Bury Me Deep
(Troniks) Used CD $4.00 (Out-of-stock)
A rare album that assuredly sustains a distinct mood of dread throughout its entirety, with the 18-minute “The Dead Boy Would Not Go Away” most successfully enrapturing via minimalism and low-rumbling grime, and “The Earth Was Loose” including an orchestra of motorcycle rev-ups and crashes in the manner of sleazy teen exploitation flicks from the ’50s and ’60s. Bury Me Deep is a bit difficult to process upon the first listen, but coming back to it reveals an incredibly nuanced and pronounced craft, that requires patience and an appreciation for understated disquietude.
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
Lost in the Cove
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $15.00
Olson and Connelly from 2007. Paste-on photocopy. Edition of 118
Choking On Grave Soil
(Troniks - TRO224) Used CD $5.00
Cinder block snakes pummeling through intricately woven nests, kneading maliciously at the middle. A silver haired piper Greh Holger (Hive Mind / Chondritic Sound) tries calling his snakes back home, stretches his vocal chords deep and wide but only whispers trickle out. Their scales push outward and gash the softness open leaving shards and soggy ash. Meat tears in waves of coarse, uneven static, swelling and expanding. Their buzzing rattles growing larger. The digging continues, getting further inside, spilling wildfire in the folds of flesh. The end is here. A blister-covered whistling tone thins itself into nothing and disappears. They are lost and so is he...
BLACK SAND DESERT / THE CHERRY POINT / ROMANCE
Romance / Black Sand Desert / The Cherry Point
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00
Harsh noise and high-grade resonance by Phil Blankenship, Dean Glaister, and Grey Holger from 2006 that “will sew you up with dragonflies.” Edition of 200
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.
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.
Black Witchery
(Troniks - TRO223) Used CD $5.00
The dark spell has been cast with this murky potion of macabre frequencies, derelict moans, satanic power and the hideous stench of occult slaughter. Reissues tracks previously released on three-inch CDRs by Chondritic Sound, Fargone Records, and Audiobot.
THE CHERRY POINT / PRIVY SEALS
Casual Sex
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $28.00
Subterranean scorch collaboration from 1996 by Phil Blankenship and Matthew Sullivan. Paste-on photocopy jacket.
Density And Assimiliation
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $7.00
Classic American harsh noise by Jay Howard. Paste-on photocopy jacket. Edition of 111.
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.
Punishment Feast – Live Recordings
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00
“Grotesque, blast furnace freakouts and noise depravity.” Screen printed jacket
A Trap To Spring
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $12.00
Excellent noise by Mike Connelly from 2007. Paste-on photocopy. Edition of 115
Bloody Ripper
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $17.00
Noise from 2006 by Ryan Bloomer. Photocopy paste-on jacket.
I Turn Black Keys
(Troniks - TRO159) Used CD $5.00
This 2005 monster by Greh Holger (of Hive Mind) and Mike Connelly (of Hair Police and Wolf Eyes) collects material from two limited cassettes —Bane (Chrondritic Sound 2004) and House With The Clock In Its Walls (Gods Of Tundra 2005) — and adds the title tracks, a new, thirty-eight-minute opus dedicated to dysfunctional machinery of all kinds.
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
Scyamine
(Troniks - TRO227) Used CD $5.00 (Out-of-stock)
The sound of distorted, amplified metal from 2006 by Alan Bloor, whose scrapyard inferno roars with the sounds of feedback and blown speakers, live and raw, produced from found stainless steel. Relentlessly rushing forward, constantly moving through a maze of grinding scrapes and crashes.
Trap
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $18.00
Double flamethrower by Phil Blankenship and John Wiese. Black ink on black jacket. Edition of 188
Even Still
(Troniks - TRO298) Used 2xCD $14.00
Two-and-a-half hours covering the LHD vinyl discography recorded between 2002 and 2007 by the double flamethrower unit of Phil Blankenship and John Wiese. Pure West Coast destruction, maximum density and speaker shred. Includes tracks from these sevens: Asthma (Helicopter); Hands of the Priestess (Miisc); Fascination (Swampland); Hotel Fire (P-Tapes); Normandie (Tape Room); Lock Up (Helicopter); Los Angeles (Troniks); and Veiled (Helicopter), and tracks from these twelves: Triple Void (Chondritic Sound): Electrophorus (Collective JYRK): Trap (Troniks), split with Immaculate:Grotesque (Truculent Recordings), plus two previously unreleased bonus tracks. Edition of 200.
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
Bleak
(Troniks) Used 12-inch (one-sided) $8.00
Harsh noise from 2006 by Gordon Ashworth. Edition of 157
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
Hegira
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $25.00
Brutal, pensive, blown-out tones by Jeff Witscher from 2007. Edition of 110
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.
Harm
(Troniks - TRO296) CD $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
A lo-fi garage clash by Phil Blankenship, Jesse Jackson, Charlie Mumma, Corydon Ronnau and John Wiese, recorded during 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. Edition of 200.
Shackles of Man-Measured Time
(Troniks - TRO275) LP $6.00 (Out-of-stock)
Modular synth sickness from Aaron Dilloway. Edition of 400.
Swamp Lurker
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
Blazing noise crunch from 2006. Photocopy paste-on artwork. Edition of 106
White Gold
(Troniks - TRO297) CD $7.50 (Out-of-stock)
A Wiese / Blankenship maelstrom at maximum fucking pressure. Over forty minutes of new harsh electronics from the duo behind LHD. A white hot sheet of deafening sound recorded August 2011. Edition of 150.
Teenage Hallucination: 1992-1999
(Troniks) CD $9.00
From pure analog bedroom havoc to intense cut-up harsh noise blasts, Wiese steadily developed his highly personal and specific style of extreme music while trying to survive the St. Louis experience. Fifty-two tracks, including the best material from Catwoman 7-inch, split LP with The Haters, split 5-inch with Panicsville, collaborative tracks with GX Jupitter-Larsen and Corydon Ronnau of Sissy Spacek, and unreleased and unheard tracks of isolated Midwest basement obscurity.
Mirror
(Troniks - TRO299) CD $10.50 (Out-of-stock)
A minimal and mesmerizing piece of real-time tape music exploring stark and brutal elements for absolute immersion. Mirror is simultaneously the extended soundtrack for a new video work by Wiese and a reissue of the long sold-out Tumbler LP (No Fun Productions 2006), remastered for playback intensity and with all new visuals.
Infernal Devices
(Troniks) Used LP (one-sided) $10.00
From 2007. Paste-on photocopy jacket. Edition of 123