Patience
(Ba Da Bing - BING070) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Ba Da Bing - BING070) LP $14.00 (Out-of-stock)
RELEASE DATE OCTOBER 12th. Four unforgiving instrumentals. Thick and thundering electric drones compound and retreat like a Pacific Ocean of noise. LP includes free MP3 download card.
Completed Rotations of...
(Roaratorio - ROAR20) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
RELEASE DATE SEPTEMBER 21st. 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 or 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 Songs In The Key of Z, Vol. 2, 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.
Phantom Payn Days
(Destijl - IND079) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
RELEASE DATE SEPTEMBER 15th. Since 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.
Norse Fumigation
(SNSE - SNSE077) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. 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.
Matthew 28:17
(Pica Disk - PICA022) CD $14.00
The August edition is the first in Jazkamer's 2010 monthly CD series by the core duo of Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre. This reduction does little to lighten the sonic density; their thick haze of dopey fuzz-guitars and droning organ recalls an earlier Jazkamer album The Sound of Music ([OHM] 2002). Here Hegre and Marhaug mingle astronomy and religion, a duality and conflict of science and spirituality they express as Dionysian ecstasy via primitive psychedelic noise. Cover art by Yasutoshi Yoshida (Government Alpha).
OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD
Blue Eyes Are My Reward
(Krayon Recordings) LP $15.00
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.
Time Slime
(Ultra Eczema - UE85) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. 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.
In the Blink of an Eye b/w Condo Stress
(Destijl - IND087) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. 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.
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.
Ode to Fidelity
(Destijl - IND085) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. 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.
Cafe Cicago
(Ultra Eczema - UE87) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. RESERVATIONS ADVISED. 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.
Here We Are Together Again b/w Yellow Dollars
(Destijl - IND086) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. 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.
The Cut
(Ultra Eczema - UE86) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. RESERVATIONS ADVISED. 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.
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.
Failing Lights
(Intransitive - INT036) CD $15.00
Mike Connelly (Wolf Eyes, Hair Police) evokes bleak electronic atmospheres, suffocating dread, and sinewy horror with a fine-tuned beauty embedded in its darkness. Connelly’s self-released cassettes and CDRs of rough drones, detuned improvised grit, blown-out burl, and unstable acoustics tend to vanish quickly; Intransitive’s CD, the first one widely available, is sure to become a defining statement. The single piece -- in five sections -- begins with disquieting, barren negative space, creeps forward, steadily dispenses sheets of diffuse throat-scratch and skittering strings, and culminates in a blast of molten organ.
Fatanarchy On Airtube
(Harbinger Sound - HAS033) CD $12.00
The long-awaited collaboration record by Yamastuka Eye and Andy Bolus. Performed, mixed and designed between 1994 and 2004, this is as weird and confusing as it gets. Including jaw-dropping takes on "Eye of the Tiger" and The Exploited's "Sex and Violence."
What Leave Behind
(S.K. - SK28) CD $9.00
All-female Oakland collective collaborating with a giant of prepared guitar, performing Dan Plonsey’s five-part Concerto for Electric Guitar and Toy Orchestra. Lord Frith mixes shimmery noise, strange tunings, brushes, kitchen utensils, and folk-like melodies with the group’s ensemble of toy instruments, actual instruments, and objects. A far cry from a bunch of children banging around, What Leave Behind is a sophisticated sound experience created with intricate recording and mixing techniques. Surreal and dramatic.
MASONNA / RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK
Clitoris Projectile Pump Action
(Tochnit Aleph - TA083) CD $15.00
First released as tape/object by Schimpfluch / Coquette in 1995 in an edition of 33 copies, this CD reissue makes available on a somewhat large scale (600 copies) the celebrity death match between the wild dog of Osaka (Masonna) and Mt. Lunacy's foreign ambassador (Rudolf Eb.er). Features R&G studio and live-actions material with guest appearance by Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant).
Death & Beauty Foundation
(Somnimage - som018) CD $15.00
Val Denham and Andrew M. McKenzie's (Hafler Trio) 1982 avant garde masterpiece for the bewildered; that's right, the legendary Darlington tapes available after 26 years. “One long collage,” observes Vital Weekly, “The main instrument at work here is the voice … best described … as sound poetry, with a melodic touch…. [G]uitars, the good old Casio VL-tone 1 and several tape editing techniques (speeding up of sound, slowing down) [are] played rather naively and free.” Remastered, frightening and beautiful. The strangest album ever recorded.
