Chinese Gongfu Poker
([ no label ]) Deck Of Cards $5.00
Each card depicts a martial artist engaged in a combat stance.
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.
MASAMI AKITA / JOJO HIROSHIGE / T. MIKAWA
Alchemy Records USA T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size XL $50.00
Hanes Beefy-T 100% cotton. Black with white and glow-in-the-dark ink on front, white on back. From 1990s
ATTENTION TEDIUM HOUSE CUSTOMERS
WE ARE CLOSED UNTIL MID-JULY
([ no label ]) Deck Of Cards $0.01 (Out-of-stock)
Be advised, we are not shipping anything until mid-July. We will accept orders any time, but cannot send them until then
baYal
([ no label ]) Used Cassette $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
Recordings from 2002 by Aya Onishi (ex-Sekiri) and Nihilist Spasm Band’s John B. Boyle on kazoo, percussion, thumb piano, ring modulator, chopsticks, dishes and crystal, garbage can lid, didgeridoo, digital delay, ocarina, bugle. Angel’in Heavy Syrup’s Naoko Otani guests on one track. C46
Occult Concert
([ no label ]) Cassette $7.00
This California-based mail-order mystic was first known from his ads in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality, and Gnostica News offering a psychic meditation course, designed to teach people how to listen to music. To go along with his lessons, Burchette sold a series of instrumental guitar and electronic records, of which this unofficial facsimile edition reissue is one originally released by Amos Records in 1971.
Shoot More Dopes T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $50.00
Hanes Heavyweight 100% cotton. Black with white and red ink.
NEIL CAMPBELL / LATE / IAN MIDDLETON
Vatic Lamps
([ no label ]) Used CDR $14.00
Exquisite layered drone from three underground legends.
String Quartets, Loops, Garden Talk
([ no label ]) Used CDR $6.00
“Thirteen haunting episodes you’re not likely to forget in a hurry,” says Sound Projector. “The program alternates two strands of musical activity. There are brief, faintly hilarious pieces of speeded-up records sabotaged by Campbell’s intermittent electronic belches…, followed immediately by deeply resonant, scorching drone-fests … effected using violins, guitars and scraped percussion, all recorded in such ways as to massively distort the natural sounds and generate far too many conflicting frequencies.”
Philip Glass / Whitney Biennial T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $75.00
Gap 100% cotton. White with black flocking on front. From 2008.
Eusa Kills T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size L $30.00
Warnocks. Materials not specified on label. Made in New Zealand. Black with silver ink. Previously washed and worn many times. Cracks in ink. From 1990s
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.”
Office Supplies Mania T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $30.00
Fruit of the Loom Lofteez 100% cotton. White with yellow, orange, green, gray, black ink. Some discoloration. From 1990s
Ny Musik & Intermediakonst T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size XL $40.00 (Out-of-stock)
Fruit of the Loom 100% cotton. Black with white ink
Marmalade / Get Thee Gone
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $75.00
Tiltex Extra Heavyweight 100% cotton. Black with full color screen print by Mark Brooks. Cracks in ink. From 1990s
Gerogerigegege T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size L $50.00
Long-sleeve FL Robinson Heavyweght 100% cotton. Black with white ink on front and right sleeve.
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
Preamble To Nihil
([ no label ]) Cassette $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Ideas that day were viewed as a bird’s eye from the foreboding above. Empty of meaning where meaning could at last be emptied. “Sounds of wonky lo-fi guitar, dreamscape poetry (word and mouth play), looped vibes, arguments, church bells and brass bands (Brighton parklife?), turntables, general rustle, hustle and bustle,” notes our friend at Remuhmuration blog. “Sax blurts, ampnoise. There’s … recorder playing that sounds like an intro to an old Good Missionaries song. It’s all in the editing and presented so smoothly, like listening to a jigsaw being built.” C32
Something Approaching Zero
([ no label ]) Magazine $2.00 (Out-of-stock)
The rectal thermometer has been slipped under the tongue of western society and Harrison’s findings are unequivocal: cultural despair driven by pre-apocalyptic stress syndrome. Poetic prose that underscores how witnessing the decline and fall is worse than the inevitable doom that seems to be goal. Seven essays, “Spiel,” “Test Message,” “Vashti,” “I Just Live Here,” “Untitled (But A Dream To Read Aloud W/ Flu Symptoms),” “Council,” and “The End Of The World.” Twenty pages, some of which are blank, because we’re all dying and can’t tell the difference anyway.
