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.
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.
Future Artists
(Ba Da Bing - BING053) 2xLP $17.00
Another uncompromising realization of the surreal and undefined expressed via fine rock improv, genius drone and barbarous clashing sounds. From the first track, “The AMM of Punk Rock” through to the last, “Garage,” The Dead C's intensity is unyielding, their inventiveness jaw-dropping.
Secret Earth
(Ba Da Bing - BING059) LP $14.00
The elegance of howling guitar noise meets the tenets of alienation in society with unrelenting force -- a focused soundtrack to accompany Knut Hamsun novels, Samuel Beckett plays, and Ingmar Bergman films. Michael Morley's monotonic vocal moan anchors the inherent isolation of our modern world, earnest and lost. Oceanic feedback, catastrophic drumming, and a return to the cripple rock blasts of their early material.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.