... Against The Odds
(Unwucht - UN03) 2x7-inch $16.00
Six previously unreleased tracks of simian stomp, recorded live to half-inch tape in 1993. A planned seven-inch remained unrealized and the reels took a nap for seventeen years until Unwucht came to the rescue. Hand-photocopied gatefold sleeve, with a color postcard. Edition of 295.
3 Toed Sloth
(Slothful - SLOTHFUL1) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sharon and Andrew began playing together in Sydney in 1987; in early 1989, Tom from Feedtime joined them on drums for three years or so, during which they played twenty live shows and self-released this album in hand-screened jackets. They ran out of steam after jacket number 400 was done and forgot about the leftover platters, until recently, when they were found in a box under a friend’s house. Just under two decades is a long enough rest by almost anyone’s reckoning, so they fired up the screens and finished what they started. So, back story out of the way, why does this record make anyone go apeshit? Because it's “Aussie mongoloid stomp with a real thick air of psych damage, and even some sleazy horn movements,” as Negative Guest List has stated most emphatically.
Knife vs. Skull Face
(Saxon Gregory) 7-inch $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
Trailers for Eurotrash films Slaughter Hotel, Strip Nude For Your Killer, The Embalmer, and Virgin Of Nuremberg. Edition of 150.
Seagal / Van Damme
(Saxon Gregory) LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
A collection of trailers for films by Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Seagal: Above The Law, Fire Down Below, Glimmer Man, Hard To Kill, Marked For Death, On Deadly Ground, Out For Justice, Under Siege, Under Siege 2. Van Damme: Bloodsport, Cyborg, Death Warrant, Double Impact, Double Team, Hard Target, Kickboxer, Lionheart, Nowhere To Run, The Quest, Sudden Death, Universal Soldier. Edition of 150.
Concord
(Corpus Hermeticum - HERMES001) LP $20.00
1993's no-fingers-on-the-strings opus, aka the free noise barrage heard 'round the world.
Gone Aiwa
(Siltbreeze - SB150) LP $16.00
Together for a short period in 1983, Above Ground was a fleeting yet crucial component in early ’80s Christchurch DIY. Bill Direen (Vacuum, Bilders), Carol Direen, Maryrose Crook (Max Block, Renderers) and Stuart Page (Axemen) combined a detached Velvet Underground vibe, a smattering of early Modern Lovers keyboard angst, and some kind of Sky Saxon / Seeds psychedelic mojo. Originally a made-to-order cassette, Gone Aiwa was no stranger to the shelves at various NZ shops and tables at the occasional gig; other than two tracks ("To Kill A Bat" and "Gray Goose") that saw the light of day on The Bilders' retrospective Max Quitz CD (Flying Nun 1993), it's a near-certainty that everything here in previously unheard by little ol' you. Includes download card.
(Untitled)
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD37.1) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Red vinyl reissue of the first Absolute Body Control tape, which came as part VOD’s now sold-out Absolute Body Control boxset (VOD37). Limited to 444 copies.
Accident du Travail
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD4) LP $17.25
Twenty-four minutes of Ondes Martenot recordings by Julie Normal (Cradle of Smurf) and Olivier 2MO (Cheveu). Maximal repeatable sound beauty, “somewhere between the lilting decay of Discreet Music and the disorientating phantom flirt of Maryanne Amacher's Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear)” according to Doug Mosurock. “It's an impressive, subdued work, and anyone looking to end their evening on a restful comedown should look within.”
Bacteria Cult / Actuary
(Vomitcore) split 7-inch $7.00
Dark, haunting strangeness from Bacteria Cult, who put the "uuuuuul" back in peculiar. This experimental group features Chris Dodge (Despise You, Lack of Interest, Spazz), Kevin Fetus (Fetus Eaters, Lack of Interest), Eddie Nervo (+Dog+, Destroy Date, Final Solution), and Jay Howard (Circuit Wound, Wire Werewolves). The Los Angeles based Actuary made a big impact on our comrades at Dead Formats: "Really intense noise ... full of hatred.... I felt a little ill.... It sounds like someone is being stabbed and tortured.... It's brutal in a way that nothing will ever be brutal again. This is horror." Blue vinyl.
Trilogie
(Vinyl on Demand) Used 3x10-inch $40.00
Synth / minimal-wave from the archives of Erick Moncollin. Includes "The Museum Sessions," "Éxhumation," "Rock Noire," tracks from "ADN La Catastrophe," and others rarities.
Aika
(La Scie Dorée - SCIE608) LP $20.00
Aged beauty and deceptively casual cinematic visions by Timo van Luijk. Piano, saxophone, drums, percussion, the voice of van Luijk’s grandmother, extra hiss and crackles evoking ritualistic mood swings and skeletal pulsations. Edition of 400.
AFFLICTIS LENTAE / AUSTRASIAN GOAT
The Austrasian Goat / Afflictis Lentae
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR047) split 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
One track each of machine-gun, blasting, old school black metal. First in a series of split 7s.
Agathocles / Sissy Spacek
(Ultra Eczema - UE77) split 7-inch $12.00
The first in Ultra Eczema’s year-long series of monthly 7s in which anything goes: from the acid of Pierre Elitair to the mincecore of Agathocles or a prank by Frieder Butzmann. This one has ten songs by each band: Agathocles (raw, muffled, gruntly, painful, fast) drills holes in your skull and pours in a cocktail of ass-grinding diarrhea recorded during a rehearsal before a tour of Mexico; Sissy Spacek shaves off your nose and eyelashes with Gerogerigegege-style noisecore (a brutal slap of preparé right there). Fold open cover designed by Debby Tyfus, with lyrics, etc. 300 copies
Live '418
(Holy Mountain - 17) LP $15.00
Controlled panic by this Tokyo trio who are sure to spike the tongues of all those who purport to talk about the rock. It is primal, punk, eerie, harsh, vicious psychedelic no wave from start to finish.
One Point Music
(O Records - OROLP035) LP $18.00
When The Sperm began to wither away in the early '70s, Pekka Airaksinen released One Point Music in 1972, a shining moment in his discography, characterized by a sense of improvisation and casual roughness that is rare in electronic music. Soon after he became a Buddhist and stopped releasing music for a decade. Regarded as a recluse, he returned to the public eye in the mid-'80s with a new but equally futuristic vision, exemplified by Buddhas of Golden Light (O Records 1984), an incredible mixture of Sun Ra’s cosmic free jazz and twisted rhythms programmed on a Roland 808 drum machine. Limited edition reissue.
Airway / Hijokaidan
(Harbinger Sound - HAS099) split LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Released to coincide with the LAFMS retrospective in London. Legendary free jazz percussionist Sabu Toyozumi joins Jojo Hiroshige on guitar, Junko on vocals and Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai on electronics on this live recording from late 2009. The maddest of LAFMS mad dogs feature Joe Potts, Rick Potts, Tom Recchion, Dennis Duck, John Duncan, Fredrik Nilsen, Vetza, Linda Pitmon and Aaron Moore on this live recording from 2009.
Live At Lace
(Harbinger Sound - HAS047) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Limited vinyl reissue of the ultra-scarce 1978 Los Angeles Free Music Society album. Mastered by Airway founder Joe Potts during 2006. This set is limited to 500 copies with a sleeve based on the Japanese export edition of the original, along the same lines as the previous CD edition. Contains a portfolio of live flyers, etc. 41 minutes of bliss that's nothing like the shorter, messed with version that turned up on the LAFMS 10CD boxset.
Au Crépuscule de l'Espérance
(Hospital - HOS268) CD $14.50
(Hospital - HOS268) LP $14.50 (Out-of-stock)
Dedicated to imperfection, obsessed by minimalism, Akitsa returns after three years with a full length album (their fourth) where primitivism, bitter atmosphere and youthful naivety clash together in a blaze of raw hate anthems. One of the cruelest factions of North American black metal.
Psychology of Love
(Hospital - HOS221) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Long-awaited first LP of heavy electronics command. Philosophies of war and love burn in the cauldron of mythology. Trade one power for another but be warned that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Includes tracks from Rumbala (Hospital 2007), the infamous cassette that started it all. For fans of Militia, Grey Wolves, Pal, and Esplendor Geometrico. Edition of 200.
ALLEYPISSER / KAM HASSAH / PAUL KNOWLES / FRANCISCO MEIRINO / GERRITT WITTMER
Unifying Themes
(Misanthropic Agenda - MAR034) LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)
A study of themes that unite as a whole across geographic, linguistic and cultural barriers. Edition of 90.
Alo Girl / Last Rape
(Urashima - U006) split LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Alo Girl is an obscure Italian noise project. Deep roaring, subterranean, obsessive and paranoid tones, tinged with sleaze and an airless atmosphere. With Last Rape Richard Ramirez (Werewolf Jerusalem, Black Leather Jesus) and Sean Matzus (In The Land of Archers) focus on Italian thrillers. Silkscreened cardboard sleeve, with insert. Limited edition to 120 copies.
Unsane
(Urashima - U002) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Deep roaring, subterranean, obsessive and paranoid tones by obscure Italian project tinged with sleaze and an airless atmosphere. For fans of C.C.C.C., Incapacitants and like that. Silkscreened cardboard sleeve, with insert. Limited edition to 120 copies.
ALTAR OF FLIES / SEWER ELECTION
Altar Of Flies / Sewer Election
(Release The Bats - RTB31) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Mean-spirited ugliness from a pair of fine Swedish bands. Sewer Election’s nasty “Rotten Corpse” is a crude and disgusting piece of monotonous, freezing coldness. Altar Of Flies buries claustrophobic lo-fi insanity dark within eerie forest rumblings. Straight from hell with heavy outbursts of feedback.
Every Actual Body / Brittle Bones
(Hasten & Korset - 043) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Concrète mixed with industrial. Darksmith does very little with not much at all -- the sound of movement in an empty, open room captured on cassette tapes crudely and minimally manipulated. At once meditative and unsettling. Sweden's Mattias Gustafsson scrapes and grinds metal like a true demon. Drawings by Tom Darksmith. Artwork by Daniel Fagerström. With a postcard. Clear vinyl. Edition of 100.
Alvarius B
(Abduction - ABDT004) LP $45.00
Twenty-eight instrumental acoustic guitar excursions into a realm of weird lo-fi rustic beauty that sketch retro-portraits of folk guitar styles from abrasive to delicate. Lucid antique paintings with acoustic guitar, recorded in the late 1980s, released in 1994, employing Appalachian polyrhythms, dark melodies, flamenco thrash, alien tunings, pseudo-Eastern drones, cinematic backroad twang, and other hybrid ideas. Sealed. Edition of 1000.
Alvarius B
(Abduction - ABDT011) 2xLP $175.00
Thirty-nine tracks from 1997. Raw solo acoustic guitar songs that are ugly, mean and funny. Really weird folk music from some parallel universe. Sealed. Edition of 500
Sugar: The Other White Meat
(Catsup Plate - CPR17) LP $45.00
Side A features each in solo mode: quasi-ethnic and wordless vocals, background television, and Django-esque guitar runs from Alvarius B; sanshin-playing from Nyoukis, morphing into subtle tape manipulation and musique concrete. The B-Side is a side-long collaborative track of broken electronics, field recordings near a Gas 'n' Sip, shortwave radio, actual songs, ambient cafeteria noise, thunderstorms, and drunken answering machine messages from Harmony Korine. Silkscreened jacket and inserts. Edition of 500.
The Tongue
(Bimbo Tower) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
"The Chilean with the singing nose," legendary for the Drinking My Own Sperm LP (Squeaky Shoes 1977), combines Chilean traditional music, post-punk feeling and a little spirit of the European avant garde. Joining Alvaro (voice and Casio) are Jens Volk (bass and voice) and Giorgos Notaras (percussion and voice).
OREN AMBARCHI / CHRIS CORSANO / RANDALL FLAHERTY / C. SPENCER YEH
Ambarchi / Flaherty, Corsano, Yeh
(Krayon Recordings) split 7-inch $9.00
The Flaherty, Corsano, Yeh Trio's oceans of bawling drum kit fire and fluttering string overtones fuse a complex web of ear asterism. Infiltrated by a woozy sax line that soon reduces in duration and increases the overall vehemence, with fragmented reed chewing rasp and roar joining myriad coordinates in this dense labyrinth of free magic. On the flip, an unexpected monolith from Ambarchi, stunningly crafted harmonic percolations of feedback glare, and riff particles slam into tantric drum force blast beats by Matt Skitz Sanders. Art by Paul Coors.
Devil Wolf Men
(Pica Disk - PICA010) 7-inch $10.00
A tapestry of location recordings and studio collaborations made during Ambarchi and Marhaug's tour of China in 2005.
Grapes From The Estate
(Southern Lord - SUNN61) 2xLP $25.00
Four side-long tracks of guitar exploration that begin with slowly layered, short electric guitar loops and build to haunting effect, as organ, drums, piano, tuned bells, percussion and strings increase the density. 180-gram vinyl. No idea if the vinyl is black (edition of 670) or purple (edition of 330).
Stacte
(Jerker Productions - SKUN3) LP $45.00
Influenced by both the-then burgeoning Austrian/German scene of digital audio (Mego, Touch, Staubgold) and his love for the music of Feldman and Lucier, Ambarchi recorded his first solo LP at home in 1998 in one take. Calmer, more meditative, and textural than anything he'd done up to that point.
Worried Friends b/w Nervous Enemies
(Pica Disk - PICA02) 7-inch $9.00
An inside-the-piano scrape-fest of anti-music. Recorded in Oslo, November 2006. 300 copies.
A La Lu La
(Ultramarine - UM003) LP $25.00
Aaron Moore (Volcano the Bear), Dave Nuss (No-Neck Blues Band) and Sheila 16 (Laboratory Theater Group) create compositions from improvisations centered around strong elemental percussion, radical theatrical vocals, and classical acoustic instruments. Recurring themes are the pain of relationships, the affirmation of the feminine in myth, the hero’s journey, and continuous need to flame the passions of the heart. “A La Lu La” specifically addresses the gap of language in facilitating accurate communication, a gap that only music at its most primal can fill. The back of the album features text by Portuguese authors Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino, who in 1855 created the English phrasebook “English As She is Spoke,” even though they didn’t know any English. A La Lu La mirrors the linguistic train wreck that ensues with the play of language, sound, and unintentional humor. Clear vinyl, die-cut jacket.
ANAKRID / BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER
Anakrid / Blue Sabbath Black Cheer
(PsychForm - PFR08) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Pure refined terror with each artist manipulating source material from the other. The BSBC-does-Anakrid side is two tracks, the first sounding like the gates of hell slamming shut on your head five hundred times as demons circle about. The second track has a minimal, pretty and clangy loop, over which some of the most inhuman vocals ever heard are placed. The Anakrid-does-BSBC side is one track filled with textures and rhythmic industrial sounds with a strong sense of motion. 324 copies on coke bottle clear vinyl, offset vellum sleeve printed in silver and black, with a digital laser printed vellum insert, all housed in a picture disc sleeve. Co-released with Black Horizons and Stereonucleosis.
Bombay 2: Electric Vindaloo
(Motel - ROOM4) LP $10.00
Same formula as Bombay The Hard Way -- Dan The Automator and DJ Shadow grafting beats and loops onto the original secret-agent-man soundtrack music of the Shah brothers, Kalyanji and Anandji -- but with a more spicy leap forward into the electro-'80s, when Bollywood soundtracks moved on from funk to drum-machine-driven, synthesizer-heavy sounds a la Miami Vice. With Ursula 1000, Kid Koala, Mix Master Mike, and Dynamite D bringing in a turntablist's cut-and-scratch aesthetic. From 2001.
Bombay The Hard Way: Guns, Cars & Sitars
(Motel - ROOM3) LP $25.00
As if ripped from American or European spy flix, but with Eastern Indian twists like sitars and Indian-chord-influenced moog licks, Bombay The Hard Way features the music of Indian composers Anandji and Kalyanji, who composed and conducted music for 1960s Brownsploitation and '70s Bollywood films. Expect no classic modal stuff; instead, Indian-ized American grooves full of funk and jazz-based ideals, some bearing the unmistakeable hip-hop influences of producers Dan "The Automator" Nakamura and DJ Shadow, especially the emphasis on rough, thuggish beats laid out over sitar loops, flute solos and heavy string and moog accompaniment. From 1998. Gold vinyl.
Anatomy of Habit
(BloodLust! - AOH01) LP $16.50
Emotionally charged doom metal that pensively slashes and burns by Chicago ballcrushers Blake Edwards (Vertonen), Dylan Posa (Flying Luttenbachers, Cheer Accident, Brice Glace), Kenny Rasmussen (No Funeral), Greg Ratajczak (Plague Bringer), and Mark Solotroff (Bloddyminded, The Fortieth Day). The two side-long tracks display enviable balance of power, heaviness, and delicacy. Die-cut jacket, printer innersleeve.
Technicolor Skull
(Ajna Offensive) LP (one-sided) $21.00
This multi-media sound and video project features Anger on theremin and Butler on guitar, effects, and related gadgets, released to coincide with Anger’s Icons opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Twenty-one minutes. Red vinyl, 180g. Edition of 666.
Beatings With Gimpy Flighted Wings Entrapped By Post-Fence Of Garish-Land
(Menlo Park - MPK7017) LP $25.00
Chris Cooper's 1999 album of prepared guitar abuse. Back cover has individual prints and stamps. Solve the anagram and get a ten percent discount. What the hell, let's make it twenty.
THOMAS ANKERSMIT / JIM O'ROURKE
Ankersmit / O'Rourke
(Tochnit Aleph - TA054) split LP $15.00
Side one features "Weerzin'" by Ankersmit on computer, saxophone, Serge & EMS synthesizer. Side two is O’Rourke from 1992 on oscillators and guitars. Edition of 750 copies. Cover photo by Alexandra Leykauf.
Antipan
(Pulled Out - PULL01) LP $22.50
Anthony Guerra, Matt Earle, Sumugan Sivanesan and Nick Dan summon the evil spirits in this documented live ritual that runs the gamut from Neu! metal pummel to sinecore minimalism. The Sydney quartet “ruck’n’wreck the classic bass, drums, guitar combo into a thick, crunchy gale of righteous off-kilter riot-groove,” observed UK porn mag The Wire, “The piece ends with a long and beautiful neon ribbon of feedback that carves a vivid sine-wave of blood-red intensity across a stage scene fading to black and bleeding carmine crimson around the after image of a group on fire.” Includes insert printed on thick pink card with individually hand numbered silk screened pink on black covers. Limited edition of 275 on one-sided hot pink vinyl with an etching by Rizili.
Pick Up & Run 2007
(What The ... - WHAT003) LP $19.50
Reed instruments, singing, percussion, and a thick haze float over the flower fireworks captured in the two performances here by the Lexington KY-based duo of Sara O'Keefe and Trevor Tremaine (Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Hair Police, Burning Star Core, Sick Hour, Death Unit, Rampart Tapes). Pick Up & Run 2007 makes fleeting "jazz" references, sports male/female lowlife love vocals, drags electroacoustics to the drugstore basement, and is in general warm and cloudy all over like a yesterday today. Packaged in complicated and unique covers, handmade and silkscreened by Paul Coors. With a mini-poster. Limited edition of 177.
They Sent Me Into Space Today b/w Cicadas Birds + Gtr
(Greatdividing - DD011) split 7-inch $10.00
Arob and Soottyb’s collaboration “They Sent Me Into Space Today” mixes and dweedles electronics “until they slip over your head like a soft mosquito blanket,” according to Byron Coley, who also pegs the instrumentation (drums and “flapper”) as the tools for accessing a “wormhole into some strange rock universe.” Arob’s “Cicadas Birds + Gtr,” as the title suggests, combines field recordings from the countryside with a home recording made in a bedroom in the city. Plays well on either 45 or 33 rpm, which is rarely a bad sign.
Boto [Encantado]
(Ini Itu) LP $16.00
“Decomposed and recomposed” landscapes and details, mostly centered around the Boto (Inia geoffrensis geoffrensis), also known as Amazon River Dolphin or Pink Dolphin. Sounds are isolated, cut, scaled up or down, modified and finally reassembled in a delicate and peaceful collage. At times enigmatic, intimate and pastoral, it slowly reveal its nuances. Liner notes include descriptions of the source sounds and a short essay on metamorphic animals. Edition of 250.
Hold On
(Family Bookstore - FBR01) 7-inch $5.25
Asdsska is a duo consisting of Aska Matsumiya (The Sads, Moonrats) and David Scott Stone (The Sads, Get Hustle, Unwound, Melvins). Matsumiya is a classically trained pianist and the A-side features a slow Satie-esque piano refrain accompanied by her delicate voice and Stone's ethereal modular synthesizer drones. The B-side, "We Feel it More Than They Do," is an ambient instrumental variation on Hold On's melody.
For Which He Plies The Lash
(Hospital - HOS267) CD $14.00
(Hospital - HOS267) LP $16.50
Second full length. Eight songs of big bang black metal by Dominic Fernow (Prurient, Cold Cave, Hospital) and Kris Kapke (Alberich, Northern Cross). Our comrades at Second Layer tell it like it is: "The duo blasts out raw and disgusting primitive black metal, with lots of balance between neck-breaking speed and lurking mid-tempo howl, with even some grind-ish elements for good measure."
Saturns Slave
(Hospital - HOS229) 7-inch $9.00
Two new tracks of raw black metal from the cold gas of the cosmic crucifixion. 900 copies on blue vinyl and 100 on clear vinyl.
Deadicated to The Sensory Armada
(Memoirs of an Aesthete) LP $25.00
The seven new numbers recorded between summer and autumn 2011 in the first AshNav vinyl LP since 2009 arrives with a heartfelt dedication to the lost and unrecorded '60s London psych duo of the title, and to all sounds sucked into the air, gone forever. Deadicated to the Sensory Armada is the latest stage of Phil Todd and Co's immersion in the synths-and-sequencers cosmos which has edged into recent Ashtray Navigations releases. A few new moves should give an indication of future directions. Piled-up guitar structures, cascading rhythms and the first recorded appearance of drummer Mr. Seth Cooke. Edition of 100.
Six Imaginary Scenes From The Life Of Muhammad Al Aqil
(Nashazphone - NP009) LP $25.00
This candle-burning outing from Phil Todd continues the quest for the farthest possible cosmic frequencies through effects, guitar, synth, and saz –- spread eagle on a bed of field recordings. Edition of 200 copies.
The "o" Mouth Direct Input Raygun
(Turgid Animal - TA409) 7-inch $9.00
New tracks from Phil Todd and Mel Delaney. Leeds UK's finest experimental movers and shakers of the last decade or so. Perhaps their noisiest material yet. Limited to 250 copies on black vinyl.
Here We Are Together Again b/w Yellow Dollars
(Destijl - IND086) 7-inch $6.00
The last of the vintage, tipple-era Askew, before the fingers cramped and began tickling digital ivory. Two wondrous cuts that would've been included on the Little Eyes CD were time not space: live versions of "Here We Are Together Again" and "Yellow Dollars," taken from David Porter's Show on WYBC, November 1969.
ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB / GLOCKENSPIEL
Astral Social Club / Glockenspiel
(Krayon Recordings - KR014) split 7-inch $8.25
Machines groan and distant melodies ascend on the face-chewer by Neil Campbell on one side, while Glockenspiel’s vinyl debut on the flip weaves wooly tones with the harmonics of rubbed toms and bowed metal. A snow-blind haze of feedback, amplified string scrape and analogue electronics.
ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB / TOMUTONTTU
Wet Wheel / Hot Wheel b/w Syvät Svyät
(Tipped Bowler - TBT012) split LP $16.50
On “Wet Wheel / Hot Wheel,” Neil Campbell of Astral Social Club succumbs to the heartbeat throb of house, but tops the bass with a frenetic squall of darting alien melodies. On cursory listen, the elements congeal into honest-to-goodness body music, but the track is riddled with stutters and gaps that flooded synapses fill with aural afterimages. On the reverse, Jan Anderzén of Tomutonttu buries the dance influence, retaining only the genre’s neon shimmer and linear logic. The cuckoo loops of “Syvät Svyät” briefly cohere into musical shapes before casting off, replaced by an ecstatic march of manic squiggles. 150-gram vinyl. Stamped and screened sleeves by Siwa. Edition of 300.
C'est Pourquoi Il Importe, Aux Époques D'adversité...
(Nashazphone - NP007) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Somewhere between five and nine people (on vocals, guitar, bass, trumpet, drums, two synths, electronics) deliver a deafening wall assault, directly inspired by Japanese legends such as Hijokaidan or CCCC. Consisting of hippies, crust punks, industrialists, garage rockers and a jazz fanatic -- a sort of No-Neck Blues Band doppelganger -- they dwell in and around Pau, in the southwest of France, near the Pyrenees and the Spanish border. Scarce and violent live appearances have been greeted with aggression and emotionally charged reactions. Edition of 190 copies. With insert.
Astro / Family Battle Snake
(Pan - PAN1) split LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Delving into the realm of deep listening, transported by way of analog synthesizers, Family Battle Snake (aka Bill Kouligas of Sudden Infant) weaves an electronic web that cocoons the listener in warm cascading frequencies, calling to mind classic electronic composers such as Charles Dodge, Eliane Radigue and even a hint of NWW. Astro (aka Hiroshi Hasegawa of C.C.C.C.) melds waves of squealing feedback and oscillating waveforms with biting distortion. Enveloped by haywire electronics and burbling loops and skree, Astro has constructed an impressive piece of modern electronic music of devastating magnitude. Limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl, jacket housed in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs.
Japanese Royal Blue
(Turgid Animal) LP $20.00
Two live recordings of pure and painful synth noise bliss from psychedelic harsh noise master Hiroshi Hasegawa (ex-C.C.C.C., Mortal Vision, etc.). Edition of 250.
Live at Muryoku Muzen Temple
(Important - IMPREC198) LP $16.00
Two side-long tracks made with oscillators, synth, ring modulator and vocals by Hiroshi Hasegawa (ex-C.C.C.C.), a companion piece to The Echo At The Purple Dawn (Important 2008). Black vinyl.
... And Six Dark Hours Pass
(Dais - DAIS015) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Brooding intimate soundscapes composed mainly with tape loops and minimal synth by Sasha Grey, Pablo St. Francis and Anthony D’juan. Parts of the album remind Mishka Bloglin of “a darker, twisted offshoot of something you might have heard on Angelo Badalamenti’s score for Twin Peaks.” Numbered edition of 500.
Atelier Méditerranée
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD6) 7-inch $12.00
Music by children from the Institut Médico Educatif Ambroise Croizat in Saint Ouen, performed and recorded as part of a workshop led by David Lemoine (Cheveu) and Antoine Capet. Arranged by Lemoine, this “outsider electro-noise or something” throbs with the vibe of disturbed humanity. Part of a series that includes the homeless, convicts in jail, and street musicians.
Omicidio
(BloodLust! - B!146) 7-inch $9.00
The A-side of this new single by cult Italian death-industrialists Atrax Morgue was originally submitted as an alternate B-side to the Her Guts 7-inch (Bloodlust 2005), but the unsettling "Sinfonia Per Un Sadico" was chosen for that record instead, leaving “Omicidio” shelved and untouched until after Marco Corbelli’s death in 2007. It is vocal-driven Atrax Morgue song favored by Bloodlust, while the B-side is a 2009 remix/edit of "Autoerotic Death" (a choice segment of heavy, dark analog synth). Multicolor marble vinyl (ranging in tenor from dark bruises to sick bile spit up by a dying plague victim). Edition of 500.
Axilogue / Thermidor One Five
(White Denim - WD12) 7-inch picture disc $10.00
Crafted in their fine tradition, Aufgehoben continue to carve harsh chunks of noise with their first departure on seven-inch 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. 524 copies
Fragments of the Marble Plan
(Holy Mountain - 1986) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING IN APRIL. Music as apocalyptic as Fragments of the Marble Plan has few peers, but some approximate touchstones are the most radically out and knotty moments of Norwegian post-jazz ensemble Supersilent, This Heat after realizing that Brise-Glace didn’t pay them a penny in royalties, or Farmers Manual after extensive immersion in Mainliner’s back catalog. Fragments of the Marble Plan is a terrifying force of nature, a Rube Goldberg machine run amok, the sound of civilization atomizing into controlled chaos. It’s so cold, it’s hellish. Although Aufgehoben feels your need for catharsis, they convince you that being ready to jump out of your skin is the new normal. Includes download coupon.
Almost Dead
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR076) 7-inch $9.00
Aunt Mary's most recent record was a split seven-inch with Man Is The Bastard in 1992. Their total noisecore combines very basic drum beats (resembling pipes banged on a couple of industrial tanks), feedback, wailing guitar, and brutal vocals, all utterly maxed-out. Not too dissimilar to early AxCx. Edition of 300. Full-color sleeve.
AUSTRASIAN GOAT / CHAMBRE FROIDE
The Austrasian Goat / Chambre Froide
(At War With False Noise) split 7-inch $7.75 (Out-of-stock)
The second in the Austrasian Goat split seven-inch series delivers more funeral doom from the home town team, totally desperate stuff. Chambre Froide is Darkthrones-style raw black metal. Crusty, filthy.
AUTOEROTICHRIST / RICHARD RAMIREZ
Birthright
(Worldmadefleshrecordings - 001) 7-inch $12.00
From 1996.
Toosassa
(Ultra Eczema - UE62) LP $27.00
Arttu Partinen, Roope Eronen and Tero Niskanen made it to the USA in a small boat, bringing with them in the way of musical instruments nothing more than a few balloons and a beat-up Casio. Upon arrival, a microphone, a drum and toys were secured, adequately preparing the trio for this crazy WFMU session. Imagine a bunch of children discovering in a single afternoon '50s Euro avant garde scene, '60s psychedelic free jazz and proto-punk, the '70s sound poetry and punk and '80s disco. or give yourself a break; this LP sounds like a mix of all of the above. 300 copies. Psychedelic jacket by Dennis Tyfus.
Big Cheap Motel
(Siltbreeze - SB115) LP $13.00
The first of Siltbreeze's Axemen reissues is the trio's difficult third album from 1983. Rarely heard outside the Southern Hemisphere, this montage of rough-and-ready live performances and Peterboro Studio recordings teeters on the precipice of chaotic genius alongside such stalwarts as Alternative TV / Hear & Now's What You See Is What You Are and 1/2 Japanese's Loud. With a reproduction of original insert and original cover design. Edition of 500.
Scary! Part III
(Siltbreeze - SB119-SB120) 2xLP $17.50
The second of Siltbreeze's Axemen reissue series, Scary! Part III originally saw light as a cassette-only release in 1989. Unlike the hyper-punk-charged Big Cheap Motel, Scary! operates from a gestalt concept and sensibility. While on the surface the contents might sound fragmented, ruminative, or obfuscatory, dig deeper (or listen better) and you'll see (and hear) the mystifying ooze lactating out of the four sides not as individual, insurmountable constructs of bizarreness, but as a coherent pattern of brilliant phenomena. Novice ears that have made it though this Bunyanesque giant find themselves making comparisons to a mixture of S.Y.P.H., Royal Trux, and Ptose.
Three Virgins
(Siltbreeze - SB122-SB123) 2xLP $17.50
Setting up shop in Christchurch's State Trinity Centre over Easter holidays 1985, The Axemen went to work recording every sound and second that could be captured during the legendary lost weekend. Fueled by enhanced adrenalin (Tiger Blood) and super human zeal (Adonis DNA), The Axemen chewed up dozens of reels of tape, assaulting all those who entered the erstwhile ecclesiastical chamber with a barrage of splendiferous blabber 'n' croak. The resultant eighty-eight minutes sound like a mutant hybrid channeling of Trout Mask Replica, Exile On Main Street and Tago Mago. Includes free download card.
Crazy Horses
(Ultra Eczema - UE61) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded September 24, 1998, in the building and garden of Fundacao de Serralves and Porto Palacio Hotel, the same day as the Privacy exhibition. Belgium's captain of contemporary painter Luc Tuymans and Poland's giant brutal sculptor Miroslav Balka used the sound of running horses for their collaborative public sound sculpture, during which other sounds (such as a drunk Venezualan singing “vacuum cleaning” and discussing Maurizio Catalan and the snake of Jungle Book, who, by the way "has a very stupid expression on his face") transformed the running horses into crazy horses. Released for the Involved exhibition in Shanghai, China, curated by Phillippe Pirotte. Limited to 500 copies, B-side etched by Tuymans and Balka.
Bufo Alvarius
(Drunken Fish - DF15) LP $15.00
Their 1995 zoned-out stoner-psych debut album in service to an hallucinogenic toad. Fuzz-soaked weirdness clouds the loosened-up blues rock and coarse melodies.
BARK HAZE / OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD
Bark Haze / Our Love Will Destroy the World
(Krayon Recordings - KR009) split 7-inch $8.25
OLWDtW’s Campbell Kneale (ex-Birchville Cat Motel) closes in on the glistening, levitation altar, with backwards bliss-shimmer, spooked chant, and analogue squawk’n’squeal. Bark Haze (Thurston Moore and Andrew MacGregor) hit back with focused power-drone guitar dueling from the heart of the bong.
Alex Barnett / Fielded
(Nihilist - NIHIL73) split LP $19.00
Barnett's two subtle and sinister soundscapes delve into synthesizer soundtrack territory, eerie enough to turn any situation into a potential death scene. Pounding, anthemic drum machine battle beats by Fielded (Lindsay Powell, also of GA'AN/Festival) lay to waste foundations of synthesizers, while multi-layered and processed vocals command with definitive power. Edition of 200.
Spare Parts
(Dutch Boy) LP $15.00
After a stint in the world of amateur wrestling Bad Boy Butch Batson, based out of North Carolina, took up the blue-collar lifestyle and spent ten years producing this labor of love. With help from dozens of studio musicians, Spare Parts cavorts recklessly through the annals of popular song, wrestling rock anthems delivered in almost heroic Beefheartian gaudiness, mid-80s slasher vibes narrated with congested indignity by a self-hating eunuch, and uneasy love songs from the acne-scarred panty-collector. Interspliced is a series of gawky real-life tape collages, but that goes without saying. Real outsider WTF here, according to the label.
The Sky's Gone Out
(4 Men With Beards - 4M511) LP $15.00
Writhe and horrify yourself to the 2008 reissue of the third album by these ambassadors of goth, originally released on Beggars Banquet in 1982.
Metal / Flesh
(Bocian - BC05) 7-inch $10.00
This Australian avant garde percussionist’s long-standing preoccupation with extended technique and acoustically generated noise applied to the conventional drumkit in a freely improvised context has helped push the bounds of the acoustic drumkit’s sonic potential (alongside compatriots Robbie Avenaim, Tony Buck, Steve Heather, Joe Talia and Will Guthrie). Baxter’s concise improvisations, performed with unconventional implements, extract unusual timbres from the drumkit. His vast and dense sonic worlds, created without overdubs or processing, allude to avant garde electronic music, Modernist chamber music in the style of Xenakis and Lachenmann, extreme noise and the maximalist spectrum of post-AMM free improv. On “Metal,” piercing untuned aluminium windchimes flail against the rims and membranes of the kit in a chaotic flurry, creating a barrage of stochastic rhythms and accidental harmonies, exploiting the high frequency ranges of metallic sound. “Flesh,” in complete contrast, employs the exclusive use of the body; fingers, hands, fists and elbows strike, coddle and pummel various components of the drumkit, coercing and coaxing more rounded, but equally uncompromising and slightly uncomfortable bottom-end sounds from the instrument.
The In Sound From Way Out
(Grand Royal - GR013) LP $75.00
The one you always hear in bars, the instrumental-groovalicious jam-cut collection, the bomb, the thing, the one you can't live without. The hella-mella stomp with tracks from Ill Communication and Check Your Head, as well as crowd pleasers, "Son of Neckbone" and "Drinkin' Wine." Yellow vinyl. One copy in stock, # 845 / 5000. Sealed.
Solos
(What The ... - WHAT009) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
In spring 2009, Robert Beatty (Three Legged Race, Hair Police) traveled as a collaborating and touring member of Burning Star Core; written into the set list every night was slot for an improvised solo on his special electronics rig, synthesizer, space echo, question boxes, etc. "Solos" cuts them together into a work of their own. Not a collage, but a document not comprehensive to the originating context. Ten complete solos, in chronological order, for fans of detailed-driven minimum electronics. Paste-on jacket with a creepy poster to get to know. Edition of 166.
Tough Man
(BloodLust! - B!066) 7-inch $7.50
Rhode Island artist Peter Lee (Force Of Nature) crafts a mixture of old-school industrial and power electronics, with intense vocals, tempered by dark, death-industrial-influenced, ambient soundscapes. Eleventh release in the BloodLust! Private 7" series. Plain white sleeve. 300 copies.
The Cartesian Plane
(Elevator Bath - eeaoa033) LP picture disc $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Deep, meditative tranquility inextricably linked to Berry’s otherworldly painting -- absorbing, heavy with the slow unraveling of emotions, expansive and unreal. Edition of 233
Two Phases of Emanation of Light
(Heard Worse - HW07) LP $15.00
Markos Zografos’s complete composition for music and text contains a total of four phases; Heard Worse’s LP contains the third and fourth. It’s a noise drone work, made of slow building intensity, inspired by Xenakis, one in which “time stops [and e]verything disappears except for the sensation of infinity....” Paste-on cover.
Burial Ground
(Saxon Gregory) LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Audio from the Andrea Bianchi film Burial Ground aka Le Notti Del Terrore (1981). Edition of 150.
Endometrio
(Dais - DAIS013) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reissue of Bianchi’s self-released LP from 1982, representing a turning point toward what he calls “bionic music,” aka “prerecorded sounds that are electronically generated and then treated through the use of nucleic echo-machine.” Insert includes contemporary notes. Numbered edition of 500.
Evidences Vol. 1 - Final Industrial Music 1980
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD38) 5xLP $97.50
Deep, nihilistic, and depressive psycho-electronics / noise / drones by The Master. No Nazi speeches or samples. Includes Mectpyo / Blut 1 and Mectpyo / Blut 2, Atomique / Murder, Gene-P (a never-released Industrial Records album), and Nervo / Hydra, all officially unreleased material on vinyl. Limited edition, imported from Germany.
Bilbo's Incinerator
(w.mo/r - w.mo/r17) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
An atypically gushing review at Siltblog says this 7-inch "erupts like fissures of primordial ash 'n' pumice from a toxic lava of Punk Brut that is most refreshing & revelatory." Art For Spastics concurs, describing it as "abhorrent pummeling scuzzrock that is so extremely harrowing," filled with "unbridled anger and despair." Other people have good things to say about it as well, but fuck 'em.
Urban Disease
(Pan - PAN11) LP $27.00
It has been said that Billy Bao doesn't believe in hypnagogia because he always sleeps with one eye open, and when he dreams, all he sees is AIDS deniers, German shepherds, and soldiers disguised as UN peacekeepers. Before Mattin and anarchism ruined his life, Billy was a bit of a troubadour who accompanied himself on acoustic guitar and warbled wild songs of protest in his native Nigerian patois. This new album, his third on vinyl, is a transitional one dating from late 2006. The gaztetxes of Bilbao hadn't yet burrowed into his marrow, Mattin was still plotting his moves for acting as Merle to Billy's G.G., and the herpes sores in the mouth of global capitalism revealed no visible symptoms. What began as a relaxing session in which Billy conducted a pickup band of itinerant improvisers through a song-by-song cover of Amon Düül's Psychedelic Underground got fucked up by Taku Unami. Likewise, Margarida Garcia lends astounding skill and highly personal idiom on the electric double-bass (in her hands an instrument with the tension of string on wood and the disruptive potential of a crackle box); Barry Weisblat, meanwhile, teases out a century of drone from a Cornell lunchbox of filament and circuitry; the sainted Tim Barnes plays drums and percussion with a saintly touch; Mattin, thumb and forefinger compulsively pinching (or stroking) his Hitler mustache after every take, funnels Billy's malaise through laptop, percussion, and folk instrumentation; and a women's choir eerily fills out the atmosphere with wordless vocals and incantations. The result is a fragmentary, extremely loud hippie jam session punctuated by stretches of uneasy silence and scrape. Cover artwork by Henry Flynt.
Bipolar Bear / Pope
(Rococo - RCC0010) split 10-inch $11.75 (Out-of-stock)
Performing on bass and drums with enough effects and thwap to make your eyeballs leak blood, Paul Kneejee and Fiddles Watson (aka Pope) are kindred spirits to the Boredoms and godheadSilo. Bipolar Bear, led by guitarists Kneejee and Bryan Thadius (both of whom run the Kill Shaman label) massacre Dischord-influenced garage rock in a frenzy of swampy-ass guitar-driven madness, with bassist Luke Birk’s angular lines and Kerri Kirchhammer’s off-beat drumming. Limited to 330 copies. Screened covers on chipboard.
BIRDS BUILD NESTS UNDERGROUND / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
Gramofonu = Voice of The Universe
(Opax - OPX30A) LP $23.00
The first meeting of Prague-based turntable-and-8mm band and Italian psychedelic troubadours. Two different approaches yield a sound from the unknown realms of the outer space and the somehow-well-known world of old cracking records. BBNU provided MCIAA with some live improvisations, which were subsequently laced with sounds of guitars, space toys and ray guns, wordless singing and alientronics. Never has music of the spheres crackled so nicely. An improvised speech by a Czech avant garde poet Vítezslav Nezval kicks this off. Edition of 300
A Living Room At The Bottom Of A Lake
(Nashazphone - NP004) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Birds Of Delay have been sculpting their psychedelic-electronic-noise-drone for more than five years (that’s over half a decade in human years). Previous releases on Chocolate Monk, American Tapes, Troniks, Hospital Productions, and their own Alcoholic Narcolepsy.
The Cut
(Ultra Eczema - UE86) LP $25.00
Pure droned filet Americain, conceptual artpiece, back to old school cards on the table, and poetics re-invented by dolle smurfen repeating the same word over and over. Classic tones, properly sliced feathers, and intense poetics. Metallic green cover design by D. Tyfus. Edition of 300.
BIRTH REFUSAL / CASSIS CORNUTA
Birth Refusal / Cassis Cornuta
(Ultra Eczema) LP $22.50
Dream-team hook-up between legendary Belgian avant/industrial/savant-goof Cassis Cornuta (one of the most singular synthists/conceptualists to come out of the post Nurse bag) and John Olson and Mike Connelly of Wolf Eyes. Housed in a massively ill fold-out six-panel cover with art by Dennis Tyfus and pressed on a one-sided LP with an etching on the B-side, the sonics match slowly rending circuit boards, cold beams of Euro glare and what appears to be the first drawled chord of “Iron Man,” and fluttering electronics that hover in the air with all the malevolent anti-gravity of leather wings.
Bizarre Uproar / Macronympha
(Trash Ritual - TRASH048) split 7-inch $10.00
Conflicted pairing of Dominance Aggression. Bizarre Uproar's unrefined Finnish harsh noise (along the lines of the ultra-violence sessions of Liha-Evankeliumi) vs. calculated composition of electronics and raw acoustics from one of USA's strongest, Macronympha. Two counts of assault with difference of intent. Fold-over sleeve with two double-sided color inserts.
Code Black / First and Only
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR063) split 7-inch $7.75
Black Sun are still as heavy as their Paralyser LP but this rager's much more in the short, fast and loud vein. They Are Cowards play focused, grim, Northern waste-inspired misery, building from a massive Celtic Frost-esque riff. Beastly.
Paralyser
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR037) LP $16.00
First vinyl release from the UK's heaviest band. Pummeling doom / post-industrial metal in the vein of Godflesh, early Swans, etc.
The Jaguar and The Yellow Colours
(Destijl - IND014) LP $20.00
That Liebfried Loch has been making his found sound / voice / guitar / organ recordings more or less unnoticed since the late 1970s is a real shocker. He has played among and with the bigger names of a DIY, Velvets-Barrett-Drake-inspired scene in and around Berlin, with connections to 39 Clocks, Phantom Payne, Beauty Contest, etc. But Loch has no patience for a melody, preferring layers of sound, a method that has yielded tiresome results by a great many artists, but for whatever reason, is much kinder to Herr Loch. Edition of 300.
Katharsis: Kalte Lieder aus der Hölle
(Hospital - HOS288) CD $16.00
(Hospital - HOS288) LP $17.00
Blackdeath keeps fighting, living life as war. Wildness and violence have hardened into an idiosyncratic and cracked style: manic vocals that switch from a black rasp to psychotic singing; Nordic riffs bent into a weapon with sharper angles; and song progression equal parts percussive brawl and wide-eyed revelation. Black metal stubbornly focused on quality of riff and refinement of composition. Potent.
ALEX BLAKE QUINTET / PHAROAH SANDERS
Now Is The Time
(Bubble Core - BC030) LP $15.00
Powerful and mesmerizing modern jazz recorded live at The Knitting Factory in 2000, led by one of the world's top upright bass players, a veteran of groups with Sun Ra, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz and McCoy Tyner.
Solo Acoustic Volume One
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ1) LP $16.50
A new voice in the ragtime and American primitive guitar-playing lineage, Blatchley offers a unique interpretation of both new and traditional compositions. Blatchley performs in the band Mountain Home with Marissa Nadler and Greg Weeks of Espers. Letterpress jacket, liner notes.
Children’s Suite and Live at PBS
(Dual Plover) 7-inch + CD $15.50
Possibly the sickest release produced by a label that specializes in a sweet variety of ill. Contrary to expectation, Kevin Blechdom (Belctum From Blechdom, Erase Errata) transforms the Beatles classic “Twist and Shout” into a celebration of prenatal pleasure. The first 500 copies come with a bonus CD of La Bleckles recorded live at PBS FM during her 2006 tour of Australia. Nice ’n’ womby.
Blind Jesus
(Von Archives - VON006) LP $20.00
Stefano Pillia (guitar, audio collages and effects) and Andrew Hooker (electronics) exploring the essence of improvised ambient music. Edition of 300.
From Tapes and Throats
(Giant Tank) LP $16.50
A couple years back, Glasgow was consumed by the collective throats of Antwerpian weirdo Ludo Mich and Brightonian/Lothian noise-family farmhands Blood Stereo (Karen Constance and Dylan Nyoukis of Prick Decay / Decaer Pinga / Chocolate Monk). Hear their night-terror-inducing Nosferatu yap melt the minds attending the Instal '06 festival on side A, and neck the swallie of post-everything sound poetry and tape-dirt manipulation on Side B. A real out odyssey. 250 copies. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2008.
The Larval Tuning Fork (& Other Visions)
(Twisted Knister - KNACK004) LP $21.25
Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance use tapes and toys and their mouths to bring you creaking doors, aviaries, doddering old ladies, a troupe of muppets grunting and puking their guts out, some old drunk sailor squeezing a harmonium, etc. But what’s important here is the overall bulge and slump as their record breathes. Recordings from Brighton, Blackburn, Dunbar, London, Albany, Jersey City, Amherst, Glasgow, Berlin, Schiphorst, Gerlesborg. Edition of 300.
The Trachelin Huntiegowk
(Chocolate Monk - CHOC228) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Above us, blizzards of fecal snow ravage the sky, dehydrated flakes leftover from the expunged waste of civilization's folly. Below, spasms of subterranean dyspepsia crisscross the globe, stalking nomadic malignancies to devour. These tape- and glottis-manipulators conduct their business beneath this noxious shit-rain and elude randomly appearing gaia dentata with nary a scratch or impurity tainting their tartans. Composed at home, side one wrangles recordings of friends and family, old tape letters, a drunk Canadian arguing with Daniel Spicer about microphones (apparently, his grasp of spatial relationships leaves Her Vagesty wanting), fair lasses from clan Spicer doing the hand-clap song "Miss Mary Mack," tape cut-ups of Karen Constance singing, wee Elkka Nyoukis on drums, the old man on piano, and Giant Tank comrades Ali Robertson and Collette Martin participating in team-building exercises at a work picnic for a company staffed by ogres, insect-bodybuilder hybrids, and baboon-hearted psychos. On side two, recorded live at Moderna Museet in Stockholm as part of the Sten Hanson festival, Nyoukis and Constance unravel the constituent elements of the event's namesake, eventually oxidizing delivery of instructions to the assembled Pee Wee Hermans on how to finesse a poison arrow out of his impaled cheeks without causing undue shredding of the flesh. Accompanied by typing lessons conducted in a burn ward and the tinkle of contaminated plasma and hemoglobin squirting into buckets underneath a poxy heifer, The Trachelin Huntiegowk wrestles across a landscape ruled by an inversion of signs, where irrational complaining is drama; despair is triumph; the haunted is droll; torture is delight; the mechanical wheeze of outdated machines is a function not of dehumanization but of Arcadian nostalgia; profundity resides within the inarticulate; virtuosity can be attained when the random happens to repeat; and speech, decimated into fragmented phonemes -- whether from internal mental agents compromising the intellect, or from intentionally adopted constructions and impairments, faulty reproduction and obstructions to enunciation -- is lyrical. Soulful even. Edition of 50.
Your Snakelike King
(Pan - PAN5) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
These Brighton mongs -- Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance -- pick up where they left off with 2008's The Magnetic Headache. Midnight-to-three recordings fueled by grape and smoke conjure a blurred narrative, the meaning of which is never clear, like weird off-camera sounds in a tripped out movie. A shape-shifting and strange mix of tape collage, free vocals and electro-acoustic mischief. Limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, in jacket and a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
Ready to Do Damage
(Gaping Hole - GH3) LP $16.50
Ready To Do Damage seethes with malevolence: sustained piercing feedback; crashing and ripping metal; distortion flaking off every corner; dank; violent. The A side contains a live collaboration (a first for Mania) between these two artists, while side B holds a solo track from each. Mania has terrorized the world of noise and power electronics since 2002 with releases on Bitewerks, Freak Animal, Harsh Head Rituals, Abisko, Vemod, and others. Ryan Bloomer is currently a member of industrial scuzz unit Piss Horn, lives in Canada surrounded by amplifiers, and heads up the Traumatone organization, makers of noise devices most vile. Black vinyl, 11”x17” color poster, edition of 300.
Solid State
(Flipped Out - FOR04) LP $8.00
Freaked and stretched excursions and blazing, bursting explosions from Philadelphia 1996. Edition of 400.
Blue Sabbath Black Fiji
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR078) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
This record translates the French/German Glasgow-based duo’s contagious live sets perfectly, where overdriven guitar scree, feedback, heavily-effected vocal distortion and brain-pummeling drum machine are all at the forefront. Within a mostly noise free-for-all, a moment of cohesion pops in -- a great groove, possibly the most head-nodding noise release on the label. Edition of 300. Screen-printed sleeves.
BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL WITH THE FREEDOM ORCHESTRA AND THE MAGICK POWERHOUSE OF OZ
The Lucifer Rising Suite
(Ajna Offensive) 4xLP $60.00 (Out-of-stock)
At the age of 16, BeauSoleil played guitar for several garage acts, including a brief stint with Arthur Lee and The Grass Roots. (As would prove to be the case throughout his life, BeauSoleil's brief impression was lasting and Lee soon re-christened his band Love, reputedly a winking homage to the young runaway's romantic proclivities.) Bandless but unbroken, BeauSoleil landed in Haight-Ashbury just prior to his 18th birthday. Marching into the thriving psychedelic street revolution, he formed artrock band The Orkustra and began gigging regularly at Be-In events throughout the city. During this time, just months before the onset of the Summer of Love, underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger discovered him during a psychedelic arts festival called The Invisible Circus. He immediately cast the handsome musician as the lead man and fallen angel archetype in his latest celluloid ritual, Lucifer Rising. With typical melodramatic pomp, Anger approached him in a parking lot after the festival, declaring, “You are Lucifer!” He agreed to play the part under the condition that he would also compose the film's soundtrack. Caged first in San Quentin and later in Tracy State Prison, BeauSoleil's creative impulses could not be squelched despite his repressive surroundings. With diligence he was able to set up an inmate music program at the latter institution in the early 1970s. Now, for the first time, all the music composed for the soundtrack has been compiled into a single public release. The Lucifer Rising Suite begins with the 1967 version of the soundtrack and continues through a logical sequence of the recordings made in the years spanning 1976-79. With respect to the latter, the original master tapes were mined for music that had not been heard by anyone in nearly three decades. The newly unearthed recordings were then restored, cleaned up and combined with those previously released to make the anthology as complete as possible. With lots of artwork inserts, posters, essay.
