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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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