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LATEST NEWS Feb 1: I'm going on tour with 7 Year Rabbit Cycle and Warbler for ten days, so any orders placed in that time period will be shipped after Feb 15th. Some items are also available through the Zum mailorder which is functioning while I am gone. Categories are organized by format - 7", 12" LP, and CDs and CDR. Come drop by if you are in any of these towns: FEBRUARY 2005 4: davis - dam house with good for cows 5: salt lake city, ut @ kilby court gallery 6: denver, co @ monkey mania 7: albuquerque, nm - house, tba 8: flagstaff, az @ cogdill rec center (with ponies, i think) 9: san diego @ che cafe w carla bozulich 10: koo's, long beach - with ex-models 11: los angeles @ the smell - w carla bozulich, amps for christ, rose for bodhan 12: bakersfield @ gigantic 13: san francisco @ hemlock - w comets on fire

((ordering outside of the US, i have to add shipping charges based on weight and destination country. US orders under $10 are ppd))

*7000 DYING RATS - The Sound of No Hands Clapping LP (Toyo) $10
members of flying luttenbachers, lair of the minotaur...

*A DANGEROUS GAME Zine $3
Q&A from WIll York - featuring interviews with Wolf Eyes, Flying Luttenbachers, Total Shutdown, Upsilon Acrux, Curtains, the Locust, Orthrelm, Touchdown, Magic Band drummer John French, Savage Republic, 7000 Dying Rats, Nandor Nevai (whoops, those last two are also in Night Moves in slightly different versions), tUMULt Records, jazz saxophonist Marco Eneidi, Nile, Exhumed, Impaled, Entombed, Sigh, Solefald, Isis, and Godflesh...as well as a few other throwaway columns and articles. No record reviews. No indie rock. No trendy new-wave bands. 96 pages in (mostly) 8-point type on "real" paper (not newsprint) for maximum tree death.

*ABE VIGODA - Comes Alive Reduxzz 3"CDR (LA is Wax Paper) $5
a session done at KXLU 88.9fm Los Angeles is out NOW! It will blow you ever loving mind. Pretty good for kids from the 909! songs "bones make feathers fly", "a bell though thats fucked", "Mastadon Party." First edition of 50. "Like Wire, Sonic Youth, VSS and Smashing Pumpkins having a fist fight at a college radio studio." I would throw in Festival of Dead Deer.

*ANTENNAS ERUPT 7" (Weird Forest) $5
The first 7" from Sacramento's finest utopian non-jazz band, Antennas Erupt. Their spectral sound of yore hovers somewhere between what's available and what's not. Past gestures giving way to new compositional non-jazz explorations. I got stoned one night and decided them as Charles Ives conducting the Portsmouth Sinfonia interpretting the better part of the ESP/Actuel catalogue, Mingus meltdowns, Ascension, solo Dolphy, and Messengers fluidity. They've created something wholly unique and beautiful and groovy. Saxes, cello, and drums combine to make Magical Energy Fields of love, joy, and vigor! Limited to 200 copies on clear vinyl.

*ANTIFAMILY – 4 song CDR $6
4 tracks from the new uk group. co-ed vocals, that teetering yet pop sound made so accessible by the erase errata/numbers crew. see also the difficult fun comp below, which has antifamily and a bunch of others. hand spray-painted covers.

*ARAB ON RADAR – Soak the Saddle CD (Skin Graft) $11

*ATOM AND HIS PACKAGE – Hamburgers LP (XMist) $10
Hot off the heels of late 2001's "Redefining Music" (Hopeless Records), Atom & His Package offers five new anthems for his adoring cult on the "Hamburgers" EP (FT42). Human League beats crunched between Van Halen riffs and sing along choruses of home owning and law defying dilemmas makes for a humorously twisted pop affair. What began as headphone amusement on Atom's first Yamaha QY-20 sequencer (AKA 'His Package') has turned into a full-blown phenomena and rally cry for the misfit masses. With nearly 40,000 record sales and tours in Europe, Japan, Australia and Israel, it's evident that Atom has transcended trend and found affection far and wide reaching. Track Listing 1. I'm Downright Amazed At What I Can Destroy With Just A Hammer 2. Fraudulent 3. Wonderman (Hammer Smashed Ball) 4. Sebastian in Nigeria 5. Head Gone Vertical