Bunhill Row
(Paradigm Discs - PD19) LP $17.50
In 1980, Adam Bohman (Morphogenesis, The Bohman Brothers) made his first recordings using two budget cassette recorders, an ordinary trumpet, and a variety of other acoustic instruments and objects, many of which are still part of the current Bohman armory. Bunhill Row was his first complete album of material, but it and subsequent releases from the time remained in tiny cassette editions made for friends or exchanged through the mail art network. On vinyl for the first time, Paradigm Discs' hand-numbered reissue opens another window into the incredibly fruitful astral alignment that occurred over London at this time. "Beautifully raw, dirty, and mesmerizing," opines Ed Pinsent in Sound Projector, "A genuine masterpiece of grown-in-the-UK genius." Edition of 500.
Bonesaw / Lobotomized
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR089) split 7-inch $9.00
Bonesaw's old-school death metal is fast and raw, with sludgy slow parts and horrible vocals. Lobotomized offer two tracks of punky death metal, similar to Abscess or maybe even newer Darkthrone. Heavy vinyl with full-color insert. Edition of 350.
MARK BOOMBASTIK / MAX GOLDT / FELIX KUBIN
Fog Frog b/w Ladies Ladies
(Meeuw Muzak - MM039) 7-inch $8.00
The 2003 mix of "Fog Frog" (involving electric heater percussion and subsequently disparaged as "too Neubauten") is updated with judicious sense of organization while retaining the tipsy-sounding execution of the original -- recorded by Goldt in a hotel room with a Fellini-inspired choir of wine-filled glasses. The post-feminist pre-ejaculate that is "Ladies Ladies" gets a gentle re-agitation as well, with Boombastik and Kubin filleting Goldt's words and music from the historical timeline with their human-beatboxing and dada production, respectively.
Plastik Lieb / Hoffnung
(Meeuw Muzak - MM031) 7-inch $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
A studio piece and a live track by the human beatbox from Berlin, who does his thing with voice, tape loops and effects. Through the years he has worked with Trainingslager, Fischmob, Hofoku Soshi, Funkstoerung, Patric Catani, Felix Kubin, and Khan. Raw and tight beats, pure intensity, and combative notoriety.
MATTHEW BOWER / RICHARD YOUNGS
Site / Realm
(VHF) LP $15.00
Elemental guitar noise, feedback washes, bowed cymbals from 1994. Silkscreened fold-over jacket.
Familia
(After Music Recordings) LP $16.50
All hail The New Desolation. One of America’s premier noise bands, Boy Dirt Car returns with a sermon, or possibly a soundtrack to a beautiful yet disturbed mantra, with a possible insight to breakdown. Darren Brown, Dave Szolwinski, Dan Kubinski, Keith Brammer, Steve Whalen, and Jeff Hamilton are joined by guests Rico McCoulm, Mike Sawyer, Josh Mead and Jarrod Olman for this journey into enlightenment or dementia. Found sounds combine with interludes of thrashed out bass, distorto guitar, and manipulations alongside vocal musings, tantrums and almost choral-like insertions within and around. Seems like one for the headphones. Jackets silkscreened by Josh Mead. Vinyl includes one track not available digitally. Edition of 300. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2010.
Treacherous Young Witches
(After Music Recordings) split LP $16.50
Boy Dirt Car has got the drift again on this textural affair with layers of echoing and twisting noises, guitar undercurrents, razor'd electro interruptions and erosions. Their twenty-minute, bounce-heavy, clanking rhythm-bed, touched by marimba, fused with found sounds, is organic as a kitten and possessed as the Oracle's mono-toned pronouncements. On the flip, Andy Gallagher enlists the help of Mike Watt (Minutemen), Mike Hoffman, Steve Summers and Graham Brown for four songs. The instantly memorable opener “Should've Stayed in Bed” is reminiscent of a melancholy Grant Hart and won't leave your memory anytime soon. If you're into Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh, Gallagher has you covered. Original artwork from Josh Mead and Astrid Young (Neil's sister). Edition of 300.
irr. app. (ext.) / Mykel Boyd
(Somnimage - som10009) split 7-inch $12.00
Matthew Waldron's avant-brewski meets Boyd's drones and sputters, like a cicada in Lake Michigan. White vinyl, silver on black silk screened sleeve. Limited to 200 copies
MYKEL BOYD / PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST
Painting Petals on Planet Ghost / Mykel Boyd
(Somnimage - som10014) split 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
The Opalio brothers (My Cat is an Alien) with Ramona Ponzini bring the mellow on the Painting Petals on Planet Ghost side with ambient noise and bells. Boyd's sweet ride consists of processed field recordings. White vinyl in opaque wrap-over sleeve. Limited to 200 copies.
Rapoon / Mykel Boyd
(Somnimage) split LP $21.00
One side of beautiful ethno-ambiance by Robin Storey, formerly of Zoviet France. One side of "recordings of things" altered by Boyd to sound like planes taking off. Black, letter-pressed jacket. White vinyl. Edition of 200.
At The North Pole, Easter Day, 1982
(What The ... - WHAT012) LP (one-sided) + 3in CDR $17.00
In comparison to the only other available recording of a complete live performance by the BLE (the side-long “Industrial Barbecue,” on the BUFMS boxset), At The North Pole, Easter Day, 1982 is starker and more minimal overall. Performing as a quintet at an open mic night in a student cafeteria, the group had played live only once prior and 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 parts gives the performance an incidental resemblance to those tense moments in grim power electronics just before the singer goes berserk, but then ridiculous verbal repetitions and Top 40 references come out of nowhere like nerdy Fluxus rehearsals in the middle of a New Orleans funeral. Other segments highlight the difference between aboriginal metal percussion and pots ’n’ pans getting banged together by people with a remarkably spastic sense of rhythm. Visually, Bren’t Lewiis were like a cross between the jackets of early Nurse With Wound albums and a bunch of hicks impersonating Spike Jones and His City Slickers. Television sets flickered throughout. Doug Roberts brought his bicycle onstage. Dressed in a labcoat and white wool-felt USAF boots, howling into his signature plastic lawn flamingo, Lucian Tielens stretched the limits of publicly acceptable intimate congress with inanimate objects. Tim Smyth wore a bunch of Christmas lights attached to a Civil Defense helmet. Peter D had a garbage bag filled with helium balloons taped to his head and toilet paper wrapped around his face. As some sort of oblique Day-Glo homage to Carmen Miranda, Gnarlos wore a handmade upside-down sweatsuit. The amplified 21-foot aluminum sailboat mast, the undisputed star of the show, was so unwieldy that use of a special freight door was required just to get in and out of the building, and yet a single, lonely metallic “ploong!” was pretty much the limit of its sonic palette -- appropriate testament to the methodology of this absurdly inefficient group. Includes insert printed with glow-in-the-dark ink, and a reproduction of the flyer advertising the show. Edition of 129. All orders placed here include a 3-inch CDR of previously unreleased hoot, not available elsewhere.
Make It Stop
(Training Bra) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
The debut vinyl by this early ’80s free-improv, Smegma-influenced outsider collective of Butte County-based freaks. Found objects, homemade instruments, prerecorded tapes and vinyl, psychotic cover versions of AM fodder, and a resolute lack of music skills abound. "Deeply peculiar," Weird Record of the Week — CMJ. Members went on to play in Vomit Launch and Glands of External Secretion.
Three Christs of Ypsilanti
(Siltbreeze - SB131) LP + 3-inch CDR $15.00
The first post-BUFMS-boxset disgorgement of ramshackle outsider clatter and howl from one of California’s many rural nowheres exposes previously hidden, 25-year-old whack-off (à la Smegma and other bent LAFMS trippers, the UK’s 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). The murky “Take It Out And Kill It” whirls around in conflicting directions in a manner one critic long ago described as “schizophrenic muzak.” “Dark Surprise,” a 1986 recording from the crossroads of DIY autism and darkened psychedelia, is previously unreleased (the first playback of the master tape didn’t happen until 2008). In contrast to the group’s usual embrace of any and all kitchen sinks in the immediate vicinity, this recording was made solely with electric guitars, voice and prerecorded audio frottage. Book-ending both sides are excerpts from an after-hours, no-audience, guerrilla action recorded in a multistory, split-level university student union, using hurled cafeteria cutlery, defective boomboxes and answering machines blaring prerecorded tape, the public piano, and a variety of unidentified flailing objects. “[As] secretive as a posse’ve Masons bidding in a goat auction … a weird , befuddlin storm comin’ outta the night … tryin’ to charm you into the muddy arms of the undertow.” –Roland Woodbe, Siltblog NOTE: Copies of this LP purchased here include a 3-inch CDR of previously unreleased bonus tracks.
ANDREW BRODER / GEORGE CARTWRIGHT
Broder / Cartwright
(Roaratorio - ROAR08) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Andrew Broder (aka Lex Records/Ninja Tune recording artist Fog) and George Cartwright (leader of the long-running avant/jazz group Curlew and Gloryland Ponycat Trio) lay claim to some barrier-crashing and genre-splicing within their respective bodies of work. Together on a Minneapolis stage in February 2004, they cross-pollinate like killer bees with their array of saxes, laptops, turntables, keyboards, and various effects. Broder and Cartwright’s free improv would work fine as a soundtrack for documentaries on paranormal phenomena, so start filming, auteur. Limited edition on red vinyl, with hand-silkscreened covers.s/t
Solo Acoustic Volume Three
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ3) LP $16.50
Twelve-string arrangements from a true master of the instrument, Brokaw shows a range from waltzes and ballads to experiments and rhythms. Member of Codeine, The New Year, Come, Thurston Moore and the New Wave Bandits and many more ensembles. Letterpress jackets, liner notes.
Home of the Brahma Chopp
(Vertical Industries - NR19635) LP $10.00
A solo project by Jim Sotille of Squirmbo, executed between 1988 and 1993, released 1994. Dominated by free guitar noises backed up with percussion and crackling.
Bagirwa Hymn
(Von Archives - VON003) LP $20.00
A tribal funeral ode in the form of two dense, obscure messes, from one of the masters of the new mysticism. Edition of 300.
A Black Balloon
(Criminal - PATR55) LP $20.00
Sealed copies of the original pressing (from the early to mid-'80s) of the second solo outing by one of the Parasites of the Western World dudes. Crashing syndrums, pomped riffs and dramatic vocals, steering just the right side of Thomas Dolby and Peter Gabriel territory with unique traces of synth-pop and an untouchably aspirational intent.
Silence and Timing
(Criminal - PATR555) LP $20.00
Sealed copies of the original pressing from 1981 of this solo oddity by a member of the Parasites Of The Western World. Not as many avant rock maneuvers as the Parasites' album (reissued by Destijl), but still a knockout, albeit less overt. Burke blurs the boundary between dreamy psych and melancholic post punk, with passing overtones of both Brian Sands and Gignoux's The Broadway Boys, though this has got a darker overall cast.
Body Blues
(Hospital - HOS182) 7-inch $6.75 (Out-of-stock)
Spencer Yeh’s voice of rapture emerges from the tunnels of noise. Two side-long pieces that drift between driving, nostalgic, road-weary, headlong plunges into human mysteries and sombre, rose-pedal synth write private and voyeuristic existentialism.
Brighter Summer Day
(Thin Wrist - TWB) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
Burning Star Core's first vinyl full-length and first widely available recording after numerous private releases that began surfacing in 1993. Massive layers of sustained sound driven thru violins and electronics direct to climax, backed by broken organs dropped into shifting darkness and cracked computer hypnotics.
Burning Star Core / Del
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC08) split 7-inch $9.00
A blend of wild rock energy with anarchic noise weirdness in a complex, explosive, multi-layered sound. Traditional instrumentation (violin, drums + guitars) and noisy, chaos-generating electronics, unified in celebration of the power of primal natural forces and the creative energy of sexual instincts.
Challenger
(Hospital - HOS216) CD $13.75 (Out-of-stock)
(Plastic - P007) LP $16.50
On this composed work (as opposed to BxC's propensity for improv), each piece revolves around a central melodic theme with field recordings, an audio diary bridging the gaps, ranging from pure tonal mood to huge electronic crescendos. Challenger uses space remarkably, with parts coming and going, dropping, building or receding. When the piano crashes in “Mysteries of the Organ,” it's almost a frustration of paradise, a rejection of perfection or maybe a jolt of inexplicable life, unable to be translated into proper communication. Juxtaposed with the quiet haunting of “Hopelessly Devoted” which sounds like a love letter written to outer space, it makes for an album that is both dynamic yet consistent as a full statement. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2008
BURNING STAR CORE / COMETS ON FIRE
Comets On Fire / Burning Star Core
(Yik Yak - 005) LP $12.00
Noise-damaged psychedelia from the trippy year of 2005. No roadhouse numbers, just pure expando-band blown-jam sorcery. Shirts were shed, inhibitions were forgotten, magic was made. Silkscreened sleeves. Edition of 1000.
The Very Heart of The World
(Thin Wrist - TWG) CD $13.50
(Thin Wrist - TWG) LP $13.50
An incredibly heavy record, built on dense, layered drones, pulses, splintered vocals, and deep rhythms that euphorically build to total overload. With a lineup including the Hair Police front line and other luminaries from across the exploding Midwestern psych/noise/folk underground, BXC's C. Spencer Yeh shifts through epic movements and pushes pure electronic/concrete/physical/rock energy to undeniable, massive sound.
Tokei Nikki
(RRRecords - RRR999) LP $15.00
Kyoto noise turntable trio BusRatch began in 1998 (and have disbanded after eleven years, making their debut vinyl release their swan song) and performed improvised music on eight turntables simultaneously. Later on, as a duo, Katsura Mori and Takahiro Yamamoto "play back" on turntables a variety of items including prepared records, cymbals, metal objects, and mouse pads, as well as constructing sound improvisationally by using the cartridge and arm as amplifiers. Plenty of abstract needle fingering, processing, repetition and extreme noise. Side one contains two elegant, contemporary avant garde compositions. On side two are ninety-nine locked grooves. They've performed with Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide, Keiji Haino, Tetuzi Akiyama, Thomas Ankersmit, Utah Kawasaki, Bruno Meillier, Computer Soup, Olivia Block, Seth Nehil, and TV POW.
BUTTE COUNTY FREE MUSIC SOCIETY
Induced Musical Spasticity
(BUFMS - BUFMS25) 4xLP + CD $65.00
Induced Musical Spasticity commemorates the nascent pollination — in the musty shadows of the real ersatz Sherwood Forest, a couple hundred miles north of San Francisco — of the Buttecounty Free Music Society, an apocryphal institution that encouraged anything and nothing, in musical and amusical contexts, sometimes intentionally, sometimes because no one knew any better or cared. Highbrow concept tracks by The Marques (brothers Cole and Steve Marquis) and the dramaturgical Unlikely Modernists, along with Ambivalent Dosage’s pre-Vomit Launch nihilism, mutter and howl next to mad paisley destructo by Dilwhip and the quartet edition of 28th Day, Hypnagogic Jerk’s overmodulated roar, and sweet, YMG-influenced instrumentals by Hallucinatory Companion (aka Barbara Manning and Cole Marquis). Ripe dementia by Experimental Artists, Lawrence Crane and John Young, and Tops Inc. stops rational people in their tracks, while turntable experiments, tape yoink, and high-lonesome electro-twarnk by Rory Lyons, Ziplok, Sidney Afrika, The Conduits, Lucian Tielens, and Richard Streeter shuffle the consciousness. And then you’ve got primitard rock dunt by The Flamboyant Offals, Walking Jock, Dead Boy 3, and shockingly raw 28th Day material that predates most anyone’s idea of the original line-up of that influential band. Four episodes of Matt Mumper’s serial radio play Beor The Friendly Thing appear, in all its inscrutable, deadpan glory. The Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble pollutes the lion’s share of real estate with a side-long tape cut-up a la Faust Tapes called “Goat Embryo (Covered With Glue),” and their entire live set from the Industrial Barbecue. Also here are the spot-on country lament “Plastic Jesus”; the electronic damage of “Mid-Range Phase/Link 3"Dome”; the Smegma-influenced “Lightbulb Incident,” infamous for its live, on-air sodomy; a KCSC radio interview that includes the group’s first recordings; and a handful of previously unreleased tracks. Two-thirds of the material here was previously released (translation: a few dozen cassettes were dubbed one at time and passed through the hands of people in the same rural Northern California area code 25 years ago). All the relics in this boxset are likely unheard by anyone not specifically mentioned above.
I Am A 7-inch Single
(Ultra Eczema - UE83) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The German hero of prank art, weirdo live shows, and real head-scratch records is back with a single about a single. Jacket is a stencil-print of Elvis. Edition of 200.
Wie Zeit Vergeht
(Pan - PAN14) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
The Berserker of Berlin's uninterrupted stream of timbre-changing and alternating sounds takes influence from aspects of Stockhausen's work, albeit certainly far from Serielle Komposition methods. Using an entirely different array of equipment and caring less for technical finesse, a raw and sometimes absurd quality emerges. In spite of the dramatic character of the compositions, Butzmann works with the same joy and intuition as when he first heard them almost 40 years ago. Manipulating analogue sounds culled from old electronic recordings that he made at STEIM in Amsterdam back in 1995 (using the infamous Black Box modular system), a dadaistic influence shines through in the semi-naive use of electronics, vocals and undefined sound sources. For Butzmannm the basic idea is always more important than the perfect realization. The lyrics are excerpts of ... wie die Zeit vergeht ..., Telemusik and Kurzwellen by Stockhausen plus re-writings of lyrics used in the first section of the composer's concrete and electronic composition Hymnen. 140-gram vinyl, color jacket, silkscreened PVC sleeve. Edition of 500.
The C&B
(Siltbreeze - SB132) 7-inch $20.00
The C&B is short for The Cat & Bells Club, a brief 1991 precursor to The Shadow Ring (whose early recordings fuse equal parts Tyrannosaurus Rex’s mystical recitations with Throbbing Gristle’s aural idolatry). The C&B seem divinely born out of the sputtering taps of brown ale that flowed freely down the gullets of various first-generation DIY shufflers, most notably 49 Americans or Door And The Window. And while this is just dumb luck, there's no denying a genus, unintentional as it may be. The templates for the ruminative, droll and original wordsmithing, not to mention the threadbare musical accompaniment, that would soon become the hallmark for The Shadow Ring sound are now available for the first time ever. Four tracks, 300 pressed. Original artwork by Graham Lambkin.
Stolen Public Toilets
(Trash Ritual - TRASH040) LP $18.00
Thirty minutes of psychedelic harsh noise by Joe Roemer (Macronympha, One Dark Eye, OVMN) on guitar noise and effects, Ed-Um Bucholtz (Telecorps) on junk metal and electronics, and Nick Painter (Lord Bird Golden Cobra) on electronics and tape loops. Self-described as primarily electro-acoustic, Stolen Public Toilets is far more aggressive and raw than the term suggests. Limited edition of 200 copies with fold-over silk-screened cover.
The Rising
(Kye - KYE12) LP $16.50
Tim Goss and Chloe Mutter have been locked in perfect isolation since 2010, teasing every nuance of their sound into sharp focus, mastering cryptic intent. Homespun keyboard minimalism, wavering teenage laments, and foreboding pronouncements of doom synthesize into new, original matrices of thought. The Rising also introduces the guitar heroics of some-time third member, Big Rob Stewart, who lays down the law in crude basement style. Edition of 1000
NEIL CAMPBELL / RICHARD YOUNGS
How The Garden Is
(Harpendon - HP271) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Campbell and Youngs have recorded together in various forms (most notably A Band and the Durian, Durian LP), but How the Garden Is is their first true collaboration. Recorded over two days in the spring of 2000, this LP is mainly acoustic, hovering in, around, and between Youngs's meditative solo work and the density of Vibracathedral Orchestra ... stripped bare and built up around itself. Edition of 300. Jacket is near-mint with beginning of two-inch split on top edge of jacket; vinyl is mint. Includes 2-inch insert.
New Secret
(RRRecords - RRRCANT) LP picture disc $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Can't is Jessica Rylan, a n-n-noisician who exercises both restraint and vengeance in her ability to cause emotional discomfort and physical pain in the ear, as well as a unique kind of closeness and shared ecstatic state. Using analog synthesizers, a little rhythm box here, a couple distortion pedals there. Observes the Bay Guardian, “The sounds breathed from her homemade modular synths don't come off as ladylike - they're as monstrous and violent at the appropriate volumes as the harshest noise…. [G]entle intimacy with her instrument, the lightness of her voice as it passes through … bent circuits, and the passivity of her gestures as she moves the chaotic parameters of the machine in front of her … imbue her performance with femininity.”
The End Of Irony
(Dual Plover) LP + CD $15.00
Electronic breakcore disco by Jonathan Snipes and crew. Dual Plover's edition (aka the red edition) is similar to Deathbomb Arc's (aka the blue edition), but not identical. Fifteen tracks total, five of which are not on the blue edition, two are on vinyl for the first time, and three are drastically reworked.
New Nixon Tapes
(Roaratorio - ROAR16) LP $15.00
Since 2003, NYC's Talibam! have been charting a course through improv waters where rock, jazz, noise and all stops in between collide in an aggressive mix that defines free music in the best sense of the term: nothing is deemed out of bounds. Too much fun to be a po-faced postmodern exercise, and too expertly played to get sunk in a morass of good intentions, The New Nixon Tapes hurtles through two side-long pieces in an agile cascade of rhythmic and melodic ideas. Kevin Shea (drums) and Matt Mottel (synthesizer) have worked with Cooper-Moore and Rhys Chatham, among others; here they're joined by master saxophonist / trumpeter / flautist Daniel Carter. Recorded live in the WFMU studios. MP3 download coupon included.
Rag
(Roaratorio - ROAR19) LP $18.00
Recorded at various Minneapolis venues throughout 2009, Rag captures freely improvised meetings between saxophonist Cartwright (longtime leader of Curlew, associations with Ornette Coleman, Half Japanese, Alex Chilton and Loren Mazzacane) and percussionist Seru, whose playing is a trompe l’oreille marriage of forward motion and suspended stasis; witness his work with Milo Fine, Paul Metzger and Evan Parker, among others. Cartwright can be restlessly melodic or jaggedly guttural on the reeds, although his bedrock lyricism is never far from the surface. Edition of 300, each copy with unique print by Anne Elias on the jacket. Colored vinyl. Includes digital download coupon.
Siberian Field Recordings / Interview with a Whale Hunter
(Von Archives - VON004) 7-inch $12.00
Field recordings from the northeastern extremity of Asia in the northern part of the Russian Far East, radio frequency scans, ambient landscapes. Apropos of one of the planet’s most desolate and extreme environments.
Mag Ik Eens Even In Uw Broek Pissen
(Ultra Eczema - UE69) LP $25.00
Since 1974 Daniel De Wereldvermaarde Botanicus has been combining musique concrète, analog synthesizer carpets, weirdo acid, noise, field recordings, tape music, and free jazz in a puddle of madness spiced with odd staring, dozens of plants (cacti, to be more specific), an encyclopedic knowledge of sound art, and an insane collection of hats. Mag Ik Eens Even In Uw Broek Pissen is playable in at least four different ways, depending on how many extra holes Mr. De Wereldvermaarde Botanicus has drilled into each by hand (some copies have three extra holes, some around twenty; none have just one). This beautiful collection of loner synth sounds makes hangovers or LSD trips worth going for. Strange beat-oriented 303 and 808 acid snoop, and a combination of piss, wind and wood that bring back the good ol’ plunderblur of The New Blockaders. Cover design is a collage of pictures from the De Wereldvermaarde Botanicus archive, with an insert and an extra photo. 300 copies.
Spectre Of Histories Design
(RRRecords - RRRCTS) LP $17.00
Debut LP by leaders in the new American school of Power Electronics. Features members of Yellow Tears. "Staggeringly focused compositions, possessed data streams screaming at faster-than-life shred." --Silvum
Absence of Canary v. 1.1
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD30) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reissue of the minimalist techno LP from the early ’80s by the Canadian duo of Brett Wickens (ex-Spoons) and Roger Humphreys, whose short instrumentals bridge together the longer tracks. Includes songs from an untitled seven-inch and eight unreleased tracks from 1981–83, originally recorded for a second album that never materialized.
EUGENE CHADBOURNE AND THE DROPOUTS
Zupa Dupa Kupa
(Monotype - MONO007) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. A Renaissance man, a rebel among rebels. What began with a boyhood dream and a Herman's Hermits record is now Chadbourne’s musical odyssey that connects the dots between the Appalachians and the edges of the known musical universe.
Rêve Parisien
(Primary Information) LP $19.50
Four new compositions performed live at Jacob Kassay’s 2010 exhibition at Art: Concept in Paris, loosely functioning as an audio catalogue and soundtrack to the exhibition. Chatham abandoned the trumpet style he developed in the ’90s for a non-distorted, less effects-driven sound that complements his minimalist compositions and free jazz training. Gatefold jacket with die-cut cover.
Chicken Shit
(Siltbreeze - SB133) 7-inch $7.00
This debut vinyl from Kyle and Mike (two-thirds of FNU Ronnies, with a drum machine) follows a cassette on Fan Death and a track on Skulls Without Borders 10-inch (Siltbreeze 2009). Prime Euro movers such as early Dieter Meier and Geisterfahrer come to mind as reference points, not to mention the vibe of early Amphetamine Reptile (Halo of Flies' "Insecticide Stomp," in particular). Edition of 400 copies.
La Plaine des Respirs
(Tochnit Aleph - TA073) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The latest works by the legendary poet, musician, and key figure of the French avant-garde during the second half of the 20th century, especially the 1950s through the 1970s. Known primarily as a concrete and sound-poetry pioneer, Chopin has also worked as graphic artist and designer, typographer, independent publisher, filmmaker, broadcaster and arts promoter; his use of early tape recorders and studio technologies, and the sounds of the manipulated human voice -- with a focus on the relationship of balance between order and chaos -- serves as a reminder that language stems as much from oral traditions as from classic literature.
Chora / Quivers
(Ultramarine - UM0061) split LP $25.00
Chora on this recording is joined by Ben Nash and Karl Brummer who only enhance Rob Lye’s and Ben Morris’s already gorgeous mix of psychedelic free-form improvisation and ecstatic free jazz, with hypnotic percussion, cymbals, bowed instruments, eerie reeds, and an overall ritualistic, shamanic vibe. Guitarist Ninni Morgia and upright bassist Jordon Schranz have drummer extraordinaire and Milford Graves student Mike Pride on board for the Quivers improvisations; get ready for amazing timbral research and creative interplay, sometimes reminding of great historical groups like AMM, Musica Elettronica Viva and Smegma. Artwork by Pascal Nichols (Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides). Edition of 300.
Ruined Parabola
(Chironex) LP $20.00
A huge seventeen-minute blast kicks off side one with Gamelan-inspired percussion and metallic drones. The rich and expansive sound feels like the scouts of a storm have amassed with invisible bodies among the bones of a weathered shipyard. Warm tones ebb in cycles, while the percussion thins and a strangled horn blasts a Fire-styled cry. Vocals holler at a ghostly distance. Chimes and cymbals are met with thudding, hard wooden knocks. The end draws near with elongated guitar tones that add a sense of arid landscape to what originally feels like a nautical storm. Violent, caustic, organic noise and improvised calamity. Instruments twist and arch in suffocating formations.
Slates
(Sergent Massacre) LP $16.00
First vinyl outing for Peckham-based trio -- Ben Morris, Rob Lye and Chris Boyd -- who use a revolving approach to composing, improvising and recording, with sounds moving between shingled, skeletal percussion and kitchen-sink Gamelan to electronic attack and ecstatic vocalization.
Unituli
(Hospital - HOS242) LP $17.50 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Mysterious occult shoegaze black rock from Finland. Memorable underwater riffs roll under bodiless voices.
Bruise Constellation
(Siltbreeze - SB140) LP $16.00
Royal Trux rocked 'n' cocked it through the '90s, and at the beginning of the 21st Century's second decade, Circle Pit saunter into the boozy sway with a debut seemingly born out of the tar and tobacco of Nellcôte / Exile on Main Street-session blooze. Their torn and frayed sound oozes raw talent possessed of uncanny sensual / sexual osmosis. It's the Summer of '72 all over again (again).
Circle X
(Insolito) LP $21.00
Formed 1978 in New York, Louisville’s first punk rock band was born out of the ashes of No Fun and the I-Holes. Once the lineup solidified, Circle X lunged headfirst into weirder, artier territory. Unique, mysterious, and unheralded, they went to France for nine months to tour, write new material, and get noticed. An untitled four-song EP saw the light of day in 1979 -- a lurching, squalling monster identified only by a spray-painted circle with an "X" through it on the cover (the spelled-out name first appeared in '83). Tony Pinotti's vocals screech against Bruce Witsiepe and David and Rik Letendre's bass-less, barely contained distorto-blare. The hatred and rage on this thing is palpable. They arrived in New York at the tail end of No Wave, when equally ornery bands like Swans and Sonic Youth were getting revved up. Circle X are every bit as distinctive and attitudinal as Throbbing Gristle, PiL, Theoretical Girls, DNA, or Mars, yet they don't much sound like any of them. Limited to 500 copies, 180-gram vinyl, tip-on jackets, liner notes.
Ode to Fidelity
(Destijl - IND085) 7-inch $6.00
Seemingly inspired by something or someone that has pierced her young, little heart, Haley Fohr has established herself as an ambitious songwriters. Three songs that form part of the sound arc it is difficult to believe has apexed. This single promises to echo between the ears till Fohr's next full-length is complete, surely a monster.
Portrait
(Destijl - IND093) LP $16.50
Haley Fohr’s third LP is a massive step in cohesion and fidelity. The modest, clarion sparkle of Portrait is expected considering the arc of Symphone and Sirenum, and it stands as a cornerstone and a monument, a testament to the daily practice of channeling her twenty-one-year-old roiling emotions into sound recordings.
Sirenum
(Destijl - IND070) LP $17.00
Circuit des Yeux made Sirenum in Indiana, where there aren't exactly pipers at the gates of Lafayette. It's the sound of “issues,” the sound of “troubles.” You don't get but one phone call, and, honey, the girl's voice makes this message a bit rubbly anyway. Take the manic snorts of Captain Liberty, dissonant as chalk and the next moment as melodic as sharp yet slick, metal teeth. Take the mermaid, 1988, turn the tides, gently, gently away. Selected breath / silences / selected feedback. Take an argument you have here with an empty street while the memory of high traffic is leaking back. Sirenum has a real “spiritual food” vibe and it's fucking pain and pleasure relief in this real met en zonder sort of way. This world is her world, and pipe if you like it.
Collection of Isolated Tracks 81-84
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD41) 2xLP $30.00
The ultimate compilation with rare, unreleased materials and demos of early work by French goth legends.
ERIC CLARK / KEENAN LAWLER / PELT
Keyhole
(Eclipse - ECL006) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
This album is drawn from a pre-dawn session in a stone silo at Mount Saint Francis, a Franciscan friary just north of the Kentucky-Indiana State Line. Four of the musicians, Keenan Lawler and Pelt members Patrick Best, Mike Gangloff and Jack Rose, had played earlier that night at Rudyard Kipling's Cafe in Louisville. They were joined at the friary by Eric Clark, a multi-instrumentalist and metal worker who makes musical instruments, such as singing bowls and bronze didgeridus. Mikal Dimmick used a stereo microphone to capture events as they unfolded in the early morning hours of 12 July 2000. Only acoustic instruments were played and no electronic effects or processing were used. Play at 45 or 33 RPM.
Ritual Smothering
(BloodLust! - B!079) 7-inch $7.50
Milwaukee’s Alex Kmet unleashes chilling power electronics. The fifteenth release in the BloodLust! Private 7-inch series. Plain white sleeve. 300 copies.
Dementia
(Turgid Animal - TA381) split 7-inch $8.00
Finland's best kept secret meets England's vilest in a power electronics showdown with lyrics and artwork based on dementia. Limited 250 copies on black vinyl.
Instruments of Attraction (II. Sociale Hygiëne)
(No Basement Is Deep Enough - NBIDE02) 10-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
These seven steps away from social hypochondria were culled from the large body of Club Moral live recordings, along with rare compilation tracks, all dating from the 1980s. Includes twelve-page booklet (Club Moral history lesson by Jan Landuyt, archival photographs and a bunch of literary quotes).
Cremations
(Hospital - HOS248) CD $13.50
(Hospital - HOS248) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
The early demos, live and unreleased tracks collected here document the development of this singular musical entity from their isolated beginnings to the recent full band line-up, in all its icy, electronic glory. From Cold Cave’s infancy, sexual identity and oblique existentialism have been expressed through biting lyrics and electronic minimalism. Rarely has the human condition been exposed so brazenly as in “Sex Ads.” Melodies, noise and rhythms clash as stories from below the surface are retold. From the Coma Potion LP, which featured a rugged, stripped-down distortion, to the suggestive Electronic Dreams tour cassette (featuring the voice of Max Morton on the track “Heavenly Metals”), Cold Cave’s genre-defying electronic music never betrays its dark roots. Love and pornography, industrial music and traditionalism, poetry and profanity all mix together in a hedonistic cocktail of nihilistic nights and mournful mornings. Cremations collects all this work for the first and last time.
Painted Nails
(Hospital - HOS226) 7-inch $8.50 (Out-of-stock)
Hospital's first venture directly into the controversial and rhythmic world of trance, power noise, synth pop, and '80s industrial music. Three authentically morose, epic anthems with the texture of a shattered champagne glass. Imagine a highly damaged, Downward Spiral-era demo hitting the raw nerve of a heart, where all breaths freeze in rapture and all feelings croak in the blood of the beat-less heart.
Stars Explode
(Hospital - HOS266) LP $16.50
Vinyl edition of the collaboration tape originally released in an edition of 100 for a UK tour. Pulsing, heavy ambient electronics, with one new track not on the tape.
JONATHAN COLECLOUGH / ANDREW LILES
Torch Songs
(Die Stadt - DS93) 2xLP $30.00
Liles reworked a live recording of Coleclough performing solo at Intergration 3 in 2004, later adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing additional live recordings supplied by Coleclough. Gatefold jacket features “I dreamt I was a river,” the poem composed and painted by Geoff Sawers during a performance with Coleclough in Geneva in March 2005 (the sound of his brush painting this lettering is audible on side B). 180-gram vinyl.
Disasters of Self
(Crippled Intellect Productions - CIP022) 3xLP $40.00
Fractured electronics; rich, multi-level drones; digital bite, the sounds of decaying technology; analog twists and turns; and recording experiments and documents by one of the giants of West Coast noise. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2010
Dead Light
(What The ... - WHAT007) LP (one-sided) $18.50 (Out-of-stock)
Debut wax from this young band of Italians, now residing in Berlin. Five catchy, minimal tunes of noisy, surfing, churn-chord guitars, boy-and-girl vocals, anemic fuzz, the brittle and cold snap of a drum machine, keyboard haze, endless sexy echo and reverb. Limited edition. Silkscreen artwork and design by Paul Coors, which captures the electric thrill of hot and cold whips on the lonely body.
First Utterance
(Get Back - GET541) 2xLP $12.00
Taking British folk as a point of departure, First Utterance twists and oozes like vile snakes, pairing gorgeous melodies with ecstatic, altered vocals and vicious lyrics about rape, murder, witchcraft and abuse, all cooked with raging madness. Get Back's 1998 reissue includes three bonus tracks from their rare maxi-single (Dawn Records 1971). 180-gram vinyl, gatefold jacket.
CON-DOM / LAURA MAES / MILITIA
Familiedrama / Pain
(Praxis Dr. Bearmann - TH17) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
From 1997.
LOREN CONNERS & HIS HAUNTED HOUSE BAND / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
Cosmic Debris Vol. 5
(Opax - OPX012) split LP $125.00
On the fifth and final volume in the Cosmic Debris series the space duo shares the vinyl with legendary avant-blues guitarist, whose tracks "Improv" and "Thomas Paine" document his now-defunct project HAUNTED HOUSE (featuring his wife Suzanne Langille, Andrew Burnes, and Neel Murgai). MCIAA's "Everything Tears Like Cosmic Debris" seals the concept behind this series of "art manufacts" and collaborations. In the silence of The Great Void, sparse melancholic guitar chords and eerie vocalizations build up an astral chant in celebration of the end of an old age and the beginning of a new one. Packaged with an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio on 30x30cm canvas, with a unique Polaroid instant film installed on each piece, representing one of a hundred different perspectives of a same subject related to My Cat Is An Alien's own cosmic imaginary. Limited edition of 100 copies.
Songs from a Sewer of Dreams
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD47) 4xLP $94.50
Previously unreleased music from Controlled Bleeding’s very early days up through the present: a long lost Knees and Bones session; live recordings from CBGB supporting Suicide 1979; a 25-minute live piece from 1977 (sounds like John Cage/Penderecki); free jazz live improvisation with Borbetomagus; some new total noise.
Basement Recordings 1978-1982
(Ultra Eczema - UE76) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
An unearthed treasure by Belgian free jazzman whose 1970s associations include WIM, Fred van Hove, and Ivo van der Borght at their most disturbing. One might expect to find decent free music here, relating to other Antwerp freaks of the era, but as usual, Ultra Eczema confounds expectation. This batch of seriously strange outsider weirdness kicks off with “Aerosol,” a duet for undertone singing and asthma inhaler machine. The instrumentation of “Watermuziek” includes tubes, saxophones, mouthpieces and Coomans's voice in a bathtub half filled with water. Untitled droning harmonica pieces clearly link him to raga folks such Wannes van de Velde. Elsewhere vacuum cleaners are attached to metals and soprano saxes. A cover of “Louie Louie,” played on piano and vacuum cleaner, is simply wacko. With insert and photos.
Another Dull Dawn
(Ultra Eczema - UE71) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Absolute madness performed on a variety of different drum sets, toy percussion, baritone sax mouthpiece on a two-foot metal pipe, violin strings, banjo and violin bridges, contact mics, effects pedals, claw bell, metal strips from windshield wipers, toy comb, clarinet, toy gamelan, guitar cable, gongs, metals, triangle, nylon guitar strings, amps, melodica, pot lids and of course the al important et cetera. Through innumerable collaborations, Corsano, with a non-academic and unlimited interest in sounds far behind any traditional school of music, has helped change and refresh improvised music forever; he has blown the "free" back into into free music again, and thrown an energy molotov cocktail over western Massachussets. Hairy black and white cover by Dennis Tyfus, with an insert. 400 copies.
Under A Double Moon
(Roaratorio - ROAR22) LP $16.00
With a career now spanning over forty years and more than one-hundred recordings, Joe McPhee has shown that in the world of creative improvised music, emotional content and theoretical underpinnings are thoroughly compatible — and, in fact, a critically important pairing. Since recording The Hated Music with Paul Flaherty in 2000, Chris Corsano has been active in far-reaching corners of the free improvised world. Recorded live in Paris during their spring 2010 tour of Europe, Under A Double Moon is McPhee and Corsano's first album together. Cover artwork by Judith Lindbloom. Liner notes by John Szwed. Includes download coupon.
Bizarre and Tortuous Rituals of the Primitive World
(Secret Devil - SRD001) 7-inch $7.50
Noise rock from Leeds, UK, 1995.
Sounds of Porridge Bubbling
(Dais - DAIS008) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first in Dais's series of rescued recordings by COUM Transmissions. Considered their first proper record, never released due to the fast pace of COUM actions and line-up changes, this bizarre album was shelved and forgotten until now. Liner notes by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Edition of 500
Sugarmorphoses
(Dais - DAIS023) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
One of the most far-flung, experimental COUM recordings, dating from 1974 at the Ho Ho Funhouse. Genesis P-Orridge’s candid kitchen recordings of solo broken piano improvisations accompanied by reel to reel tape from 1965, from which a young Neil Megson made countless field recordings and homework dictations. Playful, chaotic, imaginative, and historic.
Brokebox Juke
(No-Fi) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded via correspondence between Buenos Aires and Brooklyn, the sounds of a full, multi-faceted band in a warm room rise from the vinyl as Courtis (Reynols) and Moore (Volcano The Bear) throw down delicious rhythmic textures, mariachi-tinged improv, brooding desert psych and more. In beautiful gatefold jacket with photos by Moore.
Sunburst Lux
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC03) split 7-inch $9.00
Heavily processed field recordings (geyser sounds), weird cassette loops, tape manipulations, oscillations.
Quartz
(Spanish Magic - SM013) LP $24.00
Blake Hargraves and Liam Thurston’s dirty rock overdrives everything from under a sickening haze -- guitar, drums, turntable, homemade feedback devices and homemade drum triggering systems. Volcanic Tongue admire “this Canada-based riot squad” for their “riffs that sound like ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ tied to streamrollers and dragged on their face through industrial warehouse [combined] with the deforming use of clotted effects [and] endless vistas of crunch.” All covers are handmade (screenprints, stencils, hand carved stamps). Australian import.
Dead Excitement
(Bunkerpop) 7-inch $8.00
Reissue of the first seven by Dutch post-punkers, originally self-released in 1981 with appropriated Rock Against Records logo. If later material is comparable to Joy Division, this could be considered their Warsaw-era: rhythm-driven, upbeat punk with a dark vibe, pulsing with jagged guitars and snarled yet blasé vocals. Includes all original artwork, extra photos and a band history by an original member.
CRANK STURGEON / GASTRIC FEMALE REFLEX
Untitled
(Gold Soundz - GS31) split 7-inch $10.00
Gastric Female Reflex transmits songs through the cackle of thirty-meter Bronze Age jump ropes, and then swats them with unspooled tape from faulty tape recorders. On the flipside, deepwoods Maine-based Crank Sturgeon takes a similar story and runs it into the side of a convent full of shark-eating nuns, who respond with high-powered leaf blowers, stopping now and again to play a little violin and pee in their Dixie Cups. Not your typical avant electro-acoustic record, but still glorious, spacious, snakey, and primitive.
Upon My Discovery Of The Huso Dead Pain Lair
(RRRecords - RRR002) LP $15.00
Dadaist sound-stew from half-man, half-fish noise-flapper who lovingly assaults (and forces into slavery) a babbling mesh of cheap electronics, found crap, unorthodox techniques, clanging junk, spiels, mantras and who-can-tell.
Crash Course In Science
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD67) 3xLP + 7-inch $80.00 (Out-of-stock)
Legendary minimal synth / wave band from Philadelphia formed in 1979. Choosing toy instruments and live drums out of necessity, CCIS began by experimenting with a series of recording devices. The toy instruments gave way to crude drum machines and “Frankenstein"-type homemade instruments. Their first seven-inch (also included with bonus tracks) introduced listeners to their noisy, unpredictable world and went on to become a classic minimal synth record. In 1981 they went in a darker, more sinister direction, resulting in “Signals from Pier Thirteen” (included are eight unreleased demo tracks from this period). “Cardboard Lamb” and “Flying Turns” gained exposure through club play during the '80s. Two live recordings from 1980 and 1981 are also part of this box set, including a performance opening for the Philip Glass ensemble in Philadelphia. The third LP, Near Marineland, contains completed mixes of previously unreleased studio material (along with remixes) arranged and produced by John Wicks, CCIS’s original producer.
My First Stop
(Rococo - RCC008) LP $12.75 (Out-of-stock)
These Parisians dare to fuse garage punk, funky loops, and digital cut-and-paste and actually pull it off. Hum, dance, break things, jump up and down to the compu-punk groove these Frenchies lay down.
Pillar of Fire
(Alumut - RFR3) LP (one-sided) $60.00
Recorded 1989, released in 1990. Most renowned for its live shows in which three stand-up percussionists hammered out concussive poly-rhythms to abstract, mutated guitar, synthesizers, effects and dualling vocalists, this San-Diego-based experimental-aktionist-industrial-noise performance group regularly showered the audience with various substances such as blood, wine and honey, and also set stuff on fire. B-side has elaborate etching. With insert. Edition of 500.
What So Ever Thy Hand Findeth - Do It With All Thine Might
(¡Alarma! - RFR1) LP $16.00
Within an atmosphere of bacchanalia, Crash Worship's recordings explore different aspects of rhythm and psychedelia. This essential early work from 1989 was released in an edition of 2000.
Crazy Backwards Alphabet
(SST - SST110) LP $5.00
The 1987 album by Henry Kaiser, John French (Beefheart), Michael Maksymenko, and Andy West (Dixie Dregs). Covers includes ZZ Top's "La Grange" in Russian and Ayler "Ghosts," both of which almost make up for the fact that the phrase "Dixies Dregs" is now on tediumhouse.com. Matt Groening cover art puts it over the top.
Auguer & Auspices
(Deleted Art - dLTD024) LP $9.00
Long-running Toronto group with ties to Sick Lipstick, These United States, Parts Unknown, Martyrs, and Memories Forever. Inspired by The Ex, Pere Ubu, and The Fall. Compiles tracks from Half Saboteur (Bloodworks 2002) and other new and previously tracks.
CRIS X / KEIKO HIGUCHI / MERZBOW / SACHIKO
Guya / Greed
(CX) split LP $20.00
“Guya” is eighteen minutes of noise from Masami Akita, structured by feedback and electronics both digital and analog. A devastating masterpiece. Cris X (aka Cristiano Luciani) is joined Keiko Higuchi (vocals, piano, lyrics) and Sachiko (vocals, electronics) for a dark and visionary journey through expressionist ambient atmospheres. White vinyl. Edition of 300.
Cro Magnon
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD3) 7-inch $7.25 (Out-of-stock)
Teenage female duo Haley Fohr (of Destijl recording artists Circuit Des Yeux) and Katie Leming power their way through three gloriously fucked lo-fi cassette jams with squonking, mis-articulated garage guitar licks and drums as detonators. Classic destructo-punk. Not to be confused with the 1960s Cromagnon, but you knew that.
Orgasm
(Get Back ) LP $10.00
Get Back's 1998 reissue of underground free tribal music from 1969 by Austin Grasmere, Brian Elliot, and The Connecticut Tribe. Dadaist psych-folk vibes dominate, with chanting, tribal percussion, short wave radio, maniacal, almost black metal vocals, hysterical laughter, bagpipes and more.
A Personal Hell
(Small Doses - dose47) 7-inch + CDR $10.50
Rarely is harsh noise done as well as when Crumer's in charge: deliberate, personal, and soul-shredding. Metal drags, scrapes, bangs, and creaks - blowing microphones, speakers, and your mind. Edition of 300 on brown/green vinyl.
Press My Hungry Button
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD45) 2xLP $41.25 (Out-of-stock)
A selection of the best work by this English post-industrial/electro group spanning 1980 to 1983, who were included in "Wild Planet," Dave Henderson's overview in Sounds of approximately 150 artists, labels and significant influences associated with the UK and European cassette culture of the late '70s and early '80s. Includes remastered tracks from their three released cassette albums, Video Rideo, The Uncle of the Boot and Sinclair's Luck and from compilations, plus previously unreleased tracks, including pieces from two unfinished later period albums.
Cherry Blossom Girls
(Turgid Animal - TA204) 7-inch $7.50
Two tracks of dense, thick, cloudy, foggy drone in tribute to fetishist Lee Stokoe’s beloved cherry blossom girls. With three inserts featuring Stokoe’s original artwork. 200 copies pressed on black vinyl.
Night Of The Killers Moon
(Turgid Animal - TA256) split LP $16.00
Gateshead drone legend Culver and Mutant Ape sideproject Murder Book deliver long sides of blackened heavy music. There is nothing pretty about this record other than the sexy girl on the front. Limited to 250 copies on black vinyl.
Cured Pink /Penguins
(Vacant Valley - VV08) split 7-inch $20.00
Cured Pink’s effectively creepy side is a chain-rattling death march of single-chord electric guitar, mournfully strummed amid stormy ambiance and shouted vocals. Penguins’ militaristic drumming and formidable hedge wall of guitar are tough enough to withstand the start-stop chug of their track, along with menacing brass and shrieking. White vinyl. Austrialian import.
Gussie
(Roaratorio) LP $15.00
Recorded summer of 2001, released mere moments ago, this spectacularly well-recorded live document of free improv by veteran outists George Cartwright (saxophones), Davey Williams (guitar), Chris Parker (piano), Fred Chalenor (bass), and Bruce Golden (percussion) delivers a squawk most supreme. No over-the-top noise, no meandering wank, just fine jazzbo tweak. A limited edition of 436 copies, with hand-drawn covers signed and numbered by Anne Elias.
Christ & The Pale Queens / Mighty In Sorrow / The Red Face Of God / Emblems / As The World Disappears
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD75) 4xLP $150.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second of two wooden box sets, with embossed cover depicting a different blood-red C93. The is the first time As The World Disappears has been available on vinyl. Emblems only made it as far as test pressings, but has never been released on vinyl either. Includes a different metal badge, a different booklet (also with embossed cover, full of personal photos from David Tibet’s archives). Edition of 600.
Unreleased Rarities, Out-takes, Rehearsals and Live 82-95
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD74) 4xLP $150.00 (Out-of-stock)
Volume one of two wooden box sets, with embossed cover depicting blood-red C93 symbol. Two LPs of unreleased rarities, out-takes, rehearsals and demos dating from 1983-1995, plus two more with four live performances from Amsterdam (1984), Hamburg (1985) and Tokyo (1988). Includes silkscreened poster printed on paper hand-made in Nepal, metal badge, 28-page booklet with embossed cover, full of personal photos from David Tibet’s archives. Edition of 600.
Rain in Skull
(Olde English Spelling Bee - OESB24) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Fragments of disjointed folk melodies move across a plain of wheezing chords, tape hiss, children's voices, ambient washes, amp hum, electronic glitch and bits of buzz in general. The contrast between this Australian freakazoid’s downcast guitar playing and the physical claustrophobia-inducing weight of sound is both perplexing and intriguing. Color spray-mounted jacket. Edition of 200.
Interlude With Fun Machine
(Starlight Furniture Company) CD $14.00
(Starlight Furniture Company) LP $14.00
An all-instrumental album recorded in one week Steve Fisk (Pell Mell, Pigeonhed) and Bob Beerman (Pell Mell). Noticeably inspired by Hematic Sunsets’ odd combo of kitschy lounge, quasi-soundtrack and “modern” electronics; the casual, homespun aesthetic of French Paddleboat; classics such Dieter Moebius’s Tonspuren and Eno’s Another Green World; The Young Marble Giants’ unadorned rhythm boxes and Wurlitzer frailty; and minimal electronics by Thomas Leer and Robert Rental, Cabaret Voltaire, Pyrolator, Cluster, Harmonia, et al.
Odeon
(Olde English Spelling Bee - OESB38) LP $17.00
Debut album by sci-fi oriented, vintage synth duo who began recording after being commissioned to make soundtracks for flotation tanks at a new age center in Texas. Now based in Los Angeles, they perform private rooftop concerts overlooking training grounds for the L.A.P.D. riot squads, where scrambling helicopters and practice gun battles complement the sinister, dystopian vibe of their compositions. Silkscreened jackets. Edition of 400.
WERNER DAFELDECKER / AXEL DÖRNER / SVEN-AKE JOHANSSON
Des Kreis Des Gegenstandes
(Monotype - MONO008) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Dörner’s unique style of trumpet playing is based in part on unusual, self-invented techniques. Dafeldecker’s projects are inspired and deduced by outside influences such as architecture, physics, photography and film. Longtime sound and structure studies and the formulation of distinct articulations are in the center of his work as a composer and musician, parallel to technological developments connected with with electronic formats. Johansson is a composer, musician, poet and visual artist, writer and legendary protagonist within the European free improv.
Dead Gods / Dandi Wind
(Rampage) split 7-inch $7.00
Dead Gods' “The Perfect Lie” is polished, new-wavish, angst-ridden and packed with New Order-esque bass lines; swaying melodies and detailed synth arrangements recall something Johnny Marr of The Smiths would whip out. Mope-y lyrics, a touch of glockenspiel and pizzicato strings, Phil Spector-style production, driving and danceable. Guest appearances by Jim Magas (Lake of Dracula), Bobby Conn and Monica Boo Boo, Josh (Majhonng). Dandi Wind are a Vancouver-based duo who consider their peers Glass Candy, Crystal Castles, or SSION. “Incubation” is a trippy blur of pounding, almost tribal music with astonishing and chaotic vocal arrangements, dark lyrics, intricate production, and throbbing lead synth lines. Edition of 300 copies.