[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.
Harry Pussy T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size XL $75.00
Glidan Ultra Cotton 100% cotton. Off white with black ink. Art by Graham Lambkin
Ictanea All Naris T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $40.00 (Out-of-stock)
B&C European Style 100% cotton. White with black ink on front. From 2000s
Animal Peepshow Tour T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $75.00
Stedman Super50. Cotton/Polyester 50/50. Black with yellow ink on front and back. From 1980s
King Of Noise T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size M $30.00
Pop Collection. Materials not specified. Black with white ink. Sealed in original plastic bag. From mid 1990s
Dgtlhrm
([ no label ]) Used CDR $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
Nine tracks by Jonathan Browning recorded in 2001, made from processed drums, guitar and hammering. Tinfoil cover with a band-aid stuck to the front of the jewelbox, photocopied tracks and credits taped to the back.
IK3 T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size L $25.00
Jerzees 100% cotton. White with black ink on front. Washed and worm many times. Some discoloration here and there. From 1990s
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
Creativity Explored T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size XL $20.00
Standard American Apparel 100% cotton. Goldenrod with black, red, blue and white ink.
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
Modern Dance Technique Environments
([ no label ]) Cassette $7.00 (Out-of-stock)
Originally released on the Hoctor label in 1979, and influenced by In C and minimalism as well as then-emerging west coast new age music, the unofficial facsimile edition reissue of this album of dance music for continuous movement features Roland Tripp (vibraphones, bells, traps, percussion), Kenny Sawhill (bass guitar, percussion, chorus), and Krupka on percussion and chorus.
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
Catastrophe Point #6
([ no label ]) Used CD $10.00
On the first track here, Nagoya-based Kiyoharu Kuwayama “foregrounds what sounds like a handful of pebbles being clicked together against a distant backdrop of scraped sheet metal. The thickness of the room’s acoustics lends the whole an almost frightening clarity, and there’s an unreality to the way the two different reverberant layers combine that only adds to the sense of unease. We’re thrown into a subtly heightened acoustic realm, in which scale and perspective are altered, to disquieting psychological effect. The second piece heightens and complicates the acoustic picture even further, and increases the density of the sonic activity. The sound sources here seem to be bundles of sticks, bottles, tea trays and iron girders thrown down lift shafts. Once again the ear tries to make sense of the altered relationships Kuwayama set up between loud and soft, close and distant. Slowly, the piece starts to focus more and more strongly on a huge, dark vibration at the furthest end of the acoustic spectrum, which builds in intensity, racking up the tension and subtly disturbing the mind’s equilibrium. By this point, the music sounds like it's taking piece in a vast, pitch black aircraft hangar of the soul.” From 2005. In A4-size cardboard sleeve. Edition of 500
Mr. Ling T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size L $25.00
Hanes Beefy-T 100% cotton. White with color transfer ink
Migration Of The Snails
([ no label ]) Cassette $7.00
Originally released by Energy Discs in 1980, this unofficial facsimile edition reissue of the second album by this interesting branch of the Hawkwind family tree (featuring Del Delmar on electronics) is raw and heavily exploratory, often shifting styles radically within a single track, moving from quiet chamber orchestras to dissonant guitar freak outs with smears of analog electronics filling in gaps along the way.
Speak Squeak Creak! T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size L $60.00
United States Activewear 100% cotton. Black with white ink on front and back. From 1990s
Merzbow T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $75.00 (Out-of-stock)
White with black ink. Previously washed and worn many times (super soft, all info in label is gone, some discoloration, pink tint in some areas). From 1980s
Minga!!
([ no label ]) Size XL $15.00
Fruit of the Loom Heavy 100% Cotton. Red with white ink on front and back.
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
... On The Mountain
([ no label ]) Used CDR $4.00
Enlightenment synth with Phil Franklin on tambourine. Sealed
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.
