(OS)

What Those Ingredients Are

(Sijis) Used CD $4.00

Field recordings of San Francisco Bay Area from 2004 by Steve Polta

13 / GRIEF

Falling Apart b/w Whither

(Riotous Assembly) Used Split 7-inch $10.00

Grim, mournful doom metal backed with all-female kult sludge / doom metal. Second pressing on black vinyl, from 1993

13 GAUGE / DIETER HENKEL / KLATZKER-CORSANO DUO

3... 2... 1... Zero

(Hot Cars Warp Records) Used LP $7.00

13 Gauge (Chris Corsano, Aaron Mullan, and George Moore) dedicate one side to alto legend Marion Brown and render a post-core, Chick Corea-less “Afternoon of a Georgia Faun.” Their third piece, “Montana Fix,” loosely pays tribute to mushroom legend John Cage. The Klatzker-Corsano duo (cello and drums, respectively) follows with a slightly more melodic but no less frazzled approach. Dieter Henkel abandons his main instrument (drums) and jams guitar, trumpet, and twiddled knobs into the works, bringing this 1997 release to a screeching halt. Hand-painted paste-on cover affixed to old Chopin jacket. Edition of 500

16 BITCH PILE-UP

Bury Me Deep

(Troniks) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

A rare album that assuredly sustains a distinct mood of dread throughout its entirety, with the 18-minute “The Dead Boy Would Not Go Away” most successfully enrapturing via minimalism and low-rumbling grime, and “The Earth Was Loose” including an orchestra of motorcycle rev-ups and crashes in the manner of sleazy teen exploitation flicks from the ’50s and ’60s. Bury Me Deep is a bit difficult to process upon the first listen, but coming back to it reveals an incredibly nuanced and pronounced craft, that requires patience and an appreciation for understated disquietude.

16 BITCH PILE-UP

Live

([ no label ]) Used LP $20.00

Sarah Bernat, Sarah Cathers and Shannon Walter live in Los Angeles and San Francisco 2010. Silkscreen folder cover.

16 BITCH PILE-UP / MIKE SHIFTLET

Make Like A Fetus And Abort / Extract, Behold

(Ecstatic Peace) Used Split LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Shiflet’s free-fall of acoustic wonder backed with noise improv by Sarah Bernat, Sarah Cathers and Shannon Walter. From 2007

16-17

When All Else Fails...

(Vision) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Aggressive technologies, unconventional sound-generating devices and a positively industrial approach by Alex Buess, Markus Kneubühler, and Knut Remond. On ‘Pedestrian Dub,’ sax and guitar infused with enveloped, processed barbs make each bleat and downstroke sound like wavering sheet metal, and Remond’s shell tones all the more alien.” 1989 pressing

21.PERON

21.Peron

(Arkaplan) Used LP + 7-inch $50.00

Turkish folk prog album from the mid-’70s. Includes “Anlatamiyorum” b/w “Köy Dügünü” seven-inch. Numbered edition 348/400 from 2003

2673 / CURRENT AMNESIA

Current Amnesia / 2673

(Sunshine Disease) Used CDR $5.00

#12/25. Sealed

2673 / KEVIN DRUMM

Kevin Drumm / 2673

(Kitty Play) Used LP $8.00

One side of abrasive noise by each. Edition of 500

3/4 HAD BEEN ELIMINATED

Theology

(Soleilmoon) Used CD $10.00

The group straddles the line between live improvisation and studio experimentation, shaping raw sounds into living pieces and gently dissecting the delicately structured songs into disruptive excursions evocative of moving shadows and swirling leaves. Acoustic instruments and vocals form a familiar reference point, but studio treatments take the music into psychedelic and cinematic realms. Wooden box. Insert. Edition of 450

4G

cloud

(Erstwhile - ERST046) Used 2xCD $12.00

Keith Rowe, Oren Ambarchi, Christian Fennesz and Toshimaru Nakamura, each with extensive discographies and distinctive styles, formed the Four Gentlemen of the Guitar (4g) in 2004, and played a series of shows in Europe and Canada, three of which (from Vand'ouevre, Paris and Victoriaville) are contained on cloud. The widely differing aesthetics of the four musicians meld fluidly, forming hovering, delicate masses of sound. Sealed

5UU'S

Bel Marduk & Tiamat

(U:r) Used LP $25.00

“Vigorous bouts of RIO energy amid a refined and literate sense of wordplay. 5UU’s swathe ornate lyrics in an equally hyper-intense and near-psychedelic aura of shrill guitars, keyboards that test the limits of 88-key endurance, and tumbling avalanches of percussive variants.” From 1986

5UU'S / MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD

Elements

(ReR Megacorp) Used LP $35.00

Darkened and more serious than Marduk, more severe and tighter, but not at the expense a certain sense of humor. From 1988

666 VOLT BATTERY NOISE

Audio Super Predator

(Pure) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

David Brownstead’s harsh noise project from the late 1990s delivers a wall of hellfire and damnation. Crushing, agonized, archetypical noise that never lets up.

7 YEAR RABBIT CYCLE

Wind Machines

(Free Porcupine Society) Used CD $15.00

(Free Porcupine Society) Used LP $15.00

Rob Fisk would loathe having the ten tracks from 2004 described as “super-psychedelic, no wave, beard-core, folk explosion.”
CD includes 16pp book of drawings by Fisk and Jeff Nerkumm. CD is sealed
LP is sealed.

A BAND

Untitled

(Qbico) Used LP $20.00

Collective freak-outs, surreal interludes, hypnotic drones, electronic motifs and strange experimental passages from 1991 — all edited together by Richard Youngs with an ear toward keepin’ it wild — released in 2003. Multicolor vinyl.

A FEAST OF SNAKES

A Feast Of Snakes

(In The Red) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

This Dallas, Texas, psycho four-piece match the insanity of the berserk novel by Harry Crews with grimy ass-shakin’ swagger, splats of slide guitar, and the odd pained outburst of screaming distortion.

A THINKING PLAGUE

... A Thinking Plague

(Endemic) Used LP $35.00 (Out-of-stock)

Colorado’s answer to Henry Cow and Art Bears, exploring the frontiers where rock, folk, jazz and modern symphonic music meet. Spray-painted jacket, lyric sheet insert. Edition of 500. From 1984

A TORTURE MECHANISM / MERZBOW

Merzbow / A Torture Mechanism

(Crucial Blast) Used Split CD $7.50 (Out-of-stock)

Merzbow’s “Unknown Tape 1994” is rather slow-paced wall noise, powerful enough to satisfy primal noise cravings. A Torture Mechanism’s roughly cut cassette noise is at times not unlike early Ramleh, with a solid bass end ridden with all sorts of meaty oscillating saw waves. 2001 reissue of Fistfight’s 1999 edition packaged in card a sleeve and held in an A5 sized pink paper folder with two info inserts and two thin clear plastic outer sheets.

ABEL-STEINBERG-WINANT TRIO

Set Of Five

(New Albion - NA036) Used CD $10.00

Violinist David Abel, pianist Julie Steinberg, and percussionist William Winant’s 1990 view of Pacific Rim influences in modern classical composition. Henry Cowell’s title composition and Lou Harrison’s “Varied Trio” use exotic percussion and the-world-is-one inspiration, while John Cage’s “Noctourne” is not so explicit, and Somei Satoh’s “Toki No Mon” opens time to “not simply progress from past into future, but slowly describes a circle.” The five-part “Invocations to Vahakn” by Alan Hovhaness delves further through cultural icons to the ancient Armenian sun god.

ANTON GARCIA ABRIL / MARCELLO GIOMBINI

…4..3..2..1…Morte

(Dagored) Used LP $12.00

Original soundtrack recordings for the 1967 cult sci-fi movie. Bizarre voice-only tracks, electronic themes, organ-based rhythmic jazz with a psychedelic vibe — perfect background for tales of Perry Rhodan’s space adventures. Gatefold jacket. 180-gram vinyl

ABSOLUTE BODY CONTROL

Tapes 81-89

(Vinyl on Demand) Used 5xLP + 7-inch $175.00

2007 reissue of Untitled (Body 1981), Numbers (Body 1982), Figures (Body 1983), Live (Body 1984), Tracks (Body 1989), Is There An Exit? (Blitz 1981). Numbered edition, 380/600

AD

Ta Yu Ta 1

(Hören) Used CD $25.00

Gentle and flowing understatement by Akinori Yamasaki and drowsiness (guitar and sounds) with Akio Suzuki (stone flute, analapos, glass harmonica) and Atsumi Yasuda (voice). Ideal for mopping the inside of your skull.

JOHN ADAMS / GAVIN BRYARS / CHRISTOPHER HOBBS

Ensemble Pieces

(Obscure) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Two pieces by a member of AMM (cheerful, repetitive carols on organ, bells and toy piano), one of which is based compositionally on the stiching pattern of a sweater, three austere and slowly evolving instrumentals from a live recording with Adams’s New Music Ensemble, San Francisco. And Bryars’s extraordinary ensemble piece performed by himself, Derek Bailey and Cornelius Cardew mimicking a pre-recorded cassette and shifting from lounge jazz music something more aleatory. 1978 repress of 1975 LP

BARRY ADAMSON

Moss Side Story

(Mute) Used LP $8.00

Elements of rock, voices from news reports, blood-curdling wordless female vocals (courtesy of Diamanda Galás), lounge keyboards, and swirling funereal ambient music are interwoven on this taut and compelling, three-act concept album from 1989.

BARRY ADAMSON

Stranger On A Couch

(Central Control International) Used CD $5.00

Ninth solo album, from 2006, swinging through dark pop, atmospheric instrumentals, demented circus music, catchy pop spilling over with Hammond organ and acoustic strumming, slide guitar and a big harmonica hook, cinematic soul, martial drums, beautiful string synths and piano, funk and dub leanings.

BARRY ADAMSON

The Negro Inside Me

(Mute) Used LP $8.00

Six tracks from 1993. A burst of spiraling horns rushing headlong into an up-tempo Hammond-organ-versus-James-Bond jazz-funk groove; Latin-edged, cymbal-intensive percussion rhythm; scratched record samples, electronic noises and slow-mo hip-hop breaks that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Massive Attack album; orchestral textures and piano motifs; layers of hip-hop percussion and organ flourishes; sparse and funky wah-wah guitar; slow and lounge-y café jazz for piano and vibes.

ADMIRAL ANGRY

Buster

(Sentient - SR02) CD $10.75 (Out-of-stock)

(Sentient - SR02) Used CD $7.00

Massive is an understatement. Absolutely monolithic down-tuned guitar assaults twist through almost mechanized, mind-bending rhythms while tortured vocals narrate how wretched life actually is, like a monstrous cyborg in the process of human extermination, all too aware of the atrocities it commits.

ADN CKRYSTALL

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 other rarities.

AETHENOR

Deep In Ocean Sunk The Lamp Of Light

(VHF) Used LP $10.00

Stephen O'Malley (Sunn0))))), Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo), and Vincent de Roguin (Shora) scratching that NWW Spiral Insana / Schulze Cyborg itch in 2006. Screen-printed jacket by Alan Sherry of SIWA. Sealed

AFTERNOON SAINTS

The Shirley Jangle

(K-raa-k3) Used 2xLP $15.00

“An intimate and subtle meeting inside a bubbling audio biosphere of noise, sound art and experimental improvisation” by Lee Renaldo, David Watson, Christian Marclay and Gunter Muller. Three sides and fourth etched by Renaldo.

AHLZAGAILZEHGUH

Bypassing Time Passing

(Hospital) Used LP $50.00

Hulking, great slabs of noise from 2007. Two long tracks that veer between feedback squall, sheet metal scrapes, jackhammers and static. Silkscreened cover. Edition of 200

ILYAS AHMED

The Vertigo of Dawn Time

(Time Lag) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

A complete tonal voyage from 2008, opening with a dark ritual of dueling reeds and buzzing drones, erupting into seriously burning psych raga built from totally heavy, jamming, acoustic guitar licks, eastern grooving hand percussions, stoned backwards or fuzzed-out electric guitar splatters, and subtle creaky drones. Nearly unintelligible vocals swirl beautifully. Woozy, head-bobbing, and completely there. 180g vinyl in a custom fabric-textured heavy gatefold jacket with black and red ink.

PEGGY AHWESH / BARBARA ESS

Radio Guitar

(Ecstatic Peace) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Nine untitled tracks from 2001, with Ess on effects-saturated guitar and Ahwesh playing the short wave radio as if it’s a musical instrument. Partly planned, partly spontaneous musical compositions of dense and often melodic sounds and noise.

AKABUSHI

Chonmage

(Satsugai Enka) Used 3-inch CD $10.00

Lo-fi destroyed hardcore from 1994 by Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms, Omoide Hatoba) and Toyohito Yoshikawa (Boredoms, UFO or Die, Grind Orchestra). Fourteen tracks in under 15 minutes. In standard size CD jewelbox, with 8pp book of drawings. Includes obi

AKALA

Delicate Instruction

(Pure) Used CD $5.00

Rather dark, slowly enveloping noise fields from 1996, manifested with synths, loops and radio sounds. Primitively made but with intensity.

AKATEN

Akaten

(Magaibutsu) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Using a moniker that translates “red heaven,” Tsuyama Atsushi (Omoide Hatoba) and Yoshida Tatsuya (Ruins) embrace irresponsibility by using common objects like scissors, toothbrush, zipper, camera and plastic bottle as percussion, and brand names shouted over and over as the lyrics. Low cost, maximum sound effect, experimental convenience store punk recorded 1995. Paper bag cover with glue-on artwork.

NOËL AKCHOTÉ / ROLAND AUZET / LUC FERRARI

Impro-Micro-Acoustique

(Blue Chopsticks) Used CD $9.00

Impressed by Akchoté mistreating his instrument in his characteristic, inimitable manner, the venerable composer regarded the Parisian guitarist’s solo set as “new, real-time concrete.” Auzet, who had previously performed the demanding percussion part in Ferrari’s Cellule 75, is another obvious choice for this trio, with Ferrari on piano – utterly at home and in-the-moment for this first encounter in 2003. This meticulously crafted assemblage of shifting sonic perspectives is “a play of depths, where individual attacks come abruptly and unpredictably to the fore. Its taut, edge-of-seat, aggressive interplay is deployed within the wondrous frame of Ferrari’s montage.”

MASAMI AKITA

The Prosperity Of Vice, The Misfortune Of Virtue

(I Release) Used CD $8.00

EMS synthesizer, Ishibashi theremin, tapes, and noise electronics. Composeed for the Theatre play Akutoku No Sakae/ Bitoku No Fuko by Romantica, and based on the Marquis De Sade’s Historie De Juliette Ou Les Prosperites Du Vice and Les Infortunes De La Vertu. From 1996

AKITSA / PRURIENT

Akitsa / Prurient

(Blasphemous Underground) Used Split LP $40.00

“Unstructured industrial noise elements with vocals that are shrill and penetrating, backed with violent harsh noise combined excerpts of classical violin.” From 2006

TETUZI AKIYAMA

International Domestic

(Corpus Hermeticum) Used CD $5.00

In these duets by Akiyama with guitarist Greg Malcolm, no-input mixing board whiz Toshimaru Nakamura, and Bruce Russell on electronics and clavioline, you’ll hear “how aggressive and off-balance a music founded on restraint can get,” promises Paris Transatlantic. “Akiyama leaves vast spaces between his jagged twangs and clanks…, and does things to his guitar pickups with a steak knife that would have a sushi chef sweating. Nakamura’s work is more disjointed here too, and their fourteen-minute duet packs a few nasty surprises. The duet with Malcolm sounds more like what you’d expect to hear in Tokyo’s Off Site, but Russell … is more confrontational…. Their duet emerges out of a babble of audience noise … [and] exists in a permanent state of impending catastrophe, building a fantastic sense of tension that’s all too often lacking in Japanese-style micro-improv.”

TETUZI AKIYAMA / JASON KAHN / UTAH KAWASAKI

Luwa

(Rossbin) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Analog improv trio date led by Akiyama (on tape delayed electric guitar) with Kahn on modular synth and cymbal, and Kawasaki on dismantled Roland synthesizer.

TETUZI AKIYAMA

Résophonie

(A Bruit Secret) Used CD $8.00

Prepared guitar played with a resonator. “Strings buzz…, as … the resonator triggering unsuspected responses from the paper clips, pens, and other objects inserted under the strings,” say All Music Guide. “The pieces sound both harsh and crystalline…; in the realm of reductionis / lowercase avant-garde music, this album comes as a strange proposition.”

TETUZI AKIYAMA / TOM GREENWOOD

Stoned Runes

(Akti) Used CD $8.00

Quiet, intimate and beautifully wandering document from 2008. Zonked folk improv played on acoustic guitars, recorded live at Ringoya in Tokyo. 2021 reissue.

AKRON/FAMILY

Akron/Family

(Young God) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Opaque psych-folk weirdness [from 2005] with each of the Brooklyn band’s four principal members receiv[ing] a ‘bric-a-brac’ credit next to the more conventional listings for guitar, piano, melodica, glockenspiel, and percussion…. Unidentifiable noises have a way of splattering suddenly across the album’s plaintive acoustics…. melding … animalistic percussion, layered voices, pleading melody, and hints of electronic noisemaking to the lo-fi aesthetic….”

AKRON/FAMILY

Love Is Simple

(Young God) Used CD + DVD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Chaos, rock action, tribal bongo-banging, sentimental sing-alongs and pop gems galore. From 2007. Sealed

ALEPH EMPIRE

Playback Device Confusion Volume One

(Mego) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded live at Rhiz Records, Austria, 2002. Guests include Tiefpunk Crew, Schimpfluch-Gruppe International, Good Looking Communists, Costes, Fear Of God, K2, R. H.Y Yau, Raionbashi, Noize Punishment, Mouse, General Dub, Doormouse & Stuntrock, and Arsedestroyer. Shaped CD, packaged in a slimline jewelcase, with obi. Sealed

ALESSANDRO ALESSANDRONI

Inchiesta

(Sonor Music Editions) Used LP $30.00

Sweet funk-drama tracks from the ’70s, recorded as a sound library session for Italian television. Edition of 500.

ALGEBRASSIERE / GANG WIZARD

Gang Wizard / Algebrassiere

(Ecstatic Peace) Used Split LP $5.00

Gang Wizard’s “gush of air is free from all known styles. Sure, these young Californians use ‘rock’ tools, but the stuff they get out of them is purist munge,” the un-hoodwink-able Arthur would like you to understand. “It varies between accreted noise-form and the kinda free-plonk that makes hot ducks wiggle from sea to shining sea. Algebrassiere’s blow is sweet and weird in a way that almost recalls some of Smegma’s early early crudity. Stylish!” Paste-on cover art. Numbered edition 246/264

ALKIBAR GIGNOR

La Paix

(Sahel Sounds) Used LP $10.00

This garage rock band from Mali loads their battered hand-me-down guitars, drum kit, amplifiers, speakers and generators onto donkey carts, regularly tours throughout off-the-grid farming villages of the Timbouctou area, and blasts their trademark electrified sound under star-filled skies, sometimes getting paid in sacks of rice.

MARSHALL ALLEN / HAMID DRAKE / KIDD JORDAN / WILLIAM PARKER / ALAN SILVA

All-Star Game

(Eremite) Used CD $17.00

“There’s much to celebrate about these two discs, classic encounters of the energy chapter of free jazz -- in each case two saxophones and rhythm section blowing toward some apocalyptic possibility; no theme in sight, with power and conviction that have too often seemed drained from American free jazz. What happens in each case is an explosion of impassioned utterance, soul-searing work in the rituals first defined by Ayler, Coltrane, Sanders, and the Sun Ra reed section of which Marshall Allen was a member. These may not, in any sense, be regular bands, but they’re bands without a weak link, whether ego-centric, technical or conceptual. The All-Star Game features what is unquestionably the senior ensemble. It’s a marvelous meeting in which Allen and Jordan dance across the pulsing maze of multiplying rhythms set up by Drake an\d the two basses of Parker and Silva (another early presence). While Jordan unquestionably belongs in the All-Star Game, he is among the most under-rated of musicians, a fountain of torrid energy and exalted invention who is entirely worthy of this rhythm section.” From 2000. Clipped corner

ALLEYPISSER / KAM HASSAH / PAUL KNOWLES / FRANCISCO MEIRINO / GERRITT WITTMER

Unifying Themes

(Misanthropic Agenda - MAR034) Used LP $18.00

A study of themes that unite as a whole across geographic, linguistic and cultural barriers. Edition of 90.

ALTAR OF FLIES

Let New Life Rise In The Face Of Death

(Hasten & Korset - 045) Used CD $24.00

This CD reissue of Mattias Gustafsson’s haunted and solitary tape (Sprachloss Verlag 2011) includes two new compositions, one with Joachim Nordwall on analogue synths and effects. “Although the trademark oscillator, synth and feedback work of Altar of Flies still echoes in the tracks,” notes Peter Henning, “Let New Life Rise In The Face OF Death references classic avant-garde composition as much as it embraces the seedy grit of industrial and noise music…. [A] haunting blend of environmental and found sounds that seriously throws out a challenge to the established canon of Swedish concrète.” Edition of 300.

AMADINDA PERCUSSION GROUP

4' 33"

(Hungaraton) Used LP $10.00

Ionization by Edgard Varèse; Toccata by Carlos Chávez; John Cage’s 4’33, Third Construction, and Amores; and Double Music by Cage and Lou Harrison. Zoltán Kocsis, piano. Aurél Holló and Benedek Tóth, percussion. From 1989

AMADINDA PERCUSSION GROUP

Ragtime • African Music

(Hungaraton) Used LP $7.00

István Márta’s Doll’s House Story; László Sáry’s Pebble Playing In A Pot; John Cage’s Second Construction; two pieces of traditional African music, and two by George Hamilton Green. From 1987

OREN AMBARCHI / MARTIN NG

Reconnaissance

(Staubgold) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Analog electronics and guitar fused together, a subtle and compelling realignment of Eastern and Western minimalist traditions.

OREN AMBARCHI / HADO HO / SCOTT HORSCROFT

Untitled

(Textile) Used Split LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Alien beauty and impossible explorations by the Australian guitarists backed with Takehito Nakazato’s manipulation of feedback noises and squeal, bad cable connections, loud mic tapping, electric hum, feedback squeals.

ELISA AMBROGIO / KARL BAUER

Yankee Psychic Hygine

(Spirit of Orr) Used 7-inch $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Explosive subtle motion and jarring delicateness collide and co-mingle through two long sides on this collaborative joint by one half of The Magik Markers and the psych mind behind Axolotl.

AMK

Play

(Pure) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Loops of spliced flexi-discs — a monument to recycled sounds. Guests include Michael Johnson, Wm. Christman, Chemical Toybox, Damion Romero, PBK, and Crawl Unit.

AMM

From A Strange Place

(PSF) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

As with many a concert by mature incarnations of AMM, a large portion of this 1995 live event in Japan is quiet, spare, and gestural. Pianist John Tilbury is in post-Feldman mode throughout, softly raining isolated, lovely figures while Eddie Prévost delicately, if atonally, bows cymbals and other metals, and quietly rustles objects over his drumheads. Keith Rowe’s muted rubbings and radio transmission are supremely attuned to the ruminations of his companions.

AMON DÜÜL

Paradieswärts Düül

(Captain Trip - CTCD017) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

1995 reissue of their third album (Ohr 1971). Includes two bonus tracks "Eternal Flow" and "Paramechanical World," from their only seven-inch (Ohr 1970).

GILBERT AMY

Une Saisin En Enfer

(INA-GRM / Harmonia Mundi) Used LP $22.00

For soprano, child’s voice, piano, percussion and electroacoustic device. Based on Rimbuad’s poem A Season In Hell. Treatments vary from the linear to polyphonic choir to ambiguous, sometimes strongly distorted by electronic processes, sometimes mixed with fragments of recorded vocals. Au Français, naturellement.

ANAKRID

Fever Dream Fever

(Stereonucleosis) Used LP $11.00

Includes a black and white insert. #140/200

PATXI ANDIÓN

La Hora Lobicán

(Lemuria) Used CD $16.00

The return of historically significant Basque singer-songwriter revered for his ability to capture in song, through cultural and political comment, the lights and shadows of the Spanish society of the 1970s. Sealed

ANDROID SISTERS

Best of The Android Sisters

(EM) Used CD $45.00

2004 Japanese reissue of the PKD-inspired Songs of Electronic Despair (Vangaurd, 1984), which combines MIDI / Synclavier, genre-hopping, dual femme robot-disco vox, and social satire. Includes five previously unavailable tracks taken from various episodes of 1980s radio series “RUBY: The Galactic Gumshoe” plus 48-page book of facts, interviews, and lyrics in Japanese and English.

ANGELS OF LIGHT

How I Loved You

(Young God) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Far from M. Gira’s usual terrain of brute excess and into a zone of languid reverie, bittersweet longing, this 2001 album is “largely acoustic with a palette of oblique electronic washes and blurred sonic architectures applied for cavernous, orchestral atmosphere. Its elegance is seductive.” With Gira on vocals, guitars, and effects; Christoph Hahn on lap and electric guitars; Lawrence Mullins on percussion; Dana Shecter on bass and piano; Birgit-Cassis Staudt on accordion, piano, and Casio; and Thor Harris on dulcimer and piano, joined by Bliss Blood on vocals and Kid Congo Powers on electric guitar. Digipak. Sealed.

ANGELS OF LIGHT

New Mother

(Young God) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

“M. Gira continues with his intentional break from Swans. Anything but a softening of his art…, New Mother instead … experiment[s] even further, concentrating on acoustic guitar songs accompanied by a variety of musicians…. The general feel of the entire record draws on a juxtaposition of lush ’60s American and European pop orchestration (the use of a banjo inevitably recalls Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks) with often stark, ominous recordings and arrangements…, creating a marvelous.…” Digipak.

ANGELS OF LIGHT

Sing Other People

(Young God) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Pitchfork calls this 2005 album “a gutsy record. It maintains the band’s lo-fi intimacy while expanding its breadth to include back-up singing and more voluminous instrumentation. Fans of Everything Is Good Here / Please Come Home, the Angels’ tumultuous 2003 stab at lysergic goth-folk, shouldn’t be faulted for thinking they’re hearing a different band altogether. Part of this metamorphosis can be attributed to the assistance of fellow Young God signees Akron/Family. ‘Lena’s Song’ stakes Michael Gira’s booming baritone against a glistening backdrop of nylon-string plucking, fretless bass, glockenspiel, and a chipper Beach Boys-esque vocal harmony. The song proves Angels of Light capable of clarity and levity…. ‘My Friend Thor’ is as subtle an act of self-immolation as a club to the head from its namesake: It starts acoustic, with a laconic Gira following the rigid outline of his strumming, before he’s blindsided by a burbling gamelan orchestra. The detour moves the song from the sound of stark isolation to a full-on fireside jamboree, replete with a veritable tabernacle-full of backup vocalists.” Digipak

ANGELS OF LIGHT

We Are Him

(Young God) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

On the sixth and “most engaging [of Michael Gira’s albums] as Angels of Light,” according to Pitchfork, “he’s backed by one of the most impressive guest lists of the year (Akron/Family providing the basic tracks, plus new friends or longtime collaborators Larkin Grimm, David Garland, and Bill Rieflin)…, [and has] rarely sounded this foreboding: Prodded by a scathing, raw violin drone and a daring chorus of sirens, it’s an escalating dirge for the collapse of society, full of floods, blood and mouths too stupid to scream. Beneath an electric guitar twitter, heavy drums and furious strings…, Gira hands down … imprecations.” Digipak edition from 2007

KENNETH ANGER / BRIAN BUTLER

Technicolor Skull

(Ajna Offensive) Used LP (one-sided) $14.00

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.

ANIMALS + MEN

Never Bought Never Sold

(Mississippi) Used LP $8.00

Three 45s and early demos, all recorded between 1979-1983. For fans of early UK DIY, Messthetics, Hyped2Death, etc.

ANP

Absolut Null Plunkt Live In Japan

(Important) Used CD $6.00

Stark pummeling fusion from 2003 by Zeni Geva founder KK Null and original Fushitsusha drummer Seijiro Murayama, combining elements of free jazz, heavy rock, industrial noise, glitch and free improv dynamics. Sealed.

GEORGE ANTHEIL

Ballet Mécanique

(Phillips) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

The notorious title track has a now-predictable history as a provoker of violence within the papered seats of the symphony hall, though it started as a soundtrack for a film by Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy. This 1982 edition predates any performance of the piece as written, since the tools to synchronize all the instruments weren’t readily available until the 1990s (plus, its New York performance in 1927 was so godawful, fifty years had to elapse before anybody wanted to touch it). Includes “Jazz Symphony” performed by Netherlands Wind Ensemble, “Violin Sonata No. 1 Finale,” and “Violin Sonata No. 2” performed by Vera Beths (violin) and Reinbert De Leeuw (piano). Dutch pressing.

ANTLER / RICHARD MELTZER / ROBERT POLLARD / SMEGMA / VOM

Complete Soundtrack for The Tropic of Nipples

(Off - 998) Used CD $10.00

A once-in-a-lifetime sickness: Guided By Voices chairman joins forces with Blue Oyster Cult lyricist and long-running noise outfits for oddball bubble-and-burn words and music. Features all twelve tracks from the out-of-print seven-inch version, plus eleven bonus cuts.

APT J(EXT)IE IRRCHIE

Night Wearing Feathers / Sunshine Bus Rider

(Black Horizons) Used LP $10.00

Surreal concrete assemblages by Jennie Richie and irr. app (ext). Both tracks are rhythmic, spacey and dada inspired weirdness – one from 2005, previously released by PsychForm Records label in 2006, backed with a new recording from 2012. Edition of 234.

AQUARIANA

Aquariana

(Drag City) Used LP $14.00

Aquariana’s album was started in the early 1970s, during The Source Family’s move from their base in Los Angeles to Hawaii. Forty years later, one can finally hear her questing passion and soulful devotion, with all but one song performed solo on the piano. Her lyrics sing of the spirit with pure visions, but are all directed to the source through the focus of her true love: Yahowa.

ARASTOO & AEMAE

Ostrakon

(Isounderscore) Used LP $3.00

Two eleven-minute, creepily relaxed compositions by San Franciscan pianist Arastoo Darakhshan and producer / sound artist Brandon Nickell.

ARCANE DEVICE / PGR

Fetish

(Silent - SR9009) Used CD $8.00

The inexplicable, alien communiqué by David Myers, “Penetrating Black Ice,” uses rhythmically repeated and sustained feedback tones, vibrations, static and resonances to penetrate the subconscious. With the use of a sampler, various sound effects, and a guest appearance by AMK, Kim Cascone attempts something similar on four shorter tracks of cloudy, paranoid drone and ominous sound vapor.

SCOTT ARFORD / R.H.Y. YAU

Edit For Unconscious

(Auscultare Research) Used Split CD $3.00

“Arford’s ‘Drift Counter’ is a white wash of buzzer noise and open mic sizzle,” says Igloo Magazine. “At about 23 minutes the isolated energy of the mower-like sonics freeze the subconscious for a moment and stir-fry it back up again…. Drops of threatening noise taunt in Yau’s ‘Second Coming,’ like a griddling of some type of hovering being that gets caught in the radiant glow of drone. The track climaxes to a gas-like explosion which melts all in its course to the din of reverberation. Edit for Unconsciousness also includes Arford’s barely grounded ‘Headworms,’ originally released as part of a split mini-CD with the Haters. The piece has a molten core slow-roasting all in/outputs. Yau’s ‘Realia’ opens this recording with a quick cut-up-cum-slow-perk approach. Its mild side is nothing if not an eerie message from a force outside of our realm. Suddenly the plug is pulled and wavers out in slow motion. The drama invigorates and has the ability to give you the shakes.” From 2001

ARMENIA

Sonic Experimentation

(Bizarre Audio Arts) Used CDR $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

1995 noise by Sabatto, Coronel and F. Torres using tapes, old records, machines, pipes. Stickered label.

ARMOUR GROUP

Purge

(It Records / Trait Records) Used LP $18.00

Power electronics by Harriet Kate Morgan and Luke Holland. Reissue of the cassette originally released by Future Archaic 2015. Edition of 250

DAN ARMSTRONG / RADBOUD MENS

Fitness Landscape

(Takashi Mobile) Used CD $5.00

Live and studio guitar / electronics from 2009 and 2010.

ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE

Boto [Encantado]

(Ini Itu) LP $16.00

(Ini Itu) Used LP $11.00

“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.

ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE

Distori (Noah)

(Sondris) Used CD $5.00

Slawek Kwi’s late ’90s recordings of birds, amphibians, and insects in their natural environments, mixed with bits of a computer crash captured on tape and synthesized voice samples.

ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE

Vol 5: Th Ality Absfract

(Audioview) Used CD $7.00

This volume of Slavek Kwi’s project concentrates on pulsation and rhythm. All sounds used come from concrete sources (birds, animals, household objects, street sounds, etc.), except for a computer voice and the drum beats, which were taken from a sampler CD. The astonishing number of layers give these works unusual depth. There is a whole ecosystem living in this CD ready to engulf.

ARTIFICIAL SUBTERRANNE

Water Regions Of The Southwest USA

(Wholly Other) Used CD $3.00

Long and layered bass-triggered synth pieces by Paul Guilford / Locasta of the Dave Dove Paul Duo form an oblique concept album related to the fact that there are no naturally occurring lakes in Texas. Sounds range from appropriately aquatic to ambient (if your idea of ambiance is a construction site).

ARTISTS AGAINST APARTHEID

Unity + Peace = Strength

(Hanson) Used CDR $30.00

One twenty-minute track from 1998 performed by James T Harper, Steve Kenney, Aaron Dilloway, Adris Hoyos, Andrew Wilkes-Krier, Dan Hosker, Andy Roach. Edition of 40.

MASAYO ASAHARA

Saint Catherine Torment

(Discus) Used CD $5.00

Martin Archer’s atmospheric and varied improvisation from 2005 orchestrated with piano samples which are by turns aggressively insistent and delicately shaded. Shades of Stockhausen and Galina Ustvolskaya.

ASH CASTLES ON THE GHOST COAST

Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast

(Wholly Other) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

“The only full-length to emerge from the half-decade partnership between Galveston-based experimental musicians Shawn David McMillen and Heather Leigh Murray, Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast remains a highly listenable node on the Ptolemaic Terrascope-driven lo-fi psych scene of the mid-’90s,” explains All Music Guide. “Though McMillen would go on to make more guitar-oriented recordings for Tompkins Square and others, guitar is often only an instrument in the palette here. On ‘Ride Cactus Glide Cliff Explode,’ it acts as a source of detonation and disorientation, a layer of sound atop a percolating bed of noise. Elsewhere, it behaves almost normally — which is to say, it is strummed acoustically — on the vaguely folky ‘Dust of My Grave.’ But even there, the six strings drip into home-recorded reverb trails, instantly [placing it] on the global psychedelic timeline. The album has both vague inclinations toward prettiness [and] totally scorched noise jams…, unified by a distinct home-recorded sheen, the sound of creativity and youth.” Hand-painted inserts

ROBERT ASHLEY

String Quartet Describing The Motions Of Large Real Bodies

(Alga Marghen) Used CD $8.00

Originally composed in 1972 — for an opera based on the text of “In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women” — when significant changes in electronic instrumentation were just beginning, and recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Oakland, California, that same year, Ashley’s twenty-minute piece calls for an electronic orchestra of forty-two sound-producing modules, where the string quartet makes intentional but unpremeditated streams and pulses like pitched clicks, which go directly to a set of four loudspeakers, but are also delayed electronically and sent to a series networks activated when original sounds and delayed sound coincide. One version of “How Can I Tell the Difference?” uses electronic orchestra sounds and other collages ingredients, such as reverberations and motorcycles sounds inside San Francisco’s underground labyrinth of concrete tunnels constructed by the military in the 1930s. On a second version from 1973, a solo string player opens and closes the sound gates to electronic reverberations and prerecorded sounds running continuously with the performance. With eight-page booklet of scores and liner notes by Ashley.

ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS / UNIVERSAL INDIANS

Ashtray Navigations / Universal Indians

(Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) Used split CDR $12.00

“In the welter of home recording releases, it has to be said there is nobody quite like Phil Todd and his splendid Ashtray Navigations,” promises Sound Projector. “No other music sounds as chronically symptomatic of a week-long influenza fever, fraught with hallucinogenic visions of discomfort.... [S]tarting off with a whimpering puppy of a toy organ loop [the CD follows] the corridors of sound-leakage, ambient room recordings and noisy clutter with a suite of metal guitar solos…. Universal Indians … play very loud guitar and drums…, turgid and slow…, while the vocals are wrenched from the chest cavity of the singer as though he’s being given the Heimlich maneuver by a masked wrestler.”

ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS

Four More Raga Moods

(Ikuisuus) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Four more slow-glowing trance bombs that combine lucid, transparent guitar gliss with spectral folk, subliminal drones and guest appearances from Alex Neilson, Ben Reynolds, Mel Delaney, Chris Hladowski, Matt Cairns, Andy Jarvis and Pete Nolan of Magik Markers, et al. From 2006

ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS

Four Raga Moods

(Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

There are indeed four untitled tracks from 1997 here, the first of which clocks in at a monolithic 41 minutes. “Compared to other Ashtray indulgences from the same era, it’s downright minimal,” observes Outer Space Gamelan, “Based around what I’d approximate to be harmonium, guitar, cheap percussion, field recordings, effects pedals, violin.... The only two general constants are a hazy pool of tape buzz, static and a woozy hand-drum rhythm…. At times it sounds like Phil Todd is trying to communicate a greater whole through an impenetrable wall of static, like a busted Walkman picking up alien satellite feeds or a shortwave radio station occurring just beyond the limits of the dial.”

ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS

To Your Fucking Feather’d Wings

(Gold Soundz) Used CDR $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Great, epic, slow-burning, surreal drone rock,” swears Head Heritage. “One of Phil Todd’s best.”

ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS

Use Copenhagen 69 Guitars & Park Drive Circular Effects Pedals Exclusively

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Solo guitar effectery by Phil Todd (Inca Eyeball, Target Shoppers, Ceramic Hobs). Overdub upon overdub of acidic, vibrating good-sound that should surely complement the eye lids at a comfortable half mast, especially on the synth-drenched side-long “Phaser Like a Block of Salt.” Numbingly electric. Edition of 500. Sealed

ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS

You Cannot Tell Cigars By The Picture On The Box

(Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Bedroom legends shower the parched earth with canonized filth and cheap-tape degradation,” sputters The Wire, “Setting a brand new bench mark in foggy-psychic-swuzz. Six extended tracks that run the gamut of ooze, sliming a cast of guest contributors along the way.”

ED ASKEW

Ed Askew

(ESP-Disk') Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Ask The Unicorn from 1968 plus three tracks selected by Askew — “Accordion Man” from WYBC radio 1970, “Green Song” from the early 1970s, and “A Soldier’s Song” from 2005.

ED ASKEW

Little Eyes

(Destijl) Used LP $40.00

Outsider folk 1970 originally recorded for ESP as a follow-up to Ask The Unicorn but never released until 2005. Little Eyes was performed in one take, and features Askew on voice, piano, and tipple (a cross between an adapted lute and larger, ten-string ukulele). A grand, sad and beautiful seduction. Rice paper front cover, photocopy back cover.

ASS BABOONS OF VENUS

Go Go Telescope

(EastWest Japan) Used CD $11.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Tantric tantrum dum-dum go-go music” is how KFJC tags this hard-to-find import disc. “As catchy as your favorite STD. Fashion king husband and helium queen wife dote over their child, the drum machine. Unlike their Stingy Banana releases, most lyrics here are in Japanese but the titles tell the story pretty well. Stupid, silly, and sexy with a banzai scream. This is mangled musical manga. Cartoon tunes that rawk!”

ASS BABOONS OF VENUS

Phuket A La Bum Bum

(Bulb) Used CD $5.00

This is some fucked-up shit. While general roustabout Bob Limp thumps along in the background on a variety of acoustic, analog and digital instruments, Japanese comedienne Naoko Nozawa screeches in the foreground like a geisha with a foot caught in a bear trap. The arrangements are riffy, repetitive, and not afraid to use a slide whistle or a bit of hobo scatting. “Headache For Sisyphus” alternates a propulsive, quasi-tropical Casio beat and a creepy chorus of tiny voices. Echoes of Mr. Quintron, The Boredoms, that comedy bit Margaret Cho does about her mother, a heavily medicated Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and all manner of deviant influences. Disturbing, distressing, but ultimately loads of fun. From 2002. Sealed

ASS BABOONS OF VENUS

Spanking The Species

(Stingy Banana) Used CD $6.00

Bad-ass craziness from Japanese comedienne Naoko Nozawa as she squeaks, chirps and howls her way through twelve rockin’, noisy songs with the abandon of an insane seven year old.

ASTREINTE

C'est Pourquoi Il Importe, Aux Époques D'adversité...

(Nashazphone - NP007) Used LP $12.00

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 / CORNUCOPIA

Deep Wind

(Quasi Pop) Used CD $5.00

Intercontinental file-swapping is the means that yielded this collaboration between Japanese noise bigwig Hiroshi Hasegawa and Puerto Rico’s harsh noise / experimental electronic duo, released by a scrappy Ukrainian label. Both long tracks on Deep Wind are based by each artist on the other’s noise. This complex, sometimes brutal and disturbing journey beyond the margins of consciousness incorporates totally psychedelic sounds, extreme frequencies, and deep, pulsating drones. Oversized gatefold jacket.

AUBE

Cerebral Disturbance

(Anomalous) Used LP picture disc $25.00

Three pieces of harsh, piercing noise from 1998 using the sounds of brain waves / electroencephalogram as source material. Two-color silk-screen on both sides of outer bag. Edition of 625

AUBE / COCK E.S.P.

Maschinenwerk

(Charnel Music) Used CD $10.00

Powerful machine-noise sounds from 1996 supplied by Cock ESP and de-composed by Aube. Letterpress jacket. Edition of 1000.

AUBE / MAURIZIO BIANCHI

Mectpyo Saisei

(Para Disc) Used CD $20.00

“A magnetotherapeutic leakage bridled in the impartial passivity of our univocal meditations, the second haemodialysis generated by Maurizio Bianchi and Akifumi Nakajima announces the new era of untamed audio-inflammation. Both operators have sharpened their pathologist scalpels to intoxicate the aural hemisphere with rhizospheric microorganisms and mononuclear blood-cells. Inside the parasite plasmodium of Mectpyo Saisei the clinical rhythm-impulses by Aube and septic piano-fragments by MB form the intransigent symbiosis. From ‘Carnal Deterioration’ in its complete neuropsychological disorder to ‘Metamorphic Humus,’ fermented and putrefied by pathogenic slag, we enter the cirrhotic carnage-lava of ‘M.Blut.’ The final genesis of necrobiotic industriousness.” From 2005

AUBE / RLW

Organized

(Meeuw Muzak) Used 10-inch $12.00

RLW used recordings of an electronic organ and a ringing bell both played by Akifumi Nakajima. Aube used recordings of a church organ made by Ralf Wehowsky. Red vinyl from the mid-’90s. Edition of 300

AUBE

Pulse Resonator

(Praxis Dr. Bearmann) Used LP + 7-inch $35.00

Coherent VCO recordings from 1995. “Highly electric and often piercing sound,” says Freak Animal, “but not very ripping like loudest of the noise. More ‘artistic’ with perfection on capturing the sonic qualities.” Red twelve-inch vinyl. Clear seven-inch vinyl. With obi. Numbered edition of 275.

AUBE

Sensorial Inducement

(Alien8) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Akifumi Nakajima uses one monophonic analog synthesizer, a Roland SH-2, which allows hints of very abstract techno, but is at times most prominently reminiscent of Alien Bog-era Oliveros or David Kristian’s Cricklewood.

AUBE

Spiral Tricle Distillation

(Rund Und Dem Watzmann) Used LP picture disc $18.00

Composed, mixed, and recorded at Studio Mecca, Kyoto, Nov. ’95 – Jan ’96 using only the sound of water as source material. Silkscreened plastic sleeve

AUSCHWITZ

Rule Of Spirit

(Alchemy) Used CD $25.00

2004 reissue of the 1987 heavy psych album by Naoto Hayashi and company. Sealed with obi

AVEY TARE / GEOLOGIST / PANDA BEAR

Danse Manatee

(Catsup Plate) Used CD $18.00

The Animal Collective brings in a live electronics ringer for this stranger, darker 2001 follow-up to Spirit They’ve Gone Spirit They’ve Vanished (Animal 2000) -- a soundtrack to a meandering journey to nowhere in particular. Complex lattices of noise and streams of consciousness, the marriage of clanking drone to disembodied voice. Hand assembled “matchbox-style” CD slipcases with four-color silkscreened art.

AX

Nova Feedback

(Freek) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Rumbling, bass-heavy sludge from 1988-94 by Anthony DiFranco (Ramleh, Skullflower, JFK, Ethnic Acid), whose metallic immensity is indebted to industrial electronics, Krautrock, and heavy psychedelia.

AXEMEN

Sac Tap Nut Jam

(Spacecase) Used LP $8.00

The first new full length in twenty-one years by this New Zealand quartet with 1980s releases on Flying Nun and a string of reissues on Siltbreeze reunites Steve McCabe and Stu Kawowski with Dragan Stojanovic (who played on 1987’s Derry Legend) and brings in William Daymond. Like The Swell Maps, The Axemen sound is hard to define and defies easy categorization, but don’t let that compel you to withhold a warm welcome for the Beatles / Dylan pop of Stojanovic’s “These Days,” nor to McCabe’s post punk-influenced “Doctor’s On Speed Dial” as well as his inimitable voice and stream-of-consciousness lyrics at the forefront on “Google That Girl.” Black vinyl. Edition of 500.

ONISHI AYA / RINJI FUKUOKA / MICHEL HENRITZI / JUNKO

Live At Penguin House

(An’Archives) Used CDR $10.00

Noise improv from 2007 with a degree of attention to detail worthy of classical ballet by Hijo Kaidan vocalist, Sekiri / Nihilist Spasm Band percussionist, Overhang Party founder on guitar and violin, and Dustbreeders’ guitarist. With red paper seal. Edition of 125

AYLERS ANGELS / FAKE HAND

Frozen Hammer Vs. Ancient Axe

(Hot Cars Warp Records) Used LP $6.00

Eccentric free jazz and jazz rock from 1996. Paste-on cover with rubber stamp. Edition of 500

AZ

Music For Scattered Brains

(SG Research) Used LP $18.00

Abrasive and non-musical solo album from 1985 by Azita Youseffi of The Scissor Girls and Bride Of No No. With areas of vintage-sounding synthesizer seemingly set on “ducks farting,” tape manipulation, and out-of-nowhere accordion solo. Silkscreened jacket with metallic tape.

BACCHUS HARSH

Caveat Tumultum

(Heavy Machinery) Used 2xLP $40.00

Occult-themed electronics and deconstructed club music by Melbourne-based Christian Bishop (aka breakcore pioneer Xian). Icy post-breakcore industrial heaviness and hallucinogenic cinematic atmospheres collide with sample-driven mania and complex mechanical rhythms. With Obi. Gray vinyl. Edition of 300

BAD BRAINS

Black Dots

(Caroline) Used LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

1979 snapshot of a band at the cusp of their utmost aesthetic purity, wailing through a punk rock masterpiece that downplays the guitar in favor of the bass and soaking wet dubwise drums clearly influenced by Jamaican and British space reggae, and overdriven vocals. Includes great liner notes that dryly recount the dismal dead-end existences of the musicians that inspired the songs, every one of which are terse expositions on existential panic. Colored vinyl, numbered edition of 1000. Sealed.

BADFINGER

BBC In Concert

(Turning Point Music) Used 2xLP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Complete BBC sessions recorded during 1972 and 1973. 180-gram vinyl

THE BAFFLER

Number Eight

(Greg Lane) Used paperback book $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The Cultural Miracle from February 1996: “For all its great cable channels, the excellent new global cyber capitalism is turning out to be a lot like the simple, grinding, exploitative capitalism of a hundred years ago,” writes Thomas Frank in the lead essay, in which he begins to explore the ways we deceive ourselves about our basic economic interests. Mike Newirth pours a nice frosty cosmo for the One Percent, while Tom Vanderbilt calls Skyy vodka’s marketing efforts “a Reaganite shibboleth charted in the barroom.” Aaron Cohen praises Thirties band-leader Artie Shaw; Artie Shaw remembers dealing with the music industry in the Thirties. Gary Groth reads Quentin Tarantino. Daniel Harris writes about gay porn in the age of AIDS. 128pp

THE BAFFLER

Number Eleven

(Greg Lane) Used paperback book $6.00

Mid-Cult Today from June 1998. An issue on middleness, which starts out—of course—with an essay on USA Today and the theory behind that colorful newspaper. Ben Metcalf seethes at the Mississippi River. Tom Vanderbilt explores a California ghost town that has become a federally subsidized film set. Dan Kelly lunches with Rotarians. Kim Phillips-Fein explores the bankruptcy industry and the morality of indebtedness a full ten years before these issues dawned on the rest of the nation. Marc Cooper remembers where he was on September 11, 1973. Also: an entertaining epistolary exchange between Chris Lehmann and Michael Bérubé. 128pp

THE BAFFLER

Number Five

(Greg Lane) Used paperback book $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Alternative To What from December 1993. To fully appreciate this issue of The Baffler, you have to transport yourself to a time when the word “alternative” did not provoke a reflexive cringe. Because the war on corporate culture continues with Steve Albini’s “The Problem with Music,” an essay that compares the act of signing with a major label to traversing a trench filled with “runny, decaying shit.” Plus: Keith White’s legendary takedown of Details magazine. Herbert Mattelart assails world music, Eric Iversen follows the search for the new Seattle, and Thomas Frank probes the nullity that is Pearl Jam. Maura Mahoney deflates the Beat revival, and Tom Vanderbilt wonders about the day when retro culture finally catches its own tail. 168pp. Scuffed cover

THE BAFFLER

Number Seven

(Greg Lane) Used paperback book $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The City in the Age of Information from June 1995. A gimlet stare at what twentieth-century capitalism has done for the American metropolis. Keith White reads city lifestyle magazines. Paul Lukas pays a visit to Times Square, then a retail wasteland. Naomi Klein hangs out at an online café. Maura Mahoney reads Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and finds it depicts Savannah, Georgia, as a Southern Gothic theme park. David Mulcahey reflects on the “Screw Capital of the World”: Rockford, Illinois. Kim Phillips-Fein regrets how lotteries bilk the poor, and Stephen Duncombe rankles at the way cities police them. Plus dialect fiction by Irvine Welsh. 128pp

THE BAFFLER

Number Six

(Greg Lane) Used paperback book $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Dark Age from December 1994: Thomas Frank’s “Why Johnny Can’t Dissent” is a once-in-a-generation lament that made punk rockers everywhere gasp at the futility of their attempts at rebellion. Keith White turns his guns on Wired Magazine, Stephen Duncombe subjects himself to corporate edutainment, and Seth Sanders braves the theme-restaurant wasteland of Chicago’s River North. Joanna Coles describes the collapse of publishing while Charles Bernstein finds a few signs of life. Will Boisvert decodes the management theorists. Tom Vanderbilt bemoans the imperial arrogance of advertisers. David Berman recalls his time as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 192pp. Some scuffing on cover.

THE BAFFLER

Number Ten

(Greg Lane) Used paperback book $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The Folklore of Capitalism from September 1997. Matt Roth’s classic essay on Amway and how he happened to sign up for it. Thomas Frank reads Babbitt. Tom Vanderbilt marvels at the ubiquity of branding. Nelson Smith provides a history of security alarms. Chris Lehmann pops the culture bubble. Kim Phillips-Fein looks at the urban poverty initiative Bridges-to-Work. Mike Newirth remarks bitterly on the urban gentrification initiative known as Wicker Park. Stephen Duncombe questions why history books written by establishmentarians focus on underdogs. Seth Sanders reviews records, including Atari Teenage Riot’s first compilation and Wu Tang Forever. 128 pages.

THE BAFFLER

Number Thirteen

(Greg Lane) Used paperback book $6.00

Vox Populoid from December 1999. In which The Baffler kicks off a long-running study of American conservatism with a look at the nation’s long parade of kooks and cranks. In it, Jeff Sharlet remembers Westbrook Pegler, the “It Boy of attack journalism.” Dave Mulcahey remembers the backlash bible known as Reader’s Digest. Robert Nedelkoff remembers the black godfather of American fascism. And Dan Raeburn remembers when the beloved comic strip Li’l Abner took its sharp turn to the right. Dan Kelly tells the anti-heroic story of the John Birch Society. Daniel Lazare traces the career of The New Criterion’s Hilton Kramer. Christian Parenti singlehandedly launches the discipline of Seventies Studies with an essay about wildcat strikes. With microfilm-pastiche art by Hunter Kennedy and fiction by Aleksandar Hemon. 120pp

THE BAFFLER

Number Three

(Greg Lane) Used paperback book $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Let’s Deviance! from March 1992. The first appearance of in-house anti-hero Gedney Market, as well as the beginnings of The Baffler’s distinct style of cultural interpretation. To wit: Thomas Frank’s hipster demolition job and Rick Perlstein’s robust analysis of Scooby Doo. 108pp

THE BAFFLER

Number Twelve

(Greg Lane) Used paperback book $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Then Came Nylon from March 1999. Thomas Frank’s classic essay “New Consensus for Old,” lays waste to the academic field of cultural studies. Jim Arndorfer stands in awe of the multilayered historical simulacrum that is Fado Irish Pub. Stephen Duncombe marvels at Cadillac, the historical embodiment of the aspirations of the middle class. Bryan Urstadt gives a blow-by-blow account of the luxuries of a major automobile press jaunt. A forgotten fictional delicacy by Thomas Beer is unearthed. Christian Parenti offers a slab of gritty reporting on the California prison system. Loïc Wacquant translates Pierre Bourdieu’s treatise on neoliberal thought. Plus: Rock n roll is dead, and Mike O’Flaherty says that late capitalism killed it. Cover art by Patrick Welch. 128pp

DEREK BAILEY / ANDREW CLARE / THURSTON MOORE / THE THIRTEEN GHOSTS

Legend Of The Blood Yeti

(Infinite Chug) Used LP $10.00

Unhinged improvisational soundtracks for the blackness enveloping lonely holy nights from 1997 by Alex Ward on clarinet and sax, and percussionist Switch, collaborating with guitarists.

DEREK BAILEY / DENNIS PALMER / BOB STAGNER

Live At Lamar’s March 1999

(Shaking Ray) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Free improvisation that goes in some surprising directions,” declares Gino Robair about this brief collaboration by the UK guitar legend and the Shaking Ray Levis released in 2002. “Prog elements implied!” Jazzword elaborates: “distorted oscillations,” “distended reverb washes,” “stuttering rhythm guitar chording,” “Bailey … using delay to transform himself into a flat-picking guitar army as Palmer lays on the organ chords,” “spinning massed drone,” “atmospheric rocket launching suggestions and burbling space tones,” “buzzing feedback, complementing similar wavering aural data from the keys, and completing the rhythmic thump.”

DEREK BAILEY

Pieces For Guitar

(Tzadik) Used CD $12.00

The earliest known solo recordings of this guitar innovator, dating from 1966 (possibly 1965), originally recorded for personal study during a transitional period. The only instances of Bailey performing his own written compositions reveal an influence of the music of Anton Webern on the variety of techniques he uses to formalize his unique approach to music in general and the guitar in particular. Sealed

DEVENDRA BANHART

Black Babies

(Young God) Used CD $4.00

A UK-only EP from 2003, with six hushed and intimate lo-fi tracks otherwise unavailable plus two from Oh Me Oh My...The Way The Day Goes By The Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs Of The Christmas Spirit.

DEVENDRA BANHART

Niño Rojo

(Young God) Used CD $6.00

“A songwriter of guileless vision, Banhart’s unaffected aesthetic is etched in the ether of mysterious traditional and psychedelic folk musics from the British Isles and in an America that disappeared the first time in the 1930s with the Dust Bowl and for the second time in the grimness of mid-’70s determinism in the shadows of post-Vietnam shame and malaise. His songs don’t hearken back so much as remind us of what we no longer possess as a culture. His songs are spiritual, terminally unhip, with labyrinthine grown-up melodies and the keen unsullied wisdom of children.” Digipak. Sealed

DEVENDRA BANHART

Oh Me Oh My...The Way The Day Goes By The Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs Of The Christmas Spirit

(Young God) Used CD $4.00

“The first thing that strikes you about Devendra Banhart is his utterly unique and soft voice, which seems a mix of Nick Drake and Marc Bolan…. Originally recorded on shoddy and broken four-track recorders, the songs have a … roughness and audible hiss on nearly all of them…. Lyrically they are quite odd and occasionally nonsensical…. A lot of the songs appear to be not fully realized, but perhaps that’s the beauty of them.” From 2002

DEVENDRA BANHART

Rejoicing In The Hands

(Young God) Used CD $7.00

Unlike Banhart’s debut, his 2004 second album “was professionally recorded, and a few tracks feature … Angels of Light alums Thor Harris, Joe McGinty and Siobahn Duffy,” explains Pitchfork. “It’s far from slick, though, reeking of rustic, homemade charm.” With singing and writing both surpassing Oh Me Oh My, “his songs no longer veer into bizarro cadences or witchy vocal overdubs.” Rather than get pigeonholed as a “lo-fi eccentric…, the singer’s range of expression (and surprising delicacy) [gets] full justice.” Sealed

BARDO POND

Bufo Alvarius

(Drunken Fish - DF15) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

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. Includes the 29-minute non-LP track “Amen.”

TIM BARNES

All Acoustics

(Quakebasket) Used CD $12.00

Two expansive free percussion improvisations performed July 18, 2001, between 9pm and 11pm with one foot in downtown New York avant-jazz and traditional indie rock.

TIM BARNES / TONY CONRAD / MATTIN

Untitled

(Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) Used CD $15.00

Withering screeeeech and grubby microtonal shudder in a near-Stalinist attempt for total mind control. A twenty-story Hoover gobbles the entire Northeast of the USA, pausing to empty the bag and replace smoldering fuse wire. Hard, harmful, full of choking dust.

STEVE BARSOTTI / ERIC LEONARDSON

Rarebit

(Transparency) Used CD $10.00

These sound artists / instrument inventors take cues from Russolo and Partch, amplifying coil springs, eyebolts, various pieces of wood, and other familiar materials using contact microphones. Their streams of sound move fluidly with a communicative style and a dramatic sense of presence and dynamic range: from effervescent burbling, animal-like whines and grunts, to gritty metallic drones that transform into forlorn hissing and ethereal soundscapes. Some passages are nearly silent, breathy, and tranquil.

BASTARD NOISE

Live In Japan

(Helicopter) Used CD $12.00

John Wiese and Eric Wood’s incredibly quiet and subtle sounds recorded August 2000 at Tokuzo in Nagoya and at JNR in Tokyo.

BASTARD NOISE / MAN IS THE BASTARD

Mutant

(Manufracture) Used CD $10.00

Eric Wood and John Wiese continue the brutality of previous efforts and belch forth textured and heavily layered noise-scapes torched with hand-made electronics, laptop computer, and death vocals.

BASTARD NOISE

Skull Wave

(Helicopter) Used CD $8.00

“From the dark environment, my chicken, so: not too many muscles this time, except the one that twists the brain up and down!” as Google Translate would have you know. “The nasty has been accommodated for some time…, generally enamored of rhythms or atmospheres with latent violence. As a result, this CD only contains a single piece of 46 minutes. Noisy, dark environment, guitar distortion songs, all amalgamated with the ceiling in the shape of a heavy cloud. Everything masterfully mastered by the master of skulls that is John Wiese” From 2002.

BASTARD NOISE / SPASTIC COLON

Spastic Colon / Bastard Noise

(Pinch A Loaf) Used Split CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Carefully arranged late ’90s noise tracks from Bastard Noise, who make good use of low-end rumble and high-end screeching, and Spastic Colon, who toss around and spew unrecognizable samples in a droning stew of fantastic muck. One bonus non-LP track from each group, with Bizarre Uproar making a guest appearance on “Earned Extinction.” Embossed cardboard sleeve.

BASTARD NOISE / THE SLASHER FILM FESTIVAL STRATEGY

Split CD

(Kill Frank Lantini ) Used Split CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Bastard Noise's caveman electronics, vocals, and atmospheric sounds versus The Slasher Film Festival Strategy's minimalist film-score inspiration (a solo project founded by Christopher Ashley in 1996).

BASTARD NOISE / MAN IS THE BASTARD

Throne Is Melting

(Helicopter - H8) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Previously released bad-ass, ear-cracking scrape by Wiese, Wood, AFC’s Tara, Kenny Sanderson of Facialmess, and Erik Hoffman & Jorge Martin of Groundfault and Spastic Colon. The twenty-plus minute “Red Hurricane” is a highlight. Sealed.

MASAKI BATOH

A Ghost From The Darkened Sea

(Now Sound) Used LP $14.00

Earthy folk-songs from 1995 by guitarist and singer of Ghost.

BAYAL

baYal

([ no label ]) Used Cassette $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recordings from 2002 by Aya Onishi (ex-Sekiri) and Nihilist Spasm Band’s John B. Boyle on kazoo, percussion, thumb piano, ring modulator, chopsticks, dishes and crystal, garbage can lid, didgeridoo, digital delay, ocarina, bugle. Angel’in Heavy Syrup’s Naoko Otani guests on one track. C46

BEASTIE BOYS

Ill Communication

(Grand Royal) Used 2xLP $50.00 (Out-of-stock)

Their fourth album, the last to be recorded primarily in Los Angeles before the crew went home to New York. A seamless synthesis of 60-second hardcore, supreme ’70s flute rock, stoned jazz-bongo solos and good ol’ shit-talking rap music. One corner of jacket is slightly bent. Green vinyl. Sealed

THE BEATLES

A Hard Day’s Night

(Miramax) Used 2xDVD $5.00

The Richard Lester film plus about an hour of bonus material.

ROBERT BEATTY

Solos

(What The ... - WHAT009) Used LP $20.00

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.

BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL

Mantra

(White Dog) Used CD $15.00

One forty-minute track of god-awful new age. Recorded late 1990s, reissued 2016.

BECK

Stereopathetic Soulmanure

(Flipside) Used CD $7.00

(Flipside) Used LP $50.00 (Out-of-stock)

Hidden within the shambolic mess of lo-fi recordings, live performances, field recordings, sound collages, and abstract noise experiments, scattered from 1988 to 1993, are a few straightforward country folk songs that aren’t too dissimilar from music Beck would write later for listenability-obsessed normies.
LP is sealed.

BEEF

Piel's Session

(Flipped Out) Used 7-inch $2.00 (Out-of-stock)

Four tracks. Distorted, stoned, grungy. From 1996

BURKHARD BEINS / KEITH ROWE

Grain

(Zarek) Used CD $5.00

The “first track is one of Rowe’s liveliest performances for several years,” asserts The Wire, while “the second track finds him in more customary static mode, with Beins sounding like he’s arc-welding as a distant thunderstorm subsides into an eerie metallic calm. Beins’s work is more about friction than percussion: his masterly use of polystyrene blocks and small stones to create sustained timbres seems to have no precedent, except perhaps AMM’s Eddie Prévost, of course. The final live track is a tour de force: at first Rowe seems content to lead from the rear, his radio emerging imperceptibly from behind a cloud of cymbals, before he gradually warms up and unleashes a volley of dazzling rattles and buzzes while Beins’s close-mic’d bass drum cranks up the tension.” From 2001

OKKO BEKKER / ASMUS TIETCHENS

Stockholm Totentanz

(Artware) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Broad tapestry of diverse soundscapes, some with an industrial throb, others with slow, archaic dancing rhythms. Distant voices mutter incomprehensible prophecies. Two pieces commissioned by the Protestant Parish of Stockholm and first presented in 1996 at St. Gertrud Church on the occasion of a symposium on the Apocalypse.

BOB BELLERUE / JARRETT SILBERMAN

Amplified Piano Duets

(Anarchymoon) Used LP (one-sided) + CDR $10.00

A lost journey to unknown planets, defective machinery, dead pilots at the controls, recorded December 2006, released in 2009, paste-on jacket

JOHN BENDER

I Don’t Remember, I Don't Want To

(Superior Viaduct) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

First-time stand-alone reissue of late ’70s home recordings by legendary Cincinnati DIY art-damaged mastermind whose minimal lo-fi electronics layer fractured melodies over distorted synthesizers, hollowed-out rhythms and claustrophobic vocals with a distinct punk-meets-experimentalist sensibility.

HAN BENNINK / PETER BRÖTZMANN / FRED VAN HOVE

FMP0130

(Atavistic) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

2003 reissue, originally released on FMP in 1973, with Brötzmann on clarinet, alto, tenor, baritone, bass saxophones; van Hove on celesta, piano; and Bennink on drums, khene, rhythm-box, selfmade clarinet, gachi, oe-oe, voice, tins, homemade junk, elong, dhung, kaffir piano, and dhung-dkar.

JOHN BERBERIAN ENSEMBLE

Music Of The Middle East

(Universe) Used CD $15.00

2001 reissue of Armenian oud virtuoso’s masterful mid-’60s fusion of ethno jazz and psychedelic rock.

JOHN BERNDT

The Private Language Problem New Electro-Acoustic Compositions 2001-2007

(Abstract On Black) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Performed on a variety of handmade and sculptural instruments, ranging from work that contains continuous washes of sound that fill large rooms to heady pans of pure electronic tones. With liner notes and track-by-track breakdown.

HARRY BERTOIA

Here and Now / Unknown

(Sonambient) Used LP $55.00

Spatial and tonal environments created by sound sculptures, huge metallic gongs and beryllium rod fronds crafted in different shapes, length and thickness in order to achieve a range of gentle and sharp sounds, all of them organic and mysterious, resonating and flowing into each other. Deeply oceanic from within an intense cauldron.

BEYONCÉ

Lemonade

(Parkwood) Used CD + DVD $11.00

Soulful R&B with an electro edge by this up-and-coming singer who sang on a string of regional hits by obscure girl-group Destiny’s Child and collaborates on occasion with Andy Samberg. Sealed

MAURIZIO BIANCHI

Archeo #1

(EEs’T) Used 5xCD $60.00

1998 boxset compiling Symphony For A Genocide, Menses, Neuro Habitat, Regel, and Mectpyo Bakterium with extensive inserts. Guts Of Darkness says, “Each disc has been enriched with bonus tracks, all from obscure and unobtainable compilations, rather unequal titles in terms of quality, even dispensable, except for … ‘Plutoniometrio’ and ‘Acido Prussico’.” Texts include articles written by MB (on the Come Organization, Throbbing Gristle, Conrad Schnitzler, etc), chronicles, interviews (Monte Cazazza, SPK) as well as unpublished or very rare artwork. Sealed

MAURIZIO BIANCHI

SFAG

(Tegal) Used CD $13.00

Early ’80s remix of Symphony For a Genocide released in 1994, a “truncated” version of the material eventually released on Recursion’s SFAG 81 LP.

BIG BLACK

Pigpile

(Sento) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded at the Hammersmith Clarendon, London, during Big Black's final tour in the summer of 1987. Twelve blistering songs that crackle with lo-fi menace. Japanese edition. Sealed

JASON BILL / JACK ROSE

Via St. Louis

(Drunken Fish) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

A Charalambide and a Pelt guy stare into the white dot at the center of the sun for this cosmic gunfight at the four-track corral. Tense.

BILLER & WAKEFIELD

The Hot Guitars Of Biller & Wakefield

(High Tone) Used LP $15.00

Like Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Dave Biller and Jeremy Wakefield are rooted in country as much as jazz — from wild and swinging to smoky and moody. There’s plenty of stretching out and cutting loose on this 1999 album. Wakefield’s straight steel lends a consistent hillbilly air. With the cool piano of Carl Sonny Leyland.

BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL

Birds Call Home Their Dead

(Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The thirty-minute title track on this 2007 disc comes on like "supercharged outerspace noise-rock ... that builds ... until the whole thing explodes into a full-on in-the-red space-rock free jam.... "Kissing Dragon" ... [with its] languid, high-end shimmer, layers of guitar, tangled melodies [and] deep reverberant swells [is] woven into a ... dreamlike raga...." The final track, "Her Anger Is Limitless," previously released as a tour CDR (Celebrate Psi Phemenon 2006), "sounds like a million guitars..., guys outside cutting down trees and tossing them in the wood chipper..., [a] futuristic synth battle, thousands of little bells and chimes, a roomful of amps turned on and buzzing with no instruments plugged into them...."

BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL

Siberian Earth Curve

(Drunken Fish) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Impeccably layered squalls of feedback, recorder, cymbals, and electronics by Campbell Neale.

BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL / BRUCE RUSSELL

Untitled

(Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

2003 collaboration by Campbell Neale and that one guy from the Dead C and A Handful of Dust. The former plays violin, turntables, space phone, bamboo rattle, amplified sugar bowl, milkshake mixer, turntables, contact mics, computer speakers, tapes, clarinet, recorder, transceiver mic, organ, and cheap synth, while the latter handles guitar, effects, tape loops, fire, pine cones, water, electric toothbrush, percussion, and oscillator.

BIRDS OF DELAY

Ball of Tallow

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00

Experimental electronics, noise and abstract sounds by Steven Warwick and Luke Younger from 2007. Black jacket with photocopy paste-on. Dinged corner

BIRTH REFUSAL / CASSIS CORNUTA

Birth Refusal / Cassis Cornuta

(Ultra Eczema) LP $18.00

(Ultra Eczema) Used LP $9.00

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.
Corners of the poster jacket of the used copy are a little bent, but the vinyl is pristine.

BIRTH REFUSAL

Lost in the Cove

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $15.00

Olson and Connelly from 2007. Paste-on photocopy. Edition of 118

BITCHIN BAJAS / MOON DUO

Fresh Hair b/w Bopper’s Hat

(Permanent) Used Split 7-inch $4.00

The respective side-projects of Cave and Wooden Shjips make for a good pairing. Each band specializes in minimalist psych obviously influenced by Krautrock, with Bitchin Bajas focusing on melodic repetition while Moon Duo is heavier on rhythm and quite a bit darker. Edition of 750

JAYSON BLACK

Basic Black

(Bizarr'd) Used LP $20.00

Beautifully bleak Chicago mugwump (and war vet, apparently) who does an inside-out, dark-and-ugly version of Rod McKuen poetry (or did, anyway, back in 1969, when this LP was originally issued on Chastity Records). Hatred of authority, shallow people, dead people and social workers are all covered topics. Stock sound effects slink around behind the words to underline their effect. Redacted liner notes (attributed to Mary S[weeney]) pull no punches the way only a self-hating poet using a pseudonym can, and recount Black's stints in mental institutions, being a child alcoholic, and his rescue by W[CFL] disc jockey S[tan Dale]. Photocopy paste-on jacket. Numbered edition of 100.

BLACK DICE

Beaches & Canyons

(DFA - 2125) 2xLP $25.00

(DFA - 2125) Used CD $10.00

Brooklyn sound manipulation specialists’ fluid, swelling and blissed-out frenzy of chaotic and orchestrated electronics, percussion, vocals and treated guitars.

BLACK DICE / WOLF EYES

Black Dice / Wolf Eyes

(Fusetron) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

A collaborative album from these two WMD specialists, recorded with fury, revenge, lust, and danger in their blackened hearts. An EQ-jacked rocket blast of dude-fueled, beer-drenched, and smoke-choked volumania for fans of total onslaught everywhere.

BLACK DICE

Cold Hands

(Catsup Plate) Used LP $12.00

Feedback, five-thumbed clatter, and crash from 2001

BLACK DICE

Cone Toaster

(DFA) Used 12-inch $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

“A four-on-the-floor rumble excursion into the nether regions of ugly escapism. Cut-up cymbals on the left, warped guitar samples on the right, and a big messy whump in the middle. A dance band with a noise fetish.” B-side is a remix of “Endless Happiness” from the Beaches and Canyons album by Eye from The Boredoms. Generic white centerhole jacket

BLACK DICE

Miles of Smiles

(DFA) Used LP $5.00

“Field-recorded rhythms of a marching band’s celebratory processional swim between worlds alternately mundane and nightmarish. Tape manipulation. Noises, sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. It lounges like Martin Denny’s tiki hut, a place where tropical thumb pianos coo with the washed-out vocal harmonies, serenely slurping back out to sea after nearly 15 minutes out of joint. Less musique concrète than a chunk of asphalt.” From 2001. Sealed

BLACK MONK

Flowstone

(Not Not Fun) Used LP $5.00

“Crawling outta the caverns of a babeless summer, Flowstone collects tracks from the cassettes Murmur (Maim & Disfigure) and V (Buried Valley), plus a side of previously unreleased wastoid subterranean percussion and roaring magma.” Edition of 270.

THEE BLACK ONE / GERRITT WITTMER

Gerritt / The Black One

(The Witch Is Screaming ]) Used CDR $6.00

Two twenty-five-minute live sets recorded March, 20, 2004, in New Brunswick, NJ. Screen-printed cards. Numbered edition of 50

BLACK SAND DESERT

Choking On Grave Soil

(Troniks - TRO224) Used CD $5.00

Cinder block snakes pummeling through intricately woven nests, kneading maliciously at the middle. A silver haired piper Greh Holger (Hive Mind / Chondritic Sound) tries calling his snakes back home, stretches his vocal chords deep and wide but only whispers trickle out. Their scales push outward and gash the softness open leaving shards and soggy ash. Meat tears in waves of coarse, uneven static, swelling and expanding. Their buzzing rattles growing larger. The digging continues, getting further inside, spilling wildfire in the folds of flesh. The end is here. A blister-covered whistling tone thins itself into nothing and disappears. They are lost and so is he...

BLACK SAND DESERT / THE CHERRY POINT / ROMANCE

Romance / Black Sand Desert / The Cherry Point

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00

Harsh noise and high-grade resonance by Phil Blankenship, Dean Glaister, and Grey Holger from 2006 that “will sew you up with dragonflies.” Edition of 200

BLACK TO COMM

Black To Comm

(Dekorder) Used 10-inch $5.00

Hamburg computer music artist Marc Richter’s 2003 debut release cascades “short bursts of electronic gibberish, woven into sheets of shimmer that fall through space glistening, then wiggle on the floor with all the grace and beauty of twitching Moray eels.” Clear vinyl. 45 RPM. Edition of 250

BLACK TO COMM

Earth

(Destijl - IND098) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Destijl - IND098) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Destijl - IND098) Used CD $8.00

It's always unfortunate to have to blow heavy painkillers on actual physical pain, but Earth was built on a foundation of broken bone; most of this, the seventh Black To Comm album, was composed under the influence. And like the 2009 silent flick of the same name by Singapore filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen, for which this album is the soundtrack, it's about slowness and decay, states of unconsciousness, sleeping and waking up, dying and being reborn. Marc Richter translates the film's post-apocalyptic collage (based on paintings by Caravaggio, Delacroix, Rembrandt, and Géricault) by employing similar collage-based sampling techniques using loops made from vintage vinyl and shellac records, combined with startling vocal work by David Aird (Vindicatrix), Renate Nikolaus's array of instruments and noise devices, singing saws played by Christopher Kline, and Rutger Zuydervelt on singing bowls. Evocative of a mindset similar to Gifts-era Loren Connors and Scott Walker's Tilt. LP includes free download card.

BLACKTOP

Mojo Kitty

(In The Red) Used 7-inch $7.00

Three blues punk Molotov cocktails from 1994 by Mick Collins, Alejandro Cuervo, Janet Walker, and Darin Lin Wood, delivering gloriously sludge-crossed feedback, reverb and bad vibes.

BLADDER FLASK

One Day I Was So Sad That The Corners Of My Mouth Met and Everyone Thought I Was Whistling

(Sonaria) Used CD $15.00

2001 CD reissue of limited edition LP (Orgel Fesper 1981) containing two side-long tracks of extended dada reverie, the ne plus ultra of cut-up sound art put together by a then-teenaged future New Blockader, at the time possessed by a fevered desire to surpass the excesses of the United Dairies lunatic fringe. Sinister, madness-inducing, completely absurd, futile. Sealed.

ART BLAKEY’S JAZZ MESSENGERS / THELONIUS MONK

Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk

(4 Men With Beards) Used LP $16.00

On the 2002 reissue of this 1958 date by Art Blakey (drums), Johnny Griffin (tenor sax), Bill Hardman (trumpet), and Spanky Debrest (bass), Hardman immediately ups the ante with a pile-driving lead during “Evidence” that underscores the heavy-hitting nature of this particular jazz confab. Monk counters with some powerful and inspired runs that are sonically splintered by the enthusiastic — if not practically percussive — chord progressions and highly logistic phrasings from the pianist. The inherent melodic buoyancy on “In Walked Bud” contains a springboard-like quality, with Griffin matching Monk’s bounce measure for measure. Griffin’s incessant efforts create a freshness to the tune that often escapes other less inspired readings. From Blakey’s boisterous opening on “Blue Monk” through to Monk’s single-note crescendo during the finale, the Jazz Messengers’ lethargic propulsion showcases the melody’s bluesy origins. This directly contrasts the uptempo charge of “Rhythm-A-Ning.” The quirky yet catchy chorus glides with the dual-lead horn section as the entire arrangement is tautly bound by the understated Debrest and Blakey.

BLANK DOGS

Diana (The Herald)

(Sacred Bones) Used LP $5.00

The second twelve from this mysterious bedroom synth project that’s been shrouded in secrecy from the start, and slinks through the gray area between early minimal synth pioneers and current experimentalists like Blues Control and Excepter. Edition of 500 with hot yellow-green front cover

BLANK REALM

Heatless Ark

(Not Not Fun) Used LP $5.00

These Australians’ “weirdest, deepest, punkest, and freakiest album: open electric ecstasies, dissonant outsider-wave art-punk, loner Jandek-isms slow-diving dreamgaze, and beyond. Varied, wild, and ambitious.” Red foil printing

JOSHUA EMERY BLATCHLEY

Solo Acoustic Volume One

(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ1) Used LP $14.00

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.

BLITZOIDS

Stealing From Helpless Children / Look Up

(Ad Hoc - ADHOC16/17) Used 2xCD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

This two-disc set compiles the entire recorded output of this band that came of age during the ascent of '80s DIY -- two full albums and bonus material collected from compilation appearances and the like. The first album reflects the irreverence of Residential / Zappa-esque rock and their own untamed personalities. One the second disc, their darker 1992 album, drum machines and lo-fi synthesizers dominate. Still fractured.

BLOGGS

Music For Multiples

(Fresnl) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Sound experiments created by this Ralph Haxton / rhBand droneur, permeated by all things organic in design. Gorgeous tones via metal bowls, clarinet, contact microphones, saxophone, trumpet, PVC pipe, harmonium, piano.

BLOOD RHYTHMS

Assembly

(No Part Of It) Used LP $15.00

Directional recordings of Bruce Lamont (Yakuza, Corrections House), Dave Purdie (Silver Abuse, Satan 2000), Brian Klein (The Machinist), Andy Ortmann (Panicsville, Nihilist Records) and Arvo Zylo playing mostly untrained brass and woodwind together inside a meat locker, subsequently cut into hundreds of loops, layered, and massaged. Playable at all speeds (always a good sign). Unique, handmade covers. Hand-stamped and –numbered inserts. Edition of 200. Listen to excerpts here: https://soundcloud.com/nopartofit/blood-rhythms-side-b-excerpt/s-f0BFk

BLOWHOLE

One Less Summer

(Tinker) Used 7-inch $2.50

“Nervewracking squall and chatter” is how our friends at Subterranean describe the five tracks here from 1996, “with some soft, low-frequency pillow-rumble that is positively asphyxiating.

BLUE CHEER

OutsideInside

(Akarma) Used LP $15.00

Only eight months after Vincebus Eruptum, Outsideinside “contains Leigh Stephens’s paroxysms [and] proved to be some of the best the ’60s ever produced,” promises Pitchfork. “ ‘Feathers from Your Tree’ begins with a drowsy hush before escalating to a strikingly driving pop song, complete with tortured teenage vocals and backup singers…. ‘Sun Cycle’ is a slow rotating blues that reigns in fuzzed and tangled guitars. The version of Booker T.’s ‘The Hunter’ begins as a bluesy hobble until strains of piercing guitar raze through the dinginess. ‘Just a Little Bit’ and ‘Come and Get It’ slow down the tempo and create … tense interaction between players … absent on Vincebus. The result is vastly more atmospheric and fulfilling, if not quite as stunningly anarchic. The one exception is the cover of ‘Satisfaction,’ perhaps the most exemplary version ever recorded, focused less on the music than the energy. It’s as if Stephens is torturing the original…. If it doesn’t sound as influential as Vincebus’s cataclysmic insanity, it’s because it defines ‘classic’ rock. Everyone else was just shooting for this.” 1999 repress of 1968 album on orange vinyl

BLUE CHEER

Vincebus Eruptum

(Akarma) Used LP $15.00

“The juncture of the lethally lethargic, basement-murder morass of Sabbath and the vomit-spewing anxiety of early punk rock,” is how Pitchfork characterizes this 1968 debut album. “The band makes several attempts to get their instruments to sound like they’re playing together, but whenever singer/bassist Dickie Peterson and drummer Paul Whaley accidentally forget that they’re in the same band…, a mind-expanding psychedelic gundown” rushes in, courtesy of guitarist Leigh Stephens, “one of the progenitors of those gloriously nauseating spaz-outs we now know were to be the future of rock: undulations of deafening wreckage and turbulent reverb. The rhythm section is barely audible, and when it is, it can barely stay ahead of Stephens…. And while Blue Cheer, at this early stage, have yet to work out their kinks, their songs are already stunning: ‘Out of Focus’ croaks tales of ‘the magic madness.’ ‘Mystic dream’ [is] a prepubescent version of Zeppelin’s bombast, while ‘Second Time Around’ is a grimier and more explosive predecessor to Yes’s ‘Heart of the Sunrise’…. Eddie Cochran’s version of Summertime Blues’ actually sounded like summer [but Blue Cheer’s] sounds like whatever kind of season they have in a coal mine with skeleton scaffolds. The production is so lo-fi, it’s practically transcendent.” 1999 repress, black vinyl, embossed jacket

BLUES CONTROL

Blues Control

(Holy Mountain) Used CD $8.00

A hazy, spaced world that exists between fuzzed distortion, jabbering electronics, and a lazy, stay-in-bed psychedelic glaze, with Leo Cho’s rhythmic keyboards pulsating below. Guitar player and manipulator of assorted junk-on-table Russ Waterhouse cuts through, whittles and lays waste. “It’s like the soundtrack to Rainbow Bridge” says Tobjörn Axelrod of Bus Rider, “If it were in the Caribbean.” From 2007

BLURT

Kenny Rogers' Greatest Hit (Take 2)

(Toeblock) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Making a saxophone honk, screech and generally giving the impression of Mother Goose meeting armageddon,” explains All Music Guide, Blurt squawks “their way through a noisy avant-garde netherworld between jazz and rock…. [Frontman] Ted Milton’s voice is … a grumbling, gurgling, bleating (if not bleeding) blurt of a sound, silenced only when his mouth is wrapped around a saxophone reed [which] would just as soon imitate fingernails down a chalkboard or elephants in heat as conform to the jazzy warmth the instrument might yield in other hands.”

BOB & LOU

Five Tracks 1991-1993

(Ultra Eczema) Used LP $12.00

Strange radio-play-ready combination of library space music, radical satire, Fassbinder, Klaus Schulze and bizarre precision by the field recording / electro-acoustic synth duo Peter De Ceulaer and Luther Vanhoof, both of Spacecactus. With photo and poster of archive pix. Edition of 200

BOCA RATON

Mansdoof

(Absurd) Used CDR $3.00

Hums and vibrations cohere into a riddle of electrical static and occasional sudden movement,” notes E/I about this 2003 release by Martijn Tellinga. “The impression is of marshaled electro-acoustic improvisation…. [H]igh pitches and scuffles…, field recordings … the edited bounce of a table tennis ball…, sticky tape, disquieting vocal sounds…, traffic noise recorded in Morocco…. [A]n attractive balance between the lived, the meditative and the electronic.” Edition of 131

THE BODY HATERS

34:13

(Young God) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

The Body Haters is the crude, arrhythmic and elemental evil sister of The Body Lovers, another instrumental project by Swans’ Michael Gira. Constructed entirely from raw field recordings and primitive cassette loops, 34:13 is a rude chunk of electronic concrète, simultaneously abstract and visceral. Edition of 2000.

THE BODY LOVERS

Number One Of Three

(Atavistic) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Conceived and structured as one long piece divided into ten untitled parts, this 1998 album captures “the extreme intensity which defined Swans in a new fashion: it completely avoids lyrics in favor of instrumental flow, build, and atmosphere, from solo acoustic guitar to a full-on band attack, with instrumentation ranging from flugelhorn to hammered dulcimer to melodica, all carefully interwoven throughout.” Digipak

BODYSNATCHERS

Frantic b/w Mystery

(540) Used 7-inch $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

2010 reissue of the self-titled debut seven-inch originally released in 1979 by Savage Music. Inspired by the likes of The Gang Of Four, the A-side is a re-write of a Just Urbain song while the flip is a sped up / hacked up cover of “Venus in Furs.” Vocals are more whispered than yelped, the vintage drum machine drone adds a spectral quality, and it has the trademark bass-heavy, non-production values much loved by the Savage Music family.

DOCK BOGGS

False Hearted Lover’s Blues

(Monk) Used LP $8.00

If Boggs’s 1960s recordings for Folkways don’t get you where you need to go, this Italian pressing from 2009 of twelve tracks from the late 1920s will deliver you to the crossroads of black and white folk styles.

DOCK BOGGS

When My Worldly Trials Are Over

(Monk) Used LP $5.00

On this 2010 reissue of his late 1920s recordings, you can hear the pioneering singer / banjo player blend Appalachian old-time music and early blues. Generic label chipboard jacket with centerhole.

ADAM BOHMAN

Last Orders

(Mycophile) Used CD $6.50 (Out-of-stock)

Objects struck, rubbed, chafed, chivvied, bothered and caused by other means to resonate over the course of eight coherent soundscapes, each with its own distinctive feel and inner logic. Rather than draw attention to the materials, Bohman foregrounds their conventional musicality as an echo to what is being done by electronics musicians and avant garde classical ensembles in their respective avant gardes.

ADAM BOHMAN

Music And Words

(Paradigm Discs) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

The freest possible improv by this UK national treasure (whose soundmaking devices include disassembled violin, springs, lightbulbs, barbecue grill, wire record rack, wooden box with wires stretched across) presses more detail into every split second of a post-serial slipstream of variegated events than ought to be allowed. Bohman also tapes audio-letters containing commentaries on his daily life spoken in hilariously lugubrious tones (Christmas with the family, collage-making in the kitchen, receiving gifts of home-made Turkish delight, walks to the local pub, the state of public restrooms). DIY dada from the midst of suburban banality.

LUIZ FLORIANO BONFÁ / ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM

Orfeu Da Conceição E Otras Histórias

(Get Back ) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tracks from the mid-’50s by the fathers of the Bossa Nova revolution in Brazilian music. Sealed.

FRANÇOIS BONNET / ANNE GUTHRIE / VIRGINIA OVERTON

Sculpture Gardens

(Future Audio Graphics) Used LP $15.00

Using hydroponic and contact microphones, Guthrie makes audible certain silent sounds present at Overton’s installation at the Whitney Museum of American Art, consisting of large aluminum ponds housing a variety of plant life and aerated by two silhouetted windmills, which in turn respond to the conditions of the Whitney’s fifth floor deck. Adjacent to this outdoor component and separated by a wall of large glass windows, a gallery space holds several sculptures made from reclaimed wood, everyday objects and metal pipes, among other materials. As fall turned to winter, it was reconfigured and the ponds were emptied and inverted, creating drumhead-like objects that further amplified their sonic possibilities. Guthrie’s work offers access to the inside and outside of the installation. The subsequent compositions delicately mix electronic treatments, French horn and synthesizer, furthering her interest in non-musical sounds and the natural acoustic phenomena of architectural space. Bonnet’s commissioned essay, “Emanations,” reconsiders the early avant-garde innovation of the found object in relation to the temporality of sound, revealing the impermanent, changing nature of both. This text suggests the category of art shares much in common with the mystery, uncertainty and environmental unpredictability of this installation. Hella interdisciplinary.

BONIFACE BONNIE

Night & Daylight Yeibichei

(Indian House) Used CD $7.00

Ten songs from a nine-day Navajo ceremony performed in the winter to treat a patient afflicted with eye trouble, ear trouble, or paralysis of some part of the body. 1995 reissue of 1968 album

BORBETOMAGUS / VOICE CRACK

Asbestos Shake

(Agaric) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Bleak Bliss summarizes this collaborative recording by the New York sax-guitar monsters and the mad Swiss scientists of cracked everyday electronics as “a six-headed beast beyond the imagination of mere mortals.”

BORBETOMAGUS

Borbetomagus

(Agaric) Used CD $15.00

This 1995 reissue of Borbetomagus’s 1980 debut album contains the previously un-released “The Lost Concordat,” recovered from badly deteriorated master tapes of the session. “Heavy noise, deeply coiled feedback manipulation, hair-raising electronic squeal,” says Forced Exposure, “and the ultimate in air propulsion explosiveness.” With Brian Doherty on electronics. Sealed

BORBETOMAGUS

Buncha Hair That Long

(Agaric) Used CD $20.00

This “collection of live recordings from 1991, says Pitchfork, “Is one of Borbetomagus’s most sonically-diverse releases, moving from heavy, growling noise to churning, electronic-sounding drone to a track called ‘In The Nursery that mixes trebly test-tone whine with moments of … near-silence. The album ends with a 16-minute ‘cover’ of the Beatles’ ‘Blue Jay Way’, recorded at CBGB…, [where] the trio [was] all plugged into a single bass amp, and the result is a sonic tidal wave that’s both terrifying and weirdly calm.”

BORBETOMAGUS

Experience The Magic

(Agaric) Used CD $10.00

“With their acerbic wit and bloodthirsty attack, Borbetomagus are virtually unlike any other band anywhere. They make Peter Brötzmann seem warm and fuzzy,” according to All Music Guide. “This is [the kind of scary music … that makes you have nightmares about serial killers. But it’s also the kind of fun-house fare that makes you want to live free or die, to scream in ecstasy, and laugh with glee with the knowledge that the creative impulse is alive and terribly well and living in America, of all places. This is music beyond language because it is the roots of language itself: the impulse that attempts to express and organize that which is unspeakable.”

BORBETOMAGUS

Live At Inroads

(PSF) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

This 1992 reissue of Cluster Project’s 1983 cassette is one of the heaviest live documents of the original Borbetomagus big-band (Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich on saxophones, Donald Miller on guitar and Brian Doherty on live electronics). Nothing beats the glorious primal gush of these guys in flight, and Live At In-Roads remains the source of so much that came after, as well the first ever release by a western group on PSF.

BORBETOMAGUS

Live In Tokyo

(Alchemy) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded live at the La Mama, June 1996. Sealed

BORBETOMAGUS

Songs Our Mother Taught Us

(Agaric) Used CD $10.00

“The three performances from London and Glasgow captured on this disc have no real reference points in even the free-est of jazz,” asserts All Music Guide about this 1999 album, “Rather, they sound like some huge machine sanding away at itself in an attempt to break free and lumber down the highway toward an uncertain destiny. Sauter, Dietrich and Miller play through so many pedals and distortion devices that it’s entirely impossible to discern which saxophonist is making which noise, and sometimes impossible to tell whether it’s a saxophone or a guitar one is hearing. But even as each man blows or strums or otherwise plays his guts out, seemingly entranced, space always remains for the other two to be clearly heard, commenting and amplifying (in every sense of that word) and turning what could be a storm into a genuine three-way creative interaction.”

BOREDOMS

Anal By Anal

(SSE Communications) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

1993 reissue of their first single (Trans 1986), recorded one hot summer afternoon by Eye and Tabata (later of Zeni Geva). Three riff-dismantling old-school punk tracks set to sporadically edited drum samples, lifted from an instructional cassette by jazz drummer Ponta Murakami. Sealed

BOREDOMS

Soul Discharge

(Shimmy Disc) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Indexed as two tracks, the first being all ten tracks from the original album (Selfish 1989), the second being another forty-one-and-a-half minutes of early recordings from 1982 to 1987, some of which later appeared on Onanie Bomb Meets the Sex Pistols.

BOREDOMS

Super Roots

(Reprise) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Fourteen quick blasts that show the band at a warped apex, with emphasis on vocal experimentation, grunts, groans, and chants, documenting new work in a state of transition, raw and not fully shaped ideas, and chaotic sketches. Gloriously messy, totally nuts, utterly joyous.

BOREDOMS

Vision Creation Newsun

(WEA Japan) Used 2xCD $75.00

Spazmo-transonic rhythm: first came the idea, then came the action, and then it got hot. Vision Creation Newsun builds on the grooves of Super Are with additional funkiness and breaches in space-time. Includes T-shirt and sticker. Box plays a 40-second sample when the inside is exposed to light. Sealed

BOREDOMS

Wow2

(Disk Union) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Crisply captured live recording from 1993. Unfettered, loose and immediate, yet so freakishly welded together at all times — whether stopping dead or accelerating with joyous abandon into cartoonish explosions of twitchy screeching and unhinged gibbering.

ALEXEI BORISOV / KK NULL

Xenoglossia

(Insofar Vapor Bulk) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Two masters of experimental electronic noise present a series of destroyed music of varying tapestries. In card folder.

BORN AGAINST / MAN IS THE BASTARD

Man Is The Bastard / Born Against

(Vermiform) Used Split 8-inch $18.00

All five “A Call For Consciousness” tracks by the big mac daddies of power violence on one side, and Born Against’s final four recordings on the other, some of their most creative and captivating tracks by a mile, especially “Wearing a Lampshade,” “Five Dollars an Hour” and the killer “My Favorite Housing Project.” From 1994.

ALESSANDRO BOSETTI

Royals

(Monotype - MONO034) CD $12.75

(Monotype - MONO034) Used CD $8.50

Three new pieces somewhere between composition, song, literary essay, poem and unreligious mantra, without embracing any genre in particular. Bosetti translates intonations of speech into complex and seemingly orchestral scores where meaning, tone and noise melt together. Inspired by Arcimboldo's 16th Century paintings, which he calls "examples of hand made convolution and shadowing," he pours words into notes, notes into noise, and noise into meaning. Repetition, meditation, hallucination. Harpsichord, piano, guitar, soprano saxophone, field recordings. The core of the sinuous "Gloriously Repeating" is generated from a short fragment from the W.G. Sebald poem "After Nature." "Life Expectations" is constructed around the intricate emotional, rhythmic and melodic counterpoints of a casual conversation, where the sensitive interaction between voices becomes the matter. The text of the surreal and short “Dead Man” implies a ready-made pseudo-zen philosophy of resurrection derived from quotes of Iron Maiden lyrics.

BOSHO

Chop Socky

(Dossier) Used LP $12.00

This short-lived trio from the late 1980s, headed by drummer Samm Bennett and including the talents of Kumiko Kimoto and Yuval Gabay, combines percussion from various world sources with electronics and fuses them in a rockish rhythmic execution. Experimentalism is generally put on the back burner in favor of the groove. Guest appearance by guitarist / violinist Hahn Rowe.

CHRISTER BOTHÉN

Ljudskulptur För 5 Kontrabasklarinetter 5 Qaraqeb & Elektronik + Solon För Kontrabasklarinett & Basklarinett

(Ideal) Used LP $20.00

“Entrancing microtonal drone excursions for reed and percussion” from 2016

BOURBONESE QUALK

Hope

(Recloose Organization) Used LP $75.00

“A record with intensity,” declares the Dutch magazine Vinyl. “You will get from [this 1984 album] very clear views with a murdering vitality and a passionate, deathly atmosphere, icy parts of filthy noise. So far, Throbbing Gristle never managed to get such penetrating, powerful and significant sounds. Heavy metal percussion cuts through visionary areas, chunking bass accompanies the delayed orgasm of sunset sex and headstop.”

BOURBONESE QUALK

Laughing Afternoon

(Recloose Organization) Used LP $75.00

“Something of a gem,” is how Sounds UK describes this 1983 debut LP. “A mixing pot where pounding rhythms are thrown against wailing trumpets, electronics pulse, tom-toms thump, [and] tuneful guitars melodically flutter by…. [P]retty odd but … contagious.”

BOURBONESE QUALK

The Spike

(Dossier) Used LP $35.00

“Bourbonese Qualk’s music has an immediate effect,” according to Sounds UK about this 1985 album. One is “absorbed into the strong, fluctuating stream of noises and then awakened by very loud strident noise…. The tracks flow almost unnoticeably from one to another to form an organic whole. Inside this process … a lot of small things happen that attach themselves to your senses and take control…. [With a] kind of ‘Body-ness’, their … sound-treatments have … a magical hallucinating effect.” With sticker. Black vinyl

MATTHEW BOWER / RICHARD YOUNGS

Relayer

(VHF) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

“A dense set of layered studio recordings from 2002 where rainbows of color and textures — string drone, percussion, bleeps, and the unidentifiable — compete in a mix devoid of the traditional “lead with backing” schema. Many tracks have the kind of welcoming electronic bed seldom heard since the demise of Harmonia, with ring modulated fuzz bleeping away over a chugging but non-oppressive beat. Elsewhere, there’s Youngs’s Riley-style organ ping-pong, a little virtuoso kalimba, thick wads of analog synth.... You know where this is going.”

PAUL BOWLES

A Hundred Camels In The Courtyard

(Dom) Used 2xCD $17.00 (Out-of-stock)

Four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible enemy; He of the Assembly catches himself up in the mesh of his own kif-dream and begins to act it out in reality; Idir’s victory over Lahcen is the classical story of the kif-smoker’s ability to outwit the drinker; Driss the soldier, aided by kif, proves the existence of magic to his enlightened superior officer. For all of them, the kif pipe is the means to attaining a state of communication not only with others but above all with themselves. On this 1999 reissue, originally released in 1981 by Cadmus Editions, Bowles’s gravelly speech is the perfect medium in which to encounter these smoke-filled stories. At times, Moroccan music and chattering voices can be heard faintly in the background, a presumably unintended decoration that inevitably flavors the final mix.

PAUL BOWLES

Black Star At The Point Of Darkness

(Sub Rosa) Used CD $11.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded in Tangier, this album is a unique kaleidoscope of Paul Bowles’ talents. The writer, musician, musicologist and wanderer reads poems and short stories, and shares recordings of ritual Morrocan music. Jean-Luc Fafchamps performs what Bowles considered one of his most accomplished works, the Six Preludes for Piano.

BOYZONE

Menarche

(Hot Releases) Used LP $5.00

“A witchy mosaic of psychedelic, haunted tape jams, exposed circuit melodies, EVP, Casio moaning, deteriorating cassette playback, ebbing dreamy confusion and harshness coalescing into a final metal echo by members of Relay for Death, Secret Boyfriend, and Jeff Rehnlund” from 2010. Paste-on jacket. Edition of 300.

CARLA BOZULICH

I’m Gonna Stop Killing

(DiCristina) Used CD $4.00

Two songs from Red Headed Stranger (one a duet with Willie Nelson), new explorations of music from that album, and seven unreleased live tunes, including original material from The Geraldine Fibbers and Scarnella, a Neil Young cover, a Marianne Faithful cover, and some world class improvisations. With Nels Cline, Devin Hoff, Carla Kihlstedt, Marka Hughes, Jenny Scheinman, Scott Amendola, Todd Sickafoose, Shahzad Ismaily, Ches Smith, and Dina Maccabee.

BPEOPLE

Petrified Conditions 1979-1981

(Restless) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

LAFMS royalty Tom Recchion and Fredrik Nilsen, plus Alex Gibson and Pat Delaney (formerly of the Deadbeats). Trouser Press is impressed by the quartet’s “artsy sophistication,” citing Gibson’s songwriting displaying “structural abilities far beyond the punk club milieu in which the band existed.” 1985 pressing. Price tag on the jacket.

THE BRAIN POLICE

The Brain Police

(Akarma) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

The band’s sole LP, originally a demo platter in a plain sleeve made with the intention of attracting label interest in their baroque pop, the tight interplay between guitars and organ, the bluesy, heavy psych solos, and the nearly-AM radio pop/rock bounce. 2005 reissue of 1968 rarity. Gatefold jacket.

BRAIN TRANSPLANT

Turn Your Shit Off

(Pegasus Farms) Used CDR $3.00

Free jazz from 2008 by Danny McClain (drums), Raglani (electronics), Chris Smentkowski (guitar), and Dave Stone (sax)

BRAN(...)POS

3xx3

(Chitah! Chitah! Soundcrack) Used CDR $4.00

Recorded in 33 straight days in late 2000, using the World of Many Dans comic book as a recording reference and calendar where a different Dan was scheduled to music each of the 33 days, resulting in 33 varying pieces of music, which were then mixed together and/or trashed over the following three months and separated into three suites to be listened to at three varying sun/moon phases of the day and further split and assigned to three personalities: the morning suite by the Brain Pause (4am-12pm); the afternoon suite by (Distraction) (12pm-8pm); the evening suite by the Bran (Another plight of medic’s...) Pos (8pm-4am). Special guest Planetsize on “ingrown (morning suite).”

GLENN BRANCA

Symphony No. 2 – The Peak Of The Sacred

(Atavistic) Used CD $8.00

This magnificent, resonant, clangorous soundscape of almost imponderable density and length swell to maximum volume and maintains a high level of intensity for over an hour with little relaxation. The unpredictable but intended interplay of overtones and acoustics, evoked by Branca’s mallet guitarists and percussionists, adds considerably to the music’s power, sense of space, and cosmic scope. First edition from 1992 with gold sticker as front panel artwork

GLENN BRANCA

The Ascension

(Superior Viaduct) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Four guitarists (Branca, fellow composers Ned Sublette and David Rosenbloom, and future Sonic Youth member Lee Ranaldo), with Jeffrey Glenn on bass and Stephan Wischerth on drums, tear down the genre-ghettos between 20th century avant-garde and ecstatic rock’n’roll on this 2014 reissue of the 1981 LP. On “The Spectacular Commodity,” chiming, shimmering tones unfold into sinister drone-territory à la Tony Conrad, while abrasive guitars and repetitive beats retain the raw primitivism of No Wave. The title track attains a densely packed, larger-than-life sound and (as author Marc Masters says) “never stops climbing skyward.” Sealed

KJETIL D. BRANDSDAL

KDB

(KDB) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Lo-fi, droning, tape-looped improv spew devoid of drums, with most rhythms coming from tape loops or guitar parts, and generally levitating the consciousness pretty effectively in a ceilingward direction. Headphone listening reveals some pretty cool mix-work while retaining a unique Nordic grittiness in sound. Paste-on front and back cover

KJETIL D. BRANDSDAL

Kjetil D. Brandsdal

(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $5.00

Intense and mesmerizing instrumentals from 1999 by this Norwegian sound-explorer. Experimental guitar, turntables and electronics.

KJETIL D. BRANDSDAL / MIKAËL TRÉMEL

Kjetil D. Bransdal / Mikaël Trémel

(Smalltown Supersound) Used LP $5.00

Distracted guitar picking, disharmony, flimsy organ tones and a peculiar rhythmic sense make up the main body of this relatively low-key album from 1999, which at times leans toward jazz and then recalls a seething little kid’s first discovery of the piano. Generic black jacket with centerhole and paste-on artwork

KJETIL D. BRANDSDAL

Rogalands Lydigste

(Swill Radio) Used LP $15.00

Distinctive, uncompromising and minimalist instrumental music from 1999. Guitar played with the imminent threat of screams, whines and surreptitious tones. Definitely rock for the advanced. Sealed

ANTHONY BRAXTON

19 [Solo] Compositions, 1988

(New Albion) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Sixteen originals recorded live plus “You Go To My Head,” “Round Midnight,” and “Half Nelson.” Although free in spots, Braxton’s performances also have their own logic and are quite concise.

ANTHONY BRAXTON

Composition N. 165 [For 18 Instruments]

(New Albion) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Performed by the University of Illinois Creative Music Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Braxton in 1992, who describes it thus: “There are static and mutable cloud formations that drift in and out of the canvas of the music…, yet there are target recognition states. This is a sequential event continuum that places equal emphasis on sound and space — the moments come ... the moments go.”

ANTHONY BRAXTON

Composition N. 169 + (186 + 206 divided by 214)

(Leo) Used 2xCD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

A string orchestra plus four saxophonists tackle this gloriously sprawling concerto. “There is a static quality to much of the piece,” notes All Music Guide, “Characterized by pulsating, thrusting strings. The timbre of the strings actually softens the blows, making this more listenable than some of the composer’s other assemblages…. [T]he fine work of the Slovenia Radio Orchestra, coupled with excellent soloing from Braxton and his saxophonist colleagues, gives this a serious, if somewhat difficult demeanor. There are the usual flashes of brilliance, the complex rhythmic patterns, and the repeating quarter tones…. [T]his is a substantial work … [of] considerable depth and originality.” From 2001

ANTHONY BRAXTON

Composition N. 247

(Leo) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

“A trio outing featuring saxophonist / clarinetist James Fei and bagpipe performer Matthew Welch,” notes All About Jazz. This “unlikely instrumentation mix” places “this extended composition … within [Braxton’s] Ghost Trance Music series, which he describes as a ‘melody that doesn’t end’.” From 2001

ANTHONY BRAXTON

Knitting Factory (Piano / Quartet) 1994, Vol. 2

(Leo) Used 2xCD $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

The never-less-than-impressive Braxton “moves from swing to cool to bebop and back, all the while never letting go of his love for free jazz,” notes All Music Guide, essentially putting “every jazz influence that came his way during his musical upbringing in the boiler and distilling a powerful ersatz. The quartet’s renditions can be very faithful at times, very mainstream. These moments are propelled by Marty Erlich’s soulful saxophone … and Joe Fonda’s bass…. Then again, [Braxton’s] subversive language is never quiet for very long. Every tune moves in and out of focus…. A powerful jazz lesson from a master.”

ANTHONY BRAXTON

Ninetet (Yoshi’s) 1997 – Compostion N. 207 / Compostion N. 208 Vol 1

(Leo) Used 2xCD $17.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Pounding pulses devoid of melody, a somewhat limited tonal palette, and lots of repeating phrases … add to the complexity and the opaqueness” of this live recording, notes All Music Guide. “Appreciating the theoretical underpinnings of the compositions … make it more approachable, and the glorious improvisations by Braxton and his colleagues mitigate the harshness of the whole…. [T]he solos and trio breakouts are nothing less than splendid…. [T]hese two performances are among his best for a small group.”

ANTHONY BRAXTON

Solo (Koln) 1978

(Leo) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Performing solely on alto sax, there is a searing lyricism and a surprisingly jazz-oriented underpinning to even the most abstract of Braxton’s improvisations,” according to All Music Guide. Released twenty-four years after they were recorded, the tracks here show “him in an energetic mood, and should satisfy those who appreciate his more radical side within the ‘mainstream’ of the jazz avant-garde. He barks, screeches (though only occasionally and in characteristically good taste), and shows some outstanding technical skills, including incredible speed. While he has recorded some of these compositions elsewhere…, Braxton is in peak form on this one and the results are uniformly excellent.”

BREKEKEKEXKOAXKOAX

I Managed to Get Out Through a Secret Door

(Eh?) Used CDR $4.00

“Two long pieces for prepared guitar, where Josh Ronsen, resembling an uncertain version of Hans Reichel, strings together disconnected and non-musical phrases, accompanied by Jason Pierce’s politely restrained cymbal brushing,” mentions our friend at Sound Projector. “ ‘Shoham’ showcases Ronsen’s solo live electronics work…, an extended bout of frowning and glowering translated into monolithic electric moans. He combines his electronics set-up with a turntable and guitar on ‘Art brings a tiny gleam…’, and again succeeds in erecting an inscrutable wall which asks more questions than it answers.”

JOHN WOLF BRENNAN / HANS KENNEL

Pipelines

(Leo - LR292) Used CD $5.00

Eclectic pianist Brennan translates himself onto a church organ for the purposes of an uncompromising culture clash somewhere between baroque music and jazz with trumpeter Kennel, whose playing is brilliant and bright, sharp and clear. This music of fanfares avoids strong dissonances in favor of harmonic nuance and the sound of a church celebration transported en masse into the twenty-first century. The uneasy parp of Marc Unternährer’s tuba on four tracks pushes into slightly edgier waters. Despite an aura of pleasing-enough sound, only close-up do the cleverly intertwined lines and deep, snooty weirdness of Pipelines really emerge.

BRETHREN OF THE FREE SPIRIT

The Wolf Shall Also Dwell With The Lamb

(Important) Used LP $8.00

Guitarist / composer James Blackshaw and lutenist / composer Jozef van Wissem recorded at Locksley Hall, Amsterdam in April 2008. Four long circular compositions in which the duo unify in historical reference to the musics of both the ancient lute and contemporary acoustic guitar. Black vinyl. Sealed

DER BRIEF

Volum

(Jazzassin) Used CD $5.00

’90s improv power trio John Hegre on guitar and electronics, Jorgen Larsson on synth, and drummer Nils Are Dronen push the limits of noise, rock, and human endurance. Almost like a lo-fi collage. Edition of 500.

BROKEN HEARTED DRAGONFLIES

Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia

(Sublime Frequencies) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

A tribute to swarms of male dragonflies of Southeast Asia that during mating join in choruses of high-pitched tones to court their mates — the ones that don't succeed in finding a mate eventually scream so loud their chests explode and they drop dead to the ground (kind of like emo-core bands). Recorded live and unprocessed by Tucker Martine in Laos, Thailand and Burma, Brokenhearted Dragonflies features field recordings of droning cicadas, dragonflies and other insects that create a tropical hallucination of strange symphonies and alien sounds. Liner notes by Hakim Bey.

BROKEN PENIS ORCHESTRA

Plays With Itself

(Hypnagogia) Used CD $40.00

2011 reissue of a “totally bonkers cut-up record, comparable to the notorious Bladder Flask experiment, though far more stupid and abrasive in its relentless onslaught. ‘Broken part 1’ is particularly effective in the way it passes on feelings of alienation and disconnectedness.” In pink clamshell case #29/100

BROTHER AH

Move Ever Onward

(Ikef) Used LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

2002 pressing of this 1975 album of spiritual jazz with a more worldly sound that incorporated robust African and Asian influences. Its eight eclectic tracks feature vocals from by Dara, Aiisha, Kwesi Gilbert Northern, and Ayida Tengemana, along with cacaphonous percussion, flute and stringed instrument flourishes. Liner notes by Jean Carn

BROTHER AH

Sound Awareness

(Ikef) Used LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

Two side-long tracks by renowned French horn player Robert Northern with notable appearances by percussionist Max Roach, the M’Boom Re:percussion Ensemble, and a 90-piece vocal choir. 2002 pressing of this boundary-pushing album recorded and originally released by Strata East in 1972 after much extensive work with the Sun Ra Arkestra. Liner notes by Roach

ANTON BRUHIN

Deux Pipes

(Alga Marghen) Used LP $35.00

Six jews harp pieces by this obscure Swiss artist. “Apocalypt Rb- with sampling loop” and “Chor H+ with sampling loop and solo reverb pot,” recorded in January 2000, are virtuoso performances of improv over a loop-continuum sampled through a Casio child synth. From 1994, “Maultrommel und Sprache” scientifically investigates the use of jews harp in rendering human voice, moving from the basic structure of language to construction of a perfectly accomplished sonic statement. Three other pieces from 1995 complete the collection. Gatefold sleeve with eight-page booklet reproducing drawings from between 1969 and 2006, and the complete score of “Maultrommel und Sprache.” Edition of 330.

TOM BRUNO / SABIR MATEEN

Getting Away With Murder

(Eremite - MTE007) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Two musicians recorded down in New York’s subway [in February 1995],” explains Ben Watson, “And, surprise, surprise, they’re playing excellent jazz. Bruno uses brushes on his busker’s pared-down kit: a glorious, intricate waterfall of beats. Tenorist Mateen leaps in like a salmon, flashy and wise…. Mateen’s meditative, Lowe-like intimacy is just what is required [for this 45-minute improv]. When the sax lays out for nine minutes, Bruno’s fluid ebullience comes to the fore. Mateen’s concluding flourish lets in some subway ambience — train-door slams and commuter chatter — and the results are haunting…. Byron Coley’s sleevenote is, as usual, a gas.”

BOBB BRUNO

Mellowdramas

(Sleeping Giant Glossolalia) Used LP $5.00

With its combination of late-night-loner electronic drift, dream-inducing rhythmic workouts, and masterful avant-pop orchestrations, this record by a member of Beast Coast stays with you. Written and recorded during a period of personal turmoil, it travels the arc from the deeply melancholic to the triumphant, leaving bad dreams to die on the bedroom floor. Guests include Nels Cline (Wilco), Rebecca Coleman (Pageants, ex-Avi Buffalo), Josh Klinghoffer (RHCP).

BOBB BRUNO

The Shy Tuff Bunny Runs Away

(Transparency) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Instrumental electronica by the dude from Polar Goldie Cats and Best Coast. “Crunchy, noisy mad scientist soundtrack stuff,” says Aquarius, “With beats and … melodies amid abrasive spastic metallic outbursts. Very frenetic and constantly in flux.” Guest Nels Cline plays slide on one song.

BRUTUM FULMEN / LASSE MARHAUG

Tender Wreckage

(Gameboy) Used Split LP $5.00

One side of noisy remixes of material from the Brutum Fulmen catalog, backed with the favor returned in a musique concrète vein.

GAVIN BRYARS

The Sinking Of The Titantic

(Obscure) Used LP $50.00 (Out-of-stock)

Bryars’s deeply mournful masterwork from 1975, still strangely haunting after all these years. Realized with The Cockpit Ensemble, Sandra Hill, Derek Bailey, Angele Bryars, Michael Nyman, John White, John Nash, and Miss Eva Hart, the performance contains more light that one has any reason to expect for such a dark project. Stunning. 1978 Polydor reissue in Island jacket.

PETER BRÖTZMANN GROUP

Fuck De Boere (Dedicated to Johnn Dyani)

(Atavistic) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Two of the most explosive, riveting pieces of music to come out of the European vaults — never before released, mastered from original radio master tapes — by larger groups led by the German saxophone legend, both recorded by Hessischer Rundfunk at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival, in 1968 and 1970. First is an unheard alternate version of Brötzmann’s groundbreaking Machine Gun, this time with a nine-piece group (same as the LP, adding tenor saxophonist Gerd Dudek), recorded three months before the BRO/FMP record was made. Then there’s a forty-minute masterpiece from 1970, with a large group featuring three tenors, three trombones, no bassist, Fred van Hove on organ, Derek Bailey on guitar, and Han Bennink and Sven-Ake Johansson on drums. It’s a monumental piece, featuring some of the most extreme Bailey on record (sounding at times like Masayumi Takayanaki from five years later), and tremendous interplay between Brötzmann, Evan Parker and Willem Breuker. Twelve-panel foldout booklet with liner notes and period photographs.

PETER BRÖTZMANN OCTET

Machine Gun

(FMP) Used CD $30.00

“The marathon, lung-bursting howl of Peter Brötzmann’s Machine Gun, which the saxophonist self-released on his BRÖ imprint 50 years ago,” remarks Downbeat, “captures the anxiety of a generation grappling with the Vietnam War and civil unrest. The emotional and political complexity it was born from still resonates today…. It’s easy to explain the album’s singular energy as Brötzmann and company harness the era’s ambition of plotting a new path forward. But in the bandleader’s mind, ‘There is no contradiction between creation and destruction. I never thought music was a healing force of the universe. I didn’t agree with Mr. Ayler. But we wanted to change things; we needed a new start…. We were angry. We wanted to do something’…. Machine Gun’s 45-second intro forms one of jazz’s most distinctive mission statements. Evan Parker weaves around the horn section’s staccato blasts, before Han Bennink’s drums blast a nervy military march alongside Peter Kowald’s wildly rumbling bass. The brutality of the album’s remaining 36 minutes exceeds the number of commonly recognized synonyms for ‘violent’…. Ultimately, Machine Gun is the blues for a continent ravaged by a century of internecine warfare, unfathomable crimes against humanity and an uncertain future.” 1990 reissue.

PETER BRÖTZMANN SEXTET

More Nipples

(Atavistic) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

This session from April 18, 1969, put British improvisers Evan Parker and Derek Bailey into a once-in-a-lifetime sextet with Brötzmann and Buschi Niebergall, and Dutch radicals Han Bennink and Fred van Hove. “The title track is 17 minutes of some of the most important music in the history of European free jazz,” Pitchfork assures us. “As it unfolds with duos and trios crystallizing from the splinters of the entire group’s nuclear mass, it’s … apparent how well these guys understood each other’s playing, to the point of being conscious of what the group performance sounded like as a whole…. Don’t let the fact that these are outtakes scare you away from this disc, because this stuff is essential to anyone interested in how Herr Brötzmann earned his status as one of the most devastating forces to ever touch a saxophone.”

PETER BRÖTZMANN TRIO

For Adolphe Sax

(Atavistic) Used CD $10.00

The German tenor saxophonist’s first, recorded with bassist Peter Kowald and drummer Sven-Ake Johansson. This is intense, unrelenting free jazz with little in the way of clear structure or melody. Apart from a few brief moments of quiet during “Sanity,” this stuff just doesn’t quit, with Brötzmann’s consistently abrasive, high-pitched wailing leading the charge and the other two members stirring up a pretty good ruckus themselves (Kowald especially gets in a good string-sawing bass solo on “Morning Glory”).

MATT BUA / MATT MIKAS / TOM ROE

Of The Bridge

(free103point9) Used LP $5.00

Field recordings of traffic, subway trains, and construction and repairs on the Williamsburg Bridge from 2002, with sampled sounds from Sonny Rollins’s 1961 recording, and performances by three New York sound artists who live next to the structure. Silkscreened jacket. Numbered edition of 300.

HAROLD BUDD / RICHARD MAXFIELD

The Oak Of The Golden Dreams

(New World Records - 80555) Used CD $15.00

1999 reissue of Budd’s staunch minimalist works (realized on the Buchla Electronic Music System at the California Institute of the Arts (then in Burbank) in 1970, originally released by Advance in 1971) and Maxfield’s four compositions that skitter from electronics to tape loops. The disc’s centerpiece is his 1961 “Piano Concert for David Tudor,” a twelve-minute exploration of a wired-up piano. Tiddlywinks pluck amplified strings and gyroscopes whir inside the instrument, releasing an array of sounds you never thought a piano was capable of creating.

BULBS

Light Ships

(Freedom To Spend) Used CD $3.00

“William Sabiston and guitarist Jon Almaraz traffic in screechy, broken electro-acoustic noise, flirting with song structure and formless improvisation. Their ugly, spackled palette weds keening shards of guitar, prepared piano, and glockenspiel sounds with furry drum machine grime. A garish coupling that veers tantalizingly close to pretty melodies and sensuous textures without fully capitulating to coherence.”

THE BULGARIAN STATE RADIO & TELEVISION FEMALE VOCAL CHOIR

Les Mystère Des Voix Bulgares Vol. 1

(4AD) Used LP $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

The classic beyond-mesmerizing folk choir recordings from the mid-1970s, reissued in 1986.

BULLET IN THE HEAD

Bullet In The Head

(Bulb) Used 7-inch $2.00

Three short tracks of proto-industrial noiserock from 1993

BUM KON

Bum Kon

(Local Anesthesia) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Raw thrash emanations with a frenetic instrumental attack and intense vocals from Colorado 1984.

BUM KON

Ground Round

(Sun Baked) Used LP $20.00

“Power is the name of the game,” assures the German language zine Trust about this Colorado hardcore band’s second and final album, released in 1986. They “are not overly fast, but they do make very passionate music [with] absolutely weird rhythm changes and the … nasal vocals…. Bum Kon play around with … studio tricks, so that it hisses, hums, or farts … unexpectedly. Hot…. HC with a difference, but good.”

BUNALIM

Bunalim

(Shadoks) Used CD $10.00

2006 reissue of early 70s tracks by this underground Turkish psych band who mix heavy hard rock with the style of traditional Anatolian folk dances and songs. Sealed

BUNNY BRAINS

Bunny Magick

(Blackjack) Used LP $10.00

“Nothing exceeds like excess.” So Douglas Wolk sums up this LP from 1994. “The Bunny Brains have built a Taj Mahal of psychedelic sludge, a two-chord Trump Tower, a Mount Rushmore of everybody playing really loud at once and sort of trying to make sure they’re playing the same song. The Connecticut band, known for way-over-the-top live performances (half-naked dancers, dozens of stuffed animals flying everywhere, very long songs) and why-did-they-do-that? recordings … has topped itself again. Bunny Magick has a handful of digressions, like the ridiculous acoustic tribute to a favorite DJ (“R U Ready Carolyn Keddy?”) and an even more ridiculous, fume-addled jig (“Erin Go Boom!”), and a couple of short found pieces (like the hysterical children’s choir anti-drug song that opens the record). Most of it, though, is what the Bunny Brains do best: hugely fun, near-improvised two-chord rock for lots of people to jump up and down to, with songs that go on as long as they’re still fun for everyone to play and end when everybody’s gotten bored with the main riff and wandered off into solos. Sealed

BURIAL HEX

Initiations

(Aurora Borealis) Used 2xLP $15.00

A metaphysical odyssey of uncertain outcome. From the psycho-religious clamour of “Will To The Chapel” with its jihadic cries, through the somnambulant, subterranean oscillations of “Eight Pentacles,” the way ahead is far from clear, the atmosphere claustrophobic and threatening. The album ends with the half-speed collisions, static miasma, and white noise squawl of “Bo -II- Ne.” Black card disco bags with a wrap-around black sleeve, hand screenprinted in white ink; includes two inserts. 180g vinyl.

DAN BURKE / THOMAS DIMUZIO

Upcoming Events

(No Fun) Used CD $3.00

An unending spur of equal parts gorgeous and uncomfortably perplexing sound spread across fifteen tracks from 2008. Crackles of electronic fire, tremolo-infused waves of sustained guitar, broken music boxes and found sounds among all other sorts of unfounded wails of gargantuan melancholy drone, Burke and Dimuzio’s collaboration is a forceful, early industrial sound ruination combined with classic krautrock ambiance of the Tangerine Dream / Cluster ilk.

JOSHUA BURKETT

Life Less Lost

(Spirit of Orr) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Frenetic, impressively free-form and yet technical guitar-playing from 2003 by this Vermonster, matched with a typically modest vocal performance.

JOSHUA BURKETT

Myself Among Others

(Feather One's Nest) Used CDR $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Collaborations with Kemialliset Ystävät, Willie Lane, Thurston Moore, Parrotprobe, Ron Schneiderman, Sound Of Pot, Ed Askew, Lau Nau, Ralph White, MV, Dan Brown, and Red Favorite. Nine tracks previously released, eight heard here for the first time. Cover is photocopy on red paper. Assembled with silver mylar tape. Hand-burned disc.

JOSHUA BURKETT

Owl Leaves Rustling

(Feather One's Nest) Used LP $20.00

“A brilliant collage of four-track chaos,” declares Shelfdwindle about the first pressing of this 1995 LP. “A timeless collision of folk and noise [with an] overwhelming loner psych vibe [that] combine[s] with … deeply personal yet muddy sound…. [F]or convenience’s sake let’s make an offhanded comparison of early Jandek meets Tall Dwarfs.” Recycled jacket with spray paint on front, paste-on photocopy on back. Edition 200

BURMESE

White

(NTR) Used LP $12.00

Interpretations of Whitehouse. Screen-printed paper sleeves. White vinyl. Numbered edition 182/300

BURNING STAR CORE

Let’s Play Wild Like Wildcats Do

(Hospital) Used CD $8.00

Full-on experimental electronics from 1995, with the first track “Mes Soldats Stupides (Demo)” gradually fracturing kraut / funk drums, horns, and white noise into a whirling mess of synthesized mayhem. “Clouds In My Coffee” is a darker piece of devastating, resonating analogue drone. Sealed

BURNING STAR CORE / YELLOW SWANS

Yellow Swans / Burning Star Core

(Blossoming Noise) Used LP $8.00

Collaboration from 2005-2006 by GMS, Pete Swanson, C. Spencer Yeh, and Mike Shiflet. Red marbled vinyl

DAVE BURRELL

Echo

(Affinity) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

1979 reissue of volume twenty in BYG’s Actuel series. Seriously high-energy, free jazz action recorded in Paris 1969 by pianist Burrell, along with Archie Shepp (tenor), Alan Silva (bass), Sunny Murray (drums), Clifford Thornton (cornet), Grachan Moncur III (trombone), and Arthur Jones (alto sax).

DAVE BURRELL

Echo

(Get Back ) Used LP $29.75

After an opening low-end piano crash, all hell breaks loose. This veritable who’s who of the 1969 Paris free jazz scene — Archie Shepp, Clifford Thornton, Alan Silva, Sunny Murray, Arthur Jones, Grachan Moncur III — pounds its brains out. This is seriously free improvisation. On the swirling and dreamy “Peace,” Burrell runs a simple cascading scale up and down and back and forth, just the antidote for the title track’s tension on side one. A monster of an LP. 2001 reissue.

BURRIED MACHINE

Austin

(Rockatansky) Used CD $10.00

“Flesh Parade,” a vulgar tape manipulation collage by Shin Chida, “overcomes the meaning of horror, cancels it, and repaints it with another dimension of fear and violence.” To contrast, in the field recording collage “Scab Eater,” space is palpable, and “filled with fear from another vector.”

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Shoot More Dopes T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $50.00

Hanes Heavyweight 100% cotton. Black with white and red ink.

BUTTHOLE SURFERS

Piouhgd

(Capitol) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Upon its initial release in 1991, Rough Trade claimed that Piouhgd was pronounced “pee-owed” (as in the abbreviation for “pissed off”) and that it also meant “I told you” in the Navajo. This explanation, as well as the spelling, were fabricated by the label unbeknownst to the band; the album title was intended to be unpronounceable. Features “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” a single that found its way onto MTV.

BUTTHOLE SURFERS

The Hole Truth... And Nothing Butt!

(Trance Syndicate - TR35) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Originally released as a bootleg by the shadowy Totonka outfit,” explains All Music Guide, “The Hole Truth [was legitimized] when Surfers’ drummer King Coffey simply took a copy and re-released it on his own label…. [The live material] sounds fairly good throughout…, [as does] an early 1983 studio demo [of] ‘Butthole Surfer,’ and three numbers from 1985 San Antonio date on the Independent Worm Saloon tour. As a ten-year snapshot of the band’s evolution from freakish punk weirdness into a more professional but no less insane band, it’s manna from heaven for the hardcore fan…. [T]he 1983 demo of ‘Something’, a slow stomp and throb with what almost sounds like a horn section coming from Leary’s deathdrone guitar work, sounds utterly unlike the Pioughd version. Haynes’ screeching makes everything even nuttier…. Other highlights include [a straightforward “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” an out-of-nowhere snippet of “Come Together,”] a ridiculous version of ‘Lady Sniff’ taped in San Francisco in 1986, and a 1987 interview on a New York college station featuring various insults about Oliver North and bizarre takes on ‘Kum Ba Yah’ and ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’.” Sealed.

FRIEDER BUTZMANN

Vertrauensmann Des Volkes

(90% Wasser) Used LP $22.00

Semi-naive electronics, piano, vocals and undefined sound sources from the early 1980s. With guests Angelika Maisch, Alexander Hacke, and Genesis P-Orridge. 2001 reissue with insert on blue vinyl. Numbered edition 314/333

TORE HONORÉ BØE

Suave Siesta

(Purple Soil - PS2004) Used CD $3.00

Part reissue of an out-of-print Jazzassin release called Siesta, part new material in the same vein (Suave) by this Origami Republika head of state. Environmental collage, field recordings, minimally processed sounds, plenty of silence, and devices referred to as "analog laptops."

C-SCHULZ / HAJSCH

C-Schulz & Hajsch

(Sonig) Used LP $5.00

Acoustic instruments, field recordings, concrete sounds in the vein of Zoviet France, Coil, and Nurse With Wound. Guests include Monika Westphal, Katinka Reinert, Jeph Jerman, Daisuke Suzuki, Sack Ziegler, Gregor Hotz, Lu Hübsch, Andrä Klauken, and Hein Bruehl.

C.C.C.C.

Cosmic Coincedence Control

(Endorphine Factory) Used CD $40.00 (Out-of-stock)

Claustrophobic and imposing noise layered with heavy fuzz and set at a fairly slow pace from 1992, reaching a wall-of-sound intensity. Edition of 500

C.C.C.C.

Loud Sounds Dopa – Live In USA

(Endorphine Factory) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

There’s something to be said, says Unborn Whiskey, about how Mayuko Hino, Hiroshi Hasegawa and crew “close-mic collapsed stars” and allow us to “travel inside these dead lights and see colors as the truest reflections possible.” Hand-numbered sample/1000.

C.C.C.C.

Love & Noise

(Endorphine Factory - EDP012) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

“The colonizing whine of the infinitely tiny and reactionary,” says [Desperation + Noise], “… the pink fire expelled by ant synapses when they connect…, brushing harsh against its similar brothers…, and screaming … to no one in particular.” From 1996.

C.L.A.W.S.

Cave In

(Discaire) Used LP $5.00

One-third of the San Francisco psych band Bronze makes the perfect soundtrack for an underground, cryogenic techno-house rave. A haunting, brooding atmosphere where impending sub-bass frequencies are matched with icy synth melodies. Packaged in custom ziplock bag with insert and Discaire logo pen. Record insert can be used to decode secret info on the label. Edition of 300

CABARET VOLTAIRE

Hai!

(Rough Trade) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded live in Tokyo in 1982. Sparse rhythms and dark, abrasive montages, loops and samples of found sounds. The material is less raw and fragmented than the band’s initial punk releases, but the rhythmic component is still central to the equation. U.S. pressing from 1982

CABARET VOLTAIRE

Johnny Yesno

(Doublevision) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Beautifully echoed, broodingly psychotic, morally compromised atmospheres that bridge the paranoid bricolage of their early records and the increasingly minimalist, dancefloor-conscious rhythms of latter era.

CABARET VOLTAIRE

Mix-Up

(Rough Trade) Used LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

Their first album, released in 1979, impressively harnesses noise, primitive rhythm box percolations, tape loops, garbled vocals, and blasts of Farfisa. Look for ugly slabs of dub with frizzling snaps of white-heat buzz, clunky percussion, and plodding basslines forming skanking, roiling rhythms. Both the bass and incidental vocals are relegated to the back of the mix as the piercing detritus takes center stage. For all the manual binning and sandblasting of rock’s elemental properties, the band makes an acid-damaged rock song like The Seeds’ “No Escape” sound even more damaged while retaining its spirit, nerve, and structure. The remainder of the album hisses and hectors in a similar fashion, tidily bundling pop-song length pieces that will do nothing for that headache of yours.

CABARET VOLTAIRE

Radiation

(Get Back ) Used LP $20.00

Mid-1980s BBC recordings from the godfathers of electro-industrial; arrangements are stripped down to a barebones, minimalist approach that is harder and funkier than the studio album cuts from three period. Includes three tracks from nowhere else in the Cabaret Voltaire discography. 2001 pressing

CABARET VOLTAIRE

The Voice Of America

(Rough Trade) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Displaying how noisy, abrasive, and unpleasant an album can be without becoming a total drag, this 1980 record has an anchor in its increased use of rhythm. Sickly demented drones of cacophony are twisted and doctored in new ways and make for compelling listening. Recordings of dive-bombing war planes may or may not be intertwined and distorted (not knowing for sure is only part of the thrill). Dubby rhythms are equally anemic in the background. Electro-surges predict comic doom behind a deep, growling voice.

CABARET VOLTAIRE

Three Crepuscule Tracks

(Rough Trade) Used 12-inch $10.00

“In transition between the found-vocals / art-noise period and a commitment to dance-floor electronics,” notes Trouser Press, “ ‘Sluggin’ fer Jesus (Part One)’ is a masterful combination of the two, as a right-wing TV preacher demands large cash contributions over a powerful, trance-inducing synth beat.” U.S. pressing from 1981

CABARET VOLTAIRE

Three Mantras

(Rough Trade) Used LP $15.00

Two sidelong pieces that expand the trio’s avant-electronic-grunge into trancier realms. The alien feeling at the core of Cabaret Voltaire remains, though, strong and strange as always. 1980 pressing

CAESURA

Wallpaper The Witness

(Birds Go South - BGS1) Used LP $8.00

This San Francisco trio’s dense, scattershot rock goes right for the jugular, a concoction of math rock, free jazz, metal, prog, and dance music flavors, expertly blended, and ready to ignite. Silkscreened jacket.

CALEXICO

Feast Of Wire

(Quarterstick) Used 2xLP $15.00

The overall feel of this 2003 LP is one of restraint and refinement. The predominance of shorter tracks inject impact into Calexico’s gorgeous, film noir / spaghetti western fusion.

CALEXICO

Hot Rail

(Quarterstick) Used LP $15.00

The Tijuana Brass already met Giant Sand and Ennio Morricone in a dark new-wave spaghetti Western and long ago decided to stick around. One of the highlights of this vivid and cinematic LP from 2000 by multi-instrumentalists John Convertino and Joey Burns is the spooky “Fade,” with its late-’70s Miles Davis feel, jazzy drums, spacy vibes, and ominous cello. Sealed

CALEXICO

The Black Light

(Quarterstick) Used LP $15.00

Deeper and richer than Spoke, Calexico’s second album expands upon the sun-baked, cinematic sound with the addition of Latin jazz rhythms, mariachi trumpets, and pedal steel. So fine is their sense of texture and atmosphere that Calexico travels into another dimension, a world where scorpions surround you as you struggle to find water among the vast desert landscape. The group moves from ballad to western standoff to instrumental without any kind of break in flow or consistency.

CALLA

Calla

(Sub Rosa - SRV156) Used LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)

Late ’90s integration of melodic structures with urban soundscapes from a strange and electric, dark and ambiguous universe — a parallel world between offbeat Texas rockabilly and soundmass of ’60s New York avant garde.

ROY CAMPBELL / DIE LIKE A DOG QUARTET

From Valley to Valley

(Eremite) Used CD $7.00

Peter Brötzmann, percussionist Hamid Drake and bassist William Parker with Campbell subbing for Toshinoro Kondo on trumpet. “From the perspective of free-style jazz, it does not get much better than this” live recording from the Fire In The Valley Festival, 1998, according to All Music Guide. “Campbell is a big plus, his clipped phrases, bold gestures, and confidant lines a welcome addition to the group sound. As to be expected, Brötzmann electrifies with never-ending torching, while Parker and Drake flow in and out with mesmerizing solidity.”

NEIL CAMPBELL

Itinerant String Section

(Freedom From) Used CDR $5.00

More minimalistic than Astral Social Club, and a bit introverted.

NEIL CAMPBELL

Sol Powr

(Music Mundane) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

A logical precursor to Astral Social Club, with its heavy focus on keyboard-driven electronic pulse flotation, originally released on LP (Lal Lal Lal 2002). This 2007 reissues also includes previously released, impossible-to-find bonus tracks “Rolling Exploding” and “Sky Full Of Love” from a lathe-cut seven-inch (Gold Soundz 2003) and “Fuzzjam / Dub,” which was available for download from TechNOH.

NEIL CAMPBELL

String Quartets, Loops, Garden Talk

([ no label ]) Used CDR $6.00

“Thirteen haunting episodes you’re not likely to forget in a hurry,” says Sound Projector. “The program alternates two strands of musical activity. There are brief, faintly hilarious pieces of speeded-up records sabotaged by Campbell’s intermittent electronic belches…, followed immediately by deeply resonant, scorching drone-fests … effected using violins, guitars and scraped percussion, all recorded in such ways as to massively distort the natural sounds and generate far too many conflicting frequencies.”

GREG CAMPBELL / NELS CLINE / WALLY SHOUP

Suite: Bittersweet

(Strange Attractors) Used LP $12.00

Incendiary playing and massively inventive improvisation recorded at Sonarchy Radio, Seattle, in 2007, shifting from break-neck free-jazz to more minimalist, esoteric fare.

ROY CAMPBELL / WILLIAM HOOKER ORCHESTRA / BOOKER T

The Colour Circle

(Cadence) Used LP $12.00

An ingenious pairing of the drummer’s structured solo method with top-notch collaborators from 1989. Though only three strong, all possess such acumen that a truly orchestral experience is delivered.

NEIL CAMPBELL / LATE / IAN MIDDLETON

Vatic Lamps

([ no label ]) Used CDR $14.00

Exquisite layered drone from three underground legends.

CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN

Telephone Free Landslide Victory

(Independent Project) Used LP $100.00

The legendary game-changing debut album that merges Eastern European folk, tropical grooves, post-punk atmospherics, country laid-back good times, and psych / garage band aesthetics. White paper innersleeve with letterpress printing. Two inserts, live show flyers from the era, and original sticker on outer bag. Numbered first edition from 1985 (#0111 of 1250) in letterpress jacket printed on chipboard cover.

CAMPFIRE SONGS

Campfire Songs

(Catsup Plate) Used CD $6.00

Though the sound is radically different from the digital processing and sound manipulation previously employed by The Animal Collective, the results are clearly of a piece with the percussive, almost incantatory feel of their earlier records. This was recorded on a screened-in porch in rural Maryland and the hum of the outdoors adds depth and presence impossible to achieve otherwise. The trio knits together threads of guitar strum and pluck; chanted, nearly wistful vocal harmonies; and often a pulsing rhythm that seems like it might break apart at any moment, and sometimes does. The melodies are simple and repetitive, recalling the early work of the Third Ear Band, ’70s German commune-music, and similar folk-psychedelic explorers. Edition of 1000 copies in handmade chipboard digipaks with offset printed decals and insert.

CAMPINGSEX

1941!

(Vinyl on Demand) Used 2xLP $70.00

Remastered reissue from 2006 of tracks from the album released by Schmockstajn in 1985, plus a side of outtakes and a side recorded live in Montreal 1985.

CAN

Delay 1968

(Restless) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded 1968/1969 at Schloss Nörvenich. With Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli, Irmin Schmidt, Malcolm Mooney.

CAN

Music (Live 1971-1977)

(Mute) Used 2xCD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

With "Jynx," "Dizzy Dizzy," "Vernal Equinox," "Fizz," "Yoo Doo Right," "Cascade Waltz," "Colchester Finale," "Kata Kong," and "Spoon." Released 1999.

CAN

Soon Over Babaluma

(Restless) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

1990 reissue. Recorded 1974. Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Michael Karoli.

CANDLESNUFFER

Candlesnuffer

(Dr Jim's - 28) Used CD $7.00

David Brown (of Dumb & The Ugly, Signals, Skeleton, Ultratune) collides musique concrete and rock with Derek Bailey-esque guitar destruction, looped guitar twangs, repetitive percussive chimes, drones, samples, doom-laden power chords and out-of-nowhere noises.

THE CAPES & MASKS

Comic Book Heroes

(Mainstream) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Spy jazz and ’60s beat tunes from 1966 mixed with sound effects. Side two contains tracks from Irving Joseph’s 1960 album Murder, Inc.

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND

Dust Sucker

(Milksafe - BF6003) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Nineteen-track collection of rare material, including twelve from Don Van Vliet’s own tape of the original Bat Chain Puller, with five live versions of Bat Chain Puller songs, a version of “Well Well Well” featuring Rockette Morton, and a live festival performance of “My Human Gets Me Blues.”