Dara
(Ecstatic Peace - E70d) LP (one-sided) $11.00
Plenty of noise (in the form of processed guitar squall) and the influence of synth-pop (simple Casio beats and vintage keyboards galore). Dara seems to be singing mostly to herself, with a voice distant and sporadic. The songs meander; favoritism clearly for noisy textures more than obvious pop hooks. Not especially poppy, and the noise is far from confrontational.
Million Year Spree
(Kye - KYE14) split LP $15.00
No-fi acoustic sewage from Hamilton, Ontario's Fossils, a stream of dire handcut confusion. Darksmith of California combines wilting electronics, floppy turntablism and sun-baked cassette protocols and destroys them in a claustrophobic void. Edition of 400.
Total Vacuum
(Hanson - HN208) CD $11.00
(Hanson - HN208) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
California sound artist Tom Darksmith's crude musique concrète uses tapes, voice, records, radio, guitar, drums, objects, and field recordings. Assembled on cassette four-track in 2008 and 2009, this total mystery of perfectly paced dirt sound -- not harsh, not mellow, just unclean, weird, and confusing -- tests your audio Rohrshach; Hanson hears weedwacking, getting zipped into a suitcase and shipped via train, ghost voices roaming in sewers, riding in a helicopter with mid-grade noise reduction earmuffs on, a shitty metal door locking on a crew of mumbling idiots, and a garbage disposal. Whatever you hear, that’s your problem. Recommended for fans of Yeast Culture, Agog, Joe Colley, Graham Lambkin, Jason Lescalleet, Hands To. LP is an edition of 300, with hand-stamped labels, and heavy-duty two-color silkscreened sleeves with Darksmith’s hilariously macabre artwork. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2010.
The Sun Splits For ... The Blind Swimmer
(Destijl - IND063) CD $13.25
(Destijl - IND063) LP $13.25
The bedrock of this NJ-based concoction is based in folk, but there's no headband and King Darves (Asps, Gorgot, Human Adult Band) does not sing about pixies in the moss. This is somewhere between rolled cigs and the foggy vision of Big Pink from somewhere on Jersey Avenue. “An excursion into mountain man folk music, with a few surprises thrown into the mix here and there,” as Smooth Assailing puts it, “Pure and earthy.” This one-man Meat Puppets with a deep, rich voice has really cobbled something together in his kitchen sink –- a shocker, a pleaser, a toe-tapper, a head-nodder.
Frequency Conquistadors
(Pan - PAN6) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Das Synthetische Mischegewebe's track titles here stem from El Mundo Alucinante by Reinaldo Arenas (which itself is inspired by François-René de Chateaubriand's Mémoires d'outre-tombe). It is about time rather than history, and about being in history. Having lost the war of time, the only thing that remains to do is be, and here we go, 'being infinitely required' as a means of expression. DSM began in the early '80s, partook of the international industrial cassette scene; composed for light installations with open-reel machines, cassette recorders, microphone and guitar fuzz boxes with loud, quiet, occasionally full blast and frequently snuck-in little sounds, all alternating within a few seconds; created an electroacoustic anti-music; performed unusual concerts in the underground network as well as in high art institutions and museums (such as Centre Pompidou); created mixed media installations, exhibitions and conferences on cognitive science and neurologic research related topics; toured with changing line-ups; and participated in international festivals throughout Europe and the US. Limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, in jacket and a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve.
The Mystical Path of the Number Eighty Six
(Holy Mountain - 8655) LP $20.00
Released in 1997, following Steven Wray Lobdell's release from a mental institution. Heavy psychedelic guitar compositions -- think Takayanagi Masayuki backed by a Crazy Horse-like force attempting Sun Ra's "The Invisible Shield" with organ, analog synth and various other electronics.
Selectie 02
(Ultra Eczema - UE41) LP $32.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second in a series of archival LPs by Deyster, who died in 1999 but left an incredible amount of reel tapes behind full of beautiful analog synthesizer music. The incredibly sad and lonely synth tunes here are presumed to be from 1975, plus or minus. Limited to 500 copies.
Clyma Est Mort / Tentative Power
(Ba Da Bing - BING066) 2xLP $20.00
Considered The Dead C’s “Ed Sullivan moment” (except it wasn’t performed live on network TV), Clyma Est Mort was recorded in a practice room in Port Chalmers, New Zealand, in 1992 with Tom Lax of Siltbreeze as the sole member of the audience. Audience noises from a Renderers show were dubbed later. The second platter, Tentative Power, a collects non-album tracks "Hell Is Now Love," "Bone," "Mighty," "Power," "Peace," "Radiation," "Power (Fallujah version)." CD also included.
DR503 + Sun Stabbed
(Ba Da Bing - BING060) 2xLP $20.00
When it was first released (Flying Nun 1989), DR503 sounded like nothing that came before -- a furious pastiche of unrelenting drones, noise and menace that staked a fork in the road, dividing the New Zealand Pop Sound from its black sheep brother, New Zealand Noise. Still vicious after all these years. The Sun Stabbed EP includes bonus tracks not on the original seven-inch (Xpressway 1988), making this the first release of those sessions in their entirety.
Eusa Kills + Helen Said This
(Ba Da Bing - BING061) 2xLP $20.00
The Dead C's second album (Flying Nun 1989) with a 45 RPM reissue of their 1990 Siltbreeze 12-inch. Eusa Kills adds ominous aggression to the abstract sounds being created at the time by Dustdevils, This Kind of Punishment, and Dadamah. Sneering vocals drift over improvised melodies and unstructured rock songs. Truly intense and unparalleled.
Future Artists
(Ba Da Bing - BING053) 2xLP $17.00
Another uncompromising realization of the surreal and undefined expressed via fine rock improv, genius drone and barbarous clashing sounds. From the first track, “The AMM of Punk Rock” through to the last, “Garage,” The Dead C's intensity is unyielding, their inventiveness jaw-dropping.
Operation of the Sonne
(Siltbreeze - SB30) LP $30.00
Suites of corrosive feedback and swaying slow-motion rhythm. Beginning with a collage of overdriven synth improvisation and pulsating sine waves, concluding with the interlocked guitars of Messrs Russell and Morley wavering feedback tendrils that float over Mr. Yeats’s rhythm network. Originally released in 1993.
Patience
(Ba Da Bing - BING070) CD $12.00
(Ba Da Bing - BING070) LP $14.00
Four unforgiving instrumentals. Thick and thundering electric drones compound and retreat like a Pacific Ocean of noise. LP includes free MP3 download card. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST 0F 2010
Relax Fallujah - Hell Has Come
(Ba Da Bing - BING049) 7-inch $5.00
Side A is brutal, never-released version of "Power" from the band's archives. The B-Side reissues "Bad Politics" (their most famous song if the fact that it's been covered by Yo La Tengo and The Rogers Sisters, among others, is any indication). Limited to 1000 copies, released to coincide with Vain, Erudite and Stupid: Selected Works 1987-2005 2xCD.
Secret Earth
(Ba Da Bing - BING059) LP $14.00
The elegance of howling guitar noise meets the tenets of alienation in society with unrelenting force--a focused soundtrack to accompany Knut Hamsun novels, Samuel Beckett plays, and Ingmar Bergman films. Michael Morley's monotonic vocal moan anchors the inherent isolation of our modern world, earnest and lost. Oceanic feedback, catastrophic drumming, and a return to the cripple rock blasts of their early material.
The Dead Sea Perform Max Harris
(Ba Da Bing - BING067) LP $12.00
The first recordings The Dead C ever made, back in January 1987. Each side displays a different and uniquely raw version of "Max Harris" -- reinterpreted both times by a group who can truly say they have never played the same song in any form the same way twice. Slicing tension that drives right through your bones, on vinyl for the first time. Includes free MP3 download card.
Sings the Blues
(RRRecords - RRRGOD) 7-inch $4.50 (Out-of-stock)
Totally fucked-up schizo-shit noise from Texas nerve-bakers. Edition of 300.
Blind Chance
(Present Time Exercises - PTELP3) LP $19.50
A long improvised acoustic freak-out ranging from loose, frequent and infrequent twangs to pure whirlwinds of aggressive string assaults and finger-shredding plucking. This still retains Deas's signature traditional playing. Edition of 500.
Deas & Denton's Inferno
(Present Time Exercises - PTELP4) LP $19.50
This collaboration by Deas and Denton expands upon their s/t CDR (Blackest Rainbow 2011). Using electric guitars on two side-long pieces, the duo breaks away from barely tamed, throbbing feedback and moves toward a more composed domain, drawing from influences as far-reaching as La Monte Young, Basic Channel and Pan Sonic. Instances of hypnotic drones and onslaughts of pulsating, over-arching beats immerse and assault the listener. Edition of 250.
Quadtych Volume One
(Present Time Exercises - PTELP1) LP $22.50
Parts one and two of Deasʼs colossal work for 12-string guitar, recorded in one evening at Londonʼs Roundhouse in December 2010, evidence of his unification the exploration of his acoustic guitar through a legion of extended techniques, with a developed and structured formulation combined with sections of partly and freely improvised playing. Edition of 500.
Quadtych Volume Two
(Present Time Exercises - PTELP2) LP $22.50
Parts three and four of Deasʼs colossal work for 12-string guitar. Moving into a major key, Deas brings back melodies from part one in a whole new light, building into a grand melodic climax at the end of part three before the transfiguration of a beautiful repetitive pattern into an atonal onslaught, eventually falling into a vicious free improvisation on a completely detuned 12-string in the fourth and final part. Edition of 500.
DECAER PINGA / GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION
Tubular Bells
(Starlight Furniture Company) split LP $14.00
A no-instruments interpretation of Mike Oldfield’s epic instrumental performed by Glands of External Secretion (side one) and Decaer Pinga (side two), in which deficiency is the cornerstone. By intentionally limiting themselves to prerecorded tapes, field recordings, electronic devices and effects, out-of-context musical passages, and anything else that did not require a musical instrument to be played, both bands interpret their respective halves of this legendary opus with methods that seem to run counter to the spirit of the original, yet paradoxically force it to shine through. Limited edition 300 copies.
Ugliest Man / Dog Blood
(Troniks - TRO290) LP $6.00
Fucked-up noisecore with black metal undertones, highly recommended by the Funeral Stench blog, so that oughta tell ya something. Repetitive patterns, guitar abuse, harsh drones, feedback control and dominating growls.
Hard Luck Heart
(Harbinger Sound - HAS024) 7-inch $10.50
Powerhouse psychedelic Japanese / Australian noise trio featuring Ayako Honda, Hirofumi Uchino and Laura Oyaizu who use gadgets, junk and fuzz to generate tempestuous post-industrial metal machine music.
Pharmakon / Deterge
(Phage - PT162) split 7-inch $10.00
Solo power electronics project by Margaret Chardiet on one side, thick harsh noise, synth and processed vocals by Jim Haras on the other, with a focus on degenerate fetishism of strange objects or ideas. Two-color screen-printed jacket, insert.
These Graves
(Tone Filth) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Edition of 333 with hand screened and inked textured cardstock covers. “Noise as it’s supposed to be,” says Dutch porn mag Vital Weekly, “menacing, not by the harshness of its sound, but by the content of what its sound has to offer.”
Yellow Swans / Devillock
(Modern Radio - MRRL034) split 7-inch $8.00
Yellow Swans start with a tone and delve into into a dense, unsettling wall of sound. Devillock's ambient piece shifts one note through a slow organic rumble.
Chronology (The Bain Total Years 77-85)
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD71) 6xLP + 7-inch $125.00 (Out-of-stock)
Outstanding selection of tape releases by Die Form and its side projects (Eva-Johanna Reichstag, Fine Automatic, Krylon Hertz, Camera Obscura, DF Sadist School, Mental Code, and Hurt), all released between 1977 and 1985 on Philippe Fichot’s minimal / synth / EBM label Bain Total. Fichot and VOD focus this collection on material from the rarest tapes (BTK01 through BTK29). All tracks and visuals archives have been mastered and reproduced from the originals.
Aaakal
(Harbinger Sound - HAS031) 7-inch $10.50
Dave Uden and Steve Cammack of this long-term UK avant/industrial unit blast a solo side each. Camouflage vinyl.
[ tba ]
(Von Archives - VON012) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Edition of 300. More info forthcoming.
Chain Balled
(Turgid Animal - TA396) 7-inch $8.10 (Out-of-stock)
Two tracks of the dirty, pure tape manipulation and looping hell by ex-Wolf Eyes Aaron Dilloway. Full color covers (similar to the "Chain Shot" LP artwork). Edition 500
Chain Shot
(Hanson - HN209) CD $11.25
(Throne Heap - THS01) LP $18.75 (Out-of-stock)
This new platter by Padre Dilloway (ex-Wolf Eyes, ex-Couch) was seemingly recorded by tape heads dusted in ancient kitty litter. Decode the messages embedded in his relaxed weirdness (the looped tapes provide the pacing) if it’s revelations about woodpecker attacks and/or butter churning you seek. With a dash of thighbone horn wail here and there, and the use of homemade mixers and loop machines from 1943, this platter teeters on a restless energy ocean, while an MSG-ridden hiss crawls within its rotten grooves.
CD version contains a 28-minute bonus track.
Face Mask
(Turgid Animal - TA396) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-print)
EP released for the Dilloway / Nate Young UK tour in the spring of 2009. More looping hell recorded in a hotel room in Brighton after the Colour Out Of Space Festival. Limited to only 100 copies
Lip Syncing to Verme
(Hundebiss - H009) LP $27.00
Aaron Dilloway here is as fluid and cinematic as a slow motion Stan Brakhage on K. After the monumental Chain Shot LP (Throne Heap 2007 / Hanson 2009) and furious live activity, The Mad Taper of Oberlin dives into a buzzy ocean of muddy water loops south of heaven, where you might as well crawl like the creepy worm you are. Unique folded artwork. Edition of 500.
Modern Jester
(Hanson - HN250) 2xLP $19.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. With the exception of "Eight Cut Scars," this is completely different from the cassette of the same name, though every second does contain subliminal messages (some things are just too good to let go of). "Hyper-focused [and] monolithic," according to All Music Guide, "harrowing, but strangely beautiful," while East Village Radio describes it as hallucinatory and sprawling. Silkscreened gatefold jacket. Edition of 500.
To And From Concentrate
(Sillybird) Used LP $8.00
The one and only LP by this mid-90s Oakland trio rewrites chaos theory as we know it. Are you on the cutting edge of physics or not, asshole? “To and From Concentrate is a dissonant barrage of guitars jangling on the backbeat, arrhythmic bass lines loping and clambering through myriad time signatures, and drums switching meters at the drop of a high hat,” says the Bay Guardian. “The album's six tracks -- each one clocking in at exactly seven minutes and six seconds -- are exercises in endless displacement; instruments join for an instant, then scamper in divergent directions, dropping in at one beat and out the next. Vocals add to the din with syncopated cantos of blank verse about high school cheers.”
Die Bilder Schwimmen In Der See
(Unwucht) 12-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING JUNE 2012. The third in Unwucht's four-part series that reissues Direen's early '80s seven-inches (this one originally released by Flying Nun in 1982) on twelve-inch vinyl, restored and remastered from different sources, and cut especially loud and deep. High-quality, screen-printed sleeve with reproduction of the original artwork. High-quality, screen-printed sleeve with reproduction of the original artwork, and additional printed material. Edition of 350. Reservations advised.
High Thirties Piano
(Unwucht) 12-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SEPTEMBER 2012. The final installment of Unwucht's four-part series that reissues Direen's early '80s seven-inches (this one originally a private pressing of 100 copies) on twelve-inch vinyl, restored and remastered from different sources, and cut especially loud and deep, and further restructured from an alternate mix containing the previously unreleased track "The Lamp"; an extended, five-and-a-half-minuter version of "Kicks"; and two more unreleased songs from a private 1982 session. High-quality, screen-printed sleeve with reproduction of the original artwork, and additional printed material. Edition of 350. Reservations advised.
Six Impossible Things
(Unwucht) 12-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. The first in Unwucht's four-part series that reissues Direen's early '80s seven-inches (this one originally a private pressing of 100 copies) on twelve-inch vinyl, restored and remastered from different sources, and cut especially loud and deep. High-quality, screen-printed sleeve with reproduction of the original artwork. Additional inserts with photos, drawings, and text from private archives. Edition of 350. Reservations advised.
Soloman's Ball
(Unwucht) 12-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING MARCH 2012. The second in Unwucht's four-part series that reissues Direen's early '80s seven-inches (this one originally a private pressing of 100 copies) on twelve-inch vinyl, restored and remastered from different sources, and cut especially loud and deep. High-quality, screen-printed sleeve with reproduction of the original artwork, and additional printed material. Edition of 350. Reservations advised.
Ulterior
(Ulterior) Used LP $30.00
The debut album from 1995 packed with loads of brilliant riffs from this bass-less grindcore trio (guitarist Rob Marton, drummer Dave Witte, vocalist Jon Chang) influenced by Japanese hardcore. Raw sewage production, chaotic drumming, and vocals alternating from low-ranged barks to viciously high shrieks. Near mint, with small scuffs on the corner edges.
Tapes
(RRRecords - RRRDOG) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Michigan violinist Mike Collino uses loops, delays and effects to get kinda dark, creepy, industrial/experimental textures and atmospherics. Says Aaron Dilloway, “Excellent violin strangeness complete with multiple reel-to-reel tape delay warbled by bass drum kick pedal.... Killer style!” This LP collects various tracks from his cassettes. Each copy is housed in a hard vinyl laserdisc folder. The outside has a printed cover and the inside has one of RRR’s usual handmade covers.
Great Explorers
(Siltbreeze - SB137) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
RELEASE DATE AUGUST 24th. Hailing from Cambridge, England, The Doozer shares a vocal resonance with Syd Barrett, as well as a knack for cobbling together occasional found-tape narration with string-strum and hypnotic percussive plonk not unlike The Shadow Ring. The gin doesn't come much pinker than this. Edition of 500.
PHILIPPE DORAY / THIERRY MULLER
Crash
(Poutre Apparente - PAPE005) 7-inch $10.00
Two tracks recorded during rehearsals at Studio Anagram and Montérollier in 1984 by legends of the French underground Müller (Ilitch, Ruth) and Doray (Rotomagus, Philippe Doray & Associaux Associés). A different mix of "Pile ou Face" was released on an Inaudible magazine seven-inch, and reissued on Müller's Rare & Unreleased 1974-1984 CD (Fractal 2007). "Vaughan's Ballad" is previously unreleased.
Tutti Frutti
(Autobus) CD $13.50
(Autobus) LP $13.50
The fourth chaotic album by this French duo who are both kid-friendly and outsider avant wackos. Strange arrangements that'd make The Boredoms proud, toy instruments, ADD samples, warped loops extracted from ancient 45s, bizarre versions of The Cramps' "Human Fly" and The TV Personalities' "Jackanory Stories."
Choose To Lose
(BloodLust! - B!068) 7-inch $7.50
Intense, blasting electronic noise by Detroit master. The twelfth release in the BloodLust! Private 7-inch series. Plain white sleeve. 300 copies.
Possession
(Tone Filth - TF20) LP $26.50
First vinyl appearance by Lord Draheim, who contaminates the A-side with sick tones, nauseating hiss and whine, the rumble and wet sadism of clogged sinuses, leading to a climax in an orgy of rotten magnetic tape. Mongrel howls, junkyard threats, and the slowest of rhythmic thump make up the unhealthy flip of this record. Edition of 320 with hand screened textured card stock covers.
Le Drapeau Noir
(Chironex) LP $20.00
This dream project of European improvised music -– an octet comprised of members of Hunter Gracchus, Chora, and Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides -- should get Euro-sceptics lathered. Rambling cacophony erupts in big-band formations, with the sound sitting somewhere between various Jooklo projects and the sprawling insanity of The A Band. Multicultural folk influences are strong; East / West primitivism escapes the vacuum of the trivial object, forging live and simmering performances.
Imperial Distortion
(Hospital - HOS134) 2xCD $16.75
(Hospital - HOS134) 3xLP $30.00
Where 2002’s Sheer Hellish Miasma took noise to a new level of near-impenetrable exactitude, Imperial Distortion is an altogether different beast. Kevin Drumm comes face to face with minimal drone music and confronts the genre by providing one of its absolute pinnacles at the forefront: movement. Drone music at its most concentrated and ably performed has build and depth. From the shadowy layers of soundtrack to ominous bell tones, from the almost ballad-esque elegance of tone and frequency as melodic portals to nowhere to the tension suggestive of anxiety that never truly dies, from lullaby ease to severity that eclipses the light, this is a work that commands intellectual and emotional commitment on the levels of the greatest works to come from this genre.
Kevin Drumm
(Thin Wrist - TWLA) 2xLP $25.00
The elusive, fragmented and subtle tabletop guitar experiments on Drumm’s eponymous debut (released on CD by Perdition Plastics in 1997 and reissued on CD by the same label in 2009) straddle analogue noise and fractured Erstwhile-esque minimalism. The first six tracks feel like a surgical operation, or a vivisection of Drumm's instrument, an isolating of each conceivable component, draining its every sonority and splaying it across forty minutes of clinical abstraction. After six tracks of shadowy activity, a final seventeen-minute piece brings the album to an intense, droning conclusion, laying down strips of noisy signal interference that buzz and crackle as a single, continuous surge. Thin Wrist’s expanded 180-gram vinyl edition adds an entire side of previously unreleased music recorded during the same time as the original album. Digital download card included.
KEVIN DRUMM / MICHAEL ESPOSITO
The Icy Echoer
(Fragment Factory - FRAG16) 7-inch $13.50
Experimental artist and researcher of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) Michael Esposito has worked with Leif Elggren, CM von Hausswolff, Bryan Lewis Saunders and others. Forming the basis of this collaboration with guitarist Kevin Drumm are EVPs from St. John - St. Joseph cemetery in Hammond, Illinois, reputed to be one of the most haunted places in America. Edition of 300
Untitled
(Nihilist - NIHIL63) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock) (Out-of-print)
Mania-inducing, heavy waves of suffocating bass frequencies with ripping and tearing, hissing and speaker destroying hellstorm. Recorded in Chicago in 2005. Cover art by Alex Decarli.
KEVIN DRUMM / JÉRÔME NOETINGER / ROBERT PIOTROWICZ
Wrestling
(Bocian - BR04) 7-inch $10.00
A devastating electronic maelstrom recorded at Musica Genera Festival in Szczecin, Poland in May 2005. Two slabs of furious, improvised noise by a trio of giants.
Seneca's Last Breath
(Quemada) 7-inch $7.00
The vinyl debut from these residents of Hobart, Tasmania (also known as the Australia of Australia), who channel earnestness, naivety and lyrical inspiration from the weirdest loner folk. They're obsessed with Joy Division, and because of an inescapable Xpressway filter, sound less Manchester and more like a Jefferies brother Peter and Graeme would rather people not find out about, and so have forced him to live in the attic deprived of voice lessons, friends and food. So you gotcher heavily melodic ode to the Roman stoic philosopher on one side, and your quieter, more seductive affair on the flip, a pledge of devotion to another man's wife. Why not?
Under Neon Lights
(Wormwood Grasshopper - WG01) LP $25.00
Cracked sermons for those spoilt by a lifetime of drums. With more rage, more range and more focus than previous Drunk Elk transmissions, Under Neon Lights describes the madness as something clearer, louder and more felt. Picture Father Yod, disrobed, and dispatched to a very different island, landing in the hands of a mischievous Current 93. Edition of 300.
JOHN DUNCAN / MICHAEL ESPOSITO / ZEV
There Must Be A Way Across This River / The Abject
(Fragment Factory - FRAG20) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
EVP recordings made in 2009 by Esposito at the onetime home of Duncan in Prospect Heights, Illinois, to which the current resident would not permit entry (though his spouse had previously agreed to it). Heidi Harman, the medium who was present at the encounter, heard Duncan's name specified by the voice. "There Must Be A Way Across This River" represents Duncan’s involvement and processing of the events at his childhood home; "The Abject" is the result of Z’ev dealing with the occurrences in Prospect Heights. 140g vinyl. Double-sided insert. Edition of 500
Ploughing Furrows Into Rotten Burrows
(Pan - PAN3) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Made up of acoustic and electronic junk sounds, Ploughing Furrows into Rotten Burrows is informed by a caustic patience and steady pacing. With a concentrated approach, Mark Durgan (Putrefier, Birthbiter label) builds tracks with loops, samples or acoustic sounds, which then become automated from the influence of the feedback generated from the electronic devices. For the past twenty years, Durgan has influenced the directions of musique concrete, improvisation, electroacoustic music, power electronics and early ’90s Japanese noise. Limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl, jacket housed in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs.
Cigarettes
(Nuf Sed - NSFPOS09) 7-inch $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
This pre-Zip Code Rapists quintet (Stephan Hanson on keyboards, Gary Strasburg on electric guitar, and Scott Brizel on drums, plus Messrs Turkington and Singer) brings their beautiful magic to songs by the Beach Boys, Springsteen, and Black Flag. Much more in line with the obnoxious EZ-listening terror of ZCR than the comparatively tame first Easy Goings single, this record smoothly passes the torch to that group and its vicious dismantling of “hits” both real and alternate-universe.
EB.ERSONNA / HANATARASH / RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK
This Is Tiefpunk
(Tochnit Aleph - TA033) LP $15.00
Hanatarash Live Aktion 971111 Tokyo, Club Shelter; Eb.Ersonna Live Aktion 971111 Tokyo, Club Shelter Rudolv Eb.Er and Maso Yamazaki; Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck Live Aktion 980214 San Francisco, Club Teuffel. Harsh, messy and mental. Edition of 1000
Capitaine Présent 5
(Nashazphone - NP006) LP (one-sided) $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Laurent Gerard (one-third of Ghedalia Tazartes's Reines d'Angleterre) hosts this hallucinogenic promenade inside his psyche with cut-up spoken word, poetry, cosmic standup comedy from the afterlife, and synth insanity. With four volumes released on CD, cassette and DVD, El-G's fifth in the series (the first on vinyl) keeps it eerie 'n’ personal. Edition of 160.
De Schepper
(Ultra Eczema - UE84) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The oldest DJ in Antwerp turns 50 this year. In the '80s he and Cassis Cornuta pioneered the broadcast of acid house on Belgium's Radio Centraal (platters as well as their own originals, with help from 303s and 606s and 808s. Side A is a Dutch parody of "The Creator" in tribute to the original Belgian acid crew (CJ Bolland, Olivier Abeloos, Acid Marcske etc.), played classic and raw through a tiny amp, a 303 and a 606! The flip is a version of Nicky Trackx's "Acid in the House." Jacket is a stencil-print of '80s-era Elitaire. Edition of 200 copies.
Echos Pastoraux
(La Scie Dorée - SCIE811) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Open-spaced improv where Timo van Luijk's curious collection of small acoustic objects, wind instruments and field recordings cradle Andrew Chalk's sparse, watery electric guitar like a hammock. Small melodies shimmer, birds call and respond to rusty percussion, and the mood remains gentle. With percussion on “Récit Inouï” by Daisuke Suzuki and accidental sounds on “En Aval” by Ian Middleton. Edition of 400.
America's Greatest Living Noise Artist
(Harbinger Sound - HAS025) 2xLP $15.00
The brainiac behind legendary noise label RRRecords trashes early jewels from the Harbinger back catalogue (Pain Jerk's Spitfire album and Putrefier's Simulated Vapours LP). Waves of noise, locked grooves, hand carved grooves.
Entraxes Inégaux
(Bimbo Tower - BTR06) LP $17.25
Freaky drummer Monsieur Cognard reunites the insanity of Jac Berrocal (trumpet and piano), Dan Warburton (violin and keyboards), Judith Kan (voice) and Béatrice Godeau (cello). Ecstatic and unusual free improvisations recorded in the studio by Patrick Müller June 2009. Chipboard fold-over sleeve, silkscreened on both sides. Cover by Jörg Morning. Red vinyl. Edition of 300.
THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE / UNEARTHLY TRANCE
Unearthly Trance / The Endless Blockade
(Chrome Peeler - CPR11) split LP $12.75
New York doom metal juggernaut Unearthly Trance offer up a sidelong onslaught of d-beat and doom before plummeting deep into the noise depths, while Toronto's The Endless Blockade combine power-violence and power-electronics to brutal effect, including a Slogun cover.
Montezuma Baby Duck
(Siltbreeze - SB36) LP $12.00
Backed by Hard Black Thing on one side (Mike Rep on percussion, Stu Sinn on horn – played in the key of X, he says -- and Roger Time on lead guitar), the one-time Woodruff Ave. block captain, now mayor of a small unnamed hamlet near Savannah, Georgia, stumbles across a white-knuckled barrel ride through myriad soundscapes as diverse as Amon Duul, Kalacakra, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Steve Marcus and Door & The Window. The other side has two tracks from Esh's Jack Of Diamonds cassette and excerpts from his unreleased comedy album, comparable to the likes of Tubby Boots channeling Jack Mudurian at a volunteer fire department turkey raffle. A down’n’dirty steel string strum and coarse vocal hum reduces even the most erudite Alan Lomax sycophant to nothing more than a human tear box lost in Porch Swing, USA. Label art by Graham Lambkin.
First Decade ’80-’89
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD46) 3xLP $125.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two platters containing tracks from the Diez Años double cassette (a collection of unreleased tracks from the '80s with some tracks off compilations). The third platter includes: "Avance Rapido" (from La Zona compilation) "Fungus Cerebri," (from Sinn und Form) "Raskin," "Maximo Rendimiento," "Primera Tundra," and "Trans Unmma," (all from Apocalyptic Vision's 80s Tracks anthology) and a superb live performance of 1987 from the Bruitiste boxset.
Pulsion
(Geometrik - GR2115) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
The vinyl edition of the new album by this influential Spanish duo was recorded in Beijing and Rome between November 2008 and May 2009. Pulsión is pure industrial hypnosis and irresistible rhythms -- repetitive, machine-like, sometimes tribal, sometimes danceable -- along with appropriated and electronically manipulated trad musics (from the Middle East, Mongolia, China, and Tibet) and speech fragments by a radical Japanese politician, Che Guevara, and an anti-occidental Islamist leader. Four tracks from the CD, plus two exclusive tracks ("Metallum" and "Lamas").
Music From A Sparkling Planet
(Bar None - AHAON056) LP $15.00
Called by a reviewer a "pop avant-gardist" Esquivel's early '60s orchestrations explode like a pinata with strikingly futuristic arrangements tinged with cocktail lounge and ballroom overtones. Recording for RCA from 1957 to 1968 during the Hi-Fidelity explosion, he takes full advantage of the new-fangled stereo phenomenon; scattered among the pianos and trombones are slide guitar, echo, dissonance, beatnik percussion and weird juxtapositions of mood and volume. His "kitchen sink" approach incorporates Chinese bells, organ, jew's harp, gourd, timbales, bongos, glass-shattering brass, and perky xylophones. Lyrics are stripped from pop standards and replaced with whistling, humming, or disjointed phrases, with smooth vocal choruses crooning "Zu-zu-zu," or shouting "Pow! Pow! Pow!" Red vinyl. From 1994.
Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music
(Bar/None - AHAON043) LP $20.00
Called by a reviewer a "pop avant-gardist" Esquivel's early '60s orchestrations explode like a pinata with strikingly futuristic arrangements tinged with cocktail lounge and ballroom overtones. Recording for RCA from 1957 to 1968 during the Hi-Fidelity explosion, he takes full advantage of the new-fangled stereo phenomenon; scattered among the pianos and trombones are slide guitar, echo, dissonance, beatnik percussion and weird juxtapositions of mood and volume. His "kitchen sink" approach incorporates Chinese bells, organ, jew's harp, gourd, timbales, bongos, glass-shattering brass, and perky xylophones. Lyrics are stripped from pop standards and replaced with whistling, humming, or disjointed phrases, with smooth vocal choruses crooning "Zu-zu-zu," or shouting "Pow! Pow! Pow!" Blue vinyl. From 1994.
Cafe Cicago
(Ultra Eczema - UE87) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Slide over the autobahn and daydream with Evil Madness's analog waves of throbbing, '80s-fueled synth blubber, a heroic soundtrack to staring into nothingness. With BJ Nilsen, classical mad scientist Johann Johannsson, Petur Eyvindsson, and Stillupsteypa's Helgi Thorson and Sigtrygur Berg Sigmarsson. Cover design by Denniss Tyfusson. Edition of 300.
Around the Corner b/w Whistling Assassin
(Greatdividing - DD014) 7-inch $10.00
The second seven-inch by this Australian trio, recorded the first time in the fourteen months following the recording of the first seven-inch that they were all in the same room together. Two tracks recorded live and spontaneous in one take using four microphones, one chord and half an idea. Hand-stamped labels and hole-punched sleeves. Edition of 200.
Fast One b/w Something
(Greatdividing - DD012) 7-inch $10.00
Recorded January 2009, edited down from a single two-hour-long session where no overdubs or mixing were permitted, resulting in what Byron Coley calls “scabby elegance.” Hand-stamped labels and hole-punched sleeves. Edition of 100
Tracks To Glow In The Dark (80-87)
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD77) 2xLP $37.00 (Out-of-stock)
Experimental Products’ second double-album for VOD contains tracks from Glowing in the Dark (Short Circuit 1984), Experiment (Connection 1987), Terminal No.18 flexidisc (1984), plus more ultra-rare and unreleased minimal synth and dance classics, and a live-in-the-studio performance from 1985. Track Listing 1. Glowing in the Dark 2. Love Changes 3. Mannequin 4. Aviation 5. Burning Flame on Ice 6. Different Ones (practice, 1986) 7. S.O.S. (practice) 8. No Answers (practice) 9. Experiment! 10. Who is Kip Jones 11. Work that Beat 12. New Project (reversed) 13. S.O.S. (1985) 14. Experiment (demo) 15. My Own Way 16. Strawberry March 17. Anaesthetic (live WXPN studio 1985) 18. Mannequin (WXPN) 19. Plattform (WXPN) 20. Glowing in the Dark (WXPN) 21. Modern Living (WXPN)
Expo 70 / I Am Seamonster
(Small Doses - dose32) split 7-inch $8.00
Expo 70 offers up an amazing piece of guitar drone while IAS's fuzzed-out drone has an odd sort of pop sensibility bubbling underneath the distortion. The first copies come with a free 3-inch CD with exclusive tracks from both artists. Edition of 285 copies on black vinyl packaged in a two-color, silk screened cover.
Sonic Messenger
(Beta Lactam Ring - mt225b) Used 2xLP $15.00
Dark matter squeaks and moans in wave forms, like the Doppler buzz of an armada of flying fortresses piercing through the black vacuum. A fiery comet tail of piercing Kraut flavored psych trails behind. The whistles of cosmic winds commingle with acid fury. 180-gram vinyl, heavy-duty gatefold jacket. Edition of 300.
A Million Corpses of Dead Bees b/w High Road
(Tipped Bowler - TBT011) split LP $16.50
Two side-long tracks by a pair of rigorous yet unbound New Zealand-based groups. The eighteen-minute burner “A Million Corpses of Dead Bees" by Nova Scotia of Wellington grows from violin sine-squeak and distant shortwave, gains momentum with its patient drumming, and resolves into a saxophone swarm shot through with synthetic scrabble. “High Road” by Dunedin’s Eye comes off colder and more aggressive, throttling the listener with Schnitzler electronics, militant percussion, and guitar strangulation before collapsing into a coda of cymbal taps and glassy string-work. 150-gram vinyl. Screened sleeves by Siwa. Edition of 250.
Fabulous Diamonds II
(Siltbreeze - SB135) LP $16.00
On this continuation of the lush and mesmerizing electro / percussive landscapes explored on their self-titled debut LP (Siltbreeze 2008), Jarrod Zlatic and Nisa Venerosa spark lots of musical embers: dub, trance, house, ambient, minimalist, hints of Suicide and Terry Riley and basically everything from Silver Apples to Silver Apples of the Moon. Includes MP3 download coupon.
Face Plant
(Heard Worse - HW06) LP $15.00
On this solo project -- a textural wash of psychedelic flat-lining -- Aaron Coyes (Rahdunes, Peaking Lights, Unborn Unicorn) utilizes a homemade modular synth, homemade three-head delay, handcut records, store-bought cymbals and additional guest oscillations by Rats With Wings.
Pèl Nord
(Bocian - BC06) 7-inch $10.00
Improvisor, composer, former member of IBA col.lectiu d'improvisació, current collaborator with Alfredo Costa Monteiro in the Cremaster duo, Fages launches full bore into a piercing, whining squall conjured from manipulated AM radios. The monolithic yet prismatic "Pèl" needles its way into the ears before splaying in a layered slab of splintering harshness, while the rounder, more hollow "Nord" cuts a similar, slightly more negotiable path.
FAILING LIGHTS / SPYKES / WOLF EYES / NATE YOUNG
Dead Hills
(Troubleman - TR0182) 2xLP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
VInyl reissue of a double-cassette (Gods Of Tundra 2005). One solo side from each member of Wolf Eyes, plus one side by the band as a whole.
True Form
(BloodLust! - B!094) 7-inch $8.25
The dark, distorted, droned-out organ playing of Mike Connely (Wolf Eyes, Hair Police) illustrates the collision between the contrasting styles of sound generated by the Lexington, Kentucky, and Detroit-area scenes. Somber and unsettling. Edition of 300 copies. White vinyl, unmarked white sleeves, black and white insert.
Untitled
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC04) 7-inch $9.00
Gloomy, dark, intense drone-rock based on minimal guitar riffs, noisy analogue synths and psychedelic effects.
Pure & Disinterested
(Siltbreeze - SB149) LP $16.00
In the musty shadows of Philly, Far-Out Fangtooth mixes early Cramps swamp / garage blackout with nascent Bauhaus post-punk / quasi-goth bleakness, while giving periodic uncanny nods to the witchy, ethereal leather glam of first-generation Blue Öyster Cult. Edition of 500. Includes free download card.
Disconnected
(Dirter - DPROMLP61) 2xLP $50.00
Dude from Brainwashed pretty much nails it: “Considering the massive influence Faust have had on Nurse With Wound (with Stapleton as a young man famously traveling to the group's headquarters at Wumme only to find Faust were off on tour), it is nearly asking for either an anticlimax or a masterpiece yet [Disconnected] is neither…. [T]he hypnotic, motorik rhythms of "Lass Mich" … blend[ing] into smoky ambiences is a stunning start to the album. This was the kind of magic I was hoping for. Yet from here on the album never returns to the sense of urgency and power of the opening song…. There are times when the music is unmistakably Stapleton and Potter -- the time-stretched vocals and ethereal drones … [while] Faust (in this case consisting of Jean-Herve Peron, Zappi Diermaier and Amaury Cambuzat) bring an awful lot to the table, some of the material here sounds like it could have come from the classic recording sessions at Wumme, the band sounding as vibrant now as in their youth…. The symbiosis between the two groups comes naturally, although with all the studio trickery it is hard to tell where one band begins and the other ends…. Disconnected may not be a Faust Tapes or a Soliloquy for Lilith for the 21st century but at the very least it answers a big "what if" question. Its best moments shine brightly and at worst it is not a million miles away from some of Nurse With Wound's more recent output (and really that is not a bad place to be at all).” Includes a second platter available only with the first 1000 copies. One side of Faust, one side of NWW.
Faux Pas / Grain Belt
(Phage - PT150) 7-inch $10.00
Lasse Marhaug and Sten Ove Toft deliver a brutal, five-minute assault of harsh noise on the Faux Pas side, with feedback and textural changes making their way to the surface now and again. Grain Belt (Wince, Willful and Baculum) layers composed metal abuse, utilizing scraping and sputtering sounds. Edition of 300.
Stoy = Gull
(Turgid Animal - TA382) 7-inch $8.00
Norwegians Lasse Marhaug and Sten Ove Toft collaborate for a little harsh and unforgiving noise. What's not to like? Limited to 200 copies on black vinyl.
Syklubb fra Hælvete
(TV5 - TV5002) Used LP $10.00
The 2002 debut release from the Norwegian duo of Maja Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord of all-female avant-garde free-improvisation quartet Spunk. Improv with analog electronic gear, samplers, voice, harmonica, and miscellaneous acoustic instruments. Jacket has seam split on top. Pink vinyl.
Dead Weight b/w When
(BloodLust! - B!148) 7-inch $10.50
Two outstanding power-electronics-and-harsh-noise tracks that demonstrate the raw power of this sound-and-vision smut peddler, enhanced by Nicola Vinciguerra's obscene artwork and vocals by Wertham (Marco Deplano) on the A-side. Pink marble vinyl. Edition of 200.
Hand Clap Girl
(Rococo) 7-inch $5.25 (Out-of-stock)
A one-man band (since 2003) who sings, plays guitar, kick drum, drum machine and keyboard (with his foot). He’s French and is, of course, here to croon beautiful songs of love with shit and blood on his hands. One Note + One Rhythm + One Word = One Song. Teenage punk frustration. No girl, alcohol, free porn sites, white chocolate. Semen runs in his veins. Red vinyl, limited to 300 copies (as some sort of tribute to Michael Jordan and/or Kurt Cobain that only the French understand).
Hey Collosus / Field Boss
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR068) split 7-inch $12.00
Hey Collosus batters into submission a slo-mo cover of Andre Williams's "Jailbait" with their trademark downbeat dirge. Field Boss (formerly known as Tractor) have the AmRep sound down to an absolute tee --really thick guitars; monotonous, hollowed-out drums; and in-the-red vocals pushed down in the mix. Three-panel screen-printed cover, metallic ink. Edition of 300.
Destroy All Music
(ugExplode - ug06) LP $12.00
The innovative punk-jazz 1995 album, with drummer/multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter and saxophonist Ken Vandermark, and their notorious ensemble working the extreme energy levels. Wild, unhinged cacophony, fusing fiery free jazz improvisation with modern post-punk/noise-rock structures. This is an integral part of Chicago's underground musical heritage, a milestone in adventurous jazz, and a key component of neo-no wave.
Foi Pour Pusillanime
(Ogrob) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Six micro-compositions by Caroline Ehretique (Ondes Martenot, voice, piano, analog synth, electronics, and whip) and Ogrob (analog synth, wind, chiropteran echolocation, railway signal, screams, electronics), oscillating between musique brut, musique concrete and captured nightmares). Hand-made sleeve, linocut on both sides. Edition of 300.
CHRIS FORSYTH / SHAWN EDWARD HANSEN
Dirty Pool
(Ultramarine - UM002) LP $25.00
Electric guitarist Chris Forsyth (Peeesseye) and organist Shawn Edward Hansen (Phantom Limb + Bison) run rock music through a filter of transcendental experimentalism and improvisatory nerve. The disorienting, psychedelic, and beautiful result realigns rock music’s form and function.
Syria: 638 AD
(Diophantine - N18) LP $16.50
Two 17+ minute extremely dense, powerful, and brooding tracks, with absolutely monstrous bass. Comprised of Mark Solotroff (BLOODYMINDED, Intrinsic Action, and the BloodLust! label) and Isidro Reyes (BLOODYMINDED), the dense and murky Fortieth Day lurks between noise, industrial, and ambient. Various recording sessions are processed, re-processed, and mixed together to create the final studio recordings. Live shows also incorporate live real-time video projections by Noise Crush. White vinyl, silver-printed and die-cut jacket, 300 copies.
Gone Every Evening
(Die Stadt - DS106) 7-inch $20.00
Two strange songs -- collaborative pieces with Fabrizio Palumbo, Clodagh Simonds, Laura Sheeran, and Michael Begg -- delightful and faintly unsettling. Gatefold cover with printed inner sleeve designed by Liles.
More Impossible Futures
(Bocian - BC07) 7-inch $10.00
Building upon A Handful of Automation (Editions Mego 2010), the two shimmering EMS VCS 3 diamonds of More Impossible Futures are succinct electronic statements; one teases a jittering melody out of a flickering environment, while the other is decidedly abyss-bound. Based in Melbourne, Australia, for whom he is building a giant outdoor Theremin, Fox shoots lasers onto clouds (good work if you can get it), and regularly experiments with Anthony Pateras, oscilloscopes, Nyquist Variations and Australian dance companies.
France
(Bimbo Tower) LP (one-sided) $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Instrumental trio Yann Gourdon (hurdy gurdy), Jeremie Sauvage (bass), and Mathieu Tilly (drums) performing one 22-minute-long song. Hypnotic post-kraut music in the vein of Outside The Dream Syndicate. Previously released on Sonic Protest 2008 2xCD (Textile 2008). Spray-painted PVC sleeve.
Couper Les Tchou-Tchou
(Bimbo Tower) LP $20.00
Improvisation tinged with humor and humility, a rare approach. From the strangely nerdy harpsichord to the spirit of serenity and clusters of small noises and explosions, from the male vocals competing without meaning, trying to scream higher and higher, to the supervisor berating students for smoking, Couper les tchou-tchou delivers new ideas and much-needed rawness to a frequently fixed and ossified genre.
Mojdehi / Freeman
(Fusetron - FUSE007) LP (one-sided) $15.00
Two scraped guitars make noise, feed out and feed back, reminding one of Mr. Velocity Hopkins or some Japanese guy. Handmade cover.
Stainless Steel
(Ini Itu - INIITU1101) LP $16.00
One side of molten, acid-bathed gamelan, with decay and textural corrosion magnified and enhanced, one side of arcanely wired machines spitting out shifting binary patterns. Plus two locked grooves at no extra charge. Edition of 250
Rome Loves Tan
(Catsup Plate - CPR713) LP $15.00
Later French Paddleboat recordings and Scott August’s work as one-half of Vote Robot helped nudge August toward revisiting the tracks here, originally released on cassette by Union Pole. Songs and loops have been tightened up, reworked, and one song completely replaced with a more fully realized piece ("Indication of Motion”). Emphasis is on analog, homemade sound sources a la Vote Robot, though here the tone is gentle, familiar, and unabashedly pretty. The songs are, for the most part, structured on acoustic drum beats, played live and looped, with layers of chimes, bells, clarinet and warm keyboard tones in meticulous and intricate arrangements.
Disturbed Strings
(Roaratorio) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
In the spring of 1998, guitarist Jeff Fuccillo (Irving Klaw Trio, Wham-O, Hochenkeit) met avant-folk guru John Fahey while opening for his trio at a gig in Portland, Oregon. Fahey booked studio time to record Fuccillo for his label. Fuccillo arrived at the session expecting to make a solo acoustic guitar album. To his surprise Fahey had prepared a pile of samples — random snatches of music, all manner of sound effects — and without warning began shooting them out into the studio through the monitors, effecting a guerilla collaboration of sorts. Disturbed Strings captures the highlight of that day: veering from hardscrabble string-rattling to modal melodicism, the album is ample testament to Fuccillo’s wide-ranging inventiveness as an improvising guitarist, as well as a window into an aspect of Fahey’s artistry not previously represented on record. An essential document of the New Weird America underground. Released in a limited edition of 500 copies, with artwork by Fahey and Judith Lindbloom.
Swiss Cheese Back b/w Watching TV
(Destijl - IND083) 7-inch $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reissue by a legendary Hawaiian band from 1979/1980 that provides one of the more exciting links between typified conceptions of punk and noise. If “Swiss Cheese Back” is the final aggregate, regimented elements of deconstructed hardcore (displayed by Harry Pussy via the Magic Band), “Watching TV” is the excess of Experience-inspired freedom that recklessly abandons anything that even vaguely resembles form. A recording that is so radically mixed, one might wonder if they just fucked up, or were working with a broken machine. Completely astounding, and, according to the December 1980 issue of Damage Magazine, “not recommended for anyone with high blood pressure.”
El Saturn
(Ecstatic Yod) LP $10.00
Second LP by this Kent, Ohio, psych collective who collapse the universe-as-known-by-Sun-Ra into a shape that will fit neatly into a two car garage and create an amazing fever acid swamp of sound. Volume 7 in the Center Of The Ass Run series. Gatefold jacket, insert.
Reuters
(Tochnit Aleph - TA079) LP $23.50
Latest works by Swiss musique concrete composer Marc Zeier, his second LP after 1991’s Seismogram on the Schimpfluch label.
Mass
(Siltbreeze - SB136) LP $16.00
Galbraith's Morse LP (Siltbreeze 1993) followed traditional avenues of rugged folk narrative tinged with psychedelic foxing, while Mass is an unchartered, one-way trip through a world of ritual. Broken guitars, percussive loops, backwards tracking, homemade glass harmonium, lullabies, bagpipe thievery and the odd bit of fighting talk are just some of the many bricks laid here, with Galbraith himself as the mortar and Amiel Balester, Michael Kohler and David Kilgour providing assistance here and there. Includes MP3 download coupon. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST 0F 2010
Stoned Rehearsal
(Quemada) LP $18.00
The fragile and melodic pop of The Garbage And The Flowers sways and stumbles just enough from its center to avoid calcification. Stoned Rehearsal risks falling apart, but the deviations always drift back to the song. The opening anthem is followed by a nice and slowly sentimental whiskey-sippin’ number; and of course you can’t end the side without getting revved up first. Side two starts with an almost baroque take on “River of Sem,” followed by the sweetly casual “Elizabeth” and a breathtaking dirge to wrap things up. Originally released as a cassette (Near Tapes 2008).
Symphony No. 3: Siddhatha Gautama O El Poder De La Nada
(Roaratorio - ROAR24) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. When psycho-spatial composer Nelson Gastaldi passed away in 2009 at the age of 77, he left behind a unique musical legacy that is only now beginning to be unveiled. A self-described “musical nihilist with noble and mystic origins” (as well as an accomplished visual artist), Gastaldi supported himself and his family with a job at an electric company in Buenos Aires, Argentina, while creating an astonishing body of work that went virtually unheard during his lifetime. Synthesizing his wide-ranging interests (medicine, linguistics, Chinese and German philosophy) into his music, he welcomed paranormal / initiatic experiences into the compositional process, creating homemade Sibelius-meets-Sun Ra symphonies. The only previous publication of his work was in Bananafish #18, which featured an excerpt of Symphony No. 3 on an accompanying CD. The same issue also contains his sole English-language interview, where he says, “The human being runs at the side of a river. When he is young, he runs faster than the river; in mid-life he runs at the same speed as the river; and at last he falls down and the river keeps going.” Download coupon included.
GASTRIC FEMALE REFLEX / BRIAN RURYK
Destination: Poon
(Beniffer Editions - BFF6066) split LP $16.50
High spasticity by two of Canada's national treasures. The mad dog of guitar Brian Ruryk's "Alliances for Debris" is twenty-odd minutes of glass and metal connecting with hard surfaces at fast speeds, chopped up and re-spliced into microscopic fragments. A frenzy that should drop the jaw of even the know-it-alls. On "Nairobi Pieces 13-26" Gastric Female Reflex uses longer samples drawn from decaying radios and televisions, in-between-song recording outtakes, prayer tapes, random clicks, crackles and cuts, ambient bass rumbles, Tim Allen, and sound effects. According to Discogs, this was released in 2006 with different artwork and no title (some of the photocopy inserts are the same); all copies here have new silkscreened prints (not the same as what is shown at Discogs, but similar to others in our copies, and in different combinations). No two copies are alike, basically. It's a mess, granted, but confusion comes with the territory of landmark releases. Just accept it.
Lovers in the Midst of Eating Fries
(Gold Soundz - GS45) LP $20.00
Expertly executed and fried garage-art-noise/junk by Torontosaurs who're somewhere between American Tapes and classic mid-nineties NZ underground with plenty of Crank Sturgeon / Euro-actionist noise humor. Hand screened and marble-ized card cover.
Plays The Music of Alan Antfarm
(Lips Infection - LIP05) 7-inch $10.00
Hup, Bup, and Bup Zukerman take a hurl at two of this Riverside mid-'90s alt rock combo's power ballads, "Raw Puppy Pant Lick Show" and "Don't Moan When Behind The Chocolate Apparatus." Get it for the silkscreened jacket, keep it for the mental instability.
A Republic of Sadness
(Ba Da Bing - BING068) LP $14.00
The first new Gate record in over a decade, the apex of Michael Morley's various interests. His guitar and vocal drones permeate looped beats and noises, hovering in a smokeless zone that is not quite dance, not quite noise, not quite electronica and definitely not ambient. Include free MP3 download card
Underground Is Dead
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR095) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Over-the-top, brutal noisecore from Dopi of Machetazo, Dishammer etc. Bass, drums and vocals reminiscent of early Cripple Bastards. Edition of 250.
