02.06.07
(Alberts Basement - AB1) LP $20.00
A document of underground musicians working out of Melbourne, recorded in one night at a gig in a bedroom, captured live on one microphone into a computer. Excellent recording considering the circumstances. Melodic instrumentals, lo-fi songs in unique styles, some heavier territory, some fuzzed up mayhem. Great Earthquake - The Violent Storm Part Three (electric guitar and accordion); Humansixbillion - You Hear The Sirens, There's My Song (indie pop, early Flying Nun style); Patinka Cha Cha And The Thimble Orchestra - Mime (electric guitar and percussion instrumental); Low Rise Estate - Untitled (keyboard and percussion instrumental); Fulton Girls Club - September (guitar with hushed vocals); Extreme Wheeze - T.V. Theme (acoustic guitar with audience participation and whistling); Popolice - Untitled (nice dual electric guitar / fx drone); Touch Typist - Spastic Duck Vomit Excerpt (almost freak-folk style improvisation); Guns For Saint Sebastion - A Is For Apple (stripped back Dirty Three / Mick Turner style with what sounds like harp, cello and xylophone, musically ambitious and well executed); Seagull - Train Tracks (electric guitar / vocals); Johnny Saw Horses - NYC (strummed acoustic guitar with strung out female vox); Oscar's Psyche - Vultures (electric guitar / vocals Devendra Banhart style). Individually hand-painted covers. “Most terrascopic.” --Simon Lewis, Terrascope. Edition of 300.
33 RPM
(23five - 23F/SFM 903) CD $12.00
The third anthology in nonprofit org 23five’s sound event series presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The selections here, chosen from SFMOMA’s Ten Hours of Sound From France, emphasize acousmatic approaches toward electroacoustic construction, which means a heavy historical influence from musique concrète and computer music. Tracks by Kasper T. Toeplitz, Kristoff K. Roll, Jean-Claude Risset, Lionel Marchetti, Christophe Havel, compiler Laurent Dailleau, Mathieu Champagne, pizMO, Jean-Phillippe Gross, and Mimetic. 24-page booklet includes essays and detailed program notes about the MOMA installation.
A Cage Went In Search of a Bird: Music Inspired by Franz Kafka
(Somnimage - som04) CD $15.00
Compiled by Mykel Boyd (Angelhood), this 17-band, international compilation of darkwave, neo-classical and experimental sounds features Attrition, La Funcion De Repulsa, Angelhood, Maras Torment, Loren Jan Wilson II & Ryoji Furui, Neither/Neither World, Halo Skycrash, Julian Tulip's Licorice, Benjamin Stauffer, Chagas, Shinjuku Thief, Chthonic Force, Garden of Dreams, Remora, Oblivia, E.A. Zann and The New York Room. Art and graphics by surrealist Christian Faur.
Anthology of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008
(Sub Rosa - SR265) 4xCD $25.00
Forty-eight tracks from Mainland China (Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guilin, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Shanxi, Harbin), and from countries within the Chinese area of influence (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia) that look at the recent past and the key role of pioneers like Wang Fan, Dajuin Yao, and also Hong Kong-based Li Chin Sung aka Dickson Dee who, for almost two decades, has been spreading the word about experimental music in Mainland China. Includes the short yet intense advent and history of the Chinese noise explosion, co-written by Zbigniew Karkowski and Yan Jun, “The Sound of the Underground: An Overview of Experimental and Non-Academic Music in China.” Documented for the very first time, this release provides a complete panorama of the roots and buds of an ever-growing, promising experimental community in China and beyond, with nearly five hours of music.
Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology
(Sub Rosa - SR190) Used 2xCD $15.00
Major works, rarities, previously unreleased tracks, and a huh?" track or two. With Luigi & Antonio Russolo (1921), John Cage (1965), Sonic Youth (1983), Pauline Oliveros (1966), Iannis Xenakis (1958), Einsturzende Neubauten (1998), Dj Spooky (2001), Maclise-Conrad-Cale (1965), Henri Pousseur (1957), and more.
Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / Second A-Chronology
(Sub Rosa - SR200) CD + Enhanced CD $14.00
Academics and mavericks (Vladimir Ussachevsky + Otto Luening, Luc Ferrari, Tod Dockstader, Johanna M. Beyer, Morton Subotnick, Daphne Oram, Scanner, Hugh Davies, Alan R. Splet, Kim Cascone) rub elbow patches with Autechre, Multiphonic Ensemble, Meira Asher + Guy Harries, Choose, Woody McBride, Arcane Device, Laibach, SPK, Percy Grainger, Sun Ra And The Arkestra, Captain Beefheart. Contains mainly unreleased works in a digipak sleeve with a 40-page booklet. The enhanced CD contains the video of "She's Too Much For My Mirror / My Human Gets Me Blues" by Captain Beefheart.
A Range of Greatdividing
(Unwucht - UN01) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Vinyl reissue of Greatdividing’s comp previously available in cassette and CDR editions. Two previously unreleased tracks from 3 Toed Sloth (with Tom Feedtime on drums), Shoptoprockers, Exiles From Clowntown, Rock Boycott, The Yellow Steed, and Deep Brain Thrombosis. “Primal, guitar scrawl,” yammers Arthur magazine, “With ... free-chug moves that prove Oz is still the sexiest dirtbarge 'neath the meridian.” Screen-printed, diecut jacket.
A Warm Cupboard
(Alberts Basement - AB2) LP $20.00
Another vinyl document of the Melbourne Gen-Y indie DIY scene. Basic stuff but nice half-sized sleeve with insert. The Frightening Lights - Strangers (almost Bad Seeds-like with female vox); Hi God People - Drombeslade (improvised drone); Kes Band - Alamakalamazoo (Chills-like indie pop); Francis Plagne - My Ear Stands Like A Gateway On The Street (acoustic guitar and vocal, Devendra Banhart style); Aux Assembly - Fly (dark fuzz guitar drone); Star - Heavy Star (self-described as droning guitar / violin that references Henry Flynt, Tony Conrad, Faust and Velvet Underground); Free Choice - One Chord At a Time/B.O.P. (monophonic synth drone); Seth Rees - Singing Trams (nice evocative instrumental); Aleks And The Ramps - Hey Owl (clever pop with poetic lyrics); Christina Tester - Girl With Balloon (solo balloon improvisation); Fabulous Diamonds - Cemetary Dub (stripped back rhythmic piece); Woollen Kits - Rollerskate Girl (Beat Happening-ish guitar, drums, vox); Baseball - Song For The Righteous (live recording, indie with strange vocals); Bleak Infinity - Skism Prism (hectic indie electronica with female vox, a bit like Naked On The Vague)
California
(Groundfault - TRO225) 10xLP $75.00
The controversial, ear-baking box set featuring 20 artists from California, each receiving an album side to do their thing. You get it and good from: Amps For Christ, The Cherry Point, Joe Colley, Control, Die Yellow Swans, Gerritt, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Moth Drakula, Oscillating Innards, Open City, Sixes, Skaters, Solid Eye, Spastic Colon, Tralphaz, Damion Romero, Rubber O Cement, John Wiese, Xome and RHY Yau. Limited edition available with metal California pin.
Connections
(Sin T - STS001) 7-inch $10.00
Dilemma's "Technical Irresolution (Kitty Lectro US Remix)" is an unreleased version from 1990s “Wires of Pain” session. Absolute Body Control's "Blue Girl Black Boy" is an unreleased track from 1982. Adolf Filter 's "Numbers in Space " is an unreleased track from 2008. Portion Control's "Can't Take Anymore" is from 1982's “I Staggered Mentally” session. Seven-inch red vinyl with a four-color cover and a plastic protection sleeve. Each band contributes a 4x6-inch photograph.