*AXOLOTL - Archons?/Archons! CDRD (Jyrk) $7
Possibly the most exciting new band we've seen since moving to the bay area. Axolotl and Jyrk had an instant bond. The Ax boys had so much extra material since their Psych-O-Path records debut that it took about a week for these dudes to get us a CDR of some of their best material yet. I think it's better than their debut. Seriously. These dudes got their chops jamming with the likes of Animal Collective, Black Dice, Mouthus and Double Leopards in NYC before transplanting to the West. Comparisons to the "NYC PSYCH" sound are not totally unfounded, but Axolotl manage to offer up their own dark cave realm. Their work reminds me more of "Broken Hearted Dragonflies" and Chris Watson than any New England jammers.

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*BARNACLED 7” (White Denim) $5
excellent providence combo that does the horns and drums and no vocals thing, not total skronk improv but also not totally not. Pretty clear vinyl flecked with globs of yellow on the hella out there white denim label.

*BIG BOYS – Lullabies Help the Brain Grow / No Matter How Long the Line Is at the Cafeteria, There's Always a Seat 2LP (XMist) $16
X-Mist celebrates its 20-year-anniversary of existence with the re-release of the rare records by the one band that had the biggest influence on our own attitude and ideas! The BEST 2 LPs by the Texas-Punk legends BIG BOYS, including Tim Kerr on guitar (later in bands like JACK O'FIRE, LORD HIGH FIXERS, NOW-TIME DELEGATION and more, currently involved in the TOTAL SOUND GROUP) - And even though the music was recorded more than 20 years ago, it still sounds today as fresh, energetic, inspiring and original as it did back then - one of the VERY RARE things in life that can stand the test of time! TRUE CLASSICS!!! Both LPs, originally released in 1983 resp. 1984, had being sold-out since many years, and now for the FIRST TIME officially(!) available again - packed into one full-color gatefold-sleeve(!) with the original artwork from both LPs, plus a poster-like insert including all the lyrics & photos from the original inserts, plus liner-notes!

*BOMBADIER - Seven CD (Eupholus) $8

*TYONDAI BRAXTON –History that has no effect CD (JMZ) $10<>
Opens slow, rising sound textures manifest and form a flowing drone...informed by the avant garde to be sure, Anthony Braxton's son rambles through a number of styles, giving forth with voice and guitar, laptop and effects pedals. Guitar lines ring with delicate nuance and a sense of space; other tracks are propelled with beats and processed vocals. No squalling saxophones or compositional equations, instead Braxton weaves his own sort of web on a seemingly personal quest. Worthwhile and intriguing. – Gregory Hagan

*BUNNYPHONIC – CDR $9
How do you solve a problem like bunnyphonic? melancholy, droney accordion solos with the occasional noise overload from oakland's one woman costumed renaissance

*BURNING STAR CORE – Brighter Summer Day LP (Thin Wrist) $10
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. Abstract/Concrete (sensual) Satisfaction. After years of obscured operations, another question answered, another step past the cognizant few.

*THE CACHE / THE NEW MESS - The Nervous Ecstasy of Discourse 7" (Deleted Art) $5
David Hagberg from Deleted Art's band the Cache. Back in the 21st century, been fixing things up, awaiting the Stockholm syndrome. Time traveling sure gets to you. The people of Stockholm had some trouble communicating; rather hustle decomposing organs than slipping their tongue while trying to manifest something of worth. Execute half the population and the rest will cater to your every whim. The crowd is getting bitter. I'm out! Side A Humor Me (The Cache) Side B Beckoning Divine (The New Mess) 250 copies on black vinyl, 50 copies on "clear" vinyl. Out of print

*CDATAKILL - 666 7" (Eupholus) $5
666 is a touch of wartime religion from cdatakill, damaging breakbeat cannons blast volleys of explosive suppressing fire, before the calm of warm, angels raise you off to whatever is next. Replica stages a science fiction battle scene that never occurred, cinematic atmospheres and off-kilter breaks. Two short ambient cuts fill out this 4 track 7"

