Mamo Waves
(Bulbous Monacle) LP $20.00
Named after a West Coast grocery store chain, this eccentric mid-’80s band drew on free jazz, The Velvet Underground, Caribbean music, and improv noise. Their sole self-released album Roast Belief (Bogden 1985) served up eclectic derangement on a par the Butthole Surfers, Meat Puppets, Sun City Girls, Tuxedomoon and Eugene Chadbourne. Originally planned for release by Camper Van Beethoven’s Pitch-A-Tent, Mamo Waves is every bit the mind-melting jumble of the unheralded genres that popped in and out of existence like subatomic particles, and belongs to the same 1980s Californian sub-underground aesthetic that nurtured mythical ’80s bands like Departmentstore Santas and Prominent Disturbance. It’s a real WTF m.o. that still sounds like the future.
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
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
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
(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
... Against The Odds
(Unwucht - UN03) 2x7-inch $14.00
Six previously unreleased tracks of simian stomp, recorded live to half-inch tape in 1993. A planned seven-inch remained unrealized and the reels took a nap for seventeen years until Unwucht came to the rescue. Hand-photocopied gatefold sleeve, with a color postcard. Edition of 295.
3 Toed Sloth
(Slothful - SLOTHFUL1) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sharon and Andrew began playing together in Sydney in 1987; in early 1989, Tom from Feedtime joined them on drums for three years or so, during which they played twenty live shows and self-released this album in hand-screened jackets. They ran out of steam after jacket number 400 was done and forgot about the leftover platters, until recently, when they were found in a box under a friend’s house. Just under two decades is a long enough rest by almost anyone’s reckoning, so they fired up the screens and finished what they started. So, back story out of the way, why does this record make anyone go apeshit? Because it's “Aussie mongoloid stomp with a real thick air of psych damage, and even some sleazy horn movements,” as Negative Guest List has stated most emphatically.
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
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
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.
Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
(Thin Wrist - TW-J) LP $19.00 (Out-of-stock)
Wooden Bag (Other Music 2015) was all forward momentum, stomping and shaking, but Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock explores percussionist Rick Brown’s long-standing interest in odd and “compound” meters, enhanced by guitarist Che Chen’s modal investigations and melodic / harmonic tendencies. Reinforcements include Cheryl Kingan of The Scene Is Now on baritone and alto saxes; Andrew Lafkas of Todd Capp’s Mystery Train on contrabass; Karen Waltuch of Zeke & Karen on viola; Rolyn Hu of True Primes on trumpet; and Carey Balch of Knoxville’s Give Thanks on floor tom. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2016.
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
(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.
Concord
(Corpus Hermeticum - HERMES001) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
1993's no-fingers-on-the-strings opus, aka the free noise barrage heard 'round the world.
The Eightness of Adam Qadmon
(Ikuisuus) LP $21.00
Vinyl reissue of this 1994 Corpus Hermeticum cassette, a recording which Jon Dale says draws him in “for its utterly unique, acroamatic sensibility…. [C]ollective and solo eviscerations from the heart of sound itself.” Made when Bruce Russell and Alastair Galbraith were still formulating the “idea of A Handful Of Dust … through experimental practice. Some of it worked better than other bits, but it all made sense as a collage of sound, pointing in the direction of freedom.” Edition of 200
... 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
Live In Nickelsdorf
(Roaratorio - ROAR32) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
The heavily textural, frequently perplexing, sometimes unsettling music of Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet), Sharif Sehnaoui (acoustic guitar), and Raed Yassin (doublebass) bears little relation to its cousins from similar outer realms of extended technique. Live In Nickeldorf is the sound of a collective ur-mind that favors the long gesture over pointillistic strokes. Using no electronics or overdubs whatsoever, the Beirut-based trio’s capacity for generating aural illusions is astounding; one would be hard-pressed to identify their sources as three acoustic instruments. Includes download coupon. Edition of 350
Gone Aiwa
(Siltbreeze - SB150) LP $16.00
Together for a short period in 1983, Above Ground was a fleeting yet crucial component in early ’80s Christchurch DIY. Bill Direen (Vacuum, Bilders), Carol Direen, Maryrose Crook (Max Block, Renderers) and Stuart Page (Axemen) combined a detached Velvet Underground vibe, a smattering of early Modern Lovers keyboard angst, and some kind of Sky Saxon / Seeds psychedelic mojo. Originally a made-to-order cassette, Gone Aiwa was no stranger to the shelves at various NZ shops and tables at the occasional gig; other than two tracks ("To Kill A Bat" and "Gray Goose") that saw the light of day on The Bilders' retrospective Max Quitz CD (Flying Nun 1993), it's a near-certainty that everything here in previously unheard by little ol' you. Includes download card.
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
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
Accident du Travail
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD4) LP $15.00
Twenty-four minutes of Ondes Martenot recordings by Julie Normal (Cradle of Smurf) and Olivier 2MO (Cheveu). Maximal repeatable sound beauty, “somewhere between the lilting decay of Discreet Music and the disorientating phantom flirt of Maryanne Amacher's Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear)” according to Doug Mosurock. “It's an impressive, subdued work, and anyone looking to end their evening on a restful comedown should look within.”
Bacteria Cult / Actuary
(Vomitcore) split 7-inch $7.00
Dark, haunting strangeness from Bacteria Cult, who put the "uuuuuul" back in peculiar. This experimental group features Chris Dodge (Despise You, Lack of Interest, Spazz), Kevin Fetus (Fetus Eaters, Lack of Interest), Eddie Nervo (+Dog+, Destroy Date, Final Solution), and Jay Howard (Circuit Wound, Wire Werewolves). The Los Angeles based Actuary made a big impact on our comrades at Dead Formats: "Really intense noise ... full of hatred.... I felt a little ill.... It sounds like someone is being stabbed and tortured.... It's brutal in a way that nothing will ever be brutal again. This is horror." Blue vinyl.
Freak Hallucinations
(Obfuscated) LP $11.50 (Out-of-stock)
An eighteen-minute track from Merzbow and three tracks of face melt from Actuary, with vocal work by Chris Dodge and Fetus K. Colored vinyl (a smokey mix of black and white), gatefold jacket, two-sided art by Fetus and Akita.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Aika
(La Scie Dorée - SCIE608) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Aged beauty and deceptively casual cinematic visions by Timo van Luijk. Piano, saxophone, drums, percussion, the voice of van Luijk’s grandmother, extra hiss and crackles evoking ritualistic mood swings and skeletal pulsations. Edition of 400.
Trois Mémoires Discrètes
(La Scie Dorée - SCIE912) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Three introspective instrumental compositions performed on English horn, flute, percussion, double bass, and Hammond organ, recorded and mixed by Timo van Luijk. Stripped-down with slow-moving sounds, less layering, nearing modern classical music more than drone.
AFFLICTIS LENTAE / AUSTRASIAN GOAT
The Austrasian Goat / Afflictis Lentae
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR047) split 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
One track each of machine-gun, blasting, old school black metal. First in a series of split 7s.
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.
Agathocles / Sissy Spacek
(Ultra Eczema - UE77) split 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first in Ultra Eczema’s year-long series of monthly 7s in which anything goes: from the acid of Pierre Elitair to the mincecore of Agathocles or a prank by Frieder Butzmann. This one has ten songs by each band: Agathocles (raw, muffled, gruntly, painful, fast) drills holes in your skull and pours in a cocktail of ass-grinding diarrhea recorded during a rehearsal before a tour of Mexico; Sissy Spacek shaves off your nose and eyelashes with Gerogerigegege-style noisecore (a brutal slap of preparé right there). Fold open cover designed by Debby Tyfus, with lyrics, etc. 300 copies
Some Vague Desire
(Avant! - AV!045) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
This London-based duo draws on elements of English post-punk and French cold wave. The eight songs on their first full length combine angular guitars, lush and driven bass lines, hypnotic rhythms, and melodic croons.
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
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.
True Love Never Dies
(Bunkerpop - BP04) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
The historical footprint of this short-lived and little-known Dutch Messthetics post-punk band might have escaped detection were not for a self-released cassette in 1983, reissued here on vinyl for the first time. While the opening track hinges on the ululating yell of Tarzan, as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the film from 1932, it also explores themes of genocide, racism, the destruction of culture and the melding of totalitarianism and ignorance. With lyric sheet, photos, and notes from the band.
Live '418
(Holy Mountain - 17) LP $15.00
Controlled panic by this Tokyo trio who are sure to spike the tongues of all those who purport to talk about the rock. It is primal, punk, eerie, harsh, vicious psychedelic no wave from start to finish.
Love And Addiction
(One Point Life - LP01) LP $30.00
Composed in 1978 and originally released under the alias McDullan (Dharmakustannus 1997), Love And Addiction explores sex and drugs — rendered coldly and harshly, like two dinosaur computers conversing or Perrey-Kingsley on a bad acid trip, yet not without Airaksinen’s signature hyperactivity and off-kilter drones.
Mangala
(One Point Life - LP03) LP $30.00
“Everything ever released by Pekka Airaksinen is always worth a look,” our friends at Bleep remind us, “but this has completely blown our heads off…. Completely out of time with anything else around when it was originally composed [in the mid-80s], these five vast portraits of sound blend between new age dawdles to robust jazz improv. This is seriously deep listening that you can get lost in for days on end.”
One Point Music
(O Records - OROLP035) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
When The Sperm began to wither away in the early '70s, Pekka Airaksinen released One Point Music in 1972, a shining moment in his discography, characterized by a sense of improvisation and casual roughness that is rare in electronic music. Soon after he became a Buddhist and stopped releasing music for a decade. Regarded as a recluse, he returned to the public eye in the mid-'80s with a new but equally futuristic vision, exemplified by Buddhas of Golden Light (O Records 1984), an incredible mixture of Sun Ra’s cosmic free jazz and twisted rhythms programmed on a Roland 808 drum machine. Limited edition reissue.
Vertical Pillars
(One Point Life - LP04) LP $30.00
Electronic instrumental improvisational music inspired by mathematical information drawn from ancient texts. Rhythms are divided into four layers, to mirror the elements: earth (bass drum); water (tom); fire (snare); and wind (cymbal). Just as, according to Indian beliefs, Buddha is the pinnacle of human attainment, Airaksinen strives to create perfect rhythms that accompany the perfect life. Recorded in 1983-84, all tracks are previously released on limited-edition CDRs — three from Sugatas (Dharmakustannus 1997) and one from Jewel Comet (Dharmakustannus 1997).
Vitae Tennis Nest
(One Point Life - LP02) LP $30.00
Piano music composed and played in 1998 (notably influenced by Taylor, Tristano, Nancarrow, Stravinsky, Glass), in conversation with delay, resembling robotic baroque from the future.
Airway / Hijokaidan
(Harbinger Sound - HAS099) split LP $15.00
Released to coincide with the LAFMS retrospective in London. Legendary free jazz percussionist Sabu Toyozumi joins Jojo Hiroshige on guitar, Junko on vocals and Toshiji Mikawa and Fumio Kosakai on electronics on this live recording from late 2009. The maddest of LAFMS mad dogs feature Joe Potts, Rick Potts, Tom Recchion, Dennis Duck, John Duncan, Fredrik Nilsen, Vetza, Linda Pitmon and Aaron Moore on this live recording from 2009.
Live At Lace
(Harbinger Sound - HAS047) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Limited vinyl reissue of the ultra-scarce 1978 Los Angeles Free Music Society album. Mastered by Airway founder Joe Potts during 2006. This set is limited to 500 copies with a sleeve based on the Japanese export edition of the original, along the same lines as the previous CD edition. Contains a portfolio of live flyers, etc. 41 minutes of bliss that's nothing like the shorter, messed with version that turned up on the LAFMS 10CD boxset.
Short Fuse
(Alt.Vinyl - AV071) LP + CD $24.00
Paul Thomsen Kirk’s fifth full-length album navigates the last of the concrete, glass and steel of the large urban cityscapes of Japan and enters the de-populated rural villages and barren rice fields. Sound-tracked by pounding rhythms; disembodied electronics; roughly hewn, effected samples; whirling dervish dance-marathons; concussive percussion; and twisted snippets of lost conversations, the album is akin to listening to a multi-waveband radio tuned into post-Fukushima short wave transmissions replete with static-laden, disembodied newscasters lamenting forgotten faces and life-lines to the gone forever, the extinguished firmament of normality. CD contains entire album plus three non-vinyl bonus tracks. With inserts. 180-gram, colored vinyl. Edition of 250
Wattle
(Elevator Bath - eeaoa038 ) LP picture disc $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
A two-part composition by the artist behind seminal, vegan, straight edge, noise project Merzbow. Akita’s traditional soup of unidentifiable metallic clanging, crushing feedback, jagged white noise, and various effects. No drums, guitars, or vocals — just scorching electronic mayhem of the highest quality. Edition of 270.
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
Au Crépuscule de l'Espérance
(Hospital - HOS268) CD $14.50 (Out-of-stock)
(Hospital - HOS268) LP $14.50 (Out-of-stock)
Dedicated to imperfection, obsessed by minimalism, Akitsa returns after three years with a full length album (their fourth) where primitivism, bitter atmosphere and youthful naivety clash together in a blaze of raw hate anthems. One of the cruelest factions of North American black metal.
Grands Tyrans
(Hospital - HOS442) Cassette $13.75 (Out-of-stock)
(Hospital - HOS442) CD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Hospital - HOS442) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Death, deprivation and an agnostic vision of a crumbling society.
Ripped From Death, Forced To Live, And Die Again
(Hospital - HOS318) LP $19.50 (Out-of-stock)
Split LP of esoteric and violent North American black metal, four years in the making. Edition of 500.
TETUZI AKIYAMA / GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO / JIM O'ROURKE
Duos With Guitars
(Silent Water - SW011) 2xLP $30.00
Side-long improvisations recorded between 2011 and 2013 at various locations in Brussels and Tokyo. “Ave Rara” has Di Domenico on Fender Rhodes and Lobo acoustic guitar; “Metaphysical Cowboy” has Di Domenico on piano and Akiyama on acoustic guitar; “Body Made Ear” has Di Domenico on piano and Rhodes, and O’Rourke on electric guitar. The fourth side is blank, in honor of the late Hans Reichel, who passed away before his duet could be recorded.
Have a listen here: https://soundcloud.com/giovannididomenico/duos-with-norberto-lobo-tetuzi-akiyama-jim-orourke-soon-out-on-monotype-records
Psychology of Love
(Hospital - HOS221) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Long-awaited first LP of heavy electronics command. Philosophies of war and love burn in the cauldron of mythology. Trade one power for another but be warned that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Includes tracks from Rumbala (Hospital 2007), the infamous cassette that started it all. For fans of Militia, Grey Wolves, Pal, and Esplendor Geometrico. Edition of 200.
KRISTOFFER ALBERTS / LASSE MARHAUG
Organistskolen
(KBA - KBA001) LP $22.50
Delicious crunch flitting back and forth between the Norwegian noise supremo’s crashes and bangs and the saxophonist’s unorthodox techniques.
SUSAN ALCORN / CHRIS CORSANO / BILL NACE
Live at Rotunda
(Open Mouth - OM59) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Susan Alcorn on pedal steel. Drummer Chris Corsano. Guitarist Bill Nace. Cover silkscreened by Alan Sherry. Number six in Open Mouth’s Live At series. Numbered edition of 200.
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.
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
Cathode Rays Are On Overload
(A-1 Records) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Nice reissue of a 1979 treasure so mysterious and elusive that it’s one of the few things blowhards, Kerouac wannabes, compulsive name-droppers, and self-hating collectors all agree on. Beneath the unholy fervor, the album has a nearly Killing Capitalism With Kindness sense of song-writing — anxious, short vignettes strung together to paint a picture of mouths and neon green-gray blood-pumping hearts from a universe filled with busy, rambling minds. “Fuzz explosions” and “ego psych” are nifty phrases (just keep telling yourself that, you’re a real bloodhound for genius), but this is more like seeing a play by a Todd Rundgren-obsessed loner on Halloween with nothing but mannequin heads as the audience. A claustrophobic maze, to be sure, but full of outerworldy treasures and intimate, inexplicable wonders.
Kriegspiel
(Nashazphone - NP11) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Parisian free improvisation by Jean-Marc Foussat (VCS3) and Sylvain Guerineau (tenor sax). Jazzbos and apeshit Euro improv buffs know the former from his totally twisted classic Abattage LP (Pyjama 1983) and the latter from collaborations with Sunny Murray, Henry Grimes, Joe McPhee and Francois Tusques, to namedrop a few. Edition of 250
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.
Mensch Mensch Mensch
(Alt.Vinyl - AV054) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Electro-acoustic explorations by these two Berlin-based composer-performers, who draw on musique concrète, free improv, noise and industrial, utilizing synth, field recordings, trumpet and percussion. 180g vinyl. Edition of 250.
Without Tears: Noise In Theory & Practice
(Throne Heap - TH-OS-3) LP $21.00
Elden M. combines and arranges eclectic sounds, noise frequencies, and electronic music. Sources include manipulated cassettes, a scratched record, distorted feedback originating from amplified junk metal, vocals, pedal and rack effects, synths, drum patterns, and excerpts from a recent live performance. Two inserts. Edition of 400
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.
Alo Girl / Last Rape
(Urashima - U006) split LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Alo Girl is an obscure Italian noise project. Deep roaring, subterranean, obsessive and paranoid tones, tinged with sleaze and an airless atmosphere. With Last Rape Richard Ramirez (Werewolf Jerusalem, Black Leather Jesus) and Sean Matzus (In The Land of Archers) focus on Italian thrillers. Silkscreened cardboard sleeve, with insert. Limited edition to 120 copies.
Unsane
(Urashima - U002) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Deep roaring, subterranean, obsessive and paranoid tones by obscure Italian project tinged with sleaze and an airless atmosphere. For fans of C.C.C.C., Incapacitants and like that. Silkscreened cardboard sleeve, with insert. Limited edition to 120 copies.
ALTAR OF FLIES / SEWER ELECTION
Altar Of Flies / Sewer Election
(Release The Bats - RTB31) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Mean-spirited ugliness from a pair of fine Swedish bands. Sewer Election’s nasty “Rotten Corpse” is a crude and disgusting piece of monotonous, freezing coldness. Altar Of Flies buries claustrophobic lo-fi insanity dark within eerie forest rumblings. Straight from hell with heavy outbursts of feedback.
Every Actual Body / Brittle Bones
(Hasten & Korset - 043) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Concrète mixed with industrial. Darksmith does very little with not much at all -- the sound of movement in an empty, open room captured on cassette tapes crudely and minimally manipulated. At once meditative and unsettling. Sweden's Mattias Gustafsson scrapes and grinds metal like a true demon. Drawings by Tom Darksmith. Artwork by Daniel Fagerström. With a postcard. Clear vinyl. Edition of 100.
Female
(Peripheral - PR014) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Angst-ridden experimental noise utilizing tape, field-recordings and various electronic sound generators. A true nightmare of epic proportions from Mattias Gustafsson. Edition of 250.
Rabbit Hole
(Järtecknet - 19) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Distorted tape loops, damaged field recordings, and shorted-out electronics by Mattias Gustafsson. Strong and passionate, monstrous and fucking creepy. Edition of 200.
Rörelsen Mellan Rummen
(Järtecknet - 29) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
With precision and a sensibility for details, Mattias Gustafsson explores the inner corners of a musical universe where the dull replicas of today’s hollowed-out experimental scene are left far behind. Intriguing sound collages and tape manipulations are more crystallized than ever, with density and restraint. Edition of 300. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2016
Altered Beast
(Blak Skul - BSR005) 7-inch $9.75 (Out-of-stock)
Kansas City’s Altered Beast delivers riffs with the precision and rhythm of a death metal band — equal parts metal and hardcore without being metallic hardcore — punctuated with heavy youth crew breakdowns. Their blue-collar truth-dealer spits tales of city life with venom-tinged PMA. The result is tough-guy hardcore if your idea of a tough guy is a working class everyman, crushed by the slings and arrows of our post-industrial reality, but refusing to give up in his pursuit of some elusive transcendence. Besides a self-titled demo tape, this seven inch is the product of three years of gigging with countless unrecognized bands worthy of our respect, as well as opening for the likes of Napalm Death, Exodus, Madball, Phobia, Voivod, Prong, Noisem, Iron Reagan, etc. Edition of 440
Occult Rock
(Ajna Offensive) 2xCD $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Ajna Offensive) 2xLP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Eight hypnotic tracks, an ultimate entheogenic ceremony that reveals the power trio’s live energy and osmosis, and the individuality and roughness of each instrument, with an emphasis on the inter-penetration of all the components of an organic and tetanizing trance ritual. This opus recounts the alchemical transformation of the primordial vibration into matter, through all its elemental phases, leading to the sonic manifestation of the forces of the universe into the octagonal prism of Occult Rock.
Voix
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME99) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME99) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
This rhythmic, dissonant instrumental trio burrow into dark avenues of occult rock. They began working on the album after the release of their previous album in 2012. It’s one piece divided in six parts, composed as a multi-directional labyrinth with a constantly changing map. The focus this time is on precision, the space between the notes and beats, articulations, pulse, breath and resonances.
Alvarius B
(Abduction - ABDT011) 2xLP $175.00
Thirty-nine tracks from 1997. Raw solo acoustic guitar songs that are ugly, mean and funny. Really weird folk music from some parallel universe. Sealed. Edition of 500
Alvarius B
(Abduction - ABDT004) LP $45.00
Twenty-eight instrumental acoustic guitar excursions into a realm of weird lo-fi rustic beauty that sketch retro-portraits of folk guitar styles from abrasive to delicate. Lucid antique paintings with acoustic guitar, recorded in the late 1980s, released in 1994, employing Appalachian polyrhythms, dark melodies, flamenco thrash, alien tunings, pseudo-Eastern drones, cinematic backroad twang, and other hybrid ideas. Sealed. Edition of 1000.
Alvarius B vs Abdel Baqy Byro in Cairo
(Nashazphone - NP020) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Seemingly tossed-off spontaneity is the intoxicant with which Alvarius B vs Abdel Baqy Byro in Cairo is heavily laced. This 39-minute lenticular collage recalls Tangier-era Burroughs in its concealment of structure behind a veneer of arbitrary free association, with Alvarius B. delivering his take on contemporary behavioral dementia in a style that veers from the nocturnal yammer of legendary somniloquist Dion McGregor to salty neo-Yossarian ravings to the casual vitriol of a misanthrope who knows he’s entertaining. It’s the kind of trip a modern-day Slothrup might take after smoking polyester shrubbery and over-indulging in candiru sushi served by an erotic topiary gardener in exile for masturbating on the wall outside a 19th Century French orphanage — overseen by The Sinister Extemporizer himself, Alan Bishop. It was recorded live all over Cairo (in cars, trains, apartments, garages, cafes, bars, on rooftops, on the street) with a backline that includes little else beyond an acoustic guitar and a radio. Field recordings, glitchy wheeze underpinnings, and snippets of space murble garnish the album, but site-specific stuffing is what gives this kataif its particular flavor: a rapped tribute to the murdered members of a hardcore soccer fanclub; a pas de deux for laptop keyboard and BBC’s coverage of Gaza bombings; public demonstrations against the Muslim-Brotherhood-authored Constitution; Monte Carlo Arabic Service’s mention of the 70th anniversary of El Alamein battle. Bishop’s quilt of screenshots depicts a consciousness informed by an increasingly universal presumption that everything public should be interactive, if only to act as a vessel for contempt. An urbane cannibal fills the twilight bazaar with bacterial karaoke and falsetto bleating slicker than a goat’s uterus before disappearing into the crowd at Snotty’s Chill-Out Pentagram. Turn a corner and it’s an improv duet for acoustic guitar and the pachyderm grind of dirty delivery trucks. All around is mysteriously auto-tuned, proto-mahragan R’n’B crooning right out of a Saharan cellphone rave. A blue-blood places a call to an amplified insect tantrum, and is eavesdropped upon by a seductress loop. Delusional arms suppliers mansplain, as is their wont, and a beautifully dismissive monologue reduces music writers to literary dumbwaiters. The Invisible Hands take a moment to get in touch with their inner Sex Pistol. Prerecorded announcements are abused, quite comedically — the implication being that the only qualifications needed to engage in public discourse (telegenics and a piehole) are grossly insufficient. Alan Bishop stands before you not to praise anything (especially not the pathetic aesthetic championed by pork brosnans and Illuminati blood-drinkers stumbling from one end of their bleachy little swamp to the other, where mediocre meets bland and no amount of chlamydia-flavored tofutti with ground up glass in it will protect them from the constant tularemia rain), but to bury it, deep on the shoreline of Dunning-Kruger, a parting gift from The Sibling Unmoored as he withdraws in disgust. Maybe he’ll return after Ramadan, if only to crack open what’s left of their skulls like crème brulée, harvest the enlarged amygdala, and render tiny portraits of Pepe The Frog onto their lacerated morgellons. Maybe not.
Burmese Military Mandolin b/w Cadenza Freedom
(Chocolate Monk) 7-inch $12.00
Of interest to fans of SCG's mellower, ethno-forgered avant-psych material. From 1999. Semen colored vinyl.
Chin Spirits
(Unrock - EP003) 10-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Heavy, Sun-City-Girls-flavored dada deluxe, previously released on cassette (Chocolate Monk 2014). Crackling midgets and purist psychedelia from the spiritual wonderland within a cocoon of seven dirty pearls.
Fuck You And The Horse You Rode In On
(Abduction - ADBT052) LP $25.00
Brain-splattered, pre-Sun City Girls weirdness from 1981-1983, consisting of raw, live and unfiltered home recordings on acoustic and electric guitars with effects, vocals, flute, harmonica, and miscellaneous odd instruments. Edition of 400
Sugar: The Other White Meat
(Catsup Plate - CPR17) LP $45.00
Side A features each in solo mode: quasi-ethnic and wordless vocals, background television, and Django-esque guitar runs from Alvarius B; sanshin-playing from Nyoukis, morphing into subtle tape manipulation and musique concrete. The B-Side is a side-long collaborative track of broken electronics, field recordings near a Gas 'n' Sip, shortwave radio, actual songs, ambient cafeteria noise, thunderstorms, and drunken answering machine messages from Harmony Korine. Silkscreened jacket and inserts. Edition of 500.
The Tongue
(Bimbo Tower) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
"The Chilean with the singing nose," legendary for the Drinking My Own Sperm LP (Squeaky Shoes 1977), combines Chilean traditional music, post-punk feeling and a little spirit of the European avant garde. Joining Alvaro (voice and Casio) are Jens Volk (bass and voice) and Giorgos Notaras (percussion and voice).
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
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
Pripyat
(Disembraining) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second LP from Brisbane acoustic pop destroyer Ivan Matthew Hicks is an eleven-part atonal poem to the desecration of the hallowed halls in Eastern Europe by UFO cults, a soliloquy to the radiation blossoming in clouds from its broken windows as the populace flee down ropes. Early pangs of Chris Knox’s solo material ring out quite nicely. Guests include Paul Salter on drums, Josh Watson (Sewers) on violin, and the Ecclesiastic Uprising Of The Comet’s Tail on spiritual and literary support. Includes free download.
OREN AMBARCHI / CHRIS CORSANO / PAUL FLAHERTY / C. SPENCER YEH
Ambarchi / Flaherty, Corsano, Yeh
(Krayon Recordings) split 7-inch $9.00
The Flaherty, Corsano, Yeh Trio's oceans of bawling drum kit fire and fluttering string overtones fuse a complex web of ear asterism. Infiltrated by a woozy sax line that soon reduces in duration and increases the overall vehemence, with fragmented reed chewing rasp and roar joining myriad coordinates in this dense labyrinth of free magic. On the flip, an unexpected monolith from Ambarchi, stunningly crafted harmonic percolations of feedback glare, and riff particles slam into tantric drum force blast beats by Matt Skitz Sanders. Art by Paul Coors.
Devil Wolf Men
(Pica Disk - PICA010) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
A tapestry of location recordings and studio collaborations made during Ambarchi and Marhaug's tour of China in 2005.
Grapes From The Estate
(Southern Lord - SUNN61) 2xLP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Four side-long tracks of guitar exploration that begin with slowly layered, short electric guitar loops and build to haunting effect, as organ, drums, piano, tuned bells, percussion and strings increase the density. 180-gram vinyl. No idea if the vinyl is black (edition of 670) or purple (edition of 330).
Stacte
(Jerker Productions - SKUN3) LP $45.00 (Out-of-stock)
Influenced by both the-then burgeoning Austrian/German scene of digital audio (Mego, Touch, Staubgold) and his love for the music of Feldman and Lucier, Ambarchi recorded his first solo LP at home in 1998 in one take. Calmer, more meditative, and textural than anything he'd done up to that point.
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.
Worried Friends b/w Nervous Enemies
(Pica Disk - PICA02) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
An inside-the-piano scrape-fest of anti-music. Recorded in Oslo, November 2006. 300 copies.
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.
A La Lu La
(Ultramarine - UM003) LP $25.00
Aaron Moore (Volcano the Bear), Dave Nuss (No-Neck Blues Band) and Sheila 16 (Laboratory Theater Group) create compositions from improvisations centered around strong elemental percussion, radical theatrical vocals, and classical acoustic instruments. Recurring themes are the pain of relationships, the affirmation of the feminine in myth, the hero’s journey, and continuous need to flame the passions of the heart. “A La Lu La” specifically addresses the gap of language in facilitating accurate communication, a gap that only music at its most primal can fill. The back of the album features text by Portuguese authors Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino, who in 1855 created the English phrasebook “English As She is Spoke,” even though they didn’t know any English. A La Lu La mirrors the linguistic train wreck that ensues with the play of language, sound, and unintentional humor. Clear vinyl, die-cut jacket.
Nordiska Ljud Nr.1
(Järtecknet) split LP $28.50 (Out-of-stock)
Amph focuses on a less fragmented and layered sound than usual, creating a more nuanced and varied expression. Their 19-minute track explores new territories with a delicate sense for well-crafted sounds and composition. On the flipside, Arv & Miljö’s conceptual piece derives sound from traffic and highways. A rather demanding recording; cold and distant. Edition of 220.
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 / BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER
Anakrid / Blue Sabbath Black Cheer
(PsychForm - PFR08) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Pure refined terror with each artist manipulating source material from the other. The BSBC-does-Anakrid side is two tracks, the first sounding like the gates of hell slamming shut on your head five hundred times as demons circle about. The second track has a minimal, pretty and clangy loop, over which some of the most inhuman vocals ever heard are placed. The Anakrid-does-BSBC side is one track filled with textures and rhythmic industrial sounds with a strong sense of motion. 324 copies on coke bottle clear vinyl, offset vellum sleeve printed in silver and black, with a digital laser printed vellum insert, all housed in a picture disc sleeve. Co-released with Black Horizons and Stereonucleosis.
Bombay 2: Electric Vindaloo
(Motel - ROOM4) LP $10.00
Same formula as Bombay The Hard Way -- Dan The Automator and DJ Shadow grafting beats and loops onto the original secret-agent-man soundtrack music of the Shah brothers, Kalyanji and Anandji -- but with a more spicy leap forward into the electro-'80s, when Bollywood soundtracks moved on from funk to drum-machine-driven, synthesizer-heavy sounds a la Miami Vice. With Ursula 1000, Kid Koala, Mix Master Mike, and Dynamite D bringing in a turntablist's cut-and-scratch aesthetic. From 2001.
Bombay The Hard Way: Guns, Cars & Sitars
(Motel - ROOM3) LP $25.00
As if ripped from American or European spy flix, but with Eastern Indian twists like sitars and Indian-chord-influenced moog licks, Bombay The Hard Way features the music of Indian composers Anandji and Kalyanji, who composed and conducted music for 1960s Brownsploitation and '70s Bollywood films. Expect no classic modal stuff; instead, Indian-ized American grooves full of funk and jazz-based ideals, some bearing the unmistakeable hip-hop influences of producers Dan "The Automator" Nakamura and DJ Shadow, especially the emphasis on rough, thuggish beats laid out over sitar loops, flute solos and heavy string and moog accompaniment. From 1998. Gold vinyl.
Escarpments
(Ini Itu - 1303) LP $21.00
Ethnographic surrealist Kraig Grady captures the sensations of places that just feel different, where the external and internal terrains become one — from an anonymous musical homage with a touch of nostalgia and rural landscapes experienced during personal pilgrimages, to beggars playing the Kalan (a trapezoid-shaped instrument resembling a hammer dulcimer or santur, played using sticks with crescent-shaped heads that draw upon the energy of the moon), to a metallophone called a Meta-Slendro played at the water’s edge while adhering to fluid guideposts. With three postcards. Numbered edition of 250.
Anatomy of Habit
(BloodLust! - AOH01) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Emotionally charged doom metal that pensively slashes and burns by Chicago ballcrushers Blake Edwards (Vertonen), Dylan Posa (Flying Luttenbachers, Cheer Accident, Brice Glace), Kenny Rasmussen (No Funeral), Greg Ratajczak (Plague Bringer), and Mark Solotroff (Bloddyminded, The Fortieth Day). The two side-long tracks display enviable balance of power, heaviness, and delicacy. Die-cut jacket, printer innersleeve.
Technicolor Skull
(Ajna Offensive) 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.
Beatings With Gimpy Flighted Wings Entrapped By Post-Fence Of Garish-Land
(Menlo Park - MPK7017) LP $25.00
Chris Cooper's 1999 album of prepared guitar abuse. Back cover has individual prints and stamps. Solve the anagram and get a ten percent discount. What the hell, let's make it twenty.
Bump Head Go Home
(Sophomore Lounge - SL073) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The camcorder-shorts-turned-classic-stoner-pop visions of Chicago’s long-running rhythm-and-boozers evolve restlessly with each passing project, pig-roast after pig-roast, year after year. Here they trade the lakehouse electronic tricks of 2013’s See You In The Funny Pages for raw and honesty — full-on rock modes, jazzed up and peaking-out pawn shop amps, peripheral nods toward posters of Thin Lizzy, Magic Sam, Joe Walsh, and Wilco.
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.
THOMAS ANKERSMIT / JIM O'ROURKE
Ankersmit / O'Rourke
(Tochnit Aleph - TA054) split LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Side one features "Weerzin'" by Ankersmit on computer, saxophone, Serge & EMS synthesizer. Side two is O’Rourke from 1992 on oscillators and guitars. Edition of 750 copies. Cover photo by Alexandra Leykauf.
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.
Antipan
(Pulled Out - PULL01) LP $20.50
Anthony Guerra, Matt Earle, Sumugan Sivanesan and Nick Dan summon the evil spirits in this documented live ritual that runs the gamut from Neu! metal pummel to sinecore minimalism. The Sydney quartet “ruck’n’wreck the classic bass, drums, guitar combo into a thick, crunchy gale of righteous off-kilter riot-groove,” observed UK porn mag The Wire, “The piece ends with a long and beautiful neon ribbon of feedback that carves a vivid sine-wave of blood-red intensity across a stage scene fading to black and bleeding carmine crimson around the after image of a group on fire.” Includes insert printed on thick pink card with individually hand numbered silk screened pink on black covers. Edition of 275 on one-sided hot pink vinyl with an etching by Rizili.
Beauty
(Peripheral - PM6) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Soundtracks of human erosion, soul disgust, sorrow and violence and brilliance, and refusal. Hexes cast back harder and blacker, sublime and childlike and concrete and diamond. Special sleeve, insert. Edition of 99
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
(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.
Pick Up & Run 2007
(What The ... - WHAT003) LP $19.50
Reed instruments, singing, percussion, and a thick haze float over the flower fireworks captured in the two performances here by the Lexington KY-based duo of Sara O'Keefe and Trevor Tremaine (Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Hair Police, Burning Star Core, Sick Hour, Death Unit, Rampart Tapes). Pick Up & Run 2007 makes fleeting "jazz" references, sports male/female lowlife love vocals, drags electroacoustics to the drugstore basement, and is in general warm and cloudy all over like a yesterday today. Packaged in complicated and unique covers, handmade and silkscreened by Paul Coors. With a mini-poster. Limited edition of 177.
Ostrakon
(Isounderscore) Used LP $3.00
Two eleven-minute, creepily relaxed compositions by San Franciscan pianist Arastoo Darakhshan and producer / sound artist Brandon Nickell.
Music In The Nine Rings
(Poodle) LP $23.00 (Out-of-stock)
Immersive, psychedelic new age masterpiece with a jazz sensibility in the overall structure and playing, performed, most likely, by the same un-credited musicians who played on other early ’70s artifacts Heaven and Audition released by Arica Institute (whose cultish teachings were used to indoctrinate, among others, Jodorwsky’s film crew before shooting The Holy Mountain). The unhurried improvisations on this eminently listenable record — created with piano, synth, hypnotic percussion and plenty of tape delay (mmmm, tape delay) — has more to do with the subtle manipulation of musical tension than wallpaper relaxation promises. Comparable to Agitation Free, Limbus 4, Deuter-D. Silkscreened tip-on jackets.
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
They Sent Me Into Space Today b/w Cicadas Birds + Gtr
(Greatdividing - DD011) split 7-inch $10.00
Arob and Soottyb’s collaboration “They Sent Me Into Space Today” mixes and dweedles electronics “until they slip over your head like a soft mosquito blanket,” according to Byron Coley, who also pegs the instrumentation (drums and “flapper”) as the tools for accessing a “wormhole into some strange rock universe.” Arob’s “Cicadas Birds + Gtr,” as the title suggests, combines field recordings from the countryside with a home recording made in a bedroom in the city. Plays well on either 45 or 33 rpm, which is rarely a bad sign.
Tsushima
(BloodLust! - B!170) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Tsushima uses historical narrative as a basis for its diverse, hard-sound song cycle – specifically the climactic naval battle in 1904 of the Russo-Japanese War. In Arriver’s uniquely vicious hybrid of rock, metal, and prog, tempos and time are pushed aggressively, with vocals to match. The stately fanfare of “Winter Palace War Council” leads to chaotic grind in both “Togo, Son of a Samurai” and “Dogger Bank.” “Around the Cape" builds over a churning, massive riff while the relentless precision “Dark Clouds Above the Fleet” relates the abject misery of life at sea. Silkscreened gatefold jacket, insert, download card.
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.
Arv & Miljö
(I Dischi Del Barone - IDDB008) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
A ten-minute ode to Gothenburg, focusing almost entirely on the sounds of seagulls and rain, with only tiny hints of the troubled A&M past. Recordings from a window. Edition of 200
Hold On
(Family Bookstore - FBR01) 7-inch $5.25
Asdsska is a duo consisting of Aska Matsumiya (The Sads, Moonrats) and David Scott Stone (The Sads, Get Hustle, Unwound, Melvins). Matsumiya is a classically trained pianist and the A-side features a slow Satie-esque piano refrain accompanied by her delicate voice and Stone's ethereal modular synthesizer drones. The B-side, "We Feel it More Than They Do," is an ambient instrumental variation on Hold On's melody.
For Which He Plies The Lash
(Hospital - HOS267) CD $14.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Hospital - HOS267) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Second full length. Eight songs of big bang black metal by Dominic Fernow (Prurient, Cold Cave, Hospital) and Kris Kapke (Alberich, Northern Cross). Our comrades at Second Layer tell it like it is: "The duo blasts out raw and disgusting primitive black metal, with lots of balance between neck-breaking speed and lurking mid-tempo howl, with even some grind-ish elements for good measure."
Saturns Slave
(Hospital - HOS229) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two new tracks of raw black metal from the cold gas of the cosmic crucifixion. 900 copies on blue vinyl and 100 on clear vinyl.
Deadicated to The Sensory Armada
(Memoirs of an Aesthete) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
The seven new numbers recorded between summer and autumn 2011 in the first AshNav vinyl LP since 2009 arrives with a heartfelt dedication to the lost and unrecorded '60s London psych duo of the title, and to all sounds sucked into the air, gone forever. Deadicated to the Sensory Armada is the latest stage of Phil Todd and Co's immersion in the synths-and-sequencers cosmos which has edged into recent Ashtray Navigations releases. A few new moves should give an indication of future directions. Piled-up guitar structures, cascading rhythms and the first recorded appearance of drummer Mr. Seth Cooke. Edition of 100.
Six Imaginary Scenes From The Life Of Muhammad Al Aqil
(Nashazphone - NP009) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
This candle-burning outing from Phil Todd continues the quest for the farthest possible cosmic frequencies through effects, guitar, synth, and saz –- spread eagle on a bed of field recordings. Edition of 200 copies.
The "o" Mouth Direct Input Raygun
(Turgid Animal - TA409) 7-inch $9.00
New tracks from Phil Todd and Mel Delaney. Leeds UK's finest experimental movers and shakers of the last decade or so. Perhaps their noisiest material yet. Limited to 250 copies on black vinyl.
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
Here We Are Together Again b/w Yellow Dollars
(Destijl - IND086) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
The last of the vintage, tipple-era Askew, before the fingers cramped and began tickling digital ivory. Two wondrous cuts that would've been included on the Little Eyes CD were time not space: live versions of "Here We Are Together Again" and "Yellow Dollars," taken from David Porter's Show on WYBC, November 1969.
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.
Satanispiritus b/w Lady of The Moon
(Unseen Forces - UF004) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Reissue of the elusive and only known recording by this mysterious late 1960s Motor City proto-street metal ensemble. Two powerful offerings of Goetic psychedelia and occult street metal magic. Edition of 300.
Closed Fuel Cycle
(Orgasm - SPASM41) LP $27.00
Twelve tracks, recorded in 2012 at the tiny Fadequarter (where the equipment is exhausted), haunted by a New Zealand taste, bearing an uncertain, disastrous vibe. Edition of 100.
Oeil Céleste
(Doubtfulsounds - DOUBT13) 10-inch $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Six tracks that mix the noise experimentation of Stéphane Récrosio with Sébastien Borgo’s field recordings and short waves in Sydney and Tasmania. Digital precision, lo-fi fog, junk sounds, clean noise, kitchen utensils. Cover is hand-stamped on heavy cardboard. Includes postcard. Clear vinyl. Edition of 200.
Alcor
(Kye - KYE19) LP $15.25 (Out-of-stock)
Debut LP by a new seductive and puzzling voice from the Australian wilderness of Ferntree Gully, Victoria -- collecting the crème de la crème of a string of micro-edition CDRs. Field recordings of humble organic activity bend against a foundation of discreetly processed electronics and piano, creating sonorities that are as indefinable as they are unforgettable. Ideal for fans of fringe position electro-acoustic study and Delphic audio confusion, or anyone who pines for the days when Small Cruel Party still roamed the earth. Edition of 350.
Inland
(Kye - KYE26) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Mark Harwood and sometime collaborator Maja Larsson complicate reason with dark and circuitous audio constructs. Inspired by Gerard Murnane’s 1988 novel of the same name, and executed using piano, bells, tapes, gong, autoharp, hammer, television, organ, and dry ice pellets, Inland explores a personalized perception of space, both real and imagined. The duo’s fabricated dreamworld teases logic, tricks the ear, cuts the face of expectation, and exposes a ten-part fractal sonic geography, governed by its own laws, and flushed with all the beauty and horror of the natural world. Edition of 400.
ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB / GLOCKENSPIEL
Astral Social Club / Glockenspiel
(Krayon Recordings - KR014) split 7-inch $8.25
Machines groan and distant melodies ascend on the face-chewer by Neil Campbell on one side, while Glockenspiel’s vinyl debut on the flip weaves wooly tones with the harmonics of rubbed toms and bowed metal. A snow-blind haze of feedback, amplified string scrape and analogue electronics.
ASTRAL SOCIAL CLUB / TOMUTONTTU
Wet Wheel / Hot Wheel b/w Syvät Svyät
(Tipped Bowler - TBT012) split LP $16.50
On “Wet Wheel / Hot Wheel,” Neil Campbell of Astral Social Club succumbs to the heartbeat throb of house, but tops the bass with a frenetic squall of darting alien melodies. On cursory listen, the elements congeal into honest-to-goodness body music, but the track is riddled with stutters and gaps that flooded synapses fill with aural afterimages. On the reverse, Jan Anderzén of Tomutonttu buries the dance influence, retaining only the genre’s neon shimmer and linear logic. The cuckoo loops of “Syvät Svyät” briefly cohere into musical shapes before casting off, replaced by an ecstatic march of manic squiggles. 150-gram vinyl. Stamped and screened sleeves by Siwa. Edition of 300.
C'est Pourquoi Il Importe, Aux Époques D'adversité...
(Nashazphone - NP007) 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 / Family Battle Snake
(Pan - PAN1) split LP $16.00
Delving into the realm of deep listening, transported by way of analog synthesizers, Family Battle Snake (aka Bill Kouligas of Sudden Infant) weaves an electronic web that cocoons the listener in warm cascading frequencies, calling to mind classic electronic composers such as Charles Dodge, Eliane Radigue and even a hint of NWW. Astro (aka Hiroshi Hasegawa of C.C.C.C.) melds waves of squealing feedback and oscillating waveforms with biting distortion. Enveloped by haywire electronics and burbling loops and skree, Astro has constructed an impressive piece of modern electronic music of devastating magnitude. Limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl, jacket housed in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs.
Japanese Royal Blue
(Turgid Animal) LP $20.00
Two live recordings of pure and painful synth noise bliss from psychedelic harsh noise master Hiroshi Hasegawa (ex-C.C.C.C., Mortal Vision, etc.). Edition of 250.
Live at Muryoku Muzen Temple
(Important - IMPREC198) LP $14.00
Two side-long tracks made with oscillators, synth, ring modulator and vocals by Hiroshi Hasegawa (ex-C.C.C.C.), a companion piece to The Echo At The Purple Dawn (Important 2008). Black vinyl.
100 Keyboards b/w 100 Rock
(Meeuw Muzak - MM045) 7-inch $6.25 (Out-of-stock)
A headscratcher from this Kanazawa-based sound artist and general experimental noise chef. Two pieces are sourced from a recent installation work of a hundred toy keyboards, with the A-side bearing the disassociated feel of a Super-8 footage loop — bleached colors, perhaps a lone bird wheeling in the sky, or a holiday fragment of a blinking child with an uncertain smile walking toward the camera, clutching an ice cream. A beautiful, nebulous, everything-and-nothing sound, while the noisier B-side maintains a sort of relentless calm, like the optimum flow of a factory environment that 19th century socialists might have shrugged at. A demonstration of the patterns which emerge from the balance of order and chaos. Subtly energizing.
Empires Should Burn
(Small Doses - DOSE113) CD $11.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Small Doses - DOSE112) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
When Strings of Consciousness opened for ASVA in Paris, Philippe Petit and G. Stuart Dahlquist discovered a profound like-mindedness and decided to combine their creative forces. “Root compositions [bathed] in a seething, simmering stew of languidity,” says Gumshoe Grove, this here’s some “quality introspective drone music.” Guest vocalists include Edward Ka-Spel (Legendary Pink Dots), Jarboe (Swans), and Bryan Lewis Saunders.
... And Six Dark Hours Pass
(Dais - DAIS015) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Brooding intimate soundscapes composed mainly with tape loops and minimal synth by Sasha Grey, Pablo St. Francis and Anthony D’juan. Parts of the album remind Mishka Bloglin of “a darker, twisted offshoot of something you might have heard on Angelo Badalamenti’s score for Twin Peaks.” Numbered edition of 500.
Atelier Méditerranée
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD6) 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Music by children from the Institut Médico Educatif Ambroise Croizat in Saint Ouen, performed and recorded as part of a workshop led by David Lemoine (Cheveu) and Antoine Capet. Arranged by Lemoine, this “outsider electro-noise or something” throbs with the vibe of disturbed humanity. Part of a series that includes the homeless, convicts in jail, and street musicians.
Omicidio
(BloodLust! - B!146) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
The A-side of this new single by cult Italian death-industrialists Atrax Morgue was originally submitted as an alternate B-side to the Her Guts 7-inch (Bloodlust 2005), but the unsettling "Sinfonia Per Un Sadico" was chosen for that record instead, leaving “Omicidio” shelved and untouched until after Marco Corbelli’s death in 2007. It is vocal-driven Atrax Morgue song favored by Bloodlust, while the B-side is a 2009 remix/edit of "Autoerotic Death" (a choice segment of heavy, dark analog synth). Multicolor marble vinyl (ranging in tenor from dark bruises to sick bile spit up by a dying plague victim). Edition of 500.
Musik för Tomma Rum
(Järtecknet - 18) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Folky and desolate music that reeks of plague, desolate countrysides, heathen rituals and long, harsh cold winters. Another anti-urban masterpiece from members from Leafes and Sewer Election, their third full-length release, with slow and monotonous percussion, deeply buried vocals, crude electronics and droning guitars, tortured synths and flutes. Edition of 200
Vattnet Drog Sig Tillbaka, Stenarna Blev Synliga
(Järtecknet - #27) LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)
On their fourth LP of stripped down bleakness, the ever miserable Ättestupa explores minimalist territory with subdued voice fragments and distant synth melodies hovering over slow, looped field recordings. Edition of 300
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
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
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.
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.
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
Axilogue / Thermidor One Five
(White Denim - WD12) 7-inch picture disc $10.00
Crafted in their fine tradition, Aufgehoben continue to carve harsh chunks of noise with their first departure on seven-inch vinyl. Guitar and electronics sound like neither, while sprawling percussion tumbles across the rotten landscape. The two tracks on this monochromatic record jump right for the jugular, leaving little time for subtlety or reflection. Not recommended for antique styluses. 524 copies
Fragments of the Marble Plan
(Holy Mountain - 1986) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Music as apocalyptic as Fragments of the Marble Plan has few peers, but some approximate touchstones are the most radically out and knotty moments of Norwegian post-jazz ensemble Supersilent, This Heat after realizing that Brise-Glace didn’t pay them a penny in royalties, or Farmers Manual after extensive immersion in Mainliner’s back catalog. Fragments of the Marble Plan is a terrifying force of nature, a Rube Goldberg machine run amok, the sound of civilization atomizing into controlled chaos. It’s so cold, it’s hellish. Although Aufgehoben feels your need for catharsis, they convince you that being ready to jump out of your skin is the new normal. Includes download coupon. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2012
Volcano / Ten Phases Of Fallen
(Nihilist - NIHIL79) split LP $16.50
Entomologist Irene Moon’s work blends the insect world and her version of performance and electronics. Joined here by Hair Police’s Trevor Tremaine and others, Auk Theater’s side utilizes voice, various acoustic instrumentation and synthesizer. Photographer and visual artist Suzy Poling investigates electronic vocal processing, Moog organ, drum machines and modular synthesizers on the Pod Blotz side, creating eerie and haunting compositions, with a driving force. Paste-on jackets. Edition of 300.
Agere Urendum Mentis Epode
(Mobilization - MOB-AU1) LP $21.00
Immersive, dark ambient, soundscape, sound art collaboration by Scot Jenerik (solo, F-Space, 23five) and Aleph Omega (Chrome, F-Space, Altar De Fey). The soundtrack for falling through a wormhole on your way to creation. Foil-stamped, die-cut linen jacket. 180-gram vinyl. Numbered edition of 555
Almost Dead
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR076) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Aunt Mary's most recent record was a split seven-inch with Man Is The Bastard in 1992. Their total noisecore combines very basic drum beats (resembling pipes banged on a couple of industrial tanks), feedback, wailing guitar, and brutal vocals, all utterly maxed-out. Not too dissimilar to early AxCx. Edition of 300. Full-color sleeve.
AUSTRASIAN GOAT / CHAMBRE FROIDE
The Austrasian Goat / Chambre Froide
(At War With False Noise) split 7-inch $7.75 (Out-of-stock)
The second in the Austrasian Goat split seven-inch series delivers more funeral doom from the home town team, totally desperate stuff. Chambre Froide is Darkthrones-style raw black metal. Crusty, filthy.
AUTOEROTICHRIST / RICHARD RAMIREZ
Birthright
(Worldmadefleshrecordings - 001) 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
From 1996.
L’ AUTOPSIE A REVELE QUE LA MORT ETAIT DUE A L’AUTOPSIE
Ich verkündige festtage, furcht, etliche nachrichten, beweinenswerten Tod
(Éditions Vibrisse - iiss04) 7-inch (lathe cut) $15.00
Inscrutable tape manipulated field recordings by AKA_Bondage, Anla Courtis, Franq De Quengo, Ogrob, that reference the 500-year-old death knell at Strasbourg Cathedral. Serene yet unsettling. Two inserts. Edition of 33.
L’ AUTOPSIE A REVELE QUE LA MORT ETAIT DUE A L’AUTOPSIE
Le Souffle De l’Avorton (l’Aarqlmedal’a à la Rencontre de Jean-Philippe Borbollono)
(Ogrob) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Aka_bondage, Alan Courtis, Frank De Quengo and Ogrob shepherd music by Jean-Philippe Borbollono (a composer stillborn during the 17th Century) out of the ether and onto the world stage. The para-spiritual Argentine-French quartet combines shamanism, Art Brut, medicine and occult literature via extra-human voices, distortions, litanies, guitar, short-wave tuners, electronics and effects. Handmade sleeve, inserts and liner notes, postcards, poster. Edition of 300.
Order this album and get a free copy of Fug Gum Vol. Two, with a new l'Autopsie track. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2013
L’ AUTOPSIE A REVELE QUE LA MORT ETAIT DUE A L’AUTOPSIE
Musica Acouscousmatica
(Chienne Secrete / Komma Null) LP $19.50 (Out-of-stock)
Anla Courtis, Franck de Quengo, Sébastien Borgo and Nicolas Marmin first gathered around Damo Suzuki for a memorable 2004 performance in France. Since 2007 they have collectively identified with shamanism, art brut, medical references and literature. Their strident music mixes distortions and strange litanies with non-human voices. Here they slap the faces of intellectual / jet set / "serious" electroacoustic musicians with their genetically modified fragments -- a collection of forty-one pieces of no more than a minute in length. Chipboard jacket with glued-on cards and rubber-stamped text. With inserts, stamps, postcards and an Acouscousmatic poster. Edition of 200. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2010.
L’ AUTOPSIE A REVELE QUE LA MORT ETAIT DUE A L’AUTOPSIE
The Prophecy Of The Somnambulist
(Chienne Secrete / Komma Null) LP $19.50 (Out-of-stock)
Transatlantic shamanoise, musique acouscousmatique, universal electromagnetic crisis, société de l'harmonie, and sometimes brutal art brut by Anla Courtis of Reynols and members of Dragibus, Sun Plexus, and Aka Bondage. Eight hands (at least two each from Argentina, France, and Romania), recorded live during a tour of France in 2007. Silkscreened chipboard jacket, poster, inserts. Edition of 200.
Toosassa
(Ultra Eczema - UE62) LP $27.00
Arttu Partinen, Roope Eronen and Tero Niskanen made it to the USA in a small boat, bringing with them in the way of musical instruments nothing more than a few balloons and a beat-up Casio. Upon arrival, a microphone, a drum and toys were secured, adequately preparing the trio for this crazy WFMU session. Imagine a bunch of children discovering in a single afternoon '50s Euro avant garde scene, '60s psychedelic free jazz and proto-punk, the '70s sound poetry and punk and '80s disco. or give yourself a break; this LP sounds like a mix of all of the above. 300 copies. Psychedelic jacket by Dennis Tyfus.
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.
Big Cheap Motel
(Siltbreeze - SB115) LP $13.00
The first of Siltbreeze's Axemen reissues is the trio's difficult third album from 1983. Rarely heard outside the Southern Hemisphere, this montage of rough-and-ready live performances and Peterboro Studio recordings teeters on the precipice of chaotic genius alongside such stalwarts as Alternative TV / Hear & Now's What You See Is What You Are and 1/2 Japanese's Loud. With a reproduction of original insert and original cover design. Edition of 500.
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.
Scary! Part III
(Siltbreeze - SB119-SB120) 2xLP $17.50
The second of Siltbreeze's Axemen reissue series, Scary! Part III originally saw light as a cassette-only release in 1989. Unlike the hyper-punk-charged Big Cheap Motel, Scary! operates from a gestalt concept and sensibility. While on the surface the contents might sound fragmented, ruminative, or obfuscatory, dig deeper (or listen better) and you'll see (and hear) the mystifying ooze lactating out of the four sides not as individual, insurmountable constructs of bizarreness, but as a coherent pattern of brilliant phenomena. Novice ears that have made it though this Bunyanesque giant find themselves making comparisons to a mixture of S.Y.P.H., Royal Trux, and Ptose.
Three Virgins
(Siltbreeze - SB122-SB123) 2xLP $17.50 (Out-of-stock)
Setting up shop in Christchurch's State Trinity Centre over Easter holidays 1985, The Axemen went to work recording every sound and second that could be captured during the legendary lost weekend. Fueled by enhanced adrenalin (Tiger Blood) and super human zeal (Adonis DNA), The Axemen chewed up dozens of reels of tape, assaulting all those who entered the erstwhile ecclesiastical chamber with a barrage of splendiferous blabber 'n' croak. The resultant eighty-eight minutes sound like a mutant hybrid channeling of Trout Mask Replica, Exile On Main Street and Tago Mago. Includes free download card.
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
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.
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
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.
No End
(Chondritic Sound - CH-267) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sarah Bernat and Alex Lukas weld industrial hymns out of gritted synth tones, mutilated samples, darkly protracted guitars, icy vocal delivery and swollen frequencies. The two have an affinity for hardware, dead-panned vox and loaded, unpredictable live performances, and Bad News reveals a penchant for unsavory frequencies, achieved with artful brutality and control of their uniquely industrial sound. Edition of 250
Badaboum
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD15) LP $16.00
Affiliates of La Grande Triple Alliance Internationale de l’Est posse, Krine (Headwar), Armelle (The Dreams) and Solene (Dudu Geva) add their own reverbed idiosyncracies to post punk akin to Liliput / Kleenex, chanting in indecipherable Italian, mock German and plain French, not unlike three priestesses offering voodoo enchantments.
BBC In Concert
(Turning Point Music) Used 2xLP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Complete BBC sessions recorded during 1972 and 1973. 180-gram vinyl
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.
Smudging
(Backwards - BW06) LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded variously in Toronto and Berlin, Smudging is a beautiful and dreamy listening experience spread across six songs in two epic tracks with guitar textures and hypnotic rhythms. Guitar drones and enveloping electronic sound-carpets alternate with more rhythmic and structured brackets, thanks to the involvement of Baker’s drummer brother Richard, who divides his time between more consistent raids, near-improv evolutions, and softer special interventions. In both execution and structure, the stylistic code of Smudging elegantly delivers listeners to multiple parallel worlds.
Balinese Beast
(Balinese Beast) LP $20.00
Looped chunks of sound and feedback from microphones / saxophones, and screaming lo-fi electronics from a hacked remote control, chopped up into a vibrant collage. Includes three inserts. Edition of 287.
Les Géométries Souterraines
(Tanzprocesz) split LP $20.00
Fusiller's side: France. Electronic passion. Electronic romance. Lowered fist. Balinese Beast's side: Greece. Electric wires. Cartoon saxophone. Feedback loops. Dead mix table. Secret rhythms
Soft Offerings
(Balinese Beast) 7-inch $15.00
Three tracks of frenetic cut-up rhythm coming from treated feedback and overdriven saxophones, recorded live at Olga’s Laundry in Athens, Greece. Includes two inserts. Edition of 287.
Crazy Horses
(Ultra Eczema - UE61) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded September 24, 1998, in the building and garden of Fundacao de Serralves and Porto Palacio Hotel, the same day as the Privacy exhibition. Belgium's captain of contemporary painter Luc Tuymans and Poland's giant brutal sculptor Miroslav Balka used the sound of running horses for their collaborative public sound sculpture, during which other sounds (such as a drunk Venezualan singing “vacuum cleaning” and discussing Maurizio Catalan and the snake of Jungle Book, who, by the way "has a very stupid expression on his face") transformed the running horses into crazy horses. Released for the Involved exhibition in Shanghai, China, curated by Phillippe Pirotte. Limited to 500 copies, B-side etched by Tuymans and Balka.
BARK HAZE / OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD
Bark Haze / Our Love Will Destroy the World
(Krayon Recordings - KR009) split 7-inch $8.25
OLWDtW’s Campbell Kneale (ex-Birchville Cat Motel) closes in on the glistening, levitation altar, with backwards bliss-shimmer, spooked chant, and analogue squawk’n’squeal. Bark Haze (Thurston Moore and Andrew MacGregor) hit back with focused power-drone guitar dueling from the heart of the bong.
Alex Barnett / Fielded
(Nihilist - NIHIL73) split LP $19.00
Barnett's two subtle and sinister soundscapes delve into synthesizer soundtrack territory, eerie enough to turn any situation into a potential death scene. Pounding, anthemic drum machine battle beats by Fielded (Lindsay Powell, also of GA'AN/Festival) lay to waste foundations of synthesizers, while multi-layered and processed vocals command with definitive power. Edition of 200.
MARCIA BASSETT / SAMARA LUBELSKI
Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon
(Kye - KYE17) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Bassett and Lubelski have both played crucial roles in the development of underground sound over the last twenty years, tinting the broad waters of abstract folk, chromatic noise and long-form drone. The two sidelong forays into deep, black-string meditation here hang in the air like ghosts on Ludlow Street. Edition of 500.
Uncertainty Principle
(Small Doses - DOSE121) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Yasutoshi Yoshida of Government Alpha joins the brotherhood of the skull flag on Side A for a creeping, crawling track where dark ambient swells underpin Eric Wood’s trademark vocals and noise loops. Side B has the harsher track, with Hiroshi Hasegawa of Astro tearing through synth lines with blasts of noise while leaving room for Wood’s growled and screamed vocals. Olive green vinyl, printed vellum envelopes with an insert.
A Ghost From The Darkened Sea
(Now Sound) Used LP $14.00
Earthy folk-songs from 1995 by guitarist and singer of Ghost.
Bats / Songs
(Spring Press - SP03) split 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two tracks of signature understated NZ guitar-pop on one side (an excerpt from the Bats’ The Guilty Office album and an unreleased outtake from the same sessions); two tracks by the photographer Max Doyle’s Sydney-based group on the flip (an acoustic version of “Keeping it Clean” and an unreleased recording of “My Number”). Edition of 500
Spare Parts
(Dutch Boy) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
After a stint in the world of amateur wrestling Bad Boy Butch Batson, based out of North Carolina, took up the blue-collar lifestyle and spent ten years producing this labor of love. With help from dozens of studio musicians, Spare Parts cavorts recklessly through the annals of popular song, wrestling rock anthems delivered in almost heroic Beefheartian gaudiness, mid-80s slasher vibes narrated with congested indignity by a self-hating eunuch, and uneasy love songs from the acne-scarred panty-collector. Interspliced is a series of gawky real-life tape collages, but that goes without saying. Real outsider WTF here, according to the label.
The Sky's Gone Out
(4 Men With Beards - 4M511) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Writhe and horrify yourself to the 2008 reissue of the third album by these ambassadors of goth, originally released on Beggars Banquet in 1982.
Metal / Flesh
(Bocian - BC05) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
This Australian avant garde percussionist’s long-standing preoccupation with extended technique and acoustically generated noise applied to the conventional drumkit in a freely improvised context has helped push the bounds of the acoustic drumkit’s sonic potential (alongside compatriots Robbie Avenaim, Tony Buck, Steve Heather, Joe Talia and Will Guthrie). Baxter’s concise improvisations, performed with unconventional implements, extract unusual timbres from the drumkit. His vast and dense sonic worlds, created without overdubs or processing, allude to avant garde electronic music, Modernist chamber music in the style of Xenakis and Lachenmann, extreme noise and the maximalist spectrum of post-AMM free improv. On “Metal,” piercing untuned aluminium windchimes flail against the rims and membranes of the kit in a chaotic flurry, creating a barrage of stochastic rhythms and accidental harmonies, exploiting the high frequency ranges of metallic sound. “Flesh,” in complete contrast, employs the exclusive use of the body; fingers, hands, fists and elbows strike, coddle and pummel various components of the drumkit, coercing and coaxing more rounded, but equally uncompromising and slightly uncomfortable bottom-end sounds from the instrument.
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 In Sound From Way Out
(Grand Royal - GR013) LP $75.00 (Out-of-stock)
The one you always hear in bars, the instrumental-groovalicious jam-cut collection, the bomb, the thing, the one you can't live without. The hella-mella stomp with tracks from Ill Communication and Check Your Head, as well as crowd pleasers, "Son of Neckbone" and "Drinkin' Wine." Yellow vinyl. One copy in stock, # 845 / 5000. Sealed.
Solos
(What The ... - WHAT009) 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.
Soundtrack For Takeshi Murata
(Glistening Examples - GLEX1302) CD $12.00
(Glistening Examples - GLEX1302) LP $20.00
The collaborative relationship of your dude inside Hair Police and Three Legged Race with the titular digital video glitch pioneer has spawned some of Beatty’s strongest work to date. The rubbery pulsations of “Escape Spirit Videoslime” and the ghostly buzzing harmonics of “Untitled (Silver)” are obvious highlights. Moving between hypnotic minimalism, dense processed atmospheres, and spacious drones, these pieces are the perfect corollary to Murata’s fractured and viscous visuals. LP includes a free download code and an 11x17 poster. CD includes a non-LP bonus track.
Lucifer Rising OST
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME100) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
The legendary, notorious soundtrack as it was originally composed for Kenneth Anger’s film of the same name. Recorded in 1976 in prison, originally pressed on LP in 1980, and then presented in an elaborate multi-platter boxset (including related recordings from the original soundtrack sessions).
BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL WITH THE FREEDOM ORCHESTRA AND THE MAGICK POWERHOUSE OF OZ
The Lucifer Rising Suite
(Ajna Offensive) 4xCD $25.50 (Out-of-stock)
(Ajna Offensive) 4xLP $60.00
At the age of 16, BeauSoleil played guitar for several garage acts, including a brief stint with Arthur Lee and The Grass Roots. (As would prove to be the case throughout his life, BeauSoleil's brief impression was lasting and Lee soon re-christened his band Love, reputedly a winking homage to the young runaway's romantic proclivities.) Bandless but unbroken, BeauSoleil landed in Haight-Ashbury just prior to his 18th birthday. Marching into the thriving psychedelic street revolution, he formed artrock band The Orkustra and began gigging regularly at Be-In events throughout the city. During this time, just months before the onset of the Summer of Love, underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger discovered him during a psychedelic arts festival called The Invisible Circus. He immediately cast the handsome musician as the lead man and fallen angel archetype in his latest celluloid ritual, Lucifer Rising. With typical melodramatic pomp, Anger approached him in a parking lot after the festival, declaring, “You are Lucifer!” He agreed to play the part under the condition that he would also compose the film's soundtrack. Caged first in San Quentin and later in Tracy State Prison, BeauSoleil's creative impulses could not be squelched despite his repressive surroundings. With diligence he was able to set up an inmate music program at the latter institution in the early 1970s. Now, for the first time, all the music composed for the soundtrack has been compiled into a single public release. The Lucifer Rising Suite begins with the 1967 version of the soundtrack and continues through a logical sequence of the recordings made in the years spanning 1976-79. With respect to the latter, the original master tapes were mined for music that had not been heard by anyone in nearly three decades. The newly unearthed recordings were then restored, cleaned up and combined with those previously released to make the anthology as complete as possible. With lots of artwork inserts, posters, essay.
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.
Piel's Session
(Flipped Out) Used 7-inch $2.00 (Out-of-stock)
Four tracks. Distorted, stoned, grungy. From 1996
Matters Of Life And Death
(Chondritic Sound - CH-278) 12-inch $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
The roots of this aggressive, rhythmic electro-industrial outfit based in New York City begin with DIY punk, but their harsh, driving dance sensibilities recall the likes of early Skinny Puppy or Front 242. Featuring members of Kama Rupa, Cult Of Youth, Drunkdriver, and Missing Foundation, Matters Of Life And Death’s themes put subjects such as addiction and mental illness at the forefront of many of these songs, and aspire to transition, growth, compassion, hope and love. Edition of 300
Recovery Suite
(Ini Itu - 1304) LP $21.00
Dystopic lounge ambiance inspired by Ross’s time convalescing from a back injury. The interaction of his customized analog oscillator and baptized drosscillator with Bell’s evanescent melodic lines on the shakuhachi evokes the perplexity and obfuscation of the experience of illness, and slow, uncertain recovery. This is a nocturnal record with circular, maze-like undertones galore, where mental landscapes are built on the contemplation of opioid numbness and extraction. With two postcards. Numbered edition of 250.
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
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.
Still Insane After All These Years
(Ultramarine - UM023) LP $22.50
Belgian duo Alain Neffe (synth, beats, loops, strings) and Nadine Bal (vocals) return to their 80s cassette culture roots and take advantage of newer technologies and sonic textures. Their mad variety of instruments and moods, punchy beats, hypnotic strings, groovy organ, crazy sax lines and an inventive use of sound shaping do not exclude a choir of frogs (lucky you). Bal sings like an angel, a child, a siren and an alien – a perfectly weird combo of pop, avant garde, surrealism and emotion that shares aesthetic choices with Anne Clark, Roberto Cacciapaglia, Laurie Anderson, Kraftwerk, and Die Form. Edition of 300.
Tough Man
(BloodLust! - B!066) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Rhode Island artist Peter Lee (Force Of Nature) crafts a mixture of old-school industrial and power electronics, with intense vocals, tempered by dark, death-industrial-influenced, ambient soundscapes. Eleventh release in the BloodLust! Private 7" series. Plain white sleeve. 300 copies.
NICOLAS BERNIER / FRANCISCO MEIRINO
Fiction
(Misanthropic Agenda - MAR044) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
The first collaboration by Prix Ars Electronica’s Golden Nica award-winner Bernier (who explores the balance between the cerebral and the sensual, and between organic sound sources and digital processing) and Meirino (who explores sound and its possibilities for failure while exhibiting his masterful editing and compositional skills) challenge listener perceptions and raises questions about what reality and fiction truly are in this study in feedback and psychoacoustics. Edition of 300
Listen to a four-and-a-half-minute sample here: https://soundcloud.com/misanthropic-agenda/sets/nicolas-bernier-francisco
The Cartesian Plane
(Elevator Bath - eeaoa033) LP picture disc $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Deep, meditative tranquility inextricably linked to Berry’s otherworldly painting -- absorbing, heavy with the slow unraveling of emotions, expansive and unreal. Edition of 233
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.
Light Silence, Dark Speech
(I Dischi Del Barone - IDDB005) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Intimate and perplexing alto sax by this New York-based artist. Ten stripped-down mesmerizing minutes that owe just as much to free jazz skronk as they do to contemporary sound art. Edition of 200.
Love-In-A-Mist, Edible
(Nyahh) LP $16.00
Recorded over a three-year period in Ireland, Amsterdam and Morocco on pianos in various conditions of ideal concord, these immediate, unfussy recordings, comparable to holiday snapshots, are only half about the playing of a piano, according to the Ireland-based sound-receiver herself. “They are also about the people around each piano and the room in which it lives.”
Two Phases of Emanation of Light
(Heard Worse - HW07) LP $15.00
Markos Zografos’s complete composition for music and text contains a total of four phases; Heard Worse’s LP contains the third and fourth. It’s a noise drone work, made of slow building intensity, inspired by Xenakis, one in which “time stops [and e]verything disappears except for the sensation of infinity....” Paste-on cover.
Archives
(Vinyl on Demand) 5xLP $125.00
With A4 insert. Each platter in its own outer printed and inner protective sleeve, all held together by a banderole. No seven-inch. Numbered edition 497/500
Burial Ground
(Saxon Gregory) LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Audio from the Andrea Bianchi film Burial Ground aka Le Notti Del Terrore (1981). Edition of 150.
Das Testament
(Backwards - BW05, BW05-7) LP + 7-inch $45.00 (Out-of-stock)
The two Das Testament suites were recorded in 1982, released by Mectpyo in 1983, and can be included among the most extreme and uncompromising MB recordings; Bianchi’s synthesizer parts and tape loops create an incredibly oppressive soundscape. Remastered for the Backwards edition, his bleak, dark electronics, rhythms, and neutronic effects reach the avowed goal: “to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on [the] complete realizing of the modern decadence.” The bonus seven-inch on white vinyl includes two previously unreleased tracks: “Defected Piano (Part One)” and Defected Piano (Part Two).” Includes insert. Edition of 100.
Das Testament
(Backwards - BW05) LP $26.00 (Out-of-stock)
The two Das Testament suites were recorded in 1982, released by Mectpyo in 1983, and can be included among the most extreme and uncompromising MB recordings; Bianchi’s synthesizer parts and tape loops create an incredibly oppressive soundscape. Remastered for the Backwards edition, his bleak, dark electronics, rhythms, and neutronic effects reach the avowed goal: “to produce technological sounds and in such a way to work on [the] complete realizing of the modern decadence.” With insert. Edition of 300
Endometrio
(Dais - DAIS013) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reissue of Bianchi’s self-released LP from 1982, representing a turning point toward what he calls “bionic music,” aka “prerecorded sounds that are electronically generated and then treated through the use of nucleic echo-machine.” Insert includes contemporary notes. Numbered edition of 500.
Evidences Vol. 1 - Final Industrial Music 1980
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD38) 5xLP $65.00
Deep, nihilistic, and depressive psycho-electronics / noise / drones by The Master. No Nazi speeches or samples. Includes Mectpyo / Blut 1 and Mectpyo / Blut 2, Atomique / Murder, Gene-P (a never-released Industrial Records album), and Nervo / Hydra, all officially unreleased material on vinyl. Limited edition, imported from Germany.
S.F.A.G. 81
(Recursion - STRANA1) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
A year and a half after the initial release of Symphony for a Genocide (Sterile 1981), Broken Flag reissued it on cassette, along with entirely new recordings drawn from the audio of the original LP. S.F.A.G. 81 is a radically different work comprised solely of two side-long tracks signaling the desolate introspection that would come later on The Plain Truth and Armaghedon. Remnants of the relentless mechanical rhythms and synthesizer churn of the original Symphony remain, though as if heard from a distance, lost in the midst of a massive blizzard. Strains of recognizable sound drift in and out of earshot like hallucinations, echoing across the bleak stretches of grayed-out sound. Recursive’s remastered and fully authorized reissue is the first time S.F.A.G. 81 has been available on vinyl complete and unabridged. Edition of 500
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.
Bilbo's Incinerator
(w.mo/r - w.mo/r17) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
An atypically gushing review at Siltblog says this 7-inch "erupts like fissures of primordial ash 'n' pumice from a toxic lava of Punk Brut that is most refreshing & revelatory." Art For Spastics concurs, describing it as "abhorrent pummeling scuzzrock that is so extremely harrowing," filled with "unbridled anger and despair." Other people have good things to say about it as well, but fuck 'em.
Urban Disease
(Pan - PAN11) LP $12.00
It has been said that Billy Bao doesn't believe in hypnagogia because he always sleeps with one eye open, and when he dreams, all he sees is AIDS deniers, German shepherds, and soldiers disguised as UN peacekeepers. Before Mattin and anarchism ruined his life, Billy was a bit of a troubadour who accompanied himself on acoustic guitar and warbled wild songs of protest in his native Nigerian patois. This new album, his third on vinyl, is a transitional one dating from late 2006. The gaztetxes of Bilbao hadn't yet burrowed into his marrow, Mattin was still plotting his moves for acting as Merle to Billy's G.G., and the herpes sores in the mouth of global capitalism revealed no visible symptoms. What began as a relaxing session in which Billy conducted a pickup band of itinerant improvisers through a song-by-song cover of Amon Düül's Psychedelic Underground got fucked up by Taku Unami. Likewise, Margarida Garcia lends astounding skill and highly personal idiom on the electric double-bass (in her hands an instrument with the tension of string on wood and the disruptive potential of a crackle box); Barry Weisblat, meanwhile, teases out a century of drone from a Cornell lunchbox of filament and circuitry; the sainted Tim Barnes plays drums and percussion with a saintly touch; Mattin, thumb and forefinger compulsively pinching (or stroking) his Hitler mustache after every take, funnels Billy's malaise through laptop, percussion, and folk instrumentation; and a women's choir eerily fills out the atmosphere with wordless vocals and incantations. The result is a fragmentary, extremely loud hippie jam session punctuated by stretches of uneasy silence and scrape. Cover artwork by Henry Flynt.
Bipolar Bear / Pope
(Rococo - RCC0010) split 10-inch $11.75 (Out-of-stock)
Performing on bass and drums with enough effects and thwap to make your eyeballs leak blood, Paul Kneejee and Fiddles Watson (aka Pope) are kindred spirits to the Boredoms and godheadSilo. Bipolar Bear, led by guitarists Kneejee and Bryan Thadius (both of whom run the Kill Shaman label) massacre Dischord-influenced garage rock in a frenzy of swampy-ass guitar-driven madness, with bassist Luke Birk’s angular lines and Kerri Kirchhammer’s off-beat drumming. Limited to 330 copies. Screened covers on chipboard.
A Living Room At The Bottom Of A Lake
(Nashazphone - NP004) LP $25.00
Birds Of Delay have been sculpting their psychedelic-electronic-noise-drone for more than five years (that’s over half a decade in human years). Previous releases on Chocolate Monk, American Tapes, Troniks, Hospital Productions, and their own Alcoholic Narcolepsy.
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
The Cut
(Ultra Eczema - UE86) LP $25.00
Pure droned filet Americain, conceptual artpiece, back to old school cards on the table, and poetics re-invented by dolle smurfen repeating the same word over and over. Classic tones, properly sliced feathers, and intense poetics. Metallic green cover design by D. Tyfus. Edition of 300.
BIRDS BUILD NESTS UNDERGROUND / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
Gramofonu = Voice of The Universe
(Opax - OPX30A) LP $23.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first meeting of Prague-based turntable-and-8mm band and Italian psychedelic troubadours. Two different approaches yield a sound from the unknown realms of the outer space and the somehow-well-known world of old cracking records. BBNU provided MCIAA with some live improvisations, which were subsequently laced with sounds of guitars, space toys and ray guns, wordless singing and alientronics. Never has music of the spheres crackled so nicely. An improvised speech by a Czech avant garde poet Vítezslav Nezval kicks this off. Edition of 300
Celebration
(Little Big Chief) LP $14.00 (Out-of-stock)
Shred, dread, sweat, spit and busted bottles from the city of brotherly scuz. “There’s so much snarl all over this thing,” marvels Buffet of Loathsome, “I’m surprised the mic ain’t slumped in the corner, nursing an ulcer…. [Insufficient] pronouncements like ‘Free or The Groundhogs as seen in the busted-mirror mosaic of Japanese underground psych’ [bust] a lil balloon of acid anxiety … in yer gut.” Edition of 350.
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.
Lost in the Cove
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $15.00
Olson and Connelly from 2007. Paste-on photocopy. Edition of 118
Solo Acoustic Volume Eight
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ008) LP $17.50 (Out-of-stock)
Sun City Girls’ master guitarist, in 20,000 leagues of his own.
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
A Strange Functional System
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD104.3) 12-inch $20.00
Early minimal synth wave from Paul Nova and company. Alternate versions four tracks on the Bizarre Unit's 2xLP (“Hot Like a Lizard,” “Ladytron,” “Not Saying Anymore,” and “Reinstate Domination”) plus “Wave My Hands and Say Hello,” exclusive to this EP.
Bizarre Uproar / Macronympha
(Trash Ritual - TRASH048) split 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Conflicted pairing of Dominance Aggression. Bizarre Uproar's unrefined Finnish harsh noise (along the lines of the ultra-violence sessions of Liha-Evankeliumi) vs. calculated composition of electronics and raw acoustics from one of the USA's strongest, Macronympha. Two counts of assault with difference of intent. Fold-over sleeve with two double-sided color inserts.
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.
Frozen Energy b/w Push You
(Avant! - AV!036) 7-inch $11.00 (Out-of-stock)
Avant’s second Black Bug single features vocals by Shawn Foree (Digital Leather), reestablishes the savage force of the band while at same time probing previously unknown areas. A perfect balance of straightforward, stripped-down synthetic punk and a glance to the dark side of early UK post-punk. Edition of 300
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.
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
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
Smegma Vs. Black Leather Jesus
(Axis Mundi - AMLP01) LP $28.00
Four years in the making, reworking and obsessing over. Silkscreened jacket, color insert, download card. Edition of 220
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.
Technical Ecstacy
(Earmark) LP $15.00
1996 reissue of the 1976 album that, though ambitious, succeeds at nothing more that documenting The Great Unraveling. 180-gram vinyl.
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
Code Black / First and Only
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR063) split 7-inch $7.75 (Out-of-stock)
Black Sun are still as heavy as their Paralyser LP but this rager's much more in the short, fast and loud vein. They Are Cowards play focused, grim, Northern waste-inspired misery, building from a massive Celtic Frost-esque riff. Beastly.
Paralyser
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR037) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
First vinyl release from the UK's heaviest band. Pummeling doom / post-industrial metal in the vein of Godflesh, early Swans, etc.
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
The Jaguar and The Yellow Colours
(Destijl - IND014) LP $20.00
That Liebfried Loch has been making his found sound / voice / guitar / organ recordings more or less unnoticed since the late 1970s is a real shocker. He has played among and with the bigger names of a DIY, Velvets-Barrett-Drake-inspired scene in and around Berlin, with connections to 39 Clocks, Phantom Payne, Beauty Contest, etc. But Loch has no patience for a melody, preferring layers of sound, a method that has yielded tiresome results by a great many artists, but for whatever reason, is much kinder to Herr Loch. Edition of 300.
Katharsis: Kalte Lieder aus der Hölle
(Hospital - HOS288) CD $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Hospital - HOS288) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Blackdeath keeps fighting, living life as war. Wildness and violence have hardened into an idiosyncratic and cracked style: manic vocals that switch from a black rasp to psychotic singing; Nordic riffs bent into a weapon with sharper angles; and song progression equal parts percussive brawl and wide-eyed revelation. Black metal stubbornly focused on quality of riff and refinement of composition. Potent.
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.
ALEX BLAKE QUINTET / PHAROAH SANDERS
Now Is The Time
(Bubble Core - BC030) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Powerful and mesmerizing modern jazz recorded live at The Knitting Factory in 2000, led by one of the world's top upright bass players, a veteran of groups with Sun Ra, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz and McCoy Tyner.
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.
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
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
Sex Magik
(Troniks - TRO282) CD $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
(Rude Fans - M164) LP (one-sided) $30.00
A legacy-destroying new low. A single session spoken word interpretation of the complete lyrics to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' landmark album Blood Sugar Sex Magik. All audio stumbles, mispronunciation and apartment squeal preserved. Edition of 100.
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.
Children’s Suite and Live at PBS
(Dual Plover) 7-inch + CD $15.50 (Out-of-stock)
Possibly the sickest release produced by a label that specializes in a sweet variety of ill. Contrary to expectation, Kevin Blechdom (Belctum From Blechdom, Erase Errata) transforms the Beatles classic “Twist and Shout” into a celebration of prenatal pleasure. The first 500 copies come with a bonus CD of La Bleckles recorded live at PBS FM during her 2006 tour of Australia. Nice ’n’ womby.
Blind Jesus
(Von Archives - VON006) LP $8.00
SALE PRICE. Stefano Pillia (guitar, audio collages and effects) and Andrew Hooker (electronics) exploring the essence of improvised ambient music. Edition of 300.
Käre Jesus b/w Mandys Bil
(I Dischi Del Barone - IDDB013) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Spun from the circle around Enhet För Fri Musik, Gustaf Dicksson’s nerve-wrecking tape collage work uses found cassettes to create bizarre glimpses of an extremely cold but thrilling north. The private nature of the source material — thrift store gems like home recordings of children singing, random conversations and crude boom box experimentation, sometimes spiced up with sparse instrumentation and always layered with a rudimentary pause-rec-ff-rewind editing — adds a disturbing flavor, as if one has snuck into someone’s living room on a Saturday night and hidden behind the rugged IKEA family couch. The A-side is based on repeated snippets from a Christian congregation in Sweden, while the slow-burning B-side investigates the grueling nature of car-ownership. Edition of 200
Issue #5
(Blood Book) Magazine + 7-inch $40.00 (Out-of-stock)
Interviews with Boyd Rice, Merzbow, Francis Bacon, Lisa Carver, and Taint. Thirty-six pages, photocopy. Includes seven-inch with “ATF Assault” and “Jagged Visions ’96” by Integrity, and The Kids oF Widney High doing “Let’s Get Busy” and “Pretty Girls.”
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
BLOOD STEREO / HAIR & TREASURE
Blood Stereo / Hair & Treasure
(Discrepant - CREP29) split LP $20.00
Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance create complete immersion for people who don’t immerse easily on one side, making livid eyes at confused glitter vixens up and down the squalid isle, while prankster randy dust duo Alex Jones and Gonçalo F. Cardoso dwell on tape loops and webbed finger piano ballads culled from a mound of who-cares electro-acoustic improv sessions as an offering to the associated deities of the zwieback buttermilk trade. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2016
From Tapes and Throats
(Giant Tank) LP $16.50
A couple years back, Glasgow was consumed by the collective throats of Antwerpian weirdo Ludo Mich and Brightonian/Lothian noise-family farmhands Blood Stereo (Karen Constance and Dylan Nyoukis of Prick Decay / Decaer Pinga / Chocolate Monk). Hear their night-terror-inducing Nosferatu yap melt the minds attending the Instal '06 festival on side A, and neck the swallie of post-everything sound poetry and tape-dirt manipulation on Side B. A real out odyssey. 250 copies. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2008.
Guff Vout Mulch
(Nashazphone - NP10) LP $20.00
Trans-Atlantic collaboration that sounds like what happens when Blood Stereo's re-imagined thousand-year-old Druid chants are invaded by Smegma's looped, psychedelic-folk-stomps. Liner notes by John Olson. Edition of 450.
Red Brut / Blood Stereo
(Chocolate Monk - choc.410) Split cassette $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Containment of the shadow self is a pointless exercise, friend. After all shit is shadow and we are all full of it. Better out than in, right? Red Brut and Blood Stereo both understand and present a side each of tape manipulation, sound collage, etc. For fledglings of all ages. Numbered edition of 52
The Larval Tuning Fork (& Other Visions)
(Twisted Knister - KNACK004) LP $16.00
Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance use tapes and toys and their mouths to bring you creaking doors, aviaries, doddering old ladies, a troupe of muppets grunting and puking their guts out, some old drunk sailor squeezing a harmonium, etc. But what’s important here is the overall bulge and slump as their record breathes. Recordings from Brighton, Blackburn, Dunbar, London, Albany, Jersey City, Amherst, Glasgow, Berlin, Schiphorst, Gerlesborg. Edition of 300.
Your Snakelike King
(Pan - PAN5) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
These Brighton mongs -- Dylan Nyoukis and Karen Constance -- pick up where they left off with 2008's The Magnetic Headache. Midnight-to-three recordings fueled by grape and smoke conjure a blurred narrative, the meaning of which is never clear, like weird off-camera sounds in a tripped out movie. A shape-shifting and strange mix of tape collage, free vocals and electro-acoustic mischief. Limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, in jacket and a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
Ready to Do Damage
(Gaping Hole - GH3) LP $13.50
Ready To Do Damage seethes with malevolence: sustained piercing feedback; crashing and ripping metal; distortion flaking off every corner; dank; violent. The A side contains a live collaboration (a first for Mania) between these two artists, while side B holds a solo track from each. Mania has terrorized the world of noise and power electronics since 2002 with releases on Bitewerks, Freak Animal, Harsh Head Rituals, Abisko, Vemod, and others. Ryan Bloomer is currently a member of industrial scuzz unit Piss Horn, lives in Canada surrounded by amplifiers, and heads up the Traumatone organization, makers of noise devices most vile. Black vinyl, 11”x17” color poster, edition of 300.
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.
Planetary Engineering
(Oaken Palace - OAK007) LP $16.00
A journey into the heart of spaced-out psychedelic noodling by members of BONG, 11 Paranoias, Haikai No Ku, Drunk In Hell, Khunnt, and Pigs Pigs Pigs. Two twenty-minute tracks evolve around rolling basslines and driving percussion, like a giant spaceship venturing deeper and deeper into the universe, with Mike Vest’s waster-infused guitar freakouts going nowhere and everywhere at the same time.
Have a puff here: https://oakenpalace.bandcamp.com/album/planetary-engineering
Solid State
(Flipped Out - FOR04) LP $8.00
Freaked and stretched excursions and blazing, bursting explosions from Philadelphia 1996. Edition of 400.
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
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
Blue Sabbath Black Fiji
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR078) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
This record translates the French/German Glasgow-based duo’s contagious live sets perfectly, where overdriven guitar scree, feedback, heavily-effected vocal distortion and brain-pummeling drum machine are all at the forefront. Within a mostly noise free-for-all, a moment of cohesion pops in -- a great groove, possibly the most head-nodding noise release on the label. Edition of 300. Screen-printed sleeves.
Mentiras
(Holodeck - HD030) LP $16.75 (Out-of-stock)
Two thirds of the now defunct electro-trio Medio Mutante, José Cota (Ssleeperhold) and Mariana A. Saldaña (ex - //Tense//) continue to deconstruct, sharpen, and enhance their idiosyncratic cold wave tradition. Cota’s vivid analog compositions form a solid foundation for Saldaña’s indelible and predominantly Spanish vocals to sink into, reflecting a unique confluence of Texas’s vibrant electronic music scene with its rich and inextricable history of Hispanic culture. The dark romance of Saldaña’s alluring vocal delivery seamlessly oscillates between the sanguine and the apocalyptic with cold, stoic detachment. Cota’s bass-lines and sequences fuse into dense melodic structures that lock-in with his signature half-time drum beats, propelling each piece forward with aggressive momentum. With a variety of punchy downtempo swing rhythms Boan’s innovative vocabulary of beats makes room for deeper melodic refrains to confidently emerge while simultaneously drilling themselves deep into the unconscious. Saldaña suspends lurid and haunting lyrics above Cota’s rich bass lines and arpeggiator hooks, creating lush and complex melodies that are meticulously integrated with massive drum hits and intoxicating effects processing. Mentiras is deeply saturated with stereo chorus, reel-to-reel tape delay, and countless other elaborate studio experiments in order to create nuanced layers of vocals, drums, and musical phrasings that continually unveil refined subtleties with every repeat listen. Includes free download card
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
Volantà Di Amore
(Chondritic Sound - CH277) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Electro-goth anthems, uplifting and ripe with sad romanticism by Alex and Andrew Jarson, whose modern maximal-wave is rich in tone and content, melodically sound and incredibly catchy, with pulsing arpeggios under synth leads and swells. Includes download card. Edition of 170
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.
Country Blues
(Revenant) 2xLP $40.00
Over sixty minutes of music including Boggs’s twelve tracks from 1927 and 1929 and five previously unreleased outtakes. Clear vinyl from 2004. Sealed
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.
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.
Bunhill Row
(Paradigm Discs - PD19) LP $17.50
In 1980, Adam Bohman (Morphogenesis, The Bohman Brothers) made his first recordings using two budget cassette recorders, an ordinary trumpet, and a variety of other acoustic instruments and objects, many of which are still part of the current Bohman armory. Bunhill Row was his first complete album of material, but it and subsequent releases from the time remained in tiny cassette editions made for friends or exchanged through the mail art network. On vinyl for the first time, Paradigm Discs' hand-numbered reissue opens another window into the incredibly fruitful astral alignment that occurred over London at this time. "Beautifully raw, dirty, and mesmerizing," opines Ed Pinsent in Sound Projector, "A genuine masterpiece of grown-in-the-UK genius." Edition of 500.
Room Service
(Rural Isolation Project) LP $15.00
A dense collection of intricate, close-mic'd small-object improvisation, homemade instruments and slippery tape music whir and skrong. All held together with a skilled sense of pace and humor. Many of duo’s past recordings revolve around collages of voice, but Room Service sets aside the deadpan humor of some of their earlier works and gets down to an intense tape collaged funhouse of squeaking spring, resonating wine glass, clattering bric-a-brac and bowed whatsit.
Bonesaw / Lobotomized
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR089) split 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Bonesaw's old-school death metal is fast and raw, with sludgy slow parts and horrible vocals. Lobotomized offer two tracks of punky death metal, similar to Abscess or maybe even newer Darkthrone. Heavy vinyl with full-color insert. Edition of 350.
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.
MARK BOOMBASTIK / MAX GOLDT / FELIX KUBIN
Fog Frog b/w Ladies Ladies
(Meeuw Muzak - MM039) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
The 2003 mix of "Fog Frog" (involving electric heater percussion and subsequently disparaged as "too Neubauten") is updated with judicious sense of organization while retaining the tipsy-sounding execution of the original -- recorded by Goldt in a hotel room with a Fellini-inspired choir of wine-filled glasses. The post-feminist pre-ejaculate that is "Ladies Ladies" gets a gentle re-agitation as well, with Boombastik and Kubin filleting Goldt's words and music from the historical timeline with their human-beatboxing and dada production, respectively.
Plastik Lieb / Hoffnung
(Meeuw Muzak - MM031) 7-inch $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
A studio piece and a live track by the human beatbox from Berlin, who does his thing with voice, tape loops and effects. Through the years he has worked with Trainingslager, Fischmob, Hofoku Soshi, Funkstoerung, Patric Catani, Felix Kubin, and Khan. Raw and tight beats, pure intensity, and combative notoriety.
The Eastcote Studios Session
(Dancing Wayang - DWR-011) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Fire-breathing saxophonists Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich and face-flaying guitarist Donald Miller summon one of their most forceful yet detailed sonic onslaughts to date. It’s dense and slab-like on first approach, impenetrable and resistant. This studio recording is a new kind of peak. Merciless, undeniable and monstrously beautiful. Hand-screenprinted wrap-around sleeve designed by Richard Wilson. Liner notes by Edwin Pouncey. 180-gram vinyl. Edition of 500. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2016
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.
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.
MATTIAS BOSS / RAYMOND DIJKSTRA
Ins Kahle Zimmer Sinken Blaue Firne
(Ultramarine - UM024) 7-inch $13.50
Fantastic “chamber” recording from these two masters of the screeching acoustic metal-on-metal -- Amsterdam-based artist Dijkstra (whose extremely personal work, redolent of opium, crusty wallpaper and taxidermy, involves accordion, unknown electronics, and voice) and Swiss violinist extraordinaire Boss. Violin, organ, fork and spoon are the credited instruments here, blowing ice cold gusts into your listening parlor, like twisted classical music from a distant century. Silkscreen jacket. Edition of 100.
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
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.”
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.”
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
Site / Realm
(VHF) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Elemental guitar noise, feedback washes, bowed cymbals from 1994. Silkscreened fold-over jacket.
The Bowles
(Kye - KYE705) 7-inch $11.25 (Out-of-stock)
The briefly extant Australian trio of Matthew P. Hopkins, Christopher Schueler (R.I.P.) and Mary MacDougal came together in 2009 and plied their craft across the patchwork of warehouses, attics and D.I.Y. artspaces connecting the Blue Mountains of New South Wales to inner city Sydney, before imploding later that same year. This six-track overview, recorded live to Dictaphone in Sydney, consists of murky cassette montages, strung-out 3am ballads and exquisite-corpse-style constructs that unify and define an original voice few have heard. Includes color postcard. Edition of 350.
Familia
(After Music Recordings) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
All hail The New Desolation. One of America’s premier noise bands, Boy Dirt Car returns with a sermon, or possibly a soundtrack to a beautiful yet disturbed mantra, with a possible insight to breakdown. Darren Brown, Dave Szolwinski, Dan Kubinski, Keith Brammer, Steve Whalen, and Jeff Hamilton are joined by guests Rico McCoulm, Mike Sawyer, Josh Mead and Jarrod Olman for this journey into enlightenment or dementia. Found sounds combine with interludes of thrashed out bass, distorto guitar, and manipulations alongside vocal musings, tantrums and almost choral-like insertions within and around. Seems like one for the headphones. Jackets silkscreened by Josh Mead. Vinyl includes one track not available digitally. Edition of 300. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2010.
Treacherous Young Witches
(After Music Recordings) split LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Boy Dirt Car has got the drift again on this textural affair with layers of echoing and twisting noises, guitar undercurrents, razor'd electro interruptions and erosions. Their twenty-minute, bounce-heavy, clanking rhythm-bed, touched by marimba, fused with found sounds, is organic as a kitten and possessed as the Oracle's mono-toned pronouncements. On the flip, Andy Gallagher enlists the help of Mike Watt (Minutemen), Mike Hoffman, Steve Summers and Graham Brown for four songs. The instantly memorable opener “Should've Stayed in Bed” is reminiscent of a melancholy Grant Hart and won't leave your memory anytime soon. If you're into Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh, Gallagher has you covered. Original artwork from Josh Mead and Astrid Young (Neil's sister). Edition of 300.
irr. app. (ext.) / Mykel Boyd
(Somnimage - som10009) split 7-inch $12.00
Matthew Waldron's avant-brewski meets Boyd's drones and sputters, like a cicada in Lake Michigan. White vinyl, silver on black silk screened sleeve. Limited to 200 copies
MYKEL BOYD / PAINTING PETALS ON PLANET GHOST
Painting Petals on Planet Ghost / Mykel Boyd
(Somnimage - som10014) split 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
The Opalio brothers (My Cat is an Alien) with Ramona Ponzini bring the mellow on the Painting Petals on Planet Ghost side with ambient noise and bells. Boyd's sweet ride consists of processed field recordings. White vinyl in opaque wrap-over sleeve. Limited to 200 copies.
Rapoon / Mykel Boyd
(Somnimage) split LP $21.00
One side of beautiful ethno-ambiance by Robin Storey, formerly of Zoviet France. One side of "recordings of things" altered by Boyd to sound like planes taking off. Black, letter-pressed jacket. White vinyl. Edition of 200.
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.
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
(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.
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
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
(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
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
Necking / Breakarts
(Neck And Tongue) 12-inch $9.75 (Out-of-stock)
Brooklyn-based drums-electronics-voices duo on one side (Rop Vazquez [ex-Rice, Peechees, Semi-Automatic] and Nick Lesley [Alien Whale, ex-Oma Yang, Scarcity of Tanks]), doing their hyper-active improv noise rock influenced by the San Diego hardcore they grew up with in the ’90s, and on the other the Bay Area quintet described by SF Weekly as “inscrutable” and “threatening,” consisting of RandyLee Sutherland (vox, tape loops), Tomo Yasuda (bass, Korg, keys, Casio), Kevin Woodruff (drums, sample pad), Anthony Iamurri (guitar, bass, cowbell), and Jonathan Holland (bass, guitar). 45 RPM. Edition of 500.
At The North Pole, Easter Day, 1982
(What The ... - WHAT012) LP (one-sided) + 3in CDR $14.00
In comparison to the only other available 1980s recording of a complete live performance by the BLE (the side-long “Industrial Barbecue,” on the BUFMS boxset), At The North Pole, Easter Day, 1982 is starker and more minimal overall. Performing as a quintet at an open mic night in a student cafeteria, the group had played live only once prior and had yet to amass the collection of ubiquitous tape players and answering machines that accompanied most subsequent performances and recordings. The absence of overt forward progress in some parts gives the performance an incidental resemblance to those tense moments in grim power electronics just before the singer goes berserk, but then ridiculous verbal repetitions and Top 40 references come out of nowhere like nerdy Fluxus rehearsals in the middle of a New Orleans funeral. Other segments highlight the difference between aboriginal metal percussion and pots ’n’ pans getting banged together by people with a remarkably spastic sense of rhythm. Visually, Bren’t Lewiis were like a cross between the jackets of early Nurse With Wound albums and a bunch of hicks impersonating Spike Jones and His City Slickers. Television sets flickered throughout. Doug Roberts brought his bicycle onstage. Dressed in a labcoat and white wool-felt USAF boots, howling into his signature plastic lawn flamingo, Lucian Tielens stretched the limits of publicly acceptable intimate congress with inanimate objects. Tim Smyth wore a bunch of Christmas lights attached to a Civil Defense helmet. Amoeba Man had a garbage bag filled with helium balloons taped to his head and toilet paper wrapped around his face. As some sort of oblique Day-Glo homage to Carmen Miranda, Gnarlos wore a handmade upside-down sweatsuit. The amplified 21-foot aluminum sailboat mast, the undisputed star of the show, was so unwieldy that use of a special freight door was required just to get in and out of the building, and yet a single, lonely metallic “ploong!” was pretty much the limit of its sonic palette -- appropriate testament to the methodology of this absurdly inefficient group. Includes insert printed with glow-in-the-dark ink, and a reproduction of the flyer advertising the show. Edition of 129. All orders placed here include a 3-inch CDR of previously unreleased hoot, not available elsewhere.
BREN’T LEWIIS ENSEMBLE / SILVIA KASTEL / NINNI MORGIA
Fix It Again, Tony
(Butte County Free Music Society - 45) LP $20.00
This first-time collaboration by avatars of the new generation of European improv and blue-haired spazimodo mutants is something of a gloriously awkward thwack marathon of crumbled guitar noise, otherworldly howls, and stuff falling down stairs. The spontaneous recordings, performed in a single 90-minute session, are cut-up, multi-tracked, looped, and reassembled into thirty-two pieces that are more scrambled than the unrealized fears of an acute entomophobe, and, according to Morgia, “sometimes sound like Twin Infinitives chewed by Polyphemus.” Cover art by the amazing Todd Emmert. Edition of 175.
Make It Stop
(Training Bra) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
The debut vinyl by this early ’80s free-improv, Smegma-influenced outsider collective of Butte County-based freaks. Found objects, homemade instruments, prerecorded tapes and vinyl, psychotic cover versions of AM fodder, and a resolute lack of music skills abound. "Deeply peculiar," Weird Record of the Week — CMJ. Members went on to play in Vomit Launch and Glands of External Secretion.
Refreshing Hemorrhage
(Butte County Free Music Society - 44) 7-inch $8.00
Both versions of “People,” the aloof masterpiece by Mancunian iconoclasts Gods Gift, are covered simultaneously on the A Side, as Bren’t Lewiis shambles along on fuzz guitar, warped keyboards, and Colour Out Of Space field recordings, while the imperious Silvia Kastel intones her dispassionate but resolutely negative critique of mankind. The B Side continues with a severely bent cover of both versions of “O Jackie O,” itself a damaged charm song by Chicago trio ONO, here performed on messed-up kazoo, holiday wrapping paper tube, and tape-manipulated field recordings from the swamp where Annette Funicello’s head was buried by The Allman Bros. An unhealthy tape piece brings the record its queasy conclusion. Overall, totally appalling, but in a good way, like the talent show scene in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Edition of 100.
Three Christs of Ypsilanti
(Siltbreeze - SB131) LP + 3-inch CDR $15.00
The first post-BUFMS-boxset disgorgement of ramshackle outsider clatter and howl from one of California’s many rural nowheres exposes previously hidden, 25-year-old whack-off (à la Smegma and other bent LAFMS trippers, the UK’s A Band, 5 Starcle Men, Yximalloo, Gastric Female Reflex, Id M Theft Able, and the sort of visionaries currently promoted by labels such as Chocolate Monk and Beniffer Editions). The murky “Take It Out And Kill It” whirls around in conflicting directions in a manner one critic long ago described as “schizophrenic muzak.” “Dark Surprise,” a 1986 recording from the crossroads of DIY autism and darkened psychedelia, is previously unreleased (the first playback of the master tape didn’t happen until 2008). In contrast to the group’s usual embrace of any and all kitchen sinks in the immediate vicinity, this recording was made solely with electric guitars, voice and prerecorded audio frottage. Book-ending both sides are excerpts from an after-hours, no-audience, guerrilla action recorded in a multistory, split-level university student union, using hurled cafeteria cutlery, defective boomboxes and answering machines blaring prerecorded tape, the public piano, and a variety of unidentified flailing objects. “[As] secretive as a posse’ve Masons bidding in a goat auction … a weird , befuddlin storm comin’ outta the night … tryin’ to charm you into the muddy arms of the undertow.” –Roland Woodbe, Siltblog NOTE: Copies of this LP purchased here include a 3-inch CDR of previously unreleased bonus tracks.
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
ANDREW BRODER / GEORGE CARTWRIGHT
Broder / Cartwright
(Roaratorio - ROAR08) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Andrew Broder (aka Lex Records/Ninja Tune recording artist Fog) and George Cartwright (leader of the long-running avant/jazz group Curlew and Gloryland Ponycat Trio) lay claim to some barrier-crashing and genre-splicing within their respective bodies of work. Together on a Minneapolis stage in February 2004, they cross-pollinate like killer bees with their array of saxes, laptops, turntables, keyboards, and various effects. Broder and Cartwright’s free improv would work fine as a soundtrack for documentaries on paranormal phenomena, so start filming, auteur. Limited edition on red vinyl, with hand-silkscreened covers.s/t
Solo Acoustic Volume Three
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ3) LP $14.00
Twelve-string arrangements from a true master of the instrument, Brokaw shows a range from waltzes and ballads to experiments and rhythms. Member of Codeine, The New Year, Come, Thurston Moore and the New Wave Bandits and many more ensembles. Letterpress jackets, liner notes.
Home of the Brahma Chopp
(Vertical Industries - NR19635) LP $10.00
A solo project by Jim Sotille of Squirmbo, executed between 1988 and 1993, released 1994. Dominated by free guitar noises backed up with percussion and crackling.
