. lend him your ears." - - tom lax, siltbreeze. "its like when u wake from a long and glorious slumber, then u realize u dont have to go to work, then u fall back into long and glorious slumber. kv-brand folk pop psyche to make chicks cry & blow maleminds as well...this gulcher collection compiles some of my best home recordings from all over the kv map and one studio smash hit freeway (track 1). jam it! it is the dopest!! ok, peace!!" - kurt vile, on the kv sound & constant hitmaker. |
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Artist: WAVVES Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "lo-fi beach punk anthems by San Diegos Nathan Williams. beautiful timeless melodies on top trash can guitars and blown out drums.14 tracks in 35 minutes." - Woodsist. "As of today, its officially crispy in New York, so we are seeking one last summer solace with the California crust-pop of San Diegos Wavves. As you might expect from a SoCal band named after ocean motion, this shit sounds like a living version of Thrilla Gorilla & Da Boys. As you might not expect, it is made by one kid named Nathan who has a classic rap blog called Ghost Ramp. Wavves has a self-titled LP coming out in about a month on Woodsist, and a follow up in 2009 on De Stijl which will include "So Bored" and "Wavves" which is also ridiculously great and streaming on his MySpace."- THE FADER. |
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Artist: WAVVES Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| "lo-fi beach punk anthems by San Diegos Nathan Williams. beautiful timeless melodies on top trash can guitars and blown out drums.14 tracks in 35 minutes." - Woodsist. "As of today, its officially crispy in New York, so we are seeking one last summer solace with the California crust-pop of San Diegos Wavves. As you might expect from a SoCal band named after ocean motion, this shit sounds like a living version of Thrilla Gorilla & Da Boys. As you might not expect, it is made by one kid named Nathan who has a classic rap blog called Ghost Ramp. Wavves has a self-titled LP coming out in about a month on Woodsist, and a follow up in 2009 on De Stijl which will include "So Bored" and "Wavves" which is also ridiculously great and streaming on his MySpace."- THE FADER. |
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Artist: WHITE FENCE Title: (Vol. 1 & 2) Family Perfume Format: Double LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $22.00 |
| "Family Perfume Vol. 1 & 2 compiles both volumes of TIM PRESLEYs latest album on one handy double-disc release. Includes digital download coupon." -Woodsist. "Fuck nostalgia. Live the truth. Truth is feeling, truth is sound, truth is motion. I am believing. I am seeing. I am moving. Truth is forever. Meet the Tim Presley / White Fence Truth Serum. Imagine, if you will, that your Uncle Frank, Aunt Jane and Cousin Ricky all made out with George Harrison at the same time and felt good about it. Thats what the Family Perfume smells like. Like the real shit. This aint your regular mutton-chop rock. This is freak your fucking mom out cause she caught you naked in the backyard blasting this shit rock. This is not a joke. This is the hit factory..." -Ty Segall. |
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Artist: WHITE FENCE Title: Is Growing Faith Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Those who expect TIM PRESLEYs WHITE FENCE project to be an extension of DARKER MY LOVE and STRANGE BOYS are in for a lysergic surprise. Sure, listen to Is Growing Faith, and youll hear the same 60s love thats in Presleys day-job band. But replace the boogie bass with The Velvet Underground and Nico guitars, ramp up the weirdness-youll start to feel all the brown acid in your brain melting into your pineal gland just in time for the bad trip lyrics to kick in. That and the laughter, and the reverb, and the echo, and the feeling that this is a nightmare Presleys welcoming you to enjoy. "Few albums in the recent past have had such a bleeding, in-the-red mystery. Is Growing Faith has a calm-before-the-storm feel, albeit a paisley one filled with hashish-laden clouds of wonder. Aside from a few well-placed punk drums and vintage guitar sustain that stretches as late as 1978, this could be the great lost Teenage Shutdown or Pebbles compilation, with fantastic, fanciful ballads and faded odes to lost friends all wrapped up in a stoned-ground aural husk rough enough to wear down ones teeth. The individual songs each tell their own story, sometimes in Kinks style, sometimes like a Voxx Records band from the 80s, and sometimes like a third-generation Dylan-buzzed teen who only recently learned two chords on the Farfisa." -Dan Collins, L.A. Record." -Woodsist. |
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Artist: WHITE FENCE Title: Is Growing Faith Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $11.00 |
| "Those who expect TIM PRESLEYs WHITE FENCE project to be an extension of DARKER MY LOVE and STRANGE BOYS are in for a lysergic surprise. Sure, listen to Is Growing Faith, and youll hear the same 60s love thats in Presleys day-job band. But replace the boogie bass with The Velvet Underground and Nico guitars, ramp up the weirdness-youll start to feel all the brown acid in your brain melting into your pineal gland just in time for the bad trip lyrics to kick in. That and the laughter, and the reverb, and the echo, and the feeling that this is a nightmare Presleys welcoming you to enjoy. "Few albums in the recent past have had such a bleeding, in-the-red mystery. Is Growing Faith has a calm-before-the-storm feel, albeit a paisley one filled with hashish-laden clouds of wonder. Aside from a few well-placed punk drums and vintage guitar sustain that stretches as late as 1978, this could be the great lost Teenage Shutdown or Pebbles compilation, with fantastic, fanciful ballads and faded odes to lost friends all wrapped up in a stoned-ground aural husk rough enough to wear down ones teeth. The individual songs each tell their own story, sometimes in Kinks style, sometimes like a Voxx Records band from the 80s, and sometimes like a third-generation Dylan-buzzed teen who only recently learned two chords on the Farfisa." -Dan Collins, L.A. Record." -Woodsist. |
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Artist: WHITE FENCE Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "Wander into the sweltering Cali smog to find yourself transported into a lysergic pop netherworld, where White Fence carves broad strokes of color into your mind. Coming on like Love in a Lollipop Shoppe, or Chris Knox abusing a Vox, the record oscillates between a sun-dappled English meadow, a crumbling SoCal suburban bedroom, and a riotous Sunset Strip leather gang knife fight, with the kind of warped precision and purity that marks the wolves from the sheep and the profound from the pretend in this instant online age. You know what I mean. Connoisseurs of the physical format will be richly rewarded with surgical-grade vinyl and a gorgeous fold-out insert." - Make a Mess. |
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Artist: WOODEN WAND Title: More From The Mountain Format: 7" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"More From The Mountain features one of James Jackson Toths final transmissions under the Wooden Wand moniker. Side A has been a live favorite for some time, while Side Bs "Guru Femmes" is a home recording of a long-retired tune entirely exclusive to this release. Limited, hurry, etc" - Woodsist.