Absence of Essence
(Arbor - ARBOR99) 2x7-inch $10.00
Heavy synthesizer work reminiscent of the crushing mass of early industrial music, Absence of Essence consumes the air around it with heavy vibrations and total deprivation. Four tracks rip holes through the sonic barriers, loud and powerful with entrancing subtleties and discreet builds. The nature of the seven-inch format yields succinct and unwavering compositions. One platter is white vinyl, the other one's black. Edition of 400.
Claustrophobic Wreck
(Ultra Eczema - UE75) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
In a small wooden cabin between New York and Detroit, without food, the tap water nonpotable, the eating of one another's intestines the final enjoyable possibility -- these are the conditions surrounding the thick throbbing of two synthesizers bubbling up from hungry bowels, fighting their way to better times. Dark, gnarly and industrial, classic heavy synth waves, rhythmic madness and electronic sadness. Collage sleeve by Dennis Tyfus, 300 copies.
Return to Nothing / Nothing to Return
(Misanthropic Agenda - MA020) LP $20.00
One side, Stephen O’Malley on guitar and bass guitar, Gerritt Wittmer on computer, and Tim Wyskida on gong and tympani, recorded live at the Flux Factory in New York in 2004; the other side, remixed by Wittmer. According to Stewart Voegtlin’s skullcrushing Stylus review, “Gerritt’s G4 --which vibrates like a ten-thousand–pound hive loosed of its bees -- relocates some of the preponderance issuing from O’Malley (i.e., tonal ascension w/out cessation … and Wyskida (who … taps away on his gong like a Tibetan monk rubbing his rolmo together…). Yellow vinyl. Edition of 500
Meat Receiving
(Ultra Eczema) LP + 3-inch CDR $25.00
Two sidelong tracks of ground-up tape noise and uneasy electronics. One track is not quite side-long, but has been, ahem, fleshed out with the five-minute "Venison" (previously released by From The Same Mother on a CDR comp; features Tom Lax on tongs). Overall, an off-kilter abattoir of dread and fear and suffering. Tedium House copies include a bonus three-inch CDR, unavailable elsewhere.
Northern Exposure Will Be Right Back
(Starlight Furniture Company - *4CD) CD $14.00
(Starlight Furniture Company - *4LP) LP $10.00
A surreal scrapbook collage of songs, sounds, and manipulated noise by singer–songwriter Barbara Manning and founder of Bananafish magazine S. Glass. With many excerpts from Glass’s early ’80s radio show, and guest appearances by members of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, CCCC, Masonna, The Dead C., U.S. Saucer, The Double U, Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble, and many of Manning’s bands.
Reverse Atheism
(BUFMS - BUFMS32) 2xLP $22.00
Barbara Manning and S. Glass lead a small army of guest readers and musicians through barely musical versions of tunes, texts, and tracts. Barely faithful cover versions (XTC, Gods Gift, Hank Williams, The Osmonds, Edgar Winter, The Birthday Party, New Creation), with varying degrees of overhaul, mangling and looseness of interpretation, emerge like seared remnants of a torched London happening from 1966. Texts by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Dan Ashwander, Wayne Bent, John F. Kennedy, Flannery O’Connor, Hugo Ball, Rayva Liliana, and Hippocrates traverse the spectrum of belief, resulting in a migraine coexistence of skepticism, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, Scientology, paranoid schizophrenia, doomsdays cults, Hinduism, evangelism, Catholicism, witchcraft and wizardry, guardian angels, Armageddon, rapture, post-apocalypse, Illuminati, satanism, existential despair, purgatory, creationism and intelligent design, Darwinism, conspiracy and hoax, the Tarot, human sacrifice, Sikhs, ascension, royalty, cargo cults, divine right, fatalism, Western medicine, oaths, incantation, cosmic retribution, excommunication, alien abduction, the occult, pagans, infidels, heathens, mind control, prophecy, remote prayer, and, naturally, atheism. Guest speakers include Lucian Tielens (Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble), Bruce Russell (The Dead C.), Patricia Rowland (Vomit Launch), Jett Hotcomb (The Talented Hairdos) Thurston Graham (Resistance Works), Scott Simmons (Eat Skull), Dave Gulbis (Celine Dion) Andrew Murphy (Celine Dion, Forked, Smooch), Titch Turner (The Vaticans), Emiko Saito (Obsessive-Compulsive Cat), Cristain Ceia (Romania), Matt Mumper (Beor The Friendly Thing, The Helper), Toni Smith (HappyLucky Design), and Rainbow Cartwheel (This Is Yvonne Lovejoy). Guest musicians include Flavor Station (Ukuzuna) on ukuleles and vocals, Alastair Galbraith (A Handful of Dust) on violin, Doug Pearson (International Hello) on electronics, Black Rose (This Is Yvonne Lovejoy) on keyboards, and Earl Kuck (Tedium House) on small motors. With 24 x 36 poster. Tedium House copies include a penalty CDR containing two demo-style rough mixes, two noise-loop collages, and Kali Bahlu's "A Cosmic Telephone Call From the Angel Liesle and The Buddha" reimagined as a radio play.
Two Tapes
(Tone Filth - TF45) LP $15.00
Blown-out, desolate guitar and saturated tape by Tom Helgerson and Justin Meyers (Devillock).
Humans & Luxury
(Spanish Magic) 7-inch $7.00
From the badlands of Tasmania, through Melbourne share-house doors, and into your hands, Go Genre Everything are equal parts Crass, Tears For Fears and Luigi Russolo. Two tracks from Eternal Youth Carefree Cleanness, one from Megalomania, and one previously unreleased. Go Genre Everything emerged in 1974 as a screaming avant life epic orchestra called Abominibbleable with contemporaries such as Sun Ratsu and Brian Enema. Something happened 1988 – not sure what exactly, but adjustments to psychic conditioning were involved, and it occurred in a place called Kyzyl City. This set the stage, apparently, for Dieter von Broumler to initiate first contact with Zach Von Bamburger (guitar, vocals) and Jen Tait (drums, keyboards, vocals) through the auspices of the secret communications group Munchiegohilarious, which became Go Genre Everything, a self-described “complex sonic experiment voicing myriad environments, traversing and exploring function and situation, form, void and meaning. Designed within a utilitarian sensorial intertalk mode, we are a multidimensional fluidic high energy organic network with mechanical interfacing devices, tenderly electrocuting neurons within human brains.” They perform music, in other words, which, according to cyclicdefrost.com, exists “in a zone of their own no-wave-meets-drone-psych-noise making.”
God Willing / Privy Seals
(Arbor - ARBOR78) split LP $10.00
God Willing and Privy Seals are two of the prime purveyors of meditative harsh tones. God Willing's guitar and oscillatior drone reaches epic levels of hypnosis: repetitive, textured signals march onward like the swaying charm of the pocket watch. One of the final Privy Seals recordings with its eavy, hi-end guitar and tape interlacing, is a bridge to the new incarnation under the Earn moniker. Its harsh movement soothes under the deprivation of distorted tones. At the end of the hallway a door lies open. Silkscreened jackets. Edition of 300.
The Glue That Holds The Kids Together
(What The ... - WHAT013) LP (one-sided) $16.00
Vinyl debut of long-running Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky improv unit centered around sax and electronics by Tim Schwallie (Wolverton Brothers) and doublebass and electronics by Scott Hisey. Over many years, various collaborators and members have coerced the group into stepping into and falling out of free improv, free funk, and free song modes. A highly picked sample of highlights from various line-ups is here, including Clayton "Chicken" Gunnels (The JBs), Mark Perry (Heevahava), C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core). Silkscreen cover designed by Paul Coors. Edition of 130.
Cinders
(Sergent Massacre - SM02) LP $19.50
Ben Hall on percussion, Hans Buetow on cello, John Olson on saxophone and electronics, and Coccyx on reeds base this effort around high, metallic drones, with bowed and scraped cymbals generating a metallic / electric cloud cover that attracts lightning strikes of phantom saxophone articulation, desolate breath storms and percussion and hallucinatory, held tones. Psychedelic and brain re-arranging. Silkscreened jackets. Artwork by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch.
Vital 1983-1989
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD92) 3xLP $80.00 (Out-of-stock)
Jun Konagaya’s amazing, almost schizophrenic power-electronics project changes its mood and atmosphere in seconds -- from extreme harsh noise walls to Mansonesque folk songs. Includes tracks from Vital cassette, Amaterasu seven-inch (G.A. Propaganda 1985), Folk Music LP (Eskimo 1986), Message twelve-inch (Eskimo 1987) and assorted compilations. Edition of 400.
JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS / ARNAUD RIVIÈRE
Monoface
([ no label ]) LP (one-sided) $10.75
In the left channel: "When you go to the swimming pool, please throw away your guitar and remove your shoes?" by Jean-Philippe Gross. Recorded in Metz, 2006. In the right channel: "Nanalog synth" by Arnaud Rivière (co-founder of Sonic Protest festival). Recorded around Paris, 2006. In the middle: an unexpected stereo mix created by the hazards of collage. Flipside of the platter is silkscreened. Clear vinyl. Edition of 300
Merzbow / The Guilt Of...
(Chrome Peeler - CPR12) split LP $12.75
Masami Akita's assault of violent, swarming electronic distortion swirls with shards of brutal high-end feedback and cosmic oscillating tones, creating a vast whirlpool of caustic aural grit and buzz. Industrial noise punks from New Orleans The Guilt of... (Mike IX Williams [EyeHateGod, Outlaw Order, Arson Anthem] and Ryan McKern [Wolvhammer]) layer waves of piano, fuzz, tortured vocals, drums and distorted sub-bass. Mesmerizing and crushing. Edition of 500.
The Guilt Of...
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR074) LP $15.00
The debut full-length from Mike Williams (Eyehategod, Arson Anthem) and Ryan McKern (Wolvhammer) builds upon Williams's narratives created for his metal and punk incarnations, and seen in his book Cancer as a Social Activity. Partnered with McKern's instrumental expertise and his own wide range of tastes, Williams spews thought-provoking, Manson-obsessed, Burroughsian cut-up writings. Edition of 500. Purple vinyl.
MATS GUSTAFSSON / LASSE MARHAUG
For Ake Hodell
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC01) split 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Marhaug’s “So-so Green Tea With Buddha” deals with musique concrete and noisy cut-ups techniques, Gustafsson’s “Jag Vill Lyda Order” with his extended sax and electronics in harsh, bulldozer style.
Spike-s
(Pica Disk - PICA011) 7-inch $10.00
Two intense pieces of drum / guitar / electronics blow-out from Australian sound-wizard.
Death Happening
(Turgid Animal) 7-inch $7.50
Expertly done psychedelic harsh noise from Finland. "Surprisingly chaotic and [discordant]," say our colleagues at Freak Animal. "Layers of reversed sounds create demonic roaring noise, which isn't harsh, but very far from relaxing.... Other side is [typical] Haare with eerie guitar drones and lots of layers." Edition of 200.
Evidence Pertaining to the Creator
(Somnimage - som10010) 7-inch $19.50
Originally part of a 3x7-inch subscription-only package Wolf Sheep Cabbage, now adrift on its lonesome. Pressed on clear vinyl in letterpress wraps.
Evidence Pertaining to the Preserver
(Somnimage - som10011) 7-inch $19.50 (Out-of-stock)
Originally part of a 3x7-inch subscription-only package Wolf Sheep Cabbage, now adrift on its lonesome. Pressed on clear vinyl in letterpress wraps.
Twin Smooth Snouts
(Starlight Furniture Company - *5CD) CD $14.00
(Starlight Furniture Company - *5LP) LP $10.00
Oddly distorted guitars, mangled erhu, manipulated violas, unrecognizable African percussion, bouncy Hagemanizer™, bizarre noises, and found nonsense looped, stretched, chopped, sped up, and warped by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 guitarist.
KEIJI HAINO / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
Cosmic Debris Vol. 3
(Opax - OPX10) split LP $125.00
Third installment in the Cosmic Debris split-LP series sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Japan’s ichiban cult musician and dark shaman. Both side-long tracks, recorded live in the performers’ respective hometowns, detonate cosmic skullbombs: Haino’s “Whither goes it? / That which can’st not but be described / As my prayer/ Nowhere held in common / Lunatic, unknowable...” should tell you everything you need to know about it just by the title, while MCIAA’s “Everything Crashes Like Cosmic Debris” kicks the ass that cannot be kicked. Each record comes with an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio on 30x30cm proper canvas, with a unique Polaroid instant film installed on each piece, representing 100 different perspectives of a same subject related to MCIAA’s own cosmic imaginary. Extraordinarily limited, as usual.
Blind Kingdom
(Ultra Eczema - UE42) LP $24.75
An odd-colored carpet of bizarre 3-D fields dominate the bright and lurid psychedelic forests you'll have to run thru before gripping a mug of brew at the end of the trip. Hop on the back of a giant pink elephant and let go. Originally recorded as a radio special for Radio Centraal in Antwerp, this is a signif deviation from the Hair Police custom -- way more high bliss, blown-out delayed voice, and hardly any harshness. Packaged in a thick black-and-neon-blue eye-destroying covers with a psychic laser etch on the B-side. 180 grams, limited to 600.
Drawn Dead
(Weird Forest - WEIRD013) LP $12.00
A slow suffocation of sick tones and blunt shrapnel made with guitar, drums, and electronics. The serious overwhelming grit and shadowy fuzz of the four untitled pieces here are truly industrial -- factory ambience and disembodied moans in absolute darkness. Drawn Dead is a horrifying lump of old-school, tape-noise / sludge collage with the anger and muscles of In My Head-era Black Flag and the psychedelic mind fuckery of To Live And Shave In LA. With insert. Edition of 475.
Prescribed Burning
(Hospital) LP $15.00
A heavy, desolate, late-night set that moves into the kind of single-sonic-event in a Saragossa of tension style of NNCK while reflecting on aspects of early Throbbing Gristle, Nord et al. Bleak, extended smears of nightmare tone. Silkscreened jackets. Edition of 500.
Self Esteem
(RRRecords - RRR1/2) LP $17.00
Debut LP by leaders in the new American school of Power Electronics. "Carefully composed and ... varied harsh and lo-fi sounds ... produced with clarity and precision," according to Blood Ties, "Harsh noise blasts ... humming and pulsating D.I.Y. synthesizers, feedback chiming in here and there ... focused in some way or another on a rhythmic core.... Lo-fi, dark, aggressive, hate-filled, sick and tired, so many negative feelings crammed into such a small focused space." With members of Yellow Tears.
Degree Zero Point Of Implosion
(With Intent) LP $15.00
Vinyl edition of Australian duo Skye Klein and Robert Allen’s gloomy and hopeless portrait of a bleak post-industrial world, previously released on CDR (Embryo 2000). Their unusual style of doom riffs and heavy percussion is flavored with menacing machine drones, dark electronics and frightening shouted vocals. Recorded live in Melbourne Australia in 2000. Edition of 300.
I Love You, Please Love Me Too
(Pan - PAN8) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Los Angeles sound artist actively creating experimental works since 1980 as a member of LAFMS, Solid Eye, Joe & Joe, Dinosaurs With Horns, Dimmer, and Points of Friction, Joseph Hammer continues his journey into playful yet heavily focused idiot-savant infinite psychedelic inertia. He utilizes consumer audio technology and 20th century detritus to decode and snake-charm mid-century sci-fi and AM radio beyond the point of recognition in multi-dimensional audio collages and free form, completely unorthodox plunderphonic hypnosis. Baked devotionals for tape loop minds. Edition of 330, 140g vinyl, black-andwhite LP jacket in a two-tone silk screened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. Artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas.
Another Miserable Day
(Ultra Eczema - UE38) LP $22.50
Amazing layered synth madness by San Francisco’s most German electronic creeper. A mountain of instruments, two long analog electronic / concrète compositions, and the worst melancholic Sunday afternoon party-is-over feeling. Packaged in a six-panel fold out cover. Imported from Le Belgium.
HARAPPIAN NIGHT RECORDINGS / KOMMISSAR HJULER
Karawane / 6 Reviews in Psycopathic Alchemy
(Shamanic Trance - ST3) split LP $19.50
Hjuler impales Lord Hugo Ball's classic dada poem on a Marie Osmond shaped spike, while on the flip, Syed Kamran Ali scorches beaucoups earth with a "gain-destroyed suite of 'ethnic' improv." Colored vinyl.
Ancestral Brutalism / To The Tall Trees
(He Who Corrupts - HWC023) split 7-inch $9.75
Two of Chicago’s more notable loudness enterprises deliver one song each on green marble vinyl: "Ancestral Brutalism" by Locrian (Andrew Sherer of Velnias guests) and "To The Tall Trees" by Harpoon (their first release with bass player DJ Barraca). Lulled Into A Boiling Rage describes Locrian, "Droning and forbidding sounds carried on air at top volume. Time seem[s] to slow down, waiting for the band to lurch toward their next choad rattling note. A perfect soundtrack for a desolate piece of arctic winter." About Harpoon, Cerebral Metalhead says they occupy a "middle ground between Phobia's d-beat leaning grind and Pig Destroyer's more metallic assault" (though, to be fair, they also said "When did A-Ha start playing grindcore?" so, you know, caveat emptor, motherfucker). Bonus material is included via enclosed digital card. With full-color double-sided insert, letter pressed cover.
Haters
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR051) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded in 2001 but unreleased until now due to controversial content, this is not the noise Haters but a brutal hardcore band, one of the most brutal ever put to tape, formed after Voorhees split up. Artwork by Richard Rupenus of The New Blockaders.
Hatred
(Ultra Eczema) LP $24.75
One of this European label’s grimmest releases so far. Beautiful and heavy layers of ticking synth sperm, bells, and creepitronics. Nate Young (Wolf Eyes, Arian Asshole) and his lady Alivia Zyvich swarm like bees on these recordings, some of which are soundtracks for Zyvich's films, some of which were previously released on limited-edition CDRs by Fag Tapes, some of which are brand new and fucking creepy. Even with the volume knob at 1, you'll be pierced and screaming like a spaz. Packaged in a six-panel fold out record cover by Dennis Tyfus.
The Decline Effect
(Helen Scarsdale - HMS021) 2xLP $21.00
The Decline Effect continues Haynes’s investigations of “rusting things” with electroacoustic decay through four bodies of evidence left behind from ephemeral aktions, shipwrecked electronics, re-engineered field recordings, and transmissions from the ether. Through a patient suturing of sympathetic elements, whether textural, tonal, visceral, heavenly, sodden, or monolithic, embers foretell a nuclear winter gently wafting upon industrial chorales amassed from an army of fidgeting motors; the sulfur-laden hiss from volcanic vents erupts from an organic thrum into boiling crescendos of environmental noise; Geiger counter palpitations stream along a leaden sea of modulated radio noise; a warm explosion of sun-bleached distortion caresses the evanescent halos from an undulating mesmerism inexplicably not sourced from a guitar and / or digital patch authored by Christian Fennesz. Gatefold jacket, with download coupon. Edition of 350.
Sunspotted
(Type - 076V) LP $12.00
An atypical higher-fidelity peek into the muddled world of drummer Jed Bindeman, bassist Brady Sansone and guitarist Ryan Hebert, whose cacophonous splatters are mercilessly grimy signifiers of their buzzing free-rock style. Recorded in a "real" studio, their extended sludge come across wider than ever, an unholy union between sheet-noise and blissful sub-harmonic transcendence.
Sun Pandämonium
(Pan - PAN15) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Deluxe vinyl reissue of the third full-length album from Florian Hecker (Mego 2003). Sun Pandämonium strikes from many angles with a diverse range of fiercely dynamic electronic scenarios. The computer materializes new compositional strategies, leaving behind standard musical structures and seeking out unusual timbral and textural effects. As one reviewer stated, “This record is electronic music as psilocybin science.” Pitchforkmedia described it as “the sounds and frequencies not only of diamonds being sharpened, but then being used to etch directly on the lenses of your optical readers. Call him a sick fuck, a genius, or even Mister Antichrist, but this will cleanse the audio palate as it blows your teeth out.” 140g vinyl, with six monochrome lacquered sheets, silkscreened PVC outer sleeve with the original artwork by Tina Frank and Hecker. Edition of 800.
Cryptography
(Kye - KYE11) LP $15.00
Five-part electro-acoustic study by London-based sound architect Luke Younger (Birds of Delay) that uses processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and guitar strings to explore fringe territories. Glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback coalesce in classic UK post-industrial fashion. Full color sleeve with insert. Numbered edition of 400.
To An End
(Alter - ALT01) LP $20.00
The debut solo album from Luke Younger (also known as half of Birds of Delay) combines field recordings, tape loops, percussion, and electronics (among other things) in a tense and daunting audio tapestry. Properties of the album’s surreal environment of confusion and alienation are reminiscent of the concrete and sound poetry work of Charles Amirkhanian or Bengt Hambraeus; field recordings and mysterious tape audio swell in and out of the mix, and soft washes of white noise float delicately on the surface of an infinite curious hum. A sense of unease simultaneously locks in with an aura of beauty, both worlds compromising to share a space with each other in an extended phantom tone. The long excursion into a wash of calm tone could float away forever. As profound as the discovery of pure silence or the sound of a massive skyscraper collapsing to the ground. It's not about size but about overbearing weight, of which this album carries loads. Edition of 300.
Hertta Lussu Assa
(Destijl - IND089) LP $16.50
Gnomic no-fi plunk, wheeze, rattle and moan courtesy of Jonna Karanka (aka Kuupuu), Laura Naukkarinen (aka Lau Nau) and Merja Kokkonen (aka Islaja), who draw from the seemingly eternal well of stoned detuned mischief that feeds the viaducts of the Finnish underground. A choice manifestation of heavy-lidded third-mind acoustic weirdity. Ungainly and mystically and chemically blasted.
CORNELIA HESSE-HONEGGER / DAVE PHILLIPS
Mutations
(Ini Itu - INIITU1002) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Using source material recorded in Thailand and Vietnam between 1994 and 2007, Mutations rests between Phillips's constructed works and his pure field recordings. Here he juxtaposes, layers, condenses, stretches, and distorts sounds into balanced progressions, punctuations and dense climaxes which generate an overwhelming and sometimes uneasy environment. Hallucinatory, unsettling, brooding, ominous, always restrained, controlled, progressing toward the horror. Hesse-Honegger is a scientific illustrator and researcher who has studied the effects of radioactivity on insect morphology. Edition of 250, with two high-quality printed inserts. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2011
Hi-God People / Zond
(Spanish Magic - SM011) split LP $24.00
The Hi-God People side was recorded around the same time as their recent split 12-inch with fellow NZers The Dead C; it has live snippets from their show at The Palace supporting Sonic Youth and recordings from a radio 3CR session. Their live shows vary from cosmic rock jams to evolution performance art epics. Pop stars doing the tango with some psychedelic monk. Named after a satellite of the USSR, Melbourne Australia's Zond broadcast dark ecstasy from a place far below outer space, like a Rorschach blot or a Freudian analysis gone wrong. Their live shows vary from a screaming psychedelic car crash to ambient metal. With current and past members of On, Fong, Library Punks, Mum Smokes, Ned & the Meds, The Stabs. All covers are handmade (screenprints, stencils, hand carved stamps). Australian import.
Incapulco
(Sergent Massacre - BTR07) LP $16.00
(Sergent Massacre - BTR07) Used LP $10.00
Unmapped land, a place under mystic light accessible only via High Wolf’s fuzzy wah guitars, trancey keyboards, delayed vocals, groovy percussion and jungle spirit. This vinyl reissue of the CDR (Winged Sun 2009) was remastered by Pete Swanson. 180-gram vinyl.
How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away
(Pan - PAN92) LP picture disc $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
An audio landscape comprised of various historic riots, from the concert hall and music venue to the sounds of modern warfare. Presented in surround sound, the tumultuous panorama of over-layered riots relentlessly envelops. The NYC-based artist, editor and art curator has been working with sound and performance since 2003, and co-founded Primary Information, an organization devoted to publishing lost works of the avant-garde and artists' publications vital to discussions in contemporary artistic practice.
A Doorbell of Earbows for Brefix
(Goat Eater - KNVBI) LP $13.50
Grainy loop tracks, vocal tracks (which may or may not also be from tape), and surrealist music which isn't miles away from early Nurse With Wound. Richard Vergez (Drowning the Virgin Silence, Gray Girls, Mothersky), Duane Hosein (A Jealousy Issue, Hand Carved Gentleman, ex-Poison the Well). Brandon Samdahl (Mr Entertainment and the Pookie Smackers) and Anthony Mangicapra bathe the entire thing in foggy reverb and mysterious scratching and shifting, which pulls it all together. It makes sense only as a dream transcribed onto recording equipment. The A side contains material previously released on The Huntington Chapters three-inch CDR (Small-Doses) and the B side is all previously unreleased recordings from the same sessions. Mastered by James Plotkin. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
MILH IHVH
(Turgid Animal - TA407) 7-inch $9.00
Two blackened noise mantras from North Carolina, based on the Notaricon "MI IOLH LNV HShMILH." Limited to 250 copies. Includes Horseback sticker.
Voltigeurs / Horseback
(Turgid Animal) split 10-inch $16.00
Emotionally Voided describes the Voltiguers tracks as a "hailstorm, a relentless screaming blast of freezing, scalding winds and scraped out dying melodies, a fucked-up torrent of cloudy vestige hoofing its way toward the end and catching everything in its path up in itself.... [Matthew] Bower and collaborator Samantha Davies (of Gyr/Harm) impart a wailing sort of sadness to this composition ... far distanced from the emotional hollowness of Skullflower ... making Voltigeurs a project with a much more expansive palette to draw from." Jenks Miller's Horseback, according to the same source (why not), "meld[s] ... desert-drenched emptiness with black metal's cold textures in an immensely focused way, yielding a sort of psychedelicized blackness that builds up a towering wall of unapproachability."
Pale Fatal Sister
(Important - IMPREC210) 2xLP $22.00
Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, this musical evocation of memory and desire spreads over four sides, conjuring from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds. Heavier, more brooding, occult atmosphere than previously, if that's possible. Edition of 700
Robed in Verdigris
(Nashazphone - NP003) LP $25.00
Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, GHQ, Un) and Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Sunroof!, Total) deliver intense, guitar-and-electronics-based drones on a gargantuan scale. Their sixteenth release spreads extreme sunshine and ecstasy over three tracks. A total assault of metaphysical vibrations.
Norse Fumigation
(SNSE - SNSE077) LP $15.00
Hum of the Druid's third LP for SNSE, full of depth and space and of very dark mood. Crunch and crackle so crisp and so sharp and on top of everything. Metal on metal. Sustained bass and cavernous drone that threatens to invert the air in the room. This is the sound of modern industrial collapsing, collapsing. With insert. Edition of 300. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2010.
Raising the New Wing / Braided Industry
(SNSE - SNSE072) LP $15.00
Eric Stonefelt returns with another meticulously crafted album of crunching, crumbling, crackling modern industrial music. With the sounds of metal and machinery and vocal vomit, HOTD constructs works of intricacy with careful attention paid to timbre and texture worthy of repeat listens. For fans of Daniel Menche, Small Cruel Party, The New Blockaders, Einleitungzeit, Linija Mass. Limited edition of 400. With insert and poster.
Shadows Out of Time 1982-1983
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD78) 3xLP + 7-inch $90.00 (Out-of-stock)
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Unreleased and formerly cassette-only dark ambient, noise, and power electronics. One LP is comprised of the Exhumed cassette (Datenverarbeitung 1983), direct-metal mastered from the original two-track mixes. The second LP is all unreleased material, highlights of which include recordings for the 1982 promotional cassette 23 Minutes Of Murder, and electro-disco-techno recordings used for intermission music at Hunting Lodge live shows in 1983. The final LP contains live material from At The Harrington Ballroom cassette (S/M Operations 1982), S/M Operations Live cassette (S/M Operations 1983), and the previously unreleased (not counting boots) Live At The Lodge, pressed direct from the original masters, representing the two-piece early noise-unit of Hunting Lodge in harrowing live intensity. On the seven-inch are a studio version of John Wright's “Stellazine Shuffle” and “Learn to Will II,” previously released on Beast 666 cassette compilation (Nekrophile Rekords 1983). Artwork by Thomas Nordstrom, previously seen on early Hunting Lodge stationery. Liner notes by Jeff "Central" Chenault, recording details, never-before-seen live photos of the band.
Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, And Start Gettin Reel
(Destijl - IND088) Used LP $9.00
D. Blunt and Inga Copeland's latest installment in Denna Frances Glass's 18-year relay project. Joss Stone is alleged to have content and financing connections. "Ritolin" (sic) and "Rama Lama 555" (sic) also contain the key to understanding what this is. Joseph Stannard clears up some of the mystery, with the reminder that Hype Williams have also operated under the names Bo Khat Eternal Troof Family Band and Paradise Sisters. He observes that their “obscure, lo-fi form of dub-inflected half-pop [is] as much akin to the post-industrial funk of 23 Skidoo and early Cabaret Voltaire as the scratchy psych of The Skaters et al…. It’s like somebody flooded the wine bar with cough mixture…” all “hazy nihilism and sensual flow.” So give it up for Joseph Stannard.
Han Dynasty 1
(Destijl - IND077) 7-inch $6.50 (Out-of-stock)
Hype Williams is an eighteen-year "relay project" conceived in 2005 by husband and wife motivational speakers Father Ronnie Krayola and Denna Frances Glass. Every three years it gets passed on to someone else to "look after." Recordings from the first three years were stuffed into a pinata and will be released at the conclusion of the project. In May 2008 it was passed on to a heckler called Roy Bundy (Paradise Sisters) who, along with Karen Glass and Bahaama Moutchaka (Arch M) have released numerous CDRs through the Ceylan Projects gallery in London. They have a large rotating cast of deviants they play with live under the moniker Bo Khat Eternal Troof Family Band.
Beauty School
(Ultra Eczema - UE70) LP $30.00
Beautiful carpets of radio bleebs and static, piano by trained pianiste Karla Borecki, and almost kraut-like synth ambience by this under-appreciated collective led by the singular Scott Foust. Mono colored jacket by Dennis Tyfus full of dots, and comes with an insert. Limited to 300 copies
Music From The Impossible Salon
(Kye - KYE10) LP $15.00
Positioned on the frontline in the ageless battle for aesthetic purity, Scott Foust and Karla Borecky's minimal yet striking gestures in eight elegant settings variously combine piano, synth, radio, trombone, organ, gong and voice. Music From The Impossible Salon is a dusky pleasure center where jaded listeners can find discreet interruption from the horrors of the day. Numbered edition of 300.
15 More Tapes
(Misanthropic Agenda - MAR033) LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)
A suite of fifteen short pieces, very different in character and dynamics, edited from improvisations on various tape machines. Recorded 2009, edited, recomposed and mastered summer 2011. Artwork by Alessandro Brivio. Edition of 90.
Kenrimono
(Pan - PAN4) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Named after a type of pachinko machine for advanced players which gives certain privileges during the course of a high-risk game, this LP is based, not surprisingly, on field recordings and manipulations made from sounds in pachinko parlors in Kansai area, Japan in 2007. A very intense and meditative atmosphere to be played at maximum volume. Active since the early '90s in sound art and image, Ilios has been exploring the extremes of sound and image-derived phenomena. Through constant change in his sound palette, touching and surpassing the limits of the sound spectrum, a better advocate for an anti-career you could not find. Limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, in jacket and a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve.
Dark Summer
(Ilitchmusic) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dark guitar music from Thierry Muller with a strong impending doom vibe. Distortion, feedback, samples, and raw improvisations using guitar and / or bass, recorded on the first or second take. Edition of 250.
Sedation and Quell
(Crippled Intellect Productions - CIP021) 10-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Electronic synthesis, computer composition and manipulation, musical reference, and close microphone recording by Dan Burke. Side one is a pleasantly dense with an old typewriter, turntable pops/crackles, and shortwave radio interference topped by subtle frequency and oscillation tweaks. Side two counterbalances and wavers through numerous delicate swimming tones, eventually subdued by a listing rhythmic faction suffused with other surprises. Edition of 500.
Vorwärts b/w Tanzen
(Meeuw Muzak - 038) 7-inch $7.00
Two ear-jingling, primeval drumtasms: a jerry-rigged version of the Chris Montez classic backed with an original “sci-fi romanticist socialist anthem.” Kinetic energy, a chugging beat, and waves of delayed gratification. Classic trembling Teutonic disco-punk, in other words. Imler, infamously involved in Spankings and Golden Showers (the groups, not the deviant sexual practices) has also worked with Puppet Mastaz, Peaches, Namosh, Electronicat, Patric Catani (as the Driver&Driver duo), Soffy O, Die Türen and Stereo Total. Edition of 450.
Pretty Totally
(Unwucht - UN02) LP $16.00
After recording their first record, Sounds of Nature (Trd W/D, 1999) as a duo, Impractical Cockpit became a trio, deeply intensified their dynamics, and moved to New Orleans. In full tripod mode, they cranked out infamous ninety-minute live sets, dragging the irregular out of the standard bass-drums-guitar lineup. Their wide open soul-suck sound mixes a retro-boozled howl with the ack ack attack of negative creeps such as Flipper. Their unique punch drunk logic ping-pongs its way through the echo tank and your flimsy human skull. Re-mastered in 2010, first time on vinyl. Packaged in jackets recycled from German thrift shops. Edition of 295.
INCAPACITANTS / (IN SPITE OF FLAMING CREATURES)
Vitamin Buckfast
(Starlight Furniture Company) LP $14.00
Incapacitants, the noise duo consisting of Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai, began as Mikawa’s solo project in 1981 when a homemade noisemaking device called The Mikawa was his prime instrument; it evolved to incorporate various concrete sounds, until Kosakai joined and the duo favored ring modulators and heavily processed Theremins. Incapacitants has always been about “creating pure noise without any abstract musical expression whatsoever.” Everything known about the reclusive Abdul Squeerter of (In Spite of Flaming Creatures) has passed through the conduit of Dylan Nyoukis (Decaer Pinga and the Chocolate Monk label). Apparently uninterested in networking, touring, trading CDRs, appearing on compilations, granting interviews, replying to letters, engaging in any sort of self-promotion, or taking part in the glamorous razzle-dazzle available to all experimental musicians worldwide, Squeerter prefers the solitude of where ever he calls home in the United Kingdom. The recordings on Vitamin Buckfast are the product of a mail collaboration committed to tape in the mid-’90s and then simply ignored for several years. Dora Doll of Decaer Pinga makes a guest appearance on vocals, but good luck determining exactly where. Cover art is by Karen Lollypop of Ecstatic Peace recording artists Smack Music 7 and Polly Shang Kuan Group.
Wreck (In 2 Parts)
(P-Tapes - P30) 7-inch $10.00
A collaboration tribute to / parody of the Organum & The New Blockaders' classic Wrack 12-inch courtesy of Los Angeles noisemaker Damion Romero and Japanese ear-destroyers Incapacitants. Clear vinyl.
INFINITE LIGHT / VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA
Infinite Light / Vibracathedral Orchestra
(Krayon Recordings - KR013) split 7-inch $8.25
VCO drops straight into a heads-down, fully tranced narco-dust trail, with guitar-born fireflies leading the way through a never-changing backdrop heat haze of low-lying smoke-mist and earth-veined throb. Tweets and rattlesnake percussion join mystic keyboard spirits blowing in a weightless drift. The first cut from Infinite Light is a section lifted from a show featuring Barry Dean on guitar, Mick Flower on guitar and organ and Pete Nolan jamming the traps, and its a full, free-rock, psych-out captured through a heavy veil of no-fi smog. Part two wraps solo harmonic guitar vignettes around a falsetto vocal cadence fluctuating at the point of saturation.
Necropenetrator
(SNSE - SNSE076) LP $15.00
Immense and violent harsh noise. Ripping, crunching power loops, searing feedback, and full-blown static-laden walls of melting sound. Necropenetrator is Infirmary's debut LP after numerous cassette releases, including two on Gaping Hole.
Bondage
(SNSE - SNSE074) LP $15.00
Searing and psychotic, droning and disturbed power electronics from long-running Texas project. Themes of control and obsession are explored via maniacal vocalizations drowning in a sea of churning, bordering on psychedelic, noise. First vinyl full-length after years of tape releases and compilation appearances on RRRecords, Pitchphase, and Chondritic Sound.
Rainy Day Saints
(Emmert) 7-inch $7.00
A magnificent self-released 7-inch by one of the South's most stunning visionaries, Todd Wesley Emmert, whose motto is "Misinterpreting the Scriptures Since 1973." Recorded during a thunderstorm in June 2002, Inspector 22 takes a rightful seat at the table with Jandek, Daniel Johnston and Lisa Suckdog. In hand-colored sleeves, with two inserts, all adorned with Emmert's eyeball-teasing artwork.
Dust Pincher Appliances
(Something Weird - SOME06) 10-inch $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
The original 10-inch edition from the late1990s, subsequently reworked and bonus-tracked for Crouton’s CD reissue. Here’s Igloo’s sober assessment: “This is a pixilated haiku. Dense and academic are the first words that pop to mind -- however, don't let that fool you. This could be a pseudo study on the linkage between literal and anatomical encryption. A deep constructive sound work that celebrates the open spaces between sound -- the emptiness and residual tonalities as well as its play on both acoustic and digital sources. This has its own context, and as such has somewhat of an overall industrial feel, not at all caught up in its experimentation -- they have a sense of humor with understanding and a peculiar edge…. Clashing organics, bees, mysterious corners, wind, human waste, birds of paradise and a whole lot more. The mind/body politic are explored frankly and without gauze and Vaseline…. This is your atypical symphony at the periphery of the universe -- a stunning dark portrait of ghostly-like beings illustrated by its very weird cover art.”
Hypothetical Tardigrade Resurrection #1
(Somnimage - som10013) split 7-inch $10.50
Wonderful weird noise and dark ambiance from Nurse With Wound collaborator M. Waldron and Allan Zane's Wyrm. White vinyl.
Prey For Me I-V
(RRRecords - RRR200) LP $15.00
First solo LP from New England electronic noise demon Michael Page (Fire In The Head, Sky Burial). Well-composed, extreme power electronics, a totally violent spew of heavily layered electrical junk noise. Five tracks of crushing squealing synthesizer overdrive, mangled microphone scrape, and damaged grinding machine noise, sometimes reaching wall-noise levels of density a la Knurl or The Rita, and elsewhere skulking through subdued buzzsaw feedback and grisly death screams buried in the churning chaos. The record repeats the same five tracks on the B-side.
IUGULA THOR / SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS
Performance Ranges
(Self Abuse - SAR13) split 7-inch $10.00
Power electronics from Italy. Gray marbled vinyl.
Cross Pollinate
(Imp - IMP25) LP $75.00
Their second LP released in 1995. A schizophrenic mix of psychedelic guitar, country slide guitar and free improvisation, as if Jimi Hendrix was playing Hank Williams backed by the Swell Maps. Spray-painted cover, inserts, and wrap-around outer info sheet.
Stress Test
(Hundebiss - H013) LP $20.00
Los Angeles-based and performance-oriented, Jaws employs slithering electronics, confessional narrative, and impromptu stratagems that brim the optics, confuse the mind and engage the body. Stress Test is the overheated, heaving combination of high-ratchet club dynamics, materially constrained tempos, the island/cosmos hive mind, time-sided protest music and the endless highway thrust imbued in all of us. Edition of 300.
Dost
(Destijl - IND091) LP $16.00
Memphis-born songwriter Jeremy Freeze has spent the last few years in Columbia, Missouri playing and recording with Kim Sherman. Freeze says more by saying less, after a few years of gigs with Times New Viking, Wooden Wand and a short list of more or less limited releases.
Room 8 b/w Swingin' Vine
(Destijl - IND078) 7-inch $6.50
This duo (sometimes augmented) plays unfashionable, unpretentious and completely devastating pop music, though there is scant evidence -- a handful of impossibly rare cassettes and a split LP with Skarkraou Radio, and The Howling LP (Radio Fonico). With a vibe that sounds like the third Velvet Underground LP played by The Terminals, a righteous guitar tone any stoner rock Chud would envy, and catchy, infectious tunes (with a recent emphasis on country melodies) that will stay in your head for weeks.
JETT HOTCOMB AND THE TALENTED HAIRDOS
Give Us This Day Our Swingin' Bread
(BUFMS - BUFMS31) 7-inch (one-sided) $8.00
Homemade Christian lounge music from the late ’70s, previously available as a free cassette (self-released via the Jett 3:16 label) for guests at a now-defunct rural motel in Butte County. Two tracks with a full band ("Jesus Digs Me" and "The Lord's Prayer") and two recorded a cappella in the shower ("Live and Let Die" and "Shampoo Bottle"). Includes reproductions of four period handbills and business cards, as well as a Butte County Free Music Society pink flamingo swizzle stick. Edition of 200.
April / June
(Rococo - RCC021) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
April/June was recorded in two different sessions at Julie Mittens’ rehearsal room in the first part of 2006 in Leiden, Netherlands. For this cyclical work (round like an LP) there's no side A or B. Begin and conclude where you please. The tracks do not really start or end and seem to add to each other after a while. Although it feels like a relaxed ride at times, April/June was recorded at intense volume levels. Limited to 325 copies.
Theatre of the Macabre
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD1) 7-inch $7.25
A precarious concept album for the tragic era of the working poor that generated some priceless flailing among the chattering class, but Detailed Twang seem to have the levelest head when they describe it as “Strange and pleasingly ill-fit mash of distorted horror rap, electronic tweedling, screams, monsters sound, and manipulations of all sorts. Mostly instrumental, and heavy in every sense of the word.” Six tracks over and done with in less than ten minutes. For crying bones and bludgeoned hopes.
Big Time Crash Bang 2008
(RRRecords) LP $12.00
Nothing but the sound of car crashes, all mangled up as only Jupitter-Larsen can do it. Tires squealing, glass shattering, metal crunching. Wrecked, totaled, quite possibly the perfect noise album.
G.X. JUPITTER-LARSEN / MUENNICH
Die Arbeiter von Wien
(Fragment Factory - FRAG19) 7-inch $13.50
The third part in Jupitter-Larsen's series of old trade union / battle songs follows Internationale (Banned Production 2010) and Solidarity CD (Banned Production 2010). Written by the Viennese lyricist and essayist Fritz Brügel, presumably in the late 1920s, this piece deals with the events during the so-called "July Revolt" in the capital of Austria on July 15, 1927, caused by a court verdict which acquitted three members of the right-wing Frontkämpfervereinigung Deutsch-Österreichs (the same persons were responsible for the death of a man and an eight-year-old the same year). The palace of justice went up in flames, at least eighty demonstrators were shot dead by the police, more than six-hundred people were injured. The stage was set for a fascist takeover in Austria. Jupitter-Larsen's two renditions are crude, P.E.-ish, vocal-heavy. One side with the original German lyrics, one side with the lyrics translated into English. Double-sided full-color sleeve, lyrics included. Edition of 250.
G.X. JUPITTER-LARSEN / FRANCISCO LOPEZ
Francisco Lopez with GX Jupitter-Larsen
(Phage) 10-inch $20.00
Collaboration by two masters, each side by one working with source material provided by the other. Edition of 500.
G.X. JUPITTER-LARSEN / NEW BLOCKADERS / JOHN WIESE
Rip Off
(Helicopter - H60) 7-inch $12.75
Collaboration exclusively using the sounds of tearing paper. Edition of 150.
MILOSLAV KABELAC / MAURICE OHANA
8 Inventions, op. 45 / 4 Choreographic Etudes
(Limelight) Used LP $10.00
The Percussions of Strasbourg formed in the early 1960s and devoted themselves to hitting stuff. Kabelec's Inventions was written for the sextet, a fairly rigorous composition that's all over the place with dynamics, rhythm, bells, Asian percussion, and mood being paramount. Performing Ohana's Etudes reworked for six percussionists and choreography (it was originally written for four), they achieve in the words of the composer "liberation from the diatonic framework, which is unsuitable for expressing contemporary sensibility." At various points, the group explores density, trance states in which one attains paroxysms of expression, distortion and splitting of harmonic sounds.
Fucking
(RRRecords - RRRKARL) LP picture disc $15.00
Synth noise and effects with incomprehensible vocals, as evolved from earlier efforts involving tape manipulations, junk instruments, classical samples.
Solo Acoustic Volume Six
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ6) LP $16.50
Four-string minimal symphonies for the gray side of America. Starkly melodic nighttime instrumentals. Edition of 200.
SILVIA KASTEL / NINNI MORGIA / GARY SMITH
Brand
(Ultramarine - UM012) LP $18.00
Heavyweight improviser, stereo guitar pioneer, and Aufgehoben guitarist Gary Smith has you covered in the multiple layering, complex grainy textures, dense counterpoint, influences of birdsong department. Fused with this is the guitar of free improv innovator Ninni Morgia, which floats between minimal movements of primordial electronics, pre-war slide blues and Hendrix-esque feedback. La Barbara and Torchia protégé Silvia Kastel’s moaning, screaming and howling alternates with her delayed, bubbling, glitchy or round bass synth. It’s a dense sound for three people -- not just visceral and intense, but articulate and defined, and in some instances very delicate. It’s got the deep taste of fearlessness of tempo, pulse, more conventional musical devices, or pushing to unpredictable extremes. Includes free download card.
Take It
(Ultramarine - UM015) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Triple Silvia on voice, mutant beats, synths, tape echo, working the early Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA and dub influences, delivering some much-needed anguish, agony, and paranoia against today's fun-at-all-costs shit. Silsckreened jacket. Edition of 100.
SILVIA KASTEL / KOMMISSAR HJULER / MAMA BÄR / NINNI MORGIA
Two Couples
(Ultramarine - UM008) LP $25.00
A fusion of musique concrete, avant-garde, tropical psychedelia, moaning, screaming, free jazz and lots of raw synths recorded by German NO!artists / performers in collaboration with Italian musicians Ninni Morgia (guitar) and Silvia Kastel (synth and voice). Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Baer are known for their provocative and extreme neo-dada. Ninni Morgia moves in NYC’s improv and free jazz circles, has been heard in psychedelic rock outfit La Otracina, and started the noise rock band White Tornado. Silvia Kastel has studied sound engineering, electronic music, and singing (with Lee Torchia and Joan La Barbara). All four killed it on a UK tour, where they played and recorded at historical sound poetry venue The Morden Tower in Newcastle. Edition of 300. "Tropical... screaming... sounds good. I totally need an eleventh record from these nuts." --Darksmith. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2011
KAWAGUCHI MASAMI’S NEW ROCK SYNDICATE
Cat vs. Frog
(Palindrone - PAL02) LP $16.00
Guitar monster Kawaguchi Masami has done time in Miminokoto, LSD March, and Broomdusters, and with Keiji Haino. Exceptional wailing and burning garage psych-rock grounded in heart-breaking, melancholic intensity are Kawagushi’s trademarks; bassist Akira Kikuchi and drummer Nao Shibata (Hijokaidan, Doodles) are primo enablers. Forty minutes of instantly hummable, head-nodding, toe-tapping riffs and melodies, and unavoidable white-light-white-heat guitar solos by this trio of vets from PSF’s Tokyo Flashback vol. 6. White vinyl. Edition of 500. Imported from New Zealand. Cover art by German artist Sandra Schmidt.
My Pipe Yellow Dream
(Roaratorio - ROAR23) LP $15.50
The late, great genius whose prolific output was almost completely confined to the song-poem industry had a knack for turning sow’s ears into silk purses. “Song Poems Wanted” read the ads. “We need new ideas for recording!” The send-us-your-lyrics business was a borderline scam, taking whatever lyrics came their way from would-be songwriters and – for a fee – setting them to music. The second Roaratorio anthology of Keith’s work compiles fifteen previously unreissued songs from 1966 through his death in 1974, including a never-before-heard cover of “Choo Choo Train.” My Pipe Yellow Dream showcases the full range of his talents. From exquisite mid-60s pop balladry (“Deep Velvet”) to blue-eyed soul (“You Don’t Have To Alibi”) to folk-rock (“Tired Of Waiting”) to solo Chamberlain creations (“Red Sports Car”) to gospel testifying (“O Jesus My Savior”) to a pair of patriotic screeds (the all-spoken word “America The Not So Beautiful” and the bizarre world lounge funk of “Search Out Your Soul, American”), this collection continues the rehabilitation of Keith’s legacy from thrift-shop throwaway to celebrated cult artist. Gatefold jacket, liner notes by song-poem vocalist Dick Kent, digital download coupon.
Live Lex
(Nostilevo - ETIQUETTE1) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. A stark, raw synth record with a tunneling, bleak sound by an alumnus of Isis & Werewolves, Galen, Pterodactyls, and Demons. Very unpretty and unwelcoming, clearly intended for a dark night. Synth accents perceptible throughy an extremely dense fog clatter. True uncharted darkness within Kenney's vices.
The Flame Of Eternity's Decline
(Legion Blotan) LP $17.00
2005 debut album from underground Ukranian symphonic pagan black metal legends. Heavy vinyl. Edition of 500.
Look Forward to Nothing
(Siltbreeze - SB143) LP $16.00
The adroit cacophony of Kitchen’s Floor recalls the former glory of past Aussie noise / punk gnashers such as Rejex and Feedtime with such élan that one suspects Toohey’s Sheaf courses through their veins. New drummer Joe Alexander (Per Purpose) gives Kitchen’s Floor a more thunderous drive, with the results sounding not unlike a cage match between (the Australian) X and The Gordons. Includes free download card.
Interior Moon
(Mutter Wild) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Pure electronic sound made with the care and craftsmanship of an old-school film editor: a series of throbbing electronic loops that seem to interlock like a Moebius strip, where a steady flow of waves interrupt natural awareness of body processes and redirect it to a more infinite concept of time. Less chaotic and haywire than Stella’s life-changing disturbo-analog epic Foucault Zombie (Gods of Tundra 2007), Interior Moon represents the concept of magnetic attraction, with a hypnotic pull that is both a meditation and a measured attempt to harness and control the surrounding environment. Silkscreened jacket, with inserts. Thirty minutes with locked grooves at the end of each side. Second edition of 100.
Midori Mushi San Connichiwa
(Siltbreeze - sb134) 7-inch $7.00
Five tracks informed by old-school Japanese genre snuffers such as Tako and Gunjogacrayon, combining the jabbering, pan-humanoid out-there-ness of the former with the zoned, riffed, mutant indifference of the latter. Tacked on to this toxic, dripping blotter of sound is an eerie cover snippet stabbing the heart of every campfire singalong and folksy hootenanny through time immemorial. Edition of 286.
Otonaki Touge de Hagureta KMR
(Ultra Eczema - UE72) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Another amazing Japanese weirdo band with members of Aburadako and the free bird Hasegawa Shizuo. A mental, Harry Pussy-like guitar style, deadpan free drumming, a voice that could be recorded somewhere else or under a public shower, and a lot of energy crammed onto one record. Yellow and black splutter cover by Dennis Tyfus and an insert! Limited edition.
K.K. Rampage / Metalux
(Rampage) split LP $16.00
Metalux continues their refinement of creepily serene noise arrangements and free-floating modern psychedelia. Voices are treated as another instrument in an amorphous wash of sound among atmospheric keys and harsh electronics. K.K. Rampage -- Chicago's confrontational, rabble-rousing, NO(w) wave misfits -- replace their piercingly, de-tuned Arab-on-Rabar-esque guitars and “pop” beats with sinister, mechanical chaos and throbbing spastic drumming. A truly fascinating album that improves with repeated listening. Limited to 400 copies.
Without Feelings
(Rococo - RCC014) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
After taking the noise rock world by storm with Sides E and F, KK Rampage are back with the sharper pop sensibilities of this one-sided twelve inch which balances relentless experimentation and polished pop imperfection. Fearless, imperceptible, switching gears between heaven and hell on the highway of death, this pop-damaged noise record is limited to 150 copies with full-color paste-on sleeves.
Knife World
(Roaratorio) LP $13.50
Formed in Minneapolis in 2004, Knife World have converted many unwary bystanders into true believers through their frenetic gigs, riff worship, and interchangeable pomposity and mischievous intelligence. Guitarist Jon Nielsen plays as if part of some skewed arena-rock mashup, while drummer Josh Journey-Heinz carves spaces around what would otherwise be obvious backbeats. Packaged in a pleasantly eye-gouging 3D gatefold jacket, with glasses mounted into the vinyl.