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
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
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
(Bulb) Used 7-inch $2.00
Three short tracks of proto-industrial noiserock from 1993
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.
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.”
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
Jeff Burch
(Spring Press) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Composed and recorded over a year between his home in New York City, and on residency in Stockholm, Tangier and Venice, Burch’s follow-up to his 2015 album summons a once familiar spirit caught inside the single note and the endless reverberations of the Fluxus streets. He sounds out endless violin and cello wail and draws long interstellar synthesizer vowels, pushing them up against a clangor of bells, dizzying organ-fed Leslie, glassy bows of cymbal and gong.
Bagirwa Hymn
(Von Archives - VON003) LP $20.00
A tribal funeral ode in the form of two dense, obscure messes, from one of the masters of the new mysticism. Edition of 300.
Burial Hex
(Scratch And Sniff Entertainment - SNSE068) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dark and focused, utterly joyless mixture of field recordings, synths, and tortured vocals by Clay Ruby. Edition of 306.
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.
A Black Balloon
(Criminal - PATR55) LP $5.00
Sealed copies of the original pressing (from the early to mid-'80s) of the second solo outing by one of the Parasites of the Western World dudes. Crashing syndrums, pomped riffs and dramatic vocals, steering just the right side of Thomas Dolby and Peter Gabriel territory with unique traces of synth-pop and an untouchably aspirational intent.
Silence and Timing
(Criminal - PATR555) LP $8.00
Sealed copies of the original pressing from 1981 of this solo oddity by a member of the Parasites Of The Western World. Not as many avant rock maneuvers as the Parasites' album (reissued by Destijl), but still a knockout, albeit less overt. Burke blurs the boundary between dreamy psych and melancholic post punk, with passing overtones of both Brian Sands and Gignoux's The Broadway Boys, though this has got a darker overall cast.
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
White
(NTR) Used LP $12.00
Interpretations of Whitehouse. Screen-printed paper sleeves. White vinyl. Numbered edition 182/300
Body Blues
(Hospital - HOS182) 7-inch $6.75 (Out-of-stock)
Spencer Yeh’s voice of rapture emerges from the tunnels of noise. Two side-long pieces that drift between driving, nostalgic, road-weary, headlong plunges into human mysteries and sombre, rose-pedal synth write private and voyeuristic existentialism.
Brighter Summer Day
(Thin Wrist - TWB) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
Burning Star Core's first vinyl full-length and first widely available recording after numerous private releases that began surfacing in 1993. Massive layers of sustained sound driven thru violins and electronics direct to climax, backed by broken organs dropped into shifting darkness and cracked computer hypnotics.
Burning Star Core / Del
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC08) split 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
A blend of wild rock energy with anarchic noise weirdness in a complex, explosive, multi-layered sound. Traditional instrumentation (violin, drums + guitars) and noisy, chaos-generating electronics, unified in celebration of the power of primal natural forces and the creative energy of sexual instincts.
Challenger
(Hospital - HOS216) CD $13.75 (Out-of-stock)
(Plastic - P007) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
On this composed work (as opposed to BxC's propensity for improv), each piece revolves around a central melodic theme with field recordings, an audio diary bridging the gaps, ranging from pure tonal mood to huge electronic crescendos. Challenger uses space remarkably, with parts coming and going, dropping, building or receding. When the piano crashes in “Mysteries of the Organ,” it's almost a frustration of paradise, a rejection of perfection or maybe a jolt of inexplicable life, unable to be translated into proper communication. Juxtaposed with the quiet haunting of “Hopelessly Devoted” which sounds like a love letter written to outer space, it makes for an album that is both dynamic yet consistent as a full statement. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2008
BURNING STAR CORE / COMETS ON FIRE
Comets On Fire / Burning Star Core
(Yik Yak - 005) LP $12.00
Noise-damaged psychedelia from the trippy year of 2005. No roadhouse numbers, just pure expando-band blown-jam sorcery. Shirts were shed, inhibitions were forgotten, magic was made. Silkscreened sleeves. Edition of 1000.
The Very Heart of The World
(Thin Wrist - TWG) CD $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
(Thin Wrist - TWG) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
An incredibly heavy record, built on dense, layered drones, pulses, splintered vocals, and deep rhythms that euphorically build to total overload. With a lineup including the Hair Police front line and other luminaries from across the exploding Midwestern psych/noise/folk underground, BXC's C. Spencer Yeh shifts through epic movements and pushes pure electronic/concrete/physical/rock energy to undeniable, massive sound.
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
Dogs And Boats and Airplanes Choir
(Big Pond Small Fish) LP (lathe cut) $30.00
A collaborative effort by this “seriously idiosyncratic” conceptual artist and a hundred children between the ages of eight and twelve, who chorally mimic dogs, boats and airplanes in a libretto of their own making. Side A was originally devised as incidental music for Burns’s book Dog and Boats and Airplanes Told In The Form Of Ivan The Terrible. On the B-Side, the children voice the sounds of dogs lapping milk, a tugboat, a kennel, and an airplane cockpit with their “guttural and throaty resonances…, whispers, blows, whistles…, elaborate … and dexterous manipulations [that are unsettling because of their resemblance to] death moans,” observes The Senses And Society. “The sonances reproduced by the students represent a clash between the animals of the natural world and the vehicles of industrial society…. The sonic disharmony … reveals intractable tensions.” Plain white jacket with information embossed on it. Edition of 75.
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.
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).
Tokei Nikki
(RRRecords - RRR999) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Kyoto noise turntable trio BusRatch began in 1998 (and have disbanded after eleven years, making their debut vinyl release their swan song) and performed improvised music on eight turntables simultaneously. Later on, as a duo, Katsura Mori and Takahiro Yamamoto "play back" on turntables a variety of items including prepared records, cymbals, metal objects, and mouse pads, as well as constructing sound improvisationally by using the cartridge and arm as amplifiers. Plenty of abstract needle fingering, processing, repetition and extreme noise. Side one contains two elegant, contemporary avant garde compositions. On side two are ninety-nine locked grooves. They've performed with Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide, Keiji Haino, Tetuzi Akiyama, Thomas Ankersmit, Utah Kawasaki, Bruno Meillier, Computer Soup, Olivia Block, Seth Nehil, and TV POW.
Bottle Breaking Heart Leap
(Alt.Vinyl - AV0000060) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Intense 2012 live recording from The Left Bank in Leeds (a deconsecrated church with great acoustics) by two world-class improvisors who continue to develop a radical attitude to sound and interaction. 180-gram vinyl. Edition of 250
BUTTE COUNTY FREE MUSIC SOCIETY
Induced Musical Spasticity
(Butte County Free Music Society - 25) 4xLP + CD $65.00 (Out-of-stock)
Induced Musical Spasticity commemorates the nascent pollination — in the musty shadows of the real ersatz Sherwood Forest, a couple hundred miles north of San Francisco — of the Buttecounty Free Music Society, an apocryphal institution that encouraged anything and nothing, in musical and amusical contexts, sometimes intentionally, sometimes because no one knew any better or cared. Highbrow concept tracks by The Marques (brothers Cole and Steve Marquis) and the dramaturgical Unlikely Modernists, along with Ambivalent Dosage’s pre-Vomit Launch nihilism, mutter and howl next to mad paisley destructo by Dilwhip and the quartet edition of 28th Day, Hypnagogic Jerk’s overmodulated roar, and sweet, YMG-influenced instrumentals by Hallucinatory Companion (aka Barbara Manning and Cole Marquis). Ripe dementia by Experimental Artists, Lawrence Crane and John Young, and Tops Inc. stops rational people in their tracks, while turntable experiments, tape yoink, and high-lonesome electro-twarnk by Rory Lyons, Ziplok, Sidney Afrika, The Conduits, Lucian Tielens, and Richard Streeter shuffle the consciousness. And then you’ve got primitard rock dunt by The Flamboyant Offals, Walking Jock, Dead Boy 3, and shockingly raw 28th Day material that predates most anyone’s idea of the original line-up of that influential band. Four episodes of Matt Mumper’s serial radio play Beor The Friendly Thing appear, in all its inscrutable, deadpan glory. The Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble pollutes the lion’s share of real estate with a side-long tape cut-up a la Faust Tapes called “Goat Embryo (Covered With Glue),” and their entire live set from the Industrial Barbecue. Also here are the spot-on country lament “Plastic Jesus”; the electronic damage of “Mid-Range Phase/Link 3"Dome”; the Smegma-influenced “Lightbulb Incident,” infamous for its live, on-air sodomy; a KCSC radio interview that includes the group’s first recordings; and a handful of previously unreleased tracks. Two-thirds of the material here was previously released (translation: a few dozen cassettes were dubbed one at time and passed through the hands of people in the same rural Northern California area code 25 years ago). All the relics in this boxset are likely unheard by anyone not specifically mentioned above.
I Am A 7-inch Single
(Ultra Eczema - UE83) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The German hero of prank art, weirdo live shows, and real head-scratch records is back with a single about a single. Jacket is a stencil-print of Elvis. Edition of 200.
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
Wie Zeit Vergeht
(Pan - PAN14) LP $15.00
The Berserker of Berlin's uninterrupted stream of timbre-changing and alternating sounds takes influence from aspects of Stockhausen's work, albeit certainly far from Serielle Komposition methods. Using an entirely different array of equipment and caring less for technical finesse, a raw and sometimes absurd quality emerges. In spite of the dramatic character of the compositions, Butzmann works with the same joy and intuition as when he first heard them almost 40 years ago. Manipulating analogue sounds culled from old electronic recordings that he made at STEIM in Amsterdam back in 1995 (using the infamous Black Box modular system), a dadaistic influence shines through in the semi-naive use of electronics, vocals and undefined sound sources. For Butzmannm the basic idea is always more important than the perfect realization. The lyrics are excerpts of ... wie die Zeit vergeht ..., Telemusik and Kurzwellen by Stockhausen plus re-writings of lyrics used in the first section of the composer's concrete and electronic composition Hymnen. 140-gram vinyl, color jacket, silkscreened PVC sleeve. Edition of 500.
Coma
(Alt.Vinyl - AV059) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
This German post-industrial electronic innovator works with a curetronic modular system, a mopho, and Korg MS-20. Inspired by the awful and yet fascinating process of observing a close friend’s coma following a motorcycle crash, the album moves through initial hopes of recovery, followed by melancholic hopelessness as time passes. 180-gram vinyl.
Coma Box
(Alt.Vinyl - AV059BOX) LP + CD $60.00 (Out-of-stock)
This German post-industrial electronic innovator works with a curetronic modular system, a mopho, and Korg MS-20. Inspired by the awful and yet fascinating process of observing a close friend’s coma following a motorcycle crash, the album moves through initial hopes of recovery, followed by melancholic hopelessness as time passes. Contains LP, CD with bonus track, stacks of handmade inserts and photos. Outer black box with hand-punched metal plates showcasing the coma artwork. Edition of 50
The C&B
(Siltbreeze - SB132) 7-inch $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
The C&B is short for The Cat & Bells Club, a brief 1991 precursor to The Shadow Ring (whose early recordings fuse equal parts Tyrannosaurus Rex’s mystical recitations with Throbbing Gristle’s aural idolatry). The C&B seem divinely born out of the sputtering taps of brown ale that flowed freely down the gullets of various first-generation DIY shufflers, most notably 49 Americans or Door And The Window. And while this is just dumb luck, there's no denying a genus, unintentional as it may be. The templates for the ruminative, droll and original wordsmithing, not to mention the threadbare musical accompaniment, that would soon become the hallmark for The Shadow Ring sound are now available for the first time ever. Four tracks, 300 pressed. Original artwork by Graham Lambkin.
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.
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
Clinik Organik Muzak Anatomik
(Danger Records - DR001) LP $20.00
An avant-garde cold-wave / weird synth-punk masterpiece by this French trio whose members went on to Charles De Goal and Danse Macabre on the ’80s. First-time legit reissue of the original album (Flamingo 1979).
Stolen Public Toilets
(Trash Ritual - TRASH040) LP $18.00
Thirty minutes of psychedelic harsh noise by Joe Roemer (Macronympha, One Dark Eye, OVMN) on guitar noise and effects, Ed-Um Bucholtz (Telecorps) on junk metal and electronics, and Nick Painter (Lord Bird Golden Cobra) on electronics and tape loops. Self-described as primarily electro-acoustic, Stolen Public Toilets is far more aggressive and raw than the term suggests. Limited edition of 200 copies with fold-over silk-screened cover.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
The Marianne
(Kye - KYE23) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
The questing, narrative themes of The Rising (Kye 2011) and Incidents of Travel (White Denim 2012) extrapolated into a three-part conceptual odyssey. Set aboard the cruise liner of the same name, The Marianne charts the epic voyage of Capt. Fletcher and his patrons as they passage across the “sour ocean,” through a prism of supernature and on toward an uncertain end. Sea-foam green vinyl. Edition of 400.
The Rising
(Kye - KYE12) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Tim Goss and Chloe Mutter have been locked in perfect isolation since 2010, teasing every nuance of their sound into sharp focus, mastering cryptic intent. Homespun keyboard minimalism, wavering teenage laments, and foreboding pronouncements of doom synthesize into new, original matrices of thought. The Rising also introduces the guitar heroics of some-time third member, Big Rob Stewart, who lays down the law in crude basement style. Edition of 1000
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.
Infinite Floor
(Holodeck - HD034) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
The sophisticated and nuanced debut by this Austin native interweaves a spectrum of electronic subgenres, moving seamlessly from abstract drum’n’bass into screwed four-on-the-floor and ambient 2-step rhythms. Sharply honed samples, intricately layered drum beats, and crafted analog synth tones churn through a host of studio hardware. Cameron’s effortless procession of songs subversively cycles forward, reacting to the hyper-sensory state of the current DJ culture in America, and adapts the modern platform of dance music into a refined format. Includes free download card
Revengeful Is The Mask Of Darkness
(Zaius Tapes) LP $20.00
Camp One’s sole album from ’81 by the mysterious quartet of D Jones, I Good, L Williams and P Sage is almost a Baroque-like, outsider take on prog rock and postpunk with eccentricity crackling off its grooves. Imagine the fattier bits of A Moore’s oeuvre, the suet of L Voag, and the gristle of Mark Perry, all baked into a most succulent Yorkshire pudding for the ears. 2022 repress, edition of 250
NEIL CAMPBELL / RICHARD YOUNGS
How The Garden Is
(Harpendon - HP271) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Campbell and Youngs have recorded together in various forms (most notably A Band and the Durian, Durian LP), but How the Garden Is is their first true collaboration. Recorded over two days in the spring of 2000, this LP is mainly acoustic, hovering in, around, and between Youngs's meditative solo work and the density of Vibracathedral Orchestra ... stripped bare and built up around itself. Edition of 300. Jacket is near-mint with beginning of two-inch split on top edge of jacket; vinyl is mint. Includes 2-inch insert.
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.
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.
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.
New Secret
(RRRecords - RRRCANT) LP picture disc $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Can't is Jessica Rylan, a n-n-noisician who exercises both restraint and vengeance in her ability to cause emotional discomfort and physical pain in the ear, as well as a unique kind of closeness and shared ecstatic state. Using analog synthesizers, a little rhythm box here, a couple distortion pedals there. Observes the Bay Guardian, “The sounds breathed from her homemade modular synths don't come off as ladylike - they're as monstrous and violent at the appropriate volumes as the harshest noise…. [G]entle intimacy with her instrument, the lightness of her voice as it passes through … bent circuits, and the passivity of her gestures as she moves the chaotic parameters of the machine in front of her … imbue her performance with femininity.”
Only The Sun Is Full Of Gold
(Hands In The Dark - HITD022) LP $16.75 (Out-of-stock)
A two-part journey to darker spheres led by Frenchman Vincent Caylet, from the depths of a dense, uncanny and unpredictable jungle that the sun never reaches, to unexplored territories deep under the ocean or among the highest layers of the planet (listener’s choice). Having mutated Cankun’s magic formula into a more mature and direct lo-fi psych dub, Caylet's instrumental opus flirts with prog, postrock and ambient electro. Edition of 500
Lens Deficiency
(Sham Repro) LP $25.00
Lens Deficiency works as a story intentionally withholding several of its components (dialogue, music), requiring the listener’s individual pattern recognition development to determine how the phantom linearity of Pete Cann’s half-hour construction is “viewed,” processed and evaluated. But it’s even better as pure musique concrète sound collage. Aspiring game-show contestants could feel provoked into trying to recognize what movies the hundreds of sounds here are appropriated from; thoughts and prayers they’ll become bored by such meaningless, dead-end cochlea-flexing and instead discern the new, unique path Cann has machete’d out of the darkness for their benefit. He leaves impenetrable saturation to career edgelords, cartoon-y kitsch to pie-throwing idiots, and dialogue to the French. The favored strategy here is measured placement of audio events that are complex enough on their own; which is not to say moments of sublime layering are absent. On the contrary, one’s imagination might linger on John Cage’s sound-effects-only score for The City Wears A Slouch Hat, the original 250-pager that CBS balked at and is gone forever, or perhaps the blunt force trauma style of the Lanz / Eb.er radio show Psychic Rally. The range of genres and eras represented is wide, which accounts for the dynamics and contrast, while at the same time Cann’s ear leans heavily on compatibility. Neither random nor composed, Lens Deficiency’s heavy lifting is done by intuition and the joy of a perfect coincidence.
Cannibal
(Primary Information) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
This disorienting tour de force of the lower forms of music. Guided by a collective deftness for derailment, Destroy All Monsters’ Cary Loren, Cameron Jamie, and the Belgian minister of exploitation Dennis Tyfus hallucinate fifteen tracks of erratic electronics, deranged and incantatory narration, harmonica, jaw harp, dollar-bin records, found poetry, vocal sound techniques, etc. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 450. Have a listen to “Phantasm” here: https://soundcloud.com/primaryinformation/cannibal-phantasm/s-LEECR
Mondo Music
(Yerevan Tapes - YER003) LP $20.25 (Out-of-stock)
Two trippy fifteen-minute tracks by the Italian drums-and-organ psych duo. “The first side takes … a hypnotic journey to the afterlife,” says Microphones In The Trees, a la early Amon Düül, German Oak, and Jacks. “The other side begins more meditative and at times ethereal, until the percussion of Gaspare opens the path to a ceremony of a secret brotherhood with dissonant textures and hypnotic pulse.” Die-cut jacket, color insert on tracing paper. Edition of 500.
S.R. CANO / MATT PURSE / STEVE TOUCHTON
Remainderless
(Oxen - 005) LP $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Blasts, squeaks, rasps, and uncommon squelch frequencies comprise the aggregate sum of the three unsettling tracks by this Los Angeles trio with connections to XBXRX, tik///tik, and Fenian. Clear vinyl. Free download card. Listen to a sample here: http://fenian.bandcamp.com/track/remainderless-sample-edit-of-tracks-from-12-ep
Faceless Kiss / Blut Mond
(Emerald Cocoon - EC008) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Cantu-Ledesma’s guitar beams directly down from Souvlaki Space Station and arrives gorgeously mangled via modular synthesizer. Romantically haloed chorus guitar floats widescreen across relentless static drum machines until the sky splits open in the final movement, spilling burning guitar fragments over everything. The pink-out bliss explored on Love Is A Stream (Type Records, 2010) is unapologetically pop here, and more aggressive. The B-side is a bass-heavy covert floater – night sky music this member of Tarental and The Alps, a regular collaborator with filmmaker Paul Clipson and founder of the Root Strata label. Volume six in Emerald Cocoon’s Alone Together series. Edition of 300.
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.
The End Of Irony
(Dual Plover) LP + CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Electronic breakcore disco by Jonathan Snipes and crew. Dual Plover's edition (aka the red edition) is similar to Deathbomb Arc's (aka the blue edition), but not identical. Fifteen tracks total, five of which are not on the blue edition, two are on vinyl for the first time, and three are drastically reworked.
The Sun Will Turn On You
(Discombobulate - BOB008) LP $19.00
This mixture of ultra-brilliant-synth-darkness and Rumplestiltskin slow-rap calls to mind Steel Pulse raised on home-dubbed noise tapes rather than heavy Handsworth pressure. Fluent and fluttering “whaps” coil Uzumaki-style under sheets of neon-blue keyboard. Lightening shudders in freeze-frame, a zoetrope in sound. But the one constant is the voice... the voice and the song, half-remembered by any parent or nurse, familiar as mumps yet distant as those splendid ivory toothpicks. Red vinyl. Edition of 250
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.
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
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.”
Thomas Carnacki / Vulcanus 68
(Alethiometer / Gigante Sound - WHISTLE05) split LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
On one side, real-time manipulation of found objects by Gregory Scharpen, an original members of the live incarnation of irr. app. (ext.), using coffee grinder, half a pair of time-worn epaulets, a large bowl of sand, violas, pages from a book, broken autoharp, jar of marbles, chandlestick, rocks, and field recordings from the Antarctic by Cheryl Leonard. On the flip, two tracks by Jared Blum and Dominic Cramp take the cues from pioneers of musique concrete, such as Ussachevsky, Xenakis, Ruth White and BBC Radiophonic, with quick slices and jarring movement of manipulated tape and electronics.
Where’s My Love, My Eyes Are Gone, The Rains Are Coming
(Alethiometer - WHISTLE06) 7-inch $10.00
A slippery slab of vinacular gravitas that continues the Begemotian crusade initiated with Oar Of Panmuphle in 2012. Once again the streets run red from the exsanguination of countless pomegranates, and this third installment might very well reveal what your darkest imaginings should not hazard to contemplate.
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.
Halloween II
(Death Waltz - DW007) LP $25.00
Big, dark and nerve-shreddingly intense synths wail and stutter as the score progresses to the point where you feel your head might implode. Colored vinyl.
Halloween III
(Death Waltz - DW008) LP $25.00
A tour de force of experimental synth tones, intense melodies and dark brooding mood pieces. Sleeve notes by Howarth and Jay Shaw. Colored vinyl. Includes lithograph and poster.
Bastard Wing
(Eclipse - ECL018) Used LP $10.00
Piano, electric guitar, voice and bells from 2003 by one half of Charalambides. Edition of 250
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
DANIEL CARTER / DISSIPATED FACE
Live At CBGB 1986
(Roaratorio - ROAR30) 7-inch $7.25 (Out-of-stock)
These archival recordings from the NYC punk club capture a moment in time when free jazz got its first chance since Detroit’s Grande Ballroom ca. 1968 to organically meld with sheer metalesque maelstrom. The twisted, thrashing power chords and shrieking licks of Dissipated Face guitarist Kurt “Hologram” Ralske, fueled by the throbbing rhythms of Steve “X Dream” Popkin and Ben “Face” Munves, who alternated on bass and drums, blend with special guest saxophonist Carter’s cathartic alto wail. Cover artwork by Raymond Pettibon.
L’Etoile de Mer
(Emerald Cocoon - EC012) LP $17.50 (Out-of-stock)
Unlike Man Ray’s dreamlike 1928 surrealist film of the same name, her score for it is severely in focus: carefully placed single notes of electric guitar hang in a space made so tense by expectation that the air feels like glass under pressure. Buckling under the weight of their own naked intensity and the film’s obscure ritual logic, both takes end with a sudden descent into a seasick pitch-shifted blur. On the flip, seven etude-like songs recorded in an Austin hallway, were inspired by solo saxophone exercises. These pieces are meditations on sound rather than words. Tongue and throat animate the air, unconstrained by lyrical concerns; vocal shapes are carved, probed, turned over, and discarded. Previously released on cassette (Freedom From 2000). Sillscreened jackets. Edition of 300
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
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
Obelisk / Tholos
(Emerald Cocoon - EC003) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
A lone voice, tangled bells, the caw of a crow, a plane passing overhead… A fortuitous overlapping of sound moments, trapped in amber an act of white witchcraft, a healing spell that defines time with the merest of tools. Volume one in Emerald Cocoon’s Alone Together series. Edition of 300.
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.
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.
The Dance From Which All Dances Come
(Wholly Other) Used LP $8.00
Galactic guitar ooze from 2009. Silkscreened cover.
Tom Carter / Pat Murano
(Kelippah - KEL014) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
A side stream of excellent deployment by a Charalambide and a NNCK who incorporate mell-harshing loops into their psychedelic, abstract configuration. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 300.
Rag
(Roaratorio - ROAR19) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded at various Minneapolis venues throughout 2009, Rag captures freely improvised meetings between saxophonist Cartwright (longtime leader of Curlew, associations with Ornette Coleman, Half Japanese, Alex Chilton and Loren Mazzacane) and percussionist Seru, whose playing is a trompe l’oreille marriage of forward motion and suspended stasis; witness his work with Milo Fine, Paul Metzger and Evan Parker, among others. Cartwright can be restlessly melodic or jaggedly guttural on the reeds, although his bedrock lyricism is never far from the surface. Edition of 300, each copy with unique print by Anne Elias on the jacket. Colored vinyl. Includes digital download coupon.
Siberian Field Recordings / Interview with a Whale Hunter
(Von Archives - VON004) 7-inch $12.00
SALE PRICE. The oldest whale hunter of Lorino in Chukotka, speaking about his life and experiences in chukchi (a language that it is danger of extinction, one of Siberia's oldest).
Tense Nature
(Hands In The Dark - HITD029) LP $18.50 (Out-of-stock)
The guitarist from Disappears and Bambi Kino Duo focuses on space, minimalism and repetition, with songs built around the idea of tape loops or lock grooves, working with snippets and phrases of sound, randomly cut samples of guitar and small drum loops. The sequences and their imperfect nature build their own sort of momentum throughout twelve primarily electronic, abstract, visceral, ambient tracks. They depict a dark environment, an uncanny landscape with its own contained world. Includes free download card.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.”
Mag Ik Eens Even In Uw Broek Pissen
(Ultra Eczema - UE69) LP $25.00
Since 1974 Daniel De Wereldvermaarde Botanicus has been combining musique concrète, analog synthesizer carpets, weirdo acid, noise, field recordings, tape music, and free jazz in a puddle of madness spiced with odd staring, dozens of plants (cacti, to be more specific), an encyclopedic knowledge of sound art, and an insane collection of hats. Mag Ik Eens Even In Uw Broek Pissen is playable in at least four different ways, depending on how many extra holes Mr. De Wereldvermaarde Botanicus has drilled into each by hand (some copies have three extra holes, some around twenty; none have just one). This beautiful collection of loner synth sounds makes hangovers or LSD trips worth going for. Strange beat-oriented 303 and 808 acid snoop, and a combination of piss, wind and wood that bring back the good ol’ plunderblur of The New Blockaders. Cover design is a collage of pictures from the De Wereldvermaarde Botanicus archive, with an insert and an extra photo. 300 copies.
The Kyvu Tapes Vol. 1 (1990–1998)
(Hands In The Dark - HITD025) LP $16.75 (Out-of-stock)
The fruit of The Oscillation’s frontman’s long obsession with the possibilities offered by the electric guitar played with forks, knives, and bits of paper. Largely influenced by British psych / shoegaze scene of the time, these home recordings could be described as analogue and guitar-based ambient music or room drones — a vast auditory map of the unreal. Totally immersion-ready.
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
Relax On Everyone
(Def Lep Rex) LP $12.75
“Steeped in the kind of splintered ’90s indie rock filigree that comes with triangulation between Philly college radio / WPRB saturation, a sideline in Jersey Shore pop punk regionalism … [and] raspy female vocals in the Peppermint Patty vein,” says Doug Mosurock of Still Single. “The lack of polish across all tracks here works to their advantage … as this five-piece crawls and scrapes their way through two sides of hooky, tire-kicking material, jumping carelessly between budget studio and noisy four-track.” Edition of 225. Check out “The List” here: http://youtu.be/ffnDakN-umc
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.
The First Born Is Dead
(Homestead) Used LP $22.00
Ghostly minimalist blues from 1985 in a nightmarish, almost apocalyptic swamp.
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.”
Absence of Canary v. 1.1
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD30) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reissue of the minimalist techno LP from the early ’80s by the Canadian duo of Brett Wickens (ex-Spoons) and Roger Humphreys, whose short instrumentals bridge together the longer tracks. Includes songs from an untitled seven-inch and eight unreleased tracks from 1981–83, originally recorded for a second album that never materialized.
Dealings
(Bruit Direct Disques - BR-D-20) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
This pataphysical collective lead by Lyon-based Christophe Petchanatz since 1985 uses dismantled toys, organs with burst pipes, squeaking, detuned guitars, and loose broom to recreate a world within a world where children’s music boxes transform into a carousel for adults, waltzes mutate into progressive drunkard chants, and postpunk revisits lo-fi chamber music. All the songs on “Dealings” are adaptations of poems by John B. Cornaway, author of “Heligoland”, who published Petchanatz’s first texts while the late Eric Chabert was releasing the first cassettes of his group Los Paranos and of Klimperei. Over Chabert’s scratchy voice, Klimperei unloads its makeshift bric-a-brac, melodica, banjo and metallophone throughout woozy cabaret cantatas, potluck selections from the Canterbury school, punk waltz under a sad sun, acoustic free-blues, and haywire krautrock. Nino Rota or Erik Satie have been invoked in past descriptions, and one could also find parenthood with other unclassifiables such as Chris Knox, Pierre Bastien, Ghedalia Tazartes or Pascal Comelade.
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.
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.”
EUGENE CHADBOURNE AND THE DROPOUTS
Zupa Dupa Kupa
(Monotype - MONO007) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
A Renaissance man, a rebel among rebels. What began with a boyhood dream and a Herman's Hermits record is now Chadbourne’s musical odyssey that connects the dots between the Appalachians and the edges of the known musical universe.
This Fits / This Is Familiar
(I Dischi Del Barone - IDDB012) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two tracks of just guitar and vocals, stripped down to the bare minimum and driven by an austere ambience, recorded during the Roses Always Die sessions. Edition of 200.
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.”
Solo Acoustic Volume Eleven
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ15) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
In tribute to his influences and contemporaries, this all-instrumental album by the godfather of alternative guitar summons the spirits the greatest guitarists of all time.
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
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Kid Brother
(I Dischi Del Barone - IDDB010) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
A splendid, minimalistic mixture of post-Savoury Days UK DIY slow-motion pop by Russell Walker and Tom James Scott. Shimmering organ melodies, sparse drumming, piano and field recordings. Edition of 200
XAVIER CHARLES / NIKOS VELIOTIS
Kaspian Black
(Alt.Vinyl - AV061) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Former kingpin of the Athens pop / electronic scene and founding member of In Trance 95 uses unorthodox cello techniques, in collaboration with the French improv clarinettist known for vibrating speaker installations, noise and electro-acoustics. The duo balances between extremes of uninhibited cacophony and painstakingly detailed exploration of static floating sounds, powerful attacks and serene atmospheres. 180-gram vinyl. Screen-printed sleeve. Edition of 250
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
Algorythmes
(Danger Records - DR009) LP $24.00
Reissue of the debut LP (New Rose 1980) by Etienne Lebourg, Jean-Philippe Brouant, Patrick Blain, Thierry Leray, whose stylish and sublimely awkward synthesizer workouts rely on choppy guitar to keep their cold wave / minimal synth skittish and tense. Unpredictable beats, cyberpunk lyrics, a cover of Bowie’s “Hang on to Yourself.”
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
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.
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.
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.
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
(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 / 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
(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
Chicken Shit
(Siltbreeze - SB133) 7-inch $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
This debut vinyl from Kyle and Mike (two-thirds of FNU Ronnies, with a drum machine) follows a cassette on Fan Death and a track on Skulls Without Borders 10-inch (Siltbreeze 2009). Prime Euro movers such as early Dieter Meier and Geisterfahrer come to mind as reference points, not to mention the vibe of early Amphetamine Reptile (Halo of Flies' "Insecticide Stomp," in particular). Edition of 400 copies.
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
1978 Hound Dog Recordings
(Ace & Duce / Negative Jazz) LP $15.00
Vintage antisocial punk from Los Angeles with obviously comic over-the-top attitude and sentiments. Four hilarious vile and hideous tracks. Liner notes by Tork Lugnutz. 2017 reissue, mastered from original tapes. Edition of 500
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.
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.
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
La Plaine des Respirs
(Tochnit Aleph - TA073) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The latest works by the legendary poet, musician, and key figure of the French avant-garde during the second half of the 20th century, especially the 1950s through the 1970s. Known primarily as a concrete and sound-poetry pioneer, Chopin has also worked as graphic artist and designer, typographer, independent publisher, filmmaker, broadcaster and arts promoter; his use of early tape recorders and studio technologies, and the sounds of the manipulated human voice -- with a focus on the relationship of balance between order and chaos -- serves as a reminder that language stems as much from oral traditions as from classic literature.
Chora / Quivers
(Ultramarine - UM0061) split LP $25.00
Chora on this recording is joined by Ben Nash and Karl Brummer who only enhance Rob Lye’s and Ben Morris’s already gorgeous mix of psychedelic free-form improvisation and ecstatic free jazz, with hypnotic percussion, cymbals, bowed instruments, eerie reeds, and an overall ritualistic, shamanic vibe. Guitarist Ninni Morgia and upright bassist Jordon Schranz have drummer extraordinaire and Milford Graves student Mike Pride on board for the Quivers improvisations; get ready for amazing timbral research and creative interplay, sometimes reminding of great historical groups like AMM, Musica Elettronica Viva and Smegma. Artwork by Pascal Nichols (Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides). Edition of 300.
Ruined Parabola
(Chironex) LP $20.00
A huge seventeen-minute blast kicks off side one with Gamelan-inspired percussion and metallic drones. The rich and expansive sound feels like the scouts of a storm have amassed with invisible bodies among the bones of a weathered shipyard. Warm tones ebb in cycles, while the percussion thins and a strangled horn blasts a Fire-styled cry. Vocals holler at a ghostly distance. Chimes and cymbals are met with thudding, hard wooden knocks. The end draws near with elongated guitar tones that add a sense of arid landscape to what originally feels like a nautical storm. Violent, caustic, organic noise and improvised calamity. Instruments twist and arch in suffocating formations.
Slates
(Sergent Massacre - SM03) LP $14.00
First vinyl outing for Peckham-based trio — Ben Morris, Rob Lye and Chris Boyd — who use a revolving approach to composing, improvising and recording, with sounds moving between shingled, skeletal percussion and kitchen-sink Gamelan to electronic attack and ecstatic vocalization.
Enthronement By God As The First-Born Of The Dead
(Hospital - HOS338) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Released first as a limited-edition quadruple-cassette box set, now condemned to vinyl. As part of the trinity of electronic projects where Dominick Fernow of Prurient examines anxiety and fear, lightning drums pound the rhythms for lost souls, trumpets of the heavens command the threshold, ancient notes and structures are scrambled and returned with information loss. Soundtrack for judgement of souls. Edition of 500.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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
Down, Willow
(Siltbreeze) LP $16.00
Paul Bonnet and Nathan Roche’s third long-player for Siltbreeze hones in with a top gloss of new and proto-experimental, post-punk, recitation vibe. This fusion of The Fall’s Grotesque and Morton Subotnick’s Sidewinder into a sole entity yields lots of sparks, flash fires, smoke of all colors and bickering, but from this vantage, what a light show! There’s even some shredding on here that sounds like they may have lit this fucker with Martin Kippenberger’s copy of Guitar Hero.
Dust
(Siltbreeze) LP $16.00
One the second vinyl outing from Nathan Roche and Paul Bonnet for Siltbreeze, vocal recitation and percolating electronics are honed to perfection, moving them beyond whatever references were made in the past, now comparable it to that giant Zardoz head flying around the French countryside, drolly enunciating dystopian affirmations, predicting the future, rewriting the past, ordering off-menu, spitting a rain of Aperol, Pernod and Gitanes to their brutish followers below. Basically free drinks and smokes. What’s not to follow? You can Cabaret Voltaire this or Shadow Ring that all you want, but Dust puts CIA Debutante in the catbird seat.
Pier
(SDZ) 7-inch $12.00
CIA Debutante has been cultivating its brain fog for years, stashing away in places that consistently experience connectivity issues. Grey humor is a basis for life and the therapy of homemade electronic chaos, the nature of which is yet to be determined, as a reflective blanket. In this techno-cocoon like no other woven by Paul Bonnet (Disposition Matrix), Nathan Roche (Le Villejuif Underground) develops thoughts-counter-brains, his lobes like pet iguanas surfing on the essential vibrations of the useless. The images are there, those of countless extremophilic organisms, fractured cosmic debris, the ocean floor cracking, the international station stalling and a general instability that spreads tirelessly like the devil’s worm in the oldest gold mines. Perpetually reachable on a number that doesn’t exist yet, the duo is once again working wonders with stellar musical foam. Handmade sleeve. Edition of 200
The Landlord
(Siltbreeze) LP $16.00
This expat duo from France have been murking the waters of the cassette underground for the latter part of a decade. With its peaks and percolations like a sci-fi absinthe of future past, their debut vinyl release is most succinctly described as a cross between the Shadow Ring and Cabaret Voltaire. Edition of 250.
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.
Meronia
(Bad Vugum) Used 2xLP $130.00
Finnish krautrock from 1994. Includes non-CD bonus track “Low-Pursed” and Bad Vugum catalog insert
Bruise Constellation
(Siltbreeze - SB140) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Royal Trux rocked 'n' cocked it through the '90s, and at the beginning of the 21st Century's second decade, Circle Pit saunter into the boozy sway with a debut seemingly born out of the tar and tobacco of Nellcôte / Exile on Main Street-session blooze. Their torn and frayed sound oozes raw talent possessed of uncanny sensual / sexual osmosis. It's the Summer of '72 all over again (again).
Circle X
(Insolito) LP $21.00
Formed 1978 in New York, Louisville’s first punk rock band was born out of the ashes of No Fun and the I-Holes. Once the lineup solidified, Circle X lunged headfirst into weirder, artier territory. Unique, mysterious, and unheralded, they went to France for nine months to tour, write new material, and get noticed. An untitled four-song EP saw the light of day in 1979 -- a lurching, squalling monster identified only by a spray-painted circle with an "X" through it on the cover (the spelled-out name first appeared in '83). Tony Pinotti's vocals screech against Bruce Witsiepe and David and Rik Letendre's bass-less, barely contained distorto-blare. The hatred and rage on this thing is palpable. They arrived in New York at the tail end of No Wave, when equally ornery bands like Swans and Sonic Youth were getting revved up. Circle X are every bit as distinctive and attitudinal as Throbbing Gristle, PiL, Theoretical Girls, DNA, or Mars, yet they don't much sound like any of them. Limited to 500 copies, 180-gram vinyl, tip-on jackets, liner notes.
Ode to Fidelity
(Destijl - IND085) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Seemingly inspired by something or someone that has pierced her young, little heart, Haley Fohr has established herself as an ambitious songwriters. Three songs that form part of the sound arc it is difficult to believe has apexed. This single promises to echo between the ears till Fohr's next full-length is complete, surely a monster.
Portrait
(Destijl - IND093) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Haley Fohr’s third LP is a massive step in cohesion and fidelity. The modest, clarion sparkle of Portrait is expected considering the arc of Symphone and Sirenum, and it stands as a cornerstone and a monument, a testament to the daily practice of channeling her twenty-one-year-old roiling emotions into sound recordings.
Sirenum
(Destijl - IND070) 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.
Density And Assimiliation
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $7.00
Classic American harsh noise by Jay Howard. Paste-on photocopy jacket. Edition of 111.
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
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
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
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
Vengeance Candle
(Hospital - HOS392) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Clay Rendering is a new band born of Aries couple Mike (Wolf Eyes, Failing Lights) and Tara Connelly (The Pool At Metz, The Haunting). The two began work on the project in the fall of 2012, dedicated to resurrection (much like their sun signs), with a focus on arcane structures. Electronics mix with acoustics, vocals and guitar to create these songs inspired by last days.
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
Say There’s A Reason
(Roaratorio - ROAR41) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
The members of this mid-’60s San Francisco combo came from jazz, flamenco and R&B backgrounds, but together their psychedelic brew verges on Blue Cheer heaviness. They gigged everywhere but left behind no recorded artifacts. A deal with Vanguard went nowhere when their manager absconded to Mexico with the advance money on an ill-fated mission to buy a kilo of pot. A later incarnation of the band — with a completely different lineup and musical style — released a 45 that has since become a favorite of crate-digging DJs, but This ain’t That. These two tracks hail from 1967 and 1968. The A-Side was recorded at Nick Gravenites’s studio in Sausalito, while the sonics on the live “Hat Full Of Dreams” recalls VU’s guitar amp boot (with a solo as overdriven and atonal as this, it’s a plus). Liner notes by Jim Moscoso, rare photographs. Edition of 505.
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
Ritual Smothering
(BloodLust! - B!079) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Milwaukee’s Alex Kmet unleashes chilling power electronics. The fifteenth release in the BloodLust! Private 7-inch series. Plain white sleeve. 300 copies.
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
Live Vol. 1
(Anomalous - FBT005A) 10-inch $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Field recordings, percussion, electronics and tape machines, viola, duet for a coat rack and living room furniture performed by Doug Theriault, Jeffery Taylor, Jesse Miller, John Vallier, Robert Millis, and Scott Colburn as part of the Other Sounds series at Seattle’s Speakeasy Cafe in 1996. Previously released on cassette (Fire Breathing Turtle 1997). Edition of 200
Live Vol. 2
(Anomalous - FBT005B ) 10-inch $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Jeffery Taylor, Jesse Paul Miller, Robert Millis, Scott Colburn, Spencer Sundell performing in 1997 on Matt Moses’s WKCR show, Live Constructions. Side one is what was played in Seattle; side two is what was actually heard on the airwaves in New York City (the transmission of their performance live in Seattle via telephone mixed and processed at WKCR with prerecorded material sent in advance). Edition of 200
Live Vol. 3
(Anomalous - FBT005C) 10-inch $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Guitars, drones, electronics, voices, and bladders played by Eyvind Kang, Jeffery Taylor, Jeph Jerman, Jesse Paul Miller, John Vallier, MNortham, Patrick Barber, Robert Millis, Scott Colburn. Edition of 200
Live Vol. 4
(Anomalous - FBT005D) 10-inch $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Jeffery Taylor, John Vallier, Robert Millis, and Scott Colburn recorded in 1996 using strange objects and processed improvisations. Edition of 200
NELS CLINE / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
The Ocean Above Your Heads
(Starlight Furniture Company - *26) LP $15.00
This first-time collaboration by Italy’s premier transcenders of time and space and guitarist extraordinaire from Wilco, Scarnella, Nels Cline Singers, and L. Stinkbug throbs like an Argento soundtrack for an astral perv lair, recalling vintage cassette gorp from the golden age of Industrial, when field recordings of howling dogs were repurposed as documents of institutional degradation and mind control. The Opalio brothers improvise an instant composition with the first-time playback of Cline's prerecorded space noise, bold cosmic disruptions, and nattering squibs from decommissioned satellites. No overdubs, no second takes, no leftovers. Dusted with loops from a lunar cathedral where palsied zombies dragging pots and pans skid across the soap-slathered narthex, The Ocean Above Your Heads splays the hemispheres better than Subotnik goin’ off his meds.
Gettin Personial
(Inyrdisk - IYD37) LP $17.00
Eight mystic grunge-pop singles and B-sides for the charts in heaven, plus one long guitar cryer for the heads by Blake Hargreaves -- prolific experimenter and a cog in the braintrust that gave the world Dreamcatcher, Thames, and Cousins of Reggae. Wordy, buried lyrics; thick songwriting magic; mystifying recording techniques; candy riffs; sub-glam moves swathed in smoke; chewed, pig-piled guitars; and obsessive drum kit recording. Seem like Psychic Hearts-loving Royal Trux outsider ’90s worship to you? Cuz it am. Stenciled, screened and stamped sleeve and lyric sheet. Includes free download. Edition of 333.
Dementia
(Turgid Animal - TA381) split 7-inch $8.00
Finland's best kept secret meets England's vilest in a power electronics showdown with lyrics and artwork based on dementia. Limited 250 copies on black vinyl.
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.
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.
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.
Instruments of Attraction (II. Sociale Hygiëne)
(No Basement Is Deep Enough - NBIDE02) 10-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
These seven steps away from social hypochondria were culled from the large body of Club Moral live recordings, along with rare compilation tracks, all dating from the 1980s. Includes twelve-page booklet (Club Moral history lesson by Jan Landuyt, archival photographs and a bunch of literary quotes).
Delight In The Stream
(Amen Absen - AA001) LP $20.00
Three long tracks of piercingly bowed objects, flutes, and voice with electronic embellishments by this frequent collaborator of Richard Youngs and Neil Campbell. The scattering of sounds swirl around to disorienting effect, mesmerizing as the music draws itself out. Edition of 300.
Hegemony of Delete
(Primary Information) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Electronic music in dialogue with the real rhythms of work and leisure by Baltimore-based Matt Papich, whose six songs here are structurally digressive, rhythmically protean, and littered with distorting spatial impressions and musical non-sequiturs (the interjection of anonymous voices, ambient noise, dryly evocative samples, etc.), all of which contribute to Hegemony of Delete’s sense of artifice. Yet the music never gets carried away with itself, mysteriously articulating its own obscure, fleeting circumstances, even as it shapes them — a delicately maintained feedback circuit, a relaxed conversation with a synthetic atmosphere. Edition of 500. Have a listen to “BB Burn” here: https://soundcloud.com/primaryinformation/co-la-bb-burn
Ten Compositions (New Frontiers In Free Rock)
(Ecstatic Peace - E#99) LP $7.00
A deft and transcendental blending of aleatory strategies, free jazz, psychedelia, and progressive garage-rock from 1997 by Thurston Moore and cartoonist J.D. King.
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.
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
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.”
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 / 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 / RICHARD DOWNS / PAUL FLAHERTY / STEPHEN SCHOLZ
The Fourth Way
(Tulpa) Used LP $25.00
Free jazz from 1992. Sealed
Cremations
(Hospital - HOS248) CD $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
(Hospital - HOS248) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
The early demos, live and unreleased tracks collected here document the development of this singular musical entity from their isolated beginnings to the recent full band line-up, in all its icy, electronic glory. From Cold Cave’s infancy, sexual identity and oblique existentialism have been expressed through biting lyrics and electronic minimalism. Rarely has the human condition been exposed so brazenly as in “Sex Ads.” Melodies, noise and rhythms clash as stories from below the surface are retold. From the Coma Potion LP, which featured a rugged, stripped-down distortion, to the suggestive Electronic Dreams tour cassette (featuring the voice of Max Morton on the track “Heavenly Metals”), Cold Cave’s genre-defying electronic music never betrays its dark roots. Love and pornography, industrial music and traditionalism, poetry and profanity all mix together in a hedonistic cocktail of nihilistic nights and mournful mornings. Cremations collects all this work for the first and last time.
Painted Nails
(Hospital - HOS226) 7-inch $8.50 (Out-of-stock)
Hospital's first venture directly into the controversial and rhythmic world of trance, power noise, synth pop, and '80s industrial music. Three authentically morose, epic anthems with the texture of a shattered champagne glass. Imagine a highly damaged, Downward Spiral-era demo hitting the raw nerve of a heart, where all breaths freeze in rapture and all feelings croak in the blood of the beat-less heart.
Stars Explode
(Hospital - HOS266) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Vinyl edition of the collaboration tape originally released in an edition of 100 for a UK tour. Pulsing, heavy ambient electronics, with one new track not on the tape.
JONATHAN COLECLOUGH / ANDREW LILES
Torch Songs
(Die Stadt - DS93) 2xLP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Liles reworked a live recording of Coleclough performing solo at Intergration 3 in 2004, later adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing additional live recordings supplied by Coleclough. Gatefold jacket features “I dreamt I was a river,” the poem composed and painted by Geoff Sawers during a performance with Coleclough in Geneva in March 2005 (the sound of his brush painting this lettering is audible on side B). 180-gram vinyl.
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.”
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.
Deformation of Tone
(Total Black) LP $20.00
Joe Colley’s skeleton key is an intra-dimensional sense of humor. It exists in a place between and beyond dry, deadpan, and defeatist, and is not actually funny. He has a knack for unlocking the essence of the absurdly uncomplicated, elevating it to a place of near-iconic significance, and leaving it there. Hovering in a void. Or mashed in the jowl of an insect getting doused with regurgitated chyme and rumen bacteria. Consistent with his past efforts, Deformation Of Tone contains no sturm und drang or exhausting dra-a-a-a-ama. This spectacle-free album delivers abrasive-adjacent electronic judders cloaked in a feeling of intimacy distilled from primordial ooze. The opening snippet from a lecture by a New Age devotee dissolves into Lucierian mosaic yammer, a droll nod to Colley’s upbringing, and plummets into a negative space populated by an unadorned clicking, that most elemental physical manifestation of audio phenomena, the antithesis of awareness and enlightenment and transcendence. Of sentience, even. A quintessential example of his streamlined, efficient hilarity. The episodes continue without pause, as if one is moving through an exhibition. Compared to Colley’s work, which he once described as “little noises arranged on a piece of plastic,” a lot of other noise seems hell-bent on shameless over-compensation. Embarrassingly so. His material has always been low-key, and Deformation Of Tone finds him shuffling in a colder, harsher, more desolate direction. The single-malt rasp of an unnamed conspiracy theorist / motivational speaker, present more for his intonation than anything else, punctuates this rather sculptural 33 minutes of machines whirring, devices beeping, blank-face rotary drones swelling and merging with unnaturally regimented hive rustlings and perfectly unpleasant high-gain squelch — all constructed with a master’s timing and sense of scale.
Disasters of Self
(Crippled Intellect Productions - CIP022) 3xLP $45.00
Fractured electronics; rich, multi-level drones; digital bite, the sounds of decaying technology; analog twists and turns; and recording experiments and documents by one of the giants of West Coast noise. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2010
No Way In
(Glistening Examples) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Considering the terrain of internal dilemma, mental stress, paranoia, and the pessimistic contemplation of one’s fate, here is a 2016 soundtrack to distract from such thoughts, or a trigger that stirs ’em up. Either way. Clear vinyl. Edition of 400
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.
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.
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.
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.
W. Transmission 2
(A.N. Column Release - CRLP001) Used LP + 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Electronic industrial from 1993. Edition 500
My Degeneration Electronics 1974-1983
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD130) 5xLP $115.00 (Out-of-stock)
Includes Fluence (Pôle 1975); Paralelo (Parasite 1980); Sentimientos (Dys 1982); Sequences Païennes (Parasite 1979); Ready-Made (Parasite 1980); “Irregular Organ / Musique Par Correspondance” from the Precis de Decomposition Bruitiste cassette comp (Parasite 1983); Bel Canto Orquestra en concert, Montpellier (Medamothi 1983), Bel Canto Orquestra en concert and Slow Musics (Eurock / Parasite 1981).
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.
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 - 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
(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.
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.
Compound Eye
(Spring Press - SP16) 10-inch (lathe cut) $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two extended tracks where drifting pulses of modular synth, echoes of home-made electronics, and a ukelin played with the utmost restraint summon the ever-elusive energy of ’60s downtown experimentalism. “The first side,” says Volcanic Tongue, feels like “an occult working, with ectoplasmic forms channelled via acoustic and electronic receivers, jump-cutting between realities with soft synthesized thuds. The flip … is just as spectral, with deep Morse Code melodies bisected by butterflies of bright white light.” Edition of 70
Origin Of Silence
(Spring Press - SP12) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
This long-standing collaboration between Drew McDowall (ex-Coil and Psychic TV) and Tres Warren (Psychic Ills and Messages) employs automatic composition, drone and concrète music in the creation of subterranean explorations on the nature of signals and time. The duo’s “exacting minimalist logic … locate[s] distant Morse Code tones and blurry EVP sightings on the very fringes of liminality,” observe our comrades at Volcanic Tongue. “[V]ague, nagging melodies … come out of the Goblin / Suspiria song book alongside long passages of single tone narcosis.” Clear vinyl, printed polyvinyl bag. Edition of 200.
First Utterance
(Get Back - GET541) 2xLP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Taking British folk as a point of departure, First Utterance twists and oozes like vile snakes, pairing gorgeous melodies with ecstatic, altered vocals and vicious lyrics about rape, murder, witchcraft and abuse, all cooked with raging madness. Get Back's 1998 reissue includes three bonus tracks from their rare maxi-single (Dawn Records 1971). 180-gram vinyl, gatefold jacket.
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
CON-DOM / LAURA MAES / MILITIA
Familiedrama / Pain
(Praxis Dr. Bearmann - TH17) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
From 1997.
Artificial Madness
(BloodLust! - B!172) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Vinyl reissue of the CD (Relapse 2011) by this Chicago-based Scotsman (ex-Ministry, ex-Revolting Cocks) whose suite of contemporary, heavy, high-energy postpunk defines a truly dystopian landscape, setting stories in invented locales where inhabitants lead a dark, dehumanized and anxious existence. Guests include Sanford Parker (keyboards, engineering and production), Will Lindsay (bass), Dallas Thomas (guitar) and Noah Leger (drums). Red vinyl. Includes download code for free MP3s.
LOREN CONNERS & HIS HAUNTED HOUSE BAND / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
Cosmic Debris Vol. 5
(Opax - OPX012) split LP $125.00
On the fifth and final volume in the Cosmic Debris series the space duo shares the vinyl with legendary avant-blues guitarist, whose tracks "Improv" and "Thomas Paine" document his now-defunct project HAUNTED HOUSE (featuring his wife Suzanne Langille, Andrew Burnes, and Neel Murgai). MCIAA's "Everything Tears Like Cosmic Debris" seals the concept behind this series of "art manufacts" and collaborations. In the silence of The Great Void, sparse melancholic guitar chords and eerie vocalizations build up an astral chant in celebration of the end of an old age and the beginning of a new one. Packaged with an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio on 30x30cm canvas, with a unique Polaroid instant film installed on each piece, representing one of a hundred different perspectives of a same subject related to My Cat Is An Alien's own cosmic imaginary. Limited edition of 100 copies.
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.
LOREN MAZZACANE CONNORS / KEIJI HAINO
Vol. 2
(Menlo Park) LP $50.00
As the saying goes, “The sorrow flowing red flutters and it flies and it aims to overflow and aims at the sky to emerge. It is led toward the shining light and dazzle of light, the wailing black fills the red of sorrow and the red of sorrow pushes the lament of black. Each other’s passion counteracts each other’s color, and it is being purified to a transparent single tone like air like water. Examining that feeling, it is only a sad song — to the listener; it is the final tonic that tramples the last blow; it is clean water to wash away abominable creaks and obsession.”
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
Lady-Bug b/w Square Root
(Payola) Used 12-inch $5.00
Electronic music from 1996 by Martin Gretschmann, lead programmer for The Notwist.
KAREN CONSTANCE / DYLAN NYOUKIS
Day Music / Night Music
(Amerige - Choc.548) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Chocolate Monk - Choc.548) Split cassette $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Constance the insomniac presents heavy, processed electronics, field recordings, mangled voices and tape wrangle constructed late at night in bed. Fend off the darkness fears with some Blackburn Academy of the Arts sun glow bloom insight. #pro-peasantmusic. On the flip, synth, tape players, loops and delay squelch and skitter into dream as early bird and morning whistler Nyoukis takes a wee stumble into a low T tower of crud. Recorded during the day live to tape. No nightmares allowed.
LP reissue, edition of 330.
KAREN CONSTANCE / JACKIE STEWART
Jackie Stewart / Karen Constance
(Giant Tank) Split cassette $5.00
Blurred-out fairytale fractures melt on top of warm and limpid music boxes just trying to keep up (including the wind-up ratchet, should you feel compelled to boogie down) in the Smegma / Tenses maestra’s futuristic transmission of indecipherable lullaby residue. An ideal ramp-down into a turntablist ravine where how to properly shit in the woods is the blotto topic du soir. Bears do it, the Pope does it, no reason you should be left in the dark. On the flip, Blood Stereo / Smack Music 7 sister’s mosaic of instructional voice vanishes into and reconstitutes out of parallel tone ribbons and subdural electronic quack. C40
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.”
Mutual Transgressions b/w Solitary Solace
(Oxen - OXEN011) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Wrong Hole’s Nial Morgan slashes paths through forests of electro-tape destruction with sleep-deprived swagger with “Mutual Transgressions.” his compositional prowess is on rare and inspiring form throughout Mutual Transgressions’ specifically obtuse personal narrative. On the flip, the equally malicious and unhinged “Solitary Solace” by Contrain’s Kevin McEleny ladders to a crushing apex of sublime cacophony. Edition of 100
Consumer Electronics
(RRRecords) 3xLP $150.00 (Out-of-stock)
Eight tracks from their 1982 self-released cassette Public Attack, eight more from Leathersex cassette (Iphar 1982), plus live recordings from The Nailsea School and The Centro Iberico. 1993 release. Box with paste-on art. With insert sheet. Edition of 300
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.
Homme Sauvage
(Danger Records - DR010) 7-inch $10.50
Previously unreleased cold-wave synth punk by this Brussels group that rose in 1979 from the ashes of Chainsaw, Streets, X-Pulsion.
...Until Next Morning
(Avant! - AV011) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Pierre-Marc Tremblay’s antidote for love -- a four-track EP that shows the darkest and most anguished side of human feeling, where drum machines sound like heartbeats and synthesizers are as liquid as tears. Deep, somber vocals filled with sorrow and anger cap it all. Includes insert. Edition of 400.
Bloody Language
(Backwards - BW13) 7-inch $13.00 (Out-of-stock)
Three tracks by Silvia Kastel and Ninni Morgia that reconnect the duo to the tradition of rock’n’roll in all facets (psychedelia, industrial, punk, no wave). Silkscreened jacket. Have a look at their video for the title track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC4f7YXHOFw
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
Gate & Control Unit
(8MM - 062) LP $22.00
Six hallucinatory tracks of stoic free noise, abstract electronics and industrial landscapes by Micheal Morley, Ninni Morgia and Silvia Kastel. Edition of 300
In A Frame
(Alt.Vinyl - AV043) LP $20.00
Silvia Kastel and Ninni Morgia’s second full length-LP that continues their development of a new, more contemporary form of industrial music. Recorded with old tape machines, vintage synths, beat boxes, crude fuzz boxes, tape echo, heavily filtered bass, and sound and dialogue samples from Italian television.
The Fugitives
(Backwards - BW02) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Four intense episodes of pure madness sound, obscure and sensual at the same time, courtesy of Ninni Morgia’s devastating technique and delirious strings, and Silvia Kastel’s hypnotic groans, biting screams and caustic, powerful synthetic raids. A perfect car-crash between two industrial music currents of yore: the American (e.g. Factrix) and the European (e.g. Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire). Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 300
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
Songs from a Sewer of Dreams
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD47) 4xLP $94.50
Previously unreleased music from Controlled Bleeding’s very early days up through the present: a long lost Knees and Bones session; live recordings from CBGB supporting Suicide 1979; a 25-minute live piece from 1977 (sounds like John Cage/Penderecki); free jazz live improvisation with Borbetomagus; some new total noise.
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.
Les Conversions
(Kelippah - KEL015) LP $5.00
Metal percussion and electronic modulation, improvisation and ritual darkness quite dark by Jason Meagher (NNCK, Coach Fingers, Black Dirt Studio), Pat Murano (NNCK, Decimus, Blah Blah Blah), Dave Shuford (NNCK, D Charles Spear, Rhyton). Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 300.
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.
Basement Recordings 1978-1982
(Ultra Eczema - UE76) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
An unearthed treasure by Belgian free jazzman whose 1970s associations include WIM, Fred van Hove, and Ivo van der Borght at their most disturbing. One might expect to find decent free music here, relating to other Antwerp freaks of the era, but as usual, Ultra Eczema confounds expectation. This batch of seriously strange outsider weirdness kicks off with “Aerosol,” a duet for undertone singing and asthma inhaler machine. The instrumentation of “Watermuziek” includes tubes, saxophones, mouthpieces and Coomans's voice in a bathtub half filled with water. Untitled droning harmonica pieces clearly link him to raga folks such Wannes van de Velde. Elsewhere vacuum cleaners are attached to metals and soprano saxes. A cover of “Louie Louie,” played on piano and vacuum cleaner, is simply wacko. With insert and photos.
Light On A Wall
(Backwards - BW14) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Spirit songs” — vocal works constructed by chopping up (à la Burroughs, Gysin, Phillips) Pynchon’s novels V and Gravity’s Rainbow recorded live on Radio Lebanon in Beirut — accompanied by electric Vietnamese lap steel (heavily processed through a vintage Kaoss pad and Zoom SampleTrack looper). Chords, melodies and harmonic patterns are unplanned improvisations unique to each performance. The final track is a thundering cover of “Masters At War.”
The Collected Works
(Beniffer Editions) 2xLP $25.50 (Out-of-stock)
Memorial tribute to the composition and performance of this obscure genius. Recordings from between 1972 and 2001, including the complete set of three Phantasie Impromptus; four Incantations; lengthy passages from his two continuing works, Mix of the Month and The Book of Floating Music; the Introduction from his magnum opus, Ashley: My Dear; a clever take on I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad; and short passages of Cooper speaking about music and his works. A must-have for all lovers and collectors of out-of-the-way electronica and keyboard aficionados. With essay by M.S. Harwood. Screen-printed five-color gusseted jacket. Edition of 300
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.
Heavy Afternoon Buzz / Late At Night A Day Lay
(Catsup Plate) LP (lathe cut) $75.00
“Broken into a pair of sidelong suites,” observe our friends at Arthur, “this album is a pure experimental response to the dictates of archaic huzz, generated entirely by an old tone generator and a broken digital delay unit. A variety of apparent loops are blended in shifts, and the whole moves through the air in your head like a buttery soft saw blade, slowly unwinding its way across the room. There are parts that have a weird similarity to some of No Pussyfooting, but let’s assume that’s unintentional.” Numbered edition of 50
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
Battutosso / Bone Pulse (And Other Nature Musics)
(Ricerca Sonora - RS5) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Gamelan-ish solo recordings from 1989-97 using bones, the 100 most beautiful cow bells, breath, flute, rock, and Geoff Hendricks's xylophone sculpture. Edition of 300.
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.
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
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.
Piano Work
(Slowscan) Used LP $50.00
Numbered edition of 300 from 2000 with eight-page book. Blue vinyl
Through Two More-Than-Mysterious Barricades
(Roaratorio - ROAR36) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two very different takes on “Les Barricades Mistérieuses,” the harpsichord gem by French Baroque composer François Couperin. The first dates from 1992, in collaboration with dancer Paulette Sears (who provides the “singings and screamings” of the album’s subtitle) and moves from a frenzy of abstraction to a more meditative zone, with diversions and tributaries along the way. The second, from 2004, is a rougher beast, recorded with wildly over-saturated levels; the tape machine itself becomes a participant in the performance, with its heavy distortion bringing out stormclouds of overtones from Corner’s piano. Download coupon included. Listen to excerpts here: http://roaratorio.com/uncategorized/philip-corner-through-two-more-than-mysterious-barricades/
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
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
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
Scraps and Shadows
(Roaratorio - roar26) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
This follow-up to the duo’s Under A Double Moon finds McPhee largely on tenor sax rather than alto. Seven dedicatory pieces recorded live in Milwaukee in 2011, from the delicate balladry of “For Adrienne P” to the appropriately combustible “For Han Bennink.” Corsano’s stupendously detailed drumming and McPhee’s free-soul love cries weave a master latticework. Cover art by Judith Lindbloom. Download coupon included.
Under A Double Moon
(Roaratorio - ROAR22) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
With a career now spanning over forty years and more than one-hundred recordings, Joe McPhee has shown that in the world of creative improvised music, emotional content and theoretical underpinnings are thoroughly compatible — and, in fact, a critically important pairing. Since recording The Hated Music with Paul Flaherty in 2000, Chris Corsano has been active in far-reaching corners of the free improvised world. Recorded live in Paris during their spring 2010 tour of Europe, Under A Double Moon is McPhee and Corsano's first album together. Cover artwork by Judith Lindbloom. Liner notes by John Szwed. Includes download coupon.
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
Bizarre and Tortuous Rituals of the Primitive World
(Secret Devil - SRD001) 7-inch $7.50
Noise rock from Leeds, UK, 1995.
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.
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.
Mammal Insect Marriage
(Ludwig Van Ear) LP $30.00
The lyrics of the opening track of this 1983 album by Jay Tiller and Neil Socol “immediately make it clear you’ve checked into a real hellhouse of collegiate weasel weirdness: ‘I saw a car accident near the zoo / There were mangled bodies all over / I felt sick, but I found a finger / I still have it in my freezer.’ In total, fourteen warped and funny B-movie haikus. Brilliant and extraordinary.” From 1983. Sealed
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?”
Home Aged & The 18 Month Hope
(Dais - DAIS051) LP $20.00
Rare and unheard archival recordings from the transgressive ’70s performance art group founded in 1969 by Genesis P-Orridge. This release collects various selections spanning the years 1971 through 1975, including a rare live performance opening for Hawkwind, lost radio interview, obtuse poetry readings by early member Fizzey Peat, piano and violin compositions by Genesis, and field recordings.
Sounds of Porridge Bubbling
(Dais - DAIS008) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first in Dais's series of rescued recordings by COUM Transmissions. Considered their first proper record, never released due to the fast pace of COUM actions and line-up changes, this bizarre album was shelved and forgotten until now. Liner notes by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Edition of 500
Sugarmorphoses
(Dais - DAIS023) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
One of the most far-flung, experimental COUM recordings, dating from 1974 at the Ho Ho Funhouse. Genesis P-Orridge’s candid kitchen recordings of solo broken piano improvisations accompanied by reel to reel tape from 1965, from which a young Neil Megson made countless field recordings and homework dictations. Playful, chaotic, imaginative, and historic.
Monosyllabilly
(Pyramid Scheme - PSR002) LP $12.00
The second album-length collaboration by Times New Viking’s Jared Phillips and Ron House of Thomas Jefferson Slave Apts tosses a DIY Dragnet over a belch from an Ohio furnace that most assumed abandoned. The drums are pots and pans, the vocals are pot and pants, always too big for themselves. The lyrics strain to upgrade every downsize of life. No insult is forgotten. Compared to Sheets of Hits (Pyramid Scheme 2013), this one is less lo-fi, more anxious with catchier tics.
Sheets of Hits
(Pyramid Scheme) LP $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Not-totally-French-existentialist Ron House (Great Plains, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Psandwich) teams up with eater-of-the-free-chicken-of-Bob-Petric Jared Phillips (Times New Viking) to hit all the lo-fi indie-punk buttons of The Columbus Sound — loose, clever, catchy, intense, and wrong. Second edition, with offset printed jackets.
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
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
Brokebox Juke
(No-Fi) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded via correspondence between Buenos Aires and Brooklyn, the sounds of a full, multi-faceted band in a warm room rise from the vinyl as Courtis (Reynols) and Moore (Volcano The Bear) throw down delicious rhythmic textures, mariachi-tinged improv, brooding desert psych and more. In beautiful gatefold jacket with photos by Moore.
Cassetopia
(Ini Itu - 1302) LP $21.00
Pre-dematerialization, pre-Reynols material, based on cassettes, possibly reworked but maybe not. Courtis’s music here transcends time; these balanced and measured exercises in subtle conversion are detailed monoliths, borderline cases of slightly aggressive and noisy surfaces, autumnal goofy primitivism, and detached stoner electroacoustics that bridge the gap between Earthy tape conjuration and cosmic drift and drone.
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.
Sunburst Lux
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC03) split 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Heavily processed field recordings (geyser sounds), weird cassette loops, tape manipulations, oscillations.
Yaguá Ovy
(Mie Music - 007) LP $10.00
Based around the Argentinean mythology of the Werewolf, or “the blue dog” that lives on the “land without evil” of Mbya-Guarani, the first collaboration by Menche and Courtis whips up primal and natural noise. Menche draws out the sound and resonances found lying in snow and rocks while Courtis bewitches pizza sauce cans and his guitar, creating this mind flaying homage to the mythical wolf.
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.
Quartz
(Spanish Magic - SM013) LP $24.00
Blake Hargraves and Liam Thurston’s dirty rock overdrives everything from under a sickening haze -- guitar, drums, turntable, homemade feedback devices and homemade drum triggering systems. Volcanic Tongue admire “this Canada-based riot squad” for their “riffs that sound like ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ tied to streamrollers and dragged on their face through industrial warehouse [combined] with the deforming use of clotted effects [and] endless vistas of crunch.” All covers are handmade (screenprints, stencils, hand carved stamps). Australian import.
Coïtus Int.
(Bunkerpop - BP003) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reacting to the punk bands in Utrecht at the time of the original release of their debut album (1981), this Dutch quartet embraced an approach slower, darker, and more bass-driven than on their Dead Excitement EP from 1980 (reissued by Bunkerpop in 2011). Heino L’Ortye’s bass is the lead melodic instrument here, while Gang Of Four-inspired attacks issue from Marcel Uffing’s guitar. Drummer Ron van Asperen churns the heaviness in different directions, particularly on tracks like “Birds” and “My Ideal Man.” But it’s Jos de Groot’s thoughtful lyrics and unique voice that separate the group from rest; his delivery is distant but honest, with a tone that makes you feel like he’s seen things you don’t and may never understand. Check out “My Ideal Man” here: http://youtu.be/-SAG_xk-wQ0
Dead Excitement
(Bunkerpop) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reissue of the first seven by Dutch post-punkers, originally self-released in 1981 with appropriated Rock Against Records logo. If later material is comparable to Joy Division, this could be considered their Warsaw-era: rhythm-driven, upbeat punk with a dark vibe, pulsing with jagged guitars and snarled yet blasé vocals. Includes all original artwork, extra photos and a band history by an original member.
Soap Opera Suite / Snake Oil Symphony
(Lutra) LP $18.00
Original copies of this pioneering cut-up work from 1982 by self-taught legend. One side is a plunderphonic montage that contrasts hysterical dialogue from early 1980s soap operas with quieter, bland remarks, punctuated by library music jingles and short enigmas that appeal to one’s sense of paranoia. The other side-long track also traffics in found sound, this time snatched from instructional salesmanship LPs and television programs, edited into a depiction of people as merchandise living lives that oscillate between buying and selling. All copies are unplayed, but there is no shrinkwrap and slight wear on the jackets.
CRANK STURGEON / GASTRIC FEMALE REFLEX
Untitled
(Gold Soundz - GS31) split 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Gastric Female Reflex transmits songs through the cackle of thirty-meter Bronze Age jump ropes, and then swats them with unspooled tape from faulty tape recorders. On the flipside, deepwoods Maine-based Crank Sturgeon takes a similar story and runs it into the side of a convent full of shark-eating nuns, who respond with high-powered leaf blowers, stopping now and again to play a little violin and pee in their Dixie Cups. Not your typical avant electro-acoustic record, but still glorious, spacious, snakey, and primitive.
Upon My Discovery Of The Huso Dead Pain Lair
(RRRecords - RRR002) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dadaist sound-stew from half-man, half-fish noise-flapper who lovingly assaults (and forces into slavery) a babbling mesh of cheap electronics, found crap, unorthodox techniques, clanging junk, spiels, mantras and who-can-tell.
Craow
(Nostilevo - #77) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Neue dark electronic power. Heavy, rhythmic industrial with a large dose of synthetic experimentation and goth club flavor. Creeping and drenched.
Crash Course In Science
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD67) 3xLP + 7-inch $75.00 (Out-of-stock)
Legendary minimal synth / wave band from Philadelphia formed in 1979. Choosing toy instruments and live drums out of necessity, CCIS began by experimenting with a series of recording devices. The toy instruments gave way to crude drum machines and “Frankenstein"-type homemade instruments. Their first seven-inch (also included with bonus tracks) introduced listeners to their noisy, unpredictable world and went on to become a classic minimal synth record. In 1981 they went in a darker, more sinister direction, resulting in “Signals from Pier Thirteen” (included are eight unreleased demo tracks from this period). “Cardboard Lamb” and “Flying Turns” gained exposure through club play during the '80s. Two live recordings from 1980 and 1981 are also part of this box set, including a performance opening for the Philip Glass ensemble in Philadelphia. The third LP, Near Marineland, contains completed mixes of previously unreleased studio material (along with remixes) arranged and produced by John Wicks, CCIS’s original producer.
My First Stop
(Rococo - RCC008) LP $12.75 (Out-of-stock)
These Parisians dare to fuse garage punk, funky loops, and digital cut-and-paste and actually pull it off. Hum, dance, break things, jump up and down to the compu-punk groove these Frenchies lay down.
Pillar of Fire
(Alumut - RFR3) LP (one-sided) $60.00
Recorded 1989, released in 1990. Most renowned for its live shows in which three stand-up percussionists hammered out concussive poly-rhythms to abstract, mutated guitar, synthesizers, effects and dualling vocalists, this San-Diego-based experimental-aktionist-industrial-noise performance group regularly showered the audience with various substances such as blood, wine and honey, and also set stuff on fire. B-side has elaborate etching. With insert. Edition of 500.
What So Ever Thy Hand Findeth - Do It With All Thine Might
(¡Alarma! - RFR1) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Within an atmosphere of bacchanalia, Crash Worship's recordings explore different aspects of rhythm and psychedelia. This essential early work from 1989 was released in an edition of 2000.
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
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.”
Crazy Backwards Alphabet
(SST - SST110) LP $5.00
The 1987 album by Henry Kaiser, John French (Beefheart), Michael Maksymenko, and Andy West (Dixie Dregs). Covers includes ZZ Top's "La Grange" in Russian and Ayler "Ghosts," both of which almost make up for the fact that the phrase "Dixies Dregs" is now on tediumhouse.com. Matt Groening cover art puts it over the top.
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.
Augurs & Auspices
(Deleted Art - dLTD024) LP $9.00
Long-running Toronto group with ties to Sick Lipstick, These United States, Parts Unknown, Martyrs, and Memories Forever. Inspired by The Ex, Pere Ubu, and The Fall. Compiles tracks from Half Saboteur (Bloodworks 2002) and other new and previously tracks.
Haz / Crystal Dwarf Opens His Eyes
(Monotype) 7-inch $9.75
A beastly, dynamic noise piece on one side by Ferran Fages (feedback, mixing board) and Alfredo Costa Monteiro (electroacoustic devices). Bitter, swirling electronics with a suggestion of a pulse by Karol Koszniec (electronics), Dominik Kowalczyk (laptop) and Jakub Mikolajczyk (modular synth) on the other.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CRIS X / KEIKO HIGUCHI / MERZBOW / SACHIKO
Guya / Greed
(CX) split LP $20.00
“Guya” is eighteen minutes of noise from Masami Akita, structured by feedback and electronics both digital and analog. A devastating masterpiece. Cris X (aka Cristiano Luciani) is joined Keiko Higuchi (vocals, piano, lyrics) and Sachiko (vocals, electronics) for a dark and visionary journey through expressionist ambient atmospheres. White vinyl. Edition of 300. Sealed
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
Cro Magnon
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD3) 7-inch $7.25 (Out-of-stock)
Teenage female duo Haley Fohr (of Destijl recording artists Circuit Des Yeux) and Katie Leming power their way through three gloriously fucked lo-fi cassette jams with squonking, mis-articulated garage guitar licks and drums as detonators. Classic destructo-punk. Not to be confused with the 1960s Cromagnon, but you knew that.
Orgasm
(Get Back ) LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Get Back's 1998 reissue of underground free tribal music from 1969 by Austin Grasmere, Brian Elliot, and The Connecticut Tribe. Dadaist psych-folk vibes dominate, with chanting, tribal percussion, short wave radio, maniacal, almost black metal vocals, hysterical laughter, bagpipes and more.
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
A Personal Hell
(Small Doses - dose47) 7-inch + CDR $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Rarely is harsh noise done as well as when Crumer's in charge: deliberate, personal, and soul-shredding. Metal drags, scrapes, bangs, and creaks - blowing microphones, speakers, and your mind. Edition of 300 on brown/green vinyl.
Disqualifier
(Blossoming Noise - BN062) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
Dense brass, concrete sounds and mutated noise reveal a pointed narrative and unmatched compositional stroke in Crumer’s sixth full-length studio recording. Equal parts harsh and ambient. Guests include Jeff Stockham on French horn, Chima Faraji on tuba, Jeremy Mann on trumpet and Julian F on drums. Letter pressed jacket. Free download code. Edition of 250.
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
(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.”
Elephant Ball
(Roaratorio - ROAR37) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Following Roaratorio’s release of Family Evil in 2012, this West Coast psychedelic band reunited and began playing out again, with their vintage sound intact. This second helping of unearthed material from the band’s archives starts with three tracks from their earliest recording sessions in 1967 – the swaggering garage-rock miniature “Dawn Sermon” and the folk-rock “For All Of My Life” and “Tell Her For Me” – and then moves on to a Fillmore West gig from November 1969, featuring the final incarnation of the group during their original run. With the same complex harmonies, nuanced songwriting and top-drawer musicianship that won Family Evil its accolades, the half-dozen tunes here range from the crunchy riffs of the title track and “It’s Winter” to the lightly jazzy “Don’t Fall Brother” and the Latin-tinged moves of “There Is Light There.” Includes digital download. Listen to two tracks from the album here: https://soundcloud.com/roaratoriorecs
Family Evil
(Roaratorio - ROAR25) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Originally a Beatles / Byrds-influenced unit called the Morlochs, this “lost” West Coast psych group came together in Merced, California in 1965, but soon shed their original moniker and moved in a more psychedelic direction, becoming a fixture on the ballroom circuit from 1966-1970. Despite nods in the direction of the New Tweedy Brothers and Quicksilver Messenger Service at times, Family Evil is imbued with a distinctive sound that arose from practicing up to six nights a week. The band entertained offers from various labels during their existence, but as they insisted on complete artistic control and ownership of their music, no deals were struck. Contains studio tracks, rehearsal tapes and a live recording from the Fillmore West. Cover art by Norman Orr. Extensive historical liner notes. Includes free download.
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.
Press My Hungry Button
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD45) 2xLP $41.25 (Out-of-stock)
A selection of the best work by this English post-industrial/electro group spanning 1980 to 1983, who were included in "Wild Planet," Dave Henderson's overview in Sounds of approximately 150 artists, labels and significant influences associated with the UK and European cassette culture of the late '70s and early '80s. Includes remastered tracks from their three released cassette albums, Video Rideo, The Uncle of the Boot and Sinclair's Luck and from compilations, plus previously unreleased tracks, including pieces from two unfinished later period albums.
Cherry Blossom Girls
(Turgid Animal - TA204) 7-inch $7.50
Two tracks of dense, thick, cloudy, foggy drone in tribute to fetishist Lee Stokoe’s beloved cherry blossom girls. With three inserts featuring Stokoe’s original artwork. 200 copies pressed on black vinyl.
Night Of The Killers Moon
(Turgid Animal - TA256) split LP $16.00
Gateshead drone legend Culver and Mutant Ape sideproject Murder Book deliver long sides of blackened heavy music. There is nothing pretty about this record other than the sexy girl on the front. Limited to 250 copies on black vinyl.
Diasporagas
(Edition Telemark - 628.02) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dhrupad singing by the Milan-born longtime resident of India meets the minimalist and experimental approach of the builder of homemade saxophone, Iranian ney, and other wind instruments. The album is sub-titled “Ancient Trends and New Traditions in Indo-European Music,” and its centerpiece is “Hiss (Mastered Noise)” for dhrupad singing, invented wind instruments, Indian percussion and samples of historical recordings by Indian singers —partly based on their earlier work “Gramophone Saraswati,” which involved replicas of Luigi Russolo’s Intonarumori instead of the Indian recordings. Edition of 300
Cured Pink / Penguins
(Vacant Valley - VV08) split 7-inch $13.00
Cured Pink’s effectively creepy side is a chain-rattling death march of single-chord electric guitar, mournfully strummed amid stormy ambiance and shouted vocals. Penguins’ militaristic drumming and formidable hedge wall of guitar are tough enough to withstand the start-stop chug of their track, along with menacing brass and shrieking. White vinyl. Austrialian import.
Gussie
(Roaratorio) 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.
Christ & The Pale Queens / Mighty In Sorrow / The Red Face Of God / Emblems / As The World Disappears
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD75) 4xLP $150.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second of two wooden box sets, with embossed cover depicting a different blood-red C93. The is the first time As The World Disappears has been available on vinyl. Emblems only made it as far as test pressings, but has never been released on vinyl either. Includes a different metal badge, a different booklet (also with embossed cover, full of personal photos from David Tibet’s archives). Edition of 600.
Unreleased Rarities, Out-takes, Rehearsals and Live 82-95
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD74) 4xLP $150.00 (Out-of-stock)
Volume one of two wooden box sets, with embossed cover depicting blood-red C93 symbol. Two LPs of unreleased rarities, out-takes, rehearsals and demos dating from 1983-1995, plus two more with four live performances from Amsterdam (1984), Hamburg (1985) and Tokyo (1988). Includes silkscreened poster printed on paper hand-made in Nepal, metal badge, 28-page booklet with embossed cover, full of personal photos from David Tibet’s archives. Edition of 600.
Rain in Skull
(Olde English Spelling Bee - OESB24) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Fragments of disjointed folk melodies move across a plain of wheezing chords, tape hiss, children's voices, ambient washes, amp hum, electronic glitch and bits of buzz in general. The contrast between this Australian freakazoid’s downcast guitar playing and the physical claustrophobia-inducing weight of sound is both perplexing and intriguing. Color spray-mounted jacket. Edition of 200.
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.
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.
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
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
Interlude With Fun Machine
(Starlight Furniture Company) CD $14.00
(Starlight Furniture Company) LP $14.00
An all-instrumental album recorded in one week Steve Fisk (Pell Mell, Pigeonhed) and Bob Beerman (Pell Mell). Noticeably inspired by Hematic Sunsets’ odd combo of kitschy lounge, quasi-soundtrack and “modern” electronics; the casual, homespun aesthetic of French Paddleboat; classics such Dieter Moebius’s Tonspuren and Eno’s Another Green World; The Young Marble Giants’ unadorned rhythm boxes and Wurlitzer frailty; and minimal electronics by Thomas Leer and Robert Rental, Cabaret Voltaire, Pyrolator, Cluster, Harmonia, et al.
Major Works
(Siltbreeze) LP $17.00
Formed a couple years back around the nucleus of Austen McMillian, Matthew Plunkett (ex-Trendees), and Lisa Preston (Nux Vomica, The Portage), Cuticles chew through the 18 tracks here with abandon. Someone just yelled out from the tree next door, “Sounds like the Pastels! With guns!” One could make a case for the South Island Sound coursing through their veins (they’re from Oamaru, about 80 miles north of Dunedin, after all), for the sheer abandon-pop that gushes out of these grooves, but you can’t ignore a mutant strain of Shoe This High meets The Swingers either. Plus, when bathing in hyper-mesmerizing aural swirls, no one can hear you answer wrong.
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.
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.
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.
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
Odeon
(Olde English Spelling Bee - OESB38) LP $17.00
Debut album by sci-fi oriented, vintage synth duo who began recording after being commissioned to make soundtracks for flotation tanks at a new age center in Texas. Now based in Los Angeles, they perform private rooftop concerts overlooking training grounds for the L.A.P.D. riot squads, where scrambling helicopters and practice gun battles complement the sinister, dystopian vibe of their compositions. Silkscreened jackets. Edition of 400.
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.
LUCRECIA DALT / AARON DILLOWAY
Lucy & Aaron
(Hanson) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Get ready to examine your consciousness, seeker, as this righteous duo pushes you to focus clearly on whatever thoughts happen to arise in the moment. Dalt and Dilloway's repetition builds tension rather than hypnotizes; their minimal palette mimics incidental sounds from every day life while their expertise at blending them with alien electronics renders the familiar inscrutable.
Dead Gods / Dandi Wind
(Rampage) split 7-inch $7.00
Dead Gods' “The Perfect Lie” is polished, new-wavish, angst-ridden and packed with New Order-esque bass lines; swaying melodies and detailed synth arrangements recall something Johnny Marr of The Smiths would whip out. Mope-y lyrics, a touch of glockenspiel and pizzicato strings, Phil Spector-style production, driving and danceable. Guest appearances by Jim Magas (Lake of Dracula), Bobby Conn and Monica Boo Boo, Josh (Majhonng). Dandi Wind are a Vancouver-based duo who consider their peers Glass Candy, Crystal Castles, or SSION. “Incubation” is a trippy blur of pounding, almost tribal music with astonishing and chaotic vocal arrangements, dark lyrics, intricate production, and throbbing lead synth lines. Edition of 300 copies.
From Dust To Dust b/w Warm Up
(Dadjo) 7-inch (lathe cut) $30.00
“With absolutely no connection to the lead singer of country rockers Black Oak Arkansas or the LaVerne Baker R&B classic comes this mysterious single,” explains WFMU’s David Noades. Both songs of this early 70s obscurity from Saginaw, Michigan, have “a deliciously dubious home-made quality about them…. The A-side … uses the old Christian burial idiom as a moral look at life and death…. [A]wkward and shaky vocal delivery [is] not helped by the staccato rhythms of the verses and the over-use of the word dust … [while] the chorus … ends in a clumsy but obvious rip off of Billy Preston’s organ coda from ‘Let It Be’…. [L]udicrously overlabored drum fills and Phil Spector-esque harmony backing … add to the unintentional comic effect…. [A] truly bonkers fairground-style organ solo … is in complete contrast to the somber mood of the rest of the song. Drowned in reverb and tape delay, and with more bum notes than a colitis sufferer…. [The jaw-dropping dance number on the B-side is] a complete U-turn…, where the home made harmonium [competes] with an equally ham-fisted harmonica.” Canadian bootleg edition with screen-print replica labels. Edition of 10.
Dara
(Ecstatic Peace - E70d) LP (one-sided) $11.00
Plenty of noise (in the form of processed guitar squall) and the influence of synth-pop (simple Casio beats and vintage keyboards galore). Dara seems to be singing mostly to herself, with a voice distant and sporadic. The songs meander; favoritism clearly for noisy textures more than obvious pop hooks. Not especially poppy, and the noise is far from confrontational.
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.”
Voltigeurs / Dark Bargain
(Turgid Animal) split 7-inch $8.75
The alter ego of Skullflower (Matthew Bower and Samantha Davies) rips dark psychedelic noise. On the flip, Newcastle-based trio (Jamie Stewart of Wrest, Lucy Johnson of Rife and Smut, and Mike Simpson of Xazazz) offer seven minutes of thunderous rhythms and harsh, distortion-laden and feedback-drenched noise rock. Edition of 300.
Hatred Of Sound
(Second Sleep - SS086) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Years away from the previous Darksmith album. Limping sounds not easily identified. Phantom appearances of music, deteriorated, elsewhere. Edition of 200.
Million Year Spree
(Kye - KYE14) split LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
No-fi acoustic sewage from Hamilton, Ontario's Fossils, a stream of dire handcut confusion. Darksmith of California combines wilting electronics, floppy turntablism and sun-baked cassette protocols and destroys them in a claustrophobic void. Edition of 400.
Total Vacuum
(Hanson - HN208) CD $11.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Hanson - HN208) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
California sound artist Tom Darksmith's crude musique concrète uses tapes, voice, records, radio, guitar, drums, objects, and field recordings. Assembled on cassette four-track in 2008 and 2009, this total mystery of perfectly paced dirt sound -- not harsh, not mellow, just unclean, weird, and confusing -- tests your audio Rohrshach; Hanson hears weedwacking, getting zipped into a suitcase and shipped via train, ghost voices roaming in sewers, riding in a helicopter with mid-grade noise reduction earmuffs on, a shitty metal door locking on a crew of mumbling idiots, and a garbage disposal. Whatever you hear, that’s your problem. Recommended for fans of Yeast Culture, Agog, Joe Colley, Graham Lambkin, Jason Lescalleet, Hands To. LP is an edition of 300, with hand-stamped labels, and heavy-duty two-color silkscreened sleeves with Darksmith’s hilariously macabre artwork. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2010.
The Sun Splits For ... The Blind Swimmer
(Destijl - IND063) CD $13.25 (Out-of-stock)
(Destijl - IND063) LP $13.25 (Out-of-stock)
The bedrock of this NJ-based concoction is folk, but there's no headband and King Darves (Asps, Gorgot, Human Adult Band) does not sing about pixies in the moss. This is somewhere between rolled cigs and the foggy vision of Big Pink from somewhere on Jersey Avenue. “An excursion into mountain man folk music, with a few surprises thrown into the mix here and there,” as Smooth Assailing puts it, “Pure and earthy.” This one-man Meat Puppets with a deep, rich voice has really cobbled something together in his kitchen sink –- a shocker, a pleaser, a toe-tapper, a head-nodder.
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.
Frequency Conquistadors
(Pan - PAN6) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Das Synthetische Mischegewebe's track titles here stem from El Mundo Alucinante by Reinaldo Arenas (which itself is inspired by François-René de Chateaubriand's Mémoires d'outre-tombe). It is about time rather than history, and about being in history. Having lost the war of time, the only thing that remains to do is be, and here we go, 'being infinitely required' as a means of expression. DSM began in the early '80s, partook of the international industrial cassette scene; composed for light installations with open-reel machines, cassette recorders, microphone and guitar fuzz boxes with loud, quiet, occasionally full blast and frequently snuck-in little sounds, all alternating within a few seconds; created an electroacoustic anti-music; performed unusual concerts in the underground network as well as in high art institutions and museums (such as Centre Pompidou); created mixed media installations, exhibitions and conferences on cognitive science and neurologic research related topics; toured with changing line-ups; and participated in international festivals throughout Europe and the US. Limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, in jacket and a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve.
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
Waa Jiè Méng Xuun
(Ini Itu - 1301) LP $19.00 (Out-of-stock)
Frogs from Taiwan meet modular synthesizers. Darmstadt is in the jungle. With three postcards. Hand-numbered edition of 250.
Un Autre Voyage
(Holodeck - HD033) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
Intimate solo work by one of Montréal’s foremost electronic artists in contemporary pop. The handling of synthesizers and drum machines by his long-time member of Les Momies de Palerme, Hotel Monochrome, DKMD, and Essaie Pas coalesces in synchronized harmony, punctuated by Davidson’s hypnotic vocal delivery, sung and spoken in French and English. Her surreal, atmospheric compositions show irrepressible traces of exuberance, displaying a fresh luminosity in her palette, while her use of direct experience and candid self-examination as topics for song convey a newfound serenity that playfully underlines her otherwise brooding and pensive soundscapes. This is a potent assembly of real life expositions that are coarse and organic, yet undeniably nuanced and refined. Includes free download card.
Check out “Balade Aux USA” here: https://vimeo.com/112065630
And Air Swept Clean of All Distance
(Alt.Vinyl - AV057) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
The radical, virtuoso harpist from Wales continuing his extended deconstruction of the instrument’s historical, cultural connotations, employing E-Bow and other preparations to make the harp sing, chatter and convulse in a way it has rarely done elsewhere (perhaps best compared to Derek Bailey’s treatment of the guitar or Okkyung Lee with the cello). Rivetingly tortuous and life-affirming. 180g, green vinyl. Screen printed jacket, with artwork by Jean Luc Guinnet and an essay by David Toop. Edition of 500 (250 of which are included in the Pedwar boxset).
Pedwar
(Alt.Vinyl - AV058x) 4xLP $100.00 (Out-of-stock)
Definitive solo career retrospective of this seminal improvisational harpist — a mighty, almost unparalleled treatise on the harp within free-jazz and free-improv contexts, from the prepared explorations of Trem (Confront 2002), through the shimmering microtonal drone tunings of Over Shadows (Confront 2007), to the visceral metallic tone of Wound Response (Alt.Vinyl 2012) and the adroitly complex, yet almost playfully folkwise patter of An Air Swept Clean Of All Distance (Alt.Vinyl 2014). All platters are 180-gram (three on colored vinyl). Includes fliers, photographs, posters, printed scores, essays, liner notes and a free download. Hand-numbered edition of 250
The Mystical Path of the Number Eighty Six
(Holy Mountain - 8655) LP $20.00
Released in 1997, following Steven Wray Lobdell's release from a mental institution. Heavy psychedelic guitar compositions -- think Takayanagi Masayuki backed by a Crazy Horse-like force attempting Sun Ra's "The Invisible Shield" with organ, analog synth and various other electronics.
Selectie 02
(Ultra Eczema - UE41) LP $32.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second in a series of archival LPs by Deyster, who died in 1999 but left an incredible amount of reel tapes behind full of beautiful analog synthesizer music. The incredibly sad and lonely synth tunes here are presumed to be from 1975, plus or minus. Limited to 500 copies.
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.
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.
DEAD BODY COLLECTION / THE RITA
SLC Engine Decima MAS b/w Amore, Morte, Amore
(Peripheral - PR017) split 7-inch $14.25
A terrifying odyssey into harsh noise by two of the world’s hardest hitters. Uncompromising walls of icy static that soothe and hurt. Edition of 200
Clyma Est Mort / Tentative Power
(Ba Da Bing - BING066) 2xLP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Considered The Dead C’s “Ed Sullivan moment” (except it wasn’t performed live on network TV), Clyma Est Mort was recorded in a practice room in Port Chalmers, New Zealand, in 1992 with Tom Lax of Siltbreeze as the sole member of the audience. Audience noises from a Renderers show were dubbed later. The second platter, Tentative Power, a collects non-album tracks "Hell Is Now Love," "Bone," "Mighty," "Power," "Peace," "Radiation," "Power (Fallujah version)." CD also included.
Dead C. vs Rangda
(Ba Da Bing - BING081) LP $14.00
Four tracks recorded in 1989 by Bruce Russell, Michael Morley, and Robbie Yeats during the Eusa Kills sessions in 1989, backed with two tracks recorded in 2010 by Ben Chasny, Rick Bishop, and Chris Corsano at Russian Recording in Bloomington, Indiana.
DR503 + Sun Stabbed
(Ba Da Bing - BING060) 2xLP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
When it was first released (Flying Nun 1989), DR503 sounded like nothing that came before -- a furious pastiche of unrelenting drones, noise and menace that staked a fork in the road, dividing the New Zealand Pop Sound from its black sheep brother, New Zealand Noise. Still vicious after all these years. The Sun Stabbed EP includes bonus tracks not on the original seven-inch (Xpressway 1988), making this the first release of those sessions in their entirety.
Eusa Kills + Helen Said This
(Ba Da Bing - BING061) 2xLP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
The Dead C's second album (Flying Nun 1989) with a 45 RPM reissue of their 1990 Siltbreeze 12-inch. Eusa Kills adds ominous aggression to the abstract sounds being created at the time by Dustdevils, This Kind of Punishment, and Dadamah. Sneering vocals drift over improvised melodies and unstructured rock songs. Truly intense and unparalleled.
Future Artists
(Ba Da Bing - BING053) 2xLP $17.00
Another uncompromising realization of the surreal and undefined expressed via fine rock improv, genius drone and barbarous clashing sounds. From the first track, “The AMM of Punk Rock” through to the last, “Garage,” The Dead C's intensity is unyielding, their inventiveness jaw-dropping.
Harsh 70s Reality
(Siltbreeze - SB1112) 2xLP $30.00
Originally released in April 1992, Harsh 70s Reality conspired with Twin Infinitives and Lake to slaughter rock music in its sleep with a tremendous grinding thud. Described by one freelance poet as "a garbage truck backing over the abyss," this 2024 reissue is remastered by Josh Stevenson. Regular jacket with insert.
Operation of the Sonne
(Siltbreeze - SB30) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Suites of corrosive feedback and swaying slow-motion rhythm. Beginning with a collage of overdriven synth improvisation and pulsating sine waves, concluding with the interlocked guitars of Messrs Russell and Morley wavering feedback tendrils that float over Mr. Yeats’s rhythm network. Originally released in 1993.
Patience
(Ba Da Bing - BING070) CD $12.00
(Ba Da Bing - BING070) LP $14.00
Four unforgiving instrumentals. Thick and thundering electric drones compound and retreat like a Pacific Ocean of noise. LP includes free MP3 download card. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST 0F 2010
Relax Fallujah - Hell Has Come
(Ba Da Bing - BING049) 7-inch $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
Side A is a brutal, never-released version of "Power" from the band's archives. The B-Side reissues "Bad Politics" (their most famous song if the fact that it's been covered by Yo La Tengo and The Rogers Sisters, among others, is any indication). Limited to 1000 copies, released to coincide with Vain, Erudite and Stupid: Selected Works 1987-2005 2xCD.
Secret Earth
(Ba Da Bing - BING059) LP $14.00
The elegance of howling guitar noise meets the tenets of alienation in society with unrelenting force -- a focused soundtrack to accompany Knut Hamsun novels, Samuel Beckett plays, and Ingmar Bergman films. Michael Morley's monotonic vocal moan anchors the inherent isolation of our modern world, earnest and lost. Oceanic feedback, catastrophic drumming, and a return to the cripple rock blasts of their early material.
The Dead Sea Perform Max Harris
(Ba Da Bing - BING067) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first recordings The Dead C ever made, back in January 1987. Each side displays a different and uniquely raw version of "Max Harris" -- reinterpreted both times by a group who can truly say they have never played the same song in any form the same way twice. Slicing tension that drives right through your bones, on vinyl for the first time. Includes free MP3 download card.
Trouble
(Ba Da Bing - BING114) 2xCD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Ba Da Bing - BING114) 2xLP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Trouble springs from a glorious realm where churning discontent is deadened by pounding drone. “Extrusions of static and microaggressive twitches of dissonance, courtesy of the guitars of Russell and Morley, dot a minefield rife with Yeats’ percussive skitter,” notes Pitchfork, “Halfway through [the] twenty-minute sprawl [of ‘One’], the song splits open just wide enough to hear Morley’s ghost-moaned vocals, a sound halfway between a mumble and a hymn…. Though Trouble is nimble and fluid, the Dead C draw mainly on the gravity of their years. There’s a mournful air to ‘Two’ after the opening drumbeat crawls to a momentary halt. The guitars helix around a sour melody, curling in the empty space where something used to be. Here, the album’s utilitarian non-titles make sense, as if to avoid conferring any context or intent…. [T[he ten-minute middle of [‘Three’] lapses into unhinged, human-like cries of confusion, weariness, surrender, and ultimately rage. It’s an uncanny-valley effect that captures a primordial eeriness, ancient and unsettling.” TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2016
Gainer
(Phase!) LP + CD $29.25
Guitar and voice through minimal effects to create instant songs, psychedelic collages and direct, stripped-down bursts by Panagiotis Spoulos. Partially improvised but fully psychographic, Gainer has anthropocentric characteristics and lo-fi character, and flirts with punk, bedroom pop and analog noise. Vinyl is 180-gram. Edition of 250. Check out the video for “Float” here: http://youtu.be/rvdWSa9rHQY?list=UUPqvcMshhRs0X8JZ6ccM_jg
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
General Assurance
(Helicopter) LP (one-sided) $15.00
A consistently brain-bending collaboration, with long passages of near-silence illuminated by clanks, beautiful technicolor drones, hovering death tones. White jacket with card. Edition of 100
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.
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.”
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.
Sings the Blues
(RRRecords - RRRGOD) 7-inch $4.50 (Out-of-stock)
Totally fucked-up schizo-shit noise from Texas nerve-bakers. Edition of 300.
Blind Chance
(Present Time Exercises - PTELP3) LP $19.50
A long improvised acoustic freak-out ranging from loose, frequent and infrequent twangs to pure whirlwinds of aggressive string assaults and finger-shredding plucking. This still retains Deas's signature traditional playing. Edition of 500.
Deas & Denton's Inferno
(Present Time Exercises - PTELP4) LP $19.50
This collaboration by Deas and Denton expands upon their s/t CDR (Blackest Rainbow 2011). Using electric guitars on two side-long pieces, the duo breaks away from barely tamed, throbbing feedback and moves toward a more composed domain, drawing from influences as far-reaching as La Monte Young, Basic Channel and Pan Sonic. Instances of hypnotic drones and onslaughts of pulsating, over-arching beats immerse and assault the listener. Edition of 250.
Quadtych Volume One
(Present Time Exercises - PTELP1) LP $22.50
Parts one and two of Deasʼs colossal work for 12-string guitar, recorded in one evening at Londonʼs Roundhouse in December 2010, evidence of his unification the exploration of his acoustic guitar through a legion of extended techniques, with a developed and structured formulation combined with sections of partly and freely improvised playing. Edition of 500.
Quadtych Volume Two
(Present Time Exercises - PTELP2) LP $22.50
Parts three and four of Deasʼs colossal work for 12-string guitar. Moving into a major key, Deas brings back melodies from part one in a whole new light, building into a grand melodic climax at the end of part three before the transfiguration of a beautiful repetitive pattern into an atonal onslaught, eventually falling into a vicious free improvisation on a completely detuned 12-string in the fourth and final part. Edition of 500.
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 And The Maiden
(Fishrider - FISH014) CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Fishrider - FISH014) LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Inspired by The Chromatics and Munch’s famous engraving after which they’re named, bassist / vocalist Lucinda King and Danny Brady on synthesizer and drum programming initially sought to make their own style of hazy Italo-pop, but ended up with something much darker. With guitarist / drummer Hope Robertson, the group fills their shadowy sound world with Rohypnol drums, melancholic synth arpeggios, reverb-drenched guitars, and sighing vocal melodies. This hypnotic album, wrapped in tactile electro-acoustic languor, was recorded in the cavernous rooms of Dunedin’s None Gallery, a spiritual home to many of New Zealand’s experimental and electronic upstarts.
Death And Vanilla
(Hands In The Dark - HITD01) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Anders Hansson and Nilsson Marleen’s first EP (Hands In The Dark 2010) reissued with three bonus tracks, new artwork, and a poster. “Crackling recordings of old seances, inexplicably exploding tea cups,” muses Joakim Norling, “The supernatural is an important factor for … [t]he Malmö-based duo [as well as zombie films, sci-fi, Krautrock], library music, electronic pioneers and the golden age of analog synths….”
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.”
Theological Genocide
(Hospital - HOS497) 2xLP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Originally released by Spastik Kommunikations in 1997, Theological Genocide culminated in the Self Annihilation Tour across North America. More than simply a band or solo project, Death Squad combined writings and visuals with fearless performances full of psychological and physical confrontations. Multimedia existentialism in the flesh. Edition of 250
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.
Final Confession
(Chrome Peeler - CPR15) 2xLP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Crushing American power electronics by Jonathan Canady, exhausting with its inner ugly, satisfying in its rawness, and so far from healthy. All tracks are previously released, many out of print or hard to find: “Walking Time Bomb” and “Triumph Of The Hunter” from Dedicated To Edmund Emil Kemper seven-inch (Self Abuse 1997); “Abominations Of The Flesh” from Abominations seven-inch (Bloodlust 1997); “Girone Della Merde” and “Girone Del Sangue” from 120 Days Of Sodom split-LP (Old Europa Café 1997); “Blood” from Ne Plus Ultra CD (Pure 1997); “Happy Birthday,” “Breaking A Doll,” and “Touch Me Daddy” from the Back On The Prowl CDr (Solipsism 2000); “Gutters Of New York City (Berkowitz II)” from Gutters Of New York City CDr (self-released 2001); “Porn Victim / Born Victim” from Pornography Hurts CDr (Bitewerks 2001); and “Shit Pig” from Deathpile And Whorebutcher split CDr (Slaughter Productions 2002). Gatefold jacket with new artwork by Fecalove’s Nicola Vinciguerra. Marble colored vinyl. Edition of 450.
G.R.
(Hospital - HOS88) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
From 1995 to 2004 Jonathan Canady led this classic American power electronics band, and this the band’s final album (Force of Nature Productions / Hospital Productions, 2003), set a benchmark in extreme music, providing a fully realized, investigative, confrontational intensity while exploring the perspective of the perpetrator, in this case one Gary Ridgway. Longtime industrial and experimental musician David E. Williams provides masterful analogue synth work alongside Canady’s devastating vocal performance, testament to controlled chaos and full immersion in challenging subject matter. First-time vinyl edition of 500.
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
Order: Spoil The Entire State
(Harbinger Sound) LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)
Incredible archival recordings from the 1980s by the noise orchestra of Brad Laner (Medicine, Savage Republic, Electric Company, Unsound magazine) and Jim Goodall (Medicine, Severed Head In A Bag, DD Dobson, Whitehouse), featuring LAFMS superstars such as Solid Eye’s Rick Potts and Joseph Hammer and unknown San Fernando Valley noise geniuses. Epic spontaneous compositions created with tape recorders, short wave radios, cheap synths, random orchestral instruments and circuit-bent gear -- all unleashed in front of an unsuspecting Wall Of Voodoo audience. In their day they released cassettes on ARPH and Laner’s Party Sound Tapes label, and appeared on compilations released by The Minutemen’s New Alliance imprint, New Underground, and Trance Port. Prior to hitting the big time with Medicine, Laner and Goddall could be found in The Steaming Coils, and Laner working with Fourwaycross, Nervous Gender and others. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2013
DECAER PINGA / GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION
Tubular Bells
(Starlight Furniture Company) split LP $14.00
A no-instruments interpretation of Mike Oldfield’s epic instrumental performed by Glands of External Secretion (side one) and Decaer Pinga (side two), in which deficiency is the cornerstone. By intentionally limiting themselves to prerecorded tapes, field recordings, electronic devices and effects, out-of-context musical passages, and anything else that did not require a musical instrument to be played, both bands interpret their respective halves of this legendary opus with methods that seem to run counter to the spirit of the original, yet paradoxically force it to shine through. Limited edition 300 copies.