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Artist: WOODS Title: At Echo Lake Format: CD Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The distance between 2007s At Rear House and 2010s At Echo Lake may at first seem only semantic, but it more properly represents a move from a kind of informal back porch jam ethos to a fully-committed vision of the infinite possibilities of group playing. "Over the past few years, WOODS has established themselves as an anomaly in a world of freaks. They were an odd proposition even in the outre company of vocalist / guitarist / label owner JEREMY EARLs Woodsist roster, perpetually out of time, committed to songsmanship in an age of noise, drone and improvisation, to extended soloing, oblique instrumentals and the usurping use of tapes and F/X in an age of dead-end singer-songwriters. Recent live shows have seen them best confuse the two, playing beautifully constructed songs torn apart by fuzztone jams and odd electronics. At Echo Lake feels like a diamond-sharp distillation of the turbulent power of their live shows, in much the same way that The Grateful Deads "Dark Star" single amplified and engulfed the planetary aspect of their improvised takes. Some of the material here--the opening "Blood Dries Darker," the euphoric "Mornin Time"-is so lush that lesser brains wouldve succumbed to the appeal of strings and horns, but At Echo Lake is more Fifth Dimension than Notorious Byrd Brothers, nowhere more so than on "From the Horn," a track as beautiful in its assault on form as "Eight Miles High" or Swell Maps "Midget Submarines." But despite the instrumental innovation the album heralds-G. LUCAS CRANEs psychedelic tape work on "Suffering Season," guest musician MATTHEW VALENTINEs harmonica and modified banjo / sitar on "Time Fading Lines"-At Echo Lake is all about the vocals. Woods secret weapon is the quality of Earls voice, absorbing the naive style of Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Neil Young while rethinking it as a discipline and a tradition. Here he is singing at the peak of his powers, in a high soulful style bolstered by heavenly arrangements of backing vocals. At Echo Lake feels like the transmission point for teenage garage from the past to the future. Deformed by contemporary experiments, bolstered by magical traditions, its the sound of now, right here, At Echo Lake."-David Keenan, Glasgow, March 2010. |
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Artist: WOODS Title: At Echo Lake Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
| "The distance between 2007s At Rear House and 2010s At Echo Lake may at first seem only semantic, but it more properly represents a move from a kind of informal back porch jam ethos to a fully-committed vision of the infinite possibilities of group playing. "Over the past few years, WOODS has established themselves as an anomaly in a world of freaks. They were an odd proposition even in the outre company of vocalist / guitarist / label owner JEREMY EARLs Woodsist roster, perpetually out of time, committed to songsmanship in an age of noise, drone and improvisation, to extended soloing, oblique instrumentals and the usurping use of tapes and F/X in an age of dead-end singer-songwriters. Recent live shows have seen them best confuse the two, playing beautifully constructed songs torn apart by fuzztone jams and odd electronics. At Echo Lake feels like a diamond-sharp distillation of the turbulent power of their live shows, in much the same way that The Grateful Deads "Dark Star" single amplified and engulfed the planetary aspect of their improvised takes. Some of the material here--the opening "Blood Dries Darker," the euphoric "Mornin Time"-is so lush that lesser brains wouldve succumbed to the appeal of strings and horns, but At Echo Lake is more Fifth Dimension than Notorious Byrd Brothers, nowhere more so than on "From the Horn," a track as beautiful in its assault on form as "Eight Miles High" or Swell Maps "Midget Submarines." But despite the instrumental innovation the album heralds-G. LUCAS CRANEs psychedelic tape work on "Suffering Season," guest musician MATTHEW VALENTINEs harmonica and modified banjo / sitar on "Time Fading Lines"-At Echo Lake is all about the vocals. Woods secret weapon is the quality of Earls voice, absorbing the naive style of Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Neil Young while rethinking it as a discipline and a tradition. Here he is singing at the peak of his powers, in a high soulful style bolstered by heavenly arrangements of backing vocals. At Echo Lake feels like the transmission point for teenage garage from the past to the future. Deformed by contemporary experiments, bolstered by magical traditions, its the sound of now, right here, At Echo Lake."-David Keenan, Glasgow, March 2010. |
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Artist: WOODS Title: At Echo Lake Format: Cass Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $8.00 |
| "The distance between 2007s At Rear House and 2010s At Echo Lake may at first seem only semantic, but it more properly represents a move from a kind of informal back porch jam ethos to a fully-committed vision of the infinite possibilities of group playing. "Over the past few years, WOODS has established themselves as an anomaly in a world of freaks. They were an odd proposition even in the outre company of vocalist / guitarist / label owner JEREMY EARLs Woodsist roster, perpetually out of time, committed to songsmanship in an age of noise, drone and improvisation, to extended soloing, oblique instrumentals and the usurping use of tapes and F/X in an age of dead-end singer-songwriters. Recent live shows have seen them best confuse the two, playing beautifully constructed songs torn apart by fuzztone jams and odd electronics. At Echo Lake feels like a diamond-sharp distillation of the turbulent power of their live shows, in much the same way that The Grateful Deads "Dark Star" single amplified and engulfed the planetary aspect of their improvised takes. Some of the material here--the opening "Blood Dries Darker," the euphoric "Mornin Time"-is so lush that lesser brains wouldve succumbed to the appeal of strings and horns, but At Echo Lake is more Fifth Dimension than Notorious Byrd Brothers, nowhere more so than on "From the Horn," a track as beautiful in its assault on form as "Eight Miles High" or Swell Maps "Midget Submarines." But despite the instrumental innovation the album heralds-G. LUCAS CRANEs psychedelic tape work on "Suffering Season," guest musician MATTHEW VALENTINEs harmonica and modified banjo / sitar on "Time Fading Lines"-At Echo Lake is all about the vocals. Woods secret weapon is the quality of Earls voice, absorbing the naive style of Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Neil Young while rethinking it as a discipline and a tradition. Here he is singing at the peak of his powers, in a high soulful style bolstered by heavenly arrangements of backing vocals. At Echo Lake feels like the transmission point for teenage garage from the past to the future. Deformed by contemporary experiments, bolstered by magical traditions, its the sound of now, right here, At Echo Lake."-David Keenan, Glasgow, March 2010. |
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Artist: WOODS Title: Cali In A Cup Format: 7" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Woodsist presents WOODS latest single in anticipation of their upcoming full-length Bend Beyond due out this Fall. The 7-inches features a non-album B-side and is limited to 1,000 copies." -Woodsist. |
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Artist: WOODS Title: I Was Gone Format: 7" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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"guess this new woods ep is a more unconscious approach to the written song. A side is a 3 part tape collage/head scratcher called Days Gone By. B side features new easy breezy psych rock single, I was Gone and the drugged out tribal child, Hang On. its crunchy. take with some honey slides"- Tattoo Marty.
