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((ordering outside of the US, i have to add shipping charges based on weight and destination country. US orders under $10 are ppd))
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*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.
SOLD OUT
*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
* 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
TEMP SOLD OUT
*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 theyve 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 wasnt 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.
TEMP OUT OF STOCK
*GTC - 7" (White Denim) $4
GUYANA PUNCH LINE - Maximum Smashism LP (Prank) $9
*HAIR POLICE - Obedience Cuts CD (Freedom From) $11 *HAWNAY TROOF - Get Up! Resolution: Love LP (Company With the Golden Arm) $10 *HAWNAY TROOF - Who Likes Ta? CD (Retard Disco) $7 *HAWNAY TROOF - White Men in Suits 7" (Deleted Art) $6.50 *JAY HOWELL - Negatron (Weird Forest) $12 *ILLEGAL MINDZ - CDR $7 *THE IN OUT - A Living Memorial in Deutschland CD (Dark Beloved Cloud) $11 *INTIMA - Peril and Panic LP (Jyrk / Zum) $8 *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 *KLONDIKE AND YORK - The Holy Book LP (Weird Forest) $11 *KREAMY 'LECTRIC SANTA - Great Plans Laid to Rest 7" (Shut Up) $4 *JASON LESCALLEET - Another Example of Parkinson's Law 7" (Freedom From) $4 *LOCUST - Burn My Eye VHS (Burn My Eye) $8 *LOWDOWN Y is a Crooked Letter CD (Zum) $10 *MAMMAL Double Nature CD (SNSE) $10 *MASS PRODUCERS Performances for Large Saxophone Ensemble CD (Dark Beloved Cloud) $10 *MEGAWEAPON - Shameful Joy CDR $5 *MIGUEL MENDEZ - HAPPY BIRTHDAY 7" (Deathbomb Arc) $4 *MEN'S RECOVERY PROJECT - Resist the New Way CD (X-Mist) $10 *TROY MIGHTY - My Dick zine $1.50 *MODERN ROCK MAGAZINE - issue 9 $2.50 *MODERN ROCK MAGAZINE - issue 7 $2.50 *MOHINDER Discography CD (GSL) $10 *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 *NIGEL PEPPER COCK - The New Way LP (Life is Abuse) $10
*NIGHT MOVES magazine $3 *NO DOCTORS - S/T (Freedom From) $10 LP *O DETH MY CHILD / ORGANZ LP (Nail in the Coffin) $9 *OLNEYVILLE SOUND SYSTEM - What is True, What is False LP (Load) $10 *OPEN CITY LP (Thin Wrist) $10 first album *OTTO VON SCHIRACH / SINDRI 7" (Imputor) $7 first album *ORTHRELM - 2nd 18/04 Norildivoth Crallos-Lomrixth Urthiln
CD (31G) $10 *OUTHUD / !!! Split CD (GSL/Zum) $6 *PANICSVILLE Imperfection of the Organism LP (SNSE) $10 *KEVIN PARISH Jed EP CD (Eupholus) $8 *PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT - Volatile CD (Hospital) $10 *PRISMATICS - Modulust CD (Birds Go South) $10 *POWERPIECE - Ceramic Phallus Fetish CD (Eupholus) $8 *PRURIENT - The History of AIDS CD (Hospital) $10 *PRURIENT - Shipwrecker's Diary CD (Ground Fault) $9 *REYNOLS / NO REYNOLS - CD (Freedom From) $10 *SEXY PRISON - Bury My Heart At Vladivostock 7" (Omnibus) $5 *SEXY PRISON - Italians WHo Just Saw Rocky LP (NASCAR) $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.
Debut CDEP featuring seven dirty south classics. Starring 18-year-old Vice Cooler with 900 Dixxx.
Hawnay Troof is the amalgamated accident of no-nonsense rap and no-fi electronics two nos 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 listeners 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
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.
Solo electronics project from Greg Zifcak of SF electro duo Eats Tapes.
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."
First official album from the Portland/Olympia quartet. CD on Slowdance. Members have performed with Mirah, Nova Scotia, Spit Up Angels, Mountain Goats...
Second pressing! Wives on tour all fall and at Yeah Fest.
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
five unreleased songs from 1990-2004, dedicated to their late bassist,andrew powel
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.
This is the last of these. Same segment on the DVD, interview by Extreme Elvis, live footage from the Bottom of the Hill.
Members of COMETS ON FIRE and WHYSP
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.
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.
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)
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
poster artist and musician mighty (antennas erupt, sweaty vibrant, semen and barfhunkel) does a zine about...uh, guess.