De Nagalm Op De Kopf
(Ultra Eczema - UE60) Magazine + CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Throw a rock in Belgium and you’re likely to draw blood from someone to whom Ultra Eczema's Denis Tyfus owes a trade, or who wants to piss down his neck because his tail is longer then their’s, or wants to hurt him physically because they sent a master of unbelievably great recordings years back that everyone should hear, yet no one, after all this time, has. De Nagalm Op De Kopf is a fine representation of the label’s reliable variation of odd, funny, retarded, great, noisy, free, off, loud, harsh, sad and brutal. With tracks, some over five years old, by Noise Nomads, Krystal Knight (aka Jessica Rylan / Can't), Hacky Pack Zac Sac, Mudboy, Cement Future, Happy Mother's Day I Can't Read, Cards On My Cunt, Prurient, Ex Members Of Josh Hydeman, Cloaca & Vom Grill, Xo4, Burning Star Core, Kites, Defneg, Tumble Cat Poof Poofy Poof, Trashbusters, Anthro Rex, Eric Boros, Bloated Ego and The Compliments, Mouthus, Mix Ape Synb, Orphan Fairytale, Unicorn Hard On, Muslux, Grey Skull, Black Tie Rubber Pussy, God Willing, Bobby Colombo With Silver Cindy, and JB de Kunst. Cover designed by Tyfus, Joshua Burkett, Noise Nomads and Bill Nace. With 16-page paper full of drawings and collages by Tyfus and liner notes by Carlo Steegen.
Eiste Skilohissia
(Obelisk / Shasha / Turgid Animal) LP $21.00
One side of collaborative and deranged, big-band pain electronics by Fecalove, Mutant Ape, Torturing Nurse, Oubliette. The other side features a five-minute track by each.
Escaping From Color – Rapoon Recomposed and Remixed
(Quasi Pop - QPOPCD045) CD $13.50
Rapoon’s original sound loops re-composed by Francisco Lopez, TV Pow, Machinefabriek, Troum, Steve Roden, Jorge Castro, Paulo Raposo, Aidan Baker, Anla Courtis, Gert-Jan Prins, Heimir Bjorgulfsson, Mike Shiflet, Family Underground, Ronnie Sundin, and Cisfinitum & Rapoon.
Hell
(Lost Frog) CD $15.00
Dedicated to Glen Hobbs of Five Starcle Men, with tracks by Animals Within Animals, Isis and Werewolves, Kingdom Scum, Decaer Pinga, Cotton Museum, Empty Head, Death Karaokes, Five Starcle Men, Ene, Glands of External Secretion, Tamarin, Panicsville, Lordx, Slop Cake, and Xper.Xr With The Neck of a Fish.
I.D. Art #2
(Paradigm Discs - PD23) CD $14.25
The second LP on the LAFMS label (right between Le Forte Four's Bikini Tennis Shoes and the double-LP Live at the Brand by Le Forte Four and The Doo-Dooettes) was released in 1976 in an edition of 200 copies, most of which went to the contributors (tracks was paid for by contributors at a rate of eight dollars per minute in exchange for four copies of the album), who were, by and large, students at Otis Art Institute in L.A., and many of these tracks are the only recordings ever made by some artists. Among the known names from the LAFMS scene are: Le Forte Four, Joe Potts, Fredrick Nilsen, Mr Foon, Ace & Duce, Dennis Mehaffey, and, of course, Smegma who contribute six tracks. Other artists include painter Miles Forst, violinist Josie Roth, filmmakers Doug Henry and Gary Beydler, mail artist and dog portrait painter Irene Dogmatic, Otis librarian Joan Hugo, graphic designer Kathe Schreyer and many other creative artists and designers at the start of their careers.
Ju-Jikan
(23five - 23F/SFM 901) 2xCD $18.00
The first anthology in nonprofit org 23five’s sound event series presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The selections here, chosen from SFMOMA’s Ten Hours of Sound From Japan, emphasize the stylistic diversity achieved through electronic synthesis (computer music, anti-academic, noise, anti-pop permutations, ambient, field recordings, post-improv, etc.). With tracks by Merzbow, Otomo Yoshihide, Masonna, Astro, Tetsuo Furudate, Pain Jerk, Yuji Takahashi, Yasunao Tone, Ryoji Ikeda, Nerve Net Noise, Hanatarash, Tamami Toro, compiler Atau Tanaka, i.d., Kozo Inada, Ichiro Nodaira, and Kazuo Uehara. 20-page booklet includes essays, milestones, timeline, detailed program notes about the MOMA installation.