Decimus / Hobo Sunn
(Kelippah - KEL011) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Pat Murano and Ian Murphy return to the frayed and dangerous inner world of outsider sound exploration and reproduction. Their inverted cosmoses reek of the cinematic, while avoiding both pastiche and canonized musical reference. Where Deciumus uses synthetic devices to create warped, nightmarish representations of organic, everyday sounds (creaky floorboards, a heartbeat, rats squeaking, camera shutters clicking, a taunting feral animal cry), Hobo Sonn places field recordings of actual sounds (foot falls, birds, insects, automobiles) in a dark and drifting world that feels very much like a waking bad dream. Silkscreened jackets. Edition of 300
Morning and Evening Ragas Vol. 3
(Daksina) LP $32.00
New dimensions of silence, solitude, and isolation. Pat Murano recorded outside and alone. Silkscreen folder. Numbered edition 39/100
Morning and Evening Ragas Vol. 4
(Daksina) LP $30.00
“Pat Murano’s first solo guitar LP mirrors the sound of outdoor ambience in a mutated form, like a photograph melting on the dashboard of a long-inert car. Strings mingle with crickets and become a pair of twins vocalizing; a plucked string becomes a glistening soap bubble that pops on the end of a branch. A palm muting strings becomes a storm front rolling in and dissipating just as it's noticed. The guitar obscures itself as it becomes cats and foxes communicating across empty fields. The natural world and the sound world meld into a winged thing — cicadas giving way to delay, giving way to unknown things landing in fields while most of us sleep. It’s reminiscent more of recordists Anne McMillan and Knud Viktor than of other guitarists. On the B-Side, sustained notes rise up, meet and coil around the sound of crickets. A new totality that tonally feels like a microscope placed on the artificial. Melodrama smooths out into morse code. Again music becomes nature, nature becomes music and they are both held there until something real and new emerges.”
Punishment Feast – Live Recordings
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00
“Grotesque, blast furnace freakouts and noise depravity.” Screen printed jacket
Ugliest Man / Dog Blood
(Troniks - TRO290) LP $6.00
Fucked-up noisecore with black metal undertones, highly recommended by the Funeral Stench blog, so that oughta tell ya something. Repetitive patterns, guitar abuse, harsh drones, feedback control and dominating growls.
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.
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
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
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.
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
Hard Luck Heart
(Harbinger Sound - HAS024) 7-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Powerhouse psychedelic Japanese / Australian noise trio featuring Ayako Honda, Hirofumi Uchino and Laura Oyaizu who use gadgets, junk and fuzz to generate tempestuous post-industrial metal machine music.
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.
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.”
Drone Electric Lust / La Morte Young
(Pica Disk - PICA036) split LP $21.00
Christian Malfray’s crackling hot electronics meet the tape manipulation and processed guitar of Pierre Faure and Thierry Monnier on the La Morte Young side. Eric Lombaert’s modest percussion provides a smattering of rhythm and Joelle Vinciarelli wails like Mike Patton over a John Zorn skit. Drone homage becomes dooming chaos. On the flip, Drone Electric Lust shuffle their feet, so to speak, with accordion-styled electronics and barely awakened jazz drums. The chaos of Kjell Runar Jenssen, Lasse Marhaug, Per Gisle GalŒen and Fredrik Ness Sevendal is a seemingly quiet one that gets abstracted with impossible-to-follow guitar fuck-ups before retreating into busy, tinkering ambiance. So very lovely.
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
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.
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
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
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.
送魂使者 Soul Sender
(Inu Wan Wan) LP $22.00
Two key figures in the Chinese underground avant-garde (Li Jianhong, Yan Jun, Torturing Nurse) recorded Soul Sender during the Qingming Festival, customarily a day to visit tombs and make offerings to the dead. Cello, RAT pedal, drums, and your pinna and eardrum make up the instrumentation. While the formants accessible in the timbral ranges of an instrument do not change, ways of performing a musical instrument always remain discoverable. Sheng (盛洁) and Deng (邓博宇) create a vibrational coalition circulating awareness of entries, exits, and unisons, finding a pulse heard spatially. That gives the chills. Just like the resonances known through bumps in curves on plots of frequency and amplitude that evidence the Higgs boson and other briefly existing subatomic particles concentrated by acceleration and detected through collision. Sheng and Deng access resonance particles.
Destroy All Monsters
(Get Back ) Used LP $20.00
2009 reissue of Cherry Red’s Bored anthology from 1991
— .-- .- -. -
(Phage - PT162) split 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Solo power electronics project by Margaret Chardiet on one side, thick harsh noise, synth and processed vocals by Jim Haras on the other, with a focus on degenerate fetishism of strange objects or ideas. Two-color screen-printed jacket, insert.
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.
The Sinister Tarot – A Musickal Working, Instruments Modern and Voice
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME94) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Interpretations in sound of specific cards from the tarot variant described in the Order of Nine Angles’ key guide. These spontaneous manifestations are expressed through magickal meditations of each element, associative and dissociative, linear or otherwise.The self-divined, self-made, self-sourced musick informs and enriches the egregore of the Septenary path that is ONA. With twelve-page booklet.
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
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
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
These Graves
(Tone Filth) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Edition of 333 with hand screened and inked textured cardstock covers. “Noise as it’s supposed to be,” says Dutch porn mag Vital Weekly, “menacing, not by the harshness of its sound, but by the content of what its sound has to offer.”
Yellow Swans / Devillock
(Modern Radio - MRRL034) split 7-inch $8.00
Yellow Swans start with a tone and delve into into a dense, unsettling wall of sound. Devillock's ambient piece shifts one note through a slow organic rumble.
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.
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.”
Birthdays
(Beniffer Editions - BFF130) LP (one-sided) $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recordings from 2007–2010 by 85-year-old French composer (his first appearance on vinyl since Sous Le Regard D’un Soliel Noir [INA-GRM 1982]), exploring high-fidelity studio editing methods of concrete sound and vocal manipulation. Platters are screenprinted by hand with archival high-gloss varnish. PVC sleeve, sticker, program notes by Dhomont and Jean-Francois Denis. Edition of 300.
GIOVANNI DI DOMENICO / JIM O'ROURKE / TATSUHISA YAMAMOTO
Delivery Health
(Silent Water - SW010) LP $23.50
This highly idiosyncratic album, recorded in Tokyo at GOK Sound and mixed at Steamroom, blends early ’70s ECM drum sonics with long, unfolding travelogues, the transparency of the mix, electronic drones, and a most organic rock sound.
Listen to “Passe Muraille” here: https://soundcloud.com/giovannididomenico/passe-muraille
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.
The Weird Watusi
(Beniffer Editions - BFF127) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Californian braintrust spearheaded by Count Loachfillet, whose gaggle of undead minions retool the sternness of electronic music in his own cemetery sensibility, allowing it to cross-breed and co-mingle with a playful, haunted-house-sound-effects vibe. Musique concrète meets monster rock: the rutting of a decapitated cat, a cauldron of devoured souls with fingernail xylophones, a witch with a speech impediment, sodden graveyard memories of a mangled airplane casualty who died in vain. Second edition of 50 in gatefold jacket, out of print since 2010.
Chronology (The Bain Total Years 77-85)
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD71) 6xLP + 7-inch $125.00 (Out-of-stock)
Outstanding selection of tape releases by Die Form and its side projects (Eva-Johanna Reichstag, Fine Automatic, Krylon Hertz, Camera Obscura, DF Sadist School, Mental Code, and Hurt), all released between 1977 and 1985 on Philippe Fichot’s minimal / synth / EBM label Bain Total. Fichot and VOD focus this collection on material from the rarest tapes (BTK01 through BTK29). All tracks and visuals archives have been mastered and reproduced from the originals.
Aaakal
(Harbinger Sound - HAS031) 7-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Dave Uden and Steve Cammack of this long-term UK avant/industrial unit blast a solo side each. Camouflage vinyl.
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.
Chain Balled
(Turgid Animal - TA396) 7-inch $8.10 (Out-of-stock)
Two tracks of the dirty, pure tape manipulation and looping hell by ex-Wolf Eyes Aaron Dilloway. Full color covers (similar to the "Chain Shot" LP artwork). Edition 500
Chain Shot
(Hanson - HN209) CD $11.25 (Out-of-stock)
(Throne Heap - THS01) LP $18.75 (Out-of-stock)
This new platter by Padre Dilloway (ex-Wolf Eyes, ex-Couch) was seemingly recorded by tape heads dusted in ancient kitty litter. Decode the messages embedded in his relaxed weirdness (the looped tapes provide the pacing) if it’s revelations about woodpecker attacks and/or butter churning you seek. With a dash of thighbone horn wail here and there, and the use of homemade mixers and loop machines from 1943, this platter teeters on a restless energy ocean, while an MSG-ridden hiss crawls within its rotten grooves.
CD version contains a 28-minute bonus track.
Corpse On Horseback
(Ergot - ER001) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ultra-crude eight-track tape junk metal loops previously released on cassette (Hanson 2003). Gold vinyl. Edition of 500.
Face Mask
(Turgid Animal - TA396) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-print)
EP released for the Dilloway / Nate Young UK tour in the spring of 2009. More looping hell recorded in a hotel room in Brighton after the Colour Out Of Space Festival. Edition of 100
Lip Syncing to Verme
(Hundebiss - H009) LP $27.00
Aaron Dilloway here is as fluid and cinematic as a slow motion Stan Brakhage on K. After the monumental Chain Shot LP (Throne Heap 2007 / Hanson 2009) and furious live activity, The Mad Taper of Oberlin dives into a buzzy ocean of muddy water loops south of heaven, where you might as well crawl like the creepy worm you are. Unique folded artwork. Edition of 500.
Stomach Pump
(Von Archives - VON012) 7-inch $13.75 (Out-of-stock)
A drilling experience, described as "a stomach pump connected to a drill brain, wired to your balls, and plugged to your PA." Edition of 300
The Beauty Bath
(Hanson - HN270) LP picture disc $22.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reissue of limited edition LP (Rockatansky 2013), about half of which is different and reworked material. Our friends at Volcanic Tongue described the original edition thus: “[L]ow-level battlefield tectonics and the sound of smeared and tortured magnetic tape [comes] over like a rusty, industrial-scale take on classic 20th century minimalism. Some of Dilloway’s most barbarously vacated drone work here, with intense low-level fireworks reduced to inchoate shadow plays and rolling, planetary scale hypnotics. Then there are moments of glissing, echoing metal tones coming out of silence, suddenly morphing into sad feedback chorales à la Eliane Radigue’s early workings but with a crude, lonely aspect that is extremely affecting.” Includes download card. Edition 500 copies.
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.”
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
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.
The Funky Mystery Rhythm
(Thingsflux) Used 12-inch $5.00
One track from 1985 – the radio version backed with the extended radio version. Sealed
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.
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.
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.”
Dionysian
(Ideal - iDEAL131) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Difficult musique concrete / harsh noise from 1992 by the late Joel Brindefalk with Joachim Nordwall, Christan Topac and Johan Petersson. Edition of 400.
Die Bilder Schwimmen In Der See
(Unwucht) 12-inch $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
The third in Unwucht's four-part series that reissues Direen's early '80s seven-inches (this one originally released by Flying Nun in 1982) on twelve-inch vinyl, restored and remastered from different sources, and cut especially loud and deep. High-quality, screen-printed sleeve with reproduction of the original artwork, and additional printed material. Edition of 350.
High Thirties Piano
(Unwucht) 12-inch $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
The final installment of Unwucht's four-part series that reissues Direen's early '80s seven-inches (this one originally a private pressing of 100 copies) on twelve-inch vinyl, restored and remastered from different sources, and cut especially loud and deep, and further restructured from an alternate mix containing the previously unreleased track "The Lamp"; an extended, five-and-a-half-minute version of "Kicks"; and two more unreleased songs from a private 1982 session. High-quality, screen-printed sleeve with reproduction of the original artwork, and additional printed material. Edition of 350. Includes bonus seven-inch
Six Impossible Things
(Unwucht - UN08) 12-inch $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first in Unwucht's four-part series that reissues Direen's early '80s seven-inches (this one originally a private pressing of 100 copies) on twelve-inch vinyl, restored and remastered from different sources, and cut especially loud and deep. High-quality, screen-printed sleeve with reproduction of the original artwork. Additional inserts with photos, drawings, and text from private archives. Edition of 350.
Soloman's Ball
(Unwucht - UN09) 12-inch $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second in Unwucht's four-part series that reissues Direen's early '80s seven-inches (this one originally a private pressing of 100 copies) on twelve-inch vinyl, restored and remastered from different sources, and cut especially loud and deep. Direen and Meek take it slow and easy, layering menace over solid foundations and extending The Bilders' range from the lyrical acoustic harmonies of America to the gothic psychopathy of Son of Cronos, from subtle dub experimentation of "Strange Nights" to the shimmering darkness of "Dead Heat." High-quality, screen-printed sleeve with reproduction of the original artwork, and additional printed material. Edition of 350.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.”
Tapes
(RRRecords - RRRDOG) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Michigan violinist Mike Collino uses loops, delays and effects to get kinda dark, creepy, industrial/experimental textures and atmospherics. Says Aaron Dilloway, “Excellent violin strangeness complete with multiple reel-to-reel tape delay warbled by bass drum kick pedal.... Killer style!” This LP collects various tracks from his cassettes. Each copy is housed in a hard vinyl laserdisc folder. The outside has a printed cover and the inside has one of RRR’s usual handmade covers.
Liturgic Destruction: Live In Newcastle
(Legion Blotan) 7-inch $9.00
Raw audience recordings of Southern black metal terror, captured live in the small, crowded stone basements of Manchester and Newcastle. Edition of 250.
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.
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.
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.
Great Explorers
(Siltbreeze - SB137) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
RELEASE DATE AUGUST 24th. Hailing from Cambridge, England, The Doozer shares a vocal resonance with Syd Barrett, as well as a knack for cobbling together occasional found-tape narration with string-strum and hypnotic percussive plonk not unlike The Shadow Ring. The gin doesn't come much pinker than this. Edition of 500.
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
PHILIPPE DORAY / THIERRY MULLER
Crash
(Poutre Apparente - PAPE005) 7-inch $10.00
Two tracks recorded during rehearsals at Studio Anagram and Montérollier in 1984 by legends of the French underground Müller (Ilitch, Ruth) and Doray (Rotomagus, Philippe Doray & Associaux Associés). A different mix of "Pile ou Face" was released on an Inaudible magazine seven-inch, and reissued on Müller's Rare & Unreleased 1974-1984 CD (Fractal 2007). "Vaughan's Ballad" is previously unreleased.
Solo Acoustic Volume Thirteen
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ017) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Rarely has a guitarist emerged with as distinctive and singular a voice as Dorji has. His nylon-string improvisations stand as a defining document of a great 21st Century guitarist.
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
(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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Tutti Frutti
(Autobus) CD $13.50
(Autobus) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
The fourth chaotic album by this French duo who are both kid-friendly and outsider avant wackos. Strange arrangements that'd make The Boredoms proud, toy instruments, ADD samples, warped loops extracted from ancient 45s, bizarre versions of The Cramps' "Human Fly" and The TV Personalities' "Jackanory Stories."
Choose To Lose
(BloodLust! - B!068) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Intense, blasting electronic noise by Detroit master. The twelfth release in the BloodLust! Private 7-inch series. Plain white sleeve. 300 copies.
Possession
(Tone Filth - TF20) 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.
$50,000
(Menlo Park) Used LP $15.00
“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.
Le Drapeau Noir
(Chironex) LP $20.00
This dream project of European improvised music -– an octet comprised of members of Hunter Gracchus, Chora, and Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides -- should get Euro-sceptics lathered. Rambling cacophony erupts in big-band formations, with the sound sitting somewhere between various Jooklo projects and the sprawling insanity of The A Band. Multicultural folk influences are strong; East / West primitivism escapes the vacuum of the trivial object, forging live and simmering performances.
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
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.
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.
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
Black Devotion
(Avant! - AV!039) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Six songs of self-described “devotional synth” by London‐based Nathalia Bruno (of Phosphor and Leave The Planet). Some bright and shiny tracks; others are more ethereal.
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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
DROPDEAD / SILENT LAND TIME MACHINE
From Ashes Comes The Day
(Holodeck - HD020) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
This collaboration by Montréal’s Eric Craven (drummer for Hangedup and HRSTA) and Austin’s Jonathan Slade interweaves vignettes that swell and decay into and out of one another. This brooding and lucid work is in a constant cycle of ruin and regeneration, where fragmented wreckage degenerates into the fertile breeding ground for the genesis of the next. Movements of rhythmic guitar sweep in and fade out, propelling the album through a series of pensive destinations, while damaged viola phrases frantically build and collapse alongside increasingly distraught vocal howls. At times the strings rise to a panic, forming invasive waves of tension that eventually disintegrate into sparse minimal soundscapes consisting of dense columns of guitar feedback and clearings of near silence. There is no percussion on From Ashes Comes the Day, but Craven’s atypical drum-style translates directly into texture and improvisational structure (for which his ear is suberb), while Slade’s melodic articulation surfaces unbalanced and unhinged. Hand-silkscreened fold-over sleeve by Nick Kuepfer. Edition of 300.
Crowded
(Bocian) LP $21.00
“Repetitive Algae” lays down colossal drones, weird clicks and scrapes, and lots of gravel and grain over disorienting, hypnotic, churning rhythm that seems to have been created by a large steel ball bearing rolling around inside a cement mixer. High-pitched frequencies resemble demented birds squawking. Russell Haswell is credited with “spectral editing and time domain consultation.” The gargantuan hum of “Rediki” pushes right to the fore and throbs away in true speaker-threatening, sub-bass fashion, recedes and re-emerges to fill the space with brain-damaging low-end and cochlea-exploding highs. It keeps going from unstoppable intensity to unstoppable intensity, unbelievably so. A real ear-killer. Edition of 200.
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
(Thin Wrist - TWLA) 2xLP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
The elusive, fragmented and subtle tabletop guitar experiments on Drumm’s eponymous debut (released on CD by Perdition Plastics in 1997 and reissued on CD by the same label in 2009) straddle analogue noise and fractured Erstwhile-esque minimalism. The first six tracks feel like a surgical operation, or a vivisection of Drumm's instrument, an isolating of each conceivable component, draining its every sonority and splaying it across forty minutes of clinical abstraction. After six tracks of shadowy activity, a final seventeen-minute piece brings the album to an intense, droning conclusion, laying down strips of noisy signal interference that buzz and crackle as a single, continuous surge. Thin Wrist’s expanded 180-gram vinyl edition adds an entire side of previously unreleased music recorded during the same time as the original album. Digital download card included.
Kitchen
(Bocian) LP $21.00
Two untitled pieces, thirty-four minutes, recorded in 1996, recycled and finalized in 2012 using Carmen accordion, Big Muff, Traynor Ts-15, Shure Sm-57, computer assistance, and Radio Shack PZM. Side one slowly opens a kitchen door. Smooth, equilibrious and loopy fractions of sound surpass the requirements ambient music is bound to meet. Side two departs from the kitchen and heads straight to the slaughterhouse. Incomparably louder and uncompromising, too refined for an industrial-related noise piece, but outweighing any experimental canon that might be followed. Clear vinyl. Edition of 350
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
KEVIN DRUMM / MICHAEL ESPOSITO
The Icy Echoer
(Fragment Factory - FRAG16) 7-inch $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
Experimental artist and researcher of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) Michael Esposito has worked with Leif Elggren, CM von Hausswolff, Bryan Lewis Saunders and others. Forming the basis of this collaboration with guitarist Kevin Drumm are EVPs from St. John - St. Joseph cemetery in Hammond, Illinois, reputed to be one of the most haunted places in America. Edition of 300
Untitled
(Nihilist - NIHIL63) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock) (Out-of-print)
Mania-inducing, heavy waves of suffocating bass frequencies with ripping and tearing, hissing and speaker destroying hellstorm. Recorded in Chicago in 2005. Cover art by Alex Decarli.
KEVIN DRUMM / JÉRÔME NOETINGER / ROBERT PIOTROWICZ
Wrestling
(Bocian - BR04) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
A devastating electronic maelstrom recorded at Musica Genera Festival in Szczecin, Poland in May 2005. Two slabs of furious, improvised noise by a trio of giants.
Seneca's Last Breath
(Quemada) 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?
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 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.
Gone Troppo
(Virrash) 7-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Cooper Bowman (Flat Fix) and Sean McMorrow work at a slow, narcoleptic pace with a freedom recalling the blazed chain of visual associations elicited by staring at a wall after a casual afternoon bong. Quite bent.
PETRA DUBACH / MARIO VAN HORRIK
Waves
(Edition Telemark - 628.01) 2xLP $34.00 (Out-of-stock)
Together since 1983, this duo originally combined dance and music, and, over the years, at installations and site-specific works, performances, concerts, and theater pieces, the boundaries between movement and sound in their work have become increasingly blurred. In 2010, they started producing movement feedback using shakers, a kind of loudspeaker that reproduces sound frequencies as vibrations, attached to long strings, and have experimented with all sorts of objects including Chinese lanterns, hooks, and loose strings etc. Four recordings of different Waves installations are here, made in Dubach’s and van Horrik’s Eindhoven studio in. Gatefold jacket, liner notes by Miloš Vojtěchovský. Edition of 300.
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
Combine XXIII-XXXV
(Phage - PT173) LP $16.50
Combine XXIII-XXXV brings John Wiggins, Thomas Dimuzio, and RRRon Lessard back together, whose earlier efforts Option called “serious art damage that careens from ambient industrial to the astringent squonks, bleeps and clamor of ’60s avant-garde, to the angst-ridden sonic shards and noisy electronic reflections of the post-industrial mess….” Live recordings and Zanstones’ squeezebox ditties get squeezed through the ringer and agitated, and with help from their own brand of detergents and stripping agents. Edition of 500 copies.
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.
Bitter Earth
(Ideal - iDEAL129) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. The first album where this world-class sound and performance artist sings songs — timeless stuff touching jazz, blues, gospel and old timer music, always with the dark Duncan shadow. Track listing: The Gun Club’s “The House On Highland Avenue,” with Oren Ambarchi on guitar and effects, and Joe Talia on drums and synth; an original called “Red Sky” with a chorus that includes Leif Elggren, Marja-leena Sillanpää, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, France Jobin, Tom Recchion, Elán Garfias, Christopher James, Eve Muller, Liane Schirmer, and Vetza; Nina Simone’s “Wild Is The Wind,” with piano by Eiko Ishibashi, and Jim O’Rourke on electric bass; Iggy Pop’s “Endless Sea,” with Jobin and Danny Gromfin on backing vocals, Nisi Jacobs on electric bass, and Aurora Borealis recordings by Rob Stammes; Pere Ubu’s “Dark,” with Duncan by himself on tambourine; Jefferson Airplane’s Comin’ Back To Me,” with percussion by Giori Politi accompanying Duncan’s field recordings and electronics; Dr. John’s “I Walk On Gilded Splinters,” with backing vocals by Oana Avasilichioaei, Eric Boivin, James Hamilton, Jobin, Frédérick Maheux, Keith McMullen; the Harry James standard “Autumn Serenade,” with piano by Chris Abrahams and Chinese suona by Ace Farren Ford; The Four Tops’ “Reach Out,” with Duncan by himself on piano; Gladys Knight’s “This Bitter Earth,” with Jobin on synth, piano by Ishibashi, and von Hausswolff on damaged accordion; the Styne / Cahn classic “I Fall In Love Too Easily,” with Domenico Sciajno on standup bass. White vinyl. Edition of 500.
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 / 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
Duotron Vs. Tom Smith
(Menlo Park) Used LP $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dub-inflected cri de coeur from 1997.
Ploughing Furrows Into Rotten Burrows
(Pan - PAN3) LP $13.50
Made up of acoustic and electronic junk sounds, Ploughing Furrows into Rotten Burrows is informed by a caustic patience and steady pacing. With a concentrated approach, Mark Durgan (Putrefier, Birthbiter label) builds tracks with loops, samples or acoustic sounds, which then become automated from the influence of the feedback generated from the electronic devices. For the past twenty years, Durgan has influenced the directions of musique concrete, improvisation, electroacoustic music, power electronics and early ’90s Japanese noise. Limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl, jacket housed in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs.
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
(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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
(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
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.
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
(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.
Cigarettes
(Nuf Sed - NSFPOS09) 7-inch $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
This pre-Zip Code Rapists quintet (Stephan Hanson on keyboards, Gary Strasburg on electric guitar, and Scott Brizel on drums, plus Messrs Turkington and Singer) brings their beautiful magic to songs by the Beach Boys, Springsteen, and Black Flag. Much more in line with the obnoxious EZ-listening terror of ZCR than the comparatively tame first Easy Goings single, this record smoothly passes the torch to that group and its vicious dismantling of “hits” both real and alternate-universe.
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
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
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.
EB.ERSONNA / HANATARASH / RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK
This Is Tiefpunk
(Tochnit Aleph - TA033) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Hanatarash Live Aktion 971111 Tokyo, Club Shelter; Eb.Ersonna Live Aktion 971111 Tokyo, Club Shelter Rudolv Eb.Er and Maso Yamazaki; Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck Live Aktion 980214 San Francisco, Club Teuffel. Harsh, messy and mental. Edition of 1000
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
Live At The Cairo High Cinema Institute
(Nashazphone - NP12) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Flanked by Khaled Mando and Islam Tata, two drummers who pound furiously as the signature tone of the synth intensifies, Islam Chipsy demonstrates his completely revolutionary take on modern Egyptian shaabi — raw and distorted, the volume deafening, and the energy high. Forward, backward, and sideways psychedelic noise projected through the distortion of a jet engine. Red vinyl. Edition of 500
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.
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.
Capitaine Présent 5
(Nashazphone - NP006) LP (one-sided) $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Laurent Gerard (one-third of Ghedalia Tazartes's Reines d'Angleterre) hosts this hallucinogenic promenade inside his psyche with cut-up spoken word, poetry, cosmic standup comedy from the afterlife, and synth insanity. With four volumes released on CD, cassette and DVD, El-G's fifth in the series (the first on vinyl) keeps it eerie 'n’ personal. Edition of 160.
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.
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.
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.
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
Das Baank — A New Era Of Economical Growth And Prosperity And Safety And Power
(Fragment Factory - FRAG36) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
The music traverses between carefully paced dramatic musical passages, and sections of pure and often confrontational noise. “DasB1” opens the album with a haunting chorus of ghostly voices submerged within a quasi-orchestral movement; subsequent tracks go deeper into industrial-sounding territories, providing an antithesis and an exhilarating liberation from the shackles of established normality and complacency. Edition of 300.
De Schepper
(Ultra Eczema - UE84) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The oldest DJ in Antwerp turns 50 this year. In the '80s he and Cassis Cornuta pioneered the broadcast of acid house on Belgium's Radio Centraal (platters as well as their own originals, with help from 303s and 606s and 808s. Side A is a Dutch parody of "The Creator" in tribute to the original Belgian acid crew (CJ Bolland, Olivier Abeloos, Acid Marcske etc.), played classic and raw through a tiny amp, a 303 and a 606! The flip is a version of Nicky Trackx's "Acid in the House." Jacket is a stencil-print of '80s-era Elitaire. Edition of 200 copies.
Might Not Look Like It To You
(Quemada - QUE011) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Moody popishness by Melbourne duo Karl (A Band Called Life, Horse Mania, Hammering The Cramps, Mad Nanna) and Natalie A. Listen to “Already Gone” here: https://soundcloud.com/quemada-records/03-eb-already-gone-master
Echos Pastoraux
(La Scie Dorée - SCIE811) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Open-spaced improv where Timo van Luijk's curious collection of small acoustic objects, wind instruments and field recordings cradle Andrew Chalk's sparse, watery electric guitar like a hammock. Small melodies shimmer, birds call and respond to rusty percussion, and the mood remains gentle. With percussion on “Récit Inouï” by Daisuke Suzuki and accidental sounds on “En Aval” by Ian Middleton. Edition of 400.
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.
Radio Embudagonn
(Art Into Life - AIL004) 2xLP + cassette $39.00 (Out-of-stock)
An intensely distinctive approach to sound collage by Wataru Kasahara, who has been active since the1980s. Art Into Life’s reissue rescues the double-CDr and booklet (Erinyes 2009) from self-released-in-an-edition-of-eighteen-copies obscurity. Includes handmade twelve-page booklet (purpose-made prints, porn mag collages), packaged in a envelope, tied with a black-dyed kite string. Edition of 100.
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
(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.
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.
Quartz
(Indian Queen - IQR002) 7-inch $9.50
Sonorities from the purgatorial regions, where distorted and catchy tape loops take you from the inter-planes of the mind to the carnival -- at once sinister and endearing beneath the changing light of sooty reverb and effectual tape hiss. Deceptive washes of underwater tones fall in and out of tune; when you think you’ve been listening to a stable phrase for thirty seconds, buried in the glowing embers and vapor yawns an organ concerto or an analogue gear malfunction. Edition of 300
America's Greatest Living Noise Artist
(Harbinger Sound - HAS025) 2xLP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The brainiac behind legendary noise label RRRecords trashes early jewels from the Harbinger back catalogue (Pain Jerk's Spitfire album and Putrefier's Simulated Vapours LP). Waves of noise, locked grooves, hand carved grooves.
Remember
(Emmert) 7-inch (lathe cut) $10.00
Crystalline and primeval songcraft from the Spence / Finn nebula
So Sick Of Dying
(Therapy Tapes) 7-inch (lathe cut) $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
One track from Emmert's Funeral album. Numbered edition of 50
Entraxes Inégaux
(Bimbo Tower - BTR06) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
Freaky drummer Monsieur Cognard reunites the insanity of Jac Berrocal (trumpet and piano), Dan Warburton (violin and keyboards), Judith Kan (voice) and Béatrice Godeau (cello). Ecstatic and unusual free improvisations recorded in the studio by Patrick Müller June 2009. Chipboard fold-over sleeve, silkscreened on both sides. Cover by Jörg Morning. Red vinyl. Edition of 300.
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
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.
Upshutlenvolte
(Fragment Factory - FRAG32) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Three previously unreleased tracks from 1987, recorded in Örebro, Sweden. Raw and primitive staccato electronics with Kai Parviainen’s specific touch of utter insanity. Edition of 250. Sound samples are here: https://soundcloud.com/fragment-factory
Tender
(Backwards - BW03) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
This Canadian musician with the warm, dreamy voice, intimate, melancholy compositions, and deliberately meager arrangements, conceives of music as intense and fraught with emotions of the broadest range; Engel’s melting lyrics recall the “poetry in music” of Jacques Brel or contemporary balladeer Antony Hegarty. Moving from visionary atmospheres à la David Lynch, through raging blues of the Mississippi Delta, to gloomy scenes worthy of Nick Cave’s pen, Tender combines Chrissie Hynde, Howlin’ Wolf and Diamanda Galas into a single creature. Edition of 300
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
2
(Järtecknet - #23) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two longer tracks of raw tape manipulations of concrete sounds, seemingly carved out of stone. Uncompromising attitude. Edition of 200.
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.
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
Hideout
(Siltbreeze) LP $18.00
The quartet of Sonam Parikh, Pier Harrison, Juliette Rando, and Kat Bean twitches and gyrates in a Pere-Ubu-Kleenex mashup, with a distinct underlying New York-meets-Berlin No Wave tension. Their infective polygot of sound burns feverishly in the bloodstream.
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.
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
MARTÍN ESCALANTE / MATT MOTTEL
Chop Party
(Sploosh - SPLOOSH13) 7-inch $8.00
One half of Talibam! turns in some top quality rust belt synthesizer prowl in collaboration with Peru’s high priest of air-bending. “The frayed edges of jazz,” as one Bandcamp follower put it. Which must be code for “hornets the size of hippos.”
Destroyed On Every Level
(Sploosh - SPLOOSH07) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Saxnoise like I have never heard before,” according to Mats Gustafsson. “The energy and flow is amazing. This record is fuckin’ evil.” It sounds like children crying, a lonely yet comically energetic balloon orgy, and obese ducks getting electrocuted. Joe Moffett says, “This album is fire. The intensity and complexity of sounds is mind-boggling.” Produced by Lasse Marhaug. Edition of 250
MARTÍN ESCALANTE / YOSHIHIDE OTOMO
Soto
(Sploosh) LP $18.00
Three tracks recorded in Kyoto — one guitar-sax duet and a solo by each. All three feel like getting trampled by psychotic mules. Just lay there and take it.
Montezuma Baby Duck
(Siltbreeze - SB36) LP $12.00
Backed by Hard Black Thing on one side (Mike Rep on percussion, Stu Sinn on horn – played in the key of X, he says -- and Roger Time on lead guitar), the one-time Woodruff Ave. block captain, now mayor of a small unnamed hamlet near Savannah, Georgia, stumbles across a white-knuckled barrel ride through myriad soundscapes as diverse as Amon Duul, Kalacakra, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Steve Marcus and Door & The Window. The other side has two tracks from Esh's Jack Of Diamonds cassette and excerpts from his unreleased comedy album, comparable to the likes of Tubby Boots channeling Jack Mudurian at a volunteer fire department turkey raffle. A down’n’dirty steel string strum and coarse vocal hum reduces even the most erudite Alan Lomax sycophant to nothing more than a human tear box lost in Porch Swing, USA. Label art by Graham Lambkin.
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
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
(Vinyl on Demand) Used 3xLP $80.00
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
First Decade ’80-’89
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD46) 3xLP $125.00
Two platters containing tracks from the Diez Años double cassette (a collection of unreleased tracks from the '80s with some tracks off compilations). The third platter includes: "Avance Rapido" (from La Zona compilation) "Fungus Cerebri," (from Sinn und Form) "Raskin," "Maximo Rendimiento," "Primera Tundra," and "Trans Unmma," (all from Apocalyptic Vision's 80s Tracks anthology) and a superb live performance of 1987 from the Bruitiste boxset.
Pulsion
(Geometrik - GR2115) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
The vinyl edition of the new album by this influential Spanish duo was recorded in Beijing and Rome between November 2008 and May 2009. Pulsión is pure industrial hypnosis and irresistible rhythms -- repetitive, machine-like, sometimes tribal, sometimes danceable -- along with appropriated and electronically manipulated trad musics (from the Middle East, Mongolia, China, and Tibet) and speech fragments by a radical Japanese politician, Che Guevara, and an anti-occidental Islamist leader. Four tracks from the CD, plus two exclusive tracks ("Metallum" and "Lamas").
Music From A Sparkling Planet
(Bar/None - AHAON056) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Called by a reviewer a "pop avant-gardist," Esquivel's early '60s orchestrations explode like a piñata with strikingly futuristic arrangements tinged with cocktail lounge and ballroom overtones. Recording for RCA from 1957 to 1968 during the Hi-Fidelity explosion, he takes full advantage of the new-fangled stereo phenomenon; scattered among the pianos and trombones are slide guitar, echo, dissonance, beatnik percussion and weird juxtapositions of mood and volume. His "kitchen sink" approach incorporates Chinese bells, organ, jew's harp, gourd, timbales, bongos, glass-shattering brass, and perky xylophones. Lyrics are stripped from pop standards and replaced with whistling, humming, or disjointed phrases, with smooth vocal choruses crooning "Zu-zu-zu," or shouting "Pow! Pow! Pow!" Red vinyl. From 1994.
Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music
(Bar/None - AHAON043) LP $20.00
Called by a reviewer a "pop avant-gardist" Esquivel's early '60s orchestrations explode like a pinata with strikingly futuristic arrangements tinged with cocktail lounge and ballroom overtones. Recording for RCA from 1957 to 1968 during the Hi-Fidelity explosion, he takes full advantage of the new-fangled stereo phenomenon; scattered among the pianos and trombones are slide guitar, echo, dissonance, beatnik percussion and weird juxtapositions of mood and volume. His "kitchen sink" approach incorporates Chinese bells, organ, jew's harp, gourd, timbales, bongos, glass-shattering brass, and perky xylophones. Lyrics are stripped from pop standards and replaced with whistling, humming, or disjointed phrases, with smooth vocal choruses crooning "Zu-zu-zu," or shouting "Pow! Pow! Pow!" Blue vinyl. From 1994.
Saitensack
(Edition Telemark - 314.01) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Long-time improv and foundational musician’s “string-bag” develops new ways of playing the violin and viola. With an approach more stripped down than other experimental violinists such as Tony Conrad and Takehisa Kosugi, Essel does not modify or amplify his instruments. Strings are not pressed by fingers but rather damped. Only through bowing are they excited to complex free vibrations, sometimes harsh and noisy, at other times reminiscent of uilleann pipes with cracking and breaking like in yodeling. Saitensack focuses on the origin of tones out of the noise, zooming into the very character of string instruments. Side A features an overtone-rich performance from 1994. Side B has a harsher 1999 recording. Printed innersleeve with a Saitensack discussion transcript. Edition of 500
Zeitfalten
(Edition Telemark - 314.05) 2xLP picture disc $50.00 (Out-of-stock)
Music for tape machines by this Darmstadt-based composer, where the tape is led around a guide between the record head and the playback head of a Revox A77 reel tape recorder, which replays after nine seconds and adds to the input sound. Optionally, the tape can be led to a second A77 where it is replayed once again and selectively re-added to the input. Essel adds sediment of sound where every auditory event returns again and again, distorting and diminishing over time. Since its introduction in 1988, Zeitfalten has gone through a number of setups utilizing different sound sources. This edition collects four recordings: Suite I (1989, viola and voice), Messages (1990, radio signals), Reportage (1994, pre-recorded voices) and Falten (1996, two tape machines without external input). While Suite I is an environment with almost no control exerted over the replaying process, a mixer was added for the other three setups. Gatefold PVC sleeve, two large stickers, liner notes. Edition of 100
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.
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
Guru Overload
(Oaken Palace - OAK005) LP $18.75 (Out-of-stock)
The Portland-based psych boulangers dedicate their full-length to the orangutan, with all profits donated to The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. Mastered by James Plotkin, recorded in a private cabin deep in the woods, Guru Overload strikes a balance between the freaked-out A World Out Of Time (Thrill Jockey 2012) and the more laid-back Dawn In 2 Dimensions (Thrill Jockey 2012). The smooth flow combines exotic and new sounds with the best of krautrock and psychedelia. Red vinyl, recycled jacket, non-toxic ink. Includes free download card. Edition of 500
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.
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.
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
False Validations
(Amethyst Sunset - AS017) LP $18.75
Quaduruple removed re-recontexualizations of cassette and digitally recorded sources, slowed down, looped and layered into thirty minutes of ambient / drone. Recommended if you like Phillip Jeck. Includes free download. Edition of 300. Check out an excerpt from “Pretender” here: https://soundcloud.com/wirrzbow/everyday-loneliness-pretender.
Cafe Cicago
(Ultra Eczema - UE87) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Slide over the autobahn and daydream with Evil Madness's analog waves of throbbing, '80s-fueled synth blubber, a heroic soundtrack to staring into nothingness. With BJ Nilsen, classical mad scientist Johann Johannsson, Petur Eyvindsson, and Stillupsteypa's Helgi Thorson and Sigtrygur Berg Sigmarsson. Cover design by Denniss Tyfusson. Edition of 300.
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.
Around the Corner b/w Whistling Assassin
(Greatdividing - DD014) 7-inch $10.00
The second seven-inch by this Australian trio, recorded the first time in the fourteen months following the recording of the first seven-inch that they were all in the same room together. Two tracks recorded live and spontaneous in one take using four microphones, one chord and half an idea. Hand-stamped labels and hole-punched sleeves. Edition of 200.
Fast One b/w Something
(Greatdividing - DD012) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded January 2009, edited down from a single two-hour-long session where no overdubs or mixing were permitted, resulting in what Byron Coley calls “scabby elegance.” Hand-stamped labels and hole-punched sleeves. Edition of 100
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
Falling b/w Tail Chaser
(Sympathy For The Record Industry) Used 8-inch picture disc $18.00
Masterpiece of psychedelic mush.
Tracks To Glow In The Dark (80-87)
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD77) 2xCD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD77) 2xLP $37.00 (Out-of-stock)
Experimental Products’ second double-album for VOD contains tracks from Glowing in the Dark (Short Circuit 1984), Experiment (Connection 1987), Terminal No.18 flexidisc (1984), plus more ultra-rare and unreleased minimal synth and dance classics, and a live-in-the-studio performance from 1985. Track Listing 1. Glowing in the Dark 2. Love Changes 3. Mannequin 4. Aviation 5. Burning Flame on Ice 6. Different Ones (practice, 1986) 7. S.O.S. (practice) 8. No Answers (practice) 9. Experiment! 10. Who is Kip Jones 11. Work that Beat 12. New Project (reversed) 13. S.O.S. (1985) 14. Experiment (demo) 15. My Own Way 16. Secret Rendezvouz 17. Strawberry March 18. Anaesthetic (live WXPN studio 1985) 19. Mannequin (WXPN) 20. Plattform (WXPN) 21. Glowing in the Dark (WXPN) 22. Modern Living (WXPN)
Expo 70 / I Am Seamonster
(Small Doses - dose32) split 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Expo 70 offers up an amazing piece of guitar drone while IAS's fuzzed-out drone has an odd sort of pop sensibility bubbling underneath the distortion. The first copies come with a free 3-inch CD with exclusive tracks from both artists. Edition of 285 copies on black vinyl packaged in a two-color, silk screened cover.
Kinetic Tones
(Oaken Palace - OAK008) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Prolific drone artist Justin Wright propels the listener deep into other states of consciousness, using as fuel minimalism, spooky psychedelia, and harmonic soundscapes, reaching a total running time of just under 40 minutes. Dedicated to the critically endangered Flores hawk-eagle. Colored vinyl. Includes free download.
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.
Untitled
(Afeite Al Perro) LP (one-sided) $16.50
Hallucinogenic speed-punk duo risen from the ashes of Ensaladilla Rusa and Campamento Ñec Ñec! Ten miniatures of drums, guitar and howlings. Wild horror vacui. Edition of 300
Excusez-Moi!
(100% Breakfast) LP $16.50
Boston clods (members of Fat Day, Goat Of Arms, The Franklin Street House, and Preggy Peggy) who mix poppy little vintage synth tunes, hardcore, prog / cutup rhythms, and dreadful costumes. Song topics include drowning and existentialism, visiting Germany, the Hadron collider, Italian movies, Richard Harris, photographers who might be Nazis, radio transmitters, coffins, graphic scores, being eaten by vultures in the desert, and the role of aphrodisiacs in Greek mythology. Gatefold jacket opens up to a board game (kinda like Candyland) that allows a player to climb a French mountain in the 19th century. Includes a ridiculous thirty-five-page rule book, an insert of cut-out tokens to move around the game, plastic stand for the tokens, and dice. Quite unbelievable.
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.
Sift
(Horn Of Plenty) LP $25.00
Debut LP from this new Philadelphia four-piece with one sought-after tape behind them, whose surreal approximation of nice music was captured in recordings over a few chance family dinners, with general merriment and creative fervor getting channeled through poorly tuned instruments and detritus. Songs collapse into abstraction, and vagueness unites in melody. The exact moments when one thing ends and another begins. Teen girlfriends’ mumbled bedroom jams striking the secret chord. Alchemy from the ashes. The sound of ideas and ideals. Although conceptually akin to fellow Philadelphian Sun Ra’s Strange Strings, Sift likens to sounds from the early 4AD catalogue, Flying Nun’s slowest hitmakers, or Förlag För Fri Musik’s stock-in-trade. Black vinyl, printed disco bag with an A4 riso insert, obi band.
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.
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
(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.
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.
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
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
Fabulous Diamonds II
(Siltbreeze - SB135) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
On this continuation of the lush and mesmerizing electro / percussive landscapes explored on their self-titled debut LP (Siltbreeze 2008), Jarrod Zlatic and Nisa Venerosa spark lots of musical embers: dub, trance, house, ambient, minimalist, hints of Suicide and Terry Riley and basically everything from Silver Apples to Silver Apples of the Moon. Includes MP3 download coupon.
Face Plant
(Heard Worse - HW06) 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.
Econo Live
(Vagrant) Used 10-inch $20.00
Six pop punk tracks recorded live in the Spring of 1996. Sealed
Alien Native
(Siltbreeze - SB87) LP $15.00
Originally self-released as a CDR in 2004, this 2007 reissue burrows deep in the mystery and menace of the nascent gnarl of experimental art rock. A great swab of past-sounding electro-junkoid rumble absorbed into the mind and matter of present day pre-analog excavators. Silkscreened jacket.
Pèl Nord
(Bocian - BC06) 7-inch $10.00
Improvisor, composer, former member of IBA col.lectiu d'improvisació, current collaborator with Alfredo Costa Monteiro in the Cremaster duo, Fages launches full bore into a piercing, whining squall conjured from manipulated AM radios. The monolithic yet prismatic "Pèl" needles its way into the ears before splaying in a layered slab of splintering harshness, while the rounder, more hollow "Nord" cuts a similar, slightly more negotiable path.
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 / 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.
True Form
(BloodLust! - B!094) 7-inch $8.25 (Out-of-stock)
The dark, distorted, droned-out organ playing of Mike Connely (Wolf Eyes, Hair Police) illustrates the collision between the contrasting styles of sound generated by the Lexington, Kentucky, and Detroit-area scenes. Somber and unsettling. Edition of 300 copies. White vinyl, unmarked white sleeves, black and white insert.
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
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
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
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(Mistake By The Lake) Used LP $5.00
Andrew Kirschner, Christine Marie, Jon Brady, Steven Louis Meketa. Paste-on artwork. Numbered edition of 100
Untitled
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC04) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Gloomy, dark, intense drone-rock based on minimal guitar riffs, noisy analogue synths and psychedelic effects.
Instant Pop Expressionism Now!
(Siltbreeze) LP $20.00
If the names Amber Sermeno, Andy Jordan and Stanley Martinez sound familiar, it’s because they’re in practically every band that matters from the SF / Bay Area — Non Plus Temps, Children Maybe Later, and Naked Roommate. Following a self-released cassette that sewed the seed, Famous Mammals’ first full-length vinyl effort is a fully pollinated, blossoming orchard of hybridized postpunk that seemingly harkens back to the halcyon days when Rough Trade called 202 Kensington Park Road home. This ultramodern polyglot of smatterings sounds familiar, but can’t quite be placed. Swell Maps? Happy Refugees? Monochrome Set? Maybe. Kinda. It’s in the stitching, but the design and thrust is all Famous Mammals.
Pure & Disinterested
(Siltbreeze - SB149) LP $16.00
In the musty shadows of Philly, Far-Out Fangtooth mixes early Cramps swamp / garage blackout with nascent Bauhaus post-punk / quasi-goth bleakness, while giving periodic uncanny nods to the witchy, ethereal leather glam of first-generation Blue Öyster Cult. Edition of 500. Includes free download card.
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.
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.
Must Be Nice
(Sophomore Lounge - SL065) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dark and dreamy surf-pop with influences (Death, Devo, and Destiny’s Child) that crash, bend, and blend in a melodic swarm. Moodier jams like “Comes in Loudly” are, as SPIN puts it, “their most expansive works yet,” heavy with drums, psychedelic guitars, and the hushed harmonizing of bassist Mariam Saleh and guitarist Gracie Jackson. Ten revved-up tracks. Includes free download card.
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.
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.”
Disconnected
(Dirter - DPROMLP61) 2xLP $50.00
Dude from Brainwashed pretty much nails it: “Considering the massive influence Faust have had on Nurse With Wound (with Stapleton as a young man famously traveling to the group's headquarters at Wumme only to find Faust were off on tour), it is nearly asking for either an anticlimax or a masterpiece yet [Disconnected] is neither…. [T]he hypnotic, motorik rhythms of "Lass Mich" … blend[ing] into smoky ambiences is a stunning start to the album. This was the kind of magic I was hoping for. Yet from here on the album never returns to the sense of urgency and power of the opening song…. There are times when the music is unmistakably Stapleton and Potter -- the time-stretched vocals and ethereal drones … [while] Faust (in this case consisting of Jean-Herve Peron, Zappi Diermaier and Amaury Cambuzat) bring an awful lot to the table, some of the material here sounds like it could have come from the classic recording sessions at Wumme, the band sounding as vibrant now as in their youth…. The symbiosis between the two groups comes naturally, although with all the studio trickery it is hard to tell where one band begins and the other ends…. Disconnected may not be a Faust Tapes or a Soliloquy for Lilith for the 21st century but at the very least it answers a big "what if" question. Its best moments shine brightly and at worst it is not a million miles away from some of Nurse With Wound's more recent output (and really that is not a bad place to be at all).” Includes a second platter available only with the first 1000 copies. One side of Faust, one side of NWW.
Faux Pas / Grain Belt
(Phage - PT150) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Lasse Marhaug and Sten Ove Toft deliver a brutal, five-minute assault of harsh noise on the Faux Pas side, with feedback and textural changes making their way to the surface now and again. Grain Belt (Wince, Willful and Baculum) layers composed metal abuse, utilizing scraping and sputtering sounds. Edition of 300.
Stoy = Gull
(Turgid Animal - TA382) 7-inch $8.00
Norwegians Lasse Marhaug and Sten Ove Toft collaborate for a little harsh and unforgiving noise. What's not to like? Limited to 200 copies on black vinyl.
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.
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.”
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.
Sucker Mule’s Dreadful Murder
(Suitcase) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Hysterical and impulsive discomfort-noir by Italian guitarist / vocalist Filomena Rubino, whose distinct dissonance relies “on howling, post-industrial ambiance” and “grinding drift,” to quote Creative Loafing. She brings songs to life via “surprisingly approachable” reinvention of reverb, distortion, and nonstandard guitar tunings. “[V]ague musical structures guide the ... journey into the depths of unbridled experimentation.” Edition of 300. Here’s a video from October 2014 shot live in Austria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2WImN2TkeY
Dead Weight b/w When
(BloodLust! - B!148) 7-inch $10.50
Two outstanding power-electronics-and-harsh-noise tracks that demonstrate the raw power of this sound-and-vision smut peddler, enhanced by Nicola Vinciguerra's obscene artwork and vocals by Wertham (Marco Deplano) on the A-side. Pink marble vinyl. Edition of 200.
Hand Clap Girl
(Rococo) 7-inch $5.25 (Out-of-stock)
A one-man band (since 2003) who sings, plays guitar, kick drum, drum machine and keyboard (with his foot). He’s French and is, of course, here to croon beautiful songs of love with shit and blood on his hands. One Note + One Rhythm + One Word = One Song. Teenage punk frustration. No girl, alcohol, free porn sites, white chocolate. Semen runs in his veins. Red vinyl, limited to 300 copies (as some sort of tribute to Michael Jordan and/or Kurt Cobain that only the French understand).
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.
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.”
Metempsychosis
(Angry Island - AIR001) LP $13.50
Loops and noise created with handmade spring devices, rare earth magnets and junked’n’jacked samples of found sounds. Plain black jacket with hand-sewn fabric. Green vinyl. Includes free download. Edition of 100.
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
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.
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
Hey Collosus / Field Boss
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR068) split 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Hey Collosus batters into submission a slo-mo cover of Andre Williams's "Jailbait" with their trademark downbeat dirge. Field Boss (formerly known as Tractor) have the AmRep sound down to an absolute tee --really thick guitars; monotonous, hollowed-out drums; and in-the-red vocals pushed down in the mix. Three-panel screen-printed cover, metallic ink. Edition of 300.
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
Being Near
(Helen Scarsdale - HMS038) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Had the titular contest in Guy Maddin’s The Saddest Music In The World not been rigged from the outset, Turkey could have delivered an impeccable contestant in Ekin Fil. For many years now, her spectral dream-pop deconstructions hold a thousand-yard stare of an inconsolable melancholy. A Proustian obsession with rain-soaked melodies from the British Isles blossomed into a foundation for her own art, and Being Near stands as the pinnacle in her luminous career, with elegantly simple arrangements for guitar and electronics saturated in cavernous reverb, whose semi-mystical blur extends well into the vocal melodies.
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
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
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
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
(Imp) Used LP $5.00
Sprawling improv noise rock from early ’90s Portland. Beautifully lo-fi.
Zombie Rave
([ no label ]) LP $16.50
When Mater Suspiria Vision’s mysterious Zombie Rave mixes started appearing on YouTube a few years ago (all bearing the same cryptic message: “ℑ⊇≥◊≤⊆ℜ /// ℑ is the sign for fictive - ℜ is the sign for real /// Do not believe in everything you see - the owls are not what they seem”), fandom was instant. With a druggy, chopped and screwed editing style and a focus on cult and European horror films, the vids slow down ’90s rave music, enhance the beats and coat them with ominous melodies. The results are dark and dreamlike mixes that move your body as if under water. Four tracks: “Moonlight Shadow,” “In My No Religion,” “House Of The Rising Sun” and “Posse.”
PAUL FLAHERTY / TIGER HATCHERY
Live In New Haven
(Ergot - ERG007) LP $17.00
Ben Baker Billington, Mike Forbes, Andrew Scott Young and Paul Flaherty bring the heat to fire music. Live In New Haven documents four purveyors of the ecstatic now convulsing as one, with the labyrinthine saxophone mutations of Forbes and Flaherty squirming against the brink of the Billington-Young skins’n’strings throb unit. Despite the volcanic nature of the session, the quartet exhibits a sage capacity for both restraint and an elevated plane of almost-composed melodicism, “tracing a jagged pathway of legible melodic interplay,” as noted by Tiny Mix Tapes, “that breaks off at a moment’s notice into freefall runs of conjoined squalling.”
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Bloody Ripper
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $17.00
Noise from 2006 by Ryan Bloomer. Photocopy paste-on jacket.
Black Medicine
(Holodeck - HD025) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Inspired by the entrenched ethos of live-hardware sequencing cultivated within the Austin electronic establishment, Flatliner embraces and embellishes the marriage of modern gear with vintage tones. The dance-based utopia of Jesse Strait and Adam Fangsrud uses high-end studio equipment and hoards of rare synthesizers to achieve an ominous yet seductive euphoria. Includes free download card.
Some Bloodstained Morning
(Jayrem) Used LP $25.00
Horror-wave from 1984 by a Wellington oi band. Original mid-80s pressing
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.
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
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
FLESHTONE AURA / DYLAN NYOUKIS
Dylan Nyoukis / Fleshtone Aura
(Beniffer Editions) split LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
One side is a throwback of sorts for fans of the crude, Fluxus-certified tape collage of early Nyoukis. Here he combines the spontaneity and natural course of direction of his bellyaches with straight-no-chaser editing. On the flip, Gastric Female Reflex founder and visual artist Andrew Zukerman side-steps his ironic didactic collage and dives into traditional tape music techniques, modified electronics, and Ciat-Lonbarde interfaces. Pierre Henry without the inheritance. Screen-printed three-color jacket. Marbled vinyl. Edition of 300
On Rusticated Slant
(Pleasance - PR013) LP $12.00
The “intricate and finely tuned landscape of auditory fart jokes and avant-gardism” on the first LP by Gastric Female Reflex’s Andrew Zukerman under the name Fleshtone Aura “bombard[s] … warm energy of a high-speed cut-and-paste dance mix” observes Tad Michalak. “This chaos quickly ends with the feeling that all these sounds have been simultaneously thrown off the CN Tower and are falling aimlessly through space, silent before their imminent demise…. A free jazz duet for motorcycle and percussion, gears twisting, ominous maneuvers in the dark. Sound crystallizes, refracting in a house of mirrors. Piercing sine waves slice through mundanity as this chameleon writhes and twitches. Bumping dance beats emerge out of human pauses and carefully placed electroacoustic junk percussion. A piano note stretches into a harsh rumbling landscape of wind noise, fire crackles, scrapping metal and hushed squeals. The definitive sounds of a world post-2012 disaster. The second side opens as a 1950s joke factory soundtrack. Classic rock riffs tango with child-ish bleeps and bloops in a birdlike call and response…. Zukerman’s collages gestate forward with an oddly nostalgic undertone. Abrasive screeches and sweeps lead to luscious and decadent tidbits of familiarity, unsettling…. Something like a recapping of a horse race meets postnasal drip. The bubbling voice of Jabba the Hutt dictates some unknown message from beneath the murk. Heart-warming abstractions of a human reality.” Edition of 300
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.
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
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.
Four Aims
(VHF - VHF115) 2xLP $10.00
Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunroof, Michael Flower Band) and Chris Corsano (Flaherty/Corsano, Jandek, Bjork, Sunburned) collaborate on a mind-boggling array of free sound. Electrifying, heavily amplified, and free-wheeling yet subtle improv, with both players using extended techniques to generate a wide range of unusual sounds.
Destroy All Music
(ugExplode - ug06) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
The innovative punk-jazz 1995 album, with drummer/multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter and saxophonist Ken Vandermark, and their notorious ensemble working the extreme energy levels. Wild, unhinged cacophony, fusing fiery free jazz improvisation with modern post-punk/noise-rock structures. This is an integral part of Chicago's underground musical heritage, a milestone in adventurous jazz, and a key component of neo-no wave.
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
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.
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
(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
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
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
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.”
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
Foi Pour Pusillanime
(Ogrob) 7-inch $13.50
Six micro-compositions by Caroline Ehretique (Ondes Martenot, voice, piano, analog synth, electronics, and whip) and Ogrob (analog synth, wind, chiropteran echolocation, railway signal, screams, electronics), oscillating between musique brut, musique concrete and captured nightmares. Hand-made sleeve, linocut on both sides. Edition of 300.
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
(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.
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.
Syria: 638 AD
(Diophantine - N18) LP $16.50
Two 17+ minute extremely dense, powerful, and brooding tracks, with absolutely monstrous bass. Comprised of Mark Solotroff (BLOODYMINDED, Intrinsic Action, and the BloodLust! label) and Isidro Reyes (BLOODYMINDED), the dense and murky Fortieth Day lurks between noise, industrial, and ambient. Various recording sessions are processed, re-processed, and mixed together to create the final studio recordings. Live shows also incorporate live real-time video projections by Noise Crush. White vinyl, silver-printed and die-cut jacket, 300 copies.
The Day 1982 Contaminated 1971
(Helen Scarsdale - HMS033) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dissociated fragments from nearly lost genre films of the 1970s reconstituted, filtered by scratched celluloid, bad splices, dropouts, and damaged control tracks. Within piles of reversed tape loop miasma and time-lag accumulation, Fossil Aerosol Mining Project's mesmerizing and hypnogogic studies of uncanny dislocations magnify grit and errors. Re-assembly of the materials — often culled from 35mm film and quarter-inch magnetic tape found in abandoned drive-in movie theaters and warehouses — interweaves ready-mades with their own disintegration. Jacket has fragment of 1970s intermission film affixed. Edition of 200
Heritage
(RRRecords) LP + 7-inch $5.00
An out-on-the-odd smush of hook-laden pop-metal from corporal-inclined, these masked mayhemers. Fifteen tracks of Kookoo Island electro-throb dealing in themes of Viking plunder, UFOs, and ass. Colored vinyl. Numbered edition of 200.
Fill The Sky
(Motiv Communications) Used LP $7.00
Eclectic and intriguing quasi-gothic dream pop from Los Angeles, 1985
JEAN-MARC FOUSSAT / GEORGIOS KARAMANOLAKIS
Substunce Sans Scrupule
(Coherent States - CS25) LP $18.00
Ultra-vivid dialogue and communication, completely spontaneous, an immersive ritual of shocking sound, illusionary image and complementarity. Witness the union of musique concrète ideas with noise, of field recordings with vocal delays, of electroacoustic music with drone. Faraway splinters of jazz fuse with japanoise, the dreamy with the real, the Magical-Religious with the Scientific. 140g vinyl. Numbered edition of 300
Gone Every Evening
(Die Stadt - DS106) 7-inch $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two strange songs — collaborative pieces with Fabrizio Palumbo, Clodagh Simonds, Laura Sheeran, and Michael Begg — delightful and faintly unsettling. Gatefold cover with printed inner sleeve designed by Liles.
More Impossible Futures
(Bocian - BC07) 7-inch $10.00
Building upon A Handful of Automation (Editions Mego 2010), the two shimmering EMS VCS 3 diamonds of More Impossible Futures are succinct electronic statements; one teases a jittering melody out of a flickering environment, while the other is decidedly abyss-bound. Based in Melbourne, Australia, for whom he is building a giant outdoor Theremin, Fox shoots lasers onto clouds (good work if you can get it), and regularly experiments with Anthony Pateras, oscilloscopes, Nyquist Variations and Australian dance companies.
Alice in Acidland
(Ideal - 115) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Twentieth anniversary reissue of underground acid techno from southern Sweden, originally released in 1993 by Börft Records. Includes an exclusive bonus track recorded in 1994, “Sweet Twister.” Edition of 500.
France
(Bimbo Tower) LP (one-sided) $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Instrumental trio Yann Gourdon (hurdy gurdy), Jeremie Sauvage (bass), and Mathieu Tilly (drums) performing one 22-minute-long song. Hypnotic post-kraut music in the vein of Outside The Dream Syndicate. Previously released on Sonic Protest 2008 2xCD (Textile 2008). Spray-painted PVC sleeve.
Couper Les Tchou-Tchou
(Bimbo Tower) LP $20.00
Improvisation tinged with humor and humility, a rare approach. From the strangely nerdy harpsichord to the spirit of serenity and clusters of small noises and explosions, from the male vocals competing without meaning, trying to scream higher and higher, to the supervisor berating students for smoking, Couper les tchou-tchou delivers new ideas and much-needed rawness to a frequently fixed and ossified genre.
Lisa Says
(Aufabwegen - AATP38) LP $15.00
Transcontinental collaboration with sounds recorded in Stockholm, Berlin and Auckland. The mixdown portrays the current state of affairs in improvised noise: filtered gritty sound blocks flow and float with no apparent direction when sudden breaks puncture the structure and create something almost like a melody. Text insert documents a skype conversation between the two artists discussing the methods and aesthetics connected to this release and their ways of working in general.
RICHARD FRANCIS / ANTHONY GUERRA / MATTIN / JOEL STERN
Richard Francis / Anthony Guerra / Mattin / Joel Stern
(CMR - CMR13) 7-inch $10.00
Two five-minute cuts excerpted from about three hours of material recorded in 2004. Computer, electronics, field recordings, electric guitar, computer feedback. Edition of 250
Waste Away / Nun’s Murmur
(CMR - 29) 7-inch (lathe cut) $12.00
"Using field recordings, modular synth, computer, looper and edirol recorder," explains our friend at Volcanic Tongue, the man they used to call Eso Steel "conjures huge, phantom, barely populated soundworlds that are compulsive in the kind of entropic gravity that they generate, situating low drones and what sounds like distant airplane noise in fields of static, shortwave tone and that classic dying amplifier / overheating electricity appeal of the best of the post Xpressway/Corpus Hermeticum drone artists."
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
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.
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.
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.
Spider Babies b/w Nothing Without Love
(La Brea - LBX07) 7-inch $6.75 (Out-of-stock)
The solo project of Phil Franklin (Secret Chiefs 3, Caroliner, Sun Burned Hand of the Man’s “resident surrealist”) gives a clear narrative of damaged optimism, amplified acoustic guitar and percussion. The A-side is a technicolor nightmare about a paranoid man who has spider eggs hatch his head, while the B-side offers the confessions of a soul plagued by regret. Silkscreened cover art by Christine Shields. Edition of 300.
Flight Of The Light Air Force
(Roaratorio - ROAR44) 7-inch $7.75 (Out-of-stock)
The majestic title track — an outtake from their second Columbia LP With Pleasure, left off for reasons of space (it clocks in at eight minutes) — could’ve been a highlight of this outsider-folk duo’s career. On the flip side are two cuts recorded live at a February 1970 concert in upstate New York with violinist Ian Guenther: their signature song “Dance Hall Girls” and a rollicking version of the Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” Includes digital download.
This Song Was Borne
(Roaratorio - ROAR39) 2xLP $29.00 (Out-of-stock)
Previously unreleased demos, studio outtakes, radio sessions and live recordings from the archives, spanning the entire career of these shining lights of the late ’60s Canadian coffeehouse circuit whose two albums for Columbia are cult classics in psychedelic folk circles. Their combination of ragged-but-right, salt-and-pepper harmonies, evocative lyrics, beautiful songs with the occasional dissonant grace note, and careful arrangements that still sound off-the-cuff make for some of the most beguiling music of its era. Detailed liner notes by the artists. With download card.
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.
Mojdehi / Freeman
(Fusetron - FUSE007) LP (one-sided) $15.00
Two scraped guitars make noise, feed out and feed back, reminding one of Mr. Velocity Hopkins or some Japanese guy. Handmade cover.
Stainless Steel
(Ini Itu - INIITU1101) LP $16.00
One side of molten, acid-bathed gamelan, with decay and textural corrosion magnified and enhanced, one side of arcanely wired machines spitting out shifting binary patterns. Plus two locked grooves at no extra charge. Edition of 250
Au Chevet Des Blessés
(Ronda) LP $18.00
Sébastien Borgo (guitar, electronics), Franq de Quengo (electronics), Olivier Manchion (bass, electronics), Nicolas Marmin (bass, electronics), and Edward Perraud (drums, percussion) founded The French Doctors when they performed with Damo Suzuki Network on October 5, 2003, at the Cafe de la Danse in Paris (documented on the second disc of Suzuki’s 2005 CD Hollyaris). Their performances that same year with Anla Courtis of Reynols and Jean-Hervé Perron of Faust are preserved in Jérôme Florenville’s documentary Le Chant de l’Imprévu. Translucent red vinyl. With poster, gauze bandage, and red sleeve covered with human blood. Edition of 200.
Rome Loves Tan
(Catsup Plate - CPR713) LP $15.00
Later French Paddleboat recordings and Scott August’s work as one-half of Vote Robot helped nudge August toward revisiting the tracks here, originally released on cassette by Union Pole. Songs and loops have been tightened up, reworked, and one song completely replaced with a more fully realized piece ("Indication of Motion”). Emphasis is on analog, homemade sound sources a la Vote Robot, though here the tone is gentle, familiar, and unabashedly pretty. The songs are, for the most part, structured on acoustic drum beats, played live and looped, with layers of chimes, bells, clarinet and warm keyboard tones in meticulous and intricate arrangements.
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.
Jennifer Wolski / Friendship
(Shaolin Temple) Used Split 7-inch $3.00
Midwest grindcore. Screen-printed tin foil cover with natural distress and wrinkles.
Dreams Of The Deep
(D.Q. Records) LP $20.00
Pandemic-era reissue of this barbiturate haze curio from 1977, partially obscured by the shroud of Jimi. In the parlance of contemporary seance speak, the wails and moans of Eddie Hazel, Toiling Midgets and (original) Fushitsusha ooze audibly from beyond, sometimes all at once. That’s right, square eyes, psychotropic bliss.
The Frightening Lights
(Bruit Direct Disques - BR-D12) LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Soft, caressing and subtly disturbing, Frightening Lights move like menace through fog. Singer Elizabeth Downey envisions the songs as deathbed confessions, their violence carefully suppressed, modulated through long penitence. Dan Hawkins’s funeral organ, off-kilter accordion, and discordant bowed danbo create eerie, flickering landscapes that surround Downey’s sleepy murmurs.
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.
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
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,
Disturbed Strings
(Roaratorio) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
In the spring of 1998, guitarist Jeff Fuccillo (Irving Klaw Trio, Wham-O, Hochenkeit) met avant-folk guru John Fahey while opening for his trio at a gig in Portland, Oregon. Fahey booked studio time to record Fuccillo for his label. Fuccillo arrived at the session expecting to make a solo acoustic guitar album. To his surprise Fahey had prepared a pile of samples — random snatches of music, all manner of sound effects — and without warning began shooting them out into the studio through the monitors, effecting a guerilla collaboration of sorts. Disturbed Strings captures the highlight of that day: veering from hardscrabble string-rattling to modal melodicism, the album is ample testament to Fuccillo’s wide-ranging inventiveness as an improvising guitarist, as well as a window into an aspect of Fahey’s artistry not previously represented on record. An essential document of the New Weird America underground. Released in a limited edition of 500 copies, with artwork by Fahey and Judith Lindbloom.
Swiss Cheese Back b/w Watching TV
(Destijl - IND083) 7-inch $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reissue by a legendary Hawaiian band from 1979/1980 that provides one of the more exciting links between typified conceptions of punk and noise. If “Swiss Cheese Back” is the final aggregate, regimented elements of deconstructed hardcore (displayed by Harry Pussy via the Magic Band), “Watching TV” is the excess of Experience-inspired freedom that recklessly abandons anything that even vaguely resembles form. A recording that is so radically mixed, one might wonder if they just fucked up, or were working with a broken machine. Completely astounding, and, according to the December 1980 issue of Damage Magazine, “not recommended for anyone with high blood pressure.”
RINJI FUKUOKA / MICHEL HENRITZI / LUCA MASSOLIN
Weather Report
(Backwards - BW11) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
An oneiric yet political soundpiece in two long movements of cosmic improvisation that serves as the soundtrack of an ecological disaster, specifcally the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear plant destruction in Fukushima 2011. Ghostly shapes and tones haunt the first side, where Massolin’s dreamy organ and heavenly electronics are blessed by Fukuoka’s elegiac violin lines, evolving into an improvised blues for flamenco-like guitar, percussion and abstract electronics, building up tension until Henritzi’s lapsteel joins with waves of ectoplasmic electricity, and finally exploding into a blast of cathartic free noise. The piece starts vibrating on the flip, where Massolin’s electric bass pushes the whole thing into full-on shoegaze mode, with Henritzi combining long, doomy drones and Fukuoka playing the most emotional violin ragas you’ll hear on an improvised studio album. Edition of 250
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.
Ambianxe
(Spring Press - SP09) LP $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Incendiary concrète guitar shards recorded live in Tokyo that imagines the brawl after Derek Bailey slams his guitar into the circuitry of David Tudor. “Whatever music is or isn’t,” brags Anna Schwartz Gallery, “It certainly does not have to be as relentlessly deafening as Fusinato’s barrage, which [is] about as pleasant as being attacked by a squadron of F/A-18s...” All the bonus decibels of his “devastating torrents of piercing guitar sput” are included no extra charge. Edition of 250.
El Saturn
(Ecstatic Yod) LP $10.00
Second LP by this Kent, Ohio, psych collective who collapse the universe-as-known-by-Sun-Ra into a shape that fits neatly into a two-car garage and create an amazing fever acid swamp of sound. Volume 7 in the Center Of The Ass Run series. Gatefold jacket, insert.
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
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.”
Following Shapes to the Edge of a Drift
(Discombobulate - BOB009) LP $21.00
The muscular men Guido Henneböhl and Fritz Welch rattle pots and pans, slap the cheeks, slurp, and stick sharp elbows into a web of goof-off electronics. Pungent and exciting vibrations, a froggy mess of hidden freedom. White vinyl. Edition of 250.
Gobi Wow
(Never Come Ashore) LP $19.00
Guido Henneböhl plays an archaic electronic instrument of his own design that appears to be trapped in the ancient mysteries of circuit bending but it is in fact a dynamic oxygen-filtration system. There are (no longer) any animal bones contained in the device but DNA is still present. Fritz Welch manipulates vibrating surfaces such as drums, cymbals, moral certainties and puddles using sticks and objects while his syllabic utterances are offset with percussive concussion. There are no beats here, however, just a relentless pyroclastic flow of robot voices gurgling indecipherable quips of the “baby, that volcano looks so good on you” variety.
Reuters
(Tochnit Aleph - TA079) LP $23.50 (Out-of-stock)
Latest works by Swiss musique concrete composer Marc Zeier, his second LP after 1991’s Seismogram on the Schimpfluch label.
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
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.
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
Mass
(Siltbreeze - SB136) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Galbraith's Morse LP (Siltbreeze 1993) followed traditional avenues of rugged folk narrative tinged with psychedelic foxing, while Mass is an unchartered, one-way trip through a world of ritual. Broken guitars, percussive loops, backwards tracking, homemade glass harmonium, lullabies, bagpipe thievery and the odd bit of fighting talk are just some of the many bricks laid here, with Galbraith himself as the mortar and Amiel Balester, Michael Kohler and David Kilgour providing assistance here and there. Includes MP3 download coupon. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST 0F 2010
Talisman
(Otic) LP $30.00
Originally self-released on CD (Next Best Way, 1995), “Talisman is Galbraith’s first masterpiece,” according to our friends at Audioculture. It “builds upon the strengths of Plagal Grind, his previous solo release Morse, and collaborative work with Bruce Russell as A Handful of Dust. It’s darker, more experimental, but still blessed with the brittle beauty of Galbraith’s most confessional sketches.” Guests include Nigel Bunn, Shayne Carter, and David Mitchell.
Saturday’s Notes
(Pentiments) LP $12.00
Chicago-based artist’s sonic studies flow in idiosyncratic segments in and out of hollowed concrète construction zones, beds of frayed and tangled electroacoustics, irreverent noise chambers and catatonic lo-fi tape haunts. At times unsettlingly intense and at others laughably informal, Saturday’s Notes serves as a rigorous, fledgling artistic statement and an exhaustively introspective “note to self.” With free download card. Edition of 200.
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
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.”
Stoned Rehearsal
(Quemada) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
The fragile and melodic pop of The Garbage And The Flowers sways and stumbles just enough from its center to avoid calcification. Stoned Rehearsal risks falling apart, but the deviations always drift back to the song. The opening anthem is followed by a nice and slowly sentimental whiskey-sippin’ number; and of course you can’t end the side without getting revved up first. Side two starts with an almost baroque take on “River of Sem,” followed by the sweetly casual “Elizabeth” and a breathtaking dirge to wrap things up. Originally released as a cassette (Near Tapes 2008).
The 78th Morning Tide
(Don't Trust The Ruin - DTTR025) LP $12.00
Lo-fi psych nugs with a dystopian punk edge by Brendan Evans (Visitations, Strange Maine, Dark-Urrru), utilizing acoustic and electric guitars glowing warmly into the night, blazing squalls of fuzz, demented background vocals, and paranoia. Includes songbook with lyrics and chords. Both sides end with locked grooves. Edition of 500
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.”
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.
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
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
GASTRIC FEMALE REFLEX / BRIAN RURYK
Destination: Poon
(Beniffer Editions - BFF6066) split LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
High spasticity by two of Canada's national treasures. The mad dog of guitar Brian Ruryk's "Alliances for Debris" is twenty-odd minutes of glass and metal connecting with hard surfaces at fast speeds, chopped up and re-spliced into microscopic fragments. A frenzy that should drop the jaw of even the know-it-alls. On "Nairobi Pieces 13-26" Gastric Female Reflex uses longer samples drawn from decaying radios and televisions, in-between-song recording outtakes, prayer tapes, random clicks, crackles and cuts, ambient bass rumbles, Tim Allen, and sound effects. According to Discogs, this was released in 2006 with different artwork and no title (some of the photocopy inserts are the same); all copies here have new silkscreened prints (not the same as what is shown at Discogs, but similar to others in our copies, and in different combinations). No two copies are alike, basically. It's a mess, granted, but confusion comes with the territory of landmark releases. Just accept it.
Lovers in the Midst of Eating Fries
(Gold Soundz - GS45) LP $20.00
Expertly executed and fried garage-art-noise/junk by Torontosaurs who're somewhere between American Tapes and classic mid-nineties NZ underground with plenty of Crank Sturgeon / Euro-actionist noise humor. Hand screened and marble-ized card cover.
Plays The Music of Alan Antfarm
(Lips Infection - LIP05) 7-inch $10.00
Hup, Bup, and Bup Zukerman take a hurl at two of this Riverside mid-'90s alt rock combo's power ballads, "Raw Puppy Pant Lick Show" and "Don't Moan When Behind The Chocolate Apparatus." Get it for the silkscreened jacket, keep it for the mental instability.
A Republic of Sadness
(Ba Da Bing - BING068) LP $14.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first new Gate record in over a decade, the apex of Michael Morley's various interests. His guitar and vocal drones permeate looped beats and noises, hovering in a smokeless zone that is not quite dance, not quite noise, not quite electronica and definitely not ambient. Includes free MP3 download card
Damned Revolutions
(Ultramarine - UM022) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Dark and fuzzy guitar drones from Dead C guitarist Michael Morley, who accompanies dense walls of distorted resonance with sparse electronics sustained by spectral beats and bass pulses. Moaning vocals are reminiscent of pre-war blues chants. Side B’s suite of free rock improvisation, wild noise, echoed vocals, thick guitar fog, haunting nocturnal blues, and cymbal crashes captures the mood of a lonely, grey, apparently still, sunless port city landscape. Edition of 300.
Seitz Versus Gendreau
(Misanthropic Agenda) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
A collaborative experiment by a former member of Taxodiaceae and the Crawling With Tarts dude, who use concrete music compositional strategies on found sound captured in San Francisco. On “Chorus After Rains,” both use the same raw sound clips and meld their individual results together into one piece of music. “Things Lost That Will Never Be Found,” a composition with live instruments, moves from a toy piano to various invented motor instruments. “Trains Will Not Stop” uses sounds from records, composed by Gendreau and re-mixed by Seitz using accelerometer recordings collected in San Francisco during 2005. Edition of 90, packaged in tip-on jacket.
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.”
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.
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
Get The Gone
(Sympathy For The Record Industry) Used 10-inch $7.00
Seven tracks of country rock from 1994
Kalash Tirich Mir
(Yerevan Tapes - YER017) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
From the dehydrated and dilapidated outskirts of Los Angeles in San Bernardino County comes this mysterious duo’s fifth full-length LP — a non-stop stream with truly weird approaches that mix early industrial and exotic infatuations, cheap electronics and world music soundbites, primitive toy drumming and Eastern traditions heritage, twanging guitars and dub reverberations obnoxious drones and beach-like radiance. Previous releases on Opal Tapes, Handmade Birds, Beläten and Chondritic Sound.
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
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.
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
Absence of Essence
(Arbor - ARBOR99) 2x7-inch $10.00
Heavy synthesizer work reminiscent of the crushing mass of early industrial music, Absence of Essence consumes the air around it with heavy vibrations and total deprivation. Four tracks rip holes through the sonic barriers, loud and powerful with entrancing subtleties and discreet builds. The nature of the seven-inch format yields succinct and unwavering compositions. One platter is white vinyl, the other one's black. Edition of 400.
Claustrophobic Wreck
(Ultra Eczema - UE75) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
In a small wooden cabin between New York and Detroit, without food, the tap water nonpotable, the eating of one another's intestines the final enjoyable possibility -- these are the conditions surrounding the thick throbbing of two synthesizers bubbling up from hungry bowels, fighting their way to better times. Dark, gnarly and industrial, classic heavy synth waves, rhythmic madness and electronic sadness. Collage sleeve by Dennis Tyfus, 300 copies.
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.
No Sense Of Reality
(Spring Press - SP18) 10-inch (lathe cut) $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Random, static electronics dedicated to New York City. Edition of 70.
Return to Nothing / Nothing to Return
(Misanthropic Agenda - MA020) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
One side, Stephen O’Malley on guitar and bass guitar, Gerritt Wittmer on computer, and Tim Wyskida on gong and tympani, recorded live at the Flux Factory in New York in 2004; the other side, remixed by Wittmer. According to Stewart Voegtlin’s skullcrushing Stylus review, “Gerritt’s G4 --which vibrates like a ten-thousand–pound hive loosed of its bees -- relocates some of the preponderance issuing from O’Malley (i.e., tonal ascension w/out cessation … and Wyskida (who … taps away on his gong like a Tibetan monk rubbing his rolmo together…). Yellow vinyl. Edition of 500
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
Borsh
(Little Big Chief) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Brisbane’s Matt Earle backed by Adam Park on bass and Rohan Holiday on guitar presents “fairly dark, dwindling stuff,” according to Put The Music In Its Coffin, “With the fidelity and attitude similar to a grip of weathered Swell Maps demos.” Silkscreened jacket. Numbered edition of 250.
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
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
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.
1976/1977
(Vulcher) Used LP $25.00
Collection of early EPs by legendary proto-punk band from Bloomington, Indiana. Red vinyl.
Backlit Colander With Holes Shaped Like Numbers / Bok Choy Festival
(I Dischi Del Barone - IDDB017) 7-inch $10.00
Two six-minute montages of reversed mitosis episodes, in which scaly pods, ruptured eggs, and clumps of partially digested hair smush through one another and glom together in unstable strains of Glass-spanktified dad-noise. “Backlit Colander With Holes Shaped Like Numbers” crawls with bacteria from munched electronics, murmurs of a chimney-entrapped Frampton (plus camel, but that should go without saying), tape yoont teetering on the lip of a magnetic abyss, and piercing splats from tiny automatic paintball guns. “High” and “lonesome” are the operative descriptors of “Bok Choy Festival”: Barbara Manning’s guitar loops backfire and self-annihilate in private spritz-overdose orgies; avian-constructed effigies of Annie Hayworth curdle; narration on the topic of body dysmorphia is provided courtesy of thrift store cassettes and a Sister Rosetta Thorpe quotation. Cover artwork by Karen Constance. With insert. Edition of 200.
GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION / ORCHID SPANGIAFORA
Chronicles Of Magoo
(Feeding Tube) LP (lathe cut) $60.00 (Out-of-stock)
Harsh sentencing guidelines. Recorded live November 2020 as part of Feeding Tube's QuaranTunes series streamed via Zoom. Edition of hardly any.
GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION / ORCHID SPANGIAFORA
Couscous Bizarre
(Feeding Tube) LP $15.00
Maximum sentencing. Threads of unease, cunning strums, the rhythm of the loop. Includes download card.
Meat Receiving
(Ultra Eczema) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two sidelong tracks of ground-up tape noise and uneasy electronics. One track is not quite side-long, but has been, ahem, fleshed out with the five-minute "Venison" (previously released by From The Same Mother on a CDR comp; features Tom Lax on tongs). Overall, an off-kilter abattoir of dread and fear and suffering.
Neck Pillow
(Siltbreeze) LP $20.00
At a marathon four-day recording session at Safe At Home in Long Beach, California in April 2022, Barbara Manning played lapsteel, glass table top, metal grating, conga drums, guitar and trombone-kazoo. Seymour spent a few minutes extracting smooth oompah-loompah from a Lowrey organ, and running his noise boinger through a GT-1. Field recordings aplenty were captured, including Ptolemy eating lettuce and Dan Vargas assembling a swinging loveseat. Tongs, spatulas, and knives were played by Tom Lax, his second appearance at a Glands recording session on his chosen axes. As an added bonus there are not one but two guest vocalists on The Spandau Ballet Medley. Everyone present was under the influence of Woody Guthrie novelty tunes, a documentary about Brisbane punk, Diamond Jim Brady’s eating habits, The Art of Walking, THUMS Islands, pure eucalyptus honey, and the side-long track on We Shoot For The Moon. Early reports that “Everything sounds like Tusk outtakes” have proved to be accurate AF. Whether this makes you feel like Bugs Bunny floating through the air nose first, following an aroma toward the witch’s cauldron, or like doing an Exorcist-style crab-walk, you are not alone. Larry Tate is by your side.
Northern Exposure Will Be Right Back
(Starlight Furniture Company - *4CD) CD $6.00
(Starlight Furniture Company - *4LP) LP $10.00
A surreal scrapbook collage of songs, sounds, and manipulated noise by singer–songwriter Barbara Manning and founder of Bananafish magazine S. Glass. With many excerpts from Glass’s early ’80s radio show, and guest appearances by members of Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, CCCC, Masonna, The Dead C., U.S. Saucer, The Double U, Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble, and many of Manning’s bands.
GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION / PETER KOLOVOS
Power b/w Helen Said This
(Independent Woman) 10-inch (lathe cut) $25.00
Covers of tunes by antipodean murkmeisters The Dead C by yank devotees. With insert. Edition of 30
Reverse Atheism
(Butte County Free Music Society - 32) 2xLP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)
Barbara Manning and S. Glass lead a small army of guest readers and musicians through barely musical versions of tunes, texts, and tracts. Barely faithful cover versions (XTC, Gods Gift, Hank Williams, The Osmonds, Edgar Winter, The Birthday Party, New Creation), with varying degrees of overhaul, mangling and looseness of interpretation, emerge like seared remnants of a torched London happening from 1966. Texts by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Dan Ashwander, Wayne Bent, John F. Kennedy, Flannery O’Connor, Hugo Ball, Rayva Liliana, and Hippocrates traverse the spectrum of belief, resulting in a migraine coexistence of skepticism, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, Scientology, paranoid schizophrenia, doomsdays cults, Hinduism, evangelism, Catholicism, witchcraft and wizardry, guardian angels, Armageddon, rapture, post-apocalypse, Illuminati, satanism, existential despair, purgatory, creationism and intelligent design, Darwinism, conspiracy and hoax, the Tarot, human sacrifice, Sikhs, ascension, royalty, cargo cults, divine right, fatalism, Western medicine, oaths, incantation, cosmic retribution, excommunication, alien abduction, the occult, pagans, infidels, heathens, mind control, prophecy, remote prayer, and, naturally, atheism. Guest speakers include Lucian Tielens (Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble), Bruce Russell (The Dead C.), Patricia Rowland (Vomit Launch), Jett Hotcomb (The Talented Hairdos) Thurston Graham (Resistance Works), Scott Simmons (Eat Skull), Dave Gulbis (Celine Dion) Andrew Murphy (Celine Dion, Forked, Smooch), Titch Turner (The Vaticans), Emiko Saito (Obsessive-Compulsive Cat), Cristain Ceia (Romania), Matt Mumper (Beor The Friendly Thing, The Helper), Toni Smith (HappyLucky Design), and Rainbow Cartwheel (This Is Yvonne Lovejoy). Guest musicians include Flavor Station (Ukuzuna) on ukuleles and vocals, Alastair Galbraith (A Handful of Dust) on violin, Doug Pearson (International Hello) on electronics, Black Rose (This Is Yvonne Lovejoy) on keyboards, and Earl Kuck (Tedium House) on small motors. With 24 x 36 poster. Tedium House copies include a penalty CDR containing two demo-style rough mixes, two noise-loop collages, and Kali Bahlu's "A Cosmic Telephone Call From the Angel Liesle and The Buddha" reimagined as a radio play.
... And The German Pillow Menu
(Chocolate Monk - CHOC.278) Split cassette $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first in a two-volume split tape gonk-off between The Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble and Blood Stereo (to be followed, glob help us, by a Karen Constance / Lucian Tielens cassette) is a prologue to a full-blown Blood Lewiis collaboration. Glass spins short yarns using bottle cap, hairbrush, tapes, turntable, violin and voice, with guest clarinet by My Little Panda, while Nyoukis calls upon the forces of gravity and fermentation for his side-long trip to the bottom of a bottle via tapes, voice, piano, drums, trumpet, violin, reel-to-reel, Library Of Congress C1 tape player and objects. C20. Edition of 40.
Cesspool Of The Angels
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $20.00
“This solo album by the former Bananafish editor is a recording of naturally jarring qualities and intent,” says Duncan Harrison of Adhuman. “The rippling, continuous pace doesn’t allow a whole lot of time for sinking the talons in. Incongruous sound sources are bent, warped, wrung and wrenched between the ears, as if one’s brain is an object to be flossed by Glass’s quietly punishing dentist’s hand. Clattering machines and burnt-out organs fizz as though amplified via baby monitor. Brief, ad-hoc choirs of rendered vocals are drenched in clicky synthesis and, yeah, some train noises are even detectable in the mix. But don’t for a minute ascribe his motivations to churlish desire to throw crap at a kitchen sink, then a wall, with no sense of what should stick. I’ve spoken before about the supreme deftness with which Glass sculpts his sounds and it’s all in shining evidence here. If you’ve paid attention to our man’s offerings for decades via Glands of External Secretion, Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble, This Is Yvonne Lovejoy, and the many various collabs, you’ll recognize a ton of now-trademark things on Cesspool of the Angels, too. We could talk about how painstaking it is to collect speech samples of American Assholes tricking themselves into believing something incorrect, or the nerdily inclined might be keen to know serial and model numbers responsible for the massive palette of often rich, pristine electronics and processes, but the skill of Glass’s editing is more interesting, especially his ear for… production, lacking a better word for it. This stuff is not necessarily serious, but Glass and his peers are serious as hell about doing it, deserving of consideration among some of the finest, most world-class people pissing about with difficult sounds today. It’s got action enough to suit all, from bottom-feeding post-underground burnouts to all you guys who collect that INA-GRM type shit.” First handful of copies ordered come with a bonus fridge magnet.
Flying Squid Alert b/w I Swallowed A Guinea Pig
(l’Esprit de l’Escalier) 7-inch $15.00
Found voices, appropriated music, and noise combos that'll give you the squeam. Fragments, loops, layers – two sound montages of disembodied everything. Released as a tour item for the June 2024 tour by Lara Allen (Heavenly Ten Stems, Caroliner, Manwich) and S. Glass (Bananafish, Glands of External Secretion, Bren't Lewiis). Includes postcard and insert. Edition of 300.
The Confiscating Flight Attendant b/w Graphene Shards and a Bucket of Donkey Milk
(No Label New Zealand) 8-inch (lathe cut) $30.00
“Seismographic rumblage and astute observationisms” recorded live at Audio Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand, October 24 2023. Risograph folder with printed insert. Edition of 40.
Two Tapes
(Tone Filth - TF45) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Blown-out, desolate guitar and saturated tape by Tom Helgerson and Justin Meyers (Devillock).
Ruined Again
(l’Esprit de l’Escalier - LELE04) split LP $20.00
Two tape pieces by The Dead C / A Handful of Dust gentleman on one side, using excerpts from texts on urbanism, recorded instrumental interludes, and electronics. On the flip, the side-long track by one of the mutants from Bren't Lewiis Ensemble combines fragments of keyboard drone, spastic violin, field recordings by Silvia Kastel and Joan Of Art, turntables, and diabolically uncooperative reel-to-reel tape. Insert includes companion texts “No: Your City” — Formulary For A New Christchurch” and “The Organ Courier And The Chinese Billionaire.” Cover art by Kate McRae. Edition of 200.
Humans & Luxury
(Spanish Magic) 7-inch $7.00
From the badlands of Tasmania, through Melbourne share-house doors, and into your hands, Go Genre Everything are equal parts Crass, Tears For Fears and Luigi Russolo. Two tracks from Eternal Youth Carefree Cleanness (Munchiegohilarious 2009), one from Megalomania, and one previously unreleased. Go Genre Everything emerged in 1974 as a screaming avant life epic orchestra called Abominibbleable with contemporaries such as Sun Ratsu and Brian Enema. Something happened in 1988 – not sure what exactly, but adjustments to psychic conditioning were involved, and it occurred in a place called Kyzyl City. This set the stage, apparently, for Dieter von Broumler to initiate first contact with Zach Von Bamburger (guitar, vocals) and Jen Tait (drums, keyboards, vocals) and form Go Genre Everything, a self-described “complex sonic experiment voicing myriad environments, traversing and exploring function and situation, form, void and meaning. Designed within a utilitarian sensorial intertalk mode, we are a multidimensional fluidic high energy organic network with mechanical interfacing devices, tenderly electrocuting neurons within human brains.” They perform music, in other words. Which, according to cyclicdefrost.com, exists “in a zone of their own no-wave-meets-drone-psych-noise making.”
Excelsior!
(Goat Family) Used LP $15.00
Americana with juggy, rocking rhythms. Gatefold jacket. Includes free download coupon. Sealed
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.
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.
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
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.”
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
God Willing / Privy Seals
(Arbor - ARBOR78) split LP $10.00
God Willing and Privy Seals are two of the prime purveyors of meditative harsh tones. God Willing's guitar and oscillatior drone reaches epic levels of hypnosis: repetitive, textured signals march onward like the swaying charm of the pocket watch. One of the final Privy Seals recordings with its eavy, hi-end guitar and tape interlacing, is a bridge to the new incarnation under the Earn moniker. Its harsh movement soothes under the deprivation of distorted tones. At the end of the hallway a door lies open. Silkscreened jackets. Edition of 300.
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.
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.
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
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
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 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.
Meat Bob
(Chrysalis) Used LP $10.00
Old-school weirdness comedy from 1988. Gold promo stamp on back of jacket
WENDY GONDELN / NORBERT MÖSLANG
Betty b/w Betti_Corr
(Meeuw Muzak - MM046) split 7-inch $10.15 (Out-of-stock)
Electric violin with a strong bass drum beat on one side, backed with the former Voice Cracker’s massive deconstruction of Gondeln’s raw and direct sound.
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.”
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.
Untitled
(Indian Queen - IQR004) LP $21.00
On Indian Queen’s vinyl reissue of this trio’s CDR (Time-Lag 2006) translucent tones by Scott Tuma and Zelienople’s Matt Christensen and Mike Weis hover in empty space, trembling as they hesitantly coalesce. Folk axioms break down into dust; dark passages become platforms for larger, more intricate layers. Good Stuff House’s Americana prism blankets sepia-toned memories in vivid color. Includes free digital download.
A Slab Of Liquid Cunt
(Blak Skul) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
Good Time Aussie Bogalars originate from the old gold-rush-town-cum-industrialized-backwater of Ballarat, Victoria, on the continent of Orstralia. Born into a metal scene that had once been promising but was subsequently decimated by heroin, they abandoned the bleak musical environs of Ballarat for the state capital of Melbourne to purvey their brutal blend of hardcore, noise and angular sludge. Not totally sounding like Rupture, the Stretchheads, Anal Cunt playing like Big Flame, a post-rock Eyehategod, or King Snake Roost doing hardcore, it’s otherwise hard to compare them or find touchstones for the sound on this their debut LP. Songs about bad attitudes, bad behavior, bad smells, bad people, all rife with bad language in a working-class Australian slang an outsider will have to Google to understand, these no-neck proles paint vivid pictures of 21st century white trash in Oz, like Brueghel down-under, smearing blood up-and-down the fret boards of pawn-shop six-strings.
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
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.
The Glue That Holds The Kids Together
(What The ... - WHAT013) LP (one-sided) $16.00
Vinyl debut of long-running Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky improv unit centered around sax and electronics by Tim Schwallie (Wolverton Brothers) and doublebass and electronics by Scott Hisey. Over many years, various collaborators and members have coerced the group into stepping into and falling out of free improv, free funk, and free song modes. A highly picked sample of highlights from various line-ups is here, including Clayton "Chicken" Gunnels (The JBs), Mark Perry (Heevahava), C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core). Silkscreen cover designed by Paul Coors. Edition of 130.
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
Gotou
(Inu Wan Wan) LP $16.00
Named after the Taiwanese restaurant the trio frequents in Sapporo, capital of Japan’s northern island Hokkaido, Gotou is made up of Otaco Gotou, Nanae Bndy Gotou, and Chika Gotou, some of the most exciting artists from the city’s experimental music scene (Cup & Saucers, Aoi Swimming). They use the guitar-bass-drums format to create goth post-punk in homage to early 1980s groups such as Mania D and Malaria!
Altar of Precogs
(Amethyst Sunset - AS015) 7-inch $8.00
Two tracks of hard electronics and blissful, psychedelic harsh noise from Yasutoshi Yoshida. Edition of 300
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
Early Recordings 77-83
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD42) LP $22.50
Viennese performance and video/music artists’ finest archival selections of their minimal / wave / classic Trust No Women LP style. All tracks previously unreleased on vinyl.
Dan Graham & The Static at Riverside Studios London
(Primary Information) Split cassette $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded live on February 24, 1979, and previously released that same year by Audio Arts, Dan Graham’s “Performer / Audience / Mirror” deconstructs the relationship between performer and audience by flanking the stage with a large mirror in back and delivering a monologue through four phases: (1) the artist facing the audience and describing himself and the attitudes his movements signify; (2) the artist facing the audience and describing their external behaviors; (3) the artist facing the mirror (back to the audience) and discussing his movements and their signification; and (4) the artist (still facing the mirror) describing the audience and their movements through a reverse perspective. With Glenn Branca on guitar, Barbara Ess on bass, and Christine Hahn on drums, The Static’s 41-minute live recording rips through “Inspirez Expirez” and “Don’t Let Me Stop You,” among others. Edition of 500. C80
Listen to it here: https://soundcloud.com/primaryinformation/sets/dan-graham-the-static-live-at/s-QQJby
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
Dry Lake b/w Empty Kettle
(Meeuw Muzak - MM044) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Raw minimal banjo by Atsuo Ogawa and self-built electronics by Minoru Sato. “There’s a lot of space to these slow pieces,” observes Pete Um, “An interesting marriage of form and content [where] the recording method … highlight[s] the contrast between the brash and folksy tones of the banjo…, played in simple, clear, isolated notes, and the mysterious tinkle and scrape [of the electronics] that the ear strains to hear....”
Cinders
(Sergent Massacre - SM02) LP $19.50 (Out-of-stock)
Ben Hall on percussion, Hans Buetow on cello, John Olson on saxophone and electronics, and Coccyx on reeds base this effort around high, metallic drones, with bowed and scraped cymbals generating a metallic / electric cloud cover that attracts lightning strikes of phantom saxophone articulation, desolate breath storms and percussion and hallucinatory, held tones. Psychedelic and brain re-arranging. Silkscreened jackets. Artwork by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch.
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
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.
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.
Assassin
(Peripheral - PR015) LP $20.00
Six cuts of torrid, industrial drum machines and coruscating noise infiltrated by field recordings and ethereal samples, originally released on JFK / Artaman Tape in 1988. An impressionistic account of the assassination of Jackie Onassis’s first husband, as well as its implications and ramifications: the collective trauma and psychosis, the invasive cold war paranoia, rumours of shadow governments and the implied presence of the hidden, alien hand that guides and shapes human affairs to who-knows-what end. Our friends at Boomkat place this collaboration by Anthony DiFranco, David Padbury and Trevor Ward “somewhere between The New Blockaders and MB, and The Caretaker and Justin K Broderick, ribboning as it does from grinding machine rhythms and ferric-infused atmospheres to bombed-out dystopia and an excellent final collage of mulched news reportage, stray TV signals and greyscale drone apparitions.” Red vinyl. Edition of 300.
Greymouth
(Quemada - QUE012) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The white-knuckle fever dreams of guitarist Mark Sangrove and drummer Mark Anderson filter Operation Of The Sonne through zero-attention-span garage dankness. Just as vicious, raw, and sensitive as a Robert Ashley track on a volume of Back From the Grave.
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
Timbral Planes
(Dossier) Used LP $18.00
Dark ambience from 1987, partially beatless and partially gently percussive / tribal.
Love Song
(Art Into Life - AIL006) LP $36.00 (Out-of-stock)
The singularly strange storytelling power of Jun Konagaya had been largely overlooked until Folk Songs For An Obscure Race (Haang Niap 2009), which collects the group’s early ’80s material. Love Songs is a story in eight volumes, ripe with deviant madness and gathered salvic capacity. Handmade clock artwork (each one is unique), eight-page booklet. Edition of 300.
Vital 1983-1989
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD92) 3xLP $80.00 (Out-of-stock)
Jun Konagaya’s amazing, almost schizophrenic power-electronics project changes its mood and atmosphere in seconds -- from extreme harsh noise walls to Mansonesque folk songs. Includes tracks from Vital cassette, Amaterasu seven-inch (G.A. Propaganda 1985), Folk Music LP (Eskimo 1986), Message twelve-inch (Eskimo 1987) and assorted compilations. Edition of 400.
JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS / ARNAUD RIVIÈRE
Monoface
([ no label ]) 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
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
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.
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.
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.
The Future Is A Faded Song
(Juneau Palace - JUN001) LP $15.00
Improvisation and song structure explore the grey area between order and chaos, between listening and being subsumed by sound. J. Gräf (Bride Of No No, Metalux, The Guitars Project) makes melody behave like a Loch Ness monster, surfacing and resurfacing in unsuspected moments, rearranging it temporally to bring forth the uncanny in the familiar. Through a matrix of sonic shifts, The Future is a Faded Song ranges from very lyrical vocals to the throbbing chaos. Guests include Katherine Porter on cello, Dan Breen on drums, Inge-Lise Sheppard on vocals. Edition of 300
Kicked Back Into The Crypt
(Sophomore Lounge) split LP $14.00 (Out-of-stock)
The Guerilla Toss’s obliteratively perfect side is a less high-pitched, bizarrely shifting clot of sideways-moving aural-mung. This Boston quintet crafts and destroys riffs, rhythms and melodies faster than most bands can turn on their amps, much the same the way that early Boredoms jiggered popular logic with personal calculus and great power. Sediment Club’s wild syncretic power combines the rough stubbing of classic No Wave aktion with the warm mud of Lower Manhattan garage-blues -- everything Lydia Lunch attempted to do with the Devil Dogs. Evil sound beauty from NYC trio (with roots on late’70s Lower East Side), somewhere between Mars, Rat At Rat R and the Chrome Cranks.
ANTHONY GUERRA / PATRICK O’BRIEN
Patrick O’Brien / Anthony Guerra
(Black Petal - #46) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dude from Mad Nanna collaborating with dude from Love Chants. Cover artwork by Joshua Burkett. Listen to an excerpt here: https://soundcloud.com/black-petal/patrick-obrien-anthony-guerra-new-lp-excerpt. Edition of 220
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.
Merzbow / The Guilt Of...
(Chrome Peeler - CPR12) split LP $12.75 (Out-of-stock)
Masami Akita's assault of violent, swarming electronic distortion swirls with shards of brutal high-end feedback and cosmic oscillating tones, creating a vast whirlpool of caustic aural grit and buzz. Industrial noise punks from New Orleans The Guilt of... (Mike IX Williams [EyeHateGod, Outlaw Order, Arson Anthem] and Ryan McKern [Wolvhammer]) layer waves of piano, fuzz, tortured vocals, drums and distorted sub-bass. Mesmerizing and crushing. Edition of 500.
The Guilt Of...
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR074) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The debut full-length from Mike Williams (Eyehategod, Arson Anthem) and Ryan McKern (Wolvhammer) builds upon Williams's narratives created for his metal and punk incarnations, and seen in his book Cancer as a Social Activity. Partnered with McKern's instrumental expertise and his own wide range of tastes, Williams spews thought-provoking, Manson-obsessed, Burroughsian cut-up writings. Edition of 500. Purple vinyl.
Discaholics! Record Collector Confessions Volume 1
(Marhaug Forlag) Magazine + 7-inch $37.50 (Out-of-stock)
Ten interviews conducted by the Swedish saxophone player / improviser / composer / music archivist with artists / record collectors Brian Morton, Byron Coley, Dennis Lyxzén, Elena Wolay, Harald Hult, Henry Rollins, Oren Ambarchi, Paal Nilssen-Love, Thurston Moore and Robert Crumb. 120 pages. One-sided seven-inch has an exclusive new track recorded using elements from Gustafsson’s record collection. Second edition.
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 / LASSE MARHAUG
For Ake Hodell
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC01) split 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Marhaug’s “So-so Green Tea With Buddha” deals with musique concrete and noisy cut-ups techniques, Gustafsson’s “Jag Vill Lyda Order” with his extended sax and electronics in harsh, bulldozer style.
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.
Sacrée Obsession
(Ideal - iDEAL133) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dark and organic minimal music from Australian percussionist extraordinaire who combines pulse and rhythmic ideas with melody- and pitch-based textures. Recorded in Le France. Edition of 500.
Listen here: https://soundcloud.com/will-guthrie/sets/sacr-e-obsession-ideal133/s-nFYMG
Spike-s
(Pica Disk - PICA011) 7-inch $10.00
Two intense pieces of drum / guitar / electronics blow-out from Australian sound-wizard.
Sticks, Stones & Breaking Bones
(Antboy Music - 11) CD $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
(Antboy Music - 11) LP $21.50 (Out-of-stock)
Guthrie's fearless music is the fruit of a long-standing interrogation of a dark place where most players fear to tread: bullfighting with the musical unconscious. Cycles of intermeshed timbral / rhythmic relationships, playing to an internal logic, transcend the usual thought patterns. Far from slipping into mindless, episodic free improv meandering, extended formal shapes tuned by experiential instinct give Sticks, Stones & Breaking Bones its structural integrity. Irregularities are elegantly placed, the raw technique blunted and honed into a resilient break-dance between the spontaneous and pre-conceived. LP includes free digital download; screen-printed LP jacket, edition of 500. CD edition of 1000.
Death Happening
(Turgid Animal) 7-inch $7.50
Expertly done psychedelic harsh noise from Finland. "Surprisingly chaotic and [discordant]," say our colleagues at Freak Animal. "Layers of reversed sounds create demonic roaring noise, which isn't harsh, but very far from relaxing.... Other side is [typical] Haare with eerie guitar drones and lots of layers." Edition of 200.
Evidence Pertaining to the Creator
(Somnimage - som10010) 7-inch $19.50
Originally part of a 3x7-inch subscription-only package Wolf Sheep Cabbage, now adrift on its lonesome. Pressed on clear vinyl in letterpress wraps.
Evidence Pertaining to the Preserver
(Somnimage - som10011) 7-inch $19.50 (Out-of-stock)
Originally part of a 3x7-inch subscription-only package Wolf Sheep Cabbage, now adrift on its lonesome. Pressed on clear vinyl in letterpress wraps.