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Artist: WOODS Title: Songs Of Shame Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $13.00 |
| "The fourth full length by Woods, Songs of Shame, rips deeper with both 90-second and 10-minute forays into skeletal psychedelia. This is not to say the idiosyncratic songwriting style & vocalizing of Jeremy Earl is not present in spades but expanded, colored, and twisted into a tie-dye of soundscapes. Having toured incessantly over the last 12 months as a four piece (Jarvis Taveniere, G. Lucas Crane & Kevin Morby round out the band), many of the songs on Shame benefit from having been road worn, windblown, and deeply grooved." - Woodsist. |
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Artist: WOODS Title: Sun And Shade Format: LP Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $14.00 |
| "Woods is a two-headed dog asleep on the porch and a butterfly on the windowsill... a Janus, a Gemini and a screen door. The sun wont fade and the earworms will not leave, but the jams go on too long for the girl in the back who wonders if her friends are at another bar. Still, the ballads always make her cry. Woods is up there relaying the Woods-feel: Folk-rock, fuzz, tambourines, tapes and raw lunch pulled straight from the yard. Pop songs and other things: Sun and Shade.” -Glenn Donaldson “Loose, shuffling and tuneful, the abridged Woods experience sounds more like Wowee Zowee than Workingmans Dead, but it hits just the right contradictory note of tight arrangements and breathing-room playing to get that back-porch, weird America vibe.” -Pitchfork |
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Artist: WOODS Title: Sun And Shade Format: Cass Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "Woods is a two-headed dog asleep on the porch and a butterfly on the windowsill... a Janus, a Gemini and a screen door. The sun wont fade and the earworms will not leave, but the jams go on too long for the girl in the back who wonders if her friends are at another bar. Still, the ballads always make her cry. Woods is up there relaying the Woods-feel: Folk-rock, fuzz, tambourines, tapes and raw lunch pulled straight from the yard. Pop songs and other things: Sun and Shade.” -Glenn Donaldson “Loose, shuffling and tuneful, the abridged Woods experience sounds more like Wowee Zowee than Workingmans Dead, but it hits just the right contradictory note of tight arrangements and breathing-room playing to get that back-porch, weird America vibe.” -Pitchfork |
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Artist: WOODS/KURT VILE Title: Split Format: 7" Label: Woodsist Country: USA Price: $6.50 |
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Artist: GIANT CLAW Title: Haunted Planet Format: 12" Label: Wool Country: France Price: $15.00 |
| "Limited to 250 copies 12". Special full-color design by Keith Rankin. For fans of Can/Terry Riley/Krautrock/early electronic music. Blogged by Altered Zones, Decoder Magazine, 20jazzfunkgreats, etc., Giant Claw is multi-instrumentalist and visual artist Keith Rankins synth-exploration project, and the music is an homage to early electronic music and also a contemporaneous and visionary work. Keith co-runs Orange Milk Records. Altered Zones: "builds through the accumulation of synth motif upon synth motif, enticing a theatrical and fantastical experience nothing short of a Mega Man boss theme."" -Wool. |
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Artist: COLD SUN Title: Dark Shadows Format: CD Label: World in Sound Country: Germany Price: $23.00 |
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"First time available on CD, Cold Sun from Austin, Texas was recorded in 1970 in the legendary Sonobeat studios, where the Mariani and Johnny Winter first LPs were produced. The Cold Sun band are considered contemporaries of Velvet Underground and The Fugs, often listed as being in a similar vein but inspirations for this unique piece actually go back to the desperate, haunted Joe Meek. All songs lyrically express dark, mystic poetry with the true 60s psychedelic floating/distorted fuzz spirit presented in short compact mini-epics along with several mind blowing long tunes, such as Ra-Ma (11 min.), Here In The Year (9 min.) and Fall (7 min.). Discovered by Rockadelic Records of Dallas, Texas in 1991, the Dark Shadows album saw the light of day the next year as a limited LP version, to become today one of the most important and revered US psychedelic underground albums from the early 70s. Rockadelic heard it in the form of an old scratchy acetate that one of the Cold Sun band members had made in order to be able to play the recording at friends` parties on their turntables. The acetate only contained 2/3 of the songs but so greatly impressed them that Rockadelic managed together with bandleader Bill Miller to release the complete sessions from master tapes. Autoharp wizard Miller eventually spearheaded Roky Ericksons international debut as the Cold Sun band joined forces with Roky in 1974 and became BliebAlien, later evolved into The Aliens and backed Roky on his famous albums and historical concerts. Carefully remastered from the master tapes, this album will bring new rewarding listening experiences in expanded fidelity, plus 2 unreleased non-album songs, authentic Live/Concert recordings of Live Again (10 min.) and Mind Aura (7 min.). The fidelity of these reel to reel live recordings is also remarkable. The CD and Vinyl issues will both have an extended booklet/insert with liner notes by Jello Biafra plus rare photos and other surprises. According to Patrick (Lama) Lundborg from Lysergia.com: Best Rockadelic LP ever, and in my opinion the best Texas LP of the time. Enjoy this ONE-HOUR psychedelic Happening, a must-have 60s/70s heavy uber-psych masterpiece!" - World In Sound.