*COLOSSAMITE - All Lingo's Clamor CD (Skin Graft) $9
john dieterich and ed rodriguez of gorge trio, flying luttenbachers, deerhoof, etc. here

*COLOSSAMITE - Economy of Motion CD (Skin Graft) $9
Ex-DAZZLING KILLMAN Nick Sakes posed this question -How does a band like Minneapolis' COLOSSAMITE fit into the scheme of things happening in music today? Borders Books And Music put 'em in the "Jazz" section. "Economy Of Motion" sounds like a comp-mix tape gone awry. A meeting ground of hardcore, "noise", "improvisation"... Black Flag vs This Heat. Aggro burdened with after thoughts and a bit-o-honey. The most Killmen-ish of the post DK bands, this one sports members of Iceburn and Gorge Trio

* MIKE CONNELLY / MIKE SHIFLET cassette (Imvated) $8 Mike from Noumena and Gameboy Records. Mike from Hair Police, Zombi, Gods Of Tundra and Gate to Gate. Both taking care of a side on this no wave packaged tape. For lovers of stomachs and dense frequencies! from the Belgian label Imvated

* CORPSE FUCKS CORPSE / JONNY X AND THE GROADIES / GIFT OF GOATS / GET GET GO LP (Omnibus) $10

*CRACK:WE ARE ROCK 7" (333) $5
two of my favorite songs from this sf scene stalwart. "strawberries" is creepy, slow and psych-folked crack! "egypt" is more what we are used to. limited to 333 copies

*CRACK:WE ARE ROCK - Silent Fantasy LP (Kimosciotic) $10
re-release of "Silent Fantasy" originally releases on Tigerbeat6...this time on vinyl! Every track on the album has been gorgeously remixed by Crack:WAR and Peter Conheim for all you audio-freaks out there!

*CRITERION - Root Canal 12" (Broklyn Beats) $9
Brooklyn producer shreds the envelope of underground hip hop. Following in the tradition of mystical-dub merchants at WordSound and illbient geniuses Byzar and Timeblind, Brooklyn-based Criterion Thornton expands instrumental hip hop's boundaries on this 12-inch EP. Rather than creating discrete tracks, Criterion composes sidelong pieces that seamlessly coalesce into works of cumulative power. Side 1 starts with distant filtered hand percussion that sounds like horse hooves, then moves into a double-time percus -sive assaults. An edgy, post-industrial menace floats through the mix like a toxic cloud,until near the end of the side a 23 Skidoo-like malarial funk induces a feverish ecstasy. The flip side begins with gritty, oppressive dub a la Scorn and Spectre before it morphs into a stunning collage that teaches an advanced lecture on low-end beat science. Criterion has a slew of releases planned for the rest of 2000, and if Root Canal is indicative of his prowess, he demands your scrutiny --Alternative Press

*DANSE ASSHOLE – I Want to Danse CD (Bulb) $11

*THE DAY OF MAN AS MAN / STARS OF THE DOGON 7" (Dude) $4
Two spawn of Baltimore hardcore on this posthumous document. day of man as man featured rjyan kidwell (cex), gary barrett jr., and guy blakeslee (entrance, convocation of). stars of the dogon was ben, brian, and corey, and still might be some of them. nice package

*DEERHOOF - Milk Man LP (Free Porcupine Society) $11
most recent album from Deerhoof on vinyl. screened and assembled by free porcupine society, different artwork from the cd version on kill rock stars

*MATT DEMMON - Lead Rain CD (Eupholus) $8

*DEUCALION - The Severe Style CD (Eupholus) $8

*DEUCALION - Positive Feedback/The Rape of the Sabine Women CD (Eupholus) $8

*DYSTOPIA – Aftermath LP (Life is Abuse) $10

*EATS TAPES - Still Works CDR $7
10 tracks recorded at home in San francisco 2004. fresh cdr from west coast tour with yellow swans and tussle. party jams made with attention to sonic minutiae and techno nerding out. no computers

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*EX-MODELS / THE SECONDS - Raw Wild Love 7" (XMist) $5.50
features 2 songs each by both these New-York-Now-Wave bands! More of the hectic & spastic Neo-Punk blasts by the SECONDS, and the EX MODELS sounding like "the missing link" between the JESUS LIZARD and ARAB ON RADAR! Originally released as a CD on MY PAL GOD RECORDS, now put onto vinyl exclusively by X-MIST!