Twin Smooth Snouts
(Starlight Furniture Company - *5CD) CD $14.00
(Starlight Furniture Company - *5LP) LP $10.00
Oddly distorted guitars, mangled erhu, manipulated violas, unrecognizable African percussion, bouncy Hagemanizer™, bizarre noises, and found nonsense looped, stretched, chopped, sped up, and warped by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 guitarist.
KEIJI HAINO / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
Cosmic Debris Vol. 3
(Opax - OPX10) split LP $125.00
Third installment in the Cosmic Debris split-LP series sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Japan’s ichiban cult musician and dark shaman. Both side-long tracks, recorded live in the performers’ respective hometowns, detonate cosmic skullbombs: Haino’s “Whither goes it? / That which can’st not but be described / As my prayer/ Nowhere held in common / Lunatic, unknowable...” should tell you everything you need to know about it just by the title, while MCIAA’s “Everything Crashes Like Cosmic Debris” kicks the ass that cannot be kicked. Each record comes with an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio on 30x30cm proper canvas, with a unique Polaroid instant film installed on each piece, representing 100 different perspectives of a same subject related to MCIAA’s own cosmic imaginary. Extraordinarily limited, as usual.
Blind Kingdom
(Ultra Eczema - UE42) LP $24.75
An odd-colored carpet of bizarre 3-D fields dominate the bright and lurid psychedelic forests you'll have to run thru before gripping a mug of brew at the end of the trip. Hop on the back of a giant pink elephant and let go. Originally recorded as a radio special for Radio Centraal in Antwerp, this is a signif deviation from the Hair Police custom -- way more high bliss, blown-out delayed voice, and hardly any harshness. Packaged in a thick black-and-neon-blue eye-destroying covers with a psychic laser etch on the B-side. 180 grams, limited to 600.
Drawn Dead
(Weird Forest) 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
(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.
Prescribed Burning
(Hospital) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
A heavy, desolate, late-night set that moves into the kind of single-sonic-event in a Saragossa of tension style of NNCK while reflecting on aspects of early Throbbing Gristle, Nord et al. Bleak, extended smears of nightmare tone. Silkscreened jackets. Edition of 500.
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
Neu Dimension
(Helicopter - H63) 7-inch + cassette $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Two sessions, one recorded by mail in 2004, and one recorded at a studio in Shinjuku, 2009, alternating between sharp, cut-up collage, fleeting junk sounds, hard electronics, noise, and vocals. Boxset with many inserts from Masaya Nakahara (formerly Violent Onsen Geisha).
Hakaristi
(Legion Blotan) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Finnish raw black metal hatred. Hand-stamped labels. Edition of 300.
Self Esteem
(RRRecords - RRR1/2) LP $17.00
Debut LP by leaders in the new American school of Power Electronics. "Carefully composed and ... varied harsh and lo-fi sounds ... produced with clarity and precision," according to Blood Ties, "Harsh noise blasts ... humming and pulsating D.I.Y. synthesizers, feedback chiming in here and there ... focused in some way or another on a rhythmic core.... Lo-fi, dark, aggressive, hate-filled, sick and tired, so many negative feelings crammed into such a small focused space." With members of Yellow Tears.
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.
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.
The Union | A Hem of Evening
(Mie Music - 012) 2xLP $14.00
Tom Lecky stacks and layers acoustic, electric and lap steel guitars, delivering a new kind of studio improvisation -- spontaneously made, yet feeling composed, gliding from harmonious to dissonant. MIE Music’s vinyl reissue of his debut CD (Hundred Acre 2012) sweetens the deal with A Hem of Evening: six interlocking acoustic pieces that extend the structural themes of The Union’s central acoustic tracks. Lecky again works with a range of overlapping improvisations and twisted melodic weavings, but here within a more naked and spare atmosphere. The Union is structured by continually stacking great density of sound and involutions, but A Hem of Evening works with a different geometry. In the words of Fluid Radio’s Andy Gillham, A Hem of Evening shows “a canny ability to build meaningful musical structure from free-form composition.” Includes a book of prose poems and photographs.
Degree Zero Point Of Implosion
(With Intent) LP $15.00
Vinyl edition of Australian duo Skye Klein and Robert Allen’s gloomy and hopeless portrait of a bleak post-industrial world, previously released on CDR (Embryo 2000). Their unusual style of doom riffs and heavy percussion is flavored with menacing machine drones, dark electronics and frightening shouted vocals. Recorded live in Melbourne Australia in 2000. Edition of 300.
RICHARD HAMILTON / DIETER ROTH
Canciones de Cadaqués
(Primary Information - PI008) 2x7-inch $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Roth and Hamilton alternately perform on vocals and guitar, with assistance from a Cadaqués dog, Chispas Luis, who periodically takes over vocal duties with a particularly sharp bark. The duo worked together from 1961 to 1998 and produced several projects across many mediums, including this double-seven inch originally release in 1976 by Hansjörg Mayer. Gatefold jacket. Edition of 500
Have a listen to Side B here: https://soundcloud.com/primaryinformation/dieter-roth-richard-hamilton-canciones-de-cadaques-side-b
I Love You, Please Love Me Too
(Pan - PAN8) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Los Angeles sound artist actively creating experimental works since 1980 as a member of LAFMS, Solid Eye, Joe & Joe, Dinosaurs With Horns, Dimmer, and Points of Friction, Joseph Hammer continues his journey into playful yet heavily focused idiot-savant infinite psychedelic inertia. He utilizes consumer audio technology and 20th century detritus to decode and snake-charm mid-century sci-fi and AM radio beyond the point of recognition in multi-dimensional audio collages and free form, completely unorthodox plunderphonic hypnosis. Baked devotionals for tape loop minds. Edition of 330, 140g vinyl, black-andwhite LP jacket in a two-tone silk screened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. Artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas.
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.
Giving Thanks b/w Thanks Giving
(Zaius Tapes) 12-inch $12.00
Unexpected reissue of this 80s obscurity that bears an uncanny resemblance to “an SST project from the Byzantine era, Painted Willie collapsing into a black hole of Turkish Barbarism. Or yourself, evaporating into the abyss of any Montrose album, shattered on Tuinals, chewing those solos.” Generic centerhole jacket, as was the original. Edition of 197
Like Breath Beneath A Veil
(Avant! - AV!038) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dark folk rock extended with martial stomps, semi-acoustic guitars drenched in reverberation, and throbbing, vibrant bass lines. The fertile Danish trio’s fistful of apocalyptic ballads, pregnant with tragedy and unavoidability, march onward with a solemn gait toward god knows where. With 16-page lyrics booklet.
Walk In White
(Avant! - AV!031) 7-inch $9.75 (Out-of-stock)
Though this Copenhagen trio belongs to the Posh Isolation brood, their personal variation of dark rock has roots in folk, with a lot of focus on songwriting and lyrics. Originally formed in order to play the acoustic songs of singer Bo Høyer Hansen in an electric setting, they own the sweet spot shared by electric neo-folk, Dead Moon-ishness, and a notable Gun Club vibe. Check out the B-side here: https://soundcloud.com/avant/hand-of-dust-a-sight-for-the-living
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
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
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
Another Miserable Day
(Ultra Eczema - UE38) LP $22.50
Amazing layered synth madness by San Francisco’s most German electronic creeper. A mountain of instruments, two long analog electronic / concrète compositions, and the worst melancholic Sunday afternoon party-is-over feeling. Packaged in a six-panel fold out cover. Imported from Le Belgium.
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.
Solo Acoustic Volume Fourteen
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ018) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
A widescreen, cinematic vision for acoustic guitar composition by this classically trained Icelandic artist whose deeply personal approach to modern guitar journeys from minimal tone poems to densely melodic ballads.
HARAPPIAN NIGHT RECORDINGS / KOMMISSAR HJULER
Karawane / 6 Reviews in Psycopathic Alchemy
(Shamanic Trance - ST3) split LP $15.00
Hjuler impales Lord Hugo Ball's classic dada poem on a Marie Osmond shaped spike, while on the flip, Syed Kamran Ali scorches beaucoups earth with a "gain-destroyed suite of 'ethnic' improv." Colored vinyl.
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
Ancestral Brutalism / To The Tall Trees
(He Who Corrupts - HWC023) split 7-inch $9.75
Two of Chicago’s more notable loudness enterprises deliver one song each on green marble vinyl: "Ancestral Brutalism" by Locrian (Andrew Sherer of Velnias guests) and "To The Tall Trees" by Harpoon (their first release with bass player DJ Barraca). Lulled Into A Boiling Rage describes Locrian, "Droning and forbidding sounds carried on air at top volume. Time seem[s] to slow down, waiting for the band to lurch toward their next choad rattling note. A perfect soundtrack for a desolate piece of arctic winter." About Harpoon, Cerebral Metalhead says they occupy a "middle ground between Phobia's d-beat leaning grind and Pig Destroyer's more metallic assault" (though, to be fair, they also said "When did A-Ha start playing grindcore?" so, you know, caveat emptor, motherfucker). Bonus material is included via enclosed digital card. With full-color double-sided insert, letter pressed cover.
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.
DUNCAN HARRISON / CLAUS HAXHOLM / DYLAN NYOUKIS / UTE WASSERMANN
Dissecting An Utterance
(Spricht Editions) LP $18.75
A surreal panel debate (recorded live at Click Festival, Elsinore, Denmark, 2018) by four experimental vocal artists getting to the depths of what it means to be a human being with a voice — not through power points and well conceptualized reasoning, but by going straight for the heart of it. The voice in its primal form, a voice with a verbal language, a voice that can travel incoherently between timbres and concepts. Four very different aspects and views on the topics dissected live, creating a space for the body to speak its mother tongue and for the mind to let its non-linear impulses mutate for the sheer thrill of exploring its (un)natural habitat. Red Vinyl.
Slow Lightning
(Sham Repro) LP $20.00
Sometimes the old hands tell the truth. Cherry made it known some years ago that the cosmic hummus resonates. Bound by bread and blub, High Wycombe Wullie (Harrison) and The Guildford Grouch (Murphy) took to Roedale Valley allotments some years back to sow the seeds for Slow Lightning, which is neither a split nor a collab, but rather a love letter forged between close pals of the sonic ital. Let the lion’s gaze turn the weeds to stone! Harrison shows his delicate hand with thin precision loops and strange little snapshots. Scuttering gadgets wheeze ominous scents into the faces of yelping robotic kittens and the dictaphone player in your mind just keeps intoning “let the low tide tingle, fella!” Murphy proves he is no recycled revenant with a brave and bold bowl of text-sound tit pickle. Huff the high fidelity and let tribute be paid to those voices as they have teachings. The loops and the breaks keep it simmering nice, while flabbergasted turntables press cheeks with prime Bohman-esque yabber. Like Don probably never said “Let the duck honk rasp yr brain, man!”
Australian Sun
(Meeuw Muzak - MM)42) 7-inch $5.75 (Out-of-stock)
A barrel organ of Benelux origin called De Pansfluiter plays an old Merry tune, reading mechanically from a score of holes cut into a special orgelboek. Reminscent of another piece of holy foolery that contrasts the modern world with antiquity, The Other Side of Tiny Tim. The B-side is an instrumental version, showcasing the tune’s joyous sadness.
[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.
Live
(Cherry Smash - CS039) 10-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Hot, sweaty noise rock from 1998. Highlight includes a cover of Kraftwerk’s “Showroom Dummies.”
Haters
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR051) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded in 2001 but unreleased until now due to controversial content, this is not the noise Haters but a brutal hardcore band, one of the most brutal ever put to tape, formed after Voorhees split up. Artwork by Richard Rupenus of The New Blockaders.
Hatred
(Ultra Eczema) LP $24.75
One of this European label’s grimmest releases so far. Beautiful and heavy layers of ticking synth sperm, bells, and creepitronics. Nate Young (Wolf Eyes, Arian Asshole) and his lady Alivia Zyvich swarm like bees on these recordings, some of which are soundtracks for Zyvich's films, some of which were previously released on limited-edition CDRs by Fag Tapes, some of which are brand new and fucking creepy. Even with the volume knob at 1, you'll be pierced and screaming like a spaz. Packaged in a six-panel fold out record cover by Dennis Tyfus.
HAVAH / HIS ELECTRO BLUE DEATH
Havah / His Electro Blue Death
(Maple Death Records - MDR001) split LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Thirty loud and gnarly minutes of blissful tension. Five cold-as-ice tracks on one side by Michele Camorani of La Quiete and Raein, who showcases some deep, deep love for Romagna‐made ’70s Lombardi amplifiers. On the flip, the Italian trio’s side-long “Tartlas” combines mind‐warping loops, death cries and venomous hatred. Artwork by Meg Remy of U.S. Girls. Includes free download.
Flammable Materials From Foreign Lands
(Elevator Bath - eeaoa045) LP $20.50 (Out-of-stock)
Mostly composed, recorded, and sketched during an Estonian residency at MoKS for a program that was hosted by Simon Whetham and John Grzinich called Active Crossover, the goal of which was to bring together artists whose work pertained to environmental recordings. With the Estonian landscape pocked with abandoned buildings of considerable size and decay, and no electricity, Haynes relied on shortwave to capture any electro-magnetic disruptions. The radio reception was eerie and unsettled, producing a crackling, droning noise unlike what one hears in the United States. The A-side reflects an aestheticized paranoia through bursts of static, pulsed noise, and atonal sinews of sustained frequency. The B-side is more introspective, cutting up an Estonian radio broadcast into phonemes, disjointed phrases, and cryptic speech. What few words that can be recognized from the Estonian pertain to the forces of globalization. Clear vinyl. Edition of 300
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.
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.
Swell Maps 1972-1980
(Sounds On Paper) Hardcover book + 7-inch $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Formed in band-member and co-founder Jowe Head’s home town of Solihull, England in 1972, the group featured the late Nikki Sudden and Nikki’s brother, the late Epic Soundtracks, along with Phones Sportsman, John Cockrill, and Richard Earl. In this 152-page biography of the band, Head takes us to each members’ formative years and reveals what made them experiment with challenging music and eventually come together to form Swell Maps. Through his own recollections and utilizing interviews with former members, he explores the early days of the band, and details stories that bring the reader into the inner workings of the band as they traveled through the late ’70s cultural scene in Europe. The last section of the book updates the whereabouts of all the key players. The book includes dozens of full-color images of band memorabilia from the author's personal collection, including photos, posters, flyers, artwork, original lyrics, and more. Six exclusive, never-before-released tracks are on the seven-inch, culled from the archives. Edition of 1000
Sathanas Trismegistos
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME102) CD $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME102) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
Head of the Demon further entrenches themselves in heavy metal of the various occult shades. Their bare-boned metal with an eldritch shape vibrates on a solid foundation with a poetic, less-is-more approach. “Sathanas Trismegistos … is about as epic as doom metal can get,” says Metal Extreme. “[A]n undertone of black metal … drives this album alongside its mainly doom metal overture…. [It fuses] elements of psychedelic rock … without eliminating the evil sounding vibes.” Every hard-ripping riff oozes magnificence. Thickly atmospheric, black auras and “an evil energy … dwell in this album…, channeling spirits from another realm or dimension” that hypnotize, desensitize, and cast a spell. “Sathanas Trismegistos is a uniquely rich experience that holds no comparison. This is one of those albums that is going to change the way the genre of doom is thought about.” The panorama is wide open and the pillars are easily distinguishable outside of the field of vision. Truths lay wide open and in plain view for those who which to reflect and partake.
Live In Miami
(Tanzprocesz) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dead rock. Drums, guitars, locked grooves, screams, obsessive riffs. Recorded live in Miami.
Touche Pas L’Enfant
(Tanzprocesz) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dead rock. Drums, guitars, locked grooves, screams, obsessive riffs. Recorded in the studio.
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.
Sunspotted
(Type - 076V) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
An atypical higher-fidelity peek into the muddled world of drummer Jed Bindeman, bassist Brady Sansone and guitarist Ryan Hebert, whose cacophonous splatters are mercilessly grimy signifiers of their buzzing free-rock style. Recorded in a "real" studio, their extended sludge come across wider than ever, an unholy union between sheet-noise and blissful sub-harmonic transcendence.
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
Sun Pandämonium
(Pan - PAN15) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Deluxe vinyl reissue of the third full-length album from Florian Hecker (Mego 2003). Sun Pandämonium strikes from many angles with a diverse range of fiercely dynamic electronic scenarios. The computer materializes new compositional strategies, leaving behind standard musical structures and seeking out unusual timbral and textural effects. As one reviewer stated, “This record is electronic music as psilocybin science.” Pitchforkmedia described it as “the sounds and frequencies not only of diamonds being sharpened, but then being used to etch directly on the lenses of your optical readers. Call him a sick fuck, a genius, or even Mister Antichrist, but this will cleanse the audio palate as it blows your teeth out.” 140g vinyl, with six monochrome lacquered sheets, silkscreened PVC outer sleeve with the original artwork by Tina Frank and Hecker. Edition of 800.
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
Titanic And Other Songs
(Orion Read - OR10) LP $23.00 (Out-of-stock)
After reading that Bob Dylan’s Tempest album includes a fourteen-minute song about the Titanic, comedian Tim Heidecker set out to record an equally epic song about the ship, to “see if I could beat the master to it.” The rhyming ballad begins in 1912 and ends in the present day with James Cameron’s decision to re-release The Titanic (1997) in 3-D. The album also includes a cover of Dylan’s “All the Tired Horses” (1970), along with previously unreleased songs inspired by: the failed sequel to suburban biker movie Wild Hogs (2007); life at home; an assignment from a friend; and fear of death and earthquakes. Edition of 500.
Destiny Street
(Red Star) Used LP $20.00
Fuller and jazzier than Blank Generation, and just as concise. From 1982.
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.
Cryptography
(Kye - KYE11) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Five-part electro-acoustic study by London-based sound architect Luke Younger (Birds of Delay) that uses processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and guitar strings to explore fringe territories. Glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback coalesce in classic UK post-industrial fashion. Full color sleeve with insert. Numbered edition of 400.
To An End
(Alter - ALT01) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
The debut solo album from Luke Younger (also known as half of Birds of Delay) combines field recordings, tape loops, percussion, and electronics (among other things) in a tense and daunting audio tapestry. Properties of the album’s surreal environment of confusion and alienation are reminiscent of the concrete and sound poetry work of Charles Amirkhanian or Bengt Hambraeus; field recordings and mysterious tape audio swell in and out of the mix, and soft washes of white noise float delicately on the surface of an infinite curious hum. A sense of unease simultaneously locks in with an aura of beauty, both worlds compromising to share a space with each other in an extended phantom tone. The long excursion into a wash of calm tone could float away forever. As profound as the discovery of pure silence or the sound of a massive skyscraper collapsing to the ground. It's not about size but about overbearing weight, of which this album carries loads. Edition of 300.
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.
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.
Fear Of Music / Berlin, With Love
(l’Esprit de l’Escalier - LELE01) 7-inch $10.00
The stamina-defying screamer of Japanese noise and longtime vocalist for Hijo Kaidan joins wrecker of civilization and one-third of The Dustbreeders for two sides of very pleasant unpleasantness. Henritzi’s improvised guitar-playing is the real surprise here, with its curiously cinema-conscious restraint, hovering around the perplexing intersection of an imaginary Giallo scored by Morricone and the calm brunch entertainment at a grim eastern European café. Quite a deviation from the “glorious, unholy racket” of his vinyl-noise trio. Junko, meanwhile, colors the foreground with her trademark bird-getting-strangled-by-a-dentist-on-a-chalkboard vocals (say whatever you want, comedian, she’s heard it all before) but here shrieks with almost zero adornment, to the point where she achieves an unusual variation on repetitive minimalism. The sublime tension between the two players forms a rarely heard, abject desperation that seems impossible to satisfy. Edition of 100.
Moi Non Plus / Shibari
(AnarchoFreaks) 7-inch $10.00
Guitar and voice, recorded during the same sessions as Fear Of Music / Berlin, With Love. Screen-printed cover. Red vinyl. Edition of 200. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2013
Flim Flam b/w From Blake
(Jupiterian) split 7-inch $5.75 (Out-of-stock)
As the essential Pere Ubu rhythm section from the 1970s through the early 1990s, Scott Krauss and Tony Maimone collaborated during Ubu’s early 1980s hiatus as Home and Garden, where they blazed their own trail of avant-rock — not without some assistance from Cleveland’s art-rock crème de la crème. “Flim Flam” was originally written by Krauss and Jim Jones (during the sessions that yielded Pere Ubu songs “Come Home,” “Kathleen” “Last Will and Testament,” and “Fedora Satellite II”) although it was never submitted to Ubu for consideration. Its appearance here, with Jones on guitars and keyboards, and Keith Kornajcik handling the vocals and lyrics, is the first. On the flip, “From Blake” showcases the guitar, bass, and sax talents of founding Pere Ubu guitarist Tom Herman (who also led the avant-rock power trio Tripod Jimmie with Len Bove). Assembled around Linda Herman’s performance of a poem by William Blake, the song is a tour de force. Includes free download code.
Peplum b/w Alo
(Yerevan Tapes - YER007) 7-inch $9.75 (Out-of-stock)
An apocalyptic take on an imaginary Morricone soundtrack — Italian occult psychedelia filled with twangy guitars, doomsday synths, and mellotron, backed with a giallo-esque clash between Bruno Nicolai and Demdike Stare, originally conceived for the In Every Dream Home A Heartache exhibition by Phil Collins (no relation).
Hertta Lussu Assa
(Destijl - IND089) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Gnomic no-fi plunk, wheeze, rattle and moan courtesy of Jonna Karanka (aka Kuupuu), Laura Naukkarinen (aka Lau Nau) and Merja Kokkonen (aka Islaja), who draw from the seemingly eternal well of stoned detuned mischief that feeds the viaducts of the Finnish underground. A choice manifestation of heavy-lidded third-mind acoustic weirdity. Ungainly and mystically and chemically blasted.
CORNELIA HESSE-HONEGGER / DAVE PHILLIPS
Mutations
(Ini Itu - INIITU1002) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Using source material recorded in Thailand and Vietnam between 1994 and 2007, Mutations rests between Phillips's constructed works and his pure field recordings. Here he juxtaposes, layers, condenses, stretches, and distorts sounds into balanced progressions, punctuations and dense climaxes which generate an overwhelming and sometimes uneasy environment. Hallucinatory, unsettling, brooding, ominous, always restrained, controlled, progressing toward the horror. Hesse-Honegger is a scientific illustrator and researcher who has studied the effects of radioactivity on insect morphology. Edition of 250, with two high-quality printed inserts. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2011
Rules Of The Universe
(Kye - KYE25) 2xLP $26.00 (Out-of-stock)
Fully authorized anthology of archival audio work by the Dutch artist whose stature in visual arts is well known and internationally celebrated, but scant documentation of his audio work has been difficult to locate. Recordings of Heyboer’s anomalous music trickled out on micro-edition CDs and CDRs through the Anton Heyboer Foundation in the 1990s, decades after his She And She As One LP (EMI 1976 ) introduced a music so resolutely personal and uncommercial in nature that the label withdrew and destroyed the unsold copies. With full approval from VOF Heyboer and overseen by Lotti Heyboer, Rules Of The Universe draws from over seven hours of surviving archival tapes, restoring the cream of the CDR editions, supplementing it with a selection of previously unheard tracks, and ultimately offering a fresh reappraisal of a lesser-known but no less important field of creativity from one of the 20th Century’s most original artistic minds. Gatefold sleeve, fold-out color poster, edition of 500.
Hi-God People / Zond
(Spanish Magic - SM011) split LP $24.00
The Hi-God People side was recorded around the same time as their recent split 12-inch with fellow NZers The Dead C; it has live snippets from their show at The Palace supporting Sonic Youth and recordings from a radio 3CR session. Their live shows vary from cosmic rock jams to evolution performance art epics. Pop stars doing the tango with some psychedelic monk. Named after a satellite of the USSR, Melbourne Australia's Zond broadcast dark ecstasy from a place far below outer space, like a Rorschach blot or a Freudian analysis gone wrong. Their live shows vary from a screaming psychedelic car crash to ambient metal. With current and past members of On, Fong, Library Punks, Mum Smokes, Ned & the Meds, The Stabs. All covers are handmade (screenprints, stencils, hand carved stamps). Australian import.
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
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.
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 / LASSE MARHAUG / PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE / PIKA
Osaka Fortune
(Premier Sang - 007) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Osaka Fortune is the first studio record by the quartet of two drummers and two noisicians (one each from Norway and Japan). Hiroshige and Marhaug bring the screech, the former via three-and-half decades as guitarist and leader of infamous Hijokaidan, the latter having established himself as one of the most prolific and travel-ready Scandinavians of the past twenty years. Nilssen-Love has pounded for The Thing and Atomic, and collaborated with Peter Brötzmann, Mats Gustafsson and Ken Vandermark, while Pika has cracked it for Afrirampo and Acid Mother's Temple. Finally, a chain with no weak links. 350-gram vinyl. Edition of 400
Isolation Culture
(Maple Death Records - MDR011) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Twelve anti-hits by this tour-hardened, minimal noise-pop machine which features Jacopo Beta’s propulsive drumming, Giulia Mazza’s alien synthesizers, the commanding low thump of Nico Pasquini’s bass-playing, along with Jonathan Clancy’s trademark fidgeting guitar work and his usual stirring lyrical resolve. Isolation Culture is a record from another place: from a wormhole to a parallel universe where weathered Bowie statues pepper the abandoned city streets and Swell Maps is piped into empty runaway subway cars; maybe it’s the final psychedelic transmission from a radio station in flames, or it turned up on the lawn, delivered by an overnight tornado from somewhere that no longer exists. Curious sonic investigations, inspired compositions, late-night four-track experiments, all wrestled into its final form as succinct art-pop.
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.”
Beneath Triangle And Crescent
(Chondritic Sound - CH-271) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded under the crushing presence of opiates, Hive Mind’s earliest forays into both melody and industrial rhythmic elements drag, thud and shiver with a distinct energy inspired by 90s German and French heavy electronics like Dagda Mor, Inade, Derniere Volonte and Les Joyaux de la Princesse. Auto-melodic tones pair with crude, hand-hammered slews of notes while Greh Holger’s trademark synth-drone rumbles beneath like a kept beast. Each piece progresses to nastier and darker territory, erupting and collapsing at the end of the title track. Previously release by Fag Tapes in 2008. Edition of 400
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.
Sacred Fire b/w Ghost
(Spleencoffin - SP40) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Minimal, jagged guitar chords, saturated percussion, and the distinct voice of Heather Nicole Young (ex-Social Junk) on the A Side — all blanketed in controlled feedback sweeps and a generous supply of delay. On the flip, a more environmental piece with paired voices (one effected, one bone dry), field-like synth sounds, and a faint low-end pulse riding just below the surface. Edition of 300.
Listen to an excerpt from “Sacred Fire” here: https://soundcloud.com/spleencoffin/hny-sacred-fire-excerpt
Wary The Mind
(Amen Absen - AA003) LP $15.00
Processed feedback shifts between tape hiss, static, and muted drones. Intermittent signals of disintegrated sound seep in and recede. Sparseness. Hypnotic and glistening piano evolves into an electronic buzz accented by a raga-esque feedback swirl. Well-placed field recordings, with chimes, clatter and chattering, bring things to a gently decaying conclusion. Edition of 330.
How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away
(Pan - PAN92) LP picture disc $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
An audio landscape comprised of various historic riots, from the concert hall and music venue to the sounds of modern warfare. Presented in surround sound, the tumultuous panorama of over-layered riots relentlessly envelops. The NYC-based artist, editor and art curator has been working with sound and performance since 2003, and co-founded Primary Information, an organization devoted to publishing lost works of the avant-garde and artists' publications vital to discussions in contemporary artistic practice.
FREDERIKKE HOFFMEIER / SEWER ELECTION
Aska
(Ideal - 104) LP $13.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two side-long pieces of static, beautiful, crude experimental electro-acoustic noise filled with amazing laidback anger and aggression. No hope, no love. Edition of 250.
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
(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.
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 Autopsy
(Little Big Chief - LBCR012) LP $18.75 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded in the early 1980s, mixed by Butch Vig, the original private press album (released a mere thirty years before Little Big Chief’s reissue) came in hand-decorated jackets with a photocopied picture of the band glued to the front. In addition to producing a zine (Catholic Guilt), these students from UW Madison (Cyndee Baudhuin on bass, sax and backup vocals; drummer Julie Lindemann; Johnie “Pukeface” Shimon on guitar and vocals; Bob Wasserman on guitar, Farfisa, and vocals) embraced the amateurism of punk rock and pop culture, and rejected the cookie-cutter lyrics, nursery rhyme melodies and pummeling 3/4 beats of hardcore. Listen to their ramshackle yelp’n’grind here: http://www.mkepunk.com/releases/punk/hollywood-autopsy-st-lp/
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.
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.
Lost Decade II
(Chrome Peeler - CPR16) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Radical self-therapy intended to unravel various psychological conflicts and capture an ongoing spiritual implosion during the 1990s of Emil Amos, whose name is immediately recognized by fans of reliable heavyweights such as Om, Grails, Lilacs & Champagne. With an intimacy comparable to Daniel Johnston’s walkman tapes, the ritualistic attempts of our man to capture the rawest picture of human behavior are helped along by the ingestion of mescaline, which explains the eerie witchlike glow of this collection. With contributions from comedian Duncan Trussell. Clear vinyl. Edition of 500.
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.”
Clouds Across The Bay
(CMR) 7-inch (lathe cut) $10.00
Rough, textural, electronic sound by Mark Sadgrove of MHFS. Edition of 60
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
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
A Doorbell of Earbows for Brefix
(Goat Eater - KNVBI) LP $13.50
Grainy loop tracks, vocal tracks (which may or may not also be from tape), and surrealist music which isn't miles away from early Nurse With Wound. Richard Vergez (Drowning the Virgin Silence, Gray Girls, Mothersky), Duane Hosein (A Jealousy Issue, Hand Carved Gentleman, ex-Poison the Well). Brandon Samdahl (Mr Entertainment and the Pookie Smackers) and Anthony Mangicapra bathe the entire thing in foggy reverb and mysterious scratching and shifting, which pulls it all together. It makes sense only as a dream transcribed onto recording equipment. The A side contains material previously released on The Huntington Chapters three-inch CDR (Small-Doses) and the B side is all previously unreleased recordings from the same sessions. Mastered by James Plotkin. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
Nocturnes
(Vittelli) LP $30.00
The first solo vinyl outing after a decade of micro-edition cassettes and CDRs by this Australian sound-maker whose work will be familiar to fans of Vincent Over the Sink, The Bowles, Naked On The Vague, and Half High. Here he employs synth, cassettes, effects pedals, contact mic and random objects. Hypnotic, dramatic. Gray vinyl. Insert features texts of “listening events” written and assembled by the artist. Edition of 300.
MILH IHVH
(Turgid Animal - TA407) 7-inch $9.00
Two blackened noise mantras from North Carolina, based on the Notaricon "MI IOLH LNV HShMILH." Limited to 250 copies. Includes Horseback sticker.
Voltigeurs / Horseback
(Turgid Animal) split 10-inch $16.00
Emotionally Voided describes the Voltiguers tracks as a "hailstorm, a relentless screaming blast of freezing, scalding winds and scraped out dying melodies, a fucked-up torrent of cloudy vestige hoofing its way toward the end and catching everything in its path up in itself.... [Matthew] Bower and collaborator Samantha Davies (of Gyr/Harm) impart a wailing sort of sadness to this composition ... far distanced from the emotional hollowness of Skullflower ... making Voltigeurs a project with a much more expansive palette to draw from." Jenks Miller's Horseback, according to the same source (why not), "meld[s] ... desert-drenched emptiness with black metal's cold textures in an immensely focused way, yielding a sort of psychedelicized blackness that builds up a towering wall of unapproachability."
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
Musique Concrète Realizations Of Two Poems By Robert Creeley
(Beniffer Editions) 7-inch $11.80 (Out-of-stock)
Creeley readings of “The Pattern” and “Dimensions” (both dense with complicated meanings often running together, and difficult to set musically) taken in new directions by this American expat living in Canada who, subsequent to these 1968 recordings, would release material via the Opus One, Sound Of Pig, and Albany labels. The A-side is manipulated with speed change, splicing, direction change, and multitracking, while on the flip, Creeley’s narration occurs over and through the dense texture, his voice blending into a mangled and distorted free improvisation on cello and percussion. Screen-printed gatefold jacket. White vinyl. Edition of 300
Wilds
(Avant! - AV!032) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Within a web minimal electronics, Wes Russel’s signature rich baritone and unorthodox guitar, and Void Vision’s Shari Wallin’s synths, drum machines, and backing vocals, the second full-length from this Philadelphia-based post-industrial duo hints at EBM, neofolk, and tribal industrial. Having evolved from raw and gritty post-punk, they now cross territories between the electronic and organic, the harsh and beautiful.
Pale Fatal Sister
(Important - IMPREC210) 2xLP $22.00
Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, this musical evocation of memory and desire spreads over four sides, conjuring from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds. Heavier, more brooding, occult atmosphere than previously, if that's possible. Edition of 700
Robed in Verdigris
(Nashazphone - NP003) 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.
Work
(Hands In The Dark - HITD027) LP $16.25 (Out-of-stock)
De-tuned and home-made guitars form basic song structures; found objects, machinery, agricultural equipment and construction materials intermingle with field recordings of a remote farm in the French countryside (percussion from the bottom of a silage tank, village church bells, feedback loops of the ambient sound from the surrounding farm buildings). Charles Hayward (This Heat, Camberwell Now, etc.) describes the sound of the London-based group — Joseph Rafferty, David Moran, Sasha Evans and Lawrence Dodd — as “monochromatic surliness slowly warming up to a barely controlled anger, hypnotic and building from the simplest elements.” Includes free download. Edition of 500
Listen to “Docile Body” here: https://soundcloud.com/hitd-3/housewives-docile-body
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.
Jolly Jape
(Wormwood Grasshopper - WS08) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two ex-Hammering the Cramps members swapping out moody, seismological guitars for sweeping, flailing, droning keyboards, and their debut bounces along, stumbles and falls on the cleared path, simultaneously aligning it with a loaded lineage and shaking off the shackles. Conversational vocals only hint at a melody, reminiscent of Russell Walker’s work with the Pheromones and the Bomber Jackets. Occasionally a song splits wide open, as on “Just Like Honey, Pt. 2,” the added urgency of the ensemble revealing a whole new vaulted sky under which the band stands alone. Colored vinyl.
Verify it yourself here: https://soundcloud.com/wormwoodgrasshopper/howling-gruel-just-like-honey-pt-2?in=wormwoodgrasshopper/sets/howling-gruels-jolly-jape
Concepcion Huerta / Eve Matin
(Sploosh - SPLOOSH11) Split cassette $7.00
Damaged, pock-marked textures roll around inside oblong funnels on one side (Ms. Huerta uses tapes and contact microphones), while Ms. Matin on the flip grinds a harp into dark zones previously regarded as the exclusive domain of didgeridoos blown through the eye sockets of charred giraffe skulls. c48
Norse Fumigation
(Scratch And Sniff Entertainment - SNSE077) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Hum of the Druid's third LP for SNSE, full of depth and space and of very dark mood. Crunch and crackle so crisp and so sharp and on top of everything. Metal on metal. Sustained bass and cavernous drone that threatens to invert the air in the room. This is the sound of modern industrial collapsing, collapsing. With insert. Edition of 300. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2010.
Raising the New Wing / Braided Industry
(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.
Human Inferno / Lasse Marhaug
(Sonmoi) split LP $12.00
Marhaug has all kinds of sounds working for him in a very unfriendly way; a piano, humans, a chair, somebody’s wife, junk found in the street, a reactor of some sort marked #23. Human Inferno, a resident, sings of the strange emotions connected to his brother's death. The intensity is overwhelming. Colored vinyl in a printed polyvinyl bag.
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
Nomad Souls - Tribal Warning Shot - The Harvest
(S/M Operations) 3xLP $45.00
Nomad Souls LP was released when Hunting Lodge was nearing the peak of its fertile tribal period (S/M Operations, 1984). The four-track Tribal Warning Shot EP was released early 1985, also on S/M Operations. A remixed version of the title track (with drums added for Normal Records’ edition from the same year) appears here. A new remix of the 1983 seven-inch “Night From Night” b/w “Untitled” is included, along with two compilation tracks and one previously unreleased track. All tracks here from the 1984 cassette The Harvest have not appeared on LP before; recorded live in Chicago and in Detroit, where Roselle Williams sings with the band on “The Wolf Hour.” Two previously unreleased Harvest tracks are also included.
Shadows Out of Time 1982-1983
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD78) 3xLP + 7-inch $90.00 (Out-of-stock)
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Unreleased and formerly cassette-only dark ambient, noise, and power electronics. One LP is comprised of the Exhumed cassette (Datenverarbeitung 1983), direct-metal mastered from the original two-track mixes. The second LP is all unreleased material, highlights of which include recordings for the 1982 promotional cassette 23 Minutes Of Murder, and electro-disco-techno recordings used for intermission music at Hunting Lodge live shows in 1983. The final LP contains live material from At The Harrington Ballroom cassette (S/M Operations 1982), S/M Operations Live cassette (S/M Operations 1983), and the previously unreleased (not counting boots) Live At The Lodge, pressed direct from the original masters, representing the two-piece early noise-unit of Hunting Lodge in harrowing live intensity. On the seven-inch are a studio version of John Wright's “Stellazine Shuffle” and “Learn to Will II,” previously released on Beast 666 cassette compilation (Nekrophile Rekords 1983). Artwork by Thomas Nordstrom, previously seen on early Hunting Lodge stationery. Liner notes by Jeff "Central" Chenault, recording details, never-before-seen live photos of the band.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Madison's Fence
(BloodLust! - B!158) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Magisterial, sombre, and menacing analog synthesizer compositions from one-third of Twodeadsluts Onegoodfuck that exist in a completely different reality. Using early-1980s vintage gear, such as the Korg Mono/Poly and the Roland Juno 6, combining their classic synth sounds with contemporary modular gear, such as the Flower Electronics Original Synthesizer, Hydeman also seamlessly weaves guitar, effects and electronics into tense soundscapes.
Han Dynasty 1
(Destijl - IND077) 7-inch $6.50 (Out-of-stock)
Hype Williams is an eighteen-year "relay project" conceived in 2005 by husband and wife motivational speakers Father Ronnie Krayola and Denna Frances Glass. Every three years it gets passed on to someone else to "look after." Recordings from the first three years were stuffed into a pinata and will be released at the conclusion of the project. In May 2008 it was passed on to a heckler called Roy Bundy (Paradise Sisters) who, along with Karen Glass and Bahaama Moutchaka (Arch M) have released numerous CDRs through the Ceylan Projects gallery in London. They have a large rotating cast of deviants they play with live under the moniker Bo Khat Eternal Troof Family Band.
Untitled
(Carnivals - CAR002) LP $18.75 (Out-of-stock)
Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland transmit their vision of a self-contained plane, seamed by an index of long-distance keyboard glaze, rent-a-car night coasters through programmed and screwed constructs of songs, musical absurdities and free, lifted improv jams. Thirty-five minutes that embrace the crud and sheen of mainstream components, and trades pound for pound with no-zone freedom. Second edition of 500.
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.
Aristokrat
(Järtecknet - 28) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
The Stockholm-based artist Henrik Söderström has always had a distinct sound, with a rudimentary feel. The rugged, lo-fi tape sound if earlier releases is present, but Aristokrat has a more coherent and balanced structure, with tape loops remaining prominent though blended with analogue synths. The six tracks on Aristokrat move on slowly, without progressing into climaxes, accompanied with the sound of deteriorating electronics. Edition of 300.
A Högwind Christmas
(Expulsion) 2xLP $25.00
Pour yourself a mug of hot-dog-water nog and toss another rat carcass on the fire — Christmas is back in style. And to herald the return of this obscure underappreciated holiday, a new generation gets old and in the way, just like their ancestors did, blaarting carols under the godless stars when everyone else just wants to get drunk and pass out. With Högwind as your abnormal yuletide mariachists, every night of the year can now be the longest one, for you, for your family and friends, for anyone within earshot. You’ll forget about the “war on Christmas” when Christmas itself is the standard-issue neurocysticercotic weapon of choice. Two platters of gloriously sour mush, off-brand screech, and harmonic gorkings way past their expiration dates — the perfect psychological immunization for a fevered take-over: “Here Comes Santa In A UFO,” “Glue Christmas,” “Jesus Was A Zygote,” “Christmas From Beneath The Earth’s Crust” and fifteen other interminable classics. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 200.
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
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.”
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.
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.”
Beauty School
(Ultra Eczema - UE70) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Beautiful carpets of radio bleebs and static, piano by trained pianiste Karla Borecki, and almost kraut-like synth ambience by this under-appreciated collective led by the singular Scott Foust. Mono colored jacket by Dennis Tyfus full of dots, and comes with an insert. Limited to 300 copies
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.
Music From The Impossible Salon
(Kye - KYE10) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Positioned on the frontline in the ageless battle for aesthetic purity, Scott Foust and Karla Borecky's minimal yet striking gestures in eight elegant settings variously combine piano, synth, radio, trombone, organ, gong and voice. Music From The Impossible Salon is a dusky pleasure center where jaded listeners can find discreet interruption from the horrors of the day. Numbered edition of 300.
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
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
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.
Where Is The Logic?
(DooDoo Product) LP $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
“This rather cunning disk [lives] up to its handsome 'born without a buthhole' graphics…,” says Byron Coley about this late-’80s mini-LP, “[T]hese Bay Area wiseacres first impress you as post-college Pucks bounding through your living room wearing dumb hats and ass-feathers, but they end up coming across as cagey stylistic cross-dressers. Their ability to wing from the dizzily psychedelic, Can-oid pop-smub of 'Adrenalin' to the dunky Leaving-Trains-if-they-were-on-Flying-Nun puh of 'Walking with Big Steps' is quite commendable.”
15 More Tapes
(Misanthropic Agenda - MAR033) LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)
A suite of fifteen short pieces, very different in character and dynamics, edited from improvisations on various tape machines. Recorded 2009, edited, recomposed and mastered summer 2011. Artwork by Alessandro Brivio. Edition of 90.
Kenrimono
(Pan - PAN4) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Named after a type of pachinko machine for advanced players which gives certain privileges during the course of a high-risk game, this LP is based, not surprisingly, on field recordings and manipulations made from sounds in pachinko parlors in Kansai area, Japan in 2007. A very intense and meditative atmosphere to be played at maximum volume. Active since the early '90s in sound art and image, Ilios has been exploring the extremes of sound and image-derived phenomena. Through constant change in his sound palette, touching and surpassing the limits of the sound spectrum, a better advocate for an anti-career you could not find. Limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, in jacket and a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve.
Dark Summer
(Ilitchmusic) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dark guitar music from Thierry Muller with a strong impending doom vibe. Distortion, feedback, samples, and raw improvisations using guitar and / or bass, recorded on the first or second take. Edition of 250.
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.
Sedation and Quell
(Crippled Intellect Productions - CIP021) 10-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Electronic synthesis, computer composition and manipulation, musical reference, and close microphone recording by Dan Burke. Side one is a pleasantly dense with an old typewriter, turntable pops/crackles, and shortwave radio interference topped by subtle frequency and oscillation tweaks. Side two counterbalances and wavers through numerous delicate swimming tones, eventually subdued by a listing rhythmic faction suffused with other surprises. Edition of 500.
Tone
(Ini Itu - 1502) LP $20.00
Using radio, paper, tapes, debris and other objects, the experimental approach of this Japanese sound artist repeats the dismantling, rebuilding, amplification and modulation of tiny sounds throughout seven tracks of delicate and circular meanderings. In Imanishi’s restrained and autumnal ambiance, sounds emerge from nothingness and soon return to it. Evanescent tones display a melancholic sensibility, rooted in the Japanese concepts of wabi-sabi and mono no aware. Calm, austere and enigmatic, this record reminds us that beauty can emerge from ugliness. Edition of 250 with insert.
Vorwärts b/w Tanzen
(Meeuw Muzak - 038) 7-inch $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two ear-jingling, primeval drumtasms: a jerry-rigged version of the Chris Montez classic backed with an original “sci-fi romanticist socialist anthem.” Kinetic energy, a chugging beat, and waves of delayed gratification. Classic trembling Teutonic disco-punk, in other words. Imler, infamously involved in Spankings and Golden Showers (the groups, not the deviant sexual practices) has also worked with Puppet Mastaz, Peaches, Namosh, Electronicat, Patric Catani (as the Driver&Driver duo), Soffy O, Die Türen and Stereo Total. Edition of 450.
Pretty Totally
(Unwucht - UN02) LP $16.00
After recording their first record, Sounds of Nature (Trd W/D, 1999) as a duo, Impractical Cockpit became a trio, deeply intensified their dynamics, and moved to New Orleans. In full tripod mode, they cranked out infamous ninety-minute live sets, dragging the irregular out of the standard bass-drums-guitar lineup. Their wide open soul-suck sound mixes a retro-boozled howl with the ack ack attack of negative creeps such as Flipper. Their unique punch drunk logic ping-pongs its way through the echo tank and your flimsy human skull. Re-mastered in 2010, first time on vinyl. Packaged in jackets recycled from German thrift shops. Edition of 295.
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
Frampton Comes Alive
(La Scie Dorée - SCIE1012) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Minimal and modal keyboards,” observes the observant Volcanic Tongue about Christoph Heemann and Timo Van Luijk’s new studio recordings from a VPRO radio session and previously unreleased tracks, “somewhere between the evocative ritual of Hermann Nitsch and the whole Canterbury sound, combining aspects of progressive rock with devotional drone…. [S]unken field recordings [make] the recording feel more like an environment you can actually explore than simply a piece of unfolding music…. A major work … that combines diary, monumental sound work, free improvisation and subtle poetics.” Edition of 400
Rumours
(Dom Bartwuchs - DOMBW08) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Heemann remains one of the premier European drone thinkers,” reminds our friends at Volcanic Tongue, “with a feel for space and place and for the precise workings of memory…. [Van Luijk has been moving toward] “a synthesis of improvised music, avant classical drones and filmic soundworks, and [Rumours] successfully blends those concerns with a slowly unraveling setting for heavenly drone works and small instrument interventions. There are aspects of the more ‘fantastical’ Organum settings, even Nurse With Wound’s Soliloquy For Lilith, but with a darker European ancient / future feel. Beneath the enveloping drone, odd, nagging melodies appear, like vague memories or barely construed shadows….”
Disrupting The Routines Of Life b/w Inquietude
(Tulpa) split LP $8.00
Energetic free jazz from the early 1990s by Mike Murray on guitar, Randall Colbourne on drums, and Stephen G. Scholz on violin. Plain white jacket with centerhole. Edition of 300.
Barry White Comes
(Spleencoffin - SP41) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first new LP since 1999 by UK lo-fi underground veterans Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations, Dogliveroil) and Joincey (Wagstaff, Dogliveroil) — notorious for incredibly short songs (typically two to thirty seconds of improv on cheap and broken instruments and pre-composed nonsensical lyrics) with verbose and frequently idiotic titles. Eighty-three tracks, individually banded. Classic, poorly recorded ineptitude.
Hear excerpts from Side A here: https://soundcloud.com/spleencoffin/inca-eyeball-barry-white-comes-excerpts
INCAPACITANTS / IN SPITE OF FLAMING CREATURES
Vitamin Buckfast
(Starlight Furniture Company - *15) LP $14.00 (Out-of-stock)
Incapacitants began as Toshiji Mikawa’s solo project in 1981 when a homemade noisemaking device called The Mikawa was his prime instrument; it evolved to incorporate various concrete sounds, until Fumio Kosakai joined and the duo began favoring ring modulators and heavily processed Theremins. Incapacitants has always been about “creating pure noise without any abstract musical expression whatsoever.” Everything known about the reclusive Abdul Squeerter of (In Spite of Flaming Creatures) has passed through the conduit of Dylan Nyoukis (Blood Stereo and the Chocolate Monk label). Apparently uninterested in networking, touring, trading CDRs, appearing on compilations, granting interviews, replying to letters, engaging in any sort of self-promotion, or taking part in the glamorous razzle-dazzle available to all experimental musicians worldwide, Squeerter prefers the solitude of where ever he calls home in the United Kingdom. The recordings on Vitamin Buckfast are the product of a mail collaboration committed to tape in the mid-’90s and then simply ignored for several years. Dora Doll of Decaer Pinga makes a guest appearance on vocals, but good luck determining exactly where. Cover art by Karen Constance
Wreck (In 2 Parts)
(P-Tapes - P30) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
A collaboration tribute to / parody of the Organum & The New Blockaders' classic Wrack 12-inch courtesy of Los Angeles noisemaker Damion Romero and Japanese ear-destroyers Incapacitants. Clear vinyl.
INFINITE LIGHT / VIBRACATHEDRAL ORCHESTRA
Infinite Light / Vibracathedral Orchestra
(Krayon Recordings - KR013) split 7-inch $8.25
VCO drops straight into a heads-down, fully tranced narco-dust trail, with guitar-born fireflies leading the way through a never-changing backdrop heat haze of low-lying smoke-mist and earth-veined throb. Tweets and rattlesnake percussion join mystic keyboard spirits blowing in a weightless drift. The first cut from Infinite Light is a section lifted from a show featuring Barry Dean on guitar, Mick Flower on guitar and organ and Pete Nolan jamming the traps, and its a full, free-rock, psych-out captured through a heavy veil of no-fi smog. Part two wraps solo harmonic guitar vignettes around a falsetto vocal cadence fluctuating at the point of saturation.
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.
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.
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.
Passin’ Time
(Hot Releases) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Home-recorded folk music by the amazing Todd Emmert, with air-organ, keyboards, percussion, ukelele, strum-stick, and tambourine added to the acoustic guitar-based songs recorded in 2011. The cover art was done in the airport for the most part while waiting for a plane to Maine.
Rainy Day Saints
(Emmert) 7-inch $7.00
A magnificent self-released 7-inch by one of the South's most stunning visionaries, Todd Wesley Emmert, whose motto is "Misinterpreting the Scriptures Since 1973." Recorded during a thunderstorm in June 2002, Inspector 22 takes a rightful seat at the table with Jandek, Daniel Johnston and Lisa Suckdog. In hand-colored sleeves, with two inserts, all adorned with Emmert's eyeball-teasing artwork.
Ger Til Tyne / Further Into The Arms Of Nature
(Legion Blotan) split 7-inch $8.75
Two sides of ancient heathen black metal from the north and from the south of the land now known as England. Edition of 250.
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.
INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOACOUSTICS AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC
50 Years Of Electronic And Electroacoustic Music At The Ghent University
(Metaphon - 004) 2xCD $45.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Metaphon - 004) 3xLP + 2xCD $120.00 (Out-of-stock)
Haunting experimental recordings made at Belgium’s IPEM, mastered from original tapes, spanning unearthly electro-acoustic, drone and concrète compositions recorded between 1958 and 1999 and “distinguished by a certain gothic or dark mittel European sensibility” that really pushes the buttons of our friends at Boomkat. Eighteen mostly unreleased tracks by Lucien Goethals, Didier Gazelle, Louis De Meester, David Van de Woestijne, Stefan Beyst, Helmut Lachenmann, Boudewijn Buckinx, Karel Goeyvaerts, Emmanuel Van Weerst, Peter Beyls, Raoul De Smet, Frank Nuyts, Ricardo Mandolini, Peter Schuback, Stephen Montague and Yves Knockaert. In Dutch and English, the 88-page LP-sized book offers in-depth history, photos, and essays by alumni and professors on the development and contributions of this lesser known counterpart to the esteemed GRM, Studio Für Elektronische Musik, or Studio di Fonologia Musicale. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2013
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.
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.”
Hypothetical Tardigrade Resurrection #1
(Somnimage - som10013) split 7-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Wonderful weird noise and dark ambiance from Nurse With Wound collaborator M. Waldron and Allan Zane's Wyrm. White vinyl.
Prey For Me I-V
(RRRecords) 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
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.
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
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
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.
Is The Belly / In The Belly
(Gilgongo) LP $15.00
In this old fashioned jam session by Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia (Smegma, The Tenses), Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper (MSHR), Chiara Giovando (Harrius), Johannes Lund and Tobias Kirtstein, fluttering alto sax and calm, staccato trumpet slowly spelunk toward a center where organ, voice, homemade synth, radio, and percussion blend and find their way back to the nervous outer world. They converge with strange but riveting vocals, slide guitar and skipping record, mingled with the sounds of dinosaurs canoodling. Song forms rise and fall back against the river-like surface tension: a roaring tale is told, then slowly fades away to nothingness.
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.
No Strength Of Sun
(Yerevan Tapes - YER021) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Journeys through imaginary northern landscapes by one half of Dard Å Ranj Från Det Hebbershålska Samfundet, who juxtaposes ethereal melodies with noisier passages, underwater lullabies and dungeon-like abstractions. Edition of 250
IUGULA THOR / SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS
Performance Ranges
(Self Abuse - SAR13) split 7-inch $10.00
Power electronics from Italy. Gray marbled vinyl.
Daylight Moon
(Siltbreeze - SB183) LP $15.00
The first outing by this some-time member of Maher Shalal Hash Baz since his debut Drowning In The Sky (Org, 1999). His roots, style and fluidity harken back to the Kichijoji Minor days of late seventies Tokyo underground. For fans of Kousokuya, Hallelujahs, PSF, Org.
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
Cross Pollinate
(Imp - IMP25) LP $25.00
Their second LP released in 1995. A schizophrenic mix of psychedelic guitar, country slide guitar and free improvisation, as if Jimi Hendrix was playing Hank Williams backed by the Swell Maps. Spray-painted cover, inserts, and wrap-around outer info sheet.
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
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.”
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.
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.
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.
On The Way
(Corwood) LP $60.00 (Out-of-stock)
Number seventeen in the canon, released in 1988. “Working within blues-rock realms,” notes Byree Colon, “this one features ‘real’ drums, bass, dual electric guitars, a possible guest vocalist on some tracks…. ‘I’ll Sit Alone and Think A Lot About You’ isn’t far from Skip Spence-like detachment. The most varied and easily-accessed Corwoodian brain-scrambler in a while....” Sealed
Ready For The House
(Jackpot - CORWOOD 0739) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Beyond stark, beyond oblique, beyond outsider, the first Jandek LP (credited to The Units when it was originally released in 1978) explores musical territories no one knew existed, with just a hollowed-out voice and a lonely, detuned guitar. 2008 reissue of this peculiar, solitary, and strangely magnetic masterpiece.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pull Me Back b/w Evil Windows
(Sophomore Lounge - SL057) 7-inch $8.25 (Out-of-stock)
On an old, beat-up parlor guitar that can barely hold a tune, Evan Patterson (Bad Secrets, Young Widows) chews into the fruits of loner-psych and stripped-down drunken desert blues. Cloudy synthetic atmospheres, minimal percussion and improvised electronics courtesy of members of Sapat, Black Cross. Edition of 300.
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.
The Last Great Challenge In A Dull World
(Destijl - IND123) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
This second vinyl reissue of the debut solo cassette (Xpressway 1990) includes tracks from “The Fate of the Human Carbine” seven-inch (Ajax 1989). It stands as one of the singular singer-songwriter albums of all time, on a sparsely populated plane with Pink Moon, Blues Run the Game, and Our Mother the Mountain. In a sandy voice that soothes and slashes, Jefferies offers a piercingly, crushingly lucid view of the endeavor of life, all our pain and small glories rendered in tones both harrowing and tender. On piano, drums and percussion, he pounds out melodies that roar, sweep and lilt, accompanied on many songs by the serrated guitars of a variety of players — all three members of the Dead C, David Mitchell (3Ds), Alastair Galbraith, Kathy Bull (Look Blue Go Purple, Cyclops), Nigel Taylor and Robbie Muir.
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.
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.
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.
Room 8 b/w Swingin' Vine
(Destijl - IND078) 7-inch $6.50 (Out-of-stock)
This duo (sometimes augmented) plays unfashionable, unpretentious and completely devastating pop music, though there is scant evidence -- a handful of impossibly rare cassettes and a split LP with Skarkraou Radio, and The Howling LP (Radio Fonico). With a vibe that sounds like the third Velvet Underground LP played by The Terminals, a righteous guitar tone any stoner rock Chud would envy, and catchy, infectious tunes (with a recent emphasis on country melodies) that will stay in your head for weeks.
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
JETT HOTCOMB AND THE TALENTED HAIRDOS
Give Us This Day Our Swingin' Bread
(Butte County Free Music Society - 31) 7-inch (one-sided) $8.00
Homemade Christian lounge music from the late ’70s, previously available as a free cassette (self-released via the Jett 3:16 label) for guests at a now-defunct rural motel in Butte County. Two tracks with a full band ("Jesus Digs Me" and "The Lord's Prayer") and two recorded a cappella in the shower ("Live and Let Die" and "Shampoo Bottle"). Includes reproductions of four period handbills and business cards, as well as a Butte County Free Music Society pink flamingo swizzle stick. Edition of 200.
Teenage Fantasy 1987-88
(Harbinger Sound - 071) 2xLP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
It’s an entire day for pilfering insights from our friends at Volcanic Tongue — do try to keep up, there’s a good lad. This “[m]assively potent retrospective collection of early work by Anthony Di Franco of Ramleh … bundles the Il Pach Preserve and Woelf cassettes (Broken Flag 1987 and 1988) with two previously unreleased tracks and a track from the Inna Inner Amen cassette (Sound of Pig 1988). Like the early Total and Skullflower sides, JfK seem deformed by the first wave of avant rock coming out of the USA post-Sonic Youth but with an intense / ecstatic industrial overload…. [C]ombinations of lightning strikes of bass, chainsaw fuzz, pugilistic a-temporal drum machine assaults and warped, urgent vocals – think Suicide, Chrome, the opening chords of ‘Iron Man,’ all reduced to insane gravities of electricity.”
Southern Lights
(Hands In The Dark) LP $14.00 (Out-of-stock)
Escapist tropical futurism by Olivier Scalia, whose five lengthy compositions, recorded in Marseille, meander through the mind’s private lagoons and get lost in the glisten of sunlight refracting off the sloshing, choppy waves. The perfect soundtrack to post-summer spleen under the threatening, cloudy September sky.
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
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
(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.
Solar Music at Sierksdorf, Ostsee
(Edition Telemark - 314.08) LP $36.00 (Out-of-stock)
Performed and recorded early morning April 1, 1984, on a beach at the Baltic Sea, originally released as a tape in an edition of 15 (Edition Hundertmark 1984). The 2001 CD reissue by ? Records omitted the seven photo prints of the original tape edition; Edition Telemark’s edition reproduces them for the first time. Gatefold PVC sleeve. Edition of 200
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
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.
33 Chatsworth Road
(Alt.Vinyl - AV062) 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Four tunes based on personal field recordings made across Africa and South-East Asia, arranged for solo electric guitar — a preview of an upcoming collaborative album between Joynes and Dead Rat Orchestra, which features ensemble arrangements of these pieces alongside other material also sourced from field recordings. Edition of 250
JU SUK REET MEATE / SILVIA KASTEL / NINNI MORGIA
Le Puss Puss
(Alt.Vinyl - AV047) LP $22.50
I visitatori penetrate deep US underground culture, locate The Perfect Vibe (old B-movies, sci-fi memorabilia, monuments to trash rock’n’roll, giant mutant cats, loops of The Three Stooges playing on a small TV) and depart with an exit visa stamped with exotica from outer space, 50s tweed amps, upright bass, trumpet, various percussion, all kinds of weird toys.
Solo 1975-1980
(Alga Marghen - plana-J 19TES.153) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
Previously unreleased recordings by founding member of Smegma and one half of The Tenses. Hammered dulcimer, tape loops, thrift store records, homemade synthesizer, electric guitar, saxophone, mouth sounds, and manipulated Christian radio broadcasts. Numbered edition of 188.
April / June
(Rococo - RCC021) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
April/June was recorded in two different sessions at Julie Mittens’ rehearsal room in the first part of 2006 in Leiden, Netherlands. For this cyclical work (round like an LP) there's no side A or B. Begin and conclude where you please. The tracks do not really start or end and seem to add to each other after a while. Although it feels like a relaxed ride at times, April/June was recorded at intense volume levels. Limited to 325 copies.
Presents: Balls Boogie Featuring: Me and Bobby McGee Plus!: Kentucky Whore and Many Others
(Pro-Am Entainment - PA871) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Formed in 1994, christened by San Francisco’s Zip Code Rapists, these Canadian curiosities recorded their second album despite an astounding array of obstacles. “Most second albums are disappointing,” says frontman Robert Dayton, “So I figured, let’s make the most amazing disappointing second album ever.” Loosely based on a slab of vinyl from the plaid mists of Canadian history called Up, Up, And Away by The Generation Gap, it veers from the cosmic to the personal, from bent, Black-Oak-Arkansas-inspired southern boogie glam (with G-Funk-style keyboards), to emotive, expressive, exploratory visions in sound, ending with a lush, warm ballad about a little baby. An in-progress substance abuse wake-up call foreshadow, anyone? Includes booklet with art by July Fourth Toilet members and collaborators Jason Mclean, Owen Plummer, Mark Delong, Julian Lawrence, Clancy Dennehy, jody franklin, Robert Dayton. With free download coupon. Edition of 500.
Theatre of the Macabre
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD1) 7-inch $7.25 (Out-of-stock)
A precarious concept album for the tragic era of the working poor that generated some priceless flailing among the chattering class, but Detailed Twang seem to have the levelest head when they describe it as “Strange and pleasingly ill-fit mash of distorted horror rap, electronic tweedling, screams, monsters sound, and manipulations of all sorts. Mostly instrumental, and heavy in every sense of the word.” Six tracks over and done with in less than ten minutes. For crying bones and bludgeoned hopes.
Big Time Crash Bang 2008
(RRRecords) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Nothing but the sound of car crashes, all mangled up as only Jupitter-Larsen can do it. Tires squealing, glass shattering, metal crunching. Wrecked, totaled, quite possibly the perfect noise album.
G.X. JUPITTER-LARSEN / MUENNICH
Die Arbeiter von Wien
(Fragment Factory - FRAG19) 7-inch $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
The third part in Jupitter-Larsen's series of old trade union / battle songs follows Internationale (Banned Production 2010) and Solidarity CD (Banned Production 2010). Written by the Viennese lyricist and essayist Fritz Brügel, presumably in the late 1920s, this piece deals with the events during the so-called "July Revolt" in the capital of Austria on July 15, 1927, caused by a court verdict which acquitted three members of the right-wing Frontkämpfervereinigung Deutsch-Österreichs (the same persons were responsible for the death of a man and an eight-year-old the same year). The palace of justice went up in flames, at least eighty demonstrators were shot dead by the police, more than six-hundred people were injured. The stage was set for a fascist takeover in Austria. Jupitter-Larsen's two renditions are crude, P.E.-ish, vocal-heavy. One side with the original German lyrics, one side with the lyrics translated into English. Double-sided full-color sleeve, lyrics included. Edition of 250.
Empty Holes, Empty Homes
(Blossoming Noise) Paperback book + Flexi $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sixth book from the most popular Hater is an amathopaedia of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and cryptograms, printed and perfect bound using traditional offset methods with recycled inks and fine recycled papers. Edition of 400.
G.X. JUPITTER-LARSEN / FRANCISCO LOPEZ
Francisco Lopez with GX Jupitter-Larsen
(Phage) 10-inch $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Collaboration by two masters, each side by one working with source material provided by the other. Edition of 500.
Pump-Powered Permawave
(Oxen) 10-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Entropic noise by the hating Hater and his pump-powered suitcase noise device. Four tracks and a couple locked grooves for your pleasure. Orange vinyl. Edition of 200.
G.X. JUPITTER-LARSEN / NEW BLOCKADERS / JOHN WIESE
Rip Off
(Helicopter - H60) 7-inch $12.75
Collaboration from 2011 exclusively using the sounds of tearing paper. Edition of 150.
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
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.
Life Is Murder
(Sophomore Lounge - SL058) LP $13.00 (Out-of-stock)
With help from Mike Geacone on bass and Biss Mess’s Nick Egersheim on drums, Bostonian Carl Shane’s alter ego Kal Marks evolved from a variety of outsider / freak pop familiar to fans of Daniel Johnston, Devendra Banhart, Espers, into downright crushing, well-crafted, on-fire indie rock. Life is Murder is the culmination of all things good in contemporary pop songwriting — the darkness, wit, and cosmic charm of a 20-something on the verge of erupting.
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
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
Sistinas Sanguis
(Chondritic Sound - CH-257) LP (one-sided) $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Erik Proft (of Believer/Law) and Matt Knoedelseder’s industrial sound and ritual unit. Their sound is brutal and animalistic, but also ethereal, a miasma creeping down from the astral plane and into the back walls of consciousness. Named after the ghost of a person’s most animalistic desires (an intermediate “spook” stage between physical death and the afterlife), Kama Rupa tie together threads of industrial, noise, EBM, and dark ambient into a dense knot that is satisfying to unravel. Includes download card. 180g vinyl. Edition of 260
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.
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
Fucking
(RRRecords - RRRKARL) LP picture disc $15.00
Synth noise and effects with incomprehensible vocals, as evolved from earlier efforts involving tape manipulations, junk instruments, classical samples.
Solo Acoustic Volume Six
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ6) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Four-string minimal symphonies for the gray side of America. Starkly melodic nighttime instrumentals. Edition of 200.
WATARU KASAHARA / KIYOHARU KUWAYAMA / LUDO MICH
Les Archives de l’Univers Amnesique Illustre
(Discombobulate) LP $22.00
This new pairing of minds and techniques on a steel-grey voyage across the treacherous Ifingr river is a brief, slo-mo moment of calm, the drunken grasp for a banister before the crash of brittle chin on concrete steps. Recurring metallic hisses are overlaid with saw-tooth waves sourced from MP3s buried in the garden over a harsh winter. When the ducks loosen phlegm they shit silver dollars. Presently contact mics are attached to submarine hulls somewhere in an undersea canyon and closing the eyes opens up new patterns of pressure-roses blooming red, orange, red. Lethe’s master of resonant spaces and junk objects Kuwayama holds the reins over three chapters of spiraling horror and madness. Sounds are coaxed out ashamed and blushing: the syphilitic cough, the cracked shin bone and the greasy sheen of night sweats wired up to a nine-volt battery. Embudagonn’s mysterious masked man Kasahara adds stewed tape manipulation with brush strokes that hint at a moody Goya and his bleak Pinturas negras. Specter and godfather to the NorEuro heek-a-freek underground Mich adds an ass-hiss, a stain, a pursed lip smacking to the junkyard rumble. With inserts by each artist. White vinyl. Edition of 200
39
(Phase! - PHR125) LP (one-sided) $16.25 (Out-of-stock)
The first volume in Phase! Records’ Bedroom Solitary series is a numb-feel exploration of isolation and singularity through space and darkness. Neuter beats, crawling vibratos, synesthetic repetitions and robotic ambiances form a two-piece electronic work, a hymn to the loneliness of the artistic existence. The title track features synthetic chatter on Dylan Thomas’s “Poem 39,” while “Subtract” flirts with disorientation through distortion and low sparse kicks. Edition of 99
SILVIA KASTEL / NINNI MORGIA / GARY SMITH
Brand
(Ultramarine - UM012) LP $18.00
Heavyweight improviser, stereo guitar pioneer, and Aufgehoben guitarist Gary Smith has you covered in the multiple layering, complex grainy textures, dense counterpoint, influences of birdsong department. Fused with this is the guitar of free improv innovator Ninni Morgia, which floats between minimal movements of primordial electronics, pre-war slide blues and Hendrix-esque feedback. La Barbara and Torchia protégé Silvia Kastel’s moaning, screaming and howling alternates with her delayed, bubbling, glitchy or round bass synth. It’s a dense sound for three people -- not just visceral and intense, but articulate and defined, and in some instances very delicate. It’s got the deep taste of fearlessness of tempo, pulse, more conventional musical devices, or pushing to unpredictable extremes. Includes free download card. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2012
SILVIA KASTEL / NINNI MORGIA / GARY SMITH
Brand II
(l’Esprit de l’Escalier - LELE03) LP $20.00
Free improv by two guitarists renowned for their extended technique work and consistently inventive experimentation, and female electronics vocalist who explores the outer reaches of the voice. Seven rustling matches of self-containment, as if imprisoned inside a Styrofoam-insulated sleeping bag. Electro-chitters and micro-fweent form semi-transparent mosaics on top of the high-res screech of glass tchochtkes melting from the inside out, nth generation birdsong bending in on itself along an event horizon, color-blocked abstractions of mechanical squirrels playing a kalimba, and wolf fetuses horking into a trumpet. With master percussionist sound sculptor Marcello Magliocchi. Includes insert. Edition of 175
SILVIA KASTEL / KOMMISSAR HJULER / MAMA BÄR / NINNI MORGIA
Live In Edinburgh
(Ricerca Sonora - RS4) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
The two-part “Jericho” uses a backing tape group-prerecorded in a big theater-like room, a version of the lyrics spoken live onstage, and Mama Bär’s video projections of the four standing against a wall. Hjuler manipulates tape, Mama Bär and Kastel sing the lyrics, Morgia bends, buffs and brushes guitar, and Kastel’s synthesizer growls from within the monster’s belly. Tension, discomfort, love, pain, theater, music, art -- four people immolating themselves for the cause. Silkscreened sleeve. Edition of 200
Take It
(Ultramarine - UM015) 7-inch $15.00
Triple Silvia on voice, mutant beats, synths, tape echo, working the early Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA and dub influences, delivering some much-needed anguish, agony, and paranoia against today's fun-at-all-costs shit. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 100.
SILVIA KASTEL / KOMMISSAR HJULER / MAMA BÄR / NINNI MORGIA
Two Couples
(Ultramarine - UM008) LP $25.00
A fusion of musique concrete, avant-garde, tropical psychedelia, moaning, screaming, free jazz and lots of raw synths recorded by German NO!artists / performers in collaboration with Italian musicians Ninni Morgia (guitar) and Silvia Kastel (synth and voice). Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Baer are known for their provocative and extreme neo-dada. Ninni Morgia moves in NYC’s improv and free jazz circles, has been heard in psychedelic rock outfit La Otracina, and started the noise rock band White Tornado. Silvia Kastel has studied sound engineering, electronic music, and singing (with Lee Torchia and Joan La Barbara). All four killed it on a UK tour, where they played and recorded at historical sound poetry venue The Morden Tower in Newcastle. Edition of 300. "Tropical... screaming... sounds good. I totally need an eleventh record from these nuts." --Darksmith. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2011
The Mad Guitar Sings
(Black Petal - 1201) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first solo studio recording to ever be released by this member of Miminokoto, New Rock Syndicate, Los Doroncos (with Doronco of Les Rallizes Denudes), Aihiyo (with Keiji Haino), LSD March, and Broomdusters is a dark solitary take on the signature sound of one of the greats of modern Japanese psychedelic rock: late-night / early-morning comedown blues and black, luminescent storm-song. Kawaguchi Masami’s voice is the true updating of the enka tradition: no rehash or nostalgia, just the bleak, lonesome heart that runs through enka’s core.
KAWAGUCHI MASAMI’S NEW ROCK SYNDICATE
Cat vs. Frog
(Palindrone - PAL02) LP $16.00
Exceptional wailing and burning garage psych-rock grounded in heart-breaking, melancholic intensity are guitar monster Kawaguchi’s trademarks; bassist Akira Kikuchi and drummer Nao Shibata (Hijokaidan, Doodles) are primo enablers. Forty minutes of instantly hummable, head-nodding, toe-tapping riffs and melodies, and unavoidable white-light-white-heat guitar solos by this trio of vets from PSF’s Tokyo Flashback vol. 6. White vinyl. Edition of 500. Imported from New Zealand. Cover art by Sandra Schmidt.
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
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
To Find Out b/w Girl
(Priority Male - 24) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
’67 Detroit proto-punk / garage that is insanely rickety, drugged-out and awesome. Hand-stamped labels. Hand-screened sleeves. Edition of 300.
Black Phoenix Blues
(Roaratorio - ROAR31) LP $15.75 (Out-of-stock)
No one in the shady, quick-buck backwater of the music industry known as the “send us your lyrics” demo mill possessed an array of talents as distinctively individual as Rodd Keith. The genius of his gifts as a singer, composer and arranger was destined to remain a well-kept secret during his lifetime by virtue of the complete disregard — verging on invisibility — in which song-poem records were held. He was a commercial musician in the most literal sense of the word, but within those confines, displayed an oddball, personal vision that frequently transcended the work-for-hire nature of his music. Dating from 1966 to 1974, the sixteen previously unreissued songs on the third Roaratorio collection of Keith’s vast output showcase the scope of his work: the should’ve-been-a-hit “You And I”; the elegant exotica of “I Love Lovely Chinese Gal”; the history lesson of “The Explosion Of Holden 22 Mine”; the harrowing psycho-killer musings of the title track; “I’m Proud To Be A Hippie From Mississippi,” the stoner’s answer to Merle Haggard’s “Okie From Muskogee”; the lo-fi “The Game Of Love” (which, in the tradition of Keith’s infamous “I’m Just The Other Woman,” prompted the dissatisfied customer to request a more conventional re-take); the disturbingly desperate “Sing My Death Note,” which was discovered on one of Keith’s private reels; and the unclassifiable WTF-ery of “Abidin’ Tuh The Rule.” Artwork by Josh Journey-Heinz, liner notes from noted blues guitarist and one of Keith’s musical and personal compadres from the early 1970s Debbie Davies, download coupon.
My Pipe Yellow Dream
(Roaratorio - ROAR23) LP $15.50 (Out-of-stock)
The late, great genius whose prolific output was almost completely confined to the song-poem industry had a knack for turning sow’s ears into silk purses. “Song Poems Wanted” read the ads. “We need new ideas for recording!” The send-us-your-lyrics business was a borderline scam, taking whatever lyrics came their way from would-be songwriters and – for a fee – setting them to music. The second Roaratorio anthology of Keith’s work compiles fifteen previously unreissued songs from 1966 through his death in 1974, including a never-before-heard cover of “Choo Choo Train.” My Pipe Yellow Dream showcases the full range of his talents. From exquisite mid-60s pop balladry (“Deep Velvet”) to blue-eyed soul (“You Don’t Have To Alibi”) to folk-rock (“Tired Of Waiting”) to solo Chamberlain creations (“Red Sports Car”) to gospel testifying (“O Jesus My Savior”) to a pair of patriotic screeds (the all-spoken word “America The Not So Beautiful” and the bizarre world lounge funk of “Search Out Your Soul, American”), this collection continues the rehabilitation of Keith’s legacy from thrift-shop throwaway to celebrated cult artist. Gatefold jacket, liner notes by song-poem vocalist Dick Kent, digital download coupon.
Graveside Doles
(Ultra Eczema) LP $18.00
Heavy free improv / noise from 2006, recorded via mail, full of damaged trumpets, ice-cold acoustic metal scraping, and distant drums. Edition of 400.
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
Fill My Body With Flowers And Rice
(Fragment Factory - FRAG39) LP $22.00 (Out-of-stock)
Alice Kemp’s cryptic yet coherent body of work includes drawing, painting, objects, sound, audio composition, performance, and beyond. Her first full-length vinyl release, with two collaborations with Rudolf Eb.er of Schimpfluch and Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, provides a stirring and intimate look at her unique world of obscure, tense and delicate sounds. White vinyl. Edition of 300
Impregnator Of The Death Mouth
(Harbinger Sound - 112) 7-inch $11.25 (Out-of-stock)
The first solo vinyl release by this South England multimedia artist who has been active in the field of radical sound and performance art for 20+ years. Twelve-page full-color booklet. Edition of 150. Listen to a two-minute edit of side one: https://soundcloud.com/germseed/alice-kemp-harbinger112-1
The Flame Of Eternity's Decline
(Legion Blotan) LP $17.00
2005 debut album from underground Ukranian symphonic pagan black metal legends. Heavy vinyl. Edition of 500.
Crystal Drops / Ground Loops
(I Dischi Del Barone - IDDB004) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Circuits, pulses and wind noise recorded at home and outdoors by this London-based artist. Edition of 200.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
The Poet & The Blue Flower
(Avant! - AV025) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Through kaleidoscopic composition, constitution of voice, and timbral experimentation, Nathaniel Ritter and Troy Schafer’s unique system of auditory mysticism inhabits an indefinable territory in the post-industrial and neofolk landscapes. Strictly structured songlike fragments, free-associative passages, Schafer’s stoic orchestral arrangements, Ritter’s tidal electronics, and poetry from Germany’s early 20th Century post-romantic literary underground. Gray vinyl.
Live In Brisbane
(Quemada - QUE007) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Vinyl rebirth of their Too Dead to Notice tape (Negative Guest List 2010). Matt “Newt In The Saucepan” Kennedy explores areas of shimmer not heard of since 1980s Dunedin. The duo of Kennedy on guitar and vocals and Julia Norris on drums is fleshed out with melodic stupor by Andrew McMellan of Cured Pink Radio on organ. The result is a malaise of pickled heartache and non-stop downer hits, full of class and character.
Look Forward to Nothing
(Siltbreeze - SB143) LP $16.00
The adroit cacophony of Kitchen’s Floor recalls the former glory of past Aussie noise / punk gnashers such as Rejex and Feedtime with such élan that one suspects Toohey’s Sheaf courses through their veins. New drummer Joe Alexander (Per Purpose) gives Kitchen’s Floor a more thunderous drive, with the results sounding not unlike a cage match between (the Australian) X and The Gordons. Includes free download card.
Interior Moon
(Mutter Wild) 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.
Midori Mushi San Connichiwa
(Siltbreeze - sb134) 7-inch $7.00
Five tracks informed by old-school Japanese genre snuffers such as Tako and Gunjogacrayon, combining the jabbering, pan-humanoid out-there-ness of the former with the zoned, riffed, mutant indifference of the latter. Tacked on to this toxic, dripping blotter of sound is an eerie cover snippet stabbing the heart of every campfire singalong and folksy hootenanny through time immemorial. Edition of 286.
Otonaki Touge de Hagureta KMR
(Ultra Eczema - UE72) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Another amazing Japanese weirdo band with members of Aburadako and the free bird Hasegawa Shizuo. A mental, Harry Pussy-like guitar style, deadpan free drumming, a voice that could be recorded somewhere else or under a public shower, and a lot of energy crammed onto one record. Yellow and black splutter cover by Dennis Tyfus and an insert! Limited edition.
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
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
K.K. Rampage / Metalux
(Rampage) split LP $16.00
Metalux continues their refinement of creepily serene noise arrangements and free-floating modern psychedelia. Voices are treated as another instrument in an amorphous wash of sound among atmospheric keys and harsh electronics. K.K. Rampage -- Chicago's confrontational, rabble-rousing, NO(w) wave misfits -- replace their piercingly, de-tuned Arab-on-Rabar-esque guitars and “pop” beats with sinister, mechanical chaos and throbbing spastic drumming. A truly fascinating album that improves with repeated listening. Limited to 400 copies.
Without Feelings
(Rococo - RCC014) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
After taking the noise rock world by storm with Sides E and F, KK Rampage are back with the sharper pop sensibilities of this one-sided twelve inch which balances relentless experimentation and polished pop imperfection. Fearless, imperceptible, switching gears between heaven and hell on the highway of death, this pop-damaged noise record is limited to 150 copies with full-color paste-on sleeves.
Arsonicide
(Harbinger Sound - 103) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Arsonicide matches the early hysterical Whitehouse sound with harsh oscillating feedback, electronics and wild vocal assaults,” explain our friends at Volcanic Tongue, who remain amazed by Gary Mundy’s bloody-minded noise from 1983 “that combines arcing cracked synth tones and sudden explosions of voice, matching the best of Maurizio Bianchi’s ‘symphonic’ work but with a supremely crude UK DIY edge that is particularly satisfying. On the flip the electronics get even more alienated and extreme, with minimal Morse Code patterns dancing beneath flat-line feedback drones and waves of minimal tone threat.” Edition of 250 copies.
Broken And Beaten in 5/8 Time
(Independent Woman) 10-inch (lathe cut) $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Generally more refined than previous Kleistwahr work, the pieces here catch Gary Mundy (also of Ramleh and Broken Flag Records) furrowing his distinct and recognizable take on a kind of contemporary psychedelia with dystopian leanings. Nodding toward the fug generated by certain krautrock groups while retaining threads of the uncompromising power-noise surges he built his reputation on, Broken And Beaten will lure you to new spaces and force you to nervously look over your shoulder.
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?”
Myth
(Harbinger Sound - 102) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Our friends at Volcanic Tongue tell you everything you need to know about this classic industrial album by Gary Mundy: as one of the earliest releases on Broken Flag in 1983, Myth successfully liberates rock’n’roll from the service of generic form. “The first track is massively psychedelic,” they go on to say, “With a churning miasmic appeal that sounds like it’s devouring several decades of outlaw sound with alla the triumphal Non of the first Faust album. Later tracks are a little more pugilistic, with electronics that double all over themselves again and again, generating hypnotic matrices of pulse-based melodies and whooshing outer space effects.” Edition of 250.
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.”
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.
Reactance
(Wintage - WRT-75) LP $15.00
After nearly two decades of live performances, car crash reality, damaged ear bleed sound, countless CDs and cassettes on various noise labels, Knurl's debut LP delivers a furnace blast of searing frequencies. Trademark saw-blades, chains and metal files leaves nothing but a husk of melted electronics and a pile of smouldering wires under a hail-storm of rusty nails hammering down on a sheet metal roof. “Micrarhyncis” evokes serious backwoods dentistry where the low-end rattles free the fillings from the back of your mouth. On side B, the barbed-wire violin bakes scorching drones under a hot desert sun, eventually melting and congealing in a pool of mercury and chaos. Steel on steel, metal on metal, rust on rust.
Første Portræt (Et Hult Menneske)
(Järtecknet) LP $28.50 (Out-of-stock)
With two longer introspective pieces, the first LP release by Danish sound artist Mikkel Rørbo (aka Alleypisser) presents a rather hypnotic and delusional atmosphere, blending tape manipulations and treated acoustic instrumentation with rhythmical elements and minimal synth work. Edition of 200.
Abject Obsessions
(Avant! - AV!041) LP $18.25 (Out-of-stock)
Cold, dark, and catchy post-punk by this Canadian duo from Vancouver. Caustic drum machines, voix féminines en Français and male vox in English, menacing synths and guitars as sharp and dangerous as a rusty blade.
Black Colors
(Thin Wrist - TW-I) 3xLP $40.00 (Out-of-stock)
The fullest realization to date of the incredibly physical and dynamic musical language of the ex-Open City electric guitarist. Black Colors flows unpredictably from electrified fragments of sound that fold and expand in dense layers to massive tones that surge and collapse in rapid succession. His approach has been called “massively a-formal” and his control of timing and texture “masterful.” Rather than set harmonic or rhythmic structures, he draws form from open sequences of sound events merged and propelled by a distinct internal logic, thus erasing the line between intent and impulse, and creating the immediate and unrepeatable. The six sides of vinyl here are at times dense and teeming with saturated bursts and drones, at others sparse with minute ticks and quiet tones that reverberate in open space. 180g vinyl, mastered at 45RPM. Three full-color jackets inside heavy tip-on slipcase. Includes digital download card.
New Bodies
(Thin Wrist - TWH) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
Three tracks of electric guitar improvisation by Open City guitarist feature successively recorded left- and right-channel guitars, in which the overdub responds asynchronous to the original. Open City’s two-guitar and drums line-up regularly explored electroacoustic interplay, while New Bodies lets rip with all the skronk and blurt Kolovos has been holding in for the last decade, in tiny, tightly gated segments. “Derek Bailey covering The Residents' Duck Stab.” — Bruce Russell, The Wire. Includes download card. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
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
Babylon
(Roaratorio - ROAR34) LP $15.75 (Out-of-stock)
Turkish free-improv group led by guitarist Umut Çağlar collaborating with the legendary saxophonist in Istanbul with no prior rehearsal or discussion, although the seamless meshing could fool anyone into thinking that they were a longtime working group. Çağlar, who comes to free jazz via electronic music, incorporates moogs and theremin. Babylon swings from space-raga improv to soaring, full-throated anthemic melodies, to transmissions from some sort of Joe Meek jazz world where bird squeal falsettos pierce through a current of drums, only to struggle for breath, come up laughing, and take off far above. Includes free download card.
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.
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.
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
A/P
(Bocian - BR03) 7-inch $10.00
Free-improv that penetrates the acoustic properties of individual percussion instruments. Krakowiak departs from the hi-fi aesthetics of his peers (e.g. Christian Wolfarth, Jon Mueller or Jason Kahn) and goes after the sound of a single cymbal recorded with an old cassette tape; imperfections and the characteristic analog sound (objects, rotation, overtones, layers) are Krakowiak's goal, comparable to Harry Bertoia's sculptures, or the textures of Morphogenesis.
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.
Requiescat In Plavem
(Maple Death Records - MDR004) CD $13.25 (Out-of-stock)
(Maple Death Records - MDR004) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
A psychedelic country masterpiece coming from an Italian true original and one-time member of Vermillion Sands. In the hills behind Valdobbiadene, birds watched and whistled night and day during the recording of Krano’s “damaged minimal folk from Veneto” that swirls and rolls, replicating the beauty, wilderness, history and fever of the Prosecco-fueled valley. A lone rider singing about loss, love, money and friendship is the foundation here. Honky-tonk detuned pianos echo from a wine saloon. ’70s-era Neil Young-ish ballads mix with tinges of Skip Spence’s psych folk golden touch and Randy Newman’s dark humor. Acoustic and fuzz guitars, harmonica, piano, drums and bass conjure sleepy swamp devils crawling out from the river banks, venturing into murder-ballad territory, and the fury of cow-punk freaks Meat Puppets and Country Teasers. If you are coming down from a tough night and the sun starts shining through, you might catch a glimpse of Morricone’s whistling, Brian Wilson’s decaying universe, or Robbie Basho’s spiritual acoustic mystic. Liner notes by Mike Donovan of Sic Alps and Peacers.
LP includes insert and MP3 download. Listen to “Me E Ti” here: https://soundcloud.com/mapledeathrecords
Faster Than The Speed of Time
(Dilettante Courtoisie) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
"The superpowered arrogance of the title [of an earlier Kraus release called I Could Destroy You With a Single Thought]," observes NZ watchdog Jon Bywater, "Matches the pains taken to craft [it], somewhere between a pop Moog record and the harshest no wave. Short melodic and rhythmic figures are worked hard into the knife edge between queasy claustrophobia and rigorous brilliance." A resident of Auckland, Kraus plays guitar, drums, synthesizer, organ, tape loops and electronics; he played drums in The Murdering Monsters and The Aesthetics, co-founded The Futurians and played on their first album !Blastov! (Root Don Lonie For Cash 2001) and plays currently in Pouffe (with Matthew Plunkett), The Maltese Falcons (with Duckling Monster of The Futurians), and Olympus (with Stefan Neville). Edition of 300.
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.
Krube
(I Dischi Del Barone - IDDB006) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
A step even further into oblivion by this Berlin artist, exploring unknown territories via daunting everyday life recordings and electronic slices of nothing and everything. Edition of 200.
Tankar & Syner Del 2
(Järtecknet - #22) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Exploration of worlds beyond the physical realm toward a space where the surreal meets the concrete. Same audio landscapes heard on earlier manifestations —field recordings, reel-to-reel loops, various analog manipulations — even though Jesper Canell and Viktor Ottosson here focus on the abstract dimensions of sound. Edition of 200.
Mu Ji Ge
([ no label ] - 007-01) 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
A song by Korean psychedelic rock legends Sanullim covered by Tori Kudo of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Chie Ozeki (Maher Shalal Hash Baz), Tsukasa Takahashi (Che Shizu, Maher Shalal Hash Baz) and Mikiko Suzuki, in solidarity with and support for Japan’s Korean community, currently facing growing hostility from the Japanese right-wing. “Sanullim was like an unexpected flower of the frontier district that suddenly shifted from GS to progressive rock,” remembers Kudo upon hearing a cassette of the group back in 1980. “Wouldn’t it be shocking if Jackie Yoshikawa & His Blue Comets were performing Uriah Heep? I do not know any similar examples that equal them in East Asia other than Les Rallizes Dénudés.” Insert with a poem in Japanese and English by Junko Harada. Check it out here: http://youtu.be/EiNAbH-rCKY
Aktion 091216 Berlin
(Harbinger Sound - 089) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
A “full blown ritual” duet involving the washing of hands, nailing of wood to the stage floor, the humbling act of drying each other, and then, of course, the relatively mundane sounds themselves which, taken as a whole, are extremely unsettling. Barking dogs, snoring, shouting females, ringing bells and a lazy accordion transform into a bizarre and deeply unnerving platform for a flattening blast of noise eruption, pigs eating, sounds of eerie and unidentifiable provenance, and Kutzkelina’s incredible yodeling. A dizzying cacophony that’ll make your head swim. Edition of 100
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.”
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.
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.
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
Kösmonaut I
(Deep Distance - DD01) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Like the private pressings of Konrad Schnitzler from 1973 to ’74, each album of Deep Distance’s series is a solid color. Patrick R. Pärk joins Schulze, Froese, Ashra / Gottsching and latter day celestial synth explorers Expo '70, Jonas Reinhardt, and Mist in a good ol’ fashioned kosmische collision. All tracks are previously released on the limited-edition CDR Voyage of Time (Ethereal Mother 2011). Six inserts. Blue vinyl. Edition of 250.
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.
La Morte Young
(Dysmusie - DYSLP2) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
With members of Sun Stabbed, Talweg, and Nappe, this French group “draw[s] singing feedback from expiring amps and extend[s] moments of tense string-brut into colossal, slow-burning ascensions,” explains our friends at Volcanic Tongue. “Padding drums force the eternal upward vectors into waves of dreamtone as the group attempt[s] a flat-lined reconciliation between barbarous psychedelic drone, early music and single tone hypnotics. Wordless vocals touch on … ritual epiglottics … while the levels of dynamic fuzz are almost Japanese…. [P]lug the fuck in.” Cover art by Michael Morley of The Dead C. Edition of 300.
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.
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.
The Rest
(Roaratorio - ROAR28) LP (one-sided) $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
In June of 1977, when they shared a double bill in Basel, Switzerland, Lacy invited McPhee to join him for a duet to close his set, for which McPhee elected to bring out his own soprano saxophone. The main part of Lacy’s performance was issued on the classic Clinkers LP (Hat Hut 1978); after thirty-six years, Roaratorio delivers The Rest, a one-sided LP marking the first and only time they’ve played together. The simpatico meshing of their distinctly individual voices points toward a shared history on a different plane. Includes download coupon.
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
Gesamtkunstwerk Dokument 81-85
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD84) 5xLP $125.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING IN MAY. Early recordings and live documents from Laibach's early years as a provocative performance-music-and-multimedia group. Leather-bound box set in a cross-like holder for the five platters. Includes poster, ten postcards, and booklet of texts compiled and edited by Alexei Monroe.
Crossed With Leaves
(Quemada) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
The bleak punk / dark folk solo outlet for Sean Bailey’s not-so-cheery take on the world picks up where Winter’s Blade (Inverted Crux) left off — with an extra level of heavy and gloom. Bailey’s been a constant presence in the Melbourne musical landscape for years, running his label and doing his bit for the sprawling hypnotic tinkering of Paeces, the stripped down punk of Wasted Truth, the goth punk of Tax, and the new wave shenanigans of The [Australian] Vivian Girls.
Abersayne b/w Attersaye
(Kye - KYE706) 7-inch $9.75 (Out-of-stock)
A perfectly serviceable love song backed with a rough-and-ready late-night lament. Lyric sheet. Edition of 500.
Amateur Doubles
(Kye - KYE15) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
A two-part improvisation recorded in a Honda Civic. Dangerous, tedious, pointless and timeless, a perfect snapshot of life on the open road. Gatefold jacket, clear vinyl. Edition of 500.
The Dishwasher
(Open Mouth) LP $25.00
“Though there are separate and distinct tracks, they flow into each other organically,” explains Greg Kelley. Acoustic guitar, cymbal, tapes, voices, birds, a room, the outside world, and bow are the elements out of which the album is constructed — “not without some jagged interruptions…, but the field recording aspects (passing cars, a siren, some banter) act as a leitmotif holding things together…. As much as it doesn’t exclude the sounds of the outside world, it also lies open to interpretation. Themes recur just enough to create a connective tissue that frames some of the more seemingly disparate elements. Brief fragments of conversation invite the mind to try to understand and create its own narrative; a pizzicato, modal folksong played on guitar, then played back on tape at the end of Side A has a reprise midway through Side B…. This is not a tapestry without thread, but you’ve also got to bring some of your own.”
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).
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
When The Night Is Cruel (1979-1988)
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD76) 2xLP $37.00 (Out-of-stock)
A mix of rarities, never-before-on-vinyl, unheard and previously unreleased material, and classics that have been out of print for almost thirty years. Gatefold jacket, rare photographs, liner notes. Edition of 600. Track listing: 1. Love is So Aggravating (out of print) 2. Exit (long version / previously unreleased) 3. Madman’s Song (demo / previously unreleased) 4. Allure (live / never released on vinyl / out of print) 5. The Fall (never released on vinyl / out of print) 6. Petit Duet (with Martin Bowes / never released on vinyl / out of print) 7. Age Old Fashion (never released on vinyl) 8. I Want You (never released on vinyl) 9. Pleasure Heist (original / vinyl out of print) 10. The Lights of March (never released on vinyl) 11. The Poison for Me (never released on vinyl) 12. 3rd Party (never released on vinyl) 13. Quest (never released on vinyl) 14. Who’s Really Listening? (vinyl out of print) 15. Graveyard 2 (vinyl out of print) 16. White Glove (vinyl out of print) 17. On the Wings of Sorrow (demo / previously unreleased) 18. Sojourn (live with the Klinik / previously unreleased on vinyl) 19. Cartel Danse (1985 Remix) (previously unreleased) 20. Boule (Viens Ici) (Ptose cover / vinyl out of print) 21. All of My Dreams (never released on vinyl) 22. When the Night is Cruel (demo / previously unreleased) 23. Sojourn (vinyl out of print) 24. Sliver Mourning (demo / previously unreleased) 25. The Reflection (never released on vinyl / out of print) 26. I Want You (1985 Remix / previously unreleased) 27. Pushing And Pulling (vinyl out of print) 28. Mind Disease (demo / previously unreleased) 29. Il Pluet A Bruxelles (never released on vinyl)
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.”
Berlin Tapes
(Blossoming Noise - BN065) LP $16.50
Turntablism and double bass from Sudden Infant / Schimpfluch-Gruppe alumni recorded live November 9th 2012 at Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, by Rashad Becker. Clear vinyl. Tip-on gatefold jacket.
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.
Snowdrops In The Curate’s Garden
(The Epicurean - CURE.8) LP $22.00
This 2011 live recording of industrial veterans John Murphy (Shining Vril, Krank, ex-SPK / Whitehouse / Current 93), John Evans, and Julian Percy is the missing link between the grainy, demo-type 1990s recordings that became The Tyranny Of Distance (Tesco, 2004) and the more contemporary Towers Of Silence (The Epicurean, 2014). Its shuddering analogue sounds, clanging metal rhythms and feedback, ritual percussion and chants focus on hypnotic and mental aspects of music, psychopathology, debasement and religious deviation. Packaged with photographs of the infamous Victorian-era lunatic asylums in Kew and Beechworth, Australia, the album commemorates the country’s history as a penal colony, when the majority of white Australians were poor, dispossessed and desperate, long known as factors that encourage depression, alcoholism and psychological ill-being. The process of transportation was attended by squalor, disease and rape. These damaged individuals were then thrust into a harsh and alien environment, housed in circumstances worse than a modern refugee camp, and expected to build their own prisons – circumstances that effectively made mental illness one of the colony’s very first imports. From there the dismal history of mental hospitals took its course, evolving from incarceration over therapeutic occupation to, ultimately, medication. It is the practice of oppressing those who cannot “conform” to the norms imposed by the system, the root cause of the underlying aggression with which the Australian general public continue to treat each other. Beautiful black and gold printing on 12 x 12 natural paper. Includes postcard and free download card. Numbered edition of 253.
Towers Of Silence
(The Epicurean - CURE5) CD $16.00
(The Epicurean - CURE5) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
John Murphy (Krank, Knifeladder, Shining Vril, ex-SPK), Julian Percy (Ratbag), and Jon Evans show how loud and infernal the silence of ending can be imagined. Screams of rage and anxiety intermingle with shouts of warriors (or the croaking of vultures gathered around corpses) until all is buried under an avalanche of infernal noise. Guest contributions by Neubauten collaborator Ash Wednesday, Till Brüggemann of Gerechtigkeits Liga, and Annie Stubbs. Edition of 300. Listen to the title track here: http://epicureanescapism.bandcamp.com/album/towers-of-silence
LCDD
(Bimbo Tower - BTR05) LP $13.25
Los Caballos De Düsseldorf (The Düsseldorf Horses) was formed by four punks from Spain as an improv collective, an open band with no fixed line-up in which anyone is welcome, so long as they are willing to play circuit-bent toys fabricated by Olaf Ladousse (Le Dernier Cri collaborator and the visual artist behind DIY graphic zine Que Suerte!), which he calls “doorags,” in a tribute to the lo-fi blues-noise duo of the same name. On this, the second LP by LCDD, doorags are plugged in directly to the mixer and, no surprise, cacophony results. Lunacy from a demented child’s bedroom. Potro Oscilante (Poulin Oscillant) joins the quartet on theremin for one track, and Fela Borbone (Ulan Bator Trio) does the same with his mierdofon on another. European style jackets with silver stickers on front and back. Edition of 300.
Live In Japan
(Oxen - OXEN033) LP (one-sided) $9.50 (Out-of-stock)
Adrenaline assault sets recorded May 2016 at Ochiai Soup in Tokyo and at the historic holy land of noise, Namba Bears in Osaka alongside Masonna and Solmania. Some of the best in present-day cut-up / harsh noise, gliding through exploding tensions with the full-force of discordant, noise-squall grenade incursions, trampling ears and minds with a focused and visceral, frenetic fury. Edition of 100
Zulu Time
(Leather Bath Inc. - LBINC1106) 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Greh Holger and John Wiese. With inserts. Edition of 200.
City / Clear
(I Dischi Del Barone - IDDB009) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Underlying heaviness and overall psychedelic guitar / synth blur blasted through a shitty amplifier by Neutral’s Sofie Herner, backed with a fragile take on kosmische musik, straight from the Utmarken elementary school. Japanese whispers. A homespun scorcher and a completely unique voice in the Swedish underground. Edition of 200.
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
Early Recordings
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD48) 5xLP $125.00
Tape recordings from 1980-82 including Kleine Krieg (originally packaged with a model kit of a tank or an aeroplane, intended to be assembled while listening to the music), Chemical Playschool Vols. 1 and 2 (the original cassette edition of which had 24 copies), outtakes, and Live in Cologne 1983.
Two by Umberto Lenzi
(Saxon Gregory) 7-inch $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
Trailers of two movies by low-budget Italian film director Umberto Lenzi: the mannequin filled giallo Spasmo (1974) and the "nerve-numbing shocker" Seven Bloodstained Orchids (1971).
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.
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
Electronic Music
(RRRecords - RRRXENAKIS) LP $15.00
Xenakis-referencing masterwork by Due Processor Jason Lescalleet, created with analog gear (old reel-to-reels, tape effects and guitar effects). An appropriately thick tapestry of sound.
Pilgrim
(Glistening Examples) LP + CD $36.00 (Out-of-stock)
An audio documentation of this electronics-and-tape artist’s coming to terms with the death of his father. The LP documents a performance Lescalleet gave after discovering his father had terminal cancer; its floor-rattling flux of abrasive, low tones invokes the purr of a Chevy’s engine Lescalleet’s father discusses in a letter reproduced on the record jacket. A snippet of the final conversation he had with his father is buried in a heat-haze of tape hiss and air conditioner hum. The CD further extrapolates on Lescalleet’s father’s email; its 74 minutes move from dreamlike bell tones, through abraded, metallic hum, escalating into fierce, brutalizing waves of noise which then cut to a recording of Lescalleet’s daughter singing the Irish folk song “Molly Malone” at her grandfather’s request. The book in which the CD is mounted has plenty more text and images. If you aren’t staggered by The Pilgrim, there’s something wrong with you.
VELCRO LEWIS AND HIS 100 PROOF BAND
Ruin Everything
(Rococo - RCC002) LP $11.00 (Out-of-stock)
Maximum rockin’ and bluesy action here; Lewis’s voice is harsh and soulful, very mean and in a blatant CoS-inspired way, backed up by a swampy, foggy blues guitar sound with an almost bloody wet reverb.
Trap
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $18.00
Double flamethrower by Phil Blankenship and John Wiese. Black ink on black jacket. Edition of 188
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.
Inner Space
(Votary - VOT001) LP $15.00
Originally released as the score to Ron and Val Taylor’s underwater Australian television series (Festival Record 1973), this amazingly sensuous music by one of the unsung heroes of Australian film music conceptually sketches life under the sea, a brilliant example of incidental film music and strong jazz impressionism. Gentle yet propulsive Brazilian rhythms are mirrored with watery moog, fluttering flutes and shimmering vibraphone. The band includes Don Burrows, John Sangster, George Golla and Errol Buddie, who mix the incidental and the improvisational in a whirlpool of sublime aquatic jazz exotica.
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.
Currents
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ012) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Minimal, acoustic melodicism from this NYC mainstay.
JUSTIN LIEBERMAN / C. SPENCER YEH
Object Lessons
(What The ... - WHAT008) LP picture disc $25.50 (Out-of-stock)
Beginning with a shared love of sound poetry, psychedelic rock, Japanese scum noise, Japanese psychedelic rock, Object Lessons' itinerary embodies more present-time sensibilities: Lieberman's sculptural and multimedia work The Corrector's Custom Pre-Fab House (itself inspired by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown's 1972 examination of “the decorated shed,” Learning From Las Vegas), which includes a character inspired by Nobusuke Tagomi, from Philip K. Dicks The Man in the High Castle. Created in the style of a Katamari video game, the program features texts on each object taking various forms such as objective accounts, plagiarized product descriptions, aesthetic meditations, poetry, short fiction, satire, and prose; these texts were then transformed into this a collaboration between Lieberman and Burning Star Core's C. Spencer Yeh. The result is one part Bruce Haack, another part Charlie Gocher -- a head-on collision you don't see every day. Full-color gatefold jacket. Limited edition. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
Beta Male
(Chondritic Sound - CH-326) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
The return of Fejhed’s Jesse Sanes to Chondritic Sound sends listeners into a vast chasm of brooding tension and finessed sonic anguish. Culled from the foggy heights of German industrial, Beta Male exhumes a corroded alloy of industrial rhythms, grotesque field recordings and paranoid electronics. From the swirling, claustrophobic symbiosis of acoustic clamor with scrupulous electronics in the vein of Maria Zerfall, to the commanding synthesized martial churns of pre-9/11 power electronics — elevated by painstaking, obsessive production, methodical high-end assaults, and a choir of tortured, introverted voices singing a cringe-inducing case for the euthanasia of masculinity — the meticulous and practiced compositions would stand-out on any State Art or Loki Foundation compilation. Includes download card. Edition of 300
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
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.
Honey Monster
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC11) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Quasipop's Monster series delivers strange takes on modern pop music where's "pop" means the weirdest form of entertaining. Sweets overloads, glucose hallucinations, and like that. Purple vinyl. Edition of 500.
Miscellany Deluxe
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD61) 2xLP $20.00
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD61) 3xLP $100.00
This comprehensive, Liles-collected anthology includes as much variety and previously unreleased material as possible, with earliest recordings dating from 1984. “Find a New Husband” was made on his father’s cheap Amstrad tape-to-tape system (which ceased working properly shortly thereafter), the product of many hours of rewinding and re-playing and re-recording, and the beginning of Liles’s fascination with and addiction to tape manipulation, sound effects and recording techniques. Many of his early experiments and their accidental consequences are included in this collection, along with selections from two cassettes originally self-released under the name Lividity, given away to friends and sent as demos to assorted labels. 3xLP includes T-shirt.
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
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
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.
Distortions
(Eva) Used LP $20.00
1983 repress of questionable legitimacy of the 1967 garage debut by these legendary Minnesotans.
Living Room
(Bizzaro Warrior) 7-inch (lathe cut) $15.00
The efforts of this quartet of gentlemen from Dayton, Ohio, earned high praise from Princess Haultaine III: “Some of the sickest, nastiest and most mind-blowing noise rock on the planet right here.” Fifteen untitled tracks
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.”
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
Akasha_For Record
(Elevator Bath - eeaoa028) LP picture disc $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
A two-part composition filled with dynamic intricacies carefully arranged in rich, micro-detail, yielding a spellbinding, opulent listening experience that reward close, repeated scrutiny. Edition of 216
A Tribute
(Amish - AMI047) LP $18.00
Dan Melchior infuses lo-fi tribal rhythms with post-punk dance in the spirit of early Adam Ant, Fun Boy Three and The Fall — with Ivor Cutler added. Guests include Graham Lambkin, Letha Rodman-Melchior, Angela Sawyer aka Preggy Peggy, Gnarlos, Nicke Hennies, Le Ann Baca Bartlett, and Johnny Brewton.