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Artist: COLD SUN Title: Dark Shadows Format: LP/10" Label: World in Sound Country: Germany Price: $56.00 |
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"Vinyl version. Packaged in a luxury foldout cardboard cover, like Dragonwyck, Phantasia or Mystic Siva, and contains an extra 10" bonus record and an extended booklet/insert with liner notes by Jello Biafra plus rare photos and other surprises. 10" tracklisting: A1. Live Again; B1. Mind Aura." -World In Sound
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Artist: DRAGONWYCK Title: Chapter 2 Format: LP & 7 Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $45.00 |
| "This release is the second of World In Sounds Dragonwyck trilogy. The group from Cleveland was one of the most promising bands from the early 70s in that area. After their first legendary 1970 heavy-psych album, the keyboardist changed, and the band left their garage-y Doors influences to create their own sound. The music on these well produced stereo-recordings exists only on acetate (5 copies), and drifted more into the British vein of progressive rock, like King Crimson, Pink Floyd or Yes, but also reflects US-Westcoast feeling like Its a Beautiful Day. By 1972 Dragonwyck was performing Moody Blues complete Days of Future Passed live onstage, which turned out extremely well, so this is for sure the strongest note youll recognize. The 10 original cuts are intense and very unique with strong melodies/vocals, heavy guitar solos and an extreme variety of keyboard and vocal sounds -- an awesome mix of heavy underground rock with classical chamber-music style/elements. Included youll find a bonus 45 record (with pic. sleeve) which was released in 1974, also a poster with a bio, authentic press-releases and cool photos, remastered from the original mastertapes -- one of the finest unreleased American progressive-psychedelic hippie-art rock-albums -- truly a masterpiece in originality, creativity and musicianship!" - World In Sound. |
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Artist: FEAR ITSELF Title: Fear Itself Format: LP Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $25.00 |
| LP version, full color gatefold sleeve. "The album was originally released in 1969 on Dot-Records but didnt receive too much attention - maybe it appeared as a too freaked out heavy version of Jefferson Airplane or Big Brother & the Holding Co. The group started back in Atlanta Georgia in 1967 as a quartet with two guitars and played true psychedelic sound, recorded at the Record Plant in NYC, and moved to Woodstock (NY). The 10 album tracks contain two arrangements of traditional tunes all others are originals reflecting true electric heavy blues with a strong Hendrix feel, duelling guitar work and an outstanding female voice/vocals/screams...lots of intense stereo effects. This release is issued with stunning sound quality from the masters. For all 60s collectors who are not familiar with this masterpiece - its a must - there are not many groups that were able to present the freewheelin live on stage feeling on their studio album!" - World In Sound. |
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Artist: FREEMAN SOUND & FRIENDS Title: Heavy Trip Format: CD Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $20.00 |
| "World In Sound presents another group that represents the late 60s, early 70s heavy psychedelic era scene in northeast Ohio, USA (the same region that Dragonwyck is from). Having won the Starshine Productions Battle of the Bands in 1970, the five-member Freeman Sound was established as the most popular of several bands (including Morly Grey), that had records released on the Starshine label. This special collection of original songs and sounds is an exciting bit of rock history that documents some of the charm, wit and depth of talent that made Freeman Sound the special local phenomenon they were. This release includes 12 great, quality tracks with bio and photos. Youll get stoned on some mind-bending vocals backed by instrumentation that includes some very intense, heavy fuzz and wah pedal guitar sounds, solid drums and a screaming organ (with flashes of famous British groups such as Spooky Tooth). Prepare to get off on cuts like the 17 minute Heavy Trip #70, the Hendrix-like Tomorrow Is Plastic and what we would venture to say is the heaviest version of Merle Travis 16 Tons ever recorded. This band broke up before they were able to make the most of their popularity. With this previously unreleased album, they may be taking up where they left off. For fans of intelligently executed psychedelic hard rock and pop with a message." - World In Sound. |
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Artist: FREEMAN SOUND & FRIENDS Title: Heavy Trip Format: LP & 7" Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $44.00 |
| "World In Sound presents another group that represents the late 60s, early 70s heavy psychedelic era scene in northeast Ohio, USA (the same region that Dragonwyck is from). Having won the Starshine Productions Battle of the Bands in 1970, the five-member Freeman Sound was established as the most popular of several bands (including Morly Grey), that had records released on the Starshine label. This special collection of original songs and sounds is an exciting bit of rock history that documents some of the charm, wit and depth of talent that made Freeman Sound the special local phenomenon they were. This release includes twelve great, quality tracks, four on an extra 7" record. Bio and photos are on a poster. Youll get stoned on some mind-bending vocals backed by instrumentation that includes some very intense, heavy fuzz and wah pedal guitar sounds, solid drums and a screaming organ with flashes of famous British groups. This band broke up before they were able to make the most of their popularity. With this previously unreleased album, they may be taking up where they left off. For fans of intelligently-executed psychedelic hard rock and pop with a message." - World In Sound. |
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Artist: GR & FULL-BLOWN EXPANSION Title: s/t Format: CD Label: World in Sound Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Lineup: Lead guitar & expansive guitar, horizontal bass, regular & extensionist drums, loco-drums & asymmetric drumming, wah-vocals & story, background organ & keyboard, shouts & effects, 4 track tape recorder. One man All-Made Record-Excavator into the deep limbo of egoXploitation. Features 43 min. of decadent loco self-conduct & mystifying woodoolectric playing, directly dropped down from the sole complexion of individual force as a plural humans sonic concoction, the alone-lineup that never existed but in the incarnation of one: Full-Blown Expansion. Get into Gunslingers founding member alchemy - supreme wild stuff of weird, abstract & deviationist multi-instrumental solo performs, improvised & composed and elevated separately on each instrument & track by GR (mostly in one take).Along with the whole instrumental lineup, analog 4 track tape recording & other insinuation (lead guitar & expansive guitar, horizontal bass, regular & extensionist drums, loco-drums & asymmetric drumming, wah-vocals & story, background organ & keyboard, shouts & effects, 4 track tape recorder), the record comes up in a limited Digipack edition assorted of GRs mesmerizing iconographic artwork, plus original secret visionary liners by Cold Sun-The Aliens legendary autoharpist Billy Miller. Careful with that Descent along the an-ti-fohn-nuls 13 min. of extensionist drumming and seminal acid stoned guitars & wah-vocals driving that leads to the great infernal boogie accident- Vs the regular alternation (in rhythm & guitar color tone) of the fuzzy oniric Transfiguration on a sepiachord- Vs the wizardesque inspiration of The metal spike, GRs one very archetypal & representative of the instant composition process & the superposition of orchestral muses. And careful again with that explosive insane unmethodic The intercessor speaks, some ultra-shouting waves traumatic 7 min. towards the abyssal fluxus of koZmic Rock-Vs The scene/slowlys getting louders ritual rotative-leslie & expansive wah noise guitars coming with special voice box- Vs all stoned day long they take you s impossible alinear & asymmetric instrumental superposition (includ. transcendental background organ) backing up immaculate spoken poetry- Vs the enigmatic analog keys & clair-obscure of Blind Black or pearly white. Bliss!" -World in Sound |