Cosmic Debris T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $20.00
Fruit of the Loom 100% cotton. Black with white ink.
ALIA O’BRIEN / ANDREW ZUKERMAN
Even This Old Town Was A Forest
([ no label ]) Cassette $7.00
Original soundtrack for Birdtown & Swanville’s production of the play written by Aurora Stewart de Peňa, performed by Jon Blair, William Ellis, Cara Gee, Donna Maloney, Naomi Skwarna & Norman Yeung in 2016. No C plays synthesizers and electronics, O’Brien plays organ and flute
Magnetic Web
([ no label ]) Cassette $7.00
Originally released by Narco Records in 1973, this unofficial facsimile edition reissue of what Two Headed Dog calls Raicevic’s “masterpiece in all of its acid-laced glory” marks a clear evolution in his sound, thanks to an Arp 2600 in addition to his Moog, and some rhythm boxes. Bizarre, trippy electronic music with an emphasis on pulse and drone.
Zero Gravity
([ no label ]) Cassette $7.00
Raicevic’s final album under the Nik Pascal moniker, originally released by Narco in 1975, after which he famously sold all his synths to ex-car-racer and future electronic / ambient musician Steve Roach. This unofficial facsimile edition reissue explores the outer and inner space.
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
From Here To Infinity T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $100.00
Screen Stars. Cotton/Polyester 50/50. Black with red ink. Design by Savage Pencil. From 1980s
Shaved and Glasses T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size 2XL $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
Gildan 100% cotton. Black with white ink on front.
Goma Rubian Ranese T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size 2XL $20.00
Gildan 100% cotton. Black with white ink on front.
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.
Brainwave Music
([ no label ]) Cassette $7.00
“Each of the three pieces that make up the original LP released by A.R.C. in 1975 integrates biofeedback with musical technology in different ways. In the side-long ‘Portable Gold and Philosophers’ Stones,’ four performers have electrodes and monitoring devices attached to their bodies to receive information about brainwaves, temperature, and galvanic skin response. This information is analyzed and fed into a complex set of frequency dividers and filters, manned by Rosenboom, but essentially played by each of the performers through their psychophysiological responses to the situation. The result is a slowly unfolding web of filtered electronic tones over a tanpura-esque fundamental, possessing the unhurried, stately grandeur of an electronic raga. In ‘Chilean Drought,’ three different variations of a text about a drought in Chile, each read by a different voice in a different style, are associated with the Beta, Alpha, and Theta brainwave bands. Alongside an insistent piano accompaniment, we hear a constantly shifting combination of the three vocal recordings controlled by the relative preponderance of each of the brainwave bands in the soloist whose brainwaves are being monitored. ‘Piano Etude I (Alpha).’ the earliest piece included here, is based on research into the link between Alpha brain wave production and the execution of repetitive motor tasks. As Rosenboom plays a very rapid, incessantly repeated pattern in both hands – deliberately designed to be difficult to execute without being in an alert, non-thinking state similar to that associated with strong Alpha brainwave production – two filters controlled by monitoring his brainwaves process the piano sound, moving gradually higher in frequency as the average Alpha amplitude increases, resulting in a hypnotic, constantly shifting blur of repeated notes reflected through the shimmering, watery lights of the filters. Unofficial facsimile edition reissue
Shangri-La Records T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size XL $25.00
Fruit of the Loom 100% cotton. Black with green, yellow, red and white inks on the front, white on the back.
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.
Shut Up Little Man / Bananafish T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size L $50.00
([ no label ]) Size XL $50.00
Hanes Beefy-T 99% cotton. Gray with Shut Up Little Man in red on front, four-color Bananafish logo (appropriated from the Japanese manga of the same name) on the back.
Featuring Raymond and Peter T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size L $50.00
Fruit of the Loom, 100% cotton. White with black on on front. From 1990s
The Original Thai Beer T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size XL $25.00
Materials unspecified on label. Black with full-color screen print.
Smegma T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size L $75.00
Hanes Beefy-T 100% cotton. White with black, red and green ink. Printed sideways, as displayed. Previously washed and worn many times. Some discoloration and spots / stains on left sleeve and torso. From 1980s
Music of the American South T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $20.00
Hanes Beefy-T 100% cotton. Beige with gray and green ink. Print is faded is places
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.