*EXPERIMENTAL DENTAL SCHOOL - Hideous Dance Attack LP (COmpany With the Golden Arm) $12
the first album, import from Germany

*FLOSSIE AND THE UNICORNS - LMNOP CD (Skin Graft) $10
Miss Pussycat!

*FLYING LUTTENBACHERS - Destroy All Music CD (Skin Graft) $10
weasel walter, chad organ, jeb bishop, dylan posa, ken vandermark

*FLYING LUTTENBACHERS - The Truth is a Fucking Lie CD (Skin Graft) $10
with chuck falzone, fred lonberg-holm, michael colligan, william pisarri, dylan posa, kurt johnson, julie pomerlau

*FOOT VILLAGE - Reports on Japan, Mexico, Peru, Austria, and Canada (Oedipus / Deathbombarc / Silencio) $4
members of rainbow blanket and rose for bodhan get super drum circle. fresh off tour with friends forever.

*FRANJO VUCOVIC / KURT GLUCK - And Now For Something Completely Different CD (Conceptual Chaos) $9

GERTY FARISH - CD (Load) $10
Two piece casio/guitar spazz core unit. Started in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Some people say they sound like they’ve eaten too much sugar. Definitly some wafer thin guitar damage pushes this release into a real head burn, but the Casio is wooshing and zooming some heavy sonics. Sounding like all the cages in the zoo in heat and triple horny. Like Big Black with more poop jokes. The band played live a lot after having started in 1995. Playing with Bunnybrains, Magnetic Fields (ew, gross), Atom and His Package, and tens of others. This was not a studio project buddy, but a sweaty human thing done in front of smelly show goers. It wasn’t Springsteen mind you, but more of a Devo if you know what I mean. 18 songs in 22 minutes. Great songs, with titles like "Soaring Poop", "Shark Bite", and "Robert Parish", there's plenty of laugh riots happening. Really it blows me away how catchy this stuff really is. Fort Thunder assembled the amazing CD's that have a secret mini-poster as well as swank foldout-ability. Acres of wall space taken up by these lookers. You're the smartest one around when you buy this one. And you look good too.

*GHOST PRESS 1 / ZINE AND NOT ZINE 3 $3
Scott Godwin's zine features interviews about the interconnections between himself, Yellow Swans, Xiu Xiu, Free Porcupine Society, and Steve Gigante. 5.5" x 4.25" with screened covers.

GLASS CANDY – Love Love Love CD (Troubleman) $10

*GROWING - The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light 2LP (Animal Disguise) $16
THIS SECOND FULL LENGTH FROM GROWING CONTAINS 2 LP'S WORTH OF THICK, SLOW DRONE WITH CRUSHING RIFFAGE AND PURE HARMONIC BEAUTY. LIMITED, FULL COLOR GATEFOLD DOUBLE LP, EDITION OF 500.

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*GTC - 7" (White Denim) $4

GUYANA PUNCH LINE - Maximum Smashism LP (Prank) $9

*HAIR POLICE - Obedience Cuts CD (Freedom From) $11
Let's See Who's Here and Who's Not, Obedience Cuts, Forged By Wreck, Bee Scrape, Boneless, The Empty Socket, Open Body, Full of Guts, Skull Mold.

*HAWNAY TROOF - Get Up! Resolution: Love LP (Company With the Golden Arm) $10

*HAWNAY TROOF - Who Likes Ta? CD (Retard Disco) $7
Debut CDEP featuring seven dirty south classics. Starring 18-year-old Vice Cooler with 900 Dixxx.