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Artist: GUNSLINGERS Title: Manifesto Zero Format: LP Label: World in Sound Country: Germany Price: $27.00 |
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"Who should have thought some incoming spawn would survive No More Invention (2008)? Yes sirs, inside the Grand Procreators consumed ashes, still half lying half standing thus was some rebel mass endowed with the urge to appear in face of the fallen stuff. It would be chemically determined as a following sacrificial revenge after Invention got lost 2 years ago in a rock located in San Pedro Ville, France. And then came rebellion appearing in its entire regained nudity, though it was given a load of Seltz water so it can endure its own terrifying blast power. Here it is -- now Maniacs & Zealots, be afraid of intending to tickle the Beast from your players! World In Sound presents Manifesto Zero, Gunslingers second atrocious little deformed baby, recorded on the infuriated November of 2009 while evil-red-eyed wolves were getting enraged in the frightened night. No doubt it has to be a relentless sonic testimony in the style of throwing Vitriol at the snobbish subcultures face and, Willynilly, youll be given a proper naughty chase and a sixfold punishment always greedy of its prey from start to finish. Rhythmically Cyclopean as overexcited as starving due to the constant hammering of its ritualistic tempo & contra-tempo gluttony, its disturbing debauchery of lysergic & contemplative elements gives besides the whole savagery thing some multipleheaded Beast aspect by leading its own sound color touch (& its obvious axis of devastation) right into the alley of a space glider under oversaturated hypnosis ; and more generally, into variable expressions & exploration areas which stand between Underground Rock Music unclassified genres & subgenres. Demented Guitar wall-of-acid-riffs, pissed off takeoffs & instrumental smashs on bewitchment mode, harmonic death traps, pulsatory frenzy & insane grooves in the likes of a vicious contortionist highway, startling surrealistic vocals sealed to a psychotic Daedalus-esque bass unfurling, and ultimately a scary statement of visceral power. The whole thing devoted to the cult of analog 4 track tape recording, the everlasting oily machine & Slingers dynamo. Manifesto Zero is nothing less than an authentic firebrand." -World In Sound
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Artist: GUNSLINGERS Title: No More Invention Format: CD Label: World in Sound Country: Germany Price: $21.00 |
| "Here is the self-confessed Slingers electric companion, a huge onset tour de force hailing from the realm of San Pedro (France) and that should cause weird effects through inventions great (golden) ass. First came Gunslingers, raising against the big bullshit, then came No More Invention, wearing a nine-acts sling of a hilarious outrage. Introducing the ultimate assault of her illegitimate three sons, also known as massacre-rock deviant inquisitors, a French deconstructionist trio who needed to abuse the artifacts of some lost rock synthesis in one total, furious and quintessential record, like an evil paradox of rock. Expect pure apotheosis of wild horror biker freakouts, acid avant-punk and trippy psych-noise with no respite from the actions breakneck speed. Gregory Raimo aka GRs incriminating unspoken yaya words and unparalleled orgiastic guitar savagery over control, spacey analog effects fulminations and feedbacks culminating with Matthieu Canaguiers hypnotic and castrationist ritual thunder bass, and Antoine Hadjioannous prophetic mad with scalp crashing down drums-machete. From the gigantic 13 minute long blowing Krauty prayer of Lighter Slinger Festival to the frightening embodiment of Nathaniel Hawthornes The Ministers Black Veil, this is some magnetizing unknown & sacred distillation. Comes with a four page booklet of awesome artistic statement in a limited digipack edition. Loud and irreverent up to hilarity, and paradoxically, largely out of any category, this freakish explosive mixture, recorded in 2007 in three days, re-pioneers the hijacking of rock landmarks. Probably based on Lady Hysterias (herself) voluntary uncontrolled intent, Gunslingers No More Invention spreads the enlightenment of catastrophic happenings and a nonsense of epic blackout scenes into electric round of fury. Be prepared for a constant state of shock." -World In Sound |
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Artist: HAMANA Title: Hamana Format: LP Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $38.00 |
| "Hamanas debut album recorded in 1974, was issued on the local Phoenix label, Canyon Records. To most of the 60s psychedelic rock/folk fans this is almost an unknown album, original pressings seem to have disappeared, only a few copies are known in collectors hands. Bruce Hamana, a native American, is a member of the Indian Hopi Tribe and went in 1969 to college near San Francisco to live in the white mans world. Instead of traditional native American themes he felt like writing modern, revolutionary, contemporary music -- the result you hear on this album is powerful and melodic, and expresses perfectly the sunny California peace, love & freedom feeling, but also contains a social-critical message.One of these days everything is gonna change, things you take for granted will be taken away from you. The music itself is emotive with strong vocals, lots of Westcoast psychedelic guitar flashes, a bit garage feeling but also loner folk style with native American elements. The appeal of this album reminds of Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Byrds, X.I.T, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, Garrett Lund. Near unbelievable that on these recordings all instruments, bass, guitars, vocals and drums have been played by Hamana himself, to get overdubbed and to become finally a tasty and atmospheric stereo acoustic/electric mix." - World In Sound. |
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Artist: ID, THE Title: The Inner Sounds of the Id Format: Double LP Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $32.00 |
| "The Inner Sounds of the Id album features rock music with Oriental influences, played in various time signatures like 17/8, 20/8, and 7/4 time, as well as straight-ahead blues/rock in 4/4 time. You will hear the rock and roll roots drifting into garage, beat, psychedelic and progressive sounds - powerful and unique - far ahead of its time. The title track, longer than 10 minutes, you will never forget. It is an excursion, introducing the upcoming hypnotic beat and psychedelic sound. A cosmic sitar and meditative vocals intensify the mystical and floating vibrations of music, coming from the Ids inner space. The Beatles with Sgt. Pepper, and also the Rolling Stones with Their Satanic Majesties Request went, little later than The Id, into similar directions. This well-produced stereo 2LP set contains extended musician information, (a second LP) contains 10 bonus tracks with outtakes from the album recording sessions. This is an ultimately rewarding listening experience on the highest level of creativity and musicianship." - World In Sound. |