CARCASS

Reek Of Putrefaction

(Earache) Used LP $45.00 (Out-of-stock)

The late ’80s debut album that created grindcore and ushered in a whole new wave of extreme metal miles from the mainstream metal dominating the pop charts is a complete anarchic musical experience, a messy affair with lo-fi production values made all the more filthy sounding via down-tuned guitar abrasiveness, overdriven bass and frenetic drumming.

CARCASS

Symphonies Of Sickness

(Earache - MOSH18) Used LP $60.00

2002 reissue of the second cadaveric album from necropti-core fleshlords. Ten bowel-eroding tracks of super-heavy metallic devastation and decapitation. Colored vinyl. Edition of 1000. Sealed

CORNELIUS CARDEW

Thälmann Variations

(Matchless - MR10) Used LP $30.00

The side-long title track was written in 1974 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Ernst Thalmann, the Secretary General of the German Communist Party, and is based on a popular German Worker’s Movement song, incorporates music from Eisler, Charles Koechlin’s “Let’s Free Thälmann”, funeral dirges and, perhaps unintentionally, outside-the-room sounds, especially car horns. Six short pieces are on the flip: joyous march called “Bethanien Song,” which commemorates a change in plans regarding the conversion of an old hospital from an artist center to a children’s hospital; “The Red Flag,” based on the changes to “O Tanenbaum”; the lovely, quasi-minimalist piece “Soon,” based on a pamphlet of Mao’s from 1930 promising imminent revolution; and a trio of Irish songs, “Croppy Boy,” “Father Murphy” and “Four Principles on Ireland.”

CAROLINER

The Cooking Stove Beast

(Subterranean) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Released in 2008 in oversized folder with splash of red paint. Include lyrics insert.

JOHN CARPENTER / ALAN HOWARTH

Escape From New York

(Dagored) Used LP $22.00

On the appropriately futuristic soundtrack to this 1981 film, director and composer John Carpenter and sound designer Alan Howarth favor simple, repetitive keyboard figures played on synthesizer, generally two per sequence, set in a fast-slow counterpoint. They borrow from Debussy and an ersatz show tune written by Nick Castle shows up, but most of the music sounds like earlier Carpenter scores — tense, ominous. 2000 pressing includes six pieces previously unreleased. With poster.

CHRISTINA CARTER

Bastard Wing

(Eclipse - ECL018) Used LP $10.00

Piano, electric guitar, voice and bells from 2003 by one half of Charalambides. Edition of 250

TOM CARTER / SCORCES

Beats For The Beast

(Free Porcupine Society) Used Split CD $5.00

All three members of Charalambides take a moment in 2004 to pursue passionate, simple beauty. The title track by Tom Carter is a “30-minute psychedelic dustbowl of slide guitar meanderings…, lush and impressive…,” explains Tiny Mix Tapes. Christina Carter and Heather Leigh Murray add textures and “touches of vocals to their mind-expanding cuatro.” Packaged in a silk-screened tri-fold sleeve with handmade obi.

CHRISTINA CARTER

Electrice

(Wholly Other) Used LP $8.00

“Long lines of sound that waver brightly and dissolve utterly” from 2007 by a Charalambide. “Carter layers her digitized wails one on top of the other, and serpentine mixing intertwines the vocals with the guitar(s), which themselves seem to be bouncing off mirrors.” Numbered edition 112/500

CHRISTINA CARTER / LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS

Meditations on the Ascension of Blind Joe Death Vol One

(Ecstatic Yod) Used LP $35.00

Somber and shadowy guitar and piano duets

DANIEL CARTER / TALIBAM!

New Nixon Tapes

(Roaratorio - ROAR16) Used 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. Sealed

RON CARTER

Piccolo

(Milestone / Universe - M-55004) Used 2xLP $10.00

Recorded 1977 at Sweet Basil in New York City with Kenny Barron on piano, Buster Williams on bass, Ben Riley drums and, of course, Carter on piccolo bass.

TOM CARTER

Root King

(Eclipse) Used LP $5.00

All of side one is “Lighthouse,” a slow, shimmering glissando of gonging bells and elongated swells of feedback, a glacial yet effervescent guitar piece. The second side offers more elusive notes and flowing, held tones that constantly waver between a vague throat / tonal source.

TOM CARTER

The Dance From Which All Dances Come

(Wholly Other) Used LP $8.00

Galactic guitar ooze from 2009. Silkscreened cover.

KIM CASCONE

The Knotted Constellation (Fourteen Rotted Coordinates)

(Monotype - MONO039) CD $12.75

(Monotype - MONO039) Used CD $10.00

Field recordings from around the world, surreal collage techniques and synthetic sounds derived from digital audio tools. With contributions by C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core), Lithuanian sound artist Darius Ciuta and Berlin-based circuit bender Guido Henneböhl, among others.

JOHNNY CASH / THE TENNESSEE TWO

Get Rhythm

(Get Back ) Used LP $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Eleven tracks recorded between 1955 and 1958, but not released until 1969, featuring Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant. 2002 reissue on 180-gram vinyl

JOHNNY CASH

I Walk The Line

(Topline) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Reissue of classic Sun-era tracks “I Walk The Line,” “Doggone Lonesome,” “Big River,” and “Luther’s Boogie,” and others.

JOHNNY CASH

Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams

(Get Back ) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

2002 reissue of 1960 covers of “I Can't Help It,” “You Win Again,” “Hey Good Lookin’,” and “I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You,” as well as originals “Folsom Prison Blues,” “I Walk The Line,” and more. 180-gram vinyl.

JOHNNY CASH

Now Here’s Johnny Cash

(Get Back ) Used LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Twelve Sun tracks from 1961, showing off Cash’s deep, resonant baritone and spare, percussive guitar. 2002 reissue on 180-gram vinyl.

JOHNNY CASH

Original Sun Sound

(Get Back ) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Twelve tracks from 1965, including “Belshazzar,” “Born To Lose,” “Two Timing Woman,” and “Big River.” 2002 reissue on 180-gram vinyl.

JOHNNY CASH / THE TENNESSEE TWO

Story Songs Of The Trains And Rivers

(Get Back ) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Late ’50s tracks originally released in 1969 on Sun. Includes “Hey Porter” and ten other gems with Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant. 2002 reissue on 180-gram vinyl.

JOHNNY CASH

With His Hot And Blue Guitar

(Get Back ) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

2002 reissue of his debut studio album from 1957. Includes “Cry, Cry, Cry,” “So Doggone Lonesome,” “I Walk The Line,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” and eight others. 180-gram vinyl

CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE

Graceland

(Rococo) Used 7-inch $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Owen Ashworth turns Paul Simon’s buoyant travelogue into a painfully lonely journey from one dark bedroom corner to another with a delightfully mopey cover. Includes Xiu Xiu remix of “Casiotone for the Painfully Alone in a Yellow Shirt” and the B-side “Sunday Street.”

CASUAL APPROACH

Acid Rock Noise Cowboys... Just Playing The Blues

(Psychedelic Farm) Used CD $5.00

“This five-piece includes current and former members of notable bands from the local fringe,” notes Pittsburgh City Paper. “Macronympha, Young Men’s Department, Motorpsychos, Lord Bird Golden Cobra…. [These] … lo-fi studio and live recordings made in 2009 [challenge] notions of rock music while keeping within the basic idiom and instrumentation of a psych-rock band…. Mostly extended, aggressive guitar jams.”

PATRIC CATANI / CHRIS IMLER

Lemniscate

(Sonig) Used CD $10.00

In 2008, following Jorinde Voigt’s concepts, composers Patric Catani and Chris Imler, developed the “lazy 8” of the infinity motif at Watermill-Center, NYC, a laboratory for performance, in the form of an acoustic “cluster.” The looped composition, formed of sixteen chapters, snakes around seven points realized using a multi-channel arrangement of six loudspeakers and thus describes the shape of a lemniscate through pure sound.

CATHODE TERROR SECRETION

Spectre Of Historys Design

(RRRecords - RRRCTS) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)

(RRRecords - RRRCTS) Used LP $5.00

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

CAUDAL

Forever In Another World

(Oaken Palace - OAK002) Used LP $12.00

Aidan Baker (Nadja, Whisper Room, ARC) spreads multi-layered, heavily affected guitar across the propulsive rhythms of bassist Gareth Sweeney (Gout) and drummer Felipe Salazar (Muerte En Pereira). Equally influenced by krautrock, post-punk, and spacerock. Edition of 500, 180g vinyl. Free download code.

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS

The First Born Is Dead

(Homestead) Used LP $22.00

Ghostly minimalist blues from 1985 in a nightmarish, almost apocalyptic swamp.

NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS

Tupelo

(Homestead) Used 12-inch $22.00

The opening track from The First Born Is Dead, plus “In The Ghetto,” “The Moon Is In The Gutter” and a drastic overhaul of Birthday Party live staple “The Six Strings That Drew Blood.”

MONTE CAZAZZA / MAYUKO HINO / MASON JONES / ELDEN M.

Chaos Of The Night – Live At KFJC

(Endorphine Factory - EDP010) Used CD $20.00

Massive 1994 noise jam with C.C.C.C.’s Hino playing a metal sheet, Cazazza on bass, Allegory Chapel’s Elden M. on sampler, and Jones on electric guitar. Huge, bass-cabinet-shredding eruptions. A deep noise battle loud and sublime. Sealed.

EUGENE CHADBOURNE

Country Music Of Southeastern Australia

(RRRecords) Used LP $13.00 (Out-of-stock)

Noisy free improv meets country & western from the mid-’80s, recorded in trademark ultra-lo-fi fashion. Covers of Willie Nelson, Duke Ellington.

EUGENE CHADBOURNE

LSD C&W: The History of the Chadbournes

(Fundamental) Used 2xLP $13.00

Recorded in studio for the most part with Tom Cora, David Licht, and Michael Kramer forming the core of the band with hotshots and ringers like John Zorn filling in the gaps, LSD C&W includes a hefty Beatles medley, a couple Hendrix songs, a tune by Albert Ayler. Roger Miller, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash also pass through Chadbourne’s grinder. Anarchic guitar solos, weird tape editing, excited tempos, fantastic cello playing from Cora, and a special kind of humor you get whenever you try to attach the words “avant” and “Western.”

ANDREW CHALK / ERIC LANZILLOTTA / RALF WEHOWSKY

Yang-Tul

(Anomalous) Used LP $22.00

An hypnotic, slowly-evolving drone from 1998 by the Mirror / Ora / Ferial Confine mastermind reworking materials by the P16.D4-nicator into waves of mysterious sounds, static and glitches, backed with the latter’s frenzied journey into otherworldly realms using sound material from the former and the dude from the label. Subtle, full of detail. First pressing, on blue vinyl

JAMES CHANCE AND THE CONTORTIONS

Live In New York

(Danceteria) Used 2xLP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Brutal yet danceable French reissue from 1991 of a live cassette (ROIR 1981), a timeless attack that combines screeching alto sax and vocal rants with a relentless disco beat. Ornette Coleman, Ronald Shannon Jackson, guitarist Bern Nix, trombonist Joseph Bowie and background vocals by the Discolitas provide the sleazy stage pageantry Chance champions. Perfectly hazy sound quality. Covers include “That Old Black Magic” and two by James Brown, “I Got You” and “King Heroin.”

CHAOS AS SHELTER / IGOR KRUTOGOLOV / TIDAL

Ingathering of Exiles

(Groundfault) Used CD $3.00

Collaboration from 2003 by David Brownstead of 666 Volt Battery Noise, Vadim Gusis (composer of soundscapes, neo-folk, and ambient drones), and experimental multi-instrumentalist Krutogolov. Sealed

CHARALAMBIDES

Ana / Kata

(Beta Lactam Ring) Used 10-inch $10.00

Two long tracks from 2002 that trade in the currency of stratosphere, sounding like distant decayed echoes of supernovas. “Ana” rings out with phased vocals that dance within quartertones of each other, an extended intro to spacious guitar double helixes swimming through plasma. On the flip, “Kata” resembles lost soundtrack material to a Maya Deren film. Numbered edition of 500

CHARALAMBIDES

IN CR EA SE

(Eclipse) Used 2xLP $15.00

Tom and Christina Carter’s four side-long excavations of the auditory plane from 2001, defined by interweaving threads of lap steel and chord organ, swept by intermittent currents of breath-born voice and serene modalities cycled upward into towering microtonal dissonance, and then flung down into corners of dark intimacy. Sealed

CHARALAMBIDES

Internal Eternal

(Wholly Other) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Subtle psychedelia imbued with reverberating guitar echoes and luscious drones, recorded on Christmas Eve 1995,” explains Brainwashed. “Faint voices can be heard in the background…, and subtle atmospherics lend to the album a haunting, hollow quality. What is new, however, is the Arabic feel…, as if you are standing in a deserted casbah, only to hear the music of the desert and the departed wash in over the distant dunes.”

CHARALAMBIDES

Joy Shapes

(Kranky) Used 2xLP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Five extended tracks that atomize and absorb blues, psychedelia, gospel, improv, folk, and more by Tom Carter (electric guitar, lap steel guitar, acoustic guitar, chimes, wind wand), Christina Carter (electric guitar, voice, bells), and Heather Leigh Murray (pedal steel guitar, psaltery, voice).

CHARALAMBIDES

Market Square

(Siltbreeze) Used 2xLP $40.00

This lumbering beast from 1995 begins with a harrowing message left on the Carters’ answering machine from a guy threatening to kill himself if someone didn’t pick up the phone. There are some gentle moments here too, but overall it’s an emotionally draining, uneasy, and frightening ninety.

CHARALAMBIDES

Our Bed Is Green

(Time Lag) Used 2xLP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Originally released on cassette in 1992 and later reissued on CD by Wholly Other label, Charalambides’ debut roped folk, improvisation, psychedelia, blues and gospel into a crackling sound world unlike any other.

CHARALAMBIDES

Rose / Thong

(Klang Industries) Used LP $8.00

A stark, unsettling and beautiful slice of invocation / incantation, recorded in 2000, featuring extraordinary chord organ and vocals from Christina Carter, and signature lap steel mastery from Tom Carter. Horizontally serene and horizonless.

CHARALAMBIDES / SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

Songs From The Entopic Garden Volume Two

(Time Lag) Used LP $22.00

Ben Chasny’s stunning “Resurrection,” backed with the Carters’ and the Murray’s trance-y, blissful “Second Rehearsal.” A real psychedelic phenomena from 2001. 180gm vinyl, letter-pressed jacket, insert. Numbered edition of 800.

CHARALAMBIDES

Three-Lane Blacktop

(Two-Lane Blacktop) Used LP $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

One side from the Cooler, NYC, at the 1995 CMJ fest (with swirling vox sound courtesy Kurt Wolf), backed with the 1994 Siltbreeze Festival set at the Khyber Pass in Philly. All live freak-rock tracks from Market Square and Strangle The Wretched Heavens, heavy on analog atmosphere and ecstatic, blown-out gtr-vox interconnectivity. Stickered cover, insert. Edition of 500

CHARALAMBIDES

Union

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $50.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tom and Christina Carter’s 1995 debut album opens with “Florian” — 11+ minutes of “shimmering, gentle waves of distorted guitar that warrants use of the word ‘transcendent’. A brief reprise of the same song completes this Union. In between you’ll find original indie-folk perfect for watching dust motes drifting across a sunny room, curtains curling near an open window, the cat licking its paws. Time doesn’t so much stand still as it ceases to be relevant while the tone arm eases its way across this lovely artifact.” Jacket is silkscreened, hand-painted, and has a paste-on photo.

XAVIER CHARLES / KRISTOFF K. ROLL

La Pièce

(Potlatch) Used CD $8.00

Dynamic headphone music from 1999 by French electroacoustic duo and clarinetist who can get it on via noise electroacoustics or sound poetry. See-sawing violin sample glides through a quiet storm of bowed cymbals, tiny skittering sounds and gestural clarinet that generally offers up timbres rather than melodic lines.

DENNIS CHARLES / MARCO ENEIDI / WILLIAM PARKER

Vermont Spring

(Botticelli) Used LP $40.00

Dixon-influenced free jazz from the mid-1980s. Covers of “Sorry… Ballada” by Jimmy Lyons and Ornette Coleman’s “Broken Shadows,” plus the traditionals “Stand Back” and “Rise Up.” Original 1986 pressing

DENNIS CHARLES / JEMEEL MOONDOC

We Don’t

(Eremite) Used CD $10.00

“Moondoc is in powerhouse form” on this 2003 disc, notes Cadence, “Blowing hard but in control and shaping his sound even when playing free. The late Charles shows that he belongs in the pantheon of great modern drummers right beside Cyrille, Murray, Jones, Blackwell, and Shannon Jackson. The patterns he uses to set off Moondoc’s hellacious blasts and create a perpetual undercurrent of rhythm are remarkable…. This is exquisite stuff from two masters and very highly recommended.” Clipped corner.

BEN CHASNY / CHRIS CORSANO / PAUL METZGER

Chris Corsano & Ben Chasny / Paul Metzger

(Roaratorio) Used Split LP $15.00

“On guitar modified with music box innards and an accompanying tambura, Metzger dives deep into the raga heart of a moonlit day and returns with the jewels. On the flip, Corsano’s drums and Chasny’s guitar chatter and clatter with jittery hyper-articulation, worrying the meat off the bone in short sharp strokes.” Silkscreened poplar wood covers. Edition of 766

RHYS CHATHAM

Piano Music (Echo Solo)

(Azoth Schallplatten Gesellschaft) Used LP $10.00

Slightly atonal, minimalist piano tinkering from 2003, commissioned by the Robert Kovich Dance Company. Rather similar to Arnold Schoenberg and remarkably free of echo, considering the title.

RHYS CHATHAM

Rêve Parisien

(Primary Information) Used LP $13.00

Four 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.

PROF DEBU CHAUDHURI

Raga Desh

(India Archive Music) Used CD $5.00

Accompanied by Shafaat Ahmed Khan on table, Chaudhuri brings the “sweet, singing, ringing tone” of his Jaipur-Senia sitar-playing to this raga (Alap and Jor / vilambit and drut gasts in tintal) associated with the monsoon season, reflecting the joyful spirits as the rains bring relief from the hot, dry summer.

CHEFKIRK / CRANK STURGEON

Nice To Err With You

(Love Earth Music) Used 2xCDR $10.00

“Rhythmic mayhem layered and punctuated with electronics and mutilated sounds from objects and voice by aberrant sound artists Roger Smith and Matt Anderson, with beats that feign steadiness but derail in amusing and embraceable ways.”

DON CHERRY

Orient

(Affinity) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Two 1971 live trio sets—one recorded August 11th in Carpentras, France with Han Bennink and Mocqui Cherry, the other recorded April 22nd with Jonnhy Dyani and Okay Temiz.

DON CHERRY / JOHN COLTRANE

The Avant-Garde

(Rhino) Used LP $12.00

Coltrane’s debut studio recording on soprano sax on one track (“The Blessing”) recorded during the summer of 1960 and then shelved for nearly six years. With Ed Blackwell (drums), Charlie Haden (bass), Percy Heath (bass). Neither Cherry nor Coltrane make radical departures on this album but their ability to complement the other both in terms of modal style and texture lends the album its success. 2003 reissue. Mono. Sealed

THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS

The Cherry Blossoms

(Apostasy) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

A 2005 mind-bender from Nashville’s number one clatter-folk band that “sounds like a combination of Harry Smith and Sun Ra.”

THE CHERRY POINT

Black Witchery

(Troniks - TRO223) Used CD $5.00

The dark spell has been cast with this murky potion of macabre frequencies, derelict moans, satanic power and the hideous stench of occult slaughter. Reissues tracks previously released on three-inch CDRs by Chondritic Sound, Fargone Records, and Audiobot.

THE CHERRY POINT / PRIVY SEALS

Casual Sex

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $28.00

Subterranean scorch collaboration from 1996 by Phil Blankenship and Matthew Sullivan. Paste-on photocopy jacket.

THE CHERRY POINT / HOWARD STELZER

Untitled

(Troniks) Used LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The duo’s second collaboration uses source sounds by Blankenship, a full-on 100-mph fury carefully atomized and reassembled by Stelzer, who leaves plenty of empty space, a nuclear device draped in lovely gauze. Edition of 161 copies. Paste-on jacket.

CHEVEU

Cheveu

(S-S Records) Used LP $12.00

2008 glue wave that’s equally classic garage and free / experimental. All songs are home-recorded, superimposing live and not-live takes, creating a kind of real / old / current feeling. White vinyl

CHILD ABUSE

Child Abuse

(Rococo) Used LP $12.00

Heavy, machine-gun spurts of atonal tech-metal combined with confusing, off-time blurps and murps, Residents-style hump-funk, aspects of wildly enthusiastic children’s music, growls and howls of 1973 mud improvisations. The spirits of Drumbo and Carl Nielson hover ominously overhead. Sealed

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

Alone Together

(Sacred Bones) Used LP $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

The Seattle duo hovers between abstract soundscape compositions, Jandek-inspired bouts of melancholy droned-out dementia, and stripped-apart abrasive punk. Silkscreened jacket.

CHILDREN’S TELEVISION WORKSHOP

Polyamorous Love Cult

(Drunken Fish) Used LP $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Gavin Shaw of New Zealand’s Sferic Experiment cooks up a dirty spoonful of fuzz and coughs out his first solo LP in the mid-’90s. Cover is a nice folded paper sleeve.

ALEX CHILTON

Like Flies On Sherbert / Live In London

(Earmark) Used 2xLP $60.00

2003 reissue of the controversial 1980 album, considered by some fans an anarchic mess and a collapse of a major talent, while others loved it for its chaotic rock’n’roll wreckage. Bonus platter was recorded at Dingwalls, May 28, 1980.

ALEX CHILTON

Lost Decade

(Fan Club) Used 2xLP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

1970s recordings made as both solo performer and producer. The Artist half features the brilliantly sloppy “Bangkok” / “Can't Seem to Make You Mine” single, outtakes from the chaotic Bach’s Bottom period, and four songs from a post-Box Tops, pre-Big Star session. The Producer portion features rare Chilton-produced recordings, including Grady Whitebread’s “Bus Trip” and an entire side by Scott Adams. 1986 pressing

CHOP SHOP

Chop Shop Plays Emil Beaulieau — Red And Buried

(Pure) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Fourteen untitled tracks from 1995, pure industrial noise.

CHRISTINE 23 ONNA

Shiny Crystal Planet

(Alchemy - ARCD119) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

A fusion of the psychedelic phrasing of Angel’in Heavy Syrup guitarist Fusao Toda and the spacey electronics of Masonna’s Maso Yamazaki, pumped full of pop fashion sense, the perfect soundtrack for an astro-modernist go-go lounge.

CHRISTINE 23 ONNA

Space Age Bachelor Pad Psychedelic Music

(Insignificant) Used LP $19.82

Free psychedelics both subdued and brutal from 1996 by Yamazaki Maso (Masona, Space Machine) and Toda Fusao (Angel’in Heavy Syrup). A perfect marriage of the former’s affiliation with noise and trippy krautrock electronics and the latter’s slightly primitive guitar twang and fuzz. Pink vinyl. Cover is two separate sheets.

CHRISTMAS

In Excelsior Dayglo

(Bigtime) Used LP $6.00

Neo-psychedelic pop from the late 1980s by folks who went on to form Combustible Edison. Original version with green labels. Includes 11x22 lyrics sheet.

CHRISTMAS

Stupid Kids

(IRS) Used 12-inch $2.00

The 1988 hit from Ultraprophets Of Thee Psykick Revolution backed with a non-LP cover of Kate Bush’s “Ring my Bell.”

CHRISTMAS

Ultra Prophets Ov Thee Psykick Revolution

(IRS) Used LP $4.00

Crisp and artful postpunk with pop hooks aplenty from 1989, sonically slotting in somewhere between latter-era X and the B-52s. Cut corner, with price tag sticker

CHRISTOPHER / VAS DEFERENS ORGANIZATION

Suspension

(Beta Lactam Ring) Used LP $15.00

1997 collaboration by Matt Castille and Eric Lumbleau with Christopher Moock (their second). Psychedelia-from-hell, krautrock studio manipulation, freakily pitched drones, Suspiria witch screams, bubbly acoustic guitar and whatever seems handy in derailing detached meditation.

CHRISTUS AND THE COSMONAUGHTS

The Four Whore’s Men

(Beta Lactam Ring) Used LP $7.00

The minimal synth electro-alchemy here transubstantiates into wandering electronic sub-sects. Unbelievable and sparkling sounds hewn from the spheres themselves. With inserts. 220-gram vinyl. Signed and numbered edition 84/200

LUCIANO CILIO

Dell’Universo Assente

(Die Schachtel) Used 2xLP $60.00

This all-acoustic music occupies a space between the devotional music of Florian Fricke and the deep spiritual places of what would later be called holy minimalism (minus religious intent), with a surprising anticipation of the crystalline sparseness of pieces like Arvo Pärt’s “Fur Alina,” and the feeling of intense suspension of time associated to some of the most intimate compositions of Ligeti or Feldman, yet maintaining a definite position outside the contemporary music of serial and academic inspiration. 2013 reissue with inserts. Edition of 500. Corners have minor dings, one is pretty noticeable. Feel free to request a picture.

CIRCLE

Meronia

(Bad Vugum) Used 2xLP $130.00

Finnish krautrock from 1994. Includes non-CD bonus track “Low-Pursed” and Bad Vugum catalog insert

CIRCUIT DES YEUX

Sirenum

(Destijl - IND070) Used LP $12.00

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.

CIRCUIT WOUND

Density And Assimiliation

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $7.00

Classic American harsh noise by Jay Howard. Paste-on photocopy jacket. Edition of 111.

CITAY / CLOUDLAND CANYON

Cloudland Canyon / Citay

(Intercoastal Artists) Used Split 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Cloudland Canyon pushes Galaxie 500’s “Temperature’s Rising” further out, out, out into outer space, while Citay does a stripped down cover of G500’s pop masterpiece “Tugboat.” Hand-stamped, numbered edition of 300

CLAIR OBSCUR

Collection of Isolated Tracks 81-84

(Vinyl on Demand - VOD41) Used 2xLP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

The ultimate compilation with rare, unreleased materials and demos of early work by French goth legends. #550/600

CLARINETTE

Haze

(Ecstatic Peace - E!#60) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Heavily attacked articulations that burst forth and leave trails of echoes behind them” from 2002, says Dusted, with “tinny, scratchy atonal guitar scribbles… clouds of guitar tremolo… [and] distant-sounding drum loops.”

ERIC CLARK / KEENAN LAWLER / PELT

Keyhole

(Eclipse - ECL006) Used LP $15.00

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.

ERIC CLARK / KEENAN LAWLER / PELT

Keyhole II

(Eclipse) Used 2xLP $20.00

Their beautiful and memorable follow-up from 2001

GENE CLARK

With The Gosdin Brothers

(Sundazed) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

2000 reissue of the influential 1967 debut country rock album from the former Byrd with help from Chris Hillman, Michael Clarke, Clarence White, Glen Campbell, Jerry Cole, Leon Russell, and Van Dyke Parks. Liner notes by Sid Griffin. 180-gram vinyl

CARLFRIEDRICH CLAUS / HARTMUT GEERKEN

Einem Luftigen Akustischen Kosmos Entgegen

(Rumpsti Pumpsti) Used CD $8.00

Recorded in the Lyrik-Kabinett München, June 1991. Both artists prepared a 60-minute tape and a detailed composition for live-presented sound poetry and speech operations that were unknown to each other. In addition, they left room for improvisation and the use of small percussion instruments (chinkas).

CLAY RENDERING

Waters Above The Firmament

(Hospital) Used LP $10.00

This second EP from Mike and Tara Connelly recalls everything from Cocteau Twins and The Cranes at their most desolate to classic Sonic Youth, colored and mis-shaped through abstract production. Sealed

JIMMY CLIFF

Jimmy Cliff

(Earmark) Used LP $12.00

2003 reissue of Cliff’s 1969 classic, including “Vietnam” (which Bob Dylan famously called the best protest song he had ever heard), and “Wonderful World, Beautiful People.” All-analog mastering from the original tapes. 180-gram vinyl

CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS

Dream Cut Short In The Mysterious Clouds

(Anomalous - FBT006) LP $25.00

(Anomalous - FBT006) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Subtly manipulated tones, instruments, static, ethereal vocals, lush drones, field recordings and five-second punk wipeouts from 2000. Edition of 500

CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS

Highly Bred and Sweetly Tempered

(North East Indie) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

“The band’s fifth album is baked from simple, sparingly implemented ingredients sometimes spiked with challenging timbres and, on occasion, indebted to the ramshackle sound of ancient acoustic blues,” says Pitchfork. “That scraped, crackly, hazy feel is appropriate for a band whose website sells cassettes recorded from dusty 78s on their hand-cranked 1924 Victrola and also made a name for themselves in sound installations and soundtracks. Those same 78s — field recordings, audio letters to loved ones and heirs, dramatic readings and the like — pop up on several of these songs, speaking out of the ether like wandering souls.” From 2004

CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS

Lovely Drone

(Gravelvoice) Used CDR $40.00 (Out-of-stock)

Quiet and cyclical music from 1998, a surreal lo-fi collage of drones, electronic noise, voices, and field recordings. Night Night Series Volume 1.

NELS CLINE / JEREMY DRAKE

Banning + Center

(Experimental Music Research) Used CD $8.00

“Recorded live at Line Space Line in Los Angeles in January 2005, Banning + Center employs treatments, effects, distortions, and an ever-present sense of structure, purpose, and articulation. The dominant sound is abrasive, and during occasional passages of quiet reflection, a howl of feedback or over-amped chording is never far away, giving the entire album an unpredictability that makes it edge-of-the-seat listening.”

CLOCKCLEANER

Nevermind

(Fan Death) Used LP $8.00

Written while singer / guitarist John Sharkey was suffering from a weeks-long case of bilateral amnesia, Nevermind is darkly humorous, acidic, misanthropic noise-rock spew. Includes a free download coupon.

CLONE DEFECTS

Shapes Of Venus

(In The Red) Used LP $35.00

Foul-mouthed, dirty, alcohol-fueled aggression from 2003 that rightfully blasts out of the hi-fi at a pill party. Lead by wildman-about-town Tim Vulgar, the band mixes glam rock, Killed-By-Death-style punk, and natural born Midwest insanity. Some bands go out of their way to act weird, wild and fucked up, whereas the Clone Defects can’t help it. This is the real article. Clear vinyl.

CHUCK CLOSE

Philip Glass / Whitney Biennial T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $75.00

Gap 100% cotton. White with black flocking on front. From 2008.

CLOUDLAND CANYON

Lie In Light

(Kranky - 117) Used CD $5.00

(Kranky - 117) Used LP $10.00

Kip Uhlhorn and Kelly Winkler add flourishes of baroque pop to their 1970s German underground sound, and also a tinge of ’80s New Zealand. Locked down grooves, dense buzzes, pastoral psych and gentle washes from 2008.

THE CLOVEN HOOF

Volume III, No. 1, Jan VI, Anno Satanus

(Church of Satan) Used magazine $66.60 (Out-of-stock)

Announcements about books and films, letters to the editor, a roster of members, and essays (“Offensive Defense for Satantists” by Anton LaVey, “Aleister Crowley in Theory and Practice,” Joe Ferrante’s “Curse the Christian Church,” and “Communications and Attitude in Lesser Magic” by G. Byron Driscoll. Original mimeograph from 1971, stapled in upper left corner. Some small tears. 20pp.

CLUB FOOT ORCHESTRA

Metropolis

(Heyday) Used CD $5.00

Recorded live at Castro Theater in 1991 as part of the Smithsonian Institute’s Exhibit of Degenerate Art, Club Foot scores Fritz Lang’s 1926 film about a technological future where workers toil with mind-numbing devotion to their machinery while the privileged few pursue their pleasures in palaces built in the sky. Compositions by Richard Marriott, Steve Kirk, Beth Custer, Sheldon Brown, Nik Phelps and Myles Boisen draw inspiration from Stravinsky, imperatives of West African folk idioms, swing, jazz, rock, blues and modernist atonality.

COELACANTH

Glass Sponge

(23five) Used CD $12.00

The textural flutters, squeaks, and mobile scrabblings of Loren Chasse (Jewelled Antler Collective, Thuja) and corrosion aficionado Jim Haynes bring minimalism back from the dead. Bell tones, ghostly feedback, and tuning fork resonations all spiral together into translucent drones.

COELACANTH

Mud Wall

(Helen Scarsdale) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Audio speleologists Loren Chasse (Jewelled Antler, Thuja, Blithe Sons, Franciscan Hobbies) and Jim Haynes (The Wire) collaborate on their third album of “broken minimalism,” an exploration of sound possibilities originating from traditionally non-musical materials (copper, stone, glass, sand, shortwave radio, rust, wind, water and mud). Sifting through viscous electrical fields, slumbering vibrations, and aerosolized pricklings, the duo invokes an aggregate of sustained harmonics, continuously evolving sound forms, and broad gestures of textural details. Monumental physicality somewhere between the quiet expressionism of recent AMM and John Duncan’s psychological inquiries.

COFFEE

Destination Moon

(Blackjack) Used LP $10.00

First full-blown piece of vinyl from New York’s purveyors of clatter and jazz scramble from 1996. Paste-on cover art by Shadow Ring’s Graham Lambkin.

COFFEE

One-Armed One-Man Band

(Giardia) Used LP $5.00

Incredible free jazz howlings from 1997 recorded live. Paste-on jacket.

PHILIP COHRAN AND THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE

Malcolm X Memorial (A Tribute In Music)

(Mississippi) Used LP $79.74

“His life chronicled in four movements through avant-jazz and blues and improv-tinged free-bop. From the innocence of ‘Malcolm Little’ to the tension in ‘El Hajj Malik El Shabazz,’ Cohran’s ensemble carries and transports the listener, even though this trip is a half century in our past. Highest recommendation for reflective sonic escapes.” 2008 reissue of 1968 LP

PHILIP COHRAN AND THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE

Philip Cohran and The Artistic Heritage Ensemble

(Aestuarium) Used LP $125.00

The Artistic Heritage Ensemble’s sound largely centers around melodies from Cohran’s signature frankiphone or “space harp,” an amplified African thumb piano, which made its debut on Sun Ra’s Angels and Demons at Play. “On the Beach” in particular sounds like a deep, meditative counterpart to Ra’s “Tiny Pyramids.” 2006 reissue. Sealed

COIL

Anal Staircase

(Relativity) Used 12-inch $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Promotional edition from 1987. Rico Conning’s Dionysian remix of the title track, backed with “Blood From The Air” and “Ravenous.”

COIL

Astral Disaster

(Threshold House) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Rebuilt and re-made reissue from 2015 of Coil’s limited-edition subscription-only Prescription album from 1999. Esoteric and mystical themes with a strong folk influence transfigured through industrial and electronic means. Gray vinyl

COIL

Horse Rotorvator

(Force & Form) Used LP $60.00 (Out-of-stock)

Coil’s second full album continues their “refinement of brute noise and creepily serene arrangements into a truly modern psychedelia, from tribal drumming and death march guitars to disturbing marching band samples and back,” observes Ned Raggett. “John Balance shares the … haggard, mystic vocal delivery [of] fellow explorers of the edge like David Tibet and Edward Ka-Spel, but [with] his own blasted and burnt touch.” Dave Pinella concurs, “The album is full of the excesses of Roman times…, sex, horns, drugs and death. Aside from the military motif, the album also brings to the forefront the music’s homoeroticism…. ‘Ostia (The Death Of Pasolini)’ is the album’s centerpiece, with soothing insect-like percussion and strings over a plaintive vocal by Balance.” With insert.

COIL

Love's Secret Domain

(Wax Trax) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Coil’s most dance-oriented and accessible release, weaving together acid house, lounge, flamenco, and didgeridoo rhythms. Corner of book is clipped.

COIL

Musick To Play In The Dark - Vol 2

(Chalice) Used 2xLP $150.00 (Out-of-stock)

Three sides of moon music (and one etching) by the trio of Balance, Sleazy and Thighpaulsandra, with additional vocals by frequent collaborator Rose McDowall. Swooshes of air, deadpan recital, bass throb, melancholy-drenched piano, unsettling digital-glitch-and-too-cute-synth melody mixes, eerie declarations, creaky interludes, angelic singing, strange tongues — bizarre, beautiful, spiritual, tidal, suicidal. Second edition on white vinyl, number 111 of 300. Upper right corner of jacket has noticeable crease; vinyl is near mint.

COIL

Panic

(Wax Trax) Used 12-inch $10.00

Three tracks from Scatology: a re-arranged version of “Panic” with Jim Thirwell on sampling and programming; a truncated “Aqua Regis,” and a cover of the Gloria Jones and Soft Cell classic. From 1985.

COIL

Presents Black Light District - A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room

(Eskaton) Used LP $175.00

Not technically an album by Coil proper, but by their mid-’90s alter ego Black Light District, specializing in drone-based music. Clear vinyl, number 2452 in an edition of 2000

COIL / ZOS KIA

Transparent

(Eskaton) Used LP $100.00

The one and only recording by John Gosling (Mekons), John Balance (Coil), Min, and guest Sleazy from Throbbing Gristle, recorded live at Berlin Atonal Festival 1983, backed with the first recordings by Coil, in harsh industrial noise / performance art mode. Originally released on the Austrian label Nekrophile. Clear vinyl from 1998.

COIL

Windowpane

(Threshold House) Used 12-inch $20.00

Rose McDowell adds backing vocals to the truncated version of a track from Love’s Secret Domain, while the flip has the instrumental Astral Paddington remix. Black vinyl from 1990

RANDALL COLBOURNE / PAUL FLAHERTY / MIKE MURRAY / STEPHEN SCHOLZ

Cydonia

(Tulpa) Used LP $20.00

Free jazz from 1993

RANDALL COLBOURNE / PAUL FLAHERTY

Endangered Species

(Cadence) Used LP $14.97

Tightly wound, hallucinogenic and intricate free jazz from 1989

RANDALL COLBOURNE / PAUL FLAHERTY / STEPHEN SCHOLZ

Impact

(Cadence) Used LP $18.00

Free Jazz from 1990. Sealed

RANDALL COLBOURNE / PAUL FLAHERTY

Ottowa

(Zaabway - 2006) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

After a decade of intensive, near-telepathic interplay and wide ranging expressive armory, on this live recording from 1991 at Art Court in Canada, “Flaherty’s alto warbles like an Evan Parker, preaches like an Ayler, or croons like a subdued Sanders, while Colbourne remains … sensitive and creative.”

RANDALL COLBOURNE / RICHARD DOWNS / PAUL FLAHERTY

Primal Burn

(Tulpa) Used LP $8.00

Agitated, freaky free jazz from 1991.

RANDALL COLBOURNE / PAUL FLAHERTY

Razor Blue

(Tulpa) Used LP $15.00

Paint-peeling free jazz from 1993.

RANDALL COLBOURNE / PAUL FLAHERTY

Ringtaw

(Zaabway - 2004) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Almost big-band scale free-jazz conceptions,” concludes Volcanic Tongue, “From a sextet led by these legendary drums/sax shooters and featuring James ‘Chumly' Hunt on trumpet and plastic castanets, Matt Moran on vibes and percussion, Mike Murray on guitar and long-term collaborator Richard Downs on bass. A pretty singular installment in this on-going saga, with the music existing in some kind of flux between all-valves-exploding high-energy gush and slightly more elaborately conceived big band geometries. A beauty, for sure."

RANDALL COLBOURNE / RICHARD DOWNS / PAUL FLAHERTY / STEPHEN SCHOLZ

The Fourth Way

(Tulpa) Used LP $25.00

Free jazz from 1992. Sealed

RANDALL COLBOURNE / PAUL FLAHERTY

Visitants

(Zaabway - 2001) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Classic thunderous now-fi recording of this killing unit,” according to Volcanic Tongue, “Scything their way through mountains of hidebound mediocrity with huge gulps of liberated human spirit. From 1994, this one also features Richard Downs on baritone horn and bass and Mike Murray on guitar. Massive.”

ROBERT COLE

Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored

(HarperCollins) Used paperback book $6.00

Written by their tour manager of twelve years. From 1992. 442pp with photos

KING COLEMAN

It’s Dance Time

(Norton) Used LP $10.00

The first-ever roundup of the wicked sixties soul dance hits of Mr. Booga Lu himself. Twenty-two tracks including the 1959 smash hit “(Do The) Mashed Potatoes” (performed with Nat Kendrick & The Swans), “The Boo Boo Song,” “Alley Rat,” and “Do The Booga Lu.”

JOE COLLEY / JASON LESCALLEET

Annihilate This Week

(Korm Plastics - KP3024) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

On the ninth release in the Brombron series, Colley and Lescalleet find music in the natural process of decay amid the detritus of yard sale junk and old, broken equipment. These 2006 compositions seem weathered and eroded. Rather than aiming for excitement or dazzling expression, Colley and Lescalleet embrace the tedium of everyday life as something beautiful and compelling. This is music with a slow absorption rate and a high toxicity.

JOE COLLEY

Anthem

(Misanthropic Agenda - MAR036) Used LP $32.00 (Out-of-stock)

The title track, subtitled “Static For Empty Life” and previously issued on CD in 2011 by Crippled Intellect, is a long-form tonal study with contrasting climax. Side B edits together “(Reconciliation Of) Twin Interference Channels,” “Playtime Imbalance (L/R Discharge),” “Heartbeat And Dying Cassette Deck, ..............Loop#999999” (all from Triptych For Paranoia Calibration [Banned 2006]) and Crawl Unit’s “How Far To The Other Edge” (from Coalescence [Alien8 2001]). Edition of 200.

JOE COLLEY

Project For An Lp; Or One Method For (Nearly) Avoiding The Composer

(Edition) Used LP $35.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Side one of the LP presents a 20-minute piece produced by plugging two mini-disc players into a digital audio tape recorder, one in each stereo channel. The players contained a number of silent files, noise fragments and constant sound blocks of varying lengths, the contents of both players being rigorously identical. Both players were set on random play mode, creating a piece of fragmented drones, hisses and silences. This piece was then pressed on one side of an LP. Three test pressing copies were used for the sound installation giving this album its name. Each copy of the LP is set on a different turntable; each turntable has two small fans oscillating nearby and is hooked to two loudspeakers disseminated around the room. The air coming from the fans push the tone arms of the turntables back and forth, while the vibration of the fan motors is picked up by the tone arms and produces an ominous hum. Side two of the LP presents two recordings of the installation as it was presented in early August 2003 at the event Beyond Music VI in Venice, California. Styluses scratching the surface of vinyl populate these two tracks, sounds from side one appearing and disappearing as tone arms jump around. Track one was recorded by Eric La Casa while moving around in the exhibition room; track two is a stationary recording. Both tracks provide a dynamic listen, slightly harsh, constantly puzzling.” Jacket has photo glued to front. Plain white innersleve with photocopy paper. Numbered edition 182/300.

SHIRLEY COLLINS / DAVEY GRAHAM

Folk Roots New Routes

(4 Men With Beards) Used LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)

2010 reissue of this 1964 landmark folk recording, bringing together the haunting vocals of Collins and Graham’s innovative guitar-playing.

COLOSSAL YES

Loosen The Lead And Spoil The Dogs

(Fabulous Jackpot) Used LP $5.00

This third full-length masterminded by Comets On Fire drummer Utrillo Kushner embraces unhinged power pop, bleary-eyed classic rock, and channels the late-night, art-with-meaning vibe of early ’70s singer-songwriters. Guests include Ben Chasney (Six Organs Of Admittance), Noel Von Harmonson (Sic Alps, Comets On Fire), Ben Flashman (Comets On Fire), and members of Aislers Set, East Bay Grease, Howling Rain and others.

ALICE COLTRANE

Divine Songs

(Tummy Tapes) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Hindu devotional songs with Coltrane on Wurlitzer organ, synthesizer and vocals, accompanied by students of the Vedantic Center singing and playing percussion, originally release on cassette (Avatar Book Institute 1987). Paste-on covers. Euro import.

ANDREW COLTRANE

Midnight Winds

(Chocolate Monk) Used CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Meditative drone to solid noise from 2009

COLUMN ONE

Sad Finger

(Stateart) Used 7-inch $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Dark ambient, ritual and experimental music from 2000. Numbered edition of 300. Seam-split along top edge of jacket.

COLUMN ONE

W. Transmission 2

(A.N. Column Release - CRLP001) Used LP + 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Electronic industrial from 1993. Edition 500

COMETA FEVER

Dead Light

(What The ... - WHAT007) Used LP (one-sided) $12.00

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. Silkscreen artwork and design by Paul Coors, which captures the electric thrill of hot and cold whips on the lonely body. Edition of 112.

COMETS ON FIRE

Bong Voyage

(Bad Glue) Used LP $15.00

A pummeling furnace of on-the-edge-of-collapse heaviness from 2004, recorded live. Edition of 800.

COMETS ON FIRE

Comets On Fire

(Comets On Fire - COF01) Used LP $100.00

First full-length release from 2001 by these psycho-psych freaks who deliver dark and damaged acid rock served in a crude and blown out speedball of methamphetamine and Schnapps. 4/4 power rock shifts to imploding free form. Echoplex-treated tales of drug-crazed space travelers, graverobbers in love and cosmic cannibals.

COMMITMENT

Commitment

(Flying Panda) Used LP $25.00

Five tracks from 1981 by William Parker on bass, drummer Takeshi Zen Matsuura, Will Connell Jr. on flute, alto, bass clarinet, and violinist Jason Hwang. The music is free-flowing, with slow themes setting the scene for lengthy improvisations and communal creation of sound. “Famine” is the highlight — a staggering composition; a sparse, discomforting environment — created by Parker and Hwang working around the same tonal center, gradually increasing the intensity without creating variation, well illustrating and expressing the title of the piece. Three decades later, one can only be amazed that these young musicians already had some of the great musical personalities and vision that they expanded on during the years to follow. It’s all here — the freedom, the spirituality, the approach that getz more from their instruments than artists had done before.

COMMODE MINSTRELS IN BULLFACE

Fantastic Picnic

(Insignificant) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

A rusty conglomeration of squeaks, scrapings, organs, whistles and clarinet farts stuck together with cheap glue and buried in the dirt. Three inserts indicate that the album is a soundtrack for an unrealized film, including details about the convoluted plot. Packaged in large screen-printed poster folded to LP size.

COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER

How To Build A Cabin

(Yik Yak - YIKYAK012) Used CD $5.00

With raw viola, haunting vocals, and noise guitar, Rob Fisk (Badgerlore, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, ex-Deerhoof) sounds perfectly at home in the natural world between dusk and dawn. Packaged in a hand-sewn book of drawings.

CON DEMEK

Dogmama

(RRRecords) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

In the 1986 post-industrial wasteland of upstate New York, what else was there for Damian Catera (guitar, voice, programming), Steve Lombardi (computer stuff, voice, visuals) and Roxanne Benedetto (guitar, voice) to do but make textured soundscapes at times rhythmic and at others chaotic? Doesn’t matter, so long as there’s a strong conceptual foundation rooted in a desire to use the medium of music and multimedia as anthropological tools, engage the audience in a critical discourse, and explore the negative outgrowths of various belief systems. Nailed it. With inserts

LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS / JEAN-MARC MONTERA / THURSTON MOORE / LEE RANALDO

MMMR

(Xeric) Used LP $20.00

Free improv guitar-playing from 1997 with an emphasis on tone and texture rather than linear development. Minimal understatement becomes more subtly rhythmic, via industrial clangs and an idiosyncratic framework for feedback explorations.

CONOCO

Kemikoski

(Sigma Editions) Used LP $15.00

“The best record by Vladislav Delay made during his pre-Luomo days,” argues Todd Dealer. “Essential for anyone interested in … deconstructive experimentation with the form of dance music.” From 1999. Generic black jacket

TONY CONRAD / FAUST

Outside The Dream Syndicate

(Table Of The Elements - Li) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

1993 reissue of minimalist classic, recorded in 1972. With one previously unreleased bonus track.

CONSOLE

Lady-Bug b/w Square Root

(Payola) Used 12-inch $5.00

Electronic music from 1996 by Martin Gretschmann, lead programmer for The Notwist.

CONSTANT PAIN

Shadow Of A Lonely Man

(Destijl) Used 7-inch $10.00

2009 reissue of 1996 about which 7 Awkward Inches said “Nasty little hermit bastard locks himself in a room and poops out hyper-dense alcho-folk over two sides of seemingly moss-encrusted vinyl. I’m a huge fan of music that is as depressing as humanly possible. I hope he didn’t die, though.”

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS / MERZBOW

Horn Of The Goat

(Freek) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Odd collaboration from 1995 by drummer Stuart Dennison, Philip Best on oscillators, guitarist Gary Mundy, Matthew Bower on loops, and Masami Akita on EMS synth. Space-age phazer noise, trumpets, ambience, yelping female, saccharine dreck melting into top-shelf screech.

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

Nobody’s Ugly

(No Fun) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Two tracks from 2007 by Philip Best, produced by William Bennett. “A symphonic tirade of distortion and industrial noise signals…. On ‘Black Cotton Wool’ there's some rampaging, squealing menace lurking beneath the surface, whereas ‘Grubbing’ relies upon a low frequency throb that seems to have undergone some sort of time-stretching and EQing to maximize the stomach-upsetting potential.

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

Teenage Nuremburg

(Pure) Used CD $15.00

1995 CD collecting six tracks of pure noise by Phillip Best from 1982-83, long before noise music became a genre. Shortwave radio, primitive delay and distortion effects, ranting and incoherent vocals about National Socialism, John Lennon samples, field recordings of Best’s unimpressed schoolmates.

CONTROL

The Cleansing

(PacRec) Used CD $4.00

A storm of crushing dead electronics by Thomas Garrison. Four tracks from a three-inch CDR on Frozen Empire Media, plus one each from the Bitmapping comp (Objective Subjective), the Field Tapes comp (Hospital), and the Praying to Bleed seven-inch (LSDO).

CONTROL UNIT / FACTRIX

Elegy For Rusted Souls

(Backwards - BW08) Used LP + 7-inch $18.00

The first new, previously unreleased music since 1982 by San Francisco industrial pioneers Factrix, together with Italian duo Silvia Kastel and Ninni Morgia. The quartet uses guitars, bass and electronics in their fusion of acoustic and electric elements, primitive rhythm patterns and ghostly, No Wave-ish vocals. Edition of 500. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2013

CONTROLLED BLEEDING

Between Tides

(Multimood) Used LP $30.00

“Almost a tour de force in auditory shaping and tone manipulations,” raves Carl Johnson. “It is not a soothing record by any means, nor is it boring. It is an intense spin. Most of their songs do not rely on rhythm, though melodic patterns are recognizable.” Swedish pressing from 1986. Black vinyl

CONTROLLED BLEEDING

Bladderbags and Interludes

(Vanilla) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

1992 collection of thirty minutes of remixed, remastered noise from Knees and Bones (Psychout 1985) and Body Samples (Dossier 1985), plus thirty-five minutes of previously unreleased material.

CONVERGENCE

Live

(Beniffer Editions - BFF129) Used LP $16.00

Convergence formed in 1976 (and disbanded around 1980) as an appendage to the Humber College Ensemble for Experimental Music. With written music for the ensemble scarce, improvisational sessions became more frequent. Their first few concerts at The Music Gallery had a somewhat haphazard and random mix of students, some of whom didn’t quite get the notion of free improv. Eventually director Michael S. Horwood whittled it down to a quintet of the most spirited and creative of the student improvisers. Recorded live at the Music Gallery in September 1979, their instrumentation includes trumpet, trombone, piano, percussion, home-made instruments and toy instruments, which puts them in a zone between the boundaries of avant-garde jazz and free-form contemporary classical, a la Le Sonde, New Phonic Art, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. Screenprinted jackets, two inserts. Edition of 200.

PETER COOK / DUDLEY MOORE

Present Derek and Clive (Live)

(Island - ISP1033) Used LP $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Hilarious spoken word from 1976 by a couple of teabag cunts.

ALICE COOPER

Pretties For You

(Enigma Retro) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Remastered reissue of their debut album (Straight 1969).

DAVID COOPER

To Free A Generation

(Collier) Used paperback book $12.00

Interventions and explorations of the roots of social violence, first given voice at the legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, by Stokely Carmichael, Herbert Marcuse, R. D. Laing, Paul Sweezy, and others. Against a backdrop of rising student frustration, racism, class inequality, and environmental degradation, the conference aimed to create genuine revolutionary momentum by fusing ideology and action on the levels of the individual and of mass society.

ERIC COPELAND

Al Anon

(Catsup Plate) Used LP $8.00

“Small inner dialogues and isolated mind caves, where an idea may only last a moment and is captured and tweaked into fragments of many memories. Copeland sometimes disappears into a ‘behind-the-scenes’ role on this strangely curated time capsule from 2009, where birds beat-box with car-stereo subwoofers and the neighbors’ Español sings on top of the Sabbath siren. The familiar becomes mysterious and the unknown feels normal.” Screen-printed jacket. Edition of 500.

ERIC COPELAND

Hermaphrodite

(Post Present Medium) Used LP $8.00

“Through bouncy rhythmic loops, sprightly vocal chants, and child-like melodies, Copeland crafts pieces that feel sunny and breezy even at their roughest,” explains Pitchfork about the first solo album by a member of Black Dice. “In that sense Hermaphrodite evokes Gang Gang Dance’s early séances and Animal Collective’s brighter rain dances. But it’s even closer to the wide-eyed art loops of the Residents. As simple and bright as many of these pieces are, none of them scream at you, instead approaching at off-angles and sloping curves.” From 2008

PHILIP CORNER

Gong / Ear : dance-ing, 1 & 2

(Roaratorio - ROAR27) Used LP $32.00

As part of “Metal Meditations,” Corner’s decades-long series of improvisations with dancers, Gong / Ear utilizes his favorite Paiste tam-tam; the two recordings here -- from his NYC Leonard Street loft in 1989 -- are a feedback loop of perceptions between gong and dance: “the initiating sound (or perhaps the dancer’s posture) is made physically audible. Responsive movement is turned back into sound. Musicianly attentiveness sends it back, and it continues.” Handcut facsimile brass gong, silkscreened with Corner’s calligraphy and mounted onto the jacket. Includes download coupon. Edition of 305.

PHILIP CORNER

Italian Air: Wind, Water & Metal

(Ricerca Sonora - RS1) Used LP $16.00

Three previously unpublished compositions by one of the giants of Fluxus, recorded in various locations: "Ear Wave" (Venice, October 1994) for Korean cymbal in water, ecstatic with acousmatic interjections of metallic resonances, subtle water, and the midnight bell of San Marco; "Gong/Ear" (S. Andrea di Rovereto, June 1990) for gong together with rain and thunder; and "I Respiri/The Breaths" (Teatro Scandicci, 1992) for alphorn and gong. Black vinyl

PHILIP CORNER

Metal Meditations

(Alga Marghen) Used LP $15.00

“Three pieces extracted from a performance recorded at Merce Cunnigham’s studio, performed by David Behrman on electronics with the sound of dancers’ feet on wood floor in the background, against minimal yet plangent bell strikes beautifully recorded to a quadrophonic microphone array. The fourth piece, recorded in Italy, 1977, has a slight, rippling, almost wood-blocky timbre and tribalistic rhythm; the B-side recorded at Charlie Morrow Studio, incorporates the sound of footsteps creaking on wooden floor with strange, radiant metal tones; the final piece is outdoors in Cambridge, MA in 1978.” Second edition from 1997 with cover printed in black.

PHILIP CORNER / PHOEBE NEVILLE / MICHEL VOGEL

Musiques des Ailes / Wingèd Music

(Ricerca Sonora - RS2) Used LP $15.00

Corner and Neville experiment and improvise with the metallic resonances, obscure low frequencies, drones, silences and pure vibrating sonorities of Vogel’s eight steel bells and gongs, modeled after flat bronze or copper placed in the doorway of the Kachins or Mungs of Burma. Recorded in Paris, 1999, at the Archipel (the atelier of French artist Polska). Edition of 350.

PHILIP CORNER

Piano Work

(Slowscan) Used LP $50.00

Numbered edition of 300 from 2000 with eight-page book. Blue vinyl

CORNUCOPIA

Ultima

(Anarchymoon) Used LP $7.00

“Oppressive, naval wall of hurricane noise / drone out of Puerto Rico, a place where the residents know from hurricanes,” says Doug Mosurock about this 2010 platter by Jorge Castro and Claudio Chea with Robin A on voice. “Side A is immense, a gut-buster of layered white noise, while Side B adds in queasy sine wave bass beneath prop-plane engine scream. With silkscreened obi strip. Promo. Edition of 200

CHRIS CORSANO

Another Dull Dawn

(Ultra Eczema - UE71) Used LP $27.00

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.

CHRIS CORSANO / PAUL FLAHERTY / WALLY SHOUP

Bounced Check

(Records) Used LP $12.00

“Totally improvised double sax and drum explosions that break down into duos and solos and re-ignite as trio howlin’ paint splattered madness gone butt-naked wilder” from 2007. This companion to The Blank Check LP released by Finnish label Tyfus, was “recorded at an art gallery with artwork melting off the walls and frightened fans nervously mopping their furrowed blood-stained brows.” Sealed

CHRIS CORSANO / BILL ORCUTT

Made Out Of Sound

(Palilalia) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded in 2020 with Corsano cutting drum parts on his own and Orcutt adding improvised guitar later. “Corsano’s free playing seems at all times to hover in the space between a steady beat, an explosive roll, an exploratory warm-up, and an ecstatic solo,” notes Pitchfork. “He hits his kit with the same pace and force as Brace Up! (Palilalia 2018), but here it’s a touch less pugnacious…. And Orcutt’s guitars are less cutting and sharp, with a warmer tone that rings and clangs while notes hang in the air, as if we are hearing a recording of a giant wind chime left outside during a hurricane.” Sealed

CHRIS CORSANO / PAUL FLAHERTY

Steel Sleet

(Tyyfus) Used LP $15.00

Timeless free soul fire from 2005.

CHRIS CORSANO / PAUL FLAHERTY

The Hated Music

(Ecstatic Yod - E#1B) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Flaherty’s impassioned overblowing and legato style recall Noah Howard and early-70s Joe McPhee, and his chord outlines, sheets-of-sound-era Coltrane. The Hated Music is raucous but well-crafted: the visceral and incendiary duo captures the spirit of the wildest, most hectic, most flamboyant free improvisation without blowing themselves into monotony.

GREGORY CORSO

Die On Me

(Koch) Used CD $25.00

Beat poetry recorded between 1959 and 2001, set to orchestral, jazz, and electronic music by Hal Willner. Guests include Ginsberg, Marianne Faithfull, Orlovsky, Studs Terkel, Liza Richardson.

CORUM

Effigy Mounds

(Psychic Sounds And Research) Used LP $15.00

Million Brazilians founder’s hallucinatory cave field recording where collaged snippets of tape reveal the waves of a deep portal opening, bubbling ingestion of strange and luminous compounds, and the rhythmic pulse of spores landing in Earth’s atmosphere by way of shooting stars. Corum’s self-described “ceremonial music for spore alter” plays like an alternate soundtrack to the film Altered States in a forbidden South Pacific lodge during the magical dialogue of an extra terrestrial speech. Silkscreened jacket

COSTES

Bible and Machine Gun

(Tochnit Aleph) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

A 2001 trash-culture reaction — typical of Costes’s inflammatory and bonkers provocations — to the conflict with Israel and Palestine, which he compares to the horror tales of World War II.

COSTES

Hung By The Dick

(Nihilist) Used CD $3.00

Blazing casios and techno beats, spastic singing, sensitive thoughts and utter madness. Dare to explore, dissect and analyze this hefty collection of mental disorders vomited up like poisonous bile from an insane primate, jumping up and down, feverishly masturbating and throwing feces, racism, scatology, homophophia, homoeroticism, Nazi sentiments, misogyny and violent, megalomaniacal attitudes at anyone within range. From 2002

COSTES

Les Oxyures

(Costes Cassette) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Twenty-one songs from 1987 about the worms living in your body. One of the earliest works by this infamous French performance art legend who smears the scatology of G.G. Allin, the depravity of Whitehouse, and the transgressivism of Karen Finley, across the relentless devotion to craftsmanship of Rick Wakeman.

COSTES

Livres Les Blanches Aux Bicots

(Costes Cassette) Used CD $5.00

Twenty-five love songs from 1989 by a confused and crazy homosexual racist.

COSTES

Lung Farts

(Costes Cassette) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Extreme abstract noise from 1989 with perverse and degrading sexual and social deviations. So many selling points it’s difficult to know where to start: not at all funny; little to no musical merit; every track is excruciatingly long; screaming; strong French accent. You should be ashamed you don’t already have this. Just go away.

COSTES

Secouez… Crevez!

(Costes Disques) Used LP $20.00

The ever-perceptive Quietus picks up on the “tortured romanticism that runs through his work, a great cry of separation, (self-)punishment and perseverance.” Track B6 is intentionally defaced to add a unique, erratic percussion effect, or, some would say, makes it unplayable. Color paste-on cover. From 1989. Price sticker on front panel.

COSTES

Sorcière

(Costes Cassette) Used CD $5.00

Twenty songs from 1990 dedicated to (or directed at, most likely) a young girl. Probably underage. Vulgar, profane, explicit, atonal, interminable – the very stuff that makes life worth living.

COSTES

Terminator Moule

(Costes Cassette) Used CD $10.00

Twenty-nine songs about the vagina from 1992. He does not care for it. You think you know awful. You don’t know awful.

ELIZABETH COTTEN

When I’m Gone

(Folkways) Used LP $50.00

2009 repress of the third volume in the original Folkways series of albums by this master fingerpicker and acoustic music legend, originally released in 1979. “This album features several songs with lyrics by Cotten’s granddaughter Johnine Rankin. ‘Freight Train’ is revised here, but of more interest are numbers such as ‘Willie,’ ‘Jenny,’ and ‘Gaslight Blues,’ all played with a delicate, precise touch, as if the guitar was speaking to her of its own power.” Insert with anecdotes, historical information, lyrics.

COUCH

Glass Brothers 1993-1994

(Bulb - BLB041) Used CD $8.00

Four tracks from their first seven-inch (Bulb 1993), four tracks from Silver Owl LP (Bulb / Nightcap 1993), plus seven previously unreleased tracks. This influential group wasn’t “really noise per se,” explains Marlon Magas, “But we were influenced by noise and had noise in our music (same with the no wave angle), which arguably set the tone for the well-documented Ann Arbor noise explosion that would follow (Wolf Eyes, Nautical Almanac, et al).”

COUCH FLAMBEAU

The Day The Music Died

(It's Only A Record Records) Used LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

After a slow start with the instrumental title track, this 1985 album revs into high gear with “We’ll Go Through the Windshield Together,” a romantic tale of vehicular homicide (complete with sound effects) told from the victim’s perspective. Other highlights include the pessimistic “Life’s Rough,” a feedback-filled mantra that recasts an old 7-Up slogan (“You Hate It, It Hates You”) and Socol’s “Curtains for You,” in which the protagonist makes a major educational discovery: “I hate Shakespeare / He’s too hard to read / I wish he were dead / Oh, he is?”

DAVID COULTER

Interventions

(Fringecore) Used CD $5.00

The stunning compendium of the multi-instrumentalist’s amassed knowledge released in 2000 on a Belgian label (later reissued on Young God). “Whether Coulter plays violins, saxophones, the didgeridoo, ukulele, or singing, Intervention sounds as if it were from another world, where musical languages are interchangeable and complimentary rather than codified and restrictive….” On “Kinsnow Orchestra,” the former member of The Pogues and Test Dept. plays jew’s harp, krar, and one-string fiddle, and is accompanied by a sheet-like soundscape by Palix, a double bass, and guitar. “There is an Indian raga feel to the piece, but it has no time signature; it’s all microtones strung together in rows. On ‘How Can I Love Thee?’ Coulter’s soprano saxophone accompanies an over-the-phone reading by Iain Morris of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem of the same name. Its darker-than-night feel gives the impression of a suicide note being left on an answering machine. When Coulter does a vocal in the tradition of the Tuvans and Tibetans meeting in the Himalayas while using a plectra violin and a piano for sonic architecture, it doesn’t tower above you, it floats through your body, leaving a longing for the sacred with the taste of the profane on your skin…. ‘Harmonik’ … is a dance tune created and executed in just intonation with Ghedalia Tazartes on vocal and accordion, with overtones from the sawing of the violin in its high register, just behind its own drone and the accordion pulsing with the organic percussion the same series of chords over and over again. The effect is not just hypnotic. It’s entrancing.” Phil Minton, Marc Ribot, and Steve Naïve “appear on the album’s astonishing closer, ‘Polaroids,’ a composition of such dynamic and textural wealth and modal invention it appears to defy musical logic while sounding so far inside Western musical systems as to be inherent in their origins.”

JACQUES COURSIL

Black Suite

(Get Back ) Used LP $30.00

“The presence of Anthony Braxton as part of the band really makes for an intoxicating brew,” says Eugene Chadbourne about this exploratory improv masterwork from 1971, “if abstract free jazz is the cup of tea on order. Braxton is fantastic in a collaboratory role, adding texture with his contrabass clarinet that brings to mind the fog rolling into the forest right before the scene where the villagers storm the evil castle. Arthur Jones cuts loose on alto sax… fiery, full of spirit, always an exciting presence. As kind of the lost voice of the trumpet in modern jazz, Coursil is not only a great discovery for the modern jazz fan, but a fine creative vintage that holds up to repeat visits over the years…. It is one of the best examples of just how beautiful modern jazz can be.” 2002 reissue on 180g vinyl

JACQUES COURSIL UNIT

Way Ahead

(Get Back ) Used LP $20.00

“A highly overlooked and absolutely stunning free jazz session” from 1969, according to All Music Guide, retaining “an openness that makes dates by AACM associates like Roscoe Mitchell more palatable for those inexperienced with the freewheeling ‘energy music’ of the late ’60s. The first side finds the group tackling two Coursil originals, while the entire second side is an extended version of Bill Dixon’s ‘Paper’.” 2001 reissue. Gatefold jacket

ANLA COURTIS / CULVER

Culver-Courtis

(Riot Season) Used LP $8.00

2004 reissue of 1997 cassette of hypnotic drones, guitar, field recordings, effects, and processed feedback by one dude from Argentina’s Reynols and Lee Stokoe. Clear vinyl. Edition of 500. Sealed.

ANLA COURTIS / AARON MOORE

KPPB

(Earbook) CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Earbook) Used CD $5.75 (Out-of-stock)

Jump-cuts abound on the second postal collaboration by Reynols spokesmodel and one of the charming lads from Volcano The Bear, shifting the album through contrasting moods with cinematic élan. Touches of the anarchic and exotic, such as mbira, hazy Mexican-style trumpet, and Hawaiian guitar on “King Pancreas,” bring to mind Volcano The Bear, while melodic piano cells add a Cluster-like charm. The deeper and darker “Punk Butter,” with its layered, bowed drones that progress to a dissonant swell, concludes with thundering mallet-struck drums, impossible cymbals, and frantic slide work. Edition of 200.

ANLA COURTIS / SEIICHI YAMAMOTO / YOSHIMI

Live At Kanadian

(Public Eyesore - PE110) CD $15.00

(Public Eyesore - PE110) Used CD $7.50

A guitar duet by Courtis and Yamamoto with tons of delays and plaintive keyboard tones that grow increasingly harsh, climaxing in a steel mill din. On their silence-punched duet, Yoshimi and Courtis pile shrieks on top of layers of effects, guitars, and synths. The headache-inducing sustained keyboards and guitar banging on Yamamoto and Yoshimi’s track conjures up 1980s hair metal. The twenty-six-minute trio is the boldest and most aggressive thing here: commanding Yoshimi vocals, fuzzed-out guitar grinds, spacious metallic rhythms.

ANLA COURTIS

Unstringed Guitars & Cymbals

(Blossoming Noise) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Waterfalls of humming and squealing, carnival organs, windchimes, and blown-glass swan calls [flow out of the Reynols global ambassador’s] tortured axe,” notes Startling Moniker. “Making excellent use of a cymbal … he fashions layers of shimmering washes, a perfect environment for [the] rising and falling guitar clarion to inhabit. Sealed

COUSINS OF REGGAE / MOUTHUS

Cousins Of Reggae / Mouthus

(Olde English Spelling Bee) Used Split LP $5.00

“A side each of fertile noise-rot from 2005. Cousins’ five-track suite about the Hudson Bay sets sail with hyperactive stompers and narcoleptic stumblers intent on capsizing all vessels in their path before coming under attack by a squadron of pissed off jet-skiers. On the flip, two massive Mouthus jams capture a day spent peaking on mescaline at the Daytona 500.” Edition of 500 with handpainted covers and full-color inserts.

THE CRACOW KLEZMER BAND / JOHN ZORN

Balan

(Tzadik) Used CD $12.00

All Music Guide describes the beguiling performance here of compositions from Zorn’s second Masada book as an “entrancing, ingenious, and by all means exotic [recording — a melding of] traditional klezmer, symphonic cadenzas, and free improvisation….” Jaroslaw Bester’s witchy bayan signals “from some far-off place to Oleg Dyyak’s hand drums, Wojciech Front’s double bass…, the small army of strings [by] violinist Jaroslaw Tyrala and the DAFO String Quartet…, the seemingly random guttural vocals of Jorgos Skolias…, [and] Ireneusz Socha’s minimal electronics….” Bester’s arrangements push “the klezmer genre to its limit and then past it, letting in a flood of other musical approaches and ideas.” Sealed

CRANK STURGEON / TRUCK VAN RENTAL

Crank Sturgeon / Truck Van Rental

(De Hondenkoekjesfabriek) Used split CDR $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Non-stop freaky collage of weird noises. Timeless stuff! With 12pp booklet and color photocopy cover, homemade obi stapled in Ziplok bag.

CRASHING DREAMS

Get Somewhere Without Words

(Yeah!) Used CD $5.00

Melody always comes first with Flavio and Fabrizio Steinbach’s rough and direct instrumentals in an old-school indie style, without sacrificing intensity and energy. With bassist Christiane “Tepe” Baur and guest Chris Cacavas.

CRASHING DREAMS

Minimum To Exist

(Supermodern Music) Used LP $7.00

Fourteen addictive instrumentals from 2003 by Flavio and Fabrizio Steinbach, who’ve played with Barbara Manning, Cakekitchen, Woog Riots and others. With guests Volker Zander and Martin Wenk (both of Calexico) and Chris Cacavas. Clear vinyl

CRASHING DREAMS

Serpentaire

(Naive Hören + Sehen) Used CD $3.00

German Brit-pop by Flavio and Fabrizio Steinbach and company.

CRAWL UNIT

Everyone Gets What They Deserve

(Crippled Intellect Productions) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Deep and dense industrial soundscapes with lo-fi electronics on one horizon and Hafler Trio-esque media collage cut-ups on the other.

CRAWL UNIT

Stop Listening

(Groundfault) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Avant-garde minimal drone meets totally entrancing noise. Joe Colley shapes a slowly evolving piece and punctuates it with strange pollutions.

CRAWLSPACE

The Exquisite Fucking Beauty Of Crawlspace

(Majora) Used LP $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Recorded live to radio with the group again tripping hard,” reports Chris Sienko in Vulcher, this 1995 album “comes on like a Hell’s Angels band cranked on teeth-grinding blotter acid and pills. It’s nasty and buzzy and anti-social but has an eerie instrumental mind-meld even by Crawlspace standards. The side-long improv, ‘The Exquisite Fucking Beauty of the Murderous Matador Impaled by the Righteous Bull,’ is clearly an in-studio jam, but nothing we’ve heard to this point prepares us for just how in-sync each member is with the others, dipping and twisting and turning through all sorts of slippery permutations…. Side B’s ‘Slippy Slowdown Town’ is a doomy plod, heavy and gritty, Eddie Flowers in full rock-mumble mode…. An even heavier ‘Lake Daddy Jim’ closes, with the band blaring, all fuzz cranked to maximum.”

JONATHAN CRAYFORD / GEOFF MAD MARSLAND

Suburbia Volume 1

(Xblend) Used CD $3.00

Two 30-min tracks of lawnmower. With astroturf glued to outside otherwise standard jewelbox. From 2000

JONATHAN CRAYFORD / GEOFF MAD MARSLAND

Urban Assault Vol 1

(Xblend) Used CD $3.00

Urban sound effects: dog barking, party, lawn mowing, waves crashing, car alarm, phone ringing, baby crying, plane taking off, train, chainsaw, car revving, Kango hammer.

CRAZY DREAMS BAND

Crazy Dreams Band

(Holy Mountain) Used LP $5.00

Guitar-free “thug pop” dirge with creeping crooning and brassless horn blasts. As with the best Giallo films, you’ll be as turned on as you are terrified. The channeled inner voices of members of Religious Knives, Lexie Mountain, and Mouthus are expelled as cave anthems into neon text in Linear A, while bones poke through the skin atop a witch’s brew of venomous sludge. Crazy Dreams Band is the urban tribal music that survives whatever “end is nigh” theory you choose. They’re jamming this music outside the thunder dome, beneath the planet of the apes, and the day after tomorrow.

CREODE

Ectroni

(Alien Passengers) Used LP $30.00

Queasy, subterranean, dusted electronics by Samantha Flowers and Tyler Hicks, wafting up out of a contemporary Detroit basement.

CRESCENT

Collected Songs

(Swarf Finger) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Brothers Matt Jones (Amp) and Sam Jones (Flying Saucer Attack) move from slow, rhythmic, trance-like compositions to Walls of Sound, drawing equal inspiration from the more experimental end of British psychedelia and krautrock, using organic instruments and set-ups and adding just enough spoken vocals to imply a human presence. Many of these recordings from the late 90s wind up with the cinematic sound of Movietone, but other moments tend toward effective grooves, punctuated by dynamic organ work.

CRESCENT

Now

(Planet) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded in a two-day session in 1998 that yields careful arrangement, exquisite tension, and a free see-what-happens approach. Crescent is rougher, more brusque, than Amp or FSA, with Jones’s speak-singing delivered in a semi-snarl, not really intelligible at many points, and the moody groove the band creates even at its calmest seems laden with a hint of threat. The unclean, commercially unfriendly production helps all the more.

CRESCENT

Sun

(Atavistic) Used 10-inch $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Sun” is a fantastic mix of fierce playing from the band and aggressive, intentionally dirty production. “*” sounds something like a drunk jazz band late at night with Matt Jones muttering low vocals in the distance. The extended “Unit System” closes the disc with a low, clattering drumbeat in the distance, guitar, bass and keyboard parts emerging from the production murk and a lengthy movie or interview segment unfolding throughout.

MARILYN CRISPELL

Live In Berlin

(Black Saint) Used LP $20.00

“One of the major avant-garde pianists to emerge during the 1980s, Marilyn Crispell shows a great deal of passion on three of her originals, including the 23-minute ‘ABC’ (dedicated to Anthony Braxton) and the free ballad ‘Chant.’ Violinist Billy Bang (who has some strong solos of his own), bassist Peter Kowald and drummer John Betsch complete the quartet on this intense concert performance.” From 1984

CROMAGNON

Cave Rock

(ESP-Disk') Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

This was the first issue on CD, from 1993 by ZYX, made from an LP needle-drop with side B (tracks five through eight here) being incorrectly mastered at 45 rpm.

CRUEL FREDERICK

Birth Of The Cruel

(SST) Used LP $5.00

The 1988 debut album by Southern California free jazz outfit with Lynn Johnston on saxophones and clarinets, Jacob Cohn on alto saxophone, Guy Bennett on bass and trombone, and Jason Kahn on drums. Cut corner

JASON CRUMER / ROXANN SPIKULA

Suppression In The Third

(Ecstatic Peace) Used 10-inch $10.00

Deep and considered brainmelt that moves from dark drone solace to sick shards of noise hell by ultra-weirdo troublemaker and one half of Relay For Death.

CRYSTAL FANTASY / HAIR POLICE

Crystal Fantasy / Hair Police

(Liquid Death / Hello Pussy) Used Split 10-inch $4.00

Tracks by the Milwaukee quartet are from another world, “one where Lisa Frank designs come to life, roads are built of rainbows and the sky is illuminated by every color across the spectrum,” according to Adam Strohm. “Modulated vocals [and] synthesized squiggles cross a field of minimalist fluorescent electronics as tasteful effects accompany the dialogue,” after which Hair Police seem “positively ugly,” with their “mismatched pieces and sharp edges, shuddering oscillations [that] overpower static squeals…, sounds drown[ing] under sounds, and human screams [getting] swallowed in the polluted mix…. The two groups certainly share a determination to explore the far reaches…, [with] Crystal Fantasy drift[ing] into cartoon clouds and Hair Police writhing underground.”

CSOKONAI VITÉZ MŰHELY

Ural Beat

(Hungaraton) Used LP $15.00

Hungarian experimental postpunk from the late 1980s.

EMILIO CUBEIRO

Death of an Asshole

(Widowspeak) Used LP $8.00

Eight poems from 1989, released on Lydia Lunch’s label, with guest appearances by J.G Thirwell, Mark Cunningham, Roy Nathanson, Michael Hrynyk, and Lunch herself. Sticker on cover, clipped corner.

CULTURCIDE

Home-Made Authority

(Delayed) Used CD $15.00

“Band leader Perry Webb’s marginal everyday appearance and rotund midriff speak to lifestyle habits he may or may not be endorsing on ‘A Day at My Job,’ one of the more bracing and succinct tracks,” according to All Music Guide. “He blathers semi-coherently over guitarist Dan Workman‘s reverbed metal leads, which suggest Eddie Van Halen on nitrous. Webb is that rarest of lead vocalists who sing just as he speaks — in a slurred delivery that implies either a state of semi-drunkenness or mild brain damage. But as the bluntly articulated disgust on Home-Made Authority attests, Webb is no bungling half-wit, and he’s as fed-up as he ever was. With such unnerving titles as “Ten Orgasms a Day,” “Feeling/Die,” and “Tunnel of Blood,” the 16 songs here are not for the emotionally queasy or the easily offended. On the requisite hidden bonus track, Webb admonishes the weak-willed to find sympathy and understanding elsewhere: “Run away from your feelings / Run away from your problems / But don’t come here.” Throughout the droning diatribe, Webb sounds like a weary visitor from another dimension transmitting through a broken speaker phone. From a musical standpoint, Culturcide’s voracious appetite for disassembled noise and found sounds, not to mention its steadfast adherence to the punk ethos, is more pronounced than ever, as is the band’s erratic attention span. Wildly uneven and borderline unlistenable in spots, Authority tackles heavy metal, hardcore, keyed-up trucker country, white-trash psychedelia and more, contaminating the mix with random profanity and a sick undercurrent of self-parody.” From 1998

CURLEW

Gussie

(Roaratorio) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

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. Hand-drawn covers signed by Anne Elias. Edition of 436.

ALVIN CURRAN

Toto Angelica

(I Dischi Di Angelica) Used CD $10.00

Recordings of the label’s annual festivals held from 1991 to 2001, mixed into a new work of otherwise impossible combinations (e.g., Fred Frith with two Inuit women, Pavarotti with Mike Patton). This collage of samples collates vocal and instrumental passages and achieves a sense of urgency climaxes in a crescendo of glorious cacophony.

CURRENT 93

Nature Unveiled

(Durtro - DJ94) Used CD $12.00

Remastered 2008 reissue of the apocalyptic debut album (L.A.Y.L.A.H. 1984) by David Tibet, Steven Stapleton, John Balance, Annie Anxiety, Isidore Ducasse, John Fothergill, John Murphy, Nicholas Rogers, Roger Smith, and The Youth. Intense chanting, loops slowing down and speeding up, demented opera samples, eschatology, Crowley. Booklet with early photographs of the group members and original insert materials. Sealed.

CURTAINS

Calamity

(Asthmatic Kitty) Used LP $12.00

One astute RateYourMusic user characterizes Calamity as a “continuation of Chris Cohen’s songwriting … [on Deerhoof’s] The Runners Four (Children Of Hoof 2006) but with a lighter, more minimalist touch. He does an excellent job of mixing a sound of naive twee-ness with off-kilter jazzy-but-catchy experimentation.” With guests Nedelle Torrisi and Yasi Perera on harmonies, and Half-Handed Cloud’s John Ringhofer on trombone.

CURTAINS

Fast Talks

(Thin Wrist) Used LP $10.00

The trio’s first album “walks the line between childlike invention and rigorously pared down song structures,” says David Keenan. “Guitarists Chris Cohen and Trevor Shimizu circle each other with clean simple shapes and wobbly chords, while drummer Jamie Peterson slow marches between them with her combination of martial rhythms and chugging encouragement.” 180g vinyl. Includes insert.

CURTAINS

Fly Bys

(Thin Wrist) Used LP $10.00

“Moderately and purposefully irritating, difficult listening / indie pop instrumentals which have a weird way of generating a genuine, arty allure,” says Slipcue. “The band (drums, keyboards, geetar) crafts perversely off-kilter, yet not too alienating melodic elisions.” From 2002

CUSTOM FLOOR

Clear Day

(Analog Sound) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Dreamy, dissonant heavy rock. A large dose of guitar, bass and drums banged out in a wide array of minor notes, ringing octaves, heavy distortion, hovering harmonics, cymbal crashes, drum splashes and big-britches bass throb. Letterpress jacket. Hand-numbered edition of 600

CYANOSIS

Ethereal Stairwell Suite

(Mu) Used CD $7.00

“Dark ambient textures created with guitar and bass with a mellow late-night feel,” according to 1000 Flights. This 1998 disc lurks “in the dark while the rest of the world lies unconscious and unaware…. [A]n excursion into the more ancient and primal layers of the human mind…., kind of like wandering alone through a vast cavern with no light, the dark night, the abyss, in the dark north before the sun is reborn.” Cover art is hand-cut section of a painting with stenciled pray-paint text.

ANDREW CYRILLE

What About

(Affinity) Used LP $10.00

Recorded in Paris 1969, Cyrille’s first session as a leader sparkles with amazing solo drum and percussion work — strong yet not so hard as to forego nuance. “From Whence I Came” incorporates breath and vocal sounds. “Rims and Things” is self-explanatory in its use of extended techniques, sound-sources and textures. Two more orthodox trap kit workouts maintain control of the progression of rhythmic and melodic ideas. “Pioneering” counterpoints snare and toms with whistle, slide-whistle and finger cymbals. 1982 reissue of volume 16 in BYG’s Actuel series.

HOLGER CZUKAY / ROLF DAMMERS

Canaxis

(Spoon) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

"Boat-Woman-Song" and "Canaxis" were recorded in Cologne 1968, originally released 1969, remixed from the original tapes. The previously unreleased "Mellow Out" was Czukay's first piece of music performed for an audience in 1960 on the German radio, cut into vinyl by a small recording studio straight from the broadcast.

LULA CÔRTES

Rosa De Sangue

(Time Lag) Used LP $10.00

The Brazilian legend backed by The Mountains Band, further assisted Alceu Valenca, Flaviola, Ze De Flauta, Paulo Rafael and many others. This wild audio experience recorded in 1980 covers many styles and moods: crazed ethno folk-rock; magical, gentle, jungle folk psych; hard-hitting, coke-dusted fuzz rock; insane, mutant-disco dance floor grooves; tweaked Americana; acid vocal raga trance; and way beyond. Côrtes’s smoke- and booze-steeped voice darts between crazed abandon, deep sadness, and glowing soulful humor. When things are mellow, you could easily imagine you’re hearing an outtake from Marconi Notaro or Paebiru, but the next moment you’re dropped into a raging street party or a dimly lit booze-drenched bar. Frenzied guitars are all over, including some tough fuzz, as well as powerful rolling bass grooves, soaring violin, moog weirdness, dusted backup vocals, and great drum kit / regional percussion interplay. Psychedelic at heart, but brimming with flashes of tropicalia, punk, prog, and pure, hot-blooded rock’n’roll. A bizarre and amazing album, thought for decades to be permanently lost due to insecure corporate lackeys. Heavy vintage-style jacket, foldout poster, plus an extra insert with new liner notes for this 2009 reissue. 180g vinyl.

LULA CÔRTES / LAILSON

Satwa

(Time Lag) Used LP $35.00 (Out-of-stock)

Written, recorded and released just as Brazil’s military dictatorship reached the climax of its long black arc, the one and only Satwa album is a divinely subtle protest, often cited as Brazil’s first independent record. On the 2005 repress of this 1973 grail item, Lula Côrtes and Lailson jammed cross-legged and produced folk trance gems largely devoid of voice and word, a succession of ragas and mantras, powered by incense, magic mushrooms and other “mental muscle expanders,” with Côrtes plucking steely leads on sitar while Lailson’s 12-string thrums crystalline chords. Robertinho Do Recife guesst on “Blues do Cachorro Muito Louco,” the most explicitly fried track.

D / TO ROCOCO ROT

TRRD

(Soul Static Sound) Used LP $7.00

Darryl Moore joins influential Berlin-based trio (bassist Stefan Schneider, Robert Lippok (electronics, guitar) and Ronald Lippok (drums, effects)), and adds sinuous, chirpily subtle distortion to instrumental post-rock and electronic music. From 1998

DADAMAH

This Is Not A Dream

(Majora) Used LP $140.00

Jay Hinman said it best in Superdope: “The Dead C. blares and scrapes, the Terminals twist and wind, but Dadamah positively shimmers with a beautifully earthy, lo-fi Velvets / Ubu sound.” Peter Stapleton, Roy Montgomery, Kim Pieters, Janine Stagg. First pressing from 1992

WERNER DAFELDECKER / AXEL DÖRNER / SVEN-AKE JOHANSSON

Des Kreis Des Gegenstandes

(Monotype - MONO008) LP $16.50

(Monotype - MONO008) Used LP $11.00

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.

WERNER DAFELDECKER / BORIS D. HEGENBART

Eis 9

(Grob) Used CD $5.00

Acoustic-meets-electronic-meets-abstract sound by multi-instrumentalist Dafeldecker and electronic musician Hegenbart, who emphasize sound over energy and introspection over panache. Soft hits on a gong, a few notes of prepared guitar, minimal percussion, non-intrusive electronic treatments, and carefully selected samples all come together in the duo’s post-minimal free improv from 2001.

LESLI DALABA / STUART DEMPSTER / ERIC GLICK RIEMAN

Lung Tree

(ReR Megacorp) Used CD $4.00

Nine rather short tracks from 2005 by three West Coast improvisors, each one exploring a different mood within the realm of quiet contemplation. Dalaba and Dempster weave sinuous, slightly sad lines, occasionally engaging in spontaneous two-part skirmishes, while Rieman’s modified piano seduces the ear with unusual plink-plonking. “The Dock-Red Ice” and its sparse landscape, the quiet “Bed Shadows into Sleep,” and the dirge “Morning Light Through Smokestacks” stand out as particularly strong self-contained pieces, but each track brings its share of surprising sounds and pleasant ideas to the table.

DARK ALCESTE DE SOCAÏ VÔMIE

Tristesse Psychotronique

(RRRecords) Used LP $10.00

“Tortured high frequencies, crumpled magnetic tapes, superimposed layers. Marc Alhanati’s fascinating sound hallucinations from 1991 are drowned in a maelstrom of modulations at the limit of power electronics. At high volume, you almost end up feeling the symptoms of a drug addict in withdrawal yourself: nausea, agitation, anxiety.”

DAS DAMEN

Das Damen

(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Original pressing of the six-song debut from 1984 by Jim Walters, Alex Totino, Phil Leopold Von Trapp, and Lyle Hysen. The quartet’s sound “melds ’60s psychedelia and heavy acid rock with … noisy, punk-derived alternative rock.” Clipped corner.

DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE

Hapax (Legomenon)

(Phage - PT178) Used CD $9.75

Three long tracks that are re-compositions of live recordings made between 2003 and 2011 best thought of as field recordings of art instillations: sounds generated by everyday objects manipulated by electric motors or applied mechanics and then amplified.

SHRI ANTHONY DASS

In Budapest

(Hungaraton) Used LP $8.00

“Tintala 16/4,” “Rupaka Tala 7/4,” and “Matta Tala 9/4” performed by Dass on tabla, Sándor Kiss harmonium, Zoltan Kocsis on harmonium, and László Hortobágyi on sitar-dronika. From 1983

MILES DAVIS

Enigma, The Complete Blue Note Sessions, 1952-1953

(Birdland) Used CD $8.00

Two sessions, both from WOR Studios — one with JJ. Johnson, Jackie McLean, Gil Goggins, Oscar Pettiford, and Kenny Clarke; the other with Jimmy Heath replacing McLean, Percy Heath instead of Pettiford, and Art Blakey taking over for Clarke. In heavy, hardback-style digipak, with brief liner notes by Matteo Piazza. From Italy

DAVIS REDFORD TRIAD

Ewige Blumenkraft

(Holy Mountain) Used CD $10.00

Six tracks (including an epic, eighteen-minute alpha state called “Plum Village”) by occasional Faust guitarist Steven Wray Lobdell. A new psychedelic chapter in the little known tradition of Karnatic rock (other entries being Ustad B. Khan, Clarke Hutchinson Band, and Sun City Girls). Sealed

DDV

A Sound Atlas Of Venereology

(Trash Ritual - TRASH054) Used CD $13.00

The second installment of the Club Moral archive series is DDV's interpretation of Anthony Wisdom's A Colour Atlas Of Venereology (Wolfe Medical Atlases 1973). All tracks were performed on Wasp and Korg MS50 synths, and recorded at Club Moral in 1982 on a plain stereo cassette deck with no additional remixing or mastering. Samples from Andrezej Zulawski's 1981 movie Possession were used; lyrics from the Colour Atlas, "Haut Und Geschlechtskrankheiten IV," "Visites Cliniques," and "Revue de Dermatologie" are recited in DDV's typically deranged, animal-like fashion. Almost all material here was never performed live nor featured on other Club Moral related recordings in any other form. Raw and offensive, with all original materials reprinted in a sixteen-page booklet. A classic piece of industrial history.

ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO

I See Beyond The Black Sun

(K) Used LP $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

This record from 2008 is less the apocalyptic doom of his ramshackle post-punk group Old Time Relijun, and more of a raga influenced anthropological meditation.

MARTIJN DE KLEER

So Close Yet So Far Out

(Beta Lactam Ring) Used 2xLP $22.00

De Kleer’s initial solo offering from 2002 outside the chemical playschool of The Legendary Pink Dots reveals the depth and profundity of his own visions, obsessions and flashbacks. Nods to psychedelia, krautrock, industrial and electronica are all evident. And de Kleer’s fuzz-driven guitar is at the heart of it all. ‘Once upon a Guitar’ is an acid freak-out worthy of Ash Ra Tempel and early Neu. ‘You Are…’ roils with the submerged psychosis of Barrett-era Floyd welded to the manic axe-grinding of Helios Creed. ‘Jet Lag,” with its organ-driven trancescape is a blissful, mind-numbing anthem for psychonauts everywhere. The utterly bizarre ‘What Happened to a Young Man in a Place Where He Turned to Water’ is the kind of Zen parable one might expect a cyber acidhead to put to music, or in this case sound decomposed and reconstituted as music. But the album’s centerpiece is clearly the epic length ‘The Apple Crumble Trail,’ a nearly 30-minute voyage through the inner spaces of Eastern-tinged psychedelia to the outer limits of kosmische rock. Evolving out of a primal drone, waves of shimmering organ rise and fall in a mantra of coalescing exotica, from Tibetan chants and natural sounds to metallic percussion and looping bass. Moving through successive cycles of stasis, hypnosis and pathos, it climaxes with de Kleer’s mutated guitar soaring raga-like over an ocean of sound, before decelerating into a terrestrial orbit filled with the echoing remnants of what has turned out to be a phantasmagoric astral trip.” 220-gram vinyl. Edition 500.

MAXIME DE LA ROCHEFOCAULD

Automates Ki

(Plastique) Used CD $5.00

Montreal-based musician and performance artist Maxime Rioux produces compositions played on homemade musical instruments (often specific to a single live performance, usually string or percussion) that are not played directly by a musician. All of the music on this recording was improvised on bottles, boxes, lamps and, everyday objects, springs, sticks, cymbals, bells, cans, drums and other pieces of percussion by Rioux’s Automates and human musicians.

FRANS DE WAARD / HOWARD STELZER

Torn Tongue

(Absurd) Used CD $10.00

The recorded voice of Kelly Sams manipulated by computer and effects in a dense six-track collage. Packaged in a 6.75-inch round, three-panel cardboard cover. Edition of 160

DEAD BODY LOVE

Maximum Dose

(Pure) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Not much compares to Gabriele Giuliani’s dense, snarling loop-based low end and wild-hell aggressiveness. Recorded and mixed in July 1996 at the Zero Factory.

DEAD C.

Eusa Kills T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size L $30.00

Warnocks. Materials not specified on label. Made in New Zealand. Black with silver ink. Previously washed and worn many times. Cracks in ink. From 1990s

DEAD MACHINES / DAMION ROMERO / JOHN WIESE

Friday the Thirteenth

(Anarchymoon) Used LP $7.00

“Fierce live recording from 2006. One side by each, plus a fourth collaborative side. A successful fusion of the minimal low-fi rig of Dead Machines with the maximal power cycle of Damion Romero and spacious neutron radiation of John Wiese. Sonic hallucinations, bro.” Silkscreened folder

DEAD MACHINES

Human Brain Wasting Syndrome

(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $4.00

Hazy post-psychedelia from 2004 by John Olsen and Tovah O’Rourke, using rewired electronics, homemade reed instruments, and metal percussion. Paste-on artwork, cardboard jacket.

DEAD MACHINES

Live at Tzompantli

(Eclipse) Used LP $5.00

One side from the first No Fun Festival in March 2004 backed with an Ypsi street level throwdown at a screen-printing shop. “Dead-universe dying electronic creeping blast sound.”

DEAD MACHINES

Plays Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

(Arbor) Used LP (one-sided) $9.00

The forefathers of broken gear / appliance / wind instrument basement jamming dig in on the border of existence and twist mixer feedback and found sounds into a collage harsh, alien, and awakening.

DEATH

For The Whole World To See

(Drag City) Used LP $12.00

Classic proto-punk from 1970s Detroit, released in 2009. Raw with little polish, the record showcases the organic power relationships within the trio of brothers.

DEATH MAGAZINE 52

Death Magazine 52

(Harbinger Sound - 078) Used 2xLP $15.00

Our friends at Volcanic Tongue’s hysteria-pitch enthusiasm about this unlikely Harbinger Sound excavation and rescue is more contagious than necrotizing fascitis. This “revelatory 2xLP … bundles all extant recordings...: studio recordings ... insane live shows, including an afternoon gig in front of ... teenage girls at Queen Marys Girlschool in Walsall, as well as their closing Equinox performance” in London 1983. “The studio recordings are massively crude bass-and-percussion-heavy industrial jams with an urgent new wave edge, wobbly brass and electro stylings that come out of the Heathen Earth songbook, some classic entropic junk ritual, and fucked-up tape work. The live recordings have a wilder, ritualistic appeal, with a Wolverhampton show that crosses punk-primitive brass and headhunter horns with free percussion rallies…. [T]he Girlschool show and the Equinox event recording … are the real gravy…. [A] few brief minutes of absolute refusenik out-of-time percussion and slowly expiring brass runs, complete with guest vocalist Philip Best from Whitehouse / Consumer Electronics, leads into a police bust that comes over as some of the most hilarious industrial theatre ever put to wax.”

DEATH SQUAD

Live @ Leeds 4.15.00

(Nihilist) Used CD $10.00

Uncompromising twenty-three-minute power-industrial attack. Silkscreened all-black jewelbox. Includes Fratricide video.

DEATH TO PIGS

Live At Karachi

(213 Records) Used LP + CD $13.00 (Out-of-stock)

Thirteen studio tracks by this French band who arrived at postpunk- and no-wave-influenced noise rock via the straightforward grind and pound of Jesus Lizard. Occasional dub elements, hints of expansive skronk, and sharp tones with ounces of sax and beats pepper their tried-and-true head-on punkers. Overall, real solid sleazeball shit here. Edition of 300.

DEATHPILE

Ne Plus Ultra

(Pure) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Nine unrelenting tracks, performed and recorded at Not An Exit, 1997. Sci-fi horror and spooky, unearthly soundscapes, layer upon layer of harsh, swirling atmospheres, volcanic eruptions, ear-splitting whistles, garbled shortwave static, and distorted voices.

DEATHROES

Final Expense

(No Fun) Used LP $5.00

Dark psychedelic drone, walls of sounds, electronic impossibility from 2007 by Gerritt Wittmer and Ryan Jencks. Edition of 500

DEEP JEW

Punishment Feast – Live Recordings

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00

“Grotesque, blast furnace freakouts and noise depravity.” Screen printed jacket

DEEP LISTENING BAND

The Ready Made Boomerang

(New Albion) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

The title track is a John Cage mesostic written for Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis. Guests include vocalist Thomasa Eckert and William O. Smith on clarinet, recorded at Fort Warden Cistern in 1990, where balloons are exploded, vocals are suspended, percussive stuff is dropped, and instrumental sounds are lovely and mysterious.

DEEPKISS 720

Pace X Friction

(Harbinger Sound) Used LP picture disc $40.00

Psilocybin psychosis from Jason Williams on this eclectic and terminally unclassifiable opus featuring genre-bending plunderphonics, lo-tech glitch, pre-laptop cut ups and general sonic mayhem.

DEERHOOF

Apple O’

(Menlo Park) Used LP $40.00

“Vivid bursts of musical and lyrical inspiration with conceptual structure. Freewheeling, spontaneous style — quirky — seeps into even the quieter tracks. The best moments mix the pretty with the powerful and unpredictable: ‘Sealed With a Kiss’ combines a singsong melody with elephantine basslines, fizzy guitars, a brass band, and what sounds like a chicken clucking. Making chaos sound cuddly and even kind of beautiful, Apple O’ brings order to Deerhoof’s spontaneity, offering plenty of sweetness without forgetting their bite.” First pressing from 2003. Sealed

DEERHOOF

Holdypaws

(Kill Rock Stars) Used CD $6.00

“[T]he band’s debut alternated actual melodies with meandering bits of downtown-style guitar noise, [but] everything on Holdypaws could easily be classified as a ‘song’ …, [sounding] very much like a less-refined Blonde Redhead. This development represents a steady progression toward relative normality…. Deerhoof’s songs universally portray a surreal, nightmarish place seen through the eyes of a child, as if Glenn Branca composed a soundtrack to ‘Where the Wild Things Are.’ Songs like ‘Queen of the Lake,’ ‘The Moose’s Daughter’ and ‘Crow’ describe an interior landscape populated by shadowy, half-beast mutants…. There are no songs about ‘relationships’ or anything else vaguely connected to the sane world’s agreement about what constitutes reality; this is the stuff of dreams, and as such, they are effectively creepy and strange.” From 1999

DEERHOOF

Live "Koalamagic"

(Dual Plover) Used CD $5.00

No-pop stunners recorded between 1996 and 2000.

DEERHOOF

Milk Man

(Kill Rock Stars) Used CD $5.00

(Free Porcupine Society) Used LP $50.00

Behold the harnessing of maniacal energy, forged into seriously dense and carefully considered songwriting. Cleaner and deep production reveals Deerhoof’s commitment to letting the songs speak for themselves. Greg Saunier’s drumming is quite restrained, Chris Cohen and John Dieterich concern themselves with static harmonies and miasmatic outbursts, and Satomi Matsuzaki delivers remarkably complex vocal melodies.
CD is sealed.
LP is first pressing from 2004. Sealed

DEERHOOF

Reveille

(Global Buddy) Used LP $28.00

Limited edition, silk-screened jacket assembled with paste-ons. “Global, buddy!” business card included. Sold during Deerhoof’s tour, with handwritten-style track list sticker on the back of the jacket. Center labels are plain white. First pressing from 2002.

DEERHOOF

The Man, The King, The Girl

(Kill Rock Stars) Used CD $5.00

The early recordings on this disc by Rob Fisk (bass and guitar) Greg Saunier (drums), and Satomi Matsuzaki (vocals) took about two years to compile from zillions of practice tapes. There’s a conscious moving away from their improvisatory noise roots here, with a focus on what to the group sounds the most catchy, hi-fi, and powerful.

DEERHOOF

The Runners Four

(Children Of Hoof) Used LP $50.00

Recorded live in their Oakland rehearsal space without any post-production, The Runners Four captures the unbridled intensity and utter joy of Deerhoof live while continuing to map out the territories of their own distinct brand of pop songcraft. Sealed

DEGREASER

Bottom Feeder

(Negative Guest List) Used LP $12.00

“Dark layers of rhythm repeat and sway in a passively aggressive lurch and flop, performing a No Wave application of the time-honored Aussie trogloditian swamp-swing.”

DEGREASER

Sweaty Hands

(Negative Guest List) Used LP $12.00

The second album by Tim Evans and Rob Mayson, just as debased and sordid as the debut. “There are lots of colors here, but none you’d associate with happiness. There’s an almost malevolent pursuit of satisfaction, but the way Evans sings it’s like he’s always very far away from reaching it. He sounds like he’s keeling over, clutching a signpost, gasping for air.”

DEJA VOODOO

Cemetary

(Og Music) Used LP $20.00

Vocalist / guitarist Gerard Van Herk and the minimal drumming of Tony Dewald birthed the Montreal duo’s manic rootsy sound, dubbed “sludgebilly.” Whole lotta monsters, food, alienation, love, and death, plus covers of Wire’s “Strange”and Merle Travis’s “16 Tons.”

DEJA VOODOO

The Worst Of Deja Voodoo

(Og Music) Used LP $30.00

Rarities, 45s, compilation tracks, and many highlights: two five-second homages to Scandinavian hardcore; a trilogy of sludgified covers; the opening track “Monsters in My Garage,” with its Cramps-like mélange of distortion and humor; and “Raised By Wolves,” in which Gerard Van Herk details how he learned to howl properly.

DEJA VOODOO

Too Cool To Live, Too Smart To Die

(Midnight) Used LP $15.00

Nine tracks from 1985 performed at a turbocharged punk-tinged pace. Highlights include the herky-jerky “Take Out the Trash” and “Bugs for Christmas,” a cover of Leiber & Stoller’s “Down in Mexico,” and the duo’s signature song, a cover of the old Sun Records single “Cheese and Crackers.”

CHRIS DELAURENTI

The Night I Met Maria C

(Locust) Used CD $4.00

The fifth volume in the Met Life Location Sound series from 2003 is an “aural take on waste and getting wasted,” accomplished by pairing a field recording of Seattle City Dump Wallingford Transfer Station, unedited and complete from start to finish, with the title track, which was “aggressively edited from a single evening of drunken prowling.”

CLAUDE DELCLOO / ARTHUR JONES

Africanasia

(Get Back ) Used LP $30.00

“A trance of sorts, maintaining a propulsion best tied to spiritual jazz, moving from … from fiery avant-garde to the low key, with Arthur Jones’s beautiful sax voicings and flutes by Joseph Jarman, Kenneth Terroade, and Roscoe Mitchell always hanging about. This live recording from the late 1960s seems to twist and turn on the whims of Jones and Delcloo. Flutes largely continue the Asian sounding melody, but Delcloo comes in and kicks it up, starting a percussion wave that makes good work of Clifford Thornton’s congas, Earl Freeman’s gongs and bells, and Malachi Favors’s log drums.” 2002 reissue. 180g vinyl

DEMO-MOE

Demolish NYC

(Maldoror) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Crazed immediacy and frantic untogetherness from late ’80s New York. Imagine the Borbetomagus anti-songbook performed by early Meat Puppets.

DEMOLITION DOLL RODS

The Unauthorized

(Bulb) Used 7-inch $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

“African Lipstick” backed with “Down Home Girl” by everyone’s favorite glamtastic garage band trio. From 1994

DEMONS

Frozen Fog

(AA) Used LP $12.00

Post-hurricane synth noise by Nate Young and Steven Kenney from 2007

DEMONS / VERTONEN

Grew Up In A Drought / Live Enemy

(Crippled Intellect Productions) Used Split LP $6.00

“Brutal but highly sculpted oscillator articulations by Nate Young and Steven Kenney recorded live in Chicago 2007, backed with Blake Edwards’s high-volume grit flail.” Edition of 500

DEMONS / HATRED

Hatred / Demons

(Troubleman) Used Split LP $3.00

Nate Young with Steve Kenney of The Pterodactyls and Isis & Werewolves on one side, backed with Young, Kenney, and Spence Bryant, sounding like the motor on your turntable continually breaking down.

STUART DEMPSTER / PAULINE OLIVEROS / PANAIOTIS

Deep Listening

(New Albion) Used CD $42.00

“Recorded in a massive underground cistern in Washington State with a 45-second reverberation time, the recordings are defined by a surreal smearing of [the] tones [of accordion, voice, conch shell, metal pieces, trombone, didjeridu, garden hose, whistling, and metal pipes]. Like much of Oliveros’s and Dempster’s work around this time, most of these improvisations … focus [on] extended drones, with Dempster’s trombone and didjeridu providing the backbone. Far from evoking any sort of stasis, these tones swell and resonate actively throughout the space, and the effect is hallucinatory. Melodic lines intertwine as they ripple and decay, and momentarily raised voices seemingly emerge from within the insistent, omnipresent root…. In a contemporary context, Deep Listening still sounds revolutionary. While drone, minimalism, and ambient music have proliferated in the intervening decades, few albums in those fields are as rich texturally and harmonically or have such clarity of vision. The album remains vital largely because it embodies Oliveros’s ideas, which have themselves resurfaced as a corrective to the sinister undercurrents of social and technological advancement.” From 1989. Manufactured at Disque Americ.

DESTROMO

Destromo

(Works Fatagaga) Used CD $15.00

Three tracks of fractured noise guitar and electronics. Spray-paint stencil lettering on jewel box with glued die-cut insert and traycard. Edition of 250. Visible crack on front of jewel box.

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS

1974—1976

(Ecstatic Yod) Used 3xCD $50.00 (Out-of-stock)

Early lo-fi vintage recordings by Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara and Jim Shaw when they lived and performed at God’s Oasis in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The almost-too-good-to-be-true cream of the crop of pre-punk American Midwest weirdness.

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS

Destroy All Monsters

(Get Back ) Used LP $20.00

2009 reissue of Cherry Red’s Bored anthology from 1991

EDDY DETROIT

Black Crow Gazebo

(Assaphon) Used LP $15.00

Eight songs of twisted folk, satanic Americana, and trance voodoo magic. This adventure among the deranged psychosis of the Phoenix characters who inhabit Detroit’s world includes multiple-personality girlfriends, twisted and rogue hangers-on, and street musicians doing what they must to survive Arizona’s infernal summer heat. The side-long “Toe Sucker Beach” is a deep, trance-inducing descent into Dante’s Inferno that features Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls) on vocals, Doug Clark (Victory Acres, Feederz) on synthesizer, and Detroit on bongos—overlaid with a recording of Detroit waxing on about his extraordinary life. Edition of 400.

EDDY DETROIT

Immortal Gods

(Majora) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

1998 reissue of the debut album (Pan Records 1982) by one of the key fixtures in the Phoenix, Arizona, scene of the early ’80s. This high-water mark from within the exotic, cult, folk, beat, punk, and outsider rock musical canon was recorded with Sun City Girls’ Alan Bishop and Charles Gocher; Dan and Mary Clark (of The Feederz and Victory Acres); Paris 1942’s Jesse Srgoncik; and Brandon and Audrey Curtis. A better backing band for realizing a hot tango with Detroit’s African / voodoo / Hitchcock vision can’t be imagined. Sealed

THE DEVIANTS

This Vinyl Is Condemned

(Total Energy) Used LP $15.00

Thirteen raw psych-punk tracks recorded between 1967 and 1996, brimming with bitterness and nihilism, featuring performances from Mick Farren, Russell Hunter, Paul Rudolph, Sid Bishop, Duncan Sanderson, Twink, Larry Wallis, Wilko Johnson, Chrissie Hynde, Wayne Kramer and more. Sealed

DEVIATION SOCIAL

Compilation Tracks 1982-85 “From End To Beginning” Vol. 1

(Dais) Used LP $12.00

Primitive and raw industrial tracks previously released by Vita Nova, Aeon, Beyond The Pale, and Another Room. Experimental approach of musique concrète fused with analog synthesizers, hollow drum machines and tribal instruments. Eight-page booklet with liner notes and zine interviews republished for the first time since their original inception. Numbered edition 413/500

DEVIATION SOCIAL

Tempus / Deathwatch

(Dais) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Subtitled From End To Beginning Vol. 2, the two proper “studio” releases by this one-man industrial outfit are finally available again. With tracks from the destructive Tempus Purgatio Part 7 single (PPresence, 1984) and the Workforce / Deathwatch (PPresence, 1981). Includes zine booklet of writings and archival images. Grey vinyl. Includes download card. Edition of 500. Sealed

DEVO

Hardcore Vol. 1

(Rykodisc) Used CD $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded on various four-track machines and in tiny studios, basements and garages between 1974-1977, originally released in 1990, Devo’s pre-punk conceptual art project strips rock ’n’ roll bare of its collective cool and jerks back into propaganda and radical philosophy fit for post-modern man. Noisy synth, strangled guitar chops, grinding, pent-up energy and a primitive rhythmic thud power early Devo, beneath which are threaded lyrical themes of post-McCarthy paranoia, middle-class ephemera and lack of sex. Ten-page book of lyrics and pictures. Drilled promo.

DEVO

Now It Can Be Told

(Enigma Retro) Used 2xLP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

A semi-acoustic live set with heavily altered versions of earlier hits, recorded at The Palace during Devo’s comeback tour in 1988.

DEVO

Watch Us Work It

(MVD Audio) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Teddybears Mix, Original Demo, Karaoke Mix, and Still Workin’ Mix of the tune used in Dell laptop computer television ads, plus Devo’s mix of The Attery Squash’s “Devo Was Right About Everything.”

FRANCIS DHOMONT

Frankenstein Symphony

(Asphodel) Used CD $5.00

Stitched together fragments of other musical pieces, woven together into a coherent, workable whole, from friends and former students who gave their blessings to be part of the electroacoustic / acousmatic pioneer’s experimental venture from the late 1990s, the 64-minute piece consists of layers of tape manipulations and musique concrète, with reassuring hints of traditional harmony and melody appearing in the middle distance and then slowly transforming into something entirely different.

GIUSTINO DI GREGORIO

Sprut

(Tzadik - TZ7050) Used CD $12.00

1999 reissue of a “strange, hyperactive musical slide show” made of sampling collages, originally self-released (Goodbyeboozy 1995) by this Italian neo-primitive composer. Combining modern technology with concepts inspired by John Oswald and mystery tapes, Di Gregorio chops, mixes, and blends the known and unknown. Sealed with a promo drill mark on the jewelbox.

DIADAL

Diadal

(Hot Cars Warp Records) Used 2xLP $25.00

Sounding to Mark Allen Cam like haunting lost demos from Nico’s Marble Index, “alternated with hippie sunrise improv insanity, the first few cuts on each side are weird, skeletal, lo-fi ballads alternately sung by Rita Ackermann and Jutta Koether, sometimes in German, rounding off with a live improv jam with members of No-Neck Blues Band.” From 1998. Printed jackets with hand-made sticker collage added. First record is playable, second record is etched.

DIAL

[Retro 01]

(Eden Gully) Used CDR $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Three tracks from 2001, recorded during Dial’s only tour of New Zealand’s north island. A roaring media culture stew made from radio and shortwave transmissions.

DIAPSIQUIR

Pacta Daemoniarum / Crasse

(Hospital - HOS232) Used 2xCD $5.00

Diapsiquir's two remarkable double-albums on End All Life warrant the term avant-garde, without regard for blueprints, a rare honor. An obscure and controversial French outlaw black metal band known for their decadent activities, this 2xCD contains their first two demos -- Pacta Daemoniarum from 1999 and Crasse from 2001 -- both of which spit twisted, vociferous, manic vocals over complex, orchestrated, highly distorted chaotic metal. It never rests and is fully absorbed in the savage, sexually violent, drug-laden nihilism of French subculture.

DILLINGER

Cocaine In My Brain

(Earmark) Used 2xLP $25.00

2000 anthology combining the Charly collection with early singles cut with Lee “Scratch” Perry, tracing Dillinger’s development and subsequent rise to fame during the ’70s. Big hits and later material spotlight his mastery of funky productions as well as more hardcore, dub-inflected material. 180g vinyl.

DIMINISHED MEN

Shadow Instrumentals

(Abduction) Used LP $20.00

“From the explosive drum rolls of the opening track — Phillipe Sarde’s ‘L’appel du Vere’ from Roman Polanski’s The Tenant — to the darkly exotic finale ‘A Housewife’s Dram,’ this record from 2009 is a superbly crafted mosaic of whip-cracking vengeance, speakeasy hallucinations, and haunted geography. Italian western overtones. Carnivalesque freak show backdrops. Khorshid Egyptian guitar passages. Flipped-out electronic space psych. A thick damp fog must have been rolling in from the creek behind Randall Dunn’s West Seattle studio when these recordings were made. It sounds like the ultimate mid-’60s surf-vampire-western revival soundtrack, with elements of Joe Meek’s best Moontrekkers productions crossed with a dash of Badalamentian murder blues drama, setting the stage for Steve Schmitt’s cobra-twilight guitar work and Dave Abramson’s drum kit outlaw splatter.”

DIMTHINGS

A World Of Segregation

(Thingsflux) Used LP $22.00

“Warbling throats and marching bands, computer pop fragments…, and straightforward performance akin to the funnier European free music,” according to Brent Wilcox. On this 1984 LP, subtitled “Tunes From The Garbage,” “a few jazz-like flavors are stirred in, tapes are manipulated…, [s]tories are told, and it often almost rocks.” With His Ulterior Lux, featuring Taggart Reid and David Kayne. Paste-on cover. Includes inserts

DIMTHINGS

In Spite Of What They Say

(Thingsflux) Used LP $13.00

“Extended freeform D.I.Y. basement mutant jazz fusion,” from 1984 says Mutant Sounds, “crashing headlong into the post-Beefheart/post-Residents axis.” Garage Recording Series Volume III. Featuring Ron Brown. Containing the punk classic “Battle For Slack,” says the past-on cover.

DIMTHINGS

The Funky Mystery Rhythm

(Thingsflux) Used 12-inch $5.00

One track from 1985 – the radio version backed with the extended radio version. Sealed

DIMTHINGS

Those Unforgetable Shaman

(Thingsflux) Used LP $22.00

“[P]ost-fusion semi-free oddness w/a few rock overtones,” says Byron Coley. “It’s representative o’ the branch of unusual noise that smarter college musicians turn to when they realize that Zappa’s square. Its overall brunt is of an extreme, if self-conciously weird, soundtrack compendium for Czechoslovakian animated shorts of the early Sixties. I esp. like the bit where the ducks start playin’ recorders, makin’ the old sailors fart in unison.” With Jean Chaine and Ron Brown. Paste-on jacket. Includes inserts.

DIN A TESTBILD

Programm 2

(Mannequin) Used LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

35th anniversary repress of the classic electronic album by early pioneers of the German new wave, formed in 1978 by Mark Eins and Gudrun Gut (former member of Einstürzende Neubauten, Mania D, and Malaria!). Minimal, mid-air hyper-shuffles, cackling arpeggios, breathtaking alien electro-jazz, weird scans of surreally patched dimensions and prurient expressions, and beautiful spaciousness. Produced by Klaus Schulze and originally released on his Innovative Communication label in 1981.

DIN TRIPTYCH

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.”

DIRTY THREE

Sad & Dangerous

(Poon Village) Used LP $50.00

“A subtle but delicious introduction to the Dirty Three’s atypical sound,” according to Trouser Press. “The lead track, a spooky cover of ‘Kim’s Dirt’ by former Scientist Kim Salmon, hints at a connection between the Dirty Three and their Australian forebears, a kinship that would later become more overt. The album’s first half has a tense, low-key atmosphere, as Jim White’s sympathetic percussion and equally attuned guitar from ex-Moodist Mick Turner (who also produced the album) flesh out Warren Ellis’s violin leads. The second half heads all over the place: ‘Devil in the Hole’ is light on drama and heavy on decorative twists, ‘Jim’s Dog’ dips into jazzy waters and ‘Short Break’ is a roadrunner-paced jam. ‘You Were a Bum Dream’ forecasts Ellis’s flourishing, descriptive style and ability to set and maintain a tone.” First pressing from 1994. Silkscreened jacket

DIRTY THREE

She Has No Strings Apollo

(Touch And Go) Used LP $15.00

“The band’s tendency to start a song quiet, loose, and lovely and then slowly sweat it into a faster, intensified crescendo is familiar by now, but somehow remains vividly evocative” says All Music Guide. “The emotional road from heartbreak and regret, expressed through beating music with wailing violin, to feeling lost, heard in a song’s slow unraveling and back again is part of humanity’s oldest story. New wordless tales of woe, sadness, and things past.” First pressing from 2013. Gatefold jacket

DISC

Transfer

(Deluxe) Used LP $25.00

Featuring 10 songs and 105 locked grooves, Transfer functions as an interactive artifact to allow DJs to build more extended compositions. Transfer strikes a balance between free digital noise and structured composition in which the sounds of CDs skipping are built into extended songs. With the timeframe of locked grooves allowing only 1.8 seconds to work in, many of the locked grooves resolve into a hypnotic 4/4 techno minimalism paced at exactly 33.33 bpm, generated entirely from CD-based means. Transparent vinyl.

DISCORDANCE AXIS

Ulterior

(Ulterior) Used LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

DISLOCATION

Peak To Peak

(PSF) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Electric strings…, saxophones, electronics, and samples move with unexpected ease from meditative passages to intense blow-outs to free scatter,” says Eddie Flowers about this 1994 disc, “The wash of precision rumble and sound-tweaking that surrounds everything creates chaos from an intensely ordered technology.”

DISSOLVE

That That Is… Is (Not)

(Kranky) Used LP $30.00

“Extrapolating from the drone of Dadamah, guitarists Chris Heaphy and Roy Montgomery move into new, stark landscapes marked by spindly interplay that recalls Bruce Gilbert’s work with Dome and the crystalline structures of This Kind of Punishment.” From 1994, in paper folder cover.

DOC WÖR MIRRAN

Severe Pig

(RRRecords) Used LP $25.00

“Sounds like a punk version of the Residents with occasional ventures into white noise and folk-rock,” according to Piero Scaruffi. From 1989

DOCUMENTS / MAHAYONI MUDRA

Mahayoni Mudra / Documents

(Textile) Used Split LP $5.00

Mahayoni Mudra brings together the theremins, synths and guitars of Fred Nipi and Romses (aka Freyja) and the percussion talents of Frank de Congo (aka Franq de Quengo of Dragibus and Bimbo Tower). On the flipside, Jean Baptiste Favory, André Ménard and Bruno Fernandes are “no longer concerned with the dividing lines between music, pure sound and noise. In its quest for the power which lies suspended in the shadow zones, the group navigates along these limits without ever fixing them.”

DON CABALLERO

And And And And And And And And And And

(Third Gear) Used 7-inch $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Pittsburgh band’s dynamic, angular, and hard-driving instrumental rock from 1993. Black vinyl.

MICHEL DONEDA / ERIK M / JÉRÔME NOETINGER

Dos D’ânes

(Ronda) Used CD $8.00

Hacking away on a homemade system and twisted electronic tools, eRikm and Noetinger gleefully activate levers, tactile screens and joysticks with the utmost concentration. Doneda makes the air shake with acoustic vibrations. Together, they give free rein to their audio tricks, buzzing, interference, constructive feedback, electro-shocks, concrete slipping, hazed quotes, white noise, saturations and incisive scratches.

DONNA PARKER

Debutante

(Twisted Village) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

The debut album from 2006 by Boston noise hijacker Mary Staubitz showcases her consummate talents in manipulating amplifier feedback and guitar pedals. Hot knobs blaze and speakers speak rapture. Individually colored photocopy paste-on jacket.

DOO RAG

Chuncked And Muddled

(Bloat) Used CD $8.00

1993 debut from Tuscon’s spastic lo-fi gut-bucket garage blues duo. The wicked growl of guitarist / singer Bob Log III on acoustic and electric slide homemade dobro approximates an electrocuted McDowell on amphetamines, mixed with AC/DC. Thermos Malling’s unique microphone setups distort vocals via vacuum cleaner hose or two hairdryers, whatever it takes. For percussion, there’s a Budweiser box, a tin bucket, an old film reel, an iron shopping basket used as a hi-hat, other found objects. In white hinged box, with cover glued onto front and inside, rubberstamped. Includes patch. Autographed

DOO-DOOETTES

Look To This

(Solid Eye) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Disparate mixture of modern composition, free improvisation, musique concrète, and avant rock from 1982 by Dennis Mehaffey, Fredrik Nilsen, Harold Schroeder, Juan Gomez, Tom Recchion. Endlessly innovative and beyond fine.

DORAMAAR

Copula

(Corpus Hermeticum) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

With guitars, bass, synthesizer, organ, and drums, Kim Pieters, Sara Stephenson, Adria Morgan and Andre Richardson elegantly roll through clouds of blissful free improv noise, angular guitar abstractions, and buried distant voices.

DORAMAAR

Terra Incognita

(Fusetron) Used LP $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Kim Pieters on bass and drums, Adria Morgan on guitar and drums, and Sara Stephenson on guitar. Two collapsing epics from 1996, a glorious marriage of New Zealand no-wave-style hovering guitar and off-kilter percussion. Jacket has bent corner

LEE DORSEY

The New Lee Dorsey

(Get Back ) Used LP $13.00

2003 reissue of the former boxer and R’n’B legend’s 1966 album with Allen Toussaint, who perfectly blends funky soul with New Orleans bounce. Includes “Working In A Coalmine,” “Holy Cow,” “Ride Your Pony” and more.

DOS

Dos

(New Alliance) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Mike Watt and Kira Roessler playing bass and nothing but bass, “entangling melody lines with more sensuality than a opium den full of girl scouts.” From 1986

DOS

Numero Dos

(New Alliance) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

An EP of bass-centric duets by Mike Watt and Kira Roessler, with vocals this time (on covers of Billie Holiday’s “Don’t Explain” and Sonic Youth’s “Pacific Coast Highway).” From 1989. Jacket has upper right corner cut

DOT DOT DOT

The Dot Dot Dot Story, The Sound Track Album

(Turkey) LP $8.00

(Turkey) Used LP $4.00

Chicago-style neo-no-wave from 1995 by Jodie Mecanic, Kelly Kuvo, Rosa Perkins-Meyers. Sealed copy includes zine, used copy does not.

DOUBLE LEOPARDS

A Pebble In Thousands Of Unmapped Revolutions

(Eclipse) Used LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)

Immense, ungovernable music from 2001 that’ll turn your extremities purple. Processed voices seep through the wash of dark and hazy drones which evolve behind a primitivist mesh, slowly and organically without noticeable structure.

DOUBLE LEOPARDS

Halve Maen

(Eclipse) Used 2xLP $28.00

“The sound is an enveloping darkness, and not a gradual one, either; it comes down softly but with authority and takes hold as the twelve-and-a-half minute ‘Fatal Affront’ trips the listener into a fetal position. Utterly creepy yet primal and beautiful. Tension builds in the quiet, over-slow drones, single syllables by human voices. In its slow, meandering way, this music dares you to go further, to close out the world around you and go inside.” From 2003. Sealed

DOUBLE LEOPARDS

The Axe Helve

(Heavy Conversation) Used LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)

The group’s earliest recordings of experimental drone-based music from the late ’90s.

DOUBLE U

Absurd Fjord

(Communion) Used CD $6.00

Guttural neo-prog tales of inner journeys and outer limits. Mark Davies of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 guests on two tracks

DOWNWARDLY MOBILE RENAISSANCE MAN

Seeing The Elephant

(Regional Bears) Used Cassette $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Noise, musique concrète, and sound poetry by The Melkings’ Tom DeAngelo. C40

ARTHUR DOYLE

The Songwriter

(Ecstatic Peace) Used CD $25.00

“Sloppy and fun, but meant to be taken seriously, Doyle is at his best when playing the saxophone, where simple melodies explode into a fury of squawking.” From 1995

ARTHUR DOYLE ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE

Plays The African Love Call

(Ecstatic Yod) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Two performances from 1999 at The Bug Jar and Astrocade, released 2001. Dave Cross, Tim Poland, Ed Wilcox, John Schoen and R. Nuuja. Magic beauty from the darkness. Sticker cover, bumpersticker inside.

ARTHUR DOYLE PLUS 4

Alabama Feeling

(DRA) Used CD $65.00

“In late 1977, Arthur Doyle brought his quintet to New York to play at the Brook, a loft space on West 17th Street managed by Charles Tyler, with whom Doyle formed the label Dra that same year. The saxophonist / flautist / vocalist was joined by old friends from his hometown of Birmingham — Charles Stephens on trombone and Rashied Sinan on drums. Sinan turned up with a student of his, Bruce Moore, ‘to give it more rhythmic feel,’ and Richard Williams was brought in on Fender bass to take on both drummers. From the opening, splendidly titled “November 8th or 9th — I Can’t Remember When,” Alabama Feeling pounds the listener into the ground with thrilling energy; dreadful sound quality perfectly suits the no wave ethos of the period.” This 1998 reissue includes liner notes by Rudolph Grey

THE DR. GRETCHEN MUSICAL WEIGHTLIFTING PROGRAM

Plays The Universal Indians

(American Tapes) Used LP (one-sided) $50.00

Record housed in a painted sheet metal sleeve from 1998. Other side of vinyl has a full screen printed design.

DRAGON OR EMPEROR

Dragon or Emperor

(Pickled Egg) Used CD $4.00

Stewart Brackley of Black Carrot and Aaron Moore of Volcano the Bear make a drum and bass racket version of Pere Ubu meets Lightening Bolt. From 2006

CHARLIE DRAHEIM

Live

(Raoul’s Left Ear) Used CDR $5.00

Two live recordings from Ohio and Michigan, plus “Wasted Time,” a seven-minute track decomposed by Silvum in 2006. Numbered edition 76/80

CHARLIE DRAHEIM

Possession

(Tone Filth - TF20) Used LP $13.00

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.

HAMID DRAKE / SABIR MATEEN

Brothers Together

(Eremite) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

On “this reeds’n’traps free jazz duo workout” from 2002, “there are four long tracks, of which the first is superbly arresting, mixing hard bop with afro-funk in a way which makes it seem they always belonged together, while on the final track Mateen quotes from Carmen,” marvels Jazz Review, touching “all sorts of bases along the way…. A fine example of a rarified but highly rewarding area of music, this goes next to Roach/Braxton, Maslak/Moffett and indeed Coltrane/Ali, where it surely belongs.” Clipped corner

THE DRAMATICS

$50,000

(Menlo Park) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

“This Baltimore-based junk-rock duo harnessed the spirit of no-wave in 1997,” notes Yellow Red Green, “years before the resurgence, in their own particular fashion: tuneless percussion, wild fumbling, squelched guitars, thrift-store guitar, shaken cans of beans, children’s electronic toys, some high-pitched babbling. Truly a fine freakout.” Paste-on cover with collage elements, Magik Marker, glue, and glitter.

DREAM SEQUENCE

Cosmic Eye

(Sound Edition) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Modal jazz-meets-world-music recorded in 1972, reissued 2013, under-pinned with traditional Indian instrumentation and structure, resulting in a hypnotic, psychedelic excursion. Two side-long jazz ragas showcase Amancia D’Silva’s soulful guitar playing reminiscent of his earlier ’60s sessions, as well as his session work for the Bollywood film industry under the musical directors Laxmikant-Pyarelal. With obi. 180-gram vinyl

DREDD FOOLE

A Long Losing Battle With Eloquence And Intimance

(Ecstatic Yod) Used LP $4.00

Seven songs from 2005 by Dan Ireton on vocals and acoustic guitar.

DREDD FOOLE AND THE DIN

The Whys of Fire

(Ecstatic Yod) Used CD $5.00

“An overlooked 2003 album that features fretwork from Thurston Moore, percussion by Chris Corsano, and additional backing from Patrick Best, Mike Gangloff, and Jack Rose of Pelt,” notes Tiny Mix Tapes, “Produced and mastered by Jim O'Rourke with vocals, drums, and any other incidental backing instrumentation buried way down in the mix. Dan Ireton’s lyrics are almost entirely incomprehensible and constitute, in essence, an eerie howling and wailing. Buried under heavy feedback, dense bursts of overlapping, overdriven guitar skronk, extraordinarily liberal use of reverb, bowed and scraped guitar strings, prepared and treated instruments.”

ARNOLD DREYBLATT / THE ORCHESTRA OF EXCITED STRINGS

Nodal Excitation

(India Navigation) Used LP $35.00 (Out-of-stock)

Repetition and rhythm explored to fastidious degrees, this quintessential 1982 study in minimalism with a small ensemble performing on Dreyblatt’s modified string instruments, which are hammered in art-brut fashion, resulting in a deep and complex array of overtones and harmonics, is a vital recording, essential to listeners with both passing and in-depth interests in minimalist and avant-garde music. With price sticker on front cover.

ARNOLD DREYBLATT

Point Source / Lapse

(Table Of The Elements) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00

Point Source sounds like a cross between minimalism and post-rock (with Dreyblatt on “excited bass,” Jim O’Rourke on drums, David Grubbs and Kevin Drumm on guitars, and Maureen Loughnare on violin). Lapse is traditional Dreyblatt string-based minimalism. From 2003. Clear vinyl

ARNOLD DREYBLATT

Turntable History

(Important) Used CD $5.00

A recording of a 40-minute multi-channel sound composition conceived as part of an audio-visual installation in the circular vaulted brick space of a historical water container in Berlin in 2009. Harmonically resonating, pulsating signals derived from recordings made by Arnold Dreyblatt of a Magnetic Resonance Imagining Scanner (Siemens Magnetom Symphony Maestro Class) in a radiological practice in Berlin.

DROOGS

Stone Cold World

(Plug N Socket) Used LP $15.00

First full-length album from 1984 by this Los Angeles proto-punk band, who pound out bluesy garage rock variously resembling early Stones, Yardbirds, Seeds. Produced by Earle Mankey. Sealed

KEVIN DRUMM

Comedy

(Moikai) Used CD $8.00

“Firmly in line with monster-minimalists Tony Conrad and Phil Niblock, with extrapolations of microscopic detail familiar to fans of Bernhard Gunter and the Mego scene.”

KEVIN DRUMM

Imperial Distortion

(Hospital - HOS134) 2xCD $16.75 (Out-of-stock)

(Hospital - HOS134) Used 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.
White vinyl.

KEVIN DRUMM

Imperial Horizon

(Hospital - HOS251) Used CD $11.00 (Out-of-stock)

Imperial Horizon examines sustained tone in greater depth than Drumm's previous Hospital benchmark, Imperial Distortion, stretching out minimalism to unreached heights of serene ambience. Lulling electronic drones slowly transform over the course of the hour-plus piece, echoing both an existential terror and Zen calm. Mutations grow so quietly, only the body opens to identify this change while the mind closes. The ephemeral and seeming lightness of the tones hang with taut balance in contrast to the method in which they are overlapped and rotated with deadly weight. How wildly divergent emotions rise, hover, and fall using so little is a mystery only Drumm can solve.

KEVIN DRUMM

Land Of Lurches

(Hanson) Used LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

Ugly behemoth-core freak-out from 2003 by the Chicago sound proctologist. Two twenty-minute tracks of diuretic hailstorm delivered in the spirit of heavy metal with maximum power, maximum volume, and maximum nerve bake. Like having your body ripped apart by rabid animals before a screaming, sellout crowd of frenzied onlookers. Edition of 500

DRUNK ELK

Seneca's Last Breath

(Quemada) Used 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?

DRUNK ELK

Under Neon Lights

(Wormwood Grasshopper - WG01) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

DRUNKS WITH GUNS

Drunks With Gun

(Chopper) Used LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

Mid-’80s rampage and negative energy courtesy of “Mike Doskocil’s obnoxious mouth, Stan Seitrich’s Flipper / Black Flag / Sabbath guitar and the massive dumbo rhythm section of bassist Mike DeLeon and drummer Fred Broadhacker…, the greatest punk band ever to bulldoze St. Louis.” Tracks from their self-titled debut seven-inch (Cheap Beer 1985), the Thirst For Knowledge EP (Cheap Beer 1985), and “a super-slow epic ode to suburban gluttony called ‘Wonderful Subdivision’.” Plain black cover, plain black labels, with band photo insert sheet.

MARCEL DUCHAMP

Entire Musical Work of Marcel Duchamp

(Ampersand) Used CD $20.00

Predating the work of John Cage (it was composed in 1913), this radical experimental composition employs chance operations and non-musical sounds. “Erratum Musical” and “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors” were realized by the S.E.M. Ensemble in 1976 (Petr Kotik, alto flute; James Kasprowicz, trombone; William Lyon Lee, celesta; John Bondler, glockenspiel), and was previously released in 1976 on Multhipla Records. S.E.M.’s soft, slow-motion studies bear similarities to Cage, Christian Wolff, and Morton Feldman. Booklet from this 2000 reissue contains notes by Kotik.

DUCKTAILS

Ducktails

(Not Not Fun) Used LP $12.00

“Crazy talented suburban New Jersey post-teen Matt Mondanile serves up masterpiece after blasterpiece of shimmering, smoke-and-mirrors exotic fantasia, rainbow psych-pop muzak for imaginary helicopter rides over crystal lagoons and lost waterfalls. Lazy island percussion loops under blissed horizons of hovering synth colors, warm jangly wah-wah guitars lap like waves alongside casual hammock-chilling vocals; song titles like “Beach Point Pleasant” and “Dancing With The One I Love” further articulate Mondanile’s mood agenda: maxin’ & relaxin’. Cover artwork by Jan Anderzen (of Kemialliset Ystavat and Tomuttontu).” First pressing from 2009 with insert

DUET EMMO

Or So It Seems

(Mute) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

“A sometimes unharmonious, but sometimes inspired clash of Dome’s noise-led experimentation and Daniel Miller’s synth-pop leanings” is how Craig Grannell sees it. “Apart from a few pieces that rely on the technology of its time…, this release … transcend[s] the decades, often sounding as fresh and original now as it must have back in 1983.” Price tag on the jacket.

DUMB AND THE UGLY

Atmospheres Of Metal

(Dr Jim's - DRJIM06) Used CD $15.00

Monstrous riffs expand and evolve into sheer sinister ambience, shortwave sounds, distorted operatic singing, underwatery drones, power electronics and various tape fuckery zones before delivering the lumbering thud-rock punch. From 1992.

DUMP

I Can Hear Music

(Brinkman) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Yo La Tengo bassist James McNew’s second full-length release as Dump plays up the lo-fi elements of his one-man-band recordings with deliberate distortion and tape glitches, but it’s overall a bit poppier and less experimental; arrangements are heavy on the weedy synths and inexpensive drum machines, which adds to the homemade charm. Sealed

DUMP

Superpowerless

(Brinkman) Used CD $4.00

Modest, fuzzy, loser-happy indie pop from the early ’90s by James McNew of Yo La Tengo.

DUMP

That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice?

(Shrimper) Used CD $25.00

Prince covers by James McNew of Yo La Tengo. From 2001. Sealed

JOHN DUNCAN

First Recordings 1978-1985 V1.2

(Vinyl on Demand) Used 5xLP + 7-inch $100.00

Includes: Organic (AQM / LAFMS, 1979); Creed (AQM, 1980); Kokka (AQM, 1982-3; Music You Finish (Pinakotheca, 1982); Supplement (AQM, 1983); Riot (AQM, 1984); Probe (Assemblée Générale 5, 1985); Move Forward (Pleasure Escape, 1984); Brutal Birthday Soundtrack (AQM, 1985); Phantom (AQM, 1985); Purge (Beast 666 Tapes, 1987); Early Cooperation Works (LAFMS, 1978-1979). Edition of 600

JOHN DUNCAN

River In Flames / Klaar

(Staalplaat) Used 2xCD $50.00

Beautiful acousmatic work with Orjan Hendriksson, Zbigniew Karkowski and Andrew McKenzie. River In Flames has rhythmic loops, fax machines, Morse code, exceptionally deep bass, sharp interruptions, a long electronic wash, electric buzzes that confine the listener in a center of white noise. Klaar alternates electroacoustic sources between loud and soft, with heavy use of ambient recordings; loops of circling electronics mix with voices and found sounds smooth the road into a sort of mantra; radio frequencies immerse in a sea of clicks, pops and explosions of a desperate mob. 32-page book of Duncan’s writing and photography.

JOHN DUNCAN / MICHAEL ESPOSITO / Z'EV

There Must Be A Way Across This River / The Abject

(Fragment Factory - FRAG20) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Fragment Factory - FRAG20) Used LP $16.00

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

JOHN DUNCAN / KONTAKTE DER JUNGLINGE / C.M. VON HAUSSWOLF

Untitled

(Die Stadt - DS104) CD $22.50 (Out-of-stock)

(Die Stadt - DS104) Used CD $11.00

A collection of live recordings. Duncan’s was made at The Compound in San Francisco 2007. Kontakt der Jünglinge’s (aka Asmus Tietchens and Thomas Köner) is an excerpt from their live performance at Mutek Festival, Montreal, 2003. C.M. Von Hausswolff recorded his at All Tomorrows Parties, London, 2005.

DUOTRON

Duotron Vs. Tom Smith

(Menlo Park) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Dub-inflected cri de coeur from 1997.

ZSOLT DURKÓ

Halotti Beszed

(Hungaraton) Used LP $6.00

Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducted by György Lehel. “Chamber Music” with Lantos István and Tusa Erszébet on pianos, and “Burial Prayer Oratorio” with Fülöp Attila singing tenor, Ütő Endre singing bass, and Chorus Of The Hungarian Radio And Television. From 1976. Clipped corner

DUST

Dust

(Akarma) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

2004 reissue of guitar-driven hard’n’heavy psych rock from 1971 by this power trio that just crunches.

DUSTDEVILS

Geekdrip

(Matador) Used LP $8.00

Menacing rattle. Daring, labyrinthine arrangements. Created in England, shelved by Fundamental, mastered from a cassette tape and issued in 1990 after a return to NYC.

DUSTDEVILS

Gutter Light

(Fundamental) Used LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Screeching, alien chords by Michael Duane. Jacqui Dulaney’s slashing-to-soaring voice. Grit and decay, energy and exhilaration from 1988.

DUSTDEVILS

Rhenyard’s Grin

(Rouska) Used LP $5.00

Chiming, steely detuned guitars. Glorious howls slathered with buzz and murk. Lotta no wave and Branca-adjacent themes. It was 1987.

DUSTDEVILS

Struggling Electric And Chemical

(Teenbeat) Used LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The anthemic intro to “Throw the Bottle Full” and the boiling coda of “The Revenge of Cruiser Gurner” catapult the quartet’s songwriting and rhythmic prowess to a higher plane. A long-overdue interpretation of the Fall’s “Hip Priest” swings with feedback and slop. From 1990. Paper jacket with ring crease

DUSTDEVILS

The Dropping Well

(Rouska) Used 12-inch $6.00

Initially appearing in a toned-down version on a 1987 flexi, “Mother Shipton” is here elongated into a treble-frenzied ear-shredder for the A-side, backed with two less excessive though still volume- and harshness-emphasized tracks. Price tag on the back cover

DOMINIC DUVAL / JOHN HEWARD / JOE MCPHEE

Undersound

(Leo - LR295) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Joined by McPhee on soprano and tenor saxophones and Heward on drums and kalimba, Duval steers the trio through mostly short free improvisations to many of which there is a quietness, though hardly a lack of intensity. Heward’s carefully constructed, prodding kicks urge on his compatriots. Duval's distorted, squeaky bass lines weave in and out. The stunning McPhee swings, stretches, and instantaneously composes at virtually any tempo or level of dynamics.