New Bodies
(Thin Wrist - TWH) LP $13.50
Three tracks of electric guitar improvisation by Open City guitarist feature successively recorded left- and right-channel guitars, in which the overdub responds asynchronous to the original. Open City’s two-guitar and drums line-up regularly explored electroacoustic interplay, while New Bodies lets rip with all the skronk and blurt Kolovos has been holding in for the last decade, in tiny, tightly gated segments. “Derek Bailey covering The Residents' Duck Stab.” — Bruce Russell, The Wire. Includes download card. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
Flowmotion Years 1980-1982
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD69) 2xLP $40.00 (Out-of-stock)
This dark ambient / ritual project was formed by Glenn Michael Wallis in 1981/82 out of the ashes of Heute. In the late '70s and early '80s, he was heavily involved with Throbbing Gristle; between 1980 and 1982, Wallis recorded several tracks (one solo tape and several Konstruktivists tapes) which were released in limited editions on the legendary tape label Flowmotion. Almost two hours of early works are compiled here, including his full solo work (also released as Konstruktivists Vol. 1) as well as tracks from Vol. 2, and other tracks released between 1980 and 1982.
A/P
(Bocian - BR03) 7-inch $10.00
Free-improv that penetrates the acoustic properties of individual percussion instruments. Krakowiak departs from the hi-fi aesthetics of his peers (e.g. Christian Wolfarth, Jon Mueller or Jason Kahn) and goes after the sound of a single cymbal recorded with an old cassette tape; imperfections and the characteristic analog sound (objects, rotation, overtones, layers) are Krakowiak's goal, comparable to Harry Bertoia's sculptures, or the textures of Morphogenesis.
Faster Than The Speed of Time
(Dilettante Courtoisie) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
"The superpowered arrogance of the title [of an earlier Kraus release called I Could Destroy You With a Single Thought]," observes NZ watchdog Jon Bywater, "Matches the pains taken to craft [it], somewhere between a pop Moog record and the harshest no wave. Short melodic and rhythmic figures are worked hard into the knife edge between queasy claustrophobia and rigorous brilliance." A resident of Auckland, Kraus plays guitar, drums, synthesizer, organ, tape loops and electronics; he played drums in The Murdering Monsters and The Aesthetics, co-founded The Futurians and played on their first album !Blastov! (Root Don Lonie For Cash 2001) and plays currently in Pouffe (with Matthew Plunkett), The Maltese Falcons (with Duckling Monster of The Futurians), and Olympus (with Stefan Neville). Edition of 300.
CHRISTINA KUBISCH / FABRIZIO PLESSI
Two and Two
(Multhipla - N.2) LP $40.00 (Out-of-stock)
Performed in Europe and the United States in the 1970s, Two And Two was a live performance for two performers (Kubisch and Plessi), two video cameramen, a wall of monitors and uncommon objects and instruments. Throughout the performances, people were invited to walk around and observe the live action in real time as close-up images of the performance were projected on video screens and a vibrator, water, swanee whistle, voice, contact microphone on ventilator, prepared alto flute, electronic metronome, waterjet on steeldrum were all amplified. The resulting four pieces on this 1977 recording alternate between heavenly, rhythmically shifting drones and Gamelan-tinged, blistering electronics that sound like distant, corrupted morse code dispatches. The entire album is an organic revelation of the discreet acoustic nature of everyday objects, intensely mechanical, startling and elemental.
Kösmonaut I
(Deep Distance - DD01) LP $16.00
Like the private pressings of Konrad Schnitzler from 1973 to ’74, each album of Deep Distance’s series is a solid color. Patrick R. Pärk joins Schulze, Froese, Ashra / Gottsching and latter day celestial synth explorers Expo '70, Jonas Reinhardt, and Mist in a good ol’ fashioned kosmische collision. All tracks are previously released on the limited-edition CDR Voyage of Time (Ethereal Mother 2011). Six inserts. Blue vinyl. Edition of 250.
L'AUTOPSIE A REVELE QUE LA MORT ETAIT DUE A L'AUTOPSIE
Musica Acouscousmatica
(Chienne Secrete / Komma Null) LP $19.50
Anla Courtis, Franck de Quengo, Sébastien Borgo and Nicolas Marmin first gathered around Damo Suzuki for a memorable 2004 performance in France. Since 2007 they have collectively identified with shamanism, art brut, medical references and literature. Their strident music mixes distortions and strange litanies with non-human voices. Here they slap the faces of intellectual / jet set / "serious" electroacoustic musicians with their genetically modified fragments -- a collection of forty-one pieces of no more than a minute in length. Chipboard jacket with glued-on cards and rubber-stamped text. With inserts, stamps, postcards and an Acouscousmatic poster. Edition of 200. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2010.
L'AUTOPSIE A REVELE QUE LA MORT ETAIT DUE A L'AUTOPSIE
The Prophecy Of The Somnambulist
(Chienne Secrete / Komma Null) LP $19.50
Transatlantic shamanoise, musique acouscousmatique, universal electromagnetic crisis, société de l'harmonie, and sometimes brutal art brut by Anla Courtis of Reynols and members of Dragibus, Sun Plexus, and Aka Bondage. Eight hands (at least two each from Argentina, France, and Romania), recorded live during a tour of France in 2007. Silkscreened chipboard jacket, poster, inserts. Edition of 200.
Chéri
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD7) LP $19.50
Anti-funk lovers rock akin to Antilles no wave or a more disorienting “Little Johnny Jewel” by a quartet of young Parisians -- Charlene Darling (ex-Pussy Patrol); Fifi (Total Crane); Ines Di Folco (Lycée Paul Bert) and Alexandre David Gabriel (Alias) -- who believe they make African hi-life or reggae filtered through Lucrate Milk.
Mr. Labrador
(Galerie Pache) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
A stretch of wasteland, dotted and ghostly -- five compositions for heavy floating. Synth, electronics, metal, samples. White jacket with paste-on photocopies. Edition of 180.
Obitorio Veneto
(Von Archives - VON007) LP + DVD $25.00
Italian band -– “a social punk sculpture” -- conceived by artist Nico Vascellari as a contribution to the Diedrich Diedrichsen-curated exhibition Rock Scissors Paper at Kunsthaus Graz. Lago Morto is “about things that casting calls usually exclude -- targeted aggression, unpredictable social effects and local politics.” The band performed for fifteen days in Vittorio Veneto in nonmusical venues such as bars, hotels, pizzerias, laundrettes, video stores, etc. All fourteen of the band’s songs are on the LP. The DVD contains a video from each of the sixteen locations of the tour, plus an extra montage of sixteen videos simultaneously. Edition of 200
Gesamtkunstwerk Dokument 81-85
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD84) 5xLP $125.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING IN MAY. Early recordings and live documents from Laibach's early years as a provocative performance-music-and-multimedia group. Leather-bound box set in a cross-like holder for the five platters. Includes poster, ten postcards, and booklet of texts compiled and edited by Alexei Monroe.
Amateur Doubles
(Kye - KYE15) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
A two-part improvisation recorded in a Honda Civic. Dangerous, tedious, pointless and timeless, a perfect snapshot of life on the open road. Gatefold jacket, clear vinyl. Edition of 500.
When The Night Is Cruel (1979-1988)
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD76) 2xLP $37.00 (Out-of-stock)
A mix of rarities, never-before-on-vinyl, unheard and previously unreleased material, and classics that have been out of print for almost thirty years. Gatefold jacket, rare photographs, liner notes. Edition of 600. Track listing: 1. Love is So Aggravating (out of print) 2. Exit (long version / previously unreleased) 3. Madman’s Song (demo / previously unreleased) 4. Allure (live / never released on vinyl / out of print) 5. The Fall (never released on vinyl / out of print) 6. Petit Duet (with Martin Bowes / never released on vinyl / out of print) 7. Age Old Fashion (never released on vinyl) 8. I Want You (never released on vinyl) 9. Pleasure Heist (original / vinyl out of print) 10. The Lights of March (never released on vinyl) 11. The Poison for Me (never released on vinyl) 12. 3rd Party (never released on vinyl) 13. Quest (never released on vinyl) 14. Who’s Really Listening? (vinyl out of print) 15. Graveyard 2 (vinyl out of print) 16. White Glove (vinyl out of print) 17. On the Wings of Sorrow (demo / previously unreleased) 18. Sojourn (live with the Klinik / previously unreleased on vinyl) 19. Cartel Danse (1985 Remix) (previously unreleased) 20. Boule (Viens Ici) (Ptose cover / vinyl out of print) 21. All of My Dreams (never released on vinyl) 22. When the Night is Cruel (demo / previously unreleased) 23. Sojourn (vinyl out of print) 24. Sliver Mourning (demo / previously unreleased) 25. The Reflection (never released on vinyl / out of print) 26. I Want You (1985 Remix / previously unreleased) 27. Pushing And Pulling (vinyl out of print) 28. Mind Disease (demo / previously unreleased) 29. Il Pluet A Bruxelles (never released on vinyl)
LCDD
(Bimbo Tower - BTR05) LP $13.25
Los Caballos De Düsseldorf (The Düsseldorf Horses) was formed by four punks from Spain as an improv collective, an open band with no fixed line-up in which anyone is welcome, so long as they are willing to play circuit-bent toys fabricated by Olaf Ladousse (Le Dernier Cri collaborator and the visual artist behind DIY graphic zine Que Suerte!), which he calls “doorags,” in a tribute to the lo-fi blues-noise duo of the same name. On this, the second LP by LCDD, doorags are plugged in directly to the mixer and, no surprise, cacophony results. Lunacy from a demented child’s bedroom. Potro Oscilante (Poulin Oscillant) joins the quartet on theremin for one track, and Fela Borbone (Ulan Bator Trio) does the same with his mierdofon on another. European style jackets with silver stickers on front and back. Edition of 300.
Zulu Time
(Leather Bath Inc. - LBINC1106) 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Greh Holger and John Wiese. With inserts. Edition of 200.
Early Recordings
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD48) 5xLP $125.00
Tape recordings from 1980-82 including Kleine Krieg (originally packaged with a model kit of a tank or an aeroplane, intended to be assembled while listening to the music), Chemical Playschool Vols. 1 and 2 (the original cassette edition of which had 24 copies), outtakes, and Live in Cologne 1983.
Two by Umberto Lenzi
(Saxon Gregory) 7-inch $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
Trailers of two movies by low-budget Italian film director Umberto Lenzi: the mannequin filled giallo Spasmo (1974) and the "nerve-numbing shocker" Seven Bloodstained Orchids (1971).
Electronic Music
(RRRecords - RRRXENAKIS) LP $15.00
Xenakis-referencing masterwork by Due Processor Jason Lescalleet, created with analog gear (old reel-to-reels, tape effects and guitar effects). An appropriately thick tapestry of sound.
Pilgrim
(Glistening Examples) LP + CD $36.00
An audio documentation of this electronics-and-tape artist’s coming to terms with the death of his father. The LP documents a performance Lescalleet gave after discovering his father had terminal cancer; its floor-rattling flux of abrasive, low tones invokes the purr of a Chevy’s engine Lescalleet’s father discusses in a letter reproduced on the record jacket. A snippet of the final conversation he had with his father is buried in a heat-haze of tape hiss and air conditioner hum. The CD further extrapolates on Lescalleet’s father’s email; its 74 minutes move from dreamlike bell tones, through abraded, metallic hum, escalating into fierce, brutalizing waves of noise which then cut to a recording of Lescalleet’s daughter singing the Irish folk song “Molly Malone” at her grandfather’s request. The book in which the CD is mounted has plenty more text and images. If you aren’t staggered by The Pilgrim, there’s something wrong with you.
VELCRO LEWIS AND HIS 100 PROOF BAND
Ruin Everything
(Rococo - RCC002) LP $11.00 (Out-of-stock)
Maximum rockin’ and bluesy action here; Lewis’s voice is harsh and soulful, very mean and in a blatant CoS-inspired way, backed up by a swampy, foggy blues guitar sound with an almost bloody wet reverb.
Lovers With Cloisonné Bracelet
(Tipped Bowler - TBT009) LP $16.50
Oceanic and desolate, Lovers with Cloisonné Bracelet's two halves are an ideal introduction to Li's music: "Lovers in Misery" offers a restrained, electric swell; "Time in the Mirror" wallows in Hototogisuous guitar hell. This well-paced, dense album decimates retro psychedelic guitar and trivializes the violence of harsh noise. 180-gram vinyl. Hand-screened linen-paper sleeves. Edition of 350.
JUSTIN LIEBERMAN / C. SPENCER YEH
Object Lessons
(What The ... - WHAT008) LP picture disc $25.50 (Out-of-stock)
Beginning with a shared love of sound poetry, psychedelic rock, Japanese scum noise, Japanese psychedelic rock, Object Lessons' itinerary embodies more present-time sensibilities: Lieberman's sculptural and multimedia work The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House (itself inspired by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown's 1972 examination of “the decorated shed,” Learning From Las Vegas), which includes a character inspired by Nobusuke Tagomi, from Philip K. Dicks The Man in the High Castle. 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; these texts were then transformed into this a collaboration between Lieberman and Burning Star Core's C. Spencer Yeh. The result is one part Bruce Haack, another part Charlie Gocher -- a head-on collision you don't see every day. Full-color gatefold jacket. Limited edition. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
Honey Monster
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC11) 7-inch $9.00
Quasipop's Monster series delivers strange takes on modern pop music where's "pop" means the weirdest form of entertaining. Sweets overloads, glucose hallucinations, and like that. Purple vinyl. Edition of 500.
Miscellany Deluxe
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD61) 3xLP $110.00
This comprehensive, Liles-collected anthology includes as much variety and previously unreleased material as possible, with earliest recordings dating from 1984. “Find a New Husband” was made on his father’s cheap Amstrad tape-to-tape system (which ceased working properly shortly thereafter), the product of many hours of rewinding and re-playing and re-recording, and the beginning of Liles’s fascination with and addiction to tape manipulation, sound effects and recording techniques. Many of his early experiments and their accidental consequences are included in this collection, along with selections from two cassettes originally self-released under the name Lividity, given away to friends and sent as demos to assorted labels. Includes T-shirt, size XL.
Akasha_For Record
(Elevator Bath - eeaoa028) LP picture disc $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
A two-part composition filled with dynamic intricacies carefully arranged in rich, micro-detail, yielding a spellbinding, opulent listening experience that reward close, repeated scrutiny. Edition of 216
Drenched Lands
(BloodLust! - B!127) LP + 3-inch CDR $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Since 2005, Locrian have been zeroing in on the right blend of noise, power electronics, dark ambient, and black metal. Drenched Lands unfolds with an almost narrative structure: it slowly descends into a dark abyss, moving torturedly, gradually rediscovering the light, then leaving you where everything began -- completely transformed. Clear vinyl, limited edition of 200 copies. Bonus 3-inch CDR contains 18-minute exclusive track "Sullage." CD released by Small Doses.
Territories
(Small Doses - DOSE89) CD $12.00
(BloodLust! - B!147) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
André Foisy and Terence Hannum’s well-honed sound takes elements from noise, power-electronics, drone, and black metal, a reflection of the sprawling urban decay that surrounds Chicago. The second studio full-length from Locrian features collaborators Blake Judd (Nachtmystium, Twilight) on guitar, Bruce Lamont (Yakuza) on sax and vocals, Andrew Scherer (Velnias) on drums, and Mark Solotroff (Anatomy of Habit, Bloodyminded) on vocal and synthesizer. The textures run darker and deeper; the vocals -- sometimes three layers deep -- seem to be conjured from the decrepit muck of a failed civilization; the feedback takes on a more pronounced presence; and full-on black metal assaults burst out of tortured drones. With double-sided color insert.
Broken Guitars
(Urashima) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
The debut recordings by this Italian visual artist. Sadness-tinged acoustic guitar improvisations à la Derek Bailey and John Fahey. Housed in a spectacular multifold cover. Limited edition 150 copies.
Sound on Sound
(Starlight Furniture Company) LP $14.00
Originally released by Japan’s G.R.O.S.S. label as a cassette in a limited edition of 88 copies in late 1994, Loop Circuit’s Sound on Sound joins Akifumi Nakajima (also known as prolific noise artist Aube) with Dub Murashita together in an all-electronic self-hypnosis seminar. The duo limits their source materials to purely electronic sounds, loops and effects, creating a mesmerizing, constantly shifting mosaic.
Ghost Entanglement
(Hospital - HOS252) LP $20.00
From the phantasmal electronics domain, this seamless sound collage takes you through all the various rooms in the house. Blindfolded, you reach for things familiar but everything feels different in the dark. A state of ambience is interrupted by déjà vu. For fans of early CMI, Mlehst, and the atmospheric end of Goblin. Edition of 200.
North Beach Jazz
(After Music Recordings) LP $16.00
The first all-jazz vinyl LP by legendary sax player most famous for his work with the Stooges, but he's also played with everyone from The Violent Femmes to Snakefinger to Smegma. Joined by Mike Watt. Silkscreened sleeve.
Cut-Ups, Drones And Other Weird
(Premier Sang - PS002) 2xLP $35.00
Recorded in 1993, previously released on CDR (Mother Savage 2007), edited in 2009 for this vinyl version. Transparent green vinyl. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST 0F 2010
Sex and Death
(Hospital - HOS100) 7-inch $6.75
The ultimate dichotomy of thunder and scourge, fire and flood, iron and breast. Cock and bat... the hammering continues. Whoever dies with the most cumshots wins. Joe Roemer and Rodger Stella are joined here by Prurient’s Dominic Fernow. Classic transsexual art brut.
I Hit A Wall
(Quemada - QUE004) 7-inch $8.00
An anthem for the ages that lurches and stumbles, makes strides, waltzes and wobbles, backed with a track that charges through the muck and rides an early '90s Port Chalmers groove. Artwork by Anthony Riddell of Volvox.
If I Don't Sleep Tonight
(Wormwood Grasshopper - WG03) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second seven by this Melbourne group specializing in the mysteries of late night. Part of the new Stay Classy Australia scene. Edition of 100.
Mad Nanna
(Alberts Basement) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Volcanic Tongue says, "Shadow Ring-style narcoleptic rock with a Shaggs-play-The Clean feel, mainlining extended pop jams into downer dirges." Siltblog says "It also kinda sounds like a Falling Spikes bootleg what had been caked w/mud & laquered onto vinyl." Edition of 200.
Made in Mexico / Microwaves
(Rococo) split 7-inch $5.50
An action-packed 7-inch split between two hard-charging combos. Made In Mexico (ex-Arab On Radar) conjure their deadly mix of post-punk, no wave, prog and rock-inspired madness, while Microwaves blast tonality-impaired riffs against effected bass, clattering drums, and a dual vocal attack.
Till My Breath Gives Out
(Erstwhile - ERSTPOP01) CD $14.75
(Erstwhile - ERSTPOP01) LP $26.75
Avant pop composed and performed by Berlin electro-acoustic/free improvisation bigwigs Kai Fagaschinski (clarinet), Margareth Kammerer (vocals and guitars), Christof Kurzmann (vocals, computer) and Michael Thieke (clarinet). Plaintive, simple and unadorned throughout, yet bearing the unmistakable imprint of Euro highbrow.
Wrath
(Somnimage - mik013) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Trance-like noise with beats by Chicago-based multi-media artist Camilla Ha (ex-My Name is Rar Rar), whose early experience as a butoh dancer influences much of her soundscapes (sometimes minimal, at other times disconcertingly abrasive). She uses her voice much the same way a butoh dancer would use her body -- distorting it grotesquely, sometimes beautifully. Limited to 300 numbered copies in sil screened sleeves.
MARCELLO MAGLIOCCHI / NINNI MORGIA
Sound Gates
(Ultramarine - UM009) LP $23.00
Guitarist, sculptor and designer of strange marimba-like instruments (made of found beach stones), litophones, cymbals and huge bells Ninni Morgia accesses infinite guitar timbres (electronic, filtered analog sounds, soothing bowed drones, wild distortion or small, bird-like plucking techniques). Propelled by Marcello Magliocchi's warm acoustic sounds from strings, metal sheets, handmade rattles and tuned drums, the eleven pieces here slowly grow, build up and dynamically move across pure avant garde, early electronica, psychedelic hypnosis and wild free jazz. Includes download card.
Extended Play-R
(Suitcase - SUT03) 7-inch $7.75
Homemade Moog electronics and A/V experiments by specialist in interactive multimedia technology James F. Ellis (ex-Absolute Ceiling). Four tracks that “meld the terrain between Minimal Man and Mark Stewart Group,” according to Discogs’ own PastySurprise. “There's a lot of sonic variety, including cool keyboard work and two locked grooves. If you miss the raw DIY electronic sound that characterized the 80s, this … will truly help bridge that gap.” With badge. Edition of 500.
Les Maledictus Sound
(Dagored) LP $25.00
Recorded in 1968, reissued in 2000, The Maledictus Sound are to instrumental rock what Frankenstein was to science: a laboratory monster, a strange creature assembled from a mishmash of diverse musical sounds. Psychedelic pop, romantic ballads, tongue-and-cheek showtunes, horror movie screamadelia and mega-twisted '60s vibes. The doctor here is Jean-Pierre Massiera, the musical mastermind who gave birth to this freaky epileptic wash.
Sefirah Gevurah
(Hospital - HOS217) CD $13.50
(Hospital - HOS217) LP $16.50
The highly anticipated second LP by New York black metal trio. Having spent the last year furiously performing and sharing stages with some of the genre's masters, Malkuth continues their descent into the occult with this truly bleak assault. Far from pandering to false antics, Malkuth's album stands aside Hospital contemporaries such as Ash Pool and Bone Awl and offers their own vision of death. Hail to the coming night that Malkuth brings.
Asylum Lunaticum
(Nihilist - NIHIL69) LP $19.00
Masterfully unsettling, preposterous in its devotion to pleasure, the eroded clawing of bleeding fingertips complementary to the delicate and agonizing moans that cascade through rubber halls of some forgotten insane asylum, as recorded by a sick warden with enough time on her hands to engage in manipulation of the macabre document, just to enhance the creepiness and perversion. The CD of the same name on Intransitive, though no less recommendable, is a compilation; Nihilist's LP is the full, uncut, un-edited version. Edition of 250.
Bildnerei die Geisteskranken vol.1 - es ist so
(Shamanic Trance - ST1) LP $19.50
Schizophrenic sound poetry battle bearing the hallmarks of The New Finesse (guitar, assorted objects). White vinyl. Edition of 300.
Bildnerei die Geisteskranken vol.2 - Ruhe
(Shamanic Trance - ST2) LP $19.50
Glorious journey from whisper to testicle excision. Nauseating, repetitive. White vinyl. Edition of 300.
The Coast Explodes
(Holy Mountain - 8516) LP $15.00
Their second album straddles the line between psychedelia and hard rock while introducing more progressive aspects, influenced by both the power and complexity of the natural world and the ongoing battles of light and darkness.
Puzzle Answers
(Beniffer Editions) LP $16.50
When dealing with weird Canadians, best to simply quote Weird Canada's Aaron Levin, who seems to know what he's talking about: "On the brink of a sexual explosion, Man Made Hill’s warbled army of synthetic bone tweak[s] the subconscious with unmitigated groove. Only Toronto could provoke such a paramount of reductive funk bursting with subterrestrial bass and xenomorphic rhythm, paving the way for incumbent beings of radiant grind." Edition of 300.
MANHORSE 3 THE MEATBAG / MANIMAL QUARTET
Verses b/w Hapless and Seething
(After Music Recordings) split LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Self-described as “new post wave,” Manimal Quartet is Josh Mead’s duo with Aaron Wanzerski. Their six songs here are a primal stew of pop, new wave, psychedelia and punk. Manhorse 3 The Meatbag started as Mead’s aural pipecleaner after the disintegration of Neglected Receptors; as a reaction to the cleaner pop of Manimal Quartet, this fuzzy collection of misanthropic love songs ranges from bombastic scorchers, meditations on alienation and revenge, as well as a delicate ukulele ballad. Comparisons have been made to Men’s Recovery Project, Pere Ubu and Chrome in a fist fight with Guided by Voices. Screenprinted jacket.
BARBARA MANNING AND THE GO-LUCKYS
One Starry Night at the Shop
(Swamp Room) LP picture disc $15.00
Limited edition German import of The Fierce Blonde recorded live at The Shop, Spokane Washington, with the Steinbach twins. Eighteen tracks from throughout Manning’s career recorded August 2001 with impeccable sound quality. Nicely packaged in full-color sleeves with artwork by Darren Merinuk.
Slice Through Or / In Glassmetal
(Hanson - HN240) LP $17.50
Debut LP, three years in the making, by John Mannion of Red Light Collective and Cathode Terror Secretion. This extreme electronic composition is an ultra-dynamic mix of modern classical, electronic, noise, and power electronics techniques. Whirling electric box fan, piercing electronics, junk metal clang, screeching violins, harsh and whispered vocals, and haunting vocals by opera singer Caitlin Haughney. Silkscreen jacket, lyric sheet. Edition of 500
Antarctica
(Roaratorio - ROAR18) LP $17.00
With recordings stretching back over 20 years with the Portuguese avant trio Osso Exótico and collaborations with Z’ev and Minit, Maranha follows up Marches Of The New World (2007) with two side-long excursions into monolithic drone-rock in the vein of Tony Conrad & Faust, “Venus In Furs,” La Monte Young and Terry Riley. The ensemble is driven by keyboards, strings, and hypnotized-heartbeat percussion. Like the great white expanse of the titular continent, it can be taken in simply as a glorious wash of sound; listen to it closely, however, and you’ll hear the smallest details jump out in high relief: a feather can move a mountain. 300 copies, silkscreened covers, digital download coupon included.
Pig Magic
(Pica Disk - PICA029) 7-inch + CD $15.00
Norwegian free noise duo with guests Maja Ratkje and Lasse Marhaug.
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
From the Earth to the Spheres Vol. 7
(Opax - OPX007) split LP $75.00
The seventh volume in the From the Earth To the Spheres split vinyl LP series pairs the Opalio brothers with Christian Marclay (turntable, electronics) and Okkyung Lee (cello), who recorded their side -- where else? -- at Tonic in NYC, 2003. MCIAA’s side is also a live recording (from Italy in 2002). As with every other volume in the series, this is a limited edition of 100 copies, packaged in an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio on a 31x31cm wooden support, individually signed by the artist.
Bring Me The Head of Lasse Marhaug
(Peer Pressure Zombie) LP $14.00
Two side-long noise-scapes that’ll curl your toes while massaging your mind.
Texar / Maria Askatu
(After Music Recordings) split LP $16.50
Minneapolis-based improv duet Texar features Darren Brown (Boy Dirt Car) on electronics and recordings and Richard McCollum on guitars and theremin. Maria Askatu is a shadowy collective from Spain lead by Jarrod Olman. Their untitled collage was recorded in their Basque homeland and in Amsterdam. Silkscreened jackets. Edition of 150.
From One Table To The Other, One Table To The Next
(Seismographic Fabrics - FABRIC01) 2xLP $30.00
A sonic documentary of a series of projects, performances, exhibitions, and collaborations involving 70-year-old accordionist Jean Martens, autobionomadic visual artist Jochem vanden Ecker, electroacoustic and field recordings collective Building Transmissions, classical pianist / composer Benjamin van Esser, and White Circle Crime Club. Collects living room and kitchen dialogues, sound installation at Hannover Kunstverein, the previously released “Orange S-F,” an excerpt from White Circle Crime Club’s Untitled CD, “sonic foldings” that bring together people not in the habit of playing together, and acoustic and frequency studies from a monastery church.
Rubber Musique
(Milk of Burgundy - MOB001) LP $20.00
Rubber Musique expands Math's circus-y klezmer into a completely new, demented and dark level. A dissonant lurch replaces any sense of lighthearted playfulness, lyrics squeeze through slowly tortured throats, compositions climax into a free jazz ejaculation, percussion is more clamorous, waltzes sputter on broken legs and the marches parade into brick walls. Quintron, Jodie Mecanic (Duotron, Monotrona), and Michael Colligen (Flying Luttenbachers) recorded this in 1995 at the dark, damp basement space Milk Of Burgundy; hence the recordings' eerie other-worldliness. Hand-painted jacket.
They Never Learn
(Trash Ritual - TRASH039) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Second reissue of post-mortem industrial / power electronics album from Italy’s legendary Mauthausen Orchestra. Violent sound art originally released via Aquilifer Sodality 1985. Edition of 250.
Solo Acoustic Volume Two
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ2) LP $16.50
Melodic ballads and new songs from Emeralds guitarist spark new innovations and memories thought to be lost. Letterpress jacket, liner notes.
Alto
(Roaratorio - ROAR17) LP $16.50
Alto completes a discrete trilogy within Joe McPhee’s catalog of unaccompanied waxings (Tenor, 1977, and Soprano, 2007). Recorded live at a Lower East Side bar in 2009, McPhee’s explorations on alto saxophone and clarinet are alternately fiery and contemplative, imbued with the masterful intelligence that’s marked his work for over forty years. This is a limited edition of 525 copies on 180-gram vinyl, with a Judith Lindbloom silkscreen print on rice paper and liner notes by Hank Shteamer. Digital download coupon included.
Everything Happens for a Reason
(Roaratorio) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
McPhee’s solo albums stand out as supreme ur-texts of his consummate improvising and compositional skills. Joining the ranks of such landmark records as Tenor, Graphics, and As Serious As Your Life, Everything Happens For A Reason features McPhee on pocket trumpet, soprano and alto saxophones, recorded live in Austria in November 2003. Limited edition of 500 copies on 180-gram vinyl, with a Judith Lindbloom silkscreen print on rice paper and liner notes by McPhee.
Soprano
(Roaratorio) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
This document of McPhee’s first solo concert devoted exclusively to the straight horn is a companion to his critically lauded Everything Happens For A Reason LP, as well as an overdue follow-up to his classic album Tenor, which raised the bar for solo saxophone music over 30 years ago. Recorded live in St. George’s Church at the Guelph Jazz Festival in 1998, Soprano was inspired by Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening performance at the venue the previous year. The acoustics of the church provide a natural web of reverberation and delay. A thoughtful, passionate music from one of jazz’s most eloquent practitioners, pressed in a limited edition of 500 on 180-gram vinyl, with a Judith Lindbloom silkscreen print on rice paper and liner notes by McPhee and Oliveros.
MEDROXY PROGESTERONE ACETATE / WARMTH
Warmth / Medroxy Progesterone Acetate
(Small Doses - dose9) split 7-inch $8.00
Both sides evolve slowly, mangle with sinewy maws of noise, and grip with hands of haunting ambience.
Excerpts (& Half-Speeds)
(Kye - KYE16) LP $15.50 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Throughout his fifteen years of service as foot-soldier of garage rock, Melchior has willingly tested the flexibility of an otherwise stagnant genre. Here he glues together fractured sketches, riffs, and run-throughs; what emerges is omething akin to Another Green World for the Fuck Off generation. With insert. Edition of 450.
The End of Fear of God
(Enterruption - ENT23) LP $40.00
2008 reissue of the live cassette (Enturrption 2004), recorded in 2004 in Los Angeles. Tracks include: At A Crawl, Black Stooges, Night Goat, Revolve/Brain Center At Whipples, Let It All Be, Hooch, Mombius Hibatchi, The Bloat, The Bit. Pink vinyl. One copy in stock, number 420/500.
I Remember How Free We Were
(Premier Sang - PS005) LP $20.00
"Dead jazz" by Yves Botz (Dustbreeders) on guitar and voice, and Christophe Sorro on drums. With chaotic and always changing participation of Jac Berrocal (Catalogue), Junko (Hijokaidan), Masayosh Urabe, Thierry Delles (Dustbreeders), and Cathy Heyden. Recorded live in a basement and a bunker on a video camera. Perfectly raw and dirty sound.
Messages
(Destijl - IND076) LP $16.50
Visual artist Taketo Shimada moved to New York in late 80s and has been making music with Tres Warren of Psychic Ills since 2006, exploring a hybrid of raga, techno and drone rock. Odds are someone walking down Canal Street in NYC will hear the sound of Messages coming from a fifth floor walkup: sine waves, bass loops, guitars, samplers and turntables mashing into a storm of slowly shifting repetitions, heavy, monotone low-end and smoky echoes that conjure unexpected subsonic grooves. Dusted called their Social Registry seven-inch "heavy, humid drone, pregnant with 4am electricity and, in the end, thick fuzzy beats. A beautiful surprise, engaging even in its abstract tendencies."
Heretic Channel
(Quasi Pop - QPOP0545) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Russian cult band Messer Chups continues to explore the most horrible, cynical and vicious side of the classic rock’n’roll sound -- groovy surf riffs, Fender Jazzmasters, spring reverbs, trash drums – with this imagined soundtrack for cheap, nasty exploitation B-movies. Evil martians, flying saucers, sexy babes, the living dead and dancing zombies, spies, voodoo, coffins, vampires, Satanic orgies in castles, sci-fi machines, boobs, and mutants. 180g vinyl, gatefold jacket printed on retro recycled paper. Edition of 200.
Anamnestic Tincture
(Roaratorio - ROAR15) LP $17.25
The performances on this live album by virtuoso musical carpenter Paul Metzger were culled from many hours of concert recordings. Side one, the public debut of his modified banjo, was recorded in 2002 at a church-turned-underground art space in Minneapolis. One of his most memorable compositions, "After Milo," later turned up as an untitled improvisation on his CD for the Chairkickers label. Jumping ahead six years (and several more banjo alterations later) to side two, the glittering "Orans" gets a workout at a memorial show for the artist Matt Zaun. As an acknowledgment of the occasion, Metzger also gives a one-time-only performance -- "Dark Green Water" -- on another of his mutant instruments: an acoustic guitar with the body drilled out to accommodate a cymbal set into its face, and ten assorted strings of varying lengths laid over the top, giving it a particularly metallic and dissonant sound. Limited edition of 425 copies, with an original vintage snapshot mounted on each cover. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
Gedanken Splitter
(Roaratorio - ROAR14) LP $12.00
Paul Metzger’s modified banjo is tricked out with additional sympathetic raga strings, although Gedanken Splitter is informed by more than Eastern drone music alone. Recorded in the same period as Deliverance (Locust Music 2007), this is more jagged and aggressive; Metzger winds improvisations around thornier threads than on his previous releases, and moves even further away from anything resembling typical banjo fare. Mesmerizing and singular. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2008.
Resonating Upon Harmonic Ground
(Second Sleep - SS036) LP (one-sided) $16.00
Beautiful musique concrete and analog synth that explores the interaction between field recordings and simple sine waves. In Meyers's balanced suite, individual elements lose their origins in favor of composition. Edition of 150.
Michael and the Mumbles
(Destijl - IND074) LP $13.00 (Out-of-stock)
Before Michael Yonkers revised the history of recorded music with the clarion chords of Microminiature Love, he was in Michael And The Mumbles, who made this self-titled LP in 1966 -- a naive, teenage trip through garage band moves typical of the era at first glance, but repeated listening reveals a darkness beneath the crisp, winsome visage. Same characteristics that make Micro the singularly original piece that is (just slightly less visible is all): emotionally bleak themes, dissonant undercurrents, and recklessly wild performances. So, once again, a Michael Yonkers LP is going to turn the world upside down, make the college girls scream and leave you to wonder how many more times this can happen. Vinyl only, with a digital download coupon, made from 45-year-old master tapes that, aside from a glitch on "Cold Town," sound amazing.
Micro_Penis
(Doubtfulsounds - DOUBT03) LP $21.00
The latest underworld heap export from Mulhouse, France. Sébastien Borgo (Sun Plexus 2, l'Autopsie a révélé que la mort était due à l'autopsie, Ogrob, French Doctors), Alexandre Kittel, François Heyer (Ptaz) and Claude Spendelauer (Doutbfulsounds) seem to be going for a name drop in the same breath as "mental deficiency." Having escaped from the mental hospital of Rouffach in southern Alsace, they scream, they growl, and the strait jacket is never far away. Comparable to a modern variation of Cromagnon's "Ritual Feast of the Libido." For lovers of horror movies, art brut, cruelty. Includes sticker, two postcards. Cover is black paper silkscreened on both sides. Edition of 300. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009.
Tolvek
(Doubtfulsounds - DOUBT07) LP $21.00
With not one but two band members spending time in mental hospitals since the release of the first Micro_Penis LP, and two others embarking on year-long meditative retreats in a Zen temple in the south of Italy, recording sessions for Tolvek (Alsatian for "moron") were therefore delayed. This LP documents moments when inner demons had the upper hand over the mental health of K., S., H., and O., transformed each time into an outlet, and exorcised. With medication and therapeutic workshops with artist Anne Zimmerman, K. and S. sculpted creatures from vegetable peelings and stuff found in the hospital garbage bins -- hybrids of sexual obsession and vegetable shapes. Zimmerman proposed to develop some of their work with rubber. Each copy of the LP comes with one of their "sexual rubber beasts." Edition of 300. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2011
New European Order
(Praxis Dr. Bearmann - TH12) 3xLP $30.00
Industrial percussion following the path of Test Dept. (albeit harsher), released in 1996, using musical percussion installations, tools, conventional drums, self-made wind instruments and power electronics. Part of the "Statement Trilogy." The sixth side is blank. The flap that seals the jacket shut is kind of munched and there is some scuffing along the same edge, so we're listing this as used. VInyl is near-mint.
Wigry
(Monotype - MONO006) 2xLP $28.00
Instrumentation within this electronic music orchestra of ten-ish musicians ranges from analog (Thomas Lehn) and digital synthesizers (Marcus Schmickler), amplified objects and old analog equipment (Gert-Jan Prins) to software designed especially for improvisation (Phil Durrant); the line up varies from improvisers who started in '60s (Keith Rowe) to a younger generation of electronic musicians (Christian Fennesz); its aesthetics float from space-jazz (Rafael Toral) to noise (Peter Rehberg). Their massive sound does not sacrifice sensitivity for site-specific acoustic and social restraints; new concepts for each performance guarantee thrills. Wigry was performed in a church on a dark and stormy night. Each musician, seated by the long table placed between two rows of benches, had a separate loudspeaker. Despite regular church reverb, there is no cloud of noise, just sounds in the air coming from somewhere by someone.
Mimyriad
(Streamline - 1001) LP $40.00
Originally recorded between 1991 and 1993, and then reworked for this 1999 reissue. Andreas Martin, Silverman, Christoph Heeman, Edward and Elke Ka-Spel, and Jim O'Rourke create beautiful moments amid swathes of gaseous analogue and brain-melt guitar, dark cavernous drones and motionless organ hums, expansive alien tapestries and soundtracks to the wanderings of disturbed somnambulists everywhere. Purple vinyl. Hand-numbered #216/550.
Minitel
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD2) 7-inch $7.25
“Ripe with schizophrenic angst,” our friends at Siltblog can't help but notice, “The A-side is clearly borne out of the avant soil once trod upon by Ilitch and DDAA, while the flip sounds like the band harvested an entire field of wormwood, distilling it into a noxious absinthe of Swans-like potency…. [B]lind carnage … follows…. Bruit-Direct is growin' real live monsters, no two ways about it.” Both guitarists also play in Sister Iodine.
Beware
(Plan 9) Used LP $20.00
Tracks from Bullet (Plan 9 1978) and Horror Business (Plan 9 1979), plus "Last Caress" and, not listed on the jacket, "Return of the Fly." Jacket has a small crease in lower left corner. Vinyl is unplayed.
Mlehst / Mutant Ape
(Turgid Animal - TA185) split 7-inch $11.35
Harsh building ambience from Mutant Ape, backed with Mlehst’s tonal experiment on the flip, really soothing.
Caligula
(What The ... - WHAT014) LP (one-sided) $17.00
Rare vinyl outing by Amanda Warner (0th, Triangle, and techbrain / wingperson / producer for a number of bands and projects over many years). Here is an original version of "Caligula" with a "pre-capella" version as its companion. Maximum vocal harmony and beat, with synth lines twisting around vocal lines and harmonizing. Caligula, maximum pleasure in your house. Cut at 45 RPM so you can play it at 33 when you absolutely have to. Silkscreen cover designed by Paul Coors (the baby blue translucent ink on this is to die for). Edition of 138.
Thread Bare
(Alberts Basement) 7-inch $12.00
Solo vocal project by Melbourne's Christopher Hill of Paeces, Gauntlet, Gugg, Galactic Locksmith, and a million others. According to the lad's amazingly spelled MySpace page, "Moffarfarrah tranverses time pushing bending and proding time within the space of the mouth and pedals, precusion, organs, and amplifires, casting spores of posi-charged change in little and big omnipresent ways, gurgles, squeaks, moans, new languages, abstract opera, moduals of existence, tea swilling, friendly chat and chants."
Moist Fist
(Rise - RR121) LP $20.00
Lounge music for acid-heads from 1993 by the guitar player of Ed Hall. Eerie keyboards and fat bass lines soak this record like a sponge. Disgusted and weird, or in other words, what Texans call "pretty good." Covers silkscreened by Frank Kozik.
Hey Come My Way
(Quemada - QUE003) 7-inch $8.00
The debut of prime bummer pop by members of Mad Nanna and White Woods, with a bit more jangle and hook than is typical of the former, sloppier than the latter.
Ein Dusterer Winter Kommt
(Legion Blotan) 7-inch $11.00
Two black metal tracks from prolific and experimental Ukrainians that utilize raw guitars, drum machine and keyboard mixed with menacing, depressive vocals. Edition of 250.
Massive Ejaculation
(Beniffer Editions) 7-inch $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Lacking sense and sobriety, St. Petersburg resident Phil Wolotkin is the most disoriented electronic composer on the planet. He counts among his skills, dizzy toilet bowl mornings, cut up editing to the millisecond, and mockery of Wolf Eyes. The 10 x 10, 18pp screenprinted book (folding out to 10 x 40, with a sewn pocket for the seven-inch) includes art by Jacob Horwood, Sekitani Norihiro, Dylan Nyoukis, Fatboobs, Jesjit Gill, Andrew Zukerman, Jeff Garcia, Zeesy Powers. Edition of 150.
Bamboo For Two
(Olde English Spelling Bee - OESB#53) Used LP $6.00
Exotic keyboard melodies by James Ferraro, Lieven Martens of Dolphins Into The Future, and Eva Van Deuren of Orphan Fairytale.
JEAN-MARC MONTERA / THURSTON MOORE / LEE RANALDO
Les Anges Du Péché
(Dysmusie - DYSLP1) LP $25.00
Side-long electric guitar duets, one by Moore and Montera recorded in New York 1997, one by Ranaldo and Montera recorded in Marseille 2010. Gatefold jacket, insert, 180g vinyl.
New Sky Dragon
(Krayon Recordings - KR016) LP $18.00
Beautifully self-recorded heavy psych by the three-man cosmic research team formally known as the Nackt Insecten Trio. Drum-clouds, synthesizer atmospheres, anti-gravity percussion accents, and saturating feedback zones. Featuring members of Lanterns, Eye Shaking Kingdom. 180g vinyl.
Solo Acoustic Volume Five
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ5) LP $16.50
Solo, untreated, 12-string compositions, subtitled 12 String Meditations For Jack Rose.
Mordecai
(Killertree - KTR14) LP $15.00
Bona fide math genius Elijah Bodish totally gets the theories linking cubism to geometry, while his brother Holt subsists on frozen pizzas and has this '66 Sunset Strip look any droog would knife for. Together they churn like devil-don't-care Swell Maps on Benadryl, Neil Young bootlegs (strung-out era) and The Fall, fresh out of a woodpile. Recorded in an abandoned YMCA bathroom with high ceilings, their LP is abrasive, crude and bombastic -- a serious lo-fi crusher that mixes a still-unheralded genre (rural punk rock) with muddy, Mansonesque flower-power. And not a whiff of shitty ol' irony anywhere. Because the brothers were born at Dead shows (1989 and 1992 tours, respectively), it's only appropriate that the silkscreened jackets are printed with glow-in-the-dark ink.
MICHAEL MORLEY / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / RAMONA PONZINI / LEE RANALDO
Live @ Sensational Fix
(Starlight Furniture Company - *25) LP $15.00
As part of the 2008 exhibition Sensational Fix, with a focus on Sonic Youth’s multi-disciplinary activities since 1981, My Cat Is An Alien performed live with long-time collaborator Ramona Ponzini, Michael Morley of Dead C, and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Side B features solo pieces by each of the five members of this extemporaneous ensemble. Stills from the live footage shot by curator Roland Groenenboom appear on the color insert.
Einschlagskrater
(Meeuw Muzak - MM036) 7-inch $6.35
Another cryptic affair from this perennial Dutch label. For this mail collaboration, Norbert Möslang (Voice Crack) and Ralf Wehowsky (RLW) craft cracked everyday electronics and computer-manipulate deviations of same. One continuous piece sets falling sounds against a dark, drone-like backdrop; the other is more, ahem, musical, with more sounds of things falling and lots of processed variations. Sorta atmospheric, sorta noisy.
Mother of Fire
(Destijl - IND082) LP $17.00
Inspired by Krautrock's rhythmic throb and the gutterized / Behead the Prophet stance that once seemed to run up and down the West Coast (where MOF have called home for some time) -- filtered through post-Spacemen sensibilities, fueled with violin, bass and drum -- this is one disjointed listen that evokes things you've heard before in a completely surprising and fresh way.
Untitled
(No Fun - NFP18) 2xLP $20.00
Industrial psych from the Brooklyn chapter of troglodytes of heaviness. Twice the volume, twice the destruction, twice the machinery, twice the headache. Playable it at any speed. Limited to 350 copies
Mt. Carmel
(Siltbreeze - SB129) LP $16.00
Matthew Reed, Patrick Reed and Kevin Shubak are a straight-up blues rock power trio weened on a diet of Peter Green-era Bluesbreakers, Cream and Ten Years After. This isn't a lark between noise projects -- it's their life. Good, old-fashioned rock 'n' roll, plain and simple.
Psycho Motorik
(Mystery Label) LP $20.00
Teenagers have the ringtones on their cellphones, you've helped yourself to the MP3s from Ubuweb, your parents were two of the hippies who prevented him from strangling a swan onstage in Amsterdam 1970. So here's a brief opportunity to nab a spot-on reproduction of the elusive LP by the European performance artist, painter, writer, filmmaker, destructionist, cult-and-commune overlord who inspired everyone from Pete Townsend and David Bowie to Fluxus and carcass-defiling Aktionists. In the 1960s, his work dealt with social taboos surrounding sexuality, to the point that "Art and Revolution," performed at the University of Vienna in July, 1968, led to arrests.
Solo Acoustic Volume Four
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ4) LP $16.50
A revelation in its intricate beauty and unique phrasings. Hailing from small town Ohio, this young player encapsulates everything exciting about modern composition for acoustic guitar. Performed live in one take. Edition of 200.
Wooden Enclosure
(Turgid Animal - TA386) LP + CD $15.00
With a focus on the Mondo Cane side of heavy drone music and the murderous side of old school industrial noise, this full-on bass/guitar kraut-styled work out from the depths of the Sparrow Pit slowly weaves and blurs itself into an abyss, ending with a slow growl of discomfort. The CDr features two drawn out synth experiments. Grim, laser-printed artwork on blue paper loose inside a PVC sleeve with the record inside a white paper sleeve and housed in a black card outer sleeve.
Brendan Murray / Perispirit
(Razors and Medicine - R&M25) split LP $16.00
Brendan Murray’s “Birches and Marksman’s Graves (Voice and Computer #1),” a clear summation of his interest in controlled drones and gestural improvisation with a step into the unknown, transforms and manipulates the voice of Noell Dorsey to the point of non-recognition. Dissonant clusters move up and down, generate momentum, and maintain physicality and control. Vague hints of melody are swallowed up by turbulence. It gradually gives way to extended technique vocalisms that call to mind sound poetry and even the Sprechstimme of Schoenberg. Perispirit’s side makes quick sectional transitions and relies on harsh noise, delicate melodic work, and degraded lo-fi manipulations. Momentum grows and is quickly brought down to almost nothing; the process resumes and the piece breaks into looping guitar passages with a subtle electronic underpinning. Layers build and disappear. The noise returns, building to a heightened peak of frustration until it drops off, leaving the sound of life’s monotony. A wall of drone creeps in and overtakes all. Edition of 250, off-white vinyl.
Player Pianos And Other Sounds From A Penny Arcade
(La Brea) LP $15.50
Field recordings from San Francisco’s famed hands-on museum of early penny arcade machines (some over a century old) kept in their original working order for the public's enjoyment by the determined work of curator Edward Galland Zelinsky. Stereoscopic peep shows, moralizing fortune tellers, old baseball game machines, nickelodeons, prisoner art made out of toothpicks, music boxes, player pianos, "test your strength" challenges, animated dioramas, and of course laughing Sal, a larger-than-life size doll who just laughs and laughs and laughs. Silkscreened jackets.
Buried on't Moors
(Urashima - U003) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
The wild noise project by Yorkshire, UK resident George Proctor delivers an intense and relentless discharge of cavemen electronics and obsessive noise with dirty male vocal textures in the upper layers. Silkscreened cardboard sleeve, with insert. Limited edition to 120 copies.
Live and Proud
(Turgid Animal - TA385) 7-inch $9.00
Pure junk noise abuse with little or no structure, although somewhat rhythmic in some places. The artwork is printed on two double sided thick glossy inserts and looks a treat. Limited edition, colored vinyl.
Mutant Ape / Seppuku
(Turgid Animal - TA197) split 7-inch $9.85
Cut-up junk abuse and pure smash all the way through Mutant Ape’s side. Scotland’s Seppuku deliver two tracks of doom-type metal. Death to false noise!
Muura
(Alberts Basement) 7-inch $13.75
“Spurts of free percussion, alternately scratchy / ululating eternal drones, factory sounds à la Joe Jones, deformed, endlessly echoed vocals,” say our clearly stunned colleagues at Volcanic Tongue about the new seven-inch by Matt Earle (of Breakdance The Dawn, Craft Bandits, xNoBBQx). “The second side is more recognizably based around amp destruction and guitar abuse with waves of crude feedback interrupted by percussive guitar wrangling.” Individually handmade covers.
Space Chanteys
(Fringes - 10) LP $15.00
Recorded live in October 2000, released in 2002, the soul of Matt Valentine's volk music emerges from syncretic collisions between psychedelic rock and avant garde jazz and country blues and trance-drone-minimalism, as well as a primitive form of volk-proper. The material on Space Chanteys is beautiful in its fracture. Its fissures phosphoresce in the darkness with an unearthly radiance: glow-in-the-dark teeth set into the gums of eternity.
Alien Blood
(Opax - OPX030) LP $40.50
One of the most impressive and innovative MCIAA recordings to date, the original soundtrack from Roberto Opalio’s 2005-2008 film of the same name, currently getting screened as part of the Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix museum exhibition, has so far been presented at LIFE (France), and is scheduled around the globe for the next couple of years. The improvised score by My Cat Is An Alien follows the minimal and surrealistic beginning of the film with sparse echoes of eerie sounds, growing in dark timbres and pathos. Maurizio Opalio’s heavily effected "blood percussions" compress the air, while Roberto's wordless vocals, along with space toys, alientronics and mini-keyboard, walk the razor's edge of another dimension. The finale comes as one of the most epic crescendos ever performed by the Italian duo. Limited to 220 copies in handmade textured cardboard folders with full-color paste-on still images from the film.
Fragments Suspended In Time
(Opax - OPX32A) LP + CDr + DVDr $27.00
Recorded after the brothers Opalio spent a long period of self-imposed isolation in the Western Alps, far from everything but their own spirits. Side A ( the “alba” or “sunrise” side) overwhelms immediately with delicate grace, melodic texture, and Roberto's intimate, wordless vocalizations. Side B ( the “tramonto” or “sunset” side) increases the sweet, anti-gravitational sweet mood. One-time pressing of 250 copies on multicolor vinyl. Handmade, heavy cardboard jacket with paste-on silver artwork and 12-inch insert. A professionally duplicated CDr is included as a digital version of the album. The region-free DVDr (limited to 100 copies) contains a film by Roberto Opalio, inspired by the alba side.
Fragments Suspended In Time
(Opax - OPX32A) LP + CDr + DVDr Box $120.00
This art box edition adds to the regular edition the following: original art work by Roberto Opalio on six-page hand-bound booklet, mounted on 12" panel, numbered and signed; hand-lettered LP labels; hand-crafted box, numbered, hand-stamped and signed. Edition of 20.