La Bamba
(Ultra Eczema - UE68) LP $25.50
Fifteen years ago hat and cacti collector Daniël de Wereldvermaarde Botanicus (Cassis Cornuta) deejayed two hours of versions of "La Bamba" on the now-defunct situationist radio show RTVS (Radio Centraal, Antwerp). The spirit of these drunken, on-air yell-alongs and sing-alongs of yore join us in the here and now on this international compilation LP, released to coincide with Ultros Exemos La Bamba Night(mare), February 28, 2009 at Scheldapen in Antwerp, and evening event where more than 300 different versions of "La Bamba" -- recordings and live -- were performed. This LP includes covers of "La Bamba" by Sudden Infant, Floris Vanhoof, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Bromptreb, Anla Courtis, Smack Music 7, Kommissar Hjuler, Mitt Land Och Leo, Human Hairs, Daniel De Wereldvermaarde Botanicus, Remork, Reijo Pami, Glands of External Secretion, Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen, Rubber O Cement, Ludo Mich, Mama Bär, Tomutonto, Vvm & The Synthetic Voice of Gaeoudjiparl Van Den Dobbelsteen, Daniëlle Lemaire, Kraus, and Fricara Pacchu. 400 copies.
Labyrinths & Jokes
(Hanson - HN050) LP $50.00
Released in 1998 on vinyl (reissued on CD in 2005) the first statement from a brilliant and fucked-up group of noise lunatics -- Nautical Almanac's Anti-Systems, Isis & Werewolves, Ron Of Japan, Andrew Wilkes-Krier, The Mini-System, The Beast People. Spray-painted jackets with pasted-on artwork.
Like a Frog In Winter
(Hospital - HOS138) LP + 7-inch $30.00
In 2004 while residing in Providence, Dominic Fernow of Prurient and Hospital began compiling Like A Frog in Winter, in response to his perceptions that noise had become rather hi-fi, technological, and cold -- entertainment rather than entertaining, something clean, something stimulating. Fernow's choices represent a more psychological, minimal, dismal, and rejected feeling, and calls for a return to the fetishistic and erotic attitude of noise -- and a negative one at that. Participating criminals, in order of incarceration: Ffh, A Fail Association, Immaculate:Grotesque, Cleanse, Pedestrian Deposit, Chrysalis, Ahlzagailzehguh, Habeeb, Craniopagus, Alberich, Bereft, Barrikad, Prurient, Sewer Election, Panicsville, Filthy Turd, Omei, The Seven Arts, Age Of Enlightenment, Mark Solotroff, Whorebutcher, Climax Denial, Stegm, Burden.
Michigan
(Hanson) 6xLP $61.50 (Out-of-stock)
The latest in the geography-themed noise boxset series follows California, Texas, Portland and New England with a full side of screech apiece from twelve different noise bands that call The Damn Shame State home. With Princess Dragonmom, Raven Strain, Redrot, Aaron Dilloway, Tovah D-Day, Charlie Draheim, Hive Mind, Mammal, Evenings, Cotton Museum, Sick Llama and Wolf Eyes. Compiled by Greh Holger and Aaron Dilloway. Limited to 600 copies. Packaged in fully silkscreened record mailers.
Million Ways To Spend Your Time
(Quasi Pop - QPOPCD042) CD $13.50
Exclusive and unreleased tracks from Andreas Brandal, Biblioteka Prospero, Peel Off The Bass, Jørgen Knudsen, O. Lamm, Lasse Marhaug, TV Pow, Andrey Kiritchenko, Black To Comm, Monofilament, The Complainer, Continental Fruit, Origami Epileptika, 8Rolek, Alexey Petrov, Batcheeba, CharSky.