DWARVES

Horror Stories

(Voxx) Used LP $40.00

The sound and approach from their days as a Chicago-based teen garage-rock Sonics-style outfit The Suburban Nightmare carries over somewhat on the debut release by The Dwarves, released in 1986. Almost immediately, they transformed into lunatics known for trails of blood issuing from self-inflicted gashes, drug stories unparalleled since Keith Richards’ heyday, bizarre stage-show sex acts, and 15-minute-long live shows.

DWARVES

Toolin’ For A Warm Teabag

(Nasty Gash) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Devotees of the track “Lucifer’s Crank,” look no further for the band’s heaviest and most unlistenable version. This 1988 album marks the beginning of the demented, sick, and twisted Dwarves every one recognizes and avoids.

BOB DYLAN

Another Side Of Bob Dylan

(Sundazed) Used LP $15.00

“The … procession of protest songs on The Times They Are A-Changin’ made for a rather uniform experience, [while on this 1964 album] each track has something unique and worthwhile to offer,” promises Evan Lublinski, “humorous interludes, striking poetic imagery, insightful lyrics…. [A] true masterpiece. “ Mono 2002 reissue on 180-gram vinyl. Sealed

BOB DYLAN

Bob Dylan

(Columbia) Used LP $10.00

“Other white folksingers of the early 1960s … incorporated blues in their work,” explains Brude Eder, “but Dylan’s presentation was more in your face…. There’s a punk-like aggressiveness to the singing and playing here. His raspy-voiced delivery and guitar style were modeled largely on Woody Guthrie’s classic ’40s and early ’50s recordings, but the assertiveness of the bluesmen he admires also comes out, making this one of the most powerful records to come out of the folk revival of which it was a part. 1975 repress of 1962 LP

BOB DYLAN

The Times They Are A-Changin’

(Sundazed) Used LP $13.00

Dylan’s third album, originally released in 1964, “tempers his sense of humor considerably,” according to Stephen Thomas Erlewine, in favor of concentraing on social protest.” Mono reissue, 180-gram, with two inserts.

DAVE DYMANT / LEE RANALDO

New Life After Fire (For Thom Thomson)

(Art Metropole) Used CD $8.00

The complete set from a live performance in Toronto 2001, ranging from quiet ambience to destructo wall-of-noise. Playing alongside his own experimental films, Ranaldo coaxes a wide range of sounds from his guitar while pre-recorded voices from prepared tapes float in and out of the mix. Working with a sampler and CD deck, Dyment adds bursts of noise and ambient bed-tracks. Edition of 500

DÜPLO

Slingringsmonn

(Safe As Milk) Used LP $5.00

Improvised music from 2000 on the border between noise and electroacoustic by Jon Øvstedal, Gaute Sortland and Andreas Meland on synthesizer, tape recorders, antiquarian sampler, theremin, corrupted analog equipment, and found objects. Edition of 300

EASTENBURIA

Eastenburia

(Japan Overseas) Used LP picture disc $10.00

From an effects-heavy improv session comes this eccentric, experimental tribal work by Yoshimi of Boredoms and OOIOO, David Nuss of No-Neck Blues Band, Daikichi Yoshida of Psycho Baba, and Rita Ackerman, who also did the artwork. Clear PVC sleeve with sticker.

EAT SKULL

Sick To Death

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $10.00

Mashed together trashy art-punk, weirdo fuzz-garage, skuzzy punk-pop, Kiwi garage-rock and off-kilter bedroom-strum. Sealed

EATER

The Album

(Get Back ) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

1998 reissue of a ridiculous classic (The Label 1977), packed with songs about daydreams, hot girls in math class, and bad-taste fantasies of prostitutes and necrophilia, all sounding about the same, played with one stiff, light-speed beat, snotty vehemence, adolescent energy, and gleeful destructiveness. Andy Blade leads the charge with a mush-mouthed shout, and the spit flying from his lips is almost audible. Ian Woodcock’s bass provides no low end whatsoever, nimbly downstroking with a comical treble tone, and guitarist Brian Chevette is all slop, thrashing out trashy fuzz and struggling to keep up with the temper tantrum beat by drummers Dee Generate and Phil Rowland. Sealed

RUDOLF EB.ER / JOKE LANZ

Akustische Aktion - Zürich 1991

(Pan) Used LP $30.00

In which him from Sudden Infant and him from Runzelstirn &G bite, chew, smack, gulp and slurp. Instead of decay and corruption, Lanz and Eb.er deliver a true and undiluted composition of this existential act of annihilation, because they “believe what we are doing is right, because we are endeavoring to remain true. We want to create no false illusions, no sickly aesthetic or anything beautiful. We want to find things that we are not even looking for and we wish to unite them together to form a new reality.” Mission accomplished.

ECHOKRANK

Echokrank

(Klangkrieg) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Echokrank roam through harsh techno with a childlike fondness of both simple melodies and ridiculous synth sounds…. [O]bvious synthetic sounds … from the cheapest noise-making machines (children's toys, LED-games, disposable digital watches) … being used to make instrumental pop-music. Freaky, but pure genius.” Seam split on spine

JULIA ECKHARDT / MANU HOLTERBACH

Do-Undo (in G maze)

(Helen Scarsdale - HMS018) Used CD $13.00

Do-Undo emerged out of Q-O2 Werkplaats, a sound-art laboratory of sorts based in Brussels, where Julia Eckhardt, one of the artistic directors, has built an archive of recordings of long-form viola pieces played exclusively in G. Sound-artist, field recordist, and ingenious instrument builder Manu Holterbach, who has taken part in several Q-O2 residencies, reconstitutes her recordings which, on their own, seek the rich if occasionally dissonant overtones central to the minimalist works of Tony Conrad, Phill Niblock, Eliane Radigue, and Ellen Fullman. Holterbach populates his compositions with field recordings, turbulent textures and bristling movements that sympathetically weave amid the rasping drones from the viola. On a technical level, Holterbach’s field recordings on his composition “Two stasis made out of electricity” -- an arc lamp, the Parisian subways, an electric powerplant -- all naturally buzz with the same G of Eckhardt’s viola, without the benefit of digital pitch shifting. The resulting drones transcend conceptualism and strategic intent, and instead make no differentiation between the environment (man-made or otherwise) and the academy. Limited edition with letter-pressed covers.

HERBERT EIMERT

Epitaph Für Aikichi Kuboyama / Sechs Studien

(Wergo - 67332) Used CD $15.00

Powerful spoken-word based tribute to Japanese fisherman Aikichi Kuboyama, who died of radiation poisoning incurred when the first hydrogen bomb was tested in the South Pacific in 1954, paired with seven studies derived from the same source material, using only abstract musical sounds in a spectrum where the spoken word can no longer be recognized.

EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN

Feurio!

(Rough Trade) Used 12-inch $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

The title track and a remix from their late ’80s album Haus der Luge, plus the previously unreleased "Partymucke," composed for the theater play Andi.

EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN

Heiner Müller's Die Hamletmaschine

(Ego) Used CD $10.00

The soundtrack for Müller’s postmodern cut-up play, recorded for East German radio in 1990. Monologues and stage directions incorporate alien routines (every word of the play is here, in German, of course; another voice recites the directions. When Ophelia laughs on the page, it’s read aloud but no laugh proceeds), changes in perspective and soundstaging resemble film edits and heighten the schizoid nature of the enterprise, while the protagonist’s bleak prognosis and the junkyard aesthetic, not surprisingly, is a perfect fit for Neubauten, who frequently interrupt their workshop percussion and overlay a jumble of voices. A few elements (slammed buckets, low-end piano notes, electronic pedal points, machine wails) circulate on various tasks, but avoid interacting with the rhythms of Hamlet’s speeches recited by Blixa Bargeld. Digipak.

EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN

Strategies Against Architecture II

(Mute - 61100-4) Used Cassette $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Their second annotated retrospective, with tracks from 1984 to 1990. c90.

EIRE APPARENT

Sun Rise

(Akarma) Used LP $20.00

Italian reissue of the sole album by this Irish group from the late 1960s. Blues-y hard-rock psych with guest appearances by Jimi Hendrix (who also produces), Noel Redding, and Robert Wyatt.

HALIM EL-DABH

Crossing Into The Electric Magnetic

(Without Fear) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Early recordings from electronic music pioneer whose work predates musique concrete. He combines everything from Native American music to opera to chanting to Egyptian mythology into fascinating fever dream. Most tracks are from 1959 at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (Otto Luening is on one track), but one is from 1944 at Middle East Radio Station of Cairo, another is an excerpt from a piece made walking around San Marco Basilica in Venice in 1961 with a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and another manipulated audiotape / sound sculpture piece was recorded in a New York art gallery circa 1974. Twelve-page book with liner notes by Mike Hovancsek.

EL-G

Mil Pluton

(Hundebiss - HO17) Used LP $19.00

Laurent Gérard has evolved beyond conventional language and now works with an Esperanto-like form of alien linguistics in front of a sonic mass of EBM-esque rhythms, musique concrète-style editing, hypnotic spirals, dense layers of swampy electronics. 150g vinyl.

EL-RON

Are Dangdut Kings

(Records) Used LP $4.00

Experimental lo-fo noise by Russ Newman and Keith Fullerton Whitman under the Danish pseudonyms Ugo Fleischer-Michaelsen and Bondo Smed-Vagn.

ELECTRIC EELS

Eyeball of Hell

(Scat) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

With clothing held together with rat traps and safety pins, Marshalls covered in fiberglass, a lawnmower, and songs like “You’re Full of Shit,” The Electric Eels were unabashedly confrontational, angry, absurd, desperate, and self-destructive, swapping abrasive three-chord rock of utter despair with free improv.

ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN

What, Me Worry?

(Akarma) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

2011 reissue of the only solo release by multi-instrumentalist Paolo Tofani of Area. A satisfying mix of psychedelia and progressive rock.

ELEH / PAULINE OLIVEROS

The Beauty Of The Steel Skeleton / Drifting Depths

(Important) Used LP $25.00

An improvised piece made on a harmonica being processed through Oliveros’s Expanded Instrument System, backed with a super slow melodic drone full of stillness, tension, and relief. 200g vinyl. Letterpressed paste-on jacket. # 668/760

LEIF ELGGREN

Latrine

(Firework Edition) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Scandinavian performance / composition iconoclast’s speech impedimentia heralds his highly idiosyncratic noise -- personal field recordings from on the toilet and reworked and adapted for the sound installation Avträde in conjunction with the group show Transformation at Karlsborg Castle, Sweden, during the summer of 2000.

LEIF ELGGREN

The Cobblestone Is The Weapon of the Proletariat

(Firework Edition) Used CD $10.00

Source material is a single recording made while throwing a cobblestone on the street outside Firework Edition, Stockholm June 15, 2001. Booklet includes an excerpt from a conversation between Jim Haynes and Elggren from Activating the Medium at SFMOMA, San Francisco February 2003. Sealed

EMACIATOR

Coveting

(Not Not Fun) Used LP $7.00

Five exquisite compositions (including two particularly riveting songs that were debuted live at Echo Curio) in 40 harrowing minutes of troubled solace, crisscrossing suicide guitar lines, and entranced self-reflection. Black vinyl. Edition of 430.

EMBRYO / NO-NECK BLUES BAND

Embryonnck

(Staubgold) Used CD $8.00

New York mavericks and Munich-based Krautrock legends explore the indigenous urban music phenomenon on this collaboration from 2006, melding forays into experimental, blues, Middle Eastern, Turkish and African musics. “A sweet, innocent recording, with improvisations that pulsate with the warmth of breathing bodies, conjuring images of flower children and the haze of drugs.” Includes 24-page booklet with photos and liner notes.

EMERALDS

Allegory of Allergies

(Weird Forest) Used 2xLP $40.00

“A crumbling labyrinth at once humid and frigid, crammed to the gills with moss, lichen, cobwebs, brick dust, rotting boards, peeling paint, and narrow shafts of light,” says Chris Madak about this “blurry and bleary vision, in which John Elliott, Steve Hauschildt, and Mark McGuire improvise on synths, guitar, voice, and tapes like three cats batting at an enormous Calder mobile, a sound thoroughly native to the moldering interiors and indigenous dystopian / psychedelic culture of the American Rust Belt. Emeralds are possessed of a slow-burning, Cluster-like sense of patience, an accompanying willingness to assume the appearance of burbling sideways in low gear while stealthily turning the universe on its edge, a rare mastery of perspective and scale, and an ability to make audible the slipperiness of the slope between harmony and timbre.” Sealed

EMERALDS

Emeralds

(Hanson - HN200) CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Hanson - HN200) Used LP $40.00

Emeralds’ thick drone sound in an abstract and strange place. An intense journey that drops you off in a place just beyond death. With field recording contributions from Aaron Dilloway.
LP vinyl is dark green.

EMERALDS

Solar Bridge

(Hanson - HN183) CD $12.75 (Out-of-stock)

(Hanson - HN183) Used LP $30.00

The trio's first full-length after numerous cassette and CDR releases on American Tapes, Chondritic Sound, Wagon and Gneiss Things. The side-long "Magic" builds a quiet drone into an extreme thick saw blade of swirling noise as beautiful as it is menacing. The side-long flip "The Quaking Mess" stabs your brain with fluttering sparks of synthesized needles before relaxing you into a Göttschingesque dream state while slowly bringing you back to earth with an electronic wave of molten rumble. Fans of the smooth tones of New Age Of Earth-era Ash Ra Tempel and the buzzing, thick drones of Throbbing Gristle's Heathen Earth should take note, as Emeralds may be their new source for electronic drugs.

EMIL BEAULIEAU

Dedicated To Charlie Ward

(Pure) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

The four-tonearmed Minutoli turntable plays excerpts from assorted Stomach Ache releases by Faxed Head, Pork Queen, Jeff Dugan, P.69 Deflower, Jaunties, Bringdownzz, Omit, Steeplesnakes, etc.

EMIL BEAULIEAU

Memories

(Pure) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Noise collaboration with Haters, Asmus Tietchens, Juntaro Yamanuchi, Schimpfluch Gruppe.

EMPEROR

Emperial Vinyl Presentation

(Candlelight) Used 5xLP (picture disc) $200.00

2001 reissues of Emperor (1993), Wrath of the Tyrant (1992), In The Nightshade Eclipse (1994), Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (1997), IX Equilibrium (1999), Emperor Live Ceremony (1999). Eight-page booklet. Edition of 3000. Sealed

EMPTY GRAVE / NEW YORK AGAINST THE BELZEBU / PURE NOISE

3 Way Grindcorenoise

(Latincore - 002) Used Split CD $5.00

One-hundred-seventy-two songs.

EN NIHIL

Blood Dreams

(Pure - PURE47) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Bass-heavy bombast from the center of a nauseating typhoon of power electronics. Interminable, unadulterated misery from 1997.

THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE / UNEARTHLY TRANCE

Unearthly Trance / The Endless Blockade

(Chrome Peeler - CPR11) Used Split LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

New York doom metal juggernaut Unearthly Trance offers up a sidelong onslaught of d-beat and doom before plummeting deep into the noise depths, while Toronto's The Endless Blockade combines power-violence and power-electronics to brutal effect, including a Slogun cover.

ENKIDU

Hasselt

(Turtles' Dream - TDCD03) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

With Chie Mukai, Eric Cordier, Seiichi Yamamoto. From 2003.

ENKIDU

Live In Kyoto

(Locust) Used 2xLP $20.00

On this 2004 recording Seiichi Yamamoto (Omoide Hatoba, Boredoms), Eric Cordier, and Chie Mukai (Ché-SHIZU) start with isolated squawks and work up to what sounds like a bunch of chickens getting their necks wrung by robots, eventually lifting off into a proper noise-out in which waves of noise approach, recede and disappear down a wubby plughole. 180g vinyl. Silkscreened jacket. Sealed

ENSEMBLE ECONOMIQUE

Standing Still Facing Forward

(Amish) Used LP $6.00

“Brian Pyle’s compositional process utilizes found sounds, field recordings, and musical performances edited, layered, and looped in the studio.” From 2010. With paper obi

ENTOURAGE MUSIC AND THEATRE ENSEMBLE

Entourage Music And Theatre Ensemble

(Folkways) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Experimental, ambient, new age, proto-world music from early ’70s Baltimore, made to accompany multi-media performance art pieces. Sealed with drill hole.

ERASE ERRATA

Other Animal

(Troubleman) Used LP $10.00

Erase Errata rock hard and smart, with unimpeachable beats. “Combining the jumble of DNA, the snarling vox of the Scissor Girls, and the leaping bass of the Birthday Party,” notes Pitchfork, “They have just the right ratio of catchiness to antagonism…. [T]heir first full-length … almost topples itself with cranky excitement…. No moment goes without movement — there’s a sense of nervous anticipation in each drum’s snap. Jenny Hoysten’s carefully controlled sing-speak vocals have that blessed Kim Gordon tunelessness that sometimes stress into vibrato-heavy upturn.… Like the Gang of Four [or] Josef K…, Errata Errata pulls energy from the ever-bountiful over soul of dissatisfaction we’ve hid in our minds for the day to day. Channeled to a challenging rock context, it’s simultaneously dead serious and hideously absurd.” From 2001. Sealed

ERASERGUN / MALLEMUCK

Erasergun / Mallemuck

(Sillybird) Used Split LP $5.00

Mallemuck’s Ken Stockwell tears through pop music with chainsaw guitars and leaves in his wake superb slop and overthunk plump. On the flip, Erasergun leans and lurches into the darker side of black and blue notes. From 1996. Hand-silkscreened jacket.

TOM ERBE / CHRIS MANN / LARRY POLANSKY / DOUGLAS REPETTO / CHRISTIAN WOLFF

Trios

(Pogus) Used CD $8.00

“Mann’s Schwitters-like Dadaist texts haunt the background,” says Exclaim, “Swept around by the mutated sounds of bent guitars and time-lag piano. Machine noises are netted overtop and through, lending constant awareness of technology’s plastic fingerprints all over the process. Each track possesses an identity all its own, different tempos, balances, densities, but the album as a whole has a consistency of vision likely not present at the music original moment of creation.” From 2004

ERL

Erl

(Erl) Used LP $45.00

“Two untitled sidelong tracks of Dead-C-esque free-improv guitar rock” is how our friends at KFJC describe this 1993 platter by Jack Wingate and Dave Belem. “Jagged riffs drenched in feedback and reverb, heavy droning chords and frenetic noodling. A definite crowd-pleaser.” Recycled jacket, spray-painted. With insert. Numbered edition 49/100

HÜSEYIN ERTUNÇ TRIO

Mûysikî

(Barn Re-leasing) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Released in 1974 on Intex Records, this cosmic free jazz improvisation by legendary trio guided by drummer Ertunç (with Michael Cosmic and Phil Musra on reeds, piano, organ and additional percussion) highlights the group’s primitive and physical approach. Massive cymbals and drumming build a carpet of trance-driving vibe where the reeds freely dance without any structure. A new world of improvisational freedom. 1990s reissue.

ESO STEEL

Technology Of Sleep

(20city) Used LP $5.00

Richard Francis manipulates environmental and contact microphone recordings through a poetic, almost intuitive sensibility. Electrical buzzing, fizzing drones, crisp crackles, and amplified tiny textural striations. From 2001

ESOTERICA LANDSCAPES 7

Hokmah Nistarah

(Anomie) Used LP $25.00

Fantastic, otherworldly soundscapes from 1990 by Tim Sternat, Jim Wilson and Bonnie McNairn (later of Voice Of Eye), working with violin, trumpet, guitar, bass, samples, sheet metal, vocals and lots of effects. With three inserts.

ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO

Esplendor Geometrico

(Vinyl on Demand) Used 3xLP $80.00 (Out-of-stock)

Early recordings and rarities from Eg1 cassette (Datenverarbeitung 1981), El Acero Del Partido LP (Tic Tac 1982), Necrosis En La Poya seven-inch (Tic Tac 1981), their first demo cassette from 1980, and a previously unreleased live recording from Andújar 1986. Does not include seven-inch. Numbered edition 387/500

ESSENTIAL LOGIC

Beat Rhythm News

(Rough Trade) Used LP $30.00

Bubbling, herky-jerky rhythms and gleeful honking from 1979 — the sound of five young English musicians disassembling rock’n’roll and remaking it in an entirely new way. With record shop price tag from 1983 on the front.

ETERNAL ELYSIUM

Spiritualized D

(MeteorCity) Used LP $35.00

Recommended by Metal Archives “if you are a Sabbath fan, or just a fan of ’70s hard rock, psychedelic rock, or even curious about the Japanese stoner rock scene.” From 2000. Blue vinyl

ETERNAL TAPESTRY

Mystic Induction

(Not Not Fun) Used LP $24.00

Two sides of glowing garden shroom-harvest that make a strong case for Eternal Tapestry’s status as psych-rock resurrectionists of the first degree. “Emerald Forest of Peace” weaves a languid path with mossy bass and blissed drums kissing the slow-motion wah fireworks exploding above in the rain-drenched air. “Transcendence” rides a vertical riff into a howling storm of light. Black vinyl. Fabric-collage jackets with artwork by guitarist Dewey Mahood. Edition of 450.

EURÓPA KIADÓ

Popzene

(Profil) Used LP $15.00

First studio album by this Hungarian new wave band with three ex-members of URH: László Kiss, András Salamon and lyricist-composer-guitarist-singer Jenő Menyhárt, joined by József Dénes and András Gerő. From 1987.

EVANGELISTA

Hello, Voyager

(Constellation) Used LP $16.00

“As the only American artist on Montreal label Constellation, Carla Bozulich introduces touches of country and blues to the label’s signature apocalyptic symphonies,” notes Pitchfork. “Hello, Voyager explores the omnipresent female dementia with a full sound and an increasingly tortured performance from Bozulich. Nearly every track here occupies its own realm, tenuously connected by her vocals or similar string arrangements but otherwise completely alien to each other. Nothing demonstrates this better than the cold shower effect of ‘The Frozen Dress,’ a post-rock instrumental wasteland, coming after the blistering two-minute stoner metal of ‘Truth is Dark Like Outer Space.’ The album doesn’t simply run listeners through a gauntlet of extremes. It provides flashes of her inner country songwriter, with a lead guitar imitating a dusty old music box and Bozulich herself waxing equally delicate, at least in comparison to darker, tortured narratives.” 180g vinyl

EVIL MOISTURE / HANATARASH

Fatanarchy On Airtube

(Harbinger Sound - HAS033) Used 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."

EVIL MOISTURE / MACRONYMPHA

The Tentacles Of The Octopus Sometimes Compete Against Each Other

(Pure) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Ultra harsh ’n’ heavy distortion / noise / feedback cut-up collage … [by these] grenade-tossers,” says Second Layer. “Chopped up yet surprisingly rhythmic slabs of extremely abrasive frequency manipulation and chugging, rumbling scum tones…. Twenty tracks of crushing, intricately detailed electronic carnage.”

EX-COCAINE

Keep America Mellow

(Killertree) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Two-piece electro-folk, low-end mud, congas’n’fuzz, stoned AF. Hand screened jackets.

EXPANDO BRAIN

Mother of God!

(Vacant Lot) Used LP $9.00

“An exciting and raw blend of early Soul Asylum and Mission of Burma might be a good starting point in describing this 1986 LP,” muses Willfully Obscure. “Or, how about New England’s response to Squirrel Bait? Something very sonically unkempt is at play in these grooves — dissonant yet approachable, strikingly melodic guitar lines that sound too lucid to be true given the album’s combustible, off-the-rails aplomb.” Clipped corner

EXPERIMENTAL AUDIO RESEARCH

Falling b/w Tail Chaser

(Sympathy For The Record Industry) Used 8-inch picture disc $18.00

Masterpiece of psychedelic mush.

EXPO 70

Sonic Messenger

(Beta Lactam Ring - mt225b) Used 2xLP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

EXTENDED ORGAN

XOXO

(Birdman) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Paul McCarthy on free-form voice improvisation. Fredrik Nilsen on prepared acoustic guitar, antique analog organ and digital keyboard, all in an especially unorthodox style. Joe Potts on his chopped optigans. Tom Recchion on Kurzweil, guitar, radio, CDs, production, processing. Creepy and wonderful as any gothic horror movie soundtrack.

EYE / NOVA SCOTIA

A Million Corpses of Dead Bees b/w High Road

(Tipped Bowler - TBT011) split LP $16.50

(Tipped Bowler - TBT011) Used Split LP $11.50 (Out-of-stock)

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.

THE EYES OF THE BEACON STREET UNION

The Eyes of the Beacon Street Union

(Akarma) Used LP $22.00

2001 Italian reissue of the debut album of experimental psych / hard rock group helmed by Boston’s John Lincoln Wright and Wayne Ulaky. Moments of crashing, Who-like drums and energy, strong harmonies, ripping guitar solos.

F/I

Blue Star

(RRRecords) Used LP $30.00

Recorded live at the Freiraum, Bremen, Germany, 1990 and in a meat cooler at a sausage factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1989.

F/I / VOCOKESH

F/i / Vocokesh

(RRRecords) Used Split LP $12.00

“A beautiful gasp of deep space lung capacity. Grasping strings almost in the same vein as Daily Dance. Maxist as hell.” With catalog. Clear vinyl.

F/I

Helioscopium

(Ceres) Used CD $8.00

Space rock from 1997 that one can “really sink [one’s] teeth into…. John Thompson and Brian Wensing (guitars), Jeff Chase (cello), Steve Schrank (bass), and Rick Hale (drums and keyboards) … exhibit a variety of interests — from heavy jamming … to intriguing, experimental space / electronic collages.”

F/I

Space Mantra

(RRRecords) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

A masterpiece of psychedelia from the underbelly of Reagan’s Amerika, in which giant guitar fuzz meets mantric Kraut-like rhythms.

F/I

The Past Darkly / The Future Lightly

(RRRecords) Used 3xLP $80.00

Cassette-only tracks from 1983 through 1988, plus five previously unreleased tracks from 1985 through 1989. Paste-on cover. Edition of 300

FAB.44

Majik On The Moonlight

(Pure) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

“This Michigan artist makes sounds inspired by heavy industry,” explain our friends at Subterranean. “Abrasive, rattling, roaring, pounding, full-on noise, vividly executed.”

FABULOUS DIAMONDS

Fabulous Diamonds

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Borne out of a tradition that lies somewhere between classic dub, experimentalism and post punk,” says Eliza Sarlos of Mess + Noise, “Fabulous Diamonds’ style ... and substance … come together in a hypnotic frenzy. Assembled amid high levels of delay, Nisa Venerosa and Jarrod Zlatic create a truly bewildering mix…, the hit you’ve been waiting for throughout this post post-punk melee we live in. Fabulous Diamonds present a world drenched in discordant jams stemming from a parallel universe of sonic intensity, one that picks up on the heritage embedded in post-punk, but recreates rather than rehashes the influence.” Sealed

FACE PLANT

Face Plant

(Heard Worse - HW06) Used 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, hand-cut records, store-bought cymbals and additional guest oscillations by Rats With Wings.

FACE TO FACE

Econo Live

(Vagrant) Used 10-inch $20.00

Six pop punk tracks recorded live in the Spring of 1996. Sealed

KAI FAGASCHINSKI / BURKHARD STANGL

Musik - Ein Porträt in Sehnsucht

(Erstwhile - ERST057) Used CD $10.00

Stangl and Fagaschinski, both masters at fluidly combining melodicism and abstraction, carefully intertwine field recordings of birds, storms, and “morning silence” with guitars, electronic devices, piano, vibraphone, and clarinet. Guest appearance by Bernhard Gál, “re-recording and musical car driving.”

FAILING LIGHTS

A Trap To Spring

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $12.00

Excellent noise by Mike Connelly from 2007. Paste-on photocopy. Edition of 115

FAILING LIGHTS

Failing Lights

(Intransitive - INT036) CD $15.00

(Intransitive - INT036) Used CD $6.00

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.

FAILING LIGHTS / SPYKES / WOLF EYES / NATE YOUNG

Solo

(Troubleman - TR0182) Used 2xLP $17.00

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. Sealed.

MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Come My Way

(Lilith) Used LP $17.00

Dark folk by the she-devil and soulless poster child of ’60s hedonism. This 2006 reissue of her 1965 album includes bonus tracks “Sister Morphine” (her 1969 single), B-side from 1964 “Blowin’ in the Wind,” 1965’s “Et Maintenant” and 1966 B-side “That’s Right Baby.” Sealed

TAV FALCO & THE UNAPPROACHABLE PANTHER BURNS

Panther Phobia

(In The Red) Used CD $10.00

These Memphis legends (and the missing link between the unbridled howl of early swamp blues and the psychological onslaught of the new millennium) herald a return to the tumultuous and exuberant tones and groans of the band’s landmark LP from 1981 Behind The Magnolia Curtain. Panther Phobia is as “organic as a landlord’s eviction squad,” proclaims Robert Gordon. “Drums pound like irate neighbors at the door. Slow songs snake like a chick passing out on ’ludes. You will lock your doors when you hear this record, you will bar your windows, blood will flow from your nose, your lungs will itch. You will get a divorce, a speeding ticket, eleven twenty nine in the workhouse.”

THE FALL

Dragnet

(Turning Point Music) Used LP $20.00

With the departure of Martin Bramah after Live At The Witch Trials, Marc Riley switched to guitar and Steve Hanley joined on bass; the latter’s signature basslines would become a major part of The Fall for the next two decades. Disheveled beats, stuttering lyrics, asymmetrical phrasing, lo-fi, cohesive sound and fierce. 2002 pressing on 180-gram vinyl. Sealed

THE FALL

Grotesque

(Cog Sinister - COGVP106) Used CD $10.00

1998 reissue of the 1980 album that underlined the band’s musical confidence and Mark E. Smith’s growing lyrical maturity. Ten classic tracks including the faves “New Face In Hell,” “The Impression of J. Temperance,” and “Container Drivers.”

THE FALL

Hex Enduction Hour +

(Get Back ) Used 2xLP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

2005 reissue of this classic album from 1982, a big stomping record heavy on keyboards and powered by the two-drummer lineup of Paul Hanley and Karl Burns. Bonus tracks include “I’m Into C.B.” from Kamera's 1982 seven-inch and six live recordings. Liner notes by Daryl Easlea

THE FALL

Live At The Witch Trials +

(Cog Sinister - COGVP138) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Eleven excellent songs from the screaming edge of rock, recorded in one or two takes in 1979, containing elements of The Fall’s recurring themes — realism, surrealism, and paranoia. Remastered and reissued in 2002, with three bonus tracks: “Bingo Master,” “Psycho Mafia,” and “Repetition.”

THE FALL

Room To Live

(Cog Sinister - COGVP105) Used 2xCD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

1998 reissue of The Fall’s sixth album, from 1982, featuring long, shambolic shuffle classics like “Joker Hysterical Face,” “Marquis Cha Cha,” “A Hard Life in Country,” plus the tracks from the “Lie Dream Of Casino Soul” single. Second disc is a limited edition EP, with four tracks recorded live at The Band On The Wall in 1982: “Drago’s Guilt,” “Joker Hysterical Face,” “Lie Dream Of Casino Soul,” and “Hexen Strife Knot.”

THE FAMILY CHAPTER

1

(Mistake By The Lake) Used LP $5.00

Andrew Kirschner, Christine Marie, Jon Brady, Steven Louis Meketa. Paste-on artwork. Numbered edition of 100

FAMILY UNDERGROUND

Demon Parade

(DNT) Used LP $6.00

Gloomy, dark, intense drone-rock from Denmark 2010.

FAR-OUT FANGTOOTH

Pure And Disinterested

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $8.00

Existing in the musty shadows of the Philly scene, Far-Out Fangtooth have built a most unique foundation of sound, mixing early Cramps swamp / garage blackout, nascent Bauhaus post-punk / quasi-goth bleakness, as well as an uncanny nod to the witchy, ethereal leather glam of first-generation Blue Öyster Cult.

FARMERS

August 11, 1984

(Feeding Tube) Used LP $8.00

This survey of Daved Hild’s earliest post-Girls work includes “The Fear,” recorded for a proposed Lust / Unlust EP with Robin Amos and Roger Miller; Mennonite-costumed duets with Miller; and demo tracks recorded with Miller, David Minehan of The Neighborhoods, and Dan Saltzmann of Maps and Christmas. Hild’s “approach to songwriting … cuts into personal flesh no matter whether he knows anything about yr history or not,” says Byron Coley. “Singing like a pro wrestler trying to get all sensitive, he … convey[s] huge vistas of hurt and strangeness without coming off like either a fop or a thug.” Edition of 350.

FAT WORM OF ERROR

Broods

(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Wonderfully awful” is how one Sputnik Music writer who nearly destroyed summarizes what’s happening on this 2010 skull-crushing platter by Bhob Rainey, Victor Signore, Jeremy Phloyd Starpoli, and Peter Bonos. “The payoff is that some parts are so bad that it makes you laugh. This is an album meant to make you laugh, it is a completely new take on music; sounds so bad that they are hilarious. But it’s painful sound; they have covered the entire spectrum of hurtful sounds with this album. You can feel the flimsy aluminum lid from a can of Campbell’s tomato soup slicing your thumb open. That stupid pain when a tiny cut could be annoyingly painful. During the explosive tantrums of hurt they’ll precisely pluck the *** of a guitar string while tightening or loosening the tuning peg. They simulate the sound of the creak of a floor board in a dilapidated vacant house. The rhythm section is done perfectly using what sounds like objects they found lying around in a hoarder’s attic. Most songs sound like a kid shouting as he runs around a house destroying anything he can get his hands on while his parents are at the store. It’s hard to create something beautiful; Fat Worms of Error do the exact opposite. They create the most awful and disgruntled sound you’ve ever heard. They seem to have put a lot of effort into creating such a filthy, painful, mess of an album.” Mark Breyer cover art.

FAUST

C’est Com Com Compliqué

(Bureau B) Used LP $17.00

“Much of the album sounds,” according to Pitchfork, “like drummer Zappi Diermaier is playing both sticks with one hand. The result is oddly tribal … somewhat like using a commercial drum kit as an indigenous instrument, an anthropological examination of Western instruments for nativist music…. ‘Kundalini Tremolos’ is a great example of the drumming effect…, a yogic meditation with a very Eastern feel, pranayamic forced breathing sessions at the fore, and the titular tremolos stuttering to and fro over loose bouts of tambourine and chimes. The warpath drums are limited to just the metronomic beat of the song and, with all the wild fuzz behind it, sounds like it’s coming from a different world.”

JEAN-BAPTISTE FAVORY

Things Under

(Feeding Tube) Used LP $15.00

Mesmerizing “organic compositions for guitar and electronics” by this member of Los Lichis, assistant to Luc Ferrari and Gavin Bryars, and host of Radio Libertaire’s experimental music show Epsilonia. Favory’s approach to strings ranges from the idyllic to Remko Scha’s Machine Guitars, slipping into and through electronics most inscrutably. Edition of 300.

TOM FAZZINI

Neck To Neck

(Locust) Used LP $12.00

With a “jump-cut, chopped-up, collaged quality that the best of Burroughs’s nonlinear destroyed narratives had,” explains Cows Are Just Food, the 2009 remastered reissue of Neck To Neck’s “warped, new-wave mutant pop,” originally release in 1984 by A-Mission, “is violently listenable and malleably harsh, sounding utterly modern and coming on at times with all the ugly fuck of discordance that Wolf Eyes conjures up: klang and skree and brake fluid vomiting; minimal, über-distorted beats and brutalist vox spat right in yr faceholes with garish glee.”

FE-MAIL

Syklubb fra Hælvete

(TV5 - TV5002) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

FEELING OF LOVE

OK Judge Revival

(Kill Shaman) Used LP $3.00

A blues-wrangling nightmare — slide guitar riffs over drum machines, synths and a tight rhythm section. Driving grooves with a wild blues edge, all followed up with that magical French synthesis.

DINO FELIPE

As Flim Toby

(Schematic) Used 2xLP $6.00

The 2002 album by the “enfant terrible of the Atlanta-Miami bass glitch axis … is a sprawling recording, moving languidly across the palettes of glitch, microhouse, and electro-pop. At the same time, the album is a divided affair, delineating between digital and analog, the real and the imagined, in one of the most ambitiously conceptual electronic releases in recent memory…. The first [platter] is closer to the traditional Schematic aesthetic of complex, headphone-friendly electronic. Felipe derives static beats from vinyl hiss, tactile glitch breaks from his PC, and slightly off-kilter melodies from four-track home recordings…. Felipe’s dexterity is testament to the psychosis of the bedroom electronic auteur, flaunting a near-maddening precision that occasionally makes the compositions impenetrable.… The more this album slips its moorings, as it does unremittingly in its latter half, drifting further into the boundary waters of ambient improvisation, the more ethereal grows its scope of possibilities. Glitch beats wane as Toby drops the knob on the digital input; the PC contributions remain, but as more of an undercurrent than a propelling force…. [S]craping digital noise, electro-acoustic agents of chance, and his minutiae become so dense as to carry the resonance, though not the texture, of tonal new classical.”

FERIAL CONFINE

Full Use Of Nothing

(Fusetron) Used LP $30.00

1999 reissue of 1985 self-released cassette by Andrew Chalk. Acoustic percussion and primitive multi-tracking techniques, subtle shifts in balance and nuances of sound within a limited palette, in a wild and free series of performances. Sealed

LUC FERRARI

Cellule 75

(Tzadik) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

The title track “tampers with the percussive function of the instruments and plays with instrumental role-switching and layering,” notes All Music Guide. “It opens with simple, repeating melodies provided by pianist Chris Brown and percussionist William Winant, backed by a humming machinery ambience. Layers and notes get added onto successive loops, until the phrases become relatively lengthy and complex. After establishing this theme and structure, the variations begin, as the piano switches to soloing, referencing parts of the theme out of different layers, and usurping the phrasing of the other electronic sounds present. The piece is a continuous buildup of musical layers, imperceptibly segued into the beginning’s stripped-down simplicity, from which the process starts again, but never turns out the same. After continually playing with the expectations of the close listener, it appropriately closes with several false stops. The second piece begins with slowly turning loops overlaying small electronic swells that pan between channels. This turns into an electronic atmosphere that’s a seeming precursor to the ‘space’ of ’90s space rock bands, followed by a repeating of the opening form, this time with vocal samples. The panning continues, echoing from side to side, while newly added electronic sounds rise out of the center. About halfway through the piece, Ferrari switches briefly to saxophone and water sounds, providing organic contrast to all of the electronic construction.” From 1998

LUC FERRARI

Far-West News (1998-99) Episodes Two and Three

(Blue Chopsticks) Used CD $4.00

The core of these recordings, made during a trip across the American Southwest, presents speech-oriented audio snippets — conversations with acquaintances, stops at restaurants and shops, inquiries for directions, tacky Hollywood tours — overlaid and mixed in with tapes of passing automobiles, airplanes flying overhead, minimal electronic tones, disquieting reverberations, and what sound like brief distorted tumbles of synthetic percussion.

LUC FERRARI

Interrupteur / Tautologos 3

(Blue Chopsticks) Used CD $15.00

First recorded by EMI in 1970 and never released in the US prior to this 1999 CD issue on David Grubbs’s label, “Interrupteur (For 10 Instruments)” and “Tautologos 3 (For 11 Instruments)” both depart from the animation and activity of Ferrari’s piecee from the ’50s and ’60s. The former is “an orchestral stasis point that begins to move,” notes All Music Guide. “In the stillness created by the strings, time becomes one long block…, [against which] various timbres and textures rub…, creating muted colors and shades…. [C]hance actions (flurries of woodwinds or brass, a shriek from an errant viola, etc.) … cannot help but to move against that which is already unmoving and therefore deconstruct it…. [C]yclic in nature and [using] a limited scale of notational devices…, [the latter, with its] standard orchestral instrumentation…, electric guitar, and magnetic tape, is … hypnotic … [and] maddening. The [short] musical ‘cycles’ … [move] forward and backward…. During the editing and mixing process, Ferrari manipulated and spliced tape to create other cycles to overlay over the original compositions….The result … drifts and drones its way into the listener’s consciousness and changes right at the point where familiarity is established.” Sealed

LUC FERRARI

Les Arythmiques

(Blue Chopsticks) Used CD $9.00

A starting point of one of the final works by Ferrari is representing in sound the jolt of electricity that had been sent across his heart to treat his arrhythmia. Vaguely terrifying, crackling jolts Les Arythmiques into life and reappears throughout to interrupt the regular beeps of an EKG, the distant tolling of a church bell, and even more distant sounds resembling birds. Enforced rest of a patient immobilized looms over the small repertoire of concrete sounds, examined with a disorienting repetitiveness and ultimately moving beyond the hospital room by delving into an archive of memory.

LUC FERRARI

Presque Rien

(INA-GRM) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Recorded and released over a period of thirty-one years, the four collected works here offer a telescopic cross-section of Ferrari’s far-reaching oeuvre, ranging from the subtly faithful, non-diegetic documentation of a Dalmation fishing village waking … to the altered reality of nocturnal field recordings meshed with ultra-fine electro-acoustic processing and his hushed commentary in the more dramatic composition…, through a stormy intro and voyeuristic, augmented serenity, and a journey to the old town of Ventimiglia, Italy…. A surreal, vivid and psychedelic experience.”

JAMES FERRARO

Night Dolls With Hairspray

(Olde English Spelling Bee) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

The sound craved by lunatic love puppets — magical pop radiance that outshines their topiary hairdos, a glam soundtrack spilling out of a 1970s Time Square erotic B-movie theater.

TINA FEY

Bossypants

(Little, Brown & Company) Used 5xCD $5.00

Unabridged autobiography from 2011 read by the author

FIBULATOR

Drankfromtheasphalt

(Electro Motive) Used LP $12.00

“In a netherworld between Henry Cow / Art Bears and Pylon dwells the moody, angular, exhilarating pop from a band whose members eventually drifted into Grand National, Fuck, and Mono Pause.” Silkscreened jacket

LEE FIELDS

Problems

(Soul Fire) Used LP $45.00

From 2002, this is Fields’s second album of unadulterated James Brown worship. Raw and organic, The Soul Fire house band grooves with a trippier vibe than Fields’s previous outing — more guitar effects, electric piano, flute, and African-flavored percussion. Sealed

FIFTY FOOT HOSE

Cauldron

(Weasel Disc) Used CD $8.00

1994 reissue of “one of those remarkable and truly revolutionary ’60s albums,” according to Audion. “Fifty Foot Hose took the Jefferson Airplane type sound, fused it with a good deal of weirdness, home-made electronic instruments, innovation in every department, comparable in its excesses to later albums by the likes of United States Of America, White Noise, Brainticket or Friendsound.” With three bonus tracks (two demo versions of songs from the album, and the 1966 single “Bad Trip.”

FILLE QUI MOUSSE

Trixie Stapleton 291

(Bichon) Used LP $15.00

Recorded in 1972, this record evidently never made it further than the Futura label’s fifty test pressings made in 1973. Often referred to as “the French Faust” (by people who by now you should know not to ever trust about anything), this trio mixes collage, psychedelic rock, surreal poetry, and organically tapped noise purity with experimental 70s rock. No strangers to checklist literature, Audion offers up this not insubstantial inventory: “riffing with a psychedelic bent … bizarrely constructed patterns of percussive sound and chopped-up rock music … [a] poem, recited by a girl, over an urban landscape populated by numerous barking dogs … an intensely strange mangled web of sound that’s almost brain-numbing … a piano-based piece that recalls some of Roger Doyle’s early experiments … an excursion in distorted and processed guitar … [strange and twisted] folk music … with gypsy violin….” Sealed

MILO FINE

Frequency Etchings (Ongoing Celebrations Of Insignificance

(Fusetron) Used LP $7.00

Solo clarinet and electronics recorded live Nov 20,1998 at Roadrunner Records in Minneapolis

MILO FINE FREE JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Another Outbreak Of Iconoclasm (Two Eggs, Slightly Beaten)

(Fusetron) Used LP $5.00

Free jazz plonk from 1995, including drums, e-piano, clarinet, marimba, clarinet, guitar. “Sometimes soft” says Börft, “and sometimes crazy chaos.” Generic black jacket with centerhole

MILO FINE FREE JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Precision In Exactitude

(Lotus Sound) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

This live duet from 1997 by Fine on drums, electronics, piano and clarinet, and Steve Gnitka on guitar, got a big thumbs down from Allmusic.com, which means one thing: scooping up this masterpiece in a heartbeat is the way to go. “This set … feels messy and sloppy and completely uninspired. Notes are played, and played, and played, and played some more…. This is noodling free jazz, without purpose or passion… Why this was released is a mystery.”

SIMON FINN

Pass The Distance

(Little Big Chief - LBCR011) LP $20.25 (Out-of-stock)

(Durtro) Used CD $15.00

Originally released by Mushroom during the hazy crossfade of late-’60s burn-out and early-’70s tribal pyres, Pass The Distance falls short “of the barbituric dexterity and unfettered invention of Syd Barrett, [but] Finn is a fellow dark globe sage in an era of folkie sprites and gonzo longhairs…. Songs lurch through psycho-ward strums accompanied by campfire third-eye improvisations…. Wizards, mermaids and the requisite metaphorical fauna may crop up in Finn’s lyrics, but his words mostly ring with vague bleakness made even more desperate by the singer’s absinthe-drunk channeling of Tim Buckley’s range…. [S]crawled hieroglyphic trim is provided by Paul Burwel’s … fluid percussion and David Toop’s … scrapes, drones…, freeform skiffle [and] loose dawdling on various instruments, many he was never trained on.” Ten tracks from the original album, two from the sole surviving acetate of a projected single from the collection of David Tibet, and two more previously unreleased studio tracks.

FIRE DEATH

Fire Death

(Tusco Embassy) Used LP $7.00

Tusco Terror’s Stoney Benjamin Osborne (clarinet and tape loops) and Puffy Areolas’ percussionst J. Guy Laughlin making grimy free jazz with heavy electronic elements. Zone crossing ahead. Massively deformed, assaultive dynamics, smears of breath and guts. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 260

FIREFLY WRECK

Firefly Wreck

(Imp) Used LP $5.00

Sprawling improv noise rock from early ’90s Portland. Beautifully lo-fi.

STEVE FISK

999 Levels Of Undo

(Sub Pop) Used CD $10.00

Third solo album by Seattle producer from 2001. Grooves built from dissonant beats and quirky blips resolve into exotic, lush symphonies worthy of adulation routinely afforded Aphex Twin and Radiohead. Instrumentation includes Mellotron, Optigan, Arp 2600, Yamaha CS-60, Big Briar Theremin, Akai and Ensonique samplers. Sealed

PAUL FLAHERTY

Voices

(Wet Paint Music - 3002) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Forceful, punishing, destructive free improv for solo alto and tenor saxes from 2001, with “some reflective bluesy playing and aggressive low-register honking,” according to Dusted, “But much of Voices consists of tangled, high-pitched runs and screaming multiphonics. Without any other musicians to create the sort of interaction that drives The Hated Music and Sannyasi, it feels like a single [overwhelming and shocking] sound rather than a collection of related ones.”

FLAMING LIPS

Hear It Is

(Plain) Used LP $12.00

Raunchy bar-band-gone-insane for the most part on this 1986 release, though the gentle acoustic strumming that starts the album or the steady pace and mournful singing on “Godzilla Flick” shows that subtlety was as much a part of the game as stomping, fried electric guitar insanity. If anybody was kin at the time, it would be The Meat Puppets, with perhaps a little less interest in high lonesome. White vinyl. First edition of the 2005 reissue with “Summertime Blues.”

FLAMING LIPS

In A Priest Driven Ambulance

(Plain) Used 2xLP $15.00

2005 reissue of evocative, surrealist, space-bible masterpiece that took psych pop to a new level. Originally issued by Enigma in 1990, it was the first Lips album with Mercury Rev’s Jonathan Donahue on board, who joins Wayne Coyne in making the guitars groan like dispeptic ghouls, gurgle like sludge down a drain, and skree like a plane going down in flames – all over a base of spirited strumming that keeps things melodic. Pink vinyl, with five-track bonus platter that includes a “Strychnine” / “Peace, Love and Understanding” medley.

FLAMING LIPS

Oh My Gawd!!!

(Plain) Used LP $15.00

While still a rock band par excellence, evidence of the group’s increasing ambition kicks in with the simultaneously mocking and celebratory Pink Floyd vibes of “One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning,” all ten minutes of which should really be on Ummagumma. Other songs throw in everything from Zeppelin drum stomps to Mountain / Deep Purple raspy rock bellowing. 2005 repress of 1987 album on clear vinyl.

FLAMING LIPS

Telepathic Surgery

(Plain) Used 2xLP $15.00

With a few more studio tweaks and tricks at play, this 1989 album blends crazy combinations of influences. Wayne Coyne later described the album as more open-ended experimentation with overdubs than a collection of songs per se — indicated by the orchestral samples and other drop-ins — but there’s plenty of garage rock nuttiness and fried, off-kilter post-punk. 2005 repress on blue vinyl. Fourth side is blank.

FLAMING LIPS

The Flaming Lips

(Lovely Sorts Of Death) Used LP $70.00

An erratic, ingenious, and witty debut, riddled with bracing dementia. Second pressing from 1985. Red vinyl. Edition of 500

FLAMING LIPS

Yoshimi Battle The Pink Robots

(Warner Bros) Used LP $20.00

While this 2002 album isn’t as immediately impressive as the equally brilliant and unfocused Soft Bulletin from 1999, it’s more consistent, using a palette of rounded, surprisingly emotive basslines, squelchy analog synths, and manicured acoustic guitars. German pressing on red vinyl. With Cargo Distribution sticker on front cover.

NICK FLANAGAN

I'm Here All Weak

(Classic Bar Comedy / Talent Moat) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

A fixture in front of brick walls (and behind chicken wire) across North America, Flanagan is a singular talent in the post-NAFTA underground comedy scene. His conversational deadpan, choice subject matter, “sort-of pregnant” pauses, odd non sequiturs, and strange set-ups that lead to even stranger punchlines, have won him battalions of die-hard followers and / or comedy club patrons waiting on their second mandatory drink. Here All Weak tackles popular topics from the annals of today, yesterday and the day after tomorrow, such as parents, life, balding musicians, video games, drugs, robots, irony, the G-Spot, food, and grammar.

FLATLINE CONSTRUCT

Bloody Ripper

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $17.00

Noise from 2006 by Ryan Bloomer. Photocopy paste-on jacket.

FLATTER!

Office Supplies Mania T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $30.00

Fruit of the Loom Lofteez 100% cotton. White with yellow, orange, green, gray, black ink. Some discoloration. From 1990s

FLESH D-VICE

Some Bloodstained Morning

(Jayrem) Used LP $25.00

Horror-wave from 1984 by a Wellington oi band. Original mid-80s pressing

FLESH EATERS

A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die

(Ruby) Used LP $75.00

Two members of X and three members of the Blasters stand up to the raw beat-influenced visions of Chris Desjardins’s lyrics on the second Flesh Eaters album. Everything is executed with strength and ferocity, especially “Satan’s Stomp,” a long, feral groove cut live to two-track with no edits or overdubs. Rugged and artful at the same time, and Desjardins never had a better or more sympathetic set of collaborators than this. 1981 pressing.

FLESH EATERS

Forever Came Today

(Ruby) Used LP $20.00

“Masterfully wrought punk tunes, reverberating with heart-wrenching vocals that turn on a dime from desperate whispers to blood-curdling screams. ‘Drag My Name In Mud’ is especially noteworthy as a deep dive into full-throttle rock demonology, bluesy primeval swagger and obsessive imagery, inspired in equal parts by William S. Burroughs and Edgar Allan Poe.” Original 1982 pressing

FLESH EATERS

No Questions Asked

(Upsetter) Used LP $45.00

“Chris Desjardins’s lyrics are bleeding collages of B-movie dementia, Mexican Catholicism and Dionysian punk-spurt poetics. The vocals are powerful cat-scratched patterns of night-ripping fear, huge bursts of raunch-vomit, and cascades of pure and toxic love. Just as The Birthday Party took basic punk dynamics into new corridors of rhythmic / dynamic gloom, so do the Flesh Eaters. This is the meat that lies at the beginning of the Flesh Eaters’ trail.” Original 1980 pressing

FLIES INSIDE THE SUN

An Audience Of Others Including Herself

(Kranky) Used LP $20.00

Building on an improvisational base, the debut album by Dadamah’s Kim Pieters and Peter Stapleton, plus Tanaka-Nixon’s Danny Butt, blends subtle feedback, splattering guitar buildups and synth noise.

FLIES INSIDE THE SUN

Burning Glass

(Metonymic) Used CD $18.00

Fifth and final album from 2003

FLOWER

Concrete

(Bear) Used LP $30.00

This pre-Versus band trafficked in late-1980s pop-appealing noise-rock that Sonic Youth would later embrace beginning with Daydream Nation. However, notes Sputnik Musik, “Flower are never heavy, the tone is never over-amplified. Instead, the right amount of reverb in combination with simple yet effective bass melodies make the basic recipe for the majority of songs.” From 1988

FLOWER

Crash

(B) Used 12-inch $10.00

Debut EP from 1986

FLOWER MAN

Inversion Fortuite

(Monofonus Press) Used 10-inch (one-sided) $6.00

An electronic suite by Chicago-based Chris Bush (of Caboladies) weaving motorik vibes into Badalamenti ambience. Silkscreened artwork on the platter B-side.

GABBY FLUKE-MOGUL / JACOB FELIX HEULE / KANOKO NISHI-SMITH

Non Dweller

(Humbler) CD $12.00

(Humbler) Used CD $8.00

Violinist Nishi-Smith and Heule on bass drum, together as a duo since 2007, recorded two long-form free improvisations with violinist Fluke-Mogul in 2019, traversing the uncharted depths, hand in hand, inch by inch. “Thorny, gnarly, and excellently paced,” says Brian Olewnick, while Alex Tripp of Endaural observes that the trio’s “creaks and groans fill the walls,” as if placing the listener “in an old building that struggles under its own weight. But the music also allows the walls to come down, to make the activity plainly visible.”

FLYING LUTTENBACHERS / NO SAFETY

Modulation Decay Unit b/w Spy Network

(Coat-Tail) Used Split 7-inch $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Lobe-bleed-inducing avant squall. From 1994

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK

Chorus

(Drag City) Used LP $18.00

1995 collection of singles, B-sides, and a Peel Session. Precise layering of the rumbling distortion and simple melody.

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK

Crystal Shade

(FSA) Used 7-inch $10.00

Give it up for space rock. From 1994

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK

Distance

(Domino Sound) Used LP $25.00

1994 singles collection with five tracks jagged bits of fuzzed-out pop genius, plus three previously unreleased tracks.

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK

Flying Saucer Attack

(FSA) Used LP $120.00

“Released at the height of the shoegaze boom, the album is a blend of memorable fuzzed-out songs and far-out instrumental doodles, sidestepping the rock bombast of many contemporaries in favor of a home-made aesthetic. FSA’s blend of razor-edged static, softly sung melody, and echoing atmospherics sustains an atmosphere of dour beauty.” Hand-painted label art, hand-stamped disco jacket with outer card folder. Numbered edition 416/100

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK

Further

(Drag City) Used LP $22.00

“Evocative instrumental miniatures, folky near-songs, and extended spatial explorations from the mid-90s. Fingerpicked acoustic guitar amid the white-noise din and the bass-y pulse of analog noisemakers floating in and out evoke the spaciness of early ’70s synth music.”

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK / ROY MONTGOMERY

Goodbye

(VHF) Used LP $10.00

Foggy beauty by the UK gazers with the towering New Zealander who walked the line with Pin Group, Dadamah, Dissolve. Sealed

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK

In Search Of Spaces

(VHF) Used 2xLP $20.00

First ever reissue and first time on vinyl for this unique Flying Saucer Attack live album, expanded with additional material and a new side-four mix from Jim O’Rourke. Produced in collaboration with Dave Pearce and Bruce Russell (compiler of the original CD release for his Corpus Hermeticum label), featuring new artwork by Russell as well. While known for folk-influenced songs and spacey instrumentals, the briefly active live version of FSA delivered a blistering wave of electric sound. Recorded at various shows in 1994, In Search Of Spaces heaves with long passages of feedback guitar racket, broken up by sections of surging rock music. The live band focused almost exclusively on visceral, trebly guitar noise. Includes download card. Sealed

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK

In Search Of Spaces

(Corpus Hermeticum) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Fifty unbroken minutes of audience-captured live recordings from 1994. Beautifully smeared and blurred drones and ever-present feedback, vaguely guiding beacons that emerge from the dense fog of tape hiss — sounds like unrecognizable snippets of voice, occasional drums that fade in and out of audibility, and guitar bellowed from the depths of a cave.

GEORGE FLYNN

Kanal

(Finnadar) Used LP $6.00

Flynn’s inspiration reaches back to the cruelty waged upon Poland during World War II as depicted by Andrzej Wajda’s film of the same name. The music evokes enormous physicality — the ear recognizes gestures, rather than motifs or intervals, which leap around, pummeling the keyboard. The effect is nearly inhuman. Kenneth Derus, in the accompanying booklet, makes an apt comparison with Conlon Nancarrow’s music for player piano. The texture thins out briefly, but erupts again into bristling flurries, like quickly shifting memories, leading to almost frantic episodes of crushing violence. From 1987

GEORGE FLYNN / EUGENE GRATOVICH

Play The Music Of Cage, Flynn, Ives, Messiaen

(Finnadar) Used LP $7.00

Piano and violin duets from 1982. “Ives and Messiaen remained touchstones in Flynn’s later compositions — specifically, the density, dynamic contrasts, and incongruity in Ives’ willful methods of construction, Messiaen’s self-designed harmonic and rhythmic systems, and the propensity of both toward a state of energetic ecstasy.”

HENRY FLYNT

Backporch Hillbilly Blues Vol. 2

(Locust) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Peculiar set of electrified and acoustic bumpkin fiddle howls and screeches from the early to mid-1960s. Sealed but there's a hole drilled in the barcode so we're listing it as used.

FM KNIVES

Useless & Modern

(Broken Rekids) Used LP $5.00

Hot-rocking garage and power pop from former members of Los Huevos, Pretty Girls, Nar, and Karate Party. Thirteen smokers in the vein of groups like The Kids, The Boys, PVC, Devoto-era Buzzcocks, and Undertones. Colored vinyl. Sealed

THE FOLKLORDS

Release The Sunshne

(Lion) Used LP $30.00

Dreamy late ’60s pop psychedelia with a folk bent and a futuristic sound. 2007 reissue in gatefold jacket, remastered from original tapes.

FOOM & FOAM

Foom & Foam

(Feeding Tube) Used LP $12.00

A “dub battle showdown” recorded in 2012 using turntables, cassettes, and doodads — languidly-paced jams and instant compositions that put one in mind of classic LAFMS work. Behold the sounds, freak, freed from their original contexts, now existing as naught-but-signals. A new confusional classic, timeless beauty.

FOOT

Foot

(God Bless) Used CD $7.00

Three 23-minute tracks of electronics and freeform soundscapes from 1998 by Don Fleming, Jim Dunbar, Thurston Moore.

FORMANEX

Pic-Nic

(Fibrr) Used CD $4.00

2003 album by Christophe Havard, Manu Leduc, Julien Ottavi, Anthony Taillard, Fabrice Gallis, Jérôme Joy, named after the networked black box created to introduce cybernetic programming in music, Pic-Nic is the result of continuous analysis of the sound inputs according to programmed behaviors. Sound selections, diffusion, the superimposition of different layers, speeds, and spatialization are all determined by internal memory that is ultimatel responsible for the composition.

CHRIS FORSYTH / SHAWN EDWARD HANSEN

Dirty Pool

(Ultramarine - UM002) LP $25.00

(Ultramarine - UM002) Used LP $12.50

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.

JOSEPHINE FOSTER AND THE SUPPOSED

All The Leaves Are Gone

(Locust) Used CD $6.00

A tangle of swooning vocals, tickly electric guitars and an omnipresent, incense-laced haze.

FOURWAYCROSS

Fill The Sky

(Motiv Communications) Used LP $7.00

Eclectic and intriguing quasi-gothic dream pop from Los Angeles, 1985

FOURWAYCROSS

Fourwaycross

(Motiv Communications) Used LP $7.00

Raw and gloomy post-punk from Los Angeles, 1985

FOURWAYCROSS

Home

(Motiv Communications) Used LP $7.00

Fluffy postpunk from Los Angeles, 1986. Clipped corner

FRAK

Studio Jams

(Beniffer Editions) Used Cassette $12.00

Lo-fi house from Karlskrona, Sweden. Side A contains classic Frak club sounds with call 'n' response bumping and a clairvoyance between band members. On Side B, things get weird and abstract, with the bass handling the transportation. In a seven-inch-by-seven-inch hardboard package, five-color screenprinted front, two on the back. C45. Edition of 100

RICHARD FRANCIS / FRANCISCO LOPEZ

In De Blaauwe Hand

(Korm Plastics - KP3033) CD $11.25

(Korm Plastics - KP3033) Used CD $8.00

Working with very small seed source sound samples during a residency at Extrapool, the two intermingling compositional paths of Lopez and Francis unfold in parallel; the single sixty-six-minute track merges a dreamy geography of subtleties and complex organics. With a barely perceptible crawl in from silence, softly mechanical drones begin to appear, rippling with a radiant, ever-building hum. As the piece progresses the hum gets thicker and the drone texture strengthens. Clicking pulses are overtaken by thick drones of buzzing, hypnotic, and comfortable noises.

JACKSON C. FRANK

Jackson C. Frank

(Earmark) Used LP $75.00

2004 reissue of Frank’s 1965 album — a lost classic, daringly complex and honest, filled with virtuoso playing that melds American and English folk sounds like nothing else. 180-gram vinyl

ARETHA FRANKLIN

I Never Loved A Man The Way That I Love You

(4 Men With Beards) Used LP $12.00

2001 reissue of Franklin’s Atlantic label debut is an indisputable masterpiece from start to finish, a soul landmark.

ARETHA FRANKLIN

Soul ’69

(4 Men With Beards) Used LP $8.00

2002 reissue of Franklin’s jazziest material, despite the title. Her vocals are consistently passionate and first-rate, as is the musicianship.

ARETHA FRANKLIN

Spirit In The Dark

(4 Men With Beards) Used LP $10.00

2002 reissue of one of Franklin’s more overlooked albums from her Atlantic prime, despite the inclusion of a couple hit singles (the title track and “Don’t Play That Song”). Features five of her own compositions (the most she ever recorded for a single album) and her customarily eclectic choice of cover material.

THE FREE POP CONCEPT

A New Exciting Experience

(Vampi Soul) Used LP $25.00

On the 2007 reissue of this lost gem from the late ’60s Euro psychedelic underground, Belgium-based Portuguese soul brothers Tony and Waldo Lam (better known as Jess & James) join forces with American jazzman Scott Bradford and Belgian mad scientist and electronics grandaddy Arsene Souffriau for a crazy trip into groovy free-rock and soul, heavy riffing, screaming fuzz, mind-frying chirping electronics, tribal drumming mayhem, crazy studio effects, groovy go-go keyboard action, and stomping beats — in the tradition of Pierre Henry’s Jerks Electroniques Pour La Messe Du Temps Present, Cecil Leuter’s Pop Electronique or JP Massiera’s Maledictus Sound.

FREIBAND

Music For No Title

(Mik Musik) Used CDR $20.00

Covertly drony collaboration with Frans de Waard from 2003 with typical Freiband elements -- cracklings, mini-funkings, gentle hard-disk manipulations – reassigned to a new environment (a brain pulsating in space), new time (lava-like fallout), and new tempo (deliciously unpredictable and awkward). Sexy brooming, as they say in the lowlands. Hand-screened cover. Edition of 55 (number 54).

FRENCH PADDLEBOAT

Conversions in Metric

(Scratch) Used CD $6.00

Scott August lays the groundwork for a new breed of electronic-based pop. The music is instantly recognizable for its Oval and Land of the Loops influences. From 1999

FREQUENCY CURTAIN

Frequency Curtain

(Elevator Bath) Used CD $6.00

Excerpts from extended improvisation sessions in 2002 by John Grzinich, Rick Reed and Josh Ronsen, using analogue and digital sine wave generators, processing and interventions from the radiophonic spectrum.

FRIENDS FOREVER

Soundtrack

(N.G.W.T.T.) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

A head-numbing blast of noise-rock camaraderie from 2001 by these Denver, Colorado DIY guerrillas known for their over-the-top live performances in parking lots, outside clubs or wherever their VW bus can haul them — complete with fireworks, smoke machines, bubble-makers and a light show. Silkscreened paste-on jacket.

FRIENDSHIP / JENNIFER WOLSKI

Jennifer Wolski / Friendship

(Shaolin Temple) Used Split 7-inch $3.00

Midwest grindcore. Screen-printed tin foil cover with natural distress and wrinkles.

FRINGE

Complete First Season

(Warner Bros) 7xDVD $15.00

Teleportation, mind control, astral projection, invisibility, precognition, spontaneous combustion, reanimation: weird science meets a multi-agency task force investigating related acts of terrorism. Plot twists galore, family drama, interpersonal relationships, corporate evil, cop chases. Lenticular cover. Lots of exclusive bonus features, 17 hours total

BILL FRISELL / VERNON REID

Smash & Scatteration

(Minor Music) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Deliriously oddball 1984 encounter that pits Frisell’s haunting, haltering sound against the raunchier Reid, who was en route from Defunkt and Decoding Society to Living Colour at the time. Frisell’s bent and splayed electric guitar, complemented by jaunty acoustic guitar and the strange sonorities of the guitar synth, finds counterpoint in Reid’s more raw guitar, squiggling electronics, synth drums beats, and an occasional hoe-downing banjo.

FRED FRITH

Technology of Tears

(ReR Megacorp) Used CD $6.00

2008 reissue of Frith's mid-'80s pieces commissioned by choreographer Rosalind Newman. Guests include Henry Kaiser, John Zorn, Christian Marclay, Tenko. Still sealed but the barcode has been drilled, so we're listing at used.

FRED FRITH / TOYCHESTRA

What Leave Behind

(S.K. - SK28) CD $9.00

(S.K. - SK28) Used CD $4.50

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.

FABIO FRIZZI

The Beyond (aka l’Aldila),

(Dagored) Used LP $75.00

The killer score to this gorehound classic is an exercise in atmospheric horror, and goes even deeper with masterful orchestration, great funk beats and classic N'awlins blues. Frizzi’s recognizable, eerie piano motif echoes throughout, and a fierce, madcap vocal piece acts as the main title. With poster 180-gram vinyl

JOHN FRUSCIANTE

The Will To Death

(Records) Used LP $150.00

Recorded quickly, the 2004 album by Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist is guided by immediacy and plain-faced grace, comforting as Cat Stevens, introspective as Bill Callahan, yet not completely devoid of Pete Yorn-ish stuttering synthesized lead riffs and splashing cymbals. But the meat of the album occurs, according to Pitchfork, “with the simplistic ’60s guitar / drum strum and stereo separation of ‘Time Runs Out’ and the epic ‘Loss.’ Heavily reverbed vocals wash over starkly live-sounding drums and guitar; the song surges to a raucous movement of intertwined solos, one warm and one damaged in squelch. That’s a dynamic Frusciante seems to have resigned himself to, both in life and music — he’s always on the run from the darkness, but still believes in the comforting light ahead.” Includes insert sheet with lyrics and credits. Barcode on back cover is defaced,

FT / MSBR

Live Electronics At End Of Europa Tokyo Nov. 2000

(MSBR) Used CDR $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tour disc with forty-two minutes by Koji Tano, ten by FT. Edition of 100

FUNGUS BRAINS

Ron Pistos Real World

(Load) Used LP $10.00

2011 reissue of the 1983 classic by these Melbourne, Australia legends. While it does feature a horn and unbridled guitar heaviosity from a very young Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Venom P. Stinger, Sick Things, Cat Power), it also sounds current with other rock and hallucinatory free range gack from the era, e.g., Birthday Party.

FUZZHEAD

High in a Basement

(Heliocentric Worlds of Sound) Used LP $10.00

“Garage-psychedelic freak-outs, lengthy and totally improvised space jams that attain an almost evil quality thanks to an unusually noisy background” from 1995, says Savage Saints, “with a dependency on drones and on funk.” Number edition 083/500

FUZZHEAD

LSD

(Ecstatic Yod) Used LP $12.00

DJ Farraginous feels it needs to be pointed out that “This isn’t an educational record, it’s an album of music” from 1993, “primarily guitars, bass, drums, and voices. These few elements are far from sparse, as there are a lot of them, going on at the same time. Which probably makes it sound more chaotic than it is… it’s actually quite coherent, compelling, easy on the ears, brain, nose, throat, what have you. There is no centrally defined singer, but multiple ones coming in from here and there.”

SERGE GAINSBOURG

Aux Armes Et Cætera

(4 Men With Beards) Used LP $10.00

The priapic Parisian erotic poet-philosopher in Jamaica in 1979 with Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, probably the greatest reggae rhythm section of all time, and the I-Threes, Bob Marley's female back-up trio. 2009 reissue. 180g vinyl

SERGE GAINSBOURG

L’Homme A Tete Du Chou

(4 Men With Beards) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

2009 reissue of Gainsbourg’s concept record (Phillips 1976) second only to the stone classic Histoire De Melody Nelson. Translating to The Man With The Cabbage Head, it’s a brutal story of lust and obsession in which, over the course of the album, the narrator falls in love with a black shampoo girl (Marilou), beats her to death with a fire extinguisher and ends up in a psychiatric hospital. Featuring lush orchestration and a variety of influences, from reggae to rock to funk to country.

SERGE GAINSBOURG

l’Homme à Tête De Chou

(Phillips) Used LP $75.00

“The gravel-voiced Gallic lecher goes X-rated here — albeit without sacrificing his poetic élan,” explains All Music Guide. “In this morbidly comic song cycle the narrator’s muse is Marilou, a black shampoo girl: during their ill-fated fling, he descends into unhinged obsession, beats her to death with a fire extinguisher and ends up in a psychiatric hospital (convinced his head has turned into a cabbage). The title track retains something of Melody Nelson’s cool Baroque pop gravitas, but the album draws on an adventurously varied palette, spanning rock, country, disco, jazz, reggae, and funk.” French pressing from 1976

GALLOPING CORONERS

Dancing With The Sun

(Neurot) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Since their emergence in 1975, the instinctive primal rock of Hungary’s legendary Galloping Coroners (Vágtázó HalottKémek) has celebrated the elementary powers of creation. A shamanistic / psychedelic / hardcore / space rock blend realized in an unrestricted outburst of total life energy.

PER GISLE GALÅEN / LASSE MARHAUG

In Store

(Humbug) Used CDR $3.00

A ramshackle, stumbling-down-a-flight-of-stairs kind of guitar improv duet recorded live at Progress Record Store, January 23, 1999, released in 2004. Edition of 80.

PIA GAMBARDELLA

Reluctant Divers

(w.mo/r) Used CDR $5.00

Piercing electronic tones inspired by a recurring dream experienced in the hospital. Gambardella, who uses “test equipment for installations and performances, adapted and made electronic and acoustic devices that investigate and experiment with the physical and emotional properties of sound.”

GAMELAN SON OF LION

Metal Notes

(Locust) Used CD $5.00

According to a jambands.com (not making that up), Metal Notes “moves away from tradition into approaches influenced by Cage and minimalism…. [Highlights on Locust’s 2006 reissue of what was previously released on cassette by New Wilderness Foundation in 1985 include] “the opening suite ‘Gamelan NEA, [which] alternates ethereal, high-pitched patterns (a bit reminiscent of the early ‘little instruments’ experiments of the Art Ensemble of Chicago) with solemn gongs. Denise Rightmire-Womelsdorf’s ‘Keith Rays” is an effective elegy for a friend killed in a car crash. Peter Griggs’s ‘Through the Looking Glass’ is a variation on traditional music with similar charms.”

GAMELAN SON OF LION

The Complete Gamelan In The New World

(Locust) Used 2xCD $13.00 (Out-of-stock)

2004 reissue of two legendary recordings originally released by Folkways in 1979 and 1982. This New York performance group counts as its founders Fluxus pioneer Phillip Corner, electronics composer Daniel Goode, and core member Barbara Benary. Equally inspired by the resonant decaying sounds of New York school composers like Morton Feldman, the stunning pacific gamelan music of its namesake and the wild antics of Fluxus, their sound is trancelike and beautifully inspiring. With new liner notes by Marcus Boon.

DAVID GAMPER / PAULINE OLIVEROS

At The Ijsbreker Jan 24 1999

(JDK) Used CD $6.00

“The EIS is greatly in evidence on this … improvised live recording …[which recreates] the sounds of Oliveros’s accordion and Gamper’s piano and in a virtual acoustic space, distorting them as if … in a hall of mirrors. The lengthy ‘Breaking the EIS’ showcases a divergent sound menagerie: plaintive electronic yowls, scatterbrained pitter-patter, ghostly wavering and wailing. It’s mostly downcast and alien, but impressively grotesque. ‘Pauline’s Solo’ is more serene, but there’s a rippled depth to be heard in the laminated accordion drone, which recalls Penderecki’s chilly tautness. Whenever it seems [to be] subsiding into mere atmospherics, piercing flurries of shrapnel erupt and disrupt expectations. The two instruments work best together on ‘EIS Cream’, which sounds like … subterranean … cyborgs … mak[ing] a Windham Hill record, and where the flickering piano blends well with the dilated accordion tones.”

GANG GANG DANCE

Gang Gang Dance

(Fusetron) Used LP $10.00

A “maddening and fascinating cacophony” from 2004, in the opinion of Opus Zine. “There’s rarely a moment when the listener isn’t being bombarded by caterwauling vocals undergoing various effects and processing, Middle-Eastern chants, butchered horns, stuttering rhythms, dub inflections, cabaret pianos, and a trainwreck of synths and keys.” Gatefold jacket

GANG WIZARD

Jekyll Loves Hyde

(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $6.00

“This filthy, destroyed, early Sonic Youth-influenced album thrives on a bent rhythm playing off the higher frequency guitar attacks with momentum building convergence and space creating divergence,” notes our friends at KFJC. “While they cast their shadow on the lo-fi, igno-rock sound, Gang Wizard smartly explore percussive possibilities within the hard-driving outside rock sound. Clashing, driving, pounding structures ride the waves with an aggressive, instinctive posture that the ultra-meter drumming makes wholly fucked.”

GIORGIO GASLINI / GOBLIN

Profondo Rosso

(Cinevox) Used LP $15.00

Two Goblin tracks from 1975 that blend funky blaxploitation styles with spine-chilling synth prog atmospheres, five by Giorgio Gaslini. 25th anniversary edition includes an alternate version of “Deep Shadows.”

DJIVAN GASPARYAN

I Will Not Be Sad In This World

(Opal) Used LP $10.00

Armenian master of the wooden, oboe-like duduk reworks traditional Armenian songs in this 1989 debut, accompanied by Vachagan Avakian playing a drone backing. Deeply resonant and ethereal meditations. Cover has gold promo stamp, sticker.

NELSON GASTALDI

Symphony No. 3: Siddhartha Gautama O El Poder De La Nada

(Roaratorio - ROAR24) Used LP $8.00

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 into his music a wide range of interests (medicine, linguistics, Chinese and German philosophy), he welcomed paranormal and 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. Sealed. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2012

GASTR DEL SOL

Upgrade And Afterlife

(Drag City) Used 2xLP $65.00

“Random havoc-wreaking noise seeps through song surfaces. ‘Our Exquisite Replica of Eternity’, a perfect piece of film music, communicates paranoia, suspense, and terror — an ominous drift fractured by shards of electronic feedback, breaking through and breaking down like static between alien stations before closing with mournful trumpets. Meanwhile, Jim O’Rourke’s performance of John Fahey’s ‘Dry Bones in the Valley’ ends the album with pure fresh air, resolving every awkward moment offered up in the preceding 37 minutes. Joined by Tony Conrad, the pair embark on an exploration of the violinist’s micro-tonal drones that follow the album into the sunset.” From 1996

GATE

Golden

(IMD - 10050) Used CD $12.00

1995 collection of singles by The Dead C’s Michael Morley. Includes Prophet Rebel (Siltbreeze 1992); Sunshine (Twisted Village 1992); Julian Dashper Gate Experience (Precious Metal 1993); and other rarities. Sealed

GATE

Live In Boston, NYC 1994

(Poon Village) Used CD $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

Michael Morley and Lee Ranaldo’s mesmerizing thirty-minute guitar duo instrumental layers feedback, delay and looped drones. Six shorter tracks, with electric harp improviser Zeena Parkins joining the duo faded in and out of densely organized sectors of gloriously abstract noisic combinations. Screenprinted card-folio.

GATE TO GATE

I Turn Black Keys

(Troniks - TRO159) Used CD $5.00

This 2005 monster by Greh Holger (of Hive Mind) and Mike Connelly (of Hair Police and Wolf Eyes) collects material from two limited cassettes —Bane (Chrondritic Sound 2004) and House With The Clock In Its Walls (Gods Of Tundra 2005) — and adds the title tracks, a new, thirty-eight-minute opus dedicated to dysfunctional machinery of all kinds.

GEINS'T NAÏT

Frigo

(Permis De Construire Deutschland - PPP109) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Vincent Hachet and Thierry Merigout’s studies in rhythmic patterns, yielding polyphonic and polyrhythmic textures, and harsh, grating, percussive, yet full, supple, rich, even polished timbres. 1992 reissue of album from ’89.

GENERATION X

Valley of The Dolls

(Chrysalis) Used LP $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Dance-oriented punk that singer Billy Idol felt would be the way back to the charts, along with more traditional garage punk, and treks into what would soon become new wave.”

THE GEORGE-EDWARDS GROUP

38:38

(Drag City) Used LP $10.00

Spaced basement rarity from late ’70s Detroit that stretches soft-psych into the realm of synth-struck loner folk. Includes bonus track from a later seven-inch.

GERALDINE FIBBERS

Butch

(Sympathy For The Record Industry) Used 2xLP $80.00

“Frontwoman Carla Bozulich’s cavernous voice, etched by rivers of regret and storms of sorrow, yet never entirely bleak or humorless,” expounds ArtForum, “has a prickly punk edge that tells you this isn’t the music of god’s country. She comes from the seedy underbelly of the LA rock scene, where desperate punks like X or the Flesh Eaters sometimes followed their muses back to rock’s country roots. Butch is a true home for a riveting voice that bristles with hard-won beauty and sadness, hope and despair. On Butch, Bozulich’s tough-girl vision is matched by the gnarled and dusty sound of a band fluent in dissonance, punk urgency, and twangy Southern discomfort.” From 1997. Sealed

GERALDINE FIBBERS

Get The Gone

(Sympathy For The Record Industry) Used 10-inch $7.00

Seven tracks of country rock from 1994

GERALDINE FIBBERS

Lost Somewhere Between The Earth And My Home

(Virgin) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Oppressively heavy, both musically and emotionally, delivery of punk rock as close as it has ever come to sounding rootsy. Ferocious and painfully beautiful, singer Carla Bozulich channels Patti Smith and Patsy Cline. Daniel Keenan’s numbing, relentless, bleeding guitar and Jessy Greene’s weeping violin grind and moan. Teetering throughout between goodnight prayer and bad nightmare. Drilled promo from 1995.

GERALDINE FIBBERS

Marmalade / Get Thee Gone

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $75.00

Tiltex Extra Heavyweight 100% cotton. Black with full color screen print by Mark Brooks. Cracks in ink. From 1990s

GERMAN SHEPHERDS

Music For Sick Queers

(Superior Viaduct) Used LP + 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

2012 reissue of 1985 LP, a masterpiece of minimal synth, experimental and punkish elements, electronic noise, and beautifully disturbing songs by Stephen Scheatzle and Sandy Stark. Seven-inch contains previously unreleased material. Includes archival inserts and download card. Sealed

THE GEROGERIGEGEGE

45 RPM Performance

(Dark Vinyl) Used CD $14.00 (Out-of-stock)

Our friends at Art No Art say that “the first track simply sounds like tectonic plates crushing Masami Akita to death,” while the second, with its “explosions and metal-on-metal action flooded in an ocean of reverb” provides an “overwhelming sensation of being at the foot of a skyscraper during a 5.0 earthquake….As far as recordings concerned with documenting the degradation and abuse of vinyl records are concerned, this 1992 release is the audio equivalent of dropping the needle onto sandpaper and scratching along to your favorite rap song.”

THE GEROGERIGEGEGE

Endless Humiliation

(Japan Overseas) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

This 1994 disc is “one of the most eerie and haunting pieces of music Juntaro Yamanouchi ever bothered recording,” concludes Art No Art. ”Pretty much just a field recording of a drunk homeless Japanese man rambling over the sounds of an incredibly distant piano. Probably the quietest work done by the group…, either a long winded … social commentary or … created for or about Yamanouchi’s mother, who was supposedly a rather famous Japanese classical pianist.”

THE GEROGERIGEGEGE

Gerogerigegege T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size L $50.00

Long-sleeve FL Robinson Heavyweght 100% cotton. Black with white ink on front and right sleeve.

THE GEROGERIGEGEGE

Hotel Ultra

(Kubitsuri) Used CD $30.00

“At almost any given point” on this 1994 CD, notes Art Not Art, “There is the sound of a saxophone in the background playing nothing in particular…. A gay porno movie is playing (the police officer pulling over the speeding leatherboy type scenario) during the first track, along with some moaning and screaming and lots of Japanese ’70s funk and pop music…. The recurring sound of various amounts and types of static also show up…, [and] whipping sounds come in as well…. The second track starts off fairly quietly and gets back into the same groove…, sans the gay porn…. [S]ax and … static return, along with … melodramatic classical music that fades … into … electronic fidgetiness that breaks into … [a] Santana-type funk jam. This lasts for a bit before we are left with nothing more than just the electronic tones, static and … saxophone…. [A]irplanes, a large crowd singing inside of an arena, and a man giving … a speech … bleed in and out.” Includes obi

THE GEROGERIGEGEGE

Instruments Disorder (170 Songs)

(Mediacapsule) Used CD $50.00 (Out-of-stock)

“The genius of this rotating line up of freakish musicians and Gero 30 (an overweight, middle-aged man known to masturbate on stage during performances),” explains Sputnik Music, “comes from the fact that their music gives you exactly what you put into it…. If you expect a bunch of idiots making hardcore locked behind a thick layer of migraine…, [you get] a befuddling enjoyable noise album that plays out like Burmese or early Sore Throat trapped in a distortion pedal. On the other hand, if you go into it with an anti-art lens, looking for something like a much, much more frenzied Duchamp or Maciunas…, [this 1994 album] stands directly and boldly in front of the restraints called ‘music theory’ and ‘melody,’ spitting in their eyes. The overwhelming amalgamation of sloppily fast instrumentation pulsates at the heart of an avalanche of feedback and strife, burying the traditions of punk in a cascade of static…. Each fragment of this record starts to piece together slowly, melding into a continuous noise separated only by indecipherable yelps of Japanese song titles. The pulsating guitars shriek as the blisteringly fast drums go off the rails in a blaze of glory. As Instruments Disorder pounds on, the vocalist sounds more and more at wit’s end, like each second of hysteria hits him like a bullet through the chest…. Utter obtuse mayhem.”

GHQ

California Night Burning Dreams

(Not Not Fun) Used LP $7.00

A luminous masterpiece of Golden State mind-reading ragas from 2007 by Nolan, Gunn, and Bassett, recorded live in Sacramento and Eureka. Sitar starscapes, acoustic fingerpicking, cosmic harmonica, and forest floor hand-drums. Blue vinyl. Includes a bonus 3” CDR of their Seattle performance, and stickers.

GHQ

Cosmology Of Eye

(Time Lag) Used LP $7.00

Head-spinning acid / drone / raga from 2006 by Marcia Bassett, Steve Gunn, and Pete Nolan, centered around acoustic guitar freeflow, and wrapped in layers of hovering vocal mist, buzzing drones, percussive clatter, and subtle but massively psychedelic electric guitar moves. Five tracks slide along from bone-rattling minimal vibrations, dip into opiated folk beauty, and then blow things wide open with a full side of fevered lift-off. 180gm vinyl. Letterpress jacket, 8x10 photo insert shot by Tom Carter. Number 706 in an edition of 850

CARLOS GIFFONI

Adult Life

(No Fun) Used CD $5.00

Venturing closer to austere, experimental electronics, Giffoni’s thick band of oscillations from 2008 is underscored by a rhythmic pulse. Rising and falling sweeps, dusty switches, and a block-by-block composition style that mesmerizes the listener before catching him or her off-guard with a sudden change. Sealed

CARLOS GIFFONI

Lift

(Spring Press - SP10) Used LP $7.50

Primordial dance music comprised of pulsating analog rhythms and austere waves of mechanical tones. With beginnings in laptop electronics, this synth maverick focuses on analog synthesizers and modular manipulation. “By stripping back his music to its barest essentials … over four concise tracks,” explains cookbook periodical The Wire, Giffoni uses the “synthesizer as a grimy, mud-encrusted machine whose function is [a dystopic] soundtrack.” Clear vinyl. Edition of 250.

CARLOS GIFFONI

Severance

(Hospital - HOS254) CD $13.50

(Hospital - HOS254) Used CD $8.00

No Fun’s Giffoni defines his signature with compositional electronic music that melds analog drone with tonality of the past expressions and a collision of minimalist sequencer details on a pure electronic landscape.

CARLOS GIFFONI

Zamuro

(Important) Used CD $5.00

Side A on this LP is a live realization of solo composition piece for portable synth and analog filter recorded at the Compound in San Francisco in 2006. One Side B is a studio piece recorded live on a much larger modular synth, based around the same theme, but with structural and tonal variations not in the original composition. Pure psychedelic electronic music.

BILL GILONIS / CHATALE LAPLANTE

Zürich Bamberg

(Ad Hoc) Used CD $2.00

Electro-acoustic hörspiel mail collaboration for which the duo abandoned conventional instrumentation in favor of collaged and manipulated street noise, household clatter, fragments of radio, and close-mic’d objects. Drilled digipak

ALAN GINSBERG

Ginsberg’s Thing

(Get Back ) Used LP $20.00

2004 reissue of late 1960s recordings from The Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy. 180g vinyl. Sealed

M. GIRA

I Am Singing To You From My Room

(Young God) Used CD $50.00 (Out-of-stock)

One installment in Gira’s ongoing series of home recordings songs — nice and pleasant renditions of various songs from his solo career and the Angels of Light catalog, plus new tracks and sketches. The tone is warm and inviting, even on occasions when the music and/or lyrics get decidedly dark. In a card envelope with woodblock print and hand lettering by the artist. Includes lyric sheet and personal thank-you note.

THE GITS

Enter The Conquering Chicken

(Broken Rekids) Used LP $100.00

A 2007 reissue of the 1993 second album from Seattle punk faves. Remixed by producer Jack Endino, expanded with nine bonus tracks, two of which are never-before-heard studio recordings. 180g vinyl. With free download. Sealed

THE GITS

Frenching The Bully

(Broken Rekids) Used LP $200.00

A 2007 reissue of the 1992 debut album by Seattle punks. Includes all the tracks from the original release, remixed and remastered, along with two studio cuts and eight live songs. 180g vinyl. With free download. Sealed

THE GITS

Seafish Louisville

(Broken Rekids) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

2007 reissue of Seattle punk faves’ powerful, previously unreleased studio material, a remixed version of their limited debut EP, and stunning live recordings. 180-gram vinyl.

THE GIZMOS

1976/1977

(Vulcher) Used LP $25.00

Collection of early EPs by legendary proto-punk band from Bloomington, Indiana. Red vinyl.

FRODE GJERSTAD / LASSE MARHAUG

Red Edge

(Carbon) Used CD $4.00

The free-jazz saxophonist and the beloved noise artist collaborate on this highly accomplished blend of electronic noise and free improv from 2004

LUTZ GLANDIEN

Lost In Rooms, A Virtualectric Story

(ReR Megacorp) Used CD $5.00

Storytelling, sampling, mainstream electronica, and experimental collage. This captivating hörspiel from 2003 evolved from music written for a dance project where the dancers recorded texts of their choice in English, French, Chinese, and Estonian. “In the narrative sections, voice is untreated, lying on top of heavily processed textures mostly derived from vocal sounds. In the other tracks, other voices are sampled and processed, often brought back to their animal content: breaths, gasps, unintelligible syllables. They become beats, melodies, or background textures for thumping electronica tunes — true enough to the ear not to sound forced or like academic exercises in popular dance music. The whole piece flows seamlessly and elegantly, negotiating the shifts between narration and music, between beat-driven electronica and very delicate sections.”

GNUOY ETAN

The Bear Family

(Hanson) Used 5-inch (lathe cut) $50.00

Single-sided, cut into a compact disc. Hand-assembled, in paper folder. All sounds by Nate Young Of Wolf Eyes. Edition of 20

THE GOAT FAMILY

Excelsior!

(Goat Family) Used LP $15.00

Americana with juggy, rocking rhythms. Gatefold jacket. Includes free download coupon. Sealed

GOBLIN

Dawn Of The Dead

(Dagored) Used LP $20.00

The original soundtrack recording to one of the greatest sequels ever made from Italy's psych-rock kings of the cult film underground. Gatefold jacket, poster, liner notes by Roberto Zamori. 180-gram vinyl.

GOBLIN

Suspiria

(Rambling) CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Odeon) Used LP $50.00

Goblin’s second recording for cult horror director Dario Argento “is just as scary as the film itself, blending wailing electric guitar, whooping synthesizers, and screaming wordless cries into a spooky, bombastic sound…. [T]errifying even without the benefit of the film’s gruesome images.” LP is from 1977 with insert, no obi. CD is a 2014 remaster with nine bonus tracks, sealed.

GOD IS MY CO-PILOT

Kittybait

(Ajax) Used 7-inch $2.00

Fractious no-wave-ish queercore from 1993 by Craig Flanagin and Sharon Topper. Liner notes by Marion Coutts

GOD IS MY CO-PILOT

When This You See Remember Me

(Dark Beloved Cloud) Used 7-inch $3.00

Five tracks from 1993, including “Jackalope Hunting” which Trouser Press admires for its “telescop[ing of] bits of African high-life and Cage-ian air manipulation into fragments of utter enchantment.”

GOD WILLING

Epitome District

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $5.00

Noise from 2007 by Ren Schofield of Age Wave and Container, 2007. Paste-on photocopy. Edition of 125

JOHN GODBERT

Entertaining The Noble Head

(Giardia) Used LP $15.00

Late ’90s solo album by the Vibracathedral Orchestra’s flamboyant guru where the multi-instrumentalist handles alto, tenor, clarinet, electric guitar, chanter, cymbal, and voice.

FRANCO GODI

Signor Gossi

(Crippled Dick Hot Wax) Used LP $15.00

Suitably playful and light-hearted music for Bruno Bozetto’s 1970s Italian-made cartoon about the ever-questing-for-happiness titular character (and his dog Gastone). Highlights include the mercilessly catchy “Qua Qua Qua”; the cannibal song “Bu Bu Buana Bu” with its jungle-y lyrics written by Godi himself; and the crisp, sitar-scented “Tutankamen Cha Cha Cha.” 1999 pressing on white vinyl.

GOING

I

(Silent Water) Used LP $10.00

Electronic hacks; crushed, mistreated keyboards; rhythms pushed to their limits; space saturated by opiate loops. To be heard laying horizontally, while passing out. Numbered edition of 500

GOING

II (Machinery)

(Silent Water) Used LP $10.00

Two slow-evolving tracks of rhythmic cycles and polyphonic densities, recorded in 2013 in the mountains of central Italy. Number 222 in an edition of 313

GOLDEN CALVES

Money Band

(Mother Tongue) Used LP $5.00

ames Toth’s fractured post-ESP Disk oblivion ballads from the ’90s dislocated by drug-dazzled cultic blasts.

GOLDEN DAWN

Power Plant

(Sunspots) Used CD $15.00

Originally released in 1967 on International Artists, the debut album by this Austin group, easily one of the best of the Texas psychedelic underground, is considered a folkier, more West Coast-influenced companion to Easter Everywhere; it was recorded before the The 13th Floor Elevators’ psychedelic masterpiece, though the label released it after. Lead vocalist George Kinney was friends with Roky Erickson and they briefly played together in a teenage garage band, and while Kinney lacks Erickson’s feral intensity, and his songwriting couldn’t quite match the acid-fueled philosophizing of Tommy Hall, lyrics do reach for something deeper than the “listen to the sound of purple” clichés. The band’s gentleness sets them apart from their contemporaries, and the sophisticated interplay of guitarists Tom Ramsey and Jimmy Bird makes Kinney’s melodies all the more compelling. 2002 reissue.

GOLDEN TRIANGLE

Golden Triangle

(Mexican Summer) Used LP $8.00

A forceful, graceless slam-together of dark, strummy pop from 2009 with party atmospherics and a coldly serious streak of idol worship by this Brooklyn-based garage / post-punk / show band featuring current and ex-members of Angry Angles and Viva L’American Death Ray Music.

JERRY GOLDSMITH

Planet of The Apes Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

(Intrada) Used CD $8.00

One of the composer’s most iconic scores. 1992 edition

BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT

Meat Bob

(Chrysalis) Used LP $10.00

Old-school weirdness comedy from 1988. Gold promo stamp on back of jacket

GOLEM

Orion Awake

(Acme / Lion) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Epic early to mid-1970s instrumental psychedelic space-rock from the Pyramid Records archive, said to be pseudonymous after-hours studio sessions featuring the biggest names on the Krautrock scene at the time. Heavy drums, jamming guitars and Hammond organ — in short, an amazing improvised free-form trip of impressive magnitude, on par with the music of heavyweights like Neu! and Gila. An adventurous atmosphere throughout, whether the result is hallucinogenic and jazzy, heavy freak and roll with crushing guitars and massive, repetitive, almost funky rhythm, or Jimi Hendrix-inspired. Booklet essay examines the controversy surrounding this and other recordings first made known to the world via Virgin Records’ three-disc Unknown Deutschland series of compilations from the 1990s, including the fact that one ‘Genius P Orridge’ is named as producer of the Golem album.” Jewelbox edition from 2010

THE GOOD ANNA

Wolf Tickets

(Harbinger Sound) Used LP $10.00

“Two sides of rattled drums and scraped detritus,” says our friend at Idwal Fisher, “As recorded at the Holy Trinity Church, Leeds. A room full of saucepan lids being attacked by a drunk knight with a three-foot sword and scurrying guitar that altogether sounds like a night in with Roger Turner and Derek Bailey with his arthritis. The acoustics are wonderful.”

GOOD AREA

French Antarctica

(Kye - KYE24) Used LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)

Drawing from a palette of guitar, rhythm box, cornet, shortwave radio and room activity, the debut LP by Good Area bypasses such obsolete concepts as dexterity and restraint, and cuts loose with a raw unbridled rush of creative force, bristling with home-spun malevolence and anti-social aplomb. The ultimate stand-alone testament to instantaneous expression. Good Area harvests the wisdom passed down from the Decayes, Semool, Nishimura Alimoti and other bastions of shoe-box cassette culture and transcribe their teachings into epic new screeds of confusion. With commemorative postcard. Edition of 400.

GOOD HORSEY

Kazue

(Trackshun Industries) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The pop sensibilities of Pork Queen’s Justice Schoenfarber and Max Lee, and Mark Szabo (Infernal Devices, Capozzi Park) hide non-jangly surprises around every corner. Each plays a wide variety of instruments including electric guitars, bass, drums, organ, ukulele, violin, xylophone, tapes, pie pan, party favors, and scrap metal. From 1994.

GREG GOODMAN / HENRY KAISER / LUKAS LIGETI

Heavy Meta

(Ecstatic Yod - E#76/FYPC22) Used CD $15.00

Pianist Goodman, protean guitar improvisor Kaiser and powerful, cross-cultural drummer Ligeti maintain structurally complex and taut inter-relationships as they shift between different paired settings and in and out of trio formation. “Logical Types” is “a bravuro performance from all hands,” according to Byron Coley. “From the strumbly, Magic Band-like opening cadences by Ligeti and Kaiser, through the sequences of equally whacked piano … the piece spurts and blurts with everything from a broken lyricism that recalls Paul Bley to squabbling crescendos that have a density approaching Nancarrow’s machine cycles. This is a ferocious and lyrical bastard of an album.” Sealed.

GREG GOODMAN / HENRY KAISER / TOSHINORI KONDO / EVAN PARKER / ROVA SAXOPHONE QUARTET

Metalanguage Festival Of Improvised Music Vol 1: The Social Set

(Metalanguage) Used LP $32.00

Legendary free improv from 1981 with Voigt on soprano and alto, Raskin on baritone and alto, Kaiser on electric guitar, Goodman of percussion and piano, Ackley on soprano, Ochs on tenor and sopranino, Parker on tenor and soprano, Kondo on trumpet. Sealed

GOOGOOSH

Googoosh

(Finders Keepers) Used CD $13.00

Despite being a national treasure to generations of free-thinking Iranians and one of the most well-known and beloved songbirds from the East, Faegheh Atashin found her songs and performances — combining inspiration from a deep-rooted history of Persian poetic verse and indelible Arabic songcraft — banned after the Iranian revolution of 1979. Her most famous songs have become anthems among international Iranian communities. Finders Keepers’ first Googoosh release focuses on a handful of her lesser-spotted tracks —mid-tempo pop peons with pulsating rhythm sections awash with expertly orchestrated strings (akin to that of intense Italian or French film composers). Other tracks take cues from jazz, bossa and early disco, unconsciously inducing political paranoia from the era’s imminent anti-pop restrictive regime.

SAM GOPAL

Escalator

(Breathless) Used CD $15.00

A classic of sinister psychedelia from the late 1960s, featuring lead vocals and guitar by Lemmy Kilmister, and tabla instead of drums which gives Escalator a mystical quietness. This 2005 reissue includes all eleven tracks from the original LP (Stable 1969), plus bonus cuts “Horse” and “Back Door Man,” from a rare seven-inch.

KIM GORDON / IKUE MORI / DJ OLIVE

Kim Gordon / Ikue Mori / DJ Olive

(SYR) 2xLP $40.00

(SYR) Used 2xLP $15.00

Spontaneous composition and prose by ex-Sonic Youth bassist, with ex-drummer of no wave legends DNA (currently in a class by herself with other-world sampling) and the heaviest within the postbeat turntable / drum’n’whatever scene. The results are sensuous, elegant and completely blistering. Cibo Matto’s Yuka Honda guests on one track.

GOSPEL MIDGETS

Side One, Two

(Klang Industries) Used LP $5.00

Near anonymous album from 1995 album by Jack Rose, Mark Cornick, Tommy Birchett. “Ugly, ambient guitar sounds, samples of what sounds like Jimmy Swaggart, loops, chord organ, inventive and sinus-clearing noise.” Rubber-stamped jacket

GOVERNMENT ALPHA

Sporadic Spectra

(Groundfault - GF004) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Extremely harsh, rumbling, crushing noise from Japan.

GOVERNMENT ALPHA

Venomous Cumulus Cloud

(PacRec) Used CD $10.00

A sci-fi odyssey by the Japanese legend, a cataclysmic adventure of volcanic blazes, time-machine blasts, and extremely loud electronics. Six tracks, forty minutes.

GRAE•COM / MACRONYMPHA

Indoctrination / Blast Furnace

(RRRecords) Used LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)

Neil Herzinger’s side-long electro-collage of dark noise, tones, found sounds and found vocals, backed with five untitled tracks of dynamic power noise by Joseph Roemer and Rodger Stella. Silkscreened paste-on jacket

GRANDE LITURGIE ORTHODOXE SLAVE

Grande Liturgie Orthodoxe Slave

(Balkanton / Harmonia Mundi) Used LP $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Music by Dobri Christov, Alexandre Gretchaninov, Alexandre Arkhangelski, and Pavel Tchesnokov. Conducted by Georgi Robev. French pressing

GRAVEYARDS

Night In A Graveyard

(Rococo) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00

Hans Buetow on cello, Ben Hall on drums, John Olson on reeds, Nate Wooley on trumpet. Numbered edition 104/ 200

RANDY GREIF

Alice In Wonderland

(Soleilmoon) Used 5xCD $40.00

“This surreal and wildly ambitious project began quite humbly in 1988” explains Brainwashed, and took five years to complete. Greif finds “inspiration in literature, exotic field recordings, and musique concrète. As a result, [this eclectic] stew … [blends] radio serials, tape loop cut-ups, avant garde classical cacophony, clanking early industrial textures, horror movie soundtracks, and brooding ambient over the course of six mind-bending hours…. [In doing so, he] exercises a great deal of tact, largely allowing the narration to continue unmolested and seldom plunging into lengthy instrumental stretches…. [M]ost of the creative heavy lifting on the album involves the skillful and aggressive manipulation of the actors’ voices, surrounding the narration with disjointed phonemes, pitch-shifting, panning, backwards voices, and sundry other neat tricks…. [W]hen Grief does attack the actual narrative flow, he generally does it to supremely hallucinatory effect, making Alice and her friends sound submerged, fragmented, or narcotically slowed-down when it suits the story…. [D]issonance and disorientation serve the themes of the story quite well…. Greif … giv[es] the story a compelling dynamic arc, as his clanging rhythms and garish sound colors bring … animation and tension to the more action-packed parts of the tale, which in turn heightens the impact of the woozier, more drugged-sounding passages…. Of course, six solid of hours of [electronic landscapes, desconstructed text, computer manipulations], and mechanized…, unsettling, creepy and Kafkaesque … psychedelia is certainly exhausting, but … total immersion seems like the only way to fully experience a work this singular and consuming…. Alice in Wonderland is a spectacular achievement. Third edition, remastered in 2000. In multi-disc amaray case with the barcode brutally sliced off the paper inlay.

RANDY GREIF

Bacteria and Gravity

(RRRecords) Used LP $20.00

Tribal rhythms, other-worldly voices, odd sounds such as bullfrog and car horn from 1987. Cover art by Damian Bisciglia.

GREY DATURAS / YELLOW SWANS

Copper / Silver

(Olde English Spelling Bee) Used 2xLP $8.00

“A psychedelic swirl and roar applied to drone metal (albeit laden with glitchy chirps and roaring fuzz, ambient layerin, slow-moving, dynamic semi-structures, and a focus on low rumbling and semi-intelligible guitar). Fragments of what could charitably be called ‘riffs’ weave in and out of Yellow Swans’ noise tapestry, the long and low fuzzed-out notes meeting bursts of post-rock-isms and even near guitar soloing at one point. The slow, jammy vibe brought in by the Daturas prevents fatigue from rapid wild texture shifts. The tracks are lengthy, but the textures are varied and the progression is smooth.” Paste-on jacket.

J GRIENKE

Cities In Fog

(Intrepid) Used LP $75.00

“Ambient music” from 1985, says Yerblues, approached “through the lens of floating chunks of garbage being washed through miles-long drainage ditches in-between the toxic emissions of refineries on the outskirts of a dying city.” Sealed

J GRIENKE

Places of Motility

(Dossier) Used LP $12.00

“An atmospheric collage of rhythm and noise” from 1987.

J GRIENKE

Timbral Planes

(Dossier) Used LP $18.00

Dark ambience from 1987, partially beatless and partially gently percussive / tribal.

ANASTASIS GRIVAS / NICOLAS MALEVITSIS / VIC RAWLINGS / HOWARD STELZER / JASON TALBOT / THEODORE ZIOTOS

Howard Stelzer / Jason Talbot / Vic Rawlings vs. Anastasis Grivas / Theodore Zioutos / Nicolas Malevitsis

(Editions Zero) Used CDR $5.00

Twenty-four minutes each by two different trios: Howard Stelzer (tape), Jason Talbot (turntable), and Vic Rawlings (cello and circuit-bent electronics); and Anastasis Grivas (prepared bowed guitar), Theodore Zioutos (electronics), and Nicolas Malevitsis (amplified objects). Recorded 2000 and 2001. Edition of 140

JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS / ARNAUD RIVIÈRE

Monoface

([ no label ]) Used 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

PIETRO GROSSI

Battimenti 1964-1966

(Ants) Used CD $12.00

“An electronic work composed and realized in 1965, made by 94 combinations of near frequencies, organized in groups of two, three, four and five sine waves, couplings that yield ‘harmonic beatings’— overtones born of the intersection of frequencies. The rigour of Grossi’s working method creates an imaginary sound painting … that anticipated and was contemporary to other masterpieces of modern music, a real forerunner of electronic minimalism.” In gatefold CD jacket with booklet. From 2003

GROUP 180

Group 180

(Hungaraton) Used LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)

On this 1983 pressing, one of the preeminent European new music ensembles that brought international attention during their lifetime (1978 through 1990) to Hungarian minimalism perform works by Tibor Szemzó, Steve Reich, László Melis, and Frederic Rzewski

GROUP 180

The Songs Of Maldaror

(Hungaropop) Used LP $22.00

Minimalist chamber sound-weaving with elements of jazz, classical and new music by these 1980s Hungarian trailblazers, their first full album of all-original music by László Melis, with words by Lautréamont.

GROUP 1850

Agemo’s Trip To Mother Earth

(Pseudonym) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

The nominal concept of one of the most ambitious psychedelic albums to emerge from continental Europe in the late 1960s recounts the journey of the titular character from a paradise-like planet to the more chaotic imperfection of Earth. The album keeps pace with British psychedelia (particularly the Pink Floyd school), with hints of the onset of progressive rock in its less-conventional passages. Plenty of melodic shifts, celestial organ, wiggling and distorted guitar, vocal harmonies, quasi-Gregorian chants, Mothers-of-Invention-like horns, beatific respites, and just, you know, general freakiness. Dutch repress from 1998 of 1968 LP.

GRUFF RHYS

Candy Lion

(Team Love) Used 2xLP $35.00

Merry pranksterism and ruminations on more serious subjects co-mingle on the Super Furry Animals singer’s second solo album from 2006. Includes insert. 180g vinyl. Three sides, fourth is etched.

GRUNT

Petturien Rooli

(Freak Animal) Used CD $12.00

2009 disc that steers clear of the previously obligatory harsh noise blasts, in favor of a more textured, detailed, and experimental approach to PE / industrial-noise. Metal objects, wood, water, stones, glass, sand, mud, concrete, tools (shovels, lawnmover, cement mixer), metallic pipes (wind instrument), radio transmissions, digital keyboards, analogue synthesizer, analogue Walkman with field recordings and tape manipulations, 8-track MD, 4-track analogue tape, digital hard-drive recorder for field recordings, various effects, bass-amp, PA system, guitar-amp.

PAUL GRUSHKIN

The Art Of Rock

(Abbeville Press) Used paperback book $12.00

At 4.5 inches by 4.5 inches, this 1993 348pp collection brings you “from Presley to punk” through the eye-popping evolution of the rock concert poster.

THE GUESS WHO

Shakin’ All Over

(Sundazed) Used 2xLP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Master-tape-sourced collection of hard-hitting recordings from 1963 through 1967. With many tracks in true stereo and a handful of cuts that hadn’t seen daylight for decades at the time of this album’s release.

GUIGNOL

Angela, David and the Great Neapolitan Road Issue

(Cenotaph) Used CD $7.00

“A mysterious little enigma of an album” from 2001 by Jeremy Barnes (of Bablicon), Aaron Moore and Laurence Coleman (both from Volcano The Bear), along with Nick Mott and Korena Pang, says Brainwashed, “Seeming at once intimate and detached…, primitively recorded and loosely improvised…. The instrumentation is minimal, with clattering percussion and warm organ tones. Its idiosyncrasies are beguiling, and much of the album washes over like a gentle afternoon hallucination…. The lyrics are disjointed and surreal, bringing to mind the spaced-out whimsicality of solo Syd Barrett. Even the occasional areas of tension and noise seem oddly pastoral.” Sealed

GUILTY CONNECTOR

Cosmic Trigger / 2AM Visit

(Groundfault) Used CD $3.00

“Harsh-noise from 2004 that pleads guilty and makes no apologies. Everything is said in the name, already: the Faulty Connector, the defective connection. The damaged cable, the messed up solder that blows up the amps. A return to the basics of the genre, in fact: white and pink noise, acoustic aberration assumed, sought after, pursued headlong — straight ahead. In fact, Guilty Connector attacks the racket with a grindcore, punk, rock’n’roll mentality.”

GUINEA PIG

Bientôt Votre Mariage

(Partycul Systems) Used CD $8.00

2003 album by Thomas Fernier and crew that approaches, according to Néosphères, electronica, post rock, and krautrock (motorik rhythms à la Neu!, electric guitar saturations and concrete music à la Faust), “but also solo piano, small ramshackle banjo ballads, string glissandi (DJ Spooky style), jazzy atmospheres and almost trip-hop grooves.”

BUDDHADEV DAS GUPTA

Raga Jhinjhoti

(India Archive Music) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Pure energy from beginning to end by this legendary sarodist, with Samar Saha on tabla, performing Alap Jor and Jhala, and Vilambit and Drut Gasts in tintal. Complex and fascinating layakari (polyrhythmic improvisation), made all the more mind-blowing by their intricacy and the mathematical virtuosity of Gupta’s machine-gun bursts of notes. From 1991

MATS GUSTAFSSON

Education Of Lars Jerry

(Xeric) Used LP $12.00

“Bellowing horn gusts and devilishly intricate microhorn chatter within the space of a single phrase,” notes S. Duda, “allow a tsunami of sound to be answered by a volley of rapid-fire chirps, squeaks, and clucks…, [giving this 1999] LP the illusion of dialogue — as if there are two mad horn players in the room rather than one. And in Gustafsson’s hands, the give and take of his internal conversation is both convincing and intriguing…. [He sketches] a wildly diverse landscape of mood and emotion, from scalding, angry blasts to jolting surprises, to hilarious slapstick.”

MATS GUSTAFSSON

Solos For Contrabass Saxophone

(Table Of The Elements) Used LP $35.00

The first recordings of the Swedish saxophonist on the enormous and altogether imposing contrabass. Emphasis on the bass. Pressed in 2003 on clear vinyl, silk-screened on the reverse side with glow-in-the-dark ink, and packaged in clear vinyl jacket.

WILL GUTHRIE / JÉRÔME NOETINGER

Face Off

(Erstwhile) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

An interactive duet with Guthrie on percussion, microphone and electronics; Noetinger on Revox tape machine and electronics. Sealed

BRUCE HAACK

The Electronic Record For Children

(King Record Co. - KICP2633) Used CD $20.00

Electronic music pioneer Bruce Haack and child educator Esther Nelson dive into the world of psychedelic music compositions designed to open the minds and hearts of 1969's young. Their far-out electronic music evokes a space age alternate universe. Joining them is pianist Praxietellis Pandit and the relaxed friend Chris on songs about everything from ancient folk tales to outerspace to what the world sounds like when you listen with your inner self. Japanese reissue from 2005.

BRUCE HAACK

The Way-Out Record For Children

(King Record Co. - KICP2632) Used CD $22.00

Heavy songs about robots, Indian mysticism, motorcycle-riding fantasies and other touchstones of any psychedelic masterpiece. Recorded in 1968, the music is all generated by Haack's homemade electronic instruments, which churn out proto-hip-hop beats and straight-up avant garde moments left and right, while the voices of the kids in Esther Nelson's community chime in here and there. The record ends with a haunting existential twist that leaves all free-thinkers screamin' for more. Japanese reissue from 2004.

HAAZZ & COMPANY

Unlawful Noise

(Atavistic) Used CD $18.00

The energy of this group — Kees Hazevoet, Peter Bennink, Peter Brotzmann, Han Bennink, Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo — is truly incredible and will likely cause waves of both emotion and thought in receptive listeners. Although there are noticeable spots where individual reedists shine, many of the most exhilarating moments on this 1976 recording come when three or four of them unite in bursts of sonic joy. The fury on exhibit might not be revolutionary anymore but when Bennink breaks out the bagpipes, and it remains nearly impossible to discern who is playing what. Always a good sign. Moholo delivers blistering patterns akin to Rashied Ali or Sunny Murray but with a greater sense of rhythm if not outright swing. Hearing him beat the hell out of his cymbals at the end of the first track will do the soul some good. Traycard has a promo cut on one spine.

HAFLER TRIO / ANDREW LILES / COLIN POTTER

3 Eggs

(Important) Used CD $8.00

Originally intended as a merch item for a tour that never took place, their first collaboration.

HAFLER TRIO

A Bag Of Cats

(Touch) Used CD $13.00 (Out-of-stock)

First issue of Spiral audio-magazine, with booklet and postcard, in slipcase card sleeve. From 1990

HAFLER TRIO

An Utterance Of The Supreme Ventriloquist

(Soleilmoon) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

A psychedelic head-trip from 1996, reissued in 2005, with two twenty-one-minute pieces reaching a similar plane of consciousness occupied by Nurse With Wound. In outsized semi-transparent printed card wallet, with similarly-packaged booklet.

HAFLER TRIO

Being A Firefighter Isn’t Just About Squirting Water

(Important) Used CD $9.00

On the fifth installment in Important’s series of EPs from sound sculptor Andrew McKenzie, a 20-minute construction from 2005 starts with soft metallic harmonics, sounding like heavily treated guitar strings, with low-frequency hums and whistle-like feedback entering the mix as it progresses. Edition of 500

HAFLER TRIO

Kill The King

(Korm Plastics) Used CD $16.00 (Out-of-stock)

“One of the qualities,” explains Brainwashed, that makes this 1991 release “such a satisfying work is that Andrew McKenzie balances his characteristically aggressive contrarian and experimentalist impulses with massive, sustained, and subliminally buzzing drones and an occasional languorous pulse….” Guests include “a disappeared” (presumed to be John Duncan), “a never was” (ditto Zbigniew Karkowski), and “performance artist / sexologist Annie Sprinkle…, lending her voice to be chopped and mangled into unrecognizability for a cathartic and disquieting mid-song sequence as they are all distilled into either a swirling, quivering shimmer or an ominous rumble…. [T]he accompanying booklet is a masterpiece in its own right, both as a feat of graphic design and as an impenetrable enigma. [W]himsically disquieting pictures, pages of brief evocative text, six seemingly extraneous song titles, and [silver] words [that may] have nothing to do with the music … [come] from a rather curious and alien place, and bear little resemblance at all to the comparatively homogenous commodities released by ‘serious’ musicians that want to be liked…. [T]his album could have emerged from an aborted military experiment to create sound waves that are so vibrant and psychotropic on a microcosmic level that hapless enemy combatants would be unable to do anything but listen intently…. [A]n utterly absorbing and unpredictable release from one of the most twisted and calculating minds in modern music.”

HAIL

Kirk

(ReR Megacorp) Used CD $6.00

Slanted, off-kilter chord progressions by Susanne Lewis (vocals, guitar, violin, organ, keyboards, sampler), Bob Drake (organ, keyboards, bass guitar, drums), Dave Kerman (drums), Bill Gilonis (guitar), Faon Lewis (viola), Chris Cutler (drums). From 1992. Sealed

HAIR AND NAILS

III

(Public Eyesore - 28) Used CDR $5.00

Thirty-six short duets from 2001, perfect haikus éléctroniques, semi-fermented and compressed much like a fine oolong or adolescent foot-binding.

HAIR POLICE

Blow Out Your Blood

(Freedom From - FF0172) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

A demonic wall of sound from 2002, straddling thrash metal and industrial noise.

HAIR POLICE

Certainty of Swarms

(No Fun) Used CD $5.00

Masterful combining of piercing vocals with walls of guitars, precise heavy electronics and thundering drums. A fusion of metal, noise rock, free jazz, industrial, and harsh electronics. From 2008. Sealed

HAIR POLICE

Drawn Dead

(Weird Forest) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Total oppressive heaviness, a slow suffocation of sick tones and blunt shrapnel. Guitar, drums, and electronics seriously overwhelm with grit and shadowy fuzz, lumbering through meanest tones, factory ambience, and disembodied moans in absolute darkness. A horrifying lump of old school tape noise sludge collage. Sealed

HAIR POLICE / VIKI

Hair Police / Viki

(Scratch And Sniff Entertainment) Used Split LP $8.00

A free-range roving donkey ride by the pride of the Damn Shame state, with squeaky beats, microphones up mouths, and zooming crunch — easily regarded as equal to the minimal electronic splurt of lo-fi speaker technicians like Suicide and Wolf Eyes — backed with calorie-burning crunch by your Lexington heroes, where Fischer Price toys are taken apart and amplified, guitars hammer tacks, and drums tie shoes. With inserts. Light blue vinyl. Silkscreened cover. Edition of 300.

HAIR POLICE

Stay In Bodies

(Harbinger Sound) Used LP $45.00

“Their ability to make lo-fi shit noise sound so miserably slow and fierce is admirable,” reckons Freak Animal. “It sounds like neither drone, nor sludge. No Sunn O))), no standard harsh noise. It’s hardly ‘music’, yet they do play something…. On the B-side, very tasty and most roughest tape manipulations! Should have been longer.” Released as a tour LP. Edition of 100

HALL OF FAME

First Came Love, Then Came The Tree

(Amish) Used CD $4.00

Treading similar waters as the psych-folk of Tower Recordings and the partially composed harsh improv of the Dead C. Dan Brown Samara Lubelski, and Theo Angel filled pour it on with primitive rhythms, droning violin, skipping records, unplugged electric guitars, bowed cymbals, drums, bass and a wealth of found sounds. Cut corner promo.

HALL OF FAME

Hall Of Fame

(Amish) Used LP $5.00

Primitive rhythms, droning violin, skipping records, unplugged electric guitars, bowed cymbals, violin, drums, bass and a wealth of found sounds on this 1996 album.

HALL OF FAME

Hall Of Fame

(Siltbreeze) Used CD $3.00

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $6.00

A melange of tribal thump, eastern drone, raga concrète and melodious melancholia from 2000 by Samara Lubelski, Dan Brown, and Theo Angel.

NEIL HAMBURGER

Laugh Out Lord

(Drag City) Used CD $6.00

The funniest unfunny man in America recorded live at various hotels with laugh-tracks dubbed in. Jokes about religion and terrorism fall flat and the crowd turns on our hero like a pack of drunken wolves.

HAMMERING THE CRAMPS

Hammering The Cramps

(Wormwood Grasshopper) Used LP $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

A real Tasmanian rager by future members of Drunk Elk that “combines the room pressure of Trapdoor Fucking Exit-era Dead C. with the frenetic psychedelic heft of any great Wayne-and-Kate Village band” promises Still Single, “and the sun-blinded free spirit that rises into the air anytime someone listens to Plagal Grind…. It sounds as if it could have surfaced as some ambitious Xpressway offshoot back in 1988, the presence of four guys with the third dimension flickering on and off, banging on their cages and letting tiny, powerfully-focused beams of light pierce the painted black walls and rip through to a late afternoon blue sky” Edition of 300.

PETER HAMMILL

A Black Box

(Static Music) Used CD $12.00

Emphatic, powerful and technically excellent production from 1988, which smooths a path between the 1970s and the ’80s. More rocky than pH7, less techno than Moving Targets.

PETER HAMMILL

pH7

(Virgin) Used CD $15.00

The spirit of experimentation that prevails on other albums by the VdGG founder are set aside on his eighth album from 1989 in favor of the comfort of tighter, more mainstream songs.

PETER HAMMILL

The Future Now

(Virgin) Used CD $12.00

One of Hammill’s best and most disconcerting albums since the mid-’70s, filled with beautiful piano ballads, strange experiments, and anthemic rock.

HAMPTON GREASE BAND

Music To Eat

(Shotput) Used 2xCD $35.00

Reissue of the group’s only album, drawing upon jazz, progressive and psychedelic guitar rock, and a generally surrealist bent to back Col Bruce Hampton’s savant ravings. Comparisons with Zappa and Beefheart might seem inevitable, but their more guitar-oriented sound skirts even closer to the lunatic fringe. Includes lengthy history by guitarist Glenn Phillips, crammed with believe-it-or-not anecdotes from the group’s fascinating career.

HANATARASH

4: Aids-A-Delic

(Public Bath) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

It’s a sweet pile of junk. No, it’s tape loop madness. Don’t argue, internets, Goodbye Doctor arbitrates your conflict thus: “One of the many off-spews of Yamatsuka Eye and the whole Boredoms noise phenomenon (before they drifted off into some kind of ur-Jam band heaven) … [was] recorded on a poorly functioning boombox; I’ve also heard that a drill was used to make noises [and] break gear…. More like mood music, at least for me…, memories of a kind of unhinged mental state…., this is a soundtrack to a breakdown.”

HANATARASH

Live!! 82 Apr. 12 Studio Ahiru-Osaka

(MoMnDad - MoM003) Used CD $40.00

Twenty-four minutes of Eye goin' nuts. Plus The Exotic Mood Of Chaotic Voo-Doo! and Riot In Jungle! – voodoo- and jungle-themed exotica by Richard Hayman And His Orchestra, Prince Onago / Princess Muana, Chaino Guy Warren, John Berkely “Peanuts” Taylor, Cyril Jackson, Bertha Egnos, Don Randi Trio, and Walter Wanderley. From 1993. Sealed.

HANATARASH

Live!! 84 Dec. 16 Zabo-Kyoto

(MoMnDad - MoM002) Used CD $30.00

Twenty-seven minutes of Eye Yamatsuka on voice, tapes, glass-crash-percussion, cat cutting; Taketani on metal throw, army hammer, electric saw. Plus The Exotic Moog Of Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (#2 Moog Groove) – vintage easy listening tracks by The Moog Machine, Dick Hyman, Ralph Carmichael, Provocative Electronics, Morton Subotnik, Spaced Out, Hugo Montenegro, The Electric Concept Orchestra, and Les Baxter. From 1993. Sealed

HANDS TO

Egress

(Anomalous) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Working solely with dried cacti, Jeph Jerman nestles in the southwestern deserts and crafts instruments from the area’s natural detritus. This haunting recording is rich with locational specificity and direct contact with sound. With inserts. Photos affixed to front and back of white LP jacket

HANDS TO

Flatline

(Petrified Stumps) Used LP $125.00

“Slightly rhythmic drones with a dark mood,” explains Pasty Surprise. “It’s a series of recording processes of acoustical flat-lining done around 1990 in Colorado Springs, with subtleties that reward repeated listening. Made from cut-ups and degradations of historical artists whose names are also cut up to form track titles. This record was originally planned for release in the early ’90s, but it was never officially released by the label until 2009.” The LP is split onto two platters — one side per, with the flips screen printed. Colored vinyl. Packaged in heavy, hand-made jacket assembled with spray painted, cut-outs and paste-ons. Edition of 300

HANK IV

Refuge In Genre

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $3.00

A decidedly meaner, sharper, and more pummeling affair than their critically acclaimed debut, Hank IV’s second album sports eleven songs in 30 scorched-earth minutes. From 2008. Sealed with DL

J HANSON

Boolean Blues

(Digitalis) Used CD $4.00

In trying to find new pathways in electronic music, this former member Hochenkeit and The Davis Redford Trio spins solo modular synth exploits to the stars. Boolean Blues is psychedelic and mathematical all at once. Softness and melody hook you straight off, but heavy doses of electronic mayhem keep things uneasy.

HAPPY FLOWERS

Flowers on 45: The Homestead Singles

(Homestead - HMS161) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Totally bonkers guitar and berserk screaming from Mr. Anus and Mr. Horribly-Charred–Infant’s late ’80s and early ’90s singles: They Cleaned Out My Cut With A Wire Brush; BB Gun; Call Me Pudge; and Peel Sessions.

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY I CAN’T READ / OVA!

The Number On My Forehead Is Gone

(Freedom From) Used Split CD $3.00

“Guitar, drums, a bit of electronic tinkering,” explains Perte & Fracas about the eight track here by Ova! “Relentless rhythms. Temporary madness. Things that collide in all directions. Shooting power.” About Happy Mother’s Day I Can’t Read, they continue, “Tony Remple works in hardcore electronics, the one that does a lot of shzzzzzz and crrrrrriiii with some twisted beats and feedback in your face.” Plus five collab tracks. From 2004

HAPSHASH AND THE COLOURED COAT

Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids

(Akarma) Used LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

Not far from the dissociational ecstasy being created in NYC by The Godz at the time, this perfectly tranced lysergic blather from 1967 is an underrated document of its time, incorporating flower power, love and peace, and the psychedelic lifestyle. 2002 reissue.

TWIG HARPER

Intuitive American Esoteric Vol. 2 American Tapes

(American Tapes) Used LP $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

2006 release by ex-Nautical Almanac genius, continuing his series of psychedelic tape manipulations and droning synthesizer. Electronic and organic sound mixed to brain-warping perfection. B-side is lathe cut with locked grooves. Edition of 200

EDDIE HARRIS

The Electrifying Eddie Harris

(4 Men With Beards) Used LP $15.00

2001 reissue of a classic date by the master of electric baritone sax. With pianist Jodie Christian, bassist Melvin Jackson, and drummer Richard Smith, plus guests.

HARRY PUSSY

[untitled]

([ no label ]) Used LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)

Typically spectacular, spastic rock from 1997, with ferocious drumming, primal screech, and an inexplicably bluesy base.

HASH JAR TEMPO

Under Glass

(Drunken Fish - DFR44) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The second album by Bardo Pond and Roy Montgomery, who in 1998 churned great slabs of guitar and keyboard drift, deep-ended bass grooves, staggered rhythms, and topped it all with a kiss of flute and quiet mumble. Fifty-six minutes.

HAT CITY INTUITIVE

They Must Be Clapping For… Me!

(Crank Automotive) Used CD $3.00

The second full-length album from these Connecticut-based free-improv monsters. A body-cracking collection of tracks created with horns, guitars, drums, and electronics.

THE HAT SHOES

Differently Desperate

(Ad Hoc) Used CD $4.00

2007 reissue the 1991 studio album of diverse avant-pop songs by Bill Gilonis (Art Bears, The Work), Catherine Jauniaux (Fluvial), Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now) and Tom Cora (Skeleton Crew, Curlew) — with guests David Thomas, Amos, Chris Cochrane, Tim Hodgkinson, Hahn Rowe and Rick Brown, among others. Even though Rock In Opposition bands were known for their seriousness, here they branch out into a lighter, more whimsical side of the genre, exploiting pop idioms and structures. There’s even a cover of The Archies’ “Sugar Sugar.” Hole drilled into digipak

THE HATERS

Ictanea All Naris T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $40.00 (Out-of-stock)

B&C European Style 100% cotton. White with black ink on front. From 2000s

THE HATERS

These Things Happen, Volume 2

(Helicopter - 92092) Used CD $10.50 (Out-of-stock)

Pieces originally submitted to compilations, including several impossibly rare and unheard. All tracks have been newly transferred and remastered from the original DAT tapes. An absolutely crucial collection of classic entropy that inaugurates Helicopter’s new series focusing on West Coast artists. Includes obi

TEPPO HAUTA-AHO / EVAN PARKER / PHIL WACHSMANN

The Needles

(Leo) Used 2xCD $12.00

One disc showcasing a 2000 live performance in Finland by violinist Wachsmann, saxophonist Parker and bassist Teppo Hauta-Aho (the trio’s first time together), one disc recorded a year later in the studio.

CHRISTOPHE HAVARD / EMMANUEL LEDUC / JOHN MORIN / JULIEN OTTAVI

Digital Live Radio Session

(Fibrr) Used CD $8.00

“Tinny, noisy tones (rather than severe, sub-frequency glitches) consume the majority of the [2001] session,” explains Matt Roberson, performed on radio, tape, motors, contact microphones, mini-disc (Havard), no input mixing board, radios feedback, sampler (Leduc), turntables, sampler (Morin), and laptop (Ottavi). “Halfway through [the information-and-media-permeated atmosphere], a soft drone emerges with equally soft bursts of music and other sound … minutes before harsher tones enter.”

JIM HAYNES

Sever

(Intransitive - INT032) Used CD $4.00

Evocative, highly visual drone music, layers upon organic layers in constant motion, and yet seem somehow still. On the third solo album by San Francisco-based composer Jim Haynes, the process of decaying and wearing down materials is implied; its passages of rough clang and cyclic scraping metal seem implacably tangible, as if one is witnessing time-lapsed erosion in action.

JIM HAYNES

The Decline Effect

(Helen Scarsdale - HMS021) Used 2xLP $12.00

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.

HAYVANLAR ALEMI

Guarana Superpower

(Sublime Frequencies) Used LP $10.00

This Ankara-based group of contemporary players is steeped in psychedelics, surf, and expansive rock instrumental grandeur. Formed in 1999, the band led by Özüm İtez (electric guitar) and Işık Sarıhan (percussion) drifts from majestic beauty to blazing delirium with İtez etching his manifesto for electric guitar every step of the way, backed by Sarihan’s wide variety of styles. “MEGA Lambada” and “Guarana Superpower” are more reminiscent of late ’80s post-punk experimental mind-melting, referencing Torch Of The Mystics-era Sun City Girls in grand fashion. Other cuts expand on tripped-out surf, retro Cambodian rock, electrified Thai Mor Lam and Saharan guitar music.

THE HEADS

Under Sided

(Sweet Nothing) Used CD $15.00

Primitivist psych by Bristol power trio from 2002

THE HEADS

Under The Stress of a Headlong Drive

(Invada) Used CD $11.00

These supreme masters of all things wah-wah with an unhealthy obsession with krautrock blast off on a hypno-space jam trajectory, without losing track of songs or perfectly deadly riffs.

HEAVY WINGED

Alive In My Mouth

(Three Lobed) Used LP $5.00

A massive and dense blowout from 2008 comprised of three of the band’s dirtiest, heaviest tracks. Includes CD. #624/647.

HEAVY WINGED / TAIGA REMAINS

Witches Cradle / Ancient Sleeping Birds

(Not Not Fun) Used Split LP $5.00

Spray-paint paste-on collage in silk-screened poly sleeves with stickers. 2007 reissue on clear vinyl with bonus track “Beso Spruce Retreat.” Edition of 300

CHRISTOPH HEEMAN / JIM O'ROURKE / LEE RANALDO

Bloomington, Indiana ... Autumn

(Streamline) Used LP $12.00

Two side-long pieces from the early ’90s released here for the first time in 2010. Ranaldo lends the voice and words of “Bloomington, Indiana” to O’Rourke and Heemann for a text-based collaborative electro-acoustic composition on one side, backed with a Heemann / O’Rourke piece from the Plastic Palace People era. Sealed

CHRISTOPH HEEMAN / ANDREAS MARTIN

Lebenserinnerungen Eines Lepidopterologen

(Robot - RR20) Used 2xCD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

A retrospective look at their early solo works, which move between minimalist guitar compositions, tape-music narratives, and cascading electronics. Includes Martin’s Doppelpunkt Vor Ort ten-inch (Robot Records 1993) and Heemann’s Über Den Umgang Mit Umgebung Und Andere Versuche ten-inch (Robot Records 1991), previously unreleased material, obscure seven-inch tracks, and their collaborative H.N.A.S. opus from Ach, Dieser Bart! LP (KK Records 1988). This is the 2010 edition, with two additional tracks not on Robot’s 1999 edition.

CHRISTOPH HEEMAN / MERZBOW

Sleeper Awakes On The Edge Of The Abyss

(Streamline) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

The CD was originally released in 1993 and has just now been reissued by Streamline Germany. “Heemann restrains and refines Akita’s normally brutal noise and adds his own collage of sounds,” explains Brainwashed. “Drones, washes, electronics and samples (such as metals and chirping birds). Heemann truly paints with sound and here the Merzbow material is just another shade of audio color for his abstract and impressionist palette. He then shapes it all into five pieces, each with a particular character all its own…. [U]tterly beautiful. Hypnotic passages of waterfall wash, layered electronic drone, metallic churnings, gurgling static and deep ambiance perfectly flow into one another.” From 1993

RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS

Destiny Street

(Red Star) Used LP $20.00

Fuller and jazzier than Blank Generation, and just as concise. From 1982.

HELL COWS

Animal Peepshow Tour T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $75.00

Stedman Super50. Cotton/Polyester 50/50. Black with yellow ink on front and back. From 1980s

HELL COWS

Toothless

(Black Label) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Legendary skewed art-rock from late 1980s Portland. With vocals neither sung nor spoken (instead delivered via guttural bark, similar to an ornery Captain Beefheart), and an overall free-form nature that includes heavily costumed personae onstage, this group was light years ahead of their peers. With insert, poster, sticker, postcard, label flyer, black-and-white promo photo.

ERDEM HELVACIOGLU

A Walk Thru The Bazaar

(Locust) CD $8.00

(Locust) Used CD $6.00

“The fourth installment in the 2003 Met Life Series by this Turkish composer takes the listener through an Istanbul marketplace and captures the energetic day-to-day activities of hawkers buying and selling goods, children running about, traditional music in the distance, cell phones playing unfamiliar melodies. Helvacioglu’s response is almost like an enriched memory of the market’s cultural texture that musically retains much of that raw Earth feeling one initially encounters on the field recording. But source material is elevated as field-recorded voices are transformed into a rich chorus ensconced in an infectiously pulsing electronic trance that seems to float above the market itself.” Used copy has scribbled barcode.

JESSE MAE HEMPHILL

Feelin’ Good

(High Water) Used LP $30.00

Rhythmically hypnotic North Mississippi hill country blues by 1987 and 1988 Handy Award winner, with Hemphill’s soulful and often melancholic voice riding above tight and skillful guitar playing, clever percussion and bottleneck guitar. Guest include musicologist David Evans on guitar and drummer by R.L. Boyce. Released in 1990 via Memphis State University. Liner notes by David Evans.

HENCHMEN

Lust For Glory

(Raw Power) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Starting in Auckland at the beginning of the ’80s, later migrating to Reptiles At Dawn, and obviously influenced by the Stooges and MC5, The Henchmen were one of the first antipodean bands to embrace stoic, simple, pounding steamroller rock’n’roll with fuzz guitar. Four previously unreleased studio tracks; two each from Death Machine seven-inch (Cadaver 1985), I Got A Right seven-inch (Cadaver 1982), Do The Mælstrom twelve-inch (Cadaver 1983); and seven live recordings from April 1983. With booklet of liner notes, photos and lyrics.

MICHEL HENRITZI / JUNKO / MASAYOSHI URABE

Ecstasy Of The Angels

(Opposite) Used CD $6.00

Talk about a power trio. Dustbreeders’ Michel Henritzi creates bleak, fractured landscapes with snare drum, wood and metal junk, turntable and feedback. Cult favorite Masayoshi Urabe adds uneasy atmosphere with alto sax and guitar. Junko’s vocals bring almost indescribable dread to the mix. From 2009

PIERRE HENRY

Intérieur Extérieur

(Phillips) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded in 1996 “in the middle of Henry’s incredible museum of contraptions and machines of all kinds, and the tens of thousands of magnetic tapes accumulated over the years, rows by themes, which line all the walls of the house. Gurgling, choking, howls of terror, hoarse and monstrous cries, mad laughter; this journey into the depths of a subconscious which could also be ours is not easy. On some tracks, the rhythm is given by the distortion of samples from the Violent Femmes. In the second part of the work, the atmosphere calms down somewhat, but the listener remains lost in a dark landscape.”

PIERRE HENRY

Remixe Sa Dixième Symphonie

(Phillips) Used CD $6.00

Hyper-contemporary album in which the master reconstructs Beethoven’s 10th symphony as a collage.

HENRY COW

Concerts

(ReR Megacorp) Used 2xCD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

The band’s first serious space allotted for improvisations that accounted for maybe a third of any of its lengthy stage performances in the mid-1970s. 2006 reissue that includes five tracks from Greasy Truckers. Drill hole in jewelbox, book, traycard

HENRY COW

Stockholm & Göteborg

(ReR Megacorp) Used CD $10.00

Volume six from the 2008’s 40th Anniversary Box set fills in some of the history between In Praise of Learning (1975) and Western Culture (1978) – most notably Tim Hodgkinson’s “Erk Gah,” a fiendishly complicated epic that avoids any hint of riff, solo or modular assembly. At the other extreme are the two wide-ranging improvisations built around extended technique, aleatorics, quotations, more-or-less randomly inserted prepared materials and a disregard for genre rules. Between, constantly shifting ground, are a straight-ahead version of Phil Ochs’ “No More Songs,” an unreleased composition by Fred Frith, and a version of the “Ottawa Song,” which, it turns out, dates from a Hamburg concert from around the same time. Sealed

KATT HERNANDEZ

The Long Awaited Etcetera...

(Recorded) Used CD $5.00

Mat Maneri’s protege takes centerstage live at the High Zero Festival in 2001 with a violin-lead improv ensemble featuring Dan Breen, Charles Cohen, John Dierker, Helena Espvall-Santoleri, David Gross, Andrew Hayleck, Catherine Pancake, Evan Rapport, and Jack Wright.

HI-GOD PEOPLE

Nega The Eight Headed Serpent

(Varispeed - 006) Used CD $8.00

Cosmic art-rock jams, evolution performance epics, and improvised not-rock from Australia that flashes on 1967 Pink Floyd, early Art Ensemble of Chicago (when the percussion comes in), minimal repetitions, just about the whole of post-WW2 outsider music. Pop stars doing the tango with some psychedelic monk. Two albums on one disc: a self-titled collection of 1998 recordings, and the soundtrack to the imaginary film Nega the Eight Headed Serpent, recorded live in a performance room at VUT.

HIGH WOLF

Ascension

(Not Not Fun) Used LP $10.00

“Five multifaceted ethno-flux odysseys from 2010 comprised of looped tablas, fuzz guitar leads, chiming white light guitar, synth swells, and cloud-climbing electronics. Ascension safaris through a host of ecstatic ritual landscapes.” Edition of 400. Sealed

HIGH WOLF

Incapulco

(Sergent Massacre - BTR07) LP $16.00

(Sergent Massacre - BTR07) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

HIROSHI HIGO / PHIL MINTON / YUKIE SATO / TSUKASA YAGIHASHI

Nippara-Tokyo

(Austin Record) Used CD $25.00

Three tracks recorded live in 2004 at a former elementary school, three at the Temple Of No Power No Virtue. “All six improvisations, from little more than two minutes to about thirteen in length, run the gamut of dynamics with a preference for starting calmly and gradually lose composure in a parade of tempers, outbursts, stomach-derived moods, various kinds of walruses and other assorted entities.”

HIJO KAIDAN

Jojo and Junko

(Alchemy - ARCD117) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

The second volume in the Hijokaidan rarity series. Two track from No Paris / No Harm (Alchemy 1988), plus a live recording from The No Music Festival in Canada 1998. Sealed.

HIJO KAIDAN

Konomama Shinde Shimaitai

(Alchemy - ARCD124) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Hijokaidan mastermind’s 2000 album that goes from harsh outbursts of guitar feedback accompanied by painful vocals to cold, hushed vocals over eerie synth drones, to drum / noise freakouts scarier than anything on a black metal record, to the pulsing krautrock-inspired. Guests include drummer Takeshi Ishida and Naoko Otani on keyboards and drums.

