Picking Through The Wreckage With A Stick
(Zaius Tapes) LP $20.00
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.
Freak-Out Your Friends!
(Bizarr'd) LP $20.00
“Mangled tape loops, junked energy, and crooked rhythms, recorded live at the TUSK Festival 2015 in Gateshead England. Dilloway’s fusion of musique concrète, pluderphonics, industrial and power electronics is captivating. What begins as a loosely braided sequence of static slowly picks up speed, integrating clockwork and boiling fuzz before mutilated voices provide a cartoon-realm diversion in the middle section. Dilloway always makes the process sound fluid and unashamedly entertaining, splitting the difference between avant-composition and punkish outsider eccentricity.”
Baboon And Chest
(Coherent States) Cassette $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
COMING SOON. From the frayed edges of sound, the lingering ghost of forgotten amplifier feedback, and echo of unanswered answering machine messages, Glands of External Secretion return with their most different album until the next one. This four-pronged stumble through usual-yet-unusual and weird-yet-not-weird auditory wreckage cracks open with “One of the Decorator’s FAQs Was a Twined-Together Mix of Doubt and Dread,” a sprawling tangle of recordings from Scotland with Ali Robertson and Malcy Duff (of the now-defunct but legendary Usurper), Firas Khnaisser, Buck Campbell, and Dan Vallor, knotted together with (more) home recordings and soundchecks from various other live gigs around some globe. A concise transmission, “George Lazenby” was originally beamed into Neil Jendon’s “One Electronic Sound For Five Minutes” podcast – a fleeting yet potent auditory jab. The new sound collage “You Haven’t Seen Me Without My Teeth” hints at unseen architectures within the noise. Finally, Baboon erupts with the untamed energy of “Wank Theme Song,” salvaged from a mid-to-late 1980s San Francisco one-off live improv free-for-all featuring approximately fifteen players in unfettered lo-fi caterwaul mode. Cover art by Malcy Duff. C38
Stock Footage
(l’Esprit de l’Escalier) CDR $8.00
Incoherent disaster or a gaudy monstrosity? A real debate-starter, this. Includes “An Invitation To The Waltz Contains Sinister Motive,” a tape piece for Kirby Bell’s Field Day For The Sundays show on WKDU, plus four tracks glowing with more psychotic brightness than the LED headlights of oncoming traffic. Loops, cuts, field recordings, sounds appropriated from fails videos, voices forcibly relocated from their ancestral homelands on cassette in the bins of thrift stores. 59 minutes.
Housing Concrète
(l’Esprit de l’Escalier) CDR $8.00
Four Ubu-friendly sound collages scraped into shape by lenient sentencing, including a tape piece created for Kryssi B’s Open Field show on WXOJ.
The New Basics Cookbook
(l’Esprit de l’Escalier) CDR $8.00
An hour-plus of sound collages and j-j-jarring post-mortem artifacts. Highlights include: “Without Incident” — location recordings from Japan; “Swamp Yankee Eulogy,” a deconstructed version of which was presented at Polaris in Toyko opening for Bruce Russell and Keiji Haino; and a cover of the Sun City Girls track “Torch of the Mystics,” penned by Charles Gocher.
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
Adam Park Is Unique Oil Free Air
(If It’s New) Cassette $15.00
Live recordings from 2006 to 2008 capturing the psychedelic best of this member of numerous Australia visionary outfits including New Waver, Girls Girls Girls, Volvox, Sunshine Has Blown, The Perfect Lovers, et al. Known under the solo moniker Unique Oil Free Air, Park makes deconstructive noise that transgresses into awesome lush atmospheric and undefinable states. Edition of 100. C45.
Alzheimer Blanks
(If It’s New) Cassette $15.00
Five strange rhythmic pieces of humid psychedelic absurdity composed on samplers by Nick Senger and Rich Costa. Edition of 100 c68
Branches
(Open Mouth) LP $20.00
Recorded during the final night of a three-day residency at OTO, with Nace on taishōgoto and Parker on soprano sax, the duo takes off in a double helix of keys and reed primed for endless reconfiguration. Space warps under the velocity of playing, the pitch rising unrelentingly. It feels like unending lift off — sheer energy until the final note reminds you that your feet have been on the floor the entire time. Total time-bending shredding.
The ’70s Imaginary Sci-Fi Movie
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
This electronic / junk noise / musique concrète duo, formed during a residency at Générale Nord-Est, Paris in June 2024, turns noise inside out to expose its psychedelic innards. No Kratom tea necessary. Edition of 60
Mess Head
(Chocolate Monk) 3-inch CDR $8.00 (Out-of-stock)
Whichever way you wanna hear it — as a stimulant, a sedative, or a psychic pill — the composer says it’s “low-key transformative ear squirm.” The world’s toughest milk man opts for “sound gruel for a much needed self-conversation,” by which he probably means a punch to the brain-bladder. Numbered edition of 25
Awakened Spirits Of Ancient Mischief
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
An eight-coarse meal of invigorating junk noise and tape brownout trash. Baked in crud designed to be enjoyed at any volume, weirdo. Cody Brant says it’s a reworked sound diary of mischievous actions on night walks. Tavern to Tavern and in between. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida flashback story. Credit card scrapers get the cops called.” Edition of 60
The Universe Will Finally Have A Cause
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
This two-piece black metal and folk outfit from rural Appalachia, who formed after nine months of brainstorming in distant wombs, had their first ceremonial jam session once they’d climbed out of the red caves and traipsed their goo on god, despite living nowhere near each other at the time. Babies united by some strange cosmic thing. Hand painted edition of 50
Lexapro Blues
(Chocolate Monk) CDR $8.00
Home-brewed, deep-fried, rambling rawness by Jeff the Bay Stater who shares his crumpled thoughts via broken ballads and barely-there blues, sidestepping grace so you can have a full huff of the cosmic cake. This series of skittering bedroom vignettes stitched together form a misshapen whole. Like one of the more folk-tinged ESP-Disks but with far more hotrock burns on the cover. Half baked is the new full baked. Edition of 60
Numbers
(Zaius Tapes) LP $18.00
Released into the ether some time in 1984, Bunny & The Lakers’ sole album has a personalized aura, dipping into occasional flashes of industrial magnetism while enveloped by minimal synth interludes. There is no way to accurately channel what is going on.
Bowles / Chrome Dome
(If It’s New) Split cassette $15.00
Experimental indie rock, lovely fragile atmospheric tunes, and pop tunes with a lot of psych recorded live in 2008, performed by Matthew P Hopkins, Chris Schueler, and Mary Macdougall. On the flip, a recording from 2008, also live, by the late Shaun South’s initial two-piece formation. Chrome Dome’s chaotic, abrasive and spirited synth-driven no-wave / punk comes together as the set progresses, revealing a glimpse of the pop sensibilities they would become known for. Edition of 100. C55.