*HAWNAY TROOF - White Men in Suits 7" (Deleted Art) $6.50
Hawnay Troof is the amalgamated accident of no-nonsense rap and no-fi electronics – two no’s rubbing shoulders with the concise wit too much time in present Bush Jr-America has spawned. The explicit non-glamour lyrical stabs and stacatto-flavoured beats dissects the listener’s mind while still pushing the contorted audience up on the floor. Fifteen minutes of an expressway to benign paranoia and back is the drug generated through the live shows; endorphins retort and the urge to dance is no less than what Devo ever accomplished with Whip It. The two anthems and their two accompanying ambient tracks on this 7” is the important sound of things falling apart. Everything converging into a contemporary response to the questionable artificial imagery of many artists these days. Side A Man On My Bak. The Sound Of The Ocean. Side B White Men In Suits. The Sound Of The Forest. 510 copies on black vinyl

*JAY HOWELL - Negatron (Weird Forest) $12
First book collection from Sacramento's crown prince of the clown college better known as 'Modern Art.'Jay Howell's style mixes equal portions of a post-caffeinated haze, a unique and unheard of optimism and the finest cold filtered barley and hops to create a comic masterpiece that'll make you laugh, cry, and... if you dont buy one... you will die!!! (Um, probably not, but its pretty damn cool.) ex-Shove, Girl's Soccer. Limited to 1000 copies, hand signed and numbered by The Kid. Comes with bonus "Thank You" zine.

*ILLEGAL MINDZ - CDR $7
Solo electronics project from Greg Zifcak of SF electro duo Eats Tapes.

*THE IN OUT - A Living Memorial in Deutschland CD (Dark Beloved Cloud) $11
Boston's hottest and harshest band, rocking like nobody has since Rough Trade 1981. The recorded document of the molten four-piece lineup that toured Europe with Sebadoh, and the third and final installment in the trilogy "Cosmosis of the Cosmopolites." The In Out would like to note that "a 'living' memorial is that which lives on in your DNA."

*INTIMA - Peril and Panic LP (Jyrk / Zum) $8
First official album from the Portland/Olympia quartet. CD on Slowdance. Members have performed with Mirah, Nova Scotia, Spit Up Angels, Mountain Goats...

*JONNY X AND THE GROADIES / CORPSE FUCKS CORPSE / GIFT OF GOATS / GET GET GO LP (Omnibus) $10

*K.I.T. / WIVES 7" (Zum / Post Present Medium) $4

Second pressing! Wives on tour all fall and at Yeah Fest.

*KLONDIKE AND YORK - The Holy Book LP (Weird Forest) $11

"Klondike & York's The Holy Book treads outsider jazz ramps as strangely as Arthur Doyle might. Chad Stockdale's tone is fractious and scattery, but follows neither the bellow nor the tinkle of the Euro free jazz tradition.
If anything, he recalls the strangest players of the American fire music underground, who investigated internal chambers of passion with their reeds blazing softly. Skronky sax, scuddering drums, some wall-eyed synth, everything blended like some sorta weird stew of darkly boiling orgone. Its one of the best free jazz duo records to come outta Sacramento since [your favorite here]. And frankly, its even better than that. – Byron Coley, Arthur Magazine July 2003

*KREAMY 'LECTRIC SANTA - Great Plans Laid to Rest 7" (Shut Up) $4
five unreleased songs from 1990-2004, dedicated to their late bassist,andrew powel

*JASON LESCALLEET - Another Example of Parkinson's Law 7" (Freedom From) $4
JL has been active in the electro-acoustic scene for some time now, collaborating with the likes of Nmperign, Howard Stelzer, ID Battery and the like, and he's chocked up some pretty respectable tunes. A collab CD with Nmperign on Intransitive highlights is his best effort to date, and this will be his first solo piece of vinyl. Jason has worked with Achim Wollschied, Tom Dimuzio and Ron Lessard (among others) and is currently involved in projects with John Hudak. Nmperign have individually or collectively shared stages with folks like John Zorn, Keiji Haino, Jack Wright and Pauline Oliveros. The sounds are that of old microphones and sound manipulation to the greatest degree. Swells of hissing and pops compel churns n’ hums and everything gets mixed up after a bit, sustains beautifully, and again changes. Striking.

*LOCUST - Burn My Eye VHS (Burn My Eye) $8

This is the last of these. Same segment on the DVD, interview by Extreme Elvis, live footage from the Bottom of the Hill.