HIJO KAIDAN

Noise From Trading Cards

(Alchemy) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Three tracks of drawn-out ache from 1997 that linger somewhere between pain and an unyielding disturbance of comfort. With Merzbow’s Masami Akita playing drums on one track, Junko screaming on two, Kosakai adding electronics to one and Mikawa adding same to all three tracks, Hijokaidan resolves fits of chaos into manageable textures and sounds, never moving too far away from pure intensity. Sealed

HIJO KAIDAN

Romance

(Alchemy) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

A single harsh-mad track, seventy-seven minutes from 1990. Loud, freeform, relentless.

HIJO KAIDAN

Unlimited Edition

(Alchemy - ARCD120) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

The third volume in the Hijokaidan rarity series reissues Limited Edition (Alchemy 1987), the first with the Jojo / Junko / Mikawa. Incudes a bonus track fro No Paris / No Harm (Alchemy 1998). Sealed.

HIJO KAIDAN

Zouroku no Kibyou

(Vinyl on Demand) Used 2xLP $50.00

(Alchemy) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Twentieth anniversary edition (remixed, re-mastered and reissued in 2002) of Hijokaidan’s first album (Unbalance 1982), recorded live during their heyday of highly confrontational, somewhat unnerving performances. “Their music,” notes Female Trouble, “has little driving rhythm [and] is extremely disconnected…. It was said that Hijokaidan originally set out to sound like Hawkwind performing at an airplane landing, which is really not too far off…. Although this [abrasively spacey and psychedelic] record may not be as noisy as their future releases, it certainly captures a sort of essence of raw violence….”
2xLP includes live bonus tracks from 1988 and 1994

ANDREW HILL

Spiral

(Arista Freedom) Used LP $10.00

“The program is split between quintet numbers with altoist Lee Konitz (who doubles on soprano) and trumpeter Ted Curson, and quartet performances that showcase altoist Robin Kenyatta.” From 1975. Promotional sticker and price sticker on front panel

JOJO HIROSHIGE

Donarichirasu Baku No Koe Wa Amarinimo Chiisai

(Alchemy) Used CD $25.00

Solo album from 2002 by Hijo Kaidan founder. Heavy, dark words, backward noise guitars, growling vocals and violent cries. Title translates to My Bawling Voice Sounds So Quiet. Sealed.

JOJO HIROSHIGE

Kimi Ga Shinette Ieba Shinu Kara

(Alchemy) Used CD $25.00

Debut solo album of noise songs from 1997 by Hijo Kaidan founder. Titles translates to I Will Die if You Say So. Sealed.

JOJO HIROSHIGE

Minna Shinde Shimaeba Iinoni

(Alchemy) Used CD $25.00

Second solo album of existence transcending noise from 1999 by Hijo Kaidan founder. Electric guitar distortion, screaming, blown blood. Title translates to I Hope We All Die. Sealed.

THE HISTORY OF UNHEARD MUSIC

Drop It

(RRRecords) Used LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)

Mutant Sounds describes this “absolutely stunning, commanding” album from 1987 as “mindbending weirdity” by a “New York crew that operated at a strange juncture between post-Residents wacky song-form deformation and the downtown cabaret-on-acid improv stylizations of Shelly Hirsch / David Weinstein collaborations (with Hirsch actually appearing on three cuts here)…. [C]reative misapplications of slicked-up DX-7 tonalities and Fairlight CMI primitive sampladelic tech … lends the proceedings a vaguely Art Of Noise-y undertow which sounds absolutely alien in the context of such wayward compositional impulses.”

ROBYN HITCHCOCK

Shadow Cat

(Sartorial) Used CD $15.00

Fourteen solo tracks recorded between 1993 and 1999. Fans who like Hitchcock best when he’s in a deep and atmospheric mood will be rewarded by the minimal but absorbing “Beautiful Shock,” the stripped-down rock guitar figures of “Never Have to See You Again,” and the ominous yet playful title cut. More a sampler of odds and ends from his notebooks than a new album proper, it’s a fine reminder of why he’s regarded as one of the most gifted and singular British songwriters around. UK edition

HIVE MIND

A Stagnant Plague Cast Through Shallow Earth

(Helicopter) Used CD $16.50

Purely miserable synth explorations and crumbling drone. The two-part 28-minute title track, plus both tracks from Cast Through Shallow Earth LP (No Fun, 2007). Sealed

HIVE MIND

Cast Through Shallow Earth

(No Fun) Used LP $8.00

Twenty-one minutes of purely miserable synth explorations and crumbling drone from 2007. Silkscreened jacket, white vinyl, edition of 400.

HNAS

Im Schatten der Möhr

(Streamline) Used CD $25.00

Haunting mix of drones, found sound samples, and vocal melodies that add another level of trippiness without changing the underlying darkness. Our friends at Certain Music praised this album back in the late 1980s, “a carefully crafted journey of soundscapes, drones and songs reminiscent of Faust, Nurse With Wound, Pierrot Lunaire [which] seems to form one long piece that comes across like a surreal bus ride into post-psychedelic wonderland.” 2002 reissue

HOLE CLASS

Hole Class

(MEDS) Used LP $4.00

The “gothic country” vibe of this album from 2009 by Beth Murphy (Times New Viking) And Rob Enborn (Eat Skull) vaguely calls to mind an interpretation of Nancy & Lee by Neil & Jennifer. Stripped down, intimate. Roadtrip sing-alongs, true heartbreakers.

HOLEIST / ILLUSION OF SAFETY

Holeist / Illusion Of Safety

(Complacency) Used Split LP $14.00

Four-track living room recordings from 1989 by Dan Burke, Jeph Jerman, and Eric Lunde on sampler and drum machine, backed with a live recording of Illusion Of Safety in Chicago. Paste-on photocopies on front and back cover. With price tag on front cover, sticker, inserts.

DAVE HOLLAND / PAUL LOVENS / EVAN PARKER / PAUL RUTHERFORD

The Ericle Of Dolphi

(Po Torch) Used 2xLP $160.00

A 1989 monsterpiece without equal, full of space and texture.

HOLLAND / SKIN / TUNNEL

I Want to Live in a Refrigerator b/a Maximum Bo Jangle

(Vinyl Communications) Used 12-inch $8.00

Nervous droning guitar with drum machine from 1996 by J. Marlowe

HOLLYWOOD ALL-STARS

Hard Hitting Blues From Memphis

(High Water Music Co) Used LP $12.00

From 1987. Sealed

EMMANUEL HOLTERBACH

Léonore

(Lexie Disques) Used 7-inch $8.00

Interpretations of a classical opera in three short but intense pieces. Silkscreened folder, yellow vinyl. Includes insert.

THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS

Holy Modal Rounders 2

(4 Men With Beards) Used LP $14.00

The second Holy Modal Rounders record, originally released in 1965 by Prestige, continues their obsession with reinventing folk music traditions, taking public domain material and flipping it, in both arrangement and lyric, with masterful, off-kilter playing. 2009 reissue remastered from the original tapes. 180-gram vinyl.

THE HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS

The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders

(Water) Used CD $13.00

From Richie Unterberger’s liner notes: “Fragmented song structures, odd dabblings in weird reverb and electric instrumentation, and a hallucinogenic aura of heightened fear and ecstasy. Often the songs reflect states of mind that are not just altered, but on the verge of disintegration. And no [other] acid folk album mixes inspiration and lunacy in as downright deranged a fashion.”

HOME

X

(Emperor Jones) Used 10-inch $8.00

“A refreshingly scattershot sound that wanders erratically through folky balladry, prog rock, ragged pop, and unclassifiable experimentation” from 1996, says the Chicago Tribune. “Home is both more ambitious and more consistently tuneful than many of its trendier peers.”

HONEYMUZZLE

Dgtlhrm

([ no label ]) Used CDR $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Nine tracks by Jonathan Browning recorded in 2001, made from processed drums, guitar and hammering. Tinfoil cover with a band-aid stuck to the front of the jewelbox, photocopied tracks and credits taped to the back.

WILLIAM HOOKER

Brighter Lights

(Reality Unit Concepts) Used LP $60.00 (Out-of-stock)

Accompanied by pianist Mark Hennen and the unfettered flute work of Alan Braufman, the legendary avant garde dummer’s “rolling, imperceptibly shifting patterns, crafted almost exclusively on floor toms and bass drum, imbue considerable loam to spirit-world forays like ‘Others (Unknowing)’. Hooker plays with the passion and dervish-like viscerality of a shaman.” From 1984

WILLIAM HOOKER

Complexity #2

(KOS) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded live at the Knitting Factory in 2000 with Doug Walker on synthesizer, turntablist DJ Olive, and Eyvind Kang on electric violin. The forty-one-minute “Twelve Windows” meanders into focus from the ambiguous, primordial ooze from which all life sprang, and is greeted by Hooker’s intermittent percussion, staticky bleeps and bloops (mmmm, staticky bleeps and bloops), evolving through episodic miasma and other high-pressure natural selections, eventually erupting into an immensity powered by the passion and glory of Kang’s violin. A well-sculpted journey from this daredevil quartet.

WILLIAM HOOKER / LEE RANALDO

Envisioning

(Knitting Factory Works) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Wailing, high-volume, ecstatic-noise excursions from 1995. Hooker’s free-jazz drumming propels Ranaldo fluxuating guitar odysseys into the deep subconscious.

WILLIAM HOOKER

Radiation

(Homestead) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

With Brian Doherty on electronics, Borbetomagus guitarist Donald Miller, Charles Compo on reeds, and trombonist Masahiko Kono. Recorded at The Knitting Factory, 1992 and Virginia Tech 1994.

WILLIAM HOOKER

Shamballa

(Knitting Factory Works) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Duets with Thurston Moore and Elliot Sharp from 1993. A mind-numbing explosion of mathematical chaos and mutant free jazz.

WILLIAM HOOKER / LEE RANALDO

The Celestial Answer

(Xeric) Used CD $5.00

Working together, the kinetic avant percussionist / poet and the indefatigable experimental guitarist are a blinding, brilliant, elemental force. Rays of white guitar noise penetrate clouds of analog synth; molten drumming blasts across free-form poetics. The dynamic is beautiful and inspired — a simple cold-fusion of intuitive interaction and boundless freedom. From 2005. With hype sticker

WILLIAM HOOKER / ZEENA PARKINS / LEE RANALDO

The Gift Of Tongues

(Knitting Factory Works) Used CD $7.50 (Out-of-stock)

Noise oriented free improv recorded live in the mid-’90s. Hooker’s time-giving percussion bounces around the edges of barrage, Parkins’s electrified harp induces personality trauma, while Ranaldo goes deep hypnosis with screeching guitar.

WILLIAM HOOKER SEXTET

Subconscious

(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $20.00

The ever copacetic Richard Keen (reeds), Louis Belogenis (reeds), Lewis Barnes (trumpet), Jesse Henry (guitar), and Marc Dale (bass) “guided through the terrain’s intricate rhythmic paths, as Hooker quietly asserts himself without once overplaying.” From 1992

SOL HOOPI

Master Of The Hawaiian Guitar Volume One

(Rounder) Used CD $8.00

Traditional Hawaiian music meets standards of early American jazz. Early ’90s reissue of late ’70s collection of recordings from 1926-1930. Japanese edition with insert and obi

HOOR-PAAR-KRAAT

Eureka Tapes (The Complete Recordings)

(Small Doses - DOSE94) Used 2xCD $7.50

Anthony Mangicapra’s music spans styles and moods like a suspension bridge and dissolves into explorations of texture, acoustic phenomena and the psyche. Originally issued as three separate volumes -- A Whisper in the Sow’s Ear (Small Doses 2008); Graduating from Clocks to Watches (Peasant Magick 2008); Taxonomy of Divine Organisms (Goat Eater Arts 2009) -- The Eureka Tapes (The Complete Recordings) also includes Hoor-Paar-Kraat’s side of their split cassette with Last (Acid Casualty 2008) and a previously unreleased recording from the same sessions.

HOLLAND HOPSON

With Hidden Noises

(Grab Rare Arts) Used CDR $8.00

Bringing to life Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made, this binaural disc documents Holland’s four-channel audio installation of the same name which features a replica of Duchamp’s sculpture (outfitted with sensors that translate motion into sound). Abstract electronic soundscapes, an intriguing mix of minimalist samples, field recordings and immersive noise. In a card folder with string tie.

WAYNE HORVITZ / BUTCH MORRIS / WILLIAM PARKER

Some Order, Long Understood

(Black Saint) Used LP $20.00

Recorded live to two-track at Studio Henry in 1982 (later known as One Morten Street) with Morris on cornet, Parker on bass, and Horvitz on piano, organ, Aries synthesizer, and amplified piano. Minor scuff near top of front cover

HOT CORN GIRLS

Look At My Bum

(Stingy Banana) Used CD $15.00

“Basically this is upbeat Stones-y R&R,” explains Cosmic Debris about this NY-based mid-’90s pre-Ass-Baboons combo, “With a totally bizarre lead singer who shrieks, barks, hiccups, screams and caterwauls his way through these 15 songs.” In hand-painted jewelbox.

HOTOTOGISU

Robed in Verdigris

(Nashazphone - NP003) Used LP $12.00

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.

ROLAND S. HOWARD / LYDIA LUNCH

Shotgun Wedding

(1972) Used LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The high priestess of macabre rock and assaultive poetics says it best (no surprise there): “Shotgun Wedding is a sassy scrapbook of bruised love songs, somehow buoyant in spite of its obsession with death.” Indeed, the guests at this wedding are ghastly phantoms and shifty junkies, but the chemistry between Lunch and Howard on this 1991 recording produces deviant bliss. Jacket has a crease on one corner, platter is near mint.

HOWLING HEX

Earth Junk

(Drag City) Used CD $3.00

“If you figured on an electric country-pop hoedown for small ensemble (featuring circus organ), as minimal and repetitive as all rock’n’roll, you’re getting somewhere. Recorded in Austin in the late winter of early 2008, Earth Junk is a ramble in the dappled sunlight of the American southwest, twisted metallic folk-art in the ever-changing breeze, an offering to all nations.” Punched barcode, sticker on jewelbox

JOHN HUDAK / JASON KAHN / BRUCE TOVSKY

For The Time Being

(Cut) Used CD $10.00

The “drone- and texture-focused track, recorded at Diapason Gallery, New York” by Hudak and Kahn, consists mainly of “field recordings … from Dobbs Ferry….” according to The Brain. “While changing slightly over its twenty-minute running time, this first piece fluctuates with minute strokes, brushing ever so softly on tiny changes and developments. Themes emerge then reemerge at steady intervals through a soft haze which blankets the rest of the oscillating cycle…. High, smooth, piercing drones inhabit this performance with light and airy shuffles slowly broadening as the loops multiply. The textures gradually come to the forefront from its muted beginnings to an exhilarating density. The second piece is more upfront, with Hudak slightly plucking a guitar subtly contrasted with the processed playing of Tovsky…, an evolving universe of sound and morphing microcosmic shapes.”

HUM OF THE DRUID

Raising the New Wing / Braided Industry

(Scratch And Sniff Entertainment - SNSE072) Used LP $7.00

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.

THE HUMAN ZOO

The Human Zoo

(Cicadelic) Used LP $15.00

2011 reissue of this quirky and unexpected LP (Accent 1970) by obscure Los Angeles group who blend psychedelic, garage, and funk. Edition of 500

MICHAEL HURLEY & PALS

Armchair Boogie

(Mississippi - MR018) Used LP $20.00

Recorded with Jesse Colin Young in 1971, Snock’s debut album proper sets out his stall as purveyor of charming, homely, folksiness. Here are fourteen songs about love, werewolves, institutionalized English gentry, and aquatic birds — largely acoustic, with little more than Hurley’s guitar, voice and the occasional mouth trumpet. Mississippi’s 2013 reissue includes thirty-six-page cartoon book. Gatefold jacket.

HURRAY

Dreams, Not Soft Illusion

(Fusetron) Used LP $5.00

“A must for fans of ambiguous, anomalous, and unobtrusive sound creation whose mystery is not invoked by hyperbole, pseudo-mythology or fake histories, but by full allowance given to otherness and the search for beauty,” proclaims Greg Kelley about the first full length LP by the NYC quartet. “Mishandled guitars, unknown electronics, amplified percussives and various layers of buzz coagulate and dissipate in measured restraint.”

MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT

Live Vol. 1

(Universe) Used LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

This excellent concert recording from a performance at Oberlin College in 1965 comes from a time when Hurt’s rich, gentle voice and relaxed, flowing guitar lines were returning to the blues spotlight for discovery by a new generation of fans. The blues patriarch’s warmth and intimacy shine through here, especially during his exchanges with his audience. Re-engineered from original tapes. Liner notes by Billy Altman. 2003 pressing.

MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT

Live Vol. 2

(Universe) Used LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded April 15, 1965, with three previously unreleased tracks from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival Workshop. Re-engineered from original tapes. Liner notes by Billy Altman. 2003 pressing.

HAL HUTCHINSON / MANIA

Wreckage

(Phage - PT206) Used CD $9.00

Phage’s CD reissue of Kollaborative Wreckage cassette (Savage Discharge 2012) adds eleven minutes of solo material by Mania and fifteen by Hutchinson to the original thirty of collaborative acoustic metal noises, synth squeals and high pitched feedback.

HYWARE / TECHNOISE

Technoise / Hyware

(I Records - IRE1041) Used 12-inch $5.00

Technoise extracts the melancholic elements from Aphex Twin and converts them into ferocious hardcore techno. Having inherited the blood of ’80s industrial, Hyware’s four tracks on the flip merge noise art with weaponry.

I.S.O.

I.S.O.

(Alcohol) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Electroacoustic improv from 1999 by turntablist Otomo Yoshihide, no-input mixing boardist Sachiko M, and percussionist Yoshimitsu Ichiraku.

DR. ID / JU SUK REET MEATE

Acnode One

(Pooh-Bah) Used split 2xLP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

Thirty-year anniversary reissue of this LAFMS cassette artifact from 1978 by two Smegma masterminds and assorted mutants. One of the defining LAFMS documents, traveling with ease from Zappa-esque freak outs, teeth-rattling tape loop drones, psychedelic kiddy record cut-ups, to a beautiful bowed bass solo in the vein of Scott la Faro or Henry Grimes. “It was a time of great transition…, very exciting emperimentally,” notes Ju Suk Reet Meate. “With only one Smegma gig in two years, our music was going inward. The reel-to-reel tape decks at the time lent themselves to wild misuse.” Gatefold jacket. Sealed

ID BATTERY

Inferno From An Occult Diary

(Siwa) Used LP $13.00 (Out-of-stock)

Lo-fi dronology by Loren Chasse and Brandon La Belle, who craft alchemical duets around field recordings, slow rumbling bells, creeping organ drones, and cable buzz. “Between … placid … rain tumbling onto sheet metal and … electricity,” note our friends at Aquarius, ”These sounds — however tranquil — are also charged with a certain life-threatening danger.”

ID BATTERY

Unique Ancient Tavern

(Ecstatic Yod) Used LP $8.00

Much of this 1997 material harkens back to the earliest collaborations of Chasse (on drums) and Labelle (on bass), who align their arrangements with “garbled lo-fi murk that was coming out of New Zealand at the time,” observe our friends at Aquarius, “[F]alling-down-the-stairs drum clatter and atonal thwacking on the bass with plenty of choking atmospherics [fill] in the gaps. Chasse and Labelle splice … grimy improvisational recordings with thrumming drones of equally lo-fi quality as various looping techniques [amass] the sounds into deep bellows, pocked with skittering texture and corroded noises.” With glove in envelope.

IDEA FIRE COMPANY

Anti-Natural

(Swill Radio) Used LP $10.00

In these “idealized field recordings that capture the hallucinatory isolation of an abandoned arctic base, Anti-Natural combines organic mechanistic processes into an aesthetic whole. Both severe and opulent, naïve and self-confident, it offers an escape route from the false dichotomies of man/nature and man/machine and attempts the transcendence of the impossible. Electronic recreations of the world around us, both real and imagined, foment immutable revolutions in sound.”

IDEA FIRE COMPANY

Explosion At A Shingle Factory

(Swill Radio) Used 2xLP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

The early ’90s debut vinyl by Scott Foust’s post-Anschluss project. Basement experimental sound and collage recordings from Amherst. Tapes, keyboards, synthesizers, harp, piano, percussion. With booklet.

IDEA FIRE COMPANY

The Fourth Dimension Is Money

(Swill Radio) Used 2xLP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Natural sounds, Irish harp, percussion, minimalistic hypnotic free music” is how one Japanese bilbo describes this mid-’90s album by Scout Foust and Carla Borecky. “Spacey jam by electronics, ethereal cries and whistles of birds sound, analog synths…. [C]omfort and oddities are blended exquisitely…. Recommendation panel in the luxury!” With currency pasted-on front cover

IDEA FIRE COMPANY

The Island of Taste

(Fördämning Arkiv) Used CD $10.00

“The slow, eerie music benefits enormously from Borecky’s move toward the acoustic piano” notes our friends at Sound Projector. “Now she can actually deliver resonant chords, instead of struggling with monophonic synths. Indeed, the analogue electronic sound which used to feature so heavily on IFCO records has been all but replaced by other, simpler sounds: principally the radio and tapework of Foust, the found sound of Lambkin, or the mixed singing voices of Borecky, Swenson and O’Reilly.”

IDEA FIRE COMPANY

The Synthetic Elements

(Crisis of Taste) Used LP $14.00

“Deceptively simple conversations between Karla Borecky’s stately, withering piano phrasing and Scott Foust’s dicey yet assured treatments for synth, radio, guitar and occasionally more discreet sources. An intoxicatingly playful, yet hopeless atmosphere.” From 2016. Numbered edition 282/300

IDF

Convulsion

(Atavistic) Used 12-inch $4.00

Industrial rock / noise from the mid-1980s by Kurt Kellison, Paula Froehle, Casey Rice, and Elliot Dicks. With price tag and radio station music director’s notes in magic marker on the front cover (“very weird / wayout art / durge [sic] stuff from Ohio”) and check marks next to selected tracks on the back.

IF, BWANA

Gruntle

(Absurd) Used CD $5.00

Al Margolis’s mid-aughts sounds and loops and musique concrète. Beyond ambient, before noise, in a gray area with more hints to modern classical music than one might guess. In over-sized, circular sleeve.

IF, BWANA / AL MARGOLIS

Rex Xhu Ping

(Pogus) Used CD $5.00

Joining Margolis (on tapes, electronics, clarinet, and sundries) are Laura Biagi (vocals), Dan Andreana (speaker, tapes), Detta Andreana (tapes, bowed cymbals), and Orchestre de Fou. From 2005

ILK

Canticle

(VHF) Used CD $4.00

Prog rock from 2005 by Richard Youngs and Andrew Paine, draped in production tricks, vocal layers, Steve Howe-style leads, synth bleeps, and other racket in beautifully intricate arrangements.

ILLUSION OF SAFETY

More Violence And Geography

(Complacency) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

With harsh found sounds and voices, these late ’80s recordings are rawer and more industrial than their later explorations of laptop improv and process-oriented experimental ambience.

IMPACT TEST

Gangwar

(Pure) Used CD $5.00

Noise, guitar and electronics by some of the Boy Dirt Car dudes.

IN BE TWEEN NOISE / STEVE RODEN

Archival Footage 1993-1998

(Anomalous) Used 10-inch $25.00

“Aluminum” and “Cinnamon” (created for Answering Machine Solution [Staalplaat 1996], but not included); “Stars and Moon,” with lyrics from a 1907 poem by O. Kokoschka (Network vol. 2, 1995); “Oton,” a tiny looped sample from Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder (Unknown Public 1993); “Sar Hon Yenko” (Points of Yucca, 1995); “Heavy. Open. Purple. Elastic” (Hope, [Audio Research Editions 1998]); “Cloud Formation” (previously unreleased track recorded for So Delicate And Strangely Made); “Expressive Document,” with samples from Debussy (previously unreleased track recorded for Taht, 1995); and “fabafbabfafb” Unknown Public, 1996). Numbered edition 196/300. White vinyl

INCAPACITANTS

As Loud As Possible

(Zabriskie Point) Used CD $45.00 (Out-of-stock)

“There’s something very primal about this album” from 1995, according to Rate Your Music. “The sound of the very fabric of reality itself. Electrons making their rounds around the nucleus. The chaos that the world we know is built upon.”

INCAPACITANTS

Box Is Stupid

(Pica Disk - PICA008) Used 10xCD $135.00 (Out-of-stock) (Out-of-print)

Contains 90s tape releases: Stupid Is Stupid (one disc each of studio and live materials), Extreme Gospel Nights, Ad Nauseam (one disc Edition Mikawa, one disc Edition Kosakai, one disc live), D.D.D.D., The Tongue, Cosmic Incapacitants, and I, Residuum. Remastered from original master tapes. Includes 40pp book with liner notes by Jim Sauter (Borbetomagus), Otomo Yoshihide, Toshiji Mikawa (Incapacitantrs, Hijo Kaidan), and Fumio Kosakai (Incapacitants).

INCAPACITANTS

Default Standard

(Alchemy) Used CD $35.00 (Out-of-stock)

Harsh, violent, and sensual. Sealed

INCAPACITANTS

Fabrication

(Alchemy) Used CD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

Super-sound pressure third album from 1992

INCAPACITANTS

Feedback Of N.M.S.

(Alchemy) Used CD $40.00 (Out-of-stock)

“A continuous force of low-end rumble with high-pitched clashes of frequencies,” according to Tiny Mix Tapes, “With what sounds like ongoing screaming for much of the three tracks presented. ‘Curse Of Ceauşescu’ takes almost thirty minutes to unroll, yet you barely feel it lasting that long…. Incapacitants themselves call their style hard noise. I call it ‘relentless, collapsing art’ — it should be on permanent display at all museums, schools, and mental hospitals the world over.” From 1991

INCAPACITANTS

Lon Guy

(Harbinger Sound - HAS045) Used CD $10.00

Shit-your-pants loud, or another day at the office for Mikawa and Kosakai.

INCAPACITANTS

Ministry Of Foolishness

(Pure) Used CD $22.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Many different blends of harsh sounds that are super captivating, which leads to it being oddly hypnotic, allowing each of the three tracks to more or less become a part of you for the moments your ears are subject to its beauty.” From 1995

INCAPACITANTS

New Movements in CMPD

(Alchemy) Used CD $18.00

“Unusually fragmented and stripped down, ‘20 Years of Corporate’ throws … high-end scathe and low-end rumble into the background, and foregrounds the concrete sources: voice, shithawk screeching, single unprocessed feedback waves, unidentifiable crumbling brick structures, and other crackling intrusions,” notes Jason Kushnir about this 1996 disc. “ ‘High Yield Cult’ … equalizes the high/low-end relationship and attempts to simulate the sound of speakers getting shredded by [a] overblown, maxed-out…, overindulged layers of cannibalistic low-end compression…. ‘PT Team, What’s That?’ … burbles to life and roars into a furious rage…. Ultra high-end, brutally beatific delirium unloads layer upon layer upon layer.”

INCAPACITANTS

No Progress

(Alchemy) Used CD $35.00

“Stupid, primitive and totally demented, but it comes out as a perfect soul-cleaner for a civilized man who has to push his instincts into backward.” Dedicated to Takuya “Synapse” Sakaguchi

INCAPACITANTS

Operorue

(Kubitsuri) Used CD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

Three tracks of howling shriek from 1995, blistering screech and piercing chaos. Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai expanding the possibilities of extreme frequencies and sound with reckless abandon and incredible results.

INCAPACITANTS

Quietus

(Alchemy) Used CD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

Comparable, according to All Music Guide, to a “type of chemical weapon designed to mentally or physical paralyze opposition soldiers.” From 1993

INCAPACITANTS

Unauthorized Fatal Operation 990130

(Or) Used CD $15.00

“Total immersion in a powerful tsunami….[that] can induce a blissful hypnotic state akin to transcendental meditation…. It was recorded live at a club in Tokyo and captures nicely the sheer wall-to-wall non-stop roar.” Card jacket with small drill hole in front cover

INFINITE ARTICLE

Infinite Article

(Oblivion Music) Used CDR $8.00

Robert Horton and Edward Guerriero’s collaboration was born from a primary challenge: how to make music together when the latter performed primarily as a vocalist and the former did not like music that featured vocals. One thing they agreed upon was to dismantle compositions by John Martyn, Young Marble Giants, Pearls Before Swine, Moondog, and Neil Young. A secondary challenge — lived in different cities — was conquered over a period of eight years in an electro-acoustic mosaic of aching melodies and defamiliarizing baroque arrangements, a wedding of the familiar and the strange in a raw and haunted psychic landscape. With guests Bob McIntosh and Dan Plonsey.

INFINITE RIVER

Space Mirror

(Birdman) Used LP $15.00

The perfectly crafted harmonic noise guitar of Gretchen Gonzales meets the drone expertise of Warren Defever on tampura and harmonium, while Steve Nistor’s percussion veers from imperceptible to all-encompassing, and Joey Mazzola emotive slide guitar work could be mistaken for full-on pedal steel. Fans of Barry Walker, Jr. and Henry Flynt will find much to enjoy here.

INFINITY WINDOW

Trans Fat

(Chocolate Monk) Used CDR $11.00 (Out-of-stock)

Great, mulched “new age” synth bliss from 2008 by a Black Egg goon and one of the gonks from Astronaut. Feel Taylor Richardson and Dan Lopatin’s cloud envelope your head as their creeper moments of giallo / porn keys blossom into a full-card wrestling match with a 6000-armed guitar-cable sea creature. your car tires vibrate right off the pavement.

INFIRMARY

Necropenetrator

(Scratch And Sniff Entertainment - SNSE076) Used LP $7.50

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.

INFLATABLE ALTERBOYS / PANICSVILLE

Untitled

(Nihilist) Used Split LP $10.00

From 2000. Silkscreened Mylar cover.

INFORMATION

Biomekano

(Rune Grammafon) Used CD $7.00

Norwegian experimental electronic ambient, minimal techno pulsations, and open space music from 2007. Jørgen Knudsen and Per Henrik Svalastog’s crisp sound and beat structures range from precise mechanical organizations to intricate organic constructions supporting insistently waxing and waning composed melodies.

INHALANT

Bondage

(Scratch And Sniff Entertainment - SNSE074) Used LP $7.50

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.

INSTITUT FÜR FEINMOTORIK

Negemergenz

(Fusetron) Used LP $6.00

Using six to eight record players simultaneously, these Swiss-German sound researchers play the run-out grooves and labels of records, and tweak the phono cartridges with rubber bands, adhesive tape, and toothbrushes, and like that. Pretty minimal overall, with tones slowly building into rhythmic order. From 1999.

INTELLIGENCE

Fake Surfers

(In The Red) Used LP $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

An unlikely industrial / pop crossover from 2009 by Lars Finberg, whose experimental post-punk is weighted down by paranoia built off goose-stepping beats and coded lyrics.

INTRINSIC ACTION

Bad Jack

(BloodLust! - B!044) Used CDR $9.00

Founded by Mark Solotroff in Chicago, 1984, Intrinsic Action evolved from an experimental industrial noise group into a full-blown power-electronics unit, eventually touring the U.S. with Whitehouse in 1993. They disbanded in 1995 and regrouped as heavy electronics trio Bloodyminded. This re-mastered 2003 re-release of the fourth Intrinsic Action cassette (Arbeit Recordings, 1988) contains dark, decayed, rumbling electronics, and meditations on Chicago’s Gacy murders. With two previously unreleased bonus tracks (one live, one SCTL).

INTRINSIC ACTION

Five

(BloodLust! - B!048) Used CDR $9.00

Founded by Mark Solotroff in Chicago, 1984, Intrinsic Action evolved from an experimental industrial noise group into a full-blown power-electronics unit, eventually touring the U.S. with Whitehouse in 1993. They disbanded in 1995 and regrouped as heavy electronics trio Bloodyminded. This re-mastered 2004 re-release of the fifth Intrinsic Action cassette (AWB, 1988) is sonically intense and was recorded live opening for Swans at Chicago's Cabaret Metro. With one bonus SCTL track. Sealed

INTRINSIC ACTION

II

(BloodLust! - B!046) Used CDR $9.00

Founded by Mark Solotroff in Chicago, 1984, Intrinsic Action evolved from an experimental industrial noise group into a full-blown power-electronics unit, eventually touring the U.S. with Whitehouse in 1993. They disbanded in 1995 and regrouped as heavy electronics trio Bloodyminded. This re-mastered 2004 re-release of the second Intrinsic Action cassette, originally issued in 1987. It consists of long, minimal, analog-synth piece created on an Arp 2600. With four bonus SCTL tracks. Sealed

INTRINSIC ACTION

III

(BloodLust! - B!050) Used CDR $9.00

Founded by Mark Solotroff in Chicago, 1984, Intrinsic Action evolved from an experimental industrial noise group into a full-blown power-electronics unit, eventually touring the U.S. with Whitehouse in 1993. They disbanded in 1995 and regrouped as heavy electronics trio Bloodyminded. This re-mastered 2005 re-release of the third Intrinsic Action cassette, originally issued in 1987, contains the band’s third live show, with two bonus SCTL tracks. Sealed

INTRINSIC ACTION

Peepland: The Complete Singles

(BloodLust! - B!052) Used CDR $9.00

Founded by Mark Solotroff in Chicago, 1984, Intrinsic Action evolved from an experimental industrial noise group into a full-blown power-electronics unit, eventually touring the U.S. with Whitehouse in 1993. They disbanded in 1995 and regrouped as heavy electronics trio Bloodyminded. Peepland compiles the band's five 7-inch singles: “Dazed” (AWB, 1990); “Male Payment” (Private, 1990); “Manhattan Power Surge (Private, 1992), “Adult Books and Video” (AWB, 1993); and “Groupies” (Bloodlust, 1997). Three bonus tracks from the Woman Hater 7-inch (Self Abuse, 1997) by Surgical Stainless Steel also appear, including a cover of The Sodality’s classic, “I Can’t Stand A Bitchy Chick.”

INTRINSIC ACTION

Sado-Electronics

(BloodLust! - B!029) Used CDR $9.00

Founded by Mark Solotroff in Chicago, 1984, Intrinsic Action evolved from an experimental industrial noise group into a full-blown power-electronics unit, eventually touring the U.S. with Whitehouse in 1993. They disbanded in 1995 and regrouped as heavy electronics trio Bloodyminded. This re-mastered 2002 re-release of the first Intrinsic Action CD (Tesco, 1992) has eleven tracks of analog synth-driven power-electronics, bordering on minimal-synth -- followed by a long, dark, electronic dirge “Surgical Stainless Steel,” broken into eleven segments -- including the first “blast song” that later shaped the direction of Bloodyminded. Sealed

INU-YAROH

Adapt

(Under The Sun) Used CDR $5.00

Dark-ambience from 2000 with lots of percussion, weird saxophone sounds, 
samples, loops and bass.

IOVAE

Quatervois Four-track Magnetic Tape Arrangements

(Zarek) Used CD $8.00

2004 reissue of Cincinnati resident Ron Orovitz’s killer sound collage (Drone Disco 2001), who has been using unusual sound sources and layering them into rather dense and industrial etudes of found sound since the late 1980s, when tape and turntable manipulations were the medium. Scientific instruments such as tone generators eventually became a favorite tool, as well as the fashioning of various “procussion” instruments (utilizing fire-works). The recordings here demonstrate some of these characteristics as composed and processed stochastically.

IRAN

Iran

(Vulgar Tango) Used LP $8.00

Militantly lo-fi and seemingly aligned in temperament with glitch, Iran’s crackling-and-scuzz-encrusted sludge-pop is “absolutely amazing American rock … for the twenty-first century,” according to Pitchfork. “Dissonant and catchy, meticulous and accidental, pretentious and true.”

IRO

Tamafumi

(PSF) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Originally released on cassette on this husband-wife duo’s Shaman Label in 1985, Shizuko and Toshio Orimo’s fantastically charged blend of ultra-propulsive ethnic drone, free jazz drumming with harsh noise textures and intense, almost possessed vocal incantations “feels intensely dangerous, like a nuclear reactor-core going into meltdown, throwing out waves of radiation and intense heat.”

IRR. APP. (EXT.)

Dust Pincher Appliances

(Something Weird - SOME06) 10-inch $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Crouton - SOME06) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The original 10-inch edition from the late 1990s, 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.”

IRR. APP. (EXT.)

Ozeanishe Gerfühle

(Helen Scarsdale) Used CD $12.00

irr. app. (ext.) is the work of California-based sound artist Matt Waldron, who has collaborated with Nurse With Wound and Stilluppsteypa. The post-surrealist sympathetic drones, field recordings, and psychological tension of Ozeanische Gefühle rival such masterpieces as The Hafler Trio’s Kill The King, Jonathan Coleclough & Andrew Chalk’s Sumac, and Nurse With Wound’s Soliloquy For Lilith. The heavily processed flutter of sustained woodwinds accompanied by thunderous rumbles disperse amid discordant, Bernhard Hermann-esque string-slashing. Later on, the grotesque pathos of a Wurlitzer organ dissolves into a blackened emptiness that envelopes the complex resonant frequencies of bowls and bells.

IRUKANDJI

Prey For Me I-V

(RRRecords - RRR200) LP $15.00

(RRRecords - RRR200) Used LP $10.00

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.

IRUKANDJI

Prey For Me I-V

(RRRecords) Used LP $15.00

First solo LP from member of Fire In The Head, very well-composed extreme power electronics. Plain LP jacket, black t-shirt (MFA Boston size M, 100% cotton) with silver print. Edition of 29

IRVING KLAW TRIO

IK3 T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size L $25.00

Jerzees 100% cotton. White with black ink on front. Washed and worm many times. Some discoloration here and there. From 1990s

IRVING KLAW TRIO

Irving Klaw Trio

(Imp) Used LP $12.00

“Tweaked, contortionist rock” is how one of our friends from KUSF describes the debut album from 1995 by this OlyWa three-piece led by Jeff Fuccillo of Wham-O, Union Pole, and later Hochenkeit. “Skewed, blue, toreador tunes, frenzied noise workouts, mutant rockunroll, and dusty heartbreaks that lurch, twist, and stagger.” Guests include Ryan Poulos and Michael Griffen of Noggin. Sealed

IS

Ostentatiously White

(Rococo) Used LP (one-sided) $5.00

An assault of abrasive elements utilizing turntables, found sounds, pedal noise, home built circuits, vocal disembodiment and various gadgets. Numbered edition of 150

IS

The Sound of Energy in Space, The Space Of Energy In Life

(Awesome Vistas) Used LP $10.00

The soundtrack for the Chris Johanson exhibit at Schunck, Netherlands. Guests inlcude Sam Coomes, Ron Burns, Brian Mumford. Folder jacket with four double-sided full-color inserts of artwork and an essay by Sean Kennerly. Crease on the upper corner.

ISM

A Diet For The Worms

(S.I.N. Records) Used LP $35.00

Their unhealthy 1983 full-length debut packed with classic punk hilarity such as “John Hinckley Jr. (What Has Jodie Done to You?),” “Man/Boy Love Sickie,” “White Castle At 3 AM,” “Life Ain’t No Bowl of Brady Bunch” and their legendary affront to popular culture, a cover of The Partridge Family’s “I Think I Love You.” An incredulous Robert Christgau called it “riotously memorable” and Trouser Press, “a good, scatological laugh for the vulgar at heart.” Label logo in black in lower right corner of jacket front.

THE IVYTREE

Winged Leaves

(Catsup Plate) Used CD $5.00

Glenn Donaldson brews “potent and unique acid folk balanced with incidental and instrumental pieces that focus on field recordings and less traditionally structured pieces. The songs here are based on guitar and voice improvisations, and fleshed out with layers of bowed bouzouki, banjo, and dulcimer, along with organ and percussion. There is a distant melancholy in these songs, a mournfulness that somehow manages to be stately and tuneful in the rumble of sounds passing by. Donaldson’s voice accounts for much of this: his echoing, wordless (or, at the very least, indecipherable) falsetto cuts through the layers.” Edition of 1000 in hand assembled, letterpressed chipboard digipaks, with full color tipped-on cover image and poster with Donaldson’s dizzying collage work.”

J. JASMINE

My New Music

(A.A.F.F.) Used LP $60.00

Made for the 16th Ann Arbor Film Festival 1978 by Robert Ashley protégé Jacqueline Humbert, My New Music is a collection of personal stories and private desires, exposed, articulated, performed and dedicated to the hope that one person’s fantasies can contribute to another person’s freedom. With two-sided insert

JACKIE O MOTHERFUCKER / VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Jackie O Motherfucker / Vibracathedral Orchestra

(Textile) Used Split LP $12.00

An inspired 2002 pairing of two experimental space drone freak raga outfits

JACKIE O MOTHERFUCKER

Manual of the Bayonet

(Feeding Tube) Used LP $15.00

“Their original weirdness is supplanted here by a fully-freaked free-rock pulse and energetic explorations of various improvisational nooks,” say Bryon Coley. “Like No-Neck Blues Band and Sunburned Hand of The Man, JOMF just let it rip, and route flowing jagged sheets of sound straight out of their heads. Elements of jazz, new music, and rock of all sorts are mushed together into a great pile of strings, keys, horns, thuds, and grooves, then roll right off a cliff.”

REVEREND CHARLIE JACKSON

God's Got It

(CaseQuarter - CS101) Used CD $5.00

A collection of the legendary Booker and Jackson label singles from the gospel / blues master. Eighteen tracks recorded between 1970 and 1978, including singles cut by Brother Ike Gordon and Sister Frances Jackson, and an unreleased track discovered in March 2003.

WANDA JACKSON

Heart Trouble

(Sympathy For The Record Industry) Used LP $25.00

The undisputed queen of rockabilly with a little help from Dave Alvin, Elvis Costello, The Cramps, Lee Rocker, and The Cadillac Angels. A smoking version of the Louvin Brothers’ “Cash on the Barrelhead,” wooly instrumentation on Charlie McCoy’s “Funnel of Love,” the modern honky tonk masterpiece “Woman Walk Out the Door” with guest Rosie Flores, a duet with Costello on Buck Owens’ “Crying Time,” — it’s a rock’n’roll dream from one end to the other, full of raw, sharp performances, killer songs, and Jackson's irrepressible ability to take even the most innocent song and make it salacious.

HENRY JACOBS

The Wide Weird World Of Henry Jacobs / The Fine Art Of Goofing Off

(Important) Used CD + DVD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

The brilliantly sequenced CD cycles “through a kaleidoscopic array of sound bites that are alternately funny, charmingly nostalgic, bizarre, psychedelic and inexplicable,” notes Brainwashed. “From the odd verbal tennis of Jacobs and Ken Nordine … to a soft-spoken public radio DJ introducing … the ‘new sounds of musíque concrète,’ to the spooky psychedelic brain shivers of ‘Telephone Therapy,’ or the numerous excerpted bits of the wacky ‘Laughing String’ sketch, listeners unfamiliar with Jacobs’s work are in for a treat. Unlike [his] tape collage[s] from this period, Jacobs is unconcerned with formalism or overworking his sources too much…. [His] free-form approach [is] tuned toward less academic pursuits [with a] sensibility … informed by exotica and cartoon soundtracks, the radio landscape and early television…. [On] the TV programs on the included DVD, produced by Jacobs, animator Bob McClay and producer Chris Koch…, strange audio cues of various interviews and spoken-word bits set different primitive animations into motion, using a stream-of-consciousness editing style to meditate, albeit very abstractly, on the subject of leisure and leisurely activities. Stop-motion claymation, experimental film techniques, Terry Gilliam-style cutouts, subliminal image juxtapositions and psychedelic animations complement an eclectic soundtrack of music, jarring sound effects, and a series of narrators ruminating on leisure, delivering anecdotes and reading from funny ‘social engineering’ pamphlets. It’s undeniably reminiscent of early episodes of Sesame Street in its attempt to marry the surreal and psychedelic to family-friendly, educational programming.”

SKIP JAMES

Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader

(Monk) Used LP $20.00

2009 repackaging of the legendary 1931 sessions. Particularly interesting was James’s three-finger picking technique, his high pitched voice and rural blues tales.

JAN DUKES DE GREY

Mice And Rats In The Loft

(Earmark) Used LP $30.00

Freewheeling progressive folk-rock from 1971 by multi-instrumentalists Michael Bairstow and Derek Noy, and drummer Dennis Conlan. Their nineteen-minute epic “Sun Symphonica” jumps from hyperactive folk strumming to jazzy woodwinds, lazing for a time in ornate chamber music splendor before returning to THC-addled art-rock reminiscent of The Soft Machine or Gong. It’s a manic tour de force overflowing with trilling, theatrical vocals, flute, violin, clarinet, and exotic percussion. “Call of the Wild” is somewhat more conventional British folk, but possesses plenty of psychedelic grit, sonic invention, and authentic strangeness. Liner notes by David Tibet of Current 93.

BERT JANSCH

Bert Jansch

(Earmark) Used LP $20.00

2003 reissue of Jansch’s debut LP recorded with a portable tape player on a borrowed guitar in the kitchen of his London flat. On this vastly influential work, his masterful acoustic picking, which blended elements of traditional British folk, blues, and jazz, inspired not just other folk players, but rockers who frequently used acoustic guitars (specifically, Jimmy Page and Neil Young).

BERT JANSCH

Birthday Blues

(Earmark) Used LP $20.00

2001 reissue of Jansch’s 1969 fifth album does not hold back his characteristic moodiness or take itself too seriously. With just enough of a Donovanesque pop sense, Pentangle producer Shel Talmy keeps the recordings fresh, warm and immediate.

BERT JANSCH

It Don’t Bother Me

(Earmark) Used LP $20.00

2003 reissue of Jansch’s 1965 second album, a step up from the intimate, field-recording setting of his first album, although still not labored over. The lyrics shift vividly between pure poetic imagery and the hollow resonance of pain.

BERT JANSCH

Jack Orion

(Earmark) Used LP $20.00

2003 reissue of Jansch’s 1966 third LP, with no original compositions. His experimental approach to interpreting traditional folk songs breathes new life into the repertoire through his exploratory use of open tunings and passionate, gritty vocals. In “Black Water Slide,” a haunting ballad he first heard from Anne Briggs, Jansch plants the seeds for future versions by Led Zeppelin and Sandy Denny. Jack Orion’s unique combination of medieval themes and progressive arrangements would pave the way for the next wave of the British folk revival and beyond.

BERT JANSCH

Nicola

(Earmark) Used LP $20.00

2003 reissue of Jansch’s third solo album, which allows orchestration to be used on five of the twelve tracks, with the remainder are pretty much keeping with the character and high standard of his other ’60s work — nimble guitar work, incorporation of blues, traditional British Isles folk influences into a contemporary style, and Donovan-esque vocals. For the first and only time, Jansch plays both electric and acoustic guitars; it’s also his first work to feature drumming.

BERT JANSCH

Rosemary Lane

(Earmark) Used LP $20.00

2001 reissue of Jansch’s 1971 LP returns to the intimate economy of his self-titled debut LP, recorded on portable equipment by engineer / producer Bill Leader. Rosemary Lane has elements of many of the styles Jansch covered in his eclectic career — from the folk and blues that were his bedrock to medieval music — yet cuts to the heart of his strength as spell-binding storyteller and empathic interpreter of isolation and want. Occasional instrumentals vary the mood that, like much of his work, is usually somber and introspective. His sparse arrangements seamlessly merge original songwriting and traditional folk songs.

JAWS

Stress Test

(Hundebiss - H013) LP $20.00

(Hundebiss - H013) Used LP $13.00

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. Numbered edition of 300.

JAZKAMER

Art Breaker

(Smalltown Supersound) Used CD $6.00

John Hegre and Lasse Marhaug, joined by Iver Sandoy, deliver fun, fun, fun grindcore. It’s just mad. Almost like a more ferocious Napalm Death with a Merzbow fixation. From 2006

JAZKAMER / HOWARD STELZER

Tomorrow No One Will Be Safe

(PacRec) Used CD $4.00

“Jazzkammer’s ‘Requiem for Officer Bobby Barker’ begins nearly silent, with small, creaking sounds that evoke the minimalism of AMM. As the pair gradually distributes metallic clangs, morse-code-like blips, and filtered static, their swelling mix becomes like a wordless shortwave radio conversation. That the piece ends with a noisy maelstrom might be predictable, but it’s the way Jazzkammer gets there — building noise through patient, organic construction — that’s the surprise. Stelzer follows with the stranger ‘Last Night at BLD’ which doesn’t build so much as shoot all over the place without any obvious meshing or melding. Springy twangs, warping scratches, and the sound of tape rolling over playheads all create a cartoon soundtrack without the music. On the collaborative, album-ending title track, Stelzer’s tape warps chime in immediately, tempered by Jazzkammer’s low guitar rumbles and electronic slashes. Loops of noise provide rhythm here and there, but the main attraction is the connective tissue that the three use to string their noises into arcs.” From 2004

THE JAZZ DOCTORS

Intensive Care

(Cadillac) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded late 1983 by legendary freedom fighter Frank Lowe on tenor, the ever-polarizing Billy Bang on violin,
 untouchable Caribbean drummer Dennis Charles, and multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of Chicago’s Experimental Band Raphael Garrett on bass.

PHILIP JECK / MAIN / OVAL / HENRI POUSSEUR

4 Parabolic Mixes

(Sub Rosa) Used 2xCDR $8.00

Musicians of different generations attempt new mixes on the basis of Pousseur’s original eight parabolic studies. The first mix (not a re-mix) is a re-interpretation by Pousseur himself. The second mix is Robert Hampson’s (aka Main), who gives a personal but faithful interpretation of Pousseur’s studies. Another degree of alteration is highlighted by Philip Jeck, who creates a massive and powerful set, adding sounds from other sources (totally allowed according to Pousseur’s original concept). Markus Popp (aka Oval) produces a piece far removed from its sources.

PETER JEFFERIES / JONO LONIE

At Swim 2 Birds

(Drunken Fish) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

1997 reissue of stunning instrumental album (named after the surreal Flann O’ Brien novel), originally released in 1987 on Flying Nun / Xpressway. Piano-scapes, ambient noise, minimalism to experimental moods and homemade instruments by the This Kind Of Punishment leader and the beloved Dunedin folk musician.

BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON

Jefferson I Want to be Like Jesus in my Heart

(Monk) Used LP $10.00

The epitome of a sort of “dark” blues, conjuring a personal mix of rural and urban blues, decrying the conditions of the sharecroppers and city slum-dwellers alike. 2009 repackage.

ZOLTÁN JENEY

Arupa / Fantasia Su Una Nota

(Hungaraton) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

On Arupa (1981) for six to eight ship-bells, a single drum, and a sustained pitch (here is provided by an electric organ), the process is somewhat similar to Terry Riley’s In C, with the bells’ rich tone leaving a much different impression. Fantasia Su Una Nota (1984), for two groups: five to twenty-four players wielding instruments ‘whose sound can be influenced after ts has begun to sound (e.g., strings, woodwind, brasses, etc.)’; and five plucked instruments or tuned percussion, also has a continuous electronic tone resonates throughout.

JERUSALEM AND THE STARBASKETS

Dost

(Destijl - IND091) Used LP $5.00

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.

THE JESUS AND MARYCHAIN

Cut Me Dead And Nail Me Down And Kick My Head

([ no label ]) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Two live recordings from the mid-’80s. Sound quality is abysmal and perfect. Gatefold jacket

TOM JOHNSON

An Hour For Piano

(Lovely Music) Used LP $15.00

“This trance-music piece is made up of repeating 4/4 cells in which an absolutely steady eighth-note motion predominates. Often several cells are going on simultaneously, and one cell frequently mutates into another through the addition or subtraction of a note or two. One has to step back far enough to get a perspective on the large-scale shifts in density and tonality before the impact can be felt. Frederic Rzewski plays very percussively throughout, giving the piece an intense forward motion.” Original pressing from 1979

ROBERT JOHNSON AND THE BROWNS

Company No Company

(Agog) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Robert Johnson (Hundred Pieces, Slowworm) and Todd Rittman (U.S. Maple, The Mercury Players) “play together as two one-man bands attacking each other,” according to the Internet, with the latter banging out a semi-coherent beat on bass and guitar while the former does the same, in addition to adding assorted percussion elements. The music on this 1999 platter is “weird” and “introspective, really, as Rittman and Johnson don't really try to shred or anything. This is all about cool noises and odd musical notions.” Gatefold jacket, insert.

JOKE FLOWER / VICTORY ACRES

Joke Flower / Victory Acres

(Placebo) Used Split LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

One of the last records issued by Placebo Records, this one released in 1988, is more influential on countless people in and out of Arizona than many realize. In addition to the Clarks (Dan on bass, Mary on vocals, and Doug on guitar), The Victory Acres lineup includes the Meat Puppets’ Derek Bostrom and Cris Kirkwood on drums and organ, respectively. “Two Thousand Tegus,” a serpentine desert punk noise rag, kicks off the side, where Kirkwood weaves a keyboard line into Dan and Doug’s intricate bass and lead guitar. It segues into “A Cup of Coffee Please,” which brings Mary into the mix, singing and chanting lyrics based on the common sayings of a customer at Pete’s Fish and Chips, where Dan worked, who explains in a Phoenix Weekly article “[This guy] would come in and order a cup of coffee and occasionally spout some fairly accurate observations. ‘Some day safety will become a hazard’ ... ‘Unwrap that gift and burn it!’ He also wrote equations on napkins. ... I couldn’t figure them out but I’m sure they were important.” Nervous energy abounds, from a circus-like dirge straight out of the Ray Manzarek school of organ grinding to the track “Let’s Just Lounge,” a classic piece of Phoenix punk with killer oddball hooks that weave themselves into your brain as the Clark brothers’ fingers find their way around the fret board. On the Joke Flower recordings, where the Clarks (this time with Dan on guitar) and Sun City Girls’ Charlie Gocher on drums are joined by Casey O’Neal on bass, things are intentionally more mellow, though lyrically just as angry as anything else going on in early ’80s hardcore. The country-tinged opening of “America’s Breadbasket” is a deft feint that jumps into a political punk rant about religion and freedom of choice, while maintaining its decidedly un-punk musical direction. Every rant on the record is basically flawless, but it is “Dirty Hands” with which a typical Phoenix punk would be familiar (even if s/he is unaware of the source), with the infectious lyric “Masturbating with dirty hands / drop the bomb, drop the bomb, drop the bomb / squeeze the seeds of life out of your glands / drop the bomb, drop the bomb, drop the bomb.” It’s a trippy and slightly askew album, created with truly inspiring efficiency in the recording studio by relatively short-lived incarnations of two bands that were weird and gifted.

JOE JONES

Back and Forth / Exhibition Sound

(? Records) Used CD $30.00

Recorded August 1985, Jones’s whirring, clanking mechano-constructs refuse to sit still. “Back cover shots display several motor-agitated automatons with single beaters attached to end(s), pre flail. Heard: motorik-accent hand drum, metallic ping, bells, glockenspiel (possibly), distant melodic informations, presumably of aleatoric / wind-based selection. Jones’s music continues to exasperate and provide much needed WTF synapse-misfire. Defiant.”

JOE JONES

Xylophone

(? Records) Used CD $25.00

A 31-minute, deliriously good sound piece recorded in 1976, made by a music machine xylophone (a motorized cork beater that runs over the Lyrica tone-tubes in monochromatic fashion, creating an illustrious wave of cosmic fracture). Edition of 500

SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS

Dap-Dippin’ With Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings

(Daptone) Used LP $12.00

Raw, heavy, hard-driving funk from 2002

JOY DIVISION

Preston 28 February 1980

(Get Back ) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Incubation,” “Wilderness,” “Twenty Four Hours,” “The Eternal,” “Heart and Soul,” “Shadowplay,” “Transmission,” “Disorder,” “Warsaw,” “Colony,” “Interzone,” and “She's Lost Control.” Liner notes by Anthony Wilson. 180-gram vinyl.

JULIE MITTENS

The Julie Mittens

(Holy Mountain) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

This Dutch power trio specializes in extended improvisation at extreme volumes. Inspired by John Coltrane’s The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording and the knowledge that Fushitsusha has more to do with Thelonius Monk than Blue Cheer, guitarist Aart-Jan Schakenbos, bassist Michael van Dam, and drummer Leo Fabriek consistently wreak havoc with lavish, textural, speaker-blowing meltdown jams; they surge with psychedelic power and a stellar rhythm section on the four studio recordings here. They “walk a harrowing path between amplifier anarchy and balanced interaction, never failing to make the two meet,” says Dusted. “Schakenbos provides the skyscraping as he warps and mutilates single notes with the centrifugal force of massive feedback. Van Dam either drops terrifying bass bombs that fill the vacuum Schakenbos leaves in his wake, drones ominously, or dialogues. Fabriek, however, harnesses the others’ energy, as he resists the urge to flail away, and instead inserts a fill when it increases tension, thumps steadily when a groove is needed, or colors when space beckons.”

JULY FOURTH TOILET

Something For Everyone

(Pro-Am Entainment - PA866) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

This unavoidable debut album from Vancouver’s engaging pop masterminds is a classy and classic collection of sing-along-friendly folk-pop perfections, delivered with powerful hooks, engaging melodies, and poetic charm. Features members of Young And Sexy, Perfume Tree, and Canned Hamm.

G.X. JUPITTER-LARSEN / ALLAN ZANE

Banjax

(Somnimage - som014) CD $15.00

(Somnimage - som014) Used CD $7.00

A collaborative / conceptual project by the masterminds behind The Haters and Wyrm respectively satisfies appetites for "aesthetics" of "noise," as well as the dark ambiance sensibility. Sound manipulations involving explosions, breaking glass, and the destruction of various items by power tools spread over three tracks.

JURAJIUM

Jurajium

(Alchemy) Used CD $12.00

Solo noise album from 1997 by early Hijo Haidan member, who plays synthesizer, keyboards, tape, and electronics. Jojo Hiroshige guests on electric guitar.

JUZU / AKIO NAGASE

Vreth / Make Dub

(Sound Channel) Used Split 10-inch $15.00

Down-tempo mystery by the DJ also know as Moochy, backed with moderately percussive deep-sea dub by Nagase. Chipboard jacket with sticker pasted on front, block print on back. From 2000

P.O. JØRGENS

Visitors

(Ninth World Music) Used CD $5.00

Thirty electronic percussion and synth compositions for one to nine players, with a chaotic, neo-LAFMS vibe. From 1998.

K2

Abdominal Electricity

(Phage - PT140) Used CD $10.00

Another cut up masterpiece by this influential harsh noise artist. Sixty minutes, four tracks of quickly moving screech, sure to please any fan of 90s style Japanese noise. Edition of 500. Sealed

K2

In The Monotonous Flowers

(Groundfault) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Spacious and concrete-ish industrial from 2002.

K2

Metal Dysplasia

(Cheeses International) Used CD $35.00

“Big heaps of crunching, acoustic and electronic tape collage” from 1996

K2

Metaloplakia

(Kinky Musik Institute) Used CD $40.00

Debut release of cut-ups of junk noise from 1994. Numbered edition of 300

K2

Molekular Terrorism

(Pure) Used CD $12.00

This “electroacoustic noise college,” promises Rate Your Music, is “a step above … average…, without a doubt.” KFJC is even more effusive, referring to this 1996 discs as a “necropolis that never sleeps and never shuts the fuck up, blowing hot farts of scrap metal out of its torn asshole at all of hours of the night. The hammering shrapnel destroys transients and stray animals like insects, splattering blood and offal across the irretrievably filthy pavement.”

K2 / MAGMAX / MSBR

MSBR / K2 / Magmax

(MSBR) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Live Grappling Electronics” and “Eco Eco Magma Azarak” by Koji Tano, “California Dry Socket” and “Soap For Wet Vagina 2” by Kusafuka Kimihide. Packaged in a clear slim-line jewel-case without any artwork. From 1999

K2

The Rust

(Kinky Musik Institute) Used CD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

“An utterly crushing masterpiece of metal junk cut-ups” from 1996. “Nothing to hang on to, just pure tonal punishment, decimated rhythms, and non-linear arrangements and rejection of any convention beyond pure concrete cacophony.”

EDWARD KA-SPEL

O’er A Shalabast’r Tyde Strolt Ay

(Beta Lactam Ring) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Three tracks of restrained experimental cosmic electronics orbited by Ka-spel’s deepening voice.

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.

MAURICIO KAGEL

Transición II / Phonophonie

(Mode) Used CD $10.00

Early, forward-looking works are constructed so that no two performances can ever be alike. For Transición II, pianist Aldo Orvieto performs on the keyboard while percussionist Dimitri Fiorin performs inside the piano. The score calls prerecord sections to played during the performance, as well as another tape of recordings of different live performances (sometimes manipulated to change timbre and frequencies in order to make recognition of the original sounds impossible), but for this recording, Alvise Vidolin’s live electronics are used in place of the analogue tape loops. Phonophonie is a piece of musical theater performed by Nicholas Isherwood on bass, produces a monotone gurgling sound similar to the noise produced when one expires. Stefano Bassanese handles tapes and sound direction — a mix of other sound sources, extraneous sounds and voices.

JASON KAHN

Analogues

(Cut) Used CD $5.00

“Atmosphere, depth, a sense of direction, and the exploration of sound” is how Sound Projector sums it up, with “repetition and a minimalist approach [providing] structure and direction…. [S]amples of radio and field recordings, and of drums and metal objects … create moody and sometimes ominous [atmospheres].”

JASON KAHN

Drums And Metals

(Cut) Used CD $5.00

“The six compositions on drums and metals are, Feldman-fashion, named after the instruments employed on each track,” notes Avant Reviews. “ ‘Snare Drum + Bell’ features a bell, hieratically tolled, and as each toll decays there’s a rustle of activity on the snare drum. The articulation of the snare is indistinct; it sounds like someone panning for gold, or perhaps a distantly recorded rain stick. Progressively, as the snare gets louder, it is joined by a buzzing screech as a resonator is touched lightly to the surface of the bell. The snare-work gradually reduces in volume, and when it becomes barely distinguishable the track ends…. Minimalism … has obviously had an impact…. Kahn makes sparing use of phase-shifts, and throughout the CD emphasis is placed on repetitive rhythmic patterns, especially pulses and waves. Kahn doesn’t foreground human agency, how a sound has been made; he focuses attention on sound itself, its timbral qualities, its duration, its relationship to other sounds and their placement in space.”

JASON KAHN / Z'EV

Intervals

(Monotype - MONO032) CD $12.75

(Monotype - MONO032) Used CD $10.00

Duo performances by two outbound percussionists (with Kahn on synthesizer also) from Switzerland 2009 recorded by Kahn, composited into their final versions here by Z’ev. Not surprisingly, the heavy processing transcends the inherent rhythmic quality of percussion and settles instead on their complex sonic qualities. “Lausanne” layers metallic noises with delicate grains running through a hollow wooden body; dark clouds gather, undefined sounds appear, a soft metallic hum becomes for a moment the sole audible component, underlying drum tremors rise to the surface. “Zürich” goes through light and dark phases, and rather bare moments where only drone-like electronics and processed drum noises create an impenetrable vacuum.

JASON KAHN

Miramar

(Sirr) Used CD $6.00

Using an analogue synth as a basic source plus a floor tom (as a resonator) and small cymbals,” says Touching Extremes, “the New York / Zurich-based sound carver achieves that kind of phenomenon where the vibrating propagations turn ears into resonance instruments themselves, something varying through placing our stance in different listening perspective…. The sound quality ranges from tidy oscillations to semi-distorted beating of frequencies, both cases yielding membranes’ movement and strange responses from the brain. Looks like you’re undergoing a transformation of the way you accept an acoustic code, it takes a while before your body reacts correctly…. [T]his is a radical approach to a delicate argument but Jason demonstrates much more about physics with such a few means than hundreds of theories could ever explain with hollow words and formulas.”

JASON KAHN / JON MUELLER

Papercuts

(Crouton) Used CD $5.00

“With subtle electronic processing and various grades of handmade and commercial paper, Kahn and Mueller devote 18 minutes to exploring the ‘movement and malleability’ of paper, shoveling deeper into more esoteric forms of percussive experimentation,” according to Tiny Mix Tapes. In “what could be a gimmicky run-through of exchange-value bombast and tripe, Papercuts instead allows the subtle, tangible qualities of paper itself to dictate where the music goes (or doesn’t go), without the intentional efforts of the musicians to use it as a replacement for acoustic or electronic percussion…. It’s discreet, delicate, and rewarding… [I]t will make you appreciate the simple pleasures of material sonority itself, while reintroducing a bit of Dada-esque uneasiness.” Numbered edition of 500

JASON KAHN

Plurabelle

(Cut) Used CD $5.00

“Kahn works with loops and waves of sound, most of which are generated from percussion (metalophones in particular — he likes harmonics) and treated electronically,” notes Avant. “He constantly modulates his sounds; nothing is allowed simply to be; it always has to be becoming, albeit at a slow and steady rate. These pieces are attractive and engaging, without in any way emulating the sugar-spun electronica those descriptors would imply.”

JASON KAHN / STEVE RODEN

Shimmer /Flicker /Waver /Quiver

(Korm Plastics) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Together for a session at the Extrapool studio in Nijmegen, The Netherlands,” explains Boomkat about this disc from 2003, “Roden plays contact mics and guitar while Kahn takes up percussion, laptop and analogue synthesizer…. The end product is exquisitely subtle and charged with warm, microsonic details that nicely fit alongside the grade-A minimalism these two author as individuals. Throughout this album the music seems to reside in the upper frequency bands, riding gentle waves of hiss with looped sonorous textures.”

JASON KAHN

Songs For Nicolas Ross

(Rossbin) Used CD $3.00

Electronic lullabies and/or brief sonic environments from 2003

JASON KAHN

Vanishing Point

(23five - 23five015) Used CD $9.00

American sound-artist Jason Kahn is exacting when it comes to the principles of noise. His application in composition is not that of Merzbow or Masonna, with teeth-gnashing explosions of distortion, feedback, and volume; rather, Kahn's psychoacoustic techniques employ the specific frequencies of white, pink, brown, and blue noise in works that reflect the ideals of minimalism. These are sounds that regularly occur through the constant vibration of machinery; and Kahn is more than happy to appropriate such events through field recording. He also generates complementary noises through systems that involve the rattling architecture of a drum kit and an analog synthesizer. For all of the phenomenological studies and stoic mesmerism attributed to much of Kahn's catalogue, Vanishing Point is a subtle and hypnotic elegy for rattling metals, timbral vibration, gossamer static, hissing field recordings, and those aforementioned colored noises.

GARY KAIL

A Soundtrack For Nightmares

(New Underground - NU666) Used CDR $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Solo electronic experiments by the man behind the legendary “consummate weirdo tape noise / guitar thunder” album Zurich 1916 (Iridescence 1984). Admired by our friends at Volcanic Tongue for its “cold, dark appeal that feels close to Steven Stapleton’s vision for early Nurse With Wound but with less of the sonic surrealism and a more claustrophobic, drone-based atmosphere,” the “deliberately unnerving” A Soundtrack For Nightmares moves “from deep wells of suspended sound a là early-AMM into distant tectonic scrapings and doomy single note guitar bombs a là Pete Swanson, all drenched in haunting fog-horn calls and shortwave flutter a là the Conet Project recordings.” All-black jewel case with insert and silver-stickered front.

THE KALEIDOSCOPE

Side Trips

(Epic) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Debut album from 1967 by multi-instrumentalists David Lindley (guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin), Solomon Feldthouse (saz, bouzouki, dobro, vina, oud, dombek/dulcimer, fiddle, guitar, vocals), Chester Crill aka Fenrus Epp and Max Buda (violin, viola, bass, keyboards, harmonica), Chris Darrow (bass, guitar, mandolin, vocals) and John Vidican (percussion). A pretty nice mix of psychedelia, folk rock, jug band ditties, and gooberly covers, kitsch. Stereo

KALIMI

Otona No Kagaku

(Silent Water) Used LP $15.00

Spartan duos by Giovanni di Domenico (Fender Rhodes and electronics) and Mathieu Calleja (drums), built around the use of melody and punctuated noise that are at moments truly hypnotic. Numbered edition of 199

JUN KAMIKUBO

Nothingness

(Shadoks) Used LP $120.00

A decrepit, barbituate hash of bluesy Mountainous, Creamy dad rock, with fuzz guitar assaults, growling organ, wild vocals, and psych overtones. Originally released by Toshiba Express in 1972, this 2002 reissue comes in a letter-pressed cardboard jacket, Obi strip, insert. Edition of 350.

SHYAM KANE / SHUJAAT KHAN

Raga Shahana Kanada / Raga Pahari

(India Archive Music) Used CD $5.00

The playing of Shujaat Khan extends the vocal aspects of the style innovated by his father, legendary sitarist Ustad Vilayat Khan. With table-player Shyam Kane, Raga Shahana Kanada reflects the romance and beauty that enlivened the Mughal court’s grandeur. Raga Pahari continues another Vilayat Khan tradition with lyrics sung about the mischievous and flirtatious Krishna teasing an outwardly upset, but inwardly pleased, girl. From 1992

EYVIND KANG

7 NADEs

(Tzadik) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Astonishing and eccentric album from 1996 with a stellar collection of supporting instrumentalists largely put to use in generating short bursts of blinding, grating noise. Sporadic melodic chunks do sneak in, usually underlined by unrelated elements like the sound of running water, because, after all, no sound exists in a pure space without distraction.

EYVIND KANG

Live Low To The Earth, In The Iron Age

(Abduction) Used CD $35.00 (Out-of-stock)

Atmospheric instrumental excursions for guitar, violin, bass, and drums, performed in an elusive higher-key sunset mode with The Sun City Girls (doing business here as The Neti Neti Band). Purely ecstatic.

EYVIND KANG

Sweetness of Sickness

(Rabid God Inoculator - RGI004) Used CD $20.00

Beautiful, cacophonous, yearning, melancholy, Kang “gets more tonal variation from his violin than anyone else in the history of Western music,” sputters a breathless Amazon reviewer about one of Kang's earliest albums, released in 1996, “Making it sound, by turns, like a buzzing bee, a Stealth Bomber firing up its engines, faux-demented fugal madness, a cranky bear waking from hibernation, a barking dog, a train wreck, Hendrix on steroids, a badly played saw, the theme to a demented marionette production, a buzz saw, a passel of falling-down-drunk clowns, a pack of robot coyotes mating (or maybe being run over by Cadillac Escalades), pigs being slaughtered, dial-up internet connections, flipping the dial on your radio when its turned up full blast, and the heaviest death metal band ever.”

EYVIND KANG

The Story of Iceland

(Tzadik) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“The Story of Iceland hides its perversity and strangeness underneath a peaceful surface,” is how William York sums up this 2000 release, three years in the making. “A five-part, thirty-minute suite that brings together elements of minimalism, quiet droning soundscapes, and various world music strains, it is built on a simple six-note motif that first shows up in ‘Circle of Fair Karma,’ a sort of oriental funeral march with tuba, violin, trumpet, martial snare drumming, and Uilleann pipes (Irish bagpipes). The theme shows up later in the Indian-flavored ‘Sweetness of Candy’ and again in the marimba/oud/acoustic guitar finale, ‘Circle of Fair Karma’. The title track is followed by the entirely different-sounding 10:10,” a bizarre and psychedelic cult anthem “with David Bowie-esque singing and swirling cymbal effects; this track repeats the same three-chord progression and main vocal part for the entire ten minutes…” The album closes with a short, beautifully scored gamelan piece.

EYVIND KANG

Theater of Mineral NADEs

(Tzadik) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Among medieval crumhorns, ecstatic arrangements, lilting melodies, unusual concepts and virtuosic violin playing takes a central position in this 1998 album, highlighting the strength of Kang’s tone and technique. The NADE concept travels through genres from around the world, paying tribute to the traditions while random, discordant elements inhabit a space much further in the background than usual.

KAPALI CARSI

Blessed Clue In The 3 Sided Dream Of Entwined Saxophones Heads + Busts (On The Sands At Barge Grove)

(Inyrdisk) Used CDR $5.00

Live electronics and field recordings by Kevin Hainey from 2011, a three-sided concept album landscape from a not-so-picturesque Canada, exploring mysterious new drifts for very wavy avant-garde experience. Edition of 100

KAPOTTE MUZIEK

Praag Rotterdam

(PacRec) Used CD $2.00

“Random shuffling sounds and foreground textures pass across … intermittently,” notes Aversion about the Prague recording on this disc by Roel Meelkop, Peter Duimelinks, and Frans de Waard. “Other machinated types of noises and faint samples … are … quiet and restrained…, so it’s all rather abstract and obscure….” The Rotterdam piece “build[s] up more quickly with … glitchy wisps of distortion and rather hellishly piercing high-end feedback … until it finally retreats to the distance and shifts back and forth into a lower sizzle.”

KARATE PARTY

Black Helicopter

(S-S Records) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Over-the-top, bludgeoning-yet-tuneful avant-punk madness by Chris Woodhouse. Remastered tracks from the original 1997 release, along with a bunch of previously unreleased material. Yellow vinyl with red paper half-sheet

KARPATY MAGICZNE

Ksiega Utopii

(Obuh - D11) Used CD $15.00

Second album by ex-Atman Marek Styczynski and Anna Nacher with friends, released 2000. Flocks of acoustic instruments from all over the world in airy ethno-psychedelic dance. Refined spaces and moonlight trance.

MAKOTO KAWABATA / RICHARD YOUNGS

Makoto Kawabata / Richard Youngs

(VHF - VHF64) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Duets by the leader of Acid Mothers Temple and the slightly less available Glasgow librarian in a relaxed yet psychedelic mood. Throughout the five untitled tracks, simple modal melodies are performed on acoustic guitar, autoharp, organ, voice and other instruments rubbing against the swirling production and layers of shifting haze. Youngs’s identifiable voice, guitar and autoharp greet Kawabata’s echo treatments on the first track, while track three reverses the process with Youngs’s minor key picking cutting against Kawabata’s thick, visceral drones. Tracks two, four and five all use a base of fingerpicked guitar melodies, layering organ, synth, tape effects and echo.

ERIC JUSTIN KAZ

If You’re Lonely

(Atlantic) Used LP $7.00

Mellifluous piano work from 1972, with resonant harmonies and remarkable lyrics by former member of psych group Bear. Upper right corner has some tape damage

KBD SONIC COOPERATIVE

[Four Plus One]

(Eh?) Used CDR $4.00

“Michael Kimaid, Gabe Beam and Ryan Dohm’s electroacoustic timbral array includes drums, percussion, signals, strings, horns, electronics, objects, trumpet, cello and no-input mixer. Spare instrumental touches and slices of freely resonant metal are often present, as are cycles of tones and hums that Tod Dockstader would approve. The purr and the clink, the static and the segmented, the logical and the unclassifiable live together effortlessly, making for a five-track assortment that bears frequent spins and by no means outstays its welcome.” From 2008

KDNR

Diorda

(Old Europa Cafe) Used CD $10.00

Two droning post-industrial de-compositions from 1996 by Sandrini and Cesena, mixed with treated voice of Japanese opera vocalist Naoko Hodaka. Numbered edition of 550 in stamped metal folder.

LESLIE KEFFER / OUTMODE

I b/w Hold You To It

(Tusco Embassy - UE69) Used 12-inch $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Keffer’s post-techno, slow, sparse, slosh beat backed with Outmode’s phantom underlay of doom beats that evolve into late ’70s cold wave. Hand-screen jacket. Edition of 300

GREG KELLEY / KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN

3 Shows

(Entschuldigen) Used 3xCD $30.00

Recorded live at Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, 4/29/05; Knitting Factory 5/2/05; and Mercury Lounge 5/8/05. With O-card. Sealed

GREG KELLEY / BHOB RAINEY

Nmperign

(Selektion - SHS 009 ) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

“At low volume, there doesn’t seem to be much going on at all in this 2011 recording, but pay attention and a whole micro-world of nervous flutterings, clickings, and half-muffled yelps comes into focus (along with various strands of ambient noise picked up by ultra-sensitive microphones: passing cars, amp hums, even a low-flying aircraft). Rainey and Kelley know each other's moves very well, and when things get busy, the result is as exciting as a martial arts bout.” With ten-page booklet.

GREG KELLEY / KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN

Yearlong

(Carpark) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Nearly 18 hours of live audio recording from 2001-02 whittled down to a 45-minute “astonishing, constantly evolving pool of noises and textures, considerably freer and more dissonant than what one associates with either performer. The opening track immediately thrusts the listener into an inhospitable electronic dust-bowl, with loose, jarring fragments of sound flying from every direction. Other tracks are studded with random, percussive scraps that stubbornly refuse to assemble themselves into recognizable rhythms. Elsewhere, snatches of piano or orchestral samples briefly bubble and surface before being dashed against the duo’s rugged electronic coastline. The most vibrantly constructed piece, recorded at the 2002 Impakt festival in Holland, finds the two sounding as if they are conducting a distant symphony from within a gentle meteor shower.”

KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT

Alkuhärkä

(Fonal) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Beautiful chaos from 2004 where neo-psychedelic acoustic fragments mud-bathe in lo-fi noise-folk ambience.

KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT

Kellari Juniversumi

(Fonal) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Psychedelic avant folk from 2002 that stutters just as much as it should.

KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT

Latvasta Laho

(Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) Used CD $6.00

“It is the drunken bird’s dream, the mouldy instrument, the evil music box, the song of half past 4am joy, people bathing in fairy’s pee and releasing the enchanting sound and the tantalizing sound.” Ralf Normaali is no liar.

KEMIALLISET YSTÄVÄT

Miisa

(Fusetron) Used LP (one-sided) $50.00

Acid folk from 1998 with virtuoso use of pots and pans and gloriously awkward harmony by Jan Anderzen and his crew of mold-addicted mountain-dwellers. Edition of 170

KENNY PROCESS TEAM

Surfin With…

(Hemiola) Used LP $6.00

Idiosyncratic Beefheart-influenced instrumentals from 1994.

KEUHKOT

Peruskivi Francon Betonia

(Ektro) Used CD $10.00

2002 disc by one-man band / art installation / travelling circus / raving lunatic by the name of Kake Puhuu. “Wild percussion, hypnotic rhythms, sinister bass loops, growled spoken word passages, crashing waves, rattling spray paint cans, calliope-like melodies, chanted vocals, and groovy almost-exotica, all taken in directions you would never expect,” marvels Aquarius. “Weird and wonderful, bizarre and beautiful.”

ALI AKBAR KHAN

Garden Of Dreams

(Worldly Music) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Classical Indian music (sitars and tablas) meet western melodies (violins). Ali Akbar Khan demonstrates that fusion can be done beautifully and sublimely, with actual chord changes played against raga melodies in tunings not of equal temperament. “India Blue,” for example, starts as a rupak tal (seven-beat cycle) ostinanto blues lick, and evolves into a gorgeous exploration culminating in a crackling teehi that ends on a high note.

ALI AKBAR KHAN

Journey

(Worldly Music) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

A successful blend of tradition and technology produced by Khan-sahib’s protégé and student Jai Uttal. Sarod, sitar, tabla and dholak interact with electronic synthesizers (none of which sound forced or mechanical). Reissue from 1992

ALI AKBAR KHAN

Then And Now

(AMMP) Used 2xCD $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

Sarod maestro’s debut album Music Of India (Angel Records 1955) and a live recording from late 1994.

NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN & PARTY

Devotional and Love Songs

(Caroline) Used CD $4.00

“Recorded in the wake of the late Khan’s triumphant performance at the 1985 WOMAD festival, this 10-track collection features the lighter, folkier side of the Pakistani classical music singer’s repertoire,” opines James Rotondi. “Accompanied by his nine-member ‘party’ on acoustic guitar, mandolin, and a full complement of tabla and harmonium, Khan unleashes typically stunning vocal phrases marked by blinding speed, cutting tone, and unearthly ornamentation. The infectious ‘Yaad-E-Nabi Gulshan Mehka,’ with lyrics in praise of Muhammed, finds the qawwali singer at his most effervescent, while the ghazal (love song) ‘Mast Nazroon Se Allah Bachhae’ features an insistent hand-clapped rhythm and the full Party chorus singing together in unison.”

MASAHIKO KIKUNI

Heartbroken Angels

(Viz) Used hardcover book $50.00

Publishers Weekly’s describes this 2001 anthology of comics originally published (as English translations) in the first three issues of Pulp magazine thus: “Here’s a collection of off-color gags that’s at once charming, disgusting and laugh-out-loud funny…, a series of four panel one-liners set vertically two to a page, with an occasional series blown up over two full pages for striking visual effect. The lineup of endearing, albeit repulsive, characters includes a very young sex-crazed couple (the girl wears the ubiquitous Japanese school uniform) whose encounters parody presumptions of sexual innocence with punch lines about kinky fantasies and scatology. There’s a comics artist … whose sexual response is ritualistically heightened by humiliating comments about his minuscule penis. Then there’s a daft father and son duo so poor that the boy is reduced to using soy sauce as pigment for an art class assignment. Kikuni’s cute, cartoonish drawings work along with his twisted stories and characters to boost the strip’s shock value and to keep the humor fresh. His sensibility is reminiscent of the dark comedy of the old Mad and Cracked magazines, but nothing in those classics ever approached the guilty pleasures of this work.” Includes bonus material. 184pp.

CALYPSO KING & THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS

Soul Strike!

(Soul Fire) Used LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)

If your taste for grooves runs toward The Meters or early-’70s James Brown, you’ll appreciate how Hammond B-3 and a riff-based lead guitar drive this all-instrumental mofo; the rhythm section holds down smoking, overdriven grooves as the front-line to engages in basic but dazzling chops pyrotechnics. Fat, greasy and mono.

KING FROG

Cocoanut Grove

(Fleece) Used LP $12.00

“Whatever it is,” says Matt From Springfield about Eric Ostrowski’s solo album from 1998, “I like it!” Silkscreened jacket with hand-colored photo attached. Edition of 515.

KING FROG

Silver Gelatin

(Oblique) Used LP $5.00

After three or four seconds of “the worst sounds I ever heard,” recalls Sam Heaton, “I immediately purchased it.” This 1997 solo album by Noggin’s Eric Ostrowski “may be the worst record I’ve ever heard. I cannot understand its purpose, but I love it dearly and listen to it far too often to be doing myself any good.” Blue vinyl. Includes test pressing.

KING LOSER

Sonic Super Free Hi-Fi

(Turbulence) Used LP $60.00

“Some of the best lo-fi indie, grindy rock’n’roll noise you’ll ever hear is right here,” according to Smelsh. “Peter Jefferies (This Kind of Punishment, Nocturnal Projections) does his slide-rule perfect thing on drums. Chris Heazlewood was originally in The Sferic Experiment and Olla. Highlights: The opioid ‘Dawn,’ and ‘Shadow on My Trail,’ the psycho surf rave up ‘Dick Dale’ and Celia’s cooing on ‘Pretty Pretty.’ ” From 1993

GERSHON KINGSLEY

Music To Moog By

(Dagored) Used LP $15.00

2003 reissue of this groundbreaking mix of Moog sounds and pop music, originally released in 1969 by Audio Fidelity. Includes the international pop smash “Popcorn,” The Beatles’ “Nowhere Man” and “Paperback Writer,” choice classical pieces, and more. Sealed

SAM KINISON

Have You Seen Me Lately?

(Warner Bros) Used LP $5.00

The rock & roll comic’s second album, dating from 1988. The former preacher comments in gloriously obnoxious fashion on safe sex, homosexuals, and AIDS, hypocritical TV evangelist Jim Bakker, the Virgin Mary’s immaculate conception, a specific, X-rated prank that a man’s friends may perpetrate on him while he’s drunk. Beyond tasteless, guaranteed hilarity, bordering on hysteria. And a novelty cover of The Troggs’ “Wild Thing.” Jacket has gold promo stamp, “Wild Thing” sticker, and “Views expressed” disclaimer sticker.

BASIL KIRCHIN

Abstractions Of The Industrial North

(Trunk) Used CD $30.00

Never commercially released before, Kirchin’s strangely addictive library music — recorded in 1966, during his “imaginary film” period, including guitar work by a pre-Zep Jimmy Page, and sax by Tubby Hayes — ranges from blissfully sad to hypnotically weird and pastoral jazz.

ERNÖ KIRÁLY

Spectrum

(Autobus) CD + CD-ROM $18.00

(Autobus) Used CD + CD-ROM $8.00

Beginning in the 1950s, ethnomusicologist Király has been collecting the vocal and instrumental music of the people of the Voïvodine region (Hungarian, Serbs, Croats, Slovaks, gypsies) as well as their folk instruments: zithers, drums, flutes and fifes. Includes "The Little Glutton," an opera for children based on a folk tale recorded in 1963; early '70s recordings with Katalin Ladlik and Ensemble Acezantez on citraphone, tablophone, acoustic guitar and zither; and a 1998 home-recorded tablophone solo improvisation. CD-ROM is a 24-minute solo performance on zither, recorded live at Le Batofar in Paris in 1999.

TATSUYA KITAJIMA & SHISHOW BAND

Aishite Kurenai No Nara

(Alchemy) Used CD $24.00

Delicate monologues layered over dark and heavy folk from Osaka, 1999

KITES / RODGER STELLA

Interior Moon

(Mutter Wild) Used LP $11.00

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.

KITES

Royal Paint With The Metallic Gardener From The United States Of America Helped Into An Open Field By Women And Children

(Load) Used CD $3.00

Powerful live band with an experimental bent, a multi-headed sound, and a clear fondness for ugliness and grit. This 2004 album boasts noisy distorted guitar heroics, high-pitched whines, squiggles of dog-whistle frequencies, sustained fire alarm bleeps, token Indian and exotic, caterwauling vocals, splintered instruments, layers of droning noise, visceral sensations of heavy objects being moved and things being violently broken, ear-clenching debris.

THE KIWI SOCIETY

Mercy

(Sonic Squid) Used LP $30.00

Exquisite acoustic DIY and shadowy, cracked pastoralia from 1985 by Julie Cooper, Brent S. Hayward, Patrick Waller. The group’s experimental bent, largely restrained on their earlier album Music Media, shows its hand here: pinprick ur-folk guitar themes blinking on and off, buffeted by radio interference and toy piano; woozy bedsit slow-burns; the arresting croak of Hayward’s penpal, William S. Burroughs; even a foray into dosed synth-pop. German reissue from 1997

KJERTL DEL BRONDO GROUP

A Touch Of Sandnes

([ no label ]) Used 2xLP $35.00 (Out-of-stock)

1997 free rock from Norway by Sindre Bjerga, Pål Fjelde, Jan Christian L Kyvik, and Kjetil D Brandsdal

KLANGKRIEG

38cbm

(ND - NDCS09) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Audio work for a metal freight container installation, with quadraphonic loudspeaker system, low-frequency vibrations of the walls and floor, and twelve people locked in the dark.

KLEISTWAHR

Music For Zeitgeist Fighters

(Nashazphone) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Two pieces of intense, emotional, and purgative electronics by Gary Munday, described by Philip Best as “moving from one wall to another, tracer fire and the screams of soldiers in makeshift cages. Perilous geography. Some coded references to sobbing teenagers on tape or scattered corpses in plazas…. Maybe a painting, with flames in the distance and the howling of the dogs. Can’t see in or out. Fucked forever in mountains and cellars and attics and seas. Really don’t want to ruin the fun and generally I'm up for anything but this fucking shit cannot go on, can it?”

KLIMEK

Movies Is Magic (Extended Version)

(Anticipate) Used LP $10.00

“Each of the record’s tracks,” observes Pitchfork, “which range from anxious, slow-moving ambient pieces to pastoral modern-classical drifts, seem built with an imaginary movie sequence in mind, and some are more successful than others at conjuring the feeling of losing yourself in a dark cinema….” Movies Is Magic “mostly eschews [ambient-techno’s] usual vaporous bliss in favor of much gloomier tones. It’s dark and cold and the prevailing sentiments are menace and dread.”

ANDRZEJ KLIMOWSKI / DANUSIA SCHEJBAL

Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

(Sterling) Used paperback book $20.00

Faithful graphic novel adaptation of the Robert Lewis Stephenson classic transforms the dream into an exquisite nightmare. The duo combines an already chilling tale with truly haunting artwork.128pp

KLINIKAL SKUM

Chosen Powerless

(Expectorant) Used CD $3.00

Venomous analogue synth textures from 2009 by Ryan Oppermann

KLUSTER

1970-1971

(Water) Used 3xCD $25.00

2008 reissue of the first three albums by the trio of Conrad Schnitzler, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Dieter Moebius (which became a duo after Schnitzler departed in 1971 renamed Cluster). Klopfzeichen and Zwei-Osterei were sponsored and released by a church-run record label (Schwann) who contractually obligated the group to feature religious-themed text on the first side of each. Eruption is a live recording of the band’s last concert together in 1971. Guitar, percussion, keys, and cello heavily processed with echo, filters, and tape machines — unlike anything else that was being made at the time. Contains liner notes.

KLUSTER

Admira

(Important) Used CD $6.00

Post-Moebius / Roedelius tracks from 1971 by Conrad Schnitzler, Klaus Freudigmann, and Wolfgang Seidel, seven of which were previously released on the Eruption LP (Qbico 2005), plus another continuous piece (indexed in five parts). Heavy, primitive. Gatefold card cover, embossed.

KLUSTER

Vulcano

(Important) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Post-Moebius / Roedelius recording by Conrad Schnitzler, Klaus Freudigmann, Wolfgang Seidel live in Wuppertal, Germany, 1971. Raw and dark and demented and apocalyptic (especially the ending, with its distressed, echoed vocals). Gatefold card cover, embossed.

CAMPBELL KNEALE

Pink Stalingrad

(Celebrate Psi Phenomenon - 1013) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

A loose-as-hell rumination on human tragedy of a magnitude beyond imagining that takes on a white-knuckled ride through snow and smoke and blood and fire the everlasting, golden-superchord of Birchville Cat Motel, the growling tectonic, under-par riffage of Black Boned Angel, and the Burzum-o-phonic, cassette-left-on-the-dashboard fidelity disruption of Ming.

KNIFE WORLD

Knife World

(Roaratorio) Used LP $8.00

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.

REVEREND LESTER KNOX OF TIFTON GEORGIA

Put Your Face in Gwod: the 366th Revival

(Smack Shire) Used CD $4.00

This radio personality of “questionable religious pedigree, but with enough hootin’ n’ hollerin’ holy-ghost ferocity to more than compensate for his lack of Biblical acumen,” according to Brainwashed, “Was something of an eccentric who felt his message was important enough to buy airtime (out of pocket, every week for more than 18 years) to broadcast his demented God-type message to Southern Georgia, despite his rather noticeable speech impediment. Recorded straight off the airwaves between the years of 1982 and 1992 by Tom Smith, the sound quality throughout this 71-minute compendium of the more unhinged moments of Knox’s broadcasts varies but Knox still comes through loud and clear, delivering his hellfire-and-brimstone message of sweaty-toothed allegiance to the spirit in the sky. He is frequently joined in the studio by a revolving cast of blithering hayseeds, po’ white trash and hill people, many of whom are invited to warble a gospel number or two, and their performances give new meaning to the term neo-primitive. Unorthodox guitar tunings and hilariously off-key vocals contribute to the real-people / outsider feel of this material. But Knox himself is the main attraction, whooping wildly and feverishly whipping up religious fervor.” From 2003

KNURL

Cytostatic

(Panta Rhei) Used CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Blaring washes of brutal white noise and effected metal objects, bowed with other metals." From 2004

KNURL

Nervescrap

(Pure) Used CD $12.00

“Walls on walls on walls of noise. Blistering, full-spectrum, ear-piercing, colon-clenching noise. Bottomless layers of samples, static, and screeches combine to an overwhelming chaos that fills every second of this [mid-’90s] album,” says KFJC, before explaining that “Knurl is Toronto-based experimental musician Alan Bloor. He avoids synthesizers digital sounds, instead using found objects such as fan blades, typewriters, scrap metal and car springs to create music that is completely devoid of rhythm, melody, vocals, and production quality.”

KNURL

Paramecium

(Panta Rhei) Used CDR $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Paramecium inspires thoughts of cataclysmic events,” assures Exclaim, “Such as tectonic shifts where the Earth’s plates grind against each other, the onslaught of powerful hurricanes, or the eruption of volcanoes.” Spray-painted cover

KNURL

Periodic Nephromucilaginocity

(Total Zero) Used CDR $5.00

Bookended by darkness, spooky bass and delay, the three central tracks, with their shrieks of feedback, oil drum percussion and electronic distortion “gnaw at the ear drums with variable intensities” according to Mental. “Cosmic chalkboard scraping…, convoluted [and] glued.”

KNURL

Scyamine

(Troniks - TRO227) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

The sound of distorted, amplified metal from 2006 by Alan Bloor, whose scrapyard inferno roars with the sounds of feedback and blown speakers, live and raw, produced from found stainless steel. Relentlessly rushing forward, constantly moving through a maze of grinding scrapes and crashes.

KNURL

Vorticose

(Panta Rhei) Used CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

At times more ambient drone than harsh noise, yet with sharp, hammering, acoustic sources more prominent than ever. Sadistic and smoking hot. From 2003 with color print insert.

GOTTFRIED MICHAEL KOENIG

Acousmatrix 1|2

(BV Haast) Used 2xCD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Reissue of 1990 collection of mid-century electronic works by the creative director of the Institute for Sonology in Utrecht, and right-hand man to Stockhausen, Ligeti and Kagel

TIM KOH / KOHEI NAKAGAWA / KOJI TANO / JOHN WIESE / YASOTOSHI YOSHIDA

Frankenstein and Dracula Girls Tokyo Headlock

(Helicopter) Used CD $5.00

Various collaborative combinations recorded in 2003 that hit on what Blastitude calls “the screaming harsh thing,” “weird deserted cubicle atmospheres,” and “tons of edits and crazy psychedelic volume fluctuations.”

KÅRE KOLBERG

Nova

(Prisma) Used CD $6.00

Electronic tape composition composed for a multi-media work created with Anders Kjær, originally presented at the Henie Onstad Art Centre in August 1972. One of Norway`s first sound installations, it included a light show and a 13-by-19-meter construction of glass, rubber tires and piles of paper that the audience could walk through. Mimaroglu recommended this 2009 disc for its “chopped-up trumpet, lid-slam grand piano, vocal phonèmes arranged into a heavily-filtered, explosion-heavy array.”

KOMMISSAR HJULER / MAMA BÄR

Asylum Lunaticum

(Intransitive - INT033) Used CD $5.00

Intimate, absurd, feral and aggressive in its homemade weirdness, the music of Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bär is deceptively simple -- typically created using their voices, a cassette-tape recorder and a microphone. Their astonishing suburban dramas are both charming and psychotic, sometimes at the same time. The husband-and-wife duo have self-published their dada-esque sound poetry experiments on small-edition lathe-cut LPs, tapes, and CDRs for years, usually adorning them with elaborate junk sculptures and paintings. Recommended if you'd rather spend the big bucks on food and rent and you're into Henri Chopin, Raymond Dijkstra, Ultra Eczema, Paul McCarthy, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Mike Kelley, LAFMS, Dylan Nyoukis, Aaron Dilloway.

KOMMISSAR HJULER / MAMA BÄR

Mensen Die “Kort Staan” Voor De Zelfdoding

(Ultra Eczema) Used LP $12.00

Three long tracks: a hysterical cover version of Suicide’s “Frankie Teardrop,” a piece about the Bronx (with guest vocals of a crying child), and a side-long screaming argument between a Granddad and a kid — so painfully loud and “German.” Edition of 300 in 12pp poster cover

KONSTRUKTIVISTS

Flowmotion Years 1980-1982

(Vinyl on Demand - VOD69) Used 2xLP $25.00

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.

KONTROLL CSOPORT

A Kontroll A NapNapon 1991

(Bahia) Used LP $25.00

Last ever performance by this politically charged, anti-regime Hungarian band, recorded at Nap-Nap Fesztivál on June 21, 1991, at Pálvölgyi Caldron, Budapest.

ERKIN KORAY

Erkin Koray

(World Psychedelia) Used CD $60.00

This unauthorized edition is truer to the original, has solidly informative liner notes, and boasts excellent bonus material. It’s essentially a collection of Koray 45s recorded from 1968 to 1973, encompassing everything from the wild, Anatolian surf guitar of “Cicek Dagi” to the beautiful, slo-mo psych balladry of “Yagmur.”

DAVID KORESH

Voice Of Fire

(Junior Motel) Used CD $15.00

An hour-long spoken sermon and about eight minutes of feathery music written and sung by the leader of the Waco-based Branch Davidians cult. This is an original edition with three tracks (“Book of Daniel,” “Oration,” and “Shesonahim”) and does not include “Children of Waco” or “April 19, 1993.”

FUMIO KOSAKAI / IKURO TAKAHASHI

… Of Dogstarman

(Pataphysique) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“A single, monolithic piece of itinerant synthesis, based on the Stan Brakhage film, never quite getting into harsh noise realms, instead a continuous ghostly blur of steely electronics.... Something of a neglected classic” from 1998 by the Incapacitants / Uchu-Engine / C.C.C.C troublemaker and the Kousokuya / LSD March / Fushitsusha tour guide.

TAKEHISA KOSUGI

Violin Improvisations New York September 1989

(Lovely Music) Used CD $10.00

“1990 CD release of solo violin and electronics by the main Taj Mahal Traveler and key player in Fluxus-related activities during the sixties. It’s some of the most beautiful mathematical-relationship-inspired solo performance grate-scrape out there… with just enough … Eastern micro-tonalities and alien gestures to keep your ears dancing on end…. [H]ard to believe that [the] glossed-out cavern / tank sonics are all derived from a single violin and a digital delay unit.”

TAKEHISA KOSUGI

Violin Solo NYC 1980

(P Vine) Used CD $28.00

A previously unreleased solo violin performance by legendary Fluxus conceptualist and founder of the Taj Mahal Travellers. “This CD presents rare and previously unreleased solo violin improvisation” says All Music Guide, “that employs techniques of free jazz mixed with the abstract sensibilities of the classical avant-garde. A stunning historical work, this requires a degree of attention to find reward in its details, but is a solid and compelling piece of avant-garde music.” From 1998

KOUFAR

Haiawan

(Small Doses) Used CDR $10.00

Arabic-themed power electronics “indebted to the ’80s tape scene, with a similar sense of not-quite functioning equipment and a structure held together with horse glue and packing tape.” In an envelope with insert. Edition of 66.

PETER KOWALD / TATSUYA NAKATANI

13 Definitions of Truth

(Quakebasket - QB17) Used CD $16.00

Captured live at BPM in New York City, drummer Nakatani and contrabassist Kowald's improvisations play more like meditations. From the quiet hum of the almost silent instruments to the chaotic swirl of the music itself the arrangements here hold the listener in their spell from start to finish. Unplayed CD with the barcode crossed out, so we're listing it at used.

GREGG KOWALSKY

Tape Chants

(Kranky) Used CD $12.00

The second album by this Oakland-based composer opens with a minute-long track of tactile, engine-rev drone…. His drones get denser and moodier as they progress, gathering dust and debris to become more like field recordings than studio compositions,” says Pitchfork. “[T]ones begin with a sandy hue, then drift into low-end rumble and what sounds like acoustic string plucks…. Kowalsky’s work … is mostly for hardcore drone-fans, and even they might not be blown away by Tape Chants. But anyone can appreciate his attention to detail.”

KPT.MICHIGAN

Player, Player

(Aesthetics) Used LP $5.00

Electro-experimentalist Michael Beckett uses elements of dub and monochromatic techno to frame fragments of melody and noise, and to build the sound out of contrast, layering vertically with electronics and muted, distorted guitar. Red vinyl

WAYNE KRAMER & THE PINK FAIRIES

Cocaine Blues

(Total Energy) Used LP $20.00

74-78 recordings, studio tracks and live at Dingwalls. Orange vinyl. Sealed.

ANDRÉS KRAUSE

Move Ground

(Streamline) Used LP $8.00

2010 album based on the soundtrack of an audio-visual installation premiered at the third Horkunst Festival in Erlangen, Germany in 2005. Field recordings from Cologne edited and mixed with electronics.

KRIMINAALISET METSÄNHALTIJAT

Koskemattomuus

(BloodLust! - B!138) Used CDR $8.00

Bloodlust's second release by this emerging group of old-school industrial acolytes. Recorded in 2001, Koskemattomuus furthers their association with anarcho-punk with its fiercely grim, anti-war statements; their aggressive, dark, industrial noise includes segments of traditional, romantic Finnish World War II songs and impassioned battlefield vocal segments. A complex and compelling tableau that appeals to fans from the martial music, minimal synth, crusty punk, and noise.

DAVID KRISTIAN / SIAN

Tacoma Narrows Bridge / Someday Anywhere

(Alien8 - aliencd8) Used CD $10.00

Dense ambient drone electronics from Canada and Japan .

CHRISTINA KUBISCH / FABRIZIO PLESSI

Tempo Liquido

(Ampersand) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Four-channel ambient sound continues throughout the whole performance. With no sampling possibilities at that time (late 1970s), all of the instruments had to be recorded solo in Kubisch’s studio on a Revox machine (one channel for each instrument, repeated several times in order to create a mega-loop, and the final result was transferred to a four-channel-tape for the performance). The superimposition of the sequences of different durations generated continuous layers of sound with minimal variations: a music that could go on forever... Tempo Liquido was one of her and Plessi’s most complex pieces, mixing life, performance, video images, different projections, and a multi-channel sound system.” With O-card

CHRISTINA KUBISCH / FABRIZIO PLESSI

Two and Two

(Ampersand) Used CD $15.00

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. Reissue. With O-card

LEO KUPPER

Electro-Acoustic

(Pogus) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Four tracks by the founder and director of Studio de Recherches et de Structurations Electroniques Auditives in Brussels: “Electro-Acoustic Santur” (1989), for two santurs, four micro-processors and electronic sounds; “Guitarra Cubana” (1988), combining guitar and phonetic sounds; “Inflexions Vocales” (1982) with Françoise Vanhecke (soprano), a vocal composition with accompaniment by a stereo tape; and “Le Reveur au Sourire Passager” (1977) with Jean-Claude Frison (reciter), which explores in sound and word a dark, deep, incomprehensible, and mysterious world. From 1996

KUWAYAMA-KIJIMA

01.05.10

(Alluvial) Used CDR $5.00

Five pieces, “brilliantly recorded with natural echo so that the instruments shine like polished mirrors,” says Sound Projector. “These scheming homunculi attack their instruments with a vigor that borders on pathological hatred: energetic sawing motion produces tremendous effective harmonics leaping off the bridge and shimmering in the air like the northern lights; tiny fingers the size of a crab’s claws create plucking motions so sharp they could break the neck of a Canadian goose…; busy left-hand fingering motions running up and down … as though a colony of ants had escaped and had to be wiped out, using only fingertips, in two minutes flat. It’s fine, crucial stuff, but a harsh dissonance also results, and the way it seeps off the record like so much ectoplasm may frighten those afraid of atonality.”

KUWAYAMA-KIJIMA

01.06.16

(Trente Oiseaux) Used CD $7.00

The sound of crickets and waves outside the building, transmitted inside the empty warehouse where Kuwayama and Kijima played along with them. Close attention is required for successful immersion in the ongoing transformations of sounds and musical figures.

KUWAYAMA-KIJIMA

02.08.31

(Trente Oiseaux) Used CDR $5.00

The duo’s second release for the label, released in 2003, was recorded in an empty warehouse at Nagoya Port, where the sound of crickets and waves picked up by microphones placed outside the building were transmitted into the space. This recording’s ambience is much quieter and more static, a peaceful canvas to hold explorations that, with a bit of attention, can immerse the listener in ongoing transformations of sounds and musical figures.

KUWAYAMA-KIJIMA / CARTER THORNTON

Shrine

(Conduit Creations) Used LP $8.00

Post-midnight summit from 2005 recorded in a vast Shinto shrine by that one guy from Enos Slaughter in the company of the zoned Japanese improvising duo. The trio utilizes acoustic guitars, cellos, violins, sticks, leaves, rocks and toys. “At points Thornton’s guitar playing sounds like an extremely fractured take on American Primitive modes,” notes Volcanic Tongue, “While the whole huge spatial geometry of the group sound conjures up huge orchestras of revolving wooden insects.”

JIM KWESKIN & THE JUG BAND

See Reverse Side For Title

(Vanguard) Used CD $15.00

On this charming and vastly entertaining recording, the rhythm is hardly an issue. Whether the tempo is fast or slow, everything is as solid as it needs to be in the tradition of the best string bands. Highlights are banjo whiz Bill Keith, fresh off his stint as a bluegrass boy for Bill Monroe, and the vocals of a youthful Maria D’Amato (later Muldaur).

KYLIE MINOISE / NACHT INSECTEN

Beyond the Stellar Filth

(Harbinger Sound) Used Split LP $15.00

Nacht Insecten’s screams and shifting tonal buzzes are better than trepanning, and cheaper, too, while Kylie Minoise’s slow-burning noise drone lasts longer than any of his live shows.

KYUSS

Blues For The Red Sun

(Dali) Used LP $75.00

1999 German reissue of their 1992 second album masterfully captures the band’s unique heavy / light, gentle / sinister formula. Red vinyl.

KYUSS

Welcome To Sky Valley

(Elektra) Used LP $75.00

1999 German reissue of their stellar 1994 album, divided into three suites that display the band’s range from furious metal to psychedelic grooves. Yellow-ish marbled vinyl

L/A/B

Psychoacoustics

(Groundfault) Used CD $3.00

Live improvisations from 2004 — electronics and mechanics treated with scientifically approved methods; together with composed sections interpolated with sounds of science; illustrates the musical sounds of the human psyche.

JOAN LA BARBARA

Shamansong

(New Albion) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The title-track, according to no less an authority than Blue Gene Tyranny, is “a mysterious 25-minute concert suite from a soundtrack to Anima, a film concerning a woman who journeys to the desert seeking to enter ‘the world where magic happens’ by performing certain rituals and labors. La Barbara recorded voice (sighs, whispers, lamentations, ululations, calls, cries echoed by the surroundings, lullabies and ‘vocal winds’) and percussion sounds (ancient Balinese gamelan instruments, tar and dumbek hand drums, shakuhachi, music box tines, rainstick, and African rattles) on location, high in the rocky cliffs of Diablo Canyon, NM, with its ‘ravens and echoes, birds and thunder’. Several of these sounds are also modified by computer…. ‘Rothko’… emulate[s] painter Mark Rothko’s layering techniques in sound…. Tapes of multiphonic and microtonal voice choirs and bowed pianos move through … space…. The mood is sombre, meditative and intense, with a pervasive constantly moving drone filling and reconfiguring itself in the space as a living presence. ‘Calligraphy II / Shadows’ … for voice and Chinese wind, string and percussion instruments … [is] gentle [and] evocative [of mysterious] gestures.” From 1998. Drilled barcode

LA LIGNE CLAIRE

Chéri

(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD7) Used LP $20.00

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

Mr. Labrador

(Galerie Pache) Used LP $17.25

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.

HELMUT LACHENMANN

Gran Torso / Guero / Pression

(Editions RZ - 1003) Used LP $7.50 (Out-of-stock)

Slow-motion instrumental breathing, plucking and string-scraping. Sparse, minimal but sometimes heavy works from 1969-1978 by German composer: “Guero” (for prepared piano, played by the composer); two recordings of “Pression” (for cello, one by Werner Taube, one by Michael Bach); “Gran Torso” (for string quartet, performed by Societé Cameristica Italiana). With a four-page twelve-inch booklet.

LADYBIRD / MERZBOW

Balance

(Human Wrechords) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

In the left channel is Masami Akita’s “Floating Eloy,” an ear-inflaming … “clattering-creaking-scraping-pelting-frizzling … suite presumably named after Eloy Pruystinck, the Anabaptist / Free Spirit agitator who was condemned to the stake in Antwerp in 1544.... In the right … Tanja Kopecky with her ”Berlin karaoke group perform hypnotic, minimalistic cover versions of smash hits by Army of Lovers, Kraftwerk and others. Listeners are encouraged to adjust the balance control as they see fit, naturally. From 1998

LAGO MORTO

Obitorio Veneto

(Von Archives - VON007) Used LP + CD $8.00

SALE PRICE. 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

GRAHAM LAMBKIN

Salmon Run

(Kye) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Carefully constructed arrays of sound.

GRAHAM LAMBKIN

Softly Softly Copy Copy

(Kye) Used CD $25.00

Field / location recordings (sampled water, ringing bells, bird calls, etc.) with the occasional violin (Samara Lubelski) and acoustic guitar (Austin Argentieri). There is constant disruption of the music’s assumed trajectory: crescendos are cut off, buildups interrupted, and conventional harmonic sensibilities nearly obliterated. A study of sound and non-sound.

LAMBSBREAD

Stereo Mars

(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $5.00

“This stunningly stoned and mesmerizing wastoid action / improv trio from the nethervoid of Ohio is jaw dropping. Stereo Mars was recorded and mixed in a single day by three blasting concept dub-zone visionaries (Zac Davis and Kathy O’Dell on guitars and drummer Shane Mackenzie).

BRUCE LAMONT / RIGHT-EYE RITA / MARK SOLOTROFF

Lamont / Right-Eye Rita / Solotroff

(BloodLust! - B!124) Used CDR $3.50

The trio's debut release, a single 19-minute live recording from a performance at Chicago's AV-aerie. Their tri-vocal approach utilizes treated and pure voice: the looped deep chants of Lamont (Yakuza); the spellbinding, electrified wails of Right-Eye Rita, who Stopsmiling compares to “Lydia Lunch drenched in absinthe”; and the feedback-laced drones of Solotroff (Bloodyminded, The Fortieth Day, Intrinsic Action). For fans of Diamanda Galas, Abruptum, and the earliest moments of Current 93 and Coil.

WILLIE LANE

Known Quantity

(Cord-Art) Used LP $65.00

Sequestered in Philadelphia apartments with a tape machine between 2006 and 2008, this MV and EE associate coaxes ragas and abstract blues from acoustic guitars, and walks the plank of a pedalboard with his dangerously heavy Les Paul copy. Paste-on photocopy wraparound. Numbered edition 164/300

K. D. LANG AND THE RECLINES

A Truly Western Experience

(Bumstead) Used LP $5.00

The 1984 debut album of Neo-Patsy country and roots music, “a hootenanny wingding, daddy-o of a good time.”

JOKE LANZ

Plays Suddent Infant

(Ideal) Used LP $18.00

Berlin mainstay and persistent agitant Joke Lanz tears along the lines between DJ set and improvised noise, rhythmic electronics and electro-acoustic dream sequencing. This album combines Joke Lanz’s unique turntablism and intuition for mutant-body-dramas peppered with a great sense of humor from the rhythms of amplified faders and his own breath to spoken interjections of Bryan Lewis Saunders’s dream lyrics.

ERIC LANZILLOTTA

Water Tower

(Anomalous) Used 10-inch $6.00

Field recording of whispering ambience from 1995

BRETT LARNER / BURKHARD STANGL / TAKU SUGIMOTO

Compositions for Guitars

(A Bruit Secret) Used CD $8.00

“Different propositions questioning the limits of the instrument through radical and oblique approaches. Close minimalist electronic experience in Larner’s piece, games on detuning in Stangl’s piece, and a Cagian questioning of silence in Sugimoto’s piece ‘Hum’. Beyond the instrumental stakes, it is a question of our relation with space and time. The guitar is only the vector through which we apprehend our musical object.” From 2003

LAXATIVE SOULS

Twist And Decease / Desinfektionsraum

(Trash Ritual - TRASH051) Used 2xCD $18.00

Post-mortem industrial hell from Il Diavalo Italiano, second only to MB in terms of psychological abuse via raw electronics, distorted voices, concrete sounds, self-assembled electronic circuits and samples of the execution and disposing of Aldo Moro, the assassination of Victor Emmanuel II, etc.

LAZY

Microsonics

(Dr Jim's - 31) Used CD $8.00

David Brown and Sean Baxter’s textures of microscopic acoustic gestures, produced with prepared electric guitar, drum kit and percussive junk. From 2002.

HUGH LE CAINE

Compositions Demonstrations 1946-1974

(JWD Music) Used CD $20.00

Thanks to contributions in the fields of radar and atomic physics Le Caine Le Caine was allowed to develop a variety of instruments and devices incorporating technology several decades ahead of their time, including the electronic sackbut, one of the first analog synthesizers, a special purpose tape recorder which allowed pitch alteration and incorporated primitive multi-tracking techniques, and a touch-sensitive keyboard which enabled a performer to manipulate the notes on an electronic keyboard. Le Caine did not consider himself a composer as such, but he did have a background in music and the creative drive to use his training to create some exquisite exercises to show off his machines. He created at least one classic of the electroacoustic genre, “Dripsody,” constructed entirely from the manipulated and transfigured sounds of a single drop of water. From 1999

LEATHER BATH

Nature’s Crackling Fire

(Leather Bath Inc.) Used CD $8.00

Two lengthy tracks by Greh Holger and John Weise packed with close-up textures, one exuding an open tonal quality between the creaking, bowing, striking, and scraping stone, wood, and metal, the other focusing on drones, scrabbling, and treated horn. Edition of 200

OKKYUNG LEE

I Saw The Ghost Of An Unknown Soul And It Said…

(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Supremely amazing cello noise, energy, vibration, friction and true sound-feeling music by this mind-snapping Korean improviser / composer. Deep and resonant, at once furious and hushed, accepting the dare to be beautiful and frightening. Edition of 400

TOM LEHRER

Song And More Songs

(Rhino) Used CD $4.00

Includes Songs By Tom Lehrer from 1953, More Of Tom Lehrer from 1959, plus rare cuts and a previously unreleased 1996 recording of “I Got It From Agnes.” Liner notes by Dr. Demento and an interview with Lehrer.

THE LEOTARD GEEKS

Dog Food On A String

(Gravelvoice) Used LP $18.00

Hilariously medicated lo-fi ’80s arrested-development-wave from the futile crescent, Ontario, Canada. The band’s most prominent claim to fame is that Scott Colburn offered “any sum of money” for a seven-inch by their previous incarnation The Wheezing Dogs. Silkscreened and spray-painted jacket.

LEPRECHAUN CATERING

Kumquats, Lychees

(Heresee) Used LP $5.00

Tom Boram and Jason Willett “fiddle with electronics to create cartoonish improvisations that are equal parts retro-futurist exotica and unhinged, noisy tomfuckery. Willett’s past work with groups like the Dramatics may offer some perspective on Leprechaun Catering’s technicolor tongue-twisters, which also contain fragments of such diverse vocabularies as those of Dick Hyman’s Moog variations, the genre-hopping (and often humorous) improvisation of the ICP Orchestra, and the miniature sounds of some of IDM’s most fractured beatsmiths…. Leprechaun Catering employs springy, off-kilter rhythms, and a crowded cacophony of electronic doodads and fluorescent squiggles. Beats are present, but the duo isn’t too reliant on them, often the rhythm of a track finds itself eclipsed by the sounds of an 8-bit video game in the garbage disposal.” From 2004. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 300

DAVID LERMAN

A Matter Of Scale And Other Pieces

(Anomalous) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Live pieces using amplified small sounds from piezo discs (blowtorch on metal, amplified drinking straws), along with other instrumentation in live performance (including a recording from inside the Houston Astrodome).

DAVID LERMAN

Music Of David Lerman 1964-1987 Featuring Travelon Gamelon (Music For Bicycles)

(EM) Used 2xCD $25.00

Travelon Gamelon was originally released on Folkways in 1983, including four tracks of promenade and concert versions. This 2012 repress of the 2007 reissue includes an unissued bonus track. Disc two is packed with other soundworks performed and recorded from 1964 to 1987. With obi, booklet, insert. Both discs are enhanced with PDFs of scored and videos.

DAVID LERMAN

Within Earreach

(Artifact) Used CD $6.00

Recordings going back to 1984 made at site-specific sound installations or as soundscapes, mostly using self-built microphones and transducers. From 1994

LETHE

Catastrophe Point #6

([ no label ]) Used CD $10.00

On the first track here, Nagoya-based Kiyoharu Kuwayama “foregrounds what sounds like a handful of pebbles being clicked together against a distant backdrop of scraped sheet metal. The thickness of the room’s acoustics lends the whole an almost frightening clarity, and there’s an unreality to the way the two different reverberant layers combine that only adds to the sense of unease. We’re thrown into a subtly heightened acoustic realm, in which scale and perspective are altered, to disquieting psychological effect. The second piece heightens and complicates the acoustic picture even further, and increases the density of the sonic activity. The sound sources here seem to be bundles of sticks, bottles, tea trays and iron girders thrown down lift shafts. Once again the ear tries to make sense of the altered relationships Kuwayama set up between loud and soft, close and distant. Slowly, the piece starts to focus more and more strongly on a huge, dark vibration at the furthest end of the acoustic spectrum, which builds in intensity, racking up the tension and subtly disturbing the mind’s equilibrium. By this point, the music sounds like it's taking piece in a vast, pitch black aircraft hangar of the soul.” From 2005. In A4-size cardboard sleeve. Edition of 500

LHD

Even Still

(Troniks - TRO298) Used 2xCD $14.00

Two-and-a-half hours covering the LHD vinyl discography recorded between 2002 and 2007 by the double flamethrower unit of Phil Blankenship and John Wiese. Pure West Coast destruction, maximum density and speaker shred. Includes tracks from these sevens: Asthma (Helicopter); Hands of the Priestess (Miisc); Fascination (Swampland); Hotel Fire (P-Tapes); Normandie (Tape Room); Lock Up (Helicopter); Los Angeles (Troniks); and Veiled (Helicopter), and tracks from these twelves: Triple Void (Chondritic Sound): Electrophorus (Collective JYRK): Trap (Troniks), split with Immaculate:Grotesque (Truculent Recordings), plus two previously unreleased bonus tracks. Edition of 200.

LHD

Trap

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $18.00

Double flamethrower by Phil Blankenship and John Wiese. Black ink on black jacket. Edition of 188

LHD

Young And Restless

(Blossoming Noise) Used CD $5.00

Sixteen-plus minutes Los Angeles smog tones by Phil Blankenship and John Wiese. Sealed

LI JIANHONG

Lovers With Cloisonné Bracelet

(Tipped Bowler - TBT009) LP $16.50

(Tipped Bowler - TBT009) Used LP $11.00

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.

LICHENS / LEXIE MOUNTAIN

Restoration Of Temperment / If You So Choose

(Hoss) Used Split LP $4.00

Wordless singing by Robert A. A. Lowe, gentle and piercing, buoyed by a constantly skyward-spiraling guitar arpeggio and killer blown-out melodic guitar soloing on one side, backed with Ms. Mountains’s “highly disruptive and confrontational … solo performance live in Atlanta in 2006…. Rosanne Rosannadanna meets Genet’s The Maids meets American Idol….Totally mental and fearless and beautiful.

ALAN LICHT / TAMIO SHIRAISHI

Our Lips Are Sealed

(Pure) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Shirashi’s saxophone is more Borbetomagus than jazz — short and mostly irritating sounds, the equivalent of screeching glass. Licht’s role here is to create noisy electronics by abusing twin reverb, digital delay, turbo rat, snf tube screamer." From 1997

ALAN LICHT

Rabbi Sky

(Siltbreeze) Used CD $10.00

Listening to the opener, the title track executed in five movements, one is cast headlong into a minimalist menagerie; the bracing, string-tingling beginning segues into a hypnotizing, ecclesiastical chord organ drone, resurrecting into a tremendous cut-and-paste finale of looped and overdubbed guitar that whirls around in the air performing a lascivious, improvisational fandango. On the other hand, “All Blues” (dedicated to both James McNew and Phill Niblock) is pure aggro-muzz that takes on an almost anthemic persona — a 10-plus-minute battle royale of MXR Blue Box fuzz and feedback carnage that sounds like a chimney full of hornets fornicating on the first day of mating season.

LIEUTENANT CARAMEL

Early Tape Works

(Monochrome Vision) Used 2xCD $7.00

“Poetic images, frantic interchange of subjects, twisted and broken mosaic of fuzzy elements, the breathtaking incoherence of perception, the mark of primitive life, the absence of organization and rational thoughts.” This 2006 retrospective of Philippe Blanchard’s “theatrical view of musique concrète” shares common ground with Nurse With Wound — “surreal and humorous, breaking rhythm of everyday life, household inventory instead of real instruments.” With tracks from L’Odyssee Du Lieutenant Caramel (Audiofile Tapes 1989), Les Bonnes Archives du Dimanche (Old Europa Café 1986), Du Plomb Plein les Ailes (Acteon 1985), Et Ca Vole! (SPH 1993), and Je Ne Veux Plus Voir le Ciel (Acteon / SJ Organisation 1988).

THE LIFE PARTNERS

Men Are Talking

(Ride The Snake) Used LP $5.00

Taking vulgarity to new heights, Dave Dougan’s seven-inch-era potty mouth evolves on this 2009 album to more abstruse lyrical satire. Trumpeter Greg Kelley and guitarist Mike Dupuy’s riff-mating is something really special, akin to the savant aspects of “idiocy.” Look no further for abrasiveness that is compelling, clever, refined, and beautiful.” Brownish-green vinyl

GYÖRGY LIGETI

Mechanical Music

(Sony Germany) Used CD $10.00

All of Ligeti’s music either written for mechanical reproduction or arranged for mechanical instruments. Dating from his brief flirtation with the Fluxus movement, “Poéme Symphonique,” scored for 100 metronomes, produced one of the great scandals of Ligeti’s career. As the metronomes wind down, what sounds like a waning rainstorm evolves into overlaying rhythmic patterns and finally a single metronome coming to a halt. From the other end of his career come the Nancarrow-inspired etudes arranged for player piano. The barrel organ works, for the most part arrangements of the composer’s earliest keyboard music, sound like a calliope gone mad.

LIIMANARINA

Spermarket

(Drag City) Used LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

Legendary no-fi band from Tampere, Finland, who crank up mostly acoustic guitar, bass, drums and screaming vocals (Olli Pauke’s surreal, perverse lyrics about pornography, Elvis, Donald Duck, wooden recorders — included here translated into English). Raw and primitive, on the verge of falling to pieces at all times.

LIMEPIT / SKULLFLOWER

Skullflower / Limepit

(Posh Isolation) Used Split LP $15.00

One track each of meditative, black metal-inspired guitar noise and sublime damnation by Skullflower, backed with nihilistic sludge by members of Sarah’s Charity, rendered into belches of pungent amplifier puke and feedback-laden string torture. From 2009. Paste-on photocopy jacket. Edition of 333

RUNE LINDBLAD

Death Of The Moon

(Pogus) Used CD $10.00

Electronic and concrete music from 1953 to 1960 by this Swedish composer, reissuing material previously available on LP via the Pogus and Radium labels.

RUNE LINDBLAD

Objekt 2

(Pogus) Used CD $8.00

Stark, mesmerizing and historical electronic and musique concrete — the remainder of the long out-of-print Radium double LP, recorded 1962-1988. 1998 reissue

MR. LING

Mr. Ling T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size L $25.00

Hanes Beefy-T 100% cotton. White with color transfer ink

STEVE LINNEGAR’S SNAKESHED

Karate Moves: The Mystical World Of Karate

(GNP Crescendo) Used LP $10.00

Self-hyped as “a revelation to the layman and a great motivating vehicle for the karate student!” while Discogs user Randy J’s take is more sober: “Synth-infused and horrible song writing — like a bad movie that has its moments — this LP is exactly that. Wow people at that dinner / record-playing party for the price of a good drink at a bar. Fun. Not fun. Or whatever.” From 1985

LIQUORBALL

Live In Hitler's Bunker

(Blackjack) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Flower-wilting bad vibration rock therapy from Hayward, California’s most unwelcome heroes. Recorded live in Bellingham, Washington, before an adoring crowd of nine. A brain-blending power-rock psychotronic nightmare. Hand-slathered jackets. Edition of 400.

THE LITTER

Distortions

(Eva) Used LP $20.00

1983 repress of questionable legitimacy of the 1967 garage debut by these legendary Minnesotans.

LOS LLAMARADA

Take The Sky

(S-S Records) Used LP $5.00

“Guitars careen fearlessly into the void and each track cavorts at all times in its own special weirdness,” says Coke Machine Glow. “What these Mexicans have effectively cooked up is a spinning ceiling of noise—a series of loud improv dilemmas loosely drawn into the folds of what presumably was at one point rock. Not to call this a song-set—the idea fans will hopscotch off this mess to their next show with a litany of requests is uniquely absurd—but it’s to say that Los Llamarada, more than people might expect from a band that attacks instruments, negates sound and musical grammar etc., have crafted something with real, tangible determination.”

LOS LLAMARADA

The Exploding Now

(S-S Records) Used LP $5.00

“The debut album from Monterrey Mexico’s premier primal noisesmiths pulls stringent and ominous tones out of the most mundane instruments available to these demented students,” marvels Victim of Time. “By creating their own style of demiurgically aberrant music distantly rooted in actual ancient mysticism-cum-No-Wave-nihilism, Los Llamarada bend their minds and instruments in such an evil, earthy fashion that your own sober mental state grows instantly muddled and disoriented with each passing track.” Silkscreened jacket. White vinyl

LLOYD PACK

On Holiday With...

(Feeding Tube) Used LP $21.64

“Low-key art-rock with somewhat raw characteristics: dangerously riff-heavy cul-de-sacs where Russell Walker lays down casual lyrics while Dan Melchior spins music that usually begins in utter simplicity and ends up running head first into a wall of blubber. It often hovers in a sweet spot between pop and dunt and art, like Rod Stewart's riding a bucking boar in zero gravity.” Edition of 250.

COUNT LOACHFILLET

Electric Pond: Solar Solution (Music For Synthesizer and Electronic Sounds)

(Resipiscent) Used CD $8.00

Loachfillet dwells on the lakebed of a lifelong musical vision where analogue synth, beaten bass, tape loops and aging electronics pour forth sound too crushingly deep to escape. From a funneling eddy at the start of track one, down you go, descending his bubble column to a booming bass guitar wreck shimmering with algae. You plunge deeper still, down ten expansive tracks to the finale, titled “Hell,” with waves so heavy they’d buckle prettier heads; but you’re here to stay, lungs full at last.

STEVE WRAY LOBDELL

Automatic Writing By The Moon

(Holy Mountain - 777) Used CD $7.00

Melodic compositions for acoustic guitar and ring modulator from 1999 by the Baseball Astrologer collaborator, leader of Davis Redford Triad and of Sufi Mind Game, and string-wrangler for Faust. The whispery, fluffy-cloud dynamism of the thirteen tracks here mix massive overdubbing, wondrous cinematic composition, folksy improvisation and studio experimentation. The backwards feedback of “Astral Projection” is vibrantly illuminating, while the instrumental arrangement of Chilean folksinger Victor Jara’s “The Departure” evokes a cosmic western.

LOCKWELD

Eutectic

(Groundfault - GF006) Used CD $5.00

Karen Thomas and Steve Makita resample, loop, process and distort sounds of power tools, machinery and weapons. From 2000.

ANNEA LOCKWOOD

Thousand Year Dreaming / Floating World

(Pogus - P21045) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Previously issued by What Next in 1993, the forty-three-minute Thousand Year Dreaming, performed by Lockwood, Art Baron and N. Scott Robinson, along with Libby Van Cleve (oboe and English horn), Jon Gibson (didjeridu), J.D. Parran (clarinets), Peter Zummo (trombone and didjeridu) and percussionists Michael Pugliese and Charles Wood boasts the extraordinary timing and a masterly sense of space. The acoustic beats of the conch shells’ microtonal inflections might recall Alvin Lucier, but openness to melody situates it further to the East. The previously unreleased three-part Floating World assembles field recordings from the wilds of Cape Kidnappers in New Zealand to the New York Public Library Reading Room, made by Maggi Payne, David Dunn, Larry Austin, Chris Mann, Sorrel Hays, Steve Peters, Ruth Anderson, John Cousins, Philip Dadson, Warren Burt and Brenda Hutchinson.

LONER

Loner

(Non Mi Piace - 05) Used CD $10.00

The 2001 psycho head-melt of Michael Pullen (Circle X, Life of Falconetti) oozes down into the existential abyss, where heavy, growling cyclones and monotone, minimalist guitar riffs bare-back slow-motion beats, just as rough and rustic as early Swans or Live Skull. Bass by Algis Kizys, vocalist Kate Dariani, Katie X. Lewis on viola, and organ by Rémy Bux add even more guest lava to the futuristic troglodyte reverberations emanating from Loner’s concrete hell-caves. Four inserts.

LOOP ORCHESTRA

Not Overtly Orchestral

(Quecksilber) Used CD $12.00

The third album by the legendary Australian group, all of whose compositions are rendered with tape loops on reel-to-reel tape machines.

FRANCISCO LOPEZ

Live In San Francisco

(23five) Used CD $12.00

Spectral timbres and ominous fluctuations layered into a massive lump of sonic force by famed concrète composer with over 130 releases to his name. One track was culled from the infamous Hexaphonic show at The Lab in August 2000, and the other from an intimate performance at 3feetofftheground in July 2001. Comes with a blindfold to enhance the phenomenological experience of Lopez’s dramatic compositions. Insert firing squad remark here.

LOVE

Da Capo

(Sundazed) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

2001 reissue of Love’s sophomore effort where the band broadens its scope into psychedelia and Arthur Lee’s achingly melodic songwriting gifts reach full flower. Highlights include the atomic blast of pre-punk rock “Seven & Seven Is” (their only hit single), the manic jazz tempos of “Stephanie Knows Who,” and the enchanting “She Comes in Colors,” perhaps Lee’s best composition (and reportedly the inspiration for The Rolling Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow”).

LOVE

Forever Changes

(Sundazed) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

2001 reissue of “one of the finest and most haunting albums to come out of the Summer of Love.… [M]ost of Forever Changes is built around interwoven acoustic guitar textures and subtle orchestrations, with strings and horns both reinforcing and punctuating the melodies. The … inspired arrangements can’t disguise an air of malaise that permeates … [what is inarguably Love’s masterpiece — an album of enduring beauty, but … also one of the few major works of its era that saw the dark clouds looming on the cultural horizon, and the result was music that was as prescient as it was compelling.”

LOVE

Love

(Sundazed) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

2001 reissue of Love’s hardest-rocking early album and their most Byrds-influenced. Highlights include their punky rendition of Bacharach / David’s “My Little Red Book” (a minor hit), and the superbly moody ballads “Signed D.C.” and “Mushroom Clouds.”

LOVE IS SO FAST

Love Is So Fast

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $3.00

Exact details on the origins of The Love Is So Fast are vague; essentially, it was a project created by Danyhell and Estrella (currently in Los Llamarada) intended to flesh out bedroom improvisations and act as an inner search for a sense of skeletal (pop) structure amid the morass of postmodern rock effluvium. Performed live and recorded in one take, the five hazy, languorous tracks certainly charge the ions with positive, crystalline zip, creating an electron hole that sounds like alien transmissions from a long-ago Mars. Not the band, friend, the planet! Fans of the debut LP by Los Llamarada will be downright giddy with the Precambrian narco-menace that comes carbonating off The Love Is So Fast’s archival recordings. Or, as the band says themselves: “This is the music we dreamed of but couldn’t play.” Grab the peyote, I think I’m Frida Kahlo.

LOVE TAN

Miscellaneous Night Feelings

(Kill Shaman) Used LP $3.00

Matthew Ford’s 2008 merging of The Intelligence on downers with Factums’ more abstract tendencies.

LOW END LARS

Low End Lars

(Bobby J) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Ethereal, downer space-core from the late ’90s with lots and lots of reverb-damaged guitar. Also known as "Indian Head."

FRANK LOWE

Black Beings

(ZYX) Used CD $15.00

“Frank Lowe remained one of the last to carry on the “Fire Music” tradition in its truest form. Mixing post-bop influences, African heritage, and the experimentation of late Coltrane, Black Beings is one of the most soulful and extreme albums of its ilk…, encapsulate[ing] what’s great about improvisation at its very core: harnessing spontaneity in a way that can never be recreated. Aside from stellar, moment-to-moment playing, Black Beings also documents a pivotal time in music. Lowe takes free jazz to its fiercest and rawest states, while … deeply invested in the same roots as the previous generation of jazz experimenters. As avant-garde as Black Beings gets, it is indeed pure soul music, without a trace of pretension or self-indulgence….”

LSD MARCH

Shindara Jigoku

(Siwa) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Finally, downer psych jams with grooves approaching Jandek levels of tunelessness. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 500

SAMARA LUBELSKI

Spectacular Of Passages

(Destijl) Used LP $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Carving her own niche of idyllic bedroom psychedelia, Samara Lubelski takes pop orchestrations to levels of insulation previously unimagined, as though she recorded her murmured symphony inside a down pillow and comforter. The album was in fact recorded between Germany and Brooklyn with a cast that includes Tower Recordings’ P.G. Six on baroque flute and 12-string, Tim Barnes on percussion, Matt Heyner of No Neck Blues Band on upright bass and Espers’ cellist Helena Espvall. Paste-on cover

SAMARA LUBELSKI

The Fleeting Skies

(Destijl) Used LP $18.00

According to the Dutch, Ms. Lubelski “adventures from a John Cage starting position to arrive at a kind of Devandra Banhart-like psychedelic folk via atmospheric haggling.”

OTTO LUENING / COLIN MCPHEE / WALLINGFORD RIEGGER

Fantasy & Fugue / Nocturne / Synthesis For Orchestra & Electronic Sound / Fantasia For Organ

(CRI) Used LP $18.00

The Polish National Radio Orchestra brings Reigger’s atonal-not-atonal message to life, namely that cosmic forces must dominate over humanity’s ceaseless striving. The Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra navigates Luening’s concerto-like polarization of electronic synthesizer and orchestral sounds, while organist Ralph Kneeream keeps the accents of the fantasia strong and deep. McPhee’s modal piece for chamber orchestra is impressionist and exoticistic.

JOHN LURIE

Down By Law and Variety Soundtracks

(Crammed Capitol) Used LP $35.00

Scores from Jim Jarmusch’s mid’-80s indie classic and from Bette Gordon’s lesser-known flick, by the head Lounge Lizard with guitarists Marc Ribot and Arto Lindsay, percussionist E.J. Rodriguez, among others. The former is heavy on the rhythmic and tonal patterns that later became Lurie’s signature sound, a fluttering technique inspired more by Southeast Asian horn patterns than the blues. The latter is much more subdued, sparse, and backgroundy.

LUSTERLIT

Cutting b/w Wax Wolf

(Lusterlit) Used 7-inch $10.00

Two tracks inspired by the artwork of comics legend Dame Darcy. More enticing than a mermaid with a sense of humor. Blue vinyl. Plain black jacket with folder

JULIAN LYNCH

Mare

(Olde English Spelling Bee) Used LP $10.00

Creating “traces of drone, noise, and African percussion, alongside more traditional pop and rock elements,” notes Pitchfork, Lynch’s “instrumentation is unusual and eclectic, incorporating clarinet, watery guitar lines, shuffling maracas, and delicate drum work. But where bedroom pop tends to be somber and even unsettling at times, Mare is very much at ease with itself. And it sounds very organic. Tracks are experimental in composition but ultimately echo the mood of folk or country — music that feels like it should be played outdoors. For how druggy and narcotized it sounds, it doesn’t come across as sad or tuned-out. A lot of artists use these kinds of woozy textures to enhance a detached viewpoint, but ultimately this is colorful and engaged music.” From 2010

JENNIFER LYNCH

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

(Pocket Books) Used paperback book $6.00

The diary chronicles Laura’s life from age 12 to her death at 17 and provides a harrowing backstory to the event that set the entire Twin Peaks television series in motion. In intimate diary entries, Laura goes from a happy and naïve tween to a tormented soul posing behind the phony smile of homecoming queen. Plagued by visions of a creepy man with long hair — a demonic presence she comes to know as “BOB” — Laura falls into a world of drug addiction, sexual promiscuity, and prostitution to escape. But as she’s swallowed deeper and deeper into the abyss, Laura is forced to question the reality of who and what BOB really is. From 1990. 184pp

LÊ QUAN NINH / GÜNTER MÜLLER

La Voyelle Liquide

(Erstwhile) Used CD $6.00

“Seven pieces [that] place a premium on texture and dynamics. Müller and Lê’s sense of rhythmic subtlety is expressed through the opening and closing of a filter as often as it is through the development of a phrase or pattern. They have a penchant for bright metallic sounds: when a brisk rhythmic pattern is established, the music takes on the gamelan tinge of an early Lou Harrison piece; in a more eruptive soundscape, these sources can be harrowing. Müller and Lê also delve into very quiet sounds, which can lapse into silence…, leaving the listener on the edge of his seat.”

MACHINE GUN TV

Cue

(Tochnit Aleph) Used 7-inch $4.00

First European release by Hidekazu Miyano and Jun Masumizu, whose four tracks for neon flickering, walls breaking, and ears bleeding are as catchy as a nervous breakdown. “Electric shock pop from the TV made out of colored fluorescent light Jell-O,” says Eye Yamatsuka, who oughta know. Edition of 800.

MACHINE GUN TV

Go

(Public Eyesore - 96) Used CDR $5.00

Spastic sub-machinegun drum machine outbursts, random samples and squealing feedback noises. The secret bonus track is bass heavy electronic noise, marinated for a few weeks in reverb and dragged behind a car, rumbly, and lo fi.

ANGUS MACLISE

The Invasion Of Thunderbolt Pagoda

(Siltbreeze) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

The first authorized collection of work to appear by this pure’60s free spirit, percussionist, poet, and founding member of the Velvet Underground. Includes the forty-five minute “St. Mark’s Epiphany,” and the complete version of “The Joyous Lake” heard here for the first time, and more.

MACRONYMPHA

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

(Trash Ritual - TRASH050) Used CD $24.00 (Out-of-stock)

The long-awaited CD reissue, originally released on vinyl by Praxis Dr. Bearmann in 1995 -- one of the key foundations of the contemporary direction of noise. "Rusted Steel And Rotted Flesh" is restored to its full, uncut length (just under 45 minutes). Edition of 500 copies. "Western Pennsylvania is a graveyard. No ideas or worthwhile activities exist in this decaying nightmare of horror and stupidity. Just hatred and broken lives. The native population is an indigenous mutation of inbred sickness and mental corruption. Someday everyone and everything here will die a miserable death. That day cannot come soon enough."

MAGIC CAPATHIANS PROJECT

Euscorpius Carpathicus

(Obuh - D16) Used CD $10.00

The 2003 psychedelic magnum opus from Eastern European dreamy visionaries. Climbing walls of acoustic-electric noise, energetic pulsations, cosmic electronic bubbles.

MAGIC HOUR

No Excess Is Absurd

(Twisted Village) Used CD $20.00

The first of three albums between 1994 and 1996 by Galaxie 500’s rhythm section (Naomi Yang and Damon Krukowski) and Crystallized Movements' guitar wunderkinds Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar. Loose, cavorting, massive, vibrant psychedelic rock. Letter-pressed silver box with book. Edition of 1000.

MAGIC I.D.

Till My Breath Gives Out

(Erstwhile - ERSTPOP01) CD $14.75 (Out-of-stock)

(Erstwhile - ERSTPOP01) Used 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.
Sealed

MAGIC IS KÜNTMASTER

Nightsongs For Ugly Children

(Nihilist) Used CD $10.00

KFJC hears Camilla Ha on this 2003 disc as a blend of the “reverb-drenched vocal stylings of the Ventricle label” and “digital depth charges. I think she plays a midi-bass with a maxipad. This CD is sonically dense, although the instrumentation is sparse. Her singing is more whispery muttering, like Julee Cruise … through pipes after being abducted and kept in an underground reservoir.” In a card sleeve with visible corner creasing, inside hand-sewn upholstery fabric pouch. Numbered edition 47/520

MAGNETICRING

Magneticring

(Uzu Audio) Used LP $16.00

“Buzzed-up blissdrones,” is how Julian Cope describes Josh Stevenson’s 2009 LP. “These oft-static, over-driven and always transfixing pieces operate upon a similar vibrational territory as Mikhail Chekalin’s Electronic Music For Decomposed Organ, Cluster 2 and Klaus Schultze’s Irrlicht.” Gatefold silkscreened jacket (with four color variations, this one being green / white / black). White vinyl. Edition of 449.