At Home With The Lloyd Pack
(l’Esprit de l’Escalier - LELE02) LP $20.00
Dan Melchior, Pheromoans vocalist Russell Walker, Letha Rodman Melchior (ex-Ruby Falls, on keys, guitar, clarinet, viola), Anthony Allman (El Jesus De Magico, on tapes), and Circuit des Yeux’s Haley Fohr (on ethereal vocalizations) seep into tapestries woven from Third And Final Report, chamber ensemble tuning strategies, reenactments of the minutes from staff meetings of The East Village Other, and Davey Williams dreaming of robots counting electric sheep. The debut full-length by Lloyd Pack, which follows up a most evolved seven-inch on Siltbreeze, is a total musical collage, built entirely from prerecorded contributions from the principals, who had no idea how their recordings would end up. The results by the unorthodox, Robitussin-y garage band, guided by heir traffic controller Melchior — inspired by Graham Lambkin, Luc Ferrari, Luc Marrianni, Prominent Disturbance, Yuzo Iwata, The Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble, Frank Bedal, Gus Coma, and many others — enable pulsating yet unresolved tangents to return from a walkabout bearing promises of increased salience of articulation. Includes a booklet of short stories by Melchior. Edition of 175. Scope out the foxy magic here: http://youtu.be/K1Cfohrxd-E
Know Your Lloyd Pack
(Siltbreeze - SB146) 7-inch $2.50
“Captain’s log, Stardate 10.3.12: The Lloyd Pack EP is finally realized. We had picked up a distress signal some weeks back, the call letters unclear, but seemingly emitted from a slow and hostile planet known only as URP. The data transcribed mentioned project (Lloyd Pack), title, (Know Your Lloyd Pack), participants (Russell Walker, Letha Rodman Melchior, Dan Melchior) and facilitator (Siltbreeze). Upon listening to contents, our forward team —eager but without much depth — quickly attempted a single comparison to former Siltbreeze inhabitants, The Shadow Ring regarding sound and style. However, Chief Science Officer Roland Woodbe dismissed this as naive and noted the possibility of an Excalbian conspiracy in such a hasty summation. Woodbe elaborated a deeper analogy, finding in his historical dissection hints to century-old former galactic explorers such as Collective Horizontal, 49 Americans, and No Half Measures (for example). When presented with the compositions of Lloyd Pack, I found CSO Woodbe’s comprehension to be most evolved. That said, Know Your Lloyd Pack occupies its own unique aural atmosphere, too, with drollery of the highest Anglo-Saxon order, and ambience as crisp as a Gloustershire perry. Overall, I find its essence most logical.” — Tiberius Surak, Starfleet Commander
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.
Drenched Lands
(BloodLust! - B!127) LP + 3-inch CDR $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Since 2005, Locrian have been zeroing in on the right blend of noise, power electronics, dark ambient, and black metal. Drenched Lands unfolds with an almost narrative structure: it slowly descends into a dark abyss, moving torturedly, gradually rediscovering the light, then leaving you where everything began -- completely transformed. Clear vinyl, limited edition of 200 copies. Bonus 3-inch CDR contains 18-minute exclusive track "Sullage." CD released by Small Doses.
Territories
(Small Doses - DOSE89) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
(BloodLust! - B!147) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
André Foisy and Terence Hannum’s well-honed sound takes elements from noise, power-electronics, drone, and black metal, a reflection of the sprawling urban decay that surrounds Chicago. The second studio full-length from Locrian features collaborators Blake Judd (Nachtmystium, Twilight) on guitar, Bruce Lamont (Yakuza) on sax and vocals, Andrew Scherer (Velnias) on drums, and Mark Solotroff (Anatomy of Habit, Bloodyminded) on vocal and synthesizer. The textures run darker and deeper; the vocals -- sometimes three layers deep -- seem to be conjured from the decrepit muck of a failed civilization; the feedback takes on a more pronounced presence; and full-on black metal assaults burst out of tortured drones. With double-sided color insert.
Broken Guitars
(Urashima) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
The debut recordings by this Italian visual artist. Sadness-tinged acoustic guitar improvisations à la Derek Bailey and John Fahey. Housed in a spectacular multifold cover. Limited edition 150 copies.
Sound on Sound
(Starlight Furniture Company) LP $14.00
Originally released by Japan’s G.R.O.S.S. label as a cassette in a limited edition of 88 copies in late 1994, Loop Circuit’s Sound on Sound joins Akifumi Nakajima (also known as prolific noise artist Aube) with Dub Murashita together in an all-electronic self-hypnosis seminar. The duo limits their source materials to purely electronic sounds, loops and effects, creating a mesmerizing, constantly shifting mosaic.
“tranced-out mesmerism” is how our friends at naturestrip summarize this Akifumi Nakajima / Dub Murashita collaboration. “layer upon layer of brittle sonics stacked & decayed across 40 mins of hypnosis, recorded in ’94…, startlingly ahead of the curve, if not out on its own one entirely, this kind of sounds like a proto-skaters in a way, billowing masses of small sounds that slide in & around each other to the trippiest effect, taking aube’s usage of sounds verging on the otoacoustic (sections here take on an amacher-esque ear effery that simply needs to be heard) & tethering them to structures in a state of perpetual collapse, a perverted soundsystem beat pressure arising in parts, heaving rhythms built out of scraps subsumed by yet more gunk dredged up from the beyond…. a constant temporal slip, like falling upwards & backwards simultaneously, supremely solid & deadly effectual but very much a 'hall of mirrors' kind of deal, suitably ending on two locked grooves looping out into the eternal.”
Paris 1976
(Danger Records - DR006) 7-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Three incredible, previously unreleased tracks from 1976 by The Most Violent French Punk Band Ever: Pierre Goddard of Strike Up and 1984 on guitar and vocals, Angel Face’s Pascal Regoli on bass, and drummer Hervé Zenouda of Angel Face, Strike Up, Stinky Toys.
Solo Acoustic Volume Twelve
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ16) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Combining an elemental Appalachian spirit with a modern compositional approach on her vinyl debut, Louise’s deeply ornate and engaging playing adds rich new colors to the palate of contemporary guitar.
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”).
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
(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 Chants
(Quemada - QUE008) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Antony Guerra (the Black Petal label) with Michael Zulicki (Mad Nanna, Albert’s Basement) and Matt Earle (XnobbqX, Muura, Breakdance the Dawn), stretching out delicate, poignant, late-night guitar melodies, punctuated by Earle’s hints at rhythm with specter-like vocals that just hover over the songs. Imagine the slower numbers from the third Velvets record boiled down to their essence, with a hungover Milford Graves replacing Mo Tucker behind the kit.
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.
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
(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."
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
Partial Infinite Sequence
(Open Mouth) LP $20.00
“The tension contained in each sound on Partial Infinite Sequence is not disturbing or stressed. That kind of sound is satisfying, but too easy. Instead, it feels like that split second after you trip on the sidewalk. Your body could go in any direction, and every outcome is possible…. And yet…, [t]he tense feeling of elation lives distinctly side-by-side with a knowledge that this music is correct and fits that gap in your world that has been carved out exactly for it.” Worth comparing to Ellen Fullman’s The Long String Instrument or Charles Curtis playing Naldjorlak I, “[t]hese … special recordings [are] examples of a sensitive human being coming to a deep understanding of what they want to say with an instrument, while exposing that instrument’s essence in sound.” Edition of 250
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
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.”
Tapette
(Les Disques De l’Oubli - 0005) LP (one-sided) $25.00
Live recording of poly-chromatic noise abstraction from the eponymous festival in Campéneac, France, by Parisian brutality makers. With members of Zaraz Wam Zagram, TG, Napalm Jazz, Ero Babaa. Edition of 100.
Lustiges Tierquartett
(Danger Records - DR002) 7-inch $7.75
Legit reissue of scarce seven-inch by French DIY weirdos, originally released in 1981 on the Milk label. Snotty, stupid art punk.
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.
Tony Conrad
(Meeuw Muzak - MM048) 7-inch $10.00
Beats, screams, violin abuse and effects by Luke Calzonetti of Run Dust and Wendy Gondeln.
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.
Ghost Entanglement
(Hospital - HOS252) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
From the phantasmal electronics domain, this seamless sound collage takes you through all the various rooms in the house. Blindfolded, you reach for things familiar but everything feels different in the dark. A state of ambience is interrupted by déjà vu. For fans of early CMI, Mlehst, and the atmospheric end of Goblin. Edition of 200.
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
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
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.
1976
(Edition Telemark - 314.07) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two previously unreleased pieces recorded December 19, 1976, performed by Paul Panhuysen, Remko Scha, Jan van Riet, Leon van Noorden and Hans Schuurman. “This music is literally polyphonic,” explains René van Peer in the liner notes, “A composition of multiple voices. The members of the ensemble do not engage in virtuoso playing. Although each may go down his individual path, no one attempts to outdo the others in exuberant soloing. Their approach to improvisation bears none of the hallmarks of jazz. It is a group effort. They operate as a band in the anthropological sense: a small, mobile, and fluid social formation without clear-cut leadership.” Edition of 250.
North Beach Jazz
(After Music Recordings) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first all-jazz vinyl LP by legendary sax player most famous for his work with the Stooges, but he's also played with everyone from The Violent Femmes to Snakefinger to Smegma. Joined by Mike Watt. Silkscreened sleeve.
Cut-Ups, Drones And Other Weird
(Premier Sang - PS002) 2xLP $35.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded in 1993, previously released on CDR (Mother Savage 2007), edited in 2009 for this vinyl version. Transparent green vinyl. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST 0F 2010
Sex and Death
(Hospital - HOS100) 7-inch $6.75 (Out-of-stock)
The ultimate dichotomy of thunder and scourge, fire and flood, iron and breast. Cock and bat... the hammering continues. Whoever dies with the most cumshots wins. Joe Roemer and Rodger Stella are joined here by Prurient’s Dominic Fernow. Classic transsexual art brut.
I Hit A Wall
(Quemada - QUE004) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
An anthem for the ages that lurches and stumbles, makes strides, waltzes and wobbles, backed with a track that charges through the muck and rides an early '90s Port Chalmers groove. Artwork by Anthony Riddell of Volvox.
If I Don't Sleep Tonight
(Wormwood Grasshopper - WG03) 7-inch $15.00
The second seven by this Melbourne group specializing in the mysteries of late night. Part of the new Stay Classy Australia scene. Edition of 100.
I’m Not Coming Here / My Two Kids
(Unwucht - UN10) 7-inch $10.00
A Jandek-conjuring slow-burner on one side side, while the flip rocks hard into the Velvet Underground chug zone. Recorded at the Kof Gallery in Flemington, Australia, and Loons Bar in Lyttelton, New Zealand, both tracks are versions of the songs on their seven-inch released by Soft Abuse. File next to Slimy Adenoid & The Pablums, Vomit Visions and Deutscher Abschaum, if that’s how you organize your stuff. With unique, rubberstamped postcard. Edition of 150
Mad Nanna
(Alberts Basement) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Volcanic Tongue says, "Shadow Ring-style narcoleptic rock with a Shaggs-play-The Clean feel, mainlining extended pop jams into downer dirges." Siltblog says "It also kinda sounds like a Falling Spikes bootleg what had been caked w/mud & laquered onto vinyl." Edition of 200.
Made in Mexico / Microwaves
(Rococo) split 7-inch $5.50
An action-packed 7-inch split between two hard-charging combos. Made In Mexico (ex-Arab On Radar) conjure their deadly mix of post-punk, no wave, prog and rock-inspired madness, while Microwaves blast tonality-impaired riffs against effected bass, clattering drums, and a dual vocal attack.
Stevige Nacht b/w De Kerstdagen
(Meeuw Muzak - MM047) 7-inch $8.75 (Out-of-stock)
Ultra Eczema’s Dennis Tyfus on voice and cassettes, with Kris Maes on atmospheric slide guitar, editing and recording, applying their lo-fi sound poetry aesthetic to Christmas tunes.
Wizards of Today
(Zaius Tapes) LP $20.00
Feral batshit rock from 1983, the brainchild of a blind guitarist-vocalist. Matt Muncil (considered by the psychedelic mafia as the Higney of Heavy Rock) and drummer Scott Roher lay down incredible walls of wildly fuzzed and primitive bash, heavy on double-tracked guitar riffs and growling, incomprehensible vocals concerning outer space, rocket ships and rock. Wizards Of Today is a half-hour slab of muzzed disorder of the highest possible recommendation. Loner, outsider brilliance. 2023 reissue, edition of 292.
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
Wrath
(Somnimage - mik013) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Trance-like noise with beats by Chicago-based multi-media artist Camilla Ha (ex-My Name is Rar Rar), whose early experience as a butoh dancer influences much of her soundscapes (sometimes minimal, at other times disconcertingly abrasive). She uses her voice much the same way a butoh dancer would use her body -- distorting it grotesquely, sometimes beautifully. Limited to 300 numbered copies in sil screened sleeves.
MARCELLO MAGLIOCCHI / NINNI MORGIA
Sound Gates
(Ultramarine - UM009) LP $23.00
Guitarist, sculptor and designer of strange marimba-like instruments (made of found beach stones), litophones, cymbals and huge bells Ninni Morgia accesses infinite guitar timbres (electronic, filtered analog sounds, soothing bowed drones, wild distortion or small, bird-like plucking techniques). Propelled by Marcello Magliocchi's warm acoustic sounds from strings, metal sheets, handmade rattles and tuned drums, the eleven pieces here slowly grow, build up and dynamically move across pure avant garde, early electronica, psychedelic hypnosis and wild free jazz. Includes download card.
Extended Play-R
(Suitcase - SUT03) 7-inch $7.75
Homemade Moog electronics and A/V experiments by interactive multimedia technology specialist James F. Ellis (ex-Absolute Ceiling). Four tracks that “meld the terrain between Minimal Man and Mark Stewart Group,” according to Discogs’ own PastySurprise. “There's a lot of sonic variety, including cool keyboard work and two locked grooves. If you miss the raw DIY electronic sound that characterized the 80s, this … will truly help bridge that gap.” With badge. Edition of 500.
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.
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.”
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
Smooth Sick Lights
(Zaius Tapes) LP $20.00
Mahogany Brain forged their unique audio dialect with their debut release, With (Junk-Saucepan) When (Spoon-Trigger) for the legendary Futura label in 1971. More avant-garde than prog, it speaks to the souls of the dedicated one percenters — such as the ESP Disk set — specifically patrons of The Godz and Cromagnon. But in early 1972, Mahogany Brain recorded Smooth Sick Lights, a follow-up release even more bewildering than its predecessor, yet this sat neglected until 1976 when it was issued by the Pole label. It’s hard to know what sort of impression it made on anyone beside Steven Stapleton (as his NWW list is how many have been informed of its existence). It had enough allure that the Tapioca label reissued a botched mispress in 1977, which seems to be the version that most latent hep-cats, whom knew not better, got fooled into owning. Zaius Tapes comes to the rescue once again with a stellar reissue of this exemplary diamond in the rough. For fans of the further out ’70s French prog, it goes beyond Red Noise and Fille Qui Mousse. You can see how the brain-beams emitted from this release were studied by Heratius, Gutura, and others. It’s possible Smooth Sick Lights even helped inform factions of the New York No Wave (lead guitarist Patrick Geoffois would go on to be a member of both The Contortions and James White & The Blacks). As the bard once penned, “conjecture is nine-tenths of the truth.” RIYL; Frolk Haven, Mars, Jandek, Sproton Layer. Edition of 300
Delta
(Yerevan Tapes - YER008) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Toni C. (Hiroshima Rocks Around, Trouble vs. Glue) mixes drone and ambient, steamy and phat techno beats, field recordings and soundscapes on the border between East and West. Hidden memories and unconscious sounds of past experiences are put together using tapes, synths and sequencers. Guests include Gianni Giublena Rosacroce (clarinet), Cannibal Movie’s Donato Epiro (organs), and Piovs (Moog). In manila-colored die-cut discobags, with full-color labels and insert on tracing paper, all housed in strong, picture-disc-like PVC sleeve. Edition of 500.
Les Maledictus Sound
(Dagored) LP $25.00
Recorded in 1968, reissued in 2000, The Maledictus Sound are to instrumental rock what Frankenstein was to science: a laboratory monster, a strange creature assembled from a mishmash of diverse musical sounds. Psychedelic pop, romantic ballads, tongue-and-cheek showtunes, horror movie screamadelia and mega-twisted '60s vibes. The doctor here is Jean-Pierre Massiera, the musical mastermind who gave birth to this freaky epileptic wash.
Maleficia
(Isounderscore) Used LP $3.00
An excursion into drone by Ilysea Viles Sunderman and Andy Way, utilizing voice, viola and electronics.
Run Run Run / Males Males Males
(Fishrider - FISH11) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Fishrider - FISH11) LP $20.25 (Out-of-stock)
This garage pop band from Dunedin, New Zealand crams insanely catchy, short songs with melody, propulsive guitar, helium vocals and harmonies.
A Sun To Scorch
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME96) 10-inch $12.75 (Out-of-stock)
To paraphrase our fiends at No Clean Singing: you enjoy writhing black metal extremity, and riffs that swarm with reptilian menace and hammer powerfully at the gates of doom; your pulse quickens at the sound of a drummer who rocks and blasts with mechanistic precision; you relish bestial growls that go straight for your throat with teeth bared; you crave black metal that gets stuck in your head like a pick-axe, and atmospheres of infernal menace, befitting the rising of a vengeful sun that emanates death. You know what comes next.
Bow your head, raise your clawed hands to the skies, and listen to a sample here: https://soundcloud.com/malign-official/malign-a-sun-to-scorch
Mutus Liber
(Hospital) Used LP $10.00
Debut album by Matthew Heyner, Mythopoeikon, Pat Murano. Edition of 300
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.
Asylum Lunaticum
(Nihilist - NIHIL69) LP $19.00
Masterfully unsettling, preposterous in its devotion to pleasure, the eroded clawing of bleeding fingertips complementary to the delicate and agonizing moans that cascade through rubber halls of some forgotten insane asylum, as recorded by a sick warden with enough time on her hands to engage in manipulation of the macabre document, just to enhance the creepiness and perversion. The CD of the same name on Intransitive, though no less recommendable, is a compilation; Nihilist's LP is the full, uncut, un-edited version. Edition of 250.
Bildnerei die Geisteskranken vol.1 - es ist so
(Shamanic Trance - ST1) LP $15.00
Schizophrenic sound poetry battle bearing the hallmarks of The New Finesse (guitar, assorted objects). White vinyl. Edition of 300.
Bildnerei die Geisteskranken vol.2 - Ruhe
(Shamanic Trance - ST2) LP $15.00
Glorious journey from whisper to testicle excision. Nauseating, repetitive. White vinyl. Edition of 300.
Exorcismes From All My Fingers
(Inyrdisk - IYD59) 2xLP $27.00
The Mama Bär double-album of the century — a ritualistic culmination of The Freak of Flensburg’s dark, disturbing, and emotional soul awakenings. Eight epic exorcisms and alien dream soundtracks spread over four sides. Eighty-three minutes, one unholy opus of hypnotic female emancipation. Edition of 250
MAMITORI ULITHI EMPRESS YONAGUNI SAN
25/12/13
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD14) LP $23.50 (Out-of-stock)
This savagely DIY bunch of gleeful Japanese weirdos reimagine six tracks from their self-produced acid-folk masterpiece 1 2 3 Fairy Tail Chimidoro Phenomenon Satan Inferno Dress Ha Cattlemurarete Yggdrasill Ha Wa Sasaru. Guitars are skinned alive, twisted in counterpoint or played with a cheesegrater; the frail vocal is exhausted and sweet; a trumpet plays its dying breath; the bouncy rhythm section offers a skeleton of rigour. The odd post-punk mess which spits from their amps reduces psych-rock to fluff, a scraggy trunk in which only the spinal column remains. Mamitori’s psychotic free-rock, loaded with open-tuned guitars, limps in and out of phase, at once absolutely diaphanous and indecipherable like scribbles covering a licked landscape. Nothing is ever in place, everything cracks up and frays, an atonal construction that threatens to become melodious any minute.
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.
The Coast Explodes
(Holy Mountain - 8516) LP $15.00
Their second album straddles the line between psychedelia and hard rock while introducing more progressive aspects, influenced by both the power and complexity of the natural world and the ongoing battles of light and darkness.
Pink Noise / Man Made Hill
(Inyrdisk - IYD88) split 7-inch $9.00
Two prime movers each from Montréal’s most admirable modern punks and Toronto’s relentless electro-pop sorcerer. Mark Sauner, Graeme Langdon, and Tara Desmond’s magic cash’n’carry stunners shake with tight disjointedness, while Randy Gagne mystifies with filthy tapes, blown-out beatboxes in full body-slam mode, and some hot-stepping into soulful crooning glory. Risograph-printed covers. Edition of 500.
Puzzle Answers
(Beniffer Editions) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
When dealing with weird Canadians, best to simply quote Weird Canada's Aaron Levin, who seems to know what he's talking about: "On the brink of a sexual explosion, Man Made Hill’s warbled army of synthetic bone tweak[s] the subconscious with unmitigated groove. Only Toronto could provoke such a paramount of reductive funk bursting with subterrestrial bass and xenomorphic rhythm, paving the way for incumbent beings of radiant grind." Edition of 300.
Superman Dam Fool
(Blak Skul - BSR003) LP $14.50 (Out-of-stock)
From 2012 through 2014, The Manateees (with an extra “e” to avoid confusion with some forgettable English DJ group) released single after single on Pelican Pow Wow, Goner, Tic Tac Totally, Jackshack, Ken Rock, and Total Punk. Not a one couldn’t wipe the floor with you; nothing personal, you’re just weak and can’t keep up with inspired raw lunacy. Accept it and move on. The repertoire vocalist-guitarist and Memphis lifer Abe White had built-up over the years — in The Oscars, The Guacos, Everyday Faces, Lover!, and True Sons of Thunder — was recorded with Keith on bass and Charms on drums (same Charms of NOTS fame). Blak Skul’s compilation collects almost all these Memphis-as-fuck singles, and substitutes an alternate version here and there. Edition of 550.
MANHORSE 3 THE MEATBAG / MANIMAL QUARTET
Verses b/w Hapless and Seething
(After Music Recordings) split LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Self-described as “new post wave,” Manimal Quartet is Josh Mead’s duo with Aaron Wanzerski. Their six songs here are a primal stew of pop, new wave, psychedelia and punk. Manhorse 3 The Meatbag started as Mead’s aural pipecleaner after the disintegration of Neglected Receptors; as a reaction to the cleaner pop of Manimal Quartet, this fuzzy collection of misanthropic love songs ranges from bombastic scorchers, meditations on alienation and revenge, as well as a delicate ukulele ballad. Comparisons have been made to Men’s Recovery Project, Pere Ubu, and Chrome in a fist fight with Guided by Voices. Screenprinted jacket.
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
BARBARA MANNING AND THE GO LUCKYS
One Starry Night at the Shop
(Swamp Room) LP picture disc $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Limited edition German import of The Fierce Blonde recorded live at The Shop, Spokane Washington, with the Steinbach twins. Eighteen tracks from throughout Manning’s career recorded August 2001 with impeccable sound quality. Nicely packaged in full-color sleeves with artwork by Darren Merinuk.
Slice Through Or / In Glassmetal
(Hanson - HN240) LP $17.50 (Out-of-stock)
Debut LP, three years in the making, by John Mannion of Red Light Collective and Cathode Terror Secretion. This extreme electronic composition is an ultra-dynamic mix of modern classical, electronic, noise, and power electronics techniques. Whirling electric box fan, piercing electronics, junk metal clang, screeching violins, harsh and whispered vocals, and haunting vocals by opera singer Caitlin Haughney. Silkscreen jacket, lyric sheet. Edition of 500
Antarctica
(Roaratorio - ROAR18) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
With recordings stretching back over 20 years with the Portuguese avant trio Osso Exótico and collaborations with Z’ev and Minit, Maranha follows up Marches Of The New World (2007) with two side-long excursions into monolithic drone-rock in the vein of Tony Conrad & Faust, “Venus In Furs,” La Monte Young and Terry Riley. The ensemble is driven by keyboards, strings, and hypnotized-heartbeat percussion. Like the great white expanse of the titular continent, it can be taken in simply as a glorious wash of sound; listen to it closely, however, and you’ll hear the smallest details jump out in high relief: a feather can move a mountain. 300 copies, silkscreened covers, digital download coupon included.
Salt, Ashes, Goat Skin
(Roaratorio - ROAR43) LP $15.75 (Out-of-stock)
Drummer Diana Combo, electric guitarist Filipe Felizardo, and Maranha on organ and violin are a speculative tour de force around animic and sensory principles of movement, stillness and reaction. Long drawn out semi-riffs feedback along the drifting textures of the violin and the organ like rock’s ultimate coda stretched into nowhere. Drums plodding in restraint, sustaining the drone-like vortex of electricity without ever reaching any sort of conclusion in four pieces that inhabit their own universe continually. Includes download card
Pig Magic
(Pica Disk - PICA029) 7-inch + CD $15.00
Norwegian free noise duo with guests Maja Ratkje and Lasse Marhaug.
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
From the Earth to the Spheres Vol. 7
(Opax - OPX007) split LP $75.00
The seventh volume in the From the Earth To the Spheres split vinyl LP series pairs the Opalio brothers with Christian Marclay (turntable, electronics) and Okkyung Lee (cello), who recorded their side -- where else? -- at Tonic in NYC, 2003. MCIAA’s side is also a live recording (from Italy in 2002). As with every other volume in the series, this is a limited edition of 100 copies, packaged in an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio on a 31x31cm wooden support, individually signed by the artist.
Bring Me The Head of Lasse Marhaug
(Peer Pressure Zombie) LP $14.00
Two side-long noise-scapes that’ll curl your toes while massaging your mind.
LASSE MARHAUG / PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE / YOSHIHIDE OTOMO
Explosion Course
(Pica Disk - PICA032) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Intense energy, progressive and sustained, made with guitar (Otomo), turntable and electronics (Marhaug), and drums (Nilssen-Love). Edition of 500
Harpoon
(Pica Disk - PICA040) LP $16.50
The already dense and visceral expression of acoustic improvisers Håvard Skaset on guitar, percussionist Jacob Felix Heule, and Guro Skumsnes Moe on contrabass gets transforms by Marhaug into a maelstrom of layered sheets of scraping noise, rising and collapsing simultaneously. Edition of 200.
In Praise Of Shadows
(Pica Disk - PICA045) LP $15.00
First-time collaboration by Singapore-based musician, artist, designer and curator whose stylistic oeuvre in improvised music is marked by internalized reflections on memory and loss, invisibility and indeterminacy working with the Nordic Miracle Worker himself. One side-long-track bearing a certain drone-ishness recorded during a humid all-night session at the now-defunct FluxUs record store in Singapore, backed with a more angular electronic recording captured ten years later in the daytime during the brutally cold January winter of Norway. Computer, electronics, guitar. Edition of 300
LASSE MARHAUG / GURO SKUMSNES MOE
La Región Salvaje
(Sploosh - SPLOOSH12) LP $18.00
Exquisitely heavy, skin-moistening soundtrack to Amat Escalante’s film The Untamed. With Moe on octabass, contrabass, voice and synthesizer, and Marhaug on electronics, plus Ole-Henrik Moe on violin and violincello, Kari Rønnekleiv on violins, John McCowen on bass clarinet, Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen on percussion, Jenny Hval on voice, Jacob Felix Heule on drum, Håvard Skaset on guitar, and Danishta Rivero on hydrophone.
On The Silver Globe
(Sofa - SOFALP553) LP $16.50
A stereo version of the eight-channel piece commissioned for a Trondheim art biennale, distilled into less than 30 minutes. Myhr and Marhaug’s five-part suite — recorded using analogue and modular synths, oscillators, electronics, acoustic objects, and guitar — drops the listener directly into the flow of a grittily occluded drone mixed with looping spirals of static crackle and machine thrum. It then spreads outward to enfold soft, throaty swelling noises and ethereal melodicism, before morphing from a loose, gravelly scrape and skitter into quease-inducing electronic stridulation, and guitar-based sci-fi electronica, scrunchy microsound scumble and amplified infinity roar. It finally flows into bassnote pulse, and as everything else dies away, that pulse resolves into something like the clunk of a pickup cartridge, bumping and scraping runout groove.
LASSE MARHAUG / PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE / JIM O'ROURKE
The Love Robots
(Pica Disk - PICA031) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Housing, parasites and hammering textures made with guitar (O’Rourke), electronics (Marhaug ), and drums (Nilssen-Love). Edition of 500.
Virginia Plane
(Spring Press - SP15) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
This collaboration by two heavyweights draws on the languages of musique concrète, dub, blues, power electronics, free noise and early Italian avant-garde. “Some of the harmonica work is particularly mangled,” notes Volcanic Tongue, “Squeezed through the kind of thunderous tumult of contemporary Whitehouse with protesting tones that sound like Dylan ’66 given a streamroller for a makeover… The bottom end is particularly thick and sticky, more trunk slamming than junk glamming, while a track like ‘Pyjamarama’ recalls the primitive electro-acoustic aktions of Akita-and-Null-era Merzbow.” Edition of 500.
Texar / Maria Askatu
(After Music Recordings) split LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Minneapolis-based improv duet Texar features Darren Brown (Boy Dirt Car) on electronics and recordings and Richard McCollum on guitars and theremin. Maria Askatu is a shadowy collective from Spain lead by Jarrod Olman. Their untitled collage was recorded in their Basque homeland and in Amsterdam. Silkscreened jackets. Edition of 150.
Live At Artists Space
(Feeding Tube - FTR068) LP $15.00
Both sets from the five-night music festival in May 1978 at Artists Space on Hudson Street in Tribeca. The most mysterious and bizarrely styled NY band of the late ’70s, captured at its mutational best. Tunings, structures and rhythms from a place Capt. Beefheart once called “the other side of the fence.”
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.
Marshstepper
(Chondritic Sound - CH-256) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
The debut release by these wanderers from the Sonoran desert tears apart murky electronics and commanding vocals with an almost danceable beat erupting from the mist. A storm of fire, smoke and light appears at their live performances — a melding of atmospheric drones, full of fog and winds shifting through synth and guitar textures, and the sort of industrial-techno freak-outs Infinite Beat-era Psychic TV was known for in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Includes three postcards and download card. Edition of 200
From One Table To The Other, One Table To The Next
(Seismographic Fabrics - FABRIC01) 2xLP $30.00
A sonic documentary of a series of projects, performances, exhibitions, and collaborations involving 70-year-old accordionist Jean Martens, autobionomadic visual artist Jochem vanden Ecker, electroacoustic and field recordings collective Building Transmissions, classical pianist / composer Benjamin van Esser, and White Circle Crime Club. Collects living room and kitchen dialogues, sound installation at Hannover Kunstverein, the previously released “Orange S-F,” an excerpt from White Circle Crime Club’s Untitled CD, “sonic foldings” that bring together people not in the habit of playing together, and acoustic and frequency studies from a monastery church.
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
Rubber Musique
(Milk of Burgundy - MOB001) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Rubber Musique expands Math's circus-y klezmer into a completely new, demented and dark level. A dissonant lurch replaces any sense of lighthearted playfulness, lyrics squeeze through slowly tortured throats, compositions climax into a free jazz ejaculation, percussion is more clamorous, waltzes sputter on broken legs and the marches parade into brick walls. Quintron, Jodie Mecanic (Duotron, Monotrona), and Michael Colligen (Flying Luttenbachers) recorded this in 1995 at the dark, damp basement space Milk Of Burgundy; hence the recordings' eerie other-worldliness. Hand-painted jacket.
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
Songbook 5
(Disembraining) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
The fifth edition of Mattin’s ongoing series uses “improvisation as a way of exposing structural clichés in pop and rock music” and “song structures to demystify the so-called spontaneity and freedom of improvisation.” With contributions from Joel Stern and Alex Cuffe (Sky Needle), Andrew McLellan (Cured Pink) and guitarist Dean Roberts (Thela, White Winged Moth, Autistic Daughters), it was created according to a strict set of conditions generated through an obsessively literal reiteration of the number five: five musicians record five improvised songs of five minutes each addressing five concepts described in five-word titles; a twenty-five-minute concert with five-minute sections structured by five instructions based on the song titles given to five members of the audience; vocals recorded for the five songs in the form of a singing lecture at the Victorian College of the Arts, where the audience only hears Mattin’s voice as he listens to the backing tracks on headphones; recordings of the first three parts superimposed to create a twenty-five-minute album consisting of five five-minute songs. Edition of 555.
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
They Never Learn
(Trash Ritual - TRASH039) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Second reissue of post-mortem industrial / power electronics album from Italy’s legendary Mauthausen Orchestra. Violent sound art originally released via Aquilifer Sodality 1985. Edition of 250.
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
Mazozma’s Fatufairfe
(Sophomore Lounge - SL082) 12-inch $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ma Turner (Teal Grapefruit, CROSS, Warmer Milks, Salad Influence) and John Phillip Farmer (Salad Influence, Arcane Rifles, Birddog) performing full-group versions of their songs with John Ferguson (Apples In Stereo, R. Stevie Moore, Big Fresh), David Farris (Bernie Worrell, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jack McDuff, R. Stevie Moore, Tallboys, Club Dub) and Travis McGirr (Blood Pheasant). Four songs of Kentucky art-folk, rural noise, and underground “classic” rock recorded at barn-house jams and now-legendary live performances. Packaged in an envelope with artwork by Jim Marlowe of Tropical Trash. Numbered edition of 100.
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
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.
Solo Acoustic Volume Two
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ2) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Melodic ballads and new songs from Emeralds guitarist spark new innovations and memories thought to be lost. Letterpress jacket, liner notes.
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
Everything Happens for a Reason
(Roaratorio) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
McPhee’s solo albums stand out as supreme ur-texts of his consummate improvising and compositional skills. Joining the ranks of such landmark records as Tenor, Graphics, and As Serious As Your Life, Everything Happens For A Reason features McPhee on pocket trumpet, soprano and alto saxophones, recorded live in Austria in November 2003. Limited edition of 500 copies on 180-gram vinyl, with a Judith Lindbloom silkscreen print on rice paper and liner notes by McPhee.
Solos: The Lost Tapes (1980 – 1981 – 1984)
(Roaratorio - ROAR38) LP $15.75
Material from McPhee’s personal archives that shines new light on the legendary multi-instrumentalist’s work from the early 1980s. “Wind Cycles,” for tenor saxophone, explores the permutations of breath on reed and brass, from quiet whispers to full-throated cries and back again. With “The Redwood Rag,” McPhee takes a jaunty melody and gives it a swinging workout with Steve Lacy-like precision. The free-blowing alto excursion “Ice Blu,” is in McPhee’s words, “a sound which evokes an image, which asks a question ‘What is that?’ and the answer is, a sound which evokes an image which asks a question.” “Voices,” one of his signature compositions, gets a particularly haunting treatment here on soprano with the incorporations of mesmerizing electronics. Includes a download coupon for the full album plus a bonus interview, conducted at the New Music America Festival in 1981.
Hear an excerpt from “Voices”: http://roaratorio.com/uncategorized/joe-mcphee-solos-the-lost-tapes-1980-1981-1984/
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
MEDROXY PROGESTERONE ACETATE / WARMTH
Warmth / Medroxy Progesterone Acetate
(Small Doses - dose9) split 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Both sides evolve slowly, mangle with sinewy maws of noise, and grip with hands of haunting ambience.
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.
Say No To Hate
(Ikuisuus) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Guitar, violin and electronics recorded in a wood workshop located in Christchurch, scene of New Zealand’s worst right-wing terror atrocity. This harsh noise masterwork is an affirmation of life and collaborative solidarity, one of the signature characteristics of the fully international scene from which it springs. Mixed and mastered by Lasse Marhaug. Edition of 200
The Mysteries of Extremophilic Folk
(Knotwilg - KW01) LP (lathe cut) $25.00
“Grating electronics, analogue bloops, and a total resignation to the gods of entropy” is the ruling handed down by The Wire. “Meek guides his set-up into uniquely strange moments of delightful disorder. Submerged major key synth melodies play vital roles throughout, weaving … between small vacant spaces amid the mania.” Cover by Indonesian tripper Wedhar Riyadi.
We Contain Multitudes
(God In The Music - GITM002) LP (lathe cut) $25.00
Ecological ecstasy music for worms and stars by the high priest of his own soil-based religion. Meek’s sunny and sprawling palette recalls classic immersive electronic works by synthesizer legends Terry Riley and Suzanne Ciani.
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
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.
FRANCISCO MEIRINO / DAVE PHILLIPS
We Are None Of Us
(Misanthropic Agenda - MAR035) 2xLP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Electronics, processed sound, and field recordings meticulously arranged to form a dark and unsettling narrative. The 2xLP version of this extremely dynamic electro-acoustic studio album contains two additional tracks not on the CD and comes with a download card for a recording of the duo’s full September 2010 performance at Ertz Festival in Spain. Edition of 200.
C.C.D.E. Music
(Little Big Chief) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
In the hazy afterburn of the lyrically candid Backward Path (Northern Spy, 2012), words are half-smothered in the molted earth on C.C.D.E. Music. It’s a backyard wedding of Assemblage Blues (Siltbreeze, 2011) and Excerpts & Halfspeeds (Kye, 2012), with Lard Free and Yuzo Iwata on the bride’s flank. The voyage into the sunset of these two involves a roaring mutant chassis and plenty of muddy vistas off the backroads of songform.
Excerpts (& Half-Speeds)
(Kye - KYE16) LP $15.50 (Out-of-stock)
Throughout his fifteen years of service as foot-soldier of garage rock, Melchior has willingly tested the flexibility of an otherwise stagnant genre. Here he glues together fractured sketches, riffs, and run-throughs; what emerges is something akin to Another Green World for the Fuck Off generation. With insert. Edition of 450. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2012
For Letha
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Four tracks of instrumental, acoustic guitar.
Happiness Is Overrated
(Ultra Eczema - UE191) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Beautiful recordings that sink as deep as some of Robert Wyatt’s, possessed by a natural melancholia, the horror of saying goodbye translated in an incredible psychedelic sea of field recordings, guitar, synth and recordings of Letha Diane Rodman Melchior’s voice. With insert and sticker. Edition of 200. Listen to a five-minute excerpt here: https://soundcloud.com/ultra-eczema/dan-melchior-happiness-is-overrated-excerpt
Home Of The Blues
(Kye - KYE41) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
The hardest-working troub in Fairlawn destabilizes his natural songwriting process and tests the durability of the stressed blues idiom. A sincere and multi-faceted presentation of damage and survival as sound. With 18 x 24 poster. Edition of 400.
Melpomene
(Idea) LP $20.00
At times caustic, dubbed out and/or haunting, Melchior removes himself from established schools of sound. Recorded on a little Sony mini cassette recorder. Some of Melpomene is live (pots and pans being hit, etc.) and slowed down; some of it was recorded off of records and tapes, blurred to fit the tonal needs. The influence of Letha Rodman Melchior is in evidence, their combined techniques explored through years of creative collaboration. Melodies arrive as well, with the melancholy ballad “Mall Walker” in particular evoking images of Satie if he recorded for Vinyl-On-Demand. Melchior has, does, and will run the gamut of conventional, non-conventional, and bastard hybrids. 180-gram vinyl
Plays ‘The Greys’
(Ever/Never - E/N015) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Songs and sonic vignettes that dip down deep into life’s trenches, where light fights to be noticed, misery, monotony and melancholy mingle and bleed into one another. In Melchior’s non-academic approach to musique concrete’s a-musical gestures, field recordings bump up against back-porch guitar plucking that morphs into radio declarations by the good Christians among us. Midway through the album’s hazy meanderings, “Death Has No Mercy” jumps into an uptempo backwoods jaunt, because the guitar is always there, providing a means for expression and catharsis.
Slow Down Tiger
(Starlight Furniture Company - *27) LP $12.00
Two side-long pieces by The Dauphin Of Durham. “Tongues” is a grand, found-sound tape composition mosaic of mostly dissenting voices (Chilean poet Nicanor Parra; a clip from Sult, the Swedish film based on Knut Hamsun’s Hunger; Russian absurdist / surrealist Daniil Kharms; Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins; author of modernist masterpiece Briggflatts Basil Bunting; the eternally disenchanted Alan Dugan; Victorian heritage booster John Betjeman; and field recordings of the 1990 poll tax riots in London). On the flip, the obvious touchstone of “Hospital Poem” is minimalist drone à la Basinski, Harold Budd, or Tony Conrad, though Melchior’s very personal approximation of the subtlest of ectoplasmic melodies repeated over and over ends up more dissonant and darker than one would expect. With its tightly arranged, graceful marbling, as if restrained by a massage therapist, this elegant sausage would make the ideal soundtrack for an all-Lego remake of Solaris. Excerpt from “Tongues”: http://youtu.be/KEaoeutQ3Sw
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.”
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
The End
(Enterruption - ENT23) LP $40.00 (Out-of-stock)
2008 reissue of the live cassette (Enterruption 2004), recorded in 2004 in Los Angeles. Tracks include: At A Crawl, Black Stooges, Night Goat, Revolve/Brain Center At Whipples, Let It All Be, Hooch, Mombius Hibatchi, The Bloat, The Bit. Pink vinyl. One copy in stock, number 420/500.
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
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
Glass Walking
(Pica Disk - PICA 035) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Early recordings by the infamous Australian noise duo Oren Ambarchi and Nik Kamvissis, with producer Anthony Maher assisting and performing on some tracks. Fans of the group’s later material, after Brendan Walls had joined, for example, will be struck by the almost total absence of drums and guitars, and the prominence of electronics and vocals — revealing the missing link between Hanatarash, Maurizio Bianchi and the monkeys in the Evolution Revolution. This is noise music history in reverse. Also includes the first Menstruation Sisters live concert, a ferocious and glorious performance nine-and-a-half minutes long.
Listen to “Give Blood” here: https://youtu.be/4j6qAekFGOo
Kakapo
(Oaken Palace - OAK010) LP $14.25 (Out-of-stock)
Starting with an intense machine hum, Kakapo shrieks, stutters, wails and maintains the all‐obliterating industrial drone for thirty-three minutes spread over two sides of green vinyl. Amid electronic solar flares and insect metal clanging, it’s a harsh curtain of endless crushing, rumbling immersion. Simultaneously soothing and wild, machinelike and warm, it’s a rare and strange creature, like the endangered bird (a flightless parrot native to New Zealand whose total population is below 200) that the album raises money to protect. Profits will be donated to the Kakapo Recovery Trust. Edition of 500. Includes free download code.
Lowest Music & Arts 1980-83
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD108) 10xLP $225.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING IN OCTOBER. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. This week’s comprehensive anthology of the Godfather of Noise collects early works selected and mastered by Masami Akita. It seems little needs to be said about Merzbow at this point, but even as early as 1985, Lightworks described it, “Imagine being surrounded in hot, molten electronic / industrial noise.... [H]arsh edges giving way to a deep bass deluge of sound. It pours out and into you.... This music could be how you feel three seconds into a Space Shuttle lift-off. Surging, intense, at the outer limits of control, and lack thereof.” Most of the audio material here was released in small editions on Akita’s Lowest Music and Arts tape label, the predecessor to his more well known ZSF imprint. LP1: Hyper Music 2, a previously unreleased recording from 1980. LP2: the second side of Metal Acoustic Music, originally released 1981/82 (first side was on Merzbox). LP3 and LP4: Merz Collection 007 and Tridal Production, both from 1981, containing studio and live sessions, and raw-material (excerpted on Merzbox). LP5 and LP6: the complete Mechanization Takes Command 1 & 2, originally released as c90 in early 1982 (excerpted on Merzbox); LP7 and LP8: Solonoise 1 & 2 (the former is on Merzbox; the latter is in its original and complete form). LP9 and LP10: Yahatahachiman and Escape Mask, two recordings from 1983 that represent an almost hidden side of Merzbow – walls of psychedelic, atonal guitar-noise in combination with the technoid-sounding drum-machine. Black varnished and silkscreened wooden box.
I Remember How Free We Were
(Premier Sang - PS005) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Dead jazz” by Yves Botz (Dustbreeders) on guitar and voice, and Christophe Sorro on drums. With chaotic and always changing participation of Jac Berrocal (Catalogue), Junko (Hijokaidan), Masayosh Urabe, Thierry Delles (Dustbreeders), and Cathy Heyden. Recorded live in a basement and a bunker on a video camera. Perfectly raw and dirty sound.
Message Bag
(Destijl) 2xLP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Rife with history, and yet clearly focused on the future, Message Bag returns to an unresolved system, as an alternative to the rest of your choices, clearly inspired by a 1970s NYC we all wish we’d have seen and heard. Thick. Includes newsprint poster. Packaged in hand-sewn cloth bag.
Messages
(Destijl - IND076) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Visual artist Taketo Shimada moved to New York in late 80s and has been making music with Tres Warren of Psychic Ills since 2006, exploring a hybrid of raga, techno and drone rock. Odds are someone walking down Canal Street in NYC will hear the sound of Messages coming from a fifth floor walkup: sine waves, bass loops, guitars, samplers and turntables mashing into a storm of slowly shifting repetitions, heavy, monotone low-end and smoky echoes that conjure unexpected subsonic grooves. Dusted called their Social Registry seven-inch "heavy, humid drone, pregnant with 4am electricity and, in the end, thick fuzzy beats. A beautiful surprise, engaging even in its abstract tendencies."
Heretic Channel
(Quasi Pop - QPOP0545) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Russian cult band Messer Chups continues to explore the most horrible, cynical and vicious side of the classic rock’n’roll sound -- groovy surf riffs, Fender Jazzmasters, spring reverbs, trash drums – with this imagined soundtrack for cheap, nasty exploitation B-movies. Evil martians, flying saucers, sexy babes, the living dead and dancing zombies, spies, voodoo, coffins, vampires, Satanic orgies in castles, sci-fi machines, boobs, and mutants. 180g vinyl, gatefold jacket printed on retro recycled paper. Edition of 200.
Broke In
(Emerald Cocoon - EC013) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first of two companion albums recorded by jet-lagged and delirious Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott following a month-long European tour in 2013. A dark energy pervaded the session, their first in a legitimate studio. Mourning brass sprayed with guitar hail. Brut raga possession, dark strings chime the universal moment, unconscious sermons delivered in a warm skull. Not conversation, but glossolalia. Not language, but meaning. Cover art by Dan Melchoir, né Melchior. Jackets silkscreened by Alan Sherry at Siwa. Numbered edition of 100.
Broke Out
(Emerald Cocoon - EC014) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second of two companion albums recorded by jet-lagged and delirious Helga Fassonaki and Andrew Scott following a month-long European tour in 2013. A dark energy pervaded the session, their first in a legitimate studio. Mourning brass sprayed with guitar hail. Brut raga possession, dark strings chime the universal moment, unconscious sermons delivered in a warm skull. Not conversation, but glossolalia. Not language, but meaning. Cover art by Dan Melchoir, né Melchior. Jackets silkscreened by Alan Sherry at Siwa. Numbered edition of 100.
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.
Zero Tolerance For Silence
(Coq au Vinyl) LP $25.00
2022 reissue of the 1994 “jazz Metal Machine Music.” Loud, dissonant layers of electric guitars and overdriven amplifiers are in stark contrast to the smooth, melodic jazz upon which the Metheny legend is built. At the time, some theorized it was a contract-ending “fuck you” to his label, while others in-the-know swear it’s a pure expression of sounds Metheny had dreamt of making for some time. The man himself describes it as “a 2-D view of a world in which I am usually functioning in a more 3-D way. It is entirely flat music, and that was exactly what it was intended to be.” Knowing who to believe is the first hurdle with any masterpiece of free improvisation, so lace up them running shoes, Pierre. 140-gram vinyl. Paste-on cover with obi. Hand-stamped edition of 333
Anamnestic Tincture
(Roaratorio - ROAR15) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
The performances on this live album by virtuoso musical carpenter Paul Metzger were culled from many hours of concert recordings. Side one, the public debut of his modified banjo, was recorded in 2002 at a church-turned-underground art space in Minneapolis. One of his most memorable compositions, "After Milo," later turned up as an untitled improvisation on his CD for the Chairkickers label. Jumping ahead six years (and several more banjo alterations later) to side two, the glittering "Orans" gets a workout at a memorial show for the artist Matt Zaun. As an acknowledgment of the occasion, Metzger also gives a one-time-only performance -- "Dark Green Water" -- on another of his mutant instruments: an acoustic guitar with the body drilled out to accommodate a cymbal set into its face, and ten assorted strings of varying lengths laid over the top, giving it a particularly metallic and dissonant sound. Limited edition of 425 copies, with an original vintage snapshot mounted on each cover. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
Gedanken Splitter
(Roaratorio - ROAR14) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Paul Metzger’s modified banjo is tricked out with additional sympathetic raga strings, although Gedanken Splitter is informed by more than Eastern drone music alone. Recorded in the same period as Deliverance (Locust Music 2007), this is more jagged and aggressive; Metzger winds improvisations around thornier threads than on his previous releases, and moves even further away from anything resembling typical banjo fare. Mesmerizing and singular. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2008.
Offset
(Doubtfulsounds - DOUBT11) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Composed from field recordings made in French printing facilities, Offset is a sound document about the over-determined environment of a work place, a journey into the depth of the mechanical and industrial energy of rotary presses, and electroacoustic re-composition and manipulation. Both damaging and alienating by-product of the production process, the musical dimension of the recordings are marked by a hundred years of mechanical fantasies (as cultivated by the Futurists, industrial music, and techno). The first side explores rhythmic patterns of five mechanical cycles; the second focuses on two fluxes and continuous phenomena. Edition of 300.
Resonating Upon Harmonic Ground
(Second Sleep - SS036) LP (one-sided) $16.00
Beautiful musique concrete and analog synth that explores the interaction between field recordings and simple sine waves. In Meyers's balanced suite, individual elements lose their origins in favor of composition. Edition of 150.
The Grey Lynn Homeless Set
(Emerald Cocoon - EC006) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
New Zealand-born Tokyo-based physicist Mark Sadgrove uses site-specific recordings, lyrical domesticity, systematically illogical recording choices, completely brutalized fragments of bone-dry pointillist acoustic guitar strung only with low Es, invented instruments, real-time Linux C-sound programming, obsessively repeated lyrical fragments, an almost Buddhist sense of sound-as-object, and seemingly random electronic beats jumping across the stereo spectrum to deliver two sub-sub-sub lo-fi acoustic folk songs saturated in haze. Volume four in Emerald Cocoon’s Alone Together series. Edition of 300.
Michael and the Mumbles
(Destijl - IND074) LP $13.00 (Out-of-stock)
Before Michael Yonkers revised the history of recorded music with the clarion chords of Microminiature Love, he was in Michael And The Mumbles, who made this self-titled LP in 1966 -- a naive, teenage trip through garage band moves typical of the era at first glance, but repeated listening reveals a darkness beneath the crisp, winsome visage. Same characteristics that make Micro the singularly original piece that is (just slightly less visible is all): emotionally bleak themes, dissonant undercurrents, and recklessly wild performances. So, once again, a Michael Yonkers LP is going to turn the world upside down, make the college girls scream and leave you to wonder how many more times this can happen. Vinyl only, with a digital download coupon, made from 45-year-old master tapes that, aside from a glitch on "Cold Town," sound amazing.
La Maison De La Justice
(Éditions Vibrisse) LP $20.00
Together since 2006, Alexandre Kittel, Claude Spenlehauer, François Heyer, and Sébastien Borgo’s quartet can be described as gross improv, illiterate, savagery amongst civilization, collective strain, drool and spit, mental deficiency, foul breath from brass instruments, exploiting human idiocy, musical pornography, sound rubbish chute that respects not anything nor anyone. Silkscreened cover. Edition of 199 copies.
Micro_Penis
(Doubtfulsounds - DOUBT03) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
An underworld heap exported from Mulhouse, France. Sébastien Borgo (Sun Plexus 2, l’Autopsie a révélé que la mort était due à l’autopsie, Ogrob, French Doctors), Alexandre Kittel, François Heyer (Ptaz) and Claude Spendelauer (Doutbfulsounds) seem to be going for a name drop in the same breath as “mental deficiency.” Having escaped from the mental hospital of Rouffach in southern Alsace, they scream, they growl, and the strait jacket is never far away. Comparable to a modern variation of Cromagnon’s “Ritual Feast of the Libido.” For lovers of horror movies, art brut, cruelty. Includes sticker, two postcards. Cover is black paper silkscreened on both sides. Edition of 300. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009.
Schlim
(Doubtfulsounds - DOUBT14) LP $12.00
For the third and final installment in Micro_penis’s Doubtful Sounds trilogy, it was collectively agreed upon that no band member could be chemically restrained. For a psychotic, as we all know from experience, can only ever be himself when freed from treatment, thus allowing the full expression of his otherwise suppressed insanity. Another self-imposed stipulation was that during each session, everyone would use a different instrument, be it acoustic or electronic, regardless of mastery. Et voilà — a broad range of dissimilar pieces, a violent rupture in playing modes and tones, the direct result of the huge interpersonal tension that was present. Includes postcard. Edition of 300.
Tolvek
(Doubtfulsounds - DOUBT07) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
With not one but two band members spending time in mental hospitals since the release of the first Micro_Penis LP, and two others embarking on year-long meditative retreats in a Zen temple in the south of Italy, recording sessions for Tolvek (Alsatian for “moron”) were therefore delayed. This LP documents moments when inner demons had the upper hand over the mental health of K., S., H., and O., transformed each time into an outlet, and exorcised. With medication and therapeutic workshops with artist Anne Zimmerman, K. and S. sculpted creatures from vegetable peelings and stuff found in the hospital garbage bins — hybrids of sexual obsession and vegetable shapes. Zimmerman proposed to develop some of their work with rubber. Each copy of the LP comes with one of their “sexual rubber beasts.” Edition of 300. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2011
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.
Since My Baby Left Me
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. “A ghoulish, aural hellscape as dazzling as it is devilish. Flickers of Richard Earl’s The Egg Store Ilk and Esplendor Geometrico’s Eg1 ferociously stalk the perimeters, pushing a crescendo that ultimately detonates like a chain fight between Parable of Arable Land vs. Metal Machine Music. Hear what it means to open up & bleed.” Previously released by Loki Tapes in 2017, this edition of 300 includes hand-stamped insert and 12pp zine.
Лоб
(Inu Wan Wan) LP $28.50
Mikhail Mineral modulates contingencies from the underbelly of the ouroboros of sound and music. This solo recording by a member of the Moscow ensemble Asian Women On The Telephone rotates through little instruments unimpeded by time. “Each feedback piercing with a sour blinding flash, each noise background gnawing with dry, slobberless teeth from futile attempts to connect one tech-organ to another struck annihilating, but never completely blows at the beast, great and immortal, varying its power from a barely audible whisper in an empty box to loud rumble in the mountains.”
New European Order
(Praxis Dr. Bearmann - TH12) 3xLP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Industrial percussion following the path of Test Dept. (albeit harsher), released in 1996, using musical percussion installations, tools, conventional drums, self-made wind instruments and power electronics. Part of the "Statement Trilogy." The sixth side is blank. The flap that seals the jacket shut is kind of munched and there is some scuffing along the same edge, so we're listing this as used. Vinyl is near-mint.
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.
Relief
(Helen Scarsdale - HMS025) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Uncommon solo work by a Climax Golden Twin and noted globe-trotting, time-traveling curator of esoterica. Millis's fever dream of blurred harmonics and ethnomusicological spelunking repeatedly returns to variations on a peculiar yet beautifully serpentine drone, whose twinkling acoustic properties meld the hallucinatory mouth-music of the Bangladeshi Murung people and the curved air hypnosis of Terry Riley. Millis bookends and interrupts his mysterious miasma with comedic interludes snatched from antique 78s, maudlin piano tone-clusters, and teleported crescendos of spectral ballroom waltzes. This polyglot raga-drone of daytime somnambulism and psychedelic slipperiness speaks to the uneasy borders at psychological, cultural, and geophysical states of being. Oh, to be a human on this planet. Includes digital download card. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2013
Wigry
(Monotype - MONO006) 2xLP $28.00
Instrumentation within this electronic music orchestra of ten-ish musicians ranges from analog (Thomas Lehn) and digital synthesizers (Marcus Schmickler), amplified objects and old analog equipment (Gert-Jan Prins) to software designed especially for improvisation (Phil Durrant); the line up varies from improvisers who started in '60s (Keith Rowe) to a younger generation of electronic musicians (Christian Fennesz); its aesthetics float from space-jazz (Rafael Toral) to noise (Peter Rehberg). Their massive sound does not sacrifice sensitivity for site-specific acoustic and social restraints; new concepts for each performance guarantee thrills. Wigry was performed in a church on a dark and stormy night. Each musician, seated by the long table placed between two rows of benches, had a separate loudspeaker. Despite regular church reverb, there is no cloud of noise, just sounds in the air coming from somewhere by someone.
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.
Mimyriad
(Streamline - 1001) LP $40.00
Originally recorded between 1991 and 1993, and then reworked for this 1999 reissue. Andreas Martin, Silverman, Christoph Heeman, Edward and Elke Ka-Spel, and Jim O'Rourke create beautiful moments amid swathes of gaseous analogue and brain-melt guitar, dark cavernous drones and motionless organ hums, expansive alien tapestries and soundtracks to the wanderings of disturbed somnambulists everywhere. Purple vinyl. Hand-numbered #216/550. Sealed.
De Revolutionibus: Sound Homage To Copernicus
(Other Minds) LP $30.00
Through repetition and minimalist processes, the legendary text-sound poet strips words of their literal definitions, with layers of varying fidelity of the vocal recording further obscuring intelligibility. De Revolutionibus combines voice with found sound, synthesizer, and drum machine accompaniment, at once a continuation and expansion of the vast corpus that the artist has built over his decades-long career, vacillating between something like noise assemblage and mutant hip hop. Elements of glitch music, pulsing drums, and grooving low frequencies are paired with more traditional elements of phonetic poetry. Minarelli’s extraterrestrial hybrid is part avant-pop and part maximalist Dada treatise. With color insert that includes notes by the composer.
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.
Minitel
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD2) 7-inch $7.25 (Out-of-stock)
“Ripe with schizophrenic angst,” our friends at Siltblog can't help but notice, “The A-side is clearly borne out of the avant soil once trod upon by Ilitch and DDAA, while the flip sounds like the band harvested an entire field of wormwood, distilling it into a noxious absinthe of Swans-like potency…. [B]lind carnage … follows…. Bruit-Direct is growin' real live monsters, no two ways about it.” Both guitarists also play in Sister Iodine.
Live In Athens
(Phase! - PHR95) LP (one-sided) $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
This physical and vital set of vocal pirouettes and juxtapositions will send you flying. Free improv sound poetry using nothing but voice (“the original instrument,” as Joan La Barbara would say). An all acoustic performance, totally devoid of electronics, and yet at times resembling electronic music. Screen-printed covers. Edition of 300.
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.
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.
Mlehst / Mutant Ape
(Turgid Animal - TA185) split 7-inch $11.35
Harsh building ambience from Mutant Ape, backed with Mlehst’s tonal experiment on the flip, really soothing.
The Difficulty In Crossing A Field
(Hospital) 2xLP $30.00
On this chance meeting of musique concrète and pornography, previously released on CDR in 1998 by Bandaged Hand Produce, the under-heralded master of British sound collage — more sinister and rawer than Nurse With Wound — juxtaposes surrealist electronics with abstracted audio stories. Eerie and mysterious, the secret world of one man’s fetishes hidden away in nature. Edition of 250.
Caligula
(What The ... - WHAT014) LP (one-sided) $17.00
Rare vinyl outing by Amanda Warner (0th, Triangle, and techbrain / wingperson / producer for a number of bands and projects over many years). Here is an original version of "Caligula" with a "pre-capella" version as its companion. Maximum vocal harmony and beat, with synth lines twisting around vocal lines and harmonizing. Caligula, maximum pleasure in your house. Cut at 45 RPM so you can play it at 33 when you absolutely have to. Silkscreen cover designed by Paul Coors (the baby blue translucent ink on this is to die for). Edition of 138.
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
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.
Thread Bare
(Alberts Basement) 7-inch $12.00
Solo vocal project by Melbourne's Christopher Hill of Paeces, Gauntlet, Gugg, Galactic Locksmith, and a million others. According to the lad's amazingly spelled MySpace page, "Moffarfarrah tranverses time pushing bending and proding time within the space of the mouth and pedals, precusion, organs, and amplifires, casting spores of posi-charged change in little and big omnipresent ways, gurgles, squeaks, moans, new languages, abstract opera, moduals of existence, tea swilling, friendly chat and chants."
Moist Fist
(Rise - RR121) LP $20.00
Lounge music for acid-heads from 1993 by the guitar player of Ed Hall. Eerie keyboards and fat bass lines soak this record like a sponge. Disgusted and weird, or in other words, what Texans call "pretty good." Covers silkscreened by Frank Kozik.
Come Around
(All Gone) 7-inch $8.50
Mole House tarry in a minimal yet complex electric folk truism. Where few dare to tread, this trio moseys along some no-frills fifth dimension. If their true stories and lost chords receive the attention they demand, a captivating sense of juxtaposition comes full circle between lyrics and notes. File next to Un or Wreck Small Speakers getting ashed on by sluggish narco Gibson Brothers blues.
Hey Come My Way
(Quemada - QUE003) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
The debut of prime bummer pop by members of Mad Nanna and White Woods, with a bit more jangle and hook than is typical of the former, sloppier than the latter.
Ein Dusterer Winter Kommt
(Legion Blotan) 7-inch $11.00
Two black metal tracks from prolific and experimental Ukrainians that utilize raw guitars, drum machine and keyboard mixed with menacing, depressive vocals. Edition of 250.
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
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
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
Massive Ejaculation
(Beniffer Editions) 7-inch $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Lacking sense and sobriety, St. Petersburg resident Phil Wolotkin is the most disoriented electronic composer on the planet. He counts among his skills, dizzy toilet bowl mornings, cut up editing to the millisecond, and mockery of Wolf Eyes. The 10 x 10, 18pp screenprinted book (folding out to 10 x 40, with a sewn pocket for the seven-inch) includes art by Jacob Horwood, Sekitani Norihiro, Dylan Nyoukis, Fatboobs, Jesjit Gill, Andrew Zukerman, Jeff Garcia, Zeesy Powers. Edition of 150.
Bamboo For Two
(Olde English Spelling Bee) 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
MONS VENERIS / MORTE INCANDESCENTE
O Fim Do Teu Ser / Designios Do Fim
(Legion Blotan) split 7-inch $8.75
A truly evil and all-consuming split from two of the greatest hordes of Iberia. Edition of 250
JEAN-MARC MONTERA / THURSTON MOORE / LEE RANALDO
Les Anges Du Péché
(Dysmusie - DYSLP1) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Side-long electric guitar duets, one by Moore and Montera recorded in New York 1997, one by Ranaldo and Montera recorded in Marseille 2010. Gatefold jacket, insert, 180g vinyl.
JEAN-MARC MONTERA / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
Union Of The Supreme Light
(Starlight Furniture Company - *28) LP $20.00
Joining Maurizio and Roberto Opalio on their fourth album for Starlight Furniture Co., legendary French-Corsican guitarist and co-founder of Groupe de Recherche et d’Improvisation Musicales brings his noisy lyricism to three long tracks of oddly sensual and animalistic space howl. As their many past collaborations attest, My Cat Is An Alien’s self-sustaining biosphere is an environment where the surreal dreamscapes of mavericks and eccentrics can flourish. Jean-Marc Montera’s home-made guitar table, various objects, and electronics forge metallic ribbons that twitch between the impossibly distant clangs of gigantic spores, while Maurizio (on home-made double-bodied string instrument and pedal effects) and Roberto (on alientronics, pedal effects, and modified electronic devices) set worms adrift in a zero-gravity aviary stocked with narcotized satsuma fowl. Roberto adds more disorientation to the trio’s fog-blurred horizon lines with wordless vocalizations that could pass for billowing laments hooted by mutant sea mammals with enoki mushrooms growing on their larynxes. Includes download card. Edition of 350.
Chapel Perilous
(Fragment Factory - FRAG23) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
The debut vinyl release and first solo album proper by this Paris-based audio/visual artist and curator of the Erratum label follows collaborations with Charlemagne Palestine, Julien Ottavi and The Master Musicians of Joujouka. Montessuis de- and re-composes recordings made throughout the past eight years, drawing on his voice as the main tool, delivering a frantic twenty-three-track opus of cut-up noise poetry. 140g vinyl. Edition of 317. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2012
Postcards 1981-86
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD106) 2xLP $45.00
New York City’s king of ingenious DIY electronics has long been driven by curiosity for the off-beat and an irresistible enthusiasm for sound experimentation and process-oriented performance. Montgomery’s early ’80s multi-channel sound works were often performed in total darkness. His music is dense, full of polyrhythms and counter harmonies, layered with controlled yet randomly pulsing, bleeping synthesizers and drum boxes – though he began with electronic toys, cheap synthesizers, household gadgetry, and electric machines (including ice crusher, aquarium pump, refrigerator, shoe shine machine, hand massager, and laminator). The twenty-two tracks on the first platter are compiled from the casettes Gen Ken & Equipment (1981), Collaborations (1982), and Kalkreuth Keks (1986), rounded out by several more tracks recorded live under the name KMZ with Michael Zodorozny of Crash Course in Science. The second platter delivers nineteen tracks, sourced from songs from Beatmusik (Sound Of Pig, 1988) and Room to Roam (Out Of The Blue 1984), plus three previously unreleased tracks from the same period, and other KMZ collaborations.
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.
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.”
New Sky Dragon
(Krayon Recordings - KR016) LP $18.00
Beautifully self-recorded heavy psych by the three-man cosmic research team formally known as the Nackt Insecten Trio. Drum-clouds, synthesizer atmospheres, anti-gravity percussion accents, and saturating feedback zones. Featuring members of Lanterns, Eye Shaking Kingdom. 180g vinyl.
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.
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
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
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 / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN
From the Earth to the Spheres Vol. 1
(Opax - OPX001) LP $75.00
Moore’s 21-minute piano improv “American Coffin” recalls textures on Dave Burrell’s Echo LP and some of Stockhausen’s wilder moments. Feedback splinters add a layer of fragmentation, as do howling guitar musical collage inserts, permeated by a cloud of dust and debris. My Cat Is An Alien’s “Brilliance In The Outer Space,” influenced by early American minimalism, flows through inner and outer dimensions. As with every other volume in the series, this is a limited edition of 100 copies, packaged in an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio on a 31x31cm wooden support, individually signed by the artist.
Solo Acoustic Volume Five
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ5) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Solo, untreated, 12-string compositions, subtitled 12 String Meditations For Jack Rose.
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
Mordecai
(Killertree - KTR14) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Bona fide math genius Elijah Bodish totally gets the theories linking cubism to geometry, while his brother Holt subsists on frozen pizzas and has this '66 Sunset Strip look any droog would knife for. Together they churn like devil-don't-care Swell Maps on Benadryl, Neil Young bootlegs (strung-out era) and The Fall, fresh out of a woodpile. Recorded in an abandoned YMCA bathroom with high ceilings, their LP is abrasive, crude and bombastic -- a serious lo-fi crusher that mixes a still-unheralded genre (rural punk rock) with muddy, Mansonesque flower-power. And not a whiff of shitty ol' irony anywhere. Because the brothers were born at Dead shows (1989 and 1992 tours, respectively), it's only appropriate that the silkscreened jackets are printed with glow-in-the-dark ink.
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
Department of Heraldry
(Open Mouth - OM56) LP $25.50
You are more than welcome to disagree with Julia Cafritz when she says that the Sightings guitarist “has always had this really great guitar sound, only partly courtesy of all those shitty pedals he insists on using,” an option which if exercised will earn the holder a swift punch in the throat. “He’s not coming at this from a Pharoah Sanders-worshipping, free jazz-loving sensibility. Rather, I hear his home town, Detroit. Department of Heraldry is scuzzy and raw-sounding, punctuated with … utter desolation. Moments build, only to collapse again. There are even funky grooves but, of course, they fall apart. It’s fucking great.” The first volume in Open Mouth's solo guitar series. Edition of 300
Prism
(Ultramarine - UM017) 2xLP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Upright bassist Parker is one of the last men standing who, according to Derek Bailey, still plays "pure free jazz," while Morgia (Control Unit, The Right Moves, Quivers) here reaches the top-level of avant guitar, his sounds ranging from Stockhausen’s tape experiments to the saxophones of Braxton and Evan Parker. Morgia's alien sound finds an excellent match in Parker's slide whistle and a strange Spanish reed instrument called gralle. During the making of this recording, Parker asserted: “This is the music I have always had in my mind, the music I have been dreaming about. Music that inspires me with visions of colors, like the light reflecting through a prism."
Call Back Your Dogs
(Precious Metals - PM98) LP $75.00 (Out-of-stock)
Music for bowed steel-stringed acoustic guitar. Cut at 45 rpm, playable at any speed. Hand-painted and drawn jacket. With obi. Edition of 163
MICHAEL MORLEY / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / RAMONA PONZINI / LEE RANALDO
Live @ Sensational Fix
(Starlight Furniture Company - *25) LP $15.00
As part of the 2008 exhibition Sensational Fix, with a focus on Sonic Youth’s multi-disciplinary activities since 1981, My Cat Is An Alien performed live with long-time collaborator Ramona Ponzini, Michael Morley of Dead C, and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. Side B features solo pieces by each of the five members of this extemporaneous ensemble. Stills from the live footage shot by curator Roland Groenenboom appear on the color insert.
Oceans / Quarters
(Spring Press - SP30) 10-inch (lathe cut) $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Cold sweats, claustrophobia, and the inevitable swirling comedown the morning after Saturday Night Fever. Numbered edition of 70.
Drip Water Hollow Out Stone
(Ever/Never - E/N037) 12-inch $16.75 (Out-of-stock)
Murk and mystery are the keys to this UK unit’s menace-pulsing wormhole. Small gestures, strangled vocal cries and seemingly random guitar/drum patterns, disturbing logic, rhythms clicking and reverberating, throbbing and whirring anxiety, unpredictable sound-swells, stuttering, a molten eruption.
Mosquitoes
(Mosquitoes - MOS002) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Zomboid-rhythms buttress smoked bass-throbs spiked with strung-out guitar figures, shot through with percussive seizures sucked into the void. Pre-conscious tongues pierce the mix, interweaving with extraneous ambient dust picked up on tape-heads. Primitive in means yet myriad in scope, five tracks culled from urgent live takes re-configured via a cubist-prism. Numbered edition of 121
s/t
(Mosquitoes - MOS001) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Broken, atonal guitar scree, ultra-minimal half-jazz percussion and nervous bass probing. This trio from southeast England reduces songs to a few desolate lines. Diecut sleeve, fold-out insert, stamped labels. Edition of 100. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2016
Here’s two minutes for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2VtsPW9Ek0
Mother of Fire
(Destijl - IND082) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Inspired by Krautrock's rhythmic throb and the gutterized / Behead the Prophet stance that once seemed to run up and down the West Coast (where MOF have called home for some time) -- filtered through post-Spacemen sensibilities, fueled with violin, bass and drum -- this is one disjointed listen that evokes things you've heard before in a completely surprising and fresh way.
In Labour
(Pica Disk - PICA033) LP $22.50
Debut solo album by Norwegian vocal performer whose distinct way of working with her voice has a strong focus on intervals, repetition and texture. Recordings were made indoors and in outdoor environments, to give things a site-specific field recording vibe.
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
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.
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.
No Class b/w Motorhead
(Polygram) Used 12-inch $30.00
White label promo with two track from No Sleep 'til Hammersmith album
Mountain Cult
(Little Big Chief) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Fractured, drugged-out, blues-y, negative rock” according to our friends at Permanent, “Sliming its oozing wounds through the filth-filled streets…. Eight dirges of loose and lice-infested, bum-out punk with caveman trashcan thud drumming, syrupy bass groove, tattered guitar ramblings and moaned vocals that sound as if they were sung from behind a ball gag. Grimy and grim…,” with enough hazy stumble to keeps it all coagulated and alive. “A wonderful pile of rock’n’ roll mush,” says YellowGreenRed. “The bassist is the only one who seems to keep a beat…. [T]he drummer rarely uses two sticks at a time, just kinda smacking his kit when he feels like it. And don’t even get me started on the guitarist … if any actual notes are ever played, it’s accidental.” Edition of 300
Mouse Sluts
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD18) 12-inch $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dan Melchior, Graham Lambkin, Letha Rodman Melchior and Glen (who we hope Guinness will recognize as the world’s most recorded budgie) under the influence of oddball reports from regional newspapers. Highlights include Letha’s keyboard-playing and Glen’s chimpanzee impressions.
Live on Conan Island
(No-Fi) Used LP $10.00
A smoldering document of onstage soundclash interactions from their Fall 2006 US tour.
Untitled
(No Fun - NFP18) 2xLP $11.00
Industrial psych from the Brooklyn chapter of troglodytes of heaviness. Twice the volume, twice the destruction, twice the machinery, twice the headache. Playable it at any speed. Limited to 350 copies
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
Mt. Carmel
(Siltbreeze - SB129) LP $16.00
Matthew Reed, Patrick Reed and Kevin Shubak are a straight-up blues rock power trio weened on a diet of Peter Green-era Bluesbreakers, Cream and Ten Years After. This isn't a lark between noise projects -- it's their life. Good, old-fashioned rock 'n' roll, plain and simple.
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.
Psycho Motorik
(Mystery Label) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Teenagers have the ringtones on their cellphones, you've helped yourself to the MP3s from Ubuweb, your parents were two of the hippies who prevented him from strangling a swan onstage in Amsterdam 1970. So here's a brief opportunity to nab a spot-on reproduction of the elusive LP by the European performance artist, painter, writer, filmmaker, destructionist, cult-and-commune overlord who inspired everyone from Pete Townsend and David Bowie to Fluxus and carcass-defiling Aktionists. In the 1960s, his work dealt with social taboos surrounding sexuality, to the point that "Art and Revolution," performed at the University of Vienna in July, 1968, led to arrests.
Hut Variations
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ11) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
An outgrowth of Mullane’s thoughts on solo instrument playing and its relationship to the conflicted spatial and social impacts of separation, of the “one” with the “whole,” spurred by readings during his downtime of hermit poetry and recent theories about huts, capsules, bubbles and other single occupancy spaces. Six tracks written and recorded in different locations. Edition of 500.
Solo Acoustic Volume Four
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ4) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
A revelation in its intricate beauty and unique phrasings. Hailing from small town Ohio, this young player encapsulates everything exciting about modern composition for acoustic guitar. Performed live in one take. Edition of 200.
Wooden Enclosure
(Turgid Animal - TA386) LP + CD $15.00
With a focus on the Mondo Cane side of heavy drone music and the murderous side of old school industrial noise, this full-on bass/guitar kraut-styled work out from the depths of the Sparrow Pit slowly weaves and blurs itself into an abyss, ending with a slow growl of discomfort. The CDr features two drawn out synth experiments. Grim, laser-printed artwork on blue paper loose inside a PVC sleeve with the record inside a white paper sleeve and housed in a black card outer sleeve.
Brendan Murray / Perispirit
(Razors and Medicine - R&M25) split LP $16.00
Brendan Murray’s “Birches and Marksman’s Graves (Voice and Computer #1),” a clear summation of his interest in controlled drones and gestural improvisation with a step into the unknown, transforms and manipulates the voice of Noell Dorsey to the point of non-recognition. Dissonant clusters move up and down, generate momentum, and maintain physicality and control. Vague hints of melody are swallowed up by turbulence. It gradually gives way to extended technique vocalisms that call to mind sound poetry and even the Sprechstimme of Schoenberg. Perispirit’s side makes quick sectional transitions and relies on harsh noise, delicate melodic work, and degraded lo-fi manipulations. Momentum grows and is quickly brought down to almost nothing; the process resumes and the piece breaks into looping guitar passages with a subtle electronic underpinning. Layers build and disappear. The noise returns, building to a heightened peak of frustration until it drops off, leaving the sound of life’s monotony. A wall of drone creeps in and overtakes all. Edition of 250, off-white vinyl.
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
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.
Player Pianos And Other Sounds From A Penny Arcade
(La Brea) LP $15.50 (Out-of-stock)
Field recordings from San Francisco’s famed hands-on museum of early penny arcade machines (some over a century old) kept in their original working order for the public's enjoyment by the determined work of curator Edward Galland Zelinsky. Stereoscopic peep shows, moralizing fortune tellers, old baseball game machines, nickelodeons, prisoner art made out of toothpicks, music boxes, player pianos, "test your strength" challenges, animated dioramas, and of course laughing Sal, a larger-than-life size doll who just laughs and laughs and laughs. Silkscreened jackets.
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
Rekkez
(Ini Itu - 1202) LP $19.00 (Out-of-stock)
A collection of tracks resembling pages torn from a tormented diary, with a complex array of emotions (anger, angst, gloom, pride, faith, isolation, anguish, etc). Giulia Loli merges Sa’aidi hardcore and Baladi breakbeats in a mutant, syncopated form of instrumental hip-hop; her circular rhythms fuse acoustic instruments (re’qs, mazhar, douf, cello) and electronic tones, augmented by voices, sometimes vocoded, and field recordings from Tuscany, Egypt and various other locations. Often bittersweet and brooding, the raw fuzz of the music evokes an insular and somewhat fractured force, balancing between the abstract and the confrontational. Sprawling Afro-Asiatic melodies and elaborate, convoluted developments. Edition of 250.
Buried on't Moors
(Urashima - U003) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
The wild noise project by Yorkshire, UK resident George Proctor delivers an intense and relentless discharge of cavemen electronics and obsessive noise with dirty male vocal textures in the upper layers. Silkscreened cardboard sleeve, with insert. Limited edition to 120 copies.
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
Live and Proud
(Turgid Animal - TA385) 7-inch $9.00
Pure junk noise abuse with little or no structure, although somewhat rhythmic in some places. The artwork is printed on two double sided thick glossy inserts and looks a treat. Limited edition, colored vinyl.
Mutant Ape / Seppuku
(Turgid Animal - TA197) split 7-inch $9.85
Cut-up junk abuse and pure smash all the way through Mutant Ape’s side. Scotland’s Seppuku deliver two tracks of doom-type metal. Death to false noise!
Muura
(Alberts Basement) 7-inch $13.75
“Spurts of free percussion, alternately scratchy / ululating eternal drones, factory sounds à la Joe Jones, deformed, endlessly echoed vocals,” say our clearly stunned colleagues at Volcanic Tongue about the new seven-inch by Matt Earle (of Breakdance The Dawn, Craft Bandits, xNoBBQx). “The second side is more recognizably based around amp destruction and guitar abuse with waves of crude feedback interrupted by percussive guitar wrangling.” Individually handmade covers.
Space Chanteys
(Fringes - 10) LP $15.00
Recorded live in October 2000, released in 2002, the soul of Matt Valentine's volk music emerges from syncretic collisions between psychedelic rock and avant garde jazz and country blues and trance-drone-minimalism, as well as a primitive form of volk-proper. The material on Space Chanteys is beautiful in its fracture. Its fissures phosphoresce in the darkness with an unearthly radiance: glow-in-the-dark teeth set into the gums of eternity.
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
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 / JOËLLE VINCIARELLI
> Eternal Beyond >
(Opax - OPX038) 2xLP $63.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Opax - OPX038) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
This collaborative project by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio and French underground queen Joëlle Vinciarelli (of Talweg and La Morte Young) began in Spring 2015 when the outsider instantaneous composers traced a magic triangle on a map between their hometown Torino, their current Alien Zone secret base in Western Alps, and the mysterious area over Nice’s hills known as Le Village Nègre. The duo’s otherwordly sounds and Roberto’s eerie wordless vocals melted with Vinciarelli’s unique, underwordly voice. An antique upright piano soundboard, home-made wooden string instruments, modified electronic devices, an old pendulum clock mechanism, bells and an old trumpet were played during the four-day recording session. The result purposely bypasses the present and builds a bridge between the archaic and the future. Marbled color vinyl. Liner notes by Philippe Robert. Includes free download card. Edition of 300.
2xLP art edition includes a second hand-painted platter by Roberto Opalio. Edition of 30
MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / CÉDRIC STEVENS
Abstract Expressionism For The Ears
(Opax - OPX037) 3xLP $38.00
Dreamy sound architecture, floating sculptures of abstract drones and cannibal noise, modal piano, ancestral strings and electronic futurism, and celestial music of the Spheres imbued with vocal exorcism textures. Over two hours of long-form spontaneously composed pieces recorded during Maurizio and Roberto Opalio’s intense February 2014 residency in Brussels collaborating with the Belgian electronic composer also known as Acid Kirk. Heavy-duty, color laminated jacket. Includes digital download card. Edition of 300. Listen to an album sampler here: https://soundcloud.com/elliptical-noise/my-cat-is-an-alien-cedric-stevens-abstract-expressionism-for-the-ears-album-sampler
Alien Blood
(Opax - OPX030) LP $30.00
One of the most impressive and innovative MCIAA recordings to date, the original soundtrack from Roberto Opalio’s 2005-2008 film of the same name, currently getting screened as part of the Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix museum exhibition, has so far been presented at LIFE (France), and is scheduled around the globe for the next couple of years. The improvised score by My Cat Is An Alien follows the minimal and surrealistic beginning of the film with sparse echoes of eerie sounds, growing in dark timbres and pathos. Maurizio Opalio’s heavily effected "blood percussions" compress the air, while Roberto's wordless vocals, along with space toys, alientronics and mini-keyboard, walk the razor's edge of another dimension. The finale comes as one of the most epic crescendos ever performed by the Italian duo. Limited to 220 copies in handmade textured cardboard folders with full-color paste-on still images from the film.
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.
Fragments Suspended In Time
(Opax - OPX32A) LP + CDr + DVDr $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Opax - OPX32A) LP + CDr + DVDr Box $120.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded after the brothers Opalio spent a long period of self-imposed isolation in the Western Alps, far from everything but their own spirits. Side A ( the “alba” or “sunrise” side) overwhelms immediately with delicate grace, melodic texture, and Roberto's intimate, wordless vocalizations. Side B ( the “tramonto” or “sunset” side) increases the sweet, anti-gravitational sweet mood. One-time pressing of 250 copies on multicolor vinyl. Handmade, heavy cardboard jacket with paste-on silver artwork and 12-inch insert. A professionally duplicated CDr is included as a digital version of the album. The region-free DVDr (limited to 100 copies) contains a film by Roberto Opalio, inspired by the alba side.
The art box edition adds to the regular edition the following: original art work by Roberto Opalio on six-page hand-bound booklet, mounted on 12" panel, numbered and signed; hand-lettered LP labels; hand-crafted box, numbered, hand-stamped and signed. Edition of 20.
From the Earth to the Spheres Vol. 2
(Opax - OPX002) LP $75.00
Thuja mine minimalism and sound textures within elaborate, real-time compositions that examine the nature of sound. Audio-visual artist Loren Chasse (Coelacanth) and Glenn Donaldson (Mirza, Sky Green Leopards, Birdtree and Ivytree) are joined on one of the their more adventurous and hypnotic works, “The Magma Is The Brother Of The Stone” by Rob Reger and collaborator Greg Bianchini. My Cat Is An Alien scan obscure and scattered drones as the world collapses into silence. The Italian duo’s high-frequency ectoplasm drifts away from the raw howl of the past toward a blues-y intimacy. Edition of 100, with Roberto Opalio’s painted wood covers.
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
Il Segno
(Starlight Furniture Company) CD $15.00
(Starlight Furniture Company) LP $15.00
Beginning with a gloomy text entitled “The Sign” written by guitarist / lyricist Roberto Opalio, My Cat Is An Alien entered The Space Room and recorded this dark and concrete improvisation, a single piece of howling and caustic ruination. Maurizio Opalio comes out of the fog with desolate acoustic guitar scratches, Roberto’s electric space guitar scribbles as he spits out his words of urban alienation, and Viggiu Vortex joins the brothers on percussion. Piano toy and toy keyboard were added later to enhance the surreal lyrics inspired by ghosts, a sense of psychic, cultural and social isolation in their hometown Torino, Italy, and the infinite lightness and beauty between the cement and the sky. CD contains two non-LP tracks.
Listen Before Black Falls
(Root Strata - RS19) LP $15.00
A third eye laser beam shot from the catacombs of Torino, Italy. An acoustic guitar lullaby leads down a long, dark tunnel of alpha wave feedback. Jacket is silk-screened (front) and hand-lettered (back). Numbered 226 in an edition of 300.
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 and the Analog Statement
(Opax) 5xLP $79.00 (Out-of-stock)
Five pearls from 2005 to 2010 re-issued and collected: On Air at Sound Projecting (Opax 2006), a live improvised performance from Ed Pinsent's Resonance 104.4 radio show in London; Epocsonixarp, the second album by Praxinoscope (the duo formed by Roberto Opalio and Ramona Ponzini); Alien Blood (Opax 2008), the original soundtrack to Roberto Opalio's film; Fragments Suspended In Time (Opax 2010), an anti-gravitational sweet mood recording captured in the Western Alps of Italy; and Gramofonu = Voice of the Universe (Opax 2010), a collaborative work with Prague duo Birds Build Nests Underground. All records repressed in the original form with original label artworks. Four black-vinyl platters and and one multi-color. Tri-fold jacket, paste-on silver artwork. Includes download coupon. Numbered edition of 100.
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.
RE-SI-STEN-ZA!
(Opax - OPX039) 2xLP $73.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Opax - OPX039) LP $23.00 (Out-of-stock)
This foretaste of My Cat Is An Alien’s 20th anniversary in winter 2017 well represents the summa of the duo’s musical lifespan, from their early space-toys era to their current home-made electronics and string instruments output. On the title track, the Opalio brothers are “at the height of their wiring and warping powers,” according to Mark Barton of The Sunday Experience, who goes on the proclaim the track “an absolute wig-flipped tour de force that [morphs] through elements of noise, musique concrète, stoner earthbeat and cosmic spiritualism…. [This] immense and often brutal, cranium-collapsing palette of psychotropic goo … shapeshifts with such out-there aplomb that you … fear your mind might fry.” Meanwhile, the liner notes call attention to the cornerstone of the instantaneous composition “Let Their Voices Speak Through The Wind”: the voice “transcending itself into a flux of infinite voices dislocated throughout the atemporal dimension of the Spheres, which float in the ether and permeate our physical bodies like ‘cosmic debris’ lulled by the wind. Voices of ghosts … represent a blinding light within the deepest darkness of this [increasingly] sad and lost planet, and … leave a trace of beauty and existential meaning in our lives.” Metallic gold vinyl. Tri-fold sleeve, textured fine-art cardboard. With antique map replica poster and three inserts on parchment paper. Includes free download card. Edition of 300.
2xLP art edition includes a second hand-painted platter by Roberto Opalio. Edition of 50
The Dance Of Oneirism
(Backwards - BW19) 2xLP $37.00 (Out-of-stock)
From the liner notes: “Self-made double-bodied string instrument, handmade pocket harp, pedal effects, wordless vocalizations, modified analog drum machine, mini-keyboard, alientronics…. [N]othing is straightforward; everything is invented, shrunken, self-built, inchoate: alien-ated. The session was recorded – instantly composed – in MCIAA’s “Alien Zone” situated in the Western Alps, and it sounds it…. The rhythms have a contrary cold, organic quality to them, the feel of the pulse as the breath is held…. The transmissions are fuzzy … and at points it makes for a music of almost terrifying quiet. It is minimal, sure, but MCIAA are not so much interested in repetition as in eternal expansion. The Dance Of Oneirism is MCIAA’s greatest long-form work.” Includes a photographic art book by Roberto Opalio. Silkscreened image by the artist on Side D.
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
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
fuzz_galopp
(Bocian) LP $21.00
Amplified, pulsating sounds of cracked everyday-electronics by former member of Voice Crack, pioneers in the field of sound installation techniques usage in live improvised music. Rhythm is a primal foundation of fuzz_galopp’s texture, based solely on mechanical objects, and its density and powerful dynamics are thrillingly vivid. Recorded live at Espace Multimedia Gatner, Bourgogne, 2010.
Einschlagskrater
(Meeuw Muzak - MM036) 7-inch $6.35 (Out-of-stock)
Another cryptic affair from this perennial Dutch label. For this mail collaboration, Norbert Möslang (Voice Crack) and Ralf Wehowsky (RLW) craft cracked everyday electronics and computer-manipulate deviations of same. One continuous piece sets falling sounds against a dark, drone-like backdrop; the other is more, ahem, musical, with more sounds of things falling and lots of processed variations. Sorta atmospheric, sorta noisy.
Flipper
(Oaken Palace - OAK003) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Unique soundscapes, characterized by epic drones, radiating synths, and hushed vocals. Mesmerizing, bizarre beauty. Guests include Peter Broderick on violin and Angela Chan on viola. Edition of 500, 180g clear vinyl. Free download code.
Nagual
(Ergot - 005) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ian McColm and David Shapiro coax oblique shades of damaged Frippertronic drone from extended guitar rigs and render them across three deliberate structured improvisations on their forty-four-minute LP. Meticulously crafted loops comprise the phonetic basis of Nagual’s vocabulary, with clusters of decayed piano and spluttering ARP seamlessly shifting in and out of coherence, while deep tones expand across the stereo field. The muscular tear of side A crescendos into a dexterous burst of McColm’s machine-gun percussion (worthy of his years studying under Pharoah Sanders drummer Billy Hart); and side B unfurls with the patient serenity of music’s eternal theater.
MASAYA NAKAHARA / SISTER IODINE
Meth
(Premier Sang - PS004) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Twenty-five minutes of joyful fracas and live euphoric free-noise by the animal Hair Stylistics / Violent Onsen Geisha leader and the French trio founded in the early ’90s who collide the savage energy of no wave, tape collage, primitive noise, and a primal free rock approach. Recorded live at Showboat, Tokyo, January 18, 2010.
Chitty Chat b/w Goodbye Dear Cliche
(Sacred Bones - SBR020) 7-inch $6.00
Serious harsh downer vibes from this Australian male/female duo whose drum-synth-bass-and-vocal ferocity comes out sounding like a surprisingly danceable version of Whitehouse.
Heaps of Nothing
(Siltbreeze - SB130) CD $12.00
(Siltbreeze - SB130) LP $16.00
For this second full-length effort, Naked on the Vague eschew their tantalizingly sparse duo attack for a quartet line-up, and the results are as sensational as they are sinister. While the rickety, no-wave splat found on previous efforts had its appeal, the heft of a "proper" rhythm section has only helped Naked on the Vague delve deeper into the landscape of post-punk murk. Bleak, unrepentant, withering and droll, Heaps of Nothing is a 21st century codification of the gallows wit and mesmerizing otherworldliness of Dub Housing-era Pere Ubu, Primitive Calculators and Lemon Kittens. LP includes download card.
The Blood Pressure Sessions
(Dual Plover) CD $14.25 (Out-of-stock)
(Siltbreeze) LP $14.00
Lucy Cliché and Mathew P. Hopkins dive deep into a world of apocalyptic pop and psychedelic weirdness with disparate vocals that grip onto menacingly hook-laden basslines and stabbing keys, pushed by an unrelenting drum machine far past the end of its warranty period. Expanding on the final moments of no-wave and what that imploded scene might have become, this nine-track punk assault ranges from almost danceable, short-and-sharp “hits” to gloomy, extended freak-outs. Life never looked so bleak. Vinyl reissue on Siltbreeze in early 2008. “Distilled nihilism.” —Drop Dead
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.
Le Viandier de Taillevent
(Galerie Pache) LP $16.00
Debut album recorded in part during a 2006 European tour and in Quebec. Philemon, A_dontigny, and Erick Orion are joined by Erikm, Arnaud Rivière, and Erik Minkinnen whose wax footprints are noted for their delicacy, subtlety, and unorthodox approaches to improv. Edition of 181.
Sounds Of Indian Snake Charmers Vol. 2
(Hanson - HN134) LP $18.75 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded in Kathmandu 2005, a bit more raw than Hanson’s first volume, but no less disorienting. Tracks performed as a duo and a quartet. Include free download card. Silkscreen jacket. Edition of 500.
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.
The Visitor
(Nihilist - NIHIL77) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Six tracks of analog modular synthesizer and musique concrète clocking in at just over thirty-three minutes. On the debut vinyl release by the owner of the Catholic Tapes label, warm synths are juxtaposed with chaotic, scratchy rubbings in the foreground. Beat-like pulses help drive along airy synth drones. The bubbly is joined by the sweeping and cinematic. “An electronic bog filled with subtle, seductive melodies and eerie organic abstractions,” says Paul Casey. Edition of 300.
Naughtiest Girl Was a Monitor
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD43) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
The first three seven-inches plus six previously unreleased tracks by this early ’80s Sheffield, England new wave band.
Cover The Earth
(Heresee) LP $12.00
Carly Ptak, Twig Johnson and Max Eisenburg marshal in the era of The New Electronics, which, get this, works without electricity. For reals, man. Eight tracks, maybe nine -- c’mon, you don’t still believe in numbers -- that swizzle the Baltimore trio’s unfathomable home-made chaos into uneven blasts of ravaging ping-pong “beats,” distorted, rack-stretched taunts and/or pleas for mercy, and rapidly exfoliating cries of outrage. Whether aiming for that rising blister on your psyche or just stumbling like dazed Muppets in a frequency-and-perspective-gone-haywire blizzard, Cover the Earth removes Nautical Almanac from the fascinating curios section and files them under “noise force to be reckoned with.”
Nautical Almanac
(Hanson - HN014 ) LP $30.00
Their 1996 tetanus-inspired debut album by Twig Harper and crew, the rusty nail that pierced the skin of the Midwest frontier with nary a an upper division credit (lecture, labwork or otherwise) in electronics management to their name. Covers hand-smeared.
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
California
(Stomach Ache - SA61) 7-inch $10.00
Noise loops, tape cut-ups, appropriated thrift store muzak and demented boink interspersed with failed prank phone calls (anti-pranks, you might say). Hard to believe it was actually released. With Bren't Lewiis, Emil Beaulieau, Mike Minutoli, Garret Eaton, Genital P-Orange Juice.
Negative Reaction
(Zaius Tapes) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
The brilliant lone album by Australian trio Mick Kingham, Milan Stojanovic, and Jim Bodnar was originally released on cassette by Tom Ellard of Severed Heads (Terse Tapes, 1981) and reissued on LP in 1982 by Dogfood Production Systems (home of the estimable Slugfuckers). So you know the pedigree is tip-top. While you’d be correct in assuming the vibe here is experimental — merely by association — be prepared for a perfect example of dystopian malaise released by a band from the then-burgeoning post-punk movement. It’s easy to overlook that in the dawn of the ’80s, specific niche genres hadn’t been painstakingly carved out. Negative Reaction’s album trods forth across the landscapes of industrial, experimental, and minimal, gathering the Cold War gloom and the bleak threat of impending global nuclear holocaust, and forges it all into this self-titled masterpiece. Done primarily with recitation, blurred guitar lines, echoes and feedback, it’s a harrowing snapshot from the other side of an inevitable apocalypse. The beauty is in its simplicity; it doesn’t jolt like SPK, nor does it attempt to shock like Throbbing Gristle. Negative Reaction go for the sublime, matter-of-factly and evenly laying down six tracks of impending doom that give “John” and The Book of Revelation a run for its money. One of the most pivotal records ever from a bygone era that was teeming with them. Edition of 250.
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.
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.
Swine
(Nuhrst - NE77) 7-inch + cassette $35.00
Following Where The Dead Things Are (Nuhrst 2009) and Betwixt Descending Corridors (Self Abuse 2009), the crypt-dwelling alter ego of Ryan Oppermann circulates madness and blood through the coarse veins of the dying. “Swine” and “Defecated Bones,” two tracks that have remained hidden within troubled chambers for years, earn a helping hand from basement scum butcher Charlie Draheim on backing squelch-sound and glass treading. Most vile. Seven-inch box includes C35 cassette, two buttons, embroidered patch, sixteen-page book. Signed in silver by the artist. Edition of 260.
The Never Quartet
(I Dischi Del Barone) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Static, haunting bliss by Michael Morley, employing the resonating qualities of e-bowed wooden acoustic guitars placed flat upon wooden furniture to reveal connections between time and space by activating the instruments and the other wooden objects within architectural structures. With insert. Edition 0f 200
Degenerative Themes
(Equation) Used LP $20.00
Anti-nothing, anti-everything! Black and gold vinyl. Edition of 160. Sealed
History of Nothing
(Hanson - HN199) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Freq’s testimonial should make anyone who reads it giddy with anticipation: “Sheer sheets of onanistic sound ruin the rack and explode across the consciousness. Imagine what it would’ve been like to hear this in 1982, when it was completely new and very few frames of reference were hanging on any wall, anywhere. This is the hard rain that’s promised to fall -- this sound is a rage against loneliness in one of the loneliest places on Earth while pursuing one of the loneliest forms of expression. Totally interstellar, completely vital, utterly timeless.” Now go record your next C10, you little pussy. All tracks are from the 80s and early 90s, previously released on CD (Siren 2001); this is their first appearance on vinyl. Edition of 300 copies. Heavy duty silk-screened covers with the usual Hanson Droll-Flaps.
Meta-Klamauk (For Jean Tinguely) / Crincum Crancum
(Hanson - HN191) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
“Meta-Klamauk returns us to that garage of doom featured on Changez Les Blockeurs,” notices Sound Projector. “The mechanics have installed a noisy fan-heater device, and are getting a lot more work done. Crincum-Crancum is, relatively speaking, a near-musical concoction. Perhaps twenty plus years hath mellowed their saturnine psyche and dulled their appetite for relentless noise; this is less urgent, and there’s almost an air of resigned weariness to this 2002 work. That said, it is no less bilious, the reservoir of hatred still fuels the evil intent.” Both sides originally appeared on the delirious, jawdropping Gesamtnichtswerk 4xCD (Hypnagogia 2003); this is their first appearance on vinyl. Edition of 300 copies, silk-screened covers with the usual Hanson Droll-Flaps.
Viva Negativa Volume I
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD24) 4xLP $30.00
This massive tribute to England’s lords of scrape The New Blockaders includes collaborations with and reworkings by Oren Ambarchi, Anomali, Ashtray Navigations, Emil Beaulieau, Benzo, Maurizio Bianchi, Cisfinitum, Controlled Bleeding, Dieter Muh, Evil Moisture, Freiband, Grunt, The Haters, Jason Kahn, Zbigniew Karkowski, Komafuzz, Kraang, Lockweld, Massimo, Daniel Menche, Thurston Moore, MSBR, Nocturnal Emissions, KK Null, Pita, Plethora, Prurient, Richard Ramirez, Scanner, Silvum, srmeixner, Asmus Tietchens, Treriksroset, Vortex Campaign, V/Vm, Keith Fullerton Whitman, John Wiese, Nobuo Yamada, Z’EV. Hand-numbered box sets.
Viva Negativa Volume II
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD25) 4xLP $30.00
The balance of the tribute to England’s lords of scrape The New Blockaders includes collaborations with and reworkings by AMK, Art Break, Aube, Bloxus, Alexei Borisov, Broken Penis Orchestra, Cheapmachines, Courtis, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Aaron Dilloway, Embudagonn 108, Eshak, Government Alpha, Idea Fire Company, Incapacitants, Lasse Marhaug, Merzbow, Kiyoshi Mizutani, mnortham, Jim O’Rourke, Dave Phillips, Plexia, Putrefier, Christian Renou, RLW, Damion Romero, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Spiracle, Sudden Infant, Giancarlo Toniutti, Brendan Walls, Withdrawal Method, Wolf Eyes, Achim Wollscheid, Violent Onsen Geisha. Hand-numbered box sets.
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.
Concerto Grosso Per I New Trolls
(Cetra) Used LP $25.00
2017 reissue of the 1971 soundtrack to La Vittima Designata
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.
Nico And The Vascellaris
(Von Archives - VON013) 7-inch (one-sided) $8.00
SALE PRICE. Original studio recordings by this deeply unconventional band. Edition of 100.
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!”
To London Or The Lake
(Avant! - AV026) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Kyle Kimball’s follow-up to New Grave (Avant 2012), itself a modern-day dark-wave classic, is more focused and defined polished, bringing in traces of Gary Numan’s catchy synth leads and Siouxsie’s vocal melodies, but not at the expense of driving guitar reminiscent of The Mission or The Cult. Edition of 500
Nightmares
(BloodLust! - B!139) 7-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
With their long history of dark analog synth music, Jonathan Canady (Angel of Decay, Deathpile, Dead World), David Reed (Envenomist, Luasa Raelon, Brittle Foundries) and Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded, The Fortieth Day, A Vague Disquiet, Intrinsic Action, Animal Law) unite and develop their own type of aural sleep disruption, characterized by frightening psychological content and aiming to provoke a strong feeling of imminent physical danger and a sensation of being trapped or suffocated. Multi-color marble / splatter vinyl. Includes sticker.
Silent Movie
(Hospital - HOS142) LP + DVD $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Documents the only known live performance (at No Fun Fest) of the alias of The New Blockaders. The DVD contains silent footage only and one must spin the vinyl simultaneously in order to hear the sound while witnessing this futile destruction. DVD also features additional commentary by G.X. Jupiter-Larsen of The Haters.
No Nihilist Spasm Band in Mulhouse
(Les Mondes Mental) LP $14.00
Canadian monsters of broken rock improv recorded live in eastern France in front of 15 people going mental. One of the final recordings with the late Hugh McIntyre. John Boyle (kazoo and drums), John Clement (guitar and drums), Bill Exley (voice and more), Murray Favro (guitar), Hugh McIntyre (bass), Art Pratten (pratt-a-various).
NIHILIST SPASM BAND / SUN PLEXUS 2
No Victoria
(Bimbo Tower - BTR09) 2xLP $23.25 (Out-of-stock)
NSB (John B. Boyle, John Clement, Bill Exley, Murray Favro, Art Pratten, and Aya Onishi) join SP2 (Laurent Berger, Sébastien Borgo, Rémy Bux) in a musical confrontation where the former’s anti-academic improvisation and no-technique playing oppose the latter’s raw post-punk mixed with concrete music composition. Recorded at La Mer Rouge Studio in 2006.
Nothing Is Forever
(Wintage - WRT-99) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
The legendary first warriors of noise bring forth four new head-hitting masterpieces of No Music, laid down at London, Ontario's Forest City Gallery. Red vinyl. Edition of 500.
Big Shadow Montana
(Helen Scarsdale - HMS020) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
After producing a frozen trilogy of intoxicated dronemuzik for the Agency, these Scandinavian gentlemen venture into fictionalized soundtracks for imagined Mondo films and science fiction serials. Slow-motion delirium manifests in occluded smears, nocturnal gasps, and arcane tones from a variety of analogue synthesizers. Flickered impressions flash in conjunction with Breton's Surrealism manifesto in the form of memories from happily drunk escapades in the heart of winter, the sidereal spells cast by innerspace travelers Klaus Schulze and Coil, and the nagging questions of existential portent: "Was that bassline from Goblin, or was it German Oak? Maybe something from Faust IV?" Nilsen, Sigmarsson, and Thorsson elegantly twist and bend fleeting images into a spiraling symphony of bubbling electronics and spectral drones that mutate into lugubrious yet carnivalesque waltzes. When this first appears, it is the echoing undercarriage of a simple melody, bobbing amid rattling chains and cascading cymbal crashes, only to dissolve into sequences of cold-war era tone beacons and empathic swaths of maudlin sound design. At the second occurrence, the melody washes ashore on the Iceland beach, where nude Viking men and women try in vain to get a tan with the sun just barely above the horizon line. It is a pyrrhic jubilation of calliope harmonies set down by organs and synths turning a pale-blue hue in the wake of all that white skin shivering underneath the arctic sky. Includes free download card.
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
Qanngirpalippuq
(Galerie Pache) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
New member of Ilitch’s old-school, completely improvised harsh noise performed on analog modular system, vintage synthesizer, and home-made sound generator. Silkscreened, foldover sleeve. Edition of 130. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST 0F 2010
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
17.09.2009 Orgelkonzert, Pauluskerk, Tilburg
(Dead Mind Records - DMR021) 2xLP $45.00 (Out-of-stock)
Four heavy organ drones recorded live at the Incubate festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Edition of 300 copies.
Geburt des Dionysos Christos
(Vinyl on Demand) 3xLP $150.00 (Out-of-stock)
Excellent minimal and drone recordings from 1986 performed on the Brucknerorgel Linz and the organ at Nitsch's private castle in Prinzendorf. First 150 copies (plus all the subscription copies) include a DVD of the famous concert. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2008
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.
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.”
Recorded In Public And Private
(Ecstatic Yod) LP $40.00
From 1994. ''This is the kind of thing you do in a basement in SoHo, not in a public park where people are trying to enjoy their food.... They had a permit to play jazz, but this isn't jazz.'' --Mike O'Neal, O'Neal's Restaurant on 64th Street opposite Lincoln Center.
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.