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Artist: JAMES, MICHAEL Title: Runaway World Format: CD Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "This album is a great artifact for all 60s and 70s music collectors, original copies in good condition change hands for about 500 U.S. dollars. The spirit of the music is a tasty combination between aggressive fuzz-garage-hard rock and atmospheric psych-folk with moody vocals and a poetic message, comparable to World In Sounds legendary Phantasia or Dr. Hooker. In between perfectly arranged songs like You Dont Walk On My Street, I Remember and the psych-trip Sleepers, youll hear weird spoken word themes as Guatamalan Strange, Electronic Silver and heavy-riff instrumentals. This was the debut release by Michael James, who is still active in the music business with his own label, Empath Records, and the groups Children of the Risk, Michael Yonkers and Mounting Santa feat. Dr. Fink of Princes Revolution, which are 4 bonus tracks on this release. The album Runaway World was recorded and produced extremely well. This CD-reissue is produced from the original analog master tapes with a 12 p. booklet and 5 bonus tracks, almost 70 minutes playing time. So, look forward to this great album by a unique rock artist like none youve heard!" - World In Sound. |
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Artist: JAMES, MICHAEL Title: Runaway World Format: LP Label: World in Sound Country: Germany Price: $42.00 |
| "This album is a legendary artifact for all 60s and 70s music collectors, original copies in good condition change hands for about 500 US$. The spirit of the music is a tasty combination between aggressive groovy fuzz-garage-hard rock and atmospheric psych-folk with moody vocals and a poetic message, comparable to World In Sounds legendary Phantasia or Dr. Hooker. In between perfectly arranged songs like You Dont Walk On My Street, I Remember and the psych-trip Sleepers, youll hear weird spoken word themes as Guatamalan Strange, Electronic Silver and heavy-riff instrumentals. This was the debut release by Michael James, whos still active in the music business with his own label, Empath Records, and the groups Children of the Risk, Michael Yonkers and Mounting Santa feat. Dr. Fink of Princes Revolution. This LP-reissue is produced from the original analog master tapes." -World in Sound. Classic Minneapolis private press weirdness. |
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Artist: MAGNIFICENT BROTHERHOOD Title: Dope Idiots Format: LP Label: World in Sound Country: Germany Price: $31.00 |
| "If you are into uninspired lo-fi garage, turn the page, this is not for you. If you are turned on by names like The Music Machine or The Seeds, then you should certainly get to know The Magnificent Brotherhood. Dope Idiots brings you twelve original songs, full of trumpet-like fuzz guitars, Farfisa organ swirls and Zappa-esque lyrics, all blended with a punk attitude. Despite being faithful to a vintage sound, The Magnificent Brotherhood have developed their unique songwriting style. And we say unique because it doesnt sound like a Nuggets cover band. This is music. This is the real thing!" - World in Sound |
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Artist: MODULO 1000 Title: Nao Fale Com Paredes Format: CD Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "Modulo 1000 is one of Brasils famous progressive rock bands of the early 1970s, their only album became legendary in the collectors scene, as one of the best South American records of all times, besides Laghonia, Emiliano Zapata, Psiglo, Opus Alfa. As Luiz Simas (organ) remembers: "The music of Modulo 1000 had its own appeal to an audience that wanted a heavy, raw, experimental, psychedelic sound. Our kind of music did not make it to the radio stations. It was too wild. The distribution of the record was done in a very limited way. The record label directors, which probably didnt understand or even didnt like our music, did zero promotion for the LP." This CD-issue contains 8 bonus tracks and comes with the original cover artwork, an outstanding psychedelic painting, presented in a triple fold hardcover (as Mystic Siva) plus a 16 page booklet with, bio and lots of photos. Highly recommended because of its individual and intense progressive sound." - World In Sound. |
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Artist: STRAWBERRY WINDOW Title: S/T Format: LP + 7" Label: World in Sound Country: Germany Price: $53.00 |
| "Strawberry Window hailed from the San Francisco Bay Areas East Bay music scene in the mid 60s and were truly one of the early birds and innovators who made their own distinct brand of rock-n-roll. They played in a heavy-psychedelic-garage style, sounding somewhat reminiscent of the Jefferson Airplane, (early) Mad River, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Frumious Bandersnatch. These previously unreleased recordings have survived for the last four decades in a box on a shelf in a band members closet. Meticulous care and detail has been taken to master these recordings with a fresh, open approach, while ensuring that the sound and integrity of the vintage songs remained intact. The amazing music of this guitar based quartet ranges from catchy electric folk tunes and West Coast garage rock to raw energetic acid jams lasting over 10 minutes. Youll be impressed by the (stereo) sound quality throughout their ten original cuts not to mention their freaky live version of J D Loudermilks Tobacco Road. Its an out right shame that this talented bunch were not signed to a record deal back then. (In 1968 they switched guitar players, added a girl singer and changed their name to the Dandelion Wine and recorded several songs and also released a private pressing of a 4 song 7 inch EP.) World In Sound presents for the first time ever, the music of and the history behind this talented group of songwriters and wild performers known as the Strawberry Window. The LP-version will be 180g vinyl, handmade extra heavy sleeve, poster and a 3-track 7" EP, in total 60 minutes of intense but melodic performances that will take you on a trip back to the halcyon days of the Summer of Love. Discover it, its truly a masterpiece from the roots of the legendary SF-Sound!" -World In Sound |
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Artist: V/A Title: Psychedelic Minds Vol. 1 (Heavy Underground 1967-71) Format: LP Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| LP version, previously on CD. "The international bands on this selection represent impressively the boiling point of the short living worldwide psychedelic rock movement between 1967-71 - the years when garage punk evolved into heavy psychedelic rock with its wider soundscapes and complex improvisations. Volume 1 contains a dozen 45-rpm songs by lost psychedelic messengers (eight US bands and from Germany, Peru, France each one). The groups included are: Blackrock, Sound Machine, Yesterdays Obsession, Mastermind, Sangre Mexicana, Bhagavad Gita, Protein Bros, Purple Canteen, Los Nuevos Shains, Blow Mind and the A & B-side of legendary Dirty Filthy Mud. About half of the songs are previously unreissued and appear in stunning sound quality. To be continued..." - World In Sound. |
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Artist: V/A Title: Psychedelic Minds Vol. 1 (Heavy Underground 1967-71) Format: CD Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "The international bands on this selection represent impressively the boiling point of the short living worldwide psychedelic rock movement between 1967-71 - the years when garage punk evolved into heavy psychedelic rock with its wider soundscapes and complex improvisations. Volume 1 contains a dozen 45-rpm songs by lost psychedelic messengers (eight US bands and from Germany, Peru, France each one). The groups included are: Blackrock, Sound Machine, Yesterdays Obsession, Mastermind, Sangre Mexicana, Bhagavad Gita, Protein Bros, Purple Canteen, Los Nuevos Shains, Blow Mind and the A & B-side of legendary Dirty Filthy Mud. About half of the songs are previously unreissued and appear in stunning sound quality. To be continued..." - World In Sound. |
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Artist: WAZOO Title: Wazoo Format: CD Label: World In Sound Country: Germany Price: $19.00 |