FRED MAHER / ROBERT QUINE

Basic

(Editions EG) Used LP $8.00

A mesmerizing no-frills celebration of the sound of the electric guitar from 1984 by ex-Material drummer and Voidoid guitar-master. “Over the pro forma mechanized rhythm patterns suggested by the title, the pair lay down their riffs and then Quine embroiders them,” explains Trouser Press, but “don’t look for memorable tunes or even clever tricks — this is a player’s album, amazingly pure, though not so simple.”

MAHIKARI

魔光 (Magic Light)

(Birdman) Used LP $12.00

Seiichi Yamamoto of Bordeoms and Omoide Hatoba and Makoto Kawabata of Acid Mothers Temple, plus Stu Odom and Marco Villalobos. Recorded in 2006. Sealed

MAJESSIC DREAMS

Majessic Dreams

(Oscillatone - OSC2N 5 ) Used CD $6.00

The striking self-titled debut full-length effort by Jessica Breitholtz Björk and Mats Björk positions the Swedish duo between post-Cocteaus shoegaze atmospherics and moody low-key folk. Hardly any beat to speak of, gentle vocals, layers of backward feedback, stark piano, a continuous flow of rising guitar textures.

MALEFICIA

Maleficia

(Isounderscore) Used LP $3.00

An excursion into drone by Ilysea Viles Sunderman and Andy Way, utilizing voice, viola and electronics.

MALKUTH

Mutus Liber

(Hospital) Used LP $10.00

Debut album by Matthew Heyner, Mythopoeikon, Pat Murano. Edition of 300

MALKUTH

Sefirah Gevurah

(Hospital - HOS217) CD $13.50 (Out-of-stock)

(Hospital - HOS217) Used LP $7.00

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.

MAMMAL

Double Nature

(Scratch And Sniff Entertainment) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Originally intended for release as a vinyl LP in 2003, Double Nature was turned away by three mastering engineers fearful of damaging their cutting needles due to the “extreme” nature of the sounds. Digital saves the day again. With poster.

MAMMAL

Fog Walkers

(Scratch And Sniff Entertainment) Used LP $7.50 (Out-of-stock)

Skull-shaking industrial from 2002 by Detroit’s Gary Beauvais, with lots of messed up, distorted beats. Edition of 300 on black vinyl.

MAN IS THE BASTARD NOISE / MERZBOW

Voice Pie

(Release) Used Split CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Five tracks of pure sludge by Masami Akita and co., a solid wall of noise with enough going on behind it. Man Is The Bastard Noise does their best to keep the balance of the disc more fun than an odd tropical disease. With three non-LP tracks. From 1996

BARBARA MANNING

In New Zealand

(Communion) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Gentle brooding and torching intimacy by The Fierce Blonde, recorded during an extended visit to New Zealand in early 1997 with kiwis David Kilgour of The Clean, Robert Scott of Bats, Chris Knox of Tall Dwarfs, Graeme Downes of Verlaines, and The 3Ds’ David Mitchell and Denise Roughan. Also sitting in are John Convertino and Joey Burns of Giant Sand and Calexico. Sealed.

BARBARA MANNING AND THE GO LUCKYS

Homeless Where The Heart Is

(Naive Hören + Sehen) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Gorgeous and rootsy Americana folk-rock. Six tracks fueled with desire and loneliness. 180g vinyl

MARBLE SHEEP & THE RUN DOWN SUN’S CHILDREN

Old From New Heads

(Captain Trip) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Solid, extended psychedelic guitar freak-outs, acid dirges, tribal drums, primal yelps, dense dark atmospheres and the sort of “bad” sound quality ideal for druggy, communal music. Recorded in 1987, released in 1993

MARBLE SHEEP & THE RUN DOWN SUN’S CHILDREN

Whirl Live — Good Old Marble Sheep II

(Captain Trip) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Les Rallizes Denudes meets the Grateful Dead — two guitarists, two drummers, and a bassist. Recorded 1989 release 1994

WALTER MARCHETTI

De Musicorum Infelicitate

(Alga Marghen) Used CD $25.00

While listening to these “Ten Pieces in the Form of Painful Variations” from 2001, each one with the precise duration of six minutes, you will realize that music, this extremely dense sonority close to the pulverization limit, is talking about itself. Sealed

LIONEL MARCHETTI

Knud un Nom de Serpent (Le Cercle des Entrailles)

(Intransitive - INT014) Used CD $4.00

Marchetti's classic album of harrowing tape music was originally released Intransitive in 1999, quickly sold out, and remains the most requested title in the label's catalog. This reissue boasts a new cover design and liner notes by Bhob Rainey (nmperign, The BSC). Knud un Nom de Serpent illustrates Marchetti's idea of popular music as shamanic ritual, a gateway to ecstatic altered states. Armed with fierce wit and a razor blade, he smashes together sounds from all over the world into a hallucinatory cyclone of Jamaican reggae, French chanson, American avant-garde vocalists, Thai pop songs, nature recordings, spoken text, and more. The result is a chilling work of furious, obliquely narrative tape-collage and tense, frightening scenes.

LIONEL MARCHETTI / JÉRÔME NOETINGER / MATHIEU WERCHOWSKI

Marchetti / Noetinger / Werchowski

(Corpus Hermeticum - HERMES034) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Marchetti and Noetinger on tape decks, amplifiers, and “kick up an impressively varied array of whizzes, scrapes, whistles, groans, blips, and bleeps, all dynamically arranged,” says Dusted, “With both intuitive intelligence and a fine appreciation for a good racket. Werchowski tends to assert himself [on violin] by holding one texture or gesture while the sounds of electricity and metal under duress surge around him -- his conservatory trained technique makes him the one idiomatic voice in an untranslatable babel.”

WALTER MARCHETTI

Nei Mari del Sud, Musica in Secca

(Alga Marghen) Used CD $25.00

“The former version of Nei mari del Sud was originally conceived as acoustic theater that accompanied an installation staged on June 9, 1982, during the international contemporary festival Musicalia at Teatro Carcano, Milan. In this stage installation, Marchetti expanded for the first time on a larger scale the same figurative scheme that usually marks his major work in progress: a series of installations invariably entitled ‘Musiche da camera,’ where the ‘icon’ of a piano defines its role in a seemingly paradoxical context. In the scenery of ‘Nei mari del Sud,’ as shown in the photographic sequence reproduced on the CD fold-out, the black carcass of a grand piano appears on the surface of a large expanse of sea, artificially re-created with a shapeless heap of bluish tissue-paper. In the background, the slow, progressive unsticking of the blue paper-curtain, accidentally caused by the floodlight’s heat, configures the impeding threat of a gigantic wave on the point of completely submerging the scene. The acoustic décor projected for this installation invades through twelve loudspeakers set in a semicircle in the rear of the audience playing out-of-phase tapes. Included foldout with photo documentation, an essay by Gabriele Bonomo, a testimony by Robert Ashley and a poster.

LIONEL MARCHETTI

Sirrus

(Auscultare Research) Used CD $8.00

“Marchetti’s music abstracts sounds at points equal to Schaeffer and Ferrari,” according to a noted Dusted guest lecturer, “But an even closer reference point is Stockhausen’s Sans la Soleil…, although [it] channels more eclectic sources…. In “Passerele,” a fragment of wild organ brings a moment of warmth to a landscape of analog blurbs. [On] “Sirrus,” … sped-up sounds …balance … the darker drones below…. “Micro-climat”… uses a structure closer to field recordings than the abstract sequences of distortions that make up much concrète. Perhaps Marchetti owes a little to the acoustic-ecology of R. Murray Schafer … [though] Marchetti seems less worried … about decorating casual listening environments with a conceptual premise. Sirrus is a complex work, with each segment unfolding into a recurring motif of ambient noises…. [A] challenging, rewarding, and engaging experience….” From 2002. Sealed

LASSE MARHAUG / JOHN WIESE

Country and Western

(Helicopter - H59) Used CD $7.00

No samples from the film Payday, but probably worth a listen anyhow. Edition of 300.

LASSE MARHAUG / MARK WASTELL

Kiss of Acid

(Monotype - MONO033) CD $12.75

(Monotype - MONO033) Used CD $10.00

Wastell’s misfortune-prone project started with a gigantic tam tam, recorded in 2004 by Graham Halliwell; Marhaug applied his electronics, computer, and compositional structure to the recording in 2005. A mere five years later, here is the forty-minute result -- dark, haunting atmospheric. Cardboard gatefold jacket with twelve-page book.

LASSE MARHAUG / MAJA S.K. RATKJE

Music For Faking

(Clu Clux Clam) Used CD $3.00

Staggering assemblages of interferences, field recordings, processed noises, samples, and other sound sources from 2005

LASSE MARHAUG

The Great Silence

(PacRec) Used CD $3.00

“In [Marhaug’s great wall of noise] there is a great silence, an unspoken and often yearned-for silence. For his noise to be so brutal, loud and destructive your mind almost needs to contrast it with the moments [of true] silence.”

BOB MARSH

Viovox

(Public Eyesore) Used CD $3.00

Marsh processes violin and cello, messes around with sampled loops, electro-percussion, and processes his voice, resulting in a series of weird radio transmissions from another dimension. The voice shifts through layers of meaning, instruments call and deconstruct and repeat, percussion weaves in and out, and the mind tries to build something from the words, grasping at interpretation as actual statements fly past. Loops and playful scraping scatter in the background echoes into darkness. An album of drama and fascination.

LARRY MARSHALL

Queer And Wonder

(Rare Youth) Used LP $10.00

Self-described “gothic folk from the future” by this elusive and mythic figure from Rhode Island. Three tracks were previously released on a small cassette edition from Unskilled Labor; one track by the band Box Patrol (with Marshall on vocals and pitch-pipe), was previously released on a CDR by Fort Thunder Records; a few live tracks from a solo gig in Manchester, England; a live radio session; and collaborations unearthed from tapes found his West Warwick, RI. With inserts, lyric sheet. Edition of 350.

SALVATORE MARTIRANO

The Salmar Construction

(Sub Rosa) Used LP $15.00

Previously unreleased recordings made at IRCAM in 1983 by the composer on his unique instrument, a large music synthesis engine believed to be the first interactive “composing machine” with digital logic circuits at its heart. Sealed

ELIO MARTUSCIELLO

Unoccupied Areas

(ReR Megacorp) Used CD $5.00

“Tightly focused electroacoustic compositions from 2005 that are austere, rich, strange and brilliantly executed. Martusciello’s music is never theoretical, always grounded in the grain of the sounds themselves.”

MIYA MASAOKA / PAULINE OLIVEROS

Accordion Koto

(Deep Listening) Used CD $15.00

2004 recordings from Bard College’s MFA Program. Sealed

MASONNA / RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK / SCHIMPFLUCH GRUPPE

Arschloch Onna

(Japan Overseas) Used CD $40.00

Live and studio material from 1997, says Bleak Bliss, “Sliced, diced, blended and spat straight into your face.”

MASONNA

Beauty Beast

(Blast First) Used 3-inch CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

From dying theremin to wall-to-wall harsh and throat-burning noise blasts. A joy to behold.

MASONNA

Ejaculation Generator

(Alchemy) CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Alchemy) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Who better than to shriek “eat shit dungeon synth” than Japan’s one-man hornets nest Maso Yamazaki. No one bests his hyperactive grotesque expression, glass-shards studded smoothie of truncated wailing expeditions, near-microsonic bursts of feedback, and no-fi scrabbling. Thirty-three tracks in thirty minutes.

MASONNA

Hyper Chaotic

(V Records) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Nineteen “orgasmic blasts of spastic noise” from 1996 that “bludgeon your ear canals, distort your neurons, and obliterate all thought,” according to Chronicle Of Chaos. “A menagerie of frequencies fluctuating from both the high- and low-pitched ends of the spectrum smack into your skull at a nauseating pace…, so quickly that nothing can be grasped, and the entire thirty-minute barrage melts…. Sheer ferocity.”

MASONNA

Inner Mind Mystique

(Release) Used CD $14.00 (Out-of-stock)

Seven tracks from 1995 that “drip with the fetid ugliness,” according to Ducks Battle Satan.

MASONNA

Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé

(Alchemy) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

A psychedelic touch from 1993: cascades of electronic noise and vocal belching.

MASONNA

Noisextra

(Pure) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Fairly psychopathic noise from 1995 referred to by Jukka Siikala as “the sound of a living destruction.” Two tracks with absolutely no breathing room.

MASONNA

Noskl In Ana

(Alchemy) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Two tracks from Mad Onna cassette (1989), one from Like A Vagina cassette (1988), one from Masonanie 2 cassette-and-seven (1990), an outtake frm Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé CD (1993), an alternate mix from Masonna vs. Bananamara LP (1990), and three previously unreleased tracks, one of which is a live recording from Gilman Street, Berkeley. No obi

MASONNA

Shinsen Na Clitoris

(Vanilla) Used CD $75.00 (Out-of-stock)

On the debut CD from 1990, Masonna surpasses all extremes with full frequency violence as fast as it is psychedelic. Sealed.

MASONNA

Vestal Spacy Ritual

(Alchemy) Used CD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Analog synth explorations form a lot of the instrumental passages here,” notes Mars Hottentot, “usually under a haze of good ol’ fuzz pedal … to keep it in the realm of harsh noise.” From 1998

SABIR MATEEN / SUNNY MURRAY

We Are Not at The Opera

(Eremite) Used CD $7.00

“The ebb and flow of these extended performances” from 1998, notes Jazz Times, “Allow Murray to organically connect delicately brushed cymbal figures and full-bore barrages within a single piece. His underappreciated sense of structure is very well represented by this program. Mateen more than holds his own, often prodding Murray in unexpected directions; his well developed voices on flute, alto and tenor saxophones, are as compelling as Murray’s.” Clipped corner

MATH

Basic Math

(Bulb - 032) Used CD $20.00

A jolly romp by Michael Colligan, Jodie Mecanic, and Robert Rolston through klezmer circus territory utilizing organ, clarinet and percussion. In card box with sticker artwork.

MATHS BALANCE VOLUMES

Hospital Dubs From 128 Satanical Square

(Chocolate Monk) Used CDR $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

More complex ear debris from these Minnesota heathens, going back to 2006. Out-in-the-woods weirdness with dirty hands put to all types of eerie jobs. Narcotic basement yammerin’, violin and guitar stutterin’, reed wailin’ and general tape damage.

KOUHEI MATSUNAGA / ASMUS TIETCHENS

Asmus Tietchens / Kouhei Matsunaga

(Important) Used Split LP $12.00

Kouhei Matsunaga creates connections between his beat-based work and his more abstract soundscapes. Asmus Tietchens’s two pieces have been sculpted from stochastic sequences of pure sine waves as well as guitar samples by Dirk Serries (Fear Falls Burning) not for the purpose of collaboration, but for processing purposes. Sonic events orchestrated by a sonic master. Black vinyl

MATTA GAWA

Ba

(Engine) Used CD $10.00

Concussive yet agile drumming from Nimrod’s Sam Lohman meets guitarist Edward Ricart head-on for some wobbly, nervous ruckus. The duo share a slow-build patience not common in the anything-goes universe, and a knack for subtlety apparent even when scaring up a goliath-sized racket.

MATTIN / ROSY PARLANE

Mendietan

(w.mo/r) Used CD $3.00

“Confronting geometries of technological interfaces with the more obscure and tense geographies of Basque country. Brittle insect clicks and digital replies, groaning, sub-sonic movements of a prehistoric landscape its made audible by ruined machines, tearing electricity, dense slabs of feedback, echoes and hush.” With Xabler Erkizia on three tracks. From 2002

MATTIN

Sakada

(w.mo/r) Used CD $3.00

Electronic goat-herder Mattin is joined in 2001 by percussionists Rosy Parlane (Parmentier, Sigma Editions, Thela, Pit Viper) and AMM’s Eddie Prévost. Well nurtured swarms of singularly malign hisses, gurgles and overtones occasionally swell up, invade, suddenly recoil and loiter darkly in an awkward middle distance. “Much of the music’s depth and elusiveness comes from the way individual sounds are sharply differentiated yet entangled tightly,” explains Matthew Hyland. “Percussion rarely interrupts liquid feedback with punctual impact; rather, it generates a second, third, fourth writhing body of sustained sound. Objects chime or are scraped or rung as often as hit, allowing distinct conjunctions to emerge and persist before falling away.” In card folder, with one crease ripped.

MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA

Five Years of Slaughters

(Vis A Vis - V6) Used LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

Pierpaolo Zoppo’s brutal 1990 collage of noise, electronic distortions and inhuman vocals. Hand-numbered edition of 500

MAUVE SIDESHOW

Mauve Sideshow

(Ventricle - 01) Used CD $10.00

Space collage, floating light ambient noise by Dusty Lee and Treva Dea. “Golden Sand,” “Barricades,” and “Jet Girl Talks In Her Sleep” from Dark Flowers (Refraction Sound 1990); “Beneath The Rose” from Stray Apparitions (Refraction Sound 1991); “Absorbed By The Periphery” is previously unreleased.

MAUVE SIDESHOW

Meet Me In The Wasteland

(Ventricle - 3) Used CD $10.00

Neo-classical ambient with spacey synths, effects, hypnotic voice and tons of mellotron. Very spacey and hypnotic music, sometimes beautiful and sometimes dark.

MAUVE SIDESHOW

The Girl

(Ventricle - 05) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Amorphous weirdity, an intoxicating, swarming morass.

MAX FACTORY

Tudor City

(Ecstatic Yod) Used LP $25.00

Guitarist Alan Licht and Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, with percussionist Tom Surgal and keyboardist Lin Culbertson on the sidelong title track. Volume five in the Ass Run series. From 1995. Sealed

CHARLIE MCALISTER

Mississippi Luau

(Catsup Plate) Used LP $17.50 (Out-of-stock)

A loose concept album from 1997 about Hawaiian culture in the South featuring some of this legendary South Carolinian visual artist’s most focused songwriting, while retaining his characteristic weirdness, art-splattered banjo, found-sound collages, and speak-singing in a trailer-trash tenor that perfectly suits his typical subject matter (which is, generally speaking, Southern dread, suburban hopelessness, and plain old love and death). Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 500

BRUCE MCCLURE

Vouchsafe Me More Soundpicture Fain Make Glories

(Olde English Spelling Bee) Used LP $6.00

Live performance recorded at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2009. Numbered edition 66/375 in heavy duty covers silkscreened by Monoroid with 11-inch x 11-inch cardstock insert.

DION MCGREGOR

Dreams Again

(Tzadik - TZ7404) Used CD $12.00

First time release (1999) of the follow-up to The Dream World of Dion McGregor (Decca 1964), recorded by roommate Mike Barr between 1960 and 1967, drawn from the same source material – the spoken aloud dreams of McGregor. Documentation includes photographs and a must-read essay by Felipe X. Milstein. Part of Tzadik’s Lunatic Fringe series. Sealed

BRIAN MCMAHON

17 Volts

(Crab Pot - CBPT101) Used CD $5.00

The first solo release by The Electric Eels’ Brian McMahon, from 1996. Gritty, poetic rock with ypnotic, arpeggiated guitar, wailing harmonica, subterranean rockabilly bass rumble.

JOE MCPHEE

Alto

(Roaratorio - ROAR17) Used 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. Sealed

JOE MCPHEE

Soprano

(Roaratorio) Used LP $15.00

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. Sealed

JOE MCPHEE

Trinity

(Atavistic) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Outer space jazz, blues, and avant soul recorded in the parish hall of a Catholic Church. Atavistic’s 2000 CD reissue from the master tapes blows away the sound quality of the original groove-crammed LP (CjR 1971). On the spatially expansive “Ionization,” drummer Harold Smith moves through polyrhythms at blinding speed while McPhee recontextualizes without overcompensating, and Mike Kull enters pianissimo, throwing the energy into a tailspin of dynamic response. “Astral Spirits” has Kull playing an electric piano, McPhee roots his tenor playing in groove and nuance, while Smith dances on the cymbals. On the expressionist work “Delta,” Kull gets into an avant funk, McPhee goes modal, playing deep blues and Memphis soul without regard for bars and measures. The track is grease and fire personified, the cry of a bluer-than-black blues, cut through the belly with ghostly funk and a free jazz aesthetic. It slips in the back door almost undetected and wails its gospel-like roar as it exits.

MEDITATIONS

Eternal Absence

(Small Doses) Used 3-inch CD $3.00

Schizophrenic noise from 2008 by Franklin Teagle, Matt Yacoub, Ryan McGill, with moments of power electronics and dark ambient, soaked in feedback from a heart of stone. Edition of 115

SEAN MEEHAN / TAMIO SHIRAISHI

In The City

(Fusetron) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00

A field recording made under the west side highway at 59th street, NYC, 2001. Packaged in clear PVC bag with a sticker on the front upper right. Etched drawings on the B-side.

ROEL MEELKOP

4 (propositions)

(Tariff) Used CD $6.00

Cut-up and processed sounds from 2002 by THU20 founder. Sometimes jarring shocks, sometimes inaudible patterns.

MEERK PUFFY

Nung

(Animal Disguise) Used LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

Admired by Arthur as a pleasing “battlefield of real locked grooves, fake locked grooves, sequences collapsing in anger, notes exploding in rage, and all kinds of other throbbing noise.” Don’t hurt yourself saying “wow.” Silkscreened jacket

JAKE MEGINSKY / NMPERIGN

Selected Occasions of Handsome Deceit

(R.E.L.) Used LP (one-sided) $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley in energized, turn-on-a-dime form, prodded by Meginsky into unnamable, angular textures. The trio is agile and unpredictable, occupying musical extremes with intelligence and grace. Fold-over paper with heavy picture disc sleeve, labeled with a color sticker. Screened notes on the inside. Numbered edition 68/300.

DAN MELCHIOR

Gud’ Bye Ta Sluggo!

(Plastic) Used CD $2.00

Five-song tour-de-force will that will make your skin shake. In addition to the huge tornado of guitar and Melchior’s unique misanthropy, the big draw is the seething “JC Slug Pt. 2,” a blues-y disembowelment of the New York City music scene circa 2004. Covers of Gene Vincent and Little Willie John are fine buttresses of the Broke Revue’s great black humor and violence. Sealed

MELT-BANANA

13000 Miles At Light

(Tzadik) Used CD $7.00

“Anyone impressed with studio recordings of the group’s scratchy, frantic rock will no doubt be bowled over with the way this sounds in a more direct and organic setting,” muses All Music Guide. “With a pace and energy that rivals kings of the genre…, [this 1999 live album] tears through most of their best tracks…. Most notable is a cover of ‘Surfing USA’…, [which] you can probably imagine how wonderful such a thing would be.”

MELT-BANANA / STILLUPPSTEYPA

Melt-Banana / Stilluppsteypa

(Something Weird) Used Split 10-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Fourteen hairball tracks by our Japanese freakazoid friends, some of which get into mad dub and cut-up techniques, all later reissued on their singles comp 13 Hedgehogs (A-Zap 2005), backed with primo Icelandic experimental abstraction, the side-long “Important Anti-Art Dances.”

MELT-BANANA

Scratch Or Stitch

(Skin Graft) Used LP $75.00

Ear-piercing over-adrenalized noise-rock from the mid-1990s. A frenzied collision of ferocious guitars, rhythmic mayhem, and over-the-top screech. Silk-screened plastic jacket, lyric booklet, poster and temporary tattoo. Sealed

MELTED MEN

Fangs Alot

(Nerve Rust) Used CD $8.00

“Fucked-up and hilarious. Jaunty rhythms, lowbrow samples, twisted humor and unbridled noise, all cut and spliced together with an exactitude that is frightening in such potential sociopaths. A downright addictive, hallucinogenic masterpiece.” From 2001

MELVINS

Antivermin

(Ipecac) Used 7-inch $20.00

Track from Hostile Ambient Takeover spread over both sides.

MELVINS

Black Stooges

(Ipecac) Used 7-inch $15.00

Track from Hostile Ambient Takeover on the A-side. Non-album version of “Foaming” on the B-side.

MELVINS

Brain Center

(Ipecac) Used 7-inch $15.00

Track from Hostile Ambient Takeover on the A-side. Cover of The Ramones’ “Today Your Love Tomorrow The World” on the B-side

MELVINS

Dr. Geek

(Ipecac) Used 7-inch $12.00

Track from Hostile Ambient Takeover on the A-side. Cover of Alice Cooper’s “Return of the Spiders” on the B-Side

MELVINS

Foaming

(Ipecac) Used 7-inch $15.00

Track from Hostile Ambient Takeover on the A-side. Covers of The Warlock Pinchers’ “Arny” and The Tubes’ “White Punks On Dope” on the B-side

MELVINS

Fool

(Ipecac) Used 7-inch $12.00

Track from Hostile Ambient Takeover on the A-side. Cover of The Gun Club’s “Promise Me” on the B-side

MELVINS

Judas Chang

(Ipecac) Used 7-inch $12.00

Track from Hostile Ambient Takeover on the A-side. Cover of Mott The Hoople’s “Jerkin’ Krokus” on the B-side.

MEMPHIS LUXURE

Misery Patriot

(Superlux) Used 7-inch $3.00

1994 single by Matt Valentine, Pat Gubler, and Marc Wolf. “At any given moment,” says CMJ Music Journal, “half the band [tries] to hold the song together as the other half tries to break it apart completely. The whole thing falls into and out of meter repeatedly, chord sequences don’t always reach their destination, and … [it] shambles to a conclusion before it collapses.” On the flip, “Siren Howl / Holed” “slides aphasically from classic rock smoothness to fluid-spewing explosions.” Numbered edition of 500

DANIEL MENCHE / JOHN WIESE

Behold The Scathing Light

(Helicopter) Used 3-inch CD $5.00

“Ambient music from 2004 that moves in masses of swirling sound or dense bands of tone that enter and exit the musical canvas effortlessly, and without commotion.”

DANIEL MENCHE

Body Melt

(Important) Used LP $10.00

A molting and simmering display of furious Hammond organs and Native American drums. Daniel Menche merges the powerfully fuzzed out organ drones with hypnotically crushing and frenzied drums. Call it trance music for carnivores or ambient music for cannibals. Black vinyl. Edition of 400

MENSTRUATION SISTERS

Ma

(Fata - 3) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Raw and powerful war cries of flame-bellowing caterwaul, blessed-out feedback, and blood-boiling sonic wrath by one of the most bizarre, genuinely inspired free time outfits working the avant-mind body-love noise-worship axis. Hand-painted. Edition of 100

MERCHANTS OF THE NEW BIZARRE

Do You Want To Go Steady

(MotNB) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Outsider vaudevillian chaos. Imagine Spike Jones with zero discipline.

MERINGUE

Meringue

(Cherry Smash) Used CD $5.00

Five tracks of alien yet down-home indie rock from Gainesville, Florida, 1994

MERZBOW

1930

(Tzadik) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

This 1998 disc accesses “unguessed-at dimensions,” according to All Music Guide, “via sensory overload of oscillations, infinitely layered static, frequencies from pitch to buzz…. It is the sound of tuning in the radio, only to catch the low-end frequencies of an earthquake…. [I]ndiscernible frequencies … poke pinholes in your eardrums and bleed out your preconceived notions of sound, music, and how they can affect you. This listening experience is not simply a result of sheer volume…; even while turned down low, the sounds all combine into an irresistible force that messes with your physical being.” Sealed

MERZBOW

24 Hours A Day Of Seals

(Dirter) Used 4xCD $40.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Powered by a guitar, laptops and synthesizer, 24 Hours A Day Of Seals is mesmerizing and overwhelming,” marvels Big O. This 2002 disc “completely blurs the line between punishment and pleasure…. It’s easy to see why this album can be called ‘satisfying’…. ‘Good Morning Azarashi’ … hits you like a tropical squall for fourteen minutes. You feel almost refreshed and cleansed.”

MERZBOW

Age of 369 / Chant 2

(Extreme) Used 2xCD $20.00

1996 reissue of mid-’80s material from ZSK cassettes, when the focus was on “cheap musique concrète elements, noise electronics, turntablism, and tape loops…. The recordings here are slow-paced, atmospheric, full of groans and the occasional (but persistent when they appear) high pitches…. The chirping modulations and distortion that mark much Merzbow’s mid-1990s work is … present…, but melded into the tape loops and other sounds instead of dominating them like they later would.” Bonus track “Itomakiei” from a Korm Plastic comp from the same era “starts of with distorted noise electronics and chirps before it falls into a maintained undercurrent of looped junk metal percussions mixed in with other tape loops.”

MERZBOW

Anti-Monument

(Art-Directe) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

1991 reissue from Sweden originally released by ZSF-Produkt in 1986 as a picture disc. With bonus track “Three Types Of Industrial Pollusion” from Infidel Psalm Vol. 1 (Mental Decay 1986). This homage to the strange architecture of Étienne-Louis Boullée, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Goetheanum of Rudolf Steiner, Nishōtei, etc. is packaged in an A5 folder with a 12-page booklet.

MERZBOW

Batz-Tou-Tai With Material Gadgets

(RRRecords) Used 2xCD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

The 1987 benchmark for classic industrial collage in which Masami Akita uses loops and cut-up sounds from electroacoustic and modern classical works by François Bayle, Conlon Nancarrow, Ivo Malec, and Luc Ferrari. Subtitled De-Composed Works 1985-86, this 1993 remix reissue includes a bonus disc of loops recorded at the same time as the original but omits “Semykyoku”, “Anus Anvil Anxiety” and “Mortegage” from the original release, and “Intermission” is a short excerpt of “Dahkini Disko” from the original.

MERZBOW / JOHN WATERMANN

Brisbane • Tokyo Interlace

(Cold Spring) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Masami Akita “approaches this record with a sound collage mindset and … brings … a ton of variation …[to] his own solo track…: silly, out-of-context, short loops of pop songs…, malformed rock tunes, [and] sudden trashy noise outbursts all over the place.” The collaborative track with Watermann “starts as a slightly more subdued and ambient piece [and] soon turns into a reckless opus of cut-up noise with so much going on and so fast that even I can’t properly keep up…. Watermann’s own [solo] track drops the noise walls and furthers the sound collage insanity into its absolute limits — covering nearly as much ground as the previous track in less than half the duration. Simply mesmerizing, pure ADHD brain music.” From 1996. Sealed

MERZBOW

Cloud Cock OO Land

(ZSF Produkt) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

“The most important noise music album of all time,” according to Appotheozz. “It marks the start of Merzbow’s analog era but also the start of more complex and carefully crafted noise. This album features everything that can be done with harsh noise: glitchiness with the first half of “Brain Forest” and the first half of “Spinnozaamen,” ambient with the second half of “Brain Forest,” harshness with “Autopussy No Go Go,” and much more diversity.” From 1993. With O-card

MERZBOW / NAPALMED

Crash Of The Titans

(Merciless Core) Used CD $6.00

Thirty-five minutes each. Harsh electronics by Merzbow, and merciless factory metal field recordings with added analog effects by Napalmed. Blue-disc edition of 500 from 2001.

MERZBOW / KK NULL

Deus Irae

(Nux Organization) Used CD $6.00

1993 release of 1984 live recording from Gallery Komai in Tokyo 1984, w Masami Akita on drum and effects, KK Null on guitar, voice and metals, Asami Hayashi on bass, Reiko Azuma on cymbal, and Yushi Okano on electric violin

MERZBOW

Electric Salad

(Etherworld) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

“The playful high-end bubble pulses and whips [are] everywhere…,” notes Ducks Battle Satan. Then “shit gets weird…. Merzbow chucks cuts-ups of movie dialogue, traffic noise and 1960s film music into the middle of [the] maelstrom.” From 1996

MERZBOW / ACHIM WOLLSHEID

Eleven Live Collaborations

(Selektion) Used CD $10.00

“Feedback and sheet metal scraping noise assaults … recorded over a week of touring” in 1992, explains Rate Your Music, that “are particularly fierce…, [and possessed of a] specially twisted, dehumanized charm. Quite worthwhile.”

MERZBOW

Eucalypse

(Soleilmoon) Used CD $60.00

Analogue noise odyssey from 2008 focusing on the plight of the ecosystem of Kerala, India, where Tasmanian Blue Gum trees have been doing what they do for over a century. Using an EMS synth, a Roland organ and handmade instruments, Masami Akita scrambles everything together via searing laptop noise and effects in a warm and rich five-part assault. The wooden box packaging (hand made in India) is a fittingly substantial and beautiful means of housing the music. Sealed

MERZBOW

Frog+

(Misanthropic Agenda) Used 2xCD $17.00

Originally released in 2001 on vinyl, this reissue contains the original material from the LP plus a second disc of previously unreleased material, including a remix and an enhanced CD-ROM video / screensaver. Notes Angbase, “Misanthropic Agenda gathers a mix of noiseheads, Mego big-wigs, stoner drone-rockers, and unknowns…. Never Presence Forever … slows everything down to a bass-hum crawl…. House of Low Culture takes another unexpected route, offering up subtle low-volume scrapes very carefully edited. The best piece on here might be the opener, where Hrvatski offers an INA/GRM-flavored workout full of rapid fade-ins and fade-outs punctuated by mysterious silences. More along the lines of what you would expect from a Merz remix is John Weise’s expertly cut-up harshness that, at first, jumps out of the speakers and then descends into a sparse and quiet unease of softly clipped sounds before startlingly exploding back into loudness. Sunn O))) play with loops, CD-skips and tape hiss, building up to a dense mess floating over a rich sustained amp hum. Fennesz adds a two-note melody that softens the harshness, while Rusell Haswell mixes sparse grainy digital textures and blips to good effect. Hecker picks up where Haswell leaves off with a quiet mix through which sudden bursts of distortion struggle to explode. The track slowly builds up to massive noise roar that is well balanced in the bass department. Other remixers include Pita, Terror Organ, Ulver, Boris, When, Misanthropic Agenda label-owner Gerritt and Masami Akita himself.” Sealed

MERZBOW / PGR / ASMUS TIETCHENS

Grav

(Silent) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Three lengthy pieces from 1991. A breathtaking collage of tape manipulations, sonic treatments utilizing home-made instruments, and feedback loops. AMK guests. Sealed.

MERZBOW

Great American Nude / Crash For Hi-Fi

(Alchemy) Used CD $40.00

Seven of the eight tracks were recorded live during a tour of the USA in 1990, and as Evol Kween The Musical notes, “pretty much the entire album trades in an endless wash of squeak, hiss and rumble, as if Masami Akita [and Reika A are] forcing hundreds of sounds through a meat grinder and the end result is a raw mince…. The … live environment gives this hot mess some room to breathe…. [Y]ou can actually hear how the acoustics of each venue affects what [they’re] spewing out.”

MERZBOW

Hole

(Heel Stone) Used CD $50.00 (Out-of-stock)

“With the liner notes printed on four card-stock derriere portraits, the disc’s three tracks — ‘Noisematrix,’ ‘Krafft-Ebing Dick,’ and ‘Krautrock #1’ (recorded live in Deutschland) — pig-pile into one near-relentless hour of squalling sheets of static,” says Mike Rowell. “[T]here’s an impressive amount of dynamics lurking here, with a broad range of incessantly mutating squeaks, shrieks, rumbles, and roars.” From 1994. Hand-numbered edition of 500 in silver diecut folder. Visible creases on cover. Pix upon request

MERZBOW

Hybrid Noisebloom

(Vinyl Communications) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Despite the abrasive nature of the music,” admits All Music Guide, “There is something organic and familiar in the raw sound of electricity. It doesn’t take much imagination to think of this album as an electronic parallel to natural phenomena like waterfalls and thunderstorms. Only Hybrid Noisebloom is the sound of a waterfall during a thunderstorm, with a massive earthquake shaking beneath. In other words, Merzbow all the way.” Sealed

MERZBOW

Ikebukuro Dada

(Circumvent) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Exploring caustic noise, sharp ambient landscapes, chopped jazz interludes, and hypnotic bass pulses. From 2002. Sealed

MERZBOW

Live Destruction At No Fun

(No Fun) Used CD $7.00

A blistering performance from 2007 bringing together classic analog and then-recently-explored digital concerns. Two laptops and an amplified sheet-metal instrument keep pace between walls of computerized droning, distortion, and psyched-out metallic scraping. Gatefold card jacket.

MERZBOW

Live Magnetism

(Caminante) Used CD $15.00

Recorded live at the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art in New York, a near-hour-long oppressive amalgam of jet drive, mechanical organ in a state of emergency, and the setting of dried poop streaks on the cell wall. Intoxicating.

MERZBOW

Locomotive Breath

(Mort Aux Vaches) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded live at VPRO, Amsterdam, 3 July 1995, by Masami Akita on handmade metal objects and electronic noise, and Reiko A on electro feedback drone. Mixed by John Duncan. Packaged in the standard Mort Aux Vaches series folder.

MERZBOW

Magnesia Nova

(Staalplaat) Used CD $32.00 (Out-of-stock)

Noise and EMS Synthi A recorded in early 1995, subtitled, “A study on the connections between the Hellenic and Japanese cultures.” Packaged in a long card wallet with a 24-page color booklet stapled inside.

MERZBOW

Maschinenstil

(Dual Plover) Used CD $15.00

Ducks Battle Satan admires this 1998 disc for its “screaming torrents of feedback and white noise with the occasional industrial loop.” Masami Akita reveals that his fascination with an organ sound on an old Lee Michaels records is what compelled him to extrapolate on it using five oscillators, ring modulator, twenty pitch shifters, enhancers, limiters, and a one-second sample from a Terry Bozzio drum solo on a Frank Zappa album. Likewise, the speed and landscape of a particular Japanese rail line led him to compose use the classic TR606 drum machine.

MERZBOW

Mercurated

(Alchemy) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Masami Akita keeps his palette thick and abrasive on this 1996 record … all wah-wah-infected scree and electronic static.… All four tracks spend the majority of their time scraping along upper registers, which makes Mercurated’s relentlessness all the more punishing and impenetrable.” Foil printed on hologram stock. Sealed

MERZBOW

Merzbow Loves Emil Beaulieau

(Pure) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Masami Akita on Emil Beaulieau records and tapes, turntable, contact mic, teleband transceiver, feedback unit, alphatech relaxation trainer, contact mic, audio generator. From 1996.

MERZBOW

Merzbow T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $75.00 (Out-of-stock)

White with black ink. Previously washed and worn many times (super soft, all info in label is gone, some discoloration, pink tint in some areas). From 1980s

MERZBOW

Metalvelodrome – Exposition of Vivisection

(Alchemy) Used 4xCD $175.00 (Out-of-stock)

Admired by Rate Your Music for the “sheer size and scope of this set” from 1993 and its provision of “enough space to encompass pretty much every style Masami Akita has ever worked with in one way or another… [without sacrificing the “prominence [of] his rapidly developing, nowadays infamous style of screeching waves of mind-shreddingly loud harsh noise. Great highlights are to be found throughout all of the record, though special attention should be paid to … ‘Neon Worms’, which probably broke a few international records in abrasiveness at the time…, the terrific trio of shorter tracks … starting with ‘Electric Moon Tum-Tik’…, [and] the lengthy first track of the third CD, which goes from noise through sound collages and free improvisations done both live and in studio.” Includes poster and O-card.

MERZBOW

Music For Bondage Performance

(Extreme) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Atonal, quite creepy, and offering a bit of an aesthetic counterpoint to the rest of the discography. Merzbow is here immersed in a calm atmosphere, sometimes bordering on ambient. No sound wall to pierce, no surge of all-out noise; instead a peaceful succession, a minimalist perspective which brings us closer in certain aspects to a more “classical” electro-acoustic music…. All of this is meant to be pretty unhealthy, of course…., adding the sharper, more acid color of … distorted bell sounds…. ‘Aimei nawa’ becomes more threatening: slow and heavy percussions install an oppressive ritual, more creaking distortions arise, and a pattern of pain gradually appears…. [S]ounds mutate in your mind into human screams … [and] an electric guitar.... Oriental bell, gong, roaring, barking, blowing in pipes, and strident squeaks [cast] a dreary and devastated soundscape.” From 1991

MERZBOW

Music For Bondage Performance 2

(Extreme) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

“An all-around solid work” from 1996, according to the ever reliable Amazon. “One of Masami Akita’s earliest indications that he wouldn’t be content with the same old harsh assault with each release. Quite varied works, with … a focus on textures and strange rhythms…. While it’s not entirely laid-back or subdued, Merzbow displays a much different form of … hostility here. Lots of creepy ambient passages, glowing feedback, metallic rattling, and other sounds.” Six tracks recorded in 1993, including remixes of the EPs Electroploitation (Lunhare 1994) and Electroknots Parts 1 & 2 (Cold Spring 1995); four originally recorded for “Kinbaku-bi 2” CD-ROM (Cine Magic 1994); plus a bonus track from Music For Bondage Performance (Extreme 1991).

MERZBOW

Noisembryo

(Releasing Eskimo) Used CD $70.00

This 1994 disc is legendary for its “depth and wild energy…. High-speed loops, roving automotive bass, and cacophonic drum machines gel together, with the surprising inclusion of a sound rarely heard [in] Merzbow…: Masami Akita’s own voice.

MERZBOW

Oersted

(Vinyl Communications) Used CD $11.00 (Out-of-stock)

Here’s Ducks Battle Satan’s mic-dropping summation: “The sort of noise you can drown in.” From 1996

MERZBOW

Pulse Demon

(Relapse) Used CD $45.00

“Pulse Demon is simply pure sound, viciously unadulterated static,” Pitchfork informs us about Masami Akita’s 1996 benchmark. “The earlier releases stimulated the imagination; Pulse Demon decimates it…, probably one of the most archetypal Merzbow albums, the one most resolutely and incorrigibly reluctant to dilute itself with free jazz, industrial, world, or musique concrète…. All in all, seventy minutes that feel like driving an 18-wheeler made out of concrete into a remedial course on nuclear winter.” In six-panel folder with holographic printing.

MERZBOW

Rainbow Electronics

(Alchemy) Used CD $35.00

“A trip through a cold, engineered universe of interstellar supermachinery and titanium celestial bodies … [where] grimy harsh noise tides couple with eerie, reverbed screeches and scrapes of iron objects…, steady drumbeats briefly emerge from the static and disappear just as quickly, stretches of subdued electronic drones buzz along sleepily…, [and] into something more violent.” One track from 1990, seventy-three minutes

MERZBOW

Rainbow Electronics 2

(Dexters Cigar) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

A 1996 alternate-mix-slash-companion to the 1990 Alchemy masterpiece. Powerful electronics at their most detailed, subtly varied, and exhaustively kinetic. It doesn’t stop. It’s a thrill every two seconds, for seventy-five minutes.

MERZBOW / SMEGMA

Smegma Plays Merzbow Plays Smegma

(Tim Kerr) Used CD $10.00

1996 collaboration using MA-tape, audio generator, teleband transceiver, mixer, tape loops, record players, wood flute, vocals, Optigan, mussette, frequency analyzer. The Merzbow section is a churning inferno of molten sound and screaming speakers with a lot of dynamics. The Smegma section shunts the Merzbow noise to a continuous layer at the periphery of the mix, allowing their spazodelic improv to grab a few mouthfuls of air. Sealed

MERZBOW

Space Metalizer

(Alien8) Used CD $17.00 (Out-of-stock)

Masami Akita infuses the surroundings with reactive ferric noise using eletcronics, metals, Novation synth rack, EMS Synthi A, audio generator, MKII filter bank, Theremaniac theremin, tapes and Moog. From 1997

MERZBOW

Spiral Honey

(Work In Progress) Used CD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

Noise is a beautiful thing when it’s done right. From 1995

MERZBOW

Tauromachine

(Relapse) Used CD $40.00 (Out-of-stock)

“The third in Merzbow’s Relapse trilogy,” notes All Music Guide, “with its punchy, raw production, [and] balanced, fibrous mix works incredibly well with the very patient structure of most of the tracks. The lack of continuity and immediacy, as well as the increase in low-end…, take[s] the focus away from the abrasion and screeching and move it toward the chunky, pulsating bass….” From 1998

MERZBOW / NEW BLOCKADERS

The Ten Foot Square Hut

(Hypnagogia) Used CD $15.00

Powerful as fuck. From 2004

MERZBOW

Venereology

(Release) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

This “foray into metal music, or at least [an] interpretation of it,” by Masami Akita from 1994, described by Pop Matters as a “dissident aggressor, unapologetic artist, naïve egoist, [and] pornography expert…, [is] inspired by grindcore, death metal, and copious beer-drinking. Venereology is a wailing, excruciating listen that cuts with a kind of ferocity so severe that listening to it feels like a total assault on your sanity…. Rather than emulating a death metal sound, he seems to be attacking it, exposing it as a childlike facsimile of real heavy music. This is much more extreme, grating, offensive, and terrifying than anything happening in even the most serious metal of the 1990s like Godflesh or Morbid Angel….” Barcode has a hole punched through it.

METAL ROUGE

Soft Erase

(Emerald Cocoon - EC010) LP $14.25 (Out-of-stock)

(Emerald Cocoon - EC010) Used LP $9.00

Now that protest music exists only as a form of personal ritual, hedonism is the only exorcism, and artists stifle internal impulses in pursuit of career mobility, Metal Rouge solemnly meditates on contemporary society’s willingness to accept what many before fought to stop. Soft Erase is a collection of monochromatic machine-pulses ridden into the blank heart of single-take live excursions, a haze of modulated delay and de-synchronized loops, of strings hit endlessly in the hope that meaning may appear. Ritual chants give way to berserk guitar overload. Dark vamping leads from nowhere to nowhere, burning negation and dismissal as righteous fuel. Hazy prayers for rain spill out in the merciless desert heat, unspooling into an extended fake-kraut meditation featuring Giles Miller on a beautifully unhurried alto sax. Cover art based on the censored art of Italian street artist Blu. Edition of 300.

FRANCESCO MICHI

Sound Reportage

(Ants) Used Enhanced CDR $8.00

Timed recordings made on an endless cassette, without an erase head. Fragments of existing sound material overlap and when enough loud and possessing a distinct presence, inform with the newer layers recordings. The dominant frequencies, the characteristic of the sounds themselves, the various acoustic environments are reinforced and become increasingly manifest. From 2003. PDF is included in the data portion of the disc

IAN MIDDLETON

With And Without Late

(Eclipse) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Side one takes a quasi-psych drone form while side two veers off into stranger waters, playing off some unexpected juxtapositions and combinations of sounds. Edition of 110. Paste-on artwork on both the front and back covers.

THE MIKE GUNN

Almaron

(Double Naught) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Quintessential Texas acid from 1993. Live jams, studio work, guitar insanity, smart ass John Cramer lyrics, and guest vocalist Bliss Blood on two tracks.

DONALD MILLER TRIO

Here Below

(Klang Industries) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

A subterranean dream onslaught from 1998 with Michael Schumacher on bowed guitar and Charles Curtis on guitar and sine wave generator, channeling stupefying LaMonte-Young-esque beauty from an alternate universe where the trio suffocates underneath their own slumber of mucus and down. Three cheers for gargantuan deep-sea geese laying luminous eggs like bathospheric fax machines and tremendous moans fusing and dividing as if transmitting through a poly-faceted eyeball! Individually painted jacket.

MIMINOKOTO

3

(Siwa) Used LP $18.00

Third studio LP by Masami Kawaguchi, Koji Shimura, and Takuya Nishimura’s Tokyo avant-garage trio. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 500.

CHARLES MINGUS

Mingus Plays Piano

(Superior Viaduct) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

2015 reissue of the bassist / composer’s 1963 LP of spontaneous compositions and improvisations, the only record to feature Mingus performing on his instrument of choice for composing. The opening track shrugs off virtuosic pretension and stakes out more introspective territory. These trance-like, poetic musings reveal a tenderness rarely associated with Mingus, reminiscent of Erik Satie’s piano works and Art Tatum’s free rhythmic style. Small seam split along bottom edge.

MIRROR

Solaris

(Idea) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Christoph Heemann and Andrew Chalk’s soundtrack to regions of the deep sea where the fish need their own light sources and the sediment makes navigation nearly impossible pours out forty-one minutes of dark, understated minimalism and auditory hallucinations of numerous unheard sounds: the underwater songs of whales, radio static, labored breathing, rattlesnakes, the quiet hiss of air escaping a tiny opening at the top of a coffee pot. Swooshes of white noise are peppered with muted clangs and scrapes of what could be a piano or manipulated guitar while electronic glitches dance with high-pitched shrieks of sound. Dense drones come and go in relatively short durations, while scattered noises of acoustic and electronic origins play in the mix and a saxophone is quietly stretched to the limits of its palette of sounds.

MIRT

Heading South

(Backwards) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)

(Backwards) Used LP $15.00

The eighth album by these Polish conceptualists, who, with help from Ter on recordings made between 2011 and 2012, derive exotic visions from B-movies, old adventure films and cheap comic stories (though their inspirations are typically almost invisible and immersed in hazy and dark moods). Yellow vinyl edition of 100.

MISFITS

Beware

(Plan 9) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

MISSION OF BURMA

Forget

(Taang!) Used CD $9.00

Twelve-track collection from 1988 of pre-Vs. demos and outtakes recorded between 1979 and 1982.

ROSCOE MITCHELL & THE NOTE FACTORY

Song For My Sister

(Pi Recordings) Used CD $7.00

Hard-bop from 2002 placed along side contemporary classical, open improvisations, and notated card pieces. On “Wind Change,” the band is augmented by clarinet, bassoon, violin, and viola, furthering the idea of the band as a classical improvising orchestra. Nine tracks

JUNKO MIZUNO

Chika Fantasy

(Art Storm) Doll $130.00

Designer plastic doll figure in original box, unopened. From 2002

JUNKO MIZUNO

Chika Fantasy Nights

(Art Storm) Coasters $30.00

Designer four-inch drink coasters. Eighth-inch thick, laminated. In original tin box unopened. From 2005

JUNKO MIZUNO

Dokurosan

(Art Storm) Doll $45.00

Designer stuffed plushie from 2003 in original box. Unopened

JUNKO MIZUNO

Hansel & Gretel

(Koushinsya) Used paperback book $20.00

Japanese language manga from 2000 (later translated into English and published by Viz in 2003), marking a new phase in Mizuno’s art, with psychedelic hues that give the arresting story the feel of a dark dream. In Mizuno’s version, Hansel’s a squatty kid with a tuna can strapped over his mouth to prevent it from shattering everything around him, and Gretel’s a tall, pink-haired schoolgirl in a sailor suit who attacks bullies with a bamboo sword. Their parents run a mountain grocery store, fielding visits from green girls who grow spinach from their scalps, and from a 40-foot-tall piglet who slices cuts to order off his big belly. The arrival of Queen Marilyn and her insidious black magic tests H&G’s mettle like nothing else. Japanese language. 128 pages, full-color throughout.

JUNKO MIZUNO

Shiori Fantasy

(Art Storm) Doll $130.00

Designer plastic doll figure in original box, unopened. From 2002

KIYOSHI MIZUTANI

Bird Songs

(Groundfault - GF010) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Voices, melodies, and trailing reverberations of delicate sounds, gliding through the echo-spheres,” says Mü-Nest, “Electro-acoustic hook lines, soul-tripping ambient, electro-infused dreamscapes, captivating rhythms.”

KIYOSHI MIZUTANI

Millstone

(Pure) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

1995 disc by one-time Merzbow member, using primitive electrical feedback and field recordings.

KIYOSHI MIZUTANI

Transcend Sideways

(Artware) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Subtle noise manipulations from ambient to harsh with electroacoustic sources, voices, and cut-ups, by onetime member of Merzbow.

THE MODERN LOVERS

Longbranch

(Vinyl Lovers) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Proto-punk genius plus bootleg-quality rawness equals great renditions from 1972 of “Roadrunner,” “Girlfriend,” “Pablo Picasso” and a dead-on cover of “Foggy Notion,” which threatens to trump the original. 180-gram vinyl. Sealed

MODEY LEMON

The Curious City

(Birdman) Used 2xLP $20.00

Ten tracks of metal mayhem, psych sickness and all-out rock’n’ roll psychosis from Pittsburgh PA.

THE MONGOLOID MEN

From The Void

(Chocolate Monk) Used CDR $8.00

Dylan Nyoukis, John Olson, Mike Connelly, Nate Young recorded live at The Void, Brighton June 12, 2005

MONITOR

Monitor

(Superior Viaduct) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

2013 reissue of 1981 LP by four young artists grappling with their terror and amazement in the convergence of the late 1970s punk scene and Southern California’s consumerist decadence. As with the collective’s visual artwork and events, Monitor blends archaic influences with modern technology into one of the era’s most curious albums. Eerie synthesizer, menacing guitar leads and morose vocal chants make “In Terrae Interium” an evocative ballad of paranoia. “I Saw Dead Jim’s Shade” showcases Monitor’s idiosyncratic vocal interplay in a sinister tale of a stolen hand. When “Hair” required a tempo beyond their instrumental chops, the band appropriated The Meat Puppets to record the track for them. Devo associate Ed Barger meticulously recorded the album, burying shrieking cats, closing doors and tape loops deep in the mix. Includes download card. Sealed

MONKS

Black Monk Time

(Light In The Attic) Used 2xLP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

“One of the things that makes ‘Monk Time’ one of the all-time great album openers is how completely it distills the band and its music,” explains Pitchfork, “The stomping, repetitive bass and drum groove, the splatter of fuzz guitar, the six-string electric banjo hammering out percussive chords, the flailing vocals and loud organ outbursts exemplify the band’s confrontational, rhythm-based sound. This is not flower power — it’s rage inspired by senselessness and tempered with humor. Gary Burger’s demented vocal runs through their withering critique of war, sealing it with a curt dismissal of James Bond, who at the time was the biggest movie hero in the world. It not only decries violence, but the glorification and fetishization of violence, and Larry Clark’s brutal organ interjection is waved off with a couplet that swiftly co-opts critics of the band’s new, chaotic sound…. As doggedly out-there as they could be, the Monks did possess some pop sense — this music, unique and strange as it is, is entirely approachable, and the band’s final recordings, made after Polygram panicked and told them to produce more commercial material, are deranged pop songs that the band genuinely seems to have fun with. “I Can’t Get Over You” is like a cartoon version of pop music, with weird falsetto harmonies and a big, rubbery bassline, while “He Went Down to the Sea” has a tribal Beach Boys quality, with its hard drumming, harmonies and glockenspiel. These and a few others are added to Light in the Attic’s reissue of the album, as they were to Infinite Zero’s 1994 edition.” 2009 reissue,180g vinyl, gatefold jacket, lyrics, liner notes. Sealed

MONKS

The Early Years 1064-1965

(Light In The Attic) Used 2xLP $25.00

The band’s early demos (the same tracks Five Upstart Americans [Omplatten 1999]), made as they felt their way toward the sound of Black Monk Time, along with a 45 from 1964 when they were still the Torquays. Even this early in their evolution, the band’s vision had already crystalized. “The recording is structured something like a musical mass,” notes Pitchfork, “with little churchy organ interludes from Larry Clark and a bit of banter from Gary Burger…. To hear them honing their rhythmic attack is gratifying —their sound was no accident.” 2009 reissue, 180g vinyl, gatefold jacket, lyrics, liner notes. Sealed

MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS

Bamboo For Two

(Olde English Spelling Bee) Used LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

James Ferraro (Airhead Entertainment), Spencer Clarke (Skaters), Lieven Martens (Dolphins Into The Future), and Eva Van Deuren (Orphan Fairytale) playing exotic keyboard melodies, long and steamy passages of heavily repetitive rhythms, and drowsily fluctuating drones.

MONOSOV SWIRNOFF / THE SHINING PATH

Two Recorded Works

(Eclipse) Used Split LP $5.00

Swirnoff’s brooding cinematic air organ slow gasps through magenta dust-clouds of bowed guitar. Sea-shanty bellows underscore the spectral traces of whistles and ghosted vocals The Shining Path side “rockets upward into the fuzzed-out expansive zones of the Rallizes sound, tethered to an on-edge, speedfreak shake of Suicide rhythm, just too fast for comfort.” Edition of 500

MONOTRACT

Live in Japan

(Gold Soundz) CD $9.00

(Gold Soundz) Used CD $5.00

This document of the NYC trio’s 2002 J-jaunt is heavier on electronics than usual (no bass or guitar this time), and explodes with crunch, crackle, and sizzle. It’s some of Monotract’s most inorganic music, robust and unintelligible. Roger Rimada, Nancy Garcia, and Carlos Giffoni’s crowded mix has room for a rhythmic base, but the beats are just another conflicting voice within many. Packaged inside origami-style card foldout, silkscreened in eyeball-searing pink, designed by Jelle Crama.

ALFREDO COSTA MONTEIRO

Stylt

(Absurd) Used CDR $3.00

Fusing together guitar pickup and turntable in a roar of feedback howl and rumble from 2004, this Portuguese improviser couples the idea of Cartridge Music with the anti-music bombardment of Metal Machine Music. Edition of 99

GEN KEN MONTGOMERY

Unknown Destination

(A.T.M.O.T.W.) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Sound collage by the master. Edition of 100

MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS

The Complete Collector’s Edition

(Python Pictures) 21xDVD $150.00

Every episode from the show’s four-year run on the BBC, as well as four additional performances and rarities: Live At The Hollywood Bowl, Live At Aspen, Parrot Sketch Not Included, and Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus. Plus: a “Pythonism” glossary and an art gallery of Terry Gilliam’s animations

MOOLAH

Woe Ye Demons Possessed

(Atman Music) Used LP $100.00

Formed in the 70s by Walter Burns and Maurice Roberson, Moolah delivers a bewitching tranced-out droning made of lysergic–aleatoric experiments, garage sounds, neo-shamanic voice incantations and cosmic synth undulations. Intuitive anarchic, Eastern-like buzzing spaciness from 1974. 2012 boot with blue labels.

MOON DUO

Catch As Catch Can

(Agitated) Used 7-inch $10.00

A blistering stew by Wooden Shjips’ Erik “Ripley” Johnson and Sanae Yamada backed with a cover of the Scientists’ classic speaker-burner “Set It On Fire.”

JEMEEL MOONDOC TRIO

Fire In The Valley

(Eremite - MTE008) Used CD $7.50 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded live in 1996, with Moondoc in the throes of impromptu divination best achieved in front of an appreciative audience, riding the crest of a spontaneously combusting gust of energy that makes the minutes melt away. Percussionist Laurence Cook and bassist John Voigt bustle between volcanic eruptions and quieter dispersions; Cook works his cymbals and snare like pinball flippers continually buffeting a gleaming ball into nooks and crannies, while Voigt’s method is a manic juggling of bow and fingers in a continuous rough caress of his strings.

JEMEEL MOONDOC TRIO

Judy's Bounce

(Soul Note - SN1051) Used LP $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Early ’80s free jazz, with the free-form melodic thought of Ornette and the sharp edge of Jackie McLean or Charles Tyler.

JEMEEL MOONDOC TRIO

Tri-P-Let

(Eremite - MTE011) Used CD $7.50 (Out-of-stock)

“The thrill of this session is most conveyed through sheer grandeur of sound,” opines Boston Phoenix about this 1996 recording, “Moondoc’s alto sax, all sinewy, liquidy, and angular; John Voigt’s highly resonant and probing bass lines; Laurence Cook’s freewheeling drum colors. When the forceful beauties of their sounds combine to convey a surprisingly linear narrative … we’re presented with an overwhelming emotional drama…. [A] spectacular … aesthetic and spiritual adventure of high-level improvisation.”

MOONSHAKE

The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow

(Too Pure) Used LP $30.00

Mid-’90s dub-bass post-punk, with arresting guitar-free atmospheres a la Metal Box, inside brilliant jazz / pop melodies. In the assets column are Collapsed Lung bassist Johnny Dawe (skilled in Jah Wobble-style dub gymnastics), Polly Harvey and Stereolab’s Katharine Gifford on background-ish vocals, the occasional trumpet courtesy of Andrew Blick, and Raymond Dickaty on woodwinds and brass. Highlights include “Joker John,” a warp-speed dub with rolling percussion and creaky swingset samples; the atonal-esque, slightly spastic instrumental title track, with Gene Krupa molestation and handclaps; and “Into Deep Neutral,” where vocalist David Callahan gets his most melodic with Gifford and Harvey doubling and tripling on the chorus, catapulted by breezy horn vamps. Sealed

R. STEVIE MOORE

Delicate Tension

(Personal Injury) Used LP $12.00

Oddball ditties and brain-fired experiments from this prolific popsmith, originally released by HP Music in 1978, reissued here from the original source tapes. Includes DL card

THURSTON MOORE / PRICK DECAY

Electricity Vs. Insects

(Chocolate Monk) Used Split 7-inch $8.00

After abandoning Moore’s suggested title Sunday Sport for this collaboration and opting instead for the more titillating, Vollmann-derived moniker, Nyoukis leads the trio through a score based on a simple grid-and-dice scam requiring Moore to record a randomly selected album from his collection for a set amount of time, to which more sherry-fueled voodoo would be applied upon arrival in the UK. On the flip-side, a more smoked-out octagonal score is used to replace as much content created by Prick Decay and Moore with sounds boosted from Glands Of External Secretion. Everyone involved agrees the record is a colossal pain-in-the-ass.

THURSTON MOORE / NEW BLOCKADERS / JIM O'ROURKE

Voloptulist

(Hospital - HOS144) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Ecstatic Peace - HOS144) Used LP $10.00

Two tracks, one a collaboration with Thurston Moore, the other with Jim O’Rourke (and Chris Corsano on percussion). Tense drones with English clutter dissolving into tape hiss ambiance with booming, free barbaric yawps. Such butchery.
LP jacket has cut corner

RON MORELLI

Backpages

(Hospital) Used LP $10.00

The L.I.E.S. kingpin kicks off with the muggy, droning welt of “Public Consumption,” while “Another Hit” builds a vintage Regis-era style on skull-chipping snares and effluent acid modulation. The album’s writhing batacuda banger “Crack Microbes” reappears as an extra-ferric extended version, sustaining the hypnotic intensity for nine minutes of panic attack acid and febrile cowbells. Railgun snares and a grotty synthline shake down the triplet techno of “Rushing Again.” Sealed

IKUE MORI / TENKO

Death Praxis

(¿What Next?) Used CD $12.00

Challenging, intense but listener-friendly soundscapes from 1993 with rich, dense, quirkily structured percussion and much sampling.

IKUE MORI

Labyrinth

(Tzadik) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Eleven ear-splitting, brain-twisting electronic compositions for modified drum machine and triggered samples.

MORPHOGENESIS

Stromatolites

(Vintage Electronics) Used CD $10.00

Most of the band’s catalog is recorded live but Stromatolites requires the use of overdubbing (though the preferred the term is “lamination”) — mixed in the studio by superimposing separately recorded material. They consider these open-ended constructions to exist in more than one version. All three tracks on this 1998 album are louder and harsher (thank you, amplified springs; we’ll see you next time around, piano) while the organic unfolding and underlying shortwave and biofeedback drones make this a recognizable Morphogenesis album.

ENNIO MORRICONE

Revolver

(Dagored) Used CD $13.00

“Revolver is one the finest Morricone thriller scores, composed in 1973 for Sergio Sollima’s great giallo film. No sweeping themes, no quirky effects, no dissonant sounds — just simple ideas, executed to perfection. Contains ‘Un Amico’, the beautiful theme heard in Inglourious Basterds, and the thirteen-minute title track action piece. With O-card

MOSQ

MOSQ

(Rectangle) Used CD $10.00

Turntablist Erik M creates eerie soundscapes and textural backgrounds, and organist Charlie O., although recognizable in sound, remains out of any style, laying down intricate sustained chords and whisper-quiet burbling, while saxophonists Akosh Szeleveny and Quentin Rollet weave lines through the fabric or work off one another to bring the music to a climax. Mostly meditative but acutely avant-garde. From 2001.

MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD

Infra Dig

(Rotary Totem) Used LP $30.00

Admired by All Music Guide for its “elements of contemporary classical music, Canterbury progressive rock chops, and a Rock-In-Opposition-like propensity for deconstruction and song pollution. Highlights include the strange and groovy ‘Aunt Iodine’ (with lyrics taken from Luigi Futi), the patchwork manifesto ‘The Totem Motorist,’ and a very personal interpretation of the ’60s pop hit ‘Get Angry,’ the band’s most advanced foray into pop territory.” From 1984. Sealed

MOTOR TOTEMIST GUILD

Shapuno Zoo

(No Man’s Land) Used LP $12.00

Sound Choice once characterized this group as “a ‘serious’ chamber ensemble who have descended into a fine madness after listening to and fully digesting all sorts of ethnic third-world music, old Albert Ayler records, and Dr. Demento radio shows.” 1988 pressing in die-cut jacket.

MOTORHEAD

Ace Of Spades

(Earmark) Used LP $20.00

Reissue of the brutally classic album from 1980 by these immortal road warriors. Remastered from the original tapes, 180-gram vinyl, gatefold jacket.

MOTORHEAD

No Class b/w Motorhead

(Polygram) Used 12-inch $30.00

White label promo with two track from No Sleep 'til Hammersmith album

LEXIE MOUNTAIN

Stone Shit Unicorn

(Chocolate Monk) Used CDR $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Baltimore’s queen of tape hiss and swagger squats down and lays another fine egg of head-scratch. Lowbrow tape collage from 2008 showcase all her chops, from backyard jam band to psychic a capella damage, to ear / soul laceration, and further still — executed in her own street-level avant-thug style. Like the sacred mushroom, this will take you beyond mangled.

MOUTHUS / YELLOW SWANS

Live on Conan Island

(No-Fi) Used LP $10.00

A smoldering document of onstage soundclash interactions from their Fall 2006 US tour.

THE MOVING SIDEWALKS

Flash

(Akarma) Used LP $20.00

The songs on the sole album by these psychedelic rockers hint at the blues without fully diving in, yet provide the birthing ground for guitarist Billy Gibbons, later of ZZ Top. Akarma’s 2000 reissue of this 1968 album includes five bonus tracks from singles and an etching. Sealed

PHILLIPPE MOËNNE-LOCCOZ

<Limites>

(Collectif & Cie) Used CD $8.00

Dense, complex pieces for electroacoustics, real instruments and field recordings from 2000. Vibrations and their inevitable displacement. Constructions audibly clashing (internal control vs. a schizophrenic pursuit of freedom, far from the transcendental but proud misappropriation of its sophisticated utopias). Shouting voices treated with granular synthesis. Hand put to clarinet, violin, flute, cello and tape. Real-time musique gastronomicale, with chef Marc Veyrat on pots, wild plants, cowbells. Sealed

MSBR / ROBOCHANMAN

Australian Sunshine Madness

(MSBR) Used CDR $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tour disc from 1998, containing deep harsh noise, including rhythmic material by Koji Tano, while Magmax vocalist Yasushi Tahara mixes harsh noise with killer screaming. Edition of 100

MSBR

Collabodestructivists

(Isomorphic) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Despite the mix of genres due to the different sound approaches of the guest artists (three tracks with Daniel Menche, two with Crawl Unit, one with Basic Noise), the seven long pieces on this 1997 opus are homogeneous and coherent. Apart from the fourth track, which incorporates cut-up sounds from raw exterior recordings, the ‘symphonic noise” evolves in slow movements [until] the massive sound texture pleasantly stuns you.”

MSBR

Destructive Locomotion, Dedicated to Chizuo Matsumoto

(Pure) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Koji Tano’s gift to the blind leader of homicidal religious cult Aum Shinrikyo, admired by one articulate discogs birther because “churning, high-energy bass swirls and explosions mix with thick foghorn feedback shrills and assorted skree in an epic composition intent on building a black hole between your ears to suck away your brain.” Original edition of 500 from 1995

MSBR

Ultimate Ambience 2

(20city) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

An hour-plus of “Spherical Electronics,” plus Final Harsh Work #16, recorded live in Chicago in February 1999. “The first chaotic spherical rumination opens with a looping skree shard,” reports Brainwashed, “Which soon fractures into feedback squeals and some low messy quakes. A stuttering synth-y keyboard seems to be rapidly losing its tuning as occasional shadows of lost keys flicker between the bright gulfs of distortion. MSBR … tweak[s] endless vortices of well defined entropy from his gadgets, and the noise shifts constantly and eddies endlessly, headlessly and leglessly. Patterns emerge but are quickly blown apart; MSBR kisses the noise as it flies.”

MUE

Les Vasières

(Halocline Trance) Used LP $15.00

Catherine Debard and Lon Lo draw on early IDM, illbient, minimalism, and natural phenomena to create real-time hardware improvisations that weave asymmetric patterns, create spaces, and digest various sounds.

MURMER

They Were Dreaming They Were Stones

(Groundfault) Used CD $3.00

This 2003 album was composed over the course of two years, using the hypnotic rhythm of an ancient gas meter in a basement and telephone feedback recordings. Sealed

DAVID MURRAY

Children

(Black Saint) Used LP $10.00

Essential free jazz from 1985 with Don Pullen, James “Blood Ulmer,” Lonnie Plaxico, and Marvin “Smitty” Smith. Original pressing from 1985, with white text on green back cover (no photo, no barcode). Small cut-out slice in lower left corner

HEATHER LEIGH MURRAY

Devil If You Can Hear Me

(Not Not Fun) Used LP $10.00

Murray’s song mode meshes astral-traveling electric pedal-steel guitar with a wasted sense of Western expanse and a lyrical, drugged vocal mood, and the results are weird and wonderful. Her debut full-length spills across three varying arenas of psychedelic privacy, loaded with loaded statements, wild Charalambides-ish tunnel-digging, and an almost Jandek-ian jam-driven wanderlust.

MURUNG

Ritual Mouth-Organs Of The Murung – Bangladesh

(Inedit) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

The Chimbuck Murung People of Western Bangladesh perform “Piece For Plung Orchestra,” “Song And Rina Plung,” and “Dance For The Sacrifice” in 1997 at the Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris — one of the first times the music was heard beyond their native hills. “Their main musical instrument is the plung, a mouth-organ (whose origin is from the region of Burma and Cambodia)” explains Bruno Deschênes. “It is made of a wind-chest made of a calabash gourd, several bamboo pipes (between three and five), and a bamboo mouth piece. Each pipe has a hole and contains a free reed which vibrates when the hole is closed. The main reed vibrates during inhalation and exhalation. A plung ensemble can contain between ten and twenty instruments of different sizes. The music is repetitive and rhythmic; it creates more tone-color melodies than real melodies.”

MUSIC ENSEMBLE

Music Ensemble

(Roaratorio) Used CD $10.00

The first documentation of influential mid-’70s free improv group featuring Daniel Carter, William Parker, Billy Bang, Malik Baraka, Roger Baird, and Herb Kahn bears the seeds of contemporary ecstatic jazz freeweights Other Dimensions in Music and Test. Arresting live recordings of immediate, post-ESP free hoot. Packaged in a mini-gatefold sleeve.

MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA

Leave The City

(Spalax - 14968) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

1997 reissue of this historic, floating-and-droning free-music hippie freak-out (originally released in 1970 by BYG).

MUSICA TRANSONIC

Musica Transonic

(PSF) Used CD $30.00

“Jagged energy” is how Burning Ambulance characterizes the debut album from the mid-1990s by Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple on guitar, ex-High-Rise Asahito Nanjo on bass, and Yoshida Tatsuya of Ruins on drums, “Built around skyscraper-sized garage-rock riffs.” Sealed

MUSLIMGAUZE

Coup d’Etat

(Vinyl on Demand) Used 10-inch $70.00

1996 reissue of all six tracks from Permis De Construire’s 1987 LP. Sealed

MUTANT APE

Buried On’t Moors

(Urashima) Used LP $40.00

An intense and relentless discharge of cavemen electronics and obsessive noise from 2009, with dirty male vocal textures in the upper layers by Yorkshire resident George Proctor. Silver silkscreened on black card folder. With insert. Numbered edition 19/120

MV & EE MEDICINE SHOW

Unarian Ray

(Spirit of Orr) Used LP $10.00

Vinyl reissue of the Vermont duo’s CDR (Child Of Microtones 2004) resurrects instrumentals with a difficult, otherworldly aura, focusing on interlocking, out-of-whack blues, tranced-out drones, primo detuned folk mysticism, organic tonal stretches. Sealed

MX-80 SOUND

Hard Attack

(Superior Viaduct) Used LP $12.00

2013 reissue of 1977 debut album that remains a key document of the mid-’70s proto-punk zeitgeist, evokes what free jazz would sound like if born in Bloomington, Indiana. Liner notes by Byron Coley. Includes download card. Sealed

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN

Cosmological Eye Trilogy

(Last Visible Dog) Used 3xCD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Returning to the ancient spirit of Japanese national poetry, Ramona Ponzini (Praxinoscope, Z’ev, Black Magic Disco) and Roberto & Maurizio Opalio create fragile and unusual experiments somewhere between folk, psychedelia and drone. Ponzini sings excerpts from the poetry of Takamura Kotaro and plays furin and Japanese wind chimes (both metal and wooden). With Maurizio on acoustic guitar, and Roberto on mini keyboard, bodhran, alientronics, and wordless vocalizations, the trio’s luscious and mysterious music is strange, distant and delicate. Includes alternate mixes of “Mars Appears” and “The Mountain” (Blackest Rainbow 2011); the complete “Transparent Winter” session; thirty-three minutes of previously unreleased material and a bonus ghost track.

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN

Different Shades Of Blue

(A Silent Place) Used LP $7.00

Space-ambient soundscapes with minimal textures from the heart of the cosmos. 2006 reissue, a re-edited and remastered version of the original U-Sound Archive CDR. Includes insert and large postcard.

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN

Greetings From The Great Void

(Eclipse) Used 2xLP $12.00

“While they keep their feet on earth by flirting with blues, rock and roots music, Maurizio and Roberto Opalio take every opportunity to hurl themselves and their listeners as far as possible into the galaxy. The universe of My Cat is an Alien is therefore one of intergalactic soundscapes where acoustic percussion and electronic sounds are perfectly integrated. Clear melodies, tight grooves. The tracks float in a vacuum, through the various rings of cosmic debris of an imaginary planet. Sometimes they are formed by the fine dust of a chirp-like sound, like a malfunctioning game console or by a haze of long tones that refuse to become a melody, while at other times deflected guitar sounds or various percussion.” Sealed

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN

Living On The Invisible Line

(Divorce) Used LP $12.00

Emotive and soulful improvised experimentalism recorded in a remote region of the Western Alps that navigates especially tranquil territory. Blissed-out pastoral mirages, dappled just slightly with glimmers of an outer darkness. Cut corner.

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN

On Air At Sound Projecting

(Opax) Used LP $25.00

The entire improvised live performance at Ed Pinsent’s Sound Projecting radio show, broadcasted by London’s Resonance 104.4 FM, December 2004.None of the usual cosmic guitars, but rather space toys, toy-microphones, pocket theremin, mini-Casio. Pinsent himself guests on turntables. Photocopy art cloth taped to jacket, numbered edition 60/158.

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN

The Rest Is Silence

(Eclipse) Used 2xLP $12.00

“The third album from Italy’s fraternal duo is a cosmic blend of alien folky blues, avant-space sounds, and extraterrestrial melancholy performed with electric and acoustic guitars, pedal effects, and weird space toys.” Sealed

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN

There’s A Flame _____ Sometimes

(Rococo) Used LP $7.00

Two side-long studies on texture and sound sculpting that evoke a fragile blurred galactic amoeba. Numbered edition 264/500

MYSTERY BRINKMAN / PLEASUREHORSE

Brinkmangled / Twat Motel

(Load) Used Split LP $12.00

Shawn Greenlee on computer and electronics from 2001. With insert. Screened and rubber-stamped jacket. Black vinyl

NORBERT MÖSLANG

Header_Change

(Cut) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

“A harsh, brute and sometimes aggressive brick wall of drilling frequencies,” says Tokafi, “an attack of edgy drones drenched in distortion only occasionally pierced by flanger-effects or scraping noises, a world with a monochromatic palette” by the former Voice Crack noise guru manipulating the digital source code of video stills by Swiss media artist Silvie Defraoui.

NORBERT MÖSLANG

Lat_nc_

(For 4 Ears) Used CD $7.00

The first entirely solo CD by the one half of Voice Crack. Beautiful and hypnotic soundscapes.

N.CH.

Androgynus

(Gomorrah) Used CD $5.00

Weird, disturbed noise from Ecuador, 2002.

NACHTLUFT

BelleView I-IV

(Atavistic) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

One of the earlier percussionists / electronicists to be inspired by the non-idiomatic group improv of AMM, Günter Müller and his work with the cooperative trio Nachtluft are strikingly presented on this 2000 Unheard Music Series reissue of an LP originally issued in 1987 on Unity Records. “With Andres Bosshard on cassette machines and Jacques Widmer on percussion, Müller creates abstract soundscapes where traditional melody and rhythms are entirely absent, but which boil and bubble with ceaseless and fascinating activity. The pieces vary from eerie, humming sections evoking a desolate landscape a-crackle with random electronic discharges to thrashing percussive firestorms. Throughout, a strong consciousness of sonic space is maintained, the pieces feeling very solid and palpable whether filled with noise or near silence. Punched barcode

NAJ

Resituation

(Pure) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Diverse noise and power electronics from Lithuania 1995, ranging from quiet subsonics to whirlwind cacaphony.

NANA B. / NIK’L’NIP

Rosewville b/w Phone Message

(Runt) Used 7-inch (one-sided) $2.00

Single-sided split seven originally release with Yakuza magazine. Indie rock and an answering machine message from grandmother.

NAPALMED

Ambi-End

(Napalmed) Used CDR $3.00

Dark ambient exercise disc from from 2004 by Radek Kopel

NAPALMED

iii

(Napalmed) Used CD $4.00

Mid-aughts noise-rock-noise. Sealed with copper wire

NAPALMED

Komblex

(Napalmed) Used CD $5.00

Eastern European noisecore from 2001 with a devoted scrounger’s aesthetic. Old equipment, garbage, junk and things discarded (metal, wood, glass, plastics, paper), prepared electronics, various microphones, tape deck, pedal effectors, drum module, mini disc, samples, turntable. Disc is mounted in golden paper in an oversized plastic bag

NAPALMED

Misch Masch Miksasch

(Napalmed) Used CDR $3.00

From 2001

NAPALMED

Mixes II. + III.

(Altsphere) Used CDR $3.00

This is not a remix album per se. It is more an album of originals which happens to contain several short, heavily manipulated samples from the band. From 2003

NAPALMED

Never Mind The MSBR, Here's The Napalmed

(Sheer) Used CD $5.00

The 2002 debut by Radek Kopel’s harsh noise quartet in all its horrendous glory: two tracks, seventy-two minutes of metal junk, iron scrap, mix board, mutated acoustic and metal guitars, CD samples and pedal effects, household objects, demented screams.

NATIONAL HEALTH

National Health

(Get Back ) Used LP $25.00

2000 reissue of peak Canterbury sounds from 1978

NATISUTA HETEKATA

Ki

(Majora) Used LP $10.00

Finland-based Japanese expats hybridize Avarus, Maniacs Dream, and Acid Mothers Temple in a lysergic, improvised rock slurry that’ll make your ears ring.

NECROPOLIS

Song For The Working Man

(Columbus Discount) Used 7-inch $5.00

Dirty-sounding chaos by way of no wave and early art-punk. The A-side is a short but potent blast of hyperactive drumming, tweaked guitars, and near-random shouting -- the sound of angst and confusion, and the need to vent. The flip is an even noisier (but equally short) mess of screech and bile dragged down into the gutter by gut-wrenching distortion, esoteric noises, and a steady, plodding beat. Howling, yipping vocals make it clear the band is just as unsettled as their music. Hand-painted sleeve. Black vinyl. Edition of 400

NEGATIVE ENTROPY

M.S. Stubnitz – Stockholm 9.07.1998

(Absurd - #46) Used CD $5.00

Geert Feytons (Noise-Maker’s Fifes) and Michael Prime (Morphogenesis) solemnize noise, using self-built instrumentation and an ever-changing mass of electronics and effects to raise dada cathedrals of immensurable mystery, shifting around grinding noises and menacing echoes from sinister rooms, only to deform reality through visuals that our brain accepts not without difficulty, due to the inherent dissonant power of these polymorphic bastard symphonies. Don’t even think to use these stirring emissions as a background: they will sneer for your attention, destroying your concentration on anything else.

NERVE CITY

Nerve City

(Sweet Rot) Used LP $7.00

Perfect for dark and dreary days of winter, with nods to the classics like the Stones and VU. Minimalist folk songs and full-on lurching, droning epics.

ANDREA NEUMANN / IGNAZ SCHICK

Petit Pale

(Zarek - 05) Used CD $5.00

Arid, abstract, and cerebral, Schick’s live electronics and Neumann’s “inside-piano” converge somewhere between British free improv, German electronics-based improv, and electroacoustics. Occasional bursts of metallic sounds shaped like a human gesture, glitches, lo-fi electronics, and noise come together nicely.

NEUNTOTER DER PLAGE

Last Wish b/w Acid Reign

(Scratch And Sniff Entertainment) Used LP $8.00

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.

NEUROSIS

Eye Of Every Storm

(Neurot) Used 2xLP $75.00

(Neurot) Used CD $5.00

Eight massive tracks from 1994 recorded and mixed by Steve Albini by these long-running heavy sound explorers and tribal rock warriors. “Adopting for a clean cut, post-rock sound, Neurosis drops much of their intensity in favor for an atmospherically poignant sound,” insists Metal Archives. The band’s “thick, dreary atmosphere of monochrome blackness is still present, the distinctive vocal work still here…. The lyrical work is outstanding as usual, dealing with feelings such as hopelessness and depression, the band deals with it subtly, never feeling overwrought or histrionic…. Essential.”
LP is sealed and pressed on gray swirled vinyl.
CD includes O-card.

NEW BLOCKADERS

20th Antiversary Offensive

(Hypnagogia) Used CD $9.00

Spontaneous and nihilistic live album, recorded at the Termite Club, Leeds 2003 with additional material by Anomoli, sounding more complicated and elaborate than some studio recordings. #34/500.

NEW BLOCKADERS / XTEMATIC

Degenerative Themes

(Equation) Used LP $20.00

Anti-nothing, anti-everything! Black and gold vinyl. Edition of 160. Sealed

NEW BLOCKADERS

Gesamtnichtswerk 20th Antiversary Antiology

(Hypnagogia) Used 4xCD $50.00 (Out-of-stock)

Career overview from 2004 (disc one: Changez Les Blockeurs and Reductio Ad Absurdem; disc two: live offensives: disc three: Simphonie in X Major, Simphonie in O Minor, Die Stunde X; disc four: 20th antiversary recordings). With two booklets

NEW ORDER

Movement

(Factory) Used LP $50.00

A ghostly, brittle record, their debut following the death of Ian Curtis. Occasionally uptempo but never upbeat, with drum machines rattling and echoing over dark waves of synthesizers and iconic basswork. Original innersleeve with FCL Product logo. UK MPO A3/B3 pressing from 1981.

NEW TROLLS

Concerto Grosso Per I New Trolls

(Cetra) Used LP $25.00

2017 reissue of the 1971 soundtrack to La Vittima Designata

NG KINDHEIT

Deaf Like Me

(Sound Org) Used 7-inch $4.00

“Rattles, interjections, borborygmes, whistles melting with wonder” marvels Perte & Fracas about the two tracks on the 1999 release by this “beautiful noise rock band” from Madison, Wisconsin. “Clean, dry, disjointed, personal cousin with US Maple, The Conformists, Big 'n and Jesus Lizard.” Silkscreened jacket.

PHILL NIBLOCK

G2, 44+/x2

(Moikai) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Hardcore minimal trance drone. Guests include Alan Licht, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Kevin Drumm, and Rafael Toral.

NIG-HEIST

Nig-Heist

(Drag City) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Musically, they run the gamut of sleaze rock encompassing such classic ’70s subgenres as solo-heavy guitar wank, uptempo dirty chord driving, goodtime Southern rock, slow sick blooze, big dumb Aussie-style pub rock, romantic jazz rock and sexy slap-bass funk” notes our most excellent friend Mark Prindle regarding the 2011 reissue of this 1984 showstopper. “Regardless of the ‘parodic’ nature of the project, most of the songs are catchy as hell!”

NIHILIST SPASM BAND

No Record

(Lion Productions) LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Lion Productions) Used CD $10.00

2014 reissue of the 1968 album by these Canadian national treasures. Begun as a twisted New Orleans-style “spasm band” that provided the kazoo chorus for an experimental film, the shrieks, screams, skronks and screeches begin immediately. Freedom, hilarious anger, homemade instruments, glorious bedlam.

BJ NILSEN / Z'EV

22' 22"

(Ideal) Used CD $9.00

Emperors of drone pair up for three twenty-two minute, twenty-two second sound works (one of which isn’t listed). Their foggy mass of dread recalls later The Hafler Trio and Deathprod’s nebulous black mass audio.

BJ NILSEN / MILAN SANDBLEISTIFT / STILLUPPSTEYPA

BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa / Milan Sandbleistift

(Punk Kein Rock) Used Split LP $20.00

Two sprawling tracks of glacial, grim drones from the Swede and the Icelandic masters, deep and rich, backed with a teeth-grinding piece of dirty drone by the man behind the Licht-Ung label, lonely 8-bit electronic tones, hiss and crackle pushed towards a radioactive self-immolation. Paste-on artwork and a ceramic tile attached. Edition of 200

NITRE PIT

Lo!

([ no label ]) Used LP $12.00

Debut album of experimental rock from 1994 by Greg Saunier and Rob Fisk, who went on to form Deerhoof, the mysterious Tasha, and Aaron Russell who went on to Weird Weeds. Poster-style jacket with hand-painted gold bits. Includes rolled-up poster-style painting

NMPERIGN

Ommatidia

(Intransitive - int035) Used CD $4.00

“The first studio album as an unaccompanied duo by Greg Kelley (trumpet) and Bhob Rainey (soprano sax) … is spare and peerlessly inventive as always, but the mood remains light and joyful, with a subtle undercurrent of absurd humor…. [G]usts of breath, percussive splatter, and controlled explosions form six succinct pieces that feel alive and vital, while still speaking in nmperign’s utterly unique … language.”

NMPERIGN

This Is Nmperign's Second CD

(Twisted Village - TW1049) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

On this compelling investigation of sound in space and time from 1999, Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley make audible every particle of sound they produce. Every ounce of spit and cubic inch of air that is pushed through the sax and trumpet comes through the speakers in stunning colors and textures. Sharp, crystalline fractures of sound, with fragments of disembodied melody meted out in small quantities. Guest include Jason Lescallett on tape loops, Tatsuya Nakatani on percussion, and Phil Gelb on shakuhachi.

NO DOCTORS

No Doctors

(Freedom From) Used LP $5.00

Apparently, their “integration of Minnesotan völk-noise inflections into rock’s idiom curried little favor from elite urban critics, but secured the band’s place in the American noise underground,” which sounds exactly like the kind of thing an “elite urban critic” would say. This is the Version B pressing.

NO MORE MUSIC AT THE SERVICE OF CAPITAL

Universal Prostitution

(Ideal - iDEAL041) Used CD $5.00

Four shrill and repellent tracks in thirty-seven minutes from 2006 by Mattin the Basque maniac who produces hideous noise from computer feedback and yells at the top of his lungs, Argentinian saxophonist Lucio Capece on mixing desk and feedback. The duo’s sloganeering and screeching about the alienation of consumer society persuades, through sound, that all is not well with the world.

NO-NECK BLUES BAND

Qvaris

(5 Rue Christine) Used 2xLP $12.00

“Their spooky blend of guitars, drums, strings, keyboards, and who knows what else results in improvisational, swirling psychedelic darkness,” says All Music Guide. “The tunes are short, focused, and somewhat direct. This is individualistic music that reflects, refracts, curdles, screams, and whispers from the various traditions, legacies, and lineages not just in music, but in the artistic freedom of the 19th and 20th centuries as it is brought to bear in the 21st. ‘The Doon,’ at a little over five minutes, is a droning, open-ended chant-like piece where electric guitars, percussion, shakers, and atmospherics snake around one another. But it changes subtly, shifting in tone, texture, and tension. By contrast, the skeletal funk in ‘Live Your Myth in Grease’ is almost accessible. But its primitive, skittering drums, repetitive, edgy six-string, plodding, fuzzed-out bass, and unnamable percussion instruments gradually build a super-steamy voodoo groove. Other pieces, such as ‘The Qvaris Theme,’ use strings, sawing and searing along with evil-sounding percussion, organs, and guitars to create a stark, tribal dread. There is sheer beauty here too, in the album’s longest track, ‘Lugnagall,’ which builds from percussive repetition to include guitars and a pump organ, and becomes a swirling frenzy of ecstasy-writhing female vocals and droned-out freak bliss. The groove and mantra-like trance pieces do not juxtapose so much as blend into the cosmic, free-form scatterations, uniting it all into a sublime, wondrous opening of the sonic skylight into the void. Far from the loose spectral jamming of some of their earlier releases, this is the most cohesive, enchanted music No-Neck have ever made on tape.”

THE NO-TALENTS

The No-Talents

(Broken Rekids) Used LP $10.00

2014 reissue of this Paris-based four-piece’s debut album of nasty, broken-glass power-chord blitzkrieg.

ADAM NODELMAN

... On The Mountain

([ no label ]) Used CDR $4.00

Enlightenment synth with Phil Franklin on tambourine. Sealed

NOGGIN

Noggin

(Trackshun Industries) Used CD $4.00

Free improv violin / guitar duets from 1994 by Michael Griffen and Eric Ostrowski. Sealed

NOGGIN / PORK QUEEN

Pork Queen / Noggin

(Trackshun Industries) Used Split LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

A roomy, more human example of Justice Schanfarber’s aesthetic on the Pork Queen side, blending electronic and found sounds with sweet acoustic ponderings, while on the flip Michael Griffen and Eric Ostrowski purvey dizzying electric-guitar-and violin-improv free-screech. From 1993

NOGGIN

Space Needle

(Trackshun Industries - TR1222) Used LP $10.00

Wild-ass guitar-and-violin improv from 1996 by Michael Griffen and Erik Ostrowski

NOGGIN BIG BAND

Down the Klahanie

(Fleece) Used CD $3.00

Free improv from the mid-1990s by Adam Griffen (bass) Arrington De Dionyso (clarinet), Jordan Rain (drums), Corey Brewer (harmonica, electronics), Orion Satushk (sax), Dave Harvey (sax), August Ursin (trombone), Joel Machamer (trumpet), and Lars Holmstrom (trumpet) under the direction of violinist Michael Griffen and guitarist Eric Ostrowski. In chipboard arigato pack. 2008 release

JOHNNY NOISE

The Day Is Coming

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

For the discerning pinetoppers of contemporary, post-everything aggro grit, the name Johnny Noise should be synonymous with the sound of grizzled, sonic élan. One of the principal constructors of Los Llamarada’s estimable creepy crawl, Noise’s guitar howls and snarls goes deep in guiding that band’s portent vision of bleak, psychedelic ache. Here he casts brut-moderne madrigals — drums, strings, vocals, the whole shebang — into a solo cauldron of hairy, distempered muzz. Includes download card. Sealed

NOISE RAMONES

Rocket to D.N.A.

(Dual Plover) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

From the summit of the remote Spazolopolis Mountains, ascended geekballs Eye and Yoshimi of The Boredoms join forces with king dirthead DJ Smallcock to unleash simpleton electronic wheeze, highbrow thwack, toothache Muzak, and metallic piranha fish running amok.

NOISE-MAKER'S FIFE

Monomania Of Instinct

(Gold Soundz) Used CD $7.00

“A frightening miasma of non-musical elements” is how Foxy Digitalis describes the DNA of the single “thoroughly indigestible and stomach-churning” track from 1998 by Geert Feytons and associates, “a succession of shrieks, shouts and screamed words appear[ing] and disappear[ing] as clouds of rampant drones, electronic and concrete sounds make … surreptitious appearances….” It was created live at the M.S. Stubnitz-Stockholm, using a self-developed interaction between live music on sound-sculptures, video images and performance. Packaged in a gatefold card slipcase.

NOISEBITCH / SUICIDE PROPAGANDA

Nice Brainache

(Anima Mal Nata) Used CDR $5.00

“A pretty impressive collaboration” from 2001, according to Barbie Is A Bitch, with “complex layers of sounds and noises [that] build up with intensity as more and more diverse sounds get thrown in it, ranging from disfigured female vocals to elusive drones…. The thing that sets this collaboration apart from others is … complexity and sophistication.” Paper sleeve with insert.

LUIGI NONO

Canti di Vita E D’Amore / Per Bastiana / Ommagio A Vendova

(Wergo) Used CD $20.00

Released in 1993 as part of the label’s Music Of Our Century series. On Canti di Vita E D’Amore, Michael Gielen conducts Sinfonieorchester Des Saarländischen Rundfunk (featuring soprano Slavka Taskova and tenorist Loren Driscoll), and on Per Bastiana, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Omaggio A Vedova is a magnetic tape piece from 1960.

LUIGI NONO

La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura

(Montaigne) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded at Experimentalstudio Der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung Des Südwestfunks in February 1988, the six-part composition for solo violin and electronics, the title of which translates to “The Nostalgic Utopian Remote Future,” is performed by Irvine Arditti, founder of the Quartet, and André Richard who manipulates eight sources of pre-recorded sound material (created by violins and noises from the studio). 1994 edition

LUIGI NONO

Polifonica-Monodia-Ritmica

(Wergo) Used CD $15.00

For six instruments and percussion, composed in 1951. Also includes “Canti Per 13” for thirteen instruments, composed in 1955; “Canciones A Guiomar” for soprano solo, twelve voices, female chorus, and instruments, composed in 1962-63; and Nono’s final compition “Hay Que Caminar Soñando” for two violins, composed in 1989. From 1998

ARNE NORDHEIM

Dodeka

(Rune Grammafon) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Twelve three-minute pieces from between 1968 and 1972, recorded in the studios of Polish radio. “They are ripe works, among the most graceful and urgent … from that period one is likely to hear. Sure, they sound crude, as any other ‘early electronic’ piece, but they don’t sound clumsy or arid. The tones are bright, even when drowned in their own reverb, and they move around with a freedom that makes you enjoy just lazily following them around, forgetting about how a piece is structured. Nordheim explores the whole sonic spectrum, from menacing low growls (the bass range on this CD is stunning) to high-pitched chirps.”

KEN NORDINE

A Transparent Mask

(Asphodel) Used CD $7.00

“This late-in-life offering … continues Nordine’s lifelong mastery of the genre he created..., thought excursions and deceptively simple poems that take utterly unexpected twists…. With musical backing that enhances but never overpowers the words, this is a charming and engaging album.” From 2001

KEN NORDINE

Colors

(Asphodel) Used CD $9.00

A Beat-inspired, mellifluous-sounding, Dr. Seuss-like exploration of the meanings of different colors. “Many of the pieces are parables on racism and human behavior, but they’re also totally silly, and meant to be. Recorded in the late 1960s, the thirty-four tracks … almost-sung to a delightful, freeform studio backing of hip jazz.” From 1995. Barcode punched

KEN NORDINE

Wink: Ken Nordine Does Robert Shure

(Asphodel) Used CD $7.00

“The short poems of John Shure [from the late 1950s] are so in sync with Nordine’s style that it’s a very successful marriage indeed. At first the [late 1960s recordings] might seem so whimsical and slight as to barely exist, but … the world of wry and absurdist observations … is enhanced by his use of two distinct voices for each channel…. The result[ing] ongoing conversation … captures a particular time and state of mind.” Reissue from 2003. Scribbled barcode.

LISA-LOTTE NORELIUS

In Sea

(Firework Edition) Used CD $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Alarm clocks, vibrators, piezo oscillation, thermos, babusjka doll and other stuff, processed with Max/MSP and various effect boxes.” From 2005

ÉRIC NORMAND

Data (Lo-Fi Duets)

(Monotype - MONO047) CD $14.00

(Monotype - MONO047) Used CD $11.00

Bassist who also builds unusual noise devices and stomp boxes performs with Martin Tetreault, Christine Sehnaoui Abdelnour, Sebastien Cirotteau, and Mario Gauthier. “Active, airy and percussive music with little in the way of tonality or lushness” (thank God). Data is “harsh, angular, chewy,” and overall “of a piece with … late ’90s turntablism and cracked electronics.”

MICHAEL NORTHAM / JOEL STERN

Wormwood

(Groundfault) Used CD $5.00

“The clicking, clattering, and scraping opens up a subterranean, microscopic world of incredible mystery,” says Stylus, “By turns metallic, organic, electronic, and simply unidentifiable, and the cumulative effect of all these insectile clicks and theremin-like whines akin to the first men confronting the massive nuclear-fueled ants from the cult horror classic Them. Northam and Stern’s sounds are towering, intimidating … but there is still something intimate and small-scale in this music that contrasts with its sometimes overwhelming aura…. This is an atmosphere record that truly infects and infiltrates the natural ambience of anywhere it happens to be playing. Played quietly enough, Wormwood's sounds hover sinisterly just on the edges of perception, poisonous fumes hanging invisibly (but fatally) in the air. With slightly more volume behind it, however, the album becomes oppressively dense; the music is all sharp edges and tiny charged particles, vibrating, electrified, buzzing with energized static that seems to crackle off the end of each sound pulse.” Sealed

NOTHING PEOPLE

Anonymous

(S-S Records) Used LP $3.00

A big dose of proto / glam / psych / punk / wave excellence. Clear vinyl.

NOVELLER

Red Rainbows

(No Fun - NFP50) Used CD $10.00

Growing tonal drones and minimalistic structures by Sarah Lipstate that evoke visions of menacing, multicolored skies. Double-neck guitar, electronics, breathtaking atmospheres, dirty intensity. Includes a collaboration with Carlos Giffoni and a four-minute film Interior Variations.

KK NULL

Guitar Organism

(Nux Org) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Duets from 1996 by the Zeni Geva frontman with Fred Frith, Guy Lohnes, Ichiro Agata, Jim O’Rourke

KK NULL

Saishiyu Bushitsu

(Forced Exposure - FE-024) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

NULL & VOID

Possibilities (Discoverable Thoughts)

(Bunkerpop) LP $20.00

(Bunkerpop) Used LP $12.00

The third, previously unreleased album by this early ’80s Culturcide-damaged crew from Fullerton, California, led by William Shifflette is an avant pop post-punk experimental acid masterwork, a truly timeless piece of music by an overlooked band headed in a decidedly warped direction, or, as mutantsounds said, “Half Machine Lip Moves meets Here Come The Warm Jets.” Yellowgreenred.com ruminates, “Either they were always this strange, or by the third album they had completely lost touch with reality … when it comes to wildly insane and single-minded musical experiments no one in their right mind would want to hear…. [L]ike a synth-wave band who despised their own genre, or a Ralph Records band that refused to be funny…, [this] group [doesn’t] bow to any musical or societal constraints, which of course is just as fascinating as it is difficult.” Includes 24 x 36 double-sided color poster and lyric booklet. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2013

NURSE WITH WOUND

A Sucked Orange

(United Dairies) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

“A Sucked Orange is basically a much more fleshed-out version of the earlier cassette-only release, Scrag! (United Dairies, 1987)…. [S]nippets of weird noises, absurd samples, abstract sounds, jarring contrasts, spoken word sections. Two thirds of the tracks run for less than two minutes, with only the four-minute tribal … ‘I’m a Frayed Knot’ coming close to sounding like an actual song…. For every oddity, however, there is a really striking moment: the aforementioned ‘I’m a Frayed Knot’ is a wonderful Eastern-tinged percussive number, while ‘Crack Up’, although short, is one of Stapleton’s finest drone works. The vocal pieces sung by Sinan and Ritva are lovely in their own right. In some ways, A Sucked Orange feels like a Nurse With Wound album cut into its constituent parts.”

NURSE WITH WOUND

Acts of Senseless Beauty

(United Dairies) Used CD $9.00

“Many of the tracks start out in ambient territory, slow tentative explorations of improvisational scrapes and hums, building slowly or erupting into throbbing avant-rock structures, at which point Aranos’s violin dances and weaves wildly among clattering rhythms and other sounds, eventually to slide back into a droning murky dissonance or dreamy flows. Added to this mix are a few sections of processed vocal and chanting. A bizarre and hallucinatory journey into another musical dimension.”

NURSE WITH WOUND

An Awkward Pause

(United Dairies) Used CD $9.00

“Bizarre, beautiful, frightening and fascinating all at once…, the majority of the album is instrumental and subdued in nature, with the exception of ‘Two Shades And A Shine’ (which begins with an abrupt … bass guitar riff [and] David Tibet’s exasperated vocals...) and the latter half of ‘The Penis Fruit Loop’…, a long shifting piece [with] quiet, swirling ambient sounds / samples, bizarre processed narrative…, reversed and collaged guitar, R2D2-like beeps, upbeat saxophone-led acid jazz-rock on crack, carnival music, insane electric guitar squealings, and various percussive banging….” Single disc, in digipak with insert. From 1999.

NURSE WITH WOUND

Chance Meeting Of A Defective Tape Machine And Migraine

(Anomalous) Used CD $12.00

Accidental remix created during a tape transfer by Matt Waldron of irr.app. (ext.)

NURSE WITH WOUND

Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella

(United Jnana) Used CD $30.00

“The debut Nurse With Wound album lies halfway between the more tuneless explorations of krautrock and the then-new industrialism practiced by Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. Across three lengthy tracks, obtuse guitar freak-outs frame distorted synthesizers and mostly rhythm-less drum machines. Though it frequently defies easy analysis, Chance Meeting is one of the more glowing examples of uncompromising industrial noise of the 1970s.” 1994 reissue in jewelbox

NURSE WITH WOUND

Drunk With The Old Man Of The Mountains

(United Jnana) Used CD $9.00

Five stray tracks from the mid-’80s that were all out of print at the time of original release. “Mourning Smile” distills Steven Stapleton’s ability to mix disparate elements (ghostly drone with ragtime piano and pipe organ) into a disorienting collage that keeps listeners on their toes. “Swamp Rat” is a long exploration of drones working over a Neu!-ish motorik beat. “Sheela-Na-Gig” recalls Shining-era Penderecki. Barcode has black scribbles.

NURSE WITH WOUND

Echo Poeme: Sequence No. 2

(United Jnana) Used CD $9.00

Recorded in 2005, inspired by the film Last Year At Marienbad, reminiscent in tone of Soliloquy For Lilith, Echo Poeme No. 2 is one continuous piece based around the female voice. Features a four-page booklet designed by Babs Santini.

NURSE WITH WOUND

Funeral Music For Perez Prado

(United Dairies) Used CD $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

This CD collects tracks from two deleted EPs, Yagga Blues from 1995 and Soresucker from 1990, with one track from each considerably extended to their full-length versions. Here you’ll find a pulsing ethno-electro beat, Sarah Fuller jazzy non-word vocals, more punch, more electronic effects. The title track is ambient and meditative, with lots of minimal drones, shifting tones, and no rhythms. “Journey Through Cheese,” now extended to beyond twice its original length, consists of a harsh rhythm clanking mechanically over a collage of tweaked-out noises, from breaking glass and insidious laughter to loud pops of static and more drones.

NURSE WITH WOUND

Gyllensköld, Geijerstam And I At Rydberg’s

(United Jnana) Used CD $12.00

Reissue from 2007 containing the record in its original form, with the remixes as additional tracks. “The sound quality … is superb…, highlighting Stapleton’s increasing confidence in the studio. Recorded only a few months after Homotopy to Marie, the clarity in the mix and the general fine details in the arrangement are leaps and bounds ahead of even that album…. On a technical level, Gyllensköld, Geijerstam and I at Rydberg’s is a triumph.”

NURSE WITH WOUND

Homotopy to Marie

(United Jnana) Used CD $18.00

The fifth NWW album is no less unnerving and experimental than its predecessors but is far less chaotic. The four tracks from the original LP and the 12-minute “Astral Dustbin Dirge,” recorded during the same sessions, added to the CD edition) may be more elegantly constructed, but lengthy dada-esque soundscapes constructed of artfully edit tape manipulations, are just difficult to penetrate. Sealed

NURSE WITH WOUND

Insect And Individual Silenced

(United Dairies / Raash) Used CD $15.00

Jim Thirwell playing the hum of his amplifier by stroking and hitting the jack-plugs and leads, Trevor Reidy on a drum-kit reduced to one snare drum and a couple of brushes, and Stephen Stapleton fucking around with an old, beaten-up Woolworth’s guitar and a violin bow, along with a basket of junk, records, tapes and toys. Originally released in 1981, this is a 2007 reissue with silver-printed vellum O-card. Edition of 700. Sealed.

NURSE WITH WOUND

Live At Bar Maldoror

(United Dairies) Used CD $10.00

The emphasis on live and acoustic instrumentation recorded in the mid-1980s, with little in the way of tape edits, positions the music here in stark contrast to Nurse With Wound’s studio albums, yet the overall feeling of relentless exploration, experimentation and humor still evoke the same moods that Stapleton’s project always does. From 1991

NURSE WITH WOUND

Merzbild Schwet

(United Dairies) Used CD $20.00

Considered the first fully realized Nurse With Wound record, originally released in 1980 — more focused, with editing techniques out in front (abrupt transitions, quirky juxtapositions, strange sounds that would become the NWW hallmark). “Futurismo” begins with clanking rhythms, record skip clicks, and horn riffs before veering off into a crazed quilt of women singing, laughing, and talking in French. About halfway through, wild screeches of distortion disrupt the piece, and then more bizarre sounds take over before ending with a collage of over-modulated electronic hum and rambling piano. “Dada X” goes further into weirdness with silences, creepy creaking noises, tones that build up and collapse, and scattered spoken word in French and English from The Crass’s Eve Libertine. 1994 reissue.

NURSE WITH WOUND

Rock ’n Roll Station

(United Dairies) Used CD $18.00

An atypical Nurse with Wound record for any era, an obvious attempt to create something more palatable, even dance-floor friendly. With its handful of single-length tracks and two quarter-hour collages, the album …[sits] on the fence.… The two collages are prime examples of creative, top-quality NWW…, filled with uncanny sonic juxtapositions, disquieting twists and immersive drones. Peat Bog’s spellbinding didgeridoo performance on ‘Two Golden Microphones’ is a highlight.” In jewelbox from 1994 edition.

NURSE WITH WOUND

Salt Marie Celeste

(United Dairies) Used CD $9.00

One long track where a whisper of sound slowly builds even as it remains quite ambient. Noises are very gradually introduced to the underlying drone and repeated at regular intervals — whizzing; a one-second high-pitched tone that almost sounds like a distant ship’s horn calling for help in the mist; creaking; a low, clattering noise, a bit like thunder and then eventually, other clattering noises. One gets an eerie sense of doom, worthy of a ship slowly sinking. Toward the end, sounds fall away from the original minimalist drone, which ebbs and surges for another five minutes before slowly fading.

NURSE WITH WOUND

Second Pirate Session Rock ’n Roll Special Edition

(United Dairies) Used 2xCD $28.00

Outtakes from Rock’n’Roll Station (originally planned as a double album), never fully completed but which in hindsight benefit from their stripped down atmosphere. “Hypnotic, pulsating, and quite a departure.” Card jacket. Sealed

NURSE WITH WOUND

She And Me Fall Together In Free Death

(Beta Lactam Ring - mt040b) LP $25.00

(Beta Lactam Ring - mt040b) Used CD $15.00

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."
Used CD is third edition from 2005 with negative image cover art..

NURSE WITH WOUND

Soliloquy For Lilith

(United Dairies) Used 2xCD $30.00

Originally recorded and released in 1988, Nurse With Wound’s ambient opus was years ahead of its time, a ground-breaking set of atmospheric sound patterns designed for ritual ceremonies. Reissue from 1993

NURSE WITH WOUND

Soresucker

(United Dairies) Used CD $9.00

Kind of a collaboration with Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus. “I Am The Poison” builds Wakeford’s trippy repeating bass motif; Stapleton provides a backdrop of drones, and mechanical percussion. The industrial sounding “Journey Through Cheese” is constructed around a backbone of pounding machine noise, smashing glass, and clanking metal. First edition from 1990

NURSE WITH WOUND

Spiral Insana

(United Dairies) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

One continuous piece of music, indexed as three, listed as twenty. Guests Robert Haigh, David Jackman, and Chris Wallis mix bowed piano, percussion, radio, loops, and what is credited on the sleeve as “stuff” into an hour-long collage of mashed-up sounds, jarring juxtapositions, buzzsaw distortion, and even a pipe organ. From 1997 with two non-LP tracks.

NURSE WITH WOUND

Sugar Fish Drink (A Layman’s Guide To Cod Surealism)

(United Dairies) Used CD $9.00

“Could almost be considered Automating, Vol. 3, in that it culls material released on vinyl, mostly from twelve-inch singles from the late ’80s and early ’90s. ‘Cooloorta Moon’ riffs off the weird noise from Wolfgang Dauner’s version of Gershwin’s ‘My Man’s Gone Now’ for a bit of jazz-funk with an upbeat rhythm. The five-part amorphous sound collage ‘Creakiness’ offers a varied mix of everything from calliope to haunted violin music to metallic machine rhythms to found vocals. It seems almost like an insane circus where everything is about to collapse. ‘I Am the Poison’ throws in guitar textures and gloomy vocals from Sol Invictus frontman Tony Wakeford. ‘Swamp Rat’ has a repetitive drum rhythm, lots of background drones, and … contagious laughter. ‘A Piece of the Sky Is Missing’ is mostly a subtle but dark ambient piece, though near the beginning there are pounding rhythms and screeching horns. ‘Nil By Mouth’ gets far stranger, as bursts of electro-noise and pounding percussion contrast starkly with creepy quieter sections of buzzes, chirps, and minor chord drones. The CD ends with a completely revamped version of ‘Brained by Falling Masonry,’ beginning more calm and cosmic, and then crashing with the effects and processing from psychedelic rock to explosions of disruptive noise.”

NURSE WITH WOUND

Surveillance Lounge

(Dirter) Used CD $20.00

“Long, spooky soundscapes from 2009 punctuated by noise, sinister voices, and the occasional rhythm section. Despite the demarcation implied by the presence of four separate tracks, the entire 66-minute album is one piece, except for, perhaps, ‘The Golden Age of Telekinesis,’ with its building percussive rage structured upon tribal, rhythmic drums, and lots of malicious static. All, however, are dark journeys down untraveled paths, and that is exactly what Stapleton (with cohort Andrew Liles and Current 93’s David Tibet among others) does best.”

NURSE WITH WOUND

Thunder Perfect Mind

(United Dairies) Used CD $12.00

This 2002 reissue (with bonus track) of the sister album to the Current 93 album of the same name punctuates soundscape drones with staccato bursts of percussion, origins uncertain, bleeps and bloops thrown in for good measure, and the occasional hoot and/or holler. In digipak

NURSE WITH WOUND

Thunder Perfect Mind

(United Dairies) Used CD $20.00

This 1992 reissue of the sister album to the Current 93 album of the same name punctuates soundscape drones with staccato bursts of percussion, origins uncertain, bleeps and bloops thrown in for good measure, and the occasional hoot and/or holler. In jewelbox

NURSE WITH WOUND

Who Can I Turn To Stereo

(United Dairies) Used CD $9.00

A daunting roller-coaster ride from 1996 through strange and abstract soundscapes with weird processed voices thrown in. Perhaps it’s made a little easier by a narrator with a soft voice and Italian accent, even if the words are as surreal and nonsensical as the music around them. One continuous collage of sound, broken down into conventional song-length tracks, with hypnotic electro-dance rhythms comparable to what crop up on “Yagga Blues,” “Space Funk With Springs,” and “Approaching Darkness Fish,” and lulling nursery rhymes.

NXS

Pearl Snake Bird Dawn

(Comma) Used CD $20.00

Downtempo debut album from 2002 by DJ Moochy’s spiritual jam band transceiver that mixes dub (a la Soft Rovo, 23 Skidoo, Pressure Drop) with spiritual jazz, female vocals, world music influences (especially African), and proto dubstep. Sound and primitive technology in perfect harmony. Sealed.

NYKELS

One Hundred People In London Can Not Be Wrong... Fuck The System!

(Look!) Used CD $18.00

“Crude, flailing and piss-takey…, the sub-underground currents that this highly obscure unit glance off would have made this crew a shoe-in for a release on Stomach Ache Records back in the day, as deconstructive games and lowbrow genre disruption are hewn from intentionally inept two-chord punk bashing.”

JIM O'ROURKE

Long Night

(Streamline) Used 2xCD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

A two-and-a-half-hour electronic drone work recorded in 1990 and shelved for eighteen years. Tones morph and modulate slowly at first through strobing caused by the gradual shift of interwoven oscillations and their resultant overtones. Frequencies eventually tweak at an increasing rate, continuing into vibrant organ-like textures before reverting to a muffled, disciplined state of being where the various component signals of the drone detune and bristle with activity. Comparable to the synthesis experiments of Eliane Radigue.

JIM O'ROURKE

Please Note Our Failure

(Some - 08) Used 10-inch $15.00

Two untitled collage tracks from 1998.

O-TYPE

The New Edge

(Family Vineyard) Used 5xCD + DVD $40.00

Includes the Strict, Brutality II: Balkana, Medication, Lugubrious, and Western Classics albums, plus the previously unreleased Godawful, a DVD of unprocessed and trance-like nature scenes shot by Dale Sophiea and accompanied by unreleased O-Type improvisations. The Bay Area group blends fields of ambient distillation and jagged, electroid rhythm fragments into sprawling narratives, composed in real time, evoking movie soundtracks, musique concrète, minimalism, and guitar psychedelia. Handmade box with wrap-around cover (ripped) and printed innercards

OAD

Slimy Crime

(Japan Overseas) Used 7-inch $3.00

Avant-garde heavy music from 1996 composed of the dark and gorgeous. Kazuo Matsushita (sax, sampler, effects), Hiroshi Funato (bass), Takashi Ogushi (drums), Former Screaming Pinch Hitter (guitar), Kazuo Okuni (computer, sound effects) and, on loan from Omoide Hatoba and Scid Mother, Atsushi Tsuyama (keybord, ultra-voice). Orange vinyl.

OAKEATER

Molech

(Nihilist) Used LP $7.00

Dark electronics from 2008 by Alex Barnett, Jeremiah Fisher, Seth Sher. Silkscreened cover. Edition of 300

OBSTACLE CORPSE

C’est La Vie

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $4.00

“Corydon Ronnau of Sissy Spacek performing solo on the self-invented HIV (pronounced “hive”), a guitar with heavy springs that run over the pickups in place of strings, and the HIV+ (pronounced “hive plus”), a bass guitar with springs nailed to its neck and some of the wiring torn out. C’est la Vie’s thin metallic clangor quiets down ominously for a spell, and then introduces a giant death-note that builds more and more horribly until the moment when it tears your spinal cord out of your butthole.” Paste-on photocopy jacket. Edition of 143

MICHAEL OCHS

1000 Record Covers

(Taschen) Used paperback book $10.00

OCS

Songs About Death And Dying Vol 3

(Yik Yak) Used LP $150.00

The third album from Thee Oh Sees’ folky, lo-fi days when it was just John Dwyer and sometimes Patrick Mullins going by the moniker OCS. “Studio” recordings, essentially, of some of the material that ended up on the Captcha live release Hounds Of Foggy Notion, pulling from Dwyer’s love of loner Americana folk and blues as well as more experimental electro-acoustic music. Original 2005 pressing. White vinyl. Silkscreened cover

ODD CLOUDS

The Cavernous End

(Ypsilanti) Used LP $8.00

“This roving collective of Detroit’s most touched savages led by the restless vision of bandleaders Chris Pottinger (Cotton Museum, Tasty Soil Records) and Jamie Easter (the Pirhannas, Little Claw) is prone to impromptu and somewhat confrontational public performance, lysergic deep-woods jamming, and a bone-through-the-nose approach. Guttural grunting, animalistic howls, blathering bursts of woodwinds and electronic noise bubble up to the surface of primal percussion and sounds of creatures dying and being born. Resembling a field recording of a late-’60s cult farmhouse celebration.” From 2006

OF MONTREAL

Controllersphere

(Polyvinyl) Used LP $7.00

Five tracks, a self-described “freak-out record” that carries on the tradition of folk luminaries Abu Bakr Khairat, Benny More and Nawal Al Zoghbi. Noisy moments represent attempt to communicate in a subhuman language that cannot be expressed with our Earth tongues. 180-gram vinyl. Includes free download coupon.

OFEGE

Try And Love

(Academy) Used LP $30.00

Dazzlingly good Nigerian rock music from the 1970s with ear-singeing guitars (caked in fuzztone sustain and wah-wah effects) by a bunch of Nigerian teenagers inspired by Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck and Led Zeppelin who thought they were doing it for themselves and then became hometown stars in Lagos. Sweet harmonies, wailing fuzz guitar, virtuoso drumming, a classic of Afro-rock. 2008 reissue

OGROB

Ein Geisteskranker Als Künstler

(Ronda - RND11) CD $12.00

(Ronda - RND11) Used CD $6.00

Fourteen mesmerizing, nerve-wracking tracks from the archives recorded 1994 to 2006 by noise guitarist and founding member of French-Romanian experimental post-punk trio Sun Plexus 2. Guitar, bass, cymbal, analog synth, and misappropriated objects (45s, radio tube, “a person ‘trapped’ as drowsy” during Regreb and Ogrob’s Temple Of Rock installation) deliver ghostly visions from the depths of dark and wet caves. Expect nothing less from this member of Foi Pour Pusillanime, French Doctors, l’Autopsie A Révélé Que La Mort Etait Due A l’Autopsie, Le 9900, and Micro_penis.

MASAHIKO OHNO

Destroy Ohno Monsters 2

(Works Fatagaga) Used CDR $10.00

The 21-minute “Hose By Hose,” recorded live 2007 at Fukugan Gallery, Osaka. Chipboard foldover with inner paste-on credits.

TIM OLIVE / FRITZ WELCH

Sun Reverse The Footpedal

(Evolving Ear) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Tim Olive (guitar) and Fritz Welch (percussion) scratch and gnaw each other on this improvised collection of works” from 2004, according to All About Jazz. “A dry and somewhat stark or uninviting scenario.” Letterpress printed chipboard jacket.

PAULINE OLIVEROS

Alien Bog / Beautiful Soop

(Pogus) Used CD $18.00

Two long tracks of emotionally stunning electronic music from the 1960s, “revolutionary … in [its] use of tape delay and heterodyne techniques, coupled with experimental use of combination tones and supersonic frequencies, presaged techniques now being explored digitally.” The brain-eclipsing “Alien Bog” is a masterpiece of electronic tone squelch. Only an excerpt of this had been previously issued, while “Beautiful Soop” is released here for the first time. During her first year at The Tape Music Center at Mills College in Oakland, Oliveros utilized the original Buchla Box 100 series and her tape delay system. From 1997

PAULINE OLIVEROS

Electronic Works 1965-1966

(Paradigm Discs) Used CD $12.00

Three live experiments, which at the simplest level use either an array of oscillators and filters, or a mixer and one spool of tape feeding a series of (variously set up) stereo tape machines. Long delay lines, pile ups of noise and rich sonorities are the stuff of this music. “1 Of IV” and “Big Mother Is Watching You” from University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio, 1966 (the former previously released in 1967 on Odyssey, the latter previously unreleased piece, along with one more from San Francisco Tape Music Center 1965, first released in 1977 on the 1750 Arch Records’ New Music For Electronic And Recorded Media.

PAULINE OLIVEROS

Four Electronic Pieces 1959-1966

(Sub Rosa) Used CD $25.00

Early and definitive contributions to tape and electronic music finely displayed here — Oliveros’s systematic exploration of electronic sounds, which was fundamental to this period. If ‘Mnemonics’ prefigures her meditative and breathing pieces, ‘V of IV’ structures sound as noise, ‘Time Perspectives’ is her first variations on silence, an ambitious four-channel work made by recording small sounds from objects resonated on a wooden wall, changing the tape speed, using cardboard tubes as filters by inserting the mic into them and a bathtub as a reverberation chamber, while ‘Once Again’ develops a wild energy that out-strips itself.

PAULINE OLIVEROS

Tara’s Room — Two Meditations on Transition and Change

(Deep Listening) Used CD $10.00

Two tracks previously released on cassette in 1987: “The Beauty of Sorrow” (small accordion tuned in just intonation, Lexicon delay processors) and the title track, a multi-track recording with all materials played and sung by the composer. 2004 reissue.

OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL

Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One

(Chunklet) Used 2xLP $22.00

An imploding masterpiece from 2011 that teeters on the cliff’s edge between genius and madness, and tears at the seams between pop transcendence and noise radicalism. Teenage symphonies to God rest uneasily alongside musique concrète-styled tape pastiches. Includes download card that gets you bonus material with B-Sides, unreleased and live material, and tracks from the rare Black Swan Network seven-inch. Sealed.

JOHN OLSON / ORGONE CINEMA

Doomsday For Madman

(American Tapes) Used Cassette $75.00

Collaboration backed with the lone Wolf Eye solo. Hand-made paintings glued to outer box, plus standard American Tapes spatter-style spray paint. From 1998. c90

JOHN OLSON / C. SPENCER YEH

Live at Kathy’s B-Day

(Rococo) Used LP (one-sided) $6.00

Previously released on Delwar Showdown (American Tapes 2006) Silkscreened jacket. Numbered edition 105/200

OLYMPIC SHIT MAN

Supercharge

(Harbinger Sound) Used 2xLP $20.00

“Prime mid-’90s noise muck” is how our comrades at Idwal Fisher describe this short-lived collaboration between Andy Bolus (aka Evil Moisture) and Mark Durgan (aka Putrifier and participator in Nihilist Assault Group). Originally released on cassette in 1995 by Macronympha’s Mother Savage imprint, Harbinger Sound’s vinyl reissue adds live recordings from 1994 and 2006. “Bizarre as it sounds, Durgan’s well oiled noise gadgets do indeed feel as one with Bolus’s layout of v-techs abortions, toy guns, and broken things that go kkkkrrrrrkkkk, but it’s the 2006 show in Antwerp that hits the spot…. Supercharge meanwhile is alive with TV and film samples, angular noise farts, socket abuse, dustbin torture, unidentified scrape, eruptions of speaker distortion, shortwave whine, high pitched skree. The onslaught is incessant but at times gaps do appear, presumably these being when Bolus’s equipment breaks down and Durgan carries on in his own manly fashion…. To add to the all ’round madness ... you also get a decent-sized magazine of Bolus-drawn insanity….” Edition of 250.

OM

Live Jerusalem

(Southern Lord) Used LP $100.00

180g vinyl. #2039/3100. Sealed

OM

Pilgrimage

(Southern Lord) Used CD $10.00

“Beyond hypnotic, trance-inducing zen doom from 2007. Al Cisneros’s droning but melodic bass playing and mantras could be studied at a university level, combined with Chris Hakius’s explosive drumming wipe the mind clean of the pettiness of everyday life. Earth-moving riffs and dreamlike rhythms lurch forward with the inertia of a planet in orbit.” Card sleeve with quotes on back

OM

Variations On A Theme

(Holy Mountain) Used LP $60.00

Cisneros and Hakius. Three long songs — rhythmic chants, textural drive conveying flight, lyrics as symbolist vehicles to a state outside the field of time and space. Clear vinyl. Sealed

OMIT

Rejector

(Anomalous) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Admired by Prog Archives for its “evocative, spectral soundscapes full of drones textures, micro-accidents and events,” this is “a dark, glacial and gorgeous listen.” Real-time progressive electronic sounds in the tradition of ’70s Berlin underground. Sealed

OMOIDE HATOBA / RUINS

Ruins-Hatoba

(Charnel Music) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Frantic punk meets grunting sound poetry, lunatic psych, and cut-and-paste prog rock on this early ’90s collaboration by Masuda Ryuichi and Yoshida Tatsuya of Ruins, and Omoide Hatoba’s Atsushi Tsuyama, Chu Hasegawa, and Seiichi Yamamoto.

THE ONE ENSEMBLE

The Owl Of Fives

(Textile) Used CD $5.00

Strangely minimal, weird and earthy, skewed folk music from a country that never existed by one-third of Volcano The Bear. As an album, it’s pretty difficult to pin down. Padden uses traditional folk structures as the basis for many of songs here. But other esoteric influences are at work here as well: Southeast Asian traditional music, acoustic jazz flourishes, perhaps even the mystical minimalism of Terry Riley, combining a strange and beautiful amalgam of (mostly) wordless vocals, stumbling piano, scurrying cello, mournful kazoo interludes, deranged waltzes, and stuff that’s totally unidentifiable with his wayward outsider music.

ONEDARKEYE

Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

(Non Mi Piace) Used 2xCD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Rodger Stella’s cut-up material from 2000, sourced from Macronympha and Mlehst.

ONGO TROGODÉ

Centrafrique : Trompes Banda Linda

(Buda Musique) Used CD $20.00

Farmers from the savannah region of Central African Republic use readymade tree roots (hollowed out by termites) for horns, similar in sound to a didjeridoo. Each one emits a single note and twenty are grouped together forming four pentatonic scales. For higher notes, antelope horns with lateral mouthpieces are used. Each player has his own tempo so the themes slide and evolve as if propelled by a polyphony of hiccups, recalling at times the cyclical, machine-like tape loops of Steve Reich. For variety the group also plays slit log drums, xylophones, and zithers. The repertoire here includes music for rituals (harvest cycles, weddings, circumcisions, the arrival of foreign visitors). From 2005

ONOMATOPOEIA

A Marble Holder From Andover

(Cheeses International) Used CD $3.00

Recorded in 1996, released in 2003. Shotar, metal percussion, harmonica, reverb spring, bass guitar, shortwave radio, polystyrene on glass, synth, found tapes “slip into noisier collage-styled moments before sidling into varied squeaky and scratchy effects, closing with some easy dancehall swing sounds.”

OPAX RECORDS

Cosmic Debris T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $20.00

Fruit of the Loom 100% cotton. Black with white ink.

DAPHNE ORAM

Oramics

(Paradigm Discs) 2xCD $19.50 (Out-of-stock)

(Young Americans) Used 4xLP $45.00

A great survey of nearly all the major pieces by one of the co-founders of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop produced since her departure from the BBC in January 1959 until her final tape piece in 1977 — works for TV and cinema advertising, film soundtracks, music for theater productions, installations and exhibitions, concert pieces, and studio experiments. Throughout this period, she devoted her attention to developing her Oramics “drawn sound” system, which consisted of a large machine that enabled drawn patterns to be converted into sound. All of the music is electronic with occasional use of real instruments, especially small percussion and piano frame, and some use of musique concrète techniques. Originally released on CD (Paradigm Discs, 2007), the LP is the third pressing on clear vinyl from 2019. Sealed

ORANGE CAR CRASH

Lights In The Space Room

(Opax) Used LP $50.00

A 2002 ambient-psych-noise improv adventure recorded at two o’clock in the morning, a one-time collaboration by My Cat Is An Alien, Amour en Stéréophonie, and percussionist Viggiu Vortex. Diecut folder sleeve. Orange poster insert. Orange vinyl. Edition of 100.

ORGANUM / Z'EV

Tinnitus Vu

(Touch) Used CD $5.00

Despite David Jackman and Z’ev’s “love of muscular and metallic drones, natural sound decay, and endless mechanistic churning,” muses Pitchfork, “this new alliance leans more toward Organum’s propensity toward maddening brevity: this 2004 disc is four tracks long and clocks in at 16 minutes…. A resounding piano chord — stretched and morphed beyond recognition — introduces each shift in the drone. Even with all the manipulations, these suspended strings carry through the buzzing din…. That metal-scratched drone is dangerous, hypnotic, brutal, and beatific.” Digipak has small but noticeable spot on the back where artwork is ripped.

ORIGAMI ROMANTIKA

Seven Inches Of Love

(Speeding Across My Hemispheres) Used 7-inch $2.00

Cover version of Sister Rain’s “Seconds From You” backed with a cover of The Velvet Underground’s “Venus In Furs,” released in 1996 as a wedding present for Origami collective members Elisabeth A15 and Tore A22. With insert. Red vinyl.

ANDY ORTMANN / BEN VIDA

Andy Ortmann / Ben Vida

(Nihilist - NIHIL72) split LP $18.75

(Nihilist - NIHIL72) Used Split LP $12.00

Analog modular synth mayhem from two perspectives. Complex waveforms for complex times.

ANDY ORTMANN

Nightmania

(Nihilist) Used CD $5.00

One seriously creeped-out Musique Machine reviewer compares this 2004 disc to Argento-inspired horror with its “sick drone elements; nerve-jarring noise; sinister rhythmic mutterings; burn-your-skin-off, seething banks of static; bizzaro samples; ’80s movie synthesizer…; bent electronics; ritual gong pounding; face forced into a sink; crippling noise with layered mix of laughter and crying…; morbid synth tones; bubbling and dripping sounds; almost dub-like bass fluttering…; looped shutting door noise or something been chopped over and over.” You know, the whole genius / madness thing. Includes booklet of track-specific illustrations. Sealed

OS MUTANTES

Os Mutantes

(Lilith) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

2000 reissue of their debut LP (Polydor 1968), which cracked open the red hot Tropicalia scene, fusing traditional Brazilian music, psychedelia, rock, a good dose of pure experimentalism, and the outer fringes of pop music. Sealed.

OSCILLATING INNARDS

Bleak

(Troniks) Used 12-inch (one-sided) $8.00

Harsh noise from 2006 by Gordon Ashworth. Edition of 157

YOSHIHIDE OTOMO

Anode

(Tzadik) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“It sounds like an avalanche. Things are falling everywhere, and sine waves howl, terribly overwhelmed by the rest of this cacophony. There are watery sound effects (probably from Sachiko M’s and Tetuzi Akiyama’s microphones), and a scummy residue from what sounds like large Asian cymbals. This is distinctly symphonic music: each part is essential, as Yoshihide has chosen the perfect arrangement, and each movement contains specific instructions for the musicians as to what they are allowed to play, and even to whom they’re allowed to listen. Conceptually, it’s similar to John Zorn’s game pieces, where the rules determine the outcome of the music as much as the actual sounds produced (at least in theory). The second half of the suite is almost a mirror image of the first, as the third movement continues the static ambience of the second, and the final movement witnesses the reemergence of the full ensemble: percussion crashing, microphones squealing, sine waves howling, and a general tumbling sensation prevailing.” From 2001. Includes obi

YOSHIHIDE OTOMO / VOICE CRACK

Bits, Bots And Signs

(Erstwhile) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Recorded in March 2000 in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where the trio generated gently pulsing rumbles, piercing whistles and lingering whines, fusing the varied sounds into a series of expansive panoramas. A brittle fabric of sound, unifying notions of instant composition with the radiating randomness of live electronics.”

YOSHIHIDE OTOMO

Cathode

(Tzadik) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Modulation #1” and “Modulation #2” play on different tones produced by sampled sine waves and shô, a traditional Japanese mouth organ. For “Cathode #1,” Yoshihide recorded ten musicians performing a graphic score separately and later assembled the piece using speed variation, tape direction, splicing, and overdubbing. The resulting work reveals a very mature composer. For “Cathode #2,” he sampled eight musicians without any preconceived plan, and created an ambient collage through a technique inspired by Bob Ostertag’s groundbreaking album Say No More. From 1999. Includes obi

YOSHIHIDE OTOMO

The Night Before The Death of the Sampling Virus

(Extreme) Used CD $10.00

Disjointed voices, a rush of sounds and then silence, almost sinister. There is a dazzling array of sound sources, intended for playback in random shuffle mode — live recordings, the prerecorded, the appropriated, etc., the common thread being the voices of the Japanese people. Notable inclusions in this area are Yamatsuka Eye and Tenko, with their distinctive abilities. Otomo is careful in his selections, leaving some alone in their spare original states, manipulating others are into a cacophonous fury, the light and dark. From 1993

YOSHIHIDE OTOMO

We Insist?

(Sound Factory) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

No rest for listener in this free-form, high-velocity opus from 1992 that stands alongside Des Pas Et Des Mois by Martin Tétreault, René Lussier and Michel F. Côté as one of the crucial albums of turntablism and contemporary music in general.

OUTER SPACE

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.

OVAL

Ovalprocess

(Form & Function) Used LP + 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Eleven tracks of flowing, textured sound by digi-tech master chef Markus Popp. This electronic manifesto utilizes sublime, low-end rhythm and directive pulsation in a manner that eases the listener into a soft and pillowy world dominated by electronic bleeps, glitches and moans. Jacket has creases; vinyl is near mint.

OVERHANG PARTY

Overhang Party

(Mutant Music) Used LP $16.00

Originally released in 1993, this 2008 LP shows the long-standing interest of Rinji Fukuoka, Iwao Yamazaki, and Kouji Nishino, plus Kunukunu guesting VCS3 synthesizer, in the avant-garde and improvisation, featuring soundscapes both beautiful and abrasive, as well as glimpses into the saturation of their more “rock” side thanks to particularly expressionistic guitar work. Edition of 500

ISAIAH OWENS

You Without Sin Cast The First Stone

(CaseQuarter) Used CD $5.00

“The one-time lead vocalist of Alabama’s Flying Clouds of Montgomery unleashes his overpowering melismatic falsetto and growling exhortations to redemption — accompanied by a primal guitar unlearned over 20 years of solo radio preaching on the Cheerful Angels shows at WMGY. It’s Pops Staples meets Hasil Adkins in an electrifying devil-versus-angel axe showdown. Confrontational, baffling, inspirational. A mainline to the Truth.” From 2006. Punched barcode

ANITA O’DAY

I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out

(Signature / Sony Music Special Products) Used CD $8.00

Ten selections recorded when O’Day was 27, singing in several different settings, including the atmospheric “Ace in the Hole,” performed with Alvy West and the Little Band (a sextet including an accordion player), while the other eight numbers have the singer joined by larger orchestras arranged by either Sy Oliver or Ralph Burns. European edition from1991. Punched barcode

P

P

(Caroline) Used CD $9.00

This reissue of the sole 1995 album by Gibby Haynes, Bill Carter, Johnny Depp, and Sal Jenco is a rambunctious stew of grunge, over-the-top dub, twisted yet reverent covers, mutant blues, faux hillbilly, oddball ballads, and space jams. Guests include Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Steve Jones (Sex Pistols). Sealed

P. CHILDREN

P.Ch3

(RRRecords) Used LP $20.00

Harold Walls, Mike Parker, and Robert Kirzinger’s “academic backgrounds filtered through the early ’90s world of RRR and SSS. Bang on an oxygen tank and slide your fingers along piano strings. Penderecki’s Children indeed.”

P.G. SIX

The Well Of Memory

(Amish) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tower Recordings founding member Pat Gubler continues the themes introduced on Parlor Tricks And Porch Favorites (Amish 2001), with nods toward 1960s folk artists like Bert Jansch, Pentangle, Incredible String Band, and John Fahey, while also exploring decidedly contemporary abstraction. Dreamlike and transcendent. Punched barcode

AUGUSTUS PABLO

Dub, Reggae & Roots From The Melodica King

(Ocho) Used 2xLP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

A pretty fantastic collection of some of Pablo’s best early material. While there is overlap with previous releases, there are some nice dubs and alternate mixes on this 2000 collection. Jacob Miller’s “Baby I Love You So” gets a superb melodica reading on “Cassava Piece,” and the guitars of “Give Praise” slip, slide, and submerge under water on “Silent Satta.” Lee Perry contributes a haunting revisitation of Pablo’s “Java” rhythm (“Dub Ethiopia”) and the outstanding and oddly understated “Black Ants Lane.” King Tubby’s mix of “Black Gunn” (led by Pablo’s ringing xylophone) is wonderfully bizarre, and “New Style” (a dub of Bongo Pat’s “Young Generation”) is rock-solid dub 101. Excellent liner notes detail Pablo’s evolution during the period and point the way to the original sources for many of the rhythms.

AUGUSTUS PABLO

East Of The River Nile

(Jet Set) Used CD $15.00

A must-have classic, originally released in 1977 on the Message label, by one of Jamaica’s canonical reggae and dub musicians. Recorded in Lee “Scratch” Perry’s legendary Black Ark Studio and mixed by the Scientist of Sound King Tubby, backed by a first-rate band that includes Robbie Shakespeare on bass, drummer Aston “Family Man” Barrett, and guitarist Earl “Chinna” Smith. This 2012 reissue delivers a nondub instrumental album — meditational with a dark undercurrent and a surreal atmosphere — that serves as the syncopated soundtrack of the Rasta nation. Sealed

AUGUSTUS PABLO

El Rocker's

(Pressure Sounds) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Focusing on the rhythms and tunes that make up the epochal King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown album, this 2000 release was the first major re-issue of the work of the legendary Jamaican musician-producer following his death in 1999. Seventeen tunes, all rare alternate cuts and hard-to-find gems. With liner notes insert.

AUGUSTUS PABLO

Skanking With Pablo – Melodica For Hire 1971-77

(Earmark) Used 2xLP $20.00

Concentrating on the early rebel rock period of the melodica master’s outstanding career, this 2003 Italian pressing gathers the best of Pablo’s recordings for producers like Lee Perry, Joe Gibbs, Clive Chin and Derrick Harriott.

AUGUSTUS PABLO

This Is...

(Above Rock) Used LP $12.50

A 1997 edition of one of the greatest collections of Jamaican instrumental music and an essential part of reggae history. With future Wailer Tyrone Downie on keyboards, Aston “Family Man” Barrett, “Fully” Fullwood and Lloyd Parks on bass, Carlton Barrett, “Santa” Davis and Lloyd “Tin Leg” Adams on drums and Earl “Chinna” Smith on guitar, Errol Thompson at the mixer, the simmering rootsy sound percolates with reggae beats and minor keys that conjure wondrous atmospheres. Many of the melodies are variations on classic songs, or, in the case of “Jah Rock” (a version of “Ol’ Man River”), Hollywood greats. The music swings across the spectrum from the classically tinged “Please Survive” to the almost poppy “Pretty Baby,” encompassing the deep dub of “Point Blank” and “Pablo in Dub” to the jaunty “Too Late.”

DANIEL PADDEN

The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden

(Catsup Plate) Used CD $5.00

“At times turbulent and at others somber,” report Bryon Hayes of Foxy Digitalis, these “tiny symphonies … incorporate elements of Eastern European folk, minimalist drone and string-laced chamber psych. The One Ensemble’s humbly haunted, multifarious tales look back to post-WWII Europe, following displaced settlers voyaging across the Atlantic toward the unknown. Cello, bouzouki, clarinet, guitar and piano all play a key role in reciting the woeful tale of humanity’s uncertain future. The most prominent and effective instrument however, is Padden’s plaintive wordless vocal…. The intoxicating brew crafted by the deft hands of The One Ensemble…, formerly a solo venture,” now a group with Chris Hladowski, Peter Nicholson and Aby Vulliamy…, “is not difficult to swallow; its complex palette is cleverly disguised with beautiful melodies and a healthy dose of hopefulness.” Handmade digipack

PAEKONG MAE’S INTEGER AND REAL FATHOM BAND

Last Year in Marion’s Bladder

(Giardia) Used LP $7.00

Neil Campbell (Vibracathedral Orchestra, A Band), John Olson (American Tapes, Universal Indians, Wolf Eyes), Gretchen Gonzales (Universal Indians, Dr Gretchen’s Musical Weightlifting Program, Slumber Party), Patrick Marley (Muckraker), Rick Smmrstck (Kanduleeni Nevagritzvi) and others kicking out jams at the HandiCraft Guild Mpls, circa 1997. Paste-on jacket with spray paint. Plus screen print

PAGANS

Buried Alive

(Treehouse) Used LP $30.00

Seven of the Pagans’ eight original single sides. Later pressing on black vinyl; cover has a small photo of the Pagans inside a record shop at the lower right of the cover, which was eventually withdrawn.