From the Earth to the Spheres Vol. 2
(Opax - OPX002) LP $80.00
Thuja mine minimalism and sound textures within elaborate, real-time compositions that examine the nature of sound. Audio-visual artist Loren Chasse (Coelacanth) and Glenn Donaldson (Mirza, Sky Green Leopards, Birdtree and Ivytree) are joined on one of the their more adventurous and hypnotic works, “The Magma Is The Brother Of The Stone” by Rob Reger and collaborator Greg Bianchini. My Cat Is An Alien scan obscure and scattered drones as the world collapses into silence. The Italian duo’s high-frequency ectoplasm drifts away from the raw howl of the past toward a blues-y intimacy. Edition of 100, with Roberto Opalio’s painted wood covers.
Il Segno
(Starlight Furniture Company) CD $15.00
(Starlight Furniture Company) LP $15.00
Beginning with a gloomy text entitled “The Sign” written by guitarist / lyricist Roberto Opalio, My Cat Is An Alien entered The Space Room and recorded this dark and concrete improvisation, a single piece of howling and caustic ruination. Maurizio Opalio comes out of the fog with desolate acoustic guitar scratches, Roberto’s electric space guitar scribbles as he spits out his words of urban alienation, and Viggiu Vortex joins the brothers on percussion. Piano toy and toy keyboard were added later to enhance the surreal lyrics inspired by ghosts, a sense of psychic, cultural and social isolation in their hometown Torino, Italy, and the infinite lightness and beauty between the cement and the sky. CD contains two non-LP tracks.
Listen Before Black Falls
(Root Strata - RS19) LP $15.00
A third eye laser beam shot from the catacombs of Torino, Italy. An acoustic guitar lullaby leads down a long, dark tunnel of alpha wave feedback. Jacket is silk-screened (front) and hand-lettered (back). Numbered edition of 300.
My Cat Is An Alien and the Analog Statement
(Opax) 5xLP $79.00
Five pearls from 2005 to 2010 re-issued and collected: On Air at Sound Projecting (Opax 2006), a live improvised performance from Ed Pinsent's Resonance 104.4 radio show in London; Epocsonixarp, the second album by Praxinoscope (the duo formed by Roberto Opalio and Ramona Ponzini); Alien Blood (Opax 2008), the original soundtrack to Roberto Opalio's film; Fragments Suspended In Time (Opax 2010), an anti-gravitational sweet mood recording captured in the Western Alps of Italy; and Gramofonu = Voice of the Universe (Opax 2010), a collaborative work with Prague duo Birds Build Nests Underground. All records repressed in the original form with original label artworks. Four black-vinyl platters and and one multi-color. Tri-fold jacket, paste-on silver artwork. Includes download coupon. Numbered edition of 100.
Mystery Item #7
(Mystery Label - ???) LP $15.00
If you order this item, what we send to you is chosen from a rotating selection of random obscurities. It's not a hoax or a prank or a concept. You're not going to get a box of wind; we're not going to mail your order to some arbitrary address in the wrong state; there will be no Carpenters albums with "Circuit Wound" scrawled across the cover. The Mystery Items are stylistically and aesthetically consistent with the rest of our stock. And they are sent same as any other item that is ordered. The changing price and format shown is item-accurate. Artist, title, label are not dilvulged prior to purchase.
MASAYA NAKAHARA / SISTER IODINE
Meth
(Premier Sang - PS004) LP $20.00
Twenty-five minutes of joyful fracas and live euphoric free-noise by the animal Hair Stylistics / Violent Onsen Geisha leader and the French trio founded in the early ’90s who collide the savage energy of no wave, tape collage, primitive noise, and a primal free rock approach. Recorded live at Showboat, Tokyo, January 18, 2010.
Chitty Chat b/w Goodbye Dear Cliche
(Sacred Bones - SBR020) 7-inch $6.00
Serious harsh downer vibes from this Australian male/female duo whose drum-synth-bass-and-vocal ferocity comes out sounding like a surprisingly danceable version of Whitehouse.
Heaps of Nothing
(Siltbreeze - SB130) CD $12.00
(Siltbreeze - SB130) LP $16.00
For this second full-length effort, Naked on the Vague eschew their tantalizingly sparse duo attack for a quartet line-up, and the results are as sensational as they are sinister. While the rickety, no-wave splat found on previous efforts had its appeal, the heft of a "proper" rhythm section has only helped Naked on the Vague delve deeper into the landscape of post-punk murk. Bleak, unrepentant, withering and droll, Heaps of Nothing is a 21st century codification of the gallows wit and mesmerizing otherworldliness of Dub Housing-era Pere Ubu, Primitive Calculators and Lemon Kittens. LP includes download card.
Le Viandier de Taillevent
(Galerie Pache) LP $16.00
Debut album recorded in part during a 2006 European tour and in Quebec. Philemon, A_dontigny, and Erick Orion are joined Erikm, Arnaud Rivière, and Erik Minkinnen whose wax footprints are noted for their delicacy, subtlety, and unorthodox approaches to improv. Edition of 181.
Naughtiest Girl Was a Monitor
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD43) LP $22.50
The first three seven-inches plus six previously unreleased tracks by this early ’80s Sheffield, England new wave band.
Cover The Earth
(Heresee) LP $12.00
Carly Ptak, Twig Johnson and Max Eisenburg marshal in the era of The New Electronics, which, get this, works without electricity. For reals, man. Eight tracks, maybe nine -- c’mon, you don’t still believe in numbers -- that swizzle the Baltimore trio’s unfathomable home-made chaos into uneven blasts of ravaging ping-pong “beats,” distorted, rack-stretched taunts and/or pleas for mercy, and rapidly exfoliating cries of outrage. Whether aiming for that rising blister on your psyche or just stumbling like dazed Muppets in a frequency-and-perspective-gone-haywire blizzard, Cover the Earth removes Nautical Almanac from the fascinating curios section and files them under “noise force to be reckoned with.”
Nautical Almanac
(Hanson - HN014 ) LP $30.00
Their 1996 tetanus-inspired debut album by Twig Harper and crew, the rusty nail that pierced the skin of the Midwest frontier with nary a an upper division credit (lecture, labwork or otherwise) in electronics management to their name. Covers hand-smeared.
California
(Stomach Ache - SA61) 7-inch $10.00
Noise loops, tape cut-ups, appropriated thrift store muzak and demented boink interspersed with failed prank phone calls (anti-pranks, you might say). Hard to believe it was actually released. With Bren't Lewiis, Emil Beaulieau, Mike Minutoli, Garret Eaton, Genital P-Orange Juice.
Last Wish b/w Acid Reign
(SNSE) LP $10.50
Extremely cold and minimalistic terror drones accompanied by ghastly, inimitable vocalizations. Neuntöter Der Plage is the long-running project of Ryan Opperman, aka Redrot/Xombie/Post Mortem Junkie, and operator of the Skeletone label. After many CDR and cassette releases on labels such as Truculent Recordings and Slaughter Productions, among others, this is the vinyl debut of the project. Edition of 306.
Swine
(Nuhrst - NE77) 7-inch $8.00
Following Where The Dead Things Are (Nuhrst 2009) and Betwixt Descending Corridors (Self Abuse 2009), the crypt-dwelling alter ego of Ryan Oppermann circulates madness and blood through the coarse veins of the dying. “Swine” and “Defecated Bones,” two tracks that have remained hidden within troubled chambers for years, earn a helping hand from basement scum butcher Charlie Draheim on backing squelch-sound and glass treading. Most vile. Edition of 260. Includes lyrical insert.
History of Nothing
(Hanson - HN199) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Freq’s testimonial should make anyone who reads it giddy with anticipation: “Sheer sheets of onanistic sound ruin the rack and explode across the consciousness. Imagine what it would’ve been like to hear this in 1982, when it was completely new and very few frames of reference were hanging on any wall, anywhere. This is the hard rain that’s promised to fall -- this sound is a rage against loneliness in one of the loneliest places on Earth while pursuing one of the loneliest forms of expression. Totally interstellar, completely vital, utterly timeless.” Now go record your next C10, you little pussy. All tracks are from the 80s and early 90s, previously released on CD (Siren 2001); this is their first appearance on vinyl. Edition of 300 copies. Heavy duty silk-screened covers with the usual Hanson Droll-Flaps.
Meta-Klamauk (For Jean Tinguely) / Crincum Crancum
(Hanson - HN191) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
“Meta-Klamauk returns us to that garage of doom featured on Changez Les Blockeurs,” notices Sound Projector. “The mechanics have installed a noisy fan-heater device, and are getting a lot more work done. Crincum-Crancum is, relatively speaking, a near-musical concoction. Perhaps twenty plus years hath mellowed their saturnine psyche and dulled their appetite for relentless noise; this is less urgent, and there’s almost an air of resigned weariness to this 2002 work. That said, it is no less bilious, the reservoir of hatred still fuels the evil intent.” Both sides originally appeared on the delirious, jawdropping Gesamtnichtswerk 4xCD (Hypnagogia 2003); this is their first appearance on vinyl. Edition of 300 copies, silk-screened covers with the usual Hanson Droll-Flaps.
Viva Negativa Volume I
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD24) 4xLP $75.00
This massive tribute to England’s lords of scrape The New Blockaders includes collaborations with and reworkings by Oren Ambarchi, Anomali, Ashtray Navigations, Emil Beaulieau, Benzo, Maurizio Bianchi, Cisfinitum, Controlled Bleeding, Dieter Muh, Evil Moisture, Freiband, Grunt, The Haters, Jason Kahn, Zbigniew Karkowski, Komafuzz, Kraang, Lockweld, Massimo, Daniel Menche, Thurston Moore, MSBR, Nocturnal Emissions, KK Null, Pita, Plethora, Prurient, Richard Ramirez, Scanner, Silvum, srmeixner, Asmus Tietchens, Treriksroset, Vortex Campaign, V/Vm, Keith Fullerton Whitman, John Wiese, Nobuo Yamada, Z’EV. Hand-numbered box sets.
Viva Negativa Volume II
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD25) 4xLP $75.00
The balance of the tribute to England’s lords of scrape The New Blockaders includes collaborations with and reworkings by AMK, Art Break, Aube, Bloxus, Alexei Borisov, Broken Penis Orchestra, Cheapmachines, Courtis, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Aaron Dilloway, Embudagonn 108, Eshak, Government Alpha, Idea Fire Company, Incapacitants, Lasse Marhaug, Merzbow, Kiyoshi Mizutani, mnortham, Jim O’Rourke, Dave Phillips, Plexia, Putrefier, Christian Renou, RLW, Damion Romero, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Spiracle, Sudden Infant, Giancarlo Toniutti, Brendan Walls, Withdrawal Method, Wolf Eyes, Achim Wollscheid, Violent Onsen Geisha. Hand-numbered box sets.
Untitled
(Von Archives - VON011) 7-inch (one-sided) $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Original studio recordings by one this deeply unconventional band. Edition of 100.
Nightmares
(BloodLust! - B!139) 7-inch $10.50
With their long history of dark analog synth music, Jonathan Canady (Angel of Decay, Deathpile, Dead World), David Reed (Envenomist, Luasa Raelon, Brittle Foundries) and Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded, The Fortieth Day, A Vague Disquiet, Intrinsic Action, Animal Law) unite and develop their own type of aural sleep disruption, characterized by frightening psychological content and aiming to provoke a strong feeling of imminent physical danger and a sensation of being trapped or suffocated. Multi-color marble / splatter vinyl. Includes sticker.
Silent Movie
(Hospital - HOS142) LP + DVD $20.00
Documents the only known live performance (at No Fun Fest) of the alias of The New Blockaders. The DVD contains silent footage only and one must spin the vinyl simultaneously in order to hear the sound while witnessing this futile destruction. DVD also features additional commentary by G.X. Jupiter-Larsen of The Haters.
No Nihilist Spasm Band in Mulhouse
(Les Mondes Mental) LP $15.25 (Out-of-stock)
Canadian monsters of broken rock improv recorded live in eastern France in front of 15 people going mental. One of the final recordings with the late Hugh McIntyre. John Boyle (kazoo and drums), John Clement (guitar and drums), Bill Exley (voice and more), Murray Favro (guitar), Hugh McIntyre (bass), Art Pratten (pratt-a-various).
NIHILIST SPASM BAND / SUN PLEXUS 2
No Victoria
(Bimbo Tower - BTR09) 2xLP $23.25
NSB (John B. Boyle, John Clement, Bill Exley, Murray Favro, Art Pratten, and Aya Onishi) join SP2 (Laurent Berger, Sébastien Borgo, Rémy Bux) in a musical confrontation where the former’s anti-academic improvisation and no-technique playing oppose the latter’s raw post-punk mixed with concrete music composition. Recorded at La Mer Rouge Studio in 2006.
Big Shadow Montana
(Helen Scarsdale - HMS020) LP $15.00
After producing a frozen trilogy of intoxicated dronemuzik for the Agency, these Scandinavian gentlemen venture into fictionalized soundtracks for imagined Mondo films and science fiction serials. Slow-motion delirium manifests in occluded smears, nocturnal gasps, and arcane tones from a variety of analogue synthesizers. Flickered impressions flash in conjunction with Breton's Surrealism manifesto in the form of memories from happily drunk escapades in the heart of winter, the sidereal spells cast by innerspace travelers Klaus Schulze and Coil, and the nagging questions of existential portent: "Was that bassline from Goblin, or was it German Oak? Maybe something from Faust IV?" Nilsen, Sigmarsson, and Thorsson elegantly twist and bend fleeting images into a spiraling symphony of bubbling electronics and spectral drones that mutate into lugubrious yet carnivalesque waltzes. When this first appears, it is the echoing undercarriage of a simple melody, bobbing amid rattling chains and cascading cymbal crashes, only to dissolve into sequences of cold-war era tone beacons and empathic swaths of maudlin sound design. At the second occurrence, the melody washes ashore on the Iceland beach, where nude Viking men and women try in vain to get a tan with the sun just barely above the horizon line. It is a pyrrhic jubilation of calliope harmonies set down by organs and synths turning a pale-blue hue in the wake of all that white skin shivering underneath the arctic sky. Includes free download card.
Qanngirpalippuq
(Galerie Pache) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
New member of Ilitch’s old-school, completely improvised harsh noise performed on analog modular system, vintage synthesizer, and home-made sound generator. Silkscreened, foldover sleeve. Edition of 130. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST 0F 2010
Geburt des Dionysos Christos
(Vinyl on Demand) 3xLP $150.00 (Out-of-stock)
Excellent minimal and drone recordings from 1986 performed on the Brucknerorgel Linz and the organ at Nitsch's private castle in Prinzendorf. First 150 copies (plus all the subscription copies) include a DVD of the famous concert. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2008
Recorded In Public And Private
(Ecstatic Yod) LP $40.00
From 1994. ''This is the kind of thing you do in a basement in SoHo, not in a public park where people are trying to enjoy their food.... They had a permit to play jazz, but this isn't jazz.'' --Mike O'Neal, O'Neal's Restaurant on 64th Street opposite Lincoln Center.
Space Needle
(Trackshun Industries - TR1222) LP $5.00
Wild-ass guitar-and-violin improv from 1996 by Michael Griffen and Erik Ostrowski
Noise Nomads
(Ultra Eczema - UE81) LP $25.00
Jeff Hartford’s live sets are the stuff of legend; one of Ultra Eczema’s favorites involved a strange and confusing Providence show that involved wailing mic feedback, a disappearing act, and the arrival of a gigantic Christmas tree. On paper, maybe not so much, but in real life, the seriously intense vibe was there. Fear of permanent breaks with reality and people getting squeezed to death was in the air. Anyway, side A of this record was recorded years ago -- just voice and Tascam -- and is an amazing swollen beast of sound poetry, gargling, and muffled barking. Side B was recorded a few years later with Hartford on his knees in Dennis Tyfus’s living room screaming thru a bass drum and a contact mic attached to a bunch of pedals. Harsher than a prison full of parrots. 300 copies
Nose Picker
(RRRecords) LP $15.00
First solo LP from Jeff Hartford (Grey Skull), known and feared for live performances that require a guitar-amp combo to be swung violently and dangerously close to the audience. The gracious overlords at Mimaroglu, with whom it is difficult to disagree, describe the vocals as “caveman-esque sound-poetry” somewhere between François Dufrêne and Cookie Monster, which seems appropriate for the ugly scum-noise excreted by this loveable New England creep.
Message From The Dead
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD64) 2xLP + DVD $60.00
Unreleased demos, rehearsals, live and unreleased tracks by French cold wave / goth legends, founded in 1981 by Usher and Chelsea. In 1984 they formed the CPM label (which released an EP of so-called “psychoanalytic rock” called Psychic Altercation, and also developed a philosophy which centralized different activities of the group (photography and graphics, literature, video, dance, etc.). LP1: Frustration / Welcome to CPM / XMas 2 / Crazy (first recording ever) / Skandinavian Erotica (rehearsal) / Memories (rehearsal) / Glance for your eyes (Live April 30,1983) / Mental (outtake 1984 church and voice) / Belinda's dead friends (outtake 1988) / Power of Spirit (demo 1987) / Dead in the Bed (demo 1987) / Shiny (Venus in Furs) LP2: Forever Gone (1999) / Chinese Puzzle / Fly Away Song (demo) / Memory Train (rehearsal) / Obsession / The Cellar (unreleased 1990) / The Murder (unreleased 1990) / TV Domination (unreleased demo 1988) / Love Song / L'age D'or (rehearsal) DVD: Video Live at Atheneum 87 Immaculate / 1964 Shadows / Hell Night / Romance / T-Vision / Bitchy Boy / TV Friends / Died In The Bedroom / We Shall Win / Disconnected
Outside / Inside
(Destijl - IND041) LP $17.00
Charlie Nothing was the fractured-psyche pseudonym of author, father, horsekeeper, organic farmer, beekeeper, philosopher and clown Charles Martin Simon, inventor of the dingulator (guitar sculptures made of the metal from American cars). The second Charlie Nothing LP, originally issued by Everitt Enterprises, thematically follows The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing (Takoma, 1967) with two side-long flute-based instrumentals. Palpably preserved on these sides of Nothing is the air of a real-time dropout scene. It is a wonder that Outside / Inside circulated at all beyond the vacuum in which it was created. Nothingness, a California existentiality looping back on itself, preserved and disseminated as evidence. There are indeed very few records like these.
Bless The Children
(Turgid Animal - TA355) 7-inch $7.50
German power electronics, formerly known as Noisewerrrrk. Three tracks of almost creepy industrial noise soundscapes with buried, whispered vocals focusing on religious disease and fanatics.
Saishiyu Bushitsu
(Forced Exposure - FE-024) Used LP $10.00
1990 reissue of Null's second album (Nux Organization 1985), an Earth-devouring miasma of guitar, voice, and metal percussion. Spray-painted cover. Noticeable crease on right side of jacket. Vinyl is near-mint.
Flawed Existence
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD66) 4xLP + 10-inch $140.00 (Out-of-stock)
Almost five hours of sheer insanity by the ingenious music-alchemist Steven Stapleton, active now for 30 years. Contains early material produced from 1982 to 1985. Two hours of their official tape releases Scrag (United Dairies 1981), Nylon Coverin' Body Smotherin' (Mi Mort 1983) and Mi-Mort (Mi Mort 1983), over one hour of tape-comp-only tracks, over an hour of their first two live performances in 1984, plus a 37-minute 10-inch with unreleased material from 1983, and one exclusive NWW track on a soundchip greeting card. All in incredible packaging with T-shirt and embossed poster.
She And Me Fall Together In Free Death
(Beta Lactam Ring - mt040b) LP $20.00
Six tracks from 2003, another super-freaked, avant-gone experience. Includes all the creepy, sex-vibed sounds and psyched-out grooves one would expect, plus a cover of "Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair."
Steel Dream March Of The Metal Men
(Clawfist - XPIG 12) 7-inch $20.00
"Steel Dream March of the Metal Men" is very very close to being the exact same song as the Miss Ticker remix of "Cold" from the Thunder Perfect Mind CD reissue and "Head Cold" from the Large Ladies With Cake In The Oven CD. Includes one-sided insert advertising the Clawfist singles club. From 1992. Edition of 1400
Caged Dog / Common Criminal
(Phage - PT180) 7-inch $15.00
Self-described in a Purestench interview as "harsh industrial project that ... falls in line with the dark ambient / death industrial / power electronics style." Inspired by the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland headed by Bobby Sands. Edition of 300.
Carrion Hut
(Singing Knives - SK016) LP $25.00
Originally a CDR inside early editions of the Inside Wino Lodge LP (No Fun 2009), Carrion Hut is infused with prickly, invasive gurgles and rumblings. Let’s turn over the snort-by-snort to Daniel Baker of The Quietus: “‘The Frosted Growth’ is an exercise in muddy barbarism; Nyoukis’s non-verbal snarls, multitracked into a paranoid ooze that revels in its own ugliness … [and] gleeful incantation[s] ... recall the genuinely unsettling soundtrack work of Blood Stereo collaborator and Fluxus-inspired multidisciplinary artist Ludo Mich…. [V]ocal manipulations and rackety anti-percussive creaks … [and] a brutally realist approach to psychedelia through ritual” are “best captured on 'Late Night Vocal Gravy', a side-long experiment in the rendering of hallucination through sound in which Nyoukis patiently channels psychological dysfunction through bodily suffering and blurts it out into his tape deck…. 'Strange New Ache' ... is a Kafkaesque whirligig…. Like an animalistic satire of a society that has gorged itself silly on everything from junk food to credit ratings, there is vulgarity in abundance on Carrion Hut, but that isn't even half the story.” Screened jackets. Edition of 500.
The Throat Is Pregnant / Zangstondes
(Ultra Eczema - UE58) split LP $28.00
This record is all about flipping the coin of persistence and patience. Dylan Nyoukis is back on his grind, and what a tooth-crushing experience it is, old school vocal perversion for which the Chocolate Monk president is known: a retarded brew of high- and low-pitched vocal scruff, muffled sonic slime, lungs full of asbestos dust, and a preference for visuals that piss on the high-brow, borne of total no-fi cassette trouble and underage kids chewing on dusted tapeloops. Dennis Tyfus drools on the microphone and allows bodily juices to make contact with translation delays, empty Kleenex boxes and the power that controls the earth's core. Constant knob-tweaking, contact mic'd cheese balls, and endless layers of mutilated throat sounds jump across the circuitboard like mechanical ants. There's a lot of weird information to absorb here. In addition to vicious ragtime gobot action, a gentle, furrier choir meditation zone will trance your brain muscles over the rainbow. Highly influenced by aboriginal ways of life and the meditative nature of throat singing, the Homo Sapiens Ultra Eczema president spits out a true projection of his tormented soul. Packaged in a classic fold-out silkscreen jacket in a limited edition of 250 copies.
Ambiguism (1983-87)
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD72) 4xLP + 7-inch + DVD $100.00 (Out-of-stock)
Between 1983 and 1987, this UK ambient group, formed in 1982 by Tim Horberry, Roger Horberry, Clare Elliott and Andrew Hulme, released two vinyl albums -- Scene in Mirage (A-Mission, 1984) and Into Dark Water (Final Image, 1987) -- and recorded numerous soundtracks, experimental projects and solo works. This retrospective document of the era tells the definitive story of the emergence and development of the group’s sound. Includes their first two albums with bonus tracks, two additional full-length LPs of unreleased material, and a seven-inch single of their first-ever recordings. The DVD features excepts from their Scenes in Mirage and Peripheral Vision videos. With large poster and detailed listening notes. More than fifty tracks, around half of which have never been released in any form.
Morning & Sunrise
(Destijl - IND097) CD $13.50
(Destijl - IND097) LP $18.00
Olausson ventured deep on Moonlight Farm (De Stijl 2005), and his singular expression returns on Morning & Sunrise, an explorer’s codex, a gaze at what’s more important and less seen. There is more electric guitar here, beautifully played. It really whisks at your earbones. Olausson’s singing glows more. Words like "loner" will be hung on Morning & Sunrise, with good reason: one doesn’t just happen upon such potent clarity without solitude. Possibly the most lucid psychedelic record ever.
Minexcio Connection: Live at the Rosedale Cafe
(Roaratorio) LP $12.00
The results of one of the most unexpected yet fruitful partnerships in recent years, a live collaboration between electronic music pioneer and sage of the environmental-drone Pauline Oliveros and indefinable Argentinean experimenters Reynols. Recorded in August 2000 during Reynols’ first trek through North America, the record features a version of “Six For New Time” (originally composed for Sonic Youth’s Goodbye 20th Century album), along with idiosyncratic throat-singing and hypnotic dream/dronescapes.
To Valerie Solanas And Marilyn Monroe In Recognition Of Their Desperation
(Roaratorio - ROAR21) LP $15.00
Intrigued by the egalitarian feminism set forth in Valerie Solanas’s 1968 SCUM Manifesto, and needing to express her own resonance with the energy of the surfacing women’s movement, Oliveros incorporated the principles in the structure of a new piece she was composing at the time. Monroe had taken her own life and Solanas had attempted to take Andy Warhol’s. Both women seemed desperate, caught in the traps of inequality: Monroe needed to be recognized for her talent as an actress and Solanas wished to be supported for her own creative work. Commissioned by the Music Department of Hope College, Holland Michigan, To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation had its premiere in 1970. Though everyone knew Marilyn Monroe, hardly anyone recognized Valerie Solanas at the time or took her Manifesto seriously. Oliveros brought the names of these two women together to draw attention to their inequality. Roaratorio’s LP -- the first commercially available release of this eerie, beautiful, and important Oliveros work -- contains the 1970 Hope College premiere, performed by a 14-piece ensemble, and a 1977 recording from Wesleyan University, performed by a 43-piece orchestra. Cover artwork by Judith Lindbloom. Download coupon included.
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER / TOMUTONTTU
Tomutonttu / Oneohtrix Point Never
(Alter - ALT02) split 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Kemialliset Ystavat's Jan Anderzen and New Yorker Daniel Lopatin create a unique synthesis formed from a DIY approach to electronic music. With Tomutonttu's "Likaiset Pilvet," Anderzen emerges from his archives with something new after a heavy editing session. Fragmented electronics bring to mind a dozen Parmegiani records melting in unison. Rhythmic loops and other scattered sounds bear similarities to Eric Copeland's recent output. OPN's "Wayland Lincoln Border" continues Lopatin's synth work, recognized for deep layers of warm sound from trance-like melodies, evocative of motion, always evolving, constructing and deconstructing new worlds from sound. An apt counterpoint to Anderzen's chaos. Edition of 500.
Irrelevant
(7.17 From West Wittering Is Late Again ) LP $25.00
Vinyl reissue of this legendary tape (Perverse Series 1997) by Steve Fricker of Cheeses International, in top form playing, producing, mixing, and editing the whole album using a different instrument for each track (hunting horn, cymbal, piccolo, bass guitar and a home-made zambomba). Artwork retains original cover concept (front cover featuring a different flag on each copy). Hand-numbered edition of 300. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2011
Des Machines Dans Les Yeux
(Bimbo Tower) LP $20.00
Industrial dead-dance music. Hypnotic, mekanik. Maniac electronics. Deviant wave. Whatever catchphrase we go with to describe the first full studio album by EL-G (Kraaaak, S-S, and Nashazphone) and Jo (Tanz Procesz), both of whom have worked with Ghédalia Tazartès under the monicker Reines d'Angleterre, these young delinquents scrub the industrial music of their elders with body-tingling electronic rhythms. Wild and colorful, binary and furious, dirty and futuristic, an excellent example of how the new underground electronics connect history to contemporaneity.
MCMLXXXIII-MCMLXXXVII K7-Tapes Alternative
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD55) 3xLP $100.00
Rare tape treasures from the archives of French darkwave master Franck Lopez, including tracks from cassettes home-duplicated in editions of between 100 and 300 copies: Autres Appels (1985); Eternelle Tourmente (1986); OMS / Modern Art (1987); Je regarde la Pluie (1987); and Regret qui s'écaille (1987). Originally recorded on two-track reel tape, these are the seeds of songs that were later rearranged or re-recorded. Also contains some demo versions of never-released songs. Includes t-shirt size XL
Ladybird Labyrinth
(Ultra Eczema - UE67) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Solo work by Eva Van Deuren, member of the street performance folk troupe Makesmachine. A maze of ever-changing Casio trips dripping with innocent ecstasy, a belly dancer oozing for endless adolescence playing with burned dolls in a Barbie house filled with pedals and tape loops, melanchotronic folk reminiscent to some Moondog, the contemporary Finnish crew, Delia Derbyshire, and Asian pop. In a full-color collage cover design by Dennis Tyfus with two inserts. Limited to 400 copies
Electronic Music
(Nihilist - NIHIL72) split LP $18.75
Analog modular synth mayhem from two perspectives. Complex waveforms for complex times.
Provocative Electronics
(Pan - PAN2) LP $20.00
As in the days of musique concrete and the beginning years of synthesizer development, Ortmann (Panicsville, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Nihilist label) experiments with tones and his own brand of electronic tweakage. Not a homage, but yet another document in the ongoing history of electronic music. Limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl, jacket housed in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs.
OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD
Beautiful Monolith Two
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC05) 7-inch $9.00
Powerful psychedelic, surrealistic trance-noise from New Zealand wizard Campbell Kneale.
OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD
Blue Eyes Are My Reward
(Krayon Recordings) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Former Birchville Cat Motelier Campbell Neale intends to charm snakes and drop jaws with his latest collection of crop circles etched in an icicle-clad forest. Dublike boomph and bleary-eyed strum blast the path out of a decidedly greying world of so-so metalized-myspace-drone into a miniaturized drone-prairie of superpowered starshine and dazzling stellar-commotion. 180-gram vinyl.
Outer Space
(Arbor) Used LP $10.00
Electricity converted into acoustic pressure and potential; the melody of physics. Six recordings here, each a microcosmic illumination of the personal path of Emeralds' John Elliott. Clear vinyl. Edition of 650.
Raglani / Outer Space
(Nihilist - NIHIL67) split LP $20.00
Quite synthesizerish and pleasantly mindbending. Guest appearance by C. Spencer Yeh on the Raglani side. Artwork by Jeremy Kannapell (Ghost Ice). Edition of 500.
Otherside of
(Pataphysique - DD89) 2xCD + 7-inch $40.00
Tokyo psych mainstays from 1990 to 2008 who, according to Dusted, “mixed the melodies with the mope to achieve a Paisley Underground sort of effect, albeit with virtuosic guitar freakouts by leader Rinji Fukuoka…. [M]ajestic melodies, challenging and progressive outlines, ripping leads, and proper song structures … recorded in Japan rattle the cages of … young, “tribal” drug-pee band[s]… with the skill and professional freakout-making abilities they all lack.” The seven-inch contains two songs from the band's 1999 US tour: “Le Few Follet” with its pop-psych layering and dueling lead guitars that are thick and confident and “Cut Up Us,” a collage of sounds from the entire tour and symphonic tapeloops.
Overhang Party
(Mutant Music - MM026) LP $11.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reissues of the long out-of-print debut LP by Rinji Fukuoka and Co., at their formative nucleus in 1993. Avant-garde, improvisational, amazingly soundscapular. The beautiful and the abrasive. Edition of 500.
Dobranoc
(Elevator Bath - eeaoa029) LP picture disc $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
More than forty haunting yet serene minutes of field recordings, guitars, shortwave radio, analog keyboards and Moog filters. Contemplative and melodic tones build slowly into a monolithic block of sound, while layer after layer of warm atmosphere appears and then unravels into a sea of tranquility. Strikingly elegant three-dimensional music. Edition of 268
Killing On Full Moon
(Legion Blotan) 7-inch $9.00
Slow and melodic black metal from the Netherlands. Great songs with drum machine and evil vocals. Limited to 250 copies.
New Directions in Creative Nihilism
(Turgid Animal - TA242) 7-inch $9.85
Junkyard pick-and-scrape from Andy Ortmann and co., who use time, space and mind-boggling stereo switching to their advantage. Limited to 220 copies on heavy black vinyl, with artwork screened by Jelle Crama.
Air Lice
(SNSE - SNSE066) split 10-inch $10.50
Taliban is the free noise duo of Miles Haney and Joel Rakowski. Haney also runs Tapeworm Tapes and has a recording project called Evenings. Taliban has prior releases on American Tapes, Gods Of Tundra, Fag Tapes, and Tapeworm Tapes, among others. Paranoid Time is the harsh noise project of Pat Yankee, operator of the SNSE record label. Paranoid Time has past releases on Animal Disguise Recordings, Pacrec/Troniks, Militant Walls, Harsh Head Rituals, Tapeworm Tapes, and Gaping Hole, among others.
THE PARASITES OF THE WESTERN WORLD
Politico / Zytol Automation
(Destijl - IND095) 7-inch $8.00
Reissue of the lead single for their second album, Substrata (Match Box 1980). "Politico" is a rippin' new wave roller full of glam stomp, proggy arrangement and punky attitude. The synth-fuelled non-LP instrumental "Zytol Automation" features Terry Censky and Patrick Burke in an ebullient symphony of synths, drums and guitar.
THE PARASITES OF THE WESTERN WORLD
The Parasites of the Western World
(Destijl - IND072) LP $18.50 (Out-of-stock)
This Portland, Oregon, band released their debut in 1978, a fascinating, galactic ramble across the otherworldly themes of alienation and paranoia, seemingly inspired by LSD and Philip K. Dick. Primarily the creation of Patrick Burke and Terry Censky, The Parasites were limitless with invention and completely DIY. They were recorded in an apartment by a crew thoughtful enough to curtail its loud excursions for the daylight hours. Informed by the typical institutions of the era (Pink Foyd, The Beatles and Hawkwind), its many electronic flourishes presage the likes of Vertical Slit, F/i and Vertigo. The Parasites remain light years ahead of a time that has yet to come. Edition of 1000. Includes digital download coupon.
Paris 1942
(Majora) LP $80.00
Recorded in Phoenix in 1983, released in 1997, these killer garage jams start off VU-styled and get darker and stonier from there, as required by their cover of Syd Barrett's "Long Gone." The band is Moe Tucker (drums), Allan Bishop (bass, vocals), Bennie Baresi (guitar), Jesse Akkari (guitar), David Oliphant (guitar) and Rick Bishop as well, possibly.
C-Section
(Pan - PAN9) LP $27.00
Pan’s vinyl edition of the CD (Second Layer 2010) contains all the final mixes and edits of the sessions by the British free jazz phenomenon and L.A.’s no-nonsense electronic and tape noise artist. The duo’s real-time, evolving improvisations are intended for maximum volume and have been mastered accordingly. C-Section finds density in scarcity -- deep, glacial muck bubbles emerge beneath Parker's inhuman circular breathing, only to plunge into an incessant clatter of industrial landscape. Edition of 330, 140g black-and-white LP jacket in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. Artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas.
Peeesseye + Talibam!
(Smeraldina-Rima - SR13) 2xLP $20.00
This overdue collaboration between Evolving Ear labelmates Talibam! (Kevin Shea on drums, Matt Mottel on keyboards) and Peeesseye (Jaime Fennelly on electronics, Chris Forsyth on guitars and Fritz Welch on drums) rips. Driven by the double-barreled percussion attack, underpinned by Fennelly's drones and scribbled all over by Mottel and Forsyth, whose gonzo soloing reminds us single-chord jams have been around since The Fugs roamed the earth and Angus MacLise still turned up for rehearsals. Sometimes they dispense with chords altogether and dive into the primeval, murky soundpool. Loud, messy, and glorious. Artwork by Rachel Lowther. Edition of 600
Counterfeit Memories
(Nashazphone - NP002) LP $25.00
Hailed as the world's most psychedelic band, John Schoen, R. Nuuja and Jason Finkbeiner -- two of whom have previously played with Arthur Doyle, who is about as psychedelic as onion rings -– issue their darkest statement so far. A departure from 1970s Ugandan extravaganza into possibly the synapses of its then leader.
Hey Friend, What You Doing?
(Destijl) CD $15.00
(Destijl) LP $12.75
A Pens live set lasts about fourteen minutes. The girls swap instruments between tunes mainly because it appears none of them really know what they are doing. The whole shambolic thing seems on the verge of falling apart; it's swathed in so much static and reverb that it's like watching the YouTube clip of that kid kicking through the granite wall and snapping his ankle in half. Their cover of The Gun Club's "Sex Beat" sounds like The Germs trying to be The Shangri Las through a gauze of early K Records fuzz.
Love Rules
(Destijl - IND081) 7-inch $5.25
Pens are three girls who take an old-school approach to a hum and riff and add their own who-gives-a-fuck, homemade panache.
The Undead Shall Rise
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR046) LP $16.00
Funeral doom concept album based on a zombie attack. Very slow and heavy music interspersed with spoken word, noise and drones. Comes with a blood-soaked “last note.”
Phantom Payn Days
(Destijl - IND079) LP $18.00
During the late 70s, while in the widely neglected 39 Clocks, Juergen Gleue made records that never sold and played gigs that few ever saw. Though an important exponent of electrified German sound, his Phantom Payn Days LP, made in the mid- to late '90s, has never been released. It's Gleue's final LP and overflows with all the elements that romanticized, loner / stoner music claims, an encoded expression of highly private feelings, an ambiguous, emotional quotient, and a dark, murkily melodic vibe.
They Live
(RRRecords) LP $15.00
An anarchist protest / actionist record, like Otto Muehl having his way with Herman Nitsch. Avant excursions of guttural excess and militant pounding, almost academic in its scope, by this current member of Schimpfluch and the former big cheese behind Fear Of God. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
Our Anthems
(Twisted Knister - KNACK003) LP $21.25
Twelves sketches of "atmospheric musical beauty" from the mid- to late 1990s by Idea Fire Company's Karla Borecky and Scott Foust with long-time collaborator Mike Popovich. The trio uses synths, haunting voices, guitars with percussive elements, minimal rhythms and radio static. Edition of 300 copies.
Body Scrap
(Trash Ritual - TRASH047) LP $20.00
(Trash Ritual - TRASH047) Used LP $12.00
Harsh noise electronics from Ulex Xane (Streicher, Goldenrod, Thule Society), originally intended for release on Zero Cabal in 1999. A few promo copies were sent out packaged in hand-desecrated LP covers before the tape division closed up shop. After failed attempts at documentation, Trash Ritual comes to the rescue with this vinyl reissue. Expect the worst in the form of Pure sound wreckage, no synthesizers, no samplers and no digital / computer fuckery. Silkscreened fold-over cover with random escort service card pasted on the back (because you never know...).
ROBERT PIOTROWICZ / C.M. VON HAUSSWOLF
Robert Piotrowicz / C.M. von Hausswolff
(Bocian - BR02) split LP $25.00
Piotrowicz’s single long track, "Clinamen 3" continues his study of the analog modular synthesizer. The first movement is characterized by a high-frequency tone and an erratic rhythmic bass pulse that slowly build to a wall of symphonic roar. The second movement, a low-end, dark passage, infests the symphonic leads with a sense of evil and menace, the two writhing together in a horror movie haze. The third goes all out, mixing a low end thump with a siren melody lead, dropping subtlety in favor of pure force, before going out like a lamb with a short, simple melodic coda. The first of Von Hausswolff’s quiet, textural studies of sound, "Ritual Shaving of an Ass in Belgium (aka Eating A Piranha Wouldn't Be So Bad The Way Things Are These Days)," is based on loops composed for an installation performance. The textures are light and scratchy, with careful variation on the crunchy textures, with the vaguest insinuation of bass hidden. "Ritual Shaving of an Ass in Poland (aka The Snoring Innocence)," is rawer, static, heavy, and abrasive. With extraneous sounds and audience conversations captured on ragged audio tape, its mangled, worn, decaying nature gives it an historical, hollow quality. Edition of 200.
Sounds and Songs of the Sea
(La Brea - LBX06) 7-inch $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
A strange and obscure artifact from mid-90s San Francisco, sponsored by Jaina Davis and Flatter! magazine. Real chanteys and ballads by Phil Frankin (Caroliner), Christine Shields (Blue Hole), James Goode (Faxed Head). Silkscreened sleeve.
A Theme Park For Whatever Happened Before
(Memoirs of an Aesthete) LP $20.00
The first sighting of Julian Bradley (a founding member of The Vibracathedral Orchestra) in a number of years. Eight tracks of intricate electronic calligraphy produced by archaic and malfunctioning effects units, unsweetened by digital reverb or any other modern day fripperies. Fuzztone and feedback patterns pulsate, intersect, and mix drone electronics, garage psych and a lumbering dose of doom metal. Imagine The Dead C eviscerating the instrumental bits off the first Roxy Music album and you’re halfway there. Edition of 250.
Goshen b/w 828
(Meeuw Muzak - MM040) 7-inch $8.00
The second 45 by Hideto Aso. Happy neon mystique and tinny breaks. Out of the norm, something antique but extremely new music. Edition of 200.
Pitchshifters
(Meeuw Muzak - MM033) 7-inch $6.00
Two tracks from The Pitchshifters’ second CDR, Improvise*Dessert. Beautifully constructed pop impulses stuffed into an improv framework.
PLACENTA POPEYE / REVERSE MOUTH
Baby Blues Kids
(Tanzprocesz - TP4) split 7-inch $12.00
Byron Coley's review somehow slipped past The Wire's editorial gatekeepers and made it into print: "Fairly amazing free rock gloop collision by a French group with roots in Le Dernier Cri's post-trauma sound (Placenta Popeye) and a Greek group (Reverse Mouth ), who ... take things in a direction of stunning confusion. The best Greek things I've heard have always had a certain post- Rembetika blues orientation that explodes beyond average tongue worship. These guys are all that. And more." Hand-numbered edition of 400 copies
Dunn/Olson/Ramirez - 12/15/93
(Killertree) LP $15.00
Jeff Dunn, John Olson (Wolf Eyes) & Bryan Ramirez (Ex-Cocaine) met many evenings per week for over a year solid, cranked out around 200 sessions all recorded on 90 minute tapes. Of the roughly 9000 minutes of screech, almost all was eventually ground into dust, molded in the walls of 1610 Kzoo St. Lansing, MI, ransacked by noise bums, or recorded over. But one second-generation cassette got away from the doomhole; it was made at six o’clock in the morning before Ramirez was to catch a flight to Florida. The trio’s horrendous alien argument thundered from their sax, drums, guitar, and keys. The recording is shattering: minced analog skreedom recklessly curing informal ills and breaking windows from pure soundwave pressure. Free sound from the early years all innocent-like. Pure and demented is pure demented freedom. Screened covers. Killer liners / history lesson by John Olson.
Saison 1979-82 - 30 years after; when the size was Polyphonic
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD63) 4xLP + 10-inch $120.00 (Out-of-stock)
Singles, maxi-singles, the debut LP (produced by The Stranglers' JJ Burnel), B-sides, rare tracks, alternate versions, demos, and unreleased material selected from Roger-Marc Vande Voorde's archives. LP1: Algorhythmic / Pragmatic Songs / Nagasaki Mon Amour / Mother's Little Helper / B9 Saison / Space Rejection / Mode / Plage Privée / Logique Polygonale / Ommatidia / Party / Travelling Things / Nagasaki Mon Amour / Hiroshima 1945 / Kyoto (version) / RDA-RFA / Kyoto LP2: Live For Each Moment / Vivre Pour Chaque Instant Zas / Rendez-vous / Winston & Julia / King Of Hong Kong / NBC Gmbh / Action Man / Night Is Coming On / Le Temps Du Swing / Je T'ai Toujours Aimée. LP3: P.S. / Winston & Julia / Outtakes / Demos / Unreleased Instrumentals Mother's Little Helper / Girlscout / Men & Construction / On The Way To Medora / Saison / Winston & Julia (Remix) / Parties Dance / ZAS 1 / Mode (instrumental version) / Medora / Saison (rehearsal with vocals by Bernard Dradin) / Rendez-Vous (rehearsal) / Electronic 14-7 / Me Or You / Citizen Of Science / Electronic 65-4. LP4 : Outtakes / Demos / Unreleased / Instrumentals Saison / Electronic 69-7 / Asakusa Dub / Electronic 15-5 / Her Toys dub / Girlscout (rehearsal with vocals by Bernard Dradin) / Space Rejection / Space Rejection (rehearsal with vocals by Bernard Dradin) / ZAS 3 (demo) / ZAS 4 (studio rehearsal) / PS intro / Kyoto / Nagasaki (instrumental) / Nagasaki (rehearsal) / Night is Coming On (demo) / Electronic 65-6 / RDA-RFA 2 (rehearsal) / Electronic 14-12 / Mother's Little Helper (alternate version).
Poor School / Wiggwaum
(Killertree - KTR13) split LP $14.25
There’s no reason for jazz not to attack. SF’s Wiggwaum terrorize the fuck outta sensibility and give no goddamned reason for the scars. Free sound is supposed to make it feel not so right, after all, and this particular declaration is just the shit bomb hurled from many stories above. Sometimes it’s a Manson orgy buried in Death Valley, other times it’s blissful fuckin’ peaches falling from a Krishna tree. Randy Lee Sutherland (Stereomother) heads this one into the back alleys with some pals and loses sense of time and practicality in the best way possible. Poor School, on the other hand, try to make money by "righting" hit records, but they fuck up every time they pick up an instrument. Once drummer Niekrasz pounds out this morse code in "mean method" and the sax/gtr combo adds to the argument, there’s nothing to do but back off and let ’em justify their violent ambitions. Jazz wreckage and difficulties throughout. Limited edition of 300 copies, silkscreened jackets. Includes bonus CDR of the album plus two extra tracks.
Complete Works 80-83
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD73) 7xLP + DVD $150.00 (Out-of-stock)
Contains official and unreleased material by the godfathers of electronic body music, hard rhythmic electronics, and minimal synth. Includes: Gaining Momentum (Por Con 1981); Dining on the Fresh; (Por Con 1981); Private Illusions No. 1 (Por Con 1981); Private Illusions No. 2 (Por Con 1982); Video Soundtrack (Por Con 1982); Progress Report; With Mixed Emotion (In Phaze 1982); Surface and Be Seen (In Phaze 1982); I Staggered Mentally (In Phaze 1982); “A-Mag” and “Shot in the Belly” (Third Mind 1983); the highly sought-after Assault (For All and None 1986); obscure and unreleased tracks (including demos and alternate versions) from Portion Control’s archives; and compilation tracks. With 60-page book of memorabilia and photos from the era, a DVD with self-made videos from the V-Mag archive, all from 1981–83, and T-shirt. Edition of 600.
A Skeleton / Cupboard Situation
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD35) 2xLP $30.00
Early ’80s tape-only rarities by the founder of one of the earliest cassette labels in the UK (ICR), a key figure in the production of work by Nurse With Wound, Current 93 and Organum.
PREGGY PEGGY AND THE LAZY BABYMAKERS
Get An Ace Case of the Measles
(Ultra Eczema - UE63) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Angela Sawyer, a Boston-based psycho, record collector and owner of Weirdo Records, found herself compelled to overdub a mountain of voices on a mountain of strange instruments played by JA, who apparently “lives on one of New England's gray, shabby beaches with a couple of miniature fluffy dogs.” Thus was born Preggy Peggy And The Lazy Babymakers, who we may commend on numerous fronts: for CDRs released by Chocolate Monk and their own Being Weird Isn't Enough imprint; for never playing live; for stylish proximity to a hillbilly remix of the Sun City Girls jamming with Francois Dufrene; and for an astounding resume that includes such noteworthy ensembles as Pig Sex, The Pie Plate Band, The Cool Breeze, Jet Jaguar Backing Band, Phenomenological Boys, Stick a Fork In It, Laser Laser Laser Laser, The White People, Cough Syrup, The Saliva Sisters, Giacinto Scelsi Tribute Band, White Cocaine, My Son's Coloring Book, The Whoop Whoop Girls, Jimmy & the Waffles, N. Soseki / T. Hatsuro, The Kantian Project, Instant Distance Mental Powers, The Whistle Band, Byron, Jimmy & Gerard, Les Garcons Sur La Plage, Life Partners, The A Minor Project, Moshi Moshi I Am the Decider, Goils Goils & Fripped, Swastika Niggers, Sun Shine Sanitarium, The Cloud Club, Scarcity of Tanks, The Depressed Horns, Fleetwood Sac & the Sex-Havers, Human Hairs, Grizzler Big Band, Exusamwa, and Duck That.
Icon / Effigy
(Phage - PT134) 7-inch $9.00
Layered metal abuse and thick harsh noise by Sean Matzus, Vance Osborne and Richard Ramirez, a strong follow-up to their recent Smell & Quim collaboration (Rough Skin 2010) and their appearance on the Filth compilation with Bizarre Uproar and Nicole 12 (Urashima 2010). Screenprinted covers, sticker, double-sided insert. Edition of 200.
Stun Gun
(Quasi Pop - QPOP07) 7-inch $9.00
Emotional, personal, almost intimate noise. No point in brutality and aggression without the human element, after all. Green vinyl. Edition of 350.
The History of Aids
(Hospital - HOS079) LP $16.50
Massive, textural, throbbing, destructive, electronic, feedback-drenched power electronics and industrial noise with heavily processed vocals and field recordings dealing with vulnerability. Uses Thirteenth Century love poems of Persian poet Rumi as lyrics. Originally released 2000 on CD. On vinyl for the first time.
Victorian Photography
(Turgid Animal - TA248) 7-inch $7.50
Daydreams of the Victorian past via highly focused synth projections over a bed of crunched static, screamed vocals, children's song echoing from the bottom of a barrel. Creepy religious themes creeping in.
Wrapped In The Flame Of Illusion, Masked In The Clay Of Behavior
(Dais - DAIS028) 2x7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ambient power electronics recorded prior to the Bermuda Drain sessions. Destitute, vulnerable and sedate, reflective and rapt, the four compositions here throw away a decade of experience, only to start at Prurient's foundations. Orange and purple vinyl. Cover art by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Edition of 500.
Golden Oldies
(Wasted Vinyl - WASTED01) LP $16.00
Psychedelic Horseshit started in 2005, recording and releasing what became known as their "paper singles" (CDRs in stapled, color-collage artwork with three or four songs on each), trying to sell them at shows no one went to, and leaving them at the bar or in the parking lot. People still run across copies in the strangest places (e.g. the fridge of an Ohio State frathouse). Even Matt Whitehurst himself won't listen to the stuff (incredibly amateur, he says, which is something). Couple bonus tracks, liner notes by Rob Enbom of Eat Skull / Hospitals fame, 20 tracks in all, the first recordings of Psychedelic Horseshit.
At Stockholm / Jarman Themes / Live New York 17-11-83 / Unclean Versions / Unreleased and Rarities
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD83) 4xLP $125.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. RESERVATION REQUIRED. Two double-LPs in gold-embossed black velour folders. Contains: the legendary At Stockholm, produced in cooperation with White Stains in 1990, available for the first time on vinyl; three Jarman Themes (“Pirates,” “Demons,” and “Chorals”); PTV’s first live performance (Danceteria, New York, November 17, 1983, with Genesis, Sleazy, John Balance, Alex Fergusson and John Gosling); three versions of Unclean material (rough, instrumental and live); a fifteen-minute selection from the miraculous and mysterious Fondation Raelinne tape; and “We Kiss” rough mix.
Early Recordings 1979-83
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD34) 2xLP $28.50
Thirty-three minimalist tunes by “The French Residents,” so-called for their unbelievable, warped melodies and textures. First time on vinyl.
In the Army 1981
(Siltbreeze - SB121) LP $16.00
Corroded psych / hardcore scree enlightened by the most unhinged charters of Acid Archives and Killed by Death alumni. In the Army 1981 is its own sadistic brand of plastic surgery, heavy on the anesthetic, short of any bedside manner. Includes download card.
Decaying Ships
(Ultra Eczema - UE65) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
Total narco Easter basket by a rising PacNW starbot: a labyrinth with a magnetic floor, ascending tension of sparse drones, heavy meditative aircraft static blurs slowing down the customary codeine rhythm, modular synth carpets at their nastiest! Limited to 300 copies, jacket design by Ulf F Faefs.
Pumice
(Doubtfulsounds - DOUBT04) 10-inch $15.00
Self-described by Stefan Neville as "dumb punk slop and some tape loop soup and a pretty love song." One of the noisier Pumice records to date. Includes two postcards. Cover is black paper silkscreened by Cotoreick. Edition of 500.