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.
Love Got In My Way
(Eabla - EAB101) CD $13.50
The first release by the reissue-only label Eabla Records fetches an offbeat masterpiece back from the grave in search of the audience it was denied 33 years ago. Construction worker and stock car racer by day, polyester-clad musical powerhouse by night, Joe E. Neubauer risked everything to create Love Got In My Way, originally released in 1975 on an enigmatic, ill-fated vanity label from South Florida. A profusely illustrated 16-page booklet tells the shocking story of the $20,000 gamble that gave birth to this lounge-pop Pet Sounds for the middle-aged melancholic. Joe E.’s brooding music sounds more sensational than ever, having been lovingly remastered from the original tapes that Neubauer himself pulled out of his label’s dumpster in 1976.
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. Edition of 129. All orders placed here include a 3-inch CDR of previously unreleased hoot, not available elsewhere.
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.
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.
Sing and Play the Three Doctors and Other Sounds of Today
(Eabla - EAB102) CD $13.50
From their supposed beginnings as a Doors cover band from Texas, to their shameful years of bloated excess, to their acrimonious breakup and inevitable decade-later reunion, this CD details the hope and anger, the trauma and triumph, of this quintessentially American folk-punk combo. In addition to their astonishing 1992 debut LP Sing and Play the Three Doctors and Other Sounds of Today, this CD compiles the overlong 7-inch The Man Can’t Bust Our Music (1993) and the inexcusably short 12-inch 94124 (1995), all of which have been lovingly remastered for today’s more discerning listener. This deluxe package also includes previously unheard outtakes and compilation tracks, four songs from an incendiary 1993 show at CBGB, and a touching tribute to Seals and Crofts from a 2006 reunion show. Includes 16-page booklet with liner notes by Will York, and a rub-on ZCR tattoo, which can be worn for a day, or cherished for a lifetime.
Take The Curse
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR072) 2xLP $30.00
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.
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.
For Which He Plies The Lash
(Hospital - HOS267) CD $14.00
(Hospital - HOS267) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
LP COMING SOON. 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."
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)
33 1/3
(Important - IMPREC145) Enhanced CD $12.00
Leaning here toward their 20th century avant-garde and out-jazz influences, Smegma have obviously spent of good portion of their 33.3-year history free-thinking their heads off. Magnificent blotoo honk by Oblivia, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Burned Mind, Conroy, and Dr. Id. CD includes live videos of “Happy Holidays” live at End Times Festival (with Spencer Yeh and Twig Harper) and “Grubsteak” live at the Three Million Tongues festival in Chicago.
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.
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.
Sings the Blues
(RRRecords - RRRGOD) 7-inch $4.50
Totally fucked-up schizo-shit noise from Texas nerve-bakers. Edition of 300.
3 Toed Sloth
(Slothful - SLOTHFUL1) LP $20.00
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.
Space Time Echo
(P-Tapes - PSM201) 3-inch CD $13.00
The third volume of heavy, all-analog psych from Maso Yamazaki’s (aka Masonna) Kosmische music project. This one is all-solo, with Maso playing Maestro Echoplex EP-3 and P-Tronic Sound Lab Mini-Synth in a fairly brain-shredding style. Recorded at Space Machine Systems Studio in Osaka, December 2004. Nice package with full-color 3-inch sleeve featuring details of vintage circuitry. Limited to 500 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.
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.
Zone of Avoidance
(P-Tapes - PSM202) 3-inch CD $13.00
The fourth volume of heavy, all-analog psych from Maso Yamazaki’s (aka MASONNA) Kosmische music project. Here Maso pilots a Roland System 100, System 100M and RE-501 all the way to the other side of the horizon. Recorded at Space Machine Systems Studio in Osaka, December 2004. Nice package with full-color 3-inch sleeve featuring details of vintage circuitry. Limited to 500 copies.
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.
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.
Total Vacuum
(Hanson - HN208) CD $11.00
(Hanson - HN208) LP $18.00
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.
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.
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.
Fanfare and Contrapunctus / Imago
(Pan - PAN12) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. RESERVATIONS ADVISED. 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 abandoning 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.
Disingenuity b/w Disingenuousness
(Pan - PAN13) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. RESERVATIONS ADVISED. The two pieces of forward-thinking electronic music on Whitman’s first full length record in four years used 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 which 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 mic's 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.