NAM JUNE PAIK

Works 1958-1979

(Sub Rosa - SR178) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Hommage à John Cage (1958-1959), Étude for Pianoforte (1959-1960) and Simple (1961) are good examples of Paik's neo-dada music, de-structuration, and irreverent collage. Prepared Piano for Merce Cunningham (1977) captures an improvised performance on a de-tuned piano (it was later mixed and edited for use by Cunningham, but this raw, straight-to-tape version was favored by the composer). Duett: Paik/Takis (1979), the only previously released piece (Edition Kölnischer Kunstverein 1979), is an improvisation on piano and voice, with Takis on his own metal sculptures. Sealed

PAIN JERK

Trashware

(Pure) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Excellent, tightly edited and meticulous high-end squeal. Insane cut-ups. Structured in the sense that it changes often and expectedly, but low on the quasi-musical elements. From 1995

PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST

Painting Petal on Planet Ghost

(Time Lag) Used LP $10.00

An esoteric and mesmerizing trip through space, minimalism, and emotion by My Cat Is An Alien’s Opalio brothers and Ramona Ponzini. Each track was recorded in 2005 at a different mystical location in the western alps, and centered around Ponzini’s Japanese vocals. Accompaniment is sparse: toy piano, alien keyboard tones, antique accordion, percussion, tape effects, and some particularly evocative acoustic guitar. The whole thing comes off alternately as deeply meditative or chillingly haunted. 180g vinyl. Letterpress printed cover and insert. Copper ink on thick handmade ivory paper. Numbered edition of 560

CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE

Negative Sound Study

(Alga Marghen) Used LP (one-sided) $28.00

Remaining unheard for thirty-three years, Negative Sound Study was composed in 1969 directly on a Buchla 100-System at the Intermedia Centre of the New York University, fulfilling Palestine’s interest in creating an enormous, sonorous, three-dimensional sculptural canvas in mid-air using electronically produced sounds. The first experiments were done with simple sine tone generators emitting pure sound waves without overtones. With access to more complex systems, it was constructed using the sine, sawtooth, and square wave oscillators in a fluid mix in which the addition and filtering of overtones and white noise created sonorities of constantly shifting timbre and weight. De rigueur Alga Marghen seam split on top edge of jacket. Edition of 290

REIJO PAMI

Dreaming Of Being A Tampon

(Ultra Eczema) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

“[T]his finnished headbanger … change[s] the tooth of time by stretching his arms and demanding a bunch of plastic horses to icebear on contact mic’d wooden tables all over the planet, resulting in revolutionary simple sound barks! No treatments, no overdubs, no instruments, no money.... Cheap tapes, open window, some walking.” With insert and judicious spray paint and sticker on jacket. Edition of 200.

PANICSVILLE

Four Notes In Search Of A Tune

(Nihilist) Used LP $50.00

Broken remains of multiple separate LP pieced together the hot glue, with the pieces angled in such a way that the needle drops off the edge of each fragment and causes a loud thud. Playable any any speed. Edition of 100.

PANICSVILLE

Imperfection Of The Organism

(Scratch And Sniff Entertainment) Used LP $10.00

Andy Ortmann and Jeremy Fisher’s crackling electronics from 2003 using turkey baster, mashed potatoes, Library of Congress tape decks for the blind, Digitech PDS-8000, Korg MS-20, Korg Mono-Poly, Electro-Harmonix Mini-Synthesizer, EH Small Stone, EH Memory Man, floor tom, guitar, electronic tabla, modified TI Speak & Spell, Maniac electronic game, modified Roland CR-5000 , Univox spring reverb, duck caller, voices. Ether-soaked beauty and a ravishing repulsiveness. Red vinyl. Edition of 300

PANICSVILLE

My Pain Is Kept In A Screwed Shut Wooden Box In A Storage Facility That I Don't Pay The Rent To

(Ownness) Used 7-inch $5.00

In oversized card folder. Pink vinyl. Edition of 100

PANICSVILLE

Perverse

(Liquid Death / Hello Pussy) Used CD $5.00

Andy Ortmann blends the natural properties of found sounds and electronics to create a truly perverse beauty, a synthesis of the classically musical with the classically noisy — feedback, electronic manipulations and musique concrète. This 2004 disc is “one of an unsettling uncertainty, made all the more noticeable by its own self-assuredness. For the listener who … likes music to embark upon fresh, exciting, dangerous journeys navigated by nervous idiosyncrasies and unspoken compulsions” and “can stomach mangled baby’s cries, feedback, water and deconstructed industrial rhythms, this record gives you all that and more…. Dirty and secretly thrilling.” Includes the grotesque yet beautiful “Convulsion Expulsion” video by controversial Chicago underground filmmaker Usama Alshaibi.

PANICSVILLE / RUBBER-0-CEMENT

Resistor / Pleasure Mechanisms Understudy

(Nihilist) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

League-of-their-own electronics by Bay Area duo beloved for their cardboard computer and ramshackle Witchypoo costuming, backed with bachelor pad birdcalls, space jingles, random blips and bleeps, and reassuring 1950s anachronisms.

PANTALEIMON

Trees Hold Time

(Streamline) Used LP $15.00

A shimmering reverie of dreamy minimalist beauty from Current 93 / Nurse With Wound / Dirty Three collaborator Andria Degens, who plays seven timeless solo pieces on dulcimer, bowed dulcimer, bouzouki, singing bowl and voice. Clear vinyl, numbered edition of 514. Sealed

TI PARIS

Ti Paris Et Sa Guitar

(Little Axe) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Beautiful guitar-playing with the minimal rhythmic accompaniment of maracas by one of the legends of Haitian blues.

ANDREA PARKER / DAZ QUAYLE

Private Dreams and Public Nightmares

(Aperture) Used CD $8.00

Reworkings and new interpretations of unreleased material from the archives of Daphne Oram, one of Britain’s most influential electronic music pioneers. Bass drones and low-key, subtly shifting throbs, sometimes with incongruous drum breaks up front.

EVAN PARKER / KEITH ROWE

Two Rags

(Potlatch - 12.00) Used CD $12.00

Rowe’s use of almost ambient noise and circulating guitar loops lay out a calmness,” notes All Music Guide, “And Parker acts accordingly, playing free but without disturbing the soul. Bits of gray noise float in…, a radio searches for a station, all the while Parker (on tenor throughout) keeps the peace. It is easy to be lulled into this music, but don’t mistake their … pacific nature for anything less than complex improvisations. In the relative quiet there is fury.” From 2000

WILLIAM PARKER CLARINET TRIO

Bob’s Pink Cadillac

(Eremite) Used 2xCD $18.00

“For those of you who agree that far too little of Perry Robinson’s colorful playing exists on record after his totally classic 1962 Savoy album Funk Dumpling & esp 1026 (Henry Grimes’s The Call (ESP 1966), your suffering has just been eased. The man is still the last word for all the clarinet’s possibilities in creative music. From 2001. Clipped corner

EVAN PARKER ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE

Drawn Inward

(ECM) Used CD $8.00

Drawn Inward adds computer musician / composer Lawrence Casserley to the Toward The Margins line-up, which means at any given moment, up to five musicians are playing live electronics, increasing the fascinating maze-like complexity of the sound that swirls around Parker’s extraordinary saxophone. From 1999. Includes O-card

EVAN PARKER ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC ENSEMBLE

Toward The Margins

(ECM) Used CD $10.00

Grating strings first clear out the rafters, shafting like light from behind a broken cloud. Parker’s soprano scratches gently at their back. Grumblings and sampled ether flutter and churn, tripping down sand-covered stairs like a creature covered with feet, so that it is always standing no matter how it lands. Compartmentalized echoes share their cubicles with shallow utterances of deeper assignments. Barry Guy’s double bass ties its strings into a tangle of self-awareness as Parker trembles within his own computer-augmented aftershocks. Like a flock of geese in overdrive, he burns in the upper atmosphere before he dares dream of land. Melody is but an afterthought to the sputtering multitudes, caught in the welcoming stare of an unwanted stranger. The overall sound is subdued yet robust. It inhabits the crawlspace of our dreams. The haunting final track lingers in our bones, long after the silence comes, animating a body whose only fear is cogency. Overall, an amazing cross-referencing of free improvisation, live electronics and real-time sound processing. From 1997. Includes O-card

ZEENA PARKINS

Something Out There

(No Man’s Land) Used LP $20.00

“Parkins’s harp has an aggressive, sometimes stinging quality,” notes All Music Guide, “In a sense, she plays it as though it’s an electric guitar, making few concessions to its more delicate ancestry. The pieces with Marclay work especially well, his vinyl selections blending seamlessly with her rich plucking. The duo with percussionist Samm Bennett comes within a few miles of sounding like a warped attempt at pop.” From 1987

ROSY PARLANE

#1-4

(Sigma Editions) Used CD $4.00

Six tracks previously released on limited edition lathe-cut sevens, plus a new live recording from Sydney 1997.

ROSY PARLANE

Getxo

(Sigma Editions) Used CD $4.00

In which Rosy Parlane reveals an “interest in sublimity, minor keys and mesmerizing repetition … like melancholy carnival music devoid of sentimentality. The repetition … mimics mechanical reproduction in that the quality degenerates over the course of the track, ending in an enveloping, ever stronger fuzz…. Parlane has shifted from relatively lo-fi techniques of construction to the digital realm of computer music and [it] is reflected in the intricacy of the tracks…, innately musical, seductive and affecting, full of quiet and not so quiet catches and hooks, so easy that the difficulty is camouflaged.”

ROSY PARLANE

Iris

(Touch) Used CD $4.00

“Parlane’s rich and vibrant pulses emanate and exude away from a center boiling over with the unspeakable,” marvels Brainwashed. “Iris sounds like the universal Om hissing in through subjective ears, playing with the phenomenology of experience, and coming to rest in the form of a vision…. “Part 2” hums and modulates away over the organic sounds of glass, chains, and textured friction washing by in an organized concerto for metal surfaces and brooms. “Part 1” rolls along slowly, almost like a lullaby, until the processed sound of white noise begins raining down over the calm…. “Part 3” is perhaps the most stunning…. The rhythmic popping and snapping mix perfectly with the organ flows passing above and beneath.” Drilled hole in upper right

ROSY PARLANE

Jessamine

(Tone - TO068) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Second full-length release by former member of Thela incorporates unconventional and orchestral instrumentation, from ambient to noise, from languid and mournful to harsh and assertive. Guests include Marcel Bear, Tetuzi Akiyama, Lasse Marhaug, Anthony Guerra, Michael Morley, Donald McPherson, Matthew Hyland, David Mitchell, Stefan Neville and Campbell Kneale.

PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES

Low Fired Clay Escape

(Carnivals - CAR003) LP $18.75

(Carnivals - CAR003) Used LP $12.00

Kelly Jones and Pascal Nichols proclaim a context far greater than the sum of their instruments (percussion and flute augmented by electronics, tapes and old military communication systems), on an album that expands the basic free jazz format with drones, feedback and zoned vocals, leaving us with visceral beauty, stark decay and translucence that inhales the smoke of martyrs and advances toward an unknown vocabulary, depicting barren worlds as lost as they are found. Edition of 530.

ANDY PARTRIDGE

Fuzzy Warbles Collector’s Album

(APE) Used 8xCD $125.00

Long-bootlegged and highly collectible home recordings by the XTC frontman. Outtakes, demos, in-studio hilarity, rough sketches with different lyrics, remarkably less lush than the produced official versions, dominated by Partridge’s gnashing guitar and frantic drum machine that resembles a bicycle that has to go faster and faster or the wheels will come off (with tracks from the ’90s on sounding cleaner and less agitated). Does not include the bonus ninth disc, Hinges.

THE PATRON SAINTS

Fohhoh Bohob

(Time Lag) Used LP + 7-inch $10.00

Reissue of impossibly rare late ’60s garage-psych-folk platter. Thick paste-on cover. Edition of 300. With booklet and bonus seven-inch

PAVEMENT

Perfect Sound Forever

(Drag City) Used 10-inch $50.00

The bridge too near connecting their early scruffy singles to the more accomplished indie-rock obscurantism of Slanted & Enchanted. From 1990

PEACH OF IMMORTALITY

Talking Heads ’77

(Adult Contemporary) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Sometimes,” notes a legendary Amazon philosopher about this ahead-of-its-time 1985 LP, “you have to swallow anti-music venom and not complain about the aftertaste…. Shimmering, frightening ambience, like the sound of speeding tractor-trailers as heard from farmhouses and dirt roads miles away. Creepy, but not goth. There are some vocals, but they are mixed far below the surface of the music. It just gets under your skin!” With insert and record shop price tags.

ANNETTE PEACOCK

The Perfect Release

(Get Back ) Used LP $12.00

Reissue of maverick’s second solo album (Aura 1979), that stitches together the lounge jazz of Lower Manhattan, the Brazilian pop of Tom Jobim, Nara Leao, and Caetano Veloso, the slippery funk of War, and the shifty rock skullduggery of Joni Mitchell’s L.A. studio period. Seven extended tracks, where steel drums crosscut guitar, synths shape the hallway Peacock sings into, pop stylings are slashed to ribbons, razor blade lyrics drip from her mouth like running water, the band creates gorgeous grooves, and there’s a fourteen-minute beat poetry dissertation filled with sensual riffing and rapping.

PEAKING LIGHTS

Imaginary Falcons

(Night People) Used LP $12.00

The full-length debut from Rah Dunes’ Aaron Coynes and Indra Dunis “ranks as one of the most consistently serene and melodious missives from the Night-People stable, kicking off with an intro track full of floating pentatonic motifs and tape-delayed, crumbling ambience before ‘Silver Tongues Soft Whispers’ fashions a pop song (of sorts) out of their plodding and primal keyboard instruments, oscillator fizz, and decayed vocals. The album’s centerpiece ‘Wedding Song’ takes scratchy old synth sounds and cheap bossa-box beats to build up a strange rhythm section while twanging spaghetti western guitars and muffled lead vocals chime in. ‘Owls Barking’ closes the album with a tuneful, cosmic, new-age jam that’s beyond lo-fi but tons of fun, bringing to mind a krautrock-influenced Sun Araw.” Silkscreened card insert. 2011 repress

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

Jewels Were The Stars

(Water) Used 4xCD $65.00

Remastered from the original tapes and released in 2003 on CD for the first time: These Things Too (Reprise 1969), The Use Of Ashes (Reprise 1970), City Of Gold (Reprise 1970), and Beautiful Lies You Could Live In (Reprise 1970). Includes 60-page book with photos and interviews.

PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT

Fatale

(Hanson) Used CD $5.00

Prepare to be soothed and destroyed by washes of white noise, intensely edited, cut-up, abrasive electronics, and junk sound. And completely depressed by passages of truly dismal piano, tape manipulations and drones.

PELICAN

Pelican

(Cock Of The Rock) Used LP $12.00

Raw and harsh instrumental metal from 2004. Hypnotic, heavy, per your demands. First pressing on black vinyl with silver lettering on the front cover

PELT

A Stone For Angus Maclise

(Ecstatic Yod) Used LP $15.00

Recorded during the same home blasts that produced Dauphin Elegies (VHF Records, 2008), this 2007 trio session for harmonium, singing bowl, gong and esraj is one of Pelt’s most ecstatic. Like the legendary poet / musician for whom it is named, Pelt are not hung up on the epistemology of drones. The generation of meditative trance states is as valid produced by Roscoe Holcomb’s banjo as it is by La Monte Young’s well-tuned piano. Hints of both lurk deep within the two side-long slabs here. Stickered cover, insert. Edition of 500

PELT

Brown Cyclopaedia

(Radioactive Rat) Used 2xLP $100.00

1995 album from Virginia ensemble who blend improvisation with composition, lo-fi detail, and the brute force of white noise with sullen beauty. Hand stamped and spray-painted jacket. Numbered edition 205/300

PELT

Empty Bowl Ringing In The Sky

(VHF) Used 2xLP $32.00

These brainiacs basically obliterate their other records with all-out ultra-sound radiata, including a 12-minute collaboration with rhband, the complete 35-minute set at Terrastock II, a magically resonating 17-minute slice from a typical East Coast warehouse hippie party, and finally, a new 18-minute home recording, heavy on the Tibetan bowls.

PELT

Snake To Snake

(Klang Industries) Used LP $39.78

A bold and fascinating move away from guitar to re-interpreting older material with new instruments and instrumental ideas. Paste-on front with handstamp, paint print on back. Hand-numbered edition 254/270.

PENTANGLE

Basket Of Light

(Earmark) Used LP $18.00

The third album from the original line-up: a jazz rhythm section (Danny Thompson on string bass and Terry Cox on drums); the virtuoso guitar pairing of John Renbourn and Bert Jansch; and the soaring, enigmatic singing of Jacqi McShee. Pentangle sounds unlike anything else. Released in 1969, the album is infused with complex time signatures and arresting musical arrangements — not really folk music as broadly recognized, but rather something more exotic and strange. Sitar and glockenspiel sometimes add just the right flavor, never over-egging the pudding and always refining the resulting taste to perfection with a light sparkle. Italian pressing from 2001 on 180-gram vinyl

PERE UBU

Live At The Longhorn April 1 1978

(Nero’s Neptune) Used 2xLP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)

Mainly material from the Modern Dance album, though more rocked-out, swinging, and raw-nerved than its studio counterpart. Drama and comedy flow within the modules of each song, sharpened to paranoia and sensitive to harsh realities. Three sides, fourth one blank.

PERE UBU

London Texas

(ReR Megacorp) Used CD $6.00

A hi-fi live recording of the short-lived line-up that toured briefly between the arrival of Eric Drew Feldman and the departure of Chris Cutler. The songs are economical and tightly arranged but harmonically elaborate with strongly performative and musical underpinnings, all with scary live energy.

PERE UBU

New Picnic Time

(Get Back ) Used LP $18.00

On this 1979 album, Pere Ubu shifted to a brighter, more open sound with a deformed blues ethic. Still bearing an air of disaster, Thomas’s story-songs increasingly focus on common elements of everyday life, drawing more in line with his religious beliefs. 2000 reissue on 180g vinyl, in a gatefold jacket. Sealed

PERE UBU

Terminal Tower

(Get Back ) Used LP $18.00

1998 reissue of their 1985 retrospective collection of early singles from the mid-’70s. Sealed

PERE UBU

The Modern Dance

(Get Back ) Used LP $15.00

A dauntingly seamless debut from 1978 coupling arty introspection with old-school garage-rock squall. Frontman David Thomas uses his bizarro-world warble to yelp out fusillades of angst and spin dreamworld visions. 1999 reissue.

PERREY & KINGSLEY

Kaleidoscopic Vibrations

(Vanguard) Used LP $12.00

One of the first albums released with moog synthesizer on it, dating from 1967, though this 2002 Italian pressing on 180-gram vinyl uses the alternate title and cover art of the 1971 reissue. The duo also plays Ondioline, tape, scissors and recordings of acoustic instruments to create their “electronic music from way out.”

PESSARY

Inward Collapse

(Dirter) Used LP $10.00

Industrial / dark ambient / noise / horror film-inspired soundscapes from 1991 by Neil Chaney. Paste on cover. Red vinyl

JESSE PETERSEN

I Just Collided With A Tricky Shade Of Dark

(Freedom From) Used LP $8.00

Live electric guitar improv recorded 1995, released 2001. Hand-numbered edition 92/200

DIDIER PETIT

NOHC On The Road

(Leo) Used CD $12.00

Michael Nick’s violin and Didier Petit’s cello shoot forth disturbing, unsettling spirals while Daunik Lazro’s alto and baritone saxes and Denis Colin’s bass clarinet turn conventional harmonies inside out. Three suites of three or four pieces, scratches and sublime beauty, various improvisational approaches (fast and slow, ear-shattering and gentle), no melodies.

ANDRÁS PETÖCZ / LÁSZLÓ SÁRY

Közeledések És Távolodások

(Hungaraton) Used LP $17.00

Dark heaviness with minimalist and repetitive features, seeking to reach the innermost layers of the soul and the mind. Rhythm and loud harmony contribute to the loss of standard interpretation and the blur of original meanings, the goal being the absence of conscious thinking, a state similar to meditation, to get to the content of the human mind underlying consciousness. Four-page insert poetry, notations and liner notes.

PHARAOHS

Awakening

(Luv N’ Haight) Used LP $40.00

1996 RTI reissue of 1971 must-have for collectors of spiritual, deep, Afro-centric jazz

PHARMAKON

Pharmakon

(BloodLust! - B!130) Used CDR $20.00

This four-song disc compiles previously released and currently unreleased songs by Margaret Chardiet, a New York-based noise artist known for spectacularly vehement live performances. Her one-woman hailstorm of cold analogue electronic terror is violently bewitching and pushes the boundaries of the dark and heavy death-industrial music. She is a part of the Far Rockaway experimental noise scene that includes Yellow Tears, Halflings, Hands Rendered Useless, Teeny Bopper, Tension Fields, and also performs in Throat, with Ryan Woodhall of Yellow Tears, etc. Edition of 100

DAVE PHILLIPS

Rise

(Ideal) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

“An abrasive, enthralling, uncompromising work that includes booming bass, drums, yelps, heavy breathing, clanks, slams, flies, growls, barks, broken glass, prisoners’ cries, discharged guns and protest chants. As the tempos remain constant, the aggressive intrusions remain in constant flux. Sounds travel speaker-to-speaker like rabid dogs searching for someone to bite. Dark drones enter without warning, acting as hoods placed over unsuspecting heads.”

DAVE PHILLIPS / RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK / SUDDEN INFANT

Schimpfluch-Commune Int.

(Nihilist) Used 2x cassette + CDR $60.00

Finalized at the 20th anniversary of Schimpfluch, December 28, 2006, released 2007. Numbered edition of 100. C28 + C34 + 45min disc

DAVE PHILLIPS

They Live

(RRRecords) Used LP $30.00

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

PHOLDE

Finding Internal Asylum

(C3R) Used CDR $10.00

The ambient side of Canadian harsh noise master Alan Bloor is subtle, nuanced, and warm. This collection of reverb-drenched improvisations for a steel sculpture made by Bloor (found pieces of stainless steel of different sizes and thicknesses, bowed, scraped and struck) is perfect for lonely evenings of contemplation, or as mood music in your isolation chamber. With four-page booklet of photos by Bloor and text by Aidan Baker

PHOLDE

In Accordance With Conscience

(Panta Rhei) Used CDR $9.00

“A dark, heavily moody, cavernous soundscape” says Exclaim. “One feels the sense of travelling through a series of interconnected underground caves, some cathedral-like in their echoing, others more claustrophobia-inducing…. [S]pelunking with Pholde means a slow…, cool and alienated…, sometimes spooky wander through the darker recesses and tunnels of consciousness.”

PHÔ

This Is Handiwork

(Humbug) Used CD $5.00

Bjørnar Habbestad on flutes, electronics and digitals, Morton Ohlsen on drums, and Nicolas Field also on drums play “extreme improvised noise,” according to Vital. On “It’s Benign,” “the high-pitched electronics bounce from left to right, with the drums sounded in a true cut up style. In none of the other nine tracks do they let the listener down. The sound level is cranked up, very vibrant and noisy. Certainly not improvised music for the weak at heart.”

PICKLE FACTORY

Our Pledge

(Swill Radio) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Ten songs from by Scott Foust, Karla Borecky and Mike Popovich on tape, voice, keyboard, bass, guitar. An addictive, repetition / minimal performance, recalling at times Young Marble Giants and Popul Vuh. The album “creeps under your skin and leaves something behind which cannot be dislodged,” marvels our friend at Sound Projector. “This is music that probes into unknown zones of feeling…. I know of no better way … to begin your explorations [of the psyche than] with this record.” Paste-on photo

PIGEONHED

The Full Sentence

(Sub Pop) Used LP $25.00

Soul-funk concoctions from 1997 by Shawn Smith and his mad scientist partner Steve Fisk on the duo’s second album. Highlights include the gospel-tinged “Glory Bound,” the six-string sludge of “Phunpurephun,” and the angelic heartbreak of “For Those Gone On.” Throbs with sex electronica. U.S. pressing

PIMP-AKTION SLUTGUN

Body Scrap

(Trash Ritual - TRASH047) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Trash Ritual - TRASH047) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

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...).

PINK FLOYD

Meddle

(Capitol) Used CD $5.00

1992 remastered reissue. Sixteen-page color book.

PINK REASON

Cleaning The Mirror

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $15.00

Kevin DeBroux oozes muzzy melancholia by the bucket, ably clearing house in Sanguine Manor, whose previous tenants include Royal Trux, The Jacobites, Phantom Payne, Black Vial, and other marginal inhabitants whose sticky fingers glimmer in stoned adulation. Dominated by creeping synths, stark strums and rickety percussive splats that complement De Broux’s heart-scraping vocal catharsis, Cleaning The Mirror journeys beyond any known perspective, practically insinuating an alternate otherworld where Tim Buckley’s Lorca and Jandek’s Ready For The House have been hybridized into a ripe-for-plucking masterpiece. From 2007. Sealed

PINK REASON

Shit In The Garden

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

In the four years since Siltbreeze released Pink Reason’s Cleaning the Mirror, Kevin DeBroux’s subsequent singles and EPs have been concise, individual statements, together charting an atlas of depression and the struggles with a darkness that threaten to swallow him up every day. Compressed into Debroux’s five- and six-minute songs are weeks, months and years of labor and experience, not the least of which are his travels to places where he catalyzed and received underground energies — from Wisconsin and Ohio, through Melbourne and Santiago de Chile, to New York City. Try to map out how these songs are put together, and one finds that the apparent simplicity of DeBroux’s riffs and chord progressions gives way to an epic complexity. Now that the dust is settling and the commercial concerns of a thousand “lo-fi” projects have vacated the underground for a better life in the dorm rooms of America, the influence of Cleaning the Mirror on the past half-decade is clear. And DeBroux is still here, using cheap technology, creating rich, enveloping psychological environments, giving voice to a restless inner life — manifesting drum-and-bass beats, hardcore dissonance, Ian MacCulloch’s larynx — and blooming like sunflowers amid the debris. With free download card. Sealed

BENOÎT PIOULARD / SKIN LIES

Caverning b/w Meta-Quotations / Soiled, Discarded

(Impermanent) Used 7-inch $7.00

Two home-recorded tracks by Michigan expats / Pacific Northwest beach druids. Cloudy dream-conjuring and diaphanous songcraft on the Pioulard side, with Dustin Krcatovich’s unplanned voyage through the ether on the flip.

PITA

A Bas La Culture Marchande

(No Fun) Used LP $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Pulsating inhuman sounds, minimal drone work, silence, harsh layered electronics and total death from 2007. Peter Rehberg explores infra-worlds with tool boxes and a gigantic drill of destruction. Whatta sicko, this pioneer of evil electronic music, keeper of secret formulas, creator of artificial breakdowns of space and time. Hail, primal electronic darkness. Generic black jacket with centerhole. Edition of 300

PLAGUE LOUNGE

Wicker Image

(Holy Mountain) Used LP $25.00

The recording debut of Ben Chasny (later of Comets On Fire, Six Organs Of Admittance) is a sludgy noise rock trio that also featured Brian Fulmer and Brandon Taylor. Mostly instrumental, The Wicker Image sounds like a hybrid of Blue Cheer, Japan’s Fushitsusha and the Dead C. Heavy, pummeling riffs disintegrate into washes of noise and feedback. Co-released with New World Of Sound. Sealed

PLASTIC CLOUD

Plastic Cloud

(Lion Productions) Used LP $35.00

“A swirl of gossamer vocals and Tolkien references, swathed in fuzz guitar,” originally released by Allied in 1968. Reissue from 2018. Black vinyl

PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE

Egon Bondy’s Happy Hearts Club Banned

(LTM) Used LP $45.00

Doom-laden music from 1974, based around the words of the titular Czech poet /philosopher whose work had been banned by the government. Released in 1978, the album is infused with black humor and impeccable musicianship, steeped in Eastern European classical composers and The Mothers / Fugs / VU triumvirate. Hang on tight for Van Vliet-like meters, spider-running-across-the-fretboard guitar solos that duke it out with wigged-out theremin abuse, two-tone squalls of sound battling for skronk supremacy, sinister basslines augmented by creepy violin-sawing, and reverb-soaked Brötzmann-esque saxophone excursions. Includes sixty-page booklet

PLETHORA

The Inner Workings Of The Mechanism

(PsychoChrist) Used CDR $8.00

Stan Reed of Blue Sabbath Black Cheer and The Broken Penis Orchestra channels ear-friendly electroacoustic ideas from a series of minimal, electronic installations, subtitled An Odd Tale Of Life, where creaking and groaning are set in motion in front of the listener while the composer applies various sound treatments. Edition of 50

DANNY PLOTNICK

Fields

(Holy Mountain - 1993) Used 2xLP $10.00

Seemingly under the spell of Terry Riley’s mesmerizing classic In C, eleven-year-old Plotnick engineers ingenious strategies for mental liftoff. It’s as if he’s absorbed the principles and techniques of the 20th-century American minimalist-composer pantheon and injected them with a zeal for greater instrumental complexity and melodic flamboyancy.

POD BLOTZ

Stories of Apophyllite

(Textural) Used Cassette $5.00

Haunted, mellow tape texture and pulsations, organs, voice, flute, percussion, synthesizers, and loops. Cover art by Cody Brant. Edition of 100. C20

POLAR GOLDIE CATS

Polar Night Stress

(Up) Used CD $5.00

“Polar Night Stress bounces back and forth between PGC’s ‘standard’ steady pace,” notes Vaguely Offensive, “Brilliantly chilling and almost minimalist and horrific ambience, long-form slowburns that should appeal to those Tortoise and Godspeed! fans — [without revealing any] hint [about[ its progression until its totally upon you — and then wonderfully herky-jerky … rockouts where gentle note-tweaking turns into muted scrapes and somber drumming becomes tribal.” Sealed

ERICA POMERANCE

You Used To Think

(ESP-Disk') Used CD $10.00

Recorded at the tail end of 1968 and remastered for this 2009 reissue, this densely packed album, rooted in blues-laden acid folk, is gradually dominated by more free-form, jazz-influenced vocals that usher a frantic climax. It’s a collage of fucked-up Eastern ragas, jazz, and atonal folk rock, delivered in a beautiful, raspy, feverish, drug-induced howl by Pomerance, a Canadian documentary film maker, poet and singer songwriter firmly linked to a lyrical base, with an eclectic band from a variety of disciplines. Groovy flutes, buzzing sitar, minimalist piano, bongos, sax squawk, and tambourines create a vision-drenched psychedelic stew.

POP

Album

(Tochnit Aleph) Used LP $5.00

A series of live actions from the late 1990s by Peter Rehberg and Zbigniew Karkowski transformed. 2001 reissue of CDR. Edition of 100.

POP

Work Hard Play Harder

(Absurd) Used CDR $7.00

Peter Rehberg & Zbigniew Karkowski at Electrograph 02 at the Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens in 2002. Edition of 199

THE POP GROUP

Y

(Radar) Used CD $15.00

The classic 1979 hammering together of funk, jazz, punk, and dub-reggae by Mark Stewart and his coterie of firebrands. 2013 Japanese SHM CD reissue. With inserts but no obi.

PORK QUEEN

Strang

(Scratch) Used CD $5.00

Justice Schanfarber manipulating the sound of guitar with devices and electronics. From 1995

JOE POTTS

Gift From The Dead

(Tiny Organ) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Potts’s tough acoustic solo work from 1996 involves a sensual female voice centered on an edgy noise loop. A masterpiece in which the noise carved at regular intervals creates a strange feeling of ecstasy.

JOE POTTS

Sex Machine

(Tiny Records) Used CD $8.00

Created using Potts’s bent version of the Optigan, a primitive optical “parlor organ sampler” marketed by Mattell Toys in the early 1970s. The recording additionally makes use of mixed subliminal audio. In plain while card mailer. From 2001

PRAM

Museum Of Imaginary Animals

(Merge - MRG184) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Another swirling, dreamy and joyful offering from Birmingham, England’s melancholic pop wonders. Ten mysterious and moving tracks featuring Rosie Cuckston’s distinctive vocals over a beautifully crafted blend of accordion, zither, theremin, flute, samples, trumpets, and clarinet, along with the standard assortment of guitars, drums, bass and keyboards. Engaging, original, and sweet.

PRESENT

Barbaro (Ma Non Troppo)

(Ad Hoc) Used CD + DVD $20.00

Unbelievable musicianship on a wide variety of instruments from former Univers Zero dudes who play with such proggy intensity and complexity, pulsating between all-out mayhem and quiet pensive passages, it demands a commitment to focus and concentration. The DVD is just under three hours long and has segments from a 2007 RiO festival in France, a 2006 art rock festival in Portugal and archival videos. Sealed

MÁTYÁS PRIBOJSZKY

Citeraszó — The Sound Of The Zither

(Qualiton - SLPX 16602) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Late ’70s folk music. Dance melodies of the Hungarian plain and two flower songs.

PRICELESS RED SKELETON

Class Of 1491, The Earth Is Flat

(Arbitrary Signs) Used LP (one-sided) $25.00

“Many are the moments where compressed blarnt by Pete Noland (turntable, guitar blurs) and drummer Randy Sutherland congeals into a violins-and-waterfalls wail; you can’t tell who’s doing what or how they’re doing it.” Paste-on photocopy, recycled jacket.

PROFÁN

Pro Pátria

(Hungaropop) Used LP $10.00

Progressive folk from Hungary 1987

PROJECT W

Obliquity

(Shrat) Used LP $7.00

Recorded live at the Moore Theater, Seattle, in 1998 opening for Sonic Youth. Edition of 300. Silkscreened jacket.

PROJECT W

Snake Legs

(Apraxia) Used 7-inch $3.50

Three tracks from 1995 by Wally Shoup (alto), Brent Arnold (cello), and Ed Pias (drums). Silkscreened sleeve

THE PROLETARIAT

Indifference

(Homestead) Used LP $40.00

Anomalous hardcore from mid-’80s Boston — angular, layered, nuanced.

PROOF OF UTAH

A Dog A Dodo & A Fool

(Smiley Turtle) Used LP $22.00

“From Bowling Green, Ohio, and led by the legendary Louie and Bosco team,” explains Duckberg Times, “Proof of Utah wanders from Bonzo Dog Band land to the piano musings of Satie, with whimsical lyrics from mad coffeehouse and beat mutterings undertowed with fringes of psychosis. Under no constraint nor stylistic groove, this record is a continuing justification for homebrew recordings.”

PRURIENT

Baron’s Chamber

(Nihilist) Used CD $15.00

“A throbbing slab of low-slung static and burnt out vocals,” observes Evol Kween The Musical. This single thirty-minute track from 2005 features “distinct ‘movements’ weighed down in a sludgy and hopeless atmosphere [where] washes of classical waltz drift in and out at odd intervals, creating a sentimental and kind of creepy contrast to the relentless fuzz…. Vocals take a back seat [sourced though they are from the writings of Jean Feraca], and are well disguised within everything else that’s going on.” Sealed

PRURIENT / WILT

Blood of the Lamb

(BloodLust!) Used LP $60.00

Dark and menacing power electronics with harsh vocals. Strange and dissonant dark ambient soundscapes. Meandering noise excursions. Dirty and atmospheric. Silver-printed hand-cut folder cover. Numbered edition 12/100, with poster.

PRURIENT

Cocaine Death

(Hospital - HOS232) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Cocaine Death is a collects three of Prurient's limited edition 10-minute cassettes -- a triptych exploring the relationship between futile pleasure, substance and escape (escape being a myth): “Cocaine Death” is based on the glamor and destruction of toxic nightlife, and features guest vocals from FFH); “Caribbean Overdose” explores a different but strangely direct topic of the sexual reproductive life of plants; “Tylenol Murders” expands on the sounds of the others to further limits of cracked static, strained vocals and strange melodic loops. For the diehards, two unreleased tracks of Prurient are included. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2008.

PRURIENT / SUTCLIFFE JUGEND

End of Autumn

(Hospital) Used 2xLP $13.00

Live collaboration from 2006 by Kevin Tomkins, Paul Taylor and Dominck Fernow. Lyrics appropriated from death poems by Japanese monks.

PRURIENT

Pleasure Ground

(Load) Used LP $35.00

Hypnotic, uncomplicated black din with bruising screams from 2006. Sealed

PRURIENT

Pleasure Ground

(Hospital) Used 2xLP $25.00

2016 reissue of 2006 cassette. Four 11-minute tracks. Hypnotic, uncomplicated. Sealed

PRURIENT

Shipmaker's Diary

(Groundfault) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

For those who have grown immune to regular dunkings in steaming cauldrons of hot tar and hydrochloric acid (as pleasant a homeopathic remedy for ailments of the skin as they may be), Dominick Fernow sloshes 33 minutes of unbelievably thorny, hard-scouring noise, adding a new chapter to the Total Pain, Instant Death playbook. Here, the high-concentration electronic defects of Wolf Eyes meet the stroboscopic rainbows of distorto-screech that the Load Records crowd takes their shirts off for.

PRURIENT

The History of Aids

(Hospital - HOS079) Used 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. Sealed

PRURIENT

Wrapped In The Flame Of Illusion, Masked In The Clay Of Behavior

(Dais) Used 2x7-inch $8.00

Four compositions best framed as “ambient power electronics,” recorded within the bleak transitional period immediately prior to the Bermuda Drain sessions. This release captures Prurient at its most vulnerable and sedate, reflective and rapt. One orange platter, one purple. Cover art by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Number 199 in edition of 500

PSI COM

Psi Com

(Mohini) Used LP $500.00

Original 1985 pressing (half of which had to be destroyed due to warpage) of the only album by the band that spawned Jane’s Addiction. The album eases in and out of tribalistic rhythms (percussion includes hubcaps and car engine blocks as well as more conventional drums), psychedelic influences, and odd moments of introspection, with allusions to American Indian culture, Hindu mysticism and Aleister Crowley’s system of tarot.

PSYKICK WITCH / SLOTH

Sloth / Psykick Witch

(Independent Woman) Used split CDR $10.00

Psychedelic sludge and bleak industrial power-rock. Numbered edition 17/25 in screen-printed sleeve.

PUFFY AMI YUMI

An Illustrated History

(Bar/None - BRNCD128) Used CD $6.00

Infectious J-pop from 2002. Punched barcode.

PULP

Vol. 3 #7

(Viz) Used magazine $10.00

“Strain” by Buronson, illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami; “Dance Till Tomorrow” by Naoki Yamamoto; “Hearbroken Angels” by Masahiko Kikuni; “Black & White” by Taiyo Matsumoto; and “Banana Fish” by Akimi Yoshida. 128pp from July 1999

PULSE EMITTER

Compilation Submission Collection

(Synthnoise) Used CDR $10.00

“Includes all tracks through 2007 except those that were vinyl sides, recorded live, excerpts from existing releases or on joke compilations, some of which never came out.”

PULSE EMITTER

Progression to Desolation

(Black Horizons) Used LP $6.00

“Two prog-flavored drone tracks created using home-built synth modules. Suffocating layered heaviness, dry synth hiss, oscillator click terror meets equally with beauty.” Paste-on marble-ized paint print. Edition of 300.

PUMICE

I’ll Take No Chance Near a Volcano

(Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) Used CDR $12.00

Stefan Neville shifts away from lo-fi aesthetics and noise explorations toward more free improvisational moments with a wider range of sonorities, while maintaining his outsider freak folk orientation. From 2001

BERNARD PRETTY PURDIE

Lialeh

(Light In The Attic) Used LP $15.00

2003 reissue of the 1974 porn soundtrack — often called “the black Deep Throat” — by legendary soul drummer. 180g vinyl

PUTREFIER

Trace Element Syntax

(Pure) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

“A clangorous cartoon soundtrack … at double speed through distortion pedals,” muse our friends at Subterranean. “A maniacal fun-house of mind-bending noise” from 1997 by Mark Durgan “serving up old-school power electronics since the early ’80s. Sure to entertain and drive you out of your mind.”

PYRAMIDS

Birth Speed Merging 1976

(Ikef) Used LP $25.00

This great lost black group from the ’70s put a California twist on the Art Ensemble Chicago via Eastern influences, Shepp / Sanders style grooves, and large-ensemble funk with a harder edge. 2009 reissue of 1976 classic.

LESLIE Q

Into Handicapped

(Menlo Park) Used LP $8.00

Third LP by avant-garde’s lo-fi queen, handheld recording from 1990s Olympia, WA. Treated vocals, detuned guitar. Hand-painted jacket on front, blank on the back

LESLIE Q

Presque Vu!

(Majora) Used LP $10.00

Excellent first full-length excursion from 1994 by this wandering automatic poet and a long-time friend of TLASILA.

LESLIE Q

The Casual Plane

(Majora) Used LP $8.00

Second solo album of spectacular personal intimation; hammered acoustic guitar, mantra-esque tunes, and enchanting droned vocals on top. This is a sound for many unanswered dreams.

QUADRAFACET / SPEEDQUEEN

Speedqueen / Quadrafacet

(Carbon) Used LP $5.00

Droney NZ-inspired collage of live recordings, backed with four winding, surreal space rocks with slow-moving vocals.

DOUGLAS QUIN

Antarctica

(Miramar) Used CD $20.00

Magnificent field recordings from the late 1990s made with an array of hydrophones and mics suited to above-the-ice work. A rich and spectacular soundscape.

QUINTRON

I.F. 011-011

(Bulb) Used LP $30.00

Pre-drum buddy / pre-organ recordings the early the ’90s, documenting Mr. Quintron’s brief career as a haunted house curator, endlessly playing the drum for days straight with little or no break. Much more rough-sounding and clatterous than later Quintron, the album includes drums, theremin, “mouth machine,” “spit machine,” answering machine, trumpet, and vocals. Recorded at unusual sites such as the public library, the Canadian Embassy, and the cavernous Milk of Burgundy. Clipped corner

QUINTRON AND THE VIOLENT HORDES OF NATURE

Jam Skate

(Rhinestone) Used LP $20.00

“It’s easy to get caught up in the surface weirdness of Quintron records — the low-tech sound, the strangely innocent vibe. Just as hip-hop albums often include skits, so does this one, and when he turns his attention to punk, covering Kajun SS’s “Drug Problem,” he keeps the hardness while keeping it Quintron.” Photocopy paste-on jacket. From 2007

R.O.T.

R.O.T.2

(Veglia) Used CDR $4.00

“Lonely chord organ / accordion / hurdy gurdy grinds away on one or, at most, two chords” while “electric guitar picks out notes in the … haze,” says Blastitude. “Some of it is quite melancholy and indigo in mood.” Disc in plastic box with tape-on name and title. From 2001

RABID RABBIT

Rabid Rabbit

(Interloper) Used LP $10.00

Mike Tsoulos, Andrea Jablonski, Gregg Prickett, and Arman Mabry weave arrangements of doom, rock, and jazz, always with the heavy low-end groan of dual bass. Silkscreened jacket, silkscreened tar-paper wraparound, wax seal.

RAD WASTE

Cooking and Nothingness

(Happy Squid) Used LP $5.00

Two members of Urinals and 100 Flowers (John Talley-Jones and Kevin Barrett) and four drummers “on the dividing line between post-punk and early alternative rock” with an “independent and freewheeling spirit.” From 1986. Jacket has clipped corner

RADIO/GUITAR

Thrum

(Table Of The Elements) Used LP (one-sided) $8.00

Fantastic music and noise from 2004 utilizing radio sound and electric guitar as realized by artists Peggy Ahwesh and Barbara Ess respectively. “Thrum sifts through detritus and stumbles on another dimension. It may be a house of the spirits or a tower of Babel in some far insect realm. It doesn’t matter. What makes this record remarkable is its fresh sense of absence, its longing for meaning and the ingenuity with which that longing is expressed.” Clear vinyl

RAIN

Sediment

(Metonymic) Used CD $15.00

First release by the trio of Peter Stapleton (drums, synth, radio), Kim Pieters (bass, organ, drums, vocals) and Danny Butt (guitar, amplifier, synth) that sends you floating on a magic carpet over the city via filmic improvised drones. From 1995

MA RAINEY

Those Dogs of Mine

(Monk) Used LP $12.00

Classic blues recorded in Chicago, December 1923 to August 1924 accompanied by Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders. From 2010

RAKE

Rake Is My Co-Pilot

(VHF) Used LP $10.00

“Thin the Herd” backed with “Motorcycle Shoes,” two side-long compositions comprised of various recordings stitched together. Vaguely Offensive notes that the A-side “starts out with sketches of feedback and buzzing ambience, slowly building into guitar / drums / bass, slipping back into noise, and then springing forward into more amped-up instrumental rock with an improv jazz edge,” whereas the B-side “kicks off with a long-form punk-ish jam, followed by interstitial noise and eventually concluding on a minimalist, stoned play-out of a beat, a heavy bass, and a tip-toeing melody.” From 1994. In spray paint and glitter jacket.

LES RALLIZES DENUDES

77 Live

(Fucked Up And Naked) Used 2xLP $65.00 (Out-of-stock)

The wailing and screeching guitars here are the true embodiment of a life-changing assault upon the ears by one of the most distinctive and unique sounding rock bands ever. Instead of building tension, Live 77 dissipates it. These amplified drones turn into atmospheric psychedelia at high volumes, while bass and drums plod away at an irresistible relaxing groove — bare and minimal with repeating basslines, and unpredictably brief vocal appearances. Look here if you’re curious about the groundwork for Fushitsusha, Boredoms and Acid Mothers Temple. Paste-on photocopy cover. Sealed

LES RALLIZES DENUDES

Live 1972

(Over Level) Used CD $15.00

Early handheld audience recordings of fine Japanese rock psychedelia from 1972 (or 1974 or 1976, according to discogs). Frequently compared in sound and spirit to the Velvets and The Dead, for this slogged-out set Hawkwind comparisons may be more appropriate. Play it loud enough and you’ll think you are there, holding the mic. Six tracks: “Field of Artificial Flowers,” “More Deeply Than the Night,” “White Waking,” and untitled improvisation, “Ice Fire,” and “The Last One.”

LES RALLIZES DENUDES / TAJ-MAHAL TRAVELLERS

OZ Days Live 1973

([ no label ] - 561-XLB) Used LP $60.00 (Out-of-stock)

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. Sealed

RAMLEH

Hand of Glory

(Harbinger Sound) Used LP $40.00

“A tangled clog of aggressive noise, voice, and throttled distortion” from the early 1980s. Edition of 200 reissue from 2008

RAMLEH

Homeless

(Freek) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

One of Mundy and Best’s most lumbering and intense. With Anthony di Franco and Stuart Dennison from Skullflower, Homeless is denser and freer with unrelenting drum work and unbridled stringed chaos.

RAMLEH

We Created It, Let’s Take It Over Vol I

(Pure) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

1995 CD reissue of “Suction,” “Throatsuck,” “Deathtoll,” and “Ramleh,” from 31/5/1962 – 1982 cassette (Broken Flag 1982); “Emaciator,” “Onslaught,” and “Phenol,” from Onslaught cassette (Iphar 1982); and “Fistfuck” from Live New Force cassette (Broken Flag 1983).

RAMLEH

We Created It, Let’s Take It Over Vol II

(Pure) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

1995 CD reissue of “McCarthy,” “Purge,” “Drancy,” “Korpolagnia,” “A Return To Slavery,” “Nordhausen,” “New Force,” and “Phenol,” from cassettes and vinyl previously released in 1982 and 1983.

RAMLEH

We Created It, Let’s Take It Over Vol III

(Pure) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

1995 CD reissue of “Squassation,” “Prossneck,” “The Handy of Glory I,” and “The Hand of Glory II,” from The Hand of Glory seven-inch (Broken Flag 1983), plus a previously unreleased fifteen-minute track recorded live at The Roebuck.

HAL RAMMEL

Like Water Tightly Wound

(Crouton) Used 10-inch $10.00

This 2007 platter from Rammel’s series of solo Sound Palette studies captures the nuances of the intriguing instruments invented and built by the man himself — as curious for their sounds as they are as artifacts — finely crafted wood and metal devices one would expect to find in an obscure section of a museum. Melodic and buzzing with texture, these Sound Palette recordings represent an overview of artistic endeavor, ranging from electro-acoustic theory and practice, to sculpture and craftsmanship. With photographic print, liner notes, antique-themed 78 record package. Edition of 300

LEE RANALDO

From Here To Infinity T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $100.00

Screen Stars. Cotton/Polyester 50/50. Black with red ink. Design by Savage Pencil. From 1980s

RAPOON

Errant Angels

(Soleilmoon - SOL34) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Hypnotic, otherworldly ethno-ambience recorded live in the studio at UK pirate radio station ICE-FM.

RAPOON

Fallen Gods

(Staalplaat) Used CD $10.00

Throaty intonations, woodwinds, repetitive rhythms, tabla loops, choral synth waves. A transcendental sound odyssey from 1994.

RAPOON

Recurring (Dream Circle)

(Soleilmoon - SOL11) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Three remixes of tracks from Dream Circle (DOVe 1992) plus then-new 1996 recordings.

RAPOON

The Fires Of The Borderlands

(Release) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Malevolent minimalism from 1998. Mechanical repetition, deep drones, sinister synth washes.

RAPOON

The Kirghiz Light

(Staalplaat - STCD097) Used 2xCD $17.50

Formerly of Zoviet France, Robin Storey blends Eastern rhythms and trance with harsh beats and percussion on this 1995 release.

RAPOON

Vernal Crossing

(Staalplaat - STCD082) Used CD $12.00

Mind-bending tapestries of minimalistic percussion patterns and quasi-melodic drones from 1993, fused with doses of white noise.

RAS MICHAEL & THE SONS OF NEGUS

Rastafari Dub

(ROIR - 8251) Used LP $10.00

1999 reissue of this early ’70s Nyabinghi rarity, bordering on religious frenzy, occultism, voodoo, black magic and mysticism. With Peter Tosh, Tommy McCook, Robbie Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chung And Earl “Chinna” Smith.

THE RASS-ES

Experience

(Get Back ) Used LP $12.00

2002 reissue of this 1979 roots reggae charmer by the legendary Prince Lincoln and crew.

READING RAINBOW

Prism Eyes

(Hozac) Used LP $15.00

Hazy, undefined nostalgia, rose-colored 1960s pop sounds, feisty punk attitude, hollow-bucket beats, screw-loose guitar rattle, and canyons of reverb. Sealed

TOM RECCHION

Proscenium

(Elevator Bath) Used LP + 7-inch $20.00

This subtle and remarkably controlled collection of atmospheres mostly began life as music for filmmaker / puppeteer Janie Geiser’s play Invisible Glass, an adaptation of Poe’s William Wilson. Rich and surprising compositions that create a sound world intended to drench theater-goers from the moment they enter until their departure. 180-gram vinyl. Include download card. Sealed

RED MONKEY

Make The Moment

(Troubleman) Used LP $6.00

Political rants, melodic appeal and rhythmic post-punk aggression torn through with the accessibly fractured vigor of Gang of Four or the Fall. From 1998

REDGLAER

American Masonry

(Anarchymoon) Used CD $2.00

“Recorded in an enormous warehouse in Tulsa where Bob Bellerue used the structure’s natural resonances to bolster whatever kind of damage he’s applying,” says Outer Space Gamelan, this “great slab of computer-generated and cement-slapped spectral waft [is] a dark grey cloud of fear and tension…. The other track is an angrier whack of synth-induced squalor, careening from the right side of the brain to the left, gently washing away only to roar back for a screaming finale. Excellently executed spaced, outer-reaching drone.” In chipboard, letter-pressed jacket

EUGENE B REDMOND

Poetic Excursion

(Ikef) Used LP $10.00

Righteous poetry and jazz recorded live in the studio in the early 1970s. Redmond introduces his work, and moves into dramatic recitations backed up by small combo jazz instrumentation that includes guitar, percussion, and soprano sax. The feel is open and free, almost an African-American take on the beat poetry style of late ’50s San Francisco – but with themes and style that puts this in the same sphere as Camille Yarbrough, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Robinson, and even Iceberg Slim. 2001 reissue

REDWOUND

Dark Bog Blaze

(Anarchymoon) Used LP (one-sided) $3.00

“Abstract electronic collaboration from 2008 by Redglaer and Circuit Wound, less about frantic power and more about meticulous left-field exploration.” Silkscreened cover and platter B-side.

DJANGO REINHARDT

Djangology

(Giants of Jazz) Used LP $7.00

Italian pressing from 1984, subtitled “The Golden Years With Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Dicky Wells, Bill Coleman, Rex Stewart, Barney Bigard.”

RELIGIOUS KNIVES

Luck b/w In The Black

(Heavy Tapes) Used LP $3.00

“Drone oriented mysticism and deep, slow-burning grooves by Mike Bernstein and Maya Miller of Double Leopards, with beats pounded out fantastically by Mouthus’s Nate Nelson. One side of downbeat march with fantastic keyboard tones which develops into an almost spaghetti western sunset vibe when the melodica comes in, backed with a scorching full-on lock jam of dark psych driving force.”

REMNANTS

Marred by Time

(Crisis of Taste) Used LP $12.00

“A distinctly compositional, even cinematic, approach to textural nether-music by Ryan Marino from 2018, underpinned by lessons drawn from chance-based and durational neo-classical methodology. Reccurring, skeletal piano motifs, smothering electronics and granular loop collapse. Numbered edition of #265/300

REMORA

The Clockwork Ammonite Shells

(Worry) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Soaring analogue tape and synth explorations from 1997 by Ian Middleton

JOHN RENBOURN

Another Monday

(Earmark) Used LP $12.00

Renbourn’s second album of excellent folk-blues, virtuosic and full of heart and imagination, open to influences from jazz and world music, though not as much as in many subsequent efforts. His inclination toward early music is evident on “Ladye Nothinge’s Toye Puffe” and “One for William,” the latter of which also features oboe. More typically, though, he drifts into the blues idiom, two of the standouts being his interpretation of the oft-covered “I Know My Babe” (more frequently titled “I Know You Rider” when recorded by other artists) and his bottleneck playing on “Nobody’s Fault but Mine.” For Pentangle fans, the album is especially interesting for the recording debut of Jacqui McShee as accompanying vocalist on three numbers. Twenty-eight minutes. 2002 reissue

JOHN RENBOURN

The Lady And The Unicorn

(Earmark) Used LP $12.00

Medieval and early classical pieces interspersed with the expected folk material (keyboard works from the Fitzwilliam virginal book (transcribed for guitar) stand alongside traditional tunes such as “Scarborough Fair,” which turns up as part of an eleven-minute track that also incorporates “My Johnny Was a Shoemaker”). Reissue from 2003

REND

Proberta Gerber

(Pure) Used CD $5.00

“Psychedelic, organic, dynamic” is how Jason Kushnir sums up this 1996 disc. “Spacious, rolling reverberations swirl majestically around a full spectrum of waterlogged frequencies. Low-end, mild-mannered oscillators offer themselves up to ultrasharp, salivating upper-register incisors.”

CHRISTIAN RENOU

Fragments and Articulations

(Groundfault) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Fragments and Articulations solidifies Renou’s transformation from dark ambient post-industrial figure to outright experimental soundsmith. The album presents three long works of sound art (between 19 and 25 minutes), each one developed out of a short sound source. The initial source becomes an excuse to unfold rich tapestries of articulated sounds and textures, like a magic hat trick. From 2002

REPEAT

Pool

(Cut) Used CD $7.00

“An album of haunting delicacy,” says Ampersand And Etc., “[S]low pulses, fading resonances, soft clicks and white noise shudder/beats…. [R]estrained and subtle minimalism.

REPEAT

Repeat

(Cut) Used CD $7.00

“Layers of metal-on-metal percussion,” The Wire informs us, “Chugging tape loops, real drums and scrawny, bodiless guitar in a series of semi-improvised sound snatches…, organize[d] into hypnotic yet resolute rock blasts.”

REPEAT

Select Dialect

(Cut) Used CD $6.00

Neutered percolations search for toeholds as they ascend cliffs toward absolute oxygen deprivation. Elastic pika bubbles swell and deflate, creating a terrain like a diagonal pachinko machine heated by sulfur. The first elevator in Europe arrives in the marble-floored lobby of a palatial hotel as toastmasters from every banquet ever held saunter out of the past to drink once again to the health of ostriches with steel drum skulls.

REPEAT

Temporary Contemporary

(For 4 Ears) Used CD $12.00

“Seven untitled tracks concentrating on the interplay of Nakamura’s self-sampling and solo (unconnected) mixing desk operations and Kahn’s percussion and sampling,” says Freq. “Their methodology for each track is essentially the same, building loops from fragments of percussion or feedback from the mixer, and taking the process from there, layering slow accretions of half-abstracted sounds into constructions of contemplative repetition and harmonic counterpoint and rhythmic interaction. There is quite a ceremonial aspect to the resulting music…, with a simple electronic squeak, subterranean bass motif or a ringing piece of struck, resonant metal making for an ear-catching point of entry into each piece.”

THE RESIDENTS

Snakey Wake

(Secret) Used LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

One track, “Lament,” recorded live in 1987 in tribute to their lost friend and collaborator Philip “Snakefinger” Lithman, who died of a heart attack while on tour with The Vestal Virgins, backed with the studio version, previously released as a fan-club-only CD. Black vinyl. Edition of 300

RESIDUAL ECHOES

Phoenician Flu And Ancient Ocean

(Holy Mountain) Used CD $4.00

A seething mish-mash of psychedelia, krautrock and free-noise — absolutely staggering material that sounds like everything and nothing, baby.

RESINEATORS

Resineators

(Cheap Date) Used LP $10.00

Scrappy, garage-y, backglass-shattering debut from San Francisco’s kings of primal panic pummel, featuring dominant big man David Nudelman on guitar, and base-line clank-master Anthony Bedard on drums. Everything from their 1998 CD, plus a bonus track from a live radio broadcast.

BEN REYNOLDS

Music Is The Music Language

(Ikuisuus) Used CD $3.00

“The most abstract and phantasmagoric release yet from the prolific Ashtray Navigations collaborator and bass-player for The Wow. ‘Swing + Maths’ begins with a subtle electronic trill and what sound like haphazardly manipulated hand drums. One instantly gets the feeling of being trapped somewhere on the wrong side of the solar system. Suddenly we’re transported to the bottom of an ocean, seemingly inside a pedal-powered submarine, as ‘Mother Legato’ shifts the mood. On ‘Spacious Yowl,’ delicious acoustic guitar resta atop the diluted remains of a synthetic beast’s mating call. Echoey chirps wrapped up in a gooey amorphous hum are prevalent on ‘Overcome Your Infinity (Fornever).’ Subtly manipulated tribal percussion – undoubtedly produced electronically – on ‘Curiosity’ leads into a final acoustic guitar number, the lush ‘Serial Hoper.’ There’s no shortage of whirrs, chirps, hiccups and burps in the forty-odd minutes of engaging, envelope-pushing music here.” 8pp card jacket. From 2005

REYNOLS

Rampotanza Grodo Rempelente

(Locust) Used CD $8.00

“Sourced heavily in recordings made in a busy Buenos Aires street in 1994,” reports Rovi about the third volume in the Met Life Locations Sound Series, titled after “another one of drummer / guru Miguel Tomasín’s inspired manglings of Spanish, is another fine example of the kind of blurring of the difference between life and art at which the Argentinean avant-gardists are uncannily gifted. The second track, recorded in July 2002, remixes the same street sounds into a mist of grainy drone … before a crazy psychedelic jam session kicks in [where] Tomasín’s utterly original and totally wonky drumming steers the rest of the group into all kinds of odd corners, with hilarious and wonderful results.” Punched barcode. Sealed

RHBAND

12.27.01

(HP Cycle) Used LP $5.00

Two side-long tracks from 2003 of sustained drones that charter depths above and beyond the customary haze. The humming tones and pulses gradually develop and then envelop one another, at times shifting subtly based only on your own coordinates in the room or your state of mind

RHBAND

6.20.88

(Klang Industries) Used LP $5.00

Side-long slices, recorded live at San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill — stately drone tapestry weaved together from electronic pulses, odd tone interjections and the universe-connecting Haxton hum. Paste-on front, hand-printed back. Edition of 300

RHBAND

Paris No Gesso

(Gyttja) Used 10-inch $5.00

“Fricative drone from 1996 with delay-like effects, some sort of basso continuo-like sound carved into it, overlaid with clarinet-like sounds and violin.”

BOYD RICE AND FRIENDS

Music Martinis and Misanthropy

(NER) Used CD $10.00

Acoustic and electronic neo-folk mellowness, Jackie-Gleason-inspired restructurings of works by The Carpenters, Rod McKuen, and Ragnar Redbeard, and brutal, Social Darwinist lyrics and poetry. With Douglas P. of Death In June on guitar and backing vocals, Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus and L'Orchestre Noir on bass, Rose McDowall of Strawberry Switchblade, Spell, and Sorrow on guitar and backing vocals, Michael Moynihan of Blood Axis on drums, and Bob Ferbrache on piano and surf zither.

MAX RIDGWAY / MICHAEL UNRUH

Book Of Secrets

(Alien Music Productions) Used CD $8.00

“Fantastically warped improv in which complex encrypted messages fly back and forth at blinding speed,” says Opprobrium, “An insane barrage of tonal bombast and palette overload.” Ridgway’s slinky, pointillist technique on guitar synthesizer and prepared guitar bears a strange, unique array of microtones, while Unruh bleeds notes together on bass clarinet in a worried, tangled skein of oddly pitched sounds. From 1996.

MAX RIDGWAY / TONY SWAFFORD

Shattered Landscape

(Alien Music Productions - AMP9401) Used CD $5.00

Decidedly abnormal and distinctly alien free improv duets from 1994. Guitar-synth-player Ridgway flickers into and out of sound worlds where stuttering crunches pass into golden washes and dissonant warbles morph into ringing telephones.

RIECHMANN

Wunderbar

(Bureau B - BB027) Used LP $15.00

2009 reissue of Riechmann’s only solo album (Sky 1978). With distant echoes of the Berlin School (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze) and a clearer influence from the Düsseldorf School (Neu!, Kraftwerk, La Düsseldorf), Wunderbar adds layers of harmony to simple sequencers and drum patterns. Modern, electronic pop, perfectly and permanently frozen in time. With rare photographs, liner notes by Asmus Tietchens.

THE RITA

Albert Kogler

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $40.00 (Out-of-stock)

“The shark attack theme is articulated by the unrelentingly turbulent blast of persisting density. The full and present midrange allows granular focus on the wide-angle cellular structure of surges in crackles, presenting the listener with an enveloping environment at maximized volumes. The unfurling washes of texture, overloaded moments of absolute terror and impact, immortalize what being ripped apart and drowned must be like.” Paste-on photocopy, edition of 107

RLW

Agnostic Diaries

(Black Rose) Used CD $14.00

Consisting of raw materials from 2005, reworked and processed between 2016 and 2017, Agnostic Diaries centers around voice recording collaborations that, for one reason or another, fell through or never saw the light of day. From the fragmented communications on ‘Le Ballet’ (from George Antheil’s Ballet Mecanique) to the processed speeches and deep breathing of “For Gerald,” to the less treated dialogues of “Caute!” Ralf Wehowsky uses these voices, processed or otherwise, as he would any other sound source, do not constitute vocal pieces per se. Digital sounds processed into low fidelity bitrates is also common to many tracks here. On the aforementioned ‘Le Ballet,’ they form a framework onto which computer blips and shrill, painful electronics are grafted. ‘July 2006’ feels like a continuation, albeit one with erratic reverbs, cricket-like chirps and what could even be a Geiger counter. Anla Courtis’s squalling electric guitar shines through ‘For Gerald’ clearly, alongside spacy electronics and what almost resembles a spate of kick drums, or perhaps someone transitioning from walking into running on a hard surface. ‘Monotype #6’ is another notable standout with its multi-layered fragmented voice (courtesy of Dylan Nyoukis) and stabbing horror strings, creating a complex, yet menacing end to the record.

RLW

Pullover

(Table Of The Elements) Used CD $4.00

Four German language texts by Markus Caspers expressed in German, regardless of the native tongue the various readers. On the semantic versions of the pieces, untreated vocals are permitted to appear, sometimes fading in and out, sometimes whispered and echoed, and sometimes even in a straight reading and sung melodically, while no recognizable voices appear on the abstract versions. Here the listener gets radio static, harsh waveforms, buzzes, burbles, whistles, and other unnamable treatments. Overall, Wehowsky retains the complex character of the human voice and balances the texts themselves and their transformations into abstract sound, with the possibilities and limitations of using such restricted sound sources. From 1996

RLW

Revu et Corigé

(Trente Oiseaux) Used CD $5.00

A shattered déjà vu of truncated drones from 1995, flashbacks of chirp orgies where flea-sized harpsichords and polygon-shaped asphalt flatteners get magnetized and helplessly swept between the talons of an electroacoustic tuning fork. The effect is akin to sitting in a barber chair spinning around as a ballerina with a fish head pumps it higher and higher towards the ceilings of 30 different cathedrals per minute. Slow, without an end, almost nauseating in its relentlessness, but completely lacking in bombast, Revu Et Corrige eventually settles into a roundtable discussion between security beavers, tuba rehearsals in a mausoleum, government-inflicted pigment removal from the bills of live toucans, and bowling ball races in a lighthouse. As debates go, this one rages.

RLW

Tulpas

(Selektion) Used 5xCD $25.00

A generous and wide-ranging collection of “reinterpretations and transformations” of Ralf Wehowsky’s 1990s work by Artificial Memory Trace, Aube, Ramon Bauer, Marc Behrens, Brume, Contrastate, Crawl Unit, Peter Duimelinks, John Duncan, Werner Durand, Michael Gendreau, David Grubbs, Idea Fire Company, Ryoji Ikeda, Antanas Jasenka, Eric Lanzillotta, Francisco López, Lionel Marchetti, Koji Marutani, Roel Meelkop, Meeuw, Jérôme Noetinger, Noise-Maker’s Fifes, Jim O’Rourke, Peter Rehberg, RLW, Runzelstirn & Gurglestock, Bruce Russell, Minoru Sato, Jos Smolders, Asmus Tietchens, Giancarlo Toniutti, Toy Bizarre, Toshiya Tsunoda, Frans de Waard, Ralf Wehowsky, and Achim Wollscheid. Tulpas “combines two major aspects of his work,” clarifies All Music Guide, “Pieces … in a permanent state of flux (as witnessed by the number of times RLW has reworked his own pieces over the years), and the collaborations, which provide … new material and new impulses…. Different participants received different inputs, ranging from a score to sequences on floppy disk to original sound material on DAT. The starting points range from … recent pieces (including seven interpretations of Nameless Victims) to earliest work with P16.D4…. The degree of collaboration also varies, in some cases involving several exchanges of material. When all the pieces had been delivered, Wehowsky edited, remastered, and sequenced them.” In a cloth-bound book with 40 pages of essays, notes, photos, and sketches.

RLW

Views

(Anomalous) Used CD $3.00

The P16.D4 founder’s first truly solo release, featuring four new compositions based on instrumental improvisations, using simple devices (tone-generators, percussion toys, music boxes, electric toothbrush and electric guitar) played in unusual ways. The first three tracks focus on one of the sound sources while the last combines elements from the previous three to make something else. The disc opens with a 20-minute piece of mysterious and drifting electronic tones. Other tracks highlight very tactile sounds and bring a much more live element to his work. Punched barcode

RLW

When Freezing Air Stings Like Ice I Shall Breathe Again

(Streamline) Used CD $8.00

This very quiet album from the mid ’90s “often borders on the imperceptible with silence as structural consideration,” explains Resonance. “Imperceptibility goes hand in hand with intangibility and sounds having very few referential angles. There’s a whole lot of mystery here. A half-light, a veil over a doorway to another world. Absolutely beautiful.”

ROB JO STAR BAND

Rob Jo Star Band

(Pomme) Used LP $15.00

“Deranged psychedelic underground with strong guitars, studio effects and vocals in English," says Scented Gardens Of The Mind. “French quasi-prog / psych hard rock [that] is somewhat of an enigma. Careening forward and stumbling over 13th Floor Elevators bleeb alien moves, Velvet Underground sustained vibes and Stooges-like guitar fuzz, [this] singular masterpiece is truly incomparable to anything released in or around its time (circa 1975).” Sealed.

ROBEDOOR

Christ’s Vipers

(Chocolate Monk) Used CDR $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

A blackened drone-drenched world of slime and knives and fire, dense clouds of distorted howls, a thick cloak of fuzz and buzz. From 2006

ROBOCHANMAN

Strugglediver

(Groundfault) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

This crude and harsh attack from 2001 begins immediately and with tremendous force. Handmade electronics, probably some guitar too, and Yasushi Tahara’s heavily distorted screams, varying textures -- from tortured wall flatness to puzzling metal-twisting and warped, abruptness.

STEVE RODEN

Translations & Articulations

(Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Includes Of Space Enclosed By Planes Or Surfaces CD, but this is primarily a twenty-page catalog documenting Roden's titular installation from 1997. Color photographs and essays by Steve Roden, Christopher Miles and Brandon LaBelle. Edition of 966. The disc in mint, but there's some scuffing on the back cover of the catalog, so it's listed here as used.

WAYNE ROGERS

The Seven Arms of The Sun

(Twisted Village - TW1030) Used LP $25.00

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. All eleven tracks were reissued on the Absent Sounds CD (Twisted Village 1995)

DAMION ROMERO

Feedback In A Lover’s Telegraph

(Harbinger Sound) Used CD $9.00

Two tracks, twenty-six minutes-plus apiece. Twenty-two-panel folver in PVC envelope with stickers.

DAMION ROMERO

No Information Available

(Denshi Zatsuon) Used CDR $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

From 2004

DAMION ROMERO

Plate 1 / Triad / Feedback In A Lovers Telegraph

(P-Tapes) Used CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Digital multi-track home recording; live recording from Beyond Baroque Foundation; live recording from The Smell. No electronic processing or synthesis used, with the exception of band-pass and acoustic filtering on “Plate 1.” Packaged in folded card sleeve with credits listed on inside flap and individually cut paper from a book affixed to outside. From 1998.

JACK ROSE

Opium Musick

(Eclipse) Used LP $30.00

“An eclectic 2003 collection with pieces for 12-string, 6-string, and lap guitar. The raga-ish ‘Yaman Blues’ is a stand-out, featuring Mike Gangloff (Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) on tanpura, and echoes the extended modal work on the contemporaneous Pelt album, Pearls from the River.”

JACK ROSE

Raag Manifestos

(Eclipse) Used LP $25.00

Rose’s rawest and most experimental album cuts across various acoustic styles, with a jagged and aggressive attack. “Black Pearls from the River” and “Hart Crane’s Old Boyfriends” are dense, serious assaults on the 12-string, with the intensity of the latter enhanced by Ian Nagoski’s roaring electronic backdrop. With subtle tabla accompaniment by Eric Carbonara, “Crossing The Great Waters” is another epic modal journey in the style of Pelt’s “Road To Catawba.” The traditional “Blessed Be the Name of the Lord” finishes off the LP on a calming note. Sealed

JACK ROSE

Red Horse, White Mule

(Eclipse) Used LP $35.00

“Rose’s 2002 solo debut was a bit of an outlier in the underground gestalt, coming just before the wave of releases from the new generation of Takoma / Fahey-inspired players. It balances the epic side-long raga title track against a second side of shorter pieces, including the ragged slide style of ‘The Colonel’s Blues.’ His technique doesn’t have the refinement that it would quickly find, but the compositions and performances have a rough hewn charm.”

DAVID ROTHENBERG / SCANNER

You Can’t Get There From Here

(Monotype - MONO038) CD $12.75

(Monotype - MONO038) Used CD $8.50

The works of the London-based conceptual artist, writer, plasticien sonore and composer Robin Rimbaud traverse experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. Philosopher, musician, and author Rothenberg takes his inspiration from the melodies and beats of birds, insects, whales, water, and wind.

MICHAEL ROTHER

Flammende Herzen

(4 Men With Beards) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

KEITH ROWE

Harsh, Solo Guitar

(Grob) Used CD $12.00

Over 60 minutes of the master of prepared guitar sound recorded live in Cologne on December 11, 1999, in a cold garage. An unforgiving session but also repeatedly surprising, and always eluding the classical improvisational dialectic of tension and release.

ROWENTA KHAN

Avantgarde Explosion

(Dom Elchklang) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Easily my favorite piece of the HNAS saga,” ejaculates our friend at Mutant Sounds about this 1997 disc, a “completely bonkers dada shitstorm … comprised of protozoically pulsating lopsided dollops of tweaked and dissected electro-pop remnants luridly frottaging fragments of detourned adverts, avuncular German narrators, the THX swell and sundry other tawdry castoffs of consumer culture caca … like … Sylvie And Babs cutting the rug at Asmus Tietchens’ Aroma Club.”

ROYAL TRUX

Royal Trux

(Drag City) Used CD $10.00

1993 reissue of this strangely visceral debut, originally self-released on vinyl (Royal 1988). Started as a rumor, or more likely a threat, Neil Haggerty and Jennifer Herema were C-sectioned from the belly of NYC-cum-DC scum punks Pussy Galore in 1986 and followed their inclination to explore their own musical identity, a fusion of busted licks and synth abstraction.

RTX

JJ Got Live RaTX

(Drag City) Used CD $6.00

In which the denim’n’leather metal queen exorcises every last vestige of her former band’s avant-rock influence and enjoys the 1988 she never got to experience the first time around. Jennifer Herrema’s gruff, three-cartons-a-day voice sounds more ballsy than anything at the heavily spandexed Headbanger’s Ball (leave it to a woman to correct such a deficiency). JJ Got Live RaTX unashamedly revels in authentically ’80s details: the slowly swelling synth intro to “You Should Shut Up” that sounds like Giorgio Moroder’s intro theme to Scarface; the squealing lead fills on “Are You a Boy or Are You Girl” that fly by like orange globulars on expert level Guitar Hero; the crunchy-riffed break in the middle of “Virginia Creeper” lifted straight from Scorpions’ “No One Like You”; the brief Eliminator-style techno-boogie denouement to “Mr. Wall.” From 2008

EDWARD RUCHALSKI

Moveable Sites

(Humbug) Used CDR $4.00

Soundscapes mostly sourced from outdoor locations with light treatments (looping, sampling) and arrangements. Michael Burkard’s text and voice appears on one track, and Matt Broad adds zither and percussion to another. From 2002

TODD RUNDGREN

Something / Anything?

(Get Back ) Used 2xLP $40.00

“Anyone who grew up on FM radio is used to hearing ‘Hello It’s Me’ sandwiched between, say, America and Elton John,” explains Pitchfork. But this obsessive, feature-length masterpiece, while being home to Rundgren’s most recognizable music, also contains a couple absurd, confrontational tracks such as ‘Piss Aaron’ and ‘Some Folks Is Even Whiter Than Me.’ “Elsewhere, there is plenty of extended jamming, studio banter, and, in one of the LP’s most jarring moments, a full minute-plus track of Rundgren breaking the fourth wall to teach listeners about poor production.” Colored vinyl. Sealed

RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK

Asshole / Snail Dilemma

(Tochnit Aleph) Used LP $25.00

Based on how these commentors describe it, see if you can figure out which ones hate this 2010 reissue and which ones love it: “genuinely terrifying and extremely unsettling to the utmost degree”; “frightening and disturbing and really emotionally harrowing”; “an incredibly tense, uncomfortable listen. the whole thing sounds like the build-up that occurs in horror movie music.” Sealed

RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK

Morx & Kotschlag

(Selektion) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Spearheaded by Aktionist acolyte and genial madman Rudolv Eb.Er,” explains Mutant Sounds about this 1994 disc, “These Swiss deviants … use the extended CD format … to enact a form of dadaist endurance test, exploring over one unbroken 74-minute track extremes of unhinged art abuse and glottal torture that sound like Yamatsuka Eye attacking a pack of dobermans with a toy accordion and a bicycle horn.” In a clear A5 sleeve with an A3 fold-out poster with liner notes. The CD comes in an extra cardboard slipcase.

RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK

Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock

(Nihilist - NIHIL30) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Complex compositions from 2005 based around a wild array of sound sources of a psycho-sexual nature, along with snarling dogs, drum machine blasts and free jazz hoots. Second edition of 200, black vinyl.

BRIAN RURYK

Guitar Obstacle Course

(Trackshun Industries) Used LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Dense squalls of free guitar audio-verité and spontaneous noise eruptions, spliced together with meticulous musique concrète-informed editing, Ruryk’s first full-length vinyl release collects material from various now unavailable cassettes. Littered with frantic, improv noise guitar mini-events, each seemingly recorded in different circumstances with different levels of fidelity, then strung together, layered, scattered, and interspersed with sudden pauses, other instruments and found-sound bits. Sealed

JAMES RUSHFORD / JOE TALIA

Manhunter

(Kye - KYE22) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

The Australian duo’s previous work, Palisades (Sabbatical, 2009) and Paper Fault Line (Bocian, 2011), showcases a gestural and timbrally rich music, bristling with detail and sharp edits. Manhunter stands in stark contrast — an ebbing two-part suite for waning grayscale electronics, dehumanized drum machine, amorphous vocal fragments, and sundry devices, woven together in a fabric of despair. The exquisite bleakness of Manhunter ties it to La Mutazione, Abandoned Cities, Theme From Hunger, and other great downer classics of yore. Edition of 400.

ARTHUR RUSSELL

Another Thought

(Arc Light Editions) Used 2xLP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

2013 reissue, first time on vinyl, of Point Music’s posthumous 1994 CD, a collection of tracks in various stages of completion, often sparse and direct. Appearances by trombonist Peter Zummo, percussionist Mustafa Ahmed, additional vocals by composers Julius Eastman and Elodie Lauten, plus Joyce Bowden, Jennifer Warnes and Steven Hall. Sealed

HAL RUSSELL / MARS WILLIAMS

Eftsoons

(Nessa) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Early ’80s collaboration by the late multi-instrumentalist, composer and major figure in Chicago avant-garde jazz with the sax player from Waitresses and Psychedelic Furs. Liner notes by John Zorn.

RAY RUSSELL

Live at The ICA June 11 1971 / Retrospective

(Moikai) Used 2xCD $12.00

A complete live show, other live recordings, and studio outtakes of some of his better-known material. The clear standout is the four-part blowing session suite “Stained Angel Morning,” where Russell reveals how deeply into the free jazz and heavy metal camps he really was. His stabbing, singing notes and psychotic runs up the fretboard have nothing to do with scalular architecture, but rather with viscera and tonal exploration. Even the studio version on the second disc is psychotic and unruly; it achieves all the feedback tones and affected sounds that Hendrix could get without the whammy bar or effects boxes and pedals. This is seven minutes of complete noise rock meltdown by a virtuoso playing the guitar like he’s strangling the thing and it’s fighting for its life.

BRUCE RUSSELL

Painting The Passports Brown

(Corpus Hermeticum) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

With guitar and analog tape loops, The Dead C’s Herr Sideburns creates a volatile collage of feedback and noise. The mood is spontaneous to the point of being shambolic. One of the label’s more striking releases.

BRUCE RUSSELL

The Movement Of The Free Spirit

(Smalltown Supersound) Used 10-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

Feedback generated with a tape Dictaphone and effects chain, recorded following the devastating earthquakes of 2011.

HAL RUSSELL’S CHEMICAL FEAST

Elixir

(Atavistic) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

This 1979 live recording documents a show where Russell, vibraphonist George Southgate, and bassist Russ DiTusa are joined by saxophonists Mars Williams and Spider Middleman. The tension and sweet release on Elixir, comparable to the sound of the post-Russell NRG Ensemble, uses the framed juxtaposition of individual voices and contrasting meters that seem complicated in theory, but are surprisingly natural in practice.

JESSICA RYLAN

Interior Designs

(Important) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

More “classic” in nature than her work under the name Can’t, and inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Iannis Xenakis and especially Thomas Lehn, this collection of strikingly original pieces (incorporating the intuition of folk music with the techniques of the avant-garde), recorded on a Serge Modular and analog synthesizers Rylan built herself, influenced by plants, places Rylan among these monumental artists.

FREDERIC RZEWSKI

Attica / Coming Together / Les Moutons De Panurge

(Opus One) Used LP $50.00

Brilliant early work from 1974, recorded after the composer’s free improv period with Musica Elettronica Viva, at the beginning of his investigations of more structured writing. With Jon Gibson on alto sax, Alvin Curran on synthesizer, Garrett List on trombone, Karl Berger on vibes, violist Joan Kalisch, Richard Youngstein, and Steve Ben Israel reading texts. “Coming Together,” as noted by Brian Olewnick, “melts a wonderfully undulating and propulsive score that just won’t give up with [ben Isreal’s] impassioned reading … of a text written by [Attica inmate] Sam Melville.” The instrumental “Les Moutons de Panurge,” performed by the Blackearth Percussion Group, “takes on the character of a wild gamelan orchestra, perhaps slightly tipsy. It’s utterly invigorating.” Jacket is water-damaged along bottom edge

FREDERIC RZEWSKI

First Recordings

(Finnadar) Used LP $10.00

Solo piano performed by composer/pianist Rzewski, whose “No Place To Go But Around,” originally written for a production by the Living Theater, mixes piquant romanticism with forthright modernist techniques. The Braxton piece is “a thorny number in which the performer is given wide latitude as far as what portions of the score to utilize: tempi, repetition of areas, and so on,” according to Brian Olewnick. Eisler’s 1940s composition “Third Sonata” is “a rambunctious work played with [Rzekski’s] usual drive and passion…, rhapsodic one moment, thundering and bellowing the next.”

GERHARD RÜHM

Verlautbarungen

(Tochnit Aleph - TA107) Used CD $8.00

Thirty-seven solo text-pieces, phonetic poems, and poetry duets with Monika Lichtenfeld, written and composed between 1952 and 2010 by the Austrian king of experimental poetry, founding member of the Wiener Gruppe, and spiritual forebear of Vienna Actionism. With twenty-four-page booklet with liner notes by Rühm.

SABBATH ASSEMBLY

Restored to One

(Ajna Offensive - FLAME58) CD $13.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Ajna Offensive - FLAME58) Used LP $20.00

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.
LP is gold vinyl. Sealed

SAFIYYA

Safiyya

(Kelippah - KEL010) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)

(Kelippah - KEL010) Used LP $11.00

Imagine five-hundred milligrams administered with an eye-dropper filled with mercury and you’re on your way across Brad Rose and Pat Murano’s shadowy, sci-fi landscape that reverberates like synthetic sound made into organic instruments imitating synthetic sound. It’s the music you hear after the anesthesia drip gets turned on, right before you succumb to infernal waking sleep. A fantastic blend of east and west, modern and classical. Also, your hair is on fire. Silkscreened sleeves. Edition of 300

SALVATION ARMY

Salvation Army

(Frontier) Used LP $35.00

Original 1982 pressing of the rough but engaging debut by the three-piece garage rock band with a ’60s bent that eventually became The Three O’Clock. Punk in spirit but filled with near-psychedelic guitar swirls and pop vocals, the foundation of the Paisley Underground movement.

SAN FRANCISCO WATER COOLER

San Francisco Water Cooler

(KDVS) Used LP $10.00

David Novick and Jerry Encoe (formerly of Residual Echoes melt the meters “with a palette drenched in noise-filtered psychedelia, pseudo-expressionist flurries of tube-reverb stomp loops, and pop melodies shimmering beneath a murky layer of feedback squalls.” Silkscreen covers made of re-purposed jackets. Photocopy insert. Edition of 490

PHILIP SANDERSON

Reprint

(Anomalous) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

2003 reissue of Snatch Tapes’ 1980 cassette by the king bee of Storm Bugs and Ice Yacht / Snatch Tapes, with Steven Ball (Storm Bugs) and Nancy Slessenger — originally released on under the moniker Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey. With bonus tracks.

SAPAT

Mortise and Tenon

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Acoustically packed to the gills, the octet effortlessly strums and blows breezy vibes, emitting kosmisch melodies and Teutonic ambience that channel past giants such as Limbus 4, Siloah and Lord Krishna Von Goloka (aka the A-team of Krautrock). Once you launch into the group’s spacey and entrancing (yet calming and soothing) asteroid belt, you might mistake the Ozarks for the Alps if you’re not careful. And who could blame you? You’re way up there and the air’s thin; hallucinating’s a must.

SAPAT / THE SB

Seed and Surgery

(free103point9) Used split CDR $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded live at free103point9 Gallery in Free jazz legend Roy Campbell, Jr joins the Louisville-based Sapat, while The SB collective experiments with audio intermodulation and sympathetic resonance, alternately producing strange attractors, unstable drones, standing waves, and complex fields of interference.

SARIN SMOKE

It Chars Our Lips Yet Still We Drink

(Wholly Other) Used LP (one-sided) $6.00

“Electric guitar trance-fest of long-held notes and subtle scrumbles into the dark bush” from 2007 by Tom Carter and Pete Swanson. Clear vinyl with no jacket. Edition of 308 with silkscreen painting by Liz Harris on one side.

SARIN SMOKE

Smokescreen

(Three Lobed) Used LP $8.00

“Beautiful wartime blues from Tom Carter of Charalambides and Pete Swanson of Yellow Swans — two psych rock heavyweights conducting dual burning guitar rituals, and in the process creating a dark and smoky atmosphere. Light into dark seems to be the theme throughout; bright beautiful strings fall apart as black clouds of low-end hum envelope everything, painting a picture of the ethereal.”

TOMOKO SAUVAGE

Ombrophilia

(Aposiopèse) LP $25.00

(Aposiopèse) Used LP $15.00

With the influence of Terry Riley and Alice Coltrane already internalized, Sauvage’s encounter with the jalatarangam (a traditional south Indian instrument — porcelain bowls filled with water tapped with bamboo sticks) brought her to the idea of recording with underwater microphones, and using simple electronics to weave an aquatic soundscape. Additional audio feedback from loudspeakers creates drones that sway with water waves. Uncontrollable elements such as sensitivity to room acoustics and irregularity of water movement play an important role in the unstable, fragile and site-specific nature of her music.

SAWS

Saws

(Intone) Used CD $9.00

A whacked-groove celestial takeoff to the nether-regions of the musical saw by Rick Potts, Rick Frystak, Chris Guttmacher, and Brian A. Rosser, doing their business with electronic processing, hinged-neck guitar, melodic spaced bass, squeaky synths and crackling snare and cymbal. Consider the territory now marked with a sound unlike any other progressive music waveforms.

SCENIC

Aquatica

(Independent Project) Used LP $15.00

The Mojave Desert rustles and whines through this gorgeous album with an instrumental style that is simple and graceful; this is the most melodic, upbeat, material by a Bruce Licher group. Layers of guitar clang and shimmer but the moods and timbres are more user-friendly, a long way from the dissonance that typified much of Savage Republic. Sealed.

JANEK SCHAEFER

Above Building

(FatCat - FATSP02) Used CD $5.00

Beautiful arrangements of found sound, thematically connected by their presence in the heights of tall buildings. Ambient and chaotic.

JANEK SCHAEFER

Out

(K-raa-k3 - K3017) Used CD $5.00

Turtablism in the musique concrète tradition, though Schaefer's careful, organic approach to the slowly evolving material ensures that it’s never too far away from the sort of trippy ’70s kosmische electronica. Nonetheless, the rhythmic stuck grooves and gaseous noise connect to illbient and experimental sampling genres. The thirty-minute "Construction Eight" opens with pops, crackles and rocks crumbling in tectonic readjustment, before windy drones suggest the blackness of a subterranean void. Radio signals and an unhappy choir transform into night insects. “Construction Five” takes things into outer space with a liberal salting of ’50s electronic bleeps and whistles.

PIERRE SCHAEFFER

Le Trièdre Fertile

(Recollection GRM) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

“The blips and bloops of ‘Plutôt Dynamique’ … begin to mutate, bouncing from alien ambience to something more visceral,” observes Pitchfork. “The nervous tones of ‘Plutôt Mélodique’ sound like two [passing] freight trains … before transforming … into a buzzing drone…. At times, you can almost feel your ears move in and out of focus with these electronic figures, as if simply hearing these tones causes them to change…. [The synthesized sound of] ‘Strette’ … grows in menace and velocity…, increasingly frantic before dissolving into pings, squiggles, and ambient washes.” Originally released in 1976, this is a 2012 reissue. Embossed jacket.

MARIO SCHIANO

On The Waiting List

(Atavistic) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

2004 reissue of this Italian free music rarity recorded in Rome in 1973, originally released by King Universal in 1975. An outstanding jazz outing with Schiano on alto sax, organ, and voice, along with co-founders of Gruppo Romano Free Jazz Bruno Tommaso (bass) and Giancarlo Schiaffini (trombone).

IGNAZ SCHICK

Tabit

(Zarek) Used CD $3.00

“Growling electronic bitterness seeps out of Schick and fills up the room, like exhaust fumes in a suicide garage,” comments Sound Projector. Using wires, piezos, contact mics, digital and analog feedback, mixing board noises and hiss, overdriven bass filters, distorted no-input, fast-forwarded footage, extreme high frequency manipulation, distorted ground, Tabit is “dominated by nagging, rumbling drone, which resembles the sound of an electronic outboard motor…. Tabit is a dark and urban recording, blighted with many symptoms of the evil side of 21st century life – overwork, stress, insomnia, weight problems, loneliness … recognise yourself in any of the above snapshots?” From 2000

SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICA

Kankei UFO From Zanryu-shinen

(PSF) Used CD $15.00

The third volume in the label’s Japanese Avant Garde Cassette Reissue Series utilizes prepared instruments, and rejects regular rhythms and melodic development. At their commune north of Tokyo, this recording-only offshoot of Amanita jammed endlessly throughout the ’90s, filling their performance space with the “signs of blood and feverish becomings” as a means to communicate with the afterlife, the cosmos and manifestations of paranormal accidents. With obi

CONRAD SCHNITZLER

Gold

(Marginal Talent) Used CD $15.00

A 2003 song collection from Conrad Schnitzler’s archive, recorded between 1976 and 1978, with more at play here than two tape recorders, analog synthesizers and sequencers. Digital keyboards and computer-aided musical progressions are in evidence. “Structured like a symphony in various movements, utterly abstract atonal passages are followed by solid sequences of rhythm and harmony, as energetic as Cluster, yet equally evocative of 1980s electronic pop music. Schnitzler has pulled off the ultimate balancing trick between pop and so-called serious music.” Liner notes by Asmus Tietchens.

JOHN SCHROEDER

Cults: From Bacchus to Heaven’s Gate

(Carlton Books) Used paperback book $20.00

Introductory historical overview from ancient times until the present day, discussing their leaders, practices, and teachings. Illustrated. 144pp

HELMUT SCHÄFER

Thought Provoking III

(23five - 017) Used CD $8.00

The final document from the late electro-acoustic composer who described his work as "reflections on society structures, the blindness of modern and informed masses and everyday functionalism in between civilization." His intensity of expression took Schäfer around the globe, but his recording output is relatively small, focusing mostly on collaborative work with noted extremist Zbigniew Karkowski. Thought Provoking shifts away from his brutalist electronic engineering, toward a spatialized, open-ended composition based on the muffled tones from an ad hoc instrument he built from salvaged church organ pipes and hair dryers. The first presentation took place in Graz, Austria in 2003; the second was a collaboration with violinist Elisabeth Gmeiner in Vienna two years later; the third and final performance was in 2006 with percussionist Will Guthrie and Gmiener at the St. Andre Church, where he first presented it in Graz. After Schäfer's death, Guthrie reconstituted the rehearsal takes from that performance. The bellowing hums from Schäfer's organ pipe and hair dryer contraption ebb and flow amid intermittent percussive flourishes, subtle gong overtones, sustained violin trills, and fizzling electronic mark-making. On the second track, Karkowski pays tribute with a smoldering electro-acoustic remix.

SCORCES

I Turn Into You

(Not Not Fun) Used 2xLP $12.00

Nearly 70 minutes of pedal-steel guitar tendrils, basement dust, whispered melodies, enchanted strings thrummed against haunted quiet, and possibly the planet’s single intensest dual free-crooning chemistry sprawled across four spectral sides. Housed in embossed metallic-ink jackets designed by Marcia Bassett (with a racy poem by the Christina Carter Heather Leigh Murray on the back), plus an 11x11 insert with info, lyrics, and a live shot. Edition of 500.

SCORCES

Vivre Avec La Bête

(Eclipse) Used LP $10.00

Bizarre folk drones by Charalambides’ Christina Carter (electric guitar, voice) and Heather Murray (pedal steel guitar, voice). Edition of 500. Silkscreened jackets. Sealed

RAYMOND SCOTT

Powerhouse Vol. One

(Stash) Used CD $7.00

Compiled from tapes in Scott’s own library of radio broadcasts and rehearsals from the 1930s and ’40s, all of it previously unissued and two of the performances predating the formation of his legendary six-piece Quintette. From 1991

SEA DONKEYS

Live at the Marie Antoinette

(Assaphon - ASS01) Used 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.

SEA DONKEYS

Volume 1

(Abduction) Used LP $8.00

The debut recording from 2005 by an anonymous Seattle outfit of assembled misfits, sub criminals and castaways. Fifteen tracks

SEA ENSEMBLE

We Move Together

(ESP-Disk') Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Donald Rafael Garrett and Zusaan Kali Fasteau rattle, strum, and bang bass, cello, clarinet, piano, nye, shakuhachi, and sheng. Notable for the twenty-minute epic “Stork Cools Its Wings.” Sealed

SECRET ABUSE

Hegira

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $25.00

Brutal, pensive, blown-out tones by Jeff Witscher from 2007. Edition of 110

SECRET CHIEFS 3

Le Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomini

(Mimicry) Used LP $30.00

Operating as Traditionalists, one of the seven satellite bands introduced on their Book of Horizons album Secret Chiefs 3 present an elaborate colonna sonora paranoica: original compositions that were dreamt up in the harmonic language of the giallo soundtrack, employing a full orchestral score that capitalizes on the Chiefs’ stock manpower (Trey Spruance, Ches Smith, Timb Harris, Shahzad Ismaily, William Winant, etc.) and adds to it a broad cast of A-list hired musicians (among them Laurie Goldstein, Hans Teuber, et al.). Dissonant, violent strings recede into beautiful textures with flute and female vocals through echoplex; analog synthesizers, harpsichords, and celestas hover above a tight, ’70s-style rock band rhythm section; crazed psychedelic freakouts payoff majorly; church organs grant repose, until tape treatments and a shrieking chorus of possessed voices force the listener to reconsider his or her position on the existence of Evil. The spiraling allegory extends itself well-beyond its cliché starting-point as a “soundtrack for a non-existent film.” The film is imagined, but the horror is real. From 2009

THE SEEDS

The Seeds

(Get Back ) Used LP $10.00

Of the great garage punk bands of the 1960s, few seemed like a bad influence on as many levels as the The Seeds — long hair, gloriously lamentable fashion sense, an attitude both petulant and lackadaisical, and music that sounded aimless, horny, agitated, and stoned all at once. This 2003 reissue of their 1966 debut is dominated by the fierce, drawling yelp of Sky Saxon’s vocals and Daryl Hooper’s hypnotically repetitive keyboard patterns, and supported by the snarling report of Jan Savage’s guitar and Rick Andridge’s implacable drumming.

SEESSELBERG

Synthetik I - Elektronische Muzik 1971–1973

(Plate Lunch) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Some of the most innovative electronic music this side of Conrad Schnitzler and Morton Subotnick,” proclaims Jive Time about the 2001 reissue of this self-released early-70s obscurity. “The Seesselberg brothers were clever electronics boffins who built their own synths, which obviously added special sauce to their distinctive sound. For 46 minutes two nerds revel in the temperamental strangeness of their gear, testing its parameters, and thereby drawing a blueprint for future synth iconoclasts…. Synthetik 1 starts spectacularly with “Overture (If Somebody Survives We Will Have A Return Match),” a compendium of burbling, zapping, and oscillating sounds that sets a disorienting tone and warns the listener that Seesselberg are serious about sending you to the craziest quadrants of the omniverse. The 62-second “Eintrachtkreis-Paranoia” is a staccato panic-inducer that resembles the Ronald Frangipane-composed “Fuck Machine” sequence in The Holy Mountain. The equally brief “Verhütungsfreudenwalzer (Kontinenzmusik Für Eine Akademie)” sounds like a computer stuttering a disturbing mantra. These two snippets come off like the brothers playfully fucking about with their equipment. The more focused “Speedy Achmed (Verhaltensanweisung)” offers low-key, sinister pulsations and eldritch screeches that foreshadow Throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey…. The highlight, “Phönix,” a 10-minute piece composed for a 1972 film of the same name, is a dazzling menagerie of high-pitched synth discombobulations ruptured by pulsating spaceship-door percussion, emergency-warning bleeps, and weaponized drones.”

SEHT

Dronemusic

(Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) Used CDR $12.00

Stephen Clover’s work “is about minimalism, field recordings, and still, beautiful moments. Some tracks,” say our friends at Last Visible Dog, “are outright disturbing and quite experimental, while others focus only on solo acoustic guitar … [or] demonstrate an all-too-genius use of field recordings.”

SEISHOKKI

Organs Of Blue Eclipse

(Siwa) Used LP $14.00 (Out-of-stock)

High school recordings from 1975 through ’77 by Hitoshi Matsumoto, Ikuro Takahashi, Masanori Komatsu, Tetsuya Takashio, Yasuaki Harabuchi, and Yuji Nakamura. The sound was inspired, according to one insider much later, by “what was probably a misunderstanding of minimalism…, which yielded a “wonderfully primitive approach to the repetition of minimalism with exuberant forays into wild synth-and-percussion-driven noise … somewhere between the original Amon Duul LPs and Outside the Dream Syndicate. Silkscreen jacket

SELDA

Selda

(Pharaway Sounds) Used LP $12.00

2013 reissue of the 1979 fourth album by this Turkish legend whose voice can be sultry or really surge with emotion, and when she does belt one, it’s oddly high and completely unique. Recorded when Turkey was at its most politically polarized, the album earned Selda a prison sentenced of over 500 years. A pile of acoustic guitars and bağlamas go off at once under a blanket of reverb, with lyrics about blood, wood, mountains, families, and desperate troubles — a thick squirt for a folk album. With insert booklet, liner notes.

SELDA

Vurulduk Ey Halkim Unutma Bizi

(Pharaway Sounds) Used LP $12.00

“Bitter sound of the Turkish People,” a descriptor her fans (and later Selda herself) adopted to encapsulate her music’s unabashed folk intent, serves the purpose pretty well, and the phrase also relates to the considerable troubles the singer-guitarist has endured for her activism. On this 2013 reissue of her 1976 album, she conjures a potent mixture of beauty, intensity and rawness; all familiar elements to folk music of any global persuasion, as is her directness of emotion, with the whole greatly emphasizing the depth of her non-pop origins. The opening title track returns to the stripped-down mode of early singles, again just voice and guitar, but the warmly electrified and rhythmically loping psychedelia of “Utan, Utan” plainly shows that the LP wasn’t intended as any sort of conscious throwback to her career roots. And then “Askerin Türküsü” is so thick with baroque-pop ambiance one has no choice but to imagine hanging out in some dank, stately castle. Other twists are reminiscent of ambitious yé-yé productions.

SEMIOTEXT(E)

SF

(Autonomedia) Used paperback book $50.00

“Metamorphosis no. 89” by Don Webb; “We See Things Differently” by Bruce Sterling; “Portfolio” by Freddie Baer; “America Comes” by Bruce Boston; “Frankenstein Penis” by Ernest Hogan; “Six Kinds of Darkness” by John Shirley; “More Subatomic Particles” by Nick Herbert; “BurningSsky” by Rachael Pollack; “Day” by Bob McGlynn; “Rapture in Space” by Rudy Rucker; “Quent Wimpel meets Bigfoot” by Kerry Thornley; “Hippie Hat Brain Parasite” by William Gibson; “The Great Escape” by Sol Yurick; “Portfolio” by James Koehnline; “Jane Fonda’s Augmentation Mammoplasty” and “Report on an Unidentified Space Station” by J.G. Ballard; “Solitons” by Paul Di Filippo; “Is This True? Well, Yes and No” by Sharon Gannon & David Life; “Genocide” by Richard Kadrey; “The Antarctic Autonomous Zone” by Hakim Bey; “Vile Dry Claws of the Toucan” by Ian Watson; “Shed his Grace” by Michael Blumlein; “All Right, Everybody on the Floor!” by Thom Metzger; “The Gene Drain” by Lewis Shiner; “The CIA Reporter” and “The New Boy” by William S. Burroughs; “Another Brush with the Fuzz” by Daniel Pearlman; “You Can’t Go Home Again” by Ron Kolm; “Georgie and the Giant Shit” by Greg Gibson; “Delphic (Projection #5)” by Lorraine Schein; “The Sex Club” by T.L. Parkinson; “Your Style Guide” by Marc Laidlaw; “Maslow, Sheldrake, and the Peak Experience” by Colin Wilson; “Amsterdam Diary” by Robert Sheckley; “I Was a Teenage Genetic Engineer” by Denise Angela Shawl; “Chapter One, the Novel” by Luke McGuff; “Portfolio” by Richard Kadrey; “Saint Francis Kisses his Ass Goodbye” by Philip José Farmer; “Gnosis Knows Best” by Hugh Fox; “The Beer Mystic’s Last Day on the Planet” by Bart Plantenga; “Visit Port Watson!” by Anon.; “Lord of InfinitT Diversions” by t. winter-damon; “Project Parameters in Cherry Valley by the testicles” by Robert Anton Wilson; “The Scepter of Prætorious” by Ivan Stang; “Louie, Louie” by Jacob Rabinowitz; “Cling to the Curvature!” by Barrington J. Bayley. Edited by Rudy Rucker, Peter Lanborn Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson. 384pp from 1989

SEWER ELECTION

Sex / Death

(PacRec) Used CDR $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Raw, textured grit amid turbine electronics, harsh metallic hell, and devastating noise decadence by Dan Johansson from 2007.

SEWN LEATHER

Sikknastafari Slash Crasstafari

(Hundebiss - H012) Used LP $13.50

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? Numbered edition of 300.

SEX PISTOLS

There Is No Future

(Earmark) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Legendary but only decent-sounding 1976 and 1977 demos produced by Dave Goodman, including “I Wanna Be Me,” “Dolls (New York),” and “Anarchy In The UK” 180-gram vinyl. Sealed

SHAFIQ PRESENTS JANK RANDOM VS EARL LEONNE

The Frequency Clash

(Pooh-Bah) Used LP $10.00

Shafiq’s first all-instrumental release features 13 bangers with the Sa-Ra feel. Many insane moments here — dueling snares, broken piano concertos, Bombsquad-like intensity, and Mad Max-esque bouncers. From 2009

ANANDA SHANKAR

Sá-Re-Gá Machán

(Fallout) Used LP $15.00

The 2007 reissue of this genre-busting classic from 1981 seamlessly fuses the traditional music of India with the heavy psych-funk of the West. With biographical liner notes and four ultra-rare bonus tracks from an EP issued to commemorate the death of Elvis Presley.

SHARPWAIST

Kina

(Raoul’s Left Ear) Used CDR $7.00

Power electronics from 2007. Edition of 60

SHELF LIFE

Rheuma

(Eh? - EH27) Used CD $5.00

Gently chaotic collage construct drone and noise-lite dribble from 2007 that keeps Sound Projector’s Ed Pinsent happy for hours as it spirals out in to never-ending whirlpools of slightly grimy seawater. The four long tracks here by Bryan Day, Alex Boardman, Joseph Jaros, and Andrew Perdue contain plenty of bizarro sound effects, electronics, muffled bass rumbles, and guitar noises, ultimately coming across like strange meeting between Frippertronics and early Tangerine Dream.

JIM SHEPARD

V-3 Next Album

([ no label ]) Used LP $75.00

The final, never-released album by Jim Shepard’s V-3, “thick with the live-in-a-basement feel,” say our friends at Volcanic Tongue about this album which is “divided between [classic songs and] heavy guitar / tape manipulation / electronics instrumentals that go as deep into the nocturnal American nightmare zone as anything by Simple Saucer, Chrome and White Light / White Heat-era Velvet Underground…. Shepard’s lyrics are darker than ever here…, while rocking Hawkwind / krautrock-style three-chord fuzz-burners…. [N]ice tape and found-sound cut-ups…, hard-edged avant garage…, beautifully eerie, ethereal instrumentals that sound like they’re about to dissolve…, [and] an extended atonal free jazz jam.” Photo glued to front cover.

SHEPHERDS

Loco Hills

(Not Not Fun) Used LP $5.00

“Every fried fuzz-groove, every tape-loop ghost cloud, and every mass-mind motorik psychosis Shepherds have ever let loose distilled down into a roiling ride through twisted wordless tongues and ramshackle generators.” From 2008

ARCHIE SHEPP

Blasé

(Get Back ) Used LP $27.00

Italian reissue from 2001 of the 18th volume in the BYG Actuel series, in a gatefold jacket, on 180-gram vinyl. Originally recorded at Studio Davout in Paris on August 16th, 1969. An intense and sublime album with Lester Bowie and Malachi Flavors, Dave Burrell, Philly Joe Jones and Jeanne Lee. 180g vinyl. Sealed

ARCHIE SHEPP

Blasé / Live At Pan-African Festival

(Charly - CDDR292) Used 2xCD $10.00

Recorded in Paris, disc one of this 2000 reissue of two late ’60s dates has Shepp on tenor, Dave Burrell on piano, Jeanne Lee on vocals, Lester Bowie on trumpet and flugelhorn, Chicago Beau and Julio Finn on harmonica, Malachi Favors on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums. Shepp and Burrell remain on tenor and piano respectively for the second disc, recorded in Algeria, with poets Ted Joans and Don Lee, Aleria and Tuareg musicians, Clifford Thornton in cornet, Garchan Moncur III on trombone, Alan Silva on bass, Sunny Murray on drums.

SHIFT

Creation and Space

(At War With False Noise - ATWAR026) Used LP $16.00

Second full-length and first on vinyl from highly acclaimed power electronics / noise / drone powerhouse. Nice silkscreen packaging in heavy-duty sleeves.

SHIFTS

Mechanica

(K-raa-k3 - K015) Used CD $5.00

Another facet of Frans De Waard’s minimal music, the debut release in the label’s improguitar series. Mechanica’s heavy processing builds guitar strumming into thunder rolling through a world that’s relaxing, tension-filled and bewildering. A mechanical orchestra humming on end.

SHIFTS

Vertonen

(Humbug) Used CDR $3.00

Frans De Waard working out drones from very limited sonic material, transformed and augmented by electronics in short pieces that sound more like vignettes, miniature landscapes of a region of the artist’s imagination. From 2002

TAMIO SHIRAISHI

Live Performances: 1992-1994

(Pataphysique - DD4) CD $16.50 (Out-of-stock)

(Pataphysique - DD4) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

A 1996 release, one of a few solo outings by sax biting NNCK collaborator and Fushitsusha co-founder. LSD March drummer Ikuro Takahashi makes a guest appearance, as do the streets of Shinjuku, Tokyo.

SHIT SPANGLED BANNER

Mu Third Part / Uncensored

(Ecstatic Yod) Used LP $25.00

The original version of No Dolby No DBX containing seven extra minutes of music. Plain white jacket with centerhole and two stickers, poster and a sheet explaining the history of the release. Edition of 50

SHIT SPANGLED BANNER

No Dolby No DBX

(Ecstatic Yod) Used LP $8.00

Psych / art-rock from 1995 by Rob Thomas, Rich Pontius and John Moloney, later of Sunburned Hand of the Man.

MATT SHOEMAKER

Erosion of the Analogous Eye

(Helen Scarsdale - HMS015) Used CD $10.00

The studio of Matt Shoemaker is alive with electricity: impossibly complex wirings channeling signals in and out of analog synth modules; an array of curious aluminum boxes with unmarked knobs; Slinkies strung from ceiling to floor creating a set of giant spring reverb units; accelerometers attached to consumer electronic errata; and even a few conventional tools like guitar stomp boxes and a bruised computer. Yet for all the convoluted engineering that goes into his equipment, the resulting mesmerism seems effortless and strangely organic. Shoemaker's ever-evolving album of mutant dronemuzik and electrical seas of synthetic bristling undulate with placid regularity. Brain-melting psychedelics contort into cancerous, atonal bellows. Out of his allotropic shifts, irradiated static transforms into the graceful chime of temple bells; and electrical phase patterns slip into deep forest murmurings dotted with narcoleptic birds calls. On one hand, this album is prescient of the revival for progressive electronics currently underway in the flood of US post-noise projects; it's easy to triangulate this between Emeralds and Heldon. But on the other hand, Erosion of the Analogous Eye is the continuation of Shoemaker's early work on Trente Oiseaux, with its grotesques exaggerations of field recording. Artwork features unique, hand-dyed abstractions mounted on letterpressed paper. Limited edition of 300 copies.

MATT SHOEMAKER

Spots On The Sun

(Helen Scarsdale) Used CD $5.00

A grotesque, sonic landscape with details exaggerated out of proportion and narratives folded upon themselves in a magnificent abstraction of electro-acoustics, rarefied field recordings, and particulate matter plucked from ether. While the familiar sounds of encircling birds, turbulent weather, and temple bells litter Shoemaker’s recordings, the sonic topography describes a vulgar and hostile landscape where fits of delirium and circadian arrhythmia are common human responses. In many ways, Shoemaker’s Spots in the Sun could be mistaken for Bernard Parmegiani at his most focused or even John Duncan at his most gracefully brutal. Letterpress second edition of 400

SHONEN KNIFE

Pretty Little Baka Guy

(Subversive) Used LP $30.00

Ten tracks that “perfectly demonstrate the band’s quirky, if not terminally catchy approach to crafting pop melodies. Their grunge-inspired instrumentation and DIY execution give the material a rough and edgy quality.” First U.S. pressing from 1986

SHRIMP BOAT

Duende

(Bar/None) Used LP $16.00

Shrimp Boat’s wide-eyed fascination with the scattershot strands of American musical tradition congeals into a remarkably vivid and engaging whole in their 1991 LP — encompassing pop, jazz, country and seemingly everything in between. It’s a laconic potluck which sounds like nothing so much as a postmodern Music from Big Pink. Between the jaunty Eastern European rhythms of the opener track and and the free-form sax of the finale, the album detours into old-timey melancholia, late-night pop, and even reggae, all with a casual disregard for the confines of structure and form.

SHRIMP BOAT

Volume One

(Specimen Products) Used CD $20.00

A 1991 collection of early recordings, live tracks and related pre-post-rock ephemera by Sam Prekop’s pre-Sea and Cake outfit from the late ’80s, where herky-jerky rhythms and warm jazz-folk intermingle with late ’60s fragmentation a la Red Krayola.

SIC ALPS

A Long Way Around To A Shortcut

(Drag City) Used 2xLP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The bright, surging sound of ye olde rock’n’roll radio (and the garages that tuned in), heard through air darkened with specks of nameless obstruction. Originally issued as a CD in 2008, this reissue collects songs from singles, EPs, compilations and one previously unreleased track.

SIC ALPS

U.S. EZ

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The fourth long-player by Mike Donovan and Matt Hartman, delivering cosmic concrete creak, forged with trebly, high-end neo-glam pop. Equal parts Bob Markley and Uli Trepte, U.S. EZ is the virtual brick of Berlin / Big Sur hash we’ve all been waiting to break into. The ominous death’s head fez has now been ensconced in a witchy naugahyde bonnet, thus leveling the playing field for both the psychedelically challenged and the itinerant avant garde.

SICKNESS

I Have Become The Disease That Made Me

(Groundfault) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Constantly moving harsh noise that never stops jumping and changing. Includes “Bloodhunger,” previously released on Reconstruct the Caos #2 (Audio Intruder Pain 2001). Sealed

ERIC SIDAY

Sounds Of Now

(Dual Planet) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

This companion piece to the eccentric electronic music innovator’s previous compilation, The Ultra Sonic Perception, collects electronic “sound logos” and switched-on library cues used in production and broadcast in the 1960 and ’70s. Included are variants of the creepy manipulated synthesizer theme which accompanied the 1964 Screen Gems logo. For fans of workshop electronics (Raymond Scott, Suzanne Cianni, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop). Edition of 500.

SIGHTINGS

Sightings

(Load) Used LP $12.00

Eleven songs from 2002 “to the left not only of obvious touchstones like early Sonic Youth and Yoko Ono’s primal scream period, but also of the comparatively normal DNA and Mars. Basic precepts like harmony, rhythm, and tonality are only casually (possibly even accidentally) implemented here, to the point that songs like ‘Don West’ sound like a diesel locomotive slowly being fed through a wood chipper. A bracing blast of a debut. Packaged in a screen-printed fold-over cover. Black vinyl

SIGHTINGS

Through the Panama

(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $25.00

Seizures and sharp angles, dance rhythms, clearer mixing, and subtly shaded dynamics separate the old Sightings from the new. Every sound shines while preserving the earlier grimy, low-gloss vibe. Sightings may action-paint their canvases with viscous, theatrical brushstrokes, but it’s the countless, cunningly placed scrapes and flecks that make Through the Panama vibrate with meaning and real menace. From 2007

ALAN SILVA

Skillfullness

(ESP-Disk') Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Free jazz mind-blow and violin hypnosis from 1970 with violin Dave Burrell, Becky Friend, Karl Berger, Mike Ephron, Lawrence Cook, and Barry Altschul. Sealed

ALAN SILVA AND HIS CELESTIAL COMMUNICATION ORCHESTRA

Luna Surface

(Get Back ) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

2002 reissue of volume twelve in BYG’s Actuel series, a high-water mark in free jazz and pan-African art music. Recorded August 17, 1969, with Grachan Moncur III, Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton, Dave Burrell, Leroy Jenkins, Malachi Favors.

SONNY SIMMONS

Staying On The Watch

(ESP-Disk') Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Stretched-out and powerful performance from 1966 by the altoist with Barbara Donald (trumpet), John Hicks (piano), Teddy Smith (bass), and Marvin Pattillo (drums). Sealed

NINA SIMONE

Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

(Mercury) Used CD $3.00

Includes “I Put a Spell On You,” “Ne Me Quitte Pas,” the title track, live versions of “I Loves You, Porgy” and “Mississippi Godamn,” plus eleven more. Liner notes by Imme Schade van Westrum

SINGER

Unhistories

(Drag City) Used LP $8.00

You’re locked in a room with no doors, but many voices and rhythms. Robert A.A. Lowe, Todd Rittmann and Ben and Adam Vida. These are familiar names, but they play unfamiliar sounds on this dreamy maze of a record. Footing can be found, but not for long.

SISSY SPACEK

California Ax

(Helicopter - H50) Used 4xCD $25.00

All four of Sissy Spacek’s extant proper albums could probably fit onto a single CD; flipping that notion on its head, California Ax contains four new full length albums in one trim little boat. Tinsel Dripping Ink (disc one) covers territory from grindcore, noise, electro-acoustic improv, musique concrete, noisecore, and electronics. It's primarily made up of new work, but also ruts through the cutting room floor for the best bits that didn't make it onto previous efforts, with a few tracks dating as far back as 1998. Police (disk two) is 11 tracks in 40 minutes of electro-acoustic improv with girls on drums. Abreq Ad Habra (disc three) -- named after an Arabic phrase pre-dating "Abracadabra," the preferred mistranslation of which is "hurl an even lightning bolt until death” -- contains Sissy Spacek’s rawest recordings ever: a 40-minute inferno from KXLU and a 20-minute live set in 2002 in St. Louis. 13-Tet Los Angeles (disc four) is a live document of a 13-piece lineup that performed two sets at The Smell in Los Angeles in December 2007 and is also the first live performance of a score by John Wiese. Completist alert -- the Spacek core of John Wiese and Corydon Ronnau called upon the following for contributions to California Ax: Mitchell Brown, Sarah Cake, Kevin Drumm, Gerritt, Kate Hall (Mika Miko), Joseph Hammer (Solid Eye), Aaron Hemphill (Liars, Skull Sküll), Jesse Jackson (Flaspar), Greg Kelley (Nmperign), Tim Koh (White Magic, Ariel Pink), Danny McClain (Grand Ulena), Giles Miller, Oblivia (Smegma), Andy Ortmann (Panicsville), Sam Ott (The Fucking Angels), Tom Recchion (Airway, LAFMS), Damion Romero (Speculum Fight), Jarrett Silberman (Skull Sküll, Young People), Dean Spunt (No Age), David Scott Stone (Melvins, Get Hustle), and Shannon Walter (16 Bitch Pileup).

SISSY SPACEK

Devils Cone and Palm

(Misanthropic Agenda) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

The first album with the Jackson / Ronnau / Wiese lineup, produced from totally gutter sessions in Los Angeles and Oakland in 2005 and 2006. Includes the entire infamous Il Corral set as heard through the handheld tape deck of a screaming female audience member.

SISSY SPACEK

Glass

(Misanthropic Agenda) Used CD $8.00

Sissy Spacek’s fourth release for Misanthropic Agenda is a documentation of a duo piece developed in 2008 by Corydon Ronnau and John Wiese for breaking glass. Two performances in Los Angeles and San Francisco are included in their entirety. “It’s an exercise in defamiliarization,” according to The Wire. “On the first track, the sound of broken glass is sampled then bent out of shape — pitchshifted, processed and scattered across the stereo field, severing sound from referent. The second track is more brutish, recorded in mono and riven with feedback. The duo seems able to trap the frequencies, cancelling others out. It’s an idea of some vintage — the sounds of destruction used constructively — but Wiese and Ronnau execute it with brio.” Hand-numbered digipak in an edition of 300.

SISSY SPACEK

Live in Hong Kong

(Helicopter) Used CD $8.00

Mumma and Wiese’s performance at Empty Gallery in Hong Kong and its peripheral documentation is an example of the band’s abstracting style and approach to their broad range of work, from grindcore to musique concrète, with a considerable gulf of experimentation in between. Recorded on the occasion of Takeshi Murata’s “Infinite Doors” opening, the album combines a multi-tracked live set of electronics and grindcore, which bookends an array of recordings made throughout their 5-day residency, combining graveyard field recordings, barrel scrapings, impromptu noisecore, and tape collage.

SISSY SPACEK

Remote Whale Control

(Misanthropic Agenda) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

2007 CD reissue of the second album (Gameboy 2003), where Wiese, McClain, and Ronnau emphasize raw performance rather than studio hallucination, and go heavy on free drums and guitar. Includes a previously unreleased live cut.

SISTERHOOD OF CONVOLUTED THINKERS

(I Remember) The Day Smarty Marched Into Town

(Hemiola) Used 10-inch $3.00

Eggs veteran Rob Christiansen and Jeannine Durfee take pop music through the looking glass — solid hooks skewed by odd harmonies, unconventional structures and wildly creative concepts. Their off-kilter sense of humor is ever-present, with unexpected nods. From 1995

SISTERS OF MERCY

Possession

(Skeleton Songs) Used 2xLP $70.00

Live Paradiso, Amsterdam, March 28, 1983.

SISTERS OF MERCY

Psychedelic Sessions

(KTFB) Used LP $35.00

John Peel Sessions from 1982 and ’84, Kid Jensen Sessions from 1983

SISTERS OF MERCY

Tune In… Turn Off… Burn Out…

(Skeleton Songs) Used LP $35.00

Live March 16 1985 at Leeds University

SISTRUM

How Can The Red Dusts Blow Here?

(Gameboy) Used CDR $5.00

“Solo guitar improvisations from guitarist Bryan Day [of the Public Eyesore label] in the vein of John Fahey,” says our friend at Korperschwache, “Only not quite so unadorned or overprocessed…. [On] ‘Hands Beckon’ … acoustic guitar and electric guitar (often treated) interact with each other…. ‘Sine Daughter’ employs extensive reverb and delay to generate pinging notes and shimmering drones…, while ‘Ladybugs’ pits intermittent snatches of melody from one guitar against muted noise and tweaking from others, and ‘Christmaseve’ is a solo performance (guitar, vocals, and squeaks).” Edition of 50.

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

Dark Noontide

(Holy Mountain) LP $50.00

(Holy Mountain) Used LP $30.00

Ben Chasny’s third full length comes in a notch or two higher than his previous acid-folk genius with this spectacular merging of dreamy, hypnotic, finger-picked melodies and psychedelia concrète, not to mention very fine fuzz guitar. These eight incredible tracks from 2002 seamlessly blend powerful blues foot-stomp, backward interludes, strange string feedback, dark, tabla-infused vibrations and the amazing debut of Chasny’s electric guitar as a lead instrument.
Clear vinyl is $50. Sealed
Black vinyl is $30

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

Dust & Chimes

(Holy Mountain - HOLY1165) Used LP $13.00

Ben Chasny’s second underground folk-psych album from behind California’s redwood curtain, where heavy, acoustic guitar and mumbled vocalizations merge with out-there jamming, in a Takoma-meets-the-first-two-Tyrannosaurus-Rex-albums style. 2015 reissue on clear vinyl. Includes download card insert. Sealed

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

Dust & Chimes

(Holy Mountain) Used CD $8.00

Ben Chasny’s second underground folk-psych album from behind California’s redwood curtain, where heavy, acoustic guitar and mumbled vocalizations merge with out-there jamming, in a Takoma-meets-the-first-two-Tyrannosaurus-Rex-albums style. Sealed

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

For Octavio Paz

(Holy Mountain) Used CD $12.00

Ben Chasny explores the guitar inside and out, solo and over-dubbed, steel and nylon string (in fact, For Octavio Paz is the first Six Organs album to feature the reverberations of a nylon string guitar). What really sets Chasny apart from the other modern Fahey worshipers is a willingness to accept a wider array of other guitarists into the pantheon — Peter Walker or Richard Youngs, for example. Sealed.

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

For Octavio Paz

(Time Lag) Used LP $70.00

Ben Chasny explores the guitar inside and out, solo and over-dubbed, steel and nylon string (in fact, For Octavio Paz is the first Six Organs album to feature the reverberations of a nylon string guitar). What really sets Chasny apart from the other modern Fahey worshipers is a willingness to accept a wider array of other guitarists into the pantheon — Peter Walker or Richard Youngs, for example. 2003 pressing on 180g vinyl, packaged in white-on-white silkscreened folder, with letter-pressed insert, numbered edition 445/500.

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

Nightly Trembling

(Time Lag) Used LP $30.00

2003 pressing on 180g vinyl of this 1999 anti-sorcery rarity packaged in black-on-black silkscreened folder, with letter-pressed insert, numbered edition 482/500.

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

Six Organs Of Admittance

(Pavilion) Used LP $135.00

Five-song masterpiece from 1998 using acoustic and electric guitars, detuned violin, organ, electronics and koto. The material covers a lot of ground: there’s an acid folk duet; an epic, three-part space suite; and two short concrète-like pieces that evoke hidden memories of having bees in your mouth. The final sting is the magnificent chaos of “Race from Vishnu” — a nine-minute raga where the strings of the acoustic guitar are battled by Chasny who ruthlessly punishes them for their ability to make sound. First edition of 400 with screen-painted covers and black stamp. Paste-on artwork on back. Includes insert.

SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE

The Manifestation

(Ba Da Bing) Used LP (one-sided) $20.00

“An ode to the sun in the body of a raga-inspired epic. Ben Chasny’s acoustic guitar mimics the ringing metallic tone and microtonal bends of a sitar, with tabla-style hand drums in the background. The drone is partly sustained by a rhythmically plucked mouth harp, which bends and expands to paint a shimmering, warped surface; use of non-western scales, as well as the general aura of mysticism maintained throughout, evoke ritualistic sun-worship.” With Utrillo Belcher and Jennifer Stratford. From 2000. Clear vinyl, etched on one side. No stickered polysleeve.

SKIN GRAFT

Blackout

(Tusco Embassy) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Eight tracks of abrasive, negatively charged scum electronics. Perfectly disgusting and abusive. Hand screen-printed second edition of 200.

SKULLFLOWER

Exquisite Fucking Boredom

(Tumult) Used CD $12.00

Brainwash jumps right in and says “ ‘Celestial Highway’ is a massive, stomping heavy metal riff, a big hairy acid-drenched slab of fuzzy blues cribbed from the Blue Cheer handbook. The jacked-up shredding that twists around the central rhythmic stomp is directly inspired by the third-eye Satanic soloing of Glenn Tipton and Tony Iommi. That shit keeps cycling around, pulsating fuzzy tendrils of bombastic riffage, hairy to the Nth degree, lifting up to the clouds on a silver machine of over-amped guitar wreckage. And then it repeats. Over and over. For nearly an hour…. Skullflower pushes the envelope of acceptability in terms of musical content…. The nuanced production … by Colin Potter … add[s] sheets of compounding noise run-off to each successive riff, alternately burying the … guitars in a pile of audio rubble, or uncovering and highlighting them by pushing out the borders of distortion…. [S]ome of the most bizarre and unconventional “stoner rock” yet conceived.” With hole punch in the lower right back corner

SKULLFLOWER

Last Shot At Heaven

(Noiseville) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Madly pounding drums, the occasionally audible bass, but mainly a demonic, noisy blur possessed by distorted guitars. Skullflower’s hideous cacophony — altered artificially, mechanically, digitally, chemically — wavers across the spectrum of intensity, tension, meander, flow, and stutter. A divine and mesmerizing sandstorm.

SKULLFLOWER

Obsidian Shaking Codex

(RRRecords) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Five lengthy pieces from 1993 that signaled a change away from tribal drumming and wild guitar distortions toward droning, chaotic dissonance with horror-industrial overtones. Classic, crushing Skullflower that peaks with the titanic twenty-five-minute “Smoke Jaguar.”

SKULLFLOWER

Taste The Blood Of The Deceiver

(Not Not Fun) Used LP $10.00

Blackened, doom-damaged terrains by Matthew Bower, who spikes abrupt vertical baths of blinding distortion and harmonic override with cavernous cultish riffs and deeply bleak ritual moods. The blood is fresh, but the body’s unrecognizable. Charred and forgotten, this is another stepping stone on the path to the upturned altar. Edition of 500.

SLAPP HAPPY

Acnalbasac Noom

(ReR Megacorp - RERSHCD) Used CD $10.00

A reissue of the original Polydor 1973 sessions (not the re-recorded version released by Virgin in ’74). “The group’s songwriting are improved since their debut,” according to All Music Guide, “And Dagmar Krause’s German chanteuse-influenced vocals find catchier, more rock-oriented settings. The lyrics are witty and oddball without being pretentious. Tracks like ‘Mr. Rainbow’ recall Yoko Ono’s early-’70s song-oriented material…. ‘The Secret,” with its almost girl-group-worthy catchiness, and “Charlie ’n’ Charlie,” with its nifty surfish guitar riff, even sound like potential commercial singles. The four bonus tracks include the delightful 1982 single ‘Everybody’s Slimmin’.” Sealed with small promo drill hole

SLAPP HAPPY

Sort Of

(Blueprint) Used CD $10.00

1999 reissue of the debut album (Polydor 1972) by Peter Blegvad, Dagmar Krause and Anthony Moore, recorded at Faust’s studio with Gunther Wusthoff, Werner “Zappi” Diermaier and Jean-Herve Peron. The band’s charming naiveté was never as pronounced as here. With bonus track “Jumping Jonah,” a non-LP B-side.

ENOS SLAUGHTER

On Sunday

(Sound@One) Used LP $7.00

Marc Orleans (of Sunburned Hand of the Man), David Shuford (of NNCK) and Carter Thornton improvising together in 2002 at Harlem’s Hinthouse. “Banjos, clavinet, trombones, bowed and plucked strings and disoriented electric guitars swimming below the surface.”

SLEATER-KINNEY

Call The Doctor

(Chainsaw) Used CD $8.00

Corin Tucker’s enormous voice powered by riffs that seem unstoppable, riding melodies whose irresistibility renders them barely less harsh. From 1996

SLEATER-KINNEY

Sleater-Kinney

(Chainsaw) Used CD $5.00

Ten songs in twenty-two minutes. Voice-on-voice and guitar-on-guitar. Fervor, disgust, and passion by heroines and outsiders. From 1995

THE SLEAZY LISTENERS

The Romance Is Over

(Squirrelgirl) Used CD $3.00

Music created with 21st century laptop precision which pays tribute to the lush orchestrations of a bygone era of schmaltz pop, combining the effortless digital wizardry of Norway’s Lasse Marhaug and the anti-crooning / collage of Canada’s Zev Asher, who elevate the eleven songs here from just another trip down glitchy memory lane to a full-on exercise in pop-music deconstructivism. They incorporate everything from Leonard Cohen’s back catalogue to B-grade porno soundtracks in cohesive and lucid fashion. It’s less Merzbow-lite than a slightly disturbing journey through an avant-garde pop music wonderland.

SLEEP

Vol. One

(Very Small / Tupelo) Used LP $100.00

1991 pressing of a stoner classic

THE SLEEPERS

Painless Nights

(Superior Viaduct) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

From the opening tracks “When Can I Fly?” and “Walk Away” (featuring Alex Gibson and Tom Recchion of BPeople), this 2012 reissue of the 1981 LP captures The Sleepers’ fluid and volatile sound. Guitarist Michael Belfer’s (Tuxedomoon) lo-fi textures and incisive riffs serve as the perfect counterpoint to Ricky Williams’s improvisational lyrics. With a new insert with liner notes by Joe Carducci. Includes download card. Sealed

SLEEPING DOGS

Beware

(Broken Rekids) Used CD $8.00

“Sludgy rhythms, monotone vocals, anarchist lyrics—this is what Flipper would’ve sounded like if they had been from England and had Penny Rimbaud on drums.” Include tracks from their Crass single, Leaving the Mind Behind LP and eight tracks from the unreleased Up From The Basement album. From 2004

SLOGUN

Bloody Roots

(Trash Ritual - TRASH044) Used CD $9.00

Each track is built around a thick, low end / lo-fi rumble with just the smallest bit of vocal samples breaking through. Lyrics filled with hatred and self-loathing, manifesting itself in violent reactions and a vocal approach to match. Slogun's preoccupation with violent crime has been replaced by focus on self-loathing; its not about distractions anymore, it's about facing a dark, useless reality. Power electronics at its finest.

SLOGUN

I Will Bury You

(Peripheral - PR012) LP $20.00

(Peripheral - PR012) Used LP $14.00

Ten harsh bursts of brutal noise and monosyllabic vocal stabs, plus an extra track from John Balestreri’s darkly ambient side-project Self. With insert. Edition of 250

SMALL CRUEL PARTY

Do You Believe In A Pencil?

(Small Cruel Party - SCP002) Used CD $17.50 (Out-of-stock)

Key Ransone focuses on the inherent mysterious and beautiful quality of sound itself, with the emphasis on obscure non-instrumental sources. The density comes from concentration of activity, usually derived from the acoustics of manipulation of physical objects. Even Small Cruel Party’s high-volume pieces on this self-released 1991 album maintain intense, zen-like calm. Silkscreened box.

THE SMALL FACES

Autumn Stone

(Get Back ) Used 2xLP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

2001 reissue of Immediate’s 1969 cash-in anthologizes a mix of hit singles (going all the way back to their Decca Records years, with “Whatcha Gonna Do About It” and “All or Nothing”) and up through their final 45, “The Universal,” plus three songs recorded live at Newcastle Town Hall in early 1968, a bunch of album tracks, and unissued tracks from the tail-end of their history, presumably intended for their third, never-finished Immediate LP. A good overview of the group’s work and history, depicting its transition from a white British Invasion-era soul band to a more laid-back and experimental psychedelic outfit.

DJ SMALLCOCK

Yinyue

(Dual Plover) Used CD $5.00

With a hopelessly romantic backstory in which the artist followed ViVi to China (after knowing her for mere days) during pre-Y2K madness that included the Macao handover and the trial of Falun Gong, this a fifty-minute edit of nine hours of Beijing radio is “a barrage of wildly distorted Chinese ramblings, brief encounters with actual songs, blips, and jerks of static.”

SMEGMA

Smegma T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size L $75.00

Hanes Beefy-T 100% cotton. White with black, red and green ink. Printed sideways, as displayed. Previously washed and worn many times. Some discoloration and spots / stains on left sleeve and torso. From 1980s

JACK SMITH

Les Evening Gowns Damnées - 56 Ludlow Street 1962-1964, Volume I

(Table Of The Elements) Used CD $17.00 (Out-of-stock)

Readings of short stories and other audio excursions (featuring musical accompaniment by Tony Conrad, John Cale and Angus MacLise, and excerpts from the soundtrack to Flaming Creatures (the earthquake orgy scene). Sealed

JACK SMITH

Silent Shadows On Cinemaroc Island - 56 Ludlow Street 1962-1964, Volume II

(Table Of The Elements) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Highlights from exotic live events at the legendary theater–studio of filmmaking visionary and founding father of performance art. Early ’60s hilarity, tape and sound experiments, a chunk of the soundtrack to Smith’s watershed film Flaming Creatures, and a reading of “Pfeffernuss Flavored Aspirin.” Sealed

STEVEN R. SMITH

Slate Branches

(Little Brother) Used LP $15.00

“Steven R. Smith’s slow but entrancing transformation of his work from … skilled guitar drones and improvisations to something even more mysterious and involved can be sensed at points on this collection of home four-track recordings. Recorded during 1998 and 1999, its eight songs are introduced with ‘Minen Flats,’ which in its own way suggests the murky bowed-cymbal drones of Thomas Köner at the start more, though the percussive work here comes from heavily echoed, haunting bells before a toy piano takes the lead melody. The guitar is appropriately buried in the mix. A song like ‘Cities,’ with its steady, shuffling percussion and careful, structured guitar parts, suggests what Mirza might have done as an art installation project for modernist architecture. A similar sense of control can be heard on ‘Casting Locusts,’ calling to mind the slow descending power of Spacemen 3’s cover of Suicide’s ‘Che,’ but with a background guitar part adding more dreamy swirl to the equation until another more uplifting, ascending arrangement takes over.” Packaged in a silkscreened folder. From 2000

STEVEN R. SMITH

The Anchorite

(Important) Used LP $14.00

Recorded without overdubs, straight to stereo two-track using three separate amplifiers and a combination of loops, tapes and live performance, this 1996 platter focuses on the nature of solitude and draws upon a black spaciousness. Hand-printed lino-cut art, the seventh volume in the label’s Arts & Crafts series. #297/500

SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS

Music of the American South T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $20.00

Hanes Beefy-T 100% cotton. Beige with gray and green ink. Print is faded is places

GEORGE TOET SMITS

Isomopolis ICC

(Ultra Eczema) Used LP (one-sided) $20.00

Lovely and obscure squawks and resonant thumps coaxed from metal sculptures from a gooey spot in the Bertoia- and Rutman-esque lineage by this zine / radio maverick who started building his own string / isomo instruments after finding a surfboard on a beach. This half-album of archival recordings from 1981 is a weird psychedelic ball of confusion from a long string installations built for his first exhibition at ICC in Antwerp, packed with metals, strings, feathers and amplified springs. amplified by isomo. With archive photo insert, silkscreened B-side, and Patrick Vandenberghe’s interview from 1997. Second pressing, edition of 200, with coral-colored silkscreen.

SMOG

Dongs Of Sevotion

(Drag City) Used LP $14.00 (Out-of-stock)

Ten adult contemporary songs of love-taking, heart-breaking and dream-making popterfuge via anthemic power ballads, saucy tangos, and gentle waltzes.

SMOG

Knock Knock

(Drag City) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

A ten-song bummer in super hi-fidelity sound. Perfect mood music for your next romantic late night date with a twelve pack or a gun.

SMOG

Red Apple Falls

(Drag City) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Spacious, acoustic ballads from 1997 with flourishes of piano, horns, drum machines, and pedal steel, appropriating the best of rustic folk, lyrical rock, and traditional country. Brooding singer / multi-instrumentalist Bill Callahan, who can create beauty out of melancholy on par with Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Lou Reed, Red House Painters, and East River Pipe, frames his stark songwriting inside stately arrangements. The songs ooze color.

SMOG

’Neath The Puke Tree

(Drag City) Used LP $10.00

Five lone-tastic songs of loose, lovely and sexually-charged good times including a re-working of Sewn To The Sky’s “A Jar of Sound” and a self-cover of “I Was a Stranger” from Red Apple Falls.

SOLID EYE

Voyage to See What’s on the Bottom

(Melon Expander) Used CD $13.50 (Out-of-stock)

Joseph Hammer, Rick Potts and Steve Thomsen have each spent 25+ years exploring various avenues of music described by their 1970s collective, the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) as "avant-schmaltz." With an ear for unsettling detail, Solid Eye suspends the listener in a lurching, oozing, hallucinatory river of sound that unfolds with its own peculiar sense of internal logic. Neither fish nor fowl, their aesthetic impulses bear scant resemblance to the dominant modes and methods that govern the domain of much contemporary experimental music. This surrealist cabal immerses itself in the creation of a pata-physical metaphysic, a slippery, elusive territory where the profound is coaxed from the ludicrous and the seemingly innocuous is inverted into the preternaturally haunting... a cosmology where the absurd, the uncanny and the unsettling coalesce, the result distilled into a sense-deforming, reality-eroding, alchemical elixir. Sealed

SOLMANIA

America95 T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size L $40.00

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $40.00

Size L: Gildan Heavyweight 100% cotton. Black with blue and white ink on front, white on back. Size XL: FL Robinson Heavyweight 100% cotton. Loden with blue and white ink on front, white on back.