*LOWDOWN – Y is a Crooked Letter CD (Zum) $10
Members of COMETS ON FIRE and WHYSP

*MAMMAL – Double Nature CD (SNSE) $10

*MASS PRODUCERS – Performances for Large Saxophone Ensemble CD (Dark Beloved Cloud) $10
The Mass Producers are Caroline Kraabel's twenty-woman saxophone ensemble; they surround their audience from every side, and ROAR. They've been playing all over Great Britain and Europe for the last few years, and they've finally recorded their repertoire: two very long, mind-expanding compositions by Kraabel. Robin Edgerton of Other Music writes: "As the overtones accumulate (think Terry Riley's 'In C'), so does the intensity -- you can just imagine some sort of massive energy being coming to life in the air above them, curling and yawning and stretching in a ravishing asymmetry." Couldn't have put it better ourselves. Also, in keeping with Caroline's tradition of including handmade elements with all her releases (see also Now We Are One Two, below), there's a different photograph on the cover of every copy of PLSE.

*MEGAWEAPON - Shameful Joy CDR $5
messed with mix of tracks by: Steve Reich, Spragga Benz, Baja Marimba Band, Gerogerigegege, Gert-Jan Prins, Crash Worship, Chap, Sunn0))), Sonny Sharrock, and Apani among others.

*MIGUEL MENDEZ - HAPPY BIRTHDAY 7" (Deathbomb Arc) $4
Just got a nice write up in the Wire from Byron Coley - issue with Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins on the cover. In 2004, Miguel Mendez makes his first appearance as mastermind on a 7" to be released by Deathbomb Arc. After years of helping other bands and artists BE GOOD (dios, rose for bohdan, tiffany anders, j mascis, jimmy shields, etc)

*MEN'S RECOVERY PROJECT - Resist the New Way CD (X-Mist) $10
German import version from 99. Sam and Neil joined this time by Mr.Joe Preston of the THRONES! The CD features 13 recordings - while the 12" is only released in the US by VERMIFORM

*TROY MIGHTY - My Dick zine $1.50
poster artist and musician mighty (antennas erupt, sweaty vibrant, semen and barfhunkel) does a zine about...uh, guess.

*MODERN ROCK MAGAZINE - issue 9 $2.50
Tim Ellison's Modern Rock Magazine began (under the name Rock Mag) in 1992. Issue number nine was published in January of 2002.
The contents of this last issue include letters, an essay on the early music of the British '60s band Kaleidoscope, an essay on Hackamore Brick's One Kiss Leads to Another LP, and a fairly substantial review section.

*MODERN ROCK MAGAZINE - issue 7 $2.50
Tim Ellison's Modern Rock Magazine began (under the name Rock Mag) in 1992. From near the end of 1998.
Includes an essay on The Fall circa 1980-1983, Lake of Dracula song lyrics, plus letters and reviews.

*MOHINDER Discography CD (GSL) $10
discography of the infamous hardcore band that cratered california for good

*NEW BRUTALISM - Structural Gymnastics LP (Sound on Sound) $9 ex-red scare, flashy white vinyl, bob weston oversight

*NICE NICE - There Will Be Slogans 7" (White Denim) $5
ONLY ONE LEFT! first vinyl from the nice nice posse.

*NIGEL PEPPER COCK - The New Way LP (Life is Abuse) $10

*NIGHT MOVES magazine $3
This is the long-anticipated "spockmorgue zine" edited by Mike McGuirk. It was at various points in its inception called "Deconnade" and "Gompers," but this is how it settled out.
Articles of the inane variety featuring opinions shared by Will York, Paul Costuros, Anthony Bedard, Nate Denver, Matthew Saint Germaine, Jordan Bass, Jay Boronski, Peter Jacoby, Daron Key, Nandor Nevai, 25 Suaves, and lord knows what else.

*NO DOCTORS - S/T (Freedom From) $10
The room goes hazy and you're flashing as this beast of an album lurches with bleary eyed damaged-to-high-heaven blues noise. Shades of righteous southern riffs hang heavy in the air, crashing and colliding with tangles of somnambulistic electronics. Intercepted transmissions, primal guitar sputter, slurred proclamations, chaotic entreaties, bugs heat sweat Jack and Green, a fine album indeed. – Hagan

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*O DETH MY CHILD / ORGANZ LP (Nail in the Coffin) $9