| "This group from the Detroit area is probably the weirdest experimental psych outfits from 1970. Originally the band was hired by Zig Zag Records to record cover tunes and easy listening, with the intention, Were just doing whatever we want, the result was an overdosed rock concept album... to give the music back to the people. Original copies are rare and pretty unknown among psych collectors until now! The 7 songs with an average length of 7 minutes combine different styles of music, from heavy garage rock to bluesy West Coast, drifting into various tripped-out, funk, jazz elements with humorous/social comments. Structure, feeling and complexity can be compared to experimental Krautrock, while the groups basic sound is represented better by end-60s U.S. hippie rock as Country Joe & The Fish, Grateful Dead or The Head Shop with its excessive fuzz guitar work, Farfisa organ, amazing vocals by Clevelands Bocky and several additional instruments, sax, harpsichord, cello, percussion, bells. Studio work is pretty tricky, lots of unexpected mixing and experiments, with flashes of UKs legendary White Noise. This CD issue contains a 12 p. color booklet with a bands bio, and the cool original album design, made by John Williams who also worked for Zappa -- so it can be assumed which influences Zappa used for his 1972, Grand Wazoo album?!? Wazoo presents at the highest level of musicianship free & atmospheric rock -- a unique kind of musical renaissance! -- Discover it, its a unique piece of early 70s psychedelia." - World In Sound. |
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Artist: BENT WIND Title: Sussex Format: CD Label: World Psychedelia Country: Korea Price: $17.00 |
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"First released on the tiny Trend label in 1969, Toronto quartet Bent Winds Sussex has, over the years, ascended to become one of the most-wanted and most-expensive psychedelic LPs worldwide. Easy to believe as the reckless fuzz workouts, murky production and a frontman with a heavy Lizard King fixation satisfies both the garage and trippier camps with equal abandon. Once The Lions, the album climax with its anthemic call to GET STONED!, has permeated your skull theres no turning back. There have been many reissues of this classic LP since its original release and all have been flawed by either lackadaisical mastering or lackluster contemporary bonus material. World Psychedelia have remedied this by producing the best-quality reissue to date, and bolstering the package with both sides of their 7" (Castles Made Of Man/Sacred Cows [single version]), a previously-unreleased 19-minute studio rehearsal from the era, band pics, and reproductions of gig flyers & 7" labels." - World Psychedelia.
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Artist: BULENT Title: Benimle Oynar Misin Format: CD Label: World Psychedelia Country: Price: $18.00 |
| "Extremely rare and sought-after album shows a very different side to the incredibly rich Turkish music scene of the late 1960s/early 1970s, with gravelly vocals and introspective folk rock arrangements; a mostly calm album with incredible songs and lyrics from revered songwriter Bulent Ortacgil, recorded in 1973 or 1974; regarded by Hans Pokoras Record Collector Dreams book as psych folk, where it received four stars; musical support provided by a team of dynamite musicians including Onno Tunc and Atilla Ozdemiroglu; booklet includes lyrics and photos." - World Psychedelia. |
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Artist: FLAVIOLA E O BANDO DO SOL Title: Flaviola e o Bando do Sol Format: CD Label: World Psychedelia Country: Brazil Price: $18.00 |
| "Another great example of Brasilian psicodelia from the collective of underground musicians in Recife, featuring Flávio Lira in the lead role, along with Lula Côrtes, Pablo Raphael, Robertinho of Recife, and Zé of the Flute. Of the crazy albums from this period, the Flaviola record Flaviola E O Banda Do Sol (Flaviola and the Flock of the Sun) is one of the rarest jewels. Although it was recorded the same year (1974) as Lula Côrtes and Zé Ramalhos Paêbiru album, and with most of the same musicians, this is mainly an acoustic album, rife with poetic language and regional instruments, but also demonstrating the abundant energy of people involved in making something fresh and new. The cauldron of influence in Recife resulted in some very intriguing music, and the Flaviola album is no exception -- its more intimate a trip than Paêbirú, and more accessible an experience than Satwa; this is a brilliant album, full of strange moments (cellophane crinkled into the microphone as percussion), some deft acoustic guitar, and some of the prettiest songs this side of Vashti Bunyan. Notes are more or less in English, and hefty booklet includes lyrics too." World Psychedelia. |
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Artist: LA COFRADIA DE LA FLOR SOLAR Title: La Cofradia de la Flor Solar Format: CD Label: World Psychedelia Country: Worlds Leading Terrorist State Price: $17.50 |
| "Named after a student artistic community 50 km south of Buenos Aires, The Brotherhood Of The Solar Flower was originally formed in 1968 by three of the musically inclined participants. After a compilation appearance and RCA/Vik 7" their only LP, produced by Billy Bond, was finally released in 1971 on the Microfon label. With fourth member Kubero Diaz on lead guitar, the group created a slightly-stoned mix of acoustic/electric fuzz guitars and phased vocals, and the album went on to become one of the most highly-regarded Argentinian rock LPs, alongside releases by Almendra, Vox Dei, etc." |
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Artist: MOGOLLAR Title: Mogollar Format: CD Label: World Psychedelia Country: Worlds Leading Terrorist State Price: $18.00 |
| "Incredibly rare second album from Mogollar, which does not even appear in the bands own discography, but was released on Diskotur all the same sometime around 1971; eleven perfect examples of the groups Andalou pop mixture of ethnic Turkish music and Western elements, plus eight bonus tracks from singles (including different heavier versions of two tracks from their Danses et Rhythmes album) makes for one great disc. Booklet comes with band history and includes some photos." -World Psychedelia |
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Artist: MORGEN Title: Morgen Format: CD Label: World Psychedelia Country: Worlds Leading Terrorist State Price: $17.50 |
| "ABC Records valiant attempt at the hip/youth market, Probe, released many memorable LPs by such groups as Saint Steven and The Litter along with debut offerings by Zephyr, Soft Machine and Rare Bird, but none generate the frenzy at this late date quite like the quartet led by guitarist/vocalist Steve Morgen, first unleashed in 1969. Even before dropping needle on groove, the stark black-and-white sleeve with inset Edvard Munch lithograph, in contrast to the multicoloured hues so prevalent then, makes an immediate statement. And then the music makes another immediate statement... A foreboding bass riff and staccato drumming introduce Welcome To The Void, and for the next thirty-eight minutes one is hurled headlong into a vortex of dual-guitar overload, lyrically woven with romantic and Victorian imagery residing on a tab of microdot. World Psychedelia has at last given this near-perfect album a proper presentation, reproducing the original insert with new transcriptions of the handwritten lyrics and, for the first time, including the rare 7" mono versions of Shes The Nitetime and Of Dreams. Radio stations didnt bite on the single, Probe closed up shop, and the world became a decidedly sadder place." - World Psychedelia. |
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Artist: K-GROUP Title: Screen/Cars & Soft Network Format: Lathe Cut 7" Label: World Resources Country: New Zealand Price: $10.00 |
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First World Resources release since 1997! Limited edition of 31.