Noise Is All In Your Head
(Gold Soundz - GS1) CD $15.00
A Norway-centric comp of surprisingly cohesive free sound, with Thurston Moore, Noxagt, Oren Ambarchi, Volcano The Bear, Neil Campbell (Vibracathedral Orchestra), Dylan Nyoukis (Prick Decay/Decaer Pinga, Chocolate Monk), Lasse Marhaug, Rats With Wings, Songs of Norway (Aaron and Nick from Volcano the Bear), Continental Fruit, Ojn (ex-Landshipping/Metrotone), Sindre Bjerga/Anders Gjerde, The Wife Contract, If You Meet Your Anti-Self Don’t Shake Hands (Neil Mackay of LOOP, Hair & Skin Trading Co., Juicy Eureka), Julian Bradley/A Companion as Glamourous as Sleeping, Duo Kanel, and DJ Bra Nesegir.
Overland
(Naturestrip - NS 3002) CD $14.25
Four sound artists working with field recordings. Toshiya Tsunoda’s “Reclaimed Land,” recorded in Japan, captures an immersive and rich environment, momentarily framed. Melbourne-based sound artist and improviser Joel Stern’s track was produced using binaural microphones, two bottles of soda water, damaged cables and speakers; it moves between richly textural surface noise, investigations of acoustic space, and minute gestural detail. The cyclic mixture of breathing, resonant drones, static rustlings and scrapings of Tarab’s “Of Hollow Traces” was constructed from a series of improvisations, using found objects, microphones, simple electronics and field recordings. Brisbane-based writer, composer and artist Lawrence English collects together a series of field recordings captured in Tokyo and New York into an audio diary of abstract reflections. Imported from Australia.
Paper & Plastic
(Suitcase - SUTPAPSUTPLA) 2xCD $24.00
This two-disc audio project begun by Suitcase in 1991 features rare and unreleased material by Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Yeast Culture, z.B.u.a., Achim Wollscheid, Small Cruel Party, Ios Smolders, Agog, Chop Shop, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Wash Your Brains, Appi, Kapotte Muziek, Emil Beaulieau, Inzekt, Native X, tac, Sudden Infant, Merzbow, and A4. The discs are packaged inside a clear silkscreened DVD case, with handmade inserts, a folio of original color silkscreened postcards, and 16-page booklet, and sealed with an Obi strip and barcode. Each copy is a unique and the entire package is much heavier than a standard two-disc set due to the original artwork included. Each piece is shipped individually wrapped in addition to using extra caution with the packing. Selection of the audio and visual materials, and packaging design are by A4 in collaboration with Incubator and Petri Supply. Abo of Yeast Culture silkscreened each individual copy. Edition of 600 copies only.
Popcorn
(Ultra Eczema - UE82) 2xLP $40.00 (Out-of-stock)
A follow-up to 2009’s La Bamba (which annoyed the shit out of everyone who ever put it on), made in conjunction with Ultra Eczema’s Popcorn Night(Mare), where more 30 people performed Gershon Kingsley's banger from 1969! This double-LP comp was planned as single LP, but an enthusiastic Denis Tyfus was over-invited, under the assumption that no one would actually contribute. True cover versions, vague interpretations and kitchen princess styled cooking lessons by Pavel Büchler, Hair Stylistics with Takuma Watanabe, RLW, Kian Sandalen, Burning Star Core, DSR Lines, Evil Moisture, Nuslux, Raionbashi, Hetero Skeleton, Vomgrill, Helm, Attempt, Helicoptere Sanglante, Dracula Lewis, Christophe Piette, Kip Prims, White Circle Crime Club, Jacques Beloeil, Spykes, Cryptic Report, Autistik Youth, Remörk, Miaux, Amon Dude V, Fantamatres, Ali Mio feat. Sultan Steven, Rani Bageria and Hanno Schnegg, Blood Stereo, My Land and Lion, Family Battle Snake, Three Legged Race, Daniel De Wereldvermaarde Botanicus, Rock And Roll Jackie & Nour Mobarack, Lucas Abela, Christopher Leeger & Kevin Blechdom, Heatsick, Astral Social Club, Tarp and Blaastaal. Liner notes by Carlo Steegen.
Pop (Do We Not Like That?)