Live Interlacing
(Harbinger Sound - HAS063) LP $25.00
Collaboration by Mark Durgan (Putrefier) and Dean Glaister (Romance). Minimal, low-level circuitry making allusive crackling connections between sudden pin-points of fuzz and architectures of pure current a la European electronic improvisers like Voice Crack, Hugh Davies and Michel Waisvisz. Each jacket has a unique paste-on image. Edition of 250 copies.
Queen Cobra
(Boner) LP $10.00
The sole head-banging album from San Francisco scorch rock heroines L.S. Defunkt and Empress Yasmine K.K. Their throttle-down, three-chord tear-it-up is punched with Yasmine’s driving punk guitar, Defunkt’s throat-searing vocals, and their primitive drum machine beats. Ms. Defunkt subsequently went on to front the black metal band Ludicra. Limited edition with wicked hand-screened covers.
The Amazing Spellcaster
(Bulb - BLB042) LP $30.00
Like a nightmarish Brad Swanson record, Quintron lays on thick organ distortion, cheap outer-space effects and animal noises. Furiously fun, enjoyably schizophrenic. Recorded live at the Pussycat Caverns, 1995. Jacket is letter-pressed and spray-painted on the front, offset printed on the back.
USA
(Pan - PAN18) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
This archival release -- the second full length following One (Snow Mud Rain) (Erstwhile 2007) -- documents Peter Rehberg and Marcus Schmickler's 2009 USA tour. Their real-time extreme music improvisations were recorded at Lampo in Chicago and No Fun Fest in New York City. Rehberg (aka Pita) founded the influential Editions Mego label based in Vienna in 1995. Schmickler is a key figure in German contemporary experimental electronic music. 140-gram vinyl, color jacket, silkscreened PVC sleeve. Edition of 500.
Czarny Sen
(BloodLust! - B!169) LP $16.50
Raw, stripped-down Chicago doom anchored by the brutal low-end sludge of Andrea Jablonski (ex-Camaro Rouge) and Mike Tsoulos (Frontier) playing bass and drums respectively. Bassist Arman Mabry (ex-White+Outs) and guitarist Dan Sullivan (Arriver) thicken and expand the band’s sound. On this their first album with Sullivan, “Eclipse” slowly unfolds around an unstoppable, meditative riff; the dark landscape of “Goliad” alludes to the violence associated with Texas town that was the scene of a massacre in the 19th Century. “Suicide Song" inserts the lyrics from the infamous torch song “Gloomy Sunday” along with screeching saxophone, rattling percussion, and growled vocals in a full-blown twelve-minute epic. “Land of the Glass Pinecones” completely re-imagines Human Sexual Response's song with a giant, evil riff. The pagan incantation “Raven Man” uses bristling slide guitar to build to a ferocious climax. Guests include Dave Rempis, Bruce Lamont, Mark Solotroff, and Michael Zerang.
Web of Light
(KVIST) LP $21.00
Produced under a pseudonym, presumably, this LP cannot be considered a soundtrack to the lost and fabled rumor of world cinema of the same name, but it is as close as we are likely to get to the thing itself, or to the truth of its stories, of which there are three distinct and curiously related. The first revolves around a mysterious early phonograph, produced by an eccentric inventor named Raglani, and purporting, by accompanying letter, to be a direct audio recording of the man's dreams and most precious memories. In the second part of the film, another man named Raglani (whose connection with his earlier namesake is not made clear), this time a composer of popular renown, whose talents, have been mostly squandered on commercial work, attempts to compose a piece of music in memory of his dead wife. He is driven mad by the pain of his efforts, and in the end kills himself by burning down his house, together with all traces of the piece (the titular “Web of Light”). Finally, the third story features a filmmaker (names are not mentioned), preoccupied with the spiteful task of documenting the disintegration of his marriage--piecing together a film from fragments of home movies, his own drunken commentary, and footage of his ex-wife and her new lover, surreptitiously filmed. Suicidal and obsessed, the man finds himself beset by strange dreams--filled with buried snatches of melody we can recognize from the first story--that seem to direct the failed auteur toward a rendezvous with a woman always only nearly-seen. The effect of the dreams is to shake our anonymous hero from the stupor of his sordid documentary efforts, and send him following those clues he jots down feverishly upon waking. It's unlikely that anyone will ever see the film -- truly "a film lost in space," to date an imaginary record of something that happened, but was never made, an idea evading the constraints of any plastic medium.
LES RALLIZES DENUDES / TAJ-MAHAL TRAVELLERS
OZ Days Live 1973
([ no label ] - 561-XLB) LP $60.00
Unauthorized single LP of material originally released as part of a double-LP (Oz Records 1973). Rallizes tracks brim with thuggish psych brilliance, while the Travellers get all squeedly and drone-oid in equal measures. Paste-on jackets.
Take The Curse
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR072) 2xLP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second full-length from these masters of psychedelic horror doom is focused, direct, tighter and less sprawling than previous efforts. It's all about the riffs. Each song is lysergic foulness, arranged for immediacy with '70s Hammer / Euro cine vibe throughout. Gatefold diecut jacket with metallic ink and spot UV varnish, printed heavy innersleeve, 10 x10 insert, 180g vinyl. Edition of 400.
Machines Will React
(Turgid Animal - TA294) LP $13.50
Texas noise legend delivers material by most of his better known projects, including Anal Drill, Gender Sabotage, Release Helen Rytka, SS Electronics, Crash At Every Speed, Private Mouthpiece, Werewolf Jerusalem, Last Rape, 12 Yr Old Proud Parent and The Sick Tour. Limited to 200 copies on black vinyl. Comes in generic black sleeve with sticker on the front. Includes a massive poster with artwork by Tisbor.
Ghosts From A Machine 1989-1994
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD81) 3xLP $80.00 (Out-of-stock)
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. The ethno-ambient solo project of Zoviet France co-founder Robin Storey reflects his fascination with the minimalistic but rhythmic music of West Africa and India. Storey uses the musical construction techniques of loops and rhythmic repetition as a platform for inducing a sort of trance-like reception. The tracks are taken directly from the multiple original four-track cassettes, played on non-synchronized machines. Some of the material found its way onto released albums, some of it is sub-mixes and parts of mixes, while other elements were never used in any released material. This is an opportunity for re-discovery of compositions that have been hidden until now.
Aide-Memoire
(Heard Worse - HW02) 2xLP $37.50
Material taken from CD-R releases: The Fish Rots From The Head (unreleased), Southern Oscillation Index (HoLR) CDR-RWW (MIR), Ratified Loopholes (AEN), Ashtray Cabbage (Fiend), Get And Put (Deadline), Out Vile Jelly! (Gold Soundz), Night Science and Underground Australia compilations (Cipher Productions). With fried compact disc glued to the jacket. Extremely limited, imported from Australia.
Where Were You On Christmas
(Meeuw Muzak - MM032) 7-inch $6.75
A yuletide single from long-running Los Angeles avant-garde pioneer Tom Recchion. Limited edition pressing, Dutch import.
Deviant
(BloodLust! - B!109) 7-inch $12.00
A dark slab of necro-nihilism by cult death-industrial powerhouse Ryan Oppermann (Fabrico Incubo, Klinikal Skum, Narcoleptic Ward, Neuntöter Der Plage, Post-Mortem Junkie, Xombie). "Deviant" straddles an uncomfortable line between death-industrial, power-electronics, crust/sludge and a totally aggressive form of minimal synth; "White Walls" brings to mind Leichenschrei-era S.P.K. with its unwholesome mental ward pathology.
Psycho Bondage
(BloodLust! - B!162) LP $16.50
Heightened, savage necro-nihilism from Ryan Oppermann, straddling a hazy line between death-industrial, power-electronics, crust/sludge, and a more ferocious take on minimal synth. A bass-heavy amalgamation of vicious power and pure, seething aggression. With protective poly outer-sleeve. Edition of 525
Birth Of An Older, Much More Ugly Christ
(Hanson - HN203) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded in 2009 by sisters Roxann and Rachal Spikula during their participation in a health study that required them to drink nothing but Shasta for like two weeks. (The master tape, according to Hanson, arrived duct-taped inside a hospital gown with the address written on it in Sharpie.) Menacing organ drone kicks off and mutates into the lo-fi skree of an empty room, eventually becoming a swirling abyss of tape hiss and the sound of nothing happening in a hospital. Distant creaks, buzz, and hums littered with hiss. A very unsettling frenzied drone. The flipside is a crunchy noise inferno that eventually leads to what sounds to Hanson like watching the earth exploding from outer space. A saddening, descending synth wave appears, buried by blasts of destroyed earth. It ends and you are disturbed. Everything fucking sucks. Edition of 300. Heavy duty black and silver silkscreened jackets with the Hanson droll flaps.
Stupor Hiatus
(Siltbreeze - SB113/SB114) 2xLP $17.50
The complete recorded works of the original Mike Rep and the Quotas, dating back to 1974 and moving forward into the early 1990s (essentially a reworking of the Stupor Hiatus Vol. 2 LP released by Siltbreeze in 1992 plus six additional tracks, four of which have never before been released. This double-LP includes the legendary "Rocket to Nowhere," an instrumental interpretation of the 13th Floor Elevators' "She Lives in a Time of Her Own," a cover of Roky Erickson's "Creature with the Atom Brain," a shout-out to the Strapping Fieldhands ("In the Pineys") and fifteen other immortal tracks fed by a love for B-grade horror flicks, the aforementioned 13 Floor Elevators, Velvet Undergound, Kim Fowley, The Doors and -- typical of the Grove City, Ohio, scene -- codeine, cannabis and Carling. Includes download card.
STEFANIE RESSIN / ASMUS TIETCHENS
3 Wishes
(Meeuw Muzak - MM037) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ms. Ressin was one of several speakers on "Lipostudio... And So On," a "revoltingly beautiful" track by Matmos. Here she covers Klaus Nomi with appropriately pathetic operatic singing and electro-inspired rhythm from a sequencer. For the remix treatment on the flip, Mr. Tietchens reverses the vocals and feeds the rhythm through a gated reverb in the finest style of one-hit-wonder superfluous B-sides. Quite believable as an obscure 80s synth-pop record.
Semelles de Fondation
(Bimbo Tower - BTR017) LP $20.00
Second improv meeting between bass clarinettist Michel Pilz (Globe Unity Orchestra, Manfred Schoof Quintet) and percussionist Noël Cognard (Salmigondis, Empan, Tribraque), with an expanded line-up that includes Itaru Oki on trumpet and flute, Benjamin Duboc on contrabass and voice, Patrick Müller on "électrosonics," and Sébastian Rivas on computer. Explorations on the border of free jazz and post-noise atmospheres.
Shark Knifing
(SNSE - SNSE075) 7-inch $8.01 (Out-of-stock)
Lurching, ripping, and tearing. Relentless and sharp. Thrashing about in the blood water, coming back for the torso. There are sharks and then there are knives. How about sharks getting their throats slit by humans with knives? Think about that. These two sides present a concise and brutal attack by the master Sam McKinlay, compelled by the short format to pack each track with nothing but highlights typically spread out over longer form The Rita recordings. Hits hard, hits fast. Includes twelve-page booklet adorned with not-nice artwork culled from McKinlay's personal collection and drawings inked by the man himself, a sticker, and a double-sided postcard.
Skate / Snorkel
(RRRecords - RRRITA) LP $17.00
The second in RRRecords' Foley series follows GX- Jupitter-Larsen's Big Time Crash Bang LP; on “Skate” Sam MacKinlay amplifies the sound of 50/50 grinds on metal railing with live effects manipulation by Christian Nicolay. A completely new recording is also included, taking its cues from the other, but uses different distortion chains and ideologies to try and fully manipulate the live skateboard trucks on steel and their tendencies when effected. “Snorkel” is made up of sound effect samples from over twenty different horror and adventure films with diving and snorkling scenes -- from underwater knife and spear gun fights, to straight wreck diving, etc. -- edited, layered, and heavily effected.
Cassavettes
(Formacentric) LP (lathe cut) $25.00
Almost non-existent ambience, Roberts's subdued guitar manipulations and Treadgold's layers of randomly shifting percussion, all drifting in and out of focus on one side, while the other is busy with scraped droning strings and free percussion, loaded with out jazz connotations. From 1997. Edition of 50.
Lee Rockey Music
(Destijl - IND060) LP $16.50
This hard-swinging jazzbo mastered the modern style by 1946 and became known as one of the Vancouver whiz kids. He went to the city in 1953, jammed with Neil Hefti, and appeared on the first few Herbie Mann records. Upon his left coast return, he began developing his own sound and style, intending to transcend traditional musical forms and expectations. Ju Suk Reet Meate of Smegma caught one of his performances in early 1976, and eventually invited him to play on some early Smegma records. Aside from a few record booth lathes cut in the ’40s and ’50s, this is his first solo release, which on first spin, briefly brings to mind Toshi Ichiyanagi, but these sounds inhabit a self-contained universe. Recorded between 1959 and ’73, they own a keen third-eye prescience that portends the likes of C. Spencer Yeh and Axolotl.
The Seven Arms of The Sun
(Twisted Village - TW1030) Used LP $40.00
Dark psychedelic intensity from 1994, between the Crystalized Movements slow dissolve and the quick ascent of Magic Hour. Chaotic and noisy feedback psych crossed with quieter, more contemplative zoning.
Twins
(Tone Filth - TF40) 2xLP $22.50
For over a decade Damion Romero’s minimal sub-frequencies have been consistently intense and focused. The pure sound of Twins was recorded live with no overdubbing, effects, tapes, or feedback, and utilizes varying textures and layers of sound. Edition of 500 copies in professionally printed INA/GRM Serie Gramme-style gatefold sleeves.
Completed Rotations of...
(Roaratorio - ROAR20) LP $16.00
The city of Tauranga doesn’t have as celebrated a history as other centers of New Zealand music such as Otago or Port Chalmers or Whangerei. It is home to Rotate The Completor, however, whose music is disconnected from all known scenes in Aotearoa and elsewhere. Stumbling upon the one-man band busking on the streets, an enthusiastic passerby nabbed a home-recorded cassette and here we are. All attempts at personal correspondence with its creator to date have been ignored, so forget about the next volume of Songs In The Key of Z, outsider aficionado. Rotate The Completor gets to his otherworldly inner-world using guitar, kick-drum, and vocals that might pass for early Residents; the songs are a strangely addictive brew of lo-fi bedroom pop, proggy loner folk, bouncy children’s music, and a one-man band at a carnival that’s gone off the rails. Lyrics concern beer-stealing cantaloupes, dead albino hedgehogs, and emphatic denials of insanity. Includes free download card.
Flammende Herzen
(4 Men With Beards) Used LP $8.00
2010 reissue of the first solo album (Sky 1977) by your man from Neu! and Kraftwerk. Rother's signature guitar sound is all over this visionary record of outerworldly anthemic melodies, propelled by the mechanical percussion of Can's Jaki Liebzeit.
Guitar Weakling
(Beniffer Editions) 7-inch (lathe cut) $19.50
Another devotional candle for worship at the altar of keeko-bleeko guitar-playing. Cover is printed rubber, mounted on a surface raised with ball bearings. Worth framing and keeping on your desk at work. Edition of 50.
21st Century Field Hollers and Prison Songs
(Rococo - RCC023) LP $14.25
An album made entirely from samples taken from the Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues album (which Russell made with Ralf Wehowsky for A Bruit Secret), in tribute to the spirit of the blues, viewed through a prism of 21st Century cultural criticism. Limited edition of 300 copies.
Samoa Highway
(Helen Scarsdale - HMS019) LP $14.75
The heavy-lidded psychedelia of brothers and co-pilots Jon and Brian Pyle (Starving Weirdos, Ensemble Economique) constantly mines the metaphysical properties of their Humboldt County homeland. The brothers channel a psychotropic animism through sound; a swarm of drone guitars announces the opening of the record with a shoegaze wash collapsing into tone purity and bulging through a metallic buzz. Field recordings of airplane take-off and firework explosions punctuate the undulating, bleary smear of the Pyle brothers' guitars. The result is one of levitation, even as RV Paintings seem to be plugging their guitars and electronics directly into the moss, soil, and mycelia of the Humboldt forest. Echo-soaked flutes, maudlin strings, scabrous noises unearthed from the bottom of the Pacific, and cinematic arcs of guitar shimmer complete the beautiful and haunted miasma somewhere between Taj Mahal Travellers, Organum, and The Caretaker. Previous releases on Trinity Rivers and Blackest Rainbow. Includes digital download card. Edition of 500.
S K L S
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC06) 7-inch $9.00
Side project of Skull Defekts’ Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander, who set aside the guitars and drums in favor of analogue machines, feedback system and effects. Their debut seven-inch combines the dark minimalism and haunting synths of proto-ambient with the intensity and spacey grooves of kraut rock. Edition of 300.
Violence
(Harbinger Sound - HAS095) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Vinyl reissue of this scarce cassette (Broken Flag 1982) by Gary Mundy, recorded just before the formation of Ramleh, and his later solo workings as Kleistwahr. Simple, crude and effective power electronics created with the same equipment used on later classic recordings. Ink-stamped sleeve. Edition of 200.
Restored to One
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME58) CD $13.00
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME58) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Restored to One is a modern response (by James Jackson Toth of Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, the No-Neck Blues Band's Dave Nuss, and Sunn0))) / Earth / Boris producer Randall Dunn) to the musical activities of a cult known as The Process Church of the Final Judgment, who used music to spread their visions of Gnostic reconciliation in a time of cataclysmic change. Sabbath Assembly has re-charged the original hymns of The Process Church and worked them into moving renditions that unite the trinity of rock, psychedelic and gospel into one triumphant re-awakening. The Process Church was an intensely creative, apocalyptic shadow side to the flower-powered '60s and New Age '70s. The influential group opened chapters in London, Europe and across the United States. Dressing in black cloaks and walking the streets with German Shepherds, they created their own intricately designed magazines, and promoted a controversial, quasi-Gnostic theology that reconciled Christ and Satan through deeper awareness and love. Funkadelic reproduced Process writings in two of its albums. The Process Church was accused of being part of a Satanic underground conspiracy by true crime pulps, most notably Ed Sanders' The Family, which linked the Church to the Manson murders. The recording follows on the heels of live shows across the US in the Fall of 2009, at which Sabbath Assembly performed previously unrecorded original hymns of the Church. More live events are planned, along with a documentary on the Process Church by William Morris of Skinny Puppy, a video for a song from the coming release, standard CD and LP releases and an archival LP box set (including readings of Process sacred literature by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Adam Parfrey, and Lydia Lunch, as well as LOVE SEX FEAR DEATH author Timothy Wyllie), and an off-Broadway theater extravaganza entitled “Gaming the Gods” based on the rise and fall of the Church.
Assez De Trop Pas
(Bimbo Tower - BTR04) LP $17.25
The French freaks are back with five guests on percussion, flute, alto, trumpet and noises, taking their thing into psych Dada nutso jazz mini big-band territory. Handmade covers (their signature pink starburst, a plaid wallpaper sample, and found images from magazines; chipboard jackets). Edition of 150.
Trop De Pas Assez
(Bimbo Tower - BTR03) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
French quintet of freaks playing improvised psychedelic noise jazz kraut muzak with drums, percussion, guitar, bass, synth, saxophone, turntables, objects, voice and crazy electronics. Broken swing and harsh Dada spirit, with an early Futurist flavor. Handmade covers (their signature pink starburst with a letterpressed mark on one side, the name silkscreened in two colors on the other; chipboard jackets). Edition of 150.
San Agustin
(Road Cone - ROCO020) LP $10.00
Guitarists Andrew Burnes and David Daniell abandon the tightly scripted, intricate and loud approach of Barrel, and enlist percussionist Bryan Fielden for quieter introspective improv recorded live at the Meeting House in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1997. Silkscreened jacket.
Lair of Necromancy
(Hospital - HOS326) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ritual Finnish black metal that should need no introduction, but just in case: Sargeist features members of Horna and Behexen, both are long-term Finnish black metal bands known for profound live performances of magic. Their Let The Devil In (Moribund 2010) was a new standard for fast, brutal and memorable black metal.
No Endowments
(Total Life Society - TLS001) LP $15.00
Cleveland, Ohio based wordsmith Matthew Wascovich leads this amorphous unit of avant-rockers in a noisy fusion of hardcore word choice and houserocking skronkitude. Raw, high energy tracks loaded with avant-rock jamming and intense lyrical explorations remiscent of a Stooges-damaged Saccharine Trust. With Andrew Klimek (X-Blank-X, Johnny & The Dicks), Scott Pickering (My Dad Is Dead, Happy Flowers), Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers, XBXRX) and others. Our prom date at Weirdo Records describes their sound as "dispossession and discontent that could be from 1972 or now.... [V]isions of 8mm movies flickering aimlessly over the eternally dilapidated streets of Cleveland."
Paris Aktionen
(Beniffer Editions - TA090) LP $22.50
This brutal document includes: Aktion 961123 (also known as the infamous "Spaghetti-Action"), featuring Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Philips and Helena Greter; and Aktion 970223, with Doris Tomasoni joining Eb.er, Philips, and Greter. According to our BFFs at Volcanic Tongue, “One set seems to be based around violent hyperventilating, chokes, and groans building into overwhelming cathartic vocal violence. The second set … makes more use of dynamic tension, with long periods of silence populated by nothing but a ticking metronome before the introduction of tortured vocals and split-seconds of warped electronics gives way to an electro-acoustic pile-up…. [P]rimitive vocal poetics of Dylan Nyoukis / Blood Stereo and the body-focused investigations of the original actionists [are] combined with a theatrical approach to avant garde performance.” Edition of 500 copies.
Schnabi Gaggi Pissi Gaggi
(Tochnit Aleph) LP $15.00
Tochnit Aleph Punk Series Volume Four. Featuring Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant) on ventilatorbass; Celeste Urech (age three) on drums and lyrics; Rudolf Eb.Er (Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock) on vacuumvocals. Recorded live in Switzerland 1992. Limited edition of 519 copies.
Scorpion Violente
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD5) LP $18.00
Cold war psy-ops, martial, nihilistic mechanics, and cyborg bass boost that should fulfill all mad passions for proto-NWD super-repetitive, instrumental, minimal synth, mutant disco. Imagine The Flirts’ ragged, switchblade-toting cousin, raised by mutant vermin. Or PiL doing the Escape from New York theme. Or D.A.F.'s early material. Or even 20 Jazz Funk Greats-era Throbbing Gristle. Three songs. 45 RPM
Live at the Marie Antoinette
(Assaphon - ASS01) LP $12.00
A ragged live blast that combines a more garage-rocking take on the communal folk breakdowns of The Cherry Blossoms with killer Shaggs / Godz style drum violence, drunk choir vocals and fidelity that makes it all sound like a VU Bootleg.
Sedainty
(Heresee) LP $12.00
A morphic aura released into the air through the utilization of therapeutic breathing techniques, fumblings, and fantasies about sexual tourism. The Swedenbourgian “airplane” becomes reality along with the use of tubas and guitars and poetic resonance. You may know Peter Blasser as “ciat-lonbarde” or the next incarnation of Dr. Who imagining Bob Moog as interpreted by the paper circuit in the form of the seed of life. If so, God bless ya. Carson Garhart was also the phantasmal skeleton in The Skeletons and Severiano Martinez is the man behind it all. Limited LP with screenprinted covers.
Adenoids 1977-1985
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD49) 5xLP $150.00
The Australian group’s earliest material from the Terse releases Earbitten, Clean, Blubberknife, Tom Ellard’s solo albums 80s Cheesecake and Side 3, and various other tracks from the early to mid-80s. Their use of tape loops, noisy arrangements of synthesizers, and other dissonant sound sources, puts their early work in the general category of industrial music.
Bristning
(Release The Bats - RTB59) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dan Johansson revisits the master tapes for this vinyl reissue of the cassette (Klorofyll Kassetter 2008), and extends the program to thirty-three minutes. Twisted decay and filth that replaces the harsh noise of early Sewer Election with more subtle and restrained soundscapes , without sacrificing the corrupting and creepy feeling of moral disease. Tape loops, metal junk, recorded using microphones and a tape deck to reduce the artifice and enhance the grit. Edition of 275. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST 0F 2010
Vidöppna Sår
(Pan - PAN7) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Vidöppna Sår is the next step in the evolution in scum-brow field recordings and voice recorded to mono tape. Akin to OU revue recorded on a building site, this record documents Sewer Election's development, as witnessed from recent live performances, of aggressive blur build up and ominous restraint, tape speed replacing effect pedals, going beyond the mere "junk noise" description closer to the original idea of musique concrete, namely altering everyday sounds onto tape into a wholly other vocabulary that runs pure power and energy through subtle and restrained soundscapes of a world falling to pieces. Discomfort-and-filth aficionado Dan Johansson, based in Gothenburg, Sweden, is most known for extreme and nasty noise on iDEAL, Troniks, Chondritic Sound, Release the Bats!, Freak Animal, Segerhuva, Gameboy and others. He is a member of Swedish collective Utmarken and lo-fi group Ättestupa. Edition of 330, 140g vinyl. Black-and-white jacket in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. Artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas.
Vittra Sönder
(Throne Heap) LP $15.00
Nothing but fine, fine, fine tape manipulation and metal abuse punctuated by primitive organ melody and sparsely placed percussive stabs. Dark grooves where the musique truly meets the concrète. Edition of 300
Sikknastafari Slash Crasstafari
(Hundebiss - H012) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Hello, good evening and welcome. Your host for tonight's show, less a performance than a bloodletting ritual, will be Griffin Pyn -- the demonic spirit, the martyred victim, and the shaman who heals and exorcises us all through his sonic sacrifice. Are you ready to test the limits of our own mortality and immortality simultaneously? Are you ready for a spontaneous group-trance ceremony? Let's see some sweaty limbs, heads, and feet! Let's see some stomping, swaying, punching, and pulsing! Join the singularly-thinking-entity driven by infectiously minimal bass beats, seemingly ground to a pulp by the teeth of some odious beast! We're gonna do this thing, right now. You coming or staying? Edition of 300.
Equal Eyes
(Hospital - HOS208) LP $17.00
There is no solid footing in the first full length by this active live unit from Providence, Rhode Island, only a suffocating hail of falling rock, strangling vines, and sinkholes. Like a rabbit trapped in the hole of the snake's throat, this duo comprised of members of Immaculate: Grotesque and Em Dath Rir batters and tears its way through six tracks of power electronics, eco-fallout and revolutionary anger. Offering not one moment of relief throughout this litany of rage, Shallow Waters separate themselves from the pack with the focus of a sniper and the fury of napalm.
In The Sun
(Awesome Vistas - AV10) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Phil Franklin nailed it when he referred to Christine Shields's first solo LP as “ten songs of dark and light.” The album is very much about opposites, the sun and moon, descent into darkness and return to light. Instrumentation includes guitar, banjo, baritone uke, and voice, with percussion by William Winant, guitar by Joe Goldring (Enablers, Touched by a Janitor, Swans), soundscapes by Sheila Bosco (Faun Fables, Autobody), and drums and production by Tim Mooney (American Music Club). Her musical pedigree includes Archipelago Brewing Company, Grouse Mountain Skyride, Shady Creek Girls, and Steeple Chase, but she's perhaps best known for her portraits of musicians, short-lived comic book Blue Hole, and dark, humorous, Addams-meets-Gorey illustration work for countless small-press publications and zines (e.g. the cover of Bananafish #15). Her music, like her images, is dreamy, dark, melodic, harmonious, and high-lonesome. (That old-time influence has its hooks in her good.) If you want to make her day, compare her to Opal. You wouldn’t be far off the mark. Silkscreened jackets.
Creation and Space
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR026) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Second full-length and first on vinyl from highly acclaimed power electronics / noise / drone powerhouse. Nice silkscreen packaging in heavy-duty sleeves.
Asconema
(Chironex - CR05) LP $23.00
The recordings on this the debut vinyl by the Danish modern free music collective revolving around Nikolai Brix Vartenberg and Mikkel Reher-Langberg were made at the final show of the group's 2009 UK tour. The sound of this nine-man edition of Shiggajon goes in an acoustic and dynamic direction, moving from quiet solo pieces to intense bacchanalia in a matter of moments. The mostly dense and complex music is formally more "traditional" than psychedelic, almost stripped of added effects. The flow of interplay and melody shines through. Edition of 250.
Isolated Agent / Stranding Behavior
(Elevator Bath - eeaoa031) LP picture disc $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
A two-part sculpture / puzzle, multi-layered and almost entirely electronic, lending vivid color to a description of blackest space. Mysterious, unsettling examples of Shoemaker’s attention to detail, mood and tension. Edition of 233.
Sounds of Japanese Doomsday Cults
(Faithways International) 7-inch $5.25 (Out-of-stock)
This reissue of The Sounds Of Japanese Doomsday Cults marks the first bona fide public availability in the West of “Lord Death’s Counting Song” and “Sonshi’s March,” performed by Shoko Asahara, leader of Japanese religious cult Aum Shinri Kyo and convicted murderer of twenty-five people, including eleven who died in the sarin nerve-gas attack in the Tokyo subway system in March of 1995 -- a terrifying incident that put more than five thousand people in the hospital and shocked the world with its televised images of choking and vomiting rush-hour riders staggering out of the subway exits. Originally released on Australia’s Mighty I AM Presence label in three editions of 25 copies each (on polyurethane lathe-cut 8-inch records).
Fuck Your Punk Rock
(RRRecords - RRRSICK) LP picture disc $15.00
Chris Goudreau started Sickness in the mid-1980s as a tape-loop / industrial project. Here cut up electronics and rapid-fire loops are mashed together with biting comments on today's “noise scene” golden calves and half-assed trends.
There Is A Part Of Me You Will Never Know
(Hospital - HOS209) LP $16.75
The first collaboration by these two legends is not haphazard but symbiotic; it reaches new places, this dark casket of scorched earth sounds, the remains of the cracks at the aftershock of discovery. Reminding us of the peaks in the artists’ catalogs, There Is A Part Of Me You Will Never Know processes the deepest sounds of four masters in haze of lone atmosphere and true noise. This is not not a terror shock, this is the end.
Dash
(Gilgongo - GGGR038) LP $12.75
Scathing sound by John Wiese and Corydon Ronnau, joined by Lasse Marhaug and Will Strangeland of Tearist and Silver Daggers, cautiously partitioned into forty-one short bursts of truly obliterated hardcore. Ruptured and bleeding out, heavily.
Blackout
(Tusco Embassy) Used LP $10.00
Eight tracks of abrasive, negatively charged scum electronics. Perfectly disgusting and abusive. Hand screen-printed second edition of 200.
Skullflower / White Medal
(Turgid Animal - TA440) 7-inch $10.00
The long-running and evil Skullflower and Yorkshire's demented black metal one-man band both straddle the middle ground between experimental and all-out black metal assault, but in very different ways. Artwork by Utarm's Sindre Foss Skancke. 400 copies on black vinyl.
Alien Column
(Nashazphone - NP008) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first full length LP by the thick-smoke-filled-Michigan-basement duo of Chris Pottinger (Odd Clouds, Cotton Museum, and the Tasty Soil label) and Heath Moerland (Sick Llama, Cygnus, Drug Abuse, and the Fag Tapes label). Described as a post-Wolf Eyes combo, Slither mutates free jazz through multiple electronics manipulations and dual horn tandem (alto saxophone and clarinet). Edition of 240 copies.
Three Feet Behind Glass / Instant Classic
(Insolito) LP $21.00
The Slugfuckers started in the late 1970s in Sydney, Australia. Terry Blake (vocals), John Laidler (guitar) and Graham Forsyth (bass) were all students or recent graduates of the Department of General Philosophy at Sydney University. Craig Wilcox (keyboard), Gordon Renouf (guitar, sax), Austin Laverty (drumkit) joined soon after. All the tracks from their two singles from 1979 are here. Bridging the nascence of punk, DIY, and industrial, The Slugfuckers shouted vocals, played almost rudimentarily, set the volume on ten and, in equal parts, enthralled, engaged and repelled with their many obligatory messy interludes. Their raw, underproduced angry attack bores right into your brain. 180g vinyl, tip-on jackets, liner notes. Edition of 500.
I Am Not Artist 1973-1988
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD70) 6xLP + DVD $125.00 (Out-of-stock)
This astonishing set compiles most of Smegma’s long out-of-print and impossible-to-find vinyl releases on the LAFMS, Trap, Dom and Selektion labels, and, of course, their own Pigface Records. The box includes their first three seven inches (Disco Diarrhea, Flashcards, and Pigface Chant), their LPs Pigs for Lepers and Glamour Girl 1941, and their Spontaneaous Sound 1973-82 2xCS. Smegma started collectively by Ju Suk Reet Meate, Cheese it Ritz, Chucko Fats, Dennis Duck, Amazon Bambi and Cheesebro, and continued to lure in a steady stream of avant / free / improv lunos for three-and-a-half decades to come. The least likely folk / primitive / avant band in Pasadena, California, survived Portland, Oregon’s punk rock revitalization and first meltdown, and are today a serious force in weird music. The DVD reissues the 10 Years Wasted videotape from 1983, Mike Lastra’s Smegma The First 10 Years, and two bonus performances from 1978 and 1980.
Mirage
(Important - IMPREC311) CD $12.00
(Important - IMPREC311) LP $15.00
Running the gamut from musique concrète-inspired bombast to frenzied noise funk that morphs Eno / Roxy garage rock with primitive meditations, demented voices, toys, and record players, Mirage reunites four of the original members (working together again for the first time in many years) and introduces them to new collaborators. LP includes exclusive track "Very Good Advice," spontaneously performed at a house party in 2009. CD includes a different exclusive track "Oh Yeh," and a previously unreleased original from Pasadena 1973, "Quiet On The Set Rioux I."
Morass Live
(Tanzprocesz - TP8) LP $24.00
In 1987, G.R.O.S.S. released Morass on cassette -- one studio side, one live side. The former was re-released as bonus material on Harbinger Sound's CD reissue of Nattering Naybobs. Here is the latter, plus 15 minutes of extra astounding unreleased live recordings from 1985-7 for your trouble. "Free jazz firepower is to the fore," observe our comrades at Volcanic Tongue, "With Ayler-ized horns and Borbetomagus-scale form-destruction battling against toy orchestras, power-punking loops, syrupy sludge-jams, garage band instrumentals and usurped avant garde modes. One of Smegma’s wildest sides and some of the most fucked-up art-aggro to escape the gravity of the LAFMS." As John Hodgman would say, "You're welcome." Full color artwork and labels.
Smell Remains The Same
(Anarchymoon - ANOK18) LP $15.00
Ten tracks from seven-inches originally released between 1990 and 1995, including their track from the Untitled comp (Cavity Search 1995). The tracks display Smegma’s pioneering style of hi-fi-lo-brow surf-noise-rock concrète. Liner notes by David Morgan.
Old Skete
(Worstward - WST001) LP $13.00
Eleven stark performances on hand-made electric guitar by the man also known as Ulaan Khol, Hala Strana, and Ulaan Markhor, and for work with Thuja, Mirza, and Amsterdam-based clarinetist Gareth Davis. Absence of overdubs, loops, samples and delay pedals leaves Old Skete open and unadorned, a spare work akin to Smith’s Kohl (Jewelled Antler 2002). Edition of 500.
SOMETHING ABOUT VAMPIRES AND SLUTS
Theme
(Rococo - RCC001) 7-inch $4.50 (Out-of-stock)
This five-piece from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, incorporates a big chunk of ineffable pop fun into their new wave-tinged sass rock. The vocalist’s bouncy howls could pass for those of a less grating Hot Hot Heat, and they further perpetuate the atmosphere of unadulterated joviality. In other words, they are your new favorite band.
Despite The Cloak
(Beta Lactam Ring - BLR058a) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Aaron Moore and Nick Mott, both of Volcano The Bear, are joined by Stewart Brackley and VTB’s Daniel Padden in this dynamic use of space, noise and texture. Their improv moves from disparate, thin conversations to solid swingers, performed with brilliant drumming, strings, guitar, and more. Pressed on 220-gram vinyl (way too heavy for the thin jacket, unfortunately, which bears the evidence with creases up and down the left side). Vinyl is pristine, but we’re listing as used because of the jacket. With two color inserts. Edition of 400.
2001, A Space Cactus
(Ultra Eczema - UE56) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ultra Eczema describes the first LP in the 20-year existence of Space_Cactus as "a puddle of gross sound poetry run through mentally ill reel-to-reel tape machines, reworked again and again and again and again," while the pressing plant says, "Is it possible you sent us the wrong audio file? We can only hear a voice soundcheck." Using voices, prepared voice and reel-to-reel tape machines (instead of their usual massive setup of analog synths), the infamous Bobby Colombo -- overall co-ordinator of Space_Cactus -- is joined for this incarnation by cacti- and hat-collector, instrument inventor, and happy space maker Cassis Cornuta. Live performances by Space_Cactus are rare, limited to specific occasions such as the "30 Seconds of Space_Cactus" at Factor 44, or sound works for exhibitions. They mainly focus on recording radio plays, jingles, film soundtracks, etc., sort like a BBC Workshop, though more acutely raw, satirical and brutal. Limited to 150 copies in a double-sided silkscreened cover designed by Dennis Tyfus.
1/2 Mechanism 1/2 Organism
(Spectrometers) 10-inch $16.00
Six tracks of minimal synth from Paris sur la France that are equal parts vintage and cosmic electronic. To paraphrase X-mist, imagine if the Young Marble Giants had co-opted Suicide’s haunting atmosphere and the doomy, industrial attitude of Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2010.
Dead Soul Music
(Decasian - DR001) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dead Soul Music was one of minimal electronics’ highlights of 2008, just as this French group’s 1/2 Organism 1/2 Organism is on the fast track to becoming one of 2010’s best, especially if your idea of excellence encompasses the blending of detached, understated electronics with psychedelic music. The Spectrometers’ haunted electronica reimagines the Westworld soundtrack performed by an amalgamation of Throbbing Gristle, Joe Meek, the BBC workshop, and Silver Apples.
Live In Tokyo 1995
(What The ... - WHAT002) LP $13.50
A long-lost live set from California sound unit also known as Damion Romero, excavated from a heavy time for sound of such density and heaviness, in one of the heaviest zones on Planet Earth -- Tokyo, Japan. These sides are cut straight from chrome cassette to needle, so as to draw the very energy of analog spirit without the interference of digital approximation, and indeed it is absolute analog in these grooves you hear. A prime window into pure eyes-closed eclipsed darkness of the highest mental order, packaged in silkscreened covers with heavy-duty re-sealable polyethylene bags. Includes a reproduction of the original show flyer and a numbered photograph. Edition of 300.
Orange
(Matador - OLE105) LP picture disc $20.00
A totally fun and hilarious album from 1995. Even fuckin' Amazon gets it: "Despite a brazen desire to flaunt their complete lack of authenticity with an absurdly over-the-top howlin' bluesman schtick, their music really does kick tons [of] ass.... Orange augments the usual mess of raw blues and primal rock with Philly soul strings, theremin, and Beck's guest rapping." Audiophiles take note: though this is frequently referred to as "silver colored vinyl," it is in fact a picture disc. The picture is sparkling silver.
Shh!
(Destijl - IND039) LP $17.00
Legit LP-only reissue of this Helsinki monsterpiece from 1970. "Shh!" documents Pekka Airaksinen's experimental compositions, consisting of primitive samples, guitar loop feedback and musique concrete. Sperm also functioned as a wildly theatrical live act a la Dionysius in '69 and arranged underground happenings which occasionally inspired a rallied public outcry against the derisive act of public humping atop a grand piano. Edition of 500. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
Spiders
(Pulled Out - PULL05) LP $22.00
Australia is home to some of the deadliest spiders in the world and James Heighway is no exception. When not behind the drum kit in XWAVE, he collects and modifies ancient electronics -- broken, hacked, modified and recycled guitars, keyboards, effects, mixers, etc. --played simultaneously. Together they convey a feeling of the bush drenched in feedback. Heighway’s intense live performances have earned him the title of king of noise throughout the region. Others have dubbed him “Merzbow of the Mountains.” Pulled Out’s LP collects highlights from limited edition CDRs and cassettes previously released on Heighway’s Moth Noize label and a live performance at the third Winter Tragic festival. Limited edition of 300 on white vinyl with covers individually spray painted.
Shackles of Man-Measured Time
(Troniks - TRO275) LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Modular synth sickness from Aaron Dilloway. Edition of 400.
Dokument III0 1979-1983
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD50) 6xLP + 3x7-inch $225.00
Includes tracks from the first five years of the existence of the band released on the cassettes Wars of Islam (Hard TV 1982), From Science to Ritual (Primavera 1983), At The Crypt (Iphar 1983), and Last Attempt at Paradise (Fresh Sounds 1982), along with live recordings from their first concert in Sydney 1979, the Heaven concert in 1980, the Brickwerkz concert in 1982, the SO36 concert in Berlin, and a few more live documents. Packaged in a wooden box with a 36-page booklet and T-shirt.
Citizens Dream Of A City
(Sergent Massacre - SM01) LP $19.50
To plagiarize Volcanic Tongue, this solo effort by John Olson (Wolf Eyes) encompasses abstruse sonic strategies (almost Sick Llama-esque in their inscrutability) and avant garde miniatures consisting of electrified balls of steel wire, stuck-groove drone epics, and primitive hobbyist hi-fi experiments. Olson wads up 20th century sound art practice (as documented by Alga Marghen, Revue Ou, et al.) with the home-burned aesthetic of the Chocolate Monk / Fag Tapes / American Tapes axis. Artwork by Jonas Delaborde.
Morphic Aromas
(BloodLust! - B!058) 7-inch $7.50
Uncompromising Italian postindustrialist sound. Eighth release in the BloodLust! Private 7-inch series. Plain white sleeve. 300 copies.
Souls and Waltzes From the Telegraph Frontier
(Urashima - U004) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sshe Retina Stimulants stretches the conceptual and methodological framework of the Remote Aktion (Diophantine 2008) ever further; starting from acoustic guitar as the only source input, environmental feedback effects and real-time manipulation and sampling are applied to booze up the outcome and create a screaming thunderstorm of delighted noise. Dense bubbles inflate and burst like organic super-novas, exploring the forgotten areas of apocalyptic soundscapes. Four long tracks infatuated with repressed anachronisms as tools for liberation. Slow blasts, perpetual wails, soothing and distressed. Silkscreened cardboard sleeve, with insert. Limited edition to 120 copies.
Derobe
(RRRecords) split LP $12.00
Richard Franecki's heavily acid-drenched, guitar-driven space rock trio Vocokesh nods to Ash Ra Tempel, Bevis Frond and Hawkwind. The long-lived Texas group ST 37's crafted weirdness is full of blazing guitars and odd percussive sounds.
Lose Today
(Destijl - IND096) LP $17.00
Nate Young and John Olson (perhaps you’ve heard of Wolf Eyes?) wield the ethereal meditative power leftover from The Velvet Underground’s Sweet Sister Ray epic bootleg. Their melodious, somnolent grievance leaves the listener to feast on a curiously endless and internal banquet. Young snarls and writhes in irritated, spiraling pronouncements that trail off in regretful, pained fashion, producing the same eventual something-isn’t-right that The Velvet Underground secured, but set aside to allow the Michigan basement bluesmen to borrow. Young’s virgin performance on bass proves suiting, as his sparse yet stable meanderings are the backbone to a jam lost in the arcane. At times the bass lines seem to be counting off the seconds until an eventual meltdown. Meanwhile, Olson wanders off on woodwinds, seemingly tangled in wavelengths, letting his own sounds guide him through a brassy and chilling darkness. He follows scales—Indian scales, blues scales—and lets the spiraling mania of the VU-inspired lose-all jam blossom into a soundtrack for a secret think tank whose sole purpose is to maintain a shadowed fire.
Electricity: Music for Tape and Turntable
(Ultra Eczema - UE48) LP $31.00 (Out-of-stock)
Since the mid-’60s, remarkable outsider Jos Steen has made poems, stories, paintings, collages, drawings, music/sound, self-published zines, tapes and, more recently, mountains of homemade CDRs, all in the service of either killing the demons in his head or jamming along to their forceful blues. Called by some “the Belgian Beefheart,” Steen spices his record-player experiments with vacuum cleaners, rotting voices, undefinable strings, pianos, and broken bottles. His past includes free jazz greats like Peter Jacquemin, André Goudbeek, Yvo van der Borght, poetry psychos like Roland Topor and Freddy de Vree, and Zappa’s own Jimmy Carl Black. Limited edition vinyl with gold and white sleeve designed by Dennis Tyfus.
Milk of Dried Mountain Goats
(Stomach Ache - SA08) 7-inch $15.00
Noise cut-ups and spastic howling rumored to have been created by members of Caroliner, World of Pooh and Queensrÿche.
Toward Sailor
(Hospital - HOS316) LP $20.00
Long-awaited first LP of imaginary electronics conversation through which a story is told of people who never existed, of happy depression, of cures that never bloomed. A small bowl of grass is ground up by the pestle and gulf mist sprays the players on the rocky beach. For fans of Brume, Keith Rowe, and atmospheric Ramleh. Edition of 200.
Supplementary Benefit
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD44) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Side one consists of full length versions of the first two Storm Bugs’ now infamous post-punk DIY singles (the five-track Table Matters EP (1980) and Metamorphose (1981)). With their use of scratched vinyl, disemboweled radios and home made electronics, these tracks have appeared on compilations before, but this is the first time they are presented in their entirety. The tracks on side two were made exclusively with the VCS3 synthesizer; these complex feedback loops and unexpected modulations (“Hodge,” “Slip Slap” and “Hiemal (And She Blew)” are all taken from original Snatch Tapes cassette releases. This is the first time most have appeared on vinyl.
KISS
(Trash Ritual - TRASH035) LP $20.25
Recorded live direct-to-DAT 1994 but unreleased until now, this is the debut full-length vinyl by this perverse power-electronics unit heard previously in collaboration with Pain Jerk, on a split LP with Taint, and a variety of extremist compilation tracks. Limited edition of 250 with fold-over silk-screened cover.
Split Fleet Dodge
(Palindrone - PAL01) LP $15.00
This 2006 album by Seht, Antony Milton, and James Kirk (from Sandoz Lab Technicians, Black Bones Angel, and Wisher Table-era Gate) peppers what could be called “prototypically New Zealand” laid-back blown-out noise rock with free jazz drum splatter that careens haphazardly over thick slabs of distant, distorted riffage. Guest appearance by Cambell Kneale (aka Birchville Cat Motel) on wild, disembodied prog keyboards and electronics that swirl and wobble. Edition of 300. Imported from New Zealand.
Suicide
(Ze - ILPS7007) Used LP $35.00
Produced by Ric Ocasek, the second album by Martin Rev and Alan Vega retains the monotonous urgency that defined Suicide as a pacesetter two years prior, though Rev's thrift-store electronics bear the somewhat slicker imprimatur of pop production. Vega's madcap vocal performances blast street atmosphere into the mix. A starry-eyed fascination with fame and riches is evident here, which is strangely in line with the band's blighted vision -- the daydreams of a rotter gone sour, a haunting and ultra-sedated exploration of self-defeat. UK pressing from 1980.
330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond The Rig Veda
(Get Back - GET718) 3xLP $55.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second vinyl reissue of their double-CD (Abduction 1996), partly an ethno-surrealist take on places and forms known (Indonesian gamelan, Bollywood soundtracks, Polynesian folk, surf stylistics, and sci-fi thematics) and partly a stupefying surreal ethnography of places yet to be discovered. Clear highlight is "Ghost Ghat Tresspass / Sussmeier," recorded live at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco with Eyvind Kang on violin, but two tracks from the Torch Of The Mystics sessions and a couple remixes of tracks previously available only on 78rpm 10-inch (Perfect 1994) are nothing to snuff the incense over either.
Valentines From Matahari
(Majora) LP $50.00
One of their most inspired releases in the classic three-piece rock band mode. All angular and off-kilter, their eighth album finds them as their shattering psyche-hellic, Eastern-influenced, extraterrestrial best. Forcefully played, hard pushed and intricately telepathized musical advance scouting.
Des lumières, des ombres, des figures
(Doubtfulsounds - DOUBT06) LP $16.00
Debut LP by this guitar duo formed in Grenoble, France, in 2005. Recorded during their first private session in Le 102’s basement, February 2009, the album drifts through ambient / drone / noise quasars. “Les Sociétés Secrètes Et Leurs Agissements” was previously released on the Inner Ends of the Coils comp (Nothing Out There, 2009). Edition of 300.
Sun Supreme
(MEDS - MEDS1) LP $14.25 (Out-of-stock)
An after-dinner jam with guitar, bass, drum, piano, gamelan, marimba, banjo, cumbus, oscillator and other odd things recorded in a cloud of smoke in Seattle at The Chummery one night in February 2004. If your ears can’t place a few of the players, try your third-ear mood ring medallion. Silkscreened covers in a one-time edition of 500.
Diga Queso
(Rococo - RCC0039) 7-inch $10.50
The same Supernova from Costa Mesa, California who made two records for Amphetamine Reptile during the dark ages. Features “Oreo” and “Best Coat LIVE from Seattle.” Limited to 200 copies on yellow vinyl. Packaged in full-color printed fold-over sleeves hand-signed by the band.
Real Love
([ no label ]) Used LP $40.00
Recorded February through April 1986 live in Europe. "Psychic suffering [and] extremely powerful," says J. Eric Smith. " 'A Hanging' ... invokes the pain-maddened damned as [Swans] trudge endlessly through chest-deep gullies of shit, calling for God's forgiveness, recognizing (finally, too late) that no one needs His mercy more than they do." Single hand-numbered copy in stock (#502).
Craquer Les Liants
(Bimbo Tower - BTR08) LP $17.25
Another astonishing work by Serge Adam (trumpet, bugle), Jérome Noetinger (electroacoustic system), Titus Oppmann (bass), Jean-Noël Cognard (drums, percussions & objects), who create a broken puzzle with pieces of early free jazz, European improv and electroacoustic manipulations. Heavy card foldover sleeve, silkscreened on both sides. Blue vinyl. Edition of 300.
Puissance 36 kw
(Bimbo Tower - BTR02) LP $17.25
Free jazz meets junkotronics with this inspired, excited quartet -- Jean-Noël Cognard (Salmigondis) on drums and assorted percussion, Arnaud Rivière (Bobby Moo) on electronics, Titus Oppman on bass, and Chicco Gramaglia on trombone. Heavy card foldover sleeve, silkscreened on both sides. Purple vinyl. Edition of 300.
Works 1977-1979
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD91) 4xLP + 10-inch $115.00
Includes Tazartès’ Transports LP (Cobalt 1980), Diasporas LP (Cobalt 1979, Dais 2011), Tazartes LP (Ayaa 1987) , Une Éclipse Totale De Soleil LP (Celluloid 1984), and Quelque Part Quelqu’un ten-inch (recorded 1978, previously unreleased). Edition of 600.
Living 2009 - Present
(Thin Wrist - TWLR1) LP $15.00
(Thin Wrist - TWLR1) Used LP $10.00
Building on songs driven by intense vocals and synths, performances by Los Angeles underground duo Yasmine Kittles and William Strangeland are notorious for depth of physicality and directness. Their debut full-length album is a rough, raw document taken from audience recordings - multiple versions and performance tapes are spliced, mashed, layered, collapsed and collaged on this organically flowing album, at once a sideways introduction to Tearist’s devastating performances and a nod to semi-legendary live cassettes and bootlegs. Think of it as a sort of Sonic Death, 2 x 4, or Metallic K.O. for today, or maybe 23 Minutes Over Brussels via Los Angeles. This is immediate and unpolished live sound as a means to an intimate and transcendent experience.
Eksra
(Ultramarine - EKSRA500) LP $25.00
The rumbling, delayed bass runs of Peter Blundell, against James Dunn's drum bursts that trigger an unruly ARP 2600, are entirely improvised and were recorded live with no overdubs in a makeshift studio in London in January 2009. Vocals, both muffled and shouted, get buried under a landslide of sounds, expressing suffocating alienation as well as today's over-communication that yields a helpless lack of communication. "Spasmodically captivating," in Arthurspeak.