Lest We Forget
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD56) 4xLP + 7-inch $100.00
Some of the earliest recordings by the group founded by bothers Nigel and Daniel Ayers with Caroline K in 1980, previously available on cassettes, as well as tracks recorded under their earlier name, The Pump. This document can be considered an audio sketchbook, filled with raw, unfinished works in progress and live performances by the trio (which mutated over the years and continued into the 21st century as Nigel Ayers’s solo project). It covers a wide range of musical styles by a group committed to radical experimentation in both form and content. The previously unreleased tracks from the early ’80s sound contemporary and fresh.
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
Space Needle
(Trackshun Industries - TR1222) Used LP $10.00
Wild-ass guitar-and-violin improv from 1996 by Michael Griffen and Erik Ostrowski
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 Nomads
(Ultra Eczema - UE81) LP $12.00
Jeff Hartford’s live sets are the stuff of legend; one of Ultra Eczema’s favorites involved a strange and confusing Providence show that involved wailing mic feedback, a disappearing act, and the arrival of a gigantic Christmas tree. On paper, maybe not so much, but in real life, the seriously intense vibe was there. Fear of permanent breaks with reality and people getting squeezed to death was in the air. Anyway, side A of this record was recorded years ago -- just voice and Tascam -- and is an amazing swollen beast of sound poetry, gargling, and muffled barking. Side B was recorded a few years later with Hartford on his knees in Dennis Tyfus’s living room screaming thru a bass drum and a contact mic attached to a bunch of pedals. Harsher than a prison full of parrots. Edition of 300
Nose Picker
(RRRecords) LP $15.00
First solo LP from Jeff Hartford (Grey Skull), known and feared for live performances that require a guitar-amp combo to be swung violently and dangerously close to the audience. The gracious overlords at Mimaroglu, with whom it is difficult to disagree, describe the vocals as “caveman-esque sound-poetry” somewhere between François Dufrêne and Cookie Monster, which seems appropriate for the ugly scum-noise excreted by this loveable New England creep.
Just For The Hell Of It
([ no label ]) 7-inch (one-sided) $11.25 (Out-of-stock)
The first scene from the exploitation movie of the same name, directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Essentially a field recording of a group of teenagers destroying a room. No dialog, no background music. Sounds like a Haters show from 1968, pretty much.
Knife vs. Skull Face
(Saxon Gregory) 7-inch $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
Trailers for Eurotrash films Slaughter Hotel, Strip Nude For Your Killer, The Embalmer, and Virgin Of Nuremberg. Edition of 150.
Seagal / Van Damme
(Saxon Gregory) LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
A collection of trailers for films by Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme. Seagal: Above The Law, Fire Down Below, Glimmer Man, Hard To Kill, Marked For Death, On Deadly Ground, Out For Justice, Under Siege, Under Siege 2. Van Damme: Bloodsport, Cyborg, Death Warrant, Double Impact, Double Team, Hard Target, Kickboxer, Lionheart, Nowhere To Run, The Quest, Sudden Death, Universal Soldier. Edition of 150.
NG Tapes
(PCP - PCPR03) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
An unofficial vinyl reissue of Hiroshi Oikawa’s scarce cassette (L.•.S.•.D.•. 1984), originally available to purchasers of the original edition of Nord’s LSD LP, this fifty-plus-minute work of ominous synthesizer pulsations, like LSD as well as Nord’s Ego Trip LP, is a dense, otherworldly exploration of the outermost edges — or innermost core — of reality.
Message From The Dead
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD64) 2xLP + DVD $60.00 (Out-of-stock)
Unreleased demos, rehearsals, live and unreleased tracks by French cold wave / goth legends, founded in 1981 by Usher and Chelsea. In 1984 they formed the CPM label (which released an EP of so-called “psychoanalytic rock” called Psychic Altercation, and also developed a philosophy which centralized different activities of the group (photography and graphics, literature, video, dance, etc.). LP1: Frustration / Welcome to CPM / XMas 2 / Crazy (first recording ever) / Skandinavian Erotica (rehearsal) / Memories (rehearsal) / Glance for your eyes (Live April 30,1983) / Mental (outtake 1984 church and voice) / Belinda's dead friends (outtake 1988) / Power of Spirit (demo 1987) / Dead in the Bed (demo 1987) / Shiny (Venus in Furs) LP2: Forever Gone (1999) / Chinese Puzzle / Fly Away Song (demo) / Memory Train (rehearsal) / Obsession / The Cellar (unreleased 1990) / The Murder (unreleased 1990) / TV Domination (unreleased demo 1988) / Love Song / L'age D'or (rehearsal) DVD: Video Live at Atheneum 87 Immaculate / 1964 Shadows / Hell Night / Romance / T-Vision / Bitchy Boy / TV Friends / Died In The Bedroom / We Shall Win / Disconnected
Outside / Inside
(Destijl - IND041) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Charlie Nothing was the fractured-psyche pseudonym of author, father, horsekeeper, organic farmer, beekeeper, philosopher and clown Charles Martin Simon, inventor of the dingulator (guitar sculptures made of the metal from American cars). The second Charlie Nothing LP, originally issued by Everitt Enterprises, thematically follows The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing (Takoma, 1967) with two side-long flute-based instrumentals. Palpably preserved on these sides of Nothing is the air of a real-time dropout scene. It is a wonder that Outside / Inside circulated at all beyond the vacuum in which it was created. Nothingness, a California existentiality looping back on itself, preserved and disseminated as evidence. There are indeed very few records like these.
Anonymous
(S-S Records) Used LP $3.00
A big dose of proto / glam / psych / punk / wave excellence. Clear vinyl.
Bless The Children
(Turgid Animal - TA355) 7-inch $7.50
German power electronics, formerly known as Noisewerrrrk. Three tracks of almost creepy industrial noise soundscapes with buried, whispered vocals focusing on religious disease and fanatics.
Saishiyu Bushitsu
(Forced Exposure - FE-024) Used LP $10.00 (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.
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
Flawed Existence
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD66) 4xLP + 10-inch $200.00
Almost five hours of sheer insanity produced from 1982 to 1985 by the ingenious music-alchemist Steven Stapleton. Two hours of material from official tape releases Scrag (United Dairies 1981), Nylon Coverin' Body Smotherin' (Mi Mort 1983) and Mi-Mort (Mi Mort 1983), over one hour of tape-comp-only tracks, over an hour of their first two live performances in 1984, plus a 37-minute 10-inch with unreleased material from 1983, and one exclusive NWW track on a soundchip greeting card. Flocked outer box. With T-shirt and embossed poster. Does not include five-inch. Numbered edition 331/600
Steel Dream March Of The Metal Men
(Clawfist - XPIG 12) 7-inch $20.00
"Steel Dream March of the Metal Men" is very very close to being the exact same song as the Miss Ticker remix of "Cold" from the Thunder Perfect Mind CD reissue and "Head Cold" from the Large Ladies With Cake In The Oven CD. Includes one-sided insert advertising the Clawfist singles club. From 1992. Edition of 1400
Caged Dog / Common Criminal
(Phage - PT180) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Self-described in a Purestench interview as "harsh industrial project that ... falls in line with the dark ambient / death industrial / power electronics style." Inspired by the 1981 hunger strike in Ireland headed by Bobby Sands. Edition of 300.
Carrion Hut
(Singing Knives - SK016) LP $25.00
Originally a CDR with early editions of the Inside Wino Lodge LP (No Fun 2009), Carrion Hut is infused with prickly, invasive gurgles and rumblings. Let’s turn over the snort-by-snort to Daniel Baker of The Quietus: “‘The Frosted Growth’ is an exercise in muddy barbarism; Nyoukis’s non-verbal snarls, multitracked into a paranoid ooze that revels in its own ugliness … [and] gleeful incantation[s] ... recall the genuinely unsettling soundtrack work of Blood Stereo collaborator and Fluxus-inspired multidisciplinary artist Ludo Mich…. [V]ocal manipulations and rackety anti-percussive creaks … [and] a brutally realist approach to psychedelia through ritual” are “best captured on 'Late Night Vocal Gravy', a side-long experiment in the rendering of hallucination through sound in which Nyoukis patiently channels psychological dysfunction through bodily suffering and blurts it out into his tape deck…. 'Strange New Ache' ... is a Kafkaesque whirligig…. Like an animalistic satire of a society that has gorged itself silly on everything from junk food to credit ratings, there is vulgarity in abundance on Carrion Hut, but that isn't even half the story.” Screened jackets. Edition of 500.
The Acrylic Window
(Discombobulate) LP $25.00
Four measured tracks, all washing up a new kind of psychedelic moss, fresh thin tendrils, easy to snap, but determined to grow among loose grey matter late on into the next day, and the next and the next. Dry coughs and outta-whack piano chords play into Boy Scout bike repairs. Hot air leaks from a perished rubber hose. With knuckles like hazelnuts, these sounds shine like delicately laid cobblestones, laid end-to-end with neither fuss nor haste. Late night thumps, “boof, baff,” and a lousy Soft Machine organ solo talks a Brighton raver down from gritted jaw of oblivion. Ideas are put through the wringer in stereo effect. The domestic bric-a-brac builds up: a motorcycle revving, the dry crunch of gravel underfoot, a jumble sale of sweaty woolens, singing out through pinched throat to make un-sense of the phrase “iss, sum bear-lae-um.” An unexpected kitchen sink gamelan makes for a discombobulating listen. Tension is introduced via leathery lunged accordion but there’s no crass crescendo. Fading out like a flu virus... Euro voices abound in tangled syntax. Verbs, sounds, and nouns renamed. The downs come in re-directed by taut tape loops making the ecstatic, grooving on the surface of a micron-thin bubble. Another take on the stretched ritual. A parrot squawks underwater struggling for fresh O2. Furious eraser scurrying action is met with the stony silence of a fourteen-year-old girl while apples crunch between strong white teeth. Our old friends, words, are worried and fretted in a dark experiment; turned over looking for new seams and valves to shuck and pried open like ripe clams until mucus-y muscle slips free and falls to the flagstones below. A living séance. Acrylic Wisdom from the Old Ones, the thin Venn diagram slice between frantic scuttling and sweet Miskatonic stoned. Colored vinyl. Edition of 250. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2013
The Throat Is Pregnant / Zangstondes
(Ultra Eczema - UE58) split LP $18.00
This record is all about flipping the coin of persistence and patience. Dylan Nyoukis is back on his grind, and what a tooth-crushing experience it is, old school vocal perversion for which the Chocolate Monk president is known: a low-brow brew of high- and low-pitched vocal scruff, muffled sonic slime, lungs full of asbestos dust, and a preference for visuals that piss on the high-brow, borne of total no-fi cassette trouble and underage kids chewing on dusted tapeloops. Dennis Tyfus drools on the microphone and allows bodily juices to make contact with translation delays, empty Kleenex boxes and the power that controls the earth's core. Constant knob-tweaking, contact mic'd cheese balls, and endless layers of mutilated throat sounds jump across the circuitboard like mechanical ants. There's a lot of weird information to absorb here. In addition to vicious ragtime gobot action, a gentle, furrier choir meditation zone will trance your brain muscles over the rainbow. Highly influenced by aboriginal ways of life and the meditative nature of throat singing, the Homo Sapiens Ultra Eczema president spits out a true projection of his tormented soul. Packaged in a classic fold-out silkscreen jacket in a limited edition of 250 copies.
Ambiguism (1983-87)
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD72) 4xLP + 7-inch + DVD $100.00
Between 1983 and 1987, this UK ambient group, formed in 1982 by Tim Horberry, Roger Horberry, Clare Elliott and Andrew Hulme, released two vinyl albums -- Scene in Mirage (A-Mission, 1984) and Into Dark Water (Final Image, 1987) -- and recorded numerous soundtracks, experimental projects and solo works. This retrospective document of the era tells the definitive story of the emergence and development of the group’s sound. Includes their first two albums with bonus tracks, two additional full-length LPs of unreleased material, and a seven-inch single of their first-ever recordings. The DVD features excepts from their Scenes in Mirage and Peripheral Vision videos. With large poster and detailed listening notes. More than fifty tracks, around half of which have never been released in any form.
Unidentified Again
(Pica Disk - PICA034) 2xLP $23.00
Synth-based mail collaboration by two long-time worshippers of all things Roland Kayn and David Tudor. Each provides lush audio environments for the other’s sounds to live in -- living synthetic landscapes with birds, animals of primitive or alien origin, and huge electric storm drones.
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.
Molech
(Nihilist) Used LP $7.00
Dark electronics from 2008 by Alex Barnett, Jeremiah Fisher, Seth Sher. Silkscreened cover. Edition of 300
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
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
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
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.
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
Morning & Sunrise
(Destijl - IND097) CD $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
(Destijl - IND097) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Olausson ventured deep on Moonlight Farm (De Stijl 2005), and his singular expression returns on Morning & Sunrise, an explorer’s codex, a gaze at what’s more important and less seen. There is more electric guitar here, beautifully played. It really whisks at your earbones. Olausson’s singing glows more. Words like "loner" will be hung on Morning & Sunrise, with good reason: one doesn’t just happen upon such potent clarity without solitude. Possibly the most lucid psychedelic record ever.
Bunga Bunga
(Suara - SUA04) LP $18.00
Electro-acoustic improvisation by this Italian / French collective comprised of Roberto Bertacchini, Mattia Coletti, Jérôme Florenville, Xabier Iriondo, Aka Bondage, and Ravi Shardja. "The roar of the raging radiation," says Art Into Life. Edition of 300.
Minexcio Connection: Live at the Rosedale Cafe
(Roaratorio) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
The results of one of the most unexpected yet fruitful partnerships in recent years, a live collaboration between electronic music pioneer and sage of the environmental-drone Pauline Oliveros and indefinable Argentinean experimenters Reynols. Recorded in August 2000 during Reynols’ first trek through North America, the record features a version of “Six For New Time” (originally composed for Sonic Youth’s Goodbye 20th Century album), along with idiosyncratic throat-singing and hypnotic dream/dronescapes.
To Valerie Solanas And Marilyn Monroe In Recognition Of Their Desperation
(Roaratorio - ROAR21) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Intrigued by the egalitarian feminism set forth in Valerie Solanas’s 1968 SCUM Manifesto, and needing to express her own resonance with the energy of the surfacing women’s movement, Oliveros incorporated the principles in the structure of a new piece she was composing at the time. Monroe had taken her own life and Solanas had attempted to take Andy Warhol’s. Both women seemed desperate, caught in the traps of inequality: Monroe needed to be recognized for her talent as an actress and Solanas wished to be supported for her own creative work. Commissioned by the Music Department of Hope College, Holland Michigan, To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation had its premiere in 1970. Though everyone knew Marilyn Monroe, hardly anyone recognized Valerie Solanas at the time or took her Manifesto seriously. Oliveros brought the names of these two women together to draw attention to their inequality. Roaratorio’s LP -- the first commercially available release of this eerie, beautiful, and important Oliveros work -- contains the 1970 Hope College premiere, performed by a 14-piece ensemble, and a 1977 recording from Wesleyan University, performed by a 43-piece orchestra. Cover artwork by Judith Lindbloom. Download coupon included.
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.
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
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.
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
inSec
(Siltbreeze) LP $17.00
Lost in the label’s murky somewheresville since it was recorded in 2013, this ambient masterpiece brings to mind a John Carpenter soundtrack performed by The Hub. Clinton Williams’s infectious and corrupting sounds synthesize new lifeforms in your brain’s enzymes. If you specialize in a niche too much, you are prey to predators outside, but Omit never goes for low-hanging fruit and isn’t simulating anything. Xenobiological effects aside, inSec constructs your sentiment through timbral concepts that repeat and shift with minimal reference to harmony, melody, key, or mode. Streams jump and skitter, knitting tightly high and low in a dense rattling driven to the long and most plaintive tones among the countless gizmos (that’s including you, but not “you”). This one is for big fans of Anode/Cathode, Ikue Mori, Papa Srapa, Fronte Violeta, and Insignia refrigerators.
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER / TOMUTONTTU
Tomutonttu / Oneohtrix Point Never
(Alter - ALT02) split 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Kemialliset Ystavat's Jan Anderzen and New Yorker Daniel Lopatin create a unique synthesis formed from a DIY approach to electronic music. With Tomutonttu's "Likaiset Pilvet," Anderzen emerges from his archives with something new after a heavy editing session. Fragmented electronics bring to mind a dozen Parmegiani records melting in unison. Rhythmic loops and other scattered sounds bear similarities to Eric Copeland's recent output. OPN's "Wayland Lincoln Border" continues Lopatin's synth work, recognized for deep layers of warm sound from trance-like melodies, evocative of motion, always evolving, constructing and deconstructing new worlds from sound. An apt counterpoint to Anderzen's chaos. Edition of 500.
Albino
(Moniker - MNKR010) LP $16.00
Transcendent noise-making now in its fourth decade, an unholy bitches’ brew of discordant snarl, avant-garde R&B, gospel-heavy blackness, queer sensibility and extravagant, performance-art theatrics (they once played a concert at Navy Pier in which singer Travis was dragged through the audience in a steel cage, naked but for a jockstrap). Re-emerging in the late ’00s with vehemence and an expansive, multi-generational lineup, P. Michael’s ground-swelling bass and nasty, insectoid beats are the glue that binds the sprawl while Travis carries echoes of punk prophets like Patti Smith, Iggy Pop and Gil Scott-Heron. Highlights include the sick, Beefheart groove of “Veil,” and a cover of “All Tomorrow’s Parties” -- a wall-of-sound sprouting weeds and flowers in its cracks.
Diegesis
(Moniker) LP $16.00
Visionary gospel noise has never sounded so furiously focused, from the loping, industrial thwonk of “Travis Wax Madonna” to the corroded funk of “Spare,” reminiscent of Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad productions. P. Michael’s warped beats bind the band’s guttural bass, swooping guitar feedback, and the delirious chanting of Travis, more high-priest than frontman. Diegesis is their most aggressive, most militant document yet, digging unflinchingly at the unhealed wounds of the body politic. The dystopic soundscape “Blackpower.Move,” with its screams, sirens, echoes of barking dogs and machine-gun fire, is a growling, onomatopoetic invocation of the dark and shameful MOVE bombing of 1985. Then there’s the nightmarish “CQCQCQ,” part of Travis’ ongoing “savagely personal” explorations of the profound traumas he experienced as a radio operator aboard the USS America in the late ’60s. The final cut is a swelling, funereal cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Burning of the Midnight Lamp.”
Ennui
(Priority Male) LP $16.00
Originally released by Thermidor in 1986, the second LP by this legendary experimental group from Chicago’s southside experiments with atmospherics and sparser compositions. Travis belts out gospel-tinged Beefhart-ian sermons over post-Gristle clatter, filtering traditional hymns through afterwar points-of-view, remnants of post-modern abstract punk, and Western world queer counterculture. Ono’s theatrical attributes shine heavily and give noticeable nods to Pere Ubu while also scrambling their influences beyond recognition. Remastered from original tapes. 150-gram vinyl. Listen to the whole album here: http://youtu.be/Gr1U5l7pZXg?list=PLWW3-uofVJsWpEEuvpJ-vNvWB8-F-fVsF
Machines That Kill People
(Priority Male) LP $16.50
Priority Male’s reissue of the Chicago trio’s debut album (Thermidor 1983) revisits their unique mixture of love pulsations from the deep end of odd, no-wave guitar collage clatter, churning and clanging repetition, exuberant freak-flag-flying, and powerful quasi-sermonizing cautiously and passionately delivered by legendary frontman Travis. 150g vinyl. Hand-screened jackets. Poster insert.
Irrelevant
(7.17 From West Wittering Is Late Again ) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Vinyl reissue of this legendary tape (Perverse Series 1997) by Steve Fricker of Cheeses International, in top form playing, producing, mixing, and editing the whole album using a different instrument for each track (hunting horn, cymbal, piccolo, bass guitar and a home-made zambomba). Artwork retains original cover concept (front cover featuring a different flag on each copy). Hand-numbered edition of 300. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2011
Misery Guests
(Siltbreeze - SB-197) LP $20.00
Katharine Daly, Leonie Brialey and their crew are assuredly zoned into what they’re laying down on the rural-like, rough hewn Misery Guests, which rollicks woozily and fetchingly out of step. Stitched in out-of-time folk ruggedness, these tracks seem plucked out of a mid-’70s time warp that contemporary alt/retro bands only dream of conceiving. Think Fairport Convention, Etchingham Steam Band, Desire / Rolling Thunder-era Dylan, Patti Smith Group, Garbage & The Flowers. And while its existence will forever remain bittersweet without Daly here to embrace its ultimate fruition, her spirit is forever locked into every nuance of this stone-cold masterpiece. Edition of 400.
Aurora Coelestis
(Opax - OPX036) 2xLP $60.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Opax - OPX036) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two instantaneous compositions for glockenspiel and voice by one half of outside space duo My Cat Is An Alien, recorded March 2014 in homage to early minimalism, intended to be listened to at low volume, quietly in a room. These “incredible glides through the darkest recesses of [the] solar system,” says Byron Coley, “extend celestial glimmering into eruptive plains of infinity. Cosmic burbles worthy of Gong mix with expansive tones…. Beautiful, cold and deep. It will make all of your bones feel very soft. The third piece, ‘Hic et Nunc’, a piece for manipulated vocals ... is like being sucked through a long tube that lights up and resonates as you pass [through]. Alien lips quiver nearby and you can smell a kind of breath you have never smelled before. It’s a wonderful trip through bubble time…” Tri-fold jacket made of heavy transparent blue textured cardboard; 12”x16” color folded cover / insert; liner notes; download card. Each copy has one of three different 4”x6” original photographs Opalio mounted on back, representing diverse perspectives of the glockenspiel during the session. Handstamped, hand-numbered edition of 200. Listen to a sample here: https://soundcloud.com/elliptical-noise/roberto-opalio-aurora-coelestis-album-sampler
The double-LP bonus includes a vinyl art object (original acrylic painting by Opalio on Side A) and a piece of the glockenspiel. Edition of 50. Watch images here: http://mycatisanalien.tumblr.com/post/98625037828/roberto-opalio-aurora-coelestis-opax-records
Des Machines Dans Les Yeux
(Bimbo Tower) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Industrial dead-dance music. Hypnotic, mekanik. Maniac electronics. Deviant wave. Whatever catchphrase we go with to describe the first full studio album by EL-G (Kraaaak, S-S, and Nashazphone) and Jo (Tanz Procesz), both of whom have worked with Ghédalia Tazartès under the monicker Reines d'Angleterre, these young delinquents scrub the industrial music of their elders with body-tingling electronic rhythms. Wild and colorful, binary and furious, dirty and futuristic, an excellent example of how the new underground electronics connect history to contemporaneity.
MCMLXXXIII-MCMLXXXVII K7-Tapes Alternative
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD55) 3xLP $100.00
Rare tape treasures from the archives of French darkwave master Franck Lopez, including tracks from cassettes home-duplicated in editions of between 100 and 300 copies: Autres Appels (1985); Eternelle Tourmente (1986); OMS / Modern Art (1987); Je regarde la Pluie (1987); and Regret qui s'écaille (1987). Originally recorded on two-track reel tape, these are the seeds of songs that were later rearranged or re-recorded. Also contains some demo versions of never-released songs. Includes t-shirt size XL
Opposite Sex
(Fishrider - FISH006) LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
This New Zealand trio’s debut leaps from sea-sick waltzes and crunchy post-punk to ADD pop. Genre-defying, half-melted, and t-t-t-trippy.
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
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.
Flee Past's Ape Elf
(Feeding Tube - FTR096) 2xLP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
With roots in Hampshire College’s Electronic Music Studio in the early 1970s, Robert Carey began an epic stumble into the universe of musique concrete, using piles of reel-to-reel tape mostly recorded from television broadcasts. Banal spoken material is refashioned into bizarre, hilarious and shockingly musical suites. Influenced by Gysin, Burroughs, and Somerville’s cut-up techniques, as much as Zappa’s 1960s editing flair, Carey creates new savage aural realities. Expanded reissue of the original release (Twin/Tone Records 1979), with all new artwork and a twenty-page booklet of collages, photos, vintage letters, and liner notes penned by Byron Coley. Edition of 500 copies.
Tin WIndows
(Heart Of Glue - HOG001) 7-inch $4.00 (Out-of-stock)
Decontextualized public voices cut-up and repeated. Addictive, funny, oddly rhythmic, obsessive-compulsive. C'mon, your brain is at least twenty-five percent worms by now, surely you can tolerate a couple more.
Solo Acoustic Volume Ten
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ010) LP $17.50 (Out-of-stock)
The blues, as abstract, by the Harry Pussy guitarist of yore.
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.
Protest Music
(Ideal - IDEAL127) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Growing’s Joe DeNardo tests audiences’ decibel tolerances with sounds ranging from guitar-based rawness to deeply effected, screwed-up percussion. The complex sounds and images here contend with the absolute grayness of existence. Edition of 400
Ladybird Labyrinth
(Ultra Eczema - UE67) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Solo work by Eva Van Deuren, member of the street performance folk troupe Makesmachine. A maze of ever-changing Casio trips dripping with innocent ecstasy, a belly dancer oozing for endless adolescence playing with burned dolls in a Barbie house filled with pedals and tape loops, melanchotronic folk reminiscent to some Moondog, the contemporary Finnish crew, Delia Derbyshire, and Asian pop. In a full-color collage cover design by Dennis Tyfus with two inserts. Limited to 400 copies
Von Zeit Zu Zeit
(Backwards - BW01) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded live in Berlin, 2010, edited in 2011, the two side-long compositions here hover in space, seduce, and hypnotize. Orsi plays synth, guitar and filters, and embraces Central European kosmische musik, turning cold, early darkness into an oneiric remembrance, a daydream. With six photo inserts. Edition of 200.
Wannsee
(Ricerca Sonora - RS03) LP (one-sided) $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Immersive sonics from location recordings sourced at Wannsee Lake outside Berlin form the basis of a trio of dense, drifting pieces rich in microscopic and macroscopic detail. Wildlife sounds ring clear and true across muffled low end murk and subtle, sub-cutaneous detail, with highlights discovered in the abstract hazy structures and aquatic chaos. Edition of 200.
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.
Provocative Electronics
(Pan - PAN2) LP $13.50
As in the days of musique concrete and the beginning years of synthesizer development, Ortmann (Panicsville, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Nihilist label) experiments with tones and his own brand of electronic tweakage. Not a homage, but yet another document in the ongoing history of electronic music. Limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl, jacket housed in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs.
Dois Mil E Nove
(Lilith) 3xLP $75.00
2009 boxset reissue of the first three classic albums — Os Mutantes (1968), Mutantes (1969), A Divina Comedia (1970) — by legendary Brazilian tropicalia group who mixed traditional Brazilian sounds with psych and ’60s rock.
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.
Bleak
(Troniks) Used 12-inch (one-sided) $8.00
Harsh noise from 2006 by Gordon Ashworth. Edition of 157
Monographic
(Hands In The Dark - HITD028) CD $12.75 (Out-of-stock)
(Hands In The Dark - HITD028) LP $18.75 (Out-of-stock)
Dirty and distorted rock by multi-instrumentalist and producer Demian Castellanos with Valentina Magaletti on drums. Fuzzed up guitars are layered into a maelstrom of sound; kinetic drums push the searing vocals to new levels of intensity.
Listen to “Truth In Reverse” here: https://soundcloud.com/hitd-3/the-oscillation-truth-in-reverse
OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD
Beautiful Monolith Two
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC05) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Powerful psychedelic, surrealistic trance-noise from New Zealand wizard Campbell Kneale.
OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD
Blue Eyes Are My Reward
(Krayon Recordings) LP $15.00
Former Birchville Cat Motelier Campbell Neale intends to charm snakes and drop jaws with his latest collection of crop circles etched in an icicle-clad forest. Dublike boomph and bleary-eyed strum blast the path out of a decidedly greying world of so-so metalized-myspace-drone into a miniaturized drone-prairie of superpowered starshine and dazzling stellar-commotion. 180-gram vinyl.
Outer Space
(Arbor) Used LP $10.00
Electricity converted into acoustic pressure and potential; the melody of physics. Six recordings here, each a microcosmic illumination of the personal path of Emeralds' John Elliott. Clear vinyl. Edition of 650.
Raglani / Outer Space
(Nihilist - NIHIL67) split LP $20.00
Quite synthesizerish and pleasantly mindbending. Guest appearance by C. Spencer Yeh on the Raglani side. Artwork by Jeremy Kannapell (Ghost Ice). Edition of 500.
Germinal
(Outlier Communications) LP $25.00
This debut LP by Kevin Hainey and Sarah Tracy blends lo-fi sensibility and hi-fi substance by using atypical rhythms, atonal sounds, and shifting forms. The result feels at home in a number of genres (electronic, ambient, psychedelia, minimalism), all the better to soothe your psyche with shimmering inner light and to massage your senses with meditative warmth.
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.
Otherside of
(Pataphysique - DD89) 2xCD + 7-inch $40.00 (Out-of-stock)
Tokyo psych mainstays from 1990 to 2008 who, according to Dusted, “mixed the melodies with the mope to achieve a Paisley Underground sort of effect, albeit with virtuosic guitar freakouts by leader Rinji Fukuoka…. [M]ajestic melodies, challenging and progressive outlines, ripping leads, and proper song structures … recorded in Japan rattle the cages of … young, “tribal” drug-pee band[s]… with the skill and professional freakout-making abilities they all lack.” The seven-inch contains two songs from the band's 1999 US tour: “Le Few Follet” with its pop-psych layering and dueling lead guitars that are thick and confident and “Cut Up Us,” a collage of sounds from the entire tour and symphonic tapeloops.
Overhang Party
(Mutant Music - MM026) LP $11.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reissues of the long out-of-print debut LP by Rinji Fukuoka and Co., at their formative nucleus in 1993. Avant-garde, improvisational, amazingly soundscapular. The beautiful and the abrasive. Edition of 500.
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
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Dobranoc
(Elevator Bath - eeaoa029) LP picture disc $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
More than forty haunting yet serene minutes of field recordings, guitars, shortwave radio, analog keyboards and Moog filters. Contemplative and melodic tones build slowly into a monolithic block of sound, while layer after layer of warm atmosphere appears and then unravels into a sea of tranquility. Strikingly elegant three-dimensional music. Edition of 268
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
Everytime You Hurt Me / Into The Happiness
(Legion Blotan) split 7-inch $8.75
Two depressing sides of obscure black metal from Netherlands and Finland, dominated by depression and suicidal isolation. Inner darkness crushed in the middle by unique atmospheres and singular visions. Edition of 200
Killing On Full Moon
(Legion Blotan) 7-inch $9.00
Slow and melodic black metal from the Netherlands. Great songs with drum machine and evil vocals. Limited to 250 copies.
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.
Vague Maze
(A Dear Girl Called Wendy - WENDY12) 7-inch $8.00
Two titans of noise, one stunning prologue to their series of collaborations, seven minutes of analog synthesizers, electronics, and noise dating from 2005. Fast, violent, harsh. Edition of 200.
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
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
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.
Ghetto Rock b/w Brain Hungry Riddim
(Meeuw Muzak - 041) split 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Man called Tapes tears up the mixing desk once again, hard on the heels of his Vernon Maytone winner. This is another triumph – careering, hot and mental. Pampidoo does Tiger. Rough!
Pendulum Change Ringing
(Edition Telemark - 314.03) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first vinyl LP edition since 1986 by this Dutch sound and visual artist contains a recording of the installation from Pand Koloniale Waren in Hasselt, Belgium, in 2012 — which consists of twelve engraved Turkish metal platters mounted onto a black plastic bin, placed in a row twenty meters long, the rim of each of which is struck by a metal pendulum operated by tiny electromotors. Since the lengths of the arms of the pendulums are different, interlocking rhythmic patterns of the resonations don’t stay the same. The rich sound texture full of dissonant overtones is not chaotic, yet its regularity is hard to comprehend. With photos of the installation and liner notes by René van Peer. Edition of 300.
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.
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
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
New Directions in Creative Nihilism
(Turgid Animal - TA242) 7-inch $9.85
Junkyard pick-and-scrape from Andy Ortmann and co., who use time, space and mind-boggling stereo switching to their advantage. Limited to 220 copies on heavy black vinyl, with artwork screened by Jelle Crama.
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.
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
White Fur /// Black Cathedral
(Oaken Palace - OAK001) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Canadian improv-instrumental jams by guitarist Eric Quach (Destroyalldreamers, thisquietarmy), Ryan Ferguson (Sianspheric, Electroluminescent) on synthesizers, and drummer Pascal Asselin (Below The Sea, Millimetrik). Quach’s typically haunting guitar blends with spaced-out synth loops and pulsating drumming. Edition of 300, 180g white vinyl. Free download code.
Air Lice
(Scratch And Sniff Entertainment - SNSE066) split 10-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Taliban is the free noise duo of Miles Haney and Joel Rakowski. Haney also runs Tapeworm Tapes and has a recording project called Evenings. Taliban has prior releases on American Tapes, Gods Of Tundra, Fag Tapes, and Tapeworm Tapes, among others. Paranoid Time is the harsh noise project of Pat Yankee, operator of the SNSE record label. Paranoid Time has past releases on Animal Disguise Recordings, Pacrec/Troniks, Militant Walls, Harsh Head Rituals, Tapeworm Tapes, and Gaping Hole, among others.
THE PARASITES OF THE WESTERN WORLD
Politico / Zytol Automation
(Destijl - IND095) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reissue of the lead single for their second album, Substrata (Match Box 1980). "Politico" is a rippin' new wave roller full of glam stomp, proggy arrangement and punky attitude. The synth-fuelled non-LP instrumental "Zytol Automation" features Terry Censky and Patrick Burke in an ebullient symphony of synths, drums and guitar.
THE PARASITES OF THE WESTERN WORLD
The Parasites of the Western World
(Destijl - IND072) LP $18.50 (Out-of-stock)
This Portland, Oregon, band released their debut in 1978, a fascinating, galactic ramble across the otherworldly themes of alienation and paranoia, seemingly inspired by LSD and Philip K. Dick. Primarily the creation of Patrick Burke and Terry Censky, The Parasites were limitless with invention and completely DIY. They were recorded in an apartment by a crew thoughtful enough to curtail its loud excursions for the daylight hours. Informed by the typical institutions of the era (Pink Foyd, The Beatles and Hawkwind), its many electronic flourishes presage the likes of Vertical Slit, F/i and Vertigo. The Parasites remain light years ahead of a time that has yet to come. Edition of 1000. Includes digital download coupon.
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.
Paris 1942
(Majora) LP $80.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded in Phoenix in 1983, released in 1997, these killer garage jams start off VU-styled and get darker and stonier from there, as required by their cover of Syd Barrett's "Long Gone." The band is Moe Tucker (drums), Allan Bishop (bass, vocals), Bennie Baresi (guitar), Jesse Akkari (guitar), David Oliphant (guitar) and Rick Bishop as well, possibly.
C-Section
(Pan - PAN9) LP $18.00
Pan’s vinyl edition of the CD (Second Layer 2010) contains all the final mixes and edits of the sessions by the British free jazz phenomenon and L.A.’s no-nonsense electronic and tape noise artist. The duo’s real-time, evolving improvisations are intended for maximum volume and have been mastered accordingly. C-Section finds density in scarcity — deep, glacial muck bubbles emerge beneath Parker's inhuman circular breathing, only to plunge into an incessant clatter of industrial landscape. Edition of 330, 140g black-and-white LP jacket in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. Artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas.
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
PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES
Aulos’ Second Reed
(Beniffer Editions) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
Pascal Nichols and Kelly-Jayne Jones have gone outside themselves and become a whole listening unit with a singular pulse. Made with what appears at first to be a two-person small Gakaku-style setup, the elegant A-side meditates with occasional tympani and flute call-and-response that seems sourced from a hundred years ago. Treated field recordings add a sense of authenticity to the ceremonial experience. The patient and expertly conceived B-side focuses more on collage, sounding like a creaking vessel that does not want to dock. Screen-printed four-color jacket, with card poetry insert. White vinyl. Edition of 300
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.
PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES
Poisson
(Mie Music - 008) LP $10.00
“Informed by ecstatic jazz, but Poisson's roots are in pragmatic sonic experimentalism,” notes Bruce Russell, “You can almost smell the witch trials in this,” while Foxy Digitalis marvels at Part Wild Horses’ “whirling eastern tones, primal playing and dusty, dismal grain…. [A] sludging mess, but coherent and beautiful all the same,” and Volcanic Tongue can’t escape Poisson’s claustrophobia: “Creaking percussion and dooms of gong tone conjure … ghost galleon in distress … while mutated vocals, voids of breath and Jones’s fantastic flute playing carve halos in the air.” Includes “Seven Season Of Weeping,” a bonus track not included on the original cassette (Rayon 2009). 180g vinyl. Edition of 500
Nihilist Chakai House
(Discombobulate - BOB003) LP $25.00
Ten tracks of one-man drumming action that swings like a goofy magnetic pendulum by full-fledged ceramist, beard-wearer and drummer in ozone-scraping duo Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides. Side one is clear as an ECM joint yet huffed with a sweaty Javanese energy. The bronze pots get thunked bad and vibrate, shifting units of time, Bene-Gesserit-style. A massive station clock weeps small brass cogs until the stutter of fudge-footed mice scramble all smeary, dazzling with dry-snare. Between times, the most amazing sonorous cowbell work you’ll hear this side of a Trouble Funk block-jam tails off into resinous wooden bumps. Side two opens up all hot, with frittering and hummingbird-quick trap work. Sticks made of hollow heron’s legs (on loan from Ed Blackwell) add a venerable edge to the membranous drones and crisp celery crunch. Hands that are hard and rough as sandpaper jigger and jolley moans out the drum skins, creating a Tie-Fighter dogfight, which segues into a resonant metallic chitter; all chipped chrome and dangerous ricochet. The record closes in a dignified manner: amplified wool being wound round a Djembe in freezing fog. Includes insert. Clear vinyl. Edition of 250. Listen to an excerpt here: https://archive.org/details/Pascal-NihilistChakaiHouse-SideAExcerpt
Morning Meditations
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ014) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Transcendental acoustic guitar mysticism from this Western Massachusetts shaman.
Solo Acoustic Volume Seven
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ007) LP $17.50 (Out-of-stock)
Twelve-string alchemy by the Crystalline Roses guy. Hypnotic, finger- picked melodies of a true occult nature, resounding with mysticism and unknown pleasures.
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
Hidden Face / Leave Mine
(Emerald Cocoon - EC004) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
At an intersection of late 20th-century art music by one half of Aster and of Paul and Maurey — modern composition, Euro free clatter and textural psychedelia — stilted song forms almost career off the very face of form on thin lines of carefully controlled reed-skree. Hand-crafted and warm, Paul’s tracks stitch together guitar, vocals, crotales and saxophone, and move in a constant, slow peristalsis, never quite coalescing, never quite drifting apart. Equal parts alien unease and folkish charm, these slowly tangled tones drift prismatic and high in the late afternoon light. Volume two in Emerald Cocoon’s Alone Together series. Edition of 300.
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
Preach Under Cooked
(Sophomore Lounge - SL055) 7-inch $7.25 (Out-of-stock)
Justin Frye and his collective of art-diseased obsessives summon a somewhat lazier Bad Moon Rising-era industrial mushroom grunge, but can also relate to earlier Smog stuff (recorded in a haunted meat locker), to say nothing of the ease with which they lace free-form, sax-soured mutant folk with moans of Americana nightmare language and occasional flashes of Ayler-like enlightenment. The A-side wanders Fahey-ward with an Orcutt-damaged compass, while the flip is classic PC slacker punk. Hand-screened jackets. Edition of 300
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.
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.
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
Peeesseye + Talibam!
(Smeraldina-Rima - SR13) 2xLP $20.00
This overdue collaboration between Evolving Ear labelmates Talibam! (Kevin Shea on drums, Matt Mottel on keyboards) and Peeesseye (Jaime Fennelly on electronics, Chris Forsyth on guitars and Fritz Welch on drums) rips. Driven by the double-barreled percussion attack, underpinned by Fennelly's drones and scribbled all over by Mottel and Forsyth, whose gonzo soloing reminds us single-chord jams have been around since The Fugs roamed the earth and Angus MacLise still turned up for rehearsals. Sometimes they dispense with chords altogether and dive into the primeval, murky soundpool. Loud, messy, and glorious. Artwork by Rachel Lowther. Edition of 600
Sci Fi Death Mask
(Humansacrifice - HS008) LP $20.00
Guitarist Chris Forsyth, Jaime Fennelly on harmonium and electronics, and Fritz Welch on percussion and vocals have been decalcifying the pineal gland and throttling parameters for over a decade, crafting in the process their own shifting nimbus tensions and deliverances comparable to lone naked swimming over the Mariana Trench. A Ranter’s harmonium, tattered flag guitar, arrhythmia sleep percussion, meff soul crooning and electrical overload are arranged on a sixpence with a nefarious Brotherhood’s collusion. Their language teeters between elegy and barbarism, the magical and corporeal. Soul and gut. 180-gram vinyl. Hand-painted jackets.
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
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
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
Effigy
(Mie Music - 014) 2xLP $15.00
Recorded live in 2011 in Wisconsin (at an old yoga studio and at a decommissioned synagogue), Effigy melts layer upon layer of droning strings over never-ending harmoniums while peals of gongs ring out to mesmerizing effect -- a testament to the ancient animal-shaped effigy mounds which dot the landscape in and around Madison, Wisconsin. Edition of 500
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.
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.
Counterfeit Memories
(Nashazphone - NP002) LP $25.00
Hailed as the world's most psychedelic band, John Schoen, R. Nuuja and Jason Finkbeiner -- two of whom have previously played with Arthur Doyle, who is about as psychedelic as onion rings -– issue their darkest statement so far. A departure from 1970s Ugandan extravaganza into possibly the synapses of its then leader.
Hey Friend, What You Doing?
(Destijl) CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Destijl) LP $12.75
A Pens live set lasts about fourteen minutes. The girls swap instruments between tunes mainly because it appears none of them really know what they are doing. The whole shambolic thing seems on the verge of falling apart; it's swathed in so much static and reverb that it's like watching the YouTube clip of that kid kicking through the granite wall and snapping his ankle in half. Their cover of The Gun Club's "Sex Beat" sounds like The Germs trying to be The Shangri Las through a gauze of early K Records fuzz.
Love Rules
(Destijl - IND081) 7-inch $5.25 (Out-of-stock)
Pens are three girls who take an old-school approach to a hum and riff and add their own who-gives-a-fuck, homemade panache.
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
Former January Ending Through 52 Weeks
(Sophomore Lounge) LP $19.00 (Out-of-stock)
The inner logic in People Skills, beyond a cloud of ambiguity, is a remarkable balance between the shattered plaster electronics and Jesse Dewlow’s melodious chording. The blunted-ass casio beats and the haunted lonerman vox riding tremble alongside make it perfect. The encased-in-dust-for-a-few-winters production value is just gravy. Includes DL card
Magnet Hill
(I Dischi Del Barone) 7-inch $15.00
Rather minimal and more based on guitar than previous efforts by Jesse Dewlow, such that “a murky sub-underground feel resembling South Island NZ pop played inside an armored car” line might be on point, but these two downer gems are rooted elsewhere. Plus, hey hey, locked grooves. With insert. Edition of 200
Trail of White Flies b/w Painting of Trial Medicine
(No Label New Zealand) 8-inch (lathe cut) $30.00
Screen-printed hand-folded, stamped sleeves with extra photocopy sleeve. Edition of 40
Tricephalic Head
(Siltbreeze) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Following a self-titled cassette (Psychic Mule, 2013), People Skills serve up a first LP of deceptively relaxed songs. As per usual, deductions are to be made on the consciousness of the character; the important thing is that in the ensuing spatial vagueness, Jesse Dewlow really comes into his own. The influence of Graham Lambkin has become so staggeringly panoramic over the past decade it seems to demand participation and here it is, inscribed by the chance blurts of Die Spielverderber and the slow attitude of The University Punx, and played from the loner-folk-side-in — that is, for feeling felt. And the laziness is projective; always managing to sound looser and more vivid than it seemed a couple of seconds before, shifting from lyrical to terse by way of The Rebel. And if that doesn’t get you, consider the mortal words of John Berryman: “Well hell / I’m not writing an autobiography-in-verse.” As a first-person hallucination recorded memory, this plays somewhere between full-blown Dewlow narrative and snapshot. Regardless, we’re blazing into a new era and this one will go perfect in one of those new rabbit-computer cafés. Include free download card
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.
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
Terminal Tower
(Get Back ) Used LP $18.00
1998 reissue of their 1985 retrospective collection of early singles from the mid-’70s. Sealed
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.
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.”
The Undead Shall Rise
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR046) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Funeral doom concept album based on a zombie attack. Very slow and heavy music interspersed with spoken word, noise and drones. Comes with a blood-soaked “last note.”
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
Suffering Of Tomorrow
(Little Big Chief - LBCR010) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Outsider outsider music with chops and concepts and “the aura” to alienate and “fantasy-ize” the internal of your brain-existence. If you’ve ever wished jazz was more makeup-friendly, included dragons, and flirted slightly with glam, well, playboy, you are progressive. Be proud, cuz this platter sure is. Called the first private press Greek prog LP (late and weird period, when things were getting softer and more living room), Suffering Of Tomorrow throws down a wicked and tuneful dose of Canterbury / Cressida / slowed-down Gracious!-styled Steel Mill worship. Organ runs the game here; slight flashes of claustrophobic high-end synth lurch an’ jerk back to the ’80s, but the majority of the movements are rich, lavish, Hammond-pensive deals. The short intro to side two begins a lengthy concept track that’ll sink your boat in a pool of complex arrangements and gadgetry. Remastered by members of Pete and Royce, licensed, etc., it’s fully legit, broheim. Edition of 500.
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
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.
Phantasia
(World In Sound) LP $75.00 (Out-of-stock)
The guitar-dominated underground psych from the early ’70s by this Kansas quartet creeps in slowly. Acoustic, mystic folk realms turn into raw garage hard rock with stunning vocals and advanced guitar freak-outs and jams. German reissue from 2003 includes bonus tracks on the 10-inch.
Raven Town Witch
(Sophomore Lounge - SL059) LP $14.25 (Out-of-stock)
A slinky and sinister Southern gothic brew evoking early glam, Brainticket-ish psychedelia, Roxy Music’s “In Every Dream Home a Heartache.” The perfect record, according to no less an authority than HRH Lydia Lunch, for the party after the after-party or a raucous late-night ritual in celebration of your inner witch.
Phantom Head
(Blak Skul - BSR-004) LP $14.50 (Out-of-stock)
Sick psych-punk by “weirdo jammers fixated on death feels,” suitable for both the black turtleneck and the Hawaiian shirt sets. A churning, hypnotic, numb, dense, distorted two-guitar attack, with male and female vocals. With Ex-Burial Teens members, as well as The Wet Ones, American Hate, and Chasm. Edition of 550.
Phantom Payn Days
(Destijl - IND079) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
During the late 70s, while in the widely neglected 39 Clocks, Juergen Gleue made records that never sold and played gigs that few ever saw. Though an important exponent of electrified German sound, his Phantom Payn Days LP, made in the mid- to late '90s, has never been released. It's Gleue's final LP and overflows with all the elements that romanticized, loner / stoner music claims, an encoded expression of highly private feelings, an ambiguous, emotional quotient, and a dark, murkily melodic vibe.
Awakening
(Luv N’ Haight) Used LP $40.00
1996 RTI reissue of 1971 must-have for collectors of spiritual, deep, Afro-centric jazz
Skyscraper
(Avant! - AV!030) 12-inch $17.75 (Out-of-stock)
The debut EP of the techno project by Dream Affair’s Hayden Payne moves between noise-ridden soundscapes and minimal industrial techno rhythms (influenced by EBM classics such as Front 242 and Klinik) and modern contemporaries like Silent Servant and Ancient Methods. Disparate sounds magically convert into driving and danceable noise. Listen to the title track here: https://soundcloud.com/avant/phase-fatale-skyscraper
Rise
(Ideal) Used LP $15.00
“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.”
Ritual Protest Music
(Urbsounds Collective) LP $23.00
Politically charged, hyperreal and unremitting soundscapes containing harsh social and self-criticism clad in a sense of impending doom spiced with an energizing optimism and informed by faith in the humanimal. Sound sources and instruments include voice, body sounds, field recordings, cello, violin, piano, electric bass, live performance recordings and dp’s organically growing bank of “hitting” sounds, culled from recordings of whips, punches, slaps, smacks, slamming doors and windows, hammered chairs and tables and objects flying about and breaking. a careful playfulness with rhythmical structures, as hinted at on 'rise', is further pursued. Gray vinyl
Sixth Mass Extinction
(Total Black) LP $23.00
Two side-long tracks: the stereo version of “Things Falling Apart,” a composition for three PAs, originally commissioned by Bad Bonn Kilbi Festival in Düdingen, Switzerland 2018, backed with “Radical Hope – Live Action (Studio Version),” triggered by a broken heart, since morphed into a piece about the relationship of the human as a species with Earth as a cherished entity, such as a loved one, a friend, a partner, a companion, a parent or a family member, a home or an origin. With eight-page newspaper featuring articles that offer a broad view of what homo sapiens has achieved in terms of coexistence and in taking care of its home, including a lengthy text by Professor Jem Bendell. Embossed jacket. Edition of 300
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
Our Anthems
(Twisted Knister - KNACK003) LP $21.25
Twelves sketches of "atmospheric musical beauty" from the mid- to late 1990s by Idea Fire Company's Karla Borecky and Scott Foust with long-time collaborator Mike Popovich. The trio uses synths, haunting voices, guitars with percussive elements, minimal rhythms and radio static. Edition of 300 copies.
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
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
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...).
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
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
ROBERT PIOTROWICZ / C.M. VON HAUSSWOLF
Robert Piotrowicz / C.M. von Hausswolff
(Bocian - BR02) split LP $16.00
Piotrowicz’s single long track, "Clinamen 3" continues his study of the analog modular synthesizer. The first movement is characterized by a high-frequency tone and an erratic rhythmic bass pulse that slowly build to a wall of symphonic roar. The second movement, a low-end, dark passage, infests the symphonic leads with a sense of evil and menace, the two writhing together in a horror movie haze. The third goes all out, mixing a low end thump with a siren melody lead, dropping subtlety in favor of pure force, before going out like a lamb with a short, simple melodic coda. The first of Von Hausswolff’s quiet, textural studies of sound, "Ritual Shaving of an Ass in Belgium (aka Eating A Piranha Wouldn't Be So Bad The Way Things Are These Days)," is based on loops composed for an installation performance. The textures are light and scratchy, with careful variation on the crunchy textures, with the vaguest insinuation of bass hidden. "Ritual Shaving of an Ass in Poland (aka The Snoring Innocence)," is rawer, static, heavy, and abrasive. With extraneous sounds and audience conversations captured on ragged audio tape, its mangled, worn, decaying nature gives it an historical, hollow quality. Edition of 200.
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.
Sounds and Songs of the Sea
(La Brea - LBX06) 7-inch $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
A strange and obscure artifact from mid-90s San Francisco, sponsored by Jaina Davis and Flatter! magazine. Real chanteys and ballads by Phil Frankin (Caroliner), Christine Shields (Blue Hole), James Goode (Faxed Head). Silkscreened sleeve.
A Theme Park For Whatever Happened Before
(Memoirs of an Aesthete) LP $20.00
The first sighting of Julian Bradley (a founding member of The Vibracathedral Orchestra) in a number of years. Eight tracks of intricate electronic calligraphy produced by archaic and malfunctioning effects units, unsweetened by digital reverb or any other modern day fripperies. Fuzztone and feedback patterns pulsate, intersect, and mix drone electronics, garage psych and a lumbering dose of doom metal. Imagine The Dead C eviscerating the instrumental bits off the first Roxy Music album and you’re halfway there. Edition of 250.
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
Goshen b/w 828
(Meeuw Muzak - MM040) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second 45 by Hideto Aso. Happy neon mystique and tinny breaks. Out of the norm, something antique but extremely new music. Edition of 200.
Pitchshifters
(Meeuw Muzak - MM033) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two tracks from The Pitchshifters’ second CDR, Improvise*Dessert. Beautifully constructed pop impulses stuffed into an improv framework.
Sound Source
(Pax - 001) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Improvisation combined with surreal sound works by Hideto Aso. Edition of 300
PLACENTA POPEYE / REVERSE MOUTH
Baby Blues Kids
(Tanzprocesz - TP4) split 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Byron Coley’s review somehow slipped past The Wire’s editorial gatekeepers and made it into print: “Fairly amazing free rock gloop collision by a French group with roots in Le Dernier Cri’s post-trauma sound (Placenta Popeye) and a Greek group (Reverse Mouth), who ... take things in a direction of stunning confusion. The best Greek things I’ve heard have always had a certain post-Rembetika blues orientation that explodes beyond average tongue worship. These guys are all that. And more.” Hand-numbered edition of 400
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
Dunn/Olson/Ramirez - 12/15/93
(Killertree) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Jeff Dunn, John Olson (Wolf Eyes) & Bryan Ramirez (Ex-Cocaine) met many evenings per week for over a year solid, cranked out around 200 sessions all recorded on 90 minute tapes. Of the roughly 9000 minutes of screech, almost all was eventually ground into dust, molded in the walls of 1610 Kzoo St. Lansing, MI, ransacked by noise bums, or recorded over. But one second-generation cassette got away from the doomhole; it was made at six o’clock in the morning before Ramirez was to catch a flight to Florida. The trio’s horrendous alien argument thundered from their sax, drums, guitar, and keys. The recording is shattering: minced analog skreedom recklessly curing informal ills and breaking windows from pure soundwave pressure. Free sound from the early years all innocent-like. Pure and demented is pure demented freedom. Screened covers. Killer liners / history lesson by John Olson.
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
Ich Bin Modern
(Danger Records - DR015) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Previously unreleased Austrian punk from 1981, mastered from original rehearsal cassette tape. Listen here: http://dangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/upcoming-dr-015-ich-bin-modern-lp
Konsumier Mich
(Danger Records - DR007) 7-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
All three tracks from the Die Tödliche Dosis compilation (Lustgewinn Schallplatten 1981) by this female fronted DIY punk band from Vienna. Insert includes lyrics and photos. Edition of 500
Pleasure Symbols
(Avant! - AV043) LP $18.25 (Out-of-stock)
Desolate but not devoid postpunk duo Phoebe Paradise and Jasmine Dunn engulf honest pop music under a sea of slowed, cold synth, bass, and unembellished restraint. Ritualistic vocals convey a sense of desperation, but not without fortitude. Edition of 500
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.
Bugenès Melissae
(Oaken Palace - OAK004) LP $19.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two lush, organic, free-form drones that take you back to the very roots of the genre. Dedicated to bees and bumblebees, with profits going to the UK’s Bumblebee Conservation Trust. Includes free download. Orange 180g vinyl. Edition of 500
Offshore
(Pro-Am Entainment - PA865) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Melodramatic hallucinatory downer damage recorded in the late ’90s by Robert Dayton (July Fourth Toilet, Canned Hamm, The Canadian Romantic), Dan Bejar (Destroyer, the New Pornographers) and Julian Lawrence (July Fourth Toilet). Melodic and troubled with a playful fear of death. Freaky despair. With lyrics / art booklet, liner notes by Kevin “Sipreano” Howes, and free download coupon. Edition of 500. Scratch that; edition of 400
Ongoing Resonance
(Polanyi) LP $26.00 (Out-of-stock)
Low-end rumbles and frequency-clash-rhythms accompanied by amplified household items and controlled microphonic feedback from Hobart, Tasmania. Edition of 100.
Saison 1979-82 - 30 years after; when the size was Polyphonic
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD63) 4xLP + 10-inch $120.00
Singles, maxi-singles, the debut LP (produced by The Stranglers' JJ Burnel), B-sides, rare tracks, alternate versions, demos, and unreleased material selected from Roger-Marc Vande Voorde's archives. LP1: Algorhythmic / Pragmatic Songs / Nagasaki Mon Amour / Mother's Little Helper / B9 Saison / Space Rejection / Mode / Plage Privée / Logique Polygonale / Ommatidia / Party / Travelling Things / Nagasaki Mon Amour / Hiroshima 1945 / Kyoto (version) / RDA-RFA / Kyoto LP2: Live For Each Moment / Vivre Pour Chaque Instant Zas / Rendez-vous / Winston & Julia / King Of Hong Kong / NBC Gmbh / Action Man / Night Is Coming On / Le Temps Du Swing / Je T'ai Toujours Aimée. LP3: P.S. / Winston & Julia / Outtakes / Demos / Unreleased Instrumentals Mother's Little Helper / Girlscout / Men & Construction / On The Way To Medora / Saison / Winston & Julia (Remix) / Parties Dance / ZAS 1 / Mode (instrumental version) / Medora / Saison (rehearsal with vocals by Bernard Dradin) / Rendez-Vous (rehearsal) / Electronic 14-7 / Me Or You / Citizen Of Science / Electronic 65-4. LP4 : Outtakes / Demos / Unreleased / Instrumentals Saison / Electronic 69-7 / Asakusa Dub / Electronic 15-5 / Her Toys dub / Girlscout (rehearsal with vocals by Bernard Dradin) / Space Rejection / Space Rejection (rehearsal with vocals by Bernard Dradin) / ZAS 3 (demo) / ZAS 4 (studio rehearsal) / PS intro / Kyoto / Nagasaki (instrumental) / Nagasaki (rehearsal) / Night is Coming On (demo) / Electronic 65-6 / RDA-RFA 2 (rehearsal) / Electronic 14-12 / Mother's Little Helper (alternate version).
Poor School / Wiggwaum
(Killertree - KTR13) split LP $14.25 (Out-of-stock)
There’s no reason for jazz not to attack. SF’s Wiggwaum terrorize the fuck outta sensibility and give no goddamned reason for the scars. Free sound is supposed to make it feel not so right, after all, and this particular declaration is just the shit bomb hurled from many stories above. Sometimes it’s a Manson orgy buried in Death Valley, other times it’s blissful fuckin’ peaches falling from a Krishna tree. Randy Lee Sutherland (Stereomother) heads this one into the back alleys with some pals and loses sense of time and practicality in the best way possible. Poor School, on the other hand, try to make money by "righting" hit records, but they fuck up every time they pick up an instrument. Once drummer Niekrasz pounds out this morse code in "mean method" and the sax/gtr combo adds to the argument, there’s nothing to do but back off and let ’em justify their violent ambitions. Jazz wreckage and difficulties throughout. Limited edition of 300 copies, silkscreened jackets. Includes bonus CDR of the album plus two extra tracks.
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.
Complete Works 80-83
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD73) 7xLP + DVD $150.00 (Out-of-stock)
Contains official and unreleased material by the godfathers of electronic body music, hard rhythmic electronics, and minimal synth. Includes: Gaining Momentum (Por Con 1981); Dining on the Fresh; (Por Con 1981); Private Illusions No. 1 (Por Con 1981); Private Illusions No. 2 (Por Con 1982); Video Soundtrack (Por Con 1982); Progress Report; With Mixed Emotion (In Phaze 1982); Surface and Be Seen (In Phaze 1982); I Staggered Mentally (In Phaze 1982); “A-Mag” and “Shot in the Belly” (Third Mind 1983); the highly sought-after Assault (For All and None 1986); obscure and unreleased tracks (including demos and alternate versions) from Portion Control’s archives; and compilation tracks. With 60-page book of memorabilia and photos from the era, a DVD with self-made videos from the V-Mag archive, all from 1981–83, and T-shirt. Edition of 600.
Posset
(I Dischi Del Barone - IDDB011) 7-inch $10.00
Newcastle-based improvisor Joe Murray’s mix of vocal-jaxx loops, dry breath and child chatter. Relentless squelching from a wet mouth that’s been physically spliced into cranky tape. An exploration of sharp pencil tap and wickedly pinched spools. Edition of 200. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2016
Séance
(The Epicurean - CURE.7) LP $25.50
Eight tracks recorded at various locations from 2003 through 2014, compiled into a single monolithic containing the full spectrum of Post Scriptvm’s mind states and atmospheres — from the death-ambient claustrophobia of “Corners” and “Etherized Erosion,” the hypnotizing analog textures of “Tarantula Pattern” and “The Binding,” to the violent power electronics of “Exacerbation” and “Upon Decadent Scum.” Beautiful black and gold printing on 12 x 12 natural paper. Includes postcard and free download card. Numbered edition of 50 with sew-on patch
A Skeleton / Cupboard Situation
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD35) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Early ’80s tape-only rarities by the founder of one of the earliest cassette labels in the UK (ICR), a key figure in the production of work by Nurse With Wound, Current 93 and Organum. Tracks from Angst in My Pants, The Scythe, We Couldn't Agree on a Title, The Ghost Office, The Where House?, and Insane Music For Insane People. Numbered edition of 500.
PREGGY PEGGY AND THE LAZY BABYMAKERS
A Short Visit To The City That Bleeds
(Being Weird Isn't Enough - BWEI01) LP $11.25
Angela Sawyer self-recorded inside a parked rental car during the 2012 High Zero Festival in Baltimore, doing kooky growls, gargles, burps, sneezes, Donald Duck impressions, half-poems, unintelligible squeaking, and overdubs achieved via cell phone (aka, the poor man’s delay pedal). A real breakthrough for the good kind of disgusting. Previously released on cassette (Dungeon Taxis 2013).
PREGGY PEGGY AND THE LAZY BABYMAKERS
Get An Ace Case of the Measles
(Ultra Eczema - UE63) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Angela Sawyer, a Boston-based psycho, record collector and owner of Weirdo Records, found herself compelled to overdub a mountain of voices on a mountain of strange instruments played by JA, who apparently “lives on one of New England's gray, shabby beaches with a couple of miniature fluffy dogs.” Thus was born Preggy Peggy And The Lazy Babymakers, who we may commend on numerous fronts: for CDRs released by Chocolate Monk and their own Being Weird Isn't Enough imprint; for never playing live; for stylish proximity to a hillbilly remix of the Sun City Girls jamming with Francois Dufrene; and for an astounding resume that includes such noteworthy ensembles as Pig Sex, The Pie Plate Band, The Cool Breeze, Jet Jaguar Backing Band, Phenomenological Boys, Stick a Fork In It, Laser Laser Laser Laser, The White People, Cough Syrup, The Saliva Sisters, Giacinto Scelsi Tribute Band, White Cocaine, My Son's Coloring Book, The Whoop Whoop Girls, Jimmy & the Waffles, N. Soseki / T. Hatsuro, The Kantian Project, Instant Distance Mental Powers, The Whistle Band, Byron, Jimmy & Gerard, Les Garcons Sur La Plage, Life Partners, The A Minor Project, Moshi Moshi I Am the Decider, Goils Goils & Fripped, Swastika Niggers, Sun Shine Sanitarium, The Cloud Club, Scarcity of Tanks, The Depressed Horns, Fleetwood Sac & the Sex-Havers, Human Hairs, Grizzler Big Band, Exusamwa, and Duck That.
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.
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.
Icon / Effigy
(Phage - PT134) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Layered metal abuse and thick harsh noise by Sean Matzus, Vance Osborne and Richard Ramirez, a strong follow-up to their recent Smell & Quim collaboration (Rough Skin 2010) and their appearance on the Filth compilation with Bizarre Uproar and Nicole 12 (Urashima 2010). Screenprinted covers, sticker, double-sided insert. Edition of 200.
Machinist In The Underworld
(Suitcase) LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Eleven tracks of synth-driven goth-wave by Laura Jean Housley — spiritually akin to Skinny Puppy or Death in June, but aligned with modern lo-fi, dirge-laden pop such as Zola Jesus and LA Vampires. Blue vinyl. Edition of 300. Check out the video for “Horns Of A Ram” here: http://youtu.be/loUkxYvePxE
Primitive Calculators
(Slow Drama) LP + 7-inch $90.00
Suburban filth that crawled out of the shitbox of Springvale, Australia, in the late seventies to inflict revenge upon the human race. After a couple of years of making ugly, nihilistic music comparable to Suicide meets Teenage Jesus, they burned out and destroyed themselves in a thrash of contempt. Original pressing from 1982, with postcard and sleeveless copy of “Do That Dance” / “Can’t Stop It” seven-inch.
Gert-Jan Prins
(Spring Press - SP14) 10-inch (lathe cut) $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
This Dutch electronic master (and member of Mimeo) explores the spatial, textural and compositional possibilities of electronic systems with custom circutry; both through sound and his arts practice. Edition of 70
Obliquity
(Shrat) Used LP $7.00
Recorded live at the Moore Theater, Seattle, in 1998 opening for Sonic Youth. Edition of 300. Silkscreened jacket.
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
Indifference
(Homestead) Used LP $40.00
Anomalous hardcore from mid-’80s Boston — angular, layered, nuanced.
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.”
Popular People Do Popular People
(Fishrider - FISH010) CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Fishrider - FISH010) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Hatched from New Zealand’s dreamy but dark 21st century pop underground, and marinated in the melodic sounds of that mostly fictional “Dunedin Sound” — The Chills, The Bats, Magick Heads, a little bit of The Clean and The Orange — The Prophet Hens are a ghostly reminder of the decaying southern city’s musical past. Big, bold ambition with the quiet drama of isolation; organ-drenched pop, bedroom angst.
Wonderful Shapes Of Back Door Keys
(Fishrider - FISH016) CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Fishrider - FISH016) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Album number two by this NZ group, favorably compared previously to both The Chills and Belle And Sebastian, doubles-down on tunefulness courtesy of bassist Robin Cederman’s adventurous songwriting and keyboard player Penelope Esplin’s lead vocals. Strong melodies,and richly detailed, dramatic storylines complement the melancholy and exuberance of Karl Bray’s minor key pop numbers. Their teasing guitar intros, jangling chord progressions woven through swirling fairground keyboards, and reflective lyrics chime as strong as your classic UK jangle pop and vintage REM.
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.
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.
Jesus
(Von Archives - 017) 2xLP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
An explosive and corrosive collaboration between Prurient and Nico Vascellari based on a project inspired by GG. Allin and Klaus Kinsky, with recordings of two epic live performances in Kiev and San Francisco and cover versions of Allin and Kinsky's works. Three sides of audio, one side silkscreened by Nico Vascellari.
Pleasure Ground
(Hospital) Used 2xLP $25.00
2016 reissue of 2006 cassette. Four 11-minute tracks. Hypnotic, uncomplicated. Sealed
Pleasure Ground
(Load) Used LP $35.00
Hypnotic, uncomplicated black din with bruising screams from 2006. Sealed
Stun Gun
(Quasi Pop - QPOP07) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Emotional, personal, almost intimate noise. No point in brutality and aggression without the human element, after all. Green vinyl. Edition of 350.
The History of Aids
(Hospital - HOS079) 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
Victorian Photography
(Turgid Animal - TA248) 7-inch $7.50
Daydreams of the Victorian past via highly focused synth projections over a bed of crunched static, screamed vocals, children's song echoing from the bottom of a barrel. Creepy religious themes creeping in.
Wrapped In The Flame Of Illusion, Masked In The Clay Of Behavior
(Dais - DAIS028) 2x7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ambient power electronics recorded prior to the Bermuda Drain sessions. Destitute, vulnerable and sedate, reflective and rapt, the four compositions here throw away a decade of experience, only to start at Prurient's foundations. Orange and purple vinyl. Cover art by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Edition of 500.
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
(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.
Golden Oldies
(Wasted Vinyl - WASTED01) LP $16.00
Psychedelic Horseshit started in 2005, recording and releasing what became known as their "paper singles" (CDRs in stapled, color-collage artwork with three or four songs on each), trying to sell them at shows no one went to, and leaving them at the bar or in the parking lot. People still run across copies in the strangest places (e.g. the fridge of an Ohio State frathouse). Even Matt Whitehurst himself won't listen to the stuff (incredibly amateur, he says, which is something). Couple bonus tracks, liner notes by Rob Enbom of Eat Skull / Hospitals fame, 20 tracks in all, the first recordings of Psychedelic Horseshit.
Early Recordings 1979-83
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD34) 2xLP $28.50 (Out-of-stock)
Thirty-three minimalist tunes by “The French Residents,” so-called for their unbelievable, warped melodies and textures. First time on vinyl.
Playboys In The Bush
(Fishrider - FISH005) CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Fishrider - FISH005) LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sixth album to be released by Dunedin underground psych-pop band (although it’s the third they recorded). Fans of Pavement and 1990s American slack can squint and see the southern-hemisphere brotherhood of nonchalance.
Secret Holiday / Victory Blues
(Fishrider - FISH007) CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Fishrider - FISH007) LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
The seventh album by New Zealand underground psych-pop legends.
THE PUDDLE / ROBERT SCOTT / ADALITA SRSEN
That's What I Heard b/w Average Sensual Man
(Fishrider - FISH004) split 7-inch $12.75 (Out-of-stock)
New Zealand’s reigning ambassador of strum Robert Scott (The Clean, The Bats, Magick Heads) duets with Magic Dirt’s pop-rock powerhouse Adalita Srsen for the rustic “That’s What I Heard,” described by Still Single as charming and heartfelt, “nothing but sweet, full-sounding acoustic guitar, tambourine, and … two beautiful voices complementing one another.” On the flip, The Puddle’s slightly out-of-character “Average Sensual Man” delivers some underground cabaret psych-pop, Dunedin-style, with guests Al Starrett on accordion and viola, and vocalist Sharon Cunningham imbuing the track with a smokey jazz vibe. Both tracks are exclusive to this release.
In the Army 1981
(Siltbreeze - SB121) LP $16.00
Corroded psych / hardcore scree enlightened by the most unhinged charters of Acid Archives and Killed by Death alumni. In the Army 1981 is its own sadistic brand of plastic surgery, heavy on the anesthetic, short of any bedside manner. Includes download card.
Horrible Signal
(Obfuscated - OR13) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Three tracks of ground-to-a-pulp synth-and-electronic murmur, recorded live at The Lab, The Handbag Factory, and Kill Radio. Low frequencies and shrieking tube analog screams emitted from a stagnating swamp. Includes postcards, stickers. Glow-in-the-dark vinyl.
Decaying Ships
(Ultra Eczema - UE65) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
Total narco Easter basket by a rising PacNW starbot: a labyrinth with a magnetic floor, ascending tension of sparse drones, heavy meditative aircraft static blurs slowing down the customary codeine rhythm, modular synth carpets at their nastiest! Limited to 300 copies, jacket design by Ulf F Faefs.
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
(Doubtfulsounds - DOUBT04) 10-inch $13.00 (Out-of-stock)
Self-described by Stefan Neville as “dumb punk slop and some tape loop soup and a pretty love song.” One of the noisier Pumice records to date. Includes two postcards. Cover is black paper silkscreened by Cotoreick. Edition of 500.
The Stones Are Watching And They Can Be A Handful
(Siltbreeze) LP $16.00
Audio levitation by Arielle McCuaig (Hairnet, Janitor Scum, Vacuum Rebuilders) and Kayla MacNeill (Singing Lawn Chair, Vacuum Rebuilders) who conjure up their extraordinary odds bodkins out of Calgary, Alberta. This fetching melange of art-damaged hoopla sounds like it might’ve taken a spin around the Amos & Sara / It’s War Boys universe and is further realized than on their debut cassette, It’s Called Punk, Are You Stupid? Includes 11 x 17 insert. Edition of 250
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
Giftgarten
(Chondritic Sound - CH-133) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
The ten dark electronics tracks here largely abandon the hard, one-two rhythms of Standard Of Living and instead explore murky, acrid wastes of toxic marshes and nervous nights. Altogether sinister and strange, Giftgarten ruminates on shadow worlds and shadow selves, on catastrophes of war and of earth and of the spirit, and, most of all, on sleeplessness and its gifts and thievery. Instead of drum machines, the duo opts on several tracks for grinding and transient sounds generated by synthesizers, while “Omission” and “Flood” are more traditional dance songs inspired by early EBM and electro. Experimental in its approach and palette, Giftgarten is still wholly a pop record, full of melody and steady rhythms.
Standard Of Living
(Chondritic Sound - CH-306) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Moving further into the whirring electrical storm suggested by their more minimalist previous recordings, Hive Mind’s Greh Holger and J. Short of Brotman & Short create a soundtrack to a crumbling culture, full of provisional one-two rhythms and syncopated bursts of white noise, complimented by grim arpeggiated melodies. Pure Ground straddle early EBM — owing inspiration to Klinik and Front 242 — and more melancholy, minimal synth downer. An undercurrent of experimentalism comes to surface (on “The Glory Of Absence,” for example, where the convoluted rhythms of In Phaze-era Portion Control merge with an industrial din and vocal delivery reminiscent of European power electronics groups like Genocide Organ). Lyrics focus on the disharmony between the human dystopia of the post-industrial wastes and the natural and spiritual worlds, and the contradictory sensations of bliss and desperation, ecstasy and fear. With download card. Edition of 300.
Live Interlacing
(Harbinger Sound - HAS063) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Collaboration by Mark Durgan (Putrefier) and Dean Glaister (Romance). Minimal, low-level circuitry making allusive crackling connections between sudden pin-points of fuzz and architectures of pure current a la European electronic improvisers like Voice Crack, Hugh Davies and Michel Waisvisz. Each jacket has a unique paste-on image. Edition of 250 copies.
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.
Serpent Superstition
(Unseen Forces - UF011) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
In appreciation for the catacombs and gallows of ancestry, two Mediterraneans with bloodroots south of the Vatican unravel what mysteries and folklore the motherland provides via muscle memory of bedtime tales and regurgitated information from the great elders. Edition of 300
Passio
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME88) 2xLP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Comprised mostly of Pärt’s signature hypnotic tintinnabuli, performed by Anthony Pitt and Tonus Peregrinus, Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem is a slow-moving liturgical piece that offers a vastness, solemnity and intimacy which allows for contemplation of the mysteries and suffering of the canonical text taken from the Gospel of John, chapters 18 and 19. Winner of the Cannes Classical Award.
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
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.
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.
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.
Sable
(Avant! - AV!035) CD $14.75 (Out-of-stock)
(Avant! - AV!035) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Bassist / vocalist William Maybelline moves from the pop touch of Lebanon Hanover to cruise the slums of darker and even more extreme electronics, where the vile is visible, despair exists in a frowning black tower of pain, and the yearnings of a desolate heart are concealed, trying to scratch that unscratchable rotting itch from within. Centuries of sorrow drenched in gloomy electronics that palpitate like human passions.
LP includes free download card.
Quasispecies Four
(Art Into Life - AIL010) LP $22.50
Two twenty-minute tracks of indeterminate and neurotic noise from a 2012 quartet session by Toshiji Mikawa of Incapacitants and Hijokaidan (electronics); Agencement’s Hideaki Shimada (violin, electronics); Artbreakhotel’s Nobuo Yamada (metal junk objects) and Katsuyoshi Kou of Soundings (guitar, electronics). With obi attached by string that encircles the whole jacket, insert with photographs. Edition of 250.
Queen Cobra
(Boner) LP $10.00
The sole head-banging album from San Francisco scorch rock heroines L.S. Defunkt and Empress Yasmine K.K. Their throttle-down, three-chord tear-it-up is punched with Yasmine’s driving punk guitar, Defunkt’s throat-searing vocals, and their primitive drum machine beats. Ms. Defunkt subsequently went on to front the black metal band Ludicra. Limited edition with wicked hand-screened covers.
I Am Somebody
(Sophomore Lounge - SL080) 7-inch $8.25 (Out-of-stock)
Fucked up, vaped-out, borderline demonic cassette confessionals by Detroit’s greatest oddball, basement-dwelling, idiot-prog outfit (Chris Durham of All Gone, Roachclip, The Bibs), coming off like a cross between Robert Wyatt’s Matching Mole and Man Who Sold The World-era Bowie bent by early Trux slop and slackerisms. Edition of 250
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
The Amazing Spellcaster
(Bulb - BLB042) LP $30.00
Like a nightmarish Brad Swanson record, Quintron lays on thick organ distortion, cheap outer-space effects and animal noises. Furiously fun, enjoyably schizophrenic. Recorded live at the Pussycat Caverns, 1995. Jacket is letter-pressed and spray-painted on the front, offset printed on the back.
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
Dead September
(Rural Isolation Project - 003) LP $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Screaming wind-tunnel guitars and motorik floor tom and snare (“Bleed Out”), ear-splitting electro-punk mush-mouth (“White Witch”), eerie psychedelia (“Dead Birds”), and blackened industrial techno that slithers through most of side two into the skull-cracking closing dirge of “Walk Into The Sea.” Abrasive and perversely catchy. White vinyl. Edition of 300
Let’s Hang Out
(Rural Isolation Project) LP $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Syrup-thick bass licks run amok. Messy, scratching and screeching effects cut across fuzzed-out space noise. The bash-your-brains-in pounding of the drums rounds things off. Ugly, painful, whacked-out sludge, sure, but this is Quttinirpaaq’s second full length album this year, so it’s gotta go further (and it does). Pounding, minimal hypno-riffs extend past the horizon, shards of guitar feedback fall in and out of the landscape, spiky electronics fizz and pop like a mellotron buried under a mound of Popul Vuh records. Clear vinyl with red splatters. Color insert. Edition of 300
No Visitors
(Rural Isolation Project) LP $11.00 (Out-of-stock)
The shadowy, bleary-eyed Austin crew lead by Matt Turner (passed out on the lawn) serves up Texas-style sludge with layer upon layer of in-the-red fuzz, feedback, vomit, claustrophobia, no eye contact, distorted 808 beats, wind-up glam drums, suspicious voices from other rooms, Tejano transmissions, and EDP Wasp synthesizer. Includes a wind tunnel cover of George Brigman’s “DMT,” for all the heads. Past involvements include Austin psych stumblers Rubble, Same Sac and ’90s free noise questionables Abrasion Ensemble. 180-gram, deep purple vinyl. Edition of 300.
USA
(Pan - PAN18) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
This archival release -- the second full length following One (Snow Mud Rain) (Erstwhile 2007) -- documents Peter Rehberg and Marcus Schmickler's 2009 USA tour. Their real-time extreme music improvisations were recorded at Lampo in Chicago and No Fun Fest in New York City. Rehberg (aka Pita) founded the influential Editions Mego label based in Vienna in 1995. Schmickler is a key figure in German contemporary experimental electronic music. 140-gram vinyl, color jacket, silkscreened PVC sleeve. Edition of 500.
Diatessaron
(Ajna Offensive) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Acoustic oriental craftsmanship with strong mystical content by members of Necros Christos (Ben Ya Min Al Dee on percussion and voice, and M. Dalos Ra on guitar, saz, voice). With poster
Czarny Sen
(BloodLust! - B!169) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Raw, stripped-down Chicago doom anchored by the brutal low-end sludge of Andrea Jablonski (ex-Camaro Rouge) and Mike Tsoulos (Frontier) playing bass and drums respectively. Bassist Arman Mabry (ex-White+Outs) and guitarist Dan Sullivan (Arriver) thicken and expand the band’s sound. On this their first album with Sullivan, “Eclipse” slowly unfolds around an unstoppable, meditative riff; the dark landscape of “Goliad” alludes to the violence associated with Texas town that was the scene of a massacre in the 19th Century. “Suicide Song" inserts the lyrics from the infamous torch song “Gloomy Sunday” along with screeching saxophone, rattling percussion, and growled vocals in a full-blown twelve-minute epic. “Land of the Glass Pinecones” completely re-imagines Human Sexual Response's song with a giant, evil riff. The pagan incantation “Raven Man” uses bristling slide guitar to build to a ferocious climax. Guests include Dave Rempis, Bruce Lamont, Mark Solotroff, and Michael Zerang.
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.
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
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
Husk
(Arbor - 126) 2xLP $20.00
A retrospective look at Raglani’s orientation within the canon of electronic music between 2004 and 2009. The sonic legacies orbiting the INA GRM axis cross paths with pop sensibilities more akin to the sensuous pulse of New Order, yielding dense compositions made with analog and digital electronic instruments as well as guitar, voice, pedal steel, organ, and melodica. One fourth of the material is available for the first time; the remainder, from private-press and small run releases, has been remixed. Edition of 500
Web of Light
(KVIST) LP $21.00
Produced under a pseudonym, presumably, this LP cannot be considered a soundtrack to the lost and fabled rumor of world cinema of the same name, but it is as close as we are likely to get to the thing itself, or to the truth of its stories, of which there are three distinct and curiously related. The first revolves around a mysterious early phonograph, produced by an eccentric inventor named Raglani, and purporting, by accompanying letter, to be a direct audio recording of the man's dreams and most precious memories. In the second part of the film, another man named Raglani (whose connection with his earlier namesake is not made clear), this time a composer of popular renown, whose talents, have been mostly squandered on commercial work, attempts to compose a piece of music in memory of his dead wife. He is driven mad by the pain of his efforts, and in the end kills himself by burning down his house, together with all traces of the piece (the titular “Web of Light”). Finally, the third story features a filmmaker (names are not mentioned), preoccupied with the spiteful task of documenting the disintegration of his marriage--piecing together a film from fragments of home movies, his own drunken commentary, and footage of his ex-wife and her new lover, surreptitiously filmed. Suicidal and obsessed, the man finds himself beset by strange dreams--filled with buried snatches of melody we can recognize from the first story--that seem to direct the failed auteur toward a rendezvous with a woman always only nearly-seen. The effect of the dreams is to shake our anonymous hero from the stupor of his sordid documentary efforts, and send him following those clues he jots down feverishly upon waking. It's unlikely that anyone will ever see the film -- truly "a film lost in space," to date an imaginary record of something that happened, but was never made, an idea evading the constraints of any plastic medium.
I’m A Rocketship For My Lord
(Little Big Chief - LBCR013) LP $14.25 (Out-of-stock)
Avant blues with voice like Derek Bailey’s guitar, and guitar like Joan La Barbara’s voice, paired up with percussion worthy of The Monks. Ragtime Frank’s brand of anti-art is a laser beam of moonshine-imbued vitriol with discernible if haggard structure. Beautifully ramshackle and indecipherable. Listen to a track here: https://soundcloud.com/littlebigchief/ragtime-frank-wrapped-up-tangled-up
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 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.
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 / 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
Take The Curse
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR072) 2xLP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second full-length from these masters of psychedelic horror doom is focused, direct, tighter and less sprawling than previous efforts. It's all about the riffs. Each song is lysergic foulness, arranged for immediacy with '70s Hammer / Euro cine vibe throughout. Gatefold diecut jacket with metallic ink and spot UV varnish, printed heavy innersleeve, 10 x10 insert, 180g vinyl. Edition of 400.
Machines Will React
(Turgid Animal - TA294) LP $13.50
Texas noise legend delivers material by most of his better known projects, including Anal Drill, Gender Sabotage, Release Helen Rytka, SS Electronics, Crash At Every Speed, Private Mouthpiece, Werewolf Jerusalem, Last Rape, 12 Yr Old Proud Parent and The Sick Tour. Limited to 200 copies on black vinyl. Comes in generic black sleeve with sticker on the front. Includes a massive poster with artwork by Tisbor.
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
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
Ghosts From A Machine 1989-1994
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD81) 3xLP $80.00 (Out-of-stock)
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. The ethno-ambient solo project of Zoviet France co-founder Robin Storey reflects his fascination with the minimalistic but rhythmic music of West Africa and India. Storey uses the musical construction techniques of loops and rhythmic repetition as a platform for inducing a sort of trance-like reception. The tracks are taken directly from the multiple original four-track cassettes, played on non-synchronized machines. Some of the material found its way onto released albums, some of it is sub-mixes and parts of mixes, while other elements were never used in any released material. This is an opportunity for re-discovery of compositions that have been hidden until now.
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.
Experience
(Get Back ) Used LP $12.00
2002 reissue of this 1979 roots reggae charmer by the legendary Prince Lincoln and crew.
Material Pop Volume One
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $19.00
“Ray Zarnowitz weaves lessons well-learned from the modern American noise underground, the loamy heritage of UK DIY, and punk as lifestyle / vocation into a strikingly personal statement,” observes Daniel Dimaggio. “Material Pop Vol. 1 wields genuinely idiosyncratic songcraft and rock’n’roll joie de vivre like corrosive agents, eating away at the tape loop sediment encasing its songs, and at the indignities of modern urban existence.” Andy Boay agrees: “On its face the record reads like John Cale or Mayo Thompson with Flying Nun production and sound design informed by the occult British Industrial scene. Disheveled and sincere, partly legible, partly lost.” Likewise, Macrae Semans admires how the album “deftly synthesizes post-punk and industrial influences into a compellingly murky and occasionally endearingly jaunty sound-broth that is able to pull off nuanced experimentation, melancholic pop and bleakly psychedelic vistas.”
Cold War Night Life 1981-1984
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD124) 5xLP $115.00
Early works by these Canadian new-wavers. Includes: Cold War Night Life LP (Yul 1982); singles and EP tracks previously released on Yul Records; demos, obscurities, rarities; live tracks from Winnipeg 1983, and a selection of tracks from the Capitol years.
Rasaka
(KBA - KBA002) LP $21.75
The Norwegian voice artist brings her spirited vocalizations and electronics to this free jazz trio’s remarkable improv clash. Two long tracks grapple as if sourced from an elongated wrestling camp, where the digging, pulling and pushing are constant. It creaks and rubs on all sides, sputtering and mutilated. Desperation arises and mangles. Abrasive and rattling guttural sounds roar in overdrive throughout, barely pausing for a breath.
Aide-Memoire
(Heard Worse - HW02) 2xLP $37.50
Material taken from CD-R releases: The Fish Rots From The Head (unreleased), Southern Oscillation Index (HoLR) CDR-RWW (MIR), Ratified Loopholes (AEN), Ashtray Cabbage (Fiend), Get And Put (Deadline), Out Vile Jelly! (Gold Soundz), Night Science and Underground Australia compilations (Cipher Productions). With fried compact disc glued to the jacket. Extremely limited, imported from Australia.
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
Oaxaca Dawn / Bamboo
(Elevator Bath - eeaoa032 ) LP picture disc $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Raw, unadulterated, unpretentious snapshots of the early morning cracking of dawn in Oaxaca, Mexico, and a windy afternoon in a Hana bamboo forest on Maui, Hawaii. Recchion says he was “struck by the cacophony of sounds” of the former, which he describes as “a barnyard turned up to 11.” Regarding the latter, he says he “noticed three distinct sounds (though there are more): the wood block clunking of the stocks, the squeaking of the thin branches flicking and slipping off neighboring plants, and the white noise rustling of the leaves on top of the giant clusters.” Edition of 250.
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
Where Were You On Christmas
(Meeuw Muzak - MM032) 7-inch $6.75 (Out-of-stock)
A yuletide single from long-running Los Angeles avant-garde pioneer Tom Recchion. Limited edition pressing, Dutch import.
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
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
Deviant
(BloodLust! - B!109) 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
A dark slab of necro-nihilism by cult death-industrial powerhouse Ryan Oppermann (Fabrico Incubo, Klinikal Skum, Narcoleptic Ward, Neuntöter Der Plage, Post-Mortem Junkie, Xombie). "Deviant" straddles an uncomfortable line between death-industrial, power-electronics, crust/sludge and a totally aggressive form of minimal synth; "White Walls" brings to mind Leichenschrei-era S.P.K. with its unwholesome mental ward pathology.
Psycho Bondage
(BloodLust! - B!162) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Heightened, savage necro-nihilism from Ryan Oppermann, straddling a hazy line between death-industrial, power-electronics, crust/sludge, and a more ferocious take on minimal synth. A bass-heavy amalgamation of vicious power and pure, seething aggression. With protective poly outer-sleeve. Edition of 525
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.
The Way Things Go
(Elevator Bath - eeaoa035) 2xLP $22.00
Rooted in the process of experience, the music of this Austin-based electronic instrumentalist and composer unfolds along the lines of fellow travelers Klaus Schulze and Christoph Heemann, utilizing analog synthesizers, sine waves, shortwave radio, and sampled field recordings. The waves that unfold in the opening “Mesmerism” are deep and somewhat akin to the vibrational frequencies of biofeedback. “Capitalism: Child Labor” merges analog buzz and whir with the glassine textures of vibraphones or tubular bells, composed as a soundtrack to the 2005 Ken Jacobs film of the same name. Harsh electronic blasts and obscured voices provide bookends to areas of waves, refractions, and gooey pulses of rockish fuzz. Knob-twisting and crotchety flashes gradually merge and fall away to leave an area of near-singularity, coursing hums revealing stringy subtones and colliding layers before an abrupt conclusion. Turbine-like rumble, light tendrils of feedback, and organ-esque fluff that would make Gerd Zacher proud characterize “Hidden Voices Part One,” with the occasional passing blip among splayed-out tones a clue to their newer electric origin. The closing title composition pits glittery wash against layers of modulated feedback, a nattering growl at the heels of thin, gradated whines. Massive chords are their eventual replacement, monolithic and coarse. A sudden shift brings out staggered chunks of thick and striated tones before the piece returns to its original stage, closing with a lengthy and gorgeous coda of bells, kalimba-like plucks, and clavichord bounce. Includes download card.
Regel #6 (Techno) / Regel #7 (Drone)
(Quemada - QUE014) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
The latest chapter in the ongoing experiment by Mattin (of Billy Bao and a thousand other projects and collaborations) on guitar, and Brainbombs’ Anders Bryngelsson on drums, to reduce a genre to a simple rule and the follow that rule without change for however long the release’s medium will allow. “Techno (Regel #6)” sounds like a recording made just outside the club, played back at top volume in a padded room for an audience of one as the lights gradually fade in and out. “Drone (Regel #7)” sounds the inside of a florescent light bulb played in a metal shack in an ice storm. Meditative, disorienting, beautiful. Edition of 200
Vomit Arsonist / Regosphere
(Obfuscated) split 7-inch $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
Death industrial / power electronics by Andrew Grant on one side, blending a bleak atmosphere with ominous distortion, and giallo-inspired dark ambient by Andrew Quitter on the other. Edition of 300
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.”
Birth Of An Older, Much More Ugly Christ
(Hanson - HN203) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded in 2009 by sisters Roxann and Rachal Spikula during their participation in a health study that required them to drink nothing but Shasta for like two weeks. (The master tape, according to Hanson, arrived duct-taped inside a hospital gown with the address written on it in Sharpie.) Menacing organ drone kicks off and mutates into the lo-fi skree of an empty room, eventually becoming a swirling abyss of tape hiss and the sound of nothing happening in a hospital. Distant creaks, buzz, and hums littered with hiss. A very unsettling frenzied drone. The flipside is a crunchy noise inferno that eventually leads to what sounds to Hanson like watching the earth exploding from outer space. A saddening, descending synth wave appears, buried by blasts of destroyed earth. It ends and you are disturbed. Everything fucking sucks. Edition of 300. Heavy duty black and silver silkscreened jackets with the Hanson droll flaps.
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.”
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
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
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
Distance
(Avant! - AV!040) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Six corrosive reverb-obsessed tracks by this Paris quartet who are ready to shake the dead and crash cars. Furious, toxic, and fully enveloped in bleak nihilism, Distance sounds “like the work of vampire serial killers locked forever in the tunnels beneath the city with only a selection of obscure ’80s electropop records … to get them through the night,” according to Bluesbunny.
Stupor Hiatus
(Siltbreeze - SB113/SB114) 2xLP $17.50
The complete recorded works of the original Mike Rep and the Quotas, dating back to 1974 and moving forward into the early 1990s (essentially a reworking of the Stupor Hiatus Vol. 2 LP released by Siltbreeze in 1992 plus six additional tracks, four of which have never before been released. This double-LP includes the legendary "Rocket to Nowhere," an instrumental interpretation of the 13th Floor Elevators' "She Lives in a Time of Her Own," a cover of Roky Erickson's "Creature with the Atom Brain," a shout-out to the Strapping Fieldhands ("In the Pineys") and fifteen other immortal tracks fed by a love for B-grade horror flicks, the aforementioned 13 Floor Elevators, Velvet Undergound, Kim Fowley, The Doors and -- typical of the Grove City, Ohio, scene -- codeine, cannabis and Carling. Includes download card.
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
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.
STEFANIE RESSIN / ASMUS TIETCHENS
3 Wishes
(Meeuw Muzak - MM037) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ms. Ressin was one of several speakers on "Lipostudio... And So On," a "revoltingly beautiful" track by Matmos. Here she covers Klaus Nomi with appropriately pathetic operatic singing and electro-inspired rhythm from a sequencer. For the remix treatment on the flip, Mr. Tietchens reverses the vocals and feeds the rhythm through a gated reverb in the finest style of one-hit-wonder superfluous B-sides. Quite believable as an obscure 80s synth-pop record.
Semelles de Fondation
(Bimbo Tower - BTR017) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Second improv meeting between bass clarinettist Michel Pilz (Globe Unity Orchestra, Manfred Schoof Quintet) and percussionist Noël Cognard (Salmigondis, Empan, Tribraque), with an expanded line-up that includes Itaru Oki on trumpet and flute, Benjamin Duboc on contrabass and voice, Patrick Müller on "électrosonics," and Sébastian Rivas on computer. Explorations on the border of free jazz and post-noise atmospheres.
Slot Machine Music
(Hanson - HN271) LP picture disc $21.25
True ambient sound and untreated field recordings from middle American casinos — the Horseshoe in Cleveland and the one in Hammond, Indiana, and the Grand Victoria in Elgin, Illinois, originally released on CDRs (Ergot 2013). The “cornucopia of slot machine tones,” writes Rew, “triggering aleatorically and coalescing into shimmering masses…,” compelled him to “return and record the sounds that so entranced me … in a series of ambling recording sessions over a period of four months…. I learned a lot about casino sonics in the process: game designers, for example, tune their machines to the key of C in order to optimize harmonic cohesion; one team of designers, the story goes, even spent a month perfecting a single ‘ding’ sound on one machine.” Includes download card. Edition of 500
Gona Rubian Ranesa
(Outlier Communications) LP $29.00
The Argentinean band’s first studio album in seventeen years updates their classic sound to new realms of hypnotic psych-rock immersion. Miguel Tomasín, Anla Courtis, Rob Conlazo and Pacu Conlazo are clearly reinvigorated on this true masterpiece of psychedelic rock. About the four tracks on this “brain-melting monster,” Obladada has this to say: “ ‘Cameso Cator Sitero’ is a … corkscrew ride … stuttering around a motif that eventually blossoms into no less than a chopped and sliced ‘Ode to Joy’…. ‘Lintiri Teperoli’ drifts into view with organ patterns and drumming like a studio sketch from A Saucerful of Secrets, complete with Tomasín’s spiraling space whispers. ‘Acotan Silago Foli’ continues the overall drift as elements slowly gather, elevate and intermingle…. ‘Corlo Saturu’ snaps back into a busier, slobbering, grooving mess [as if a] studio ceremony has just exploded…. Eventually lysergic guitar forms out of the shitstorm, teasing lines and half-obliterated logic. Thirteen minutes of gloriously and furiously thrashing bliss heading absolutely nowhere.” Double-side insert. Alien green vinyl. Edition of 218.
Peloto Cabras Mulusa Olve
(Calar Music) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
In the late 90s, after a year as the Monday-to-Friday house band on a medical TV show in Argentina, the group recorded these remarkable tracks at their own Ornitivo Studios in Buenos Aires. Based on a trio line-up, with Tomasín’s verbal laboratory in all its glory plus his chunky drums and sharp guitars, the band creates a milestone of a savage era. This raw, powerful, vital, oneiric, and obscure gem (originally released by White Tapes in 1999) includes two bonus tracks from the same sessions. With download card.
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
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
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.”
Card Funk
(Cardboard Club) LP $17.25
The debut full-length LP by RRS aka The Cardboard Prince, after countless cassettes and CDRs (and a seven). Get your card hard with the bedroom sermons of an outsider funk snack master. Lo-fi, lurid, lyrical and life-affirming stuff.
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.
Chants De Maldoror
(Edition Telemark - 314.09) 2xLP $39.00 (Out-of-stock)
This German musicologist, conductor and composer of avant-garde music, best known as the long-time partner and collaborator of Heinz-Klaus Metzger with whom he founded the Ensemble Musica Negativa in 1969, and published Musik-Konzepte between 1977 and 2003, was a student with Gottfried Michael Koenig at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht between 1965 and 1971, where he realized a number of electronic pieces (of which only “Chants de Maldoror” was released on Deutsche Grammophon in 1970). Edition Telemark’s first-time collection of all surviving pieces from this period include two versions of “Chants de Maldoror,” one side-long piece in a similar vein, and two shorter conceptual pieces. Gatefold jacket, four-page booklet, Riehn’s “Art and Feces” essay on composing, and an interview about his time in Utrecht. Edition of 300.
Listen to sound samples here: http://www.edition-telemark.de/
Riel / EP de Zombies
(Alt.Vinyl - AV051) LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Mora Riel’s dissonant chords and low, almost bass-like guitar sound fuses with the frenetic setbacks of Germán Loretti’s drums. Tuneful chaos that hits hard, recorded live in the studio in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Edition of 250
Trente Jours à Grande Échelle
(Phase! - PHR126) LP $14.50
Debut album by Mathias Pontévia, Jean-Marc Reilla, Anne Careil and France Sauvage’s Manuel Duval, who deliver six strict, desolate, stomp-pumping, cold modular-wave pieces with doses of synth-punk and electro-acoustic terror. Deranged female vocals, analog keyboard mayhem and spacious ambiance form a setting for deep subconscious nightmare plays. Edition of 500.
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
Dark Angled Eyebrow
(Amethyst Sunset) 7-inch $9.00
Ten minutes by the harsh noise master spread across two sides sourced from wood, nylon, and mic'd knives. Edition of 300
Shark Knifing
(Scratch And Sniff Entertainment - SNSE075) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Lurching, ripping, and tearing. Relentless and sharp. Thrashing about in the blood water, coming back for the torso. There are sharks and then there are knives. How about sharks getting their throats slit by humans with knives? Think about that. These two sides present a concise and brutal attack by the master Sam McKinlay, compelled by the short format to pack each track with nothing but highlights typically spread out over longer form The Rita recordings. Hits hard, hits fast. Includes twelve-page booklet adorned with not-nice artwork culled from McKinlay's personal collection and drawings inked by the man himself, a sticker, and a double-sided postcard.
Shooting Sharks
([ no label ]) 7-inch $9.00
An intoxicatingly cut throat, sparse and depraved electric blast. All source sounds sampled from European westerns and shark hunting films.
Skate / Snorkel
(RRRecords - RRRITA) LP $17.00
The second in RRRecords' Foley series follows GX- Jupitter-Larsen's Big Time Crash Bang LP; on “Skate” Sam MacKinlay amplifies the sound of 50/50 grinds on metal railing with live effects manipulation by Christian Nicolay. A completely new recording is also included, taking its cues from the other, but uses different distortion chains and ideologies to try and fully manipulate the live skateboard trucks on steel and their tendencies when effected. “Snorkel” is made up of sound effect samples from over twenty different horror and adventure films with diving and snorkling scenes -- from underwater knife and spear gun fights, to straight wreck diving, etc. -- edited, layered, and heavily effected.
Wood And Metal / The Rita
(Oxen - OXEN024) Split cassette $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
A resolutely hypnotic fury of junk and skin-pummeling percussive mandate on one side by Charlie Mumma (Sissy Spacek, Unexamine, Sewer System) and Ted Byrnes (LAFMS, Airway), recorded live recording at (the) Handbag Factory, Los Angeles. On The flip Sam McKinlay draws from this source and constructs a highly charged, restless harsh wall blast, uncompromising and masterclass in scope. A lingering climax disintegrating all boundaries, emphatically gruesome.
Unfit
(Ideal - iDEAL138) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Italian bad vibes mastermind and one half of industrial filth duo Lettera 22 Riccardo Mazza has a free approach to music, with no interest whatsoever in source devices. The intent of Unfit’s dark, meditative harshness is to submerge in a gloomy, ancestral mood. RM’s ambient, pulsating electronic music nods to both minimal techno and industrial music. Edition of 300
Listen to an excerpt here: https://soundcloud.com/ideal-recordings/rm-unfit-ideal138-lp
Calmer In This Town
(Quemada - QUE010) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two sides of primo, paranoid psych rock with a spaced-out doper sheen and bad vibes from a murky garage.
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.
Primal Sphere
(Hands In The Dark) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Four long, dense, hazy tracks by Los Angeles-based psych dub-drone experimental duo -- a gritty soundtrack to a post-apocalypse trance vision, an intentional regression from the future, ripping up rock roots in order to regain a grip on the ragged sound of drone. Includes free download card.
Cassavetes
(Formacentric) LP (lathe cut) $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Almost non-existent ambience, Roberts's subdued guitar manipulations and Treadgold's layers of randomly shifting percussion, all drifting in and out of focus on one side, while the other is busy with scraped droning strings and free percussion, loaded with out jazz connotations. From 1997. Edition of 50.
Emotional Planet
(Destijl - IND117) CD $14.25 (Out-of-stock)
(Destijl - IND117) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
The debut album by Chris Rose is deceptively simple and way more lysergic than Kevin Ayers, utilizing the sort of neo-noir narratives that you expect to hear from Neil Michael Hagerty, James Jackson Toth, Kurt Vile and other keen observers. Voice, guitar, some noisy shit, whatever. His playing is sick -- fluid, unforced, warm, soothed and soothing. It’s a bath you don’t want to exit.
Lee Rockey Music
(Destijl - IND060) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
This hard-swinging jazzbo mastered the modern style by 1946 and became known as one of the Vancouver whiz kids. He went to the city in 1953, jammed with Neil Hefti, and appeared on the first few Herbie Mann records. Upon his left coast return, he began developing his own sound and style, intending to transcend traditional musical forms and expectations. Ju Suk Reet Meate of Smegma caught one of his performances in early 1976, and eventually invited him to play on some early Smegma records. Aside from a few record booth lathes cut in the ’40s and ’50s, this is his first solo release, which on first spin, briefly brings to mind Toshi Ichiyanagi, but these sounds inhabit a self-contained universe. Recorded between 1959 and ’73, they own a keen third-eye prescience that portends the likes of C. Spencer Yeh and Axolotl.
A Big Circle Drawn With Little Hands
(Ini Itu - 1201) LP $19.00
Begun as a proposition from ini.itu to work on specific audio materials, Roden expanded the palette to include “radio, old records, instruments, […] things that I can bring from your location to my own.” The sounds are amiable and enigmatic wanderings, slow additions of tiny, delicate elements which sketch nocturnal and rich environments, at times laidback, austere, uneasy, at times dense, wistful, but always intriguing.
Handbook For Mortals
(Siltbreeze - SB158) LP $15.00
A sweeping haboob of sound, as deft and defying as horns on a hen, this unique audio gem goes deep into field recording territory and pinpoints the middle ground between HNAS and Mad Tea Party. Includes free download. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2013
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)
Twins
(Tone Filth - TF40) 2xLP $30.00
For over a decade Damion Romero’s minimal sub-frequencies have been consistently intense and focused. The pure sound of Twins was recorded live with no overdubbing, effects, tapes, or feedback, and utilizes varying textures and layers of sound. Edition of 500 copies in professionally printed INA/GRM Serie Gramme-style gatefold sleeves.
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.”
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
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.”
Grandfather Paradox
(Vauva - 10) LP $25.00
Human agency seems innocent in this context, old-fashioned even, as if the question asked by The Grandfather Paradox is nothing simpler yet more unfathomable than “What was sentience?” But Alex Ross’s musique concrète constructions are indeed masterful; transitions too numerous to catalog -- thus making the album something of a quasi-psychedelic opus, a theoretical string knotted around cosmic lugnuts in a Jacob’s Ladderly tangle -- are flipped, flopped and fried, unless they happen to be clashed, superimposed mechanics, gridlocked with microtonal tapestries that recall the marching band in Animal House forever stuck at the end of a blind alley. Symphonies of texture unravel and reconstitute into layers of persistent memory that roll around chambers where the law of gravity is mere hypothesis. Decentralized fragments glimpse into bent dimensions where inebriation-damaged gorp falls between curtains of denatured screech. With so much of The Grandfather Paradox seemingly absorbed in its own autistic self-containment, lacking concern for external destination, totally committed to something as specific and unknowable as an old daydream coming back to life, conjured by a subconsciously detected aroma, field recordings of, for example, an answering machine or public spaces where voices are audible, almost seem invasive, as if loutish, oblivious aliens are dumping toxic waste and completely bizarre religious rituals in the middle of an otherwise contentedly secular diorama. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2012
Exotic Exit
(Kye - KYE20) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Three compositions, developed between 2010 and 2012 in both live performance and home studio settings, that lace field recordings from Austin and New York City with viola, violin, cello, dulcetina and glockenspiel. Rossetto’s densely structured sound beds smudge the line between Ferrari-esque audio travelogues and the hallucinatory processing of prime Asmus Tietchens. Edition of 400.
Completed Rotations of...
(Roaratorio - ROAR20) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
The city of Tauranga doesn’t have as celebrated a history as other centers of New Zealand music such as Otago or Port Chalmers or Whangerei. It is home to Rotate The Completor, however, whose music is disconnected from all known scenes in Aotearoa and elsewhere. Stumbling upon the one-man band busking on the streets, an enthusiastic passerby nabbed a home-recorded cassette and here we are. All attempts at personal correspondence with its creator to date have been ignored, so forget about the next volume of Songs In The Key of Z, outsider aficionado. Rotate The Completor gets to his otherworldly inner-world using guitar, kick-drum, and vocals that might pass for early Residents; the songs are a strangely addictive brew of lo-fi bedroom pop, proggy loner folk, bouncy children’s music, and a one-man band at a carnival that’s gone off the rails. Lyrics concern beer-stealing cantaloupes, dead albino hedgehogs, and emphatic denials of insanity. Includes free download card.