(Too Pure - PURE34) LP $10.00
Label sampler from 1994 with tracks by Stereolab, P.J. Harvey, Th' Faith Healers, Voodoo Queens, Seefeel, Pram, Moonshake, Minxus, Laika, Mouse On Mars.
Reportage: Speka SJälv
(UNM - UNM1970) LP $20.00
Exact reproduction of a Swedish raga concrète LP from 1970. Field recordings of amateurs playing and making sounds: a playground, drummers and fiddlers, a garden cafe, children, one track simply titled "Gronas" ("Green"). Time to getcher esoteric on. The title roughly translates to Play Yourself or Play Naturally. It has been credited to Träd, Gräs och Stenar, but they aren't featured on it. Bo Anders Persson did, in fact, compile, edit and release this album in collaboration with Solvieg Bark. (Persson was a member of the legendary Swedish bands Harvester, International Harvester, Pärson Sound, Träd, Gräs Och Stenar; Bark was one of a few young composers who, through the UNM (Young Nordic Music Festivals), became a contemporary of Erkki Kurenniemi, Folke Rabe, etc.)
RRR1000
(RRRecords - RRR1000) LP $20.00
20 artists, each with 50 grooves: AMK, Aaron Dilloway, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Drumm, Carlos Giffoni, Incapacitants, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Jason Lescalleet, Francisco Lopez, Lasse Marhaug, The New Blockaders, Jerome Noetinger, Prurient, RLW, Damion Romero, Runzelstrin & Gurgelstock, Sudden Infant, Keith Fullerton Whitman, C. Spencer Yeh, Otomo Yoshihide. This is not to be confused with RRR500, the LP with 500 locked grooves from a few years ago. This is an all-new release with all new locked grooves. Individually hand-assembled covers.
Tape Projects
(Tape Projects - TAPR06) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
More than 60 ten-second tracks all ending in locked grooves. Each track is designed, or not, to provide a soundtrack to a series of 15 flip books by a diverse range of Australian visual artists. With contributions from Chris Abrahams (Necks), Ernie Althoff, Mu Child, Joel Stern, Sumugan Sivanesan (Antipan), Harry Williamson (Gong), Monica Brooks (Splinter Orchestra), Moffarfarrah, Thembi Soddell, Lawrence English, Tarab, Philip Samartzis (Gum), Anthea Caddy, Werner Hoeck (Volvox), Severed Heads, Dave Phillips (Fear of God), Toecutter, DJ Rainbow Ejaculation and many more. Includes poster.
Tarantismo Summit Volume 1
(Rampage) LP $16.00
Rooted derogatively in the spirit of Nonesuch Records' pioneering steps into the foray of primitive avant garde in the early 1960s, Tarantismo Summit ushers in a new age of reclamation of the broken and damaged arts, coercing the music enthusiasts of the present day to expand their horizons and explore new territories, still unfamiliar, yet unwavering. A satellite of unspeakable desecration in the free-jazz stratosphere of the '70s underground, Smegma is and were a pivotal point of aural disgust to many, and an unrequited love for the rest of the outsider population screaming for dissonance and catastrophe of modern sound. K.K. Rampage have lived in the squalor of Chicago's most egregious forbidden zones for years without sunlight or nourishment, and their inclusion is defaulted in their steadfast stance of perpetuating mental decay, along with an inherent unhinged velocity of self-destruction. The Floridian influence on this damaged crop of poisoned sprouts comes in the larval state of Insect Joy, a duo of crustaceous origin who obliterate the tranquility of a Gulf Coast sunset with a barbaric and drilling groove of mindless gravel-toned noise. The last nail in the coffin, in an electric storm of ghastly proportions, Ghost Moth vilify an age-old premise where confusion of sound and disruption of parallax combine to create a horrendous vision of a world turned inside out. 400 copies.