A Snare Is A Bell
(Ultra Eczema - UE49) LP $30.00
Written for a snare drum roll which changes three times and a tiny bit of vocals (resonating with the snare drum), this meditative psychedelic experience evokes the evolving vibrations of constructive minimalists such as Steve Reich or Terry Riley as well as the massive buildup of sound in Glenn Branca’s work. Thielemans is based in Antwerp, Belgium, has composed percussive pieces for theater, played psychedelic guitar music with Mauro Pawlowski, spaced free music with Sickboy and Cassisini Division, and a load of free jazz with Andre Goudbeek and Peter Jacquemyn. Limited to 500 copies, etched on one side of the vinyl, with an insert, design by Dennis Tyfus. The first in Ultra Eczema’s series of solo percussion LPs.
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Porcelain Entertainments
(Fruit Tree - FT809) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Six live tracks recorded in San Francisco, four of which, according to a wet blanket, “appear in superior studio versions elsewhere (including a medley from A Fistful of Dollars, on a contemporaneous single). The other two are a formless jam and a great two-minute instrumental, ‘Quacky.’ The album also includes four practice-space noodles of varying degrees of inconsequentiality and [a] set of solo pieces, of which Eickelberg's Casio-on-speed ‘White Box’ is the best. Hageman's ‘52 Girlfriends’ has incomprehensible lyrics by Sun City Girls' Charlie Gocher. Illustrative, but really for completists only.” Anyone ordering this will be asked to show completist ID card.
Wolverine
(Psychic Encumbrance) 7-inch (lathe cut) $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. A fragmented suite in anywhere from two to ten parts (depending on how you count) by this Glands of External Secretion spinoff group. Strewn throughout its genetic make up are: not-quite-outsider freedom familiar to anyone on whose face Melon Expander’s Brain-Sucking Peanunanners CD puts a smile; field recordings from locales rural, urban, foreign and domestic; and ahem, "musical" moments where naïve, intuition-based curiosity is satisfied. All scrambled in a primitive musique concrete style.
Living Order / Mourning Order
(Tone Filth - TF51) LP $17.15
Lexington, KY-based sound artist Robert Beatty’s solo work is yet another confounding bullet on an already incomprehensible résumé (which includes work with Hair Police, Eyes & Arms of Smoke, Burning Star Core, and Ulysses). 3LR’s constantly evolving aesthetic, realized via an elaborate network of primitive electronics and salvaged arcana, explores repetition and deterioration of simple musical themes, discovering myriad rhythmic and harmonic possibilities with each tier of abstraction. Sit down and shut up for the overdue incorporation of the proto-techno of Herbie Hancock’s Sextant, the progressive synth psychosis of Franco Battiato and Heldon, the microtonal experimentation of C-Schulz and Lithops, the minimalist drone of Kosugi’s Catch Wave, and the contemporary DIY electronics of Kites, Pax Titania, and Aaron Dilloway.
Licked Inch Fur
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR098) LP $18.25
“Four raucous, head-fucking songs of primo grade sludged-out pummel,” says Cvlt Nation admiringly, “Down-tuned, gritty guitars, yelled vocals, and a super tight rhythm section…. [The] slow ’n’ low menacing vibe [of “Wake Down”] continues onto side two with “Piggie” coming on like a hungover Unsane. Another slow burner til it jacks up the pace and intensity half way through and throbs along like the worst migraine ever. Jukka’s pained vocals add to the whole bad vibe perfectly. Closer “Poolpisser” brings things to a grinding halt with more brutal riffing over that clinically precise drum and bass duo, adding extra noise and feedback towards the end to completely destroy what’s left of your hearing.”
I Wanna Be Your Dog b/w Schneller
(Meeuw Muzak - MM035) 7-inch $8.75
The four members of Titmachine met in prison (each was convicted of crimes she did not commit). Unable to find gainful employment upon their discharge from stoney lonesome, the ex-inmates formed a band, naturally, the ideal vehicle for the unemployable. The lucrative alternative Dutch music scene rewards them handsomely in exchange for the quartet's release of pent-up rage fueled by continuing injustice. Since October 2006, Titmachine's raw and loose sound has remained unhampered by the constraints of talent, and answers questions anyone has yet to ask. Kinda like the Dutch Shaggs meets the female Monks and Flipper with a conscience.
Kiss the Pig
(Rococo - RCC004) LP $13.25
Kiss The Pig takes Today Is The Day’s punishing, abrasive sound to a far opposite extreme. Easily the most hateful, destructive, and super-fast material the band has ever composed, the album is a violent depiction of life in contemporary America. Real and uncensored, Kiss The Pig delivers agitated aggro-metal filled with emotions so black, death seems attractive.
056 Sound & Phenomena – Conceptual Works
(Meeuw Muzak - MM010) 7-inch $8.00
Consistent with documents of electromagnetic induction, this “glitch classic” from 1999 captures one of the more elusive type of field recordings, The Sounds of Microwave Oven Interiors. Tominaga is interested in a symmetrical input-output system, where the electromagnetic wave represents imaginary speakers and ornamental devices that generate life. Acoustic properties are revealed slowly (comparable to the faint electronic noise of broadcast radio), a metaphor for the landscape of modern life. Clear vinyl, stencil-printed sleeve. Edition of 200.
Tomuuntuu
(Beniffer Editions) LP (one-sided) $20.00
Commissioned by Aanem Lumo Festival for New Sounds. Heard for the first time at the Orion Theatre in Helsinki on November 8, 2010. Artwork by Janderzen and Jacob Horwood. All music by Janderzen. White vinyl picture disc. Edition 300.
Early Tapes Period
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD68) 3xLP + 10-inch $95.00 (Out-of-stock)
Three early works -- Wechselwirkung, Metánárkôsis, Das Todesantlitz (experiments with early electronics, found objects, rough percussion and noise) -- all previously released by Toniutti on cassette in 1982-83 in limited editions. Also includes a 10-inch with previously unreleased tracks from 1981-84. Booklet includes an essay about the history of the period, notes and data.
Gamera / Cliff Dweller Society
(Duophonic - DS33-09 ) LP $25.00
1995 12-inch by influential postrock pioneers. Ambitious arrangements, meticulous, modest and sparse compositions, extremely slow cadences. Two languid instrumentals that vary from a jazzy narcotic style to a psychedelic dub mood. Red vinyl. Edition of 1500.
Cock Pig / Unoriginal Macho Energy
(Turgid Animal - TA469) 7-inch + cassette $15.00
The third Fecalove and Torturing Nurse collaboration. Pure harsh noise, recorded in China and Italy during 2008 and 2009. C30 features longer cuts of the 7-inch tracks plus the two additional pieces "Super Rock And Roll" and "Total Fuck Off." Limited to 188 copies. Each copy has different hand-drawn labels.
Entraxes Inégaux
(Bimbo Tower) 2xLP $20.00
Free and improvised navigation of the murky waters of organized sound, orchestrated like New Yorkers or Köln-ists. Jean-François Pauvros (guitars and voice) Patrick Müller of Ilitch (electrosonics), Jean-Noël Cognard (drums and objects).
Sensacao Do Principio
(Siltbreeze - SB112) LP $13.00
Tropa Macaca's previous efforts on Ruby Red and Qbico were magnificent (though hard-to-find) efforts of blotted, aural sci-fi codifications somewhere between Anar Band and Blues Control. This two-track full-length continues their foray into post-psychedelic instrumental morphine, where Moolah's LP and Pink Floyd's "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" function as templates for the greater good. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
Batstew
(Destijl) LP $15.00
Roland Woodbe, the The Pro From Dover himself, summed up Batstew thus: “It is one odd fucker of an LP.” He goes on to note that it “teeters on a precipice between euphoria and anguish. It is certainly the work of an unstable mind and tortured soul. I mean, you can almost feel Tucker's circuits shorting out as the record progresses.” He talks to his car, slams the doors, the girl whispers and sings along sometimes, there are occasional naif, art brut-ish noisescapes and “the dingaling song at the end of side two … about a Cadillac (among other things) that eventually crumbles into a fuzzy guitar ‘freakout’.” Overall, Woodbe compares Tucker to someone who claims to be Daniel Johnston who rerecorded Smile,” or "Larry Fischer [doing] Pink Moon … as literally a Volkswagen commercial.”
MoeJadKateBarry
(50 Skidillion) Used LP $20.00
No shortage of energy on this EP, recorded in a single six-hour session in 1987 with Jad Fair of 1/2 Japanese. Green vinyl. Autographed jacket.
Way Down
(Dais - DAIS017) Used LP $15.00
Robert Turman’s industrial genre-bending masterpiece, previously released on cassette (Actual Tapes 1987). Turman was the other half of NON, alongside Boyd Rice, together releasing the Mode of Infection / Knife Ladder single in 1977. After parting ways, Turman went on to self-release cassettes, including Way Down which uses synthesizer arrangements and drum machines along side guitar solos, piano chords, tape loops and primitive sampling to produce dance-like minimal synth blended with industrial darkwave noise. Turman resurfaced in 2005 in collaboration with Aaron Dilloway. Hand-numbered 265/500.
Champagne and Biological Women
(BloodLust! - B!116) 7-inch $12.00
This Boston band (Shane Broderick, Ted Sweeney, and Joshua Hydeman [now of Portland, OR]) has evolved through the worlds of grindcore, violent power-electronics, and confrontational performance art. This tsunami rushes out of the speakers, a concise and ferocious monster. Mastered by James Plotkin for maximum sonic potency.
Welten - Worlds - Ohontsa'shón:'a Morphologische Modemusik
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD19) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
In 1984, Die Tödliche Doris composed the music for a fashion show in the Deplane Kunsthalle, Berlin, consisting of 24 audio tapes recorded and played with different defective tape recorders and accompanied of the band Gerry-Belz-Showband (three elderly men selected from a Berlin employment office, whose repertoire includes perennials of showbiz and light music).
Go Grey
(Siltbreeze - SB126) LP $12.00
The second full-length release by U.S. Girls is a fully realized excursion into a hazy alternate universe where pop vocals and muzzy scree fuse in harmony. Go Grey conjures up ambient aerosols while luminous kaleidoscopes of sound sizzle, peak, and explode. Megan Remy is a chanteuse from (perhaps) the future, guiding all who choose to sail an evocative trip through her unique aural hallucinogenic landscapes. It's a journey of lush vistas, warm currents, and complex beauties.
Death Condensed
(Von Archives - VON001) 7-inch $10.00
A wall of sound. Inaccessible, deep in sources, taking you down to the mysteries of noise and its origins in metal. A conceptual and extreme musical journey. Edition of 300.
Unaustralians
(Pulled Out - PULL07) LP + DVD $25.50
Taking their name from Meat & Livestock Australia propaganda, the Melbourne-based duo of Ein and Aus transgress a spiritual reality in which grindcore is subverted toward a path of procratinat-obliteration. Forty-six cranium-fracturing songs featuring wailing Banshee vocals, a drum machine set to over 300bpm, and a possessed, 20th-Century shredder guitarist. On stage, the couple uses chainsaws, exploding corpses, and other visual devices that communicate their ideas about domestic violence and civil disobedience. UnAustralians truly represent the extremely brutal end of improvised music in Australia. “Quite possibly the most insane outsider-weirdo-grind-metal-what-the-fuck record we have ever heard,” marvels Aquarius, “Imagine a super lo-fi grindcore, cobbled together from blasting lightning-fast drum machines, shredding super tech lead guitars, super processed, almost mechanical riffs, and Melt Banana-like high pitched yelping vocals, all tossed in a blender and spat out at a million miles an hour. Only sometimes all you can hear are the vocals, or the drums disappear underneath an avalanche of guitars, or everything is so amped up it becomes a buzzy blur, topped with high pitched squeaks and yowls. Totally nuts.” Limited to 300 on clear red vinyl.
Unborn Unicorn
(Heard Worse) LP $15.00
Bay Arean Aaron Coyes (Mummers Eype, Heart Of Snow, Gromskull, Hisseaters and the Common Oracles label) fills your psych-folk-fuzz cochlea with echoes of Beefheart, Velvets, Spacemen 3, Dead C, and Kenneth Higney. Limited edition, imported from the big island of Australia, handmade recycled classical jackets.
UNEARTHLY TRANCE / WOODEN WAND
Manson
(Chrome Peeler) split 7-inch $10.50
Unearthly Trance reach into the hole of the infinite with their haunting version of Manson’s "People Say I'm No Good" while Wooden Wand programs the young love with a version of "Get On Home." Edition of 200.
Radian Futura
(Thin Wrist - TWJ) LP $16.50
The sixth LP by this hard-hitting instrumental quintet from Los Angeles (originally from the post-apocalyptic San Diego county no-mans-land known as Vista, California) is a constantly shifting onslaught that buries the prog gesture and unleashes genuine rock energy. The centerpiece is the 28-minute epic "Transparent Seas," an astounding bridge between rock's prime album era and the shape of post-punk, avant garde rock to come.
Vacuum
(Siltbreeze - SB110) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Vacuum authored the clay tablets from which all great antipodean bands would glean substance to formulate The NZ Sound. The perfected aural symmetry of Bill Direen, Stephen Cogle, Peter Stapleton, Peter Fryer and Alan Meek fuses classic Nuggets, Roxy, Elevators and Velvets moves as a template for the unique plonk that became germane for all who sailed after. These recordings -- culled from '78 and '79 rehearsal tapes -- are available for the fist time ever. "'Kicks" would go on to become an early staple in Direen's Builders discography, but the guitar on this version is particularly and wonderfully unhinged. The beautiful serenity of Cogle's "Shade," masterfully driven by Meek's keyboard, is as crisp out of the gate as the later, more honed version of the Victor Dimisich Band. The real thunderclap of the bunch is "Accident," another take of which can be found on The Builders' Beatin Hearts LP (Flying Nun 1982), where it sounds like the Tia Maria is spiked with peyote, the band psychically disembowels "Heard Her Call My Name" and feeds the guts to Amon Düül. Edition of 300.
Time Slime
(Ultra Eczema - UE85) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
The inhumanly energetic Floris Vanhoof is a member of stoner ensemble R.O.T., synth builder, and visual artist noted for films created by cutting and gluing together fifty-six meters of lurid 8mm and 16mm film in a slimeball cluster of synth / tape madness. Time Slime is a collage of homebrew synth, field recordings, coincidences, tape delay, and detailed documentation of Vanhoof throwing a full drum kit down a church staircase twenty times. Sleeve design by Dennis Tyfus. Comes with two inserts, including the scores for these two side long pieces. Edition of 300 copies.
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.
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.
Club Moral 1981-1986
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD93) 5xLP + DVD $115.00 (Out-of-stock)
Selections from Club Moral’s Mit Neuen Waffen cassette (Club Moral 1983), To All Who Are Interested LP (Cthulhu 1989), and assorted compilation tracks; selections from DDV’s A Sound Atlas of Venerology LP (Club Moral 1982), Zeno X cassette (Club Moral 1982), and 4 Sept cassette (Etat Brut / Club Moral 1982); the complete Géometrie d’un Assassinat cassette by Etat Brut (Etat Brut 1982); selections from The Parts’ GBC015 cassette (Gezonde Boerse Copulaties 1984); AMVK’s previously unreleased “Soft Chaos”; and selected live and super-8 film soundtracks. Includes twenty-page book of extensive liner notes, credits, discography, photos. Edition of 600.
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.
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.
German Punk & Wave 78-84 Vol. 1
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD82) 5xLP + 10-inch $125.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. First in a series, with each artist contributing one side. Unreleased tracks, demos and/or rare tape-only material from PVC, White Russia, No More, Didaktische Einheit, MDK, Din A Testbild, Off Band, Poison Dwarfs, Funtastiklons, Die Gesunden.
Krypton Ten (Christchurch 1981-1987)
(Unwucht - UN06) 2xLP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
In the early '80s Onset Offset Records of Christchurch, New Zealand, released nine Krypton Hits compilations, most on small-run cassettes, one LP, a seven-inch, and a VHS videocassette, spotlighting brilliant local acts like The Riptoids, G.O.D., The Oxes, and Nick Slick, along with tons of otherwise unavailable material by well known artists like Bill Direen / The Bilders, Scorched Earth Policy and The Puddle, to name but a few. Unwucht's double-LP contains 28 Krypton selections and two archival tracks available for the first time: the full four-minute version of Bill Direen's High Thirties Piano; and a Devo-esque electro-punk track from 1981 by Drowning Is Easy (featuring M.S. Agro, later of the Terminals, on lead vocals). Includes two more early Bilders tracks (as The Cherry Smash and Ritual Sex), Scorched Earth Policy, The Puddle, Ritchie Venus & The Blue Beetles, The Gorillas (Steve McCabe's pre-Axemen high school band), We Too's Crushed Velvet Morning, a George Henderson solo opus from 1982 and tons more. Screen printed gatefold jacket, two pages of never-before-seen photos from the artists' private archives, two double-sided inserts of liner notes. Edition of 330.
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.
Never See You Again - Augsburg 1982-85
(Unwucht - UN04) 2x7-inch $20.00
Minimal synth, postpunk, and psychotic beat from the early '80s by three bands featuring Joachim Stender of P.D., Kurzschluss, Permutative Distorsion, Skartrack and l'Aventure Imaginaire. Tracks by Schatten Unter Eis -- from early Casio experiments to Some Bizzare-style synth pop -- reveal rapid development of the band during their short time of existence. The legendary recording of Wahnvorstellung documents the band almost getting thrown off stage by a dumb rock audience. Flow My Tears The Policeman Said is garage rock in a Beauty Contest / Painless Dirties vein, remembered for Stender's mutation into a madman when they performed live. Edition of 110.
Optional Ingredients From A Vile Recipe Volume II
(Trackshun Industries - TR714) 7-inch $10.00
The second of Justice Schanfarber's three-part series was reviewed by CMJ when it was released back in 1995: “A peculiar six-track combination of hideous noise and gently radiant beauty. The noise tracks illustrate nicely the variety of things that the ear hears as noise instead of music, how easy it is to switch to thinking of them as music, and the way the overtones can be heard as notes. And their contrast is pretty effective – especially at the end when Total’s vacuum-cleaner-of-the-pit ‘Austrian Shade’ cuts off and makes way for Paula Frazer’s unironically gorgeous, retro country lament ‘Is She Lonesome Now’.” Also includes Beauty Pear, Brain Ruryk’s frenetic love/hate guitar, Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble’s “Mid-Range Phase/Link 3" Dome” (a different excerpt from the one on Induced Musical Spasticity), and Supreme Dicks. All covers are unique (pages torn from obsolete encyclopedias).
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.
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.
Record Store Record
(RRRecords - RRRRSR) 2xLP $30.00
Location / environmental recordings made inside record stores -- the sound of regular everyday customers looking at records, talking about records, buying records, and of record store owners boxing up records for mail-order customers. Audio vérité, sound poetry and a touch of musique concrète (two tracks are processed / cut-up / collage; three are straight open-mic recordings). Participating record stores are Hospital (NYC), RRRecords (Lowell), Sarvilevyt (Lahti, Finland), Second Layer (London), and Weirdo (Cambridge). Includes record bag made of heavy-duty nylon with the RRR squiggle design silkscreened by Shogun Shop / Heartworm Press. Also includes a bonus platter selected at random from the back catalog of RRRecords; it's unrelated to the concept of the album, but we're listing it as a 2xLP for postage purposes. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2011.
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.
RRR500
(RRRecords - 500) LP $20.00
Five hundred locked grooves, one each by Punk Sheep On Drugs, ST 37, Moray Eels, Aube, Sian, Loop Circuit, Hyper Ventilation, Akifumi Nakajima, Toy Bizarre, Bruno Moreigne, Lichatz, Foom, Radboud Mens, Shifts, Goem, Captain Black, Quest, Mark Poysden, Basssix, L.O.S.D., TAW, Peter Fleur, Sub, Raum, Bruce Gilbert, Put Put, Barbed, :ZovietFrance:, Otomo Yoshihide, Cult Junk Cafe, Tone Motion, Lumbar Trio, Liminal, Aerospace Soundwise, TV Pow, Wheaton Research, Pencilneck, Thomas Deater, 00 Dying Rats, Tim Fletcher, Clive Graham, Sarah Winton, Mike Davies, Kymatik, Jeff Filla, Jgrzinich, Dan Plunkett, Brekekekexkoax (Koax), ERG, Zygote, Seth Nihil, MNortham, Astroglijd, Karen Finley, Pedestrian, Ward Eldredge, Asche, Morgenstern, Templegarden's, Synapscape, Telepherique, P·A·L, Noisex, Salt, Nimoy, DKF, Venoz TKS, MSCHarding, People Like Us, Mickery, The Wallypops The Teletubbies Penguin, Water, Breath, Ryoji Ikeda, Aardvark, Cerebro, Palimsest, Y-Bom, Static Insect, Neil Wiernik, Tocsin, Infant Cycle, Sleeping Basement Cat, Mind Skelp-cher, Gwaho, Band Of Pain, H.J. Irmler / S. Pittis, Intravene, Satori, Contrastate, Yukiko, Kazumoto Endo, Killer Bug, Sperm Donors Government Alpha, TBC, Klangkrieg, Felix Kubin, Reznicek, Raumpatrouille Gunter, AER, Wax Infant, The, Alvars Orkester, Frak, Ü, Pher, Villa Åbo, F4E G.H., F4E R.J., F4E V.C., F4E J.W., F4E M.D., F4E G.M., F4E C.M., F4E C.R., F4E A.B., F4E J.O., Doo-Dooettes, Foundation Boo, Monique Experience, Precambrian Three, Friends Of Leslie, Tom Recchion, Extended Organ, Ro-G, Marcus Peroud, Rotor Syndrom, Myiase, Batchas, Frank Dommert, Jan Werner, Nomarulp, Marcus Schmickler, L@N, DS Imitator, #/Tau, A-Musik, Peeled Hearts Paste, Jason Willet, Jad Fair + Jason W., Dramatics Jaunties Martha Colburn, Sinkdrop, Hurricane Camille, Luminar, Tom Dimuzio, Lord Jack Lord, Buzz Doggy Dog, Gench Master 2000, Cut Splice, Awashed, Light Matrix, Locked Out, Sensor, The Whales, Noise Camp, Little Princess, Princess Dragon-Mom, Control Panel, His Name Is Alive, The Crash, Science Fair, Bears, The, B.B.B.E., Voice Crack, Andy Guhl, Norbert Moslang, Sickness, Seelenlärm, Bill Orcuh, Chel Jones, Modern Surgery For Nurses, Grunt, Alchemy Of The 20th Century, Woundead, Yesmeansyes, Bearmann's Bastards, Noise Makers Fifes, Greg Jacobs, Tapes Of Wrath, The Peterson Mixes, Slusser, Duo Micro, First Lady Embalmers, Headless, Luna Rose Atlantis, Gen Ken, Con, La La Landia, Eater, Telecognac, Darren Brown, Impact Test, Deknow, More, Julien Bradley, Neil Campbell, Astatine, Cindy Wonderful, Crack Fierce, Fluorescent Grey, Birchville Cat Motel, Lugosi, Alkerthene, M.K. Uva, Hand Over Fist, S. Jack Silman, Lockweld, Deerhoof, Involution, Andy Bolus, Evil Moisture, Estupida Melodia, Acerrimamente, Makanakuna, Armenia, Ralph Nemec, Rick Reed, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Django Reinhardt III, Commode Minstrals In BullFace, Nightstick, Ashtray Navigations, Mortician, Bongzilla, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, General Surgery, Human Remains, Exit-13, Brutal Truth, Today Is The Day, Incantation, Soilent Green, Embalmer, diSEMBOWELMENT, Solarus, Atrax Morgue, Lull, Bastard Noise, Namanax, Dissecting Table, Japanese Torture Comedy Hour, Emil Beaulieau, Pica, Abscess, Purge, Brighter Death Now, RZ, Sudden Infant, Bertoia, Terry Riley, Derek Bailey, Gary Todd, Red Krayola, Mike Kelley, Jon Appleton, Wende Bartley, Jean-Francois Denis, Martin Gotfrit, Don Lander, Philippe Le Goff, John Oswald, Stephane Roy, Claude Schryer, Alain Thibault, Roxanne Turcotte, Annette Vande Gorne, Id Battery, Brainape, Cutty Stool, Glock 2, Grampabampa, Krapkeep, Silica Gel, Schloss Tegal, Free Kitten, Adam Bohman, Morphogenesis, Dorothea Conradi, Werner Durand, DJ Pure, Rehberg + Bauer, Felix Yen, Artificial Memory Trace, Malta, Speed Wolf, Moses, Hapaxlegomena, Ceramic Hobs, Ambulance Chasers, Eric Lanzillotta, Candle Labra, Yes Means No, M.B.L., Heaven For Kasner, Psywarfare, Snakedick, Bloody Bombs, Velvet Front, DOG, Reality Challenged, Steve Davis, Lo Lo Muñoz, Gwen Party, Cacophony 33, Mr. Outsider, Expose Your Eyes, Project D.A.R.K., Speck, Brauncewell, Mark Wharton, M. Rafe, Spiral, Hemogoblin Moon, Pee Wee Russell III, Alessandro Moreschi, Orphx, Antiform, Para, Raimundas Eimontas, Ram_nas Jaras, Antanas Jasenka, Robertas Kundrotas, Irving Klaw Trio, Hochenkeit, Wham-O, Jeff Fuccillo, Kandalini Nivugretsevi, Coffee, Diz Willis, Nico, Chirone Rising, Sukora, Zohenshein, Terminal Waste Band, Demoon Skirt, Daylight Savings Time, Universal Indians, The Thin Ensemble, Glands Of External Secretion, Lowest Chakra, Being, Nambi-Pambient, Pee 69 Deflower, Pre-Evil, Trinket, Abe Sada, Hurdy Gurdy Cabana-Boy, Andy Shea, Marlo Pedroso, M. Jones / L. Rhodes, Hanged Mans Orgasm, Skin Crime, Fleur De Vie Weinstock, Those Meddling Kids, Melinda Read, Beatrix Gingham, Pat O'Neil, Shawn Smith, No Mustard Captain, Knut Remond, Tim Martin, Quarrelling Xenophobic Waitresses, Pumice, Dick AKA Dick, Laura Lee Hine, Andreas Kallwitz, Glen Peterson, Kelly Rappuchi, Thadd Comstock, B.E.A.N., Neil Hamburger, Jay Sullivan, Faxed Head, Gregg Turkington, United Negro College Fund, Pickle Factory, New Peculiars, Y Front, Karla Borecky, Mike Popovich, Brrr, Andrews Liver Salt, XX Committee, Hermaphrodites For Stucky, Diagram: A, Proof Of The Shooting, J. Brown, Jared Turinsky, Psychadelic Pig, Harm Jr., Horseback Solids, Lettuce Little, Steve Cerio, Roger Kummert, Lore Barges, Seymour Glass, Radiosonde, Zipper Spy, The Haters, Grromp Man, Ed Taylor, Suzanne Ramsey, Crawl Unit, AMK, The Original Artists, Granex Glue, Jordan Biren, Haploid, Torsten Z. Burns, Nux Vomica, A.T.M., Maiden Taiwan, Meeuw Muzak, Brian Smith, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, DJ T.A. Quinn, Karl Schontag, Head Of Maja, Chico Vega, Bob Jordan, Senritsubara, Y.I.M., Jason Lescalleet, The Todd Deal, Blue Moon, Ray Gaucher, Jr., Man Ray, Arterial Slash, Mike Minutoli, D. Bock / D.B. Cooper, Shrilltower, Remora, D. Gross / J. Chandonnet, Ene, Detune, Dave Perry, Coits, Andrew Szava-Kovats, Compound, Parade Of Sinners, Dominion, Data-Bank-A, SMP, Jason Bazinet, Matt Sharifi, Xiandi, Macronympha, Chop Shop, Lee Ranaldo, John Wiggins, Jerome Noetinger, RLW, Michael Prime, En Nihil, Alan Licht, Pain Jerk, Naj, Runzelstirn + Gurgelstock, Gruppe Schimpfluch, Thurston Moore, Smell + Quim, Masonna, MSBR, Omit, A Handful Of Dust, Bruce Russell, Knob, Steven Weigt, Toemass, Eating Canada, Moonjackals, Horsey Wallett, George L. Charpied, Roger Miller, Chivrouga, Crank Sturgeon, Portable ManBoy Lyceum, Joke Lanz, Sabin Zenz, Célest Urech, Howling Wolfenstein, Juneau, Giant Big Eggs, DJ Static, Naofumi Kaneko, Pete Rutigliano, Factory Of Noise, Stabat Mors, R.H.Y. Yau, Charlie Parker, Chris Bush, Cock E.S.P., The Muckrakers, Rexor, Zartan, and Sonic Youth
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. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2008.
The Day My Favourite Insect Died
(Kollaps - KS14) 2xLP $15.00
An excellent 1995 sampler of bands from Weilheim, Germany -- Anna Karenina, Blond, Cobra 2000, Console, King Rollo, Orgon, Rayon, Schneider, Snowe, Village Of Savoonga. Cinematic instrumentals, experimental pieces, break beats, loopy electronica.
To Sell Kerosene Door to Door
(Insight) 2xLP $45.00 (Out-of-stock)
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.
Eye Peels & Brain Picks
(Puer Gravy - PG01) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
This all-points-bulletin and consensus reality disruption from these freak fringe surrealists gilds the lily pad (luxuriating polymorphs, take note!) and pulls the magic carpet out from under the levitating swami. Oh, slapstick, thou art truly immortal. Jacket is gold-printed, laminated, and plastic panel-bedecked. Laser-etched, 180-gram vinyl. Edition of 100.
Rocking To The Grave
(Unwucht - UN05) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ritchie Venus's accomplishments going back to the mid-'60s include impersonating Elvis, making films, writing 500+ songs, releasing a seven-inch on Flying Nun in 1983, touring with The Troggs, and releasing numerous LPs, singles, cassettes and CDs on Christchurch's Onset Offset, the label he still runs with Campbell McLay. Unwucht's reissue of his 1998 cassette, recorded at home with a drum machine and cheap gear, shows off Venus's talent as a songwriter, musician, singer and arranger. This desperate glance backward at an aging rock singer's career is full of sorrow, failure, and humor (when the last of the audience is dead, he kills his band and rocks on forever). One particular highlight is "Listen, World," written in 1975, with Axemen's Steve McCabe on noise guitar and Patrick Faigan of Say Yes To Apes / Brother Love on drums. Screen printed jacket. Edition of 150.
Part 3
(Urashima - U005) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Inspired by the Giallo film of the same title, Vice Wears Black Hose is the obsessed and fanatical project of Sam McKinlay (The Rita) and Richard Ramirez (Werewolf Jerusalem, Black Leather Jesus), which dives into the harsh noise walls pool and completely drowns the listener in its dense, dark and pure sound. Two long tracks fall between all-out wall noise and a tense roaring harsh noise storm that slowly shifts through different deep grains of noise textures. Previous installments in the series were released by Cathartic Process and Violent Noise Atrocities. Silkscreened cardboard sleeve, with insert and envelope inside a shred of black stockings. Limited edition to 120 copies.
Part 4
(Turgid Animal - TA666) 7-inch $7.50
Obsessive crackle wall worship from Richard Ramirez and Sam McKinlay. The texture, apparently a muddied variation of amplified scraping, is chunky and, due to its mid-paced nature, runs with little air between each static pop. Less distorted than the typical high-gain crunch HNW peers.
Testament of Tape 1984-1986
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD65) 3xLP $70.00 (Out-of-stock)
VidnaObmana in its most experimental phase during the obscure tape period, searching for a musical voice. Dirk Serries (sound artist best known for his Fear Falls Burning releases) moves through utterly relentless noise to rhythmic industrial outbursts. Features unreleased and rare tracks from a personal friend's private collection (music that was recorded exclusively for him) as well as songs from early cassette releases. LP number one combines beat-oriented material a la early Blackhouse or even Esplendor Geometrico. LP numbers two and three lay the groundwork for his later works.
Illusions of The Maintenance Man
(Destijl - IND046) LP $35.00
Crashing back to Earth / Dallas, following an unsuccessful attempt at hawking originals to the manicured hippies making the scene in Laurel Canyon, Bert and Eve Long recruited Wayne Lamar Boogs the third (vocals / madness) and Jud Chapin (drums / vocals), and recorded Illusions Of The Maintenance Man while the first gush of anything-could-happen was still upon them. Their beautiful teenage-tribe-in-America anthems are animated by the same lost / utopian garage band spirit as The Bachs, Index and The Rising Storm; their creepy sun-blind cultic edge tastes of acid and neural backroads in a way that brings to mind the Manson Family Jams. De Stijl’s reissue is an authorized exact-reproduction of the 1971 original with stamped and stickered jacket, insert and labels. Edition of only 500.
Shock_Late
(Entenpfuhl - EMM06) LP $25.00
Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang’s "cracked everyday electronics" from 1998. “Their soundscapes, always improvised and created using these cracked (i.e., tampered-with) everyday electronics,” says incursion.org, “are filled with subtle shifts, a host of sounds sometimes quiet and sometimes more intrusive, and always dramatic and engaging.” The Sound Projector aggrees: “Far from an empty, formless grind-o-groans, this is a structured panoply of slices of chocolate devil's food cake sound-events, all set in motion simultaneously like a pack of running hares going over the hill. A richness of creative racket.”
Anthology One 1989-1991
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD80) 2xLP $45.00 (Out-of-stock)
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Tracks from the first three cassettes -- Isolation (Cyclotron Industries 1990), Voice of Eye (Cyclotron Industries 1991) and Resonant Fields / Hot Gypsy Fink Hell (Cyclotron Industries 1992) -- by the godfathers of ambient-ritual music. Their "organic sound sculpting," a form of electronic ethnic ambient music, relies mainly on electronic drones and manipulated instruments, some of which are home-made, all improvised.
That People Don't Know They Are Monsters
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC02) 7-inch $9.00
A straight, two-pieced story about mental monsters, emotionally disoriented people and unstable songwriting. Weird folk, tribal bowing, psychedelic ballads ... or not. It’s always something.
L'Homme Saturé
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR034) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Unbelievably heavy stuff, total claustrophobia and depressive nihilistic purity. A landmark in harsh noise wall. Edition of 300. Paste-on jacket.
DITTERICH VON EULER-DONNERSPERG
O Du Froliche
(Meeuw Muzak - MM034) 7-inch $6.75
One small bit of light during the dark days of Xmas: Meeuw Muzak releases another fine seven-inch. Von Euler-Donnersperg has released some crazy-ass music on his own Walter Ulbricht label and Die Stadt, a mix of texts and electronic music. Here two soft electronic pieces are like snowflakes; almost kitschy and New Age as only super cheesy keyboard with all the wrong presets can achieve.
Operation Of Spirit Communication
(Die Stadt - DS31A) 7-inch $15.00
Two unreleased tracks recorded in 2006 intended as a companion to the LP of the same name. Full-color sleeve, clear vinyl.
Operations Of Spirit Communication
(Die Stadt - DS31) LP $22.50
The classic album from 2000, partly based on (and also dedicated to) the work of Friedrich Jürgenson, who recorded the “voices of the dead.” Gatefold jacket, clear vinyl. 300 copies.
Alignment
(Yik Yak - 018) Used LP $8.00
A pairing of the direct and retrograde motions of an eight-violin canon in just intonation, played my Marc Sabat (all eight parts), cycling through the first 128 pitches of the harmonic series transposed into one octave. Cover designed and screen-printed by Alan Sherry. Includes a letterpress print of a type drawing by Wada. Edition of 400.
Outpost
(Dom Bartwuchs - DOMBW07) LP $28.50
A dream-like motion from distant drones of vaguely defined shape toward totally disembodied sound, by this Australian musician who has worked with Oren Ambarchi, Greg Turkington, Mirror, Daisuke Suzuki and others.
Space Denial
(Nashazphone - NP005) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Wasteland Jazz Unit is Jon Lorenz and John Rich on saxophone and clarinet. The first full length of this apocalyptic Cincinnati duo pours molten silver into the ear. Space Denial is a powerful destruction trip pushing all the limits of reed electronic manipulations to areas explored only by the mighty Borbetomagus. Edition of 190 copies.
Calcutta Gas Chamber
(Die Stadt - DS97) LP picture disc $30.00
Inspired by nightmarish experiences during a visit to Calcutta in 1990, the late Australian composer conveys his impressions through electronic manipulation of field recordings made in an abandoned electrical power station in Brisbane in 1992. Grating and harsh, as indicative of nefarious activities related to death by machinery, beautifully composed and produced, completely remastered, with new artwork. Previous editions released by ND, 1993 and Cold Spring, 2006.
Daily Bread
(Galerie Pache) LP (one-sided) $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sarah Bernat (16 Bitch Pile Up, Work) uses synth, voice, and guitar to get through her personal issues (sanitary among others), and to move sound with DIY intimacy and exuberance. The poetic side of Fluxus meets the active brevity of pop. Block-printed inserts in vinyl sleeve. Edition of 130. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST 0F 2010
Black Chapel
(Urashima - UMA001) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
A study in static textures and crackling wall noise by Richard Ramirez (aka Black Leather Jesus), initially influenced by the work of Chop Shop. Deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard jacket limited to 114 hand-numbered copies.
In Vogue Spirit
(Destijl - IND090) LP $16.00
Their third LP, but the first where synths, drums, flesh, blood, organs, ideas and the astral concepts they support have gelled: the hazy, shifting experimental semi-thrust, the psychedelic production and the effortless melodic flow.
Stones and Light
(Rococo - RCC0013) LP (one-sided) $15.25
Demon-breath drone and peasant rust coagulating into an ancient spell. It's dirty and sick and stirs the unholy in the throats of the malignant before collapsing into dust. Edition of 150.
Whip and the Body
(Dais - DAIS02) 7-inch $6.00
Crushing, harsh power electronic by some Brooklyn noise creature with a hideous, malformed head. For fans of early Whitehouse, Grey Wolves, Ramleh.
Modern Heterosexuality
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR035) LP (one-sided) $12.00
Old-school sparse power electronics by Portland upstarts in the vein of mid-period Sutcliffe Jugend.
White Medal
(Legion Blotan - BLOTEP01) 7-inch $7.50
Stripped down black metal from the North of England. “So distorted,” says Aquarius, it’s “difficult to tell if the band [is] plodding along doomily or blasting furiously, just a massive blown out rrrooooaaaaar. The drums pound away beneath an epic metallic riff that churns and throbs, slathered in blistering distortion … [M]ajestic.” Screen-printed Covers. White vinyl.
Silo Blanket
(Formacentric - MOTH1) LP (lathe cut) $40.00
Dean Roberts's second album under the White WInged Moth moniker, from 1997. Excellent experimental drone rock with electric guitar, piano, vocal, tapes, and Alan Licht playing organ on one track. Edition of 60.
Asceticists 2006
(Susan Lawly - VFSL16) LP $15.50 (Out-of-stock)
Step up to the mic, Tiny Mix Tapes: "Though Whitehouse are over 20 years old, Asceticists 2006 shows that they have lost none of their vicious streak. William Bennett communicates the brutality of existence.... Instrumentally, Bennett and Philip Best create some of the most shape-shifting and sonically varied Whitehouse fare to date.... Asceticists begins with an immediate collage of sharp fuzz, disjointed and distorted drum beats, and screeching tones. Bennett pens a piece. Best screams a situation for us to fathom, demanding us to try on a new skin. He commences with a Phillip Larkin-like rant about how much parents fuck up their kids. Best proceeds to describe the horrific intents of self-interested parents. Four stanzas into the song, Bennett paints us a picture of a suicide bombing. A plethora of the graphic, violent, post-9/11 images come flooding into the mind, and Whitehouse has almost completed the job. A couple more stanzas filled with horrific imagery drive the message home."
Birthdeath Experience
(Susan Lawly - VFSL01) LP $17.50
The seminal first album by Whitehouse even to this day is a remarkable piece of work created entirely with tone generators and EDP Wasps. Lyrically full of uncompromising, trademark irony. Instrumental in dragging avant garde electronic music a long way from its initially limited boundaries. Reissued in conjunction with Very Friendly.
Disingenuity b/w Disingenuousness
(Pan - PAN13) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
The two pieces of forward-thinking electronic music on Whitman’s first full length record in four years use as source material live and studio recordings from the past two years (Cambridge, New York, Toronto), which were then realized into longform compositions. Using a Musique Concrète approach of deconstructed sounds, Disingenuity b/w Disingenuousness are tape-collage pieces derived from an hour-long improvisation based around a setup involving a tape of chance field-recordings (a helicopter, walking on snow, children) bounced to a mono Nagra tape machine, which is covered in contact mics that translate not just the sound coming from the speakers, but the actual mechanical "interface" of the unit into control voltage and triggers that drive a modular synth that's processing said audio using the classic electronic music toolkit (i.e. ring modulation, panning VCAs, filters, etc.). 140-gram vinyl, color jacket, silkscreened PVC sleeve. Edition of 500.
Variations for Oud & Synthesizer
(No - KFW-OUD) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Retired assassin (code name Hrvatski) splashes DNA from Hamza el Din, Louis & Bebe Barron, and Kenneth Gaburo's "For Harry" all over a Unarian tearoom.
Fanatic
(BloodLust! - B!060) 7-inch $7.50
Ultra-harsh power electronics by a mysterious project. Ninth release in the BloodLust! Private 7-inch series. Plain white sleeve. 300 copies
Compound
(Von Archives - VON002) 7-inch $10.00
A threshold of sound composed from the electrocacoustic improvisations of Yeh and the chirurgical, abrasive noise patches of Wiese. A majestic experiment by two unclassifiable masters of the new improv. Edition of 300.
Dramatic Accessories
(Ultra Eczema - UE57) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
This record is painfully harsh at times and even more painfully sensitive others, less a wall of nuttery and buckets full of zist and garbage thrown at your head, more an aural test of the limits of teasing your insides and flappy ears. This collection of cut-ups from Wiese's 2007 European tour uses guitar, drums, voice, tape, and the secret weapon, miscellany. The perfect soundtrack for cutting toenails out with a knife. Silkscreened, fold-open cover design by Dennis Tyfus. Numbered edition of 300 copies.
GGA
(Teenage Teardrop - TD037) LP $15.00
Two side-long tracks of dynamically diffused smashing, shattering and crashing sounds, mixed in stereo from Wiese's four-channel Los Angeles installation. Cover photographs by Cali Thornhill deWitt. Clear vinyl with insert. Edition of 330.
Live In Nottingham
(What The ... - WHAT004) LP $25.00
Live collaboration by Wiese (to be played by Sasha Cohen in the upcoming film Noise Movie) and Yeh, in front of their best gear with loudspeakers and a room full of wanting Brits. Rude blast noises, deep-brain droning, twisting tape press record, vocals that are just torn-apart and strung up in electronic torture chambers. Recorded direct from the board for maximum clarity, detail and quality. Limited edition of 330 with insert and red silkscreened covers.
Mixed Metaphor b/w Into a Bad Way
(Phage - PT110) 7-inch $9.00
Brutal, fast-moving, cut-up harsh noise, recorded and mixed in 2007, using Wiese and Merzbow material as source.
Tiny Red Tables b/w Big American Hole
(Helicopter - H48) 7-inch $7.50
Handheld tape recordings of source material and stage clips that Wiese (Sissy Spacek, Bastard Noise) and Yeh (Burning Star Core) used during the Free Noise tour sets -- the first unofficial Free Noise document, in fact. Very low-fi, but sounds great. An astounding twenty-six minutes total, no joke. Edition of 150.
That's What the Obituary Said b/w Ten Suicides
(Chrome Peeler - CPR09) 7-inch $10.00
Anti-social misanthropic spoken word and power electronics by the Eyehategod / Outlaw Order / Arson Anthem vocalist and author of "Cancer as a Social Activity: Affirmations of World's End." With Ryan McKern (The Guilt Of...) on the A-side. The flip was originally a Bloodyminded track with vocal by Mike IX Williams; here it's re-mixed by Mark Solotroff (Intrinsic Action, Bloodyminded). Includes 11" x 17" poster and lyric booklet. Black with yellow splatter vinyl. Edition of 500.
Frigid Soil
(Aagoo) 7-inch (one-sided) $7.00
Brutal and epic noise-infused black metal sludge from Evan Pacewiz (Moth Drakula, Roman Torment) and Jay Howard (Circuit Wound). Red vinyl with silkscreened B-side. Edition of 300.
Fanfare and Contrapunctus / Imago
(Pan - PAN12) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Fanfare & Contrapunctus (1976) were made at the newly opened electronic studio at the Sydney Conservatorium, before the advent of music computer technology. The source material derives from free improvisations by Wishart and Martin Mayes using “soft trumpets,” pop-guns, French Horn and virtuoso eating noises, plus recordings of birdsong and other environmental sources. Imago (2002) metamorphoses the single “clink” of two whisky glasses into birdsong, a junkyard gamelan, the ocean and the human voice, but never entirely abandons its links to this minimal source. The piece was made using sound transformation software written by the composer, available through the Composers Desktop Project, and the original source sound was taken from Jonty Harrison’s “et ainsi de suite.” 140-gram vinyl, color jacket, silkscreened PVC sleeve. Edition of 500.
Always Wrong
(Hospital - HOS245) CD $16.50
(Hospital - HOS245) LP $16.50
Always Wrong is a mantra of severity, coming forth from the piles of tape loops and effects, the bulk of tables reeling with electronics having been shed. This clarity does not sacrifice intensity. Wolf Eyes have crafted a statement with maturity that stands at the top of their mysterious discography. Young, Olson, and Connelly have been scouring audiences across the globe with acid-drenched industrial noise and dub terror psychedelia, establishing themselves as the trailblazers of a genre and pioneers of the long-form noise tour. This is the most organic of the full lengths, but also the harshest and most dissonant. “Cellar” immediately sets the pace of barraged edits and percussive electronics as startling vocals spit from the dry throat and remain unfiltered, breathing for the first time a clear litany of scorn. Throughout the album non-electronic beats created from live drums replace programming while colliding tape loops and junk metal bring the unstable rhythms of a house with eroding foundation. “Living Stone” shows a more natural state of acoustic composition, highlighting the despondent subtle plucking of controlled guitar improvisation that could come from nature’s ghost. Forge onward through “We All Hate You,” with its loud, tonal horns and architecturally placed electronics. “Broken Order” takes hold with shrill feedback fueling industrial cannon blasts of white hot noise that burn the body from the neck down. The closing track “Droll / Cut The Dog” is an eerie harmonica-driven death march straight out of Once Upon a Time in the West.
Dark Passenger
(Turgid Animal - TA365) LP $15.00
In exploring the death-journey, Bob McCully utilizes the full spectrum of eclectica for a record you could play to your mom, and yet is also one of the most disturbing records you’re likely to hear. Limited to 250 copies. Art by the incredibly talented Elijah Funk.
Songs For Nothing
(After Music Recordings) LP $16.50
A soundtrack for the end of civilization, written for those who can only watch it happen on Youtube with the camera miles away, Songs for Nothing combines the atmosphere of Creation Death Machine (MaxCorp 2010), the creeping walls of Fairweather Mask (Autumn Wind Productions 2009) and various textural elements that showed up on the seven-inches, tapes and CDRs in between. Woods loses a minimal amount of past experimentations to make way for a more straightforward, pissed-off approach. Crashing pianos, broken electronics, a variety of different vocal styles, synth swells and field recordings merge with a thematic focus on our inability to control the the world. This is a record about screaming truth to power in a sound proof room. Red vinyl. Hand-screened cardboard sleeve. Photocopied insert.
Sunshine of Your Love
(Siltbreeze - SB090) LP $12.00
Originally released on the cassette-only label Breakdance The Dawn, Siltbreeze 's vinyl reissue answers the question, what’s left in that studio that’s not broken? (Only their will!) On a break from their duties in Antipan, Matt and Nick plugged into the cassette deck—left channel, guitar; right channel, mic under the floor tom—and played. Apart from minor adjustment of levels, the end result as it was made is all here. XNo BBQX cite Harry Pussy and Mouthus as influences.
xNO BBQx
(Pulled Out - PULL03) LP picture disc $19.50
Matt and Nick from Antipan go apeshit with their guitar-drums dishevelment. Picture disc imported from Australia.
Lost Signals
(Ultra Eczema - UE45) LP $25.00
Bill Nace, John Truscinski and Jake Megansky deliver their fourth sparse, spaced, scratched and creeped-out record, which follows a debut CDR on Audiobot, an amazing tape on Nace's Open Mouth label, and an LP on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace imprint. XO4 uses two guitars and percussion, and they construct a solid paradise of tension between the instruments that is refreshingly non-obvious: an old dog rubbing thousands of little pieces of metal together, a circuit-bent old wooden clock, sensitive guitar-molestation always nearby. Nace also plays in a duo with Chris Cooper (Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase), in Vampire Belt with free percussion's crown prince Chris Corsano, and in Northampton Wools with Thurston Moore. Packaged in a collaged jacket designed by Dennis Tyfus.
Magnificence in the Memory
(Drag City) LP $15.00
Nine tracks that freak out, whisper funk, scream, stomp, and storm with abandon, lways on the first and only take take. The capacity of their riffs and grooves to mimic German prog bands of the same era, psychedelic rock bands of several years previous or the as-yet-uncreated avant sounds from the indie rock movement a decade away is proves their connection to the source of human inspiration itself.
Penetration - An Aquarian Symphony
(Tee Pee - TP083) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Tripped out, divinely inspired, totally improvised, considered their best release if for no other reason that its capture of the intensity and glory of Krautrock.
Sonic Portation
(Prophase - PMLP9991) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Back in the early '70s, The Source Family owned and operated a health food restaurant in Los Angeles, and were centered around Father Yod -- WWII flying ace, spiritual searcher, and leader of improvisational music-making under the name Yahowa 13. When Yod died in a hang gliding accident in 1975, the group dispersed. In 2007, with the publication of a book about The Source Family, the original Yahowa 13 reunited for live shows and studio recordings, the first in over 30 years. Here, original members Djin, Octavius and Sunflower jam out as if the ensuing years never happened (they didn't; time is an illusion). Mind-melting guitar and the psychedelic low end throb that Yod fans immediately recognize. Edition of 500
In the Blink of an Eye b/w Condo Stress
(Destijl - IND087) 7-inch $6.00
In addition to Songs 2002 (What The... Records 2009), the only Yeh effort that is electronics music, furniture music, modernistic music, and music with experimental new vision.
C. SPENCER YEH / RYAN JEWELL / JON LORENZ TRIO
C. Spencer Yeh / Ryan Jewell / Jon Lorenz Trio
(Krayon Recordings - KR012) 7-inch $8.25
Bent frown jazz construction from violin scrunch and squeal, hard tom rub and dense harmonic blowing. Side B fragments into bowed skin, seesaw string microtone and rasped mouthpiece.
Don't Cry
(Hospital - HOS246) LP $16.50
The sound of a drop of urine pushed through an infected urethra. An uncomfortable attraction to the golden realms of natural expulsion, this is the audio collage equivalent of a child’s worst day at a carnival as an aktionist nightmare of disturbing imagery and sounds. On Don’t Cry these young masters carve sculptures of depravity using god knows what for source sounds. The listener is introduced to a mostly quiet, subtle psychology of fear, childhood trauma and locked cellars. Power comes from the absence the familiar. Separating themselves from the narcissistic herd, the band requires decades of therapy to begin to solve their problems. Bad dreams are supposed to be frightening.
The Man Can't Bust Our Music
(Ectoplasm - ROV004) 7-inch $12.00
It'd be sheer folly not to defer to Mark Prindle on this: "Named after a godawful CBS Records ad line from the late '60s, the second ZCR release is a teeny little 7-inch with ten studio songs crammed onto it. It's very diverse and never gets boring. The ZCR originals include: a gentle tribute to Che Guevara; a throbbing hard rocker about kicking in the heads of audience members; a haunting piano instrumental by a man who can't play the piano; a needlessly offensive British nursery rhyme; a free-noise snippet; a country-western advertisement for a hotel frequented by the Zip Code Rapists. The cover tunes include: Pablo Cruise's 'Good Ship Pablo Cruise' (or rather, one line of 'Good Ship Pablo Cruise' sung over and over and over); John Lennon's '#9 Dream' as sung by the 'Hijinks' computer from Gregg Turkington's Great Phone Calls LP; Stephen Foster's 'Old Folks At Home' sung through a toy megaphone; a hideous dirtball rendition of The Monkees' 'Listen To The Band'."
Early Recordings 77-83
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD42) LP $22.50
Viennese performance and video/music artists’ finest archival selections of their minimal / wave / classic Trust No Women LP style. All tracks previously unreleased on vinyl.