California 94 T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size L $30.00
Hanes 100% cotton. White with black ink on front and back. Sealed in original plastic bag
America95 T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size L $40.00
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $40.00
Size L: Gildan Heavyweight 100% cotton. Black with blue and white ink on front, white on back. Size XL: FL Robinson Heavyweight 100% cotton. Loden with blue and white ink on front, white on back.
Loud Guitars Save Lives / America 98 T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size M $40.00
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $40.00
100% cotton. Burgundy with green and white ink on front and back
Confusion Is Sex T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $200.00
Black with white ink. Previously washed and worn many times (super soft, label is gone, cracks in ink). From 1980s
Dokument IIIO T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size XL $60.00
Fruit of the Loom 100% cotton. Black with white ink.
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.
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).
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.”
Festival of the Wedding of the Sea Goat T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Used Size XL $50.00
Hanes Beefy-T 100% cotton. Black with white, Day-Glo orange and ultraviolet ink. From 1990s
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.
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
UFO Or Die Live
([ no label ]) Used CD $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
“These guys kinda straddle the divide between Boredoms and Hanatarash,” says a professional eBay-splainer, where “the spazzy thrash pop of the former collides head-on with the smashed noise jambalaya of the latter. Rough and raw live tapes [kick] up a monstrous ruckus, which is then heavily mixed into a collage of unhinged craziness. Weird changes in volume and pitch, oddball edits, needle-in-the-red overloading.”
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.
Audio by Visual Artists
([ no label ]) Cassette $7.00
Unofficial facsimile edition reissue of Claudia Gould’s stellar collection of sound and phonetic poetry, musique concrète storytelling, electronics, artists’ bands, sequential repetition of noise, sounds or words — from Futurism up to the late 1980s — originally released by Tellus in 1990. Tracks by Joseph Beuys, Maurice Lemaitre, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Raoul Hausmann, Antonio Russolo, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Lawrence Weiner, Essendo Stato, George Brecht, Patrick Ireland, Richard Huelsenbeck, Arrigo Lora Totino and Piro Fogliatti, Jean Dubuffet, Mimmo Rotella, Joan Jonas, Christian Boltanski, Ian Murray, Terry Fox, Jonathan Borofsky, Magdalena Abakanowitz, Richard Prince with Bob Gober, Martin Kippenberger, Jack Goldstein, John Armeider, Terry Allen, Gretchen Bender, Y Pants, Ed Tomney, Susan Hiller.
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
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.”
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
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
Light Bulb Magazine Number Four - The Emergency Cassette
([ no label ]) Used 2xCD $25.00 (Out-of-stock)
Unauthorized reissue of the original 1981 double-cassette. Ricocheting back and forth from themes of rampant human decay, paranormal and supernatural phenomena, the campiness of mainstream wholesomeness (1950s style in particular), absurd and adolescent humor, and the elusive kernel of triumph within self-defeating nihilism and inward-looking mockery, the Emergency cassettes are a source of the contemporary avant garde’s most valuable asset - the irrelevancy of barriers between naïf outsiders, intuition- driven slackists, and sarcastic conceptual complainers. It establishes the central role of a common, infinitely malleable vernacular available to anyone with a desire to get mucky with it. The variety here is so initially stunning that it seems like nothing in the comp’s two-hour duration is remotely similar to anything else on it, even if that isn’t the literal truth: real songs made of backward tape loops, strummed folk tunes, spastic punk bands that run the gamut from unison drum-pounding and shouting to out-of-control dementia to college nerds in overdrive, destroyed electronics, shit that sounds like a senior citizens attempting a space opera in a cafeteria, janitors chasing mice with brooms, lunatic lounge singer impersonators, repetitive machines, ridiculous parodies, geeky showtunes and cartoon music, surreal carnival nightmares, et fucking cetera. Tracks by Tom Recchion And The Friends Of Leslie, Monique, Jad Fair, Doug Snyder, Creatures Lives, Smegma, Peepland, The Lunchmen, John Duncan, International Language, Duba / Sansome, 30 Windswept Dimes, Decayes, 45 Grave, Half Bodied Baby, Human Hands, Neef, Glo-Bin Treeflip, Bachelors Even, Rick Potts, Bridge, Fragile Hats, Fredrik Nilsen, Jes Grew, Bpeople, Phranc, Asmus Teitchens, Them Rhythm Ant, Tiny Holes, Random Samples, Flap, Tela Conversion, Meat Puppets, Doodooettes-That Moment, Pep Lester, Cameron Hands Penis Envy, Dennis Duck, Brent Wilcox, Planet Z, Arrow Book Club, Bruce Licher, Slimy Adenoid & The Fab Pabs, The Tribal Fops, Bill Noland, and Foundation Boo.