Ten Grand Tonearm
(Heard Worse - HW05) LP $15.25 (Out-of-stock)
Nodding to the fetishization of analog audio, gear and vinyl, the Australian label Heard Worse presents a collection of noisy improvised music, side by side with more structured electronic noise. Features xNOBBQx (the Australian Harry Pussy); Arse Lunch (triple guitar feedback drone by an xNOBBQx side project); Castings (improvised psychedelic rock with noisy electronics, releases on Chocolate Monk and American Tapes); Cygnus (lo-fi guitar/synth jam by Sick Llama / Fag Tapes / Slither side project; Loachfillet (American noise blast); Marco Fusinato (another noise blast by Australian who has collaborated with Thurston Moore); Mark Harwood (processed field recordings by the Synaesthesia honch); Misty Lavender Doughnuts of Shame (electric violin with dialogue samples); Pigs In The Ground (more American electronic noise); Rahdunes (post-Unborn Unicorn; RLW (with Ralf Wehowsky on sitar and Johannes Fritsch on double bass); Sun of the Seventh Sister (two separate recordings synched-up as a 25-piece big band); The Vitamin B12 (vocals and electronics from the UK); Werewolf Jerusalem (harsh digital noise that sent the cutting engineer into a frenzy); William De Cunting (locked groove shenanigans by this Texan). In recycled classical covers with attached poster.
The End of Fear of God
(Tochnit Aleph - TA048) CD $15.00
All source material by Swiss hardcore/noise legends FEAR OF GOD (1987-88), reworked/covered by (in order of appearance) RLW, N.O.G., Norbert Moeslang, Rudolf Eb.Er, Sudden Infant, Strotter Inst., Soviet Subliminal Seduction, Suntour, Andrew Phillips, Schurer, Unholy Grave, Kevin Drumm, Bela Kiss, Evil Moisture, Killer Nuts, Hecker, Eye Yamatsuka, R. H.Y. Yau, The Idealist, Gorebitch, Massaccesi, Kure Kure Takura, Dylan Nyoukis, Mike Patton & Kid 606, Genetic Transmission, Eric Boros & Jason Flowers, Stress, Jason Kahn, DJ Smallcock, Imperative, Shoji Goto, The Glands Of External Secretion, Jim O'Rourke, Dropdead Ww/ Outosushi, K2, Doris Tomasoni, Kouhei Matsunaga, Eva Revox, Merzbow, Kein Babel, Blackjewishgays Feat. Django, Eva D., Ommyth, Medieval Moisture, Humectant Interruption, Saicobaba, Rabid Dogs, J.C., Dave Noyze, Djkillroy Vs. Von Wurstfinger, Rm74, Raionbashi, Vicious Circle, Ecrase-Merde, Atta, Shite Minor, Voice Crack, Thomas Ankersmit, Silvum, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Takedown Uav, The Haters, Russell Haswell, The Nautilus Deconstruction, Chicken & Monkey, Bloodstar Vs. Saalschutz, Pita, Seaman Staynes & Master Baits, Zbigniew Karkowski, and The Machine Gun TV. Packaged with a 12-page booklet including You Can't Reason with Logic, a short story by G.X. Jupitter-Larsen.
The Rebirth Of Fool Volume 3
(Dual Plover) CD $14.25 (Out-of-stock)
Years of focus groups and market research went into the making of this perfect audio product for today’s consumer: the biggest load of shit ever, handbound in a 24-page gold-blocked book so fancy someone must have won Lotto. Dual Plover’s third installment in the series is one of their pearliest pearlers, their most impressively packaged and labor-intensive disc yet. So if you wanna dumb down between bouts of Xenakis and Cage with some of the latest in retardation -- 7u? channeling Wesley Willis in an ode to Dual Plover; Fool veterans New Waver putting testimonials from mymiserablelife.com to music; songs of unrequited love wallowing in seedy Adelaide establishments; excerpts from instructional songwriting cassettes, absurd police tapes, and gay porn spoken in thick Australian accents -- then this album is for you.
To Sell Kerosene Door to Door
(Insight) 2xLP $45.00
Sealed copy of the swansong release from Glorious Din frontman Eric Cope’s label, a snapshot of the mid-to-late-'80s Bay Area underground. Thirty tracks by fifteen bands, a couple of whom released little else besides the material here. Includes World of Pooh, Spahn Ranch, Dog Food, Beetle Leg, Beatnigs, Stiff Legged Sheep, Glorious Din, Harry’s Picket Fence, Raining House, Barnacle Choir, Enigma, Stickdog, Systems Collapse, Caroliner, and Archipelago Brewing Company.