SOLMANIA

DLO

(Alchemy) Used CD $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

“[M]utant guitar noise [boiled] down into shorter, shockingly well considered chunks,” says Mars Hottentot. DLO smashes together everything Solmania does “in a half-sentient Large Hadron Collider. The results are fantastic. The loops … are a dominant force here…: clicks, pops, scrapes and pulses are cycled against each other but never allowed to become boring…. As a free guitarist, Ohno proves his virtuosity beyond doubt here…. “Ovals” maintains its twelve-minute run time examining high tension scraping on multiple tracks…. Unlike his raw, ripped mid-period…, DLO returns to the effect boxes with a vengeance, “Bug Flutter In Toxic” and the robotic “There and Back” are so effected into synthetic oblivion, they barely resemble guitars at all. The album’s other long distance thrasher, “Push Comes To Shove” is … a non-stop torrent of screeching guitar sludge, sputtering Ginn hiccups, and breaking strings.” With obi

SOLMANIA

Evil Bed

(Alchemy) Used CD $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Possibly Ohno’s most stylistically consistent effort yet,” according to Nightwrath. “It is a bit harsher than usual…. [G]uitar scraping goodness…, traditional harsh noise immurement…, trebly sheets of distortion.” From 1996. In card jacket with obi

SOLMANIA

Live - Big Rig

(Kubitsuri) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Live recordings from the late 1990s presented, according to Mars Hottentot, “as hard sci-fi — the sounds of desperate conflict on alien planets by people and machines with access to weapons far beyond our own. ‘U.F.O.’ is sixteen minutes of harsh psychedelia, Masahiko Ohno’s guitar hovering above the burning canopy, spraying defoliant on Sugahara’s mole guitar writhing in the jungles below. ‘Gather, Grandell’ is science-versus-theology at the end of a pulse cannon. ‘Divine Invasion’ is a black room where arch-priests ply their tools upon non-believers. ‘Bug Flutter and Cloudy Sonic Blue’ opens with the sound of choppers in the distance, sirens on the ground awake the troops who come out, plasma rifles blazing, jabbering their little android heads off. ‘Psyclenation’ [revisits the] motorcycle fetish … [and] invokes the vehicle before it blasts through the barriers of reality and plows down … highways of unknown dimensions…. ‘Angst Bop’ is you, caught in the flaming, gelatinous mess of Solmania’s shock troop napalm hoses. Don’t bother dropping and rolling, that won’t put it out — you’re gonna burn until there’s no more you left to burn.” Sealed

SOLMANIA

Loud Guitars Save Lives / America 98 T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Size M $40.00

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $40.00

100% cotton. Burgundy with green and white ink on front and back

SOLMANIA

Metamorphor Chorus

(Alchemy) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Unlike later works,” notes Mars Hottentot, this 1991 disc “jumps all over the place: phased-out drubbing…, hyper brief, speed scrap metal…, harsh noise / old school industrial factory fire…, doomed Pink Floyd slowed to a crawl, reversed and scrapped…, and vicious jet engine blast….” With obi

SOLMANIA

Psycledelic

(Alchemy) Used CD $14.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Solmania stripped to the bone,” marvels Mars Hottentot. “The production is clear and spartan.” Given “that Solmania’s heavily modified guitars allow anywhere from three to five amplifiers to be engaged on a single instrument, producing numerous different sounds simultaneously, there may not even be any overdubs [on] this … extremely feedback laden album…, the kind that pierces eardrums at school assemblies when the microphone is placed too close to the monitor, the kind most sane people turn off immediately. Masahiko Ohno, revels in it. He plays with it, [jerking] the cone-shredding tones … spasmodically across the audio spectrum…, [along with] recognizable guitar blurts, rumbles and scrapes….” From 1993

SOLMANIA

Trembling Tongues

(Alchemy) Used CD $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Forty some odd minutes … of highly abrasive sludge, fuzz, feedback and buried screaming (through the on-board guitar microphones, of course),” says Mars Hottentot. “Trembling Tongues continues down the same uncompromising path as Psycledelic, but … seems to have more going on; the action between the ear-splitting feedback is bit more frenzied…. As far as noise guitar records are concerned…, Solmania is … brutal. There’s nothing here for the casual listener to hang on to — no psychedelic, trippy effects or wild production flourishes — just harsh, scraping, guitar torture. The effect is that of a giant, slow, grinding woodchipper being fed a steady diet of death metal guitars and full-blast amplifiers.... The standout … ‘Sunshine Overdoze’ … is about as close to psychedelia as this record gets; pulsing waves of feedback get chopped into something almost approximating melody and rhythm.” From 1995. With printed clear plastic insert and diecut traycard

ALAN SONDHEIM

Short Wave: Anomalous Recordings (1991)

(Cor Ardens) Used Cassette $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Long-form excerpts of home recordings made by the poet, critic, musician, artist, and theorist of cyberspace — without editorial manipulations toward human musicality. With three-page essay “Another Mother of Us All (A Phenomenology of Short-Wave,” written in 1983 originally published in The Review of International Broadcasting, and a six-panel color J-card of original works derived from a Qbasic multivariable fractal program designed by the artist roughly at the same time as the recordings. C54

SONGS OF NORWAY

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.

SONIC BOTHY ENSEMBLE

Fields

(FMR) Used CD $5.00

Recorded in 2017, Fields explores improvisation, experimental music, and instruments. “3 Degrees Kelvin We Drift” demonstrates the ensemble’s range and dynamic playing. “8 Panes of Glass” combines rich layered vocals, chamber-music-influenced improvisation, and found materials. There is a variety of duos on the album, and “AGX” includes the group playing newly commissioned glass instruments by Edinburgh-based artist, Carrie Fertig.

SONIC YOUTH

100%

(DGC) Used 10-inch $25.00

Album versions of two tracks from Dirty, plus the unreleased “Genetic” and “Hendrix Necro.” #00010

SONIC YOUTH

4 Tunna Brix

(Goofin’) Used LP $30.00

Three Fall covers — “My New House,” “Rowche Rumble,” “Psycho Mafia,” plus the Kinks’ “Victoria.”

SONIC YOUTH

A Thousand Leaves

(My So-Called Records) Used 2xLP $30.00

“The album’s centerpiece, ‘Hits Of Sunshine,’ jams languidly for over eleven minutes, its pulse slower than a heartbeat, its tendrils of psychedelic guitar purposefully evading focus; the song feels like a gesture of purpose, redrawing Sonic Youth’s context, transposing them from the Lollapalooza world of alternateens and skateboard-themed MTV promos to a boho beatnik milieu that’s doubtless more where they belong. The flipside to A Thousand Leaves’ flower-hippy jamming: Kim Gordon’s contributions that push her blunt, unschooled growl to the forefront, and line some of the most combustible noise-bombs here with uncompromising, darkly witty politics. This complex, corrosive album is a transitional set without which Sonic Youth couldn’t have escaped to creative freedoms that followed.” 1998 pressing

SONIC YOUTH

Anagrama

(SYR) Used LP $20.00

Four tracks that are melodious, if not always harmonious, celebrations, and instead of a reign of disorder, Sonic Youth creates beautiful, often exquisite order out of what seems like thin-air. Sealed

SONIC YOUTH

Bull in the Heather

(DGC) Used 10-inch $40.00

The Experimental Jet Set track plus the previously unreleased “Razor Blade” and a T-vox version of “Doctor’s Orders.” Unnumbered. Silver vinyl.

SONIC YOUTH

Candle

(Enigma) Used 12-inch $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Promotional EP from 1989 with a radio edit of a Daydream Nation track, plus Neil Young’s “Hey Hey My My” and “Hey Joni” recorded live in 1988, “Flower” and “Ghost Bitch” recorded live in 1985, and a conversation between Lee Ranaldo and Wharton Tiers about recording “Confusion Is Sex.”

SONIC YOUTH

Confusion Is Sex T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $200.00

Black with white ink. Previously washed and worn many times (super soft, label is gone, cracks in ink). From 1980s

SONIC YOUTH

Daydream Nation

(Goofin’) Used 4xLP $75.00

“The interplay between Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo is stronger and more intuitive than before,” marvels All Music Guide. “Bassist Kim Gordon and drummer Steve Shelley are a powerful rhythm section that cut an impressive groove, giving the band a greater freedom to explore the space around them without getting lost. Sonic Youth make better and more satisfying use of their arsenal of alternate tunings and bent but elemental song structures, and the final product fuses their love of creatively applied noise and the sound of the electric guitar with song structures that merge elements of punk, prog, boogie, and psychedelia. A bracing, glorious experience, confirming their status as one of America’s best and most original alternative rock bands.” The complete original album is here, along with Ranaldo’s previously unreleased June 1988 demo of “Eric’s Trip”; a fluid live show constructed from various gigs from June ’88 thru March ’89; and comp tracks — the Beatles’ “Within You Without You,” Mudhoney’s “Touch Me I'm Sick,” Neil Young’s “Computer Age,” and Captain Beefheart’s “Electricity.” With liner notes by Byron Coley and Ray Farrell, lots of band photographs. Sealed

SONIC YOUTH

Dirty

(Goofin’) Used 4xLP $75.00

All 15 tracks from the original album, plus B-Sides, demos, edits, covers of Alice Cooper and the New York Dolls. Liner notes by Byron Coley.

SONIC YOUTH

Dirty

(DGC) Used 2xLP $125.00

“Merging the propulsive structures of rock (both punk and otherwise) with the gorgeous chaos of their approach to the electric guitar,” opines All Music Guide, which compares the essence of Dirty to the earlier Sister album, “Dirty is also Sonic Youth’s most overtly political album, railing against the abuses of the Reagan / Bush era, a surprising move from a band so often in love with cryptic irony. It’s a damn good rock album that ranks with Sonic Youth’s best work.” Gold promo stamp over the barcode

SONIC YOUTH

Disappearer

(DGC) Used 12-inch $25.00

The single edit of the Goo song, an eight-track demo version, a Neon Boys cover, and the eight-track demo / long version of “Dirty Boots.” Small promo hole in upper right corner. Sealed

SONIC YOUTH

Goo

(DGC) Used 2xLP $175.00

A cornerstone of alternative rock from 1990.

SONIC YOUTH

Goo

(Goofin’) Used 4xLP $75.00

The original 11-track album remastered, plus 19 more, including: B-Sides and original eight-track demos (remixed and remastered); the album outtake “Lee #2” (previously unheard with vocals); rehearsal outtakes “Tuff Boyz” and “Isaac”; “Can Song” (a never-before-heard demo of “The Bedroom”); the Beach Boys’ “I Know There's an Answer”; “Dr. Benway’s House” (the band’s contribution to William Burroughs’s Dead City Radio); and the promotion-only “Goo Interview.” Plus texts by Byron Coley and Mark Kates, and never-before-seen photos. Sealed

SONIC YOUTH

Goodbye 20th Century

(SYR) Used 2xLP $40.00

Works by some of the twentieth-century’s greatest composers — John Cage, Yoko Ono, Cornelius Cardew, Steve Reich, Takehisa Kosugi, Nicolas Slonimsky, George Maciunas, James Tenney, Pauline Oliveros and Christian Wolf — with an all-star cast of players —William Winant, Jim O’Rourke, Kosugi, Wolff, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore, Christian Marclay, and Wharton Tiers. Black vinyl

SONIC YOUTH

Halloween II

(Blast First) Used 12-inch (one-sided) $110.00

The first studio mix backed with a Savage Pencil engraving. From 1986.

SONIC YOUTH

Invito Al Ĉielo

(SYR) Used LP $15.00

Jim O’Rourke brings a touch of calm to Sonic Youth’s rock El Niño, for three tracks of blackened experimental sound. Kim Gordon kinda gurgles a bit during some of it. Clear vinyl

SONIC YOUTH

J’accuse Ted Hughes / Agnès B Musique

(SYR) Used LP $30.00

A previously unreleased 22-minute drone piece recorded at the All Tomorrows Parties festival in the UK in April 2001, backed with an 18-minute soundtrack-style piece recorded at the band’s Murray Street Studio in 2003 for a never-realized collaboration with the titular French clothing designer. Sealed

SONIC YOUTH

Kool Thing

(DGC) Used 12-inch $15.00

Album version backed with eight-track demo version.

SONIC YOUTH

Made In USA

(Rhino) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Film soundtrack recorded in the late ’80s between Evol and Sister, unreleased until 1995. As highly textural incidental film music, it is, of course, more atmospheric and drier than usual. Clear vinyl. Sealed

SONIC YOUTH

Silver Session

(SKR) Used CD $10.00

Guitars and basses plugged in and left to roar and howl like airplanes burning over the Pacific; a sick, outmoded beatbox run through the P.A. blowing out horrendous distorted pulsations; mixed, edited, processed during the sessions for A Thousand Leaves.

SONIC YOUTH

Simon Werner A Disparu

(SYR) Used LP $15.00

Music for the film directed by Fabrice Gobert, re-organized and montaged and extending into new sonic realms. With DL card that gets you bonus tracks. Sealed

SONIC YOUTH

Slaapkamers Met Slagroom

(SYR) LP $35.00

(SYR) Used LP $35.00

Three tracks of pure improv that, even at their noisiest, reveal Sonic Youth’s remarkable interplay and ability to sense where each other will go. No clear-cut themes, structures, or leaders, it’s simply the band without a harness.
Color of sealed LP vinyl is unknown.
Used LP is on teal vinyl

SONIC YOUTH / YAMATSUKA EYE

TV Shit

(Ecstatic Peace) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

A symphony mix of Youth Brigade’s legendary “No Song II” in four takes, with backing vocals from Mark Arm and J. Mascis. Sealed

SONIC YOUTH

Washing Machine

(DGC) Used 2xLP $100.00

“Easily their most adventurous, challenging, and best record since Daydream Nation,” according to All Music Guide, in which Sonic Youth “returns to the fearless exploration of their SST era, but not only are the songs more immediate than most of the material on their earlier records, the sound is warm and open. It’s not a commercial record, nor is it a pop record, but Washing Machine does encompass everything that made Sonic Youth innovators.” U.S. edition

GIULIANO SORGINI

The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue

(Death Waltz) Used LP $20.00

The score to this classic zombie film is a great mix of ’60s psych-driven breaks with the lushest strings you’ll ever hear, pulsing electronics and terrifying wailing screams from hell. Green vinyl. Includes lithograph and poster.

SORIAH

Offrendas de Luz a Los Muertos

(Beta Lactam Ring - NEGRO33) Used CD $12.50

Noise technician Power Circus slices old bones into Soriah's power electronics scrimshaw. "Sonically devastating," and comparable in its "operatic qualities" to MB, Hafler Trio and New Blockaders. Edition of 300 numbered and signed copies.

SOUL JUNK

1950

(Holy Kiss Rex) Used LP $12.00

Twenty-three lo-fi avant-pop songs from 1994 by Trumans Water’s Glen Galloway. Silkscreened aluminum foil paste-on jacket.

OMAR SOULEYMAN

Highway To Hassake

(Sublime Frequencies) Used 2xLP $24.00

The first Western release by this Syrian cultural phenom, compiled from cassettes recorded between 1996 and 2006. Souleyman’s rich, flexible voice has bite in the frantic numbers (mostly in dabke style, typical Syrian party music) and a lot of soul in ataba songs (a mournful style). The band includes oud players Hamid Souleyman and Ali Shakir, and keyboardist Rizan Sa'id, whose lightning-fast solos can put Rick Wakeman to shame. Sealed

SOUND

Screaming Zenith

(Beta Lactam Ring) Used 2xLP $17.50

A quivering gelatin of sinister whimsy by Eric Lumbleau of Vas Deferens Organization and Joel Zoch. Aphex-style beat sequencing rubs shoulders with Numan-esque keyboards, fuzzy Western guitars, creepy voice loops and sudden, terrifying plunges into ring-modulated, echo-chambered oblivion. Edition of 300

EPIC SOUNDTRACKS

Everything Is Temporary

(Fruit Tree) Used LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

“A haunting posthumously released assortment of songs that mostly features Soundtracks accompanying himself on guitar or piano, with many a rough edge enhancing the raw emotions that lie beneath the surface. Each song grows out of a tortured soul searching for love and friendship, but instead finding only loneliness.” From 2000. Sealed

SOUTHERN ALL-STARS

Tiny Bubbles

(Taishita) Used CD $30.00

Originally released in 1980, “Tiny Bubbles captures Southern All Stars at the moment right before they became one of the most famed and influential Japanese acts ever…. Which is kind of surprising considering just how weird Southern All Stars sound on their third album…. [It] may not be a crazy piece of experimental art, but they jump from balladry to reggae-tinged to outright Broadway musical. It can be a confusing listen…, [but they masterfully] push J-Pop into stranger places all while sounding completely normal.… ‘Hey! Ryudo!’ [is] an honest-to-goodness stab at musical theater, complete with ragtime horns and a tap dancing interlude…. The most critical element [of the album] is Kuwata’s singing style. It’s a throaty, twisty thing capable of drawing out lyrics and also shooting them out at rapid-fire, like a burned-out lounge singer who tries pop…. It’s both the most unorthodox part of Southern All Stars but also the part responsible for them truly standing out…. Tiny Bubbles is a strange, catchy album…, the perfect showcase of all the little oddities that turned Southern All Stars into what they are today." 1989 reissue.

SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS

Southern Culture On The Skids

(Lloyd Street) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Rick Miller and his merry band of North Carolina trash merchants combine refried hillbilly twang and hot rod instrumentals (with a slight nod to The Cramps) on such lo-fi wheelies as “Psycho Surfing,” “Primitive Guy,” “Atom Age Trucker,” and “Demon Death,” which helps itself to the Outer Limits theme. From 1985

SOUTHERNING

Templates Made or Found

(Drunken Fish - DFR38) Used CD $5.00

Cluster- and Tangerine Dream-inspired textures and moods, electronic meditations, amorphous underwater soundscapes, and lilting jetstream journeys.

SPACEWÜRM

Dargot Somori

(Vinyl Communications) Used LP $5.00

A lo-fi experimental mix of vintage synths, space rock, and homemade tape loop effects from 1996. Numbered edition 992/1000, violet vinyl.

SPASM

Meating Disorder

(World Serpent) Used CD $3.00

Two tracks, 10+ minutes. Guest Sam from Die Cheerleader

SPASMOM

Spasmom

(Less Than TV) Used CD $10.00

Thirteen short, frantic spazz attacks from 1998 with a goofy edge, somewhere between hardcore and junk noise. Japanese import.

SPECULUM FIGHT

Highball

(W.I.N.) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Three tracks of Earth-moving heavy tonal work by Damion Romero from 1997.

SPECULUM FIGHT

Medium

(P-Tapes) Used CDR $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

Live recording from Reed College with acoustic sound processing by Tom Grimley, live recording from Beyond Baroque, live recording from Impact Café. Photogram by Seze Devres glued to chipboard folder.

SPECULUM FIGHT

Swimming Pool

(Volvolo) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Pure electric tones by Damion Romero performing live live in 1995 at Glaxa (stereo cassette recording), 50 Bucks (recorded on Sony DAT with Sennheiser binaural microphone), and at Spaceland (Webster-Chicago Model 80 wirespool recording).

SPECULUM FIGHT

White Elephant

(P-Tapes) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

1998 reissue of 1994 cassette of Damion Romero’s saturated drones and scratchy homemade electronics. With vellum insert

SPIDER TRIO

Rendezvous

(Assaphon) Used LP $20.00

Avant rock and free jazz by Wally Shoup (sax), Dave Abramson (drums), and Jeffery Taylor (guitar). “Shoup is in fire-breathing form throughout,” marvels our friend at Volcanic Tongue, “Scorching the omnidirectional time signatures and bursts of single-note violence with rasping smears of breath…. [Abramson and Taylor] get down on their hands and knees and … generate [a] low, vibrating rumble while Shoup nose-dives into them again and again.”

LAURIE SPIEGEL

Obsolete Systems

(Electronic Music Foundation) Used CD $35.00 (Out-of-stock)

On this 2001 overview of Spiegel’s electronics works from 1970 to 1983, she utilizes analog synthesizers (Buchla 100, Electrcomp 100), tape, digital synthesis, Echoplex, Bell Labs’ GROOVE Hybrid system, etc. In the composer’s own words: “Each musical instrument, whether electronic or not, implies an aesthetic domain and sensibility unique to its design. These are a few I’ve personally explored. When it was new, each of these music systems, now long obsolete, was state of the art, visionary, radically new and so revolutionary that it required extended explanations in response to common questions such as ‘Why would anyone ever want to do that?’ ”

SPIRACLE

Ananta

(Helen Scarsdale - HMS017) Used 2xCD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Hitoshi Kojo (aka Spiracle) finds it difficult to fall asleep. Ananta urges the listener toward a dreamless sleep-state, while reflecting the glowing warmth of a blossoming sunrise. To finely tuned drones extracted from a Dilruba and a Sarangi, Kojo merges sympathetic field recordings and other tonal interferences alongside the instrumental sounds. The results are elliptically static drones that brightly shimmer with hues of gold, crimson, and aquamarine. One of the two variations of Ananta was released in 2006 as a micro-edition CDR through Mystery Sea; tiny churning textures stream along a linear path, nearly achieving infinity, which happens to be the translation from Sanskrit of "ananta." If you find Roland Kayn, Yoshi Wada, or Charlemagne Palestine hypnotic, you'll want to check this out. The Strato Version of Ananta is previously unreleased. It bends and undulates around a fundamental drone, while maintaining the sun-flecked glints magnified in the Mystery Sea version. Limited to 300 copies

SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE

Spires That In The Sunset Rise

(Eclipse) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Deliciously evil blend of cello, guitar, pedal steel, bells, banjo, and all manner of organic sounds from 2003 in a fine mesh of rock, psych, raga, punk, and folk. For fans of Raincoats, Current 93, Comus, Plastic Ono Band, Pelt, and the like. Sealed

SPOKE

Spoke

(Hausmusik) Used LP $25.00

Released under a different name, the 1996 debut by Calexico snatches up the bits of Americana turned out by a rototilling of the national music psyche. Nineteen tracks, some insect small and erratic in flight, some held up by guitar, or by accordion, or by vibes. A bit of desert dust sprinkled throughout may be the only constant theme, much like a Santa Fe rummage sale of sounds.

SPONTANEOUS MUSIC ENSEMBLE

Karyobin

(Chronoscope) Used CD $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

1993 UK reissue of 1968 sessions by drummer John Stevens, trombonist Paul Rutherford, saxophonist Trevor Watts, saxophonist Evan Parker, plus trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, guitarist Derek Bailey and bassist Dave Holland. Despite not playing together regularly, they clearly have no problem gelling and finding common ground. Straight off, they sound like a long-established group on six freely improvised tracks, roaring with coherence and consistency of sound.

SPROTON LAYER

With Magnetic Fields Disrupted

(New Alliance) Used LP $20.00

“Late 1960s recordings blazing a space-age mix of Roky Erickson and Syd Barrett.” With Roger Miller, later of Mission of Burma. 1991 pressing. Clipped corner

SPRUNG AUS DEN WOLKEN

Round And Around

(Disques du Soleil Et De L’Acier) Used CD $6.00

The first couple of tracks on this 19991 album seem like “almost-cover-versions,” according to Soft Watch. “ ‘Embodyn’ has a slow start, then a gradual build up to a hectic charge, which immediately brings Modern English’s ‘Gathering Dust’ to mind. ‘Black & White’ is like a stripped-down and rebuilt version of Iggy Pop’s ‘Lust For Life’ …, a total dance thing that will possess your primal urge to dance like a divine horseman, leaving you wrecked [and] gathering your breath [during] the strange, ballad-like ‘2023’…, [with its] talked-over clicky rhythm [and] warm, languid sound…. ‘Beele’ opens with high-pitched piano beneath deeper, more moody piano rhythm while the vocalist half-whispers…. ‘You-Hu-Man’ falls back toward the Neubauten sound — a complex, snappy build up of various rhythmic sounds, culminating in … unusual, thin supra-punk … with a whip-thin guitar line. ‘Rhythm & Mood’ has a dark, furrowed brow…. ‘Reality’ is another piece of poetry / words, set over a simple ‘dragging chains’ rhythm. ‘Round And Around’ … [is] something akin to Talking Heads circa Remain In Light, [with] a shimmering ‘Once In A Lifetime’ funkiness…. [S]udden stops [and] backward reverb … make this a warm piece of dance music.”

MILOVAN SRDENOVIC

Live at the Pack Horse Leeds 14/04/02

(Idwal Fisher) Used CD $5.00

“Noise with a sense of humor that is British postcard surreal dipped in shit” by the founder of Smell & Quim. Or “It’s all protest folk,” according to Blastitude. “Protesting fucking squares who get too much money. Or you could call the style ‘macabre folkie’ like Liz Armstrong did in The Chicago Reader, and that’s pretty good, though on this disc the folkiness is pretty much flooded out by tape loops and TG-style animosity.”

SS

SS LIve

(Alchemy) Used CD $50.00

1990 CD reissue of 18 live tracks from March 1979 by Japan’s first hardcore band, plus another 18 previously unreleased from June ’79. $50 Some songs are repeated, the recording quality varies, but you have to love how primitive it all sounds, especially when it feels like it’s missing structure or at least created via group improv. Loud wails and chants, ultra-fast guitars with the gain on maximum, constant rapid-fire drums through nearly every song. Primal aggression at its finest.

ST37

And Then What...

(Noiseville) Used LP $12.00

Bassist Scott Telles’s howl is as potent as ever on “Thirst,” a voluminous jam that watches the “oceans receding from space,” and goes right into Joel Crutcher’s snaking guitar on “First Light,: a tribal passage through the heart of face-melting darkness. The bridge continues over “Invocation of My Demon Brother,” the dizzying bleeps and feedback swirling into well-oiled paranoia, which drops into the thrashing “Watch the Bile Come Out.” Paste-on front and back cover. Number edition of 500

CHRIS STAMEY

It’s A Wonderful Life

(DB Recs) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Chilton devotee and DBs founder joined by Ted Lyons and Mitch Easter, on mesmerizingly moody and somber tunes, aggressive demi-pop, a quiet piano piece with tape effects, and relatively straightforward pop songs. Overall, a strange and unsettling album, filled with fascinating adventures and subcurrents of profound unhappiness. Sealed

THE STANDELLS

Riot On The Sunset Strip

(Eva) Used LP $20.00

French issue of this collection of ’60s psych pop. Sealed

STEVEN STAPLETON / DAVID TIBET

Musical Pumpkin Cottage

(United Dairies) Used CD $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

Two side-long tracks of strange psychedelic krautrock maximalism.

STEVEN STAPLETON / DAVID TIBET

The Sadness Of Things

(United Dairies) Used CD $13.00

A beautiful and nuanced construction from 1991. David Tibet is “unusually calm and direct [on the title track], and the whole breathes deeply of the sublime without swallowing any of the ridiculous. With just human voice and echo, Steven Stapleton and Geoff Cox’s “The Grave and Beautiful Name of Sadness” — the soundtrack to Diana Rogerson’s film Twisting The Black Threads Of My Mental Marionette— dislodges listeners and glides them to somewhere among the protoplasm and dark matter that holds existence together.”

STAR TREK

Klingon

(CBS) Used 4xDVD $10.00

Fan collective series, in embossed slipcase, with visible shelf wear on corners and edges.

STAR TREK

Q

(CBS) Used 4xDVD $10.00

Fan collective series, in embossed slipcase, with visible shelf wear on corners and edges.

STARE CASE

Lose Today

(Destijl - IND096) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

STARFUCKERS

(Infinitive Sessions)

(DBK Works - 102) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Released 2002, the final Starfuckers album (after which they changed their name to Sinistri) combines diminutive rock with a deconstructed take on staggered soul rhythms, proto-punk gusto, and enigmatic cycles of industrial repetition. A peculiar ride through the exoskeleton of musical form into a disorienting miasma of sound dislocation that demonstrates how music is a pollution of time.

STARFUCKERS

Infrantumi

(Drunken Fish) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

The Italians legends’ 1997 follow-up to Sinistri maintains the unique approach to decimated sound arrangement. Sampler, small mixer, analog synth, digital multi-effect, electric guitar, cheap transistor amp, low-watt monitor, vintage drum kit, turntable, and that’s it. For recording they used mini-disc four-track recorder and a single microphone.

STARS OF THE LID

Gravitational Pull Vs Desire For An Aquatic Life

(Sedimental) Used LP $45.00

“Looking at the cover art depicting a blurry view through a screen door, you can almost feel the oppressive, gelatinous humidity of summer in Texas,” claims Pitchfork. “A sense of lethargy permeates this 1996 platter. The 19-minute expanse of ‘Cantus; In Memory of Warren Wiltzie’ feels dark and submerged, full of seismic rumbles, storm-drain echoes, and scraped guitar strings. While the billowing drones of later Stars recordings make the listener feel weightless, ‘Cantus’ casts a disorienting haze around you, never quite letting you escape. Distant drones, sampled strings, e-bowed guitar swells, and sine waves that sound like alien transmissions are blended together to sublime effect on ‘Lactate’s Moment.’ The elements rise and fall so naturally, they come to feel like part of your own breathing.” Numbered edition 028/709 on noisy and problematic white vinyl. No inserts.

STARVING WEIRDOS

The Path of Lightning

(Weird Forest) Used 2xLP $12.00

“Intricate tapestries woven from strands of electroacoustic improvisation, ambient noise, free-folk, and musique concrète. The result is a profoundly disorienting music that thrives on the tension between artificiality and organicity, stillness and constant mutation.” From 2009

STATIC EFFECT

Certain Random Firings

(Swinging Axe Productions) Used LP $18.00

Industrial / electronic improv from the late 1980s by Randy Grief and Mikhail Bohonus of Warworld. Edition of 500

RODGER STELLA

The Electric Zodiac II

(AA) Used CDR $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

A synthesizer recording from 2001 combined in 2008 with then-recent material to create this oddity. Minimal, low-end synth pieces from a frozen atmosphere favor an eerily sci-fi and futuristic edge.

STELLAR OM SOURCE

Trilogy Select

(Olde English Spelling Bee) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

The second full-length from Netherlands-based electronic musician Christelle Gualdi consists of selections from three 2009 self-released CDRs: Crusader, Alliance, and Ocean Woman. Soundtrack-y synth excursions, and naively romantic futurism a la ’80s sci-fi B-movies, including a collaboration with Dan Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never. Includes free download coupon.

HOWARD STELZER

The Case Against

(Monotype) Used CD $5.00

The big master of tape manipulation builds a few pieces around a feeling of sound deterioration and landscapes falling apart.

THE STENCH BAND

Pray For The Fred

(Stench Productions) Used LP $15.00

A lo-fi dadaist deluge of brilliant and juvenile Mothers / Beefheart worship from early ’70s Omaha, Nebraska. Paste-on jacket numbered

STERNKLANG

1

(New World Of Sound) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Smoking psych jams recorded on a boombox by members of Monoshock, Cul De Sac’s original drummer Chris Guttmacher and Douglas Pearson. Sealed

JESSE STEWART

Music for Found Objects

(C3R - C3R009) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Well-regarded Canadian jazz percussionist gives a good whack to water, metal and stone. Downtown Yawnsville, right? Guess again. Manipulated salad bowls floating in a bath tub. The sonic capabilities of canoe paddles. Building bells approximated with a mallet and a 50-inch length of galvanized steel sliding through Stewart's fingers. Marble tables and air pockets. Detailed liner notes.

STORM BUGS

Supplementary Benefit

(Vinyl on Demand - VOD44) Used LP $30.00

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.

STRAPPING FIELDHANDS

Discus

(Omphalos) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

The Philly quartet’s 1994 masterpiece is a low-tech affair that experiments with unorthodox instrumentation and has at its heart a delicate and crafty song sensibility that brings to mind Tall Dwarfs, Television Personalities, British folk and psychedelia, Pere Ubu, and Red Krayola-style quirkiness.

STRAPPING FIELDHANDS

In The Pineys

(Siltbreeze) Used 10-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Fantastic lo-fi punk jabber from 1994 combined with mouthfuls of old tobacco juice.”

STUDIO GHIBLI

Final Frames From the Feature Films (1984 – 2014

(Chronicle Books) Postcards Box $20.00

One-hundred postcards in a box, devoted to and commemorating 30 years of work by this beloved Japanese animation company.

SUDDEN INFANT

Philanthropic Phalanges

(Recordings For The Summer) Used CDR $6.00

Loops and cut-ups from 2003. With toenails

SUDDEN INFANT

Solothurn

(Pure) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Harsh but often understated electronic noise and distortion mixed with various industrial and tape sounds, shifting the mix and sources frequently. From 1994

TAKU SUGIMOTO

Principia Sugimatica

(A Bruit Secret) Used CD $8.00

A note or two on a clean-toned electric guitar, followed by a rest for a precise period of time. The process repeats. sometimes resting for a different, but still precise, periods of time. From 2005

SUICIDE

Half Alive

(ROIR - 8264) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

2000 reissue of all twelve original tracks recorded live at various venues and studios between 1974 and 1979 with three bonus tracks from 1989 recorded live in the UK (“All Night Long,” “Sweetheart,” and “Scream And Shout”). Includes liner notes by Lester Bangs.

SUICIDE

Suicide

(Ze - ILPS7007) Used LP $35.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

SUN CITY GIRLS

330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond The Rig Veda

(Get Back - GET718) 3xLP $55.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Abduction - ABDT008) Used 2xCD $40.00 (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.

SUN CITY GIRLS

Apna Desh / Rooko Bay

(Perfect) Used 10-inch $150.00

Different mixes of two ethno-surrealist tracks from 330,003 Crossdressers (Abduction 1996). Plays at 78rpm.

SUN CITY GIRLS

Carnival Folklore Resurrection Vol. 2: The Dreamy Draw

(Abduction - ABDT013 ) Used CD $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

Ominous, dark, sour, and immediately engaging, where the lo-fi improv is in narrow focus, bell-driven, cohesive and dreamy. Shambling graveyard theme music for piano, Indonesian percussion, a slow harmonium line that purrs like a resting tiger. Javier Gallegos guests on the title track, a 21-minute free workout on gamelan that begins with intoxicated, near-random bashing and gradually works up to a demonic-possession trance state. Recorded live at GBU, Seattle in 1998.

SUN CITY GIRLS

Carnival Folklore Resurrection Vol. 8: The Handsome Stranger

(Abduction - ABDT020 ) Used CD $18.00

Gocher-centric hilarity in the form of a surrealist mini-opera involving JFK, Abraham Lincoln (can’t have one without the other), John Wilkes Booth, sodomy, and the mother of all dream vacations spots, hell. Puzzling, profane and therefore deeply satisfying, with supporting hoot ranging from saloon-style piano and swingin’ faux-lounge jazz daddy-o to maudlin easy-listening and rickety, uneasy drone ambiance.

SUN CITY GIRLS

Dante’s Disneyland Inferno

(Abduction - ABDT007 ) Used 2xCD $40.00

The inevitable “sprawling masterpiece” in which Divine Comedian Charlie Gocher takes his rightful spot on the dais alongside Burroughs and Firesign Theatre. All the major mood musics appear: bongo bohemia, C & W, lounge swing, ooga booga rock, children’s melodies and the other 112 as well.

SUN CITY GIRLS

Wah

(Abduction) Used CD $17.50

Instrumental tracks of drums, bass, and electric guitar with Rick Bishop’s wah-wah pedal in full force throughout, recorded in a Seattle garage in 2001, recalling a late ’60s acid-stoner jam. The playing is fluid, direct, and spontaneous with that semi-coherent SCG touch. Originally released as a tour-only CD in 2002. Edition of 500.

SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN

Fire Escape

(Smalltown Supersound) Used 2xLP $10.00

Shrieks, distortion, and neo-psychedelic noise layers at various frequencies and volumes, constructed in large part by producer Keiran Hebden of Four Tet, who lashes together African beat, Svengali hisses, atonal noise, electronic blips, sound clips, drone, Euro-trance, etc. With poster by Eye Yamantaka (Boredoms).

SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN

Rare Wood

(Spirit of Orr) Used CD $5.00

The first commercially available compact disc from this gang of sound explorers is a hyperdriven, claustrophobic ride on a swaying line that takes free rock to new heights, lows, and in-betweens.

SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN

Sunburned Hand Of The Man

(C-Town Skull) Used LP $7.00

“Pure rhythmic, dope-fueled, primal freak,” says Thom Jurek, “Varying pulses with guitars, basses, flutes, garbage cans, synths, and chanted, intoxicated vocals by who knows how many people…. [I]t flows, like lava ruining everything it touches.”

SUNKEN

New Zealand Eels

(Emerald Cocoon - EC002) Used LP $8.00

Antony Milton (The Nether Dawn, Glory Fckn Sun) and Stefan Neville (Pumice) posit Sunken as sea-shanties sung by sailors lost to Cthulhu at the bottom of the ocean; their surging, reed-driven organs and vocal streams broadcast via cracked electronics suggest sailors breaking free of the weeds and swimming toward the light, and even, occasionally, breaking the surface. This tentacle shot from the abyss, however, drag the sailors back down into the service of the lurker in the deep. Bleak, black and completely drowned, New Zealand Eels beams five submarine tracks from the lost to the lost through the milky darkness, with the vocal melodies pushed to the foreground and the instrumental origins of the music obscured as never before by damaged baby monitors, power starved dictaphones, tape saturation and spring reverb. Include free download. Edition of 300.

SUNROOF

Cloudz

(VHF - VHF75) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Layers of twinkling keyboard, guitar, unidentified fuzz, short wave, etc., very much in the style of Harmonia and Cluster in spots. There are a couple of amped-up moments here and there, including surprise lead guitar action on "Tornado Rose Canoe," and the excellent fuzz-grilled rock of "Primavera." According to no less of an authority than Neil Campbell, Cloudz is "the best Sunroof ever."

SUNROOF / VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Wings Over America

(VHF) Used Split CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Eight tracks by Sunroof, a mix of archetypical drone and shimmer, and wild, jarring sampler-analog-bloop-driven action. VCO weigh in with an eclectic mix, including the delicate “Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom,” a clip from a gig at the Royal Festival Hall, and Bridget Hayden blowing up a storm on the flute. Released in 2003 in conjuction with first-ever US tour both groups. Chipboard jacket.

SUPERCHUNK

Home At Down

(Snap Crackle Punk) Used 7-inch (one-sided) $2.00

Tear-stained indie rock from 1994. Originally released with Speed Kills #6. Orange vinyl

SUPERNATURAL HOT RUG AND NOT USED

Supernatural Hot Rug And Not Used

(EM) Used CD $4.00

Rambunctious free improv rock from 2005 by Tim Olive on electric bass and Bunsho Nishizawa on electric guitar. Cover art by Marc Bell.

SUTCLIFFE JUGEND

Pigdaddy

(Cold Spring) Used CD $5.00

“A filthy dirt-mess of an album from 2008, six stories of mind-fucking depravity, with fucked up, histrionic and downright bizarre vocals. Moral decay, beyond perverse, sexual transgression.” Cover painting by Kevin Tomkins.

SUTCLIFFE JUGEND

This Is The Truth

(Groundfault) Used CD $10.00

The first studio album in eight years by Sutcliffe Jugend, who began in 1982 as a Whitehouse side project that gained notoriety as one of the harshest exponents of the original power electronics scene. After the monumental 10xCS boxset We Spit On Their Graves (Come Organisation, 1982), Sutcliffe Jugend released a handful of albums until 1999. A single 7-inch was released in 2001 and they weren’t heard from again until 2006, when they played their first-ever live show, followed by more that same year. This Is The Truth is an original and perfectly balanced noise composition, referencing classic as well as unique and fresh elements one does not hear in noise. Foreboding tension and anxiety, lively, disturbing, and textual elements of noise all come together with detail and balance.

DAMO SUZUKI’S NETWORK

Hollywood

(Canopic) Used LP $10.00

Spacey, hypnotic improv that rocks out like a motherfucker by the former Can vocalist with members of Farflung, Anubian Lights, Seksu Roba, and Mandog. Recorded live at the Knitting Factory. Silkscreened jacket. Number 353 in an edition of 500

SWANS

Children Of God / World Of Skin

(Young God) Used 2xCD $10.00

By 1986 Swans had run its course with the physical assault of sound, so Michael Gira pushed the music into unfamiliar territory. Recording in an old isolated medieval sawmill in Cornwall, England, Jarboe’s presence came to the fore as a presence. Children Of God was a major turning point for Swans; around the same time, Jarboe and Gira did two records under the name World Of Skin, a large assortment from which is included on the second disc of this 2008 reissue.

SWANS

Forever Burned

(Young God) Used CD $100.00 (Out-of-stock)

The entire Burning World album that was released in 1989, plus the songs from White Light From The Mouth of Infinity, Love of Life and various B-Sides that were not included on Various Failures. Signed by M. Gira. From 2003

SWANS

My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky

(Young God - YG43X) Used 2xCD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Epic soul-crushery from 2010 that moves through pastoral terrain onto ever-ascending monotonal grooves. A filmic-folk idyll featuring Devendra Banhart on lead vocal abruptly shifts to cataclysm, and is followed by more airplane-taking-off ascensions, art songs and lethal sonic pummeling. With bonus disc of raw material compiled, mangled, edited, and re-arranged.

SWANS

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).

SWANS

Soundtracks For The Blind

(Young God - YG01) 2xCD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Young God - YG01) Used 2xCD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Ten actual songs nestled among the found-soundscapes, ambient decompositions and twisted electronic noises that constitute the album’s remaining sixteen fragments. Soundtracks’ sheer length (two-and-a-half hours) and immensity are its own best explanation.
New CD is embossed digipak from 1996.
Used CD is second edition in single-width jewelcase from 2002.

SWANS

Swans Are Dead

(Young God) Used CD $45.00 (Out-of-stock)

Performances from 1995’s Great Annihilator tour (with Larry Mullins, Vudi, and Joe Goldring joining M. Gira, Jarboe, Kris Force, and Dave Ouimet) and the tour from 1997 (with Clinton Steele, Bill Bronson, and Phil Puleo). The 1995 disc is taken wholly from a show in Norway, mixing a variety of then-unreleased tunes with both solo and Swans material. The 1997 disc collects tracks from New York, Atlanta and Europe. Throughout both discs, the audiences are loudly and happily appreciative of the group’s astonishing fire. 1998 edition in digipak. Sealed

SWANS

Various Failures

(Young God) Used 2xCD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tracks from 1988 to 1992, ranging from delicate, acoustic ballads with accompanying strings to bombastic Phil Spector-influenced arrangements, to cinematic sound collages with found vocal narrations, all unified by Swans essential intensity of feeling. This double-CD collects the best of the material released previously on their Love Will Tear Us Apart 12-inch (Caroline 1988), The Burning World album and its various singles (UNI 1989), the World of Skin album 10 Songs For Another World (Young God 1990), White Light From The Mouth of Infinity (Young God 1990/91), and the Love of Life album and its various singles (Young God 1992). Includes “Love Will Tear Us Apart (Jarboe Version)” and “New Mind (Acoustic Version),” both removed from later editions. Digipak edition

SWANS

Various Failures

(Young God) Used 2xCD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tracks from 1988 to 1992, ranging from delicate, acoustic ballads with accompanying strings to bombastic Phil Spector-influenced arrangements, to cinematic sound collages with found vocal narrations, all unified by Swans essential intensity of feeling. This double-CD collects the best of the material released previously on their Love Will Tear Us Apart 12-inch (Caroline 1988), The Burning World album and its various singles (UNI 1989), the World of Skin album 10 Songs For Another World (Young God 1990), White Light From The Mouth of Infinity (Young God 1990/91), and the Love of Life album and its various singles (Young God 1992). Includes “Love Will Tear Us Apart (Jarboe Version)” and “New Mind (Acoustic Version),” both removed from later editions. Jewelbox edition. Some discoloration on the front cover.

SWEDEN

Same Diff

(Dual Plover) Used CD $3.00

An “earsplitting audio autopsy” from 2002, with Sweden’s vocals and secondhand records accompanied by Garry Bradbury (on electronics and treatments) and the inmates of Fanny Deacon’s Retirement Home (percussion). “It’s like karaoke without the practice rooms, a cabaret noise style re-enactment of cataclysmic musical moments from the 1960s and ’70s performed with all the skill of a young council official.”

SWEET KELLY

Tape Fed Into the Garbage Disposal By Spaceman and Jake

(Zedikiah) Used LP $35.00

Reckless teenaged confusion from 1997 by Michael “Radar” Markham, Derek Springer, and Robert Lize that sounds like it was mastered directly from a fried cassette, comparable to, says Aaron Dilloway, “Faxed Head produced the Amboy Dukes or a way more fucked-up version of Royal Trux.” Generic black jacket with centerhole, sticker. Numbered edition of 500

SWELL MAPS

International Rescue

(Alive) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Nikki Sudden’s selected faves, with four songs that have never been on CD (including “Dresden Style (City Boys),” which was on a single); three that have never been released anywhere; three unreleased mixes; and a few songs that appeared on U.K. singles (“Let’s Build a Car,” “Real Shocks,” “Read About Seymour”).

LE SYNDICAT

Corrumpate

(Pure) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Hard, oppressive power electronics. Originally self-released on cassette in 1985.

LE SYNDICAT

Propagation

(BKO Media) Used CD $7.00

This 2010 release presents a somewhat glossier and more structured take on Le Syndicat’s sound, with cassette-era mechanical noise loops being muted by crisp digital editing and rich dynamic shifts, powered by a sense of free-form energy that is both uneasy and intriguing.

LE SYNDICAT

Rectitude

(Pure) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

1984 album of martial loops, incessant feedback, electronics. Originally self-released on cassette in 1986.

LE SYNDICAT

Relikat & Schraguemusik

(Pure) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Classic industrial noise. Crushing, dark and unyielding. Originally self-released on cassette in 1985.

LÁSZLÓ SÁRY

Five Melancholic Songs

(Hungaraton) Used LP $10.00

Includes “Pentagram” and “A Continuity Of Rotative Chords.” Four-page insert poetry, notations and liner notes.

LÁSZLÓ SÁRY

The Voice Of Time

(Hungaraton) Used LP $20.00

Includes: “The Voice Of Time” (1988) for countertenor and baritone solos, wind and string quintets and piano, written to an extract of a poem by Sándor Weöres; “Fives Repeated” (1985); for keyboards and percussion, flute and cor anglais; “Ludus Cromaticus” (1987); “Variations For String Quartet” (1986); “Souvenir” (1987); “Full Moon” (1986) for strings and gong; “Canon To The Rising Sun” (1987), text based on another Weöres poem “Drum and Dance”; “...And The Sun? (1986) for strings. Liner notes in Hungarian on the back cover, English translation on an A4 insert.

JOHAN SÖDERQVIST

Let The Right One In

(Death Waltz) Used LP $16.00

First time on vinyl for this vampire movie soundtrack loaded with dark, brooding themes that still manage to be achingly melancholic at the same time. Lithograph poster of Candice Tripp’s cover art. Liner notes by Soderqvist and Tripp.

SÖLDNERGEIST

Terror

(Pure) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Live recordings and two studio tracks of industrial deviance from 1997 by Alexis Weimer.

S•CORE

Missing Volume

(Zabriskie Point) Used LP $14.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Fire, fog, hidden places, a dark atmosphere” from 1998 by Yutaka Tanaka.

S•CORE

My Candle Has Died

(Praxis Dr. Bearmann) Used LP $100.00 (Out-of-stock)

Analogue industrial noise decay by Yutaka Tanaka from 1995. Cover is splattered with candle wax.

TAC

Out of Context

(Pure) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tape-splicing and feedback manipulation from 1997 by Tom Cox.

MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI

Action Direct

(Tiliqua - TIL5001) CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Tiliqua - TIL5001) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Nine tracks that freak out, whisper funk, scream, stomp, and storm with abandon, always on the first and only take. The capacity of the 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 demonstrates Takayanagi's profound connection to the source of human inspiration itself.

TALL DWARFS

Weeville

(Homestead) Used CD $5.00

From 1990, recorded “right at home, cloaked in duct tape and dust, dim buzz and rough performance,” notes Pitchfork. “Mostly just two guys and their guitars and whatever backdrops of fake percussion they could cobble together behind it all. Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate’s sharp, energetic pop is all the better for its lack of embellishment, and their homespun psychedelia is all the stranger and more intimate. “Breath” is raw, spooked psych-rock, joyously harmonized over two guitars and one drum ticking time. “Crawl” treads all the way over into Syd Barrett’s The Madcap Laughs territory. The songs around them bring in creaky keyboards and piano and devolve in any number of unexpected directions; the whole thing is covered in dirt and odd ideas.” Punched barcode

TAPE THAT

Autumn Collection

(Humbug) Used CDR $10.00

Musique concrète from 2004 by Danish duo Christophe Meierhans and Koen Nutters, recorded in an old police station in Berlin using objects, samples, field recordings and a complex microphone set up. Folded cardboard sleeve with paste-on cover and tracklist.

TART

Radio Orange

(Swill Radio) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tape-collage miniatures, indeterminacy, analog drone/vox duet, bizarre environmental action, fragile tone composite, and grinding electronic surge by super-modernist avant garde trio Karla Borecky, Graham Lambkin, and Scott Foust.

TASKMASTER

Swamp Lurker

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Blazing noise crunch from 2006. Photocopy paste-on artwork. Edition of 106

CECIL TAYLOR

Garden

(Hat Hut) Used 2xLP $35.00

Vocal extemporization and poetry, slowly evolving to reveal the piano performance itself where Taylor flails, bangs, and slashes out chords and high register trills with studied abandon and a careful attention to detail. No postcard

GHÉDALIA TAZARTÈS

Repas Froid

(Pan - PAN17) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Tanzprocesz - TP7) Used CD $10.00

An extraordinary combination of culled, found, and taped fragments juxtaposed against drums, field recordings and mystery noises, sound loops, birdsong, keyboards and Tazartès's throaty drones and voice propelled by hypnotic, ritualistic rhythms balanced on a razor sharp edge. Pan's LP is the complete work of Repas Froid, including archival and previously unreleased recordings from the late 1970s and early 1980s, strung together to form two long compositions (the CD edition on Tanzprocesz is brief tracks of source material and a palette of various sounds). A French musician of Turkish parentage, Tazartès is an uncompromising character who defies categorization. Born 1947 in Paris, he's one of France's most idiosyncratic talents. He has spent over 30 years within musical practice and experimentation, letting his musical work wander from chant to rhythm, from one voice to another. Utilizing magnetic tape recorders in a rough collage and loose ethno-instrumental mulch, he paves the way for the electric and the vocal paths, between the muezzin psalmody and the screaming of a rocker. He traces vague landscapes where the mitre of the white clown, the plumes of the sorcerer, the helmet of a cop and Parisian anhydride collide into polyphonic ceremonies. 140-gram vinyl, color jacket, silkscreened PVC sleeve. Edition of 500.

TEARIST

Living 2009 - Present

(Thin Wrist - TWLR1) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

(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.

TEDDY FIRE

Fluxing Headset Man

(Tummy Tapes) Used LP $6.00

A mondo-bizzaro pre-pubescent basement shindig of mammoth proportions, with interview segments and found sounds like a radio show you’d catch late at night on WFMU. Lo-fi weirdness from 1996 by Pablo Yglesias with his little brother Teddy singing and free-styling like the mutant child of Gary Wilson, Jad Fair, Biz Markie, and Captain Beefheart. No comic book

TEISCO

Tuscan Castle And Country Seat

(Roundtable) Used LP $15.00

Bearing little resemblance to the standard cues usually found on library music LPs, Teisco’s innovative home studio recordings parallel the outsider technique of French soundtrack composer Francois De Roubaix. The Australian 2012 repress of Altomusic’s original eccentricity from 1978 drifts lyrical Moog oscillations loosely over baroque and hallucinogenic atmospheres, mixing a bit of DIY VU-ish guitar jamming with Krautrock-esque electronics.

TELEVISION

The Blow-Up

(ROIR) Used 2xLP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

An essential document for anyone who feels Marquee Moon and Adventure inadequately capture the rawness and spontaneity that fueled Television’s on-stage improvisations. The sound quality is not exactly pristine, but the exciting and frequently breathtaking performances, recorded in 1978 during band’s final tour, reveal how their intricate, layered sound could ever get tagged “punk.” Six songs from Marquee Moon and two from Adventure appear, plus covers of “Satisfaction,” “Knockin’ on Heaven's Door,” and the 13th Floor Elevators’ “Fire Engine.” The real treasures are the 15-minute versions of “Little Johnny Jewel” and “Marquee Moon,” loaded with the improvisational fireworks. Blue and green vinyl. Sealed

TEMPLE OF BON MATIN

Thunder Feedback Confusion

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

The Philadelphia-based noise rock collective sounds like early Hawkwind jamming with Glenn Branca’s guitar orchestra, to the accompaniment of an extremely busy construction site. Their near-atonal freakouts are as challenging and uncompromising as rock music gets, with plenty of dynamics and compositional ideas. The heart of Temple of Bon Matin is the duo of drummer Ed Wilcox and keyboardist John Mulvaney, with other members added and subtracted according to whim. This 1995 album is probably the group’s most overtly rock-oriented work, with some of the songs even having recognizable melodies. Hand-made jacket with spray-paint, stencil, stickers

JAMES TENNEY

Selected Works 1961-1969

(Artifact) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tenney’s work constitutes the first significant and developed body of computer-composed and synthesized music by an American composer. From Cage-influenced aleatoric noise studies, to the influence of sounds heard while driving through a tunnel, to the Shepard tone phenomenon, many of the pieces on this CD were realized at Bell Telephone Laboratories where Tenney used Max Mathews’s digital synthesis program that eventually became Music IV (the model for many of the common computer music environments of the last forty years, and was the first system of its kind available to composers).

TERRESTRIAL TONES

Blasted

(Psych-O-Path) Used CD $4.00

“A 33-minute subterranean landscape of gargling mud baths inhabited by the robotic chirps of rusted aviary grubs” from 2004 by Eric Copeland of Black Dice and Dave Portner aka Avey Tare of Animal Collective.

TEXT OF LIGHT

ToL

(Dirter) Used 3xCD $25.00

Seven examples of live improvisation, each one is totally different. Round metal box packaging design is an homage to the second PiL album, obviously.

THERAPIST JOHN’S ZIP CODE REVUE

Abundance

(Amarillo) Used CD $6.00

The professional-sounding and sorrowful post-split album by one half of Zip Code Rapists (and his assembled band) is packed with well-written, weird country and folk music, with help from Thinking Fellers Union Local 282’s Mark Davies, David Tholfsen of U.S. Saucer, and Susan Clark.

THERMODERM

Thermoderm

(Soul Static Sound) Used LP $3.00

Glaswegian postrock from 1997

THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282

Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche

(Communion - COMM53) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

TFUL282’s final studio album from 2001 melds the ugly beauty of avant rock with peppy little nard-kicking melodies. Faux operettas suddenly transform into ground-to-a-halt shanties at the wrong speed; whale songs spontaneously corrupt themselves and become cries of harpooned whales; stockcar guitar riffs fishtail across bluegrass mirages; between debased jingles that have college radio station ID written all over them and chilly tinklers that could have been lifted directly from an hilarious new episode of Star Trek, backward Carnaby Street melodies battle like simultaneously occurring concept albums by the Swell Maps, Pere Ubu and… hell, name someone, Motörhead.

THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282

Lovelyville

(Matador) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

The power of hectic clamors harnessed. The massiveness of songs by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 is equaled by an underlying melancholy. Despite the screaming vocals, they still sound mellow, but never so listless as to be unable to get weird, eerie, and magnificent. From 1991. Sealed

THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282

Porcelain Entertainments

(Return To Sender) Used CD $5.00 (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.

THIS HEAT

Deceit

(Rough Trade) Used LP $40.00 (Out-of-stock)

A confrontation of prog, free-jazz and contemporary electronic composition with fairly intense socio-political statements. The trio masterfully oversees a complicated world where disparate elements coexist: the atypical calm of fractured quasi-lullabies; layers of what sounds like African percussion; brawny and pouncing rhythms; subtly acrobatic guitar lines; lengthy outros that resemble archetypical math-rock with repetitive, complicated rhythmic patterns; visceral dynamics; Dadaist collages of various noises, musical and otherwise; accordion intros; kazoo laments accompanied by pieces of metal and wood scraping together; kinetic drum orchestras, ancient rain forest flutes, and strings; crashing drums; wailing group vocals; very precise, discordant guitar lines. Jacket edges are roughed up, especially the spine; request a pic if you feel like it. UK pressing

THIS HEAT

Live

([ no label ]) Used LP $40.00

“The set is completely off-the-rails,” enthuses a fan named Gérard about this mid-80s recording originally released on cassette (IndepenDance 1986) and then on CD by Canterbury Dream under the title Cold Storage. Recorded in Krefeld, Germany, "they're in fantastic form, and they sound absolutely mad. It is almost as if they have all been ensnared by a rare narcotic, one that dulls their consciences and leaves them intoxicated, irritable, and thirsty.”

THIS HEAT

This Heat

(This Is - THISIS1) Used CD $15.00

One of the docents at All Music Guide offers this sober perspective: "[This Heat's] self-titled debut is a radical conglomeration of progressive rock, musique concrète, free improvisation, and even -- in a bizarre distillation -- aspects of British folk can be heard in Charles Hayward's singing." This is a sealed copy, though we're listing it as a used CD because it has a drill hole in the upper right corner.

DAVID THOMAS

Monster Walks The Winter Lake

(Twin/Tone) Used LP $7.00

Joined by bassist Tony Maimone, synth player Allen Ravenstine, and percussionist David Hild, Thomas delivers, from the perspective of unidentified monster, “a series of reminiscences and contemplations of urban and pastoral life. The song cycle ranges in mood from the extremely spare and angular ‘My Town,’ with its combination of accordion, random-sounding percussion and even more-random-sounding synthesizer, to the vaguely Slavic waltz of ‘What Happened to Me.’ His singing is, as always, a barely mammalian yelp. Humanity can essentially be divided into those who find this stuff completely compelling and those who find it utterly incomprehensible.” 1986 pressing

DAVID THOMAS

More Places Forever

(Twin/Tone) Used LP $8.00

Bassist (and old Pere Ubu hand) Tony Maimone and drummer Chris Cutler are “a fearsome rhythm combination that keep the groove rolling on most of these tunes, but nothing deflates a rockish ambience quite as effectively as bassoonist Lindsay Cooper; that’s not to say it isn’t compelling, just that it’s compelling in a very different way from Thomas’s earlier solo work. ‘Whale Head King’ features insect and bird sounds as well as a strange, distant vocal mix and a lyrical reprise of ‘Happy to See You.’ The plodding, slightly creepy ‘New Broom’ sounds like a Halloween song; the multi-tracked bassoon on ‘Enthusiastic’ alternates between polka-inflected chord chomps and klezmer wails. It’s great stuff, but probably of more interest to fans of the Art Bears and Henry Cow than of Pere Ubu.” 1985 pressing

DAVID THOMAS AND THE PEDESTRIANS

The Sound Of The Sand

(Rough Trade) Used LP $6.00

The first solo album by the Pere Ubu singer and songwriter with a backing band that includes expected collaborators as well as great British folk-rock guitarist Richard Thompson. The highlight is a cover of “Sloop John B,” described by All Music Guide as an “utterly unattractive deconstruction.” 1981 U.S. pressing

DAVID THOMAS AND THE PEDESTRIANS

Variations On A Theme

(Sixth International) Used LP $10.00

“Brit-folk guitar hero Richard Thompson adds not only chops but also structural complexity and a deep musical grace to The Pere Ubu frontman’s whinnying falsetto ruminations on birds, plants, and pedestrians. Credit is also due to bassist Jack Monck, who anchors things heroically on this album. There are lots of highlights here, but two of the album’s finest moments come on ‘Bird Town,’ a hysterical 12-bar blues romp that features both a vocal cameo (‘Oy kid, what’s the name of this town? Is it giraffe town?’) and a whole series of brilliant solos by Thompson, and on ‘A Day at the Botanical Gardens,’ which is one of the loveliest pieces of music Thomas has ever been responsible for.” 1983 pressing

CAREI THOMAS FEEL FREE ENSEMBLE

Mining Our Bid’ness

(Roaratorio) CD $7.50 (Out-of-stock)

(Roaratorio) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Free-wheeling, harmonically complex debut album by 64-year-old pianist/composer who gigged with Sun Ra in 1959-60, did brief time in AACM during the mid-’60s, and co-founded The Light with Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (which also included Jerome Cooper and Wadada Leo Smith). This live recording swings both ways and ignores the boundaries between gorgeous Ellingtonian ballads and combustible free jazz testification. Features Curlew’s George Cartwright and tenor saxophonist William R. Lang. Packaged in a mini-gatefold sleeve.

DANNY THOMPSON TRIO

Live 1967

(Turning Point Music) Used LP $20.00

2003 pressing of long-lost recordings of the acoustic bassist “in the company of a pre-stardom John McLaughlin, and little-known reedsman Tony Roberts, running through a well-chosen set of jazz standards. The set’s highlights are a delicate reading of the Coltrane ballad ‘Naima’ and a gently swinging version of the Miles classic ‘All Blues,’ featuring some remarkable flute work by Roberts. The overall tone is low-key and relaxed, and the sound quality is actually quite good.”

STEVE THOMSEN

Retrospective III

(Los Angeles Free Music Society) Used CDR $8.00

The through-line of the sonic universe of this LAFMS mage and former member of Monitor and Solid Eye, according to Mutant Sounds, “has always been a syrupy viscousness, through which his faded cycles of cheerfully cod-spooky and askew melodics pulse. Imagine a codeine-addled Danny Elfman orchestrating a Krofft Superstars inversion of Asmus Tietchens’ frosty cyclical wooze works under his Mechthild Von Leusch alias and pressing the results on aged wax cylinder discs. The glazed is paramount in Thomsen’s fishbowl universe and its protoplasmic essence ensnares my consciousness like a venus fly trap.”

THORAX-WACH

Euch Geht’s Ja Noch Viel Zu Gut

(Twisted Knister) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Minimal electro new wave from 1981 — six instrumental and six with wonderfully cynical pathology-inspired texts on the body, old people and children’s tastes. Somewhere between the synthetic hissing and creaking of early industrial bands, the electronic pop melodies of Der Plan and the dada of Die Tödliche Doris.

THREE DAY STUBBLE

Festival of the Wedding of the Sea Goat T-Shirt

([ no label ]) Used Size XL $50.00

Hanes Beefy-T 100% cotton. Black with white, Day-Glo orange and ultraviolet ink. From 1990s

THREE DAY STUBBLE

Let Your Morsel Find Its Way

(Nerd Rock Music) Used CD $5.00

Improvised oddball wonder from 2002 by these rock aberrations — an inspired and psychological blend of fetal jazz, prog-rock discomfort, psychedelic hypnosis, electronic incontinence, and wandering anti-jam primal therapy.

THREE LEGGED RACE

Living Order / Mourning Order

(Tone Filth - TF51) LP $17.15 (Out-of-stock)

(Tone Filth - TF51) Used LP $11.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

THRESHING FLOOR

Threshing Floor

(El Studio 444 / Reboot) Used LP (one-sided) $12.00

Rumbling reverberations and souring outbursts designed to elevate and levitate, laced together in a blanket of sound by Alan Licht, Rebecca Odes, Gretchen Gonzales, Nate Young and John Olson. Includes download card.

THROBBING GRISTLE

20 Jazz Funk Greats

(Mute) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Mute) Used LP $65.00

Their harsh-ish electro-pop outing (Industrial 1979), where occasional bits of distortion are spritzed between rigid sequencer lines, a harbinger of the industrial-dance and dark synth-pop yet to come.
CD: 1998 remastered reissue with poster-style CD book of lyrics. Includes two bonus tracks – live versions of “Discipline,” one from Manchester, one from Berlin.
LP: The “Ah Pook Was Here” recut from 1979

THROBBING GRISTLE

D.o.A. - The Third and Final Report

(Mute) Used CD $10.00

(Mute) Used LP $20.00

Their second studio album (Industrial 1978), a masterpiece of alienation constructed of collages of computer noise, tape manipulation, looped feedback and tape hiss, surreptitiously recorded conversation, threatening phone calls, and more.
CD: 1998 remastered reissue with poster-style CD book that has liner notes, essay by Jon Savage, postcard art. Includes two bonus tracks from their second single “Five Knuckle Shuffle” and “We Hate You (Little Girls)” (Sordide Sentimental 1979).
LP: 1983 repress

THROBBING GRISTLE

Entertainment Through Pain

(Rough Trade) Used LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)

This unbeatable summary of crucial material from the first three albums by Genesis P-Orridge, Chris Carter, Cosey Fanny Tutti, and Sleazy takes in robo-fetish disco, piss-streaked paranoia, deadpan synth-pop pretensions, and more. U.S. pressing from 1981.

THROBBING GRISTLE

Heathen Earth

(Industrial) Used LP $15.00

A live document of a performance for a small and invited audience in 1980. “It’s … probably the most obviously electronic TG album of its time,” observe our friends at Boomkat. “Gen’s guitar and Cosey’s cornet duel with Chris Carter and Sleazy’s clipped, clammy, minimal synth constructions. ‘The Old Man Smiled’, ‘Something Came Over Me’, ‘Don’t Do As Your Told, Do As You Think’ and ‘The World Is A War Film’ are all breathtakingly, pulsatingly ahead of their time. ‘Still Walking’, first heard on 20 Jazz Funk Greats, sounds even more surreal and seductive in its live incarnation, Cosey’s dour East Yorkshire vowels echo to infinity before Gen presents a vision of paranoia and self-loathing purified in ‘Sub Human.’ ‘Adrenalin’ brings things to an oddly ecstatic, hi-NRG close, with Carter fully indulging his arpeggiated Euro-disco inclinations.” Second 1980 pressing with gatefold LP jacket. Ring wear and scuffed edges, price tags

THE THROWN UPS

Seven Years Golden

(Amphetamine Reptile) Used CD $8.00

Twenty-seven tracks from the late 1980s — AmRep singles, comp tracks, odds and sods. From 1997

WHARTON TIERS

Brighter Than Life

(Ecstatic Yod) Used LP $40.00

Test pressing of the cancelled album from the Actuel Ass Run series. Edition of 50 with press release explaining the cancellation.

ASMUS TIETCHENS

4K7

(Vinyl on Demand) Used 5xLP + 7-inch $85.00 (Out-of-stock)

Collection of tracks previously released on cassette in limited editions: Musik aus der Grauzone (Yorkhouse Records, 1981 / Auricle Music 1987); Musik im Schatten (Aeon, 1982 / Auricle Music 1988); Musik and der Grenze (Yorkhouse Records, 1982 / Auricle Music, 1987); and Musik unter Tage (Aeon, 1983). Plus two tracks on the Musik hinter Glas seven-inch (previously unreleased, from 1976). With info book. White vinyl. Numbered edition of 600

ASMUS TIETCHENS

Marches Funèbres

(Die Stadt - DS112) CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Die Stadt - DS112) Used CD $5.00

On this installment of the ongoing reissue program of early works of Asmus Tietchens, the good Herr melds ambient funeral music with a modern classical / experimental touch. Two tracks from the original LP (Multimood 1989) plus one previously unreleased nine-minute bonus piece from 1979. Edition of 600.

BISHOP PERRY TILLIS

In Times Like These

(Mississippi) Used LP $18.00

Lo-fi recordings of soulful gospel blues.

TITMACHINE

We Build A New City

(Siltbreeze) Used 7-inch $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Stripped of its NDW gloss, Titmachine’s primitve, urpy grok of Palais Schaumburg’s ‘Wir Bauen Eine Neue Stadt’ is doused in raw Gueuze more than refined Pilsener. In other words, them yeasts be wild, y’all! The flipside — an original little jawdropper entitled ‘1989’ — is remarkably akin to what The Shaggs might sound like tackling the Urinals’ “Ack Ack Ack.” Pressed on heliocentric black vinyl in a humane edition of less than one million.”

TIVOL

Early Teeth

(Holy Mountain) Used LP $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Aggressive space from Finland. 2005 pressing with one track from Breathtaking Sounds Of Tivol (267 Lattajjaa 2003), two from Cyclobean Ways (Time-Lag Records 2004), and one from 267 Purkkia Liimaa (267 Lattajjaa 2003). Screen printed folder

TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.

30-Minuten Männercreme

(Love Is Sharing Pharmaceuticals) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

The Andrew W.K.-approved debut CD from 1994. “Oddly disturbing” —discogs

TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.

An Interview With The Mitchell Brothers

(Audible Hiss) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Created in a single day (August 11, 1995) in response to a dare issued by Sir Ned Hayden of the august Audible Hiss imprint, Tom Smith used Kenneth Turan's invaluable 1980 reference work Sinema: American Pornographic Films and the People Who Make Them as a primary template to dash out ten lyrics and edit the cut-up backdrops over which Ben Wolcott and Rat Bastard shade and abrade.

TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.

The Wigmaker In Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg

(Menlo Park - MPK7020) Used 2xCD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

To Live And Shave In L.A.’s magnum opus, seven years in the making. “The only record I’ve ever heard that sounds like it was worked on continuously for seven years,” raves Chris Sienko, “The mix is dense, yet completely lucid … [with] at least four layers of different kinds of manipulations (tape edits, digital processing, computer manipulation, multitrack gymnastics)…. Layers shift in and out of focus, dissolve to static, intentionally overload, desaturate, flip to negative and snap back into shape with nary a tear in the fabric…. It’s like listening to a cubist mixtape of glam, death metal and no wave, with each and every facet remorselessly visible … a wake-up call to the avant community…. [T]he studio techs are going to be talking about (and maybe even studying in school) the mix on this album in twenty years – I have no doubt about that…. [T]he bar has been raised significantly.”

TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.

Tonal Harmony

(Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Rat Bastard, Ben Wolcott, Tom Smith, with guest guitarists John Morton (Electric Eels, X___X) and Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy, Hall & Oates), and Silver Apples’ Simeon on oscillator. From 1997

TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.

Vedder Vedder Bedwetter

(Fifth Column) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

First, a word from Andy Alabama, who we must congratulate for hilariously riling up flat-footed Amazon commentators: “I think that this was from a more experimental period in the great man’s career…. I liked Eddie much better when he was more willing to take risks artistically. What with his intractable fight against Ticketmaster, it seems that he has fallen into something of a stylistic rut. Not so on this record — these were truly Eddie’s halcyon days. A must own for any true-blue Pearl Jam fan.” Good times, good times. On To Live and Shave in L.A.'s first full-length album of 1995, Tom Smith’s “preoccupations with Rashomon, Pound, King Tubby, and (ahem) power-fucking were co-mingled in an ungovernable torrent of splintered hubris. Whatever ‘full-on insane’ you think you have, believe me, we beat you to it, forever.” Guests include Harry Pussy’s Bill Orcutt, Don Fleming from ½ Japanese and Velvet Monkeys, Action Swingers’ Ned Hayden (yeah, man, on alto sax), Peach of Immortality’s Jared Louche, the biomechanical Nandor Nevai (mmm, das nice, Max), and The Flying Luttenbachers’ Weasel Walter.

TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.

Where A Horse Has Been Standing And Where You Belong

(Western Blot) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

The twelve most troublesome tracks from The Wigmaker In Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg (still in progress in late 1997, when this was produced), jostled by Tom Smith as an exercise in problem solving. Stamped, hand-lettered card sleeve. First edition of 500

TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A.

“Helen Butte” Vs. Masonna Pussy Badsmell

(Full Contact) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tom Smith lacerates his 1995 recordings with manic intensity, blends hyper-literate texts with hyper-speed, musique-concrete deconstructions of rock sonics, and filters it through a free glam aesthetic. Maddening, comprehension-defeating, spiraling in all directions, layers of voices colliding with heavily fuzzed bass guitar riffs and screeching, sputtering oscillators, this album explodes out of the stereo.

TO NIJE SALA / WHAT MAKES DONNA TWIRL?

What Makes Donna Twirl? / To Nije Sala

(Psychoacoustic Sounds) Used Split LP $5.00

To Nije Sala (aka post-Steaming Coils Brad Laner with Steve Stain and Lucija Kordic of What Makes Donna Twirl?) is an “electrically charged combination with the sick synergy of flipped sensibilities colliding for the first time,” marvels Mutant Sounds. “It’s a gorgeously demented thing to behold.” The What Makes Donna Twirl? side is equally touched-in-the-head sounding…. The vibe here is distinctly claustrophobic — percussively churning, grunting and howling in a personal hermetic abyss.” Jacket has promo hole. From 1989

TOEMASS

The Hydro-Triad

(Violet Glass Oracle) Used LP $15.00

A space noise gem from 1997. Silkscreened jacket. Numbered edition 027/200.

STEN OVE TOFT

Stille Gang

(Roggbif) Used CDR $4.00

Fuzzed bloont from 2004. Card folder with paste-on artwork, insert.

TOMUTONTTU

Elävänä Planeetalla

(New Images) Used LP $10.00

“A colorful smorgasbord of polyrhythmic drum patter, tinny string samples, and flyaway ear candy” is how Emilie Friedlander of Altered Zones describes Jan Anderzén’s off-kilter insanity. “You might think that its only unifying logic principle is its own hyperactivity, until it tunnelvisions into a woodsy groove.” Sealed

TOMUTONTTU

Tomutonttu

(Beta Lactam Ring) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Kemialliset Ystävät’s Jan Anderzén strips it down to the frame and blows a minimal synth breeze through it. Intriguing, beautifully lyrical and layered abstractions combine with a finely hewn composite of experimental dada electronics (à la early Die Todliche Doris or P16.D4). 220g vinyl. Edition of 300. Sealed

TONALAMOTL

Tonalamotl

(Bobby J) Used LP $6.00

Beautiful 1997 four-track EP by San Antonio mystery improv troupe. Early recordings of living room blast-offs and AMM- and ESP-inspired wanderings. In silkscreen folder.

TONO-BUNGAY

Rough Music

(Twisted Village) Used LP $7.00

Bob Bannister’s flowing, prog-psych guitar skirts through the power-drone jamming frameworks (with found-tape spoken interjections) by this instrumental trio, to very lovely effect. From 1993

TONO-BUNGAY

Sold By Volume

(New World Of Sound) Used 10-inch $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Low-pulse cohesive flow from 1995

RAFAEL TORAL

Harmonic Series

(Table Of The Elements) Used LP (one-sided) $20.00

A lovely and sublime nineteen-minute track from 2003, using sine waves, custom software, guitar and analog electronics. Blue vinyl with screen print on the B-side

TORN CURTAIN

Torn Curtain

(Ventricle) Used CD $20.00

Mauve Sideshow side project from 1994. Rarefied, reverb-drenched vocals resonate on the threshold of feedback, and hazy mellotron wafts into the mix like stray echoes from a 15th-century dungeon.

TORTURE CHORUS

In The Land of the Lullabye

(Charnel Music) Used CD $3.00

Electronic comedy from the early 1990s by Clam Lynch and Stephen Holman’s shock theater duo, who performed a series of shows in Japan as part of the Alchemism ’92 Anniversary Tour. Three live tracks from that tour with guests Hiroshi Hasagawa (Astro, C.C.C.C.) and Sam Lohman (Matta Gawa, Nimrod), and the studio work leading up to it.

TORTURE GARDEN

Torture Garden

(Shimmy Disc) Used LP $65.00

John Zorn and Boredoms frontman Yamatsuka Eye’s unification of grindcore and jazz, with help from Fred Frith, Joey Baron, Wayne Horovitz and Bill Frisell.

PETER TOSH AND FRIENDS

Arise Black Man

(Earmark) Used 2xLP $25.00

2003 pressing of early recordings with Bob Marley, The Wailers, Bunny Lee, Lee “Scratch” Perry, U-Roy, Joe Gibbs, Leslie Kong, Gladstone Anderson, Glen Adams. Many tracks were issued on Bob Marley & Friends’ Roots of a Legend album, others were re-recorded for subsequent albums, a handful of the instrumentals with Tosh on organ are rehearsals recorded and subsequently released without permission. Stand-outs are “Pepper Seed” and “Rueben.”

TOTAL

Beyond The Rim

(Majora) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“A wall of noise … that draws on … guitar psychedelia … and [the] industrial abrasion of minimalism…,” says All Music Guide about this 1993 masterwork, with “lush-sounding feedback orchestrations…, blissful tone drift…, [and g]uitar terrorism.”

TOTAL

Clear Factory

(Majora) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

An incredibly abrasive, drone-y ball of sludge from 1996

TOTAL

Eternity's Beautiful Frontispiece

(VHF) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Using a droning electric guitar and organ in a variety of tones ranging from the excoriating to elegiac, Total envelops the listener in a haze of overtones variously evoking Indian music, machine noise, nature sounds, and monolithic power. Carefully edited and saturated with hallucinogenic juice.

TOTAL

Exploded Star Sad Servant

(Self Abuse) Used CD $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Three long tracks of ypnotic, hallucinatory guitar feedback and densely layered shortwaves from 1995 by Matthew Bower.

TOTAL

Glassy Warhead

(Pure) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Chunks of noisy, churning madness from 1995 by Matthew Bower, with Philip Best of Ramleh and Whitehouse on violin for 22-minute title track. Wall-to-wall power noise perfected.

TOTAL

Here, Time Is Space

(Majora) Used 2xLP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Feedback and fuzz collaged to orchestral proportions” from 1994, observes All Music Guide, “falling somewhere between the psychedelic rock of the Tokyo underground … and industrial dronescapes.”

TOTAL

Silver Pillows

(Majora) Used 10-inch $20.00

Less rock and more noise than Skullflower, this 1995 ten-inch by Matthew Bower is a dense, squalling barrage of guitar and cheap organ, building a wall of sound that draws on the guitar psychedelia of ’60s Deadhead jamming and industrial-strength minimalism. Lush feedback ambience beneath the debris of exploding speakers and overworked effects pedals recalls The Dead C and Keiji Haino. Handmade sleeve with rubberstamped text, gold paint, photograph. Hand-numbered edition of of 275. Sealed.

TOTAL

Sky Blue Void

(Freek) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Gloriously obnoxious noise rock from 1993 and 1994, with John Godbert, Simon Wickham-Smith and Russell Smith guesting here and there.

TOTAL

Tanzmusik Der Renaissance

(Freek) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Hypnotic walls of noise, heavy, droning miasma, and feedback noise collage from 1995.

TOTAL

To Fall Like Cherry Blossoms...

(American Tapes) Used LP $12.00

Jaw-dropping amp noise / winds / piano drone / free jazz from 1997. Silkscreened folder

THE TOWER RECORDINGS

Furniture Music For Evening Shuttles

(Siltbreeze) Used CD $20.00

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $75.00 (Out-of-stock)

This New York ensemble’s string of uniformly intriguing albums covered corrosive no wave noise, abstract tape experimentation, and inspired delicate melodic folk. As with Pearls Before Swine and The Fugs, exquisite songs exist at the core of outward experimentation and chaotic group jamming. Tower Recordings congeals eclectic ideas into a continuous whole and certainly had great ears for editing jams and experiments into cohesive pieces.
LP is sealed.

TOYCHESTRA

Sassy Pony

(S.K.) Used CD $4.00

Naive and melancholic originals along with works by Perez Prado, Martin Denny and Dvorak, among others. Silkscreened chipboard jacket with photocopy booklet

TRANS UPPER EGYPT

Trans Upper Egypt

(Monofonus Press) Used LP $12.00

East Roman fried sonics that mash primal punk, psychrock, doom metal, and bits of synth pop into a symphony of sounds and ideas as jarring and grating as it is gleefully infectious. Includes download card

TRANSMISSION

Transmission

(Audible Hiss) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Four out of five Amazon customers found this description of the 1996 album by Adris Hoyos (percussion) and Graham Lambkin (guitars) helpful: “This album is unutterably dire. No, really really awful. Listen to some of the 30-second chunks they give you — that’s all I heard, or needed to hear. I gave it one star because Amazon don’t give you the option of awarding none. Undoubtedly the worst music I have ever heard anyone attempt to sell.”

TRASH MONKEYS

Pass Out

(Smitten) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

In 1986, back when Cyndi Lauper and Boy George ruled the world with a velvet fist, The Trash Monkeys took their first baby steps on the long march to obscurity. Founding members Lloyd Johnson, Bill Orcutt, Mark Feehan and George Kelley — fueled by a passionate need for public scorn and armed with a witches' brew of guitars, Old Milwaukee, illegal chemicals and provocative evening wear — attracted the attention of Miami's glittering, semi-comatose punk scene. They came off, according to Miami New Times, “like a whacked version of Guided by Voices, with a passel of bent but utterly catchy pop tunes that chronicled their obsession with Jesus, television, and housewives, as well as fuzzy guitar hooks that were alternately inventive and rooted in the minimalist pop of postpunk outfits such as Television Personalities and Beat Happening.”

RYAN TREVOR

Then and Now

(Galactic Zoo Disk) Used LP $8.00

2009 reissue of late ’70s private press album by a classic loner genius. “Psych-pop perfection that answers the question, ‘What if R. Stevie Moore and Emitt Rhodes recorded an album with Joe Meek’s ghost in the late 70s?’ This insanely catchy song cycle of Macca-melodies, subverted by copious amounts of phase, fuzz, and a bedroom production ambience would certainly make Bob Pollard, Ariel Pink or The Godz jealous.”

TRICK MAMMOTH

Floristry

(Fishrider - FISH012) LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)

(Fishrider - FISH012) Used CD $5.00

The songs of this fragile, lucid but rough-around-the-edges flower cult pop band from Dunedin, New Zealand are unintentionally sincere and bashfully honest, performed with open arms and a soft indifference. With comparisons ranging from Black Tambourine to The Carpenters, Trick Mammoth have crafted a sound saccharine sweet yet doused in death. Sealed

TRIOLID

Ur Lamento

(Potlatch) Used CD $8.00

This French improvising trio explores odd tonal contrasts via intersecting micro-themes. Laurent Dailleau on theremin brings subversive sounds and droning effects. David Chiesa’s cyclical arco bass passages mesh with clarinetist Isabelle Duthoit’s squeaking lines. Repulsive screams, altered voices, and sundry noises pepper frenetic exchanges and oscillating frameworks. From 2002.

TRIPOD JIMMIE

Unclaimed Freight

(Lennie Line) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Lean, avant post-punk recorded between 1981 and 1986 by bassist Lennie Bove (who also does vocals and effects), original Pere Ubu guitarist Tom Herman, and drummers Roger Prehoda and Glenn Reynolds. Three tracks from the group’s first time in the studio, seven demos for an unreleased third album, and one that was yanked at the last minute from their second album A Warning To All Strangers (All Ball 1986).

TROPHIES

Become The Objects of Daily Use

(Monotype - MONO037) CD $12.75

(Monotype - MONO037) Used CD $8.50

Making music based upon two simple principles (it is derived from speech; it repeats incessantly), the main project of Alessandro Bosetti, fretless guitarist Kenta Nagai, and drummer Tony Buck is entirely dedicated to Bosetti's loop compositions. Melodies are crafted out of speech profiles of recordings of Bosetti's emotional, often surreal or non-sequitur lyrics. Words cast into everyday speech are subsequently transcribed and played as endless loops. Speech becomes song and the non-metric, irregular rhythms that it creates turn into powerful grooves and precise pulsations never lining up with any regular beat. The band's performance is a meditative exercise in precision and intensity. Musical action begins in little shifts of intonation and inflections, anticipation and delay, played out by voice, fretless guitar, drums and electronics. Music warms up to a calm incandescence. Development is patient and inexorable. It never misses to reach a further level and it never loses its bizarre sameness. The controlled but restless energy mutates and transforms this trio into a devastating stage monster during live performances. The insistently repeated speech fragments at the center of the music end up disappearing from perception while leaving a cloud of vaporized meaning behind.

TRUE PRIMES

We Have Won

(Locust) Used LP $5.00

Brooklyn duo Che Chen (founder of O Sirhan O Sirhan Magazine) and Rolyn Hu (operatrix of the Glasslands performance space) disinfect disaffection with their brand of elemental buzzing unrock. Guitar, girl voice, off-drum, unidentifiable noisemakers and homemade gadgets are the foundation for a sound that grafts a smiley face on the body of no wave’s penchant for alienation. Paste-on cover, insert. Numbered edition of 330

TRUMANS WATER

Godspeed The Punchline

(Elemental) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

“The hodgepodge of sounds at the beginning of ‘Destroy 1998’ promises a manic flurry of music to follow. Indeed, many of the tracks begin with silly, innovative audio experiments. The band’s confident and brash style of noisy indie rock was certainly catching on by 1994. From the hypnotic howling at the beginning of ‘Long End of a Firearm’ to the wonderful cut-and-paste avant noise on ‘Ungalactic,’ the band experiments with more than straightforward angular guitar noise. ‘Outpatient Lightspeed’ and ‘Playboy Stabtone Bloodbath’ pack an album’s worth of punkish energy into a few minutes.” Numbered edition #1082/1500

TRUMANS WATER

Godspeed The Static

(Drunken Fish) Used LP $9.00 (Out-of-stock)

The San Diego mutants “at their loosest and most formless” with “moments that are quite interesting — a lengthy chunk of ‘Kick Penmanship’ is taken up by a clanging, staccato guitar riff and stuttering snare drum” — the Nihilist Spasm Band meets Spike Jones & His City Slickers. Stenciled spray-paint front cover, paste-on back cover.

TRUMANS WATER

Godspeed The Vortex

(Way Out Sound / Negative Way Out) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Eleven stabs of ecstatic lo-fi noise and avant-rock from the mid-1990s, an energetic adaptation of Swell-Maps-meets-Trout-Mask with seemingly random chaotic juxtapositions in rhythm. Two-color screen printed card folded around glued over white jacket. Red labels with no text.

TRUMANS WATER

Have You Got It Yet?

(Dirter) Used 7-inch $3.00

Two tracks recorded live in London, where the Branstetters and the Galloway wanted to capture “the spirit of the thing … mess [it] up, like totally skewing everything, destroying everything and still making it totally listenable.” Originally given away for free with the August 1993 issue of Fear And Loathing magazine.

TRUMANS WATER

Of Thick Tum

(Justice My Eye / Elevated Loin) Used LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

An overlooked milestone in American avant-garde indie rock that has had a wide influence in the underground. In hand-painted and paste-on jacket. From 1992

TRUMANS WATER

Spasm Smash XXXOXoX Ox & Ass

(Elemental) Used 2xLP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)

The improvisational 20-track album from 1993 opens with the chaotic and energetic “The Aroma of Gina Arnold,” “heightened by Glen Galloway‘s wavering vocals (including the line, ‘They said all youth was dead, how could they know / Your plastic culture sucks, and it’s gonna blow!’). The frantic San Diego band shines on the choppy ‘Good Blood After Bad’ and the indie metal of ‘Death to Dead Things.’ Spasm Smash subscribes to the notion that songs have a natural energy to them, and when that energy is spent the song should come to a grinding and immediate halt. The liberating frenzy of unabashedly crazy songs like ‘Athletes Who Is Suck’ and ‘Lo Priest’ suggest the band treats their music as grand therapy sessions, complete with distorted guitars and feedback. The mumbling behind the kinetic frenzy on ‘Fingers 6 Steps Ahead of Our Minds’ creates a new energy, while the band erects a new wall of noise on ‘La Jolla My Armpit.’ The scorching guitars and howling vocals on ‘Mindstab, Forklift’ only add to the wonderful loss of control the band mastered early on in their career.”

THE TRYPES

The Explorers Hold

(Coyote) Used LP $50.00

“This Feelies spinoff adds woodwinds and keyboards to the parent group’s usual guitar-dominated sound. The influence of the Velvet Underground is very pronounced on this EP, especially on ‘Morning Glories’ (with its rumbling tom-toms, trancelike piano / bass / guitar texture, and agreeably Moe Tucker-ish vocals) and ‘Music for Neighbors’ (an episodic instrumental consisting of process-like repeated fragments).” 1984 pressing. Sealed

TRÄD GRÄS OCH STENAR

Mors Mors

(Anthology Recordings) Used 2xLP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Live recordings from 1972 that capture the band at its most open and transcendental peak. Includes a staggering 26-plus-minute bonus track previously available only on CD, a previously unreleased track, and an extended version an original album track. Scores of previously unseen ephemera adorn the lavish inside gatefold and inner sleeves. Includes download code with added unreleased material.

TOSHIYA TSUNODA

Pieces Of Air

(Lucky Kitchen) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

This 2002 collection of uniquely compiled field recordings captured via multiple microphones professional and handmade, placed strategically about the recording subject matter (crickets, water against a rocky coast, Islamic calls to prayer in Istanbul), is a study of air movements and currents in open and enclosed spaces. “Tsunoda reveals the inherent beauty in everyday things…, thus creating an exposition of the sacred in the ordinary.

MOE TUCKER

MoeJadKateBarry

(50 Skidillion) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

TURBINE

Thanks Karen

(Death Bomb Arc) Used LP $5.00

Electronics and noise guitar by Scott Thiessen of rRope and David Barrett of The Vienna Noise Choir.

ROBERT TURMAN

Beyond Painting

(Actual Tapes - 001) Used CDR $15.00

Recorded in 1990, self-released in 2010. The “light, echoing ambience and drifting feel” of “First Quarter,” says Brainwashed, and “the repetitive drone and almost chanting voices” … of “The Unforgiven” “seem to herald the development of” isolationism. “Bleakness comes [amid] gentle horn-like tones and reversed melodies” on “Soft Self Portrait” and “the layered, looped string sounds of ‘Beyond Painting’ …, a bit more tinged nostalgia rather than outright malignance…. [T]he stand out piece … ‘Al-Qa'ida’, with its vaguely jazz noir guitar and electronics structure … has … a rhythmic throb to it, rather than … spectral, textural ambience.

ROBERT TURMAN

Way Down

(Dais - DAIS017) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

TVISB

Drone1

([ no label ]) Used LP $10.00

Existential doom drone from Melbourne (where the void is bleak and the heaviness is painful) with a B-Side remix by Full of Hell’s Dylan Walker. Includes sticker. Edition of 150

THE TWEEZERS

Electric Servant Of Everyman

(Bulb) Used 7-inch $2.00

Ten tracks of spazolicious electronic noise from 1994. White vinyl

TWENTY SIX

This Skin Is Rust

(Bobby J) Used 2xLP $16.00

Dark ambient, DIY concrète, Slint-ish post-rock and damaged psych from 1996, when Johnny Jewel was still a resident of Humble, Texas.

CHARLES TYLER ENSEMBLE

Charles Tyler Ensemble

(ZYX - ESP 1029-2 ) Used CD $5.00

This debut recording from 1966 as a leader by the Ayler sideman conceptualizes alto sax-player Tyler’s focus and the path he was on, with an ensemble well-constructed to fit in with those pursuits. (Kingpins of 60s avant garde Henry Grimes [bass], Ronald Shannon Jackson [drums] and Joel Friedman [cello] all played with Ayler at some point, while Charles Moffett [orchestra vibes], cast his die with Ornette Coleman, Carla Bley and Pharoah Sanders.) Tyler’s agonized, convoluted lines and taut guttural intonations cry out on “Strange Uhuru,” and he rips open a calypso melody on “Three Spirits,” twisting and turning like a frenzied avatar. German reissue of an ESP-Disk.

TYVEK

Blunt Insturmental

(Night People) Used LP (one-sided) $9.00

“Absolutely killer stuff from 2009 by Detroit-area art punk garage rockers. Blunt Instrumental isn’t all instrumental, but there is a focus on letting the rhythms and noise play out a bit. A sort of step forward into a more groove-oriented, noisy / jammy territory while simultaneously returning to the sound of the early singles.” Clear vinyl, silkscreened on one side.

TYVEK

Mary Ellen Claims

(XI) Used 7-inch $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

A savage broadside that attacks car culture on one side, and the mass media’s promotion of anti-psychotic drugs as a cure for demonic possession on the flip. The sound is distorted, all cheap old guitars and busted up drums, and the playing is usually teetering on the edge of ineptitude, at times falling off completely. The tunes and lyrics are straight outta overgrown abandoned lots and decrepit playgrounds, and there are plenty of strange little bones on the cracked sidewalks to puncture your bike’s Kevlar tires and brand new tubes. First pressing (edition of 700 copies on black vinyl with red labels and black-and-white glued paper sleeves, 200 of which have black and white artwork taped on to sleeves by hand (this is one of those)

TYVEK

Tyvek

(Siltbreeze) Used LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Combining an uncanny channeling of The Urinals and early Mekons, Tyvek drops jaws to floors with solid acorns of repetitive punk / pop numbers that became oaks almost instantaneously. The inclusion of Damon (a.k.a. Teets of Puffy Areolas) brings in another dimension and suddenly the band’s 2009 set veers into a Velvet Underground-by-way-of-The Feelies stratosphere.

TZOTZILES

Psalms, Stories and Music

(Sub Rosa) Used LP $12.00

Rare ritual music, psalms, dialogue and stories of revolt from the last descendants of the Mayan culture recorded in 1989 Thierry Zéno. Music for the Day of the Dead, music heralding All Saints’ Day, the chant of authority changing hands, sanctifying rituals, dialogue in the language of the Maya, field recordings of Christmas night and Carnival and a fragment of speech of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. The traditional Tzotzile orchestra is made up of instruments of their own fabrication — harps, guitars, drums, little fiddles, and water pipes that mimic bird song.

UBSB

Traceroute

(Ash International) Used LP $6.00

“A solid wall of utterly alien noises,” ponders our friend at Sound Projector about this 1999 album by Ulf Bilting, Edwin Van Der Heide, Zbigniew Karkowski, and Atau Tanaka, “derived from (we are informed) ‘data harvested from the Internet….’ [Y]ou could easily … mistake [Traceroute] for … white-noise aural garbage.… [W]hat we find out there is an incoherent Tower of Babel…, closest to the reality of the computer’s sheer inanity. The only difference is that this record is barely recognisable as ‘music’, not even as a species of spaced-out, whacked-out Techno created by Zombie DJs from a chill-out room on … Pluto…. In which case it’s an extremely bleak vision of the future. Essential therefore.”

UFO OR DIE

Cassettetape Superstar

(Public Bath) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

The cover of the The Godz’ “Radar Eyes” is just one of the highlights on this endlessly entertaining album, which undertakes some of the more extreme regressions rock music saw in the ’90s, what with Eye grunting neanderthal monosyllables over a backing of seemingly random percussion. With plenty of purposeful funk deconstruction and meta-rock insight, this is one of most unlikely party albums of that long-gone decade.

UFO OR DIE

UFO Or Die Live

([ no label ]) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

“These guys kinda straddle the divide between Boredoms and Hanatarash,” says a professional eBay-splainer, where “the spazzy thrash pop of the former collides head-on with the smashed noise jambalaya of the latter. Rough and raw live tapes [kick] up a monstrous ruckus, which is then heavily mixed into a collage of unhinged craziness. Weird changes in volume and pitch, oddball edits, needle-in-the-red overloading.”

UFO OR DIE

UOD

(Bron) Used 3-inch CD $14.00 (Out-of-stock)

Four tracks from 1989 by Eye (Boredoms, Hanatarash), Yoshimi (Boredoms, OOIOO) and Hayashi (Leningrad Blues Machine), admired for their “violently undulating core, the sound of a sloppy sound that does not understand what is sounding, such as gash, shark, coin, pi, etc. Pop screaming flies forever. They used guitars before the introduction of the sampler as percussion. In other words, music like Art Lindsay’s DNA in a washing machine.”

UI

Answers

(Southern) Used 2xLP $15.00

Boomkat assures us that the “twisted, unpretentious instrumentalism” of this 2002 monster fuses “jazz, funk basslines and percussion that’s tweaked to make you move, New York styles!”

UI

Lifelike

(Southern) Used LP $12.00

“With drowsy, deliberate compositions that utilize sampling and hard-disc editing as well as an oblique / unique sound aesthetic,” explains Mitch Myers, “Ui stand apart from other post-rock ensembles in their capacity to maintain a compelling groove. Painstakingly constructed, this 1998 album reflects the serious hard work of a cerebral band. Bassist Wilbo Wright, drummer Clem Walmann, and engineer / co-producer Greg Frey all contribute to the finished sounds while Frere-Jones plays some downright elemental guitar licks. The trio utilizes uncommon time signatures and leans heavily towards collective improvisation.”

UILAB

Fires

(Bingo) Used LP $6.00

On this 1998 collaboration by Ui and Stereolab, four of the six tracks are versions of Brian Eno’s “St. Elmo’s Fire.” The “Radio” version is a straight, danceable take, while the “Red Corona” version is Ui’s Frere-Jones’s remix, a stripped-down affair with clipped-off bass and drum tracks. “Spatio-Dynamic” is Stereolab’s mix, with added percussion (by both groups) and acoustic guitar, giving it a Brazilian feel. Heavy percussion also turns up on “Impulse Rah,” a track based on a Sun Ra organ riff. Finally, “Less Time” is a slinky Ui tune with wordless, Philip Glass-style vocals by Stereolab’s Sadier and Hansen. It’s often hard to tell who’s responsible for what, no small tribute to the like-mindedness of both groups and the success of this joint effort.

UJ3RK5

Live From The Commodore Ballroom

(Primary Information - PI10) Used 2xLP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)

A legendary 1980 performance (opening for Gang Of Four) by this strongly visual Canadian post-punk / art-rock group with an affinity for Devo, Talking Heads, and the Vancouver School of photo conceptualism. Kitty Byrne (drums), Rodney Graham (guitar), Frank Crass (guitar), Danice MacLeod (violin), Frank Ramirez (vocals), Jeff Wall (vocals, keyboards), Ian Wallace (bass), and David Wisdom (vocals, keyboards). Pronounced “you jerk” (the five is silent), UJ3RK5 formed in Vancouver in 1978, originating from Ramirez and Graham’s guitar-and-bongo duo, The Gentlemen Two, with occasional participation by friends such as Merv Hutchinson and author William Gibson. In addition to appearing on Canadian compilations, in 1980 the band released a self-titled, four-song EP on Quintessence Records, reissued that same year by PolyGram. This sound board recording includes “Naum Gabo,” “The Anglican,” “Booty Dread,” the Dan Graham-inspired “Eisenhower and the Hippies,” and eight previously unreleased tracks. Edition of 600

UKADAN

Best Of Ukadan Live

(For Life Records) Used LP $12.00

Acoustic blues from Japan’s Kansai blues scene by Mitsuki Kimura (vocals) and Kantaro Uchida (guitar). Includes obi. From 1986

ULTRA

Lifestyle

(Ajna Offensive) Used CD $15.00

This one is more about sound-scaping, with the first track stretching into guitar space-outs with brooding industrial undertones. Further on is more “traditional” Ultra — dark and gloomy, with cut-ups and a lot of samples — minus the mock-PE. Edition of 500 in outer card slipcase and five poster inserts

ULTRA

Roman Holiday

(GMBH) Used CD $9.00

Ultra combines the fine arts of subtlety, poetry and some bizarre sense of decorum that must be synonymous with piano. Because piano equals sophistication, right? The tracks are not necessarily overt or belligerent à la contemporary noise, although each track has its own disturbingly prickly quality. Throwback industrial / avant-garde / electronic music of the likes no longer known. Two tracks from Letter of Introduction seven (Syntactic, 1997), one from Circusirus triple-seven comp (Petri Supply, 1996), one from I Can’t Stand a Bitchy Chick seven (Aquilifer Sodality, 1989), and five previously unreleased tracks. Sealed.

ULTRA

Stain

(Dom) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

A sinister performance from 2002, this decadent musical accomplishment should leave listeners effectively paralyzed and eager for more.

ULTRASOUND ANALOGIC

Ultrasound Analogic

(Ba Da Bing) Used 2xLP $6.00

Synth. Minimal. Ambient. Becoming heavy at times with the addition of psychedelic guitar and drums. From 1996

UNCLE WIGGLY

Non-Stuff

(Hemiola) Used LP $15.00

“Deeper, more sluggish and trippier than previous. From the sounds of things, besides listening to more Amon Düül II, they’ve also been starting up a lot more lawnmowers and household appliances.” From 1995

UNCONDITIONAL LOATHING

Cornholecopia

(Breathmint) Used CD $3.00

“Nasty noise and experimental electronics interspaced with failed attempts to rehearse actual rock songs, as well as live recordings of the band getting unplugged by local noise promoters. A work of true genius.” from 2004.

TAMAS UNGVARY

Ite, Missa Est

(Fylkingen) Used LP $20.00

“Melos No 3” was composed 1982 and is the third in a series of works for solo instrument and computer-generated tape. The tape part was composed using the composer’s program ILI, with complex frequency modulated waveshapes as building blocks. On “Interaction No 2 for organ and tape (1979)” the tape is generated using the composer’s own real-time program for additive synthesis, CHOR. “Traum des Einsamen (1982)” also utilizes CHOR, here to control the analog and digital oscillators of EMS. The title track, composed in 1974, performed at The ISCM World Music Days 1978, uses EMS-controlled oscillators, ring modulators, filters and reverb.

UNITED SUPREME COUNCIL

Oastem Vibe Orchestra

(Eclipse) Used LP $6.00

A huge excerpt from a two-hour show at Tommy’s in Richmond, Virginia, performed in April 1997 by the combined entire lineups of Pelt and Rake (with additional miscellaneous players). Their long improvisations varied from show to show, but often started with a bang, slowly expanded into open space where interesting details emerged, and subsequently cleared the room. Mike Gangloff (guitar, shenai, electronics), Jack Rose (lap steel), Patrick Best (guitar, bass resonator, conga), ~SKB (bass and percussion), V2G2 (nylon string guitar, percussion, shenai and voice), Planet C (moog, sax, percussion), Mick (dumbek and dijembe), Beth Jones (dijembe). Sealed

UNIVERSAL EYES

Four Variations on “Artificial Society”

(Lower Floor Music) Used 2xLP $15.00

John Olson, Nate Young, Gretchen Gonzales Davidson, and Aaron Dilloway’s acute regression to their most primitive shared states, prompting an hour-long cold bath of no wave rock, animalistic electronics and improvised noise that recalls a dream about an orgy of hippos and seagulls on Quaaludes at a busy worksite in midwinter Michigan. Includes free download coupon. One platter white, the other clear

UNIVERSAL INDIANS

Early Indians

(American Tapes) Used LP (one-sided) $120.00

Rough primitive noise attacks from 1994 by Gonzalez, Olsen, and Lamer. Spray-painted stencil on one side. Numbered edition #11/38

UNIVERSAL INDIANS

Sloth Nest

(American Tapes) Used LP $55.00

John Olson, Gretchen Gonzales, Aaron Dilloway from 2000. Photocopy paste-on re-purposed jackets. Numbered edition 66/200

UNIVERSAL INDIANS

Thrist of the Worm

(American Tapes) Used LP (one-sided) $50.00

Hard demon attack from 1998. Spraypaint and photocopy cover.

UNNATURAL HELPERS

Earwax

(Dirty Knobby) Used 7-inch $4.00

Current / fired / goofiest members of Welcome, Double Fudge, The Intelligence, Dipers, Kinski, Tight Bros From Way Back When, and a million other bands follow up their debut CD with five more short, smart-ass songs about Jesse Steinchen’s mouth holes, lousy TV, New York City, bad food, and other sordid subjects. Edition of 500.

UNREST

Isabel Bishop EP

(4AD) Used 12-inch $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Four early ’90s indie rock classics: a funky electronic drum re-recording of the title track (a non-drummy version of which can be found on Imperial F.F.R.R.); a re-recording of Kustom Karnal Blackxploitation’s finest track, “Teenage Suicide”; a cover of the Marine Girls’ lyrically insightful “Love To Know”; and the kick-ass instrumental “Nation Writer.”

UNREST WORK & PLAY

Andy & Chris

(Art Hole) Used LP $20.00

“Unrepetitive, awkward time-signatured, fractured art rock of the highest quality” from 1982. Price tag sticker on back cover.

UPHILL GARDENERS

Giant Bea

(W.I.N.) Used 7-inch $2.00

Indie rock from 1996. Hand-numbered.

UPSILON ACRUX

Radian Futura

(Thin Wrist - TWJ) Used LP $20.00

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.

MASAYOSHI URABE

Solos

(PSF) Used LP $35.00

Soaring beyond where Kaoru Abe left off, Urabe explores the possibilities of human breath and forged brass. Gatefold paper folder jacket. No obi

MASAYOSHI URABE

Sooingyokusaiseyo

(Elevage de Poussiere) Used LP $25.00

“Urabe stands right in the middle of the intersection of the two major roads that have crossed the fertile landscape of Japanese avant-garde music for the past decade,” explains Paris Transatlantic. “Harsh, expressionistic noise and near-empty reductionism. The alto saxophonist has a large palette of sounds to paint with, from shrill multiphonics to tremulous, emotion-charged wails and spastic splattering. Recorded live in France 2001.

THE USER

Symphony #2 For Dot Matrix Printers

(Asphodel) Used LP $50.00

“A rhythmic perspective on the sound of fourteen dot matrix printers” from 2002. “Constructed upon a rather monolithic approach, with strikingly interesting results: more like a work of abstract art that might be occasionally revisited, Thomas McIntosh and Emmanuel Madan’s production causes one to reflect on incidental sound-based attributes that often go unnoticed.” Sealed

USURPER

Let's Just See What Happens

(R.E.L.) Used LP $20.00

Malcy Duff and Ali Robertson (with Sticky Foster on one track) use intuition and some kinda comic logic to create surreal structures gilded by obsessive metallic clunk, destroyed voices, broken horns and dropped marbles. With sixteen-page comic book by Duff. Hand-numbered edition of 200.

V/VM

Sometimes, Good Things Happen

(V/VM) Used CD $5.00

The processed noise version with feedback and bursts of high-velocity melody. From 2002

V/VM

Sometimes, Good Things Happen

(V/VM) Used CD $5.00

The melodic electronica version with nice atmospheres. From 2002

VACUUM TREE HEAD

The Oob Eye Works

(Megaphone) Used CD $5.00

Second album of lurching, dissonant, dreamlike tunes from Californian group whose instrumentation includes sampler, vibes, theremin, didjeridoo, sitar, space junk, piano guts, and baritone sax (as well as guitar, bass, drums and vocals), without which surf would not be able to meet Arabic music, and reggae/pop could not greet serialism. And they must, as it is foretold.

MATT VALENTINE

Glorious Group Therapy

(Ecstatic Yod) Used LP $8.00

On this 2003 reissue of a 1990s Polyamory cassette, “Feel The Music” starts off [with] barking dogs, picked six-string and … Tim Barnes’s clattering percussion. As the tune spirals onward, a bass voice adds echoing, wordless chants as a spine-tingling falsetto repeats the title phrase. The percussion grows into a deep, subsonic dub, filling the spaces with a chest-denting whomp. MV’s guitar continues to peel off twangy licks, as if unaware of the madness growing around it. “Cocola’s Chronic Journey” is a journey where guitars slowly nudge one another, meandering along at a lackadaisical pace, backed by some free-jazz tinkering by Barnes on “chopstick cymbals.” “Riverboat Au Go Go” recalls the awe-inspiring lyricism of John Fahey. “Moonshine Raga” starts quietly with a whispering, autumnal dance. The players are in no rush, and they let notes hang, allowing percussive hits to dissipate into nothing. After a lengthy wait, Barnes begins to awaken things by settling into a stuttering tabla groove. Valentine follows suit on guitar, raising volume carefully, before letting it slide back to silence. “Ceremony Without” adds the hovering drone of harmonium to MV’s up-tempo guitar figure. The rhythmic breaths of the harmonium bring a warm buzz, rubbing against the quickly picked guitar and loud, staccato percussion. Amid looped drones “Psychic 78 Sound”, the album’s strangest track, the group creates a multi-layered percussive stomp that coheres into a lulling tribal groove.

ALCEU VALENÇA

Molhado De Suor

(Sol Re Sol) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Udigrudi musicians in the 1970s melded traditional northeastern Brazilian music and rhythms with folk rock and psychedelia, and Molhado De Suor, originally released in 1974, is a high water mark. Aided by Lola Cortes and Geraldo Azevedo, Valença’s rich vocals combine with driving guitar work, moody arrangements and unusual trips.

VALLEY OF KINGS

Victory Garden

(Incas) Used LP $15.00

Early ’80s psych pop from Connecticut by Ron Sutfin on bass and backing vocals, Kerry Miller on drums and backing vocals, and Gabriel Cohen on guitar and lead vocals. Recommended if you like The Eats or Love Tractor

CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG

The Sweetest Fig

(Houghton Mifflin) Used hardcover book $10.00

Cold-hearted dentist Monsieur Bibot learns about the mysterious territory between fantasy and reality in an uncanny illustrated tale that will intrigue readers of all ages. 32pp from 1993

MARCEL VAN MAELE

I Hate Music!!!!!!!!!

(Ultra Eczema) Used LP $30.00

Flemish spoken word by Belgian poet and visual artist recorded on a small dictaphone, (so listen to them on headphones repeat them aloud during live performances, as he does on “Nacht van de Poëzie” recorded in Utrecht, Holland, in 1987. The album also contains a dialogue poem with his wife Carine Lampens, an excerpt from an audiozine published by the Blindenbibliotheek, and private diary recordings MvM recorded for Lampens when she was on a holiday. With stencil-printed insert, platter B-side silkscreened. Edition of 200

VANDALS

Oi To The World -- Christmas With The Vandals

(Kung Fu) Used LP + CD $50.00

Ridiculous, vulgar punk rock, hilarious parodies, strangely emotional ballads from 1996. Includes CD. Red vinyl. Hand-numbered edition of 300.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

(si’ke•del’ik) volume one

(PsychForm) Used CD $5.00

Sounds characterized by allucinations, distortions of perception, altered states of awareness, and occasionally, behavior resembling psychosis. Tracks by Contagious Orgasm, Christian Renou, The Haters, Grillhaus, Noggin, John Wiese, Rowenta/Khan, Mixed Band Philanthropist vs. Broken Penis Orchestra. From 2004

VARIOUS ARTISTS

1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground

(Sublime Frequencies) Used LP $40.00

In the early 1970s, a new group of singers and musicians operating on the Northwest coast of Algeria were forced underground and banned from broadcasts, yet slowly built a small following around the seaside cabarets of Wahran (Oran). Groupe El Azhar and Messaoud Bellemou, who can comfortably be considered the godfather of the modern Raï sound, and L’Orchestre Bellemou, used modern instruments (especially the trumpet), which became during the 1970s the backbone of the Wahrani genre. Reinterpreting the gasba melodies on trumpet, Bellemou backed singers such as Boutaiba Sghir and Sheikh Benfissa who carried on the lyrical tradition of their forefathers singing about daily preoccupations and problems as well as love affairs, alcohol, or simply owning an automobile. Toward the late 1970s, Cheb Zergui brought in electric guitar with a wah-wah pedal. The development of vinyl pressing in Algeria enabled many small artists including the Wahrani scene to record and release singles documenting their repertoire. 180-gram vinyl. Sealed

VARIOUS ARTISTS

2:00 Matinee

(RRRecords) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tracks recorded live at the shop in 1997 by Crank Sturgeon, Save Yourself, Jim Phelps Motherfucker, Lance Gargoyle, Foom, The Domains, Idea Fire Company, Commode Minstrels in Bullface, Quarreling Xenophobic Waitress, Jason Lescalleet

VARIOUS ARTISTS

45'18"

(Korm Plastics) Used CD $15.00

Nine versions of John Cage’s track 4'33" from 2002 by Keith Rowe, Artificial Memory Trace, Thurston Moore, Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening Band, Jio Shimizu, Voice Crack, Clive Graham, and Alignment. 18pp poster style folder.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

A Beginner’s Guide to COMA

(Rotary Totem) Used LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

A completely essential compendium of 1980s L.A. underground music. “The California Outside Music Association represents a somewhat more art-rock oriented orbit (often with distinct R.I.O. affiliations) than Los Angeles Free Music Society’s more anarchic and crude attitude / approach,” notes Mutant Sounds. “There’s … extraordinary work at hand here, from the The Motor Totemist Guild’s archly fey and lopsided gem ‘Farmer Without Strings’ to the plangent garage prog fury of The Underpeople’s ferocious ‘Zontar: The Thing From Venus’, the devastating R.I.O. angularity of 5uu’s contribution, and Dogma Probe’s late-Fibonnaccis-like ‘Thirteen’ to the single finest tracks that either Cartoon or Newcross would ever commit to tape.” From 1985. Sealed

VARIOUS ARTISTS

A Cleansing Ascension

(Elevator Bath) Used CD $3.00

Previously unreleased recordings from Matt Shoemaker, Adam Pacione, Jim Haynes, Keith Berry, Rick Reed, Dale Lloyd, Colin Andrew Sheffield, James Eck Rippie, and Tom Recchion. Uneasy narrative, warm ambience, rusted drones, sine waves, field recordings, meditative composition.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Adventures in Modern Electronics

(Pinch A Loaf) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

1997 comp with tracks by Aube, Not Breathing, Pain Jerk, Smell & Quim, MSBR, Decible Orgy, Kazumoto Endo, Thirdorgan, The Haters, Spastic Colon. Includes 16pp book. Numbered edition of 500. Sealed

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Afro Baby – The Evolution of the Afro-Sound in Nigeria 1970-79

(Sound Way) Used 2xLP $50.00

“The fusion of African rhythms and culture with jazz, funk, soul and rock was continent-wide phenomenon, but nowhere was it more prolific and active than the cities and dance floors of Nigeria. The twelve rarities on this 2004 compilation highlight how the afro-sound influenced all areas of the music scene and how it progressed through the decade. From funky afro-jazz, soul and afro-highlife to big, dance floor afro-beat, Nigeria led the way in West Africa at the time.”

VARIOUS ARTISTS

After Divine Diving Insekt

(Animal World) Used LP $5.00

Mostly self-recorded bedroom pop songs from 1997, mostly from Florida with a yankee ringer or two. Tracks by The Philistines Jr., Congratulations Fruit, Furtips, Meringue, Mercury Birds, The Raymond Brake, Dumbwaiters, Spearmint Stilts, The Horrible Death Sensations, Hoboken, Home, Vishnu, The Ottoman Fall, and Smarter Than Angels. Number 375 in an edition of 500. Photocopy cover art affixed to LP jacket by Kansas

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All Tomorrow Parties 1.1

(ATP Recordings) Used CD $12.00

2002 collection of previously unreleased tracks by Sonic Youth, Unwound, Stephen Malkmus, Stereolab, Bardo Pond, Cat Power, Papa M, Cannibal Ox, Dead C, Boredoms, Kevi Drumm, Satans Tornade. Black line through barcode

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Altered States of Consciousness

(U.P.D.) Used CD $9.00

1991 comp with tracks by Merzbow, Maschinezimmer 412, Trance, Asmus Tietchens, PGR Thessalonians, Dissecting Table

VARIOUS ARTISTS

America The Beautiful

(RRRecords) Used 2xCD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Mid-’90s tracks by Rougeux / Negativland, Barry Dalive, Mono Pause, AMK, Vampire Rodents, John Wiggins, Thomas Dimuzio, ST 37, Mandible Chatter, Idea Fire Company, Gregg Turkington, Chop Shop, Luxurious Bags, Grae.Com, Small Cruel Party, Hands To, TAC, Slughog, Randy Greif, Out Of Band Experience, Faxed Head, Lee Ranaldo, Neil Hamburger, Phil Milstein, Borbetomagus, Horse-Cow, Commode Minstrels In Bull Face, Goosewind, The Easy Goings, Philip Perkins, Blowhole, Shrilltower, Specula, Nisi Period, Nicolas Collins, The Haters, Crawling With Tarts, ConDemek, Scott Marshall & Mark Giangrande. With insert, sticker

VARIOUS ARTISTS

American Primitive Vol. 1 - Raw Pre-War Gospel 1926-1936

(Revenant) Used CD $14.00 (Out-of-stock)

Twenty-six-track, Fahey-compiled 1997 collection of music from 78s, much of which was originally recorded for “race” labels like Paramount and Vocalion. Diabolically great gut-bucket, early gospel from Austin Coleman with Joe Washington, Blind Joe Taggart, Blind Mamie Forehand, Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother, Blind Willie Davis, Bo Weavil Jackson, Dennis Crumpton and Robert Summers, Eddie Head and his Family, Elder J.J. Hadley, Elder Otis Jones, Frank Palmes, Jaybird Coleman, Luther Magby, Patton And Lee, Rev. Edward W. Clayborn (The Guitar Evangelist), Rev. I.B. Ware with Wife and Son, Washington White, William and Versey Smith. Twenty-four-page book with copious info about each track and an essay by Fahey.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

An Extremely Loud Silence (Audio Renditions Of Beckett’s Dramas)

(TraitMediaWorks) Used CD $7.00

Peter J Woods combines voice and loud bursts of noise, leaving the text sometimes unclear. The voice is clear throughout Eric Lunde’s use of three cassette players but with treatments that erode the speech effectively. Bryce Beverlin II speaks in the middle of a noise racket of distortion and feedback.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Anomalous Silencer #6

(Napalmed) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tracks from 2003 by Luca Miti, Chaos Holokaust Massaker, Oltretomba, Luasa Raelon, Astrogenic Hallucinauting, Pan Demla, Fever Spoor, The Mindripper, Skryty Puvab Byrokracie, Noisebitch, Johnny & Jhony vs. The Fox, Mauro Orselli, Imiafan, Andrew Duke, Guerraeterna, Crimen Familiar, Discotheque Gronland, Humberg, Fuck The Facts, Asistar_T, Enigma Eden, Tote Stadt, Plethora, Iron Bitchface, Nova-Sak, Nequaquam Vacuum, Sound Inhaler, ExMx, Tremor, Kromleqs, Ellis One, Noisecore Freak, CEOXiME, The Industrial Wiping System, K2, Maschinenmensch, Napalmed. One corner is slightly creased. #703 of 1000

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Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / Fifth A-Chronology

(Sub Rosa) Used 2xCD $10.00

Works that have ripped apart ancient definitions, international in scope and a focused on the voice — not sung words, but on recitations, distortions, renderings made abstract or disaggregated and screamed. Masonna, Charlemagne Palestine, Pere Ubu, Sutcliffe Jügend, Li Chin Sung aka Dickson Dee, Rogelio Sosa, Christian Galaretta, Richard Maxfield, Wolf Vostell, André Boucourechliev, Mauricio Kagel, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Raoul Hausmann, Gil Joseph Wolman, Leo Kupper, Josef Anton Riedl, Sten Hanson & Henri Chopin, Dajuin Yao, Ground Zero, Club Moral and Dub Taylor. 54-page booklet.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-Chronology

(Sub Rosa - SR190) Used 2xCD $15.00

Major works, rarities, previously unreleased tracks, and a "huh?" track or two. With Luigi and Antonio Russolo (1921), John Cage (1965), Sonic Youth (1983), Pauline Oliveros (1966), Iannis Xenakis (1958), Einsturzende Neubauten (1998), Dj Spooky (2001), Maclise-Conrad-Cale (1965), Henri Pousseur (1957), and more.

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As Yet Untitled

(Realization) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

1991 comp with tracks by Architects Office, Randy Grief, PBK, Michael Chokholak, Hands To, Wisconsin Conservatory of Noise, Thomas Dimuzio, John Wiggins, AMK, Dimthingsshine, Illusion of Safety, Static Effect, Murray Reams, Arcan Device, The Haters

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Audible: New Frontiers

(Physics Room) Used CD $4.00

NZ comp from 2003 with tracks by Radioqualia, Wendyhouse, John McCallum, Richard Francis, Rachel Shearer, Philharmonic.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Avantoscore 2003

(Avanto) Used CD $3.00

With tracks by Curd Duca, Radian, Dubbing Mixers, Mira Calix, Pekka Airaksinen, Helsingin Tietokoneorkesteri, Ibrahim Terzic, KK Null, FM Einheit / Jon Caffery /Alexander V. Borsig, Kari, Peitsamo, Leif Elggren, Terre Thaemlitz, Simon Wickham-Smith, Staalplaat Soundsystem, Ultra-Red + Kanak Attak, Emi Maeda, Mika Vaino

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Babyhead

(S-S Records) Used LP $8.00

From outsider garage pop to frantic free jazz, here is the view of the future of punk from the vantage point of 2004. Exclusive tracks from the A Frames, Antennas Errupt, The Blowtops, Blutt, Country Teasers, Crash Normal, Duchess Of Saigon, Guinea Worms, The Intelligence, Klondike & York, The Piranhas, Sexy Prison, & Unnatural Helpers. White vinyl. Sealed

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Basement Tapes Live Recordings at KSPC 1985-1995

(KSPC) Used LP $17.50

Tracks by The 5.6.7.8’s, Some Velvet Sidewalk, Loomis Slovak, Ruby Falls, The Mountain Goats, Evergreen, Solmania, Crayon, Shoeface, Love Child, Bastard Noise, Cambria, Nothing Painted Blue, Zeni Geva, Unwound, Refrigerator , and Nomeansno.

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Batak Of North Sumatra

(New Albion) Used CD $10.00

Traditional music of the Toba, the Karo and the Mandailing (three of seven ethnic groups living on the shores of Lake Toba). As noted by your dad’s old hippie zine Rolling Stone, “Voices and instruments rise in sacred and secular celebration with an idyllic elegance that belies the music’s vigorous, complex locomotion.” Music and dance play a crucial role in Batak society. The words for “ceremony” are actually a musical term and refers to the Batak orchestra of drums, gongs, and oboes and also to the tunes they play. The musicians are essential intermediaries between humanity and the Creator. The sounds of the drums and gongs convey human prayers to the spirit world.

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Bollywood Steel Guitar

(Sublime Frequencies - SF043) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Twenty-one pop instrumental music film hits from India between 1962 and 1986. All the masters of the steel guitar sound from the period are represented: Van Shipley, Kazi Aniruddha, S. Hazarasingh, Sunil Ganguly, and Charanjit Singh. An entirely different approach that rocks, swings, and grooves through some of India's most beloved film tunes, the electric steel guitar as lead instrument transforms the already infectious melodies into a multitude of higher sound dimensions.

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Bombay Connection

(Bombay Connection) Used 2xLP $40.00

Subtitled “Funk from Bollywood Action Thrillers 1977-1984,” the debut volume in the series showcases the sound of the Indian action film of the late ’70s and early ’80s — wah-wah guitars, congas and funky Moogs effortlessly blended with tablas, dhols and Indian melody lines. Tracks by Kalyanji-Anandji, R.D. Burman, Sapan Jagmohan, Charanjit Singh, Sonik-Omi, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Govind-Naresh, Bappi Lahiri. 2006 pressing.

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Bowed + Popped

(Nur/Nicht/Nur) Used CD $10.00

Michael Vorfeld’s improv / composition hybrid for percussion trio bears the influence of electroacoustics as much as Stockhausen’s rhythmic and textural complexity pursued to the fullest extent. Stephan Froleyks’s half-hour “Hispeedo” is more volatile, owing to an apparent love of loops moving in and out of phase a la Steve Reich. Relentlessly inventive guitarist Hans Tammen bows, pops, grinds, and squeaks Styrofoam, for a strange collision of a friendly, intentionally unsophisticated material and rather horrible sounds with satisfying imaginative overdubbed textures. Metal box with inserts. From 1999.

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Churchill’s Hideaway

(Esync) Used CD $18.00

1993 comp subtitled Music Generated by Geographical Seclusion and Beer, with tracks by Harry Pussy, Snatch The Pebble, Kreamy ’Lectric Santa, Postface, Quit, Holy Terrors, Cell 63, Blanket, Drive Choir, Human Oddities, Demonomacy, Pontius Pilot, Wahoos, Boise & Moss, Load

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Clit Stop

(Swezlex) Used CD $3.00

2000 comp with tracks by 3 Day Stubble, 99 Hooker / Tom Scandura, Aerobics King, Alpha-Buts. Barney, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Chris Brown, Cokra, Commode Minstrels In Bullface, Deerhoof, Deb Foxx Hamhoxxx, Dr. Oblivious, Earwicker, Frank Gratowski, Fuel for Tongues, Chlorgeschlecht, Hammer Eye Dimuzio, Kit Clayton, Lo Fi Niesans, Lowdown, Mike Boner, Moron, Nautical Almanc, No-Neck Blues Band, Omnivorous Sensillum, Patchcords, Rubber O Cement with Karla LaVey, RX FXR BX, Schematic, Slusser, Spider Compass Good Time Crime Band, Symplx, Tamio Shiriashi, The Bran (another Plight of Medic’s…) Pos, Wicked With, Woof Pies, The Effable Lord Xiandino, Zeek Sheck

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Cold Blue

(Cold Blue) Used LP $10.00

In the early 1980s, a loosely connected bunch of young West Coast-based composers was creating a Far Eastern-inflected, nature-influenced, Americana-pastoral music with conceptual roots in the works of an earlier generation of composers: John Cage, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Harry Partch. Pedal steel explorer and master instrument builder Chas Smith’s “Beatrix” is a massive meditation on a single distorted chord that fades and decays into endless overtones. Ingram Marshall’s “Gradual Siciliano,” with its parlor piano and tape-delayed mandolin, creates a lovely-but-foreboding Mediterranean landscape. Peter Garland’s “The Three Strange Angels” is a thunderous ritual for piano and bull-roarers. Michael Byron’s “Marimbas in the Dorian Mode,” is a gentle, organic, Eno-esque pastoral. The album ends with James Tenney’s “Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow,” a piece for player piano and piano rolls hand-cut by one of the progenitors of the West Coast aesthetic, Conlon Nancarrow himself. The piece is at once thorny and melodically gripping.

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Come Again II

(Furnace) Used CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

1993 comp with tracks by Masonna, Tatsuya Yoshida, Solmania, Flying Testicle, Love and Sincerity, Incapacitants, Dislocation, Merzbow, Violent Onsen Geisha, C.C.C.C., Jojo Hiroshige, Abominable Snowman Effuse Anal Tibet, Nord, The Hanatarash, Mortal Vision, S•Core, Kinkakuji, Monde Bruits, Diesel Guitars, Null, Aube, Yellow Cab, Agencement

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Compositions for Guitars Vol 2

(A Bruit Secret) Used CD $8.00

2004 comp with tracks by Tetuzi Akayama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide, Taku Unami

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Compulsory Overtime

(Dasein) Used LP $40.00

1985 underground comp with tracks by Abuse, Blood Robots, Bourbonese Qualk, Legendary Pink Dots, Legion Of Parasites, Oi Polloi, Poison Cookie, Political Asylum, Reality Control, S.A.S. Stress, Smashchords, and Existenz. With insert.

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Constructive Music

(U.P.D.) Used CD $17.00 (Out-of-stock)

1990 comp with tracks by Dissecting Table, Asmus Tietchens, Deliberate Composition, Etant Donnes, Ruins, PGR, Howling of Himalaya

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Contre Tous

(Dead Mind Records) Used CD $3.00

Two tracks by Infidel?/Castro! (one with live drums, noises and distorted textures, one with sinister and oppressive low-end tones and spoken vocals); five tracks of repetitive noise by Dead Husbands; five by PIDPI who do atmospheric experimental noise; and five by De Fabriek that revolve almost exclusively around minimal compositions of loops. From 2003

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Cottage Industrial Volume 2

(Humbug) Used CDR $5.00

Tracks by Pål Asle Pettersen, The Cherry Point, Eric Cordier, United Bible Studies, Nol, Edward Ruchalski, Anders Gjerde, Shifts, Peter Wright, Ivar Grydeland & Øyvind Torvand, Murmansk, Agitated Radio Pilot, Uton, The Magical Fold of the Faraway Tree. From 2003

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Cottage Industrial Volume 3

(Humbug) Used CDR $4.00

Tracks by Ryfylke, Raionbashi, Wawa, Orange, Manifold, Sinistri, Phô, Ovo, Wooden Wand & Satya Sai Baba, Excepter, Lunt, Maskinanlegg, Moth, Anders Hana, Violets Rock N Roll, Idea Fire Company. From 2004

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Dancing With The Dead — The Music of Global Death Rites

(Ellipsis Arts) Used CD + Hardcover Book $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

1995 audio recordings of death rites from around the world by Pastor Ediemae Layne, The Eureka Brass Band, The Tainjin Buddhist Music Ensemble, Afif Ali Khan with Manzoor Hussain Santoo Khan and Ensemble, Los Nani, Nasloi, Janet Leuchter, Los Camperos de Valles, Antanosy / Mahafaly, Fong Naam, The Lileh Choir of Dmanisi, Sanjukta Sen, Koo Nimo and the Kumasi Ensemble Adadam Agofomma, Gabriel Souza Carvalho, Keith Mahone / Hualapai People of Arizona, Seka Gamelan Anklung “Karya Bakti,” and Bokoto. The book offers detailed track-by-track liner notes and essays.

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Dedication -Zweite Auslese-

(Artware) Used CD $6.00

1993 comp with tracks by Freudwerk, D.D. Dobson, Andrew Chalk, Nord, Macronympha, Hijokaidan, Alan Lee, Chop Shop, Miguel Ruiz, Small cruel Party, Aube, Putrefier, Dislocation, Cement Women

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Deep in the Heart of Tuva — Cowboy Music From the Wild East

(Ellipsis Arts) Used CD + Hardcover Book $7.00 (Out-of-stock)

Produced and annotated by Ralph Leighton, this 1996 compilation brings together traditional and contemporary Tuvan music by Kongar-ool Ondar, Aldyn-ool Sevek, Oleg Kuular, Oorzhak Khunashtaar-ool, Bichi-Maa Davaa, Shaktar Shulban, Kaigal-ool Khovalyg, Nadezhda Kuular and the Tuvan State Ensemble Sayani, Sainho Namchylak, Mikhail Alperin, Huun-Huur-Tu with the Bulgarian Women’s Choir Angelite, Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha, and Paul “Earthquake” Pena. Sixty-four-page hard-cover book provides a glimpse into the history and culture of Tannu Tuva, plus translations of Tuvan stories and poetry.

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Delete The Elite

(Eerie Materials) Used CD $6.00

With tracks by IQ Inc., Teddybears, Squint, Kingdum Scum, Geronimo, Credit To The Nation & Chumbawamba, 45 KHz, Negu Gorriak, Clawfinger, Apocalypse Theatre, Womyn Of Destruction, Descojon Urbano, Phunk Jenkeez, Mikey Mikey, Atheist Rap, Papa Brittle, En Halv Kokt I Folie, Millions Of Dead Cops. With color poster, sticker, and fold-out newspaper. From 1994

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Des Jeunes Gens Mödernes

(Born Bad) Used LP $20.00

Subtitled “Post Punk Cold Wave et Culture Novo e France 1978–1983,” with tracks by Tokow Boys, Guerre Froide, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Ruth, Henriette Coulouvrat, Kas Product, Ice, Mathematiques Modernes, Metal Boys, Visible, Mécanique Rythmique, Charles De Goal. “Spherical, melancholy, and dark.” From 2008

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Disco Dildar

(Finders Keepers) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Rare, plugged-in proxy pop from some of Pakistan’s lesser-known teen flicks spanning the late 1970s and ’80s, featuring drum heavy disco guesstimates built around multilingual lyrics celebrating Saturday nights, Disco Dildars and Hindustani Hogmanays. These original synth-dripped 45 EPs are not from the front of the pile, nor the quirky result of some token musical tourism. The music found here once soundtracked rebellious all-nighters and hotel bar rendezvous from films parents would loathe. This opulent, off-center party targets the cut-and-paste, electronics and fuzz tones of flightless super heroes such as Tafo, Ashraf, Rana and Ahmed, voiced by Mehnaz, Runa Laila and Queen Noor Jehan. This workshop funk redefines both DIY and disco, revealing a whole new side to world music and marking Pakistani pop culture’s transformation from disposable and indefinable to indispensable.

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Dissolve

(Fused Coil) Used CD $5.00

1996 U.S. reissue of the Melt compilation (Work In Progress 1992). Tracks by Beequeen, Antonym. Another Headache, Master/Slave Relationship, Lee Ranaldo, :Zoviet-France, Drome, Husk, Whiteslug, Earth Mother Fucker, The Hanatarash, Hydra, The Gerogerogegege, Merzbow, Fat Hacker. With punched barcode

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Doel Presents Nextacy Recording: Distronica

(Nextacy) Used CD $10.00

Tracks by Thermo, CMT, New Eq, Feep, Itoken, Macaroniq, Damo Suzuki’s Network, Cannibalism Gandhi Band, Invisible Mountain. Includes obi

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Does Time Effect Memory?

(Amanita / Trost) Used 2xCD $5.00

1998 comp with tracks by Splatter Trio, Fuehler, Ron Anderson, RWA, Miss Murgatroid, Scrooge, Shunatao, Phased 4°F, Circle, Figurehead, Badgewearer, Zuno Men, D.A.R.K., Happy New Year, TV Pow, Climax Golden Twins, Konic Thtr, Gino RObair, Raeo, Voodoo Muzak, Spaceheads, Fin De Sciècle, Headbutt, The Molecules, Trottel, Keuhkot, Pest, Nid. Sealed

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Drilling The Curve

(Fleece) Used LP $10.00

1995 comp with tracks by The Mike Gunn, Rusted Shut, Dry Nod, Charalambides, Sad Pygmy, Dave Dove Paul Duo.

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EAR Magazine Presents Absolut CD # 2 — The Japanese Perspective

(EAR Magazine) Used CD $12.00

Tracks by Yuji Takahashi, Yoshiaki Ochi and Yoshihisa Ochi, Ushio Torikai, Yoshihisa Taira, Yoriaki Matsudaira, Roughage, Akira Sakata, Yamatsuka Eye & John Zorn, Ruins, Michihiro Satoh, Merzbow, Haruna Miyake, Ikue Mori, Toru Takemitsu. In 12pp poster-style folder. Visible glue residue from original sticker on bottom edge of front and back panels. From 1992

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EAR Magazine Presents Absolut CD # 3 — Improvisation / Composition

(EAR Magazine) Used CD $12.00

Tracks by Roscoe Mitchell, James Tenney, Lois V. Vierk, David Moss, Joëll Léandre, Willem Breuker, Takehisa Kosugi, Foday Musa Suso, Maarje Ten Hoorne, Jin Hi Kim and Joseph Celli, Joan La Barbara, Wadada Selassie. In 12pp poster-style folder. Some creases visible. From 1991

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Ecstasy By Current

(Schizophonia) Used LP $15.00

1988 comp with tracks by Subtle Reign, Katharsis, Solanaceae Tau, Dim. Retire, Randy Grief, Memorandum, G*Park, Jeff Grienke, Beat The Material

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Electronic Toys

(QDK Media) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Subtitled A Retrospective of ’70s Synthesizer Music. Nineteen kitsch-friendly tunes for films and commercials culled from music libraries KPM, Sonoton and Selected Sound, composed and performed by David Vorhaus, Ron Geesin, Mladen Franko, Steve Gray, Brian Benett, Heinz Funk, Eric Peters, Roland Hovac, Gerhard Trede, Ted Atking, Claude Larson & His Computer Controlled Oscillators, Dave Richmond, Rex Brown Company & Wersi-Electric-String Orchestra and Cecil Canterburn.

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Electronic Toys 2

(QDK Media) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Rare electronic pling-plong lounge action from the early days of synthesizer experimentation by Bruce Haack, Harry Breuer, Fred Weinberg, Gil Trythall, Mort Garson, The Mindexpanders, Kid Baltan & Tom Dissevelt, and Walter Sear.

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Entertainment Through Pain

(RRRecords) Used CD $15.00

Throbbing Gristle tribute comp with tracks by Skullflower, Merzbow, 7000 Dying Rats, Impact Text, Violent Onsen Geisha, Phlegm, Emil Beaulieau, Paul Lemos, Subtroochanteric Muta Ul Trag, Eper.Xr, Grae-com, Anchor Parents, Genital De Orange

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Eternal Blue Extreme - An Asian Tribute To Derek Jarman

(Somnus) Used CD $40.00

With tracks by Merzbow, C.C.C.C., Juno, Otomo Yoshihide, I.666, Aube, PNF and Z.S.L.O. Number 313 of an edition of 449, with cardboard O-card

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Fast N Loud Presents The Middle Of America

(H.I.D.) Used LP $40.00

Midwest comp with tracks by Naked Raygun, Savage Beliefs, Nadsat Rebel, Out of Order, Articles of Faith, Rights of the Accused, Big Black, The Effigies.

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Fever

(Ultra Eczema) Used LP + 7-inch $30.00

One song in all its varietal, slinky glory: A no-waved zoomer by Kim Gordon and Bill Nace’s Body/Head, a German electronics Brainticket sinker by the Austrians Rani Begeria and Nachtbote, a playmobile clapper by Irwin Badman from Finland, a very-close-to-the-original-one by Laundry Room Squelchers, a beautiful spaced-out lady version by Heather Leigh, a solo ’70s stadion racker by Kawaguchi Masami, a unrecognizable jungle bamboo stamper by Ninos Du Brasil, a late ’80s neue welle dancer by the mysterious Smokers, a raw drunken-Elvis version by Belgian visual artist Joris Van de Moortel, a tripper by ex-Boredom Tabata Mitsuru, a smoked-out version by the duo of Scott Foust and Frans de Waard, Japanese no-wave golf by Vastieuramen, an other-level trampoline by Mauro Pawlowski and Jef Cuypers’s Possesed Factory, a four-track folk killer by the last American folk king Joshua Burkett, a vocal pearl by Preggy Peggy, a evil echo by Bridget Hayden, a underwater version by Gerard Herman’s Muddy Wauters, a hit single by the international lady performance troupe LVMM, a sinking version by the Finnish Kuupuu, and a Flemish version by Club Moral’s own DDV. Color insert. Edition of 200.

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Fight!

(Cathexis) Used LP $20.00

1987 comp with tracks by In The Nursery, Revolving Cocks, Pink Industry, Soviet France, Project GK, Hula, The Young Gods, Shockheaded Peters, Click Click, Clair Obscur, Tiokoala.

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First Edition

(Editions EG) Used LP $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

1982 comp with tracks by The Original Adam & The Ants, Robert Fripp, Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno, The Lounge Lizards, Edikanto, Penguin Café Orchestra, The League of Gentlemen, Laraaji, Eno and Snatch, Jon Hassell, Eno and David Byrne. Corner cut, record store sticker, radio station magic marker, JEM promo sticker on back

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Flottante Tension d’Eclipse

(SDZ) Used LP $11.00

Previously unreleased tracks by Alan Courtis, Feeling Of Love, Toddi Wellman, Braindamage, Cheveu, The Rebel, The O Voids, Anteenagers M.C, Dead Clodettes, Pierre & Bastien, Daily Void, Posadzki Project And Electric Bunnies.

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Flux Gourmet

(Ba Da Bing) Used 2xLP $35.00

“The original motion picture soundtrack to Peter Strickland’s film about a dysfunctional group of performance artists who undertake a month-long residency at an institute devoted to culinary disciplines, where food is interrogated for its sonic potential as the group mic-up, amplify, distort and transform what they cook in front of an audience. The noise that the characters in the film itself make is driven by food blenders, overflowing cauldrons of gurgling soup, and sizzling frying pans (courtesy of The Sonic Catering Band), yet the music that soundtracks the culinary capers is engorged with aching melodies and wordless, airy vocals. Contributors include Cavern (Anti-Matter), Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost (A Hawk and a Hacksaw), Trost’s band Roj (formerly of Broadcast), and Nurse With Wound.” Gatefold jacket, detailed liner notes.

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Fluxus Anthology

(Get Back ) Used LP $40.00

2001 reissue of solid collection of tracks, ideas and happenings recorded between 1956 and 1998 from artists Walter Marchetti, Juan Hidalgo, La Monte Young, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Milan Knizak, Robert Filliou, Alison Knowles, Emmett Williams, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, Philip Corner, Eric Andersen, Robert Watta, Nam June Paik, and Ken Friedman. Clear vinyl.

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Follow Me Down

(Vanguard) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Pulsating liquefied grooves from 1966 to 1970, with several wonderfully elastic and ridiculous moments that capture all the odd, misshapen glory of the psychedelic era. Tracks by The Third Power, Erik, Listening, The 31st Of February, Elizabeth, Jeff Monn, Circus Maximus, The Frost, Notes From The Underground, The Vagrants, Serpent Power, The Family Of Apostolic, The Hi-Five, and The Far Cry.

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Freak On!

(VHF - VHF63) Used CDR $10.00

Limited edition disc from 2002 originally made for sale at shows in UK. With “Pink Horse Sweat” and “Pillow Made Of Stereo” by Sunroof, “Worse Than Pug” by Richard Youngs, “Live in Glasgow 28 July 2000,” by Vibracathedral Orchestra. Copper folder with paste-on artwork.