Long Live The Weeds
([ no label ]) Used CDR $7.00
Three rough-hewn chunks from 1999 and 2000, all recorded in front of actual members of the public at notable Leeds drinking establishments. Each track sees VCO augmented by additional members, including Sticky Foster, Matthew Bower, John Godbert, John Clyde-Evans and Ross Parfitt.
Music For Red Breath
([ no label ]) Used CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Soundtrack for a film by NYC filmmaker Justin Allen, available at merch tables and via mailorder-only. Clear plastic front insert and metallic traycard in jewelbox
Ragged + Right
([ no label ]) Used CDR $15.00
Four tracks, self-released on the occasion of a live performance at the Holy Trinity Church, Leeds, in 2004. Cover is paint and photo on cardboard. Edition of 60
Hot Booty
([ no label ]) Used CDR $12.00
Excellent dense drones from 1999, complete with pipe organ, recorded in a squatted church in Leeds. Clear plastic insert inside standard jewel box
Hollin
([ no label ]) Used CDR $10.00
Companion piece to Lino Hi, recorded around the same time, and including two live sections. Comes in beautiful sleeve hand-painted and -assembled by Bridget Hayden.
Untitled
([ no label ]) Used 10-inch $28.00
Stellar recordings of cosmic improv from 1998 recalling early John Cale. Silkscreen folder. Edition of 200
If I Wasn’t Already
([ no label ]) Cassette $13.50
Three recordings from Glasgow 2022: Voice and movement used to generate sound by Welch with multi-instrumentalist Jessica Argo on theremin; Ego Depletion (Adam Campbell and Welch) with Benicio Del Trainwreck (aka David Moré) celebrating the broken detritus of late capitalist auto- consumption via modular synth and found percussion objects amplified by resonation chambers crafted from frozen fish containers; a solo action that unfolds in relative slow motion over a multi-hour period using voice, bass drum, objects, text scrolls and various lo-tech special effects. Unnumbered artist’s edition of A-M-G5’s release, with hand drawn panel, date, signature. c90
John Wiese T-Shirt
([ no label ]) Size XL $30.00
Alternativ Earth, made in Peru. Materials unspecified on label. Black with copper ink on front. Part of Soundscreen Design’s series of organic shirts designed by musicians. Numbered edition 41/60, from September 2010. With original tag safety-pinned to label.
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
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.
Der Zweck Dieser Serie Is Nicht Unterhaltung, Vol. 1
([ no label ]) Used 2xCDR $100.00
Drone, strident minimalism, noisy Fluxus performance, obsessive repetition. Excerpts from: Day Of The Antler [The Obsidian Ocelot] (1964); For Brass (1957); Poem For Chairs, Tables, Benches, Etc. (1960); Bb Dorian Blues 28th63 (1963); Early Tuesday Morning Blues (1963); Tortoise’s Dreams And Journeys (1966); Well Tuned Piano (1964)
Der Zweck Dieser Serie Is Nicht Unterhaltung, Vol. 2
([ no label ]) Used 2xCDR $100.00
Noisy Fluxus performance, electronically generated sinewave, percussion work, classical Indian raga and the teachings of Pandit Pran Nath. Excerpts from: Drift Study VIII68 (1968); Map Of 49’s Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery (1966); Volga Delta 23 (1959); 13/73 (1973); Rag Bhairava (1960); Soundtone Installation 27-72 (1972)