Flammende Herzen
(4 Men With Beards) Used LP $8.00 (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.
Having It Out
(Humbug) LP (lathe cut) $18.00
Densely layered, swirling sound constructions made of nondescript scrapes and buzzes, feedback, self-made motor mallet instruments, metal sheets, field recordings, and loops from old 78s. Ruchalski has a way of bringing real life to inanimate objects, letting them breathe, sigh or sing in their own peculiar, rustic way. Paste-on jacket
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
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
(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.
RICHARD RUPENUS / NOBUO YAMADA
81/44
(Art Into Life - AIL011) LP $35.00 (Out-of-stock)
Heavily armed with random discharges of radio-wave theatre and metal noise. Multiple blows with a heavy hatchet along the time axis, but no blood flows. From the speakers, the right and left wing exchange blows but reconciliation remains eternally unreachable. Steeped in idle repetition in a comfortably heated secret chamber. With several random passers-by, sounds like those made by slapping a wet towel alternate between life and death but in a continual state of existence. Misshapen metal objects roll around randomly, liberated in their movement. Junk noise flies about in every direction, howling at distant objects, wildly spasming, rolling around on the floor, having sudden heart failures, and constantly apologizing for its own violent impulses. Unique handmade jacket consisting of a decorated transparent acrylic sheet, the background color of which changes according to the light conditions. Edition of 150. Listen to an excerpt from “SA/D12-12” here: https://soundcloud.com/a_i_l/richard-rupenus-nobuo-yamada-sad12-12
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
Guitar Weakling
(Beniffer Editions) 7-inch (lathe cut) $19.50
Another devotional candle for worship at the altar of keeko-bleeko guitar-playing. Cover is printed rubber, mounted on a surface raised with ball bearings. Worth framing and keeping on your desk at work. Edition of 50.
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.
21st Century Field Hollers and Prison Songs
(Rococo - RCC023) LP $14.25 (Out-of-stock)
An album made entirely from samples taken from the Midnight Crossroads Tape Recorder Blues album (which Russell made with Ralf Wehowsky for A Bruit Secret), in tribute to the spirit of the blues, viewed through a prism of 21st Century cultural criticism. Limited edition of 300 copies.
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
Demonstration Record
(Carbon) LP $23.00
Recorded on a mobile phone in the southern summer of 2023-24, this collection of live performances, collages, and solo improvisations dismisses stereo-imaged, mastered sound, yet reveals an expansiveness despite the minimal setup. “Quattro Pezzi Su Due Note” and “Holly Springs #2” appear sparse and guitar-centered, but open up with shimmering modulation pedals and scattering slide guitars that create synthetic textures with as much detail as a wavetable or granular synthesizer. The dirty, snarling “Metal Pedal” and “Modulationism” produce maximalist rhythmic growls and sweeps with just a distortion and modulation box. The “Climate Study” tracks provide a more laid-back window into Russell’s creative patchwork, the slowed down overlay of pans, door hinges, and machinery creating ecosystems of industrial sound. This is, as John Shoen of Uncomfortable Communications says, “the soundtrack of the last dinner party on the sinking ship of humanity.”
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.
Project For A Revolution In New York
(Siltbreeze - SB71) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two side-long tracks from 1997. “Recollections Of The Golden Triangle” is an all-out bare-handed improvisational torture session recorded in the basement of a Masonic Lodge using disemboweled piano and various percussive implements (pots, pans, rocks, sticks, triangle, siren, electric fan, some sort of freakalicious kiwi intonarumori). Guests include Siltbreeze’s Tom Lax (who was threatened with a good old-fashioned Malaysian ass-caning if he didn’t participate) and Surface Of The Earth’s Paul Toohey, who adds cool guitar hum ’n’ drone that stitches together the splayed cacophonous gash of Russell and Lax like some goddamn magic suture. “The Erasers” splits open the heavens, as only a man possessed is capable, with primitive and twisted feedback-laden steel-string action over background tape loop drone scree. Blue ribbon brain-fry all the way.
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.
The Movement Of The Free Spirit
(Spring Press - SP17) 10-inch (lathe cut) $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Feedback generated with a tape Dictaphone and effects chain, recorded after the devastating earthquakes of 2011. Appropriately enough, Russell’s “scudding, desolate drone,” notes Volcanic Tongue, “Isolates and amplifies the brokedown roar at the heart of [this] radical re-conceptualisation of rock dynamics.” Edition of 70
Samoa Highway
(Helen Scarsdale - HMS019) LP $14.75 (Out-of-stock)
The heavy-lidded psychedelia of brothers and co-pilots Jon and Brian Pyle (Starving Weirdos, Ensemble Economique) constantly mines the metaphysical properties of their Humboldt County homeland. The brothers channel a psychotropic animism through sound; a swarm of drone guitars announces the opening of the record with a shoegaze wash collapsing into tone purity and bulging through a metallic buzz. Field recordings of airplane take-off and firework explosions punctuate the undulating, bleary smear of the Pyle brothers' guitars. The result is one of levitation, even as RV Paintings seem to be plugging their guitars and electronics directly into the moss, soil, and mycelia of the Humboldt forest. Echo-soaked flutes, maudlin strings, scabrous noises unearthed from the bottom of the Pacific, and cinematic arcs of guitar shimmer complete the beautiful and haunted miasma somewhere between Taj Mahal Travellers, Organum, and The Caretaker. Previous releases on Trinity Rivers and Blackest Rainbow. Includes digital download card. Edition of 500.
Object Subject To Change
(Ideal - 109) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The fourth album for Ideal by the former Union Carbide Productions drummer, current Skull Defekt, and highly regarded king of hypnotic, focused feedback drone with razorsharp noise and monotonous pulse feels as comfortable in academic worlds as in filthy basements. Edition of 250. Preview here: https://soundcloud.com/ideal-recordings/henrik-rylander-object
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
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.”
Null / Void & End
(Yerevan Tapes - YER022) LP $18.75 (Out-of-stock)
Two side-long jams by the Swedish collective that mixes krautrock, ambient, and space-age electronics with a strong mystic touch. Edition of 250
S K L S
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC06) 7-inch $9.00
Side project of Skull Defekts’ Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander, who set aside the guitars and drums in favor of analogue machines, feedback system and effects. Their debut seven-inch combines the dark minimalism and haunting synths of proto-ambient with the intensity and spacey grooves of kraut rock. Edition of 300.
Violence
(Harbinger Sound - HAS095) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Vinyl reissue of this scarce cassette (Broken Flag 1982) by Gary Mundy, recorded just before the formation of Ramleh, and his later solo workings as Kleistwahr. Simple, crude and effective power electronics created with the same equipment used on later classic recordings. Ink-stamped sleeve. Second edition of 200.
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
Ye Are Gods
(Ajna Offensive) CD $13.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Ajna Offensive) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Reaching beyond the scope of Restored to One, Ye Are Gods incorporates the ritual text and structure of the Process Church of the Final Judgment’s highest and holiest mass, the Sabbath Assembly liturgy (after which the band is named). In these hymns of the religious movement that emerged in the late ’60s as an apocalyptic shadow-side to flower power and New Age, Sabbath Assembly guides this mysterious Gnostic journey of the unification of Christ and Satan; the bliss of total submission to the gods Jehovah, Lucifer, Satan, and Christ; the wilds of the Apocalypse and a face-to-face encounter with the Angel of Death; and finally the moment of spiritual renewal in which the Process’s Law of the Universe is revealed. Joining vocalist Jamie Myers (Hammers of Misfortune, Wolves in the Throne Room) and drummer Dave Nuss are Genesis P-Orridge serving the role of High Priest(ess), aka “Sacrifist”; Eyvind Kang on viola for the liturgical “Declaration of the Gods”; on a chilling rendition of the hymn “We Give Our Lives,” guitarist/vocalist Imaad Wasif; and Timothy Wyllie, an original Process Church member, providing a homily from Process Church founder Robert DeGrimston’s Gods on War. Includes 20-page book.
$ A Ride
(Quemada - QUE013) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sharing a distinct kiwi sensibility with The Axemen, New Zealand expat Lynton Denovan blasts classic UK DIY action à la Swell Maps, Gods Gift and The Instant Automatons. His caustic observations encapulate the mundane stuggle of the aimless modern man, from calling in sick to drunk driving a bicycle into a river.
Wastex
(Quemada - QUE009) 2x7-inch $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
The solo workings of Satanic Rockers’ Lynton Denovan. Gloomy doom pop, guitar jams with Swell Maps moves, a mass transit travelogue haunted by the Instant Automatons, and some crispy Satanic grooves.
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
Sound On Sound
(Plinkity Plonk - 33) LP + CD $19.00
First-time reissue of the debut album by this Dutch postpunk multi-instrumentalist who subsequently vanished as suddenly as he appeared in the early 1980s. Lots of guitars, a hammering rhythm machine, and lyrics about desolation, drugs, suicide. All thirteen tracks from the original cassette (Ding Dong 1982) on the LP, repeated on the CD plus five bonus tracks. Color insert, 175-gram vinyl. Edition of 500. Listen to “Desolation” here: http://youtu.be/6VhQx9gW5XA
Assez De Trop Pas
(Bimbo Tower - BTR04) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
The French freaks are back with five guests on percussion, flute, alto, trumpet and noises, taking their thing into psych Dada nutso jazz mini big-band territory. Handmade covers (their signature pink starburst, a plaid wallpaper sample, and found images from magazines; chipboard jackets). Edition of 150.
Trop De Pas Assez
(Bimbo Tower - BTR03) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
French quintet of freaks playing improvised psychedelic noise jazz kraut muzak with drums, percussion, guitar, bass, synth, saxophone, turntables, objects, voice and crazy electronics. Broken swing and harsh Dada spirit, with an early Futurist flavor. Handmade covers (their signature pink starburst with a letterpressed mark on one side, the name silkscreened in two colors on the other; chipboard jackets). Edition of 150.
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 Agustin
(Road Cone - ROCO020) LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Guitarists Andrew Burnes and David Daniell abandon the tightly scripted, intricate and loud approach of Barrel, and enlist percussionist Bryan Fielden for quieter introspective improv recorded live at the Meeting House in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1997. Silkscreened jacket.
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
Hollow Gravity
(Puer Gravy) LP $37.50
The first album of new material since Seal Pool Sounds (Seal Pool 2005) by this maverick electronic explorer and former Storm Bugs / Snatch Tapes operative. The subtly unnerving and the psychologically suggestive are entwined in Sanderson’s enigmatic constructs of heightened atmospheres, generated with analog synths, primitive delay units and sequencers. Evocative echoes of sci-fi soundtrackers like Gil Mellé and Louis & Bebe Barron, and the mischievous audio contraptions of Solid Eye. 180-gram, laser-etched vinyl. Edition of 100.
Santasede
(Le Souffleur) 10-inch $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Raymond Dijkstra and Tiff Lion’s obscure and surreal music with inner-eye filmic qualities — psychedelic with elements of esotericism by its use of sitar, primitively played tabla and highly reverberated string instruments. Recitation of old Italian alchemistic texts by Lion links it further to a dark spirituality. Santasede emphasizes acoustic instrumentation played in a raw, rudimentary manner, which is further enhanced by the duo’s use of electronics. Includes personalized download card. White vinyl. Edition of 250.
A Posthuman Guide to the Advent Calendar Origins of the Peep Show
(Sophomore Lounge - SL066) LP $15.75 (Out-of-stock)
Large-group ensemble made up of a cast of Kentucky characters comes in from the hermetic rain field of electric pabulum and renders extraordinary renditions into a maximalist tapestry, laced with concentrated forms of seared-synapse acoustic-retrieval alchemy. Sapat’s immediate stimulation reveals myriad fires during repeated listens. This is an album chock full of ideas and sound worlds that obliterate thought — a genre-melting bastard-child of deep psych, art-punk, stoner shred, mass jass, Buddhist operatic, narrative noise, and psychic coaction. It’d be criminal to expect anything less of a 14-year-old-and-counting, shape-shifting collective sharing members of Valley of Ashes, Kark, Softcheque, Tropical Trash, Black Velvet Fuckere, Son of Earth, The Belgian Waffles!, Phantom Family Halo, and about a billion other Louisvillian enclaves.
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.
Lair of Necromancy
(Hospital - HOS326) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ritual Finnish black metal that should need no introduction, but just in case: Sargeist features members of Horna and Behexen, both are long-term Finnish black metal bands known for profound live performances of magic. Their Let The Devil In (Moribund 2010) was a new standard for fast, brutal and memorable black metal.
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.
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.”
Vent
(Mie Music - 013) LP $14.00
Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans) amalgamate the former’s self-oscillating, power-starved shredding psychedelia with the latter’s self-proclaimed “Neanderthal attempts at VU-and-Roy-Montgomery-inspired simple melodicism.” In the guitar duo’s unusual haze of oscillator sweeps, dying batteries, ripping solos and clean-ish two-chord backbones, we can hear a unique angle on the possibilities that “psychedelic rock” could aspire toward.
Eviction
(Quemada - QUE006) 7-inch $5.50 (Out-of-stock)
Evil anthems doused in heavy, vile goop by Australian sociopaths. Imagine Paul Leary taking over lead duties for the Instant Automatons, or if Mad Nanna showed a bit more Sabbath muscle.
Bloody Ritual
(Hospital - HOS333) 7-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Vinyl reissue of the first demo (Plague Lord 1999) by the king of finnish black metal, Satanic Tyrant Werwolf, whose idea for his new direction germinated in 1998, while Werwolf was performing vocals under the name Nazgul Von Armageddon for the band Horna.
To The Other
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME92) CD $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME92) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Black magic metal, a dark spiritual vortex rooted in heavy and hypnotic sounds, a pure voice of the Draconian magical tradition from the forests outside Uppsala, Sweden.
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.
No Endowments
(Total Life Society - TLS001) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Cleveland, Ohio based wordsmith Matthew Wascovich leads this amorphous unit of avant-rockers in a noisy fusion of hardcore word choice and houserocking skronkitude. Raw, high energy tracks loaded with avant-rock jamming and intense lyrical explorations remiscent of a Stooges-damaged Saccharine Trust. With Andrew Klimek (X-Blank-X, Johnny & The Dicks), Scott Pickering (My Dad Is Dead, Happy Flowers), Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers, XBXRX) and others. Our prom date at Weirdo Records describes their sound as "dispossession and discontent that could be from 1972 or now.... [V]isions of 8mm movies flickering aimlessly over the eternally dilapidated streets of Cleveland."
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.
Halber Selbstbetrug
(Siltbreeze - SB165) 7-inch $2.50
Perfectly lubed and gurgling oink by this contemporary Berlin outfit, informed by the bare-knuckled scrappers of the Neue Deutsche Welle fringe. “A solid chunk of head-shrieking metronomics smothered in bassy transits and overwrought in thirsty shards … of pylon guitar,” proclaims Rottenmeats, “A rhythmically sharp and feisty beast, with … transistorized megaphone … vox … full of quirky angles ending on a screamed abruptness.” Edition of 300
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.
Paris Aktionen
(Beniffer Editions - TA090) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
This brutal document includes: Aktion 961123 (also known as the infamous "Spaghetti-Action"), featuring Rudolf Eb.er, Dave Philips and Helena Greter; and Aktion 970223, with Doris Tomasoni joining Eb.er, Philips, and Greter. According to our BFFs at Volcanic Tongue, “One set seems to be based around violent hyperventilating, chokes, and groans building into overwhelming cathartic vocal violence. The second set … makes more use of dynamic tension, with long periods of silence populated by nothing but a ticking metronome before the introduction of tortured vocals and split-seconds of warped electronics gives way to an electro-acoustic pile-up…. [P]rimitive vocal poetics of Dylan Nyoukis / Blood Stereo and the body-focused investigations of the original actionists [are] combined with a theatrical approach to avant garde performance.” Edition of 500 copies.
Schnabi Gaggi Pissi Gaggi
(Tochnit Aleph) LP $15.00
Tochnit Aleph Punk Series Volume Four. Featuring Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant) on ventilatorbass; Celeste Urech (age three) on drums and lyrics; Rudolf Eb.Er (Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock) on vacuumvocals. Recorded live in Switzerland 1992. Limited edition of 519 copies.
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.
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
Scorpion Violente
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD5) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Cold war psy-ops, martial, nihilistic mechanics, and cyborg bass boost that should fulfill all mad passions for proto-NWD super-repetitive, instrumental, minimal synth, mutant disco. Imagine The Flirts’ ragged, switchblade-toting cousin, raised by mutant vermin. Or PiL doing the Escape from New York theme. Or D.A.F.'s early material. Or even 20 Jazz Funk Greats-era Throbbing Gristle. Three songs. 45 RPM
Uberschleiss
(Avant! - AV009) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Eight tracks by the infamous gay beast from France obsessed with trash electronics and bad sexual habits. A sick mix of Giorgio Moroder, Italo disco, the paranoid minimal wave of Suicide, and the early industrial clangors such as Cabaret Voltaire. Red vinyl, second edition with new insert.
Crystal
(Carnivals - CAR004) LP $18.75
Electronic structures of space and density, dividing. "Skire" mimics the rhythms of the sea. Saccharine phrases sweep through "Lown," and dissonance looms. The dense and transparent title track elevates tones, and cyclical melody strengthens and fragments throughout, creating swathes of luminous texture that shift the focus to new harmonic patterns. A record of candid disorientation and ecstatic effect. Clear vinyl. Edition of 350.
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.
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
Hegira
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $25.00
Brutal, pensive, blown-out tones by Jeff Witscher from 2007. Edition of 110
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
(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.
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
Sedainty
(Heresee) LP $12.00
A morphic aura released into the air through the utilization of therapeutic breathing techniques, fumblings, and fantasies about sexual tourism. The Swedenbourgian “airplane” becomes reality along with the use of tubas and guitars and poetic resonance. You may know Peter Blasser as “ciat-lonbarde” or the next incarnation of Dr. Who imagining Bob Moog as interpreted by the paper circuit in the form of the seed of life. If so, God bless ya. Carson Garhart was also the phantasmal skeleton in The Skeletons and Severiano Martinez is the man behind it all. Limited LP with screenprinted covers.
Purgatory
(Thin Wrist - TWLR-3) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Composed and recorded for the most part alone in her bedroom over a span of four years, Eden Sela’s debut album, with its haunting voice and distinctive sense of folk and dark gospel lull, leads her audience somnambulant, floating hand-in-hand, through delusions, desires, dreams and fantasy. 180-gram vinyl. Includes digital download.
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.
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.
Sky Burial / Self
(Peripheral) split 10-inch $17.00
Haunting industrial ambience by Mike Page on one side (“Dis Manibus Sacrum”), made from the low hum of sound generators; black dark-ambience by John Balistreri on the flip (“Three Times Twenty Three”), evolving around lo-fi loops filtered through stomp boxes. Includes insert. Edition of 250.
Acaraki
(Dual Plover) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Truly contemporary Indonesian music that pushes the boundaries of traditional Javanese music and avant-garde experimental music. Rully Shabara’s extended dada-esque vocal techniques punctuate the frenetic neo-tribalism of instrument builder Wukir Suryadi’s modern-primitive instrumentation (such as a thick stem of bamboo strung with percussive strips of the plant’s skin along side steel strings, which fuses elements of traditional Indonesian instrumentation with garage guitar distortion when amplified).
Sujud
(Sublime Frequencies) LP $18.00
By weaving Indonesian folkloric moods with various shades of modern genre hybrids, Rully Shabara’s extreme vocals and Wukir Suryadi’s homemade instruments navigate one extremely powerful Bahasa Indonesian word — tanah — which translates to “soil-ground-land-earth.” Shabara’s vocals conjure spirits from the soil; Suryadi’s new guitar pushes the sound into new territory, utilizing delay, loops, and other effects, creating grounded backdrops of folk metal, punk attitudinal, and droning earthscapes.
Adenoids 1977-1985
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD49) 5xLP $150.00
The Australian group’s earliest material from the Terse releases Earbitten, Clean, Blubberknife, Tom Ellard’s solo albums 80s Cheesecake and Side 3, and various other tracks from the early to mid-80s. Their use of tape loops, noisy arrangements of synthesizers, and other dissonant sound sources, puts their early work in the general category of industrial music.
Bristning
(Release The Bats - RTB59) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Dan Johansson revisits the master tapes for this vinyl reissue of the cassette (Klorofyll Kassetter 2008), and extends the program to thirty-three minutes. Twisted decay and filth that replaces the harsh noise of early Sewer Election with more subtle and restrained soundscapes , without sacrificing the corrupting and creepy feeling of moral disease. Tape loops, metal junk, recorded using microphones and a tape deck to reduce the artifice and enhance the grit. Edition of 275. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST 0F 2010
Nära
(Järtecknet) LP $27.75 (Out-of-stock)
A delicate and puzzling experience, where chilling oscillating drones and field recordings intricately mix. Liner notes by Matthias Andersson. Edition of 350.
Vidöppna Sår
(Pan - PAN7) LP $27.00 (Out-of-stock)
Vidöppna Sår is the next step in the evolution in scum-brow field recordings and voice recorded to mono tape. Akin to OU revue recorded on a building site, this record documents Sewer Election's development, as witnessed from recent live performances, of aggressive blur build up and ominous restraint, tape speed replacing effect pedals, going beyond the mere "junk noise" description closer to the original idea of musique concrete, namely altering everyday sounds onto tape into a wholly other vocabulary that runs pure power and energy through subtle and restrained soundscapes of a world falling to pieces. Discomfort-and-filth aficionado Dan Johansson, based in Gothenburg, Sweden, is most known for extreme and nasty noise on iDEAL, Troniks, Chondritic Sound, Release the Bats!, Freak Animal, Segerhuva, Gameboy and others. He is a member of Swedish collective Utmarken and lo-fi group Ättestupa. Edition of 330, 140g vinyl. Black-and-white jacket in a two-tone silkscreened PVC sleeve with interweaving geometric designs. Artwork by Kathryn Politis and Bill Kouligas.
Vittra Sönder
(Throne Heap) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Nothing but fine, fine, fine tape manipulation and metal abuse punctuated by primitive organ melody and sparsely placed percussive stabs. Dark grooves where the musique truly meets the concrète. Edition of 300
SEWER SYSTEM / UNSUSTAINABLE SOCIAL CONDITION
Sewer System / Unsustainable Social Condition
(Oxen - OXEN030) Split cassette $4.50 (Out-of-stock)
Six tracks of vomitus ruination by Charlie Mumma on side A, whose singular strategy of feedback, percussion and growling tension deconstructs noise-core elements with unique and totally dynamic results. Matt Purse pays feedback-laden tribute to Yukimasa Okada on side B with junk-noise conflict obliteration resolving into corrosive harsh noise cohesion. C10
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.
Ροαξη Φινγερζζ ΒΣ. Ροψκ Σλινγερζζ
(Phase! - PHR104) LP (one-sided) $20.00
Sewn Leather is a trigger, a road warrior, the punk that can be smoked. Somewhere between Whitehouse’s nihilism, Wolf Eyes’ high pitched suffocation and evil Prodigy rhythmology, Griffin Pyn re-invents the 21st century punk, soaked in battery acid, swallow-ready for the confusion generation. Edition of 200.
Night Visions
(Danger Records - DR003) 7-inch $7.75
Crime wave or female-fronted synth punk from PDX, with members of Epoxies, No-Talents, Headliners, Operation S, Procrastinators.
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
Leave / Trace
(Glistening Examples - GLEX1301) LP $17.00
Formerly operating under the name Mites, Shakhnes has been recording and performing in Tel Aviv since 2008, releasing work in private handmade CDR editions, and internationally though Alamut, Mystery Sea, and Copy For Your Records. Leave / Trace blends field recordings from peculiar and mundane origins into sumptuously detailed and surreally original new forms. Shakhnes captures and juxtaposes otherwise overlooked details of commonplace events, placing his work at the fulcrum of contemporary tape music.
EP
(Hospital - HOS415) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
A refreshing but authentic take on the lineage referencing bands such as early Christian Death, Amebix, and Conflict. This London group rejects the overly distorted approach of recent years for a more honest, stripped down and raw, gothic punk. An isolated and anthemic voice echoes alongside cold, rainy drums and bloody-nose bass, accented by the unusual introduction of effects and smartly placed electronics. Their skeletal and frightfully nuts-and-bolts morbid punk evokes a nihilistic, apocalyptic, youthful, urban mentality set in old London coiling in on itself. Edition of 300.
Equal Eyes
(Hospital - HOS208) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
There is no solid footing in the first full length by this active live unit from Providence, Rhode Island, only a suffocating hail of falling rock, strangling vines, and sinkholes. Like a rabbit trapped in the hole of the snake's throat, this duo comprised of members of Immaculate: Grotesque and Em Dath Rir batters and tears its way through six tracks of power electronics, eco-fallout and revolutionary anger. Offering not one moment of relief throughout this litany of rage, Shallow Waters separate themselves from the pack with the focus of a sniper and the fury of napalm.
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.
Excess Death Cult Time
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $20.00
Scuzzed-out ’80s UK DIY-style post-punk rattle on the debut LP by this Phoenix, AZ five-piece.
Joinus
(Resipiscent - RSPT045) 2xLP $26.00
A saga that began four albums and five comic books ago -- with a fat stub of flesh burrowing beneath the grass to uncover hex givers, beepers, and the severed heads of sisters -- draws to its epic conclusion deep within The Maze: once a war sanctuary, then a home, now a bio-mechanized sarcophagus, and the only way out is up. Though this story is crushing, the resulting shards dance, creak and spill into a psychic underground vast enough for cymbal, cello, tuba, storms, timpani, piano, guitar, foghorn, harmonica, double reeds, trumpet, Sylvester Stallone vocals, and synth that makes Pink Floyd blush. Sheck’s sound is singular, unmistakable: sleep talking, skidding drums, 64th note woodwinds at full tilt, cult chorales, resplendent horns, and escape-velocity dance anthems. Includes free download. Edition of 300.
Picking Through The Wreckage With A Stick
(Zaius Tapes) LP $20.00
COMING SOON. Shepard’s dark, cathartic masterpiece, originally released by Siltbreeze in 1995, bears little to no resemblance to his proto metal-prog rock band, Vertical Slit. Like his debut solo LP Slit And Pre Slit, it was made in the midst of grievous personal trauma and plays out like Burroughsian cutups, with Shepard’s gallows wit interspersed against his distinctive sense of forboding. 2024 reissue. Edition of 300.
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.
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
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
Solo Acoustic Volume Nine
(Vin Du Selecte Qualitite - VDSQ009) LP $17.50 (Out-of-stock)
Virtuoso finger-picked six-string attacks, stunning in both precision and melodicism.
In The Sun
(Awesome Vistas - AV10) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Phil Franklin nailed it when he referred to Christine Shields's first solo LP as “ten songs of dark and light.” The album is very much about opposites, the sun and moon, descent into darkness and return to light. Instrumentation includes guitar, banjo, baritone uke, and voice, with percussion by William Winant, guitar by Joe Goldring (Enablers, Touched by a Janitor, Swans), soundscapes by Sheila Bosco (Faun Fables, Autobody), and drums and production by Tim Mooney (American Music Club). Her musical pedigree includes Archipelago Brewing Company, Grouse Mountain Skyride, Shady Creek Girls, and Steeple Chase, but she's perhaps best known for her portraits of musicians, short-lived comic book Blue Hole, and dark, humorous, Addams-meets-Gorey illustration work for countless small-press publications and zines (e.g. the cover of Bananafish #15). Her music, like her images, is dreamy, dark, melodic, harmonious, and high-lonesome. (That old-time influence has its hooks in her good.) If you want to make her day, compare her to Opal. You wouldn’t be far off the mark. Silkscreened jackets.
Creation and Space
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR026) 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.
Cosmic Radio Station
(Fishrider - FISH015) CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Fishrider - FISH015) LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Beamed into the Pacific ether from a woolshed and a tumbledown house perched on the hills above Port Chalmers during a period of heightened solar flare and aurora activity, Cosmic Radio Station “delves into the angular, chiming, hypnotic drone-pop of the city’s early-’80s Flying Nun clan,” according to the Otago Daily Times, “in more psychedelic shades.” The Shifting Sands drip sun-dazed melody through a shifting haze of fuzzy, chiming guitars, shimmering strings, and vocal harmonies.
Asconema
(Chironex - CR05) LP $23.00
The recordings on this the debut vinyl by the Danish modern free music collective revolving around Nikolai Brix Vartenberg and Mikkel Reher-Langberg were made at the final show of the group's 2009 UK tour. The sound of this nine-man edition of Shiggajon goes in an acoustic and dynamic direction, moving from quiet solo pieces to intense bacchanalia in a matter of moments. The mostly dense and complex music is formally more "traditional" than psychedelic, almost stripped of added effects. The flow of interplay and melody shines through. Edition of 250.
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
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.
Isolated Agent / Stranding Behavior
(Elevator Bath - eeaoa031) LP picture disc $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
A two-part sculpture / puzzle, multi-layered and almost entirely electronic, lending vivid color to a description of blackest space. Mysterious, unsettling examples of Shoemaker’s attention to detail, mood and tension. Edition of 233.
Shoes This High
(Siltbreeze - SB161) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
First-time legitimate reissue of this New Zealand post-punk classic (STH Music 1981) that uncaps a ferocity at the time unheard not just in New Zealand, but in most corners of the global underground fraternity (with the possible exception of The Gordons’ debut seven-inch). A defining moment in definitive.
Straight To Hell
(Siltbreeze - SB160) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Jagged, scabrous genius that remains previously unheard no more, thanks to the massive tape library of famed New Zealand underground music archivist Bob Sutton. This white-hot live scorcher was culled from a set at the infamous Billy The Club in the early 1980s. Guitarist Kevin Hawkins slashes and rips strings from his ax like a mad butcher; the rhythm section of Jessica Walker and Christopher Plummer is par excellence, while the sneering, contemptuous vocals of singer S. Brent Hayward spit like poison darts. Download card of the entire album plusthe tracks for the Shoes This High seven-inch (SB161). Edition of 500.
Sounds of Japanese Doomsday Cults
(Faithways International) 7-inch $5.25 (Out-of-stock)
This reissue of The Sounds Of Japanese Doomsday Cults marks the first bona fide public availability in the West of “Lord Death’s Counting Song” and “Sonshi’s March,” performed by Shoko Asahara, leader of Japanese religious cult Aum Shinri Kyo and convicted murderer of twenty-five people, including eleven who died in the sarin nerve-gas attack in the Tokyo subway system in March of 1995 -- a terrifying incident that put more than five thousand people in the hospital and shocked the world with its televised images of choking and vomiting rush-hour riders staggering out of the subway exits. Originally released on Australia’s Mighty I AM Presence label in three editions of 25 copies each (on polyurethane lathe-cut 8-inch records).
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
Private Hate
(Careful Catalog - CARE04) LP $20.00
The first full length LP by this trio that has existed publicly via recordings and performance since 2015 encapsulates the group’s pivot toward an emphasis on events, movement, and locations presented as a challenge perception. Sounds happen at the wrong time in unexpected places. Sometimes they go missing and you’re left holding the bag. Free music is somewhere murmuring behind the walls but Private Hate is not really about that. Three monkeys in the jungle, a jest on managing expectations. If one hears an object being struck enough times and the resonance of the room, is this at all useful in extracting a narrative? We’ve all read about cryptophasia. These are just some scenarios to be interpreted. Two-color letterpress jacket with art by Justine Neuberger and postcard insert by Tom Darksmith.
In The Shadow Of What Never Was
(Chondritic Sound - CH-325) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first full-length by Justin Lakes is a meditation on the transformative effects of near-death experiences, aiming to connect observed parallels between chaotic events in the lives of strangers and Lakes’s understanding of stressful environments. The three-part A-Side focuses on May 16, 1986; crude and distant devices build tension until there’s nothing left but an alarming and discomforting reality. Mundane power electronics and crumbling walls of tape come and go. The B-Side’s quadriptych dwells on the effects of prolonged periods of fear. Serene environments are quickly corrupted. Includes download card. Edition of 319.
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.
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.
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.
Surrounded By Gold And Dead
(Premier Sang - PS009) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Eleven slashes of musique concrète, process theory, modal jazz, drone, punk aesthetics and a free approach to music. Amazing sounds never before imagined. Emotion trapping holes of sound. A fine line between composition and improvisation. Randomness gathers and swirls into patterns of recognition. The division of shadows. Edition of 258. Check it out here: https://soundcloud.com/fag-tapes/sick-llamasurrounded-by-gold
Fuck Your Punk Rock
(RRRecords - RRRSICK) LP picture disc $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Chris Goudreau started Sickness in the mid-1980s as a tape-loop / industrial project. Here cut up electronics and rapid-fire loops are mashed together with biting comments on today's “noise scene” golden calves and half-assed trends.
There Is A Part Of Me You Will Never Know
(Hospital - HOS209) LP $16.75 (Out-of-stock)
The first collaboration by these two legends is not haphazard but symbiotic; it reaches new places, this dark casket of scorched earth sounds, the remains of the cracks at the aftershock of discovery. Reminding us of the peaks in the artists’ catalogs, There Is A Part Of Me You Will Never Know processes the deepest sounds of four masters in haze of lone atmosphere and true noise. This is not not a terror shock, this is the end.
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
(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
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
I Am No Longer Alone With Myself And Can Only Artificially Recall The Scary And Beautiful Feeling Of Solitude
(Indian Queen - IQR003) LP $15.00
Guitar-dominated, gentle haze that shifts its emphasis toward micro electronic assemblages –- at times damaged, turbulent, and percussive, at others lulling, plaintive, and melodic –- with naïve, organic, and processed string arrangements. Mechanical grit, lustrous swells, rapturous glitches, childish playfulness, Scandinavian darkness. Includes free download card. 180g clear vinyl. Edition of 500.
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.
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.
Confuse
(Oxen - OXEN) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Strength in tightly concentrated havoc. An action massacre, sounds shattered with steamy, crowded menace. Charred mutilation across two sides, defining the kinetics of destruction. Total slaughter by Mumma and Wiese.
Dash
(Gilgongo - GGGR038) LP $12.75
Scathing sound by John Wiese and Corydon Ronnau, joined by Lasse Marhaug and Will Strangeland of Tearist and Silver Daggers, cautiously partitioned into forty-one short bursts of truly obliterated hardcore. Ruptured and bleeding out, heavily.
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.
Disfathom
(Helicopter - H 77) CD $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
(Helicopter - H 77) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
Hellish unrelenting grindcore by Charlie Mumma and John Wiese
Harm 2
(Troniks - TRO145) LP $16.50
A lo-fi garage clash by Phil Blankenship, Jesse Jackson, Charlie Mumma, Corydon Ronnau and John Wiese, recorded during the same sessions that produced the Harm CD, in preparation for the December 2011 Sissy Spacek tour. Thudding sickness, black-souled vocal retch, and thrashing violence turn to blistering white out. Recorded direct to tape and straight to hell at F-House. Packaged in tip-on jackets with stickers and letter size insert. Labels are stamped. Edition of 100.
Horned Beast
(Husk - H#110) 2x7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Album length (by Sissy Spacek standards) collection of noisecore, wreckage, and experimental strategies, covering a number of different line-ups and eras. Die cut cover and insert.
Lead Their Exit
(Helicopter - H 70) 7-inch $6.75 (Out-of-stock)
Furious destruction by Charlie Mumma, newest member Sara Taylor on vocals, and John Wiese. Grindcore blasts with an avant-garde sensibility meet leftfield song writing.
Lipscomb b/w Absentia
(Helicopter - H64) 7-inch $11.25
Two collaborative tracks of beautiful dementia, computer treatments, rattling bells, distant ragtime and hoarse shrieks and groans. With five color inserts. Edition of 200.
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.
Scissors
(Misanthropic Agenda) LP (one-sided) $10.00
A dynamic sound collage of rabid aural thud, delivered in a manic torrent of multi-directional percussion, guitar, voice, and electronics. White vinyl, gatefold jacket
Sissy Spacek
(A Dear Girl Called Wendy - WENDY06) 2x7-inch $15.00
In 1999 Corydon Ronnau and John Wiese made their first recordings as a more or less "conventional" blur/grindcore duo. Shortly after, the band entered a recycling period in which Wiese produced a number of albums and EPs, the first of which was this self-titled CD (originally released on Helicopter), transforming their original source material into hardcore musique concrete. Listed in Studio Voice's "New No Wave 200" and declared a new genre by Koji Tano, it is available on vinyl for the first time as a double-seven with new edits, new mastering and previously obscure material from the same era.
Trash Staging
(New Forces - NF058) LP $16.50
The 45-rpm A-Side “unleashes a noisy grindcore assault,” say our friends at Brain Tangle, “The drums blending with the electronics into a massive wall of sound. Feedback, blast beats, and screeching vocals pummel the listener for five perfect minutes.” The 33rpm B-Side is “dynamic and free flowing…, the sort of noise that can induce a trance-like state at high volumes. For those of you who always want your music louder, faster, and more intense, look no further.”
Window Hammer
(Chondritic Sound - CH289) 7-inch + DVDr $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Nine tracks of pure aggressive grindcore on one side, backed with a noisy piece of broken glass and atmospheric trash, by the Mumma / Ronnau / Wiese incarnation in sharp, blasting hardcore form. Guest backing vocals by Joe Preston. Stamped DVDr has the band performing this material on their last West coast tour -- twenty more minutes of bliss and gristle.
Blame
(Premier Sang - 008) LP $14.50 (Out-of-stock)
Just as the sound of the city invades every synapse of your brain, the fifth album by Sister Iodine scrapes around the inside of your skull. Gasoline goo oozes from your broken ribs, and Lionel Fernandez, Erik Minkkinen and Nicolas Mazet are there sucking on the bitter black blood drips. The pestilent vacuum of your lungs, the dirty little nostril hair, and the burnt larynx — all are penetrated by the rusty screams of this French no-wave / experimental band. As you walk on the white asphalt of the underpath, the ceramic tiles crackle and break, and the oscillator echoes your last foot steps. Your hands melt the snow as it falls, and Sister Iodine gnaws at every fiber of your cement carcass. Protoplasmic blast and insect bite, Blame is on you. 350-gram vinyl. Edition of 400. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2013
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
Psychedelic Sessions
(KTFB) Used LP $35.00
John Peel Sessions from 1982 and ’84, Kid Jensen Sessions from 1983
Cardboard Oracle
(Wintage - WRT-95) LP $15.00
Surreal collage and engaging avant creep-core from a Toronto sextet led by William A. Davison (who has worked with Stephen Stapleton and Gastric Female Reflex). Found sound field-recordings, cut-ups, circuit-bent electronics, and homemade instruments are the tools of these sci-fi induced, satanic backwoods Ozark jams housed inside two-color sleeves screen-printed by GFR's Andrew Zukerman on old LP jackets and spray-painted by Disguises' Kevin Crump on cardboard flats. Hand-stamped labels. Numbered edition of 300. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2012.
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
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
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.
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
(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.
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.
Cute Mutant
(Sophomore Lounge - SL045) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Boston-baked blend of heavy, slime-soaked tones and relentless, pounding rhythms torn up and spit back in your face by a lunatic with a microphone. It’s like Black Sabbath in reverse, a mouth full of bubble gum and broken teeth, or, as Larry Dolman puts it “low-end wind-tunnel electro-punk.” Part of what makes this demented trio’s sound unique is the absence of stringed instruments. Their microphones-and-electronics assault holds its own against heavy, guitar-driven rock.
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 / White Medal
(Turgid Animal - TA440) 7-inch $10.00
The long-running and evil Skullflower and Yorkshire's demented black metal one-man band both straddle the middle ground between experimental and all-out black metal assault, but in very different ways. Artwork by Utarm's Sindre Foss Skancke. 400 copies on black vinyl.
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.
Village Sorting
(Self Abuse - SAR05) 7-inch $7.00
From 1995. Other details, as laid out by The One True Dead Angel: “Quaking guitars, hornlike guitars, guitars soaked in feedback, guitars dripping blood, blown speakers, coaxial cables catching on fire, gladiators with raw meat dripping from their jaws [overrunning] the tiny village and [burning] it flat, violence [hanging[ in the air like the tiny blackbird of doom ... a relentless, thudding drum [beating] like the throbbing vein in a sociopath's withered skull ... bright shards of guitar rot [bursting] through the violence every so often, accompanied by squeals for help.”
Debased Shapes
(Bruit Direct Disques - BRD11) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second full-length LP by this Australian band whose hypnotic, messed up, unmistakable / mistaken music uses an array of invented and homemade instruments and is, according to Still Single, “dotted by the legacy of Harry Partch’s creation of music and sound sources from inside the mind, but given to strong jazzy / RIO currents throughout, underscored by vocalist Sarah Byrne’s adventurous alto surveying the wake of composed-with-improvised-feel tracks as they settle and march around one another.”
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.”
Ocean On Ocean
(Helen Scarsdale - HMS023) 2xLP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Hovering above the weighted disposition of doom and below the consolation of shoegaze,” waxes mystical drone-folklorist Jon Porras, Barbara Kinzle and Birch Cooper’s “burdened grace … unfolds like a radiant mammal writhing in black water…. Lines of light swell and dissipate behind hushed lyrics. Feedback and white noise ebb and flow.… A staircase built from reflective feedback, extending horizontally into bliss. A bliss that is fleeting and simultaneously petrified in the present. A paradox realized by the duo’s distillations of urgent ambiance and luminescent melancholy. Conjuring environments that billow out from instrumental restraint, Ocean On Ocean is an exercise in disciplined abstraction. Previous releases have been favorably compared to Grouper, Slowdive, Earth, and Barn Owl. Includes free download. Edition of 400
Austerity Dogs
(Harbinger Sound - 106) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Harbinger Sound - 106) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Sleaford Mods are the product of Britain’s harsh reality -- a punk band that, through lack of sympathy for the human race, replaced its members with a laptop. Their songs are fueled with working class philosophy, and the vibe is bleak. Comparable to the delivery of John Cooper Clarke, Steve Ignorant, Ian Dury, the pumping bass riffs of The Fall, the cheap synth beats of The Normal.
Divide And Exit
(Harbinger Sound - 121) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Harbinger Sound - 121) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
In a surprising turn of events, Pitchfork has some detailed thoughts about Sealford Mods’ second full-length LP for Harbinger Sound. “Singer Jason Williamson speed-talks bile while Andrew Fearn provides coarse backing tracks, which barely get beyond cheap plastic keyboard presets…. Divide and Exit is about as punk as punk gets in 2014. Williamson sounds charged, wired, determined to make one last go of things, simultaneously expressing his frustration at the helplessness of it all and finding his words taking him somewhere beyond his current predicament…. [Their] songs follow a simple formula, repeated 14 times on Divide and Exit. Fearn triggers his economical music, allowing it to repeat until close, while Williamson gets lost in a blizzard of words, sometimes to the point of tripping over himself…. Profanity, jokes, and commentary come thick and fast, with Williamson often sounding like he’s in an argument with himself…, a universal expression of exasperation…. Some of the acts regularly mentioned in the same breath as Sleaford Mods include The Streets, The Fall, and English punk-poet John Cooper Clarke. There are traces of those artists here, but only dim ones in the overall picture…. The crude nature of this music as a mode of overall expression, whether it’s in the unrelenting use of swearing or in Fearn’s cloddish rhythms, might be the most powerful tool this band has at its disposal…. The works are raw and technically poor, but the bitterness and hatred they express is overwhelming, illustrating how base feeling, when expressed with such belief, can overcome any window dressing put up around it.”
SixSixSix
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD79) 4xLP + 7-inch $70.00
Material from the first six years of Sleep Chamber, compiled by Brad Miller and Frank Maier. On the first platter and the seven-inch are pure and strong minimal synth tunes from early cassettes Ze Wizz Kidz, Dream Distillate (Inner-X-Musick 1983), and Music for Mannequins (Inner-X-Musick 1984). Platters two and three reveal previously unreleased recordings from 1982 to ’87 that range from minimal to the typical Sleep Chamber sound of the era, along with alternative versions, demos and unreleased tracks from the Admit to Desire period. Platter number four is an unreleased LP called Seremony, recorded in the beginning of the Satanic Sanction sessions (1985-86).
Painless Nights
(Superior Viaduct) Used LP $12.00
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
Alien Column
(Nashazphone - NP008) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
The first full length LP by the thick-smoke-filled-Michigan-basement duo of Chris Pottinger (Odd Clouds, Cotton Museum, and the Tasty Soil label) and Heath Moerland (Sick Llama, Cygnus, Drug Abuse, and the Fag Tapes label). Described as a post-Wolf Eyes combo, Slither mutates free jazz through multiple electronics manipulations and dual horn tandem (alto saxophone and clarinet). Edition of 240 copies.
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
Three Feet Behind Glass / Instant Classic
(Insolito) LP $19.00 (Out-of-stock)
The Slugfuckers started in the late 1970s in Sydney, Australia. Terry Blake (vocals), John Laidler (guitar) and Graham Forsyth (bass) were all students or recent graduates of the Department of General Philosophy at Sydney University. Craig Wilcox (keyboard), Gordon Renouf (guitar, sax), Austin Laverty (drumkit) joined soon after. All the tracks from their two singles from 1979 are here. Bridging the nascence of punk, DIY, and industrial, The Slugfuckers shouted vocals, played almost rudimentarily, set the volume on ten and, in equal parts, enthralled, engaged and repelled with their many obligatory messy interludes. Their raw, underproduced angry attack bores right into your brain. 180g vinyl, tip-on jackets, liner notes. Edition of 500.
La Chrestomathie Du Désespoir
(I Dischi Del Barone - IDDB031) 7-inch $9.00
The inherent mystery and beauty of sound itself gets its first scrutiny by Small Cruel Party in fifteen years. Emphasis is on non-instrumental sound sources, the exact specific nature of which is not readily apparent. Manipulation of physical objects in acoustic space and a great deal of concentrated activity are the methods. Stamped white labels. Paste-on cover and insert. Edition of 200
Unroof The House Of The Fishes
(Harbinger Sound - 114) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
First-time vinyl reissue of this cryptic cassette (G.R.O.S.S. 1993), noted by our friends at Volcanic Tongue for its “rigorous, eerie compositional feel … with inchoate shapes and odd, grating sonorities inserted into the two side long tracks in a way that is quite uncomfortable, undermining the piece’s sense of space and somehow constantly forcing you to re-think or re-process your perspective…. [T]ranscendentally odd and strangely moving…, blurring the line between classic noise, timbrally aggressive improvisation, laminal tape work and homemade minimalist ritual….”
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.
Abacus Incognito
(Alga Marghen) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Neo-primitive-suburban-folk music recorded in Temple City and Pasadena 1974 and 1975 by Ace Farren Ford, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Cheez-It-Ritz Chuck-O Fats (D.K.), Amazon Bambi, Dennis Duck, Craig, Jason, Peter, Bev, and a few others, all doing their best to avoid song forms. Fearless group improvisational vocals shape-shift through operatic show tunes, spirit visions and visits to a delirium motel room, contrasted by the title track featuring poetry by Dennis Duck (Human Hands, Dream Syndicate) accompanied by the family stereo console record player / radio unit and conventional instruments to create “a strangely unique non-jamming sound.” Edition of 200
Ever And Anon
(Ultramarine - UM021) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
LAFMS-style free jazz, industrial noise, improvisation, and straight-up weird music from the first family of freakdom. Amazing drumming courtesy of Dennis Duck. Oblivia’s trademark vinyl samples pay homage to the devilish surfabilly of Link Wray. Crazy reeds, Aylerian invocations, electro-acoustic meditations, (shrink) chamber music and moments of pure avant garde. A riot in a farm, strange strings riding the waves, Ju Suk Reet Meate’s guitar riffs and slides with the seagulls, a bat party in a cave, a hot bath of analog synth bubbles. Cover art by Ace Farren Ford. Includes insert. Edition of 300.
I Am Not Artist 1973-1988
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD70) 6xLP + DVD $125.00 (Out-of-stock)
This astonishing set compiles most of Smegma’s long out-of-print and impossible-to-find vinyl releases on the LAFMS, Trap, Dom and Selektion labels, and, of course, their own Pigface Records. The box includes their first three seven inches (Disco Diarrhea, Flashcards, and Pigface Chant), their LPs Pigs for Lepers and Glamour Girl 1941, and their Spontaneaous Sound 1973-82 2xCS. Smegma started collectively by Ju Suk Reet Meate, Cheese it Ritz, Chucko Fats, Dennis Duck, Amazon Bambi and Cheesebro, and continued to lure in a steady stream of avant / free / improv lunos for three-and-a-half decades to come. The least likely folk / primitive / avant band in Pasadena, California, survived Portland, Oregon’s punk rock revitalization and first meltdown, and are today a serious force in weird music. The DVD reissues the 10 Years Wasted videotape from 1983, Mike Lastra’s Smegma The First 10 Years, and two bonus performances from 1978 and 1980.
Look'n For Ya
(Alga Marghen - plan-S 20TES.154) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
Primitive, suburban, anti-hippie yoont recorded in the mid-1970s. Guests include Wild Man Fischer and Turkey Mon (a C.B. radio operator whose high-power transmitter signal was picked-up by the tape machine while the band was recording). Edition of 200
Mirage
(Important - IMPREC311) CD $12.00
(Important - IMPREC311) LP $15.00
Running the gamut from musique concrète-inspired bombast to frenzied noise funk that morphs Eno / Roxy garage rock with primitive meditations, demented voices, toys, and record players, Mirage reunites four of the original members (working together again for the first time in many years) and introduces them to new collaborators. LP includes exclusive track "Very Good Advice," spontaneously performed at a house party in 2009. CD includes a different exclusive track "Oh Yeh," and a previously unreleased original from Pasadena 1973, "Quiet On The Set Rioux I."
Morass Live
(Tanzprocesz - TP8) LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
In 1987, G.R.O.S.S. released Morass on cassette -- one studio side, one live side. The former was re-released as bonus material on Harbinger Sound's CD reissue of Nattering Naybobs. Here is the latter, plus 15 minutes of extra astounding unreleased live recordings from 1985-7 for your trouble. "Free jazz firepower is to the fore," observe our comrades at Volcanic Tongue, "With Ayler-ized horns and Borbetomagus-scale form-destruction battling against toy orchestras, power-punking loops, syrupy sludge-jams, garage band instrumentals and usurped avant garde modes. One of Smegma’s wildest sides and some of the most fucked-up art-aggro to escape the gravity of the LAFMS." As John Hodgman would say, "You're welcome." Full color artwork and labels.
Smell Remains The Same
(Anarchymoon - ANOK18) LP $15.00
Ten tracks from seven-inches originally released between 1990 and 1995, including their track from the Untitled comp (Cavity Search 1995). The tracks display Smegma’s pioneering style of hi-fi-lo-brow surf-noise-rock concrète. Liner notes by David Morgan.
Smelly Neu Pollution
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $22.50
New Zealand legend Brent Hayward AKA Fats White is probably best known as the vocalist and guitarist in Wellington and Auckland post-punk bands like Shoes This High and Kiwi Animal but when he wasn’t collaborating with others he performed and recorded solo as Smelly Feet — on street corners and stages, supporting The Clean and even The Fall on their legendary 1982 tour of New Zealand. The music of Smelly Feet is sardonic, chaotic DIY folk on the surface, but much deeper than that is a legit artistic genius baring his soul using just his voice and an acoustic guitar. Tuning is often an afterthought, because it’s the message that counts: prophetic, apocalyptic, cynical, passionate. Everything from three Smelly Feet singles is here, self-released in 1981, plus selections from cassettes from the same time and place. Liner notes by Stuart Page of Axemen and Bruce Russell of The Dead C. Edition of 300.
Old Skete
(Worstward - WST001) LP $13.00
Eleven stark performances on hand-made electric guitar by the man also known as Ulaan Khol, Hala Strana, and Ulaan Markhor, and for work with Thuja, Mirza, and Amsterdam-based clarinetist Gareth Davis. Absence of overdubs, loops, samples and delay pedals leaves Old Skete open and unadorned, a spare work akin to Smith’s Kohl (Jewelled Antler 2002). Edition of 500.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
’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.
Musics for Piano, Whistling, Microphone and Tape Recorder
([ no label ]) 2xCassette $15.00
(Song Cycle) 2xLP $20.00
Four side-long tracks by the CCMC veteran, originally released by Chatham Square in 1975. “Falling Starts” is a tape of a piano melody first played back at hyperspeed, then slower and slower until it transforms into a thunderous, quivering bass boom. The brutally lo-fi “Left Right” is an intentionally distorted, repetitive stride piano experiment with metronome and telephone. “W in the D” is constructed of separate whistled phrases, each preceded by the sound of the composer breathing in.
LP is 180g, in a gatefold jacket. 2016 reissue.
Soft Gang
(Sophomore Lounge - SL077) LP $15.50 (Out-of-stock)
This perfect first glance into Soft Gang’s cauldron conjures whiffs of early-1990s indie art-pop, stirred with witchy long-form free-rock / psychedelia, playful post-punk, and an herbal dash of Plastic Ono’s experimental entrada. Kaori Nakamura croons, howls, and rhetorically ponders with the grace and ease of an evening’s reflection, stretching out over the rhythm section (Dahm Cipolla of Phantom Family Halo and Sapat on drums, Charlie Hines of Dichroics and Sabers on bass guitar), which tugs from routine to expressive chaos, while Dichroics’ Darin Mickey’s guitar transmissions decorate the stage. Simple, subtly alienating, yet all the while infectious.
SOMETHING ABOUT VAMPIRES AND SLUTS
Theme
(Rococo - RCC001) 7-inch $4.50 (Out-of-stock)
This five-piece from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, incorporates a big chunk of ineffable pop fun into their new wave-tinged sass rock. The vocalist’s bouncy howls could pass for those of a less grating Hot Hot Heat, and they further perpetuate the atmosphere of unadulterated joviality. In other words, they are your new favorite band.
Son of Drib Against the Wind
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $20.00
The twelve songs of scuzzed-out garage pop on the second LP from this trio (now expanded to a quartet) take you from Beat Happening to the Warsaw demos to the first Strokes LP, then right back home to Columbus, OH, where they hold their own with like-minded predecessors like Cheater Slicks, Times New Viking, Great Plains, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments and so on. Two songs were included in the soundtrack to Poser (which made its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival).
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.
100%
(DGC) Used 10-inch $25.00
Album versions of two tracks from Dirty, plus the unreleased “Genetic” and “Hendrix Necro.” #00010
4 Tunna Brix
(Goofin’) Used LP $30.00
Three Fall covers — “My New House,” “Rowche Rumble,” “Psycho Mafia,” plus the Kinks’ “Victoria.”
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
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
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.
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.”
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
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.
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
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
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
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
Halloween II
(Blast First) Used 12-inch (one-sided) $110.00
The first studio mix backed with a Savage Pencil engraving. From 1986.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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 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
2001, A Space Cactus
(Ultra Eczema - UE56) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ultra Eczema describes the first LP in the 20-year existence of Space_Cactus as "a puddle of gross sound poetry run through mentally ill reel-to-reel tape machines, reworked again and again and again and again," while the pressing plant says, "Is it possible you sent us the wrong audio file? We can only hear a voice soundcheck." Using voices, prepared voice and reel-to-reel tape machines (instead of their usual massive setup of analog synths), the infamous Bobby Colombo -- overall co-ordinator of Space_Cactus -- is joined for this incarnation by cacti- and hat-collector, instrument inventor, and happy space maker Cassis Cornuta. Live performances by Space_Cactus are rare, limited to specific occasions such as the "30 Seconds of Space_Cactus" at Factor 44, or sound works for exhibitions. They mainly focus on recording radio plays, jingles, film soundtracks, etc., sort like a BBC Workshop, though more acutely raw, satirical and brutal. Limited to 150 copies in a double-sided silkscreened cover designed by Dennis Tyfus.
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.
Highgate b/w Mysteries Of Chance
(Peripheral - PM2) split 7-inch $13.65
Highly infectious minimal synth wave. Clear vinyl. Edition of 250
1/2 Mechanism 1/2 Organism
(Spectrometers) 10-inch $16.00
Six tracks of minimal synth from Paris sur la France that are equal parts vintage and cosmic electronic. To paraphrase X-mist, imagine if the Young Marble Giants had co-opted Suicide’s haunting atmosphere and the doomy, industrial attitude of Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2010.
Dead Soul Music
(Decasian - DR001) LP $16.00
Dead Soul Music was one of minimal electronics’ highlights of 2008, just as this French group’s 1/2 Organism 1/2 Organism is on the fast track to becoming one of 2010’s best, especially if your idea of excellence encompasses the blending of detached, understated electronics with psychedelic music. The Spectrometers’ haunted electronica reimagines the Westworld soundtrack performed by an amalgamation of Throbbing Gristle, Joe Meek, the BBC workshop, and Silver Apples.
Live In Tokyo 1995
(What The ... - WHAT002) LP $13.50
A long-lost live set from California sound unit also known as Damion Romero, excavated from a heavy time for sound of such density and heaviness, in one of the heaviest zones on Planet Earth -- Tokyo, Japan. These sides are cut straight from chrome cassette to needle, so as to draw the very energy of analog spirit without the interference of digital approximation, and indeed it is absolute analog in these grooves you hear. A prime window into pure eyes-closed eclipsed darkness of the highest mental order, packaged in silkscreened covers with heavy-duty re-sealable polyethylene bags. Includes a reproduction of the original show flyer and a numbered photograph. Edition of 300.
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).
Orange
(Matador - OLE105) LP picture disc $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
A totally fun and hilarious album from 1995. Even fuckin' Amazon gets it: "Despite a brazen desire to flaunt their complete lack of authenticity with an absurdly over-the-top howlin' bluesman schtick, their music really does kick tons [of] ass.... Orange augments the usual mess of raw blues and primal rock with Philly soul strings, theremin, and Beck's guest rapping." Audiophiles take note: though this is frequently referred to as "silver colored vinyl," it is in fact a picture disc. The picture is sparkling silver.
Shh!
(Destijl - IND039) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Legit LP-only reissue of this Helsinki monsterpiece from 1970. "Shh!" documents Pekka Airaksinen's experimental compositions, consisting of primitive samples, guitar loop feedback and musique concrete. Sperm also functioned as a wildly theatrical live act a la Dionysius in '69 and arranged underground happenings which occasionally inspired a rallied public outcry against the derisive act of public humping atop a grand piano. Edition of 500. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
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.”
Spiders
(Pulled Out - PULL05) LP $20.00
Australia is home to some of the deadliest spiders in the world and James Heighway is no exception. When not behind the drum kit in XWAVE, he collects and modifies ancient electronics -- broken, hacked, modified and recycled guitars, keyboards, effects, mixers, etc. --played simultaneously. Together they convey a feeling of the bush drenched in feedback. Heighway’s intense live performances have earned him the title of king of noise throughout the region. Others have dubbed him “Merzbow of the Mountains.” Pulled Out’s LP collects highlights from limited edition CDRs and cassettes previously released on Heighway’s Moth Noize label and a live performance at the third Winter Tragic festival. Edition of 300 on white vinyl with covers individually spray painted.
Shackles of Man-Measured Time
(Troniks - TRO275) LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Modular synth sickness from Aaron Dilloway. Edition of 400.
SPIRES THAT IN THE SUNSET RISE
Beasts In The Garden
(Alt.Vinyl - AV063) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
The seventh full-length record by Midwest visionaries Kathleen Baird and Taralie Peterson uses pedals to loop, layer, pitch bend and reverse their old instruments from their high school days (flute and alto sax, respectively). The duo’s dense, lush soundscapes verge toward the ecstatic, away from their signature darker moods. Baird pushes her voice to the next level with wildly operatic vocals on the fiery track “Schluss” and the discordant, terrifying “White On White.” With insert. Green 180-gram vinyl. Edition of 250
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
Dokument III0 1979-1983
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD50) 6xLP + 3x7-inch $225.00 (Out-of-stock)
Includes tracks from the first five years of the existence of the band released on the cassettes Wars of Islam (Hard TV 1982), From Science to Ritual (Primavera 1983), At The Crypt (Iphar 1983), and Last Attempt at Paradise (Fresh Sounds 1982), along with live recordings from their first concert in Sydney 1979, the Heaven concert in 1980, the Brickwerkz concert in 1982, the SO36 concert in Berlin, and a few more live documents. Packaged in a wooden box with a 36-page booklet and T-shirt.
Sins Of Omission
(Harbinger Sound - 113) LP $12.00
“All manner of hard-to-identify sounds that could have been made inside a deep sea diver’s helmet at 20,000 fathoms,” muses our friend at Idwal Fisher. “[S]hortwave trawls [pick] up single, impossible-to-translate words, slight squeaks, wheezes and heaves…, budgie cages … shaken in empty houses, lo-fi electronic squawk, bottles … kicked around a stone floor, parps culled from small boxes with switches on them, electro-acoustic dub, dried peas rattling around a Quality Street tin, a mass beetle exodus…. The mood in places is austere, in others noisy, in some contemplative….” Attn magazine seems to concur: “A mutating web of feedback, choral echoes and lo-fi loops…. It’s a real nightmare collage…, a blast of screaming electronics [one minute], like someone tampering with the cockpit controls, and the next it’s tornado of factory noise and alien sex. Musique concrète for the mind’s darker, more paranoid recesses, with a gorgeously sparse latter half of noise squeals fed through some sort of astronaut intercom.”
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.
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
Citizens Dream Of A City
(Sergent Massacre - SM01) LP $19.50
To plagiarize Volcanic Tongue, this solo effort by John Olson (Wolf Eyes) encompasses abstruse sonic strategies (almost Sick Llama-esque in their inscrutability) and avant garde miniatures consisting of electrified balls of steel wire, stuck-groove drone epics, and primitive hobbyist hi-fi experiments. Olson wads up 20th century sound art practice (as documented by Alga Marghen, Revue Ou, et al.) with the home-burned aesthetic of the Chocolate Monk / Fag Tapes / American Tapes axis. Artwork by Jonas Delaborde.
Morphic Aromas
(BloodLust! - B!058) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Uncompromising Italian postindustrialist sound. Eighth release in the BloodLust! Private 7-inch series. Plain white sleeve. 300 copies.
Souls and Waltzes From the Telegraph Frontier
(Urashima - U004) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sshe Retina Stimulants stretches the conceptual and methodological framework of the Remote Aktion (Diophantine 2008) ever further; starting from acoustic guitar as the only source input, environmental feedback effects and real-time manipulation and sampling are applied to booze up the outcome and create a screaming thunderstorm of delighted noise. Dense bubbles inflate and burst like organic super-novas, exploring the forgotten areas of apocalyptic soundscapes. Four long tracks infatuated with repressed anachronisms as tools for liberation. Slow blasts, perpetual wails, soothing and distressed. Silkscreened cardboard sleeve, with insert. Limited edition to 120 copies.
Ruleth
(Holodeck - HD021) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Grinding his way up the ranks of the American underground electronic scene, former Medio Mutante José Cota introduces a fresh and heavy approach to synth-based composition. His solo debut punctuates immense bass lines and brutal percussion with invasions of tape manipulation and the sounds of buckling steel. Edition of 300
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
Derobe
(RRRecords) split LP $12.00
Richard Franecki's heavily acid-drenched, guitar-driven space rock trio Vocokesh nods to Ash Ra Tempel, Bevis Frond and Hawkwind. The long-lived Texas group ST 37's crafted weirdness is full of blazing guitars and odd percussive sounds.
El Mago En Ti
(Nostilevo - #61) LP $16.50
Something of an anomaly in Miami, culturally and geographically isolated from a state teeming with hillbilly abjection, Ramiro Jean-Carlo entertains a unique decadence under the guise of Staccato Du Mal — at turns gauzy and drugged, energized and electric. El Mago En Ti keeps things as sinister as ever, with classic SDM sawtooth baselines, rickety clattering rhythms, lots of reverb, and analog electronics that would be best heard in a blacklit dance club or a mouldering mansion against the background of a tropical depression.
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
Riot On The Sunset Strip
(Eva) Used LP $20.00
French issue of this collection of ’60s psych pop. Sealed
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.
Metallic Diseases
(Holy Mountain - 1981) LP $14.50
Truly unhinged at times, dreamlike and understated at others , this reissue of Starfuckers' debut album from the late '80s fuses droning, hard rock with a gestalt that pushes it right over the cliff. Includes free download card with a bonus track, "Grade Zero."
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.
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
Fantasy Error
(Sophomore Lounge - SL072) LP $14.50 (Out-of-stock)
The one-time bedroom recording project masterminded by Kentucky native Ryan Davis has evolved over the course of fifteen years, two LPs, homespun side-releases, and countless miles of touring over the past five years into a full-blown rock band that summons guidance from Rust Never Sleeps-era Neil, Dead Moon, The Silver Jews and beyond. The band’s live set is a charmingly broken blend of garage folk, sun-warped honky-tonk toons, Southern art rock, soul, and noisy, unhinged slop.
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
Electricity: Music for Tape and Turntable
(Ultra Eczema - UE48) LP $25.00
Since the mid-’60s, remarkable outsider Jos Steen has made poems, stories, paintings, collages, drawings, music/sound, self-published zines, tapes and, more recently, mountains of homemade CDRs, all in the service of either killing the demons in his head or jamming along to their forceful blues. Called by some “the Belgian Beefheart,” Steen spices his record-player experiments with vacuum cleaners, rotting voices, undefinable strings, pianos, and broken bottles. His past includes free jazz greats like Peter Jacquemin, André Goudbeek, Yvo van der Borght, poetry psychos like Roland Topor and Freddy de Vree, and Zappa’s own Jimmy Carl Black. Limited edition vinyl with gold and white sleeve designed by Dennis Tyfus.
Milk of Dried Mountain Goats
(Stomach Ache - SA08) 7-inch $15.00
Noise cut-ups and spastic howling rumored to have been created by members of Caroliner, World of Pooh and Queensrÿche.
In E
(Rude Fans) 7-inch + CD $19.50
Harsh bleary-eyed wildness from the tea rooms of Mars and the hellholes of Uranus. Former Macronympha noise dude joined by Damion Romero, Greh Holger and John Wiese on the seven-inch. Live forty-minute solo recording from October 2012 on the CD. Two color inserts. Edition of 100.
The Final Programme
(I Dischi Del Barone - IDDB005) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two prime cuts of intense noise bliss from Rodger Stella, sort of in the vein of some One Dark Eye stuff with a psychedelic twist slightly reminiscent of C.C.C.C. Stuff flies out of everywhere. Edition of 200
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.
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
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
Toward Sailor
(Hospital - HOS316) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Long-awaited first LP of imaginary electronics conversation through which a story is told of people who never existed, of happy depression, of cures that never bloomed. A small bowl of grass is ground up by the pestle and gulf mist sprays the players on the rocky beach. For fans of Brume, Keith Rowe, and atmospheric Ramleh. Edition of 200.
A Safe Substitute
(Harbinger Sound - 096) LP $17.50 (Out-of-stock)
Swaying pendulums of corroded bloop, grayscale warble, and hollowed out rhythms triggered from filter-fucked, synthesizer-generated arpeggios, upon which are grafted passages of alternately morose and plangent song structure fragmentation. “Both sides [of Harbinger Sound’s reissue] show what fertile times [the late 1970s] were for experimentation,” comments our friend at Idwal Fisher admiringly. “Detailed sleeve notes [and] a track-by-track break down reveal the use of tape delay, loops, the re-routing of signals..., low-frequency oscillators…, two VCS3s and a Synthi A…. ‘Hodge’ [feeds] a shortwave jamming signal … through the VCS3 with the LFO chopping up the remains … [resulting in a] thudding beat in which radio waves float in and out of hearing range, the beat becoming louder as the signal fades. ‘Blackheath Episodes’ uses three synths to produce a rhythm track in which various modes of the beat are tweaked while the two VCS3s provide background drones…. [Vocals on] the eerie ‘Mesh of Wire’ … are fed through two reel-to-reels, with a background of plodding ritualistic thump…, [which on] ‘Objective’ … becomes a slowly sequenced funeral beat with the addition of a haunting cornet and a drifting voice extolling the virtues of beans.” Originally released by Snatch Tapes in 1980. Red vinyl. Edition of 250
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.
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.
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.”
Mokoyaro
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD107) 5xLP $150.00
Sixty-three-track anthology of minimal synth works by Albert Klein And Antonios Stratis, and 96 Eyes (Klein with Philip Tesch) -- containing everything from their self-released cassettes Exotic (1982), New Face (Integrated Circuit, 1983), Mùsica Da Ballo (Creative Tapes, 1984), Film Musik (Creative Tapes, 1984), and Raging Beauty (Creative Tapes, 1984), plus tracks from compilations released by Bain Total, X Tract, Mystery Hearsay, Oscar Smits, Noel, etc., and some previously unreleased tracks. The range of styles is satisfyingly wide: the NDW of “Die Kur;” the robotic synth pop of “Herzlos” and “She’s Dancing;” and sci-fi-ish, future-obsession of “Technotown,” “Foggy Weather,” “Deine Tränen,” or “Nightfly,” which flirt with traditional progressive German electronic music from the Tangerine Dream school as well as Chris + Cosey or Yello.
KISS
(Trash Ritual - TRASH035) LP $20.25 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded live direct-to-DAT 1994 but unreleased until now, this is the debut full-length vinyl by this perverse power-electronics unit heard previously in collaboration with Pain Jerk, on a split LP with Taint, and a variety of extremist compilation tracks. Limited edition of 250 with fold-over silk-screened cover.
Studio Sardena
(Nashazphone - NP14) LP $30.00
DJ Sardena is a major player in Egypt’s current electro-shaabi wave (better known locally as mahragan) characterized by heavily auto-tuned, loud vocals, beats featuring synthesizers, and electronic effects. Five tracks representing the studio’s stripped-down and minimal mahragan style, with an array of MCs such as Salsa El-Ageeb and Halabessa. Green vinyl. Edition of 500
Split Fleet Dodge
(Palindrone - PAL01) LP $15.00
This 2006 album by Seht, Antony Milton, and James Kirk (from Sandoz Lab Technicians, Black Bones Angel, and Wisher Table-era Gate) peppers what could be called “prototypically New Zealand” laid-back blown-out noise rock with free jazz drum splatter that careens haphazardly over thick slabs of distant, distorted riffage. Guest appearance by Cambell Kneale (aka Birchville Cat Motel) on wild, disembodied prog keyboards and electronics that swirl and wobble. Edition of 300. Imported from New Zealand.
Suicide
(Ze - ILPS7007) Used LP $35.00 (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.
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.
Beginnings Dark
(Enterruption) LP (one-sided) $65.00 (Out-of-stock)
"The Venerable Song (The Meaning Which Is No Longer Known)" from Bright Surroundings Dark Beginnings LP (Majora, 1993) backwards. Includes all the inserts from original release in 2007. White vinyl. Edition of 320.
Fresh Kill of a Cape Hunting Dog / Def In Italy
(Eclipse - ECL033) 2xLP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Released in 2004, this is the third in Eclipse's ten-volume Cloaven Cassette reissue series. Fresh Kill of a Cape Hunting Dog is the same sequencing as the cassette, minus "Entrail-Littered Savannah" (see Box of Chameleons for an edited version). Recordings are from 1983-1985. Def In Italy comprises live recordings from a 1984 US tour and features many songs not on the original cassette.
Present Uncle Jim, True Tales Of Homeland Security
(Empirical - EMP001) 7-inch $10.00
“Uncle Jim was a fast-talking, jive-ass, wheeler-dealer pot-smoking weirdo,” observes Mark Prindle, “But … he now sounds like a tired old drunk who has seen too much (and committed too many moral crimes) to view anybody else in the world with anything but complete disdain. He knows you can’t compete with him on any level, and he can’t stand to look at you. He speaks of the devil and hacking up Asians with a machete. He spits out rhymes as clever and unique as those of any rap artist, and he does so over cool smoky club jazz — brush drums, jazzy guitar noodling, cocktail lounge piano and trumpet.” Black vinyl from 2003. Guys.
Valentines From Matahari
(Majora) LP $50.00
One of their most inspired releases in the classic three-piece rock band mode. All angular and off-kilter, their eighth album finds them as their shattering psyche-hellic, Eastern-influenced, extraterrestrial best. Forcefully played, hard pushed and intricately telepathized musical advance scouting.
Church Organ 1948
([ no label ]) LP (one-sided) $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Sun Ra's trademark glee-spree sprawl dipped into the cosmic glitter of nothingness, alone in a empty church with his vivid and endless imagination as co-pilot. If Gene Moore’s Carnival Of Souls soundtrack makes you want to take it with you forever and drive off a bridge, here are more smiling golems of interplanetary lost-world haunts to pepper your eerie day. Colored vinyl. Paste on-covers.
SUN RA AND HIS ASTRO-IHNFINITY ARKESTRA
The Intergalactic Thing
(Roaratorio - ROAR40) 2xLP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
This taste of that which has been hidden, drawn from rehearsals at the Sun Ra house in Philadelphia 1969, introduces a dozen never-before-heard pieces from Ra’s songbook — tunes that may have never even made it to the bandstand, let alone the recording studio — along with a handful of reworkings of “Spontaneous Simplicity” and “The Exotic Forest.” This important augmentations to the Sun Ra catalog comes in a beautiful gatefold jacket, with liner notes by Robert L. Campbell and a download coupon.
Preview a couple tracks here: https://soundcloud.com/roaratoriorecs
SUN RA AND HIS ASTRO-INFINITY ARKESTRA
Other Strange Worlds
(Roaratorio - roar33) LP $20.25 (Out-of-stock)
Within Sun Ra’s vast discography, the album that orbits the furthest away from the known jazz universe is Strange Strings. Calling it a “study in ignorance,” Sun Ra directed his Arkestra stalwarts to pick up unusual stringed instruments and homemade percussion with which they had little familiarity, and improvise without any guidelines or direction. Other Strange Worlds, recorded in his NYC apartment in May of 1965, dates from the same era and employs the same methodology as Strange Strings. He and John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, Art Jenkins, and Ali Hasaan freewheel through collective improvisation — some texture-over-tonality string experiments, some exotic reeds and percussion. Includes download coupon.
SUN RA AND HIS ASTRO-INFINITY ARKESTRA
Sign Of The Myth
(Roaratorio - ROAR35) LP $20.25 (Out-of-stock)
One of the early 70s lost Impulse recordings available for the first time. Recorded during the Pathways To Unknown Worlds sessions (Impulse 1972), it shares that album’s emphasis on guided improvisation. With a constantly shifting palette of Moog textures, Ra tosses off a dazzling array of ideas, supported by the usual Arkestra stalwarts; in particular bassist Ronnie Boykins and drummer Clifford Jarvis shine, giving shape and solidity to the pieces. Includes free download card. Listen to “The Truth Of Maat” here: https://soundcloud.com/roaratoriorecs/sun-ra-his-astro-infinity-arkestra-the-truth-of-maat
Des lumières, des ombres, des figures
(Doubtfulsounds - DOUBT06) LP $14.00 (Out-of-stock)
Debut LP by this guitar duo formed in Grenoble, France, in 2005. Recorded during their first private session in Le 102’s basement, February 2009, the album drifts through ambient / drone / noise quasars. “Les Sociétés Secrètes Et Leurs Agissements” was previously released on the Inner Ends of the Coils comp (Nothing Out There, 2009). Edition of 300.
Sun Supreme
(MEDS - MEDS1) LP $14.25 (Out-of-stock)
An after-dinner jam with guitar, bass, drum, piano, gamelan, marimba, banjo, cumbus, oscillator and other odd things recorded in a cloud of smoke in Seattle at The Chummery one night in February 2004. If your ears can’t place a few of the players, try your third-ear mood ring medallion. Silkscreened covers in a one-time edition of 500.
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
(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.”
Sungod
(Holodeck - HD027) LP $16.00 (Out-of-stock)
Five expansive tracks that condense decades into seconds and centuries into minutes. Michael Sharp and Braden Balentine, who record out of their home studio with a rotating cast of like-minded musicians from Austin, incorporate an ever-broadening inventory of influences; methodical arrangements and layers of meditative repetition hearken back to ’70s krautrock, while polyrhythmic drums and arpeggiated synthesizers propel the procession forward in harmony with acoustically-oriented pieces. Initially composed around an awe-inspiring single-take drum performance by Sharp, “Shiftless in Nkawkaw” is supported with additional vocals by a pair of Sharp’s coworkers who jumped onto an impromptu recording session after a shift together, chorusing between psycho-activated guitar solos and fully engrossing flute melodies (courtesy of Kristine Reaume). The epic closing track “L’âme de Toute Étoile” strips back down to Sharp and Balentine, proficiently exhibiting their command of drums, guitar, and synth in one of their most elemental works to date. Edition of 500. Listen to “Shiftless In Nkawkaw” here: https://soundcloud.com/holodeck-records/lungod-lhiftless-en-nkawkaw
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.
Rock Power
(Nashazphone - NP13) LP $25.00
With Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra, Flower-Corsano Duo) on guitar, Nashazphone’s vinyl reissue of a European tour CDR (Rural Electrification Program 2003) documents a period between the dreamlike psychedelia of Cloudz or early Hototogisu and the brutality of Panzer Division Lou Reed, Spitting Gold Zebras or the more recent Skullflower. Edition of 500
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
Superjack!
(Back Bacon) LP $15.00
Originally released by Object Tapes in 2011, this vinyl reissue resurrects 36 minutes of primo midwest screech’n’scrape by Tony Endless and Karen Eliot. This colossal life-affirming howl brims with ultra-primitive spontaneity, saturated and over modulating like a sidewalk prophet off his meds — which happens to describe the mystery vocalist who showed up one day ready to jam and then disappeared. Hand-made jackets. Edition of 200
Diga Queso
(Rococo - RCC0039) 7-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
The same Supernova from Costa Mesa, California who made two records for Amphetamine Reptile during the dark ages. Features “Oreo” and “Best Coat LIVE from Seattle.” Limited to 200 copies on yellow vinyl. Packaged in full-color printed fold-over sleeves hand-signed by the band.
Survive
(Holodeck - HD015) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
“A vicious blend of powerful melody and challenging noise,” says Guide Me Little Tape about this Austin-based electronic quartet. The “piercing, buzzing synth chords” on this first-time U.S. vinyl reissue, originally released in Europe (Mannequin 2012), but available domestically solely on cassette (Holodeck 2013), “echo with deep, pulsating emotion…. [S]harp … and yet somehow hazed out and elusive. Constantly shifting rhythm and modulating frequencies seduce…. [A] filthy corridor of slowly evolving hiss and grind [emerges] into an eerie astral plane…. [S]inister darkwave meets horror cinema….” Check out “Dirge” here: http://youtu.be/5nVtzdAeKr4
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
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).
High Time / Trees
(Emerald Cocoon - EC007) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sparkling acoustic guitar, audible vocals, audible room tone — a Pete Swanson no one has ever heard before — although his signature degradation systems are still in place (both sides end with a blown-out acoustic guitar emulating dirty-needled distortion). Acoustic strings, four walls and a voice dominate dusty interpretations of Dadamah’s “High Time,” and Gate’s “Trees,” both redolent of the darkest, coldest Dunedin winter as imagined from half a world away. Volume five in Emerald Cocoon’s Alone Together series. Edition of 300.
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
Online Architecture
(Holodeck - HD022) LP $16.75 (Out-of-stock)
Signal processing and corroded elegance reign on the debut solo album by Christopher Royal King (film-score composer, lead guitarist of orchestral-rock ensemble This Will Destroy You, member of Austin's amorphous ambient collective Amasa•Gana). Organic sound-sources are meticulously transmuted through chains of modules and magnetic tape, and each successive stage creates a compounded quantity of detail and decay. Gorgeously tranquil and devastatingly heavy. Edition of 500. Includes download card.
Listen to a track here: https://soundcloud.com/holodeck-records/symbol-clear-passage-online
Five Melancholic Songs
(Hungaraton) Used LP $10.00
Includes “Pentagram” and “A Continuity Of Rotative Chords.” Four-page insert poetry, notations and liner notes.
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.
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.
Missing Volume
(Zabriskie Point) Used LP $14.00
“Fire, fog, hidden places, a dark atmosphere” from 1998 by Yutaka Tanaka.
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.
Music For Tape And Voice
(Helicopter - HEL 93801) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
Philip Geraldi (Shock Tropics, Mystics in Bali) and Luke Molloy (Piles, Anxient Demond) exploring growing repetition and sustained tones. Edition of 100.
Works For Cassette
(Helen Scarsdale - HMS026) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
In the final drone / hypnogogic statement from Alex Cobb under this moniker, a sadness of things hangs in the air. The decaying sound is a steady dissolution of one pattern chromatically rippling into another, which in turn diffuses into another, and the cycle continues. Mystery and ambiguity hang upon Cobb’s crepuscular minimalism; radiant guitar drones flecked with impressionist melodies bathe in the snow of a thousand radios placed throughout Easter Island offering forth their eerie, luminous and beautiful sound that floats among the stoic heads that gaze beyond the horizon of the Pacific ocean toward infinity (or oblivion if you prefer a more sublime reading). Includes “Sup Pralad,” “There’s Nothing” and “Skin, Leaves” from Beneath The Weeping Beeches cassette (Ekhein 2008), and “Winter Tai-Tung,” and “Spring Shan-Lin-Shi” from Thereafter cassette (Arbor 2008).
Craquer Les Liants
(Bimbo Tower - BTR08) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
Another astonishing work by Serge Adam (trumpet, bugle), Jérome Noetinger (electroacoustic system), Titus Oppmann (bass), Jean-Noël Cognard (drums, percussions & objects), who create a broken puzzle with pieces of early free jazz, European improv and electroacoustic manipulations. Heavy card foldover sleeve, silkscreened on both sides. Blue vinyl. Edition of 300.
Puissance 36 kw
(Bimbo Tower - BTR02) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
Free jazz meets junkotronics with this inspired, excited quartet -- Jean-Noël Cognard (Salmigondis) on drums and assorted percussion, Arnaud Rivière (Bobby Moo) on electronics, Titus Oppman on bass, and Chicco Gramaglia on trombone. Heavy card foldover sleeve, silkscreened on both sides. Purple vinyl. Edition of 300.
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.
Swamp Lurker
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Blazing noise crunch from 2006. Photocopy paste-on artwork. Edition of 106
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
Coda Lunga
(Von Archives - 016) LP + DVD $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Another trans-genre and cross-cultural experience by the French master, immerses himself into the sea of Indian traditions in Kerala, from Katakhali dance and music to field recordings. One of his most daring and extravagant releases, a fantastic journey that goes beyond India, through countries of the imagination.
Works 1977-1979
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD91) 4xLP + 10-inch $115.00 (Out-of-stock)
Includes Tazartès’ Transports LP (Cobalt 1980), Diasporas LP (Cobalt 1979, Dais 2011), Tazartes LP (Ayaa 1987) , Une Éclipse Totale De Soleil LP (Celluloid 1984), and Quelque Part Quelqu’un ten-inch (recorded 1978, previously unreleased). Edition of 600.
Living 2009 - Present
(Thin Wrist - TWLR1) LP $15.00 (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.
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
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.
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
Eksra
(Ultramarine - EKSRA500) LP $25.00
The rumbling, delayed bass runs of Peter Blundell, against James Dunn's drum bursts that trigger an unruly ARP 2600, are entirely improvised and were recorded live with no overdubs in a makeshift studio in London in January 2009. Vocals, both muffled and shouted, get buried under a landslide of sounds, expressing suffocating alienation as well as today's over-communication that yields a helpless lack of communication. "Spasmodically captivating," in Arthurspeak.
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
L’Appel Du Midi à Midi Pile
(Bruit Direct Disques - BR-D-21) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Bruit Direct continues down the path of no-fucks-given with yet another ace from a deck already heaped with bewildering maa. In much the same way as Pasolini’s Theoreme (the film) once fizzled the corneas of the prim, Theoreme (the artist) is here to singe ears on this blistering debut. Laying down all the instrumentation and vocals herself, Maissa D. posits that specters of the past continue to resonate. Deep inside the angular ingenuity of this chef d’oeuvre are subtle sonic vectors, analogous to Gutura, SIC and the corrosive side of Zick Zack. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2016
A Snare Is A Bell
(Ultra Eczema - UE49) LP $30.00
Written for a snare drum roll which changes three times and a tiny bit of vocals (resonating with the snare drum), this meditative psychedelic experience evokes the evolving vibrations of constructive minimalists such as Steve Reich or Terry Riley as well as the massive buildup of sound in Glenn Branca’s work. Thielemans is based in Antwerp, Belgium, has composed percussive pieces for theater, played psychedelic guitar music with Mauro Pawlowski, spaced free music with Sickboy and Cassisini Division, and a load of free jazz with Andre Goudbeek and Peter Jacquemyn. Limited to 500 copies, etched on one side of the vinyl, with an insert, design by Dennis Tyfus. The first in Ultra Eczema’s series of solo percussion LPs.
Early Times
(Bruit Direct Disques - BR-D-23) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
This mainstay of Brisbane’s thriving guitar underground has built quite the reputation for fierce live shows and recordings. Doug Mosurock of Still Single hasn’t been “excited about guitar pop like this in a while,” so, you know, make note of that. Of special interest is the band’s “Polvo / Archers-style string bend, plus huge riffs from some 8000 miles away.” So charming are their urgent and catchy tales of inner-city malaise that their first two singles — Head Of The Witch (Tenth Court 2014) and Songs To Wipe Your Mouth To (Tenth Court 2015) — both sold out their initial runs. Recorded and mixed by Blank Realm guitarist Luke Walsh.
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282
These Things Remain Unassigned
(Bulbous Monacle) 2xLP $30.00
Singles, compilation tracks, outtakes, never-before-released gems, cover versions of Ennio Morricone, Krzysztof Komeda, The Residents, The Shaggs, Caroliner, and Pérez Prado. With booklet of fliers, photographs, track commentary and ephemera. A mysterious and glistening extravaganza.
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
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.”
Wolverine
(Psychic Encumbrance) 7-inch (lathe cut) $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
A fragmented suite in anywhere from two to ten parts (depending on how you count) by this Glands of External Secretion spinoff group. Strewn throughout its genetic make up are: not-quite-outsider freedom familiar to anyone on whose face Melon Expander’s Brain-Sucking Peanunanners CD puts a smile; field recordings from locales rural, urban, foreign and domestic; and ahem, "musical" moments where naïve, intuition-based curiosity is satisfied with squeaky duck, Taiko drum, nut shells, recorder, piano, voice, slurping, and guitar. All scrambled in a primitive, musique concrète style. Edition of 25.
Walk With Me
(Spoooor) LP $20.00
The multitrack renditions of chants on Walk With Me arose during hikes in the Oakland hills. The spike of endorphins, mantric mind loops, literal peaks and valleys, and fluctuation of available breath color Tholfsen’s chants with a natural dynamism. His tuneful mouth music, mostly non-lexical folk tunes with lots of lilting vocables and wild harmonizing that swirls up unusual patterns, could be reckoned as more of a text-sound performance deal for those who brain about in fancypants. Familiar melodies and song form keep things on the path, with craggy embellishments and curious tangles on the periphery that make Walk With Me not only interesting but unlike anything else. Tholfsen was the primary voice and songwriter of U.S. Saucer, an electric folk trio active in the 1990s who recorded three LPs and a seven-inch for Amarillo Records. In the two decades prior, he performed in many groups in Iowa, Arizona, and San Francisco, where his heavy art-rock outfit Blow reduced itself to the slow-drip syrup of his flagship endeavor. During this time, he also appeared on recordings by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 and the Zip Code Revue. Post-Saucer, he released a split seven with Suzanne Langille on Road Cone’s Instress series.
Molecular Affinity
(Roaratorio - ROAR42) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
The third in pianist Thollem McDonas and guitarist Nels Cline’s series of free improv trios (with a different third player each time) brings in Pauline Oliveros on v-accordion. Together they build evocative whodunit-scapes with understated tension worthy of a noirish thriller from the 1970s. Recorded in Oliveros's barn studio in upstate New York. Includes download card.
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
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
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.”
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.
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
(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.
Licked Inch Fur
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR098) LP $18.25 (Out-of-stock)
“Four raucous, head-fucking songs of primo grade sludged-out pummel,” says Cvlt Nation admiringly, “Down-tuned, gritty guitars, yelled vocals, and a super tight rhythm section…. [The] slow ’n’ low menacing vibe [of “Wake Down”] continues onto side two with “Piggie” coming on like a hungover Unsane. Another slow burner til it jacks up the pace and intensity half way through and throbs along like the worst migraine ever. Jukka’s pained vocals add to the whole bad vibe perfectly. Closer “Poolpisser” brings things to a grinding halt with more brutal riffing over that clinically precise drum and bass duo, adding extra noise and feedback towards the end to completely destroy what’s left of your hearing.”
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
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
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.
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
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.
4K7
(Vinyl on Demand) Used 5xLP + 7-inch $85.00
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
Script Geometry
(Aposiopèse - APO09) 2xLP + CD $33.00
Script Geometry comes from the idea that something in a tropical forest sounds like and plays within the realms of electronics, music and electronic noise, characteristic from an era long before the birth of biotopes that form this forest and create this sound. Tilly’s work with density attempts to extract forms that characterize these analogies. Taking these sounds out of their context (near the Nourages scientific research station in French Guiana in the heart of a tropical rainforest, where he stayed for a month in 2013), he rearranges his field recordings as easily as synthesizer patch cables with very little signal processing. Edition of 500. Check out “At Night, Mass” here: http://label-aposiopese.bandcamp.com/album/script-geometry
I Wanna Be Your Dog b/w Schneller
(Meeuw Muzak - MM035) 7-inch $8.75 (Out-of-stock)
The four members of Titmachine met in prison (each was convicted of crimes she did not commit). Unable to find gainful employment upon their discharge from stoney lonesome, the ex-inmates formed a band, naturally, the ideal vehicle for the unemployable. The lucrative alternative Dutch music scene rewards them handsomely in exchange for the quartet's release of pent-up rage fueled by continuing injustice. Since October 2006, Titmachine's raw and loose sound has remained unhampered by the constraints of talent, and answers questions anyone has yet to ask. Kinda like the Dutch Shaggs meets the female Monks and Flipper with a conscience.
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.”
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
Spatters Of A Royal Sperm
(Hanson - HN272) LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Four tracks of “tape loops of dollar-bin garbage,” says Aaron Dilloway, “reworked into disorienting alien rock music with freak-pop hooks” on the A-Side, originally intended to be released as a seven-inch back in 1992, out of the vaults for the first time and into your defective ventricle in 3-2-1. On the flipside, Tom Smith’s previously unreleased dub experiments from 1977 to 1980. Silkscreened foldover cover. Edition of 250.
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
Kiss the Pig
(Rococo - RCC004) LP $13.25 (Out-of-stock)
Kiss The Pig takes Today Is The Day’s punishing, abrasive sound to a far opposite extreme. Easily the most hateful, destructive, and super-fast material the band has ever composed, the album is a violent depiction of life in contemporary America. Real and uncensored, Kiss The Pig delivers agitated aggro-metal filled with emotions so black, death seems attractive.
The Hydro-Triad
(Violet Glass Oracle) Used LP $15.00
A space noise gem from 1997. Silkscreened jacket. Numbered edition 027/200.
Anonym
([ no label ]) LP $18.00
Sketchy reissue of the debut album originally released by Vanity in 1979. Masami Yoshikawa and Junko Tange grind wild and varied effected guitar over lots of nearly ECM-ish acoustic flourishes, sounding almost random and Dada-esque. Such texture-and-rhythm experiments bask in the outsider glow of idiosyncratic glee, akin to a Dilaudid-dosed Keith Jarrett playing along to crude Thomas Brinkmann record cutting-beat discs and a dog that swallowed a guitar played by a barbwire criminal. Paste-on photocopy cover.
Familiar Obstacles
(Hands In The Dark - HITD026) LP $16.75 (Out-of-stock)
Valentina Magaletti and Tom Relleen’s sprawling assemblage of twenty-eight feverishly divergent compositions from an unconscious interzone, fusing studio experiments, field recordings, and tonal spectra into something that by turns resembles musique concrete, imaginary soundtrack and library music. Edition of 600.
Listen to an excerpt from Side A here: https://soundcloud.com/hitd-3/tomaga-familiar-obstacles-side-a-excerpt
Futura Grotesk
(Hands In The Dark - HITD023) LP $16.25 (Out-of-stock)
Minimalist compositions by former members of The Oscillation, Shit N Shine, Neon Neon, Raime, Voice Of Seven Thunders, Luke Roberts. Darkly psychedelic, elusive and deeply imbued with curiously unsettled images. Includes download coupon. Edition of 500.
The Shape Of The Dance
(Hands In The Dark - HITD030) LP $18.75 (Out-of-stock)
The instrumental, experimental tracks by this London-based duo are mainly improvised, evoking the freshness and diversity of the band’s impressive live performances. Spiralling polyrhythmic percussion performed with a range of materials, vibraphone, frenetic bass, organ and oscillators, all are complicit in a strange dervish-like swirl, striking a minimalist yet accessible tone. With Rick Tomlinson and Blutwurst.
056 Sound & Phenomena – Conceptual Works
(Meeuw Muzak - MM010) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Consistent with documents of electromagnetic induction, this “glitch classic” from 1999 captures one of the more elusive type of field recordings, The Sounds of Microwave Oven Interiors. Tominaga is interested in a symmetrical input-output system, where the electromagnetic wave represents imaginary speakers and ornamental devices that generate life. Acoustic properties are revealed slowly (comparable to the faint electronic noise of broadcast radio), a metaphor for the landscape of modern life. Clear vinyl, stencil-printed sleeve. Edition of 200.
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
(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
Tomuuntuu
(Beniffer Editions) LP (one-sided) $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Commissioned by Aanem Lumo Festival for New Sounds. Heard for the first time at the Orion Theatre in Helsinki on November 8, 2010. Artwork by Janderzen and Jacob Horwood. All music by Janderzen. White vinyl picture disc. Edition 300.
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.
Early Tapes Period
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD68) 3xLP + 10-inch $95.00 (Out-of-stock)
Three early works -- Wechselwirkung, Metánárkôsis, Das Todesantlitz (experiments with early electronics, found objects, rough percussion and noise) -- all previously released by Toniutti on cassette in 1982-83 in limited editions. Also includes a 10-inch with previously unreleased tracks from 1981-84. Booklet includes an essay about the history of the period, notes and data.
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
Sold By Volume
(New World Of Sound) Used 10-inch $3.00 (Out-of-stock)
Low-pulse cohesive flow from 1995
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
Gamera / Cliff Dweller Society
(Duophonic - DS33-09 ) LP $25.00
1995 12-inch by influential postrock pioneers. Ambitious arrangements, meticulous, modest and sparse compositions, extremely slow cadences. Two languid instrumentals that vary from a jazzy narcotic style to a psychedelic dub mood. Red vinyl. Edition of 1500.
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.
Cock Pig / Unoriginal Macho Energy
(Turgid Animal - TA469) 7-inch + cassette $15.00
The third Fecalove and Torturing Nurse collaboration. Pure harsh noise, recorded in China and Italy during 2008 and 2009. C30 features longer cuts of the 7-inch tracks plus the two additional pieces "Super Rock And Roll" and "Total Fuck Off." Limited to 188 copies. Each copy has different hand-drawn labels.
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.”
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.”
Clear Factory
(Majora) Used LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
An incredibly abrasive, drone-y ball of sludge from 1996
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.”
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.
To Fall Like Cherry Blossoms...
(American Tapes) Used LP $12.00
Jaw-dropping amp noise / winds / piano drone / free jazz from 1997. Silkscreened folder
Stratosphere Sound
(Art Into Life - AIL012) LP $20.00
Passionate concept album about transparency by Hironari Iwata, who was active in the mid- to late ’80s — as solo artist (translation: Transparent Molecules); as one third of Haiginsha (with Merzbow’s Masami Akita and Agencement’s Hideaki Shimada); and as head of the Angakok label, which released the skull-crushing 1988 double-cassette compilation Angelic Tecnology I [sic] — and abruptly ceased all musical activity. PSF’s edited 2009 CD reissue of Toukaseibunshi’s Meta-Inorganicmatter Meta-Newlon cassette brought Iwata back to the material plane, and here we are. Clear vinyl, with photographic print transparent film. Edition of 200. Listen to an excerpt from “Alive To The Sky” here: https://soundcloud.com/a_i_l/toukaseibunshi-alive-to-the-sky
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.
Harmful Emotions
(Siltbreeze - SB83) LP $12.00
Der Teenage Panzer Korps is a pipsqueak quartet of fuzzy, distorted youth, drenched in DIY testosterone, rumbling out of the sewers and into the street, gnashing and gnarling through the charred landscape of the underground like a small battalion of Tiger tanks blasting across the steppes of the Ukraine. Their sonic attack at times recalls the anxious throb of Mars in their prime, with sudden shifts into the early discordant rumble of Savage Republic. Paste-on cover. Edition of 500
Manifesto Rumoratorio
(Siltbreeze - SB182) LP $10.00
Pietro La Rocca was last heard honing his inscrutable craft with the great Sicilian ensemble Oper’azione Nafta, whose Cavuru album (Siltbreeze 2008) forged the skree of High Rise with the yelp of Sun City Girls. La Rocca and ex-pat Polish vocalist Patrycja Stefanek utilize a array of gadgets (Walkman, delays, toys, and tapes) in conjunction with voice and guitar, and the results simmer in an ardor of abstract improvisational babble — think Vetza / Joe Potts (LAFMS), Jim French / Diamanda Galás on Metalanguage, Joan La Barbara / Bruce Ditmas on Wizard Records, or Suckdog. Produced in conjunction with the Oley Freindschaft Guild of Braucherei Practitioners and the Guild of Urglaawe Braucherei and Hexerei Practitioners, Manifesto Rumoratorio speaks a language understood by, if not hundreds, then dozens of rabid wanters of abstract clatter. Includes digital download card. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2016
Aussie Dream
(Disembraining) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
This Australian quartet improvises avant pop electronica constructed from field recordings, using midi controllers, microphones and unique hardware instruments that reshape their found sounds.
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
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.”
Entraxes Inégaux
(Bimbo Tower) 2xLP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Free and improvised navigation of the murky waters of organized sound, orchestrated like New Yorkers or Köln-ists. Jean-François Pauvros (guitars and voice) Patrick Müller of Ilitch (electrosonics), Jean-Noël Cognard (drums and objects).
Graphic
(Holodeck - HD035) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
Austin’s darkwave metal trio returns with a pleasurably harsh second album, focused this time on layered composition and biting sound design. Perfectly unhinged and hideously sophisticated. Includes download card.
Troller
(Holodeck - HD003) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Brooding melodies and gothic song-architecture that tap into the underworlds of drone, noise, various waves of dark electronica, and, surprisingly, pop. Troller negotiates a balance between sanguine stabs of analog synth, destructive, blown-out bass lines, and screwed-tempo drum sequences. Space-soaked siren wails narrate, equal parts sweet and sinister, giving voice to the shadow. Troller pull off atonal, nearly demented freak-outs (a la Milk) almost too convincingly to also produce bubbly, sequenced naïve-pop (a la Winter).
Sensacao Do Principio
(Siltbreeze - SB112) LP $13.00
Tropa Macaca's previous efforts on Ruby Red and Qbico were magnificent (though hard-to-find) efforts of blotted, aural sci-fi codifications somewhere between Anar Band and Blues Control. This two-track full-length continues their foray into post-psychedelic instrumental morphine, where Moolah's LP and Pink Floyd's "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" function as templates for the greater good. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2009
Fear of Suffering
(Sophomore Lounge - SLO40) 7-inch $7.25 (Out-of-stock)
Residing in their own neck of the deep-country indie woods, Louisville's Tropical Trash deliver a smoky shard of rippin’ rawk, undergo a transition or two, then drop out -- the Bluegrass State's rejoinder to the MX-80 / Messthetic sound. Some of these skinny young men also dig glorious ditches in the hermit-kingdom labor camps overseen by Siltbreeze recording artists Sapat. Silkscreened jacket. White vinyl. Edition of 200
Think Back Kick A Beer
(Sophomore Lounge) 7-inch $7.25 (Out-of-stock)
The follow-up to Fear of Suffering (Sophomore Lounge 2012) breaks bread on the breastplate and lets the loins girt around about the truth, substituting hot air balloons for lungs and cajones for brains, magnetizing the crotch-to-ego spinal disc-chordal dipole while stoning the erogenous zones and breathing life and id back into the exhumed corpse of classic rock, a G. Ginn and Sonic speedball kegel-clubbing affront to the American Mall Obese. Features dudes with the diplomatic immunity of Sapat membership and Louisville’s Astro Black ambassadors of telepathic communications.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.”
Bridle Path
(Open Mouth) LP $20.00
Using a mini brute and Korg synthesizer, Truscinski ventures inward. Tones travel through effect pedals and out of speakers, filling up the solitary space with shifting waves, magnifying the energy of the ocean. Drone slabs and microtones bend and waver, slipping beneath the surface of sound. A focused void. Edition of 232
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
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.
Batstew
(Destijl) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Roland Woodbe, The Pro From Dover himself, summed up Batstew thus: “It is one odd fucker of an LP.” He goes on to note that it “teeters on a precipice between euphoria and anguish. It is certainly the work of an unstable mind and tortured soul. I mean, you can almost feel Tucker's circuits shorting out as the record progresses.” He talks to his car, slams the doors, the girl whispers and sings along sometimes, there are occasional naif, art brut-ish noisescapes and “the dingaling song at the end of side two … about a Cadillac (among other things) that eventually crumbles into a fuzzy guitar ‘freakout’.” Overall, Woodbe compares Tucker to someone "who claims to be Daniel Johnston who rerecorded Smile,” or "Larry Fischer [doing] Pink Moon … as literally a Volkswagen commercial.”
MoeJadKateBarry
(50 Skidillion) Used LP $20.00 (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.
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.
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.
Zoz
(Sophomore Lounge - SL060) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Thirteen stripped-down experimental folk songs with an emphasis on banjo and electronics by the guitarist of Cross, Salad Influence and Warmer Milks, using remixed, reconfigured, and collaged sounds created for and found within the Zoz Collection (Brave Captain / Sophomore Lounge, 2014), a box set consisting of eighty-three compositions recorded piecemeal as a prayer-and-mediation-themed audio diary between January 2013 and February 2014 in Lexington at Turner’s home. Edition of 200.
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
Electric Servant Of Everyman
(Bulb) Used 7-inch $2.00
Ten tracks of spazolicious electronic noise from 1994. White vinyl
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.
Champagne and Biological Women
(BloodLust! - B!116) 7-inch $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
This Boston band (Shane Broderick, Ted Sweeney, and Joshua Hydeman [now of Portland, OR]) has evolved through the worlds of grindcore, violent power-electronics, and confrontational performance art. This tsunami rushes out of the speakers, a concise and ferocious monster. Mastered by James Plotkin for maximum sonic potency.
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.
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
(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.
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.
Welten - Worlds - Ohontsa'shón:'a Morphologische Modemusik
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD19) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
In 1984, Die Tödliche Doris composed the music for a fashion show in the Deplane Kunsthalle, Berlin, consisting of 24 audio tapes recorded and played with different defective tape recorders and accompanied of the band Gerry-Belz-Showband (three elderly men selected from a Berlin employment office, whose repertoire includes perennials of showbiz and light music).
Doobedoo Dub’E’Dope
(Ideal - 112) LP $17.00 (Out-of-stock)
Deep, warm electronic dub by the late Joel Brindefalk (Contemporary Punk Unit, Egglady, Gulp, Pissfuckhead, Sort Joey), who grew up on a healthy diet of industrial and synth music.
Go Grey
(Siltbreeze - SB126) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second full-length release by U.S. Girls is a fully realized excursion into a hazy alternate universe where pop vocals and muzzy scree fuse in harmony. Go Grey conjures up ambient aerosols while luminous kaleidoscopes of sound sizzle, peak, and explode. Megan Remy is a chanteuse from (perhaps) the future, guiding all who choose to sail an evocative trip through her unique aural hallucinogenic landscapes. It's a journey of lush vistas, warm currents, and complex beauties.
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.”
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!”
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.”
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.
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
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
Death Condensed
(Von Archives - VON001) 7-inch $8.00
SALE PRICE. A wall of sound. Inaccessible, deep in sources, taking you down to the mysteries of noise and its origins in metal. A conceptual and extreme musical journey. Edition of 300.