Variable Resistance
(23five - 23F/SFM 902) CD $12.00
The second anthology in nonprofit org 23five’s sound event series presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The selections here, chosen from SFMOMA’s Ten Hours of Sound From Australia, emphasize the composers’ use of the titular electronic gizmo, as well as their diversity of approaches. You get environmental, plundered, and digitized sound from compiler Phillip Samartzis, a cybersonic lullaby by Pimmon, and a duet for jarring guitar and creaking door by David Brown, along with exclusive tracks by Oren Ambarchi, Rob Avenaim, Xonk, Thembi Soddell, Darrin Verhagen, and Deliere. 24-page booklet includes essays and detailed program notes about the MOMA installation.
Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders, Volume I
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR064) CD $12.00
The first of three or four CDs compiling and expanding upon the original Vinyl-on-Demand tribute. Tracks from VoD's vinyl boxes plus a fair swag of new ones. Nocturnal Emissions, Smell & Quim, Dieter Muh, Putrefier, srmeixner, Cheapmachines, Evil Moisture, Ashtray Navigations, Jazzfinger, Mutant Ape, Anomali, Halalchemists (incl. members of Skullflower, Culver, Snotnosed, Romance & Marzuraan). Edition of 500. Twelve-page full-color booklet.
Zelphabet Vol. A
(Zelphabet) CD $9.50
The GX Jupitter-Larsen-curated, 26-part noise series. With Achim Wollscheid, AMK, Arcane Device, Asmus Tietchens.
Zelphabet Vol. B
(Zelphabet - B01) CD $9.50
The GX Jupitter-Larsen-curated, 26-part noise series. With The Beast People, 16 Bitch Pile-Up, blackhumour, Bob Bellerue.
Zelphabet Vol. C
(Zelphabet - C01) CD $9.50
The GX Jupitter-Larsen-curated, 26-part noise series. With Charlemagne Palestine, Chop Shop, Contagious Orgasm, C Spencer Yeh.
Zelphabet Vol. D
(Zelphabet - D01) CD $9.50
The GX Jupitter-Larsen-curated, 26-part noise series. With 20-minute tracks by Damion Romero, Daniel Menche, and Dave Phillips.
Zelphabet Vol. E
(Zelphabet - E01CD) CD $9.50
The GX Jupitter-Larsen-curated, 26-part noise series. With Ed Osborn, Elliot Sharp, Emil Beaulieau, and Evil Moisture.
Zelphabet Vol. F
(Zelphabet - F01CD) CD $9.50
The GX Jupitter-Larsen-curated, 26-part noise series. With Failing Lights, Fin, Francisco Lopez, and Frans De Waard
Zelphabet Vol. G
(Zelphabet - G01) CD $9.50
The seventh in Zelphabet’s series of 26 alphabetically oriented compilations of noise. Volume G eviscerates with cuts from Giancarlo Toniutti, Government Alpha, G*Park, Gregory Whitehead, and GX Jupitter-Larsen
Zelphabet Vol. H
(Zelphabet - H01) CD $9.50
The GX Jupitter-Larsen-curated, 26-part noise series. With Halalchemists (live TNB Tribute), Hanatarash (exclusive 30 minute track!), The Haters, Howard Stelzer.
Zelphabet Vol. I
(Zelphabet - I01) CD $9.50
The GX Jupitter-Larsen-curated, 26-part noise series. With IDX1274, If Bwana, and Incapacitants.
Zelphabet Vol. J
(Zelphabet - J01) CD $9.50
The GX Jupitter-Larsen-curated, 26-part noise series. With John Duncan, John Wiese, Jon Rose, Joseph Hammer, Joshua Manchester, and Justice Yeldham.
Zelphabet Vol. K
(Zelphabet - K01) CD $9.50 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. RESERVATIONS WELCOME. The GX Jupitter-Larsen-curated, 26-part noise series. With K2, Key Ransone, KK Null, Kluster 07 (Conrad Schnitzler).