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Artist: WORMDOOM Title: Last Days Boogie Format: LP Label: Wormdoom Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"All but unknown fan club vinyl of the sole album (officially issued on CD only) by this destroyed god-rock offshoot of the Twisted Village. Wayne, Kate, Tom Leonard, Joe Malinowski, Josh Burkett, & unknown others (members of Crystalized Movements, B.O.R.B., Magic Hour, Major Stars, Luxurious Bags, etc.) perform this wasted, Vermonster-like paean to psychedelic wahoos sucked into the vortex of Jesus angry sucker. Pressed on heavy vinyl, in a fold-open cover thats supposed to be a tribute to Ash Ra Temples debut, this thing is beautiful whether shelved, displayed or spinning. Anyone into the more staggering forms of contemporary lunge-psych should own this one." - Byron Coley. 200 copies pressed.
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Artist: HAMMERING THE CRAMPS Title: S/T Format: LP Label: Wormwood Grasshopper Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
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"Hammering The Cramps were a Hobart band active between 2005 -2007, with this LP being recorded at a rehearsal in Janurary 2007. In Hobart their audience was sadly limited at the time (and still is) and it would be a shame for them to fall between the cracks, because theyre one of the greatest groups to come out of this town. Their sound is loose, loud and heartfelt and has a similar charector to that of Xpressway artists, Roky Erickson and Brian Enos "Here Come The Warm Jets"." - Wormwood Grasshopper.
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Artist: REMORA Title: The Clockwork Ammonite Shells Format: CD Label: Worry Country: UK Price: $13.00 |
| "Ian (aka Remora) was a somewhat prolific figure of the 90s UK underground scene, both with his music and his visual art... Ians music has always had both organic and artificial elements combined with the vague melancholy of distant beauty." - Scott Foust (Swill Radio, Idea Fire Company). |
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Artist: SLIGHT SURFACE NOISE Title: s/t Format: LP Label: Worship Guitars Country: USA Price: $12.00 |
| 1997 release. Hand silkscreened sleeves. The band is David Wilcox, Mike Switzer (of Avijit) and Vaughn Boone (of Dry Nod). Recorded with Steve Albini. |
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Artist: JAN DUKES DE GREY Title: Sorcerers Format: CD Label: Wounded Nurse Country: Price: $20.00 |
| "Reissue of largely overlooked and underrated psychedelic folk album from UK. Originally on Deram in 1969. Songs are beautiful introspective, reflective and mystical. Similar to early ncredible String Band or Mark Fry. A mixture of trippy, stoned songs and instrumentals with eastern feel. A unique album." - Wounded Nurse. |
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Artist: RANCID HELL SPAWN Title: Abolition of the Orgasm Format: 7" Label: Wrench Country: UK Price: $7.00 |
| "Making awful noise since 1988, this straight-outta-Croyden one-man abomination has specialized in catchy, mondo-distorto one minute punk burnouts for the truly twisted, with record sleeves to match, and how! This one is no exception, and with song titles like "Dengue Doll" and "My Favourite Disease," how can you miss? Full color board sleeve and labels." -Wrench. |
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Artist: COSTES Title: Dansez Dans Les Culs Format: LP Label: Wwilko Country: Germany Price: $22.00 |
| "My rythm box had been broken for 5 years. So I was doing noise (ou noisy ?) songs, completly unstructured. Then I got fed up. I fancied making nice tunes, proper verses chorus, to make hits and sell loads of records. I bought myself a rythm box and even a machine which does electro by the kilometer. Thats how Dansez dans les culs" was born.Its more clean and you can moove on it, Certain notes really sound the type you might remember and sing all day long in your head. Theres also some gross sex words... Dont know if it will be enough to sell million."- Costes. 2006 release. |
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Artist: WOODEN WAND & THE VANISHING VOICE Title: Folk Audio Tapes Vol. 1 Format: Cass Label: WWVV Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
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"First release on the bands own label, set up to issue specific group recordings in limited editions. Those in the know are aware that even tho the Vanishing Voice orbits around a nucleus of six members (Steven Harvest Taveniere, Glucose Crane, Heidi H Reality Diehl, Satya Sai Scuppety, Ursula Damm and Wooden Wand), the camp also occasionally augments the groupsound with other rebels, freaks and prophets such as DM Seidel, Adira Amram, The Christian Richard, Gabriel Walsh, Banana Holt, Bill Nace, Jeff Lightning Lewis, Tovah ORourke and Cut Above. The Folk Audio Tapes Series will be a vessel through which the band will self-release these improvisations - for those who prefer the more instrumental side of the ensemble, these 60 minute cassettes will be just the thing to burn comforters to. This first volume is a tour release for sale during our upcoming summer jaunt with Virgin Eye Blood Brothers and Son of Earth. Glossy, color covers, housing two long sides of exclusive tracks - some live, some outtakes from our upcoming Buck Dharma double LP on Time-Lag, some culled from deep in the archives. Only a handful of these will be available through distributors, and these will not be reissued in any form at any time. Get em here or from yr favorite distro if you cant catch us on the road in July - only 100 copies available." - WWVV.
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