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From Twisted Minds Come Twisted Products

(Noiseville) Used LP $10.00

1990 comp with tracks by Action Swingers, Unholy Swill, Bench, Bootbeast, Surgery, Bullets For Pussy, Pocket Fishrmen, ST37, Coz The Shroom, Jarmed Enecy.Yellow vinyl

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From:/ To:/

(A Bruit Secret) Used CD $3.00

Eight duets from 2003, a gathering of then-young musicians from Lebanon, France and Japan playing in the fields of electroacoustic and improvised music. Tracks by Taku Unami and Norman D. Mayer; Masafumi Ezaki and Hugo Roussel; Utah Kawasaki and Jean-Philippe Gross; Yasuo Totsuka and Quentin Dubost; Masahiko Okura and Sharif Shanaoui; Yoichiro Shin and Olivier Brisson; Ami Yoshida and Alfredo Costa Monteiro; Kazushige Kinoshita and Fabrice Eglin. In card folder with visible creasing

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Galleries 4-6

(20city) Used CD $3.00

"Several tracks each by three New Zealand artists. Doe achieves quiet and compelling, nirvana-like states of layered hum. Eso Steel’s “A Scratch” ups the noise ante a tad with more sound tidbits and “Ircania” goes one further with stretches of mild noise and furnace hum. Birchville Cat Motel’s three tracks bet the whole pot with feedback drenched guitar and clutter." From 2001

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Gamelan Ubud - Field Recordings From Bali

(Smiller World Laboratories) Used CDR $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Street processions and performances from villages in and around Ubud, ambient sounds from surrounding islands, a proliferation of motorcycles buzzing through the background. Kuta Dawn, Kebyar Terompong, Funeral Procession, Frogs At Night, Queen Mother’s Funeral Procession, Queen Mother’s Burning, Thunder, Perang Undur-Undur, Barong And Rangda, and Javanese Birds, all recorded by Steve Miller throughout 1998. Cover is made of two metal plates, silkscreened artwork, held together by accordion-folded cardstock with liner notes. Price tag on back cover.

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Garage Punk Unknowns Volume 5 1965-1967

(Stone Age) Used LP $35.00

Second edition (year unknown) of 1986 comp with tracks by The Individuals, The Levis, S.J. & The Crossroads, Gaylan Ladd, The Sheppards, The King-Beezz, The Huns, The Vy-Dels, The Little Boy Blues, The Munks, The Montanas, Nobody’s Children, The Missing Links, Shadows Five, The Human Beings, The Breakers, Boss Tweeds. Sealed

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Garage Punk Unknowns Volume 7 1965-1967

(Stone Age) Used LP $45.00

Second edition (year unknown) of 1986 comp with tracks by Spider & The Mustangs, Nickel Bag, Enchanters 4, Londons, Traits, Thursday’s Children, Counts, Ambertones, English Setters, Danny & The Sessions, Dicky Treadway & The Salados, Grapes of Wrath, Thee Saints & The Prince of Darkness, Inmates, Echos, Apostles, 006, Jades. Sealed

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Ghana Soundz

(Soundway) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Rare and previously unreleased afro-beat, funk and fusion from the 1970s. With 3rd Generation Band, Oscar Sulley & The Uhuru Dance Band, Marijata, Ebo Taylor, Gyedu Blay Ambolley & The Steneboofs, Sweet Talks, Ogyatanaa Show Band, Honny & The Bees Band K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas, Apagya Show Band, African Brothers, Rob, Alex Konadu, and Black Star Sound. Includes sixteen-page color book of history, photos, original sleeve art.

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Good Alchemy Video

(Alchemy - ARVC14) Used VHS $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

See for yourself what all the fuss was about. Live footage from the early to mid-’90s of Masonna (Bears, Osaka; IMP Hall, Osaka; Zoukei-Center, Osaka; Takutaku, Kyoto; Club Quattro, Osaka), Incapacitants (Shimin-Plaza, Toyama), Merzbow (East Gallery, Tokyo; 2B, Eindhoven), Solmania (Metro, Kyoto) and Hijokaidan (Fandango, Osaka). Released to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the label in 1995. Includes insert. Caveat emptor: never been played. No promises.

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Good God! Apocryphal Hymns

(Numero Group) Used 2xLP $15.00

The third installment in the label’s series of otherworldly gospel, robed funk, and spiritual soul, Apocryphal Hymns is a slim new gospel songbook, penned powerfully by the genre’s lesser-known disciples. Heavenly harmonies, psychedelic guitars, damaged sacred steel, bleeding french horn, off-kilter choirs, and consumer-side electronic percussion decorate the Word, with performance modes that stray far from the flock, but hew always to the message. With twelve-page book of illustrations and detailed liner notes

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Guitar Mood 2

([ no label ]) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

A completely unanticipated follow up to the long-ago issued wacko eclectic instrumental comp of ’60s rock bands from various corners of the world. Subtitled More Rare Instrumentals From The New And Olde Worlds, Guitar Mood 2 presents amazing examples of local cultures of Turkey, Japan, Finland, Peru, Colombia (and the exotic lands of England and the U.S.) colliding with the guitar instrumental craze, with some longhair music (Beethoven), chichi / cumbia, and half-faux / half-real African influences thrown in. Tracks by Takeshi Terauchi & The Bunnys, Los Orientales De Paramonga, Vic Flick, Los Siderals, Siluetler, Pedro Jairo Garces Y Su Guitarra Electrica, Pastel Six, Los Belkings, Afrosound, The Blazers, Bill Collins, Haramiler, Manzanita Y Su Conjunto.

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Guitarrorists

(No. 6) Used CD $10.00

Tracks by Sonic Boom, Kurt Ralske, Kathy Korniloff, Jeffrey Evans, Wayne Coyne, J Mascis, Dean Wareham, Mark E. Robinson, Marc Gentry, Dave Rick, Kat Bjelland, Thurston Moore, Helios Creed, Tom Hazelmeyer, Paul Leary, Nick Salomon, Don Fleming, Kim Gordon, Nikki Sudden, Kramer, Neil Hagerty, Wayne Rogers, Rick McCollum, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Albini. From 1991

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Halleluwah Festival Of Enthused Arts Sept. 1-2, 2006 Disjecta, Portland

(Blackbird Presents) Used LP $10.00

Tracks from 2006 by White Rainbow, Michael Hurley, Vashti Bunyan, Katharina Tunicata, Tara Jane O’Neil, Holysons, Alela Dianem Yacht, Deerhoof, Romancing, Valet, Nudity, and Sir Richard Bishop.

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Hallways — 11 Musicians and HMSL

(Frog Peak) Used CD $9.00

With tracks by John Bischoff, Phil Burk, Nick Didkovsky, David Fuqua, Charlie Haden, Robert Marsanyi, Jeanne Parson, Larry Polansky, David Rosenboom, Trichy Sankaran, Carter Scholz. From 1993

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Harafin So

(Sahel Sounds) Used LP $13.00 (Out-of-stock)

First-ever international release of film soundtrack tunes from Northern Nigeria. Autotuned robotic vocals combine with frenetic drum machines and pitch bending synths for a singular hybrid of local styles and Bollywood influence. Featuring smash hits by Hausa superstars Fati Niger, Abubakar Sani, and the exuberant Sani Danja.

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Harmony Of The Spheres

(Drunken Fish) Used 3xLP $50.00

Six tracks from the early 90s (none of which is less than eighteen minutes long) recorded by the generation’s spacerock elite in tribute to prototypical stoner and ancient guide to all seekers of consciousness expansion, Pythagoras. Tracks by Bardo Pond, Flying Saucer Attack, Jessamine, Roy Montgomery, Loren Mazzacane-Connors and The Charalambides. With 32-page 12x12 booklet.

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High Zero Festival Of Experimental Improvised Music

(Recorded - REC024) Used CD + DVD $12.00

This 10th anniversary package (released in 2009) gives a small three-hour taste of the inspired radical methods and utopian intentions that go into the annual Baltimore event’s new music, no-holds barred experimentation, spontaneous collaborations, varied performances on stage and on the street, special projects, and interviews. Featuring Jim Baker, John Berndt, Jac Berrocal, Nicole Bindler, Jaap Blonk, Tom Boram, Dan Breen, Jeff Carey, Audrey Chen, Dan Conrad, John Dierker, Michael Formanek, Eric Franklin, Chiara Giovando, Dave Gross, Daniel Higgs, Sofia Jernberg, Michael Johnsen, Bonnie Jones, Lukas Ligeti, Thomas Lehn, Kyp Malone, Ben Manley, Kaffe Matthews, Joe McPhee, Sean Meehan, Phil Minton, Scott Moore, Stewart Mostofsky, Lexie Mountain, Ian Nagoski, Le Quan Ninh, Catherine Pancake, Greg Pierce, Eve Risser, Matana Roberts, Marina Rosenfeld, Christine Sehnaoui, Roger Turner, Fuyuki Yamakawa, C. Spencer Yeh, and others. CD contains six strange gems from the High Zero vaults.

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Hunter's Safety

(Coat-Tail) Used 7-inch $3.50

A “Midwest noise compilation” from 1994 with tracks by Flying Luttenbachers (described by Hypostatic Information as “no-wave spazz out that is awesome front to back”), Geissmaker (“Twin-Cities-style noise rock”), Jackwacker (“fuzzed-out instrumental of barely tuned noise rock”), and White (“classic Jesus-Lizard-sounding noise”).

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Ikebana: Merzbow’s Amlux Rebuilt, Reused And Recycled

(Important) Used 2xCD $7.50 (Out-of-stock)

“According to the liners, artists were supposed to use the original album’s music as an element in a new composition, rather than piece together a traditional remix…. There are a few unruly moments that seem plucked from some forgotten cassette-only … release, but in general, much of this … could pass for an experimental IDM sampler. Alec Empire’s raging ‘Digital Hardcore Mix’ comes on like the soundtrack to a Terminator sequel that didn’t suck, with wildly distorted drum tracks kicking the shit out of all the extraneous debris…. Performing under his Plug alias, Luke Vibert’s excellent untitled futuro drum-n-bass slaps an engorged, fuzzy repeating synth bass under jagged glitch stutter beat…. Mouse on Mars’s ‘Superstar’ features no beats whatsoever, and in truth, sounds almost exactly like a Merzbow original, albeit a piece wherein he doesn’t so much opt for deafening displays of violent florescence as disorientating sound design. Cornelius’s untitled piece starts out innocently enough, with sampled jungle birds and rain, but gradually mutates into the pitter-patter of static electricity and industrial clang. Nobukazu Takemura’s ‘Assembler Mix’ takes the static idea and gallops with it, giving you hundreds of variations on the same grating implosion for what seems an eternity…. Makoto Kawabata’s amazing / nauseating ‘Revolved Jane’ … shows you don’t have to bother living up to a legacy if you’re perfectly capable of vandalizing it with a chorus of grotesque psych-locusts…. DJ Spooky’s trip-hop treatment doesn’t really sound like it belongs on the same album as the MoM or Takemura tracks, and Negativland’s highly annoying ‘An Actual Attack’ doesn’t sound like anything I need in my collection at all.”

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Impact! (Auto-Edit)

(Audio Instant) Used LP $15.00

1986 comp with tracks by Sonic Youth, Portion Control, Okapi Fever, Hula

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International P.E.A.C.E.

(R Radical) Used 2xLP $30.00

Songs by 55 hardcore bands from around the world addressing the dangers of the global arms race and the threat of nuclear war. As the acronym Peace, Energy, Action, Cooperation, and Evolution makes explicit, Reagan-era hardcore had grown into a global phenomenon, and hardcore was ready to work hand in hand with leftist politics. In line with the ideals of the project, MDC’s Dave Dictor and his R Radical Records label released the album as a fundraiser, with the profits slated for various anti-nuclear groups and activities worldwide. Released in 1984, most of the best and best-known hardcore acts of the day appear, including MDC, Dead Kennedys, Crass, D.O.A., Butthole Surfers, the Dicks, D.R.I., False Prophets, and Subhumans, as well as bands from Italy, Denmark, Argentina, Germany, Spain, Japan, and South Africa. The comp includes a 72-page booklet coordinated by the editors of Maximum Rock’n’Roll packed with political rants, cartoons, suggestions for further reading, and calls for activism against corrupt authority. Each band is provided with a full page to express their ideas (and plug their wares) with printed lyrics and crudely effective collage art. Some corner dings scuffing on jacket edges.

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Introverted Formula

(Järtecknet - 26) Used 2xLP $25.00

A side each of tape manipulation by Altar Of Flies (dark and twisted abstraction), Blodvite (industrial interference loops), Elisha Morningstar (lo-fi reel-to-reel loops), and Sewer Election collaborating with Anders Dahl (drones and field recordings). With two double-sided inserts. Edition of 350

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Ischemic Folks

(Schematic) Used 2xLP $10.00

Mesmerizing 1999 comp with tracks by Phoenicia, David Kristian. Richard Devine, Push Button Objects, Gliese, Metic.

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Island of Sanity

(No Man’s Land) Used 2xLP $15.00

Tracks from 1987 by David Linton, Mofungo, Christian Marclay, Fish and Roses, Details at Eleven, Skeleton Crew, Mark Dery, Charles K. Noyes, Martin Bisi, Locus Solus, The President, The Ordinaires, David Fulton, David Garland, Bump, Chris Vine, Carbon, Bosho, The Scene Is Now, H/M/D, Toy Killers, Robert Previte.

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Japanese American Noise Treaty

(Relapse) Used 2xCD $45.00

Tracks by Masonna, K2, MSBR, C.C.C.C., Painjerk, Contagious Orgasm, Astro, Incapacitants, Merzbow, Hijo Kaidan, Third Organ, Diesel Guitar, Solmania, Princess Dragon Mom, Pica, The White Rose, Haters, Taint, Walking Time Bombs, Macronympha, Cauterizer, Allegory Chapel Ltd, Crawl Unit, Daniel Menche, Speculum Fight, Cock ESP, Dog, Richard Ramirez, Namanax. Includes book with one page pert artist, from almost blank to artfully-designed manifestos. From 1995. Sealed, with hole punched through the barcode.

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Japanoise

(Little Mafia) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

2003 collection with tracks by Pain Jerk, K2, CCCC, Melt-Banana, KK Null, MSBR, Masonna, Incapacitants, Mo-Te, Government Alpha. Sealed

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JMSA Presents Wave From Free Music Undecided

(PSF) Used CD $8.00

Previously unreleased live recordings from late 2003 and early 2004 by Keiji Haino (hurdy-gurdy), Kazuo Imai (guitar), Junichiro Okuchi (piano), Michihiro Sato (tsugaru syamisen), Yoshihide Otomo (turntable), Masayoshi Urabe (alto sax). The six solo tracks here document a series of lecture-concerts at Mesar Haus in Tokyo, exploring the meanings, methods and implications of free music. “Approaches vary between the grey kaleidoscopic fields of Haino’s hurdy-gurdy, the art-brut physical terrorism of Urabe, the traditional improvisatory, plucking style of Sato, and the anti-fundamentalist feedback dialectics of Otomo’s turntable work. All bore channels through time-space continua and consensus reality like no one’s business.”

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Killing Me Softly With Noise

(Noise) Used CD $13.00

1997 comp with tracks by Syllyk, Crawl Unit, Small Cruel Party, Strafe FR, Ching-Shen-Ching, CM Von Hausswolff, Hybrids

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Kraftworks

(Spill) Used 2xCDR $10.00

Compiled as a souvenir for an event staged at the Empress Hotel, Melbourne, in November 1999. With tracks by Antediluvian Rocking Horse, Battery Operated, Case Managers, Clown Smiling Backwards, Craftwork, Dart, DJ Smallcock, Dreamland Happy Times For All, Fibrotown, The Gonks, Hi-God People, Home For The Def, Huon, Julian Williams, Kettle, Letraset, New Waver, Obsolete, Saint August vs The Microsleep Quartet, San Jose Cow Muzak, Sleepy Township, Tugboat, 2 Lire Dolby With Chris Smith, and Yamamoto.

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La Maison de Blackbean

(Blackbean and Placenta Tape Club) Used LP $6.00

1995 comp with tracks by Pip Proud, Noggin, Longstocking, Orange Cake Mix, Magnolia’s Milan, Saraspoden. Red photocopy folder, two inserts, white labels.

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Land Of The Rising Noise

(Charnel Music) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

1993 comp with tracks by Omoide Hatoba, Agencement, Dissecting Table, Aube, Children Coup d’Etat, DMV, Angel’in Heavy Syrup, Merzbow, Tokyo Dowzer, CCCC, Hijo Kaidan, Keiji Haino

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Le Groupe Surréaliste Révolutionnaire, Dotremont er Broodthaers (1939-1978) - Volume 3

(Sub Rosa) Used CD $13.00 (Out-of-stock)

Rare archival recordings from Belguim: The Groupe Surréaliste du Hainaut, 1939 (with Achille Chavée, Fernand Dumont, Pol Bury, André Simon, Marcel Lefrancq), The Groupe Surréalisme Révolutionnaire, 1948 (with Christian Dotremont, Marcel Broodthaers, Paul Colinet, Achille Chavée), the Revues : Temps Mêlés, 1952 (with André Blavier), Phantomas 1953 (with Marcel Havrenne, Théodore Koenig, Marcel Piqueray), Les Lèvres Nues, 1954 (with Marcel Mariën), Daily Bul 1957 (with André Balthazar, Pol Bury, Marcel Havrenne, Paul Colinet, Marcel Piqueray), and the two outsiders: Marcel Broodthaers and Jean-Pierre Verheggen.

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Light Bulb Magazine Number Four - The Emergency Cassette

([ no label ]) Used 2xCD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

Unauthorized reissue of the original 1981 double-cassette. Ricocheting back and forth from themes of rampant human decay, paranormal and supernatural phenomena, the campiness of mainstream wholesomeness (1950s style in particular), absurd and adolescent humor, and the elusive kernel of triumph within self-defeating nihilism and inward-looking mockery, the Emergency cassettes are a source of the contemporary avant garde’s most valuable asset - the irrelevancy of barriers between naïf outsiders, intuition- driven slackists, and sarcastic conceptual complainers. It establishes the central role of a common, infinitely malleable vernacular available to anyone with a desire to get mucky with it. The variety here is so initially stunning that it seems like nothing in the comp’s two-hour duration is remotely similar to anything else on it, even if that isn’t the literal truth: real songs made of backward tape loops, strummed folk tunes, spastic punk bands that run the gamut from unison drum-pounding and shouting to out-of-control dementia to college nerds in overdrive, destroyed electronics, shit that sounds like a senior citizens attempting a space opera in a cafeteria, janitors chasing mice with brooms, lunatic lounge singer impersonators, repetitive machines, ridiculous parodies, geeky showtunes and cartoon music, surreal carnival nightmares, et fucking cetera. Tracks by Tom Recchion And The Friends Of Leslie, Monique, Jad Fair, Doug Snyder, Creatures Lives, Smegma, Peepland, The Lunchmen, John Duncan, International Language, Duba / Sansome, 30 Windswept Dimes, Decayes, 45 Grave, Half Bodied Baby, Human Hands, Neef, Glo-Bin Treeflip, Bachelors Even, Rick Potts, Bridge, Fragile Hats, Fredrik Nilsen, Jes Grew, Bpeople, Phranc, Asmus Teitchens, Them Rhythm Ant, Tiny Holes, Random Samples, Flap, Tela Conversion, Meat Puppets, Doodooettes-That Moment, Pep Lester, Cameron Hands Penis Envy, Dennis Duck, Brent Wilcox, Planet Z, Arrow Book Club, Bruce Licher, Slimy Adenoid & The Fab Pabs, The Tribal Fops, Bill Noland, and Foundation Boo.

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Live From The Devil’s Triangle Vol. 2

(KFJC) Used 2xCD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Live-in-the-studio recordings from the late ’90s by High Rise, ST37, Jade Vincent Experiment, Amber Asylum, Cul de Sac, The Machine Gun TV, Overhang Party, King Brothers, Oh Kami No Jikan, Bardo Pond with Roy Montgomery, The Ex, Spaceheads, Petra Haden and Miss Murgatroid, The Palace of Love, Ass Baboons of Venus, Ex-Girl , Kirihito, and Mainliner. Sealed

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Lo-fi Electric Acoustic & Radical

(Meldac) Used CD $30.00

Tracks by God Is My Co-Pilot, Melt-Banana, Polvo, Manga Band, Kiki, Okinawa, ESP Records, Brain Zero, Plastic Nuggets, the 1+2s, Den Do Ba, Kicking Giant, Railroad Jerk, Violent Onsen Geisha, Onsen Banana, Jad and David, Yo La Tengo with Jad Fair, Half Japanese, Jason Willet and Jad Fair, Jad Fair, Hattifatteners. Includes thick book, obi, logo sticker designed by Eye Yamatsuka affixed outside plastic box. From 1995

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Love Peace & Poetry - African Psychedelic Music

(Normal) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tracks by McCully Workshop Inc, Otis Waygood, Blo, Abstract Truth, Freedom’s Children, Suck, The Third Eye, Mack Sigis Porterr,RIkki Ililonga, Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family, Quentin E. Klopjaeger, and Ofege.

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Love Peace & Poetry - American Psychedelic Music

(Normal) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Real-people psych from the late ’60s and early ’70s by Darius, New Tweedy Bros., Arcesia, Victoria, Damon, Jungle, Hunger, Trizo 50, Music Emporium, Brain Police, Michael Angelo, Zerfas, Lazy Smoke, Hickory Wind, New Dawn, Sidetrack, Patron Saints.

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Love Peace & Poetry - Asian Psychedelic Music

(Normal) Used LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)

Rare psych and exotic cuts by Teddy Robin & The Playboys (Hong Kong), Erkin Koray (Turkey), San Ul Lim (Korea), Justin Heathcliff (Japan), Baris Manco (Turkey), Cambodian Rocks (Cambodia), The Mops (Japan), Yuya Uchida & The Flowers (Japan), 3 Hür-El (Turkey), Fentones (India), Mogollar (Turkey), Confusions (India), The Quest (Singapore), and Jung Hyun And The Men (Korea). Splatter vinyl.

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Love Peace & Poetry - Brazilian Psychedelic Music

(Normal) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Rock, psych, tropicalia, classical, jazz, Eastern, and traditional regional music by O Brando, Os Brazoes, A Bolha, Liverpool, Bango, The Buttons, Assim Assado, O Tërço, Spectrum, Modulo 1000, Os Lobos, Rubinho E Mauro Assumpçao, Sound Factory, Terço, Paulo Bagunça, Lula Cörtes e Zé Ramalho, Marcos Valle, Hugo Filho, Marconi Notarao.

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Love Peace & Poetry - British Psychedelic Music

(Normal) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Wildest obscuro rock by Red Dirt, Gary Walker & The Rain, Andwellas Dream, Dark, Dogfeet, Tony Caro & John, Candida Pax, Pussy, Mark Fry, Motherlight, Lightyears Away (Bill Nelson), Bodkin, Forever Amber, Oliver, and Parameter.

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Love Peace & Poetry - Chilean Psychedelic Music

(Normal) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Lost psychedelic treasures from 1967-1973, just before Chile’s national ban on rock. Tracks by Kissing Spell, Los Jaivas, Los Vidrios Quebrado, Aguaturbia, Blops, Sacros, Los Mac’s, Embrujo, Los Beat 4, Tumulto, Escombros, El Congreso. Purple vinyl.

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Love Peace & Poetry - Japanese Psychedelic Music

(Normal) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Heavily distorted, blues-based psych by The Mops, Yuya Uchida & The Flowers, Happenings Four, Foodbrain, Apryl Fool, Blues Creation, Shinki Chen, Jacks, Beavers, Masahiko Sato & Sound Brakers, Speed Glue & Shinki, Tokedashita Garasubako, Justin Heathcliff, Kuni Kawachi & Friends. Clear vinyl

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Love Peace & Poetry - Latin American Psychedelic Music

(Normal) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

Hot psych rarities by Almendra, Laghonia, Traffic Sound, Kaleidoscope, We All Together, Los Gatos, Kissing Spell, Los Macs, Los Vidrios Quebrados, Som Imaginario, Ladies W.C., Modulo 1000, The (St. Thomas) Pepper Smelter, and Dug Dugs. Splatter vinyl

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Love Peace & Poetry - Turkish Psychedelic Music

(Normal) Used LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

Folk, rock and psychedelic gems by tracks from Mogollar, Selda, Özdemir Erdogan ve Orkestrassi, Erkin Koray, Edip Akbayram, Cem Karaca, Üç Hürel, and Bülent Ortaçgil, Alpay, Mazhar ve Fuat, Ersen, Hardal, Erol Büyükburç, Baris Manço, Erkut Taçkin.

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Lowercase-Sound 2002

(Bremsstrahlung) Used 2xCD $45.00

With tracks by The Beige Chanel, Tucker Dulin, Gal, Josh Russell, Bob L. Sturm, Dale Lloyd, Matt Shoemaker, Yannick Dauby, Electric Company, Reynols, Joseph Siemion, Animist Orchesrta, Radu Malfatti, Jason Lescalleet, David Gross, Undr Quarter, John Hudak, Otaku Yakuza, Francisco López, Rsundin, Akira Rabelais. Stephan Mathieu, Immedia, Dan Abrams, Peter Van Hoesen, Michael Schumacher, Carl Stone, Tetsu Inoue, Taylor Duepree. Kin Cascone, Toshimaru Nakamura, Jonas Lindgren, Civyiu Kkliu. Box with vellum inserts

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Maboroshi No Sekai Samples

(Maboroshi No Sekai) Used CD $18.00

1995 comp with tracks by Bazooka Joe, P.O.N., Melt-Banana, Ausia, Black Stage, Saga Yuki, Houraku-Ya, Fukuoka Yutaka and Kido Natsuki, Ixa-Wud, Bondage Fruit, Painkiller, Yoshida Tatsuya and Katsui Yuji, Isoda Osamu, ZZZ, 20fingers, Harpy, Live Under The Sky, Katsui Yuji and Punchi Kyoudai.

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Manifestation Vol II

(Awefull Records) Used CD $12.00

1991 comp with tracks by Happy Fingers Institute, Pleasure Center, Chemical Wedding, Liquid Mice, Alquimia, Evil Mother’s, Echoes of God, and Three Day Stubble

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Mass Culture Control Bureau… Things From The Past

(Ad Hoc) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Minimal electronics, jilted avant-pop, artpunk, progressive music, and some folk as well, by The Black Sheep, Kontakt Mikrofoon Orkest, Geoff Leigh, and Red Balune. Features cameo appearances by members of Henry Cow: Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson and Chris Cutler. From 2004 with red promo stamp on front cover

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Masters of the Scene — The Definitive ABBA Tribute

(Nihilist) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tracks by Canned Hamm, Sockeye, Kazumoto Endo, Vertonen, Evil Moisture, Ungratefeul Deadbeats, Ski-Mask & The Bucketmen, Absorb, Guilty Connector, I & Makoto, irr. app. (ext.), Wäldchengarten, Brain Transplant, Foamula. Spider Compass Good Crime Band, Body Tong, The Rib, Wounded Head, Plastic Crimewave Band, Sudden Infant, Gunshop, Viki, Julia Sets, Methypnox. From 2003

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May 9 Concert - A Tribute To L. Ron Hubbard

(Church Of Scientology) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Live performances from The Eternal Variety Show in 1974 by Chick Corea, The Incredible String Band, Woody Woodmansey & Mike Garson.

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Melt

(Work In Progress) Used CD $5.00

Original UK edition from 1992, reissued in 1996 by Fused Coil under the title Melt with different artwork. Tracks by Beequeen, Antonym. Another Headache, Master/Slave Relationship, Lee Ranaldo, :Zoviet-France, Drome, Husk, Whiteslug, Earth Mother Fucker, The Hanatarash, Hydra, The Gerogerogegege, Merzbow, Fat Hacker. No burlap bag.

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Merzbow Frog Remix And Revisited

(Misanthropic Agenda) Used 2xCD $7.50

Tracks by Hrvatski, Pita, House Of Low Culture, Never Presence Forever, Sunn O))), Gerritt, Terror Organ, John Wiese, Merzbow, Fennesz, Ulver, Russell Haswell, Hecker, When, Boris

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Metal Moo Cow

(Matako Mazuri) Used LP $15.00

Third pressing of the 1984 comp with tracks by Fearless Iranians From Hell, Napalm, Heather Leather, Offenders, The Jeffersons, Hickoids, Scratch Acid, Feat of Fools, The Technicolor Yawns, Toejam, Meatjoy.

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Mi Caballito Chulo…! Como Lo Quie Ro…

(Los Apson) Used CD $17.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tracks by Made in CCR, Masatake Naozaki, Violent Onsen Geisha, Mom’n’Dad Productions, Roketship X-M, Manabu Yuasa, Papumi, Yoshimi, Lee, Surfers of Romantika, Hanatarash, Shakapee Yaa Motomoto, Mexico Ponco Puerto Rico, Malaria’n’Motorcar, Nijimura Oqyasu, Hoi Voodoo, Pain Jerk, Space Junko, King Of Besecity, The Scholarship, The Teacher, Cheese, Super Ball, Melt-Banana, Segovia Prince, Roman Cliff, McCoy’s Band, Yasuhiro Ohtani, Magical Power Band, Hardrock Livingroom, Doh Nose All, Sfinx, Merzbow, Knight Of Funk. From 1994

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Music From Madagascar

(Yazoo - 7003) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Classic traditional recordings of the 1930s compiled from rare 78s. WIth Hiran'ny Tanoran'ny Ntao Lo, Choeur Malgache, Hirand-d Razafimahefa, Hira Malaza Taloha, Hiran-d Razafimahefa, Mpilalao Malgache.

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Music From South India

([ no label ]) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Five tracks recorded in 2004 by Dr. Temiz: a varnum in praise of Ganesh, asking him to remove all obstacles, performed by mandolin virtuoso U. Srinivas; a piece composed by the 17th century Saint Thyagaraja, performed by brother / sister duo Krshnan and Vijaylaksmi Lagudi; Jaya Jaya, Pradmabha Nabha, performed by incredible vocalist Sanjay Subramanium; Vapati, Hamsa Shvani (Song of the Swan), performed by the elder statesman of flute, Dr. Ramani; and G.N. Balasubramanium’s song in praise of Saraswati, performed on nadadesswaram (a large oboe-like instrument used in wedding celebrations). Paste-on jacket

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Music Should Hurt

(Self Abuse) Used CD $14.00

1996 collection with tracks by Smell And Quim, Merzbow, K2, Bacillus, Daniel Menche. OVMN, Evil Moisture, Third Organ, Hyper Ventilation, Iugula Thor, Pain Jerk, Macro Beaulieau, Killer Bug, and Hanged Mans Orgasm. Sealed

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My Estrogeneration

(Not Not Fun) Used LP $5.00

2007 comp with tracks by Zola Jesus, Tickley Feather, Pocahaunted, Inca Ore, Topaz Rags, HNY, Talk Normal, Islaja, L.A. Vampires, U.S. Girls, Valet

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New Music From Central And Eastern Europe — Tamizdat Comp Vol 1

(Wire) Used CD $3.00

Turn-of-the-century compilation with tracks by Auktyon, Mapa, Kazik Mazzoll and Arhythmic Perfection, Tornádo Lue, Iva Bittová and Vladimir Václavek, Jablkon, Lajkó Félix, Sergey Kuryokhin, Kury, Ewabraun, Projekt = Projekt, Úzgin Uver, Projekt Karpaty Magiczne, Kampec Dolores, Ali Ibn Rachid, Stoka, Trottel, Uz Jsma Doma, Slide Zivé Slede, Plastic People Of The Universe.

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Nganasan Chants Chamaniques Et Narratifs De L’artique Sibrien

(Buda Musique) Used CD $20.00

The narrative chants here, performed for a variety of situations, including Shamanistic séances, by autochthonic / indigenous minority populaces living in Siberia, represent some of the last vestiges of their dying culture, proof that they existed and maintained a structured belief system. The chants reverberate with rich images of universal abstract ideas — joy, sadness, prosperity — and recall a primordial culture that hunts wild reindeer and geese and partridges, and fishes in Arctic waters. A few of the tracks are intensely dramatic, as if the chanter was channeling all his / her energy into healing someone.

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No Age

(SST) Used 2xLP $12.00

Instrumental comp from 1984 with tracks by Black Flag, Blind Idiot God, Henry Kaiser, Elliot Sharp, Lee Ranaldo, Lawndale, Glenn Phillips, Pell Mell, Paper Bag, Scott Colby, Universal Congress Of, Gone, Alter Natives, Frith & Kaiser, Gone. Clipped corner

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No Tribute

(Sunship / Little Mafia / Carbon / Breathmint) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

All covers of material by the Nihilist Spasm Band. WIth Baku, U Can Unlearn Guitar, The Pin vs. Bellchamber, Unconditional Loathing, Jacopo Andreini, Winter Carousel, Roughage, V/Vm, Dapper, Madame Chao, Alan Licht, Smell & Quim, Inca Eyeball, Carlos Giffoni, Reynols, Cock E.S.P., DEL, Pengo, Glands Of External Secretion, Panicsville, Wolf Eyes, Wrong, Newton, Hijokaidan.

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Nordisk Sang — Music Of Norway

(New Albion) Used CD $6.00

A rare and intimate look from 1991 at genuine Scandinavian folk music courtesy of artists from the Heilo roster. Willow bark flutes, pristine voices, fiddles (both hardingfele and standard). Central to it all is Kirsten Brten Berg, a ear-swooning singer of pure tone and ethereal space. There are two pieces for transverse flute (one as a duo with a pipe organ that is quite unusual); one solo dulcimer piece; and one for willow bark flute. There are only two slightly larger ensemble pieces, one a trio for voice, saxophone, and hardingfele, another for voice, hardingfele, bouzouki, and recorder.

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Ohrensausen

(Dom - V 77-03) Used LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

Essential industrial / noise / experimental compilation from 1986. With Nurse With Wound, Coil, Asmus Tietchens, and Smegma.

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Orbital Confluence Benefit

(Neurec) Used CD $18.00

Tracks by Aube, Nagisa Nite, Naoki Zushi. Released in conjunction with a benefit concert supporting people suffered from Hanshin Awaji earthquake in 1995.

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Party Animal

(Mystic) Used LP $20.00

1984 punk comp with tracks by Ill Repute, Don’t No, Stukas Over Bedrock, Incest Cattle, Scared Straight, Hated Principles, Juvenile Behavior, Mox Nix, Manic Subcidal, Sado-Nation, V.O.A., 2nd Thoughts, A.F.U., Habeas Corpus, N.O.S., Critical Attitude, Crankshaft, NO FX, Penis Brigade, New Regime, Fatal Error, America’s Hardcore, Justice League, Sacred Cows, The O.D.’s, The Micronotz, The Shemps, Sluggo, No Control, The Holy, White Wreckage, A.S.H., Seizure, Subterfuge, Half Life, O.N.S., Cancerous Growth, Seismic Waves, Caustic Cause, The Grim and SWA. Jacket at hole punched in upper right corner.

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Pathological Compilation

(Pathological) Used CD $15.00

Industrial metal, noise and grind from 1989 by Carcass, Godflesh, Terminal Cheescake, Stretch Heads, Coil, Silverfish, God, and Napalm Death.

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Phrênésie #2 — A Space of Language Experimentation

(Fibrr) Used CD $6.00

2003 comp of poetic sound pieces with electronic treatments by Julien Ottavi & Sophie Gosselin, John Tilbury, Brandon Labelle

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Poesia Sonora

(Recorthings And Zona Archives) Used LP $30.00

2001 pressing of sound poetry anthology originally released by CBS, compiled in 1975 by Maurizio Nanucci. With Henri Chopin, Franz Mon, Bob Cobbing, Arthur Petronio, Brion Gysin, Arrigo Lora Totino, Bernard Heidsieck, Sten Hanson, Ernst Jandl, Maurizio Nannuci, François Dufrêne, and Paul De Vree. Clear vinyl.

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Poetry Out Loud Number Nine

(Out Loud) Used LP $20.00

A “magazine” of oral poetry; this issue with ten selections by Peter Harleman. Liner notes by Robert Palmer. Original copy from 1975. Sealed

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Poetry Out Loud Number Ten

(Out Loud) Used LP $20.00

A “magazine” of oral poetry; this issue with eight selections by Peter Harleman and Klyd Watkins. Original copy from 1977. Sealed

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Poetry Out Loud Number Three

(Out Loud) Used LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

A “magazine” of oral poetry; this issue with thirteen selections by Patricia Partleman, Klyd Watkins, The Harlemans, Linda Watkins, Bernard Heidsieck. Original copy from 1970. Sealed

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Popular Music For Popular People

(Gameboy) Used CD $3.00

2000 comp with tracks by Government Alpha, Cock ESP, Bob Marinella, Spastic Colon, Contamination Diet, Lockweld, DJ Smallcock, MSBR, Noumena, Goat, Fruehauf, Sodium, Dan Bodah, John Wiese

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PSF & Alchemy (20th Anniversary Live)

(PSF) Used CD $14.00

Tracks by Kan Mikami and Jojo Hiroshige, EXIAS-J, Kazuo Imai and Incapacitants, Marble Sheep, Keiji Haino and Narita Munehiro, L & Friends, Masayoshi Urabe & Junko, Go Hirano & Takshi Ueno. From 2005

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Puissance 13 + 2

(Lion) Used 2xLP $20.00

2013 reissue of 1971 comp representing the cream of underground French prog and psych, recorded at the legendary Chateau d’Hérouville studio, live in the courtyard with no overdubs: Magma, Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes, Alain Markusfeld, Voyage, Catharsis, Contrepoint, Design, Ergo Sum, Mor, Zabu, Claude Engel, Solitude, and Spectre, plus guest American folk-singers Roger Masson and Steve Warring. With four-page book of notes, band info and photos. Edition of 500

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Raggle Taggle Vol. 1

(Tag Rag - TRCD005) Used CD $6.00

Japanese comp from 1996 with U., Spasmom, Off Mask 00, Domlock Sandhill, Grind Orchestra, Corrupted, Nasca Car, and Rise From The Dead.

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Red Wine For Grapes

(From The Same Mother) Used CDR $12.00

Tracks by Panel of Judges, Pip Proud, Ill Kept Dwelling, New Waver, The Lost Domain, Bruce Russell, Dworzec, Above Ground Pool, Julian Williams, Chris Smith, Solids, Huon, and Rhizome. Photocopy paste-on cover. From 2000

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Release Your Mind

(Release) Used CD $3.00

1995 comp with tracks by Love Like Blood, Trial of the Bow, Fetish 69, Dead World, Merzbow, Malformed Earthborn, Pica, Room 101, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Dweller on the Threshold, Tearbox, Candiru, Namanax.

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Riddle of Lumen

(FMN Sound Factory) Used CD $17.00

1995 comp with tracks by Dril Man, Pon, U, Peregrini, Otomo Yoshihide, Soap-Jo Henshi, O.A.D., Solmania, Bidziliba, Romp, EQ, Live Under The Sky

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Rock Stars Kill

(Kill Rock Stars) Used 2xLP $30.00

1994 comp with tracks by Tourettes, Cupid Car Club, Star Power, Boredoms, Helium with Bird of Paradise, The Spinanes, Team Dresch, Mukilteo Fairies, Severed Lethargy, Rancid, Free Kitten, Universal Order of Armageddon, The Peechees, Starpimp, Pell Mell, Smog, Kathleen Hanna, Star Sign Scorpio, The Hattifatteners, Grouse Mountain Skyride, God Is My Co-Pilot, Fifth Column, Fleabag. Includes bonus seven-inch

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Rock’s Role (After Ryoanji)

(Art In General) Used CD $20.00

Responding to John Cage’s musical translations of the famed Japanese rock garden Ryonanji, the audio works in this exhibition are installed in a novel way to create an aural environment in which the pieces can be heard both individually and simultaneously. The speakers from which the sounds are broadcast are arranged to visually mimic the stones and space of the garden. Like the garden, which cannot be viewed in its entirety from any one point, Rock’s Role offers a separate experience from each position within the gallery. Tracks by Andrew Neumann, Barbara Held, Bernhard Gál, Brenda Hutchinson, Damian Catera, David Galbraith, David Matorin, Ed Tomney, Future Remix, Gabriel Burian-Mohr, John Hudak, Maggi Payne, Masahiko Sunami, Michael J. Schumacher, Mike Hallenbeck, Rilo Chmielorz, Ron Kuivila, and Stephen Vitiello. From 2004

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Rope Buns and Clucking in the Streets Volume Zero

(Bike) Used LP $45.00

NZ comp from 1995 with tracks by C.U.N.T., Scratch, Meat Market, Cannibal Sex Kicks, Polio, E Haw, Dog Tooth Violet, Surplus Sons of a Factory Nation, Froit Head, Master Cheese Maker, Paranymph, States of Hate, Ashvins, False, Livids, Foisemaster. Double-sided poster cover

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Rubbed + Blown

(Nur/Nicht/Nur) Used CD $10.00

Claus van Bebber and Ron Schmidt’s well-constructed schizophrenic duet in five parts touches high-energy free jazz, isolationist noises, musique concrete, a barrage of droning, barely-changing synthesizer sounds decorated with a sprinkling of ugly samples, and conceptual art. Paul Hubweber gradually metamorphoses small cells of notes, via an ensemble of brass instruments and signal processing, into a dense slab. Another piece begins with homemade brass and deliberately clumsy edits, giving way to junk sounds and the virtual ambiance of industrial noises. Hubweber’s more minimal “Ab + Auf,” performed by a live ensemble, combines slowly sweeping drones with filigree solo-istic gestures. Metal box with inserts.

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Second Sixty Second Compilation

(Coat-Tail) Used 7-inch $3.75

One-minute tracks from 1996 by Band Of Susans, Borbetomagus, Amy Denio, GodHeadSilo, Mr. Velocity Hopkins, Evan Lurie, Ruins, The Scissor Girls, Slam, Xerobot

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Sidereal Rest

(Scratch - #21) Used CD $5.00

1996 comp with tracks by Paste, Thee Crusaders, Melchor, The Extra Glenns, Roughage, Mark, Blaise Pascal, Good Horsey, Refrigerator, B.C. Scar, Loren Mazzacane, Sun City Girls, Kathleen Yearwood, Bügsküll, Pork Queen, Caroliner Rainbow Splinter Mine Deserves, Staked Plain, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Noggin, Payment

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Slurped Too! More Original Brainfreeze Flavors

([ no label ]) Used 2xLP $22.00

The second bad-ass, groove-loaded collection of the rare 45s used by DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist on their Brainfreeze performances in 2000. From hard and raunchy drum breaks to feel-good bounce, here are tracks by American Gypsy, Stu Gardiner, Third Guitar, Frankie Seay & The Soul Riders, Soul Lifters, Interpretations, Pearly Queen, Sugar Billy Garner, Eddie Bo, Wilbur Bascomb, Original Soul Senders, Donpierce, Funka Fize, Simtec & Wylie, Samson & Delilah, and Giorgio. Sealed

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Slurped! Original Brainfreeze Flavors Vol. 1

([ no label ]) Used 2xLP $40.00

The first bad-ass, groove-loaded collection of the rare 45s used by DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist on their Brainfreeze performances in 2000. From hard and raunchy drum breaks to feel-good bounce, here are tracks by Fried Chicken, Salt, Singing Principal, Eddie Bo & Inez Cheatham, Thunder & Lightning, Nu-People, Reuben Bell, Pleasure Web, Gary Byrd, Mack Rice, Marlena Shaw, Odetta, 7-Eleven, Rufus Thomas, Lou Courtney, and Alvin Cash. Sealed

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Sonic Chimp Vol 1

(Sealed Hotel) Used LP $40.00

Boston / Providence compilation from 1996 with tracks by Teddy Fire, Major Morgan, Neptune, Kitty Power, Bicycle Experiment, Charlie Dold, Trollin Withdrawal & Rock Paper Scissors, Waliamsport Area Community Symphony and Chorale, Bob Starker, Greg Hahn, Friends of Homeschoolers, Gerty Farishm Discombobulated Ventriloquist, Ostomy, Fear of Reprisal, Pendulum Floos, Wackass Bitch, Anoia, Orinoka Crash, Glemun, Nancy Andrews, Larry Marshall, John Davis, Silkscreened and paste-on artwork, with 32pp booklet

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Sonic Circuits V

(Innova) Used CD $8.00

Orchid Spangiafora’s ‘Radios silent’ (raw and untreated, spliced and looped radio broadcast samples), Michael Schell’s ‘Jerry Hunt: Song Drape 2’ (taped telephone conversations), Katharine Norman’s ‘Hard Cash (and small dreams of change)’ (snippets of taped interviews juxtaposed with other processed sounds), Lawrence Fitts’s one-minute spoken text by Australian sound poet Chris Mann), Colby Leider’s ‘Veni Creator Spiritus’ (heavily processed Hilliard Ensemble source material), Robert Normandeau’s ‘Le Renard et la Rose’ (drawing on vocal samples of the actors from Odile Magnan’s radio adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince), Eirik Lie’s ‘112 Par Sko (112 pairs of shoes) and Beatriz Ferreyra’s ‘Soufle d’un petit Dieu distrait’ (giving the impression of voices embedded within) and Beatriz Ferreyra’s artificial electronic sound. From 1997

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Sonic Circuits VII

(Innova) Used CD $8.00

“Jose Halac’s ‘The Breaking of the Scream’ (emotional exorcism through Argentinean folk song), Mario Verandi’s ‘Figuras Flamencas’, Thomas Gerwin’s ‘Rollenspiel (which turns your head into a roulette game), and the cavernous ambience of Christina Agamanolis’ Aftermath’, Mark Applebaum’s ‘Dead White Males Remix’ (a ProTools hatchet job on Applebaum’s existing orchestral work), Mike Frengel’s ‘Long Slender Heels’ (a Zorn-worthy slab of post-rock foot-fetishism, Timothy Oesau’s ‘Angola du Sons’ (to be played “at a volume slightly below permanent damage”). From 1999

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Sound File 001

(Sound Channel) Used 2xCD $20.00

Breakbeats, dub, IDM and techno from Tokyo 2001 by Dol-lop, Riou, Akio Nagase, Taiyo, Phaedra, Numb, Maya, Jebski, Key of Knowledge, Juzu, Tomoki, Understars, Toru, Takayuki Shiraishi, and Gaxi & Zen

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Sound Storing Machines – The First 78 rpm Records from Japan 1903-1912

(Sublime Frequencies) Used CD $15.00

Tracks by Suenaga Togi; Toyosawa Heikichi; Azumaya Kamanosuke; Sumako of Shinbashi; Uehara Sakima, Takahashi Kiyokusa and Fukushira Kado; Yanagiya Kosan; Mimasuya Kachigiri; Umewaka Manzaburo and Umewaka Rokurou of the Kanze Noh School; Nokiken Hanadou; Shimeiju of Yoshiwara; Takemoto Sumitau, Toyozawa Danpei and Toyozawa Sennosuke; Takemoto Haruko Tayu, and Toyozawa Shinzaemon; Toyozawa Shinzaemon and Inoue Satokishi. Sealed

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Soundtrack For The End Of The World

(Self Abuse) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

1994 tracks by Native X, Taint, Con-Dom, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, Macronympha, Haters, Aube, S·Core, Skin Crime, Diesel Guitars, Violent Onsen Geisha and Thomas Dimuzio. In manila envelope with color images affixed

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Soundtracks

(Arf Arf) Used LP $5.00

1987 comp with tracks by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Erik Lindgren, Pink Inc.

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Space is No Place – NYC Noise from the Underground

(Psych-O-Path) Used CD $3.00

2003 comp with tracks by Flaming Fire, No-Neck Blues Band, Axolotl, Centuries, Jesus With Me, Enos Slaughter, Electric Putas, Mouth US, Sighting, Naturally, Terrestrial Tones, Breast Fed Yak, Mountains of Mata Llama. Las Malas Amistades.

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Space is No Place – NYC Noise from the Underground Volume 2

(Psych-O-Path) Used CD $3.00

2005 comp with tracks by Aeo & Anderegg, Tuba Mirum, Spaceman, Beard-O, Check Bettis & Toshi Kojiwara, Lucerne, Verbalala, Chaw Mank, Cocaine, Squaw, Tan as Fuck, Jah Division.

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Speed Kills Bonus Phono Record Issue 7

(Speed Kills) Used 10-inch $3.00

1995 fanzine comp with tracks by A Handful of Dust, Flying Saucer Attack, Back Off Cupids, Portastatic

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Sub Pop 200

(Tupelo) Used CD $15.00

Tracks from the late 1980s by Tad, The Fluid, Mudhoney, The Walkabouts, Terry Lee Hale, The Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Green River, Nirvana, Steven Jesse Bernstein, The Fastbacks, Blood Circus, Swallow, Chemistry Set, Girl Trouble, The Nights and Days, Cat Butt, Beat Happening, Steve Fisk, The Thrown Ups. UK edition.

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Taking A Chance on Chances

(Troubleman) Used LP $5.00

1998 comp with tracks by Red Monkey Atom & His Package, Small Black Pig, Monorchid, Bilge Pump, Assembly Line People Program, Missy X, Russia, Bette Davis & The Balconettes, Old Hearts Club, The Peechees, Sally Skull, Young Pioneers, Milky Wimpshake, Computer Cougar, Tunic, Replicants, Witchknot, Full Boney, International Strike Force

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Taking The Pulse Of The World's Musics

(London Musicians' Collective - RES7.2) Used CD $10.00

Released in 1999 with UK magazine Resonance volume 7, number 2. With Phil Tanner; Margaret Barry, Robin Williamson; Hal Rammel; Muzsikás featuring Márta Sebestyén; William Ingosi Mwoshi; John Wynne; Reite Villagers; Marfa Rastarguev, Sergei Rastarguev, Sasha Berioskin, Tim Hodgkinson & Ken Hyder; Surreal Estate; and George Hunt.

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Tard & Further’d

(Siltbreeze) Used CD $5.00

Tracks by Halo of Flies, Gibson Bros, Monkey 101, V-3, The Dead C, Alasitair Galbraith, Sebadoh, Queen Meanie Puss, Mike Rep & The Quotasm Terminals Guided By Voices, Thomas Jeffereson Slave Apts., Shadow Ring. From 1997

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Taste Of Wild West 3

(Wax) Used CD $25.00

Tracks by UFO or Die, Incapacitants, Omoide Hatoba, Solmania, Angel’in Heavy Syrup, Boredoms, Hijokaidan. No obi. From 1990

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Taste Test #1

(New Alliance) Used 2xLP $10.00

1998 comp of live recordings from Splat Winger’s Brain Cookies show on KXLU with tracks by fIREHOSE, Deborah Exit, Roger Miller, Screaming Trees, Paper Bag, Cat’s Cradle, Brother Awest, Crimony, Lawndale, Skinhorse, Overpass, Always August 5UUs, D. Boon, Wanda Coleman, Question Mark, Red Temple Spirits, Universal Congress Of, Abominable, Freshly Wrapped Candies, D. Boon and The Stone Puppies.

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The Accelerating World

(Pinch A Loaf) Used CD $10.00

1996 comp with tracks by Richard Ramirez, Lab Rat, Solid Eye, Crawl Unit, Bastard Noise, Fin, Nihil, Speculum Fight, Blow Hole, Spastic Colon, Crib. In box with paste-on artwork, twine-bound inserts.

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The Basement Recordings - Live At Cicero's

(On The Clock) Used CD $5.00

Live comp from 1997 with tracks by Grifters, Promise Ring, Avail, Gnomes Of Zurich, Delta 72, Sugar Plant, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Old 97s, Blast Off Country Style, Lazy, Prisonshake, Kevin Drumm / Darin Gray / Jim O'Rourke, Flying Luttenbachers, The Cows, Bunny Grunt, Starfish, 90 Day Men, Castor, You Fantastic!, Space Streakings, Coctails. Sealed

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The Bone Tickling Nightmare Pig — An Exercise in Futility

(PsychoChrist) Used CD $3.00

“Devotees of dadaist brain-scramble in the mode of Nurse With Wound and early Negativland are keenly advised to lend an ear to this delicately titled compilation from 2004, featuring several Richard Rupenus-related projects as well as a nice cross-section of post-industrial non-generic probings.” With Cybercantautores de Mierda, Erek Gita, Mixed Band Philanthropist, Plethora, Observe I, Nequanquam Vacuum, WaZu, Anomali, Broken Penis Orchestra, IDX1274, Komafuzz, Anakrid, Forms of Things Unknown, Gate 33 & DKD Girl, and Snma. Includes feathers

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The Christmas Album

(Sony) Used CD $20.00

1996 comp with tracks by Hair Stylistics, Melt-Banana, Secret Chiefs 3, Gastr Del Sol, SxOxBx, God Is My Co-Pilot, Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, Merzbow

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The East Village Other

(ESP-Disk') Used CD $8.00

A collage / montage in celebration of Hiroshima Day 1966 featuring The Velvet Underground, Marion Brown, Allen Ginsburg, Peter Orlovsky, Tuli Kupferberg, Ken Weaver, Steve Weber, Scott Holt, Ron Jackson, Ishmael Reed, Gerard Malanga, Ingrid Superstar, Plastic Clock Radio, Andy Warhol. Sealed

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The Frog Peak Collaborations Project

(Frog Peak) Used 2xCD $13.00 (Out-of-stock)

Short pieces based on a 66-second soundfile of text written and read by Chris Mann, resulting in a massive and varied voyage through the voice and its transformations by Roger Alsop, Rick Rue, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, Han-Earl Park, Adam Silverman, John Phillips, Warren Burt, Ebony Hack, Rainer Linz, Lulu Ong, Carter Scholz, Kent Clelland, Ashley Scott, Tim Prezzano, Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Doug Michael, David Wardle, Paul Doornbusch, Lawrence Fritts, Ernie Althoff & Graeme Davis, Fernanado Iazzetta, Nick Fortunato, Petri Kuljuntausta, Roger Dean, Steven Miller, Jon Nelson, Trojan Theatre, Brian Belet, Mickey Helms, Paul Posasa, Bob Pearson, Paul Luevano, Ted Apel, Paul Dibley, Ricardo Dal Farra, Philo T. Farnsworth, Huk Don Phun, Maggi Payne, James Bohn, John Richey, Joseph R. DeFazio, Arun Chandra, Herbert Brün, Herb Jerchers, Mark Porcaro, Larry Polansky, Charles Grafton Hawthorne, Tyler Speedboy Kingdom, D’Arcy Philip Gray, Steven Curtin, Kristine Burns, David Fenech, Peggy Madden, Alessandro Fogar, Dennis Miller, Timothy Horrigan, Douglas Repetto, David Hirst, Akira Rabelais, Andrew Bucksbarg, Eric Lyon.

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The Human Breakdown Of Absurdity

(Carnage Press) Used CD $10.00

Four selections from Beat Of The Traps (Carnage Press 1992), plus 25 gems that are new to this compilation. Like other amateur and outsider art that has been reclaimed -- from thrift-shop paintings to ditties by schizophrenics -- MSR Madeness Vol. 3 can make observers think twice about what, if anything, separates naïveté and ineptitude from inspiration. Sealed.

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The Insane Box

(Vinyl on Demand) Used 4xLP + 7-inch $85.00

1980s cassette culture classics, obscurities and unreleased material from Alain Neffe’s I Scream, Bene Gesserit, Subject, Human Flesh and Pseudo Code. Two-track EP includes newly recorded, mixed and produced songs by Bene Gesserit. No T-shirt.

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The Last House On Dead End Street

(Vombis) Used LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)

After decades of languishing in the cryptic haze of shabby bootlegs, the soundtrack to Roger Watkins’s sleazy horror magnum opus from 1977 achieves the grand debut it deserves. Comprised entirely of tracks from the legendary KPM Music Library, the soundtrack is a unique blend of haunting experimental terror electronics—the pure atmospheric embodiment of the film’s oppressive ominous vibe. Since none of the music is credited in the film, it has taken years of independent fan research to compile the complete electronic soundtrack. Library music aficionados had to identify each music cue by ear based solely on encyclopedic knowledge of the vast KPM discography. The fact that this identification succeeded all the way down to the exact source of synth sound-effects from the infamous vivisection sequence is a testament to the maniacal obsession this film breeds in its fans. For this vinyl-only release all tracks have been sourced directly from KPM’s archival master tapes, exposing the full dynamics and penetrating intensity. As an added bonus, some of KPM’s masters run longer than the versions that they originally issued on LP and are included here in their complete expanded form. Astounding and sinister gems from the mythic underworld of British 1970s avant-garde electronic music including Delia Derbyshire, David Fanshawe, Ron Geesin, Alan Hawkshaw, Eric Peters, and Lewis Stern.

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The Nature of Systems

(Carbon) Used CD $3.00

Mesmerizing 2000 compilation of compelling outer sound exploration by Arthur Doyle Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, Andy Gilmore, Charalambides, Finkbeiner, The Golden Calves Eskimo Time Band, The Flying Luttenbachers, Burlap, Pelt, Joe+n, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Nod, Mick Turner, Sheet, Sq, Bardo Pond, Karl Precoda / Mike Gangloff, and Pengo.

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The Rebirth Of Fool Volume 1

(Dual Plover) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tracks by Menstruation Sisters, Deano Merino, Justice Yeldham And The Dynamic Ribbon Device, Sabrina, Mu-Mesons, Volvox, New Waver, Scratch My Nose, Flash Moustache, Bass Herd, The Supercute Bye Byes, Dj Smallcock, Merzbow, Faxed Head, Runzilstern And Gurglestock, The Faxed Head, Ostomy. From 1997

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The Rebirth Of Fool Volume 2

(Dual Plover) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tracks by Vivi, Melt-Banana, Funky Terrorist, Damien Gooley, New Waver, Sweden, Stacey Longbottom and The Tops, Sister Gwen McKay, Spasmodics, Kitchen Poofter, Ethan Walls, SA3, Golden Device, Jobs Daughters, DElire, Mute Freak, Bradbury, Simon Abulafia, M.O., Spanky, Toy Death, Meat Paste, Vocabularinist, Burner and Unknown Artist. From 2001

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The Rebirth Of Fool Volume 3

(Dual Plover) Used CD $14.25

Years of focus groups and market research went into the making of this perfect audio product for today’s consumer: the biggest load of shit ever, handbound in a 24-page gold-blocked book so fancy someone must have won Lotto. Dual Plover’s third installment in the series is one of their pearliest pearlers, their most impressively packaged and labor-intensive disc yet. So if you wanna dumb down between bouts of Xenakis and Cage — 7u? channeling Wesley Willis in an ode to Dual Plover; Fool veterans New Waver putting testimonials from mymiserablelife.com to music; songs of unrequited love wallowing in seedy Adelaide establishments; excerpts from instructional songwriting cassettes, absurd police tapes, and gay porn spoken in thick Australian accents — then this album is for you.

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The Rhythms Of Black Peru

(Secret Stash) Used LP $40.00

A collection of some of the most important Afro-Peruvian recordings in this obscure genre, rarely heard outside its country of origin, and not all that common within. Tracks by Eva Ayllon, Nicomedes Santa Cruz, Lucila Campos, Chabuca Granda, Carlos “Caitro” Soto De La Colina, Abelardo Vasquez & Cumanana, Peru Negro, Arturo “Zambo” Cavero. White and black splatter vinyl. QR code for downloading bonus tracks. Hand-numbered.

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The Wire Tapper 08

(Wire) Used CD $3.00

Previously released tracks by 23 Skidoo, Jah Wobble And Temple Of Sound, Cornelius, Fog, Goodheart Allen Powell Trio, Chas Smith, Michael Jon Fink, Murcof, Electrelane, No-Neck Blues Band, Set Fire To Flames, Workshop, Small Rocks, The Rip-Off Artist, Noxagt, Helvitis, Xinlisupreme. From 2002

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The Wire Tapper 10

(Wire) Used 2xCD $12.00

Tracks by Guido Mobius, Kim Hiorthøy, Polmo Polpo, Alias, Mice Parade, Faust & Dälek, Animal Collective, Colleen, Four Tet, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Themselves, Rob Ellis, Sketch Show, Loren Connors & David Grubbs, David Sylvian, Heat Sensor Featuring M Sayyid, Laibach, Susanna And The Magical Band, Günter Müller & Toshimaru Nakamura, Lumen, Clogs, Stafrænn Häkon, Satoru Wano, Sagor & Swing, Schlammpeitziger, Ui, Satanicpornocultshop, Jah Wobble, Erik Friedlander. Sealed

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The Wire Tapper 3

(Wire) Used CD $3.00

Previously released tracks by Supersilent, High Rise, Rothko, We, Gas, To Rococo Rot, Thurston Moore / Evan Parker / Walter Prati, Model 500, Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, Khan, Hood, Paul Panhuysen, Robert Ashley, Sheila Chandra, Void. Previously unreleased track by Rhys Chatham. from 1999

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The Wire Tapper 6

(Wire) Used 2xCD $8.00

Previously released tracks by The Fall, Flanger Bosco’s Disposable Driver, Susumu Yokota, Christian Marclay and Otomo Yoshide, Sensational, General Magic, Pan Sonic, Jan Jelinek, David Grubbs, Faust, John Fahey, Nils Økland, Djivan Gasparyan, Peanut Butter Wolf, c-schulz & hajsch, Pluramon. Previously unreleased tracks, versions, and /or mixes by Ran Blake, poire_z, HIM, Trio Hurricane +1, Angus MacLise, Glass Cage, Nurse With Wound, Coil, Janek Schaefer, Current 93, I-Sound, BitTonic & Si-Cut.db, Tom Recchion, Hermann Nitsch. From 2000

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Tibet: The Heart of Dharma — Buddha’s Teachings And The Music They Inspired

(Ellipsis Arts) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Four pieces recorded February, 1987 and March, 1988 in Tibet: Loseling Dratsang of Drepung Monastery (Geluk Order), Mundgod, Karnataka, India; plus another recorded at Khampagar Monastery (Drukpa Kagyu) in Kangra Valley, April 1981. With 64pp book

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Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan

(Sub Rosa) Used 2xCD $24.00

“For the rituals of the Drupka Order, the primary instrument is the long golden trumpet, along with various drums and percussion and a deep droning bass. Rather than soothingly meditative, the music, which can be a bit dissonant to Western ears, is chanted by 76 lamas and monks and played with long trumpets, shawms, cymbals, drums and other Tibetan instruments in sacred temples. The monastic music of Nyingmapa Order, recorded in a great fort-like monastery called a dzong, uses ethereal polytonal throat chanting, the long trumpets, shawms and percussion instruments.” Originally released in 1972 by Lyrichord as three separate records, t his 2005 reissue is packaged in a 56pp hardback book with liner notes, photographs, and musical illustrations by John Levy. Sealed

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Tiger Tongue Pussy Cactus Terminal Fantasies For Malefic Youth

(Hospital) Used LP $8.00

Tracks by Vegas Martyrs, Air Conditioning, The New Flesh and Coughs. Silkscreened cover

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Tinker Compilation

(Tinker) Used CD $4.00

Tracks by Pork Queen, Merzbow, Staked Plain, Climax Golden Twins, Blowhole, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Noggin, Superconductor, Deerhoof, Roughage, Twerdocleb, Maji, Trailing Arm. Hole punched in front cover. From 1996

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Tokyo Flashback

(PSF) Used CD $11.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tracks by Marble Sheep & The Run-Down Sun’s Children, High-Rise, Ghost, Fushitisusha, White Heaven, Verzerk, Kousukuya, Keiji Haino. With obi. From 1991

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Topography of Indefinite Impression

(Autopia) Used LP $25.00

1999 comp with tracks by Steven R. Smith, The Child Readers, Furrows in Plowed Air, Mirza, Northway, Id Battery, Thuja, L. Chasse, Music For Tunnels. Silkscreen folder, bent corner. Edition of 200

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Total Slitting Of Throats

(PacRec) Used CDR $8.00

Sixty-six minutes by Mania, Sewer Election, The Cherry Point, The Rita, Treriksröset, a “powerful minimalist deconstruction of the harsh noise object.” 2007 reissue.

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Town & Country #1

(Sedimental) Used 2x7-inch $3.00

Tracks from 1994 by Mud Pie, Amy Denio, Azalia Snail, Crawling With Tarts, The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet

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Transparent Tape Music Festival

(New San Francisco Tape Music Center) Used CD $10.00

2002 collection with tracks by Kent Jolly, Thom Blum, Cliff Caruthers, Ma++ Ingalls, and Joseph Anders.

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Trunculence

(No Part Of It) Used 7-inch $50.00

Fifty locked-grooves per side by Pornocane, Himei Koukotsu, Le Scrambled Debutante, Magic Is Kuntmaster, Black Leather Jesus, Crash Worship, Cock ESP. Dave Phillips, Anakrid, Cryptic Weeevil, Samuel Henry, Insect Deli, Robert Inhuman, The Machinist, Protman, Satanicpornocultshop, Dan Layne, Little Fyodor, Hiss, Faith, Fecalove, Splinter vs Stalin, Pereid, A Pink Cloud, Dead Peni, Mister Fuckhead, Sixes, Ophibre, The Electric Set, Wyrm, Pommel, IDX1274, Mutant Ape, Torturing Nurse, The Lonely Procession, Children’s Guide, Sid Redlin, Mr. California, Nurse With Wound, Amphibious Gestures, Indian Jewelry, Helios Creed, Rubber O Cement, Mykel Boyd, Warmth, Panicsville, Ortmann & Wiese, Cables, Sudden Infant, Crank Sturgeon, EaViL, Clayton Counts, Skozey Fetisch, Emulsion, Symbol Of Subversion, Death Factory, Infirmary, To Live And Shave In L.A. Red vinyl. Edition of 333 copies from 2008. In 10-inch jacket with inserts.

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UHF/VHF

(Relapse) Used 2xCD $5.00

1995 comp subtitled The Relapse Records / Nuclear Blast America And Release Entertainment 1995 Promotional Sampler, with tracks by Tribes of Neurot, Trial of the Bow, Mindrot, Exit-13, Love Like Blood, Malformed Earthborn, Dead World, Purge, Tearbox, Pica, Atrax Morgue, Namanax, Allegory Chapel Ltd, Smell & Quim, MSBR, Masonna, Amorphis, Sinister, Dismember, Morgion, Pyogenesis, Benediction, Abscess, Meshuggah, Mortician, Human Remains, Womb, Hypocrisy, Dissection, Doomed, Enemy Soil, Deceased

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Untitled

(Humbug) Used 2xCD $5.00

2004 comp with tracks by Galåen, Anders Gjerde, Ivar Grydeland / Øyvind Torvund, Continental Fruit, Düplo, Dag-Are Haugan, HOH, Dr. Poliakov Egseth’s Kvartett, This Is Music, Inc., Fredrik Ness Sevendal, ARM With John Hegre, Waffelpung, Duo Kanel, DJ Bra Nesegir, Vehiculos De Ocasion, Vår Venn Gitaren, Bogus Blimp, Fusel Music, The Nordic Miracle, UM & The Detonators From Hell, Marakel, Reidarwebster, Lasse Marhaug, Andreas Meland, Cosmic Jinx, Dadaistisk Danseensemble, Pål Asle Pettersen, t++, O. Melby, KA, Fibo-Trespo, Sindre Andersen, Two Shot Sons, Origami Arktika

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Untitled

(Freak Animal) Used CD $8.00

Late ’90s noise from CCCC (Hiroshi Hasegawa on Moog, Mayuko Hino on Theremin and electronics), Jalopaz (cellist Lisa Haglund and Alex Yusimov on electronics), and Alchemy Of The 20th Century (Mikko Aspa).

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Urban Revolutions

(Future Primitive Sound) Used 3xLP $10.00

Groovy, danceable hip-hop from 2000 with tracks by Aromadozeski Therapy, Faust & Shortee, DJ Zeph, Mammal, Tino, Presage, DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist, DJ Design, Rob Swift, J. Boogie’s Dubtronic Science, DJ Z-Trip, Stellar Trax Sound System, Space Travelers, Phonosycographdisk & Buckethead.

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V/VM Hate You

(Offal) Used CD $5.00

2001 comp with tracks by V/Vm, Devil Chan, Skkatter, Remi Moses, Alien Porno Midgets, Icon of Throat. Rap Parker snr, Gai-/Jin, The Caretaker. Billy Ray Cyrix, Manpal Inv. In ziplok baggie

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Vage Geluiden

(Meeuw Muzak) Used 10-inch $18.00

1997 comp with tracks by Ward Weis, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Af Ursin, RLW, Square Root of Sub, Repetitive Strain Industries, LOSD, AMT, Ultrasound, Mark Poysden, Roel Meelkop, Christoph Heeman, Peter Duimelinks, Rodolve Eb.er, Beequeen, Hyware, Odal, Kapotte Muziek, Astro, Govt. Alpha, Masonna, Aube, ASP, Schimpfluchgruppe. Clear milky vinyl. Edition of 300

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Waiting To Be Old

(Opprobrium) Used CD $16.00

Tracks by Musica Transonica, Bardo Pond, Mikami Kan and Toshiaki Ishisuka, Gate, Flaherty Colborne Duo, Thurston Moore, Richard Youngs, The Dead C, Alan Licht and NNCK, The Shadow Ring, Toho Sara, Flying Saucer Attack, Alastair Galbraith. From 1997

VARIOUS ARTISTS

We’ll Sail Out Too Far, Maybe A Little Too Far

(Apartment) Used 2xLP $25.00

1996 comp with tracks by Pumice, Continental Fruit, CC Nova, Origami Replika, Tabata, Small Blue Torch, Gom, Sandoz Lab Technicians, Thurston Moore, Del, Brother JT, Lasse Marhaug, Kjetil D Brandsdal and Martin Hewson, Slate, Slowburn, Osmose, Moonsocket, Jay Clarkson, Gitbox, Napkin vs Soda, Wio, Bingo Trappers, Plover, Sportsguitar, Echo Troopers, Furtips, Multisonic, Motorpsycho, The Mountain Goats, Mote, Tranquil Heart. Includes bonus seven-inch.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

What Is Truth?

(Panic) Used LP $50.00

1987 comp with tracks by Eugene Chabourne, Devil Bell Hippies, German Shepherds, Furry Couch, Research Defence Squad, Burden of Friendship, Hunting Lodge, Randy Greif, Chadbourne and The Hank Gonzalaez Orchestra, Phil Minton and Roger Turner, Gary Marks. Numbered edition 335/500

VARIOUS ARTISTS

What Is Truth? Volume Two

(Panic) Used LP $20.00

1988 comp with tracks by Violence & The Sacred, Blitzoids, German Shepherds, Randy Greif, Musica Menta, Furry Couch, Proof of Utah, Gary Marks, Eugene Chadbourne, Haters, Elizabeth Harper, Scott Marshall.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Wierd Compilation

(Weird) Used 3xLP + 7-inch $45.00

2006 comp with tracks by Silent Signals, Martial Canterel, Sleep Museum, A Vague Disquiet, Xeno and Oaklander, Flesh Graey Display, Tobias Bernstrup, Staccato du Mal, 2VM, Echo West, Blacklist, Column, Fanuelle, Diako Diakoff, Three To Forgotten, Opus Finis, Epee du Bois.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Wierd Compilation Vol.II : Analogue Electronic Music 2008

(Weird) Used 4xLP $35.00

Analogue electronic music that is synthetic yet organic and created through a symbiotic relationship between man and machine. The synth pop of Swedish performance artist Tobias Bernstrup is sung in stern, accented English about computers uniting against man. New York’s Xeno And Oaklander combine early industrial and minimal wave to eerie effect. Vendome, Led Er Est, Sleep Museum and Angel Of Decay chill the very marrow of your bones through various aural plans of attack. Includes a lengthy, full-size booklet that captures images of the bands and patrons of Wierd. Just as tantalizing to the eye as it is to the ear, fans of the abstract and the post-modern, early synth and contemporary noise should surely take note.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Wierd Presents: Cold Waves + Minimal Electronics 1

(Angular) Used 2xLP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)

Originating largely in small towns and isolated, non-metropolitan areas of France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and The Netherlands, as a raw, aggressive antidote to the superficial excesses of commercial new wave in the early ’80s, the artists here produce a new form of electropop that combines the sounds of German electronic bands of the ’60s and ’70s with early industrial bands of the UK. This 2010 comp anthologizes songs from ultra-rare seven-inches, lost radio sessions and cassette tapes by Absolute Body Control, Nine Circles, Linear Movement, Opera Multi Steel, Bal Paré, Eleven Pond, The Vylies, End Of Data, The Actor, Ausgang Verboten, Jeunesse D’Ivoire, OTO, Ruth, Stereo, The Neon Judgement, Land Of Giants, and Days Of Sorrow. Includes lots of previously unseen photos, extensive liner notes, free download card.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Wohlstand

(Human Wrechords) Used CD $6.00

1994 German Japanese noise rock comp with tracks by Melt-Banana, Zeni Geva, Space Streakings, UFO or Die, Merzbow, Ground Zero, Null, Ruins, Omoide Hatoba, Violent Onsen Geisha, Kissfreak Steven, Trickbeat, Knochengirl, Party Diktator, Sielwolf, Mutter, Fünf, Dead Chicken, H.P. Neidhart, Surrogat.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Woodlot Surer (Five Pieces 5)

(From The Same Mother - FTSM43) Used CDR $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Five one-minute tracks by each of the following: Chris Smith, Snawklor, Flies Inside The Sun, Keynote Speaker, Glands Of External Secretion, Undecisive God, Hi-God People, Green Beret, Jon Dale & Kynan Lawler, Lowest Common Denominator, Julian Williams, David Haines.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

World Record

(Alchemy) Used CD $15.00

1992 comp with tracks by Controlled Bleeding, Solmania, Nihilist Spasm band, Hijokaidan, Freudwerk, Merzbow, Borbetomagus

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Wänt.Comp.Uno

(Wäntage) Used LP $10.00

1995 comp with tracks by The Vi Tompson Overdrive, The Waydowns, Worst case Scenario, Hughes, The Irving Klaw trio, Clever, Te Teamsters, Jane Noël, Unwound. Hand-screened white chipboard fold-over sleeve. Sealed

VARIOUS ARTISTS

X-Plural US

(Mystra) Used LP + 7-inch $10.00

Tracks by Noise Nomads, Squidlaunch, Chris Corsano, Laudable Pus, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Shurt Kwitters, Bromp Treb, Chris Cooper, Head of Wantasquit, Bill Nace, Red Favorite, Viking Funeral, Avocet & Kurt Weisman, Aaron Rosenbloom, Matt Krefting, Lil Dusty Gastric Lavage, Jow Jow, Mirror/Dash Whyte Kastles, Slander Puff. Paste-on artwork on jacket front, block print on back. Includes seven-inch on clear vinyl, insert. From 2008

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Yllättäviä Kohtaamisia / Surprising Encounters

(Bad Vugum) Used LP $12.00

1995 comp with tracks by Can Can Heads, Brüssel Kaupallinen, Circle, Jimi Tenor & Harri Kupiainen, Jimi Tenor & Can Oral, Rastas, Worms. Epic ring wear on front

VARIOUS ARTISTS

You Can Never Go Fast Enough

(Plain) Used 2xLP $15.00

2003 comp with tracks by Sandy Bull, Will Oldham and Alan Licht, Alvarius B., Calexico, Wilco, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Mark Eitzel and Marc Capelle, Roscoe Holcomb, Suntanama, Giant Sand, Charalambides, Leadbelly, Sonic Youth, Cat Power, Roy Montgomery.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

You Gan’t Boar Like An Eabla When You Work With Turkrys

(Amarillo) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Tracks by Anton LaVey, Three Doctors Band, U.S. Saucer, Secret Chiefs 3, Zip Code Rapists, Dieselhed, Heavenly Ten Stems, Neil Hamburger, Charles Gocher, Zip Code Revue, Harvey Sid Fisher, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Faxed Head, Totem Pole Of Losers, Today’s Sounds, and Sun City Girls. From 1996. Sealed

VARIOUS ARTISTS

¡Cinco Años!

(Trance Syndicate) Used CD $3.00

1995 comp with tracks by A.C. Acoustics, Bedhead, Butthole Surfers, Cherubs, Crust, Desafinado, Drain, Ed Hall, Roky Erickson, Furry Things, Johnboy, Lowbrow, My Dad Is Dead, Pain Teens, Sixteen Deluxe, Starfish, Sweetpea

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Дичь Авангарда

(Insofar Vapor Bulk) Used CD $5.00

“Wilderness of avant-garde” tracks from 2001 by Roughage, Cisfinitum, The Haters, Erinys, Streicher, Kallibris, Arkkon And Membranoids, Leif Elggren And Alexei Borisov, E-Shak MMS, De Fabriek, Kapotte Muziek, Ultra Milkmaids And Alexei Borisov, Cotton Ferox, Nomuzic, Nocturnal Emissions Remix Psilocybeast, Vishudha Kali. Numbered edition of 500 in angle-cut digipak

VARIOUS ARTISTS

電子雑音-4 Compiletion

(ElektNoiz) Used CD $7.00

Tracks by Bastard Noise, Chop Shop, DSM, Farmers Manual & Shinichiro Okada, KK Null, Kiyoshi Mizutani, Klangkrieg, Lee Ranaldo, Leif Elggren, Spastic Colon, The Haters, Thurston Moore, Toy Bizarre, Veprisuicida. In card folder, with noticeable creases.

EDGAR VARÈSE

A Sound Spectacular

(Columbia Masterworks - MS 6362) Used LP $5.00

1962 pressing of the ruggedly magnificent Déserts (for orchestra and two magnetic tapes of electronically organised sounds transmitted on two channels), Offrandes (with vocalist Donna Precht), and Arcana. Performed by Columbia Symphony Orchestra.

VCSR

Tape #4

(Permanent) Used LP $13.00 (Out-of-stock)

Between 1978 and 1984 this collective recorded more than sixty reels of tape and passed around mixes on cassette to friends. Arp-2600, Korg MS-20, Rhythm Ace, Yamaha and Farfisa organs, guitar, ElectroComp synthesizers and various other keyboards and effects. Black vinyl. Edition of 350

NIKOS VELIOTIS / DAN WARBURTON

VW

(Absurd) Used CD $6.00

Cello and violin improvisations recorded live in 2001, reworked into two long electroacoustic pieces, with clicks, pulses, drones, sound manipulations, and samples. In over-sized, circular sleeve. Edition of 150

VENDOR REFILL

Sysreq

(Coredump) Used LP $2.00

Electronica by the chap from Weevil

VENOM

At War With Satan

(Earmark) Used LP $30.00

“Originally released in 1983, the third album by these thrash pioneers shows them at the height of their popularity and creative ability. This time the unholy trio were expanding their sound, kicking the album off with the brutal, side-long title track.” Italian repress from 2003. 180gram vinyl. Sealed

VENOM

Black Metal

(Earmark) Used LP $25.00

“Thrash with attitude and fire. It bears little resemblance to the black metal scene that would soon follow, but in its day, matched the heaviness of early Kreator or Bathory. A snotty, rude record that sounds good when you’ve had a lousy day at work and don’t want to be bothered.” Italian repress from 2003. 180gram vinyl.

VENOM

Possessed

(Earmark) Used LP $30.00

“The fourth album from Newcastle’s black metal pioneers, the last to feature the original classic line-up of Cronos, Mantas, and Abbadon. Thirteen tracks of devastating hell-on-earth metal mayhem. Wild.” Italian repress from 2003, with poster. 180gram vinyl. Sealed

VENOM

Seven Gates of Hell Singles 1980-1985

(Earmark) Used LP $30.00

“Excellent thrash lead vocals, rhythmic and harmonic melodies, fast riffs of solo guitars, deep gloomy bass, and fast drumming,” so says one of Amazon’s verified purchasers. “Some songs are speeded up rock’n’roll, thrash, and speed metal. A good mix of metal music for headbangers worldwide. I recommend this product to everyone.” Italian repress from 2003. 180gram vinyl. Sealed

VENOM P STINGER

Live

(Anopholes) Used LP $15.00

Corrosive, surly and feverish punk-rock from 1992 by Mick Turner on guitar and Jim White on drums prior to The Dirty Three, Dugald McKenzie on rumbling organ, and Alan Secher-Jensen on bass. The “impression of constant frenzy” is no accident; as White was quoted in Bomb Magazine in 2013, “the drums had to be in the DNA of the song, a way of fighting against the hegemony of strings and notes.” Green vinyl.

VERTICAL SLIT

Slit and Pre-Slit

(Smudge) Used LP $25.00

Reissue of Jim Shepard’s first ever release, originally privately pressed in an edition of 100 copies in 1977. “Like a bunch of his Columbus, Ohio compatriots,” explain our friends at Volcanic Tongue, “He osmosed the aesthetics of classic rock while intuiting the formal repercussions that would eventually cohere into the punk-primitive stance of the underground groups gathered around the Siltbreeze label…. The fidelity is basement perfect and the tracks run from creepy answering machine messages to charged sci-fi jams with tape effects, fuzz and phasing, channeling aspects of The Velvet Underground, Hawkwind and Simply Saucer…. [I]solated experimentation in the wasteland of the early 70s … one of the key founding documents of modern underground music, flawlessly conceived, massively addictive and singularly fucking weird.” Sealed

VERTONEN

HACE/26,250' b/w 11° 22.4'N 142° 35.5'E

(Misanthropic Agenda) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)

(Misanthropic Agenda) Used LP $11.00

Inspired by early explorations of extreme locations -- and the clash between the will of humans, the limits of their bodies, and the immutable laws of the natural world-the latter which can easily destroy both of the first two -- Blake Edwards’s primary device is a Russian Polivoks synthesizer. The “11° 22.4'N 142° 35.5'E” side (based on the 1960 dive by Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh in the bathyscaphe Trieste to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest known point on earth) mirrors the combination of analytic scientific preparation and calibration that the team did, and the inherent and unavoidable human concern of dying should anything go wrong. The “HACE/26,250'” side (named after High Altitude Cerebral Edema, which has the greatest potential for striking in the Dead Zone [26,250 feet], where available oxygen cannot sustain human life for more than three hours) is a soundtrack for a body closing down; heart rate slowing, blood flow slowing, everything once moist and carrying life slowly becoming brittle, dry, and unable to function due to duress. Edition of 200 copies, packaged in tip-on jacket.

VERTONEN

The Ocean Is Gone The Ship Is Next

(Groundfault) Used CD $4.00

Blake Edwards composed and recorded The Ocean Is Gone The Ship Is Next at Papin Sisters Studio in Chicago between 2001 and 2003, except for one track recorded live on WLUW. The audio terrain ranges from crunchy and dense sonic chaos to off-kilter rhythms to deep evolving drones, making plenty of stops between. Sealed

VERTONEN

We Had A Few Sprinkles Today But Not Enough To Help Out The Garden

(Crippled Intellect Productions) Used CD $4.00

Treatments and sound manipulation by Blake Edwards. Deep, subterranean ringing textures. Flanged croaks and other textures from a microscopic universe. Low register thuds and tiny sounds deep in the distance. Quiet, tortured sounds with high-frequency intrusions. Stuttering, panned samples and hollow dings, reminiscent of harsher noise at a lower volume, but with a swirling, almost psychedelic quality. Almost-musical loops heard through reverberations and audio grime. Sealed

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Dabbling With Gravity And Who You Are

(VHF) Used CD $5.00

Assembled from recordings of their weekly sessions in Michael Flower’s kitchen, the tracks here represent the joyous, celebratory side of the VCO — all forward motion, massed strings, percussion, horns, and little instruments rocketing in a swirl of sound, taking off from where the loose hippie-chant-and-drum action of collectives like Amon Düül intersects with the polygot instrumental approach of mid-’60s Sun Ra.

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Hollin

([ no label ]) Used CDR $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Companion piece to Lino Hi, recorded around the same time, and including two live sections. Comes in beautiful sleeve hand-painted and -assembled by Bridget Hayden.

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Hot Booty

([ no label ]) Used CDR $12.00

Excellent dense drones from 1999, complete with pipe organ, recorded in a squatted church in Leeds. Clear plastic insert inside standard jewel box

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Joka Baya

(VHF) Used LP $12.00

Shorter pieces on the A-side in a high-fidelity style contrast the dark, smoky sound of the rest of the tracks. The percussive grooves are overlaid with Sunroof!-like shimmer, stabbing electric leads, gentle acoustic rain, and droning organ peeking through at opportune moments. The roaring side-long epic on the flip is a droning, phasing slice of psychedelia with the drums of Sunburned Hand’s John Moloney battering the tape in between long stretches of humming stasis.

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Lino Ho

(Giardia) Used CD $7.00

“Possibly the perfect CD for anyone who wishes the intro to ‘Venus In Furs’ could last a lifetime,” according to Perfect Sound Forever. “ ‘Can I Put My Thumb In Your Pudding Please?’ sounds like the Art Ensemble of Chicago warming up for a bike race, but after that... wow! You’re thrown into a world where John Cale, Angus Maclise, pre-dipshit Sonic Boom, Elanora Romana, Terry Riley, The Seventh Sons, etc., all meet and climb a beanpole to the stars.”

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Long Live The Weeds

([ no label ]) Used CDR $7.00

Three rough-hewn chunks from 1999 and 2000, all recorded in front of actual members of the public at notable Leeds drinking establishments. Each track sees VCO augmented by additional members, including Sticky Foster, Matthew Bower, John Godbert, John Clyde-Evans and Ross Parfitt.

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Music For Red Breath

([ no label ]) Used CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Soundtrack for a film by NYC filmmaker Justin Allen, available at merch tables and via mailorder-only. Clear plastic front insert and metallic traycard in jewelbox

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

My Gate’s Open Tremble by My Side

(Lexicon Devil) Used CD $5.00

(Roaratorio) Used LP $35.00

Monolithic sheets of organic, repetitive drones that arch into quieter, more subtle territory, rhythms and grooves. A scorchful masterpiece.
CD is a 2004 reissue with three bonus tracks from the same sessions.
LP is from 1999, with painting and rubber-stamped art and text.

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Pontiac Lady

(VHF) Used 3xCDR $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

2003 tour document with live recordings from WMBR (Cambridge MA), Ecstatic Yod / New Grass (Florence, MA), Free 103 (Brooklyn NY), Orbits (Fredericksburg, VA), Carhole (Belchertown, MA), and Khyber Pass (Philadelphia PA). Edition of 300

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Ragged + Right

([ no label ]) Used CDR $15.00

Four tracks, self-released on the occasion of a live performance at the Holy Trinity Church, Leeds, in 2004. Cover is paint and photo on cardboard. Edition of 60

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Ridin’ Free / Captain Labour

(Eclipse) Used LP $18.00

Multi-layered live recordings from 2004. Microcosmic sound world. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 400

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Secret Base

(VHF) Used LP $12.00

Full throttle, straight into a raw-sounding live outing, with Mick Flower’s overdriven guitar occupying the same sonic space that gives his Japan banjo / shaahi baaja workouts with Chris Corsano their urgency. The sound is dark and rough, almost Xpressway-like in its claustrophobic atmosphere. The percolating krautrock stylings of “If You Can’t Smoke ’Em” chugs along hypnotically for over 13 minutes to close out the side. The entire B-side is devoted to the clanging free sound of “Eyes of Wood,” where gamelan-like metal percussion dominates.

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Smoke Song

(VHF) Used LP $12.00

Gentle exposition starts with Adam Davenport’s santoor (a type of hammered dulcimer) leading the band into a lengthy mid-tempo groove. The second side’s 17-minute “Get It?” lays down the tremolo and phase in a manner reminiscent of the best Spacemen 3 comedowns, taking a pulse and riding it into organ- and percussion-fueled bliss.

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Sun Balance

(Qbico) Used LP $25.00

Two side-long excursions from 2007 that “get the neurons firing,” according to Foxy Digitalis. “Manic, static, patient buzz. The guitars and toy instruments pile up on one another and create a dense foam, a musky lather. Demented church organ sounds drive headfirst and there’s even some percussion thrown in for a bit…. Vibracathedral Orchestra pulses, undulates and rides on a wave of sweet electric drone.” Green vinyl

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

The Queen Of Guess

(VHF) Used CD $6.00

Immense, visceral, rackety, upbeat and percussive, the nine tracks here run through a wide range of styles. “The Slient Socket” has a gamelan-like five-note melody overlaid with a hovering drone. “Magnetic Burn” is the band at its most rock, with “Sister Ray”-style guitar careening along side actual drums. The two twenty-minute epics that bookend the record are a study in contrasts: “Ramshackle Sunrise” has the heavy and excited buzz of the group’s frequent and unpredictable live shows, while the closing “Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air” is a gentler acoustic epilogue, gliding into the rosy future.

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Tuning To The Rooster

(Important) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

The first record by VCO using a 24-track mixing board “is music as a shamanic aid, made as much for the players themselves as for the listeners,” asserts Julian Cope. “The twelve-and-a-half minute ‘Wearing Clothes of Ash’ is like a piano-led Paradieswarts-period drone-a-thon with John Cale and Terry Riley guesting on viola and keys. Following this, the sublime ‘Baptism Bar Blues’ is proof positive that they can rock the riot house with pure adrenaline rush.”

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Untitled

([ no label ]) Used 10-inch $28.00

Stellar recordings of cosmic improv from 1998 recalling early John Cale. Silkscreen folder. Edition of 200

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Versatile Arab Chord Chart

(VHF) Used CD $8.00

Led by Neil Campbell’s sawing violin, tracks like “Wearing Quid Frock” and the epic “Japan Banjo” build up arcs of lingering overtones beneath an undercurrent of melody. They cut the drones with extremely effective bursts of near rock, in a style reminiscent of the Velvet Underground, circa 1966. The band’s combination of clattering percussion, droning strings, and considerable sense of where to put the “groove” on tracks like “Catching Loners With Blank Arms” makes them unique among their peers. Sealed

VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA

Wisdom Thunderbolt

(VHF) Used CD $5.00

A rocking dispatch neatly combining the Ra-like collage of the title track with the insistent jams of the pulsing “A Natural Fact” and “Order of the Broad Eraser.” More old-school VCO thick blanket of sound are “Ochre Dust” and “Rainbow Whirlwind,” tuned-percussion melody peeking out from the fog. Music by Mick Flower, Bridget Hayden, Neil Campbell, and Adam Davenport. Guest appearances by Chris Corsano, Pete Nolan, John Godbert, and Matthew Bower.

VIDEO NASTIES

Video Nasties

(Feeding Tube) Used LP $10.00

The debut LP by this band with strong connections to Strange Maine and AM Frank compiles material from their first four cassette singles and EPs, which seem to draw from British experimental synth punk from the late ’70s (early Human League, Tubeway Army, et al.), with a soupçon of Chrome and Suicide stirred into the mix, all of it leading (at least archeologically) toward bold splooge recalling Foetus and electronic-smudge confusion worthy of Wolf Eyes. Edition of 300

CARLO VINCI JR

Piper Of Dreams

(Century Productions) Used LP $40.00

Jazz fusion from 1979, with an audible sense of spirituality and belief in cosmic energy. A kaleidoscope of new age and experimental jazz. Sealed

VIOLENCE AND THE SACRED

Suture Self

(Freedom In A Vacuum) Used LP $10.00

Soundtrack to a video of the same name, assembled December 1987 by Violence and the Sacred and Tin Scab Productions, picking up where “Hamburger Lady” left off, with St. Deborah reading Penthouse letters and texts by William Burroughs, Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot.

VIOLENT FEMMES

Ugly

(Rough Trade) Used 12-inch $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

Bonus tracks and an album cut from one of the most distinctive records of early alternative. As everyone knows whether they want to or not, this raw, amateurish acoustic folk-rock trio was an addictive union of geeky, child-man and the tense jitters of hyperactive new wavers.

VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA

Black Lovers (Early Lost Tapes 1988)

(My Fiance’s Lifework) Used CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Far noisier than later efforts,” notes All Music Guide. “Brutal assaults of feedback, sometimes with distorted voices screaming ... suddenly veer[ing] to some sweet little pop melody for several seconds or even a minute before the electro assault drowns it out, or stolen bits of funk music or a quiet piano plinking…. There are plenty of abrupt transitions that VOG is known for, and their usual junk-culture-in-a-blender collage style becomes more refined as the CD progresses to less noisy tape collage that is more in the patchwork style of later albums.” With obi

VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA

Cry Baby Killer

(My Fiance’s Lifework) Used Cassette $100.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Something like this is probably being played in Satan’s waiting room,” muses a Russian incel. First edition from 1989, with painted sticker collage on plastic box. C46

VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA

Excrete Music

(Vanilla) Used CD $40.00 (Out-of-stock)

Bloated Slutbag “wouldn’t call [this 1991 disc] disturbing so much as surreal; very odd, and (then) very unique, when taken together with the total package of the artwork and project name…. However raw and punishing the sound, it is also quite well-composed, the hour-long disc flowing through a sparsely humored series of properly harsh episodes to achieve a very sound compositional whole.”

VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA

Midnight Gambler

(Pure) Used CD $10.00

Bleak Bliss’s right-on summation: “It starts. It stops. There’s part of a loungecore version of ‘Foxy Lady’. Some things get smashed up. That’s just the first two or three minutes.”

VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA

Nation Of Rhythm Slaves

(Rail Recordings) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Classic bouncy and unhinged VOG,” marvels Bleak Bliss. “I’m sure there is a bit of Consolidated in the first track, Japanese covers of Canned Heat interfered with, twisted easy-listening salaryman karaoke and other such senses of false security, and then you hit the middle section. From there it’s all ‘oh shit, here we go!’ ” In screen-printed box

VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA

Otis

(Endorphine Factory) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

“This is not an album as much as it is a musical collage [of] … pop culture nods and strange mash-ups,” asserts Female Trouble. “To call Nakahara just another noise artist is almost undermining his finely tuned ear for the absurd. One notable song that fairly represents his humor is a loop of the main guitar riff from Lenny Kravitz’s, ‘Are You Gonna Go My Way?’ combined with his signature frenzied screams and some bells and whistles to boot.”

VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA

Que Sera Sera

(Rail Recordings) Used CD $25.00

Noisy collages from 1995, according to a zine called The New York Times, punctuated by disco beats and a grab bag of sounds, songs and ideas that does not exclude the mooing of cows.

VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA

Shocks! Shocks! Shocks! Remix ’93

(Ring Music) Used CD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Sly and ironic, bizarre and sarcastic,” is how Bleak Bliss characterizes the 1993 reissue of Vanilla’s cassette from 1991. “Kitsch soundtracks and hippetty hop and blasts of disco and found sound and field recordings and spoken word and noise.” Includes a 23-minute bonus track “Anal Machine Music.” Sealed

VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA

U.S. Tour ’95

(Japan Overseas) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Three collaboration tracks recorded with Smegma, Trumans Water, and Thurston Moore, respectively. Heavy rock improv with incoherent screaming, keyboard / tape noise, atonal guitar, and electronics in all the places you’d expect to find ’em.

VIOLENT ONSEN GEISHA

Violent Onsen Geisha

(Bloody Butterfly) Used 3xCD + 3-inch CD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)

Material from Tenderly (My Fiancé’s Lifework 1993), minus three tracks and an edit of another; Wagamama No Ofukuro (My Fiancé’s Lifework 1993), minus one track; Cry Baby Killer (My Fiancé’s Lifework 1989), minus one track. Three-inch disc contains six Dynamite Masters Blues Quartet collaboration tracks. Color print affixed to silver bag.

VIRGINIA DARE

Six Songs

(Nuf Sed) Used 10-inch $5.00

“Over an off-kilter hybrid of country, blues and alternative rock, Mary O’Neil sings in a scratchy, deadpan voice about madness brought on by sexual and social confusion.” From 1993. Silkscreened folder

STEPHEN VITIELLO

Sounds Building In Fading Light

(Creamgarden) Used 10-inch $15.00

Late ’90s recordings inside the World Trade Center Towers and the sounds that could be heard from immediately outside the windows of the 91st floor. Released in 2001.

VOCOKESH

Ispepnaibara

(RRRecords) Used LP $15.00

“Killer Middle-Eastern influenced modern spacerock” from 1990 says Chad Kelsey, “using flanged / wah’d / phased / delayed guitars, pounding drums, propelling bass, and crazy-ass oscillators.” Splattered vinyl

VOCOKESH

Still Standing in the Same Garden

(Drag City) Used LP (one-sided) $7.00

Acid-guitar-driven heavy psych from 1992. B-side is etched

VOLCANO THE BEAR

Amidst The Noise And Twigs

(Beta Lactam Ring) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

This album pours slowly and resolutely like a folk-psych dream urn, loaded with full metal banjoes, crumhorns at 12 o’clock, and autoharps at DefCon 5.The experimentalism is couched in shifting tides of self-spun acidic harvest ballads that noisily well up into proto-Kraut thrums and tribal night trips around the pyre. A rural, squelchy, DIY delicacy which stinks of occidental embouchure so crystal crisp that every skkrrrr, pphaaapph and brrruuuummmm resonates like a small, sound-specific god, intertwined with beautifully skewed notes, voices and rhythms. Amidst The Noise And Twigs plays like a recently discovered field recording of an obscured Celtic clan who accidentally stumbled onto psychedelia 600 years ahead of its time. Gatefold jacket eight-page booklet. Sealed

VOLCANO THE BEAR

Classic Erasmus Fusion

(Beta Lactam Ring - MT092a) Used 2xCD $15.00

The strange geometry in Volcano The Bear's musique concrete lurks between celestial duck honks and what sounds like a flood in the living room. Disc number one births gently into a lo-fi-adelic Comus-like saline. Song becomes fever dream and then pitches into a barren place of low estate. With typical minimalist pageantry, VTB mutates from piece to piece: melodious tales are subliminally hooky, after a fashion, spiritual and surreal; quiet ritualism queues with dada and progressive harmonies, together on the same fractured, out world, sing-along journey. Disc number two crawls slowly from the echo-y ooze, grows legs and then presents a different, more dramatic creature. A long, shifting organ drone becomes a deeply psychedelic statement that bleats loud and strong like an acid bleached Spiral Insana or a sneaky This Heat.

VOLCANO THE BEAR

One Burned Ma

(Misra) Used CD $5.00

Primitive folk, art rock, and filmic sound sculpting made of crackling electronics, rumbling percussion, unconventionally played guitars, manipulated vocal noises, and distorted piano.

VOLVOX

Bad Earth

(Dual Plover) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

2002 CD reissue of the limited edition 1991 cassette from this Australian band whose lead singer’s brain injury and subsequent speech impediments (due to a fall through a plate glass window) flips the idea and purpose of uncomfortable electronics, ugly depression, and deep despair on their heads. Epic.

VOMIR

l’Homme Saturé

(At War With False Noise - ATWAR034) Used LP $30.00

Unbelievably heavy stuff, total claustrophobia and depressive nihilistic purity. A landmark in harsh noise wall. Edition of 300. Paste-on jacket.

STEVE MAXWELL VON BRAUND

Monster Planet

(Dual Planet) Used LP $20.00

Classic Australian proto-electronica from 1975, a big blast of Kosmische dust, Korgs working overtime by one half of infamous electronic duo Cybotron. With an almost jazz-y fluidity, this mutant electronic masterpiece is an early example of visionary Australian experimentation. Originally released in 1975 by Clear Light Of Jupiter, Dual Planet’s 2013 remaster from the original master tapes includes liner notes and rare photos.

VOTE ROBOT

Five Score Six Bicycle

(Catsup Plate) Used LP $12.00

The third album from Canadian electronic duo Scott August of French Paddleboat and Kevin Rivard continues of their hazy and homemade electronic blend of manipulated melodies, crackles, murk, warm tones performed with cut-up and re-spliced magnetic tape, hand-cut records, modified turntables, and assorted deconstructed and reconfigured synthesizers. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 300.

VOTE ROBOT

In Meorm Na

(Scratch) Used CD $6.00 (Out-of-stock)

Working exclusively with tapes, turntables, mixers, and analog synths, Scott August and Kevin Rivard stand apart from many electro experimenters; no laptops, no sequencers, no Pro-Tools, no drum machines, nothing high tech, or barely even a product of the 1990s present here. The key ingredient is the murky and essential intangible better known as “warmth.”

VÍZÖNTÖ

Villanypásztor

(Hungaraton) Used LP $15.00

A quietly influential, if not leftfield, mix of Old Central European and even older nationless European folk musics, népzene has moved Bela Bartok, Franz Liszt, and Martin György to toy with transforming its deep pentatonic melodies through all sorts of windy compositions. Villanypásztor (“Electric Shepherd” in English) by this Hungarian band whose name translates as “Aquarius” bridged another interesting gap by tying the fourth world aesthetic to the idea of a never-ending Hungarian folk tradition. This album from 1987 is full of originals with no adapted music, just “contemporary music for the man of this age, a music seminal with its own message,” a Hungarian folk album that mines its past to marry it with a new electronic future.

TASHI WADA

Alignment

(Yik Yak - 018) Used LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

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.

WALDTEUFEL

Heimliches Deutschland

(Rautmann / Volkways) Used 2xLP $20.00

Members of Alraune and Crash Worship whirl into the realm of anachronistic, neo-pagan German folk music in this beautifully executed set of German volkische songs extolling Northern myths, traditions and mysteries. Markus Wolff sings and beats hand drums, while Annabel Lee rounds out the sound with violin, viola and accordion. Subtle synthesizer flourishes and limited studio effects help to transport the listener to the Black Forest ca. 1895. Guests include Michael Moynihan, a flautist on loan from In Gowan Ring, and other teutonophiles. Numbered edition of 400

BARRY WALKER, JR

Shoulda Zenith

(Holy Mountain) Used LP $18.00

Bypassing the lapsteel’s synonymy with lachrymose, innocuous rootzak, Shoulda Zenith goes on extragavant outward-bound tangents worthy of Sonny Sharrock

BRENDAN WALLS

Cassia Fistula

(Idea) Used CD $3.00

Angry noises and mechanical screw-ups derived from self-constructed instruments and electronic gadgets. From 2002

MATT WAND

Public Exe

(Dekorder) Used 10-inch $5.00

Played on game boys and few effect pedals only, these recordings were made in Manchester, Utrecht and at the Felix Kubin curated “nuit blanche” in Paris in 2003. While all the instruments are very small the sound definitely isn’t. This is high-energy electronic music reminiscent of early Suicide bootlegs or free jazz played on handhelds.

EDGAR WAPPENHALTER

Zingt Hendrik Marsman En Karel Van De Woestijne

(Lexie Disques) Used 7-inch $8.00

An elegiac, Spence-ish psychedelic journey into two texts by poets Marsman and van de Woestijne. Floris Van Hoof guests on synths

WARMTH

Warmth

(Arbor - 41) Used LP $10.00

Steev Thompson’s forgotten smog floats through a Northside basement. Sounds emanate but their source is totally unrecognizable. Quiet growing tonal blobs erupt into washes of aural color. Thompson and Branden Diven’s complete union of samplers, synths, vocals, guitar, organs, percussion, and electronics merge and abandon individual existence. This is a remixed and edited version of their CDR released by X Died Enroute Y in 2006. Yellow vinyl. Edition of 300.

MUDDY WATERS

At Newport 1960

(Chess) Used LP $15.00

The king of Chicago blues at his very best, shouting his music above the discordant wail Otis Spann, James Cotton, Pat Hare, and Francis Clay. MCA reissue from 1986 with promo stamp and price tag on back cover.

MUDDY WATERS

Rare And Unissued

(Chess) Used LP $10.00

Fourteen-song collection mostly dating from 1947-1954 MCA reissue from 1984

TOM WATSON

Country & Watson

(Leiterwagen) Used CD $4.00

Ambience and textures, new wave hooks, freeform guitar, complex finger-picking, and more, recorded between 1995 and 1998 by the ex-Slovenly guitarist just as he had joined The Red Krayola. Guests include Bob Mothersbaugh, Brian Christopherson, Diana Watson, Erik Bluhm, Gabie Strong, Lynn Johnston, Mayo Thompson, Stephan Prina. From 2000. Sealed

WEAVE!

Weave!

(Pacific Reasons) Used LP $4.00

Bizarre and blistering Afro-Pop crossbred with precise and chilly new wave from 2008 by Ivory Lee Carlson and Nicole Turley and members of The Centimeters and Bubonic Plague. A blast of femme-driven fervency. Clear vinyl

ASH WEDNESDAY AND FRIENDS

Love and Other Numbers 1980-1984

(Sorcerer) Used LP $25.00

The best tracks from Mr Wednesday’s early ’80s work: rare solo tracks, his collaboration with minimal-synth songstress Karen Marks (a demo version of her single, “Cold Café”), and multiple tracks by his coldwave synth-pop bands Modern Jazz, The Metronomes, and Thealonian Music.

WEIRD WEEDS

Hold Me

(Zum) Used LP $10.00

Vinyl reissue of this Austin band’s debut CDR (Edition Manifold 2004), the only recorded document of the original four-piece lineup that included Kurt Newman on lead guitar. Aaron Russell (Nitre Pit), Sandy Ewen (collaborator with Tom Carter in Spiderwebs), and Nick Hennies (percussionist who has performed with Jandek and Arnold Dreyblatt) explore the vast territory where banshee wails and the sounds of creaking doors sit comfortably next to bona fide pop hooks and beautiful chord changes. Edition of 300

WET HAIR

In Vogue Spirit

(Destijl - IND090) Used LP $5.00

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.

WETDOG

Frauhaus

(Captured Tracks) Used LP $4.00

The British trio’s concise sophomore album from 2009 “blows through 14 songs in less than half an hour, building tracks out of sinister, plucky bass rumblings, alternately bored and screechy vocals, and geometric rhythms,” explains Pitchfork, in homage to “percussive, atonal foremothers like the Slits, the Raincoats, and LiLiPUT.”

WHA HA HA

Wha Ha Ha

(Recommended) Used LP $13.00

Jazzy rhythms and squonking saxophone from three of the band’s original albums: Shinu To Ki Wa Betsu (Better Days, 1981); Geta Wo Haite Konacuha (Better Days, 1981); Live Dub (Better Days, 1982). Meticulously blended with laid-back dub synths, manic, often wordless female vocals, free jazz piano breaks, and percussive jiggery-pokery. From 1983. With insert

WHITE BOY AND THE AVERAGE RAT BAND

White Boy And The Average Rat Band

(Roach) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)

“Heavy and fuzzed-out Acid Archive proto-metal jammer that will satisfy heshers and rockers alike,” assures Roach about this masterpiece, apparently “the work of a lone dude from Virginia … [the] cover [depicting] four badasses spoiling for a rager” notwithstanding. Meanwhile, Acid Archives describes it as “speedy, not-quite-metal hard rock with a pulverizing distortion sound (to call it fuzz guitar is to understate it by a mile)…. [M]ostly … in-your-face blitzkrieg, and it's really great.” Rest assured, Siltblog comes to the rescue with the bottom line: “[W]ild as a peach orchard hog.” Sealed.

WHITE HEAVEN

Levitation

(Now Sound) Used LP $125.00

Jammed-out free blistering, backed with sinister drone rock from 1997 by Soichiro Nakamura, Ken Ishihara, Michio Kurihara and You Ishihara. #690 in a hand-numbered edition of 700. Sealed

WHITE HEAVEN

Strange Bedfellow

(PSF) Used LP $150.00

Classic West-Coast-style psychedelia and garage transmuted into a thrillingly direct collection that spans fuzz-drenched, driving rockers and smoldering numbers that fade into the night. First edition of 700 from 1992.

WHITE WINGED MOTH

I Can See Inside Your House

(Poon Village) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

Beautifully ringing guitar tones of organic-metallic origin, bits of piano, and occasional whispered vocals by Dean Roberts of the New Zealand improv / drone trio Thela, originally released in the mid 90s. Dreamsearch ambiance from the tape haze. Screen-printed, die-cut folio. glued photograph

WHITE WINGED MOTH

I Can See Inside Your House

(Poon Village) Used LP $11.00

Beautifully ringing guitar tones of organic-metallic origin from 1996 by Dean Roberts (formerly of New Zealand trio Thela), sounding akin to sweet electric string extrapolation worthy of Bad Moon Rising, with occasional whispered vocals, bits of piano and taped-haze. Hand-cut and silkscreened jacket. Clear vinyl

THE WHITEFIELD BROTHERS

In The Raw

(Soul Fire) Used LP $65.00

Munich-based brothers Jan and Max Weissfeld killing it in 2002 somewhere between the cosmopolitan, the African-influenced, raw funk, and dirty soul.

WHITEHOUSE

Cruise

(Very Friendly) Used 2xLP $60.00

Good-sounding Bates electronics. Includes 16-page booklet of lyrics and information. Sealed

WHITEHOUSE

Great White Death

(Very Friendly) Used LP $35.00 (Out-of-stock)

2010 reissue of the notorious 1985 statement. Deft electronics that are nevertheless blunt as sonar, over-the-top lyrics and hysteria-compromised delivery that challenge endurance and question intellectual boundaries. Sealed

WHITEHOUSE

Halogen

(Susan Lawly) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

“The synths [on this1994 CD] are … awash in a sort of gauzy reverb that smoothes out the cleaner sound,” notices Brainwashed, “It is still by no means peaceful…, [with] ripping cloth synthesizers and explosions…, [and] warbling feedback…. [But] when the guttural, chugging synth and sampled Thai pop songs pop up, it is pretty placid…. ‘Dictator’ … is a low-frequency synth throb with piercing noise stabs on top, and largely indecipherable vocals shouted throughout… ‘The Way It Will Be’ … is a brief, melancholy ambient track with poetic, spoken words…, unlike anything else Whitehouse ever did, or would do again, which is one of the reasons it is so striking.”

KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN

22 Minutes For Electric Guitar

(Entschuldigen) Used 3-inch CD $8.00

Live / real-time guitar / computer synthesis from 2005. Dark, dynamic, monolithic.

KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN

Dartmouth Street Underpass

(Locust) Used CD $8.00

“Apparently, Keith Fullerton Whitman feels a … procreant urge to capture … brief moments of life that seem to be outside of ordinary reality,” surmises Pitchfork about the first volume in the Met Life Locations Sound Series from 2003. “In the Dartmouth Street tunnel that runs from Back Bay Station in Boston to Copley Plaza, a cavernous walkway lined with glass brick walls reflects the sounds of passengers and trains in such a way as to sound like music to his ears. We have utility doors banging, footsteps on a catwalk, some lost guitar reverberating down the walkways, the arrivals and departures of three trains, and all the percussive accompaniment of people running to make their transfers…. About five minutes in, this mechanized drone of trains disappearing down the tunnel coalesces into a heavy constant undertow of sound, swallowing up the guitar, passengers, and the approach of other trains, sustaining the snippet beyond its apparent qualities. What separates this material from the field recordings on the old Folkways label is that the raw sound taped by Whitman is conversely used to create a new piece, almost a reflection of the original sounds which are now bent and refracted through his eyes and ears. Whitman’s response piece runs nearly the same length as the centerpiece, and is remixed in real time, combining these elements along with some of the life sounds from where he was doing the remixing, on his front porch. Here, Whitman builds on the odd metallic train drone of the original with a harmonium-like resonance, washing everything out with a beautiful haze of generator buzz, becoming the thick air of the underpass itself, completely saturated in humid humming. He even lets the birds in the trees and the cars on the street make an appearance as the drone begins its gentle descent back into the everyday. Scribbled barcode. Sealed

WHO’S YOUR FAVORITE SON, GOD

Out Of Body Diva

(KDVS) Used LP $9.00

A record from 2006 that “fans the flames of hybridized (post) prog-swoggle and (proto) metal-mania like just about nobody else,” according to Siltblog, “ably combining the dramatic and operatic pretense of Magma with the cool, aggressive delivery of MX-80 Sound.” Orange vinyl

WHY ARE WE BUILDING SUCH A BIG SHIP

No Blood No Blooms

(Domino Sound) Used LP $15.00

“This nine-member group handles accordion, upright bass, banjo, bass drum, trumpet, French horn, sax, piano and euphonium, conjuring up woozy, New Orleans-style funeral jazz. A more modern reference might be the Decemberists, or even a less rambunctious, darker, more contemplative Pogues. Their jazzy, drunken, wandering minstrel cabaret style embraces horns that moan and bleat, accordions that wheeze. Playful, yet ominous and haunting, the gorgeous arrangements evoke cobblestone streets, cloudy-skied rain-soaked afternoons, shuttered buildings, and rolling hills of brown grass and tumbledown structures.” Silkscreened cover. From 2008

JACK WICK

Feel

(Thin Wrist) Used LP $8.00

This trumpeter living in Mexico City focuses on sound as it relates to specific spaces and in turn the subtle but profound connections they have to emotions and the body. On the surface, Wick’s side-long improvisations appear to be works of rigorous minimalism; on closer listen they reveal sounds that slowly but constantly shift and evolve. Texture and plosives replace melody and rhythm. Body and breath become indistinguishable from the instrument; the moment is stretched and expanded. Each sound is so closely linked that the player and listener are drawn completely into the present.

SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH / RICHARD YOUNGS

5 Years

(VHF) Used CD $8.00

Five ten-minute tracks recorded a year apart, all of which reflect the duo’s long-established signature mix of “real human” instrumental expression and explosive musique concrète sensibility. “2002” starts with several minutes of looped snippets building up subtle patterns as they slide in and out of phase, changing to a tremulous chord organ driven section. “2003” starts with a drastically filtered base of hand drumming, with full-on hand-on-the-knob tweaking, before giving way to an over the top fuzz organ solo that sounds like Mike Ratledge on 200 rpm. “2004” is a throwback of ululating Metallic-Sonatas-era noise. “2005” is based on electronically treated percussion, the sparest and most minimal track of the bunch. “2006” finishes where we started, with a baffling electronic test pattern drone that segues into a section of beautiful, weird ambience. Sealed

SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH

Butterfly Dust

(VHF) Used CD $8.00

A strikingly intimate solo performance on organ, voice, Peruvian reed, and Dijeridu, combining virtuosity and exploratory improvisation in gorgeous Australian dronescapes.

SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH / RICHARD YOUNGS

Enedkeg

(Majora) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

An ambitious collaboration from 1996, one of the duo's finest, exploring abstraction, the scary darkness of industrialized ambiance, and elusive spiritual vibes. They get there via otherworldly drones, tinkling floatation, sidereal hisses, hellish moans, cryptic tides, flashing metallic clangor, and organ-like drone.

SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH / RICHARD YOUNGS

Red And Blue Bear

(VHF) Used CD $3.00

A simple, charming children’s story (included in the 20-page color booklet) written, illustrated and, on the CD, performed by R!&S! Anglo-folky laments, bizarre improv, Casio madness, found sounds.

SIMON WICKHAM-SMITH

Two4dancin

(Celebrate Psi Phenomenon - 1006) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)

This 2004 disc explodes with exquisite textures capable of blissfully enveloping daily life and driving one’s neighbors batty. An infinite block-rocking beat melts into deep transparency, revealing a subterranean omniverse of Casiotone mantras, silicon chip psalms, and the mystical babbling of angels and derelict gutter drunks. Think Steve Reich, 50 Cent, and a Buddhist throat-singing Devo.

JOHN WIESE

Arrhythmia Wave Burst and Panner Crash

(Helicopter) Used 3-inch CD $2.00

Four tracks recorded live on the west coast 2004.

JOHN WIESE

Circle Snare

(No Fun) Used CD $4.00

Composed and realized during a European tour in 2008, Wiese scrutinizes his native tongue and vocabulary, and seeks new forms of grammar and cadence, as only extensive dives in unfamiliar waters can inspire. His given electronic anatomy of drum machine, microphones, tapes, and MSP break formation in this finely detailed album.

JOHN WIESE

Deviate From Balance

(Gilgongo) Used 2xLP $17.00

Sound installation recordings and scored works for ensembles of over 20 people; the lengthy list of collaborators (including Ikue Mori, C. Spencer Yeh, Evan Parker, Joe Preston, and members of Smegma and the Los Angeles Free Music Society, among many others). “Compared to earlier Wiese high points like Soft Punk, the palette here is wildly expansive, but it’s also more controlled,” note Dustin Krcatovich, “a remarkable feat given the sheer amount of unwieldy elements at hand.” Also includes audio documentation of installation pieces “Wind Changed Direction,” a four-channel sound piece presented in the garden of the Getty Center (curated by Liars), and “Battery Instruments,” an eight-channel piece presented at HSP in New Zealand, now heard for the first time.

JOHN WIESE

Magical Crystal Blah

(Helicopter) Used CD $4.00

“Harsh, ear-shredding noise most human beings will recoil at,” according to All Music Guide, “But the fast-paced action, the abrupt edits, the smorgasbord of sound sources and dynamic shifts all indicate that, while taking his art seriously, Wiese doesn’t necessarily aim at creating serious art…. The madman throws in snippets of free-form acoustic guitar, voice, rusty hinges, airplanes and gunfire, amidst tons of nondescript slabs of screeching noise and menacing hisses…. If anyone can provide proof that good noise music is more than just making noise, Wiese is that man.”

JOHN WIESE

Magical Crystal Blah Vol 2

(Helicopter) Used CD $3.00

Recycled music by Gerritt, KK Null, Christian Renou, Mike Schiflet, Panicsville, Raionbashi, Frieband, Damion Romero, Zbigniew Karkowski, and Joe Colley

JOHN WIESE

Soft Punk

(Troubleman) Used LP $20.00

“Collagist tendencies meet drone hyper-abilities; assaulting glitches and glissandos come buried between near silence and hair-raising volume; beauty is refracted through sonic brutality.” Pink vinyl

JOHN WIESE

Tumbler

(No Fun) Used LP $12.00

“Eternal acid rain slowly melting your skin away” from 2006, backed with “a metallic behemoth continuously punching from all directions.” Edition of 300. Generic centerhole jacket. Sealed

DAVEY WILLIAMS

Charmed, I’m Sure

(Ecstatic Peace) Used CD $8.00

1997 solo album by Curlew guitarist and longtime LaDonna Smith collaborator, showcasing his electric playing on the headless Steinberger guitar, and Beefheartian instant compositions that overdub multiple guitars and basses, a tobacco tin, a tape measure, and a cordless drink mixer. Sealed.

BERT WILSON & REBIRTH

The Next Rebirth

(Nine Winds) Used LP $7.00

“Nine originals by this fine avant-garde saxophonist and highly original improviser on tenor, alto, and bass clarinet, along with flutist Nancy Curtis, pianist Allen Youngblood, bassist Chuck Metcalf, drummer Bob Meyer and percussionist Michael Olson. “While fairly free in spots,” asserts All Music Guide, “the compositions each have their own personality, and some utilize swinging rhythms and chordal improvising. The highlight is the tenor/drums duet on ‘Speed of Light’.”

WIMEANACAS CAMBODIAN BAND

Wimeanacas Cambodian Band

(Little Axe) Used LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

Holica and Sovann Yoeun’s second album, originally released on cassette in 1987, is an amazing collection of Cambodian celebration music. All original numbers recorded by a ten-piece ensemble.

WINDOWPAIN INDUSTRIES

First Transmission Since The Collapse

([ no label ]) Used 7-inch $2.00

Two tracks of old-school industrial atmospherics by bass master Steve Abbate. Clear vinyl

WINDY & CARL

Drawing Of Sound

(Blue Flea) Used LP $40.00 (Out-of-stock)

The duo’s second album, from 1996. “Bassist Windy Weber’s vocals are agreeably breathy and kittenish,” observes a slightly stalkerish-sounding contributor to All Music Guide, who goes to liken “the gossamer haze of Carl Hultgren’s overdubbed guitars” to getting roofied by the Cocteau Twins. 232 in a hand-numbered edition of 600. Purple vinyl

WINGTIP SLOAT

Chewyfoot

(VHF) Used LP $7.00

In the style of Wire or Swell Maps, this mid-’90s debut splits devices such as verses and choruses into prickly shards of lyrical sound. Inventive, angular, occasionally angry, and yet possessing an offhand “catchy” charm that so many bands work hard to possess but can’t.” Paste-on art, rubber-stamped with silkscreen poster.

WINGTIP SLOAT

Half Past I’ve Got

(VHF) Used 2x7-inch $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

“A semi-coherent half-hour of head-bobbing angularitites, acoustic balladry with what sounds like dishwashing in the background, a Sun City Girls favorite, and hysterical self-indulgence.” Paper bag jacket with block print front and paste-on back. From 1992

WIO

I Can See Where I Am Now

(Slowball) Used LP $5.00

“The long-awaited debut of this Belgian prodigy” enthuse our friends at Kraak about this 1997 release, “a kind of greatest hits album…. Ingwio D’Hespeel’s voice reminds [us of] the Jefferies brothers, and it is wonderful to dream away [during] the instrumentals. Samples, loops, violins, a VPRO live track, drums, soft and hard guitars…,” while Popchild Magazine notices that on the pop side of the album, “short and fragile songs of acoustic guitar [are] crushed by whispered and smiling voice,” whereas on the more chaotic side” — not experimental, but libertarian — where a violinist named Violinator “meddles where he can and the melodies … fade slowly … startle quickly, and at times … shine through their absence.” Silkscreen folder

WIPERS

Is This Real?

(Park Ave. Records) Used LP $40.00

Twelve songs of stabbing, jittery guitar, snapped vocals, and unabashed teen angst. 1987 edition on clear vinyl. Does not include printed innersleeve.

WIPERS

Over The Edge

(Braineater) Used LP $60.00

The band’s bleak, hard-driven third LP offers Greg Sage at his most chased and breathless — jagged, effortless guitar lines, paranoid lyrics, raw-throated vocals, and taut, unified rhythms. 1983 edition, red labels with black text.

WIPPO

Wippo

(Manmade) Used 10-inch picture disc $4.00

Choppy, quirky new wave from 1980 by multi-instrumentalist Kenny Jacob. One track was featured in the movie Homework. In stickered, clear-PVC sleeve with a cardboard lyrics insert. Artwork by Mick Haggerty

WIRE

Send Ultimate

(Pink Flag) Used 2xCD $15.00

This retooled edition of Send, the album Wire recorded between 2000 and 2003, when the band worked on new music for the first time in a decade, expands the frame around the album by adding rare and previously unheard material: both sides of 12 Times U; unreleased curiosities such as the exercise in hyperkinetic dancefloor lunacy that is “DJ Fuckoff”; tracks from the first two Read & Burn EPs and alternate versions of Read & Burn 03 tracks. Sealed.

WITCYST

..Tick..

(Crawlspace) Used 3x8-inch (lathe cut) $50.00 (Out-of-stock)

Muffled lullabies, creepy atmospheres, low-fi skree, tape manipulation, found sounds by this prolific New Zealand recluse. Handmade LP-sized sleeve constructed from duct tape, collage, spraypaint. Sealed.

WITH LUMPS

Lumps For Lovin’

(Never Come Ashore - NCACD1) CD $12.25

(Never Come Ashore - NCACD1) Used CD $6.00

Named after a mishearing of the lyrics to “Got To Have Loving” by Don Ray, Lumps for Lovin’ documents Glasgow residents Fritz Welch (on percussion, amp, voice, electronics) and Neil Davidson (on guitar and amplifier) collaborating in the studio and live with Helhesten, Maya Dunietz and Liene Rozite (Muris). A fusion of batshit blustering mayhem with a precision normally associated with micro house, adumbrated by just a hint of adolescent breathlessness, this surprisingly danceable disc synthesizes noise and acoustic improvisation into a gurgling diaspora of juice.

GERRITT WITTMER

Infernal Devices

(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00

From 2007. Paste-on photocopy jacket. Edition of 123

GERRITT WITTMER

Space Level Blaze

(Misanthropic Agenda) Used CD $3.00

“Psych-out acid noise. Stardust, inhalation and electric fire evidence in the wake of smoke and strobes. Meticulously deranged by John Wiese.”

WOLF EYES

Slicer

(Hanson - HN100) CD $11.00

(Orion Read) Used LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Deep stuttering bass, high streams of electronics, rugged tape manipulation, horns, glass — just an enormous spectrum of sound. The calm intensity of John Olson, Nate Young and Aaron Dilloway’s wildly bizarre sonic experiments and masterful compositional moves contain some of the most minimal programming in their catalog while the editing and mastering are nothing short of inspired.

WOLF EYES

Wolf Eyes

(Bulb - BLB069) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)

An early Wolf Eyes artefact, from a pre-glam era when it was owned and operated by the duo of Aaron Dilloway and Nathan Young. Loved for its knowing glances to Throbbing Gristle, admired for its Suicide innuendo, revered for its sinister, stripped down, lo-fi atmospheres.

WOMAN’S SKIN

...Is Seen Through...

(American Tapes) Used CDR $6.00

Electronics by John Olson. Hand-burned and –scribbled upon Sony disc. #3/40

WOMB

Womb

(Eclipse) Used LP $4.00

Improvised free jazz from San Diego 2004 featuring Josh Quon (Upsilon Acrux, Children of Gauhd), Derek Bailey collaborator Christopher Williams, Ray Raposa (the Castanets), Dan Bryant (Skaters), Ilya Monosov, Connor Kirkwood and Gabe Sundy. Edition of 200

WOMEN IN TRAGEDY

Total Fucking Romance

(Music Fellowship) Used LP $5.00

Kneeling over a vast array of distortion pedals and processors, Bob McKully pipes in synthesizers, guitars, and screams to create thick, harsh loops, walls of sound, woeful depravity and doom, deafening buzz and crumble.

WOODEN SHJIPS

Tour Of Australia and New Zealand March 2010

(Sick Thirst) Used 7-inch $10.00

“What Is It” backed with a cover of Snapper’s “Buddy.”

WOODEN SHJIPS

Wooden Shjips

(Holy Mountain) Used LP $20.00

“Tight-wound repeato psych guitar raunch” from 2007, says Siltblog, “With spoony (maybe even imaginary) percussion, surprisingly Rev-like keys, and vocals buried under burning driftwood.” Sealed

PETER WRIGHT

Desolation Beauty Violence

(Ikuisuus) Used CD $4.00

A very personal take on environment and landscape recorded in England 2003, using a 12-string guitar and a handful of effects to illustrate an instrumental journey through the human detritus of city living juxtaposed with a wistful remembrance of pastoral isolation, its author torn between a desire to be part of a larger community and a need for space and solitude. 8pp card jacket

JACK WRIGHT

Open Wide

(Recorded) Used CD $8.00

Marvelously chaotic, sometimes jarring and rock-inflected series of improvisations with various combinations of players including Thomas Ankersmit, Dan Breen, John Dierker, Neil Feather, Andrew Hayleck, Katt Hernandez, Keenan Lawler, Christopher Meeder, Evan Rapport, and Jason Willett. Recorded at the High Zero Festival 2001. Sealed

KARMICIEL WSZY

Tamán Shud

(Inyrdisk) Used CDR $4.00

This fresh spirit from Pulawy, Poland, crafts dark ambient spells and impenetrable whorls of foggy nocturnal environmentalism in tribute to the mystery of the unknown man (all of the tags on his clothing had been removed) who was found dead on Somerton Beach, Australia, in 1948. Inside a secret pocket of the man’s clothing on a page torn from the Rubaiyat was written the great book’s final phrase “tamém shud,” meaning “finished” in Persian). Numbered edition of 30.

WZT HEARTS

Heat Chief

(Hit-Dat) Used CD $3.00

“This Baltimore quartet searches for transcendence through repetition and incremental adjustments, and they find it during their most processed moments — long, humid, sustained tones and almost desultory, lagging, melodic progressions. Static drenched in echo cascades over the circled drum patterns; ghostly drips fall as their gradually echoed pings of sound bounce down different registers, their colors changing as they gradually fade. Heat Chief’s third movement rises, dark and ugly, all toms and guttural noise, while the fourth and final is the complete opposite, morning light gradually filtering into a cave.” From 2006

XTC

Oranges And Lemons

(Virgin) Used 3x3-inch CD $12.00

In this detail-rich opus from 1989, Andy Partridge and company loosen themselves up; as the cover implies, they were going to be gaudy and colorful and nobody was going to stop them. Oranges & Lemons lets everything hang out and boasts one of the band’s best songs (“Mayor Of Simpleton,” about as good as pop music can get), while “Chalkhills And Children” realizes Partridge’s lifelong dream of writing a timeless “Good Vibrations” of his own.

R.H.Y. YAU

The Hidden Tongue

(Groundfault) Used CD $3.00 (Out-of-stock)

Eight collages, varying in tone and dynamic. “A long, minimal, whispery drone will suddenly be followed up with machinery sounds or a sliced-up section of sample. More aggressive than John Watermann’s work (which is the obvious comparison), but at the same time not as thick….Most of the noises and samples are unidentifiable, ranging from miniscule snatches of conversation to pipes being dragged across knurled metal to harshly-distorted drum machine like noise.”

DESCENSION YELLOW SWANS

Descension Yellow Swans

(Three Lobed) Used LP $18.00

“A slow, bleating descent with the feeling of depressed restraint. Noise bursts grow to dominate the mix. Ominous electronic buzzing textures cast a dark shadow that would go great with a dose of recreational painkillers.” From 2007

DOUBLED YELLOW SWANS

Global Clone

(PacRec) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)

Five previously released cassette tracks: from Declawed Yellow Swans (Tone Filth); from Skaters split (Jyrk); from Sex With Girls split (DeathBombArc); two from Damage Yellow Swans (23 Productions). Sealed

DOVE YELLOW SWANS

Live During War Crimes #3

(Release The Bats - RTB038) Used CD $7.50 (Out-of-stock)

Dark, sinister live recordings from the band’s 2006 European tour, released in 2009. Five dense, desperate, and bleak tracks loaded with trashy dark rumblings and a feeling of complete coldness. Sealed

DEMOS YELLOW SWANS

Live In The Police State Capitol

(Weird Forest) Used LP (one-sided) $8.00

“Very satisfying slow-spook electro and guitar creep that can turn into outright noise-gush on a dime” from 2004, says Blastitude.

YO LA TENGO

Ride The Tiger

(Coyote) Used LP $40.00 (Out-of-stock)

The debut album from 1986 by this long-running trio of Velvet Underground and Kinks devotees sticks to Schramm-powered sharp-edged jangle that favors melodicism and noise. Immediate and unforced, produced by Mission Of Burma’s Clint Conley. Clipped corner.

YOGA

Megafauna

(Holy Mountain) Used LP $12.00

Sinister frailty, howling swells, and hissing static that combusts into crawling shock heaps, to the effect of Mayhem performing Twin Peaks incidentals in a prairie recorded by The KLF. A brief description casts them as black metal’s answer to Throbbing Gristle. The texture-based rendering of their compositions sails them on a strange sea between song and sound effect as it bobs along the waves like a dead man’s bottled message. Aspects of Goblin rehearsals in dead hills is interrupted as Monster Zero carves mountain sides with lightning breath. Oscillating leads pummel into churning riffs as if “Caledonia” was performed in an echo chamber near Lodi, New Jersey. The extrinsic properties of this work may result in disambiguation. Sealed

MICHAEL YONKERS

Circling The Drain

(Nero’s Neptune) Used LP $8.00

Eight tracks of solo improv on severely altered Steinberger knockoff guitar, recorded on a high-speed four-channel cassette machine, further manipulated during mastering. This is the “noise” record that Yonkers aficionados who have witnessed brain-scrambling, all-instrumental performances have been hoping for.

LAMONTE YOUNG

Der Zweck Dieser Serie Is Nicht Unterhaltung, Vol. 1

([ no label ]) Used 2xCDR $100.00

Drone, strident minimalism, noisy Fluxus performance, obsessive repetition. Excerpts from: Day Of The Antler [The Obsidian Ocelot] (1964); For Brass (1957); Poem For Chairs, Tables, Benches, Etc. (1960); Bb Dorian Blues 28th63 (1963); Early Tuesday Morning Blues (1963); Tortoise’s Dreams And Journeys (1966); Well Tuned Piano (1964)

LAMONTE YOUNG

Der Zweck Dieser Serie Is Nicht Unterhaltung, Vol. 2

([ no label ]) Used 2xCDR $100.00

Noisy Fluxus performance, electronically generated sinewave, percussion work, classical Indian raga and the teachings of Pandit Pran Nath. Excerpts from: Drift Study VIII68 (1968); Map Of 49’s Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery (1966); Volga Delta 23 (1959); 13/73 (1973); Rag Bhairava (1960); Soundtone Installation 27-72 (1972)

RICHARD YOUNGS

Advent

(Table Of The Elements) Used CD $4.00

Privately issued in 1988 in a batch of 300, the 1997 reissue of this uncompromising, highly-individualized work earned a spot on Alan Licht’s “minimalism top 10” list. The primary distinguishing characteristic of the 41-minute composition, divided into three segments, is a hypnotic, two-chord piano figure that pulses with limited variation. In Part I Youngs makes his approach wielding only his plaintive vocals, repeatedly pleading “don’t fall apart,” in a manner that suggests he’s not directly addressing anyone outside his own skull. The heavy artillery comes out in Parts II and III, where extensive surgery (without an anesthetic) performed on a diseased oboe or two, conjures unearthly noises from every sector of the instrument’s established range and beyond, until he finally resorts to a full frontal electric guitar assault that unleashes rapturously anarchic sheets of sound, filling the air with red sparks as Youngs sharpens and bends all his blades in a futile attempt to overtake the unyielding piano.

RICHARD YOUNGS

Sapphie

(Oblique) Used CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)

The 1998 fifth solo album by the man described by a sensitive romantic at Melody Maker as “grand-meister of contemporary British improv, spiritual son of Eddie Prévost and Maddy Prior; gentle manipulator of English hymn-notics and religious incantations … poet-seducer of souls.” Classical guitar and voice that fans of reclusive sages like Nick Drake, Anne Briggs and Robert Wyatt will appreciate.

YUAN

Yuan

(Oblivion Music) Used CDR $8.00

Four spacious and evolving improvisations by Dean Moore, Michael Shannon, Robert Horton, Edward Guerriero, with guest appearance by “Yoko’s Thai wind chime.” Described by Shannon himself as “a crossroads meeting. nothingness time. process-ion. breeze, light drifts. ancient fusion.”

Z'EV

Rhythmajik

(Small Voices) Used CD $6.00

ENORE ZAFFIRI

La Voce ed il Sintetizzatore

(Rossbin) Used CD $10.00

Founder of SMET (Studio di Musica Elettronica di Torino) in 1964, this pioneer of multimedia, electronic and ambient music used electronic instruments to find new musical perspectives based on a structuralist principle derived from Euclidean geometry. In these works from 1973 to 1988, the Arp synth meets the voice Ellen Kappel.

ZAHGURIM

Moral Rearmament

(Atonal) Used LP $40.00

The first and only vinyl release by Temple Ov Psychick Youth associates Paul Ackerley and William Vince, recorded in October 1984 (pre-Left Hand Right Hand), is “a seriously dank industrial blister with chilling, bare bones drum machines and dubbed-out, headless voices.” Original 1985 German pressing.

AHMAD ZAHIR

The King Of ’70s Afghan Pop Volume 3

(Pharaway Sounds) Used 2xLP $17.50

Psychedelic-flavored folk-pop by the voice of a once-modern Afghanistan. Organ, wah-wah guitar, tablas, spaghetti-western trumpets, effects and, of course, Zahir’s luxuriant voice. The label behind this 2012 reissue is donating a portion of the profits to CASDAH, a Catalan organization working for the preservation of women rights in Afghanistan, FYI.

ZDRASTVOOTIE

III

(Holy Mountain) Used LP $10.00

“Ornate sound-castles created with guitars, bass, drums, sax and Drew Adams’s inimitable vocals. The high point is Portland’s kings of angular progressive songcraft’s masterful take on the folk standard ‘Golden Ring Around the Susan Girl,’ which sounds like it was filtered through Sonny Sharrock’s Black Woman.” Silkscreened folder. Insert. Edition of 350

ZEITKRATZER

Noise \ ... [Lärm]

(Tourette) Used CD $25.00

With the heaviest of the heavy: Masami Akita, Zbiniew Karkowski, Dror Feiler. Real surrealistic music from 2002 composed in a non-musical way. Noise as the primitive and collective consciousness of music. Expanding perceptions. Intuitive molten metal brutality. Evolved, individually perfected performance techniques, the musicians’ rapport with electronics and technology and their hybrid background experiences that extend from improvised to contemporary art music, from jazz to experimental rock and pop, from noise to ambient. Sealed

ZENI GEVA

Nai-Ha

(Skin Graft) Used LP $25.00

Former Boredoms guitarist Tabata joins K.K. Null for fine ultra-heavy Japanese guitar rock. “From the ferocious kamikaze-drummer attack of ‘Autobody’,” writes Korperschwache, “To the closing hightone mayhem of ‘Terminal Hz’, a jagged roar of rumbling noise, windlike guitar, and lumbering drums that sounds remarkably like a slow-motion earthquake, the three-piece band (augmented by Steve Albini on ‘Angel’ … ) alternates between bludgeoning the listener into submission and tossing out unexpected surprises…. [I]t’s hard to believe that there are only three people in the band, and no bass at all…. Null’s decidedly unorthodox guitar playing ranges from slow-motion death plod to dizzying bursts of speed, and quite often his guitar sounds like some demented transmission from another world far beyond our solar system.” Includes one-sided “Superhunt” twelve-inch. Sealed, hole-punched

ZERO KAMA

The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H.

(Permis De Construire Deutschland ) Used LP $110.00

“All instruments to be heard on this album were exclusively made from human bones and skulls.” 1985 pressing, a re-release of the 1984 cassette on Nekrophile.

ZIAMALUCH

V8

(Flipped Out) Used LP (one-sided) $20.00

Side-long drone influenced by La Monte Young, from 1998. Black and red spraypaint front, V8 juice label pasted on back of repurposed jacket (Jefferson Airplane in this case). Edition of 200

ZIAMALUCH

Ziamaluch

(Flipped Out) Used LP $12.00

“Twenty dense minutes of one guitar flipping from amp to two-dollar box in a small room of sweet tile.” From 1987. Photocopy pasted on repurposed jacket (in this case Jim Croce).

ZONE NORD

Roferon A

(Pure) Used CD $8.00

Incredibly heavy, grit-flavored textures from 1995

ZOVIET FRANCE

Digilogue

(Soleilmoon) Used LP $50.00 (Out-of-stock)

Analogue and digital sources broken down until they sound like neither. Hypnotic pulsations, secondary harmonics, fogs of haze and steam, dizzying echoes, shorted-out audio plugs, fossilized birdlike squoinks, electronic loops, galloping metal horses, intermittent trumpet bursts, snatches of quiet drums, and other creepiness from the mid 90s. Clear vinyl. Hand-numbered edition of 801. Sealed.

ÉTANT DONNÉS

Tapes 1977–1983

(Vinyl on Demand) Used 6xLP + DVD $150.00

The Hurtado brothers’ sound works are constructed through the manipulation of natural sounds, varying the velocity and intensity of the recordings, and the cutting and splicing of tape. The early brutal collages here investigate nuances of sounds that at times verge upon silence. Etant Donnés’ total audio expression uses belches and punches, with attention concentrated on the symphonic, cacophonic organization of disorganized found sounds. All material is previously released on cassette: La Vue (Bain Total 1981), l’Opposition Et Les Cases Conjuguées Sont Réconciliées (Bain Total 1981), l’Etoile Au Front (Bain Total 1982), Ceux Qu'on Aime - Ce Que Je Hais (Bain Total 1983), Cinq Portes Soudees, Les Cents Jours Clairs (Bain Total 1984). DVD collects live performances from the last three decades. Numbered edition #294/600

ÚNACD

Long Lut De Bélemnite

(Prométhée) Used CD $5.00

This French group — Eric Cordier, Christophe Grosos, Jean-Yves Delamer / JYD, Mélina Doudoux, Luc Thiburs, Lionel Thiebaut, Vincent Legrand, Patrick Sorel, Vincent Vivien — centers its variable geometry on the crossroads of electroacoustic, industrial, and improv, while also remaining open to the influence of plastic practices such as engraving, photography, performance, sculpture, sound environments, oulipo… Housed in an LP-sized ten-page booklet with information and photos. Cardboard CD sleeve is affixed to the last page of the booklet. Slight creasing. From 1992