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
Black Dwarf Wreckording 1983-85
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD114) 4xLP $110.00 (Out-of-stock)
The “alchemistic” mix of elements of Un-Kommuniti, paired with heavy power-electronics and noise soundwalls, embraces the ultimate psychedelic journey. Fans of Stereolab will recognize that band’s roots here, as it was run by Tim Gane with support from Joe Manning, Vince Adams, Dave Smit and Pete Levy. They were active from 1983 until 1987 with releases on Freedom in a Vaccum, Broken Flag, Selbstmord Organization, Cause for Concern, Sound of Pig, and Statutory Tapes. All tracks here are previously self-released, sourced from Black Dwarf (Black Dwarf 1983), Doktrine (1983), Overliberate / Live In the Shithouse (Black Dwarf 1984), The Prime Advantage (Black Dwarf 1984), Anarchist Bingo Hall / Soundtracks (Black Dwarf 1984), Sense of Unmaking (Black Dwarf 1985), Dhol Chants (Black Dwarf 1985), Ex-Oblivione (Black Dwarf 1985), the compilations Faith Will Never Die (Black Dwarf 1983) and Crusade (Black Dwarf 1985).
Unaustralians
(Pulled Out - PULL07) LP + DVD $22.50
Taking their name from Meat & Livestock Australia propaganda, the Melbourne-based duo of Ein and Aus transgress a spiritual reality in which grindcore is subverted toward a path of procratinat-obliteration. Forty-six cranium-fracturing songs featuring wailing Banshee vocals, a drum machine set to over 300bpm, and a possessed, 20th-Century shredder guitarist. On stage, the duo uses chainsaws, exploding corpses, and other visual devices that communicate their ideas about domestic violence and civil disobedience. UnAustralians truly represent the extremely brutal end of improvised music in Australia. “Quite possibly the most insane outsider-weirdo-grind-metal-what-the-fuck record we have ever heard,” marvels Aquarius, “Imagine a super lo-fi grindcore, cobbled together from blasting lightning-fast drum machines, shredding super tech lead guitars, super processed, almost mechanical riffs, and Melt Banana-like high pitched yelping vocals, all tossed in a blender and spat out at a million miles an hour. Only sometimes all you can hear are the vocals, or the drums disappear underneath an avalanche of guitars, or everything is so amped up it becomes a buzzy blur, topped with high pitched squeaks and yowls. Totally nuts.” Edition of 300 on clear red vinyl.
Unborn Unicorn
(Heard Worse) LP $15.00
Bay Arean Aaron Coyes (Mummers Eype, Heart Of Snow, Gromskull, Hisseaters and the Common Oracles label) fills your psych-folk-fuzz cochlea with echoes of Beefheart, Velvets, Spacemen 3, Dead C, and Kenneth Higney. Limited edition, imported from the big island of Australia, handmade recycled classical jackets.
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
UNEARTHLY TRANCE / WOODEN WAND
Manson
(Chrome Peeler) split 7-inch $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Unearthly Trance reach into the hole of the infinite with their haunting version of Manson’s "People Say I'm No Good" while Wooden Wand programs the young love with a version of "Get On Home." Edition of 200.
Carnal Opponents No Brothers
(Oxen - OXEN006) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sublimely merciless junk-scarring workshops in charred iron and static by Charlie Mumma and Danny Costa. Numbered edition of 100.
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.
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
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
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
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
Thrist of the Worm
(American Tapes) Used LP (one-sided) $50.00
Hard demon attack from 1998. Spraypaint and photocopy cover.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Vacuum
(Siltbreeze - SB110) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Vacuum authored the clay tablets from which all great antipodean bands would glean substance to formulate The NZ Sound. The perfected aural symmetry of Bill Direen, Stephen Cogle, Peter Stapleton, Peter Fryer and Alan Meek fuses classic Nuggets, Roxy, Elevators and Velvets moves as a template for the unique plonk that became germane for all who sailed after. These recordings -- culled from '78 and '79 rehearsal tapes -- are available for the first time ever. "'Kicks" would go on to become an early staple in Direen's Builders discography, but the guitar on this version is particularly and wonderfully unhinged. The beautiful serenity of Cogle's "Shade," masterfully driven by Meek's keyboard, is as crisp out of the gate as the later, more honed version by the Victor Dimisich Band. The real thunderclap of the bunch is "Accident," another take of which can be found on The Builders' Beatin Hearts LP (Flying Nun 1982), where it sounds like the Tia Maria is spiked with peyote, the band psychically disembowels "Heard Her Call My Name" and feeds the guts to Amon Düül. Edition of 300.
Walking Slow
(Siltbreeze - SB155) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
The second installment of archival tracks from this legendary Christchurch outfit whose lifespan may have been short, but its members went on to Bilders, Pin Group, Victor Dimisich Band, Scorched Earth Policy, and Terminals. Four tracks: Walking Slow (Dux de Lux, 1979); Born & Bled (Barbadoes Street "the cemetery", 1979); Remember Breaking Up (Dux de Lux, 1979); Skulls (Oxford Terrace, 1978). Edition of 300.
Live In Berlin
(Harbinger Sound - 107) LP picture disc $28.50 (Out-of-stock)
Recorded live at NK in Berlin on March 31, 2012, previously released as a limited edition CDR by Tochnit Aleph, the performance begins with a solo violin piece. Mayhem follows when Calanda drummers enter the gallery and Jordi Valls emerges breaking mirrors. From the speakers comes the sound of earlier VDO records and looped applause. The performance is cynical and nihilistic, yet also instantly mythical. The full performance, all twelve minutes of it, on one side, backed with a test tone on the flip, for those who accept the surreal concept and appreciate the razor blade sense of realism. Edition of 100
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.
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.
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
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
Arcana Coelestia
(Spring Press - SP13) 10-inch (lathe cut) $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
New recordings from this New York-based, Dutch experimental lutenist, who employs repetitive psychoactive minimalist, classical, conceptual and improvisational methods. He has collaborated with Keiji Haino, Tetuzi Akiyama, Loren Connors, Smegma, and Jim Jarmusch, among others. Edition of 70
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.
Time Slime
(Ultra Eczema - UE85) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
The inhumanly energetic Floris Vanhoof is a member of stoner ensemble R.O.T., synth builder, and visual artist noted for films created by cutting and gluing together fifty-six meters of lurid 8mm and 16mm film in a slimeball cluster of synth / tape madness. Time Slime is a collage of homebrew synth, field recordings, coincidences, tape delay, and detailed documentation of Vanhoof throwing a full drum kit down a church staircase twenty times. Sleeve design by Dennis Tyfus. Comes with two inserts, including the scores for these two side long pieces. Edition of 300 copies.
**** (Four Stars)
(Swineken) LP $25.00
Dutch reissue of the legendary documentary artifact of Wellington New Zealand’s postpunk scene circa 1980. Four bands from the pre-Flying-Nun underground — Life In The Fridge Exists, Wallsockets, Naked Spots Dance, Beat Rhythm Fashion — pose for this fantastic snapshot of a radical DIY scene that played out in a vacuum at the bottom of the world.
02.06.07
(Alberts Basement - AB1) LP $20.00
A document of underground musicians working out of Melbourne, recorded in one night at a gig in a bedroom, captured live on one microphone into a computer. Excellent recording considering the circumstances. Melodic instrumentals, lo-fi songs in unique styles, some heavier territory, some fuzzed up mayhem. Great Earthquake - The Violent Storm Part Three (electric guitar and accordion); Humansixbillion - You Hear The Sirens, There's My Song (indie pop, early Flying Nun style); Patinka Cha Cha And The Thimble Orchestra - Mime (electric guitar and percussion instrumental); Low Rise Estate - Untitled (keyboard and percussion instrumental); Fulton Girls Club - September (guitar with hushed vocals); Extreme Wheeze - T.V. Theme (acoustic guitar with audience participation and whistling); Popolice - Untitled (nice dual electric guitar / fx drone); Touch Typist - Spastic Duck Vomit Excerpt (almost freak-folk style improvisation); Guns For Saint Sebastion - A Is For Apple (stripped back Dirty Three / Mick Turner style with what sounds like harp, cello and xylophone, musically ambitious and well executed); Seagull - Train Tracks (electric guitar / vocals); Johnny Saw Horses - NYC (strummed acoustic guitar with strung out female vox); Oscar's Psyche - Vultures (electric guitar / vocals Devendra Banhart style). Individually hand-painted covers. “Most terrascopic.” --Simon Lewis, Terrascope. Edition of 300.
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
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
A Lowtides Rising... Explorations Around The Theme Of NZ Acoustic Music
(Fördämning Arkiv - 3) 2xLP $28.00
An epic sixteen-track who’s who of New Zealand underground music circa 2000, featuring Pumice, Peter Wright, Kunst / Veet (Witcyst), CJA & Anamarie, Sleep, Donald McPherson, GFrenzy, Kieran Monaghan, Swagger Jack, Birchville Cat Motel, Richard Francis, 1/3 Octave Band, Tim Cornelius, Seht, Antony Milton and James Kirk. All tracks were previously released on CDR by PseudoArcana in 2003. Gatefold jacket, insert, liner notes by Antony Milton and Matthias Andersson. Edition of 250.
A Range of Greatdividing
(Unwucht - UN01) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Vinyl reissue of Greatdividing’s comp previously available in cassette and CDR editions. Two previously unreleased tracks from 3 Toed Sloth (with Tom Feedtime on drums), Shoptoprockers, Exiles From Clowntown, Rock Boycott, The Yellow Steed, and Deep Brain Thrombosis. “Primal, guitar scrawl,” yammers Arthur magazine, “With ... free-chug moves that prove Oz is still the sexiest dirtbarge 'neath the meridian.” Screen-printed, diecut jacket.
A Warm Cupboard
(Alberts Basement - AB2) LP $20.00
Another vinyl document of the Melbourne Gen-Y indie DIY scene. Basic stuff but nice half-sized sleeve with insert. The Frightening Lights - Strangers (almost Bad Seeds-like with female vox); Hi God People - Drombeslade (improvised drone); Kes Band - Alamakalamazoo (Chills-like indie pop); Francis Plagne - My Ear Stands Like A Gateway On The Street (acoustic guitar and vocal, Devendra Banhart style); Aux Assembly - Fly (dark fuzz guitar drone); Star - Heavy Star (self-described as droning guitar / violin that references Henry Flynt, Tony Conrad, Faust and Velvet Underground); Free Choice - One Chord At a Time/B.O.P. (monophonic synth drone); Seth Rees - Singing Trams (nice evocative instrumental); Aleks And The Ramps - Hey Owl (clever pop with poetic lyrics); Christina Tester - Girl With Balloon (solo balloon improvisation); Fabulous Diamonds - Cemetary Dub (stripped back rhythmic piece); Woollen Kits - Rollerskate Girl (Beat Happening-ish guitar, drums, vox); Baseball - Song For The Righteous (live recording, indie with strange vocals); Bleak Infinity - Skism Prism (hectic indie electronica with female vox, a bit like Naked On The Vague)
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.”
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
Assiyo Bellema – Golden Years Of Modern Ethiopian Music
(Mississippi - MRP029) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Groove-oriented Ethiopian soul and R&B from the late 1960s and early 1970s by Mulatu Astatke, Seyfou Yohannes, Ayelew Mesfin, Getachew Kassa & Soul Ekos Band, Samuel Belay, Damtew Ayele, Tamrat Molla & Venus Band, and the mighty Abbebe Tessemma.
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
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.
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.
Brainclub Volume One
(Brainclub - 00000001) LP $16.75 (Out-of-stock)
Rare recordings, B-sides, and singular collaborations between members of Austin’s underground electronic and experimental circles, compiled by Pure X’s Jesse Jenkins and Survive’s Kyle Dixon. Includes an alternate version of Thousand Foot Whale Claw’s “Lost in those Dunes” and a rare live recording of electronic-improv duo Bodytronix, plus tracks by: Heathen Earth (a collaboration between Kyle Dixon and Sleep∞Over’s Stefanie Franciotti); Artist; Smokey Emery; VC Childkraft (now known as JU4N); Jake Schrock; and Phantastes. Clear vinyl. Printed folder cover in a reusable Ziploc bag. Edition of 300.
Brainclub Volume Two
(Brainclub - 00000002) LP $16.75 (Out-of-stock)
Rare recordings, B-sides, and singular collaborations between members of Austin’s underground electronic and experimental circles, compiled by Pure X’s Jesse Jenkins and Survive’s Kyle Dixon. Includes tracks by: Silent Land Time Machine; Malcolm Elijah of Silent Diane; Bill Converse; Dia Bas (solo work from Amasa•Gana’s Guy Taylor); Krallen; Gables; Pizza Hut; and Ex-Person. With fiat-currency insert and waxy black jackets in a reusable Ziploc bag. Edition of 150
Broken Flag: A Retrospective 1982-1985
(Vinyl on Demand - VODCD5) 5xCD $80.00
(Vinyl on Demand - VODCD5) 5xLP $160.00
Tracks by Giancarlo Toniutti, Maurizio Bianchi (extracts from S.F.A.G.), Mauthausen Orchestra (extract from Conflict), Le Syndicat (extracts from Rectal Struggle and BF45), Controlled Bleeding (extracts from Distress Signals), Un-Kommuniti (extracts from Mindretch), Ramleh (extracts from early tapes), Male Rape Group (On To 83), Kleistwahr (extracts from Myth and Arsonicide), Sutcliffe Jugend, Falx Cerebri, Toll, Consumer Electronics, Vortex Campaign, and The New Blockaders. Forty-page booklet with liner notes by Gary Mundy. Edition of 500.
California
(Groundfault - TRO225) 10xLP $75.00
The controversial, ear-baking box set featuring 20 artists from California, each receiving an album side to do their thing. You get it and good from: Amps For Christ, The Cherry Point, Joe Colley, Control, Die Yellow Swans, Gerritt, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Moth Drakula, Oscillating Innards, Open City, Sixes, Skaters, Solid Eye, Spastic Colon, Tralphaz, Damion Romero, Rubber O Cement, John Wiese, Xome and RHY Yau. Limited edition available with metal California pin.
Club Moral 1981-1986
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD93) 5xLP + DVD $115.00 (Out-of-stock)
Selections from Club Moral’s Mit Neuen Waffen cassette (Club Moral 1983), To All Who Are Interested LP (Cthulhu 1989), and assorted compilation tracks; selections from DDV’s A Sound Atlas of Venerology LP (Club Moral 1982), Zeno X cassette (Club Moral 1982), and 4 Sept cassette (Etat Brut / Club Moral 1982); the complete Géometrie d’un Assassinat cassette by Etat Brut (Etat Brut 1982); selections from The Parts’ GBC015 cassette (Gezonde Boerse Copulaties 1984); AMVK’s previously unreleased “Soft Chaos”; and selected live and super-8 film soundtracks. Includes twenty-page book of extensive liner notes, credits, discography, photos. Edition of 600.
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.
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.
Connections
(Sin T - STS001) 7-inch $10.00
Dilemma's "Technical Irresolution (Kitty Lectro US Remix)" is an unreleased version from 1990s “Wires of Pain” session. Absolute Body Control's "Blue Girl Black Boy" is an unreleased track from 1982. Adolf Filter 's "Numbers in Space " is an unreleased track from 2008. Portion Control's "Can't Take Anymore" is from 1982's “I Staggered Mentally” session. Seven-inch red vinyl with a four-color cover and a plastic protection sleeve. Each band contributes a 4x6-inch photograph.
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
Desert Dances And Serpent Sermons
(Ajna Offensive) CD $11.25 (Out-of-stock)
(Ajna Offensive) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Eduardo Ramirez and his Black Twilight Circle horde of acolytes evoke from the arid, tumbleweed-strewn earth of Southern California a unique strain of esoteric, tribal, truly transcendental Black Metal of magical Mexican ancestry. New tracks by Volahn, Arizmenda, Shataan and Kallathon.
Splatter colored vinyl, booklet with lyrics, poster.
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.
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
Eiste Skilohissia
(Obelisk / Shasha / Turgid Animal) LP $21.00
One side of collaborative and deranged, big-band pain electronics by Fecalove, Mutant Ape, Torturing Nurse, Oubliette. The other side features a five-minute track by each.
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.
Engines of Modern Dysfunction Vol. 1
(Phage - PT166) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Cut up noise by Facialmess, John Wiese, Chrysalis + Agit8, K2, A Fail Association, Ahlzagailzehguh and Baculum – the first in Phage’s series of compilations designed for people with short attention spans. Quickly shifting layers, silent cuts, short loops and lots of hard panning. Maximum frequency abuse. Edition of 300.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Freeload Soundtrack
(Killertree - KTR15) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
The soundtrack to Dan Skaggs’s stunning and harrowing documentary (about the modern train-hopping community) includes two bitchin’ tracks by Poor School, guitar-duet ramblings by Plants’ Jeff Dunn, a Poor School drone off-shoot called Atrocity Singers (with sax dude Nathan Hoyme), a Rammer solo guitar piece, and the first new Ex-Cocaine track in five years. Hand-screened covers. Edition of 200. Sneak a peak: http://vimeo.com/34676041
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Heavy Traffic
(Moving Image Entertainment) LP $8.00
Reissue of 1973 original soundtrack to the cartoon film by Ed Bogas and Ray Shanklin. The recordings are a fusion of pop, jazz, soul and funk by Sergio Mendes & Brazil ’66, Chuck Berry, The Isley Brothers, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, and Merl Saunders.
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”).
Impact! (Auto-Edit)
(Audio Instant) Used LP $15.00
1986 comp with tracks by Sonic Youth, Portion Control, Okapi Fever, Hula
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.
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
Ischemic Folks
(Schematic) Used 2xLP $10.00
Mesmerizing 1999 comp with tracks by Phoenicia, David Kristian. Richard Devine, Push Button Objects, Gliese, Metic.
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.
Krypton Ten (Christchurch 1981-1987)
(Unwucht - UN06) 2xLP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
In the early '80s Onset Offset Records of Christchurch, New Zealand, released nine Krypton Hits compilations, most on small-run cassettes, one LP, a seven-inch, and a VHS videocassette, spotlighting brilliant local acts like The Riptoids, G.O.D., The Oxes, and Nick Slick, along with tons of otherwise unavailable material by well known artists like Bill Direen / The Bilders, Scorched Earth Policy and The Puddle, to name but a few. Unwucht's double-LP contains 28 Krypton selections and two archival tracks available for the first time: the full four-minute version of Bill Direen's High Thirties Piano; and a Devo-esque electro-punk track from 1981 by Drowning Is Easy (featuring M.S. Agro, later of the Terminals, on lead vocals). Includes two more early Bilders tracks (as The Cherry Smash and Ritual Sex), Scorched Earth Policy, The Puddle, Ritchie Venus & The Blue Beetles, The Gorillas (Steve McCabe's pre-Axemen high school band), We Too's Crushed Velvet Morning, a George Henderson solo opus from 1982 and tons more. Screen printed gatefold jacket, two pages of never-before-seen photos from the artists' private archives, two double-sided inserts of liner notes. Edition of 330.
La Bamba
(Ultra Eczema - UE68) LP $25.00
Fifteen years ago hat and cacti collector Daniël de Wereldvermaarde Botanicus (Cassis Cornuta) deejayed two hours of versions of "La Bamba" on the now-defunct situationist radio show RTVS (Radio Centraal, Antwerp). The spirit of these drunken, on-air yell-alongs and sing-alongs of yore join us in the here and now on this international compilation LP, released to coincide with Ultros Exemos La Bamba Night(mare), February 28, 2009 at Scheldapen in Antwerp, and evening event where more than 300 different versions of "La Bamba" -- recordings and live -- were performed. This LP includes covers of "La Bamba" by Sudden Infant, Floris Vanhoof, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Bromptreb, Anla Courtis, Smack Music 7, Kommissar Hjuler, Mitt Land Och Leo, Human Hairs, Daniel De Wereldvermaarde Botanicus, Remork, Reijo Pami, Glands of External Secretion, Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen, Rubber O Cement, Ludo Mich, Mama Bär, Tomutonto, Vvm & The Synthetic Voice of Gaeoudjiparl Van Den Dobbelsteen, Daniëlle Lemaire, Kraus, and Fricara Pacchu. 400 copies.
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.
Labyrinths & Jokes
(Hanson - HN050) LP $50.00
Released in 1998 on vinyl (reissued on CD in 2005) the first statement from a brilliant and fucked-up group of noise lunatics -- Nautical Almanac's Anti-Systems, Isis & Werewolves, Ron Of Japan, Andrew Wilkes-Krier, The Mini-System, The Beast People. Spray-painted jackets with pasted-on artwork.
LAFMS Box Box
(Los Angeles Free Music Society) 13xLP $350.00 (Out-of-stock)
LAFMS Box Box documents every performance from the exhibition Beneath the Valley of the Lowest Form of Music – The Los Angeles Free Music Society 1972-2012 at The Box, Los Angeles in 2012. It contains every performance that occurred during the exhibition: Opening Reception Improvisation by Dennis Duck, John Duncan, Ace Farren Ford, Joseph Hammer, Mike Kelley, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Rick Potts, Tom Recchion, Vetza; Artificial Art Ensemble (Ted Byrnes, Ace Farren Ford, Mars Pharoah Ford, Oddrocker Orlando Greenhill, Michael Intriere); The Tenses (Oblivia & Ju Suk Reet Meate); Tom Recchion; The Doo-Dooettes (Dennis Duck, Fredrik Nilsen, Tom Recchion); Le Forte Four (Joe Potts & Rick Potts); Smegma (Dennis Duck, Ace Farren Ford, Mars Pharoah Ford, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Oblivia, Vetza); Airway (Ted Byrnes, Dennis Duck, Ace Farren Ford, Juan Gomez, Joseph Hammer, Kevin Laffey, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Rick Potts, Tom Recchion, Vetza); Ace & Duck / Artificial Art Ensemble (Ted Byrnes, Dennis Duck, Ace Farren Ford, Oddrocker Orlando Greenhill, Michael Intriere); Dinosaurs With Horns (Joseph Hammer & Rick Potts); Vetza & Joe Potts; Dolphin Explosion (Colette Weber Shaw & Ariel West with Dani Tull); Marnie Weber’s F For Ache (Doug Harvey, Dani Tull, Marnie Weber); Eddie Ruscha, Jim Shaw, Dani Tull; Extended Organ (Paul McCarthy, Fredrik Nilsen, Joe Potts, Tom Recchion, with prerecorded XO contributions by Mike Kelley); Feedback Waveriders (Antony DiGennaro, Michael Jon Fink, Paul McCarthy, Chas Smith, Brian Walsh); Artzenkraft (John Lewis); Small Drone Orchestra (Don Lewis & Eddie Nervo); Destroy Date (Eddie Nervo); Points Of Friction (Tim Alexander, Damian Bisciglia, Mitchell Brown, Joseph Hammer, Albert Ortega); Rick Potts (on altered turntables between sets); The Jrks (Joe Berardi, Kira Vollman, Rich West); Joe & Joe (Joseph Hammer & Joe Potts); Oolies (Tom Boram, Mitchell Brown, J.P. Jenkins); Rahdlines (Nate Archer & Aaron Coye). Full-color box, three posters, 52-page, full color-book, download card.
Le Couperet: Music For The Crimes Of Dr. Petiot
(Harbinger Sound - 105) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
First-time vinyl reissue since its original release on cassette (Broken Flag 1983). According to our friends at Norman Records, “Third Phase’s ‘Ashley Grove’ … sounds like a giant robotic bee dying a slow and painful death, gradually … becoming increasingly deranged [from] slow-motion weirdo guitar scraping and feedback…. Vortex Campaign’s ‘Live Tielt / Torhout’ … underpin[s] crude and primitive screeching and squealing racket [with] simple, almost mechanical-sounding pots-and-pans … percussion…. [The idiosyncratic style of] Ramleh’s ‘Live Emaciator’ [sounds] like … the engine of [a] conked-out Datsun Cherry … on a frosty English morning … [with] blue murder [shouted] into the exhaust pipe … result[ing in] an indecipherable phased vocal assault…. The New Blockaders create an almighty riot of industrial clattering…, bludgeoning everything in sight…. Citipati [sound] like some kind of malfunctioning bandsaw / moped hybrid contraption…. Depilate Corps close the show with … sinister undertones and [drunken Dad] vocals.” Edition of 300.
Like a Frog In Winter
(Hospital - HOS138) LP + 7-inch $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
In 2004 while residing in Providence, Dominic Fernow of Prurient and Hospital began compiling Like A Frog in Winter, in response to his perceptions that noise had become rather hi-fi, technological, and cold -- entertainment rather than entertaining, something clean, something stimulating. Fernow's choices represent a more psychological, minimal, dismal, and rejected feeling, and calls for a return to the fetishistic and erotic attitude of noise -- and a negative one at that. Participating criminals, in order of incarceration: Ffh, A Fail Association, Immaculate:Grotesque, Cleanse, Pedestrian Deposit, Chrysalis, Ahlzagailzehguh, Habeeb, Craniopagus, Alberich, Bereft, Barrikad, Prurient, Sewer Election, Panicsville, Filthy Turd, Omei, The Seven Arts, Age Of Enlightenment, Mark Solotroff, Whorebutcher, Climax Denial, Stegm, Burden.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Michigan
(Hanson) 6xLP $61.50 (Out-of-stock)
The latest in the geography-themed noise boxset series follows California, Texas, Portland and New England with a full side of screech apiece from twelve different noise bands that call The Damn Shame State home. With Princess Dragonmom, Raven Strain, Redrot, Aaron Dilloway, Tovah D-Day, Charlie Draheim, Hive Mind, Mammal, Evenings, Cotton Museum, Sick Llama and Wolf Eyes. Compiled by Greh Holger and Aaron Dilloway. Limited to 600 copies. Packaged in fully silkscreened record mailers.
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
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
Never See You Again - Augsburg 1982-85
(Unwucht - UN04) 2x7-inch $20.00
Minimal synth, postpunk, and psychotic beat from the early '80s by three bands featuring Joachim Stender of P.D., Kurzschluss, Permutative Distorsion, Skartrack and l'Aventure Imaginaire. Tracks by Schatten Unter Eis -- from early Casio experiments to Some Bizzare-style synth pop -- reveal rapid development of the band during their short time of existence. The legendary recording of Wahnvorstellung documents the band almost getting thrown off stage by a dumb rock audience. Flow My Tears The Policeman Said is garage rock in a Beauty Contest / Painless Dirties vein, remembered for Stender's mutation into a madman when they performed live. Edition of 110.
New England
(RRRecords) 5xLP $40.00
2004 comp with tracks by Brutum Fulmen, Can’t, Skin Crime, Prurient, Immaculate, Grotesque, Karlheinz, Diagram-A, Mr. Brinkman, Human Filth, Sickness. Hand-painted cover. Sealed.
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
Nostra Signora Delle Tenebre
(Backwards - BW20) 2xLP $34.00 (Out-of-stock)
Alongside the world-famous auteurs, lesser known and critically unappreciated Italian directors (mockingly called cinematografari) excelled at wild, sick takes on horror and crime dramas, in the success of which music played a big role. Classically trained composers like Ennio Morricone and Stelvio Cipriani rubbed shoulders with pop-stars-turned-soundtrackers like Nico Fidenco and Pino Donaggio and together happily immersed themselves in the muddy waters of this cinematic swamp, creating their own distorted versions of the funk, psychedelia and beat rock canons. The aberrant results were then applied like thick make-up to equally mind-boggling, malevolent, highly stylized movies from directors like Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci or schlock-meister Joe D’Amato. Here Italy's current occult psychedelia scene pays tribute to the gloriously adventurous soundtracks of the less glorious horror and giallo flicks — movies that retained a decidedly Italian flavor in a bizarre mix of nasty violence, lurid sexuality and feverish Catholic mysticism, all filtered through a manic obsession with death, blood and the sins of the flesh. Track listing: Heroin In Tahiti “Nuda per Satana” (A. Baldan Bembo); Lay Llamas “Palude” (L. Michelini); Second H. Sam “Gli ultimi cannibali” (N. Fidenco); Lamusa “Tourist trap” (P. Donaggio); Edible Woman “Magic & Ecstasy” (E. Morricone); Mai Mai Mai “Sette note in nero” (Bixio – Frizzi – Tempera); Jennifer Gentle “Chanson de la Nuit” (E. Macchi); Slumberwood “Toby Dammit” (N. Rota); Mamuthones “The Thing” (E. Morricone); Gianni Giublena Rosacroce “Incubo sulla città contaminata” (S. Cipriani); Beautiful Bunker “L’aldilà” (F. Frizzi); Cannibal Movie “Sans espoir” (B. Nicolai); Father Murphy “L’alba dei morti viventi” (Goblin); OVO “Nuda per Satana” (A. Baldan Bembo); and Maria Celeste “Cento campane” (Fiorentini – Grano). Colored vinyl. Edition of 500
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.
Optional Ingredients From A Vile Recipe Volume II
(Trackshun Industries - TR714) 7-inch $10.00
The second of Justice Schanfarber's three-part series was reviewed by CMJ when it was released back in 1995: “A peculiar six-track combination of hideous noise and gently radiant beauty. The noise tracks illustrate nicely the variety of things that the ear hears as noise instead of music, how easy it is to switch to thinking of them as music, and the way the overtones can be heard as notes. And their contrast is pretty effective – especially at the end when Total’s vacuum-cleaner-of-the-pit ‘Austrian Shade’ cuts off and makes way for Paula Frazer’s unironically gorgeous, retro country lament ‘Is She Lonesome Now’.” Also includes Beauty Pear, Brain Ruryk’s frenetic love/hate guitar, Bren’t Lewiis Ensemble’s “Mid-Range Phase/Link 3" Dome” (a different excerpt from the one on Induced Musical Spasticity), and Supreme Dicks. All covers are unique (pages torn from obsolete encyclopedias).
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.
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.
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
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
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
Pop (Do We Not Like That?)
(Too Pure - PURE34) LP $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Label sampler from 1994 with tracks by Stereolab, P.J. Harvey, Th' Faith Healers, Voodoo Queens, Seefeel, Pram, Moonshake, Minxus, Laika, Mouse On Mars.
Popcorn
(Ultra Eczema - UE82) 2xLP $40.00 (Out-of-stock)
A follow-up to 2009’s La Bamba (which annoyed the shit out of everyone who ever put it on), made in conjunction with Ultra Eczema’s Popcorn Night(Mare), where more 30 people performed Gershon Kingsley's banger from 1969! This double-LP comp was planned as single LP, but an enthusiastic Denis Tyfus was over-invited, under the assumption that no one would actually contribute. True cover versions, vague interpretations and kitchen princess styled cooking lessons by Pavel Büchler, Hair Stylistics with Takuma Watanabe, RLW, Kian Sandalen, Burning Star Core, DSR Lines, Evil Moisture, Nuslux, Raionbashi, Hetero Skeleton, Vomgrill, Helm, Attempt, Helicoptere Sanglante, Dracula Lewis, Christophe Piette, Kip Prims, White Circle Crime Club, Jacques Beloeil, Spykes, Cryptic Report, Autistik Youth, Remörk, Miaux, Amon Dude V, Fantamatres, Ali Mio feat. Sultan Steven, Rani Bageria and Hanno Schnegg, Blood Stereo, My Land and Lion, Family Battle Snake, Three Legged Race, Daniel De Wereldvermaarde Botanicus, Rock And Roll Jackie & Nour Mobarack, Lucas Abela, Christopher Leeger & Kevin Blechdom, Heatsick, Astral Social Club, Tarp and Blaastaal. Liner notes by Carlo Steegen.
Porcelain Summer
(I Dischi Del Barone) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Celebrating five years without an accident, the label presents twelve previously unreleased tracks — from shimmering lo-fi glory and falling-down-the-stairs pop, to free noise skronk, treble-down maxed-out folky bliss, and electronic bedroom mayhem — by Pumice (NZ), Johnny R. Spykes (US), Brannten Schnüre (Germany), JJulius (Sweden), Vital Idles (UK), Karla Borecky (US), Red Brut (Netherlands), Amateur Hour (Sweden), The Futurians (NZ), Greymouth (NZ/Japan), Jon Collin (Sweden/US), The Ivytree (US). With insert. Edition of 200
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
Record Store Record
(RRRecords - RRRRSR) 2xLP $28.00
Location / environmental recordings made inside record stores -- the sound of regular everyday customers looking at records, talking about records, buying records, and of record store owners boxing up records for mail-order customers. Audio vérité, sound poetry and a touch of musique concrète (two tracks are processed / cut-up / collage; three are straight open-mic recordings). Participating record stores are Hospital (NYC), RRRecords (Lowell), Sarvilevyt (Lahti, Finland), Second Layer (London), and Weirdo (Cambridge). Includes record bag made of heavy-duty nylon with the RRR squiggle design silkscreened by Shogun Shop / Heartworm Press. Also includes a bonus platter selected at random from the back catalog of RRRecords; it's unrelated to the concept of the album, but we're listing it as a 2xLP for postage purposes. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2011.
Reportage: Spela Själv
(UNM - UNM1970) LP $20.00
Exact reproduction of a Swedish raga concrète LP from 1970. Field recordings of amateurs playing and making sounds: a playground, drummers and fiddlers, a garden cafe, children, one track simply titled "Gronas" ("Green"). Time to getcher esoteric on. The title roughly translates to Play Yourself or Play Naturally. It has been credited to Träd, Gräs och Stenar, but they aren't featured on it. Bo Anders Persson did, in fact, compile, edit and release this album in collaboration with Solvieg Bark. (Persson was a member of the legendary Swedish bands Harvester, International Harvester, Pärson Sound, Träd, Gräs Och Stenar; Bark was one of a few young composers who, through the UNM (Young Nordic Music Festivals), became a contemporary of Erkki Kurenniemi, Folke Rabe, etc.)
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
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
RRR1000
(RRRecords - RRR1000) LP $20.00
20 artists, each with 50 grooves: AMK, Aaron Dilloway, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Drumm, Carlos Giffoni, Incapacitants, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Jason Lescalleet, Francisco Lopez, Lasse Marhaug, The New Blockaders, Jerome Noetinger, Prurient, RLW, Damion Romero, Runzelstrin & Gurgelstock, Sudden Infant, Keith Fullerton Whitman, C. Spencer Yeh, Otomo Yoshihide. This is not to be confused with RRR500, the LP with 500 locked grooves from a few years ago. This is an all-new release with all new locked grooves. Individually hand-assembled covers.
RRR500
(RRRecords - 500) LP $20.00
Five hundred locked grooves, one each by Punk Sheep On Drugs, ST 37, Moray Eels, Aube, Sian, Loop Circuit, Hyper Ventilation, Akifumi Nakajima, Toy Bizarre, Bruno Moreigne, Lichatz, Foom, Radboud Mens, Shifts, Goem, Captain Black, Quest, Mark Poysden, Basssix, L.O.S.D., TAW, Peter Fleur, Sub, Raum, Bruce Gilbert, Put Put, Barbed, :ZovietFrance:, Otomo Yoshihide, Cult Junk Cafe, Tone Motion, Lumbar Trio, Liminal, Aerospace Soundwise, TV Pow, Wheaton Research, Pencilneck, Thomas Deater, 00 Dying Rats, Tim Fletcher, Clive Graham, Sarah Winton, Mike Davies, Kymatik, Jeff Filla, Jgrzinich, Dan Plunkett, Brekekekexkoax (Koax), ERG, Zygote, Seth Nihil, MNortham, Astroglijd, Karen Finley, Pedestrian, Ward Eldredge, Asche, Morgenstern, Templegarden's, Synapscape, Telepherique, P·A·L, Noisex, Salt, Nimoy, DKF, Venoz TKS, MSCHarding, People Like Us, Mickery, The Wallypops The Teletubbies Penguin, Water, Breath, Ryoji Ikeda, Aardvark, Cerebro, Palimsest, Y-Bom, Static Insect, Neil Wiernik, Tocsin, Infant Cycle, Sleeping Basement Cat, Mind Skelp-cher, Gwaho, Band Of Pain, H.J. Irmler / S. Pittis, Intravene, Satori, Contrastate, Yukiko, Kazumoto Endo, Killer Bug, Sperm Donors Government Alpha, TBC, Klangkrieg, Felix Kubin, Reznicek, Raumpatrouille Gunter, AER, Wax Infant, The, Alvars Orkester, Frak, Ü, Pher, Villa Åbo, F4E G.H., F4E R.J., F4E V.C., F4E J.W., F4E M.D., F4E G.M., F4E C.M., F4E C.R., F4E A.B., F4E J.O., Doo-Dooettes, Foundation Boo, Monique Experience, Precambrian Three, Friends Of Leslie, Tom Recchion, Extended Organ, Ro-G, Marcus Peroud, Rotor Syndrom, Myiase, Batchas, Frank Dommert, Jan Werner, Nomarulp, Marcus Schmickler, L@N, DS Imitator, #/Tau, A-Musik, Peeled Hearts Paste, Jason Willet, Jad Fair + Jason W., Dramatics Jaunties Martha Colburn, Sinkdrop, Hurricane Camille, Luminar, Tom Dimuzio, Lord Jack Lord, Buzz Doggy Dog, Gench Master 2000, Cut Splice, Awashed, Light Matrix, Locked Out, Sensor, The Whales, Noise Camp, Little Princess, Princess Dragon-Mom, Control Panel, His Name Is Alive, The Crash, Science Fair, Bears, The, B.B.B.E., Voice Crack, Andy Guhl, Norbert Moslang, Sickness, Seelenlärm, Bill Orcuh, Chel Jones, Modern Surgery For Nurses, Grunt, Alchemy Of The 20th Century, Woundead, Yesmeansyes, Bearmann's Bastards, Noise Makers Fifes, Greg Jacobs, Tapes Of Wrath, The Peterson Mixes, Slusser, Duo Micro, First Lady Embalmers, Headless, Luna Rose Atlantis, Gen Ken, Con, La La Landia, Eater, Telecognac, Darren Brown, Impact Test, Deknow, More, Julien Bradley, Neil Campbell, Astatine, Cindy Wonderful, Crack Fierce, Fluorescent Grey, Birchville Cat Motel, Lugosi, Alkerthene, M.K. Uva, Hand Over Fist, S. Jack Silman, Lockweld, Deerhoof, Involution, Andy Bolus, Evil Moisture, Estupida Melodia, Acerrimamente, Makanakuna, Armenia, Ralph Nemec, Rick Reed, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Django Reinhardt III, Commode Minstrals In BullFace, Nightstick, Ashtray Navigations, Mortician, Bongzilla, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, General Surgery, Human Remains, Exit-13, Brutal Truth, Today Is The Day, Incantation, Soilent Green, Embalmer, diSEMBOWELMENT, Solarus, Atrax Morgue, Lull, Bastard Noise, Namanax, Dissecting Table, Japanese Torture Comedy Hour, Emil Beaulieau, Pica, Abscess, Purge, Brighter Death Now, RZ, Sudden Infant, Bertoia, Terry Riley, Derek Bailey, Gary Todd, Red Krayola, Mike Kelley, Jon Appleton, Wende Bartley, Jean-Francois Denis, Martin Gotfrit, Don Lander, Philippe Le Goff, John Oswald, Stephane Roy, Claude Schryer, Alain Thibault, Roxanne Turcotte, Annette Vande Gorne, Id Battery, Brainape, Cutty Stool, Glock 2, Grampabampa, Krapkeep, Silica Gel, Schloss Tegal, Free Kitten, Adam Bohman, Morphogenesis, Dorothea Conradi, Werner Durand, DJ Pure, Rehberg + Bauer, Felix Yen, Artificial Memory Trace, Malta, Speed Wolf, Moses, Hapaxlegomena, Ceramic Hobs, Ambulance Chasers, Eric Lanzillotta, Candle Labra, Yes Means No, M.B.L., Heaven For Kasner, Psywarfare, Snakedick, Bloody Bombs, Velvet Front, DOG, Reality Challenged, Steve Davis, Lo Lo Muñoz, Gwen Party, Cacophony 33, Mr. Outsider, Expose Your Eyes, Project D.A.R.K., Speck, Brauncewell, Mark Wharton, M. Rafe, Spiral, Hemogoblin Moon, Pee Wee Russell III, Alessandro Moreschi, Orphx, Antiform, Para, Raimundas Eimontas, Ram_nas Jaras, Antanas Jasenka, Robertas Kundrotas, Irving Klaw Trio, Hochenkeit, Wham-O, Jeff Fuccillo, Kandalini Nivugretsevi, Coffee, Diz Willis, Nico, Chirone Rising, Sukora, Zohenshein, Terminal Waste Band, Demoon Skirt, Daylight Savings Time, Universal Indians, The Thin Ensemble, Glands Of External Secretion, Lowest Chakra, Being, Nambi-Pambient, Pee 69 Deflower, Pre-Evil, Trinket, Abe Sada, Hurdy Gurdy Cabana-Boy, Andy Shea, Marlo Pedroso, M. Jones / L. Rhodes, Hanged Mans Orgasm, Skin Crime, Fleur De Vie Weinstock, Those Meddling Kids, Melinda Read, Beatrix Gingham, Pat O'Neil, Shawn Smith, No Mustard Captain, Knut Remond, Tim Martin, Quarrelling Xenophobic Waitresses, Pumice, Dick AKA Dick, Laura Lee Hine, Andreas Kallwitz, Glen Peterson, Kelly Rappuchi, Thadd Comstock, B.E.A.N., Neil Hamburger, Jay Sullivan, Faxed Head, Gregg Turkington, United Negro College Fund, Pickle Factory, New Peculiars, Y Front, Karla Borecky, Mike Popovich, Brrr, Andrews Liver Salt, XX Committee, Hermaphrodites For Stucky, Diagram: A, Proof Of The Shooting, J. Brown, Jared Turinsky, Psychadelic Pig, Harm Jr., Horseback Solids, Lettuce Little, Steve Cerio, Roger Kummert, Lore Barges, Seymour Glass, Radiosonde, Zipper Spy, The Haters, Grromp Man, Ed Taylor, Suzanne Ramsey, Crawl Unit, AMK, The Original Artists, Granex Glue, Jordan Biren, Haploid, Torsten Z. Burns, Nux Vomica, A.T.M., Maiden Taiwan, Meeuw Muzak, Brian Smith, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, DJ T.A. Quinn, Karl Schontag, Head Of Maja, Chico Vega, Bob Jordan, Senritsubara, Y.I.M., Jason Lescalleet, The Todd Deal, Blue Moon, Ray Gaucher, Jr., Man Ray, Arterial Slash, Mike Minutoli, D. Bock / D.B. Cooper, Shrilltower, Remora, D. Gross / J. Chandonnet, Ene, Detune, Dave Perry, Coits, Andrew Szava-Kovats, Compound, Parade Of Sinners, Dominion, Data-Bank-A, SMP, Jason Bazinet, Matt Sharifi, Xiandi, Macronympha, Chop Shop, Lee Ranaldo, John Wiggins, Jerome Noetinger, RLW, Michael Prime, En Nihil, Alan Licht, Pain Jerk, Naj, Runzelstirn + Gurgelstock, Gruppe Schimpfluch, Thurston Moore, Smell + Quim, Masonna, MSBR, Omit, A Handful Of Dust, Bruce Russell, Knob, Steven Weigt, Toemass, Eating Canada, Moonjackals, Horsey Wallett, George L. Charpied, Roger Miller, Chivrouga, Crank Sturgeon, Portable ManBoy Lyceum, Joke Lanz, Sabin Zenz, Célest Urech, Howling Wolfenstein, Juneau, Giant Big Eggs, DJ Static, Naofumi Kaneko, Pete Rutigliano, Factory Of Noise, Stabat Mors, R.H.Y. Yau, Charlie Parker, Chris Bush, Cock E.S.P., The Muckrakers, Rexor, Zartan, and Sonic Youth
Scaling Triangles
(Zaius Tapes) LP $20.00
Ah, the mutual flourishing of crude folk, DIY punk, amateurish Klaus Schulze-inspired synthesizer buzzings, and regional Britannia comps. Golden era, late 1970s, early 80s. You know the corkscrew. And here are three women artists, each tracking three songs, flexing wooly muscles. You want taut (Sub Verse), you want aggro (Petticoats) and you want free (Sole Sister) moving tracks; your search ends here. Fans of Young Marble Giants, The Flowers, Udder Milk Decay could do worse.
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
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
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
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
Soundtracks
(Arf Arf) Used LP $5.00
1987 comp with tracks by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Erik Lindgren, Pink Inc.
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
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
Tape Projects
(Tape Projects - TAPR06) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
More than 60 ten-second tracks all ending in locked grooves. Each track is designed, or not, to provide a soundtrack to a series of 15 flip books by a diverse range of Australian visual artists. With contributions from Chris Abrahams (Necks), Ernie Althoff, Mu Child, Joel Stern, Sumugan Sivanesan (Antipan), Harry Williamson (Gong), Monica Brooks (Splinter Orchestra), Moffarfarrah, Thembi Soddell, Lawrence English, Tarab, Philip Samartzis (Gum), Anthea Caddy, Werner Hoeck (Volvox), Severed Heads, Dave Phillips (Fear of God), Toecutter, DJ Rainbow Ejaculation and many more. Includes poster.
Tarantismo Summit Volume 1
(Rampage) LP $16.00
Rooted derogatively in the spirit of Nonesuch Records' pioneering steps into the foray of primitive avant garde in the early 1960s, Tarantismo Summit ushers in a new age of reclamation of the broken and damaged arts, coercing the music enthusiasts of the present day to expand their horizons and explore new territories, still unfamiliar, yet unwavering. A satellite of unspeakable desecration in the free-jazz stratosphere of the '70s underground, Smegma is and were a pivotal point of aural disgust to many, and an unrequited love for the rest of the outsider population screaming for dissonance and catastrophe of modern sound. K.K. Rampage have lived in the squalor of Chicago's most egregious forbidden zones for years without sunlight or nourishment, and their inclusion is defaulted in their steadfast stance of perpetuating mental decay, along with an inherent unhinged velocity of self-destruction. The Floridian influence on this damaged crop of poisoned sprouts comes in the larval state of Insect Joy, a duo of crustaceous origin who obliterate the tranquility of a Gulf Coast sunset with a barbaric and drilling groove of mindless gravel-toned noise. The last nail in the coffin, in an electric storm of ghastly proportions, Ghost Moth vilify an age-old premise where confusion of sound and disruption of parallax combine to create a horrendous vision of a world turned inside out. 400 copies.
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.
Ten Grand Tonearm
(Heard Worse - HW05) LP $15.25
Nodding to the fetishization of analog audio, gear and vinyl, the Australian label Heard Worse presents a collection of noisy improvised music, side by side with more structured electronic noise. Features xNOBBQx (the Australian Harry Pussy); Arse Lunch (triple guitar feedback drone by an xNOBBQx side project); Castings (improvised psychedelic rock with noisy electronics, releases on Chocolate Monk and American Tapes); Cygnus (lo-fi guitar/synth jam by Sick Llama / Fag Tapes / Slither side project); Loachfillet (American noise blast); Marco Fusinato (another noise blast by Australian who has collaborated with Thurston Moore); Mark Harwood (processed field recordings by the Synaesthesia honch); Misty Lavender Doughnuts of Shame (electric violin with dialogue samples); Pigs In The Ground (more American electronic noise); Rahdunes (post-Unborn Unicorn); RLW (with Ralf Wehowsky on sitar and Johannes Fritsch on double bass); Sun of the Seventh Sister (two separate recordings synched-up as a 25-piece big band); The Vitamin B12 (vocals and electronics from the UK); Werewolf Jerusalem (harsh digital noise that sent the cutting engineer into a frenzy); William De Cunting (locked groove shenanigans by this Texan). In recycled classical covers with attached poster. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST OF 2008.
The Buntingford Long Playing Record
(Zaius Tapes) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
At the dawn of the 1980s, when the UK was awash in regional compilations documenting the local punk, postpunk, DIY — spurred on by Rough Trade’s seminal Wanna Buy A Bridge? — a small market town in East Hertfordshire tagged in with a particularly strong collection, comprised of about a dozen or so local youths under different monikers. Originally released in 1981 by Small Town Tecords, The Buntingford Long Playing Record sidetracks the punk handle (quite the scarlet letter in this bucolic civil parish) and nails a brace of shambling mod, power-pop and DIY tracks by The Chokes, Riverside Rocky, The Debutantes, The Others, The Infinites Lots, The Runs, Malc The Talc.
The Day My Favourite Insect Died
(Kollaps - KS14) 2xLP $15.00
An excellent 1995 sampler of bands from Weilheim, Germany -- Anna Karenina, Blond, Cobra 2000, Console, King Rollo, Orgon, Rayon, Schneider, Snowe, Village Of Savoonga. Cinematic instrumentals, experimental pieces, break beats, loopy electronica.
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.
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.
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.
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
Timara
(Hanson - HNTIM01) LP $10.00
Electroacoustic music by current and recent students and faculty of Oberlin’s Technology In Music And Related Arts school — Lyn Goeringer, Mitchell Herrmann, Sarah Snider, Evan Zierk, Matt Omahan, Paulus Van Horne, Charlie Abbott, Tom Lopez, and Stephen Sloan.
Tliltic Tlapoyauak
(Ajna Offensive - FLAME80) 3xLP $60.00 (Out-of-stock)
The Black Twilight Circle collective’s vision continues to be boundless and daring but ever obedient to black metal’s eternal tenets. Hypnotic and hysteric, swirling and cacophonous, stretching to infinity and beyond, the two maniacal hours of all-exclusive tracks here cast a spell that opens a new eye and even newer possibility. Ajna Offensive’s vinyl reissue of this history-beginning black metal / death metal comp, originally released on cassette (Crepúsculo Negro 2013), which quickly sold out, was remastered by Arthur Rizk at Solomon’s Gate (Inquisition, Power Trip). Tracks by: Volahn, Kampilan, Eztli, Yax, Tlacaelel; Kuxan Suum; Cempopoloah; BHL; The Haunting Presence; In Lakech Ala Kin; Muknal; Dolorvotre; Tukaaria; Kampilan; Volahn; Kallathon; Shataan; Blood Play; Acualli; Arizmenda; and Axeman. With twenty-page book. CD edition coming in September.
To Sell Kerosene Door to Door
(Insight) 2xLP $45.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sealed copy of the swansong release from Glorious Din frontman Eric Cope’s label, a snapshot of the mid-to-late-'80s Bay Area underground. Thirty tracks by fifteen bands, a couple of whom released little else besides the material here. Includes World of Pooh, Spahn Ranch, Dog Food, Beetle Leg, Beatnigs, Stiff Legged Sheep, Glorious Din, Harry’s Picket Fence, Raining House, Barnacle Choir, Enigma, Stickdog, Systems Collapse, Caroliner, and Archipelago Brewing Company.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Woorden
([ no label ]) LP $20.00
Sketchy reissue of this Dutch comp originally released by Omega the late ’60s. Four underground poets (Hans Wesseling, Simon Vinkenoog, Bob Lens and Nona) doing what poets do, mixed with “strange sounds and effects…. Totally freaked out, stoned, erotic but also political psychedelia….” according to Popsike. “Some poets do sort of singing…. Everything is mixed into one piece…. Lyrics are mostly in Dutch, but there are few poems in English.”
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
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
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
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.
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.
Eye Peels & Brain Picks
(Puer Gravy - PG01) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
This all-points-bulletin and consensus reality disruption from these freak fringe surrealists gilds the lily pad (luxuriating polymorphs, take note!) and pulls the magic carpet out from under the levitating swami. Oh, slapstick, thou art truly immortal. Jacket is gold-printed, laminated, and plastic panel-bedecked. Laser-etched, 180-gram vinyl. Edition of 100.
It Stands To Conceal
(Hospital - HOS369) 3xLP $45.00 (Out-of-stock)
Militant religious industrial in a dub techno / ambient vein, leaning somewhere between Sandwell District and early Aphex Twin. Hospital’s vinyl reissue includes limited edition cassettes: Jordanian Descent; Ghosts Of Chechnya; and Atta’s Apartment Slated For Demolition. Gatefold jacket. Edition of 911.
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
Hirrnkopter Hellikranck
(Harbinger Sound) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
Early destructive outbursts by Joke Lanz (Sudden Infant) and Rudolf Eb.er (Runzelstirn Und Gurgelstock). Previously released on cassette (Schimpfluch 1989), this fusion of “audio snippets, moments of eerie keyboard hypnosis, cartoon effects, amplified body sounds, animals, song, etc., into dense jump-cutting compositions,” note our friends at Volcanic Tongue, comes across “as the aural equivalent of tuning across radio frequencies, occasionally settling on sources for long seconds before exploding into life and activity. The set has some of the constant content-exploding power of classic noise ... while turning the incessant sensory / information bombardment into an eviscerated form that ... empt[ies] it of ‘meaning’ and re-birth[s] it as a form of pure sensory wuh.”
The Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes
(Tummy Tapes) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Primitive urban folk music from a remote, little-explored island called Manhattan. Using native instruments, the third-world savages perform sacred tunes such as “Foggy Notion,” “I Can’t Stand It,” “Jesus,” “Beginning To See The Light,” and “Run Run Run.” Past-on covers.
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
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.
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
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
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.
Rocking To The Grave
(Unwucht - UN05) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ritchie Venus's accomplishments going back to the mid-'60s include impersonating Elvis, making films, writing 500+ songs, releasing a seven-inch on Flying Nun in 1983, touring with The Troggs, and releasing numerous LPs, singles, cassettes and CDs on Christchurch's Onset Offset, the label he still runs with Campbell McLay. Unwucht's reissue of his 1998 cassette, recorded at home with a drum machine and cheap gear, shows off Venus's talent as a songwriter, musician, singer and arranger. This desperate glance backward at an aging rock singer's career is full of sorrow, failure, and humor (when the last of the audience is dead, he kills his band and rocks on forever). One particular highlight is "Listen, World," written in 1975, with Axemen's Steve McCabe on noise guitar and Patrick Faigan of Say Yes To Apes / Brother Love on drums. Screen printed jacket. Edition of 150.
Live At Brown’s
(Siltbreeze) LP $20.00
Rare live & unreleased tracks from 1979. Second edition with orange radioactive man on front cover.
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
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.
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.
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.
Ridin’ Free / Captain Labour
(Eclipse) Used LP $18.00
Multi-layered live recordings from 2004. Microcosmic sound world. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 400
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.
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.
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
Untitled
([ no label ]) Used 10-inch $28.00
Stellar recordings of cosmic improv from 1998 recalling early John Cale. Silkscreen folder. Edition of 200
Untitled
(Gold Soundz - GS#18) 7-inch $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
Heady drone-based hypnosis from 2004, recorded live. Self-assured, textural, mind-altering. Edition of 420
Part 3
(Urashima - U005) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Inspired by the Giallo film of the same title, Vice Wears Black Hose is the obsessed and fanatical project of Sam McKinlay (The Rita) and Richard Ramirez (Werewolf Jerusalem, Black Leather Jesus), which dives into the harsh noise walls pool and completely drowns the listener in its dense, dark and pure sound. Two long tracks fall between all-out wall noise and a tense roaring harsh noise storm that slowly shifts through different deep grains of noise textures. Previous installments in the series were released by Cathartic Process and Violent Noise Atrocities. Silkscreened cardboard sleeve, with insert and envelope inside a shred of black stockings. Limited edition to 120 copies.
Part 4
(Turgid Animal - TA666) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Obsessive crackle wall worship from Richard Ramirez and Sam McKinlay. The texture, apparently a muddied variation of amplified scraping, is chunky and, due to its mid-paced nature, runs with little air between each static pop. Less distorted than the typical high-gain crunch HNW peers.
Drop Out b/w Same Cell Different Paint
(Total Life Society - TLS011) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Tom Watson (Red Krayola) on guitar; Matthew Wascovich (Scarcity Of Tanks) on vocals; Jerry Trebotic (Mike Watt And The Secondmen) on drums; Pete Mazich (Mike Watt And The Secondmen) on organ; John Talley-Jones (The Urinals) on bass; Mark Arm (Mudhoney) on guitar.
Primitives b/w Humanoid Front
(Total Life Society - TLS012) 7-inch $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Tom Watson (Red Krayola) on guitar; Matthew Wascovich (Scarcity Of Tanks) on vocals; Jerry Trebotic (Mike Watt And The Secondmen) on drums; Pete Mazich (Mike Watt And The Secondmen) on organ; John Talley-Jones (The Urinals) on bass; Mark Arm (Mudhoney) on guitar.
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
Testament of Tape 1984-1986
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD65) 3xLP $70.00 (Out-of-stock)
VidnaObmana in its most experimental phase during the obscure tape period, searching for a musical voice. Dirk Serries (sound artist best known for his Fear Falls Burning releases) moves through utterly relentless noise to rhythmic industrial outbursts. Features unreleased and rare tracks from a personal friend's private collection (music that was recorded exclusively for him) as well as songs from early cassette releases. LP number one combines beat-oriented material a la early Blackhouse or even Esplendor Geometrico. LP numbers two and three lay the groundwork for his later works.
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
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.
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.
Vile Insect
(Minimum Table Stacks) 12-inch $12.00
One of the rarest and largely unknown documents of 1980s UK DIY post-punk. Touching on the same sounds as Scritti Politti, the Raincoats and the Pop Group, the Wales-based quartet existed for a short time, played a few shows, and recorded and self-released one two-song seven-inch on their own Cheek to Cheek label. After four decades of evading Kugelberg’s Top 100, Messthetics compilations, and 45 Revolutions, bassist Steve Walker dug up the perfectly preserved original quarter-inch studio tapes with both songs from the seven plus two more recorded at the same session but never released. Presented here for the first time, digitally remastered, are all four songs along with a fold-out insert with Walker’s liner notes, photos and ephemera from his archive, and a reprint of a 1981 fanzine interview with the band. Edition of 300
Illusions of The Maintenance Man
(Destijl - IND046) LP $35.00 (Out-of-stock)
Crashing back to Earth / Dallas, following an unsuccessful attempt at hawking originals to the manicured hippies making the scene in Laurel Canyon, Bert and Eve Long recruited Wayne Lamar Boogs the third (vocals / madness) and Jud Chapin (drums / vocals), and recorded Illusions Of The Maintenance Man while the first gush of anything-could-happen was still upon them. Their beautiful teenage-tribe-in-America anthems are animated by the same lost / utopian garage band spirit as The Bachs, Index and The Rising Storm; their creepy sun-blind cultic edge tastes of acid and neural backroads in a way that brings to mind the Manson Family Jams. De Stijl’s reissue is an authorized exact-reproduction of the 1971 original with stamped and stickered jacket, insert and labels. Edition of only 500.
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
Ritual Machine Music
(Yerevan Tapes - YER019) LP $18.50 (Out-of-stock)
Two long jams, samples of sounds and chants from the world tribes, thirty minutes of patrimony for the world community. Edition of 250
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.
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
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
VOGELSCHEISS UND SEINE VERRÜCKTEN KRÖTEN
Vogelscheiß Und Seine Verrückten Kröten
(Art Into Life) CD $22.00
(Art Into Life) LP $37.00
This barely premeditated collaboration from the late 1980s by Strength Thru Joy's John Hubbard and Christoph Heeman and Andreas Martin of HNAS would make a perfect soundtrack to a paranormal thriller in which the living aren’t exactly haunted by ghosts and apparitions and poltergeists so much as fucked with. Not even pranked, just pointlessly confused for the poker-faced amusement of the quasi-dead. You know how it is in eternity — lotta time to kill. Records skip and wobble off center. Self-tuning radios pogo in and out frame. Violin, banjo and recorder slip across corrupted harmonic grids. A piano piece, oh my god, a piano piece. Plus: toads. You’re welcome. LP includes download code and insert. Edition of 300. Each CD comes in a handcrafted paper jacket, differing in color and texture. Edition 200
Shock_Late
(Entenpfuhl - EMM06) LP $25.00
Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang’s "cracked everyday electronics" from 1998. “Their soundscapes, always improvised and created using these cracked (i.e., tampered-with) everyday electronics,” says incursion.org, “are filled with subtle shifts, a host of sounds sometimes quiet and sometimes more intrusive, and always dramatic and engaging.” The Sound Projector aggrees: “Far from an empty, formless grind-o-groans, this is a structured panoply of slices of chocolate devil's food cake sound-events, all set in motion simultaneously like a pack of running hares going over the hill. A richness of creative racket.”
Anthology One 1989-1991
(Vinyl on Demand - VOD80) 2xLP $45.00 (Out-of-stock)
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Tracks from the first three cassettes -- Isolation (Cyclotron Industries 1990), Voice of Eye (Cyclotron Industries 1991) and Resonant Fields / Hot Gypsy Fink Hell (Cyclotron Industries 1992) -- by the godfathers of ambient-ritual music. Their "organic sound sculpting," a form of electronic ethnic ambient music, relies mainly on electronic drones and manipulated instruments, some of which are home-made, all improvised.
All The Paint I Can Breathe
(Beta Lactam Ring - MT059A) 10-inch $12.00
This 2004 selection of tracks originally appearing on Volcano The Bear’s first cassette release Vol One. (Volucan 1996) reveals the crack improv ensemble’s obsession with small sounds. Their pigment-soaked inventions are equal parts surrealist / dada sound sculptures and minimal wave / prog canvases. Gatefold sleeve with color insert. Edition of 500
Guess The Birds
(Beta Lactam Ring) 10-inch $12.00
Odd vocalizations and intercom talk, snoring, electronics, Arabic overtones, vocal wailing, contemplative droning and plenty of blown, bowed, plucked and struck stuff from 2001.
That People Don't Know They Are Monsters
(Quasi Pop - QPOPREC02) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
A straight, two-pieced story about mental monsters, emotionally disoriented people and unstable songwriting. Weird folk, tribal bowing, psychedelic ballads ... or not. It’s always something.
Tunnels And Wheels
(Gold Soundz - GS#13) 7-inch $10.00
Two chunks of tripped-out, abstract psych from 2004 with chanting, horns, scraping and drones combining. Head-melting. Edition of 310
Jerusalem Stone
(Destijl - IND122) 7-inch $8.50 (Out-of-stock)
New Jersey suburbanite Aviram Cohen (Silk Flowers, Soiled Mattress and The Springs, The Bad Form) uses a sequencer to program synths and drum machines, and sings about how boring life can be. An ’80s radio station blasts from a car parked under the subway overpass as the train roars overhead.
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.
Musique de l’Indifférence
(Peripheral) LP + CD $22.00
One continuous track of battering, unmoving and crude walled noise, spread across side one of the LP at 33rpm, then the CD, then the second side of the LP at 45rpm. Simultaneous play is also encouraged. Artwork by Strom_Varx. Edition of 350.
Untitled
(Either/Or - EOR001) 7-inch $9.50
Two sides of total and obliterating nothingness. Play in isolation. Handmade sleeve, two card inserts.
Shocking Early Works, Vol. 1
(Butte County Free Music Society - BUFMS47) 7-inch $10.00
Three raw living room and live recordings from 1985, documenting the first three months of the group’s existence, imbued with decadence and vitriol. Repetitive profanity, spartan adornment, outward-looking disgust and contempt take centerstage on “Swelling Admiration,” a tune with less dance groove than a riderless bike getting hit by a car. Honest, a skipping Suicide album sounds like “Bohemian Rhapsody” in comparison. The oblivion-embracing ode to defeatism “The Only Way Is Down” conveys, with flourishes such as impatient sighs, blasé moans and flickering drum machine, distaste for the ubiquitous, neon-colored optimism of mid-’80s fratboy / sorority girl airheads. Overdriven and sloppy in places, its pulse is insistent yet dire. Flipper’s signature tune “Sex Bomb” is stripped of all its properties, pretty much, thanks in no small part to the hand-held condenser mic recording; most of what remains is the noise of the audience in the room and the only thing potent enough to slice though it — singer Patricia Rowland’s psychotic screaming. Deep-end bonkers. Includes vintage liner notes by Lindy Lettuce.
Von Bingen
(Amen Absen - AA002) LP $20.00
Influenced by histories of conceptual art practices, and by electronic and outsider musics native to the west coast, Von Bingen is reminiscent of distant sonics found in the labs of ’60s SF pioneers, or overheard in Berlin’s Zodiac Club in the early ’70s, but Jenni Pace and Daniel Presnell (Astral Blessing, Hildegard), Josh Stevenson (Magneticring), and Richard Smith also anticipate the drone of future decades. Folk forms gleefully mutate, reborn as new hybrids, dignified by analog modular and semi-modular synthesizer systems from Serge, Buchla, and EMS. Instruments such as the flute, clarinet, guitar, and the drum are defamiliarized through quixotic treatments, originating from experimentations in the band’s studio.
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.
DITTERICH VON EULER-DONNERSPERG
O Du Froliche
(Meeuw Muzak - MM034) 7-inch $6.75 (Out-of-stock)
One small bit of light during the dark days of Xmas: Meeuw Muzak releases another fine seven-inch. Von Euler-Donnersperg has released some crazy-ass music on his own Walter Ulbricht label and Die Stadt, a mix of texts and electronic music. Here two soft electronic pieces are like snowflakes; almost kitschy and New Age as only super cheesy keyboard with all the wrong presets can achieve.
Operation Of Spirit Communication
(Die Stadt - DS31A) 7-inch $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Two unreleased tracks recorded in 2006 intended as a companion to the LP of the same name. Full-color sleeve, clear vinyl.
Operations Of Spirit Communication
(Die Stadt - DS31) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
The classic album from 2000, partly based on (and also dedicated to) the work of Friedrich Jürgenson, who recorded the “voices of the dead.” Gatefold jacket, clear vinyl. 300 copies.
Concert Fluxus Sara-Jevo
(Edition Telemark - 314.02) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Realized at Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca, Spain. September 9, 1994, with actions, electronics, and tapes by Vostell in collaboration with Mercedes Guardado on ximbomba, and soprano Nancy Bellow. Gatefold jacket, with printed sleeve of concert photos. Edition of 450
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.
Meet Your Ghost
(13 Records And Tapes) LP $45.00
Messed-up basement-fuzzed hard rock from Iowa, with a ’70s style and total Hendrix influence. Sealed
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.
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.
Gradient
(Destijl - IND099) 7-inch $5.00
In service to Wada's ongoing work with sound perception as a basis for direct modes of listening, he and Marc Sabat produce two sustained tones, a fourth apart, positioned along a wall, one at each end -- a very slow glissando from one pitch to the other while moving accordingly. In other words, the string players' physical locations in space correspond with pitches of the sounds. One of his adapted violas of Harry Partch, who often worked with this type of harmony, was used for the recording of Gradient. The result is a sculpture-like presence shifting through all the blue notes.
Copal Flow
(Backwards - BW04) LP $21.00 (Out-of-stock)
Whispers and screams; heartbeats and metal clashes; hypnotic, pulsing rhythms and voodoo drumming; ancient chants of the earth; primal cadences and powerful crescendos; subtle drones made of processed voices, atmospheric harmonics and noises -- these are the elements of the obscure night that is the first step of the new explorations of this Italian band, rooted in industrial music and musique brut, known for the past twenty years as Terroritmo. With the name change come ancient memories and visions of forests crowded with spirits and animals. Wakinyan incorporates into their modern ritual metal pipes and springs, glasses, Tibetan bowls, gongs, metal sheets, oil bins, knives, custom drums, and rattles. Edition of 300. Includes free MP3 download card.
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
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
Outpost
(Dom Bartwuchs - DOMBW07) LP $14.00
A dream-like motion from distant drones of vaguely defined shape toward totally disembodied sound, by this Australian musician who has worked with Oren Ambarchi, Greg Turkington, Mirror, Daisuke Suzuki and others.
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.
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
(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.
Space Denial
(Nashazphone - NP005) LP $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Wasteland Jazz Unit is Jon Lorenz and John Rich on saxophone and clarinet. The first full length of this apocalyptic Cincinnati duo pours molten silver into the ear. Space Denial is a powerful destruction trip pushing all the limits of reed electronic manipulations to areas explored only by the mighty Borbetomagus. Edition of 190 copies.
Calcutta Gas Chamber
(Die Stadt - DS97) LP picture disc $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
Inspired by nightmarish experiences during a visit to Calcutta in 1990, the late Australian composer conveys his impressions through electronic manipulation of field recordings made in an abandoned electrical power station in Brisbane in 1992. Grating and harsh, as indicative of nefarious activities related to death by machinery, beautifully composed and produced, completely remastered, with new artwork. Previous editions released by ND, 1993 and Cold Spring, 2006.
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.
Rare And Unissued
(Chess) Used LP $10.00
Fourteen-song collection mostly dating from 1947-1954 MCA reissue from 1984
Chill In My Vein
(Small Town Electron) 7-inch $20.00
Across a background of cheap pop-oriented keyboards, bass and drums, the beguiling Lori Watt has a unique voice, her Kiwi accent incredibly dominant and her enunciation peculiar. Somehow transcending what could add up to cheap melodrama, the whole thing is instead utterly captivating and moving. Edition of 100. Check out the video that first ensorcelled Small Town Electron’s Antony Milton here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzM3okQcTl0
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
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.
Daily Bread
(Galerie Pache) LP (one-sided) $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Sarah Bernat (16 Bitch Pile Up, Work) uses synth, voice, and guitar to get through her personal issues (sanitary among others), and to move sound with DIY intimacy and exuberance. The poetic side of Fluxus meets the active brevity of pop. Block-printed inserts in vinyl sleeve. Edition of 130. TEDIUM HOUSE BEST 0F 2010
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
Black Chapel
(Urashima - UMA001) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
A study in static textures and crackling wall noise by Richard Ramirez (aka Black Leather Jesus), initially influenced by the work of Chop Shop. Deluxe silver silkscreen on black cardboard jacket limited to 114 hand-numbered copies.
In Vogue Spirit
(Destijl - IND090) 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.
Spill Into Atmosphere
(Destijl - IND114) CD $12.50 (Out-of-stock)
(Destijl - IND114) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
The freshest whitecap in Wet Hair’s upward crashing wave swirls with lighter-than-air energy, born aloft on propellers of foam yet anchored to Earth with thunder-clap rhythms and Shawn Reed’s heady bellow. This Iowa City-based duo-cum-trio’s discography includes shared releases with Rene Hell, Naked on the Vague and Peaking Lights; on their second full length for De Stijl, Reed and drummer Ryan Garbes are joined by Justin Tye, whose unique, melodic signature flies in formation but also peels off into flights that relate to the silk wheels of the synths, compliment them, guide them, support and distort and report to them.
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.”
Stones and Light
(Rococo - RCC0013) LP (one-sided) $15.25
Demon-breath drone and peasant rust coagulating into an ancient spell. It's dirty and sick and stirs the unholy in the throats of the malignant before collapsing into dust. Edition of 150.
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
Whip and the Body
(Dais - DAIS02) 7-inch $6.00
Crushing, harsh power electronic by some Brooklyn noise creature with a hideous, malformed head. For fans of early Whitehouse, Grey Wolves, Ramleh.
The Sounds Of Discipline
(Zorro) LP $23.00 (Out-of-stock)
Unofficial reissue of obscure fetish item originally released by Anvil in 1965, consisting entirely of BDSM field recordings of very naughty men moaning as they are “tortured” and whipped with leather straps, riding crops, a cat whip, heavy rubber hose, and buggy whip. Paste-on artwork. Edition of 100.
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.
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
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.
Modern Heterosexuality
(At War With False Noise - ATWAR035) LP (one-sided) $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Old-school sparse power electronics by Portland upstarts in the vein of mid-period Sutcliffe Jugend. Paste-on jacket
Whomohw
(Fogged) LP $12.75
Buzzing and whirring, insectoid pinball by Chris Cooper (treated guitar), Jess Goddard (keyboard) and Josh Vrysen (tapes). If you like your aleatoric music with old-school modem startup sounds, curdled tape warp, mutated loops, and deep sleep pulsations, the three old-timers from Caroliner, Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase, Fat Worm Of Error, and Tumble Cat Poof Poofy Poof use 80s and 90s gear and deliver the clunky, raw, and unattractive stuff you’ve been waiting for. Enjoy this White Limo video while you make up your mind: http://youtu.be/p3-fpNQKe8U
Heathen Ridings Return
(Legion Blotan) 7-inch $8.75
Two long songs of Yorkshire heathen black metal with a raw and isolated sound. Edition of 250
White Medal
(Legion Blotan - BLOTEP01) 7-inch $7.50
Stripped down black metal from the North of England. “So distorted,” says Aquarius, it’s “difficult to tell if the band [is] plodding along doomily or blasting furiously, just a massive blown out rrrooooaaaaar. The drums pound away beneath an epic metallic riff that churns and throbs, slathered in blistering distortion … [M]ajestic.” Screen-printed Covers. White vinyl.
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
Silo Blanket
(Formacentric - MOTH1) LP (lathe cut) $40.00
Dean Roberts's second album under the White WInged Moth moniker, from 1997. Excellent experimental drone rock with electric guitar, piano, vocal, tapes, and Alan Licht playing organ on one track. Edition of 60.
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.
Asceticists 2006
(Susan Lawly - VFSL16) LP $15.50 (Out-of-stock)
Step up to the mic, Tiny Mix Tapes: "Though Whitehouse are over 20 years old, Asceticists 2006 shows that they have lost none of their vicious streak. William Bennett communicates the brutality of existence.... Instrumentally, Bennett and Philip Best create some of the most shape-shifting and sonically varied Whitehouse fare to date.... Asceticists begins with an immediate collage of sharp fuzz, disjointed and distorted drum beats, and screeching tones. Bennett pens a piece. Best screams a situation for us to fathom, demanding us to try on a new skin. He commences with a Phillip Larkin-like rant about how much parents fuck up their kids. Best proceeds to describe the horrific intents of self-interested parents. Four stanzas into the song, Bennett paints us a picture of a suicide bombing. A plethora of the graphic, violent, post-9/11 images come flooding into the mind, and Whitehouse has almost completed the job. A couple more stanzas filled with horrific imagery drive the message home."
Birthdeath Experience
(Susan Lawly - VFSL01) LP $17.50 (Out-of-stock)
The seminal first album by Whitehouse even to this day is a remarkable piece of work created entirely with tone generators and EDP Wasps. Lyrically full of uncompromising, trademark irony. Instrumental in dragging avant garde electronic music a long way from its initially limited boundaries. Reissued in conjunction with Very Friendly.
Cruise
(Very Friendly) Used 2xLP $60.00
Good-sounding Bates electronics. Includes 16-page booklet of lyrics and information. Sealed
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
JT Whitfield
(Rural Isolation Project - RIP004) LP $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
Four tracks of drifting malevolent electronics that grind slowly down the hall as heavy doors slam and crowbars crash on concrete. Ghosts stumble through hissing steam while muffled electronics pulse from several floors up. Intermittent rhythms break through the shadows before returning to the thick fog. Blacker than a landlord’s soul. Edition of 300
Disingenuity b/w Disingenuousness
(Pan - PAN13) LP $18.00
The two pieces of forward-thinking electronic music on Whitman’s first full length record in four years use as source material live and studio recordings from the past two years (Cambridge, New York, Toronto), which were then realized into longform compositions. Using a Musique Concrète approach of deconstructed sounds, Disingenuity b/w Disingenuousness are tape-collage pieces derived from an hour-long improvisation based around a setup involving a tape of chance field-recordings (a helicopter, walking on snow, children) bounced to a mono Nagra tape machine, which is covered in contact mics that translate not just the sound coming from the speakers, but the actual mechanical "interface" of the unit into control voltage and triggers that drive a modular synth that's processing said audio using the classic electronic music toolkit (i.e. ring modulation, panning VCAs, filters, etc.). 140-gram vinyl, color jacket, silkscreened PVC sleeve. Edition of 500.
Variations for Oud & Synthesizer
(No - KFW-OUD) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Retired assassin (code name Hrvatski) splashes DNA from Hamza el Din, Louis & Bebe Barron, and Kenneth Gaburo's "For Harry" all over a Unarian tearoom.
Fanatic
(BloodLust! - B!060) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Ultra-harsh power electronics by a mysterious project. Ninth release in the BloodLust! Private 7-inch series. Plain white sleeve. 300 copies
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
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
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.
Compound
(Von Archives - VON002) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
A threshold of sound composed from the electrocacoustic improvisations of Yeh and the chirurgical, abrasive noise patches of Wiese. A majestic experiment by two unclassifiable masters of the new improv. Edition of 300.
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.
Dramatic Accessories
(Ultra Eczema - UE57) LP $28.00 (Out-of-stock)
This record is painfully harsh at times and even more painfully sensitive others, less a wall of nuttery and buckets full of zist and garbage thrown at your head, more an aural test of the limits of teasing your insides and flappy ears. This collection of cut-ups from Wiese's 2007 European tour uses guitar, drums, voice, tape, and the secret weapon, miscellany. The perfect soundtrack for cutting toenails out with a knife. Silkscreened, fold-open cover design by Dennis Tyfus. Numbered edition of 300 copies.
GGA
(Teenage Teardrop - TD037) CD $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
(Teenage Teardrop - TD037) LP $15.00
Two side-long tracks of dynamically diffused smashing, shattering and crashing sounds, mixed in stereo from Wiese's four-channel Los Angeles installation. Cover photographs by Cali Thornhill deWitt. Clear vinyl with insert. Edition of 330.
Live In Nottingham
(What The ... - WHAT004) LP $25.00
Live collaboration by Wiese (to be played by Sasha Cohen in the upcoming film Noise Movie) and Yeh, in front of their best gear with loudspeakers and a room full of wanting Brits. Rude blast noises, deep-brain droning, twisting tape press record, vocals that are just torn-apart and strung up in electronic torture chambers. Recorded direct from the board for maximum clarity, detail and quality. Limited edition of 330 with insert and red silkscreened covers.
Mixed Metaphor b/w Into a Bad Way
(Phage - PT110) 7-inch $9.00 (Out-of-stock)
Brutal, fast-moving, cut-up harsh noise, recorded and mixed in 2007, using Wiese and Merzbow material as source.
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
Tiny Red Tables b/w Big American Hole
(Helicopter - H48) 7-inch $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
Handheld tape recordings of source material and stage clips that Wiese (Sissy Spacek, Bastard Noise) and Yeh (Burning Star Core) used during the Free Noise tour sets -- the first unofficial Free Noise document, in fact. Very low-fi, but sounds great. An astounding twenty-six minutes total, no joke. Edition of 150.
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
That's What the Obituary Said b/w Ten Suicides
(Chrome Peeler - CPR09) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
Anti-social misanthropic spoken word and power electronics by the Eyehategod / Outlaw Order / Arson Anthem vocalist and author of "Cancer as a Social Activity: Affirmations of World's End." With Ryan McKern (The Guilt Of...) on the A-side. The flip was originally a Bloodyminded track with vocal by Mike IX Williams; here it's re-mixed by Mark Solotroff (Intrinsic Action, Bloodyminded). Includes 11" x 17" poster and lyric booklet. Black with yellow splatter vinyl. Edition of 500.
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
(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.
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
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
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.
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
Forest Of Blitzkrieg
(Blak Skul) 7-inch (one-sided) $8.50 (Out-of-stock)
No glacier ever made it as far south as Memphis and the temperature is far from Nordic, but Memphis has plenty of death and dungeons, and the crackheads are grim if not frostbitten. Wintercoffin recorded “Forest of Blitzkrieg” at The Armory, as close to a squalid medieval torture pit as you could find in North America (and known to host metal and punk shows, late-night screenings of The History Channel’s Nazi Super Weapons, home recordings, SWAT raids, and a tall male ghost dressed in black with a white face). It also happens to be the base of operations of thrash band Evil Army and located around the corner from the former residence of Jimmy Blitzkrieg, who was later known as Jay Reatard. While Evil Army was primarily an outlet for Bay Area-influenced thrash aggression, Rob Evil and Blitzkrieg spawned Wintercoffin out of a love for ’90s black metal, choosing a classic Darkthrone-meets-Burzum-at-the-Battle-of-Ardennes sound. The mid-to-late-’90s blackened thrash of Dødheimsgard and Aura Noir also deserves mentioning. This is their sole finished recording. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/IbXi2UAt574
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
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.
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
(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
Frigid Soil
(Aagoo) 7-inch (one-sided) $7.00
Brutal and epic noise-infused black metal sludge from Evan Pacewiz (Moth Drakula, Roman Torment) and Jay Howard (Circuit Wound). Red vinyl with silkscreened B-side. Edition of 300.
Fanfare and Contrapunctus / Imago
(Pan - PAN12) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Fanfare & Contrapunctus (1976) were made at the newly opened electronic studio at the Sydney Conservatorium, before the advent of music computer technology. The source material derives from free improvisations by Wishart and Martin Mayes using “soft trumpets,” pop-guns, French Horn and virtuoso eating noises, plus recordings of birdsong and other environmental sources. Imago (2002) metamorphoses the single “clink” of two whisky glasses into birdsong, a junkyard gamelan, the ocean and the human voice, but never entirely abandons its links to this minimal source. The piece was made using sound transformation software written by the composer, available through the Composers Desktop Project, and the original source sound was taken from Jonty Harrison’s “et ainsi de suite.” 140-gram vinyl, color jacket, silkscreened PVC sleeve. Edition of 500.
..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.
Infernal Devices
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00
From 2007. Paste-on photocopy jacket. Edition of 123
Always Wrong
(Hospital - HOS245) CD $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
(Hospital - HOS245) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Always Wrong is a mantra of severity, coming forth from the piles of tape loops and effects, the bulk of tables reeling with electronics having been shed. This clarity does not sacrifice intensity. Wolf Eyes have crafted a statement with maturity that stands at the top of their mysterious discography. Young, Olson, and Connelly have been scouring audiences across the globe with acid-drenched industrial noise and dub terror psychedelia, establishing themselves as the trailblazers of a genre and pioneers of the long-form noise tour. This is the most organic of the full lengths, but also the harshest and most dissonant. “Cellar” immediately sets the pace of barraged edits and percussive electronics as startling vocals spit from the dry throat and remain unfiltered, breathing for the first time a clear litany of scorn. Throughout the album non-electronic beats created from live drums replace programming while colliding tape loops and junk metal bring the unstable rhythms of a house with eroding foundation. “Living Stone” shows a more natural state of acoustic composition, highlighting the despondent subtle plucking of controlled guitar improvisation that could come from nature’s ghost. Forge onward through “We All Hate You,” with its loud, tonal horns and architecturally placed electronics. “Broken Order” takes hold with shrill feedback fueling industrial cannon blasts of white hot noise that burn the body from the neck down. The closing track “Droll / Cut The Dog” is an eerie harmonica-driven death march straight out of Once Upon a Time in the West.
Dog Jaw
(Heresee) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
A vinyl reissue of the limited CDR recorded before Aaron Dilloway left the band, mixed by Twig Harper of Nautical Almanac at the WE studio. One side plays at 33, the other at 45. Packaged in screen printed sleeves and pressed in an edition of 600 copies.
Dumpsters & Attitude Vol One
(Rockatansky) LP $30.00
Nate Young’s spoken word vocals. Dank, zoned, grueling, mind-frying electronics that creep, crawl and bleep along. John Olson’s trip metal approach to free jazz. Horns, mutant reeds, mysterious f/x chains. Includes obi and sticker.
No Answer : Lower Floors
(Destijl - IND164) CD $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
(Destijl - IND164) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
There is no denying the homemade nuclear war Wolf Eyes has declared on music. Birthed in the shadows of late-’90s Michigan by Nate Young, Aaron Dilloway and John Olson, they’ve grown beyond a band into a collective mutant ensemble, an art abstraction unit: musicians, print makers, photographers and more, all sharing a primal vision of decoding the wilderness of the humanoid soul using their deep audio arsenals. No Answer : Lower Floors covers all bases: tough to toughest to tangled. The vocals, delays, primitive electronics, woodwinds and raw guitar of newest member James Baljo create a new destroyed space to crawl through. The usually two-dimensional flatness of the drums and electronics creeps with new brightness-life within the hollow echo acoustics of the sacred space’s cinder prisons, their underworld of odd melodies and mangled harmonics. Within their system-based economic compositions, there remains zero room for wasted space. The whole record is less internal misery and more colorful, if of a “could be life on Mars” zone more than rainbows and daisies. With former members Aaron Dilloway and Mike Connelly.
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.
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
Dark Passenger
(Turgid Animal - TA365) LP $15.00
In exploring the death-journey, Bob McCully utilizes the full spectrum of eclectica for a record you could play to your mom, and yet is also one of the most disturbing records you’re likely to hear. Limited to 250 copies. Art by the incredibly talented Elijah Funk.
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.
Only Shadows Now
(Bruit Direct Disques - BR-D13) LP $24.00 (Out-of-stock)
Set to the minimalist sparse compositions of Dan McGirr (guitar) and Natasha Buchanan (synth, voice), Robert Vagg’s confessionals drift around tragedies, hopelessness, failed systems, nonconformity and physical / psychological experiences. “Wonderfuls express deeply personal issues,” says Matt Kennedy, “Like mental illness and social isolation better and with more sincerity than any other band you will hear….”
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
(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
Songs For Nothing
(After Music Recordings) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
A soundtrack for the end of civilization, written for those who can only watch it happen on Youtube with the camera miles away. Songs For Nothing combines the atmosphere of Creation Death Machine (MaxCorp 2010), the creeping walls of Fairweather Mask (Autumn Wind Productions 2009) and various textural elements that showed up on the seven-inches, tapes and CDRs in between. Woods loses a minimal amount of past experimentation to make way for a more straightforward, pissed-off approach. Crashing pianos, broken electronics, a variety of different vocal styles, synth swells and field recordings merge with a thematic focus on our inability to control the the world. This is a record about screaming truth to power in a sound proof room. Red vinyl. Hand-screened cardboard sleeve. Photocopied insert.
From Lo-Fi To Disco
(Broken Silence - 00043) CD $12.75 (Out-of-stock)
(Broken Silence - 00043) LP $13.50
This German / Italian duo rocks a unique mixture of quirky indie pop, boy / girl vocals with a lo-fi attitude, electronic beats and synthesizers. Early Modern Lovers meets the soundtrack for a Volkswagon commercial. LP includes free download card.
Wyrding
(Small Doses - DOSE128) CD $12.75 (Out-of-stock)
(Small Doses - DOSE128) LP $17.25 (Out-of-stock)
Wyrding initially melded the neo-folk leanings of Kinit Her into a unique take on funeral doom metal. Now a five-piece band, they’ve become expansive and epic, riddling the trip with sadness, darkness, and catharsis. “Troy Schafer’s warm baritone voice [soars] above [the smooth lugubre of] fellow bandmates Brian Steele, Kyle Roessler, Bret Hartl and Jerry McDougal,” observes Invisible Oranges’ Jon Rosenthal. “Gone are the overt folk influences…. [Their sound is now] akin to Benedictine monks performing funeral rites with modern electric instrumentation. Unlike … more conservative funeral doom…, Wyrding seeks out the dramatic not only in minimal execution, but minimal sound. They are quiet, unassuming, [yet] portray immensity.” Red vinyl with black swirl. CD contains two tracks previously released on the Agony In Being cassette (Shifting Sands Congregation 2015).
Cryptonesia
(Ini Itu - 1501) LP $20.00
The unexpected melt-pop child of dangdut and krautrock, filtered through electronica and post-exotica lenses. Roel Meekop and Frans de Waard resist the temptation to go all subtropical gabber, and instead deliver good-natured beats, boisterous and carefree, exhaling a cheerful and joyous mood. The epic eighteen-minute B-side is a freewheeling and energetic construction of meandering and hypnotic pseudo-gamelan riffs, resulting in trippy and lush washes of bliss. A record to enjoy, not only for its hedonistic take on music history reverse engineering, but also its use of snippets from early ’80s cassettes by obscure electronic puddle-tapper Cybe. Edition of 250 with insert.
Sunshine of Your Love
(Siltbreeze - SB090) LP $12.00
Originally released on the cassette-only label Breakdance The Dawn, Siltbreeze 's vinyl reissue answers the question, what’s left in that studio that’s not broken? (Only their will!) On a break from their duties in Antipan, Matt and Nick plugged into the cassette deck—left channel, guitar; right channel, mic under the floor tom—and played. Apart from minor adjustment of levels, the end result as it was made is all here. XNo BBQX cite Harry Pussy and Mouthus as influences.
xNO BBQx
(Pulled Out - PULL03) LP picture disc $17.50
Matt and Nick from Antipan go apeshit with their guitar-drums dishevelment. Picture disc imported from Australia.
Lost Signals
(Ultra Eczema - UE45) LP $25.00
Bill Nace, John Truscinski and Jake Megansky deliver their fourth sparse, spaced, scratched and creeped-out record, which follows a debut CDR on Audiobot, an amazing tape on Nace's Open Mouth label, and an LP on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace imprint. XO4 uses two guitars and percussion, and they construct a solid paradise of tension between the instruments that is refreshingly non-obvious: an old dog rubbing thousands of little pieces of metal together, a circuit-bent old wooden clock, sensitive guitar-molestation always nearby. Nace also plays in a duo with Chris Cooper (Angst Hase Pfeffer Nase), in Vampire Belt with free percussion's crown prince Chris Corsano, and in Northampton Wools with Thurston Moore. Packaged in a collaged jacket designed by Dennis Tyfus.
Cities On Flame
(Little Big Chief) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Slow avant-psych,” observe our friends at Goner, “recorded with that ‘microphone placed a few rooms away under a mountain of pillows’ … mystique.” Compared elsewhere to everything from Kray Cherubs to Vermonster to hiccupping Alex Chilton. Silkscreened jacket. Numbered edition of 250.
Network
(Harbinger Sound) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. The idea behind Network was a simple one. When Thermidor first released the album in 1983, Chris Scarpino and Scott Foust were hoping to strip industrial music, which they both enjoyed, of all its rock moves and create a music that sounded like idealized heavy industrial machinery. “We thought the repetition of our music, as well as the sound, was a radical critique of the exploitive nature of work under consumer-capitalism,” says Foust. “We wanted to make machine-like anthems of negativity, but like the sound of heavy machinery, with a stark and powerful beauty.”
Magnificence in the Memory
(Drag City) LP $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 take. The capacity of their riffs and grooves to mimic German prog bands of the same era, psychedelic rock bands of several years previous or the as-yet-uncreated avant sounds from the indie rock movement a decade away is evidence of their connection to the source of human inspiration itself.
Penetration - An Aquarian Symphony
(Tee Pee - TP083) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Tripped out, divinely inspired, totally improvised, considered their best release if for no other reason that its capture of the intensity and glory of Krautrock.
Sonic Portation
(Prophase - PMLP9991) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Back in the early '70s, The Source Family owned and operated a health food restaurant in Los Angeles, and were centered around Father Yod -- WWII flying ace, spiritual searcher, and leader of improvisational music-making under the name Yahowa 13. When Yod died in a hang gliding accident in 1975, the group dispersed. In 2007, with the publication of a book about The Source Family, the original Yahowa 13 reunited for live shows and studio recordings, the first in over 30 years. Here, original members Djin, Octavius and Sunflower jam out as if the ensuing years never happened (they didn't; time is an illusion). Mind-melting guitar and the psychedelic low end throb that Yod fans immediately recognize. Edition of 500
Disillusion
(Doubtfulsounds - DOUBT10) LP $18.00 (Out-of-stock)
Debut solo effort by the tenor sax-player from Holy Mountain recording artists Klangmutationen and member of the collectives Emacm and SiCKL, which promote avant-garde and experimental music in Malaysia. Seven untitled tracks of free improv where Yandsen’s strong breathing, pitch, and lyrical style recall Ayler, Abe or Urabe. Edition of 300.
IYS
(Art Into Life - AIL005) LP $30.00 (Out-of-stock)
“This is a field of action implied, in the many possibilities and several contextualities of time...” states Giancarlo Toniutti in The Histories of Noise, “[P]rojecting music outside the realm of musicology, with a well-structured leap into the biological realm of sound and perception….” IYS – stem, branch, expression. Radiative expansion. The tree is silent. Make it speak. Assault on Venus. Cartesian grid or dimensional zones? Plants and animals. Airplanes, birds. When we hear a natural sound, how is it perceived? Is destruction an aberration in space-time? Process music. Nature can be quite quiet. Infrequent sounds in isolation. Overnight Campsite. Revealed roots. Primitive sound genesis. Time lapse structures. Wild environments. Some things in nature are meant to be broken, like the shell of a nut. Sound of life torn apart. Not the brittle crispiness of dried fall. Pattern perception. A specific, localized sound environment. Tree removal. Reverse animation. Search for the right sized subject. Madrona. Logging roads, island trek. Sacrifice. Microcosm in sound recording. Detailed exclusion. No looping. A finite numbered sequence. Its inversion alongside. A trailer full of dissected specimen. Ladder and camera. The cultivation of a sonic germ. Is the spirit intact? A single flower tops the tree. The waxy green leaves are first plucked. It's a skeletal reversal rehearsal. Displaced matter. Three days of taping. Prepared systematic process. Horizontal reorientation of sound contents. Wood audio emissions. Tanglewood. Time compression shifting. Tiny becomes tinier. Tinny becomes tinnier. Analog reels reality analogue. The beast has left. Careful with that axe! Levels zero and one on up to the branch tips. Field drawings and photos. Archeological dig in the dirt. Unearthed trunk. A missing organism is globally dispensed with. And still this thing persists. A strange evolution through sound. Creepy. Gatefold jacket, tree diagram poster, insane printing, gray vinyl. Edition of 300.
In the Blink of an Eye b/w Condo Stress
(Destijl - IND087) 7-inch $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
In addition to Songs 2002 (What The... Records 2009), the only Yeh effort that is electronics music, furniture music, modernistic music, and music with experimental new vision.
Solo Violin 1-10
(Tone Filth - TF46) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Minimal and tense recordings from 2004 by the man behind Burning Star Core. Made up of ten unprocessed live-to-tape violin experiments edited from original sources previously issued as limited edition CDRs on Yeh’s Drone Disco imprint, the sounds on this record range from tense scrapes to minimal textural drones. Silkscreened jacket. Edition of 400.
Solo Voice I–X
(Primary Information) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Yeh’s first LP devoted entirely to the voice has its most obvious precedents in ’60s and ’70s sound poetry (the raw and a-verbal Four Horsemen, post-Lettrist France, Joan La Barbara). Having moved from virtuosic, intensely physical performances to more focused studies attached to performance situations and the body, he maintains a strict fidelity to the specific properties of his voice. Yeh has relied on amplification and various studio techniques; here the breaths have been edited out, letting the vocalizations run together in palpitating continua. The effect is an elision of phrasing as an element of both linguistic and musical convention, and an uncanny protraction of the voice into vast, hypnotic slurs. Solo Voice I–X progresses from shorter tracks, each honing in on a particular sound or technique, toward more open-ended territory in which the formal rigor begins to dissolve, with Yeh’s voice playing off both silence and itself. Check out a four-minute excerpt here: https://soundcloud.com/primaryinformation/solovoice-excerpts-vii-iii-v2
Transitions
(Destijl - IND102) CD $12.75 (Out-of-stock)
(Destijl - IND102) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
Having rattled the hinges with last year’s “In the Blink of an Eye” seven-inch, C S Yeh flings open the door and steps inside. The startling songs on Transitions flit between sculpted guitar riffs and measured, just-shy-of-lush synth-pop with wry lyrics delivered in guileless tones. Ardent fans will have little trouble understanding the move away from handsomely carved drones or speckled and serrated noise; Transitions is simply a different form of Yeh’s unmediated expression, of a spirit with Slapp Happy, but which wouldn’t sound out of place on a Magnetic Fields record.
C. SPENCER YEH / RYAN JEWELL / JON LORENZ TRIO
C. Spencer Yeh / Ryan Jewell / Jon Lorenz Trio
(Krayon Recordings - KR012) 7-inch $8.25
Bent frown jazz construction from violin scrunch and squeal, hard tom rub and dense harmonic blowing. Side B fragments into bowed skin, seesaw string microtone and rasped mouthpiece.
Desolation Peak
(Emerald Cocoon - E011) LP $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
The intimately confrontational vocal deconstructions rapping inside raw distortions of emotive gut on Desolation Peak owe something to East African ritual chants, which is not underestimate its illumination by the same electricity as A Handful Of Dust, Heather Leigh Murray, Jandek, or Gate’s Metric LP. Vocals multiply and fall back into themselves, guitars bloom like flowers of grit, the whole record collapses into groaning gleaming feedback. Edition of 259
Love Song For The Dead C
(Emerald Cocoon - EC009) LP $12.00 (Out-of-stock)
Bookended by two renditions of a Persian love song (one sung in Farsi, one in English) that trade in the same echoing confusion, Love Song For The Dead C is some epic outsider hornk, originally released to coincide with an installation at Human Resources Gallery in Los Angeles. Dissonant chiming slowly unfurls into a vast chasm of mesmerizing sound; disoriented guitar wafts through a wah-wah swirl of delay and distant Dead C samples; parts are harrowing slow-motion crawls through alleys and sewers of room tone as captured by the tunnel-vision fidelity of a Dictaphone. Handmade bootleg-style paste-on covers. Edition of 288.
Oh Woman / Flame Creation
(Emerald Cocoon - EC005) 7-inch $7.25 (Out-of-stock)
Gone are the horizontal string-sprawl epics of past, replaced by a new density and compositional focus. Dictaphone guitar-swirl and declamatory vocal preaching atop loping nod-out rhythm samples, you could almost say Helga Fassonaki (of Metal Rouge) has gone pop. But then there’s B-side: a sheet of live industrial slamming recorded at the Echo Curio in Los Angeles that sounds like a realtime channeling of Kali. Confusing, enticing, nuanced and brutal. Volume three in Emerald Cocoon’s Alone Together series. Edition of 300.
Birthdays
(Anarchymoon - ANOK22) LP $10.50
Two live sets from 2007 by Australia’s maverick amplified-glass player recorded in Europe. The contact-mic’d glass -- smeared with gel, rubbed with Yeldham’s nightmarish face, blown against, and otherwise manipulated -- shrieks like a trumpet with live a pig up its ass, alternating with field recordings of Donald Duck suffering through a heavy bout of dysentery, treated with synths pedal. This is a warehouse find of the platters from the original pressing, with new silkscreened fold-overs, individually smeared with blood. Seriously, these are not vegan.
Justice Yeldham
(Dual Plover) LP picture disc $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
Twenty-six minutes of what's been described as "a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe." Yeldham ecstatically purses his lips against sheets of amplified glass and throat sings, raspberries, and performs any kind of vocalization he can think of in between. Strangely controlled, oddly musical, simple, original, and bloody. Four tracks: "180211" (recorded live at Serial Space, Sydney); "Buzzies" and "Black Knight Cleans Bright" (both recorded January 2012); and "March of the Bodypumpers" (recorded 2009, previously available as mp3 download via Wire magazine).
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
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.
Don't Cry
(Hospital - HOS246) LP $16.50 (Out-of-stock)
The sound of a drop of urine pushed through an infected urethra. An uncomfortable attraction to the golden realms of natural expulsion, this is the audio collage equivalent of a child’s worst day at a carnival as an aktionist nightmare of disturbing imagery and sounds. On Don’t Cry these young masters carve sculptures of depravity using god knows what for source sounds. The listener is introduced to a mostly quiet, subtle psychology of fear, childhood trauma and locked cellars. Power comes from the absence the familiar. Separating themselves from the narcissistic herd, the band requires decades of therapy to begin to solve their problems. Bad dreams are supposed to be frightening.
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.
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
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.
Touchwood’s Dream
([ no label ]) LP $22.50 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. Euro import reissue with paste-on covers of the third album (North Star 1970) by this Takoma fringe-dwelling multi-instrumentalist. Using soprano sax, flute, bass, guitar and percussion, Yost’s unique psychedelic folk jazz reflects the natural beauty of the San Francisco Bay Area he called home.
Bouquet
(Avant! - AV042) LP $18.75 (Out-of-stock)
Fourth moody album by these Detroit-based dusters, driven by vintage drum machine beats, dark, slinky bass and catchy keyboard work. A perfect soundtrack to any overcast day in the urban wasteland.
Amaranthine
(Mie Music - 009) LP $12.00
Built around layered percussion and Youngs’s vocals, the asymmetrically patterned underlay is scored for drums, household objects and handheld percussion; at points scything fuzz guitar cuts through and deep synths bubble up out of nowhere before dissipating into solo shakuhachi. “Immersive and free-flowing music,” says Pitchfork. Edition of 500.
I Dream Of Mezzanine / Cloudplanes
(Spring Press - SP11) LP $13.50 (Out-of-stock)
A commanding new exploration of voice and electronics, “with vocals, acoustic guitar, sleigh bells, tape, graphic equalizer, computer and epinette des vosges scored for two sidelong pieces,” marvels our friends at Volcanic Tongue. “The beats are genuinely cracked, stumbling over each other, breaking in and out of rhythm ... while … layers of vocals…, distant, electronically treated moans, and expressionist breath [frame] mantric / hypnotic phrases, almost giving the album the feel of a more pastoral Throbbing Gristle. The second side has a more lunar, psychedelic appeal.” Edition of 300
Richard Youngs
(Spring Press - SP20) 10-inch (lathe cut) $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Pruned and interwoven vocals, live percussion, drum machines, organ and electronics that form a disorienting triptych. Monosyllabic motifs become cathartic codes, wildy modulated synths fall in and out of phase until everything is liquid. Another beautiful surprise from this maverick of the underground. Listen to some of it here: https://soundcloud.com/the-spring-press/richard-youngs-luther-side-b. Edition of 70.
Akystret
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
(Chocolate Monk) LP $30.00
Soothing and interspersed with claustrophobic fogfall, Akystret tape-manipulates Brightonese baritone guitar, layered effects, and wind rustling in dissolving foliage, among other things, based on single-mic live recordings recent and ancient from East Anglia and in a sullen boxroom turned home during a prolonged episode of insomnia. The title is a mere sound, extracted from a digital handheld device left running when trying to find sleep, recording somniloquist mumblings during nightmare-ridden patches of sleep. A kind of onomatopoeic mystery resonating from a voice and in a language other than one’s own. Or perhaps of one’s own but from a place only to be accessed in a state of nausea and exhaustion, to an extent that unconscious speech meanders its way from the meaningless cosmos of the mind into a vacant vessel for sound. White vinyl edition of 60. CDR edition of 60.
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.
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.
Muster Point
(We Jazz) CD $12.00
(We Jazz) LP $20.00
American sax-player Stanley J. Zappa and Finnish percussionist Simo Laihonen, students of Milford Graves both, captured live and in the studio while Zappa was touring in Finland with the Black Motor musicians. This is a set full of fire and thunder, but also features some more meditative spiritual jazz. With bassist Ville Rauhala on a couple of tracks. Liner notes by the man himself. Violet vinyl.
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
Hans Rudolf Zeller
(Edition Telemark - 314.04) LP $23.00 (Out-of-stock)
Various elements of this seldom-released composer’s work collected, which often involves combinations of multiple dimensions (texts, vocals, visual projections), into one cinematological literature. The recordings here were made within the last 10 years, yet many of the underlying concepts date back to the 1960s or 1970s. Contained are two scriptophonies (combining writing and vocals, with the notion of writing being extended à la Carlfriedrich Claus and Gerhard Rühm), two vocal improvisations, one piece of Tesa sounds (produced by adhesive tape), and one piece for horn. Innersleeve with photos, collage, and liner notes by Zeller in German and English, and another insert showing a relic of a scriptophony. Edition of 300.
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
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.
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
(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).
The Man Can't Bust Our Music
(Ectoplasm - ROV004) 7-inch $12.00
It'd be sheer folly not to defer to Mark Prindle on this: "Named after a godawful CBS Records ad line from the late '60s, the second ZCR release is a teeny little 7-inch with ten studio songs crammed onto it. It's very diverse and never gets boring. The ZCR originals include: a gentle tribute to Che Guevara; a throbbing hard rocker about kicking in the heads of audience members; a haunting piano instrumental by a man who can't play the piano; a needlessly offensive British nursery rhyme; a free-noise snippet; a country-western advertisement for a hotel frequented by the Zip Code Rapists. The cover tunes include: Pablo Cruise's 'Good Ship Pablo Cruise' (or rather, one line of 'Good Ship Pablo Cruise' sung over and over and over); John Lennon's '#9 Dream' as sung by the 'Hijinks' computer from Gregg Turkington's Great Phone Calls LP; Stephen Foster's 'Old Folks At Home' sung through a toy megaphone; a hideous dirtball rendition of The Monkees' 'Listen To The Band'."
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.
Skull
(Minimum Table Stacks) LP $20.00
“Originally released as a cassette on the Japanese label Vanilla in 1993,” explains Tom Lax, “Skull has been floating around the sub-underground for years. ZBZ was the brainchild of the late noise legend Hirohito Taneguchi (Seed Mouth) and the equally legendary Junko Hiroshige (Hijokaidan, Genbakukaidan). Much like Michio Kadotani’s Rotting Telepathies recordings, Skull’s great tremors of blurred clamber come directly at you, sometimes sideways. It’s hard to know how much is premeditated or what’s driven by organic impulse, which is what makes it such a great attestation of its era. In an instant, the album moves from a psychotic whoosh not unlike Twin Infinitives to an eerie gait similar to Dadamah’s. Plus, there's everything in between. A true blue-blood of disparate vision, ranking right up there in the masterpiece department with un’s self-titled album, New Zealand’s Ziggy Stardust Band, and those two solo albums from Eric Hysteric.” Edition of 300
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
Acid For Babies
(Psychic Liberation) LP $17.00
A glistening invitation from Jeronimo Jimenez to an environment of minimal complexities, with textures and repetition fine-tuned to soothe or delight a baby’s ear — specifically, that of his new daughter. The playful, unassuming tracks are one-take tape recordings from hardware instruments. The album is bookended with an interpretation of Raymond Scott’s little-known final composition: a piece for MIDI titled “Beautiful Little Butterfly.”