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.
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.
discography of the infamous hardcore band
that cratered california for good
ONLY ONE LEFT! first vinyl from the nice nice posse.
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.
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
CD
Dan St. Jacques - Bass,
Jon Von Ryan - Vocals,
Adam Autry - Drums
fucked and blistering. hiss and crackle of a frying mind
.
Joe Campbell and Mike Shoun (Caesura, Shatterproof, R&B Crisis Center) psychedelic electronics project.
Triumphantly issued by the midwestern populist digital renegades at Eupholus Records,
this widely unanticipated collaborative effort defies typical pedestrian superlative acknowledgement, proving beyond question that the standard of unwavering quality repeatedly attained by this humble outfit is inversely proportional to the complete lack of attention devoted to its output. In any case, the Piece in question clearly demonstrates the Power of two uncompromising young musicians, namely, Matt Demmon, co-founder and head of Eupholus Records, and Jimi Radabaugh, his obedient servant and occasional scribe. The resulting cooperative dissonance, which is made gloriously apparent on Ceramic Phallus Fetish: The Tragedy of Nihilism Over Homosexuality, is nothing short of revelatory. Only time will tell if the fickle yet insatiable public-at-large can appreciate such a deftly orchestrated coup against the bland, hype-driven establishment that is the modern music machine.
Massive, textural, throbbing, destructive, electronic, feedback drenched, power electronics and
industrial noise with heavily processed vocals and field recordings dealing with vulnerability. uses some of the thirteenth century love poems of persian poet rumi as lyrics. professionally duplicated in jewel case with matte printing and shrink wrap. First official full length CD from prurient. Split label release with dropdead's armageddon label and hospital productions.
the most pure noise recording that Prurient has done to date. In order to meet the criteria for the series III "aggressive all the time" this release
focuses more on speed, texture, current, and reoccurring themes - as generated by electronics, more so than enviormental and atmospheric passages. Source sounds were also provided by Lindsey Watkins and Macronympha for extra spice. This disc is a tip of the hat to the harsh noise community!
what if Conan O'Brien put out a record on GSL? What if indeed.
415 CLEAR CODE RED COLORED VINYL
*SIGNALDRIFT - .060 CD (OMCO) $10
From spacious dream sequences llifted from future samurai films to pop tunes bleeding in from an alternate reality, Franz and Jason Bucholtz create environments that are somehow simultaneously engaging and extraneous, challenging and universal. The brothers Bucholtz have been pulling (not pushing) the envelope of electronic music for many years
*SNOWSUIT* CDEP (Deleted Art) $6
6 song ep, on the Swedish label Deleted Art. Comes with color poster.
1. Annother Thing to Regret
2. There Will Always Be Too Many Idiots
3. Desperate Attempts to do Something Positive While Drowning in Self-hatred
4. Fixing the Symptoms of the Problem but not the Problem Itself
5. Trying to Make the Best out of Being Here
6. Everything Ends
*SODDAMN INSSEIN - War on Drugs LP (Post Present Medium) $9
Los Angeles riot squad SODDAMN INSSEIN--TARA TAVI (AMPS FOR CHRIST, THUNDERSNAIL, AYE AYE CAPTAIN), JESSICA ESPELETA (FRENCHIE & THE GERMAN GIRLS, LOVE AS LAUGHTER, REAGAN YEARS, WEIRD WAR, WITCHY POO, et al.), JACKSON BAUGH, MARCUS SAVIND, and ANTHONY BERRYMAN (Herr K). "The most annoying band I've seen since Flipper."--Jello Biafra.
*SOLENOID - Reversesender CD (Outward Music Company) $10
After countless appearances on compilations and several split 12"s, Solenoid (David Chandler) finally steps forward with a long-overdue full length. On Reversesender, Solenoid deftly humanizes swung clank from his machines to turn loose scores of strange ocean floor crawlers, where at first listen you may think you're moving smart, but really you're just getting down. Broken prog acid lines and sandbox melodies temper his elaborate epics of janky analog electro. With two other full-lengths out this quarter (Emanate & Hiao Hiao Hiao) one would assume overkill from a lesser producer but in David's case it will serve only as an introduction to his true capabilities.
*CHAD STOCKDALE & KEVIN CORCORAN - S/T 7" (Weird Forest) $5
This is the high and mighty speaker shredding first
documentation of the duo of Chad Stockdale (Klondike &
York)and Kevin Corcoran (Antennas Erupt, Get Get Go).
The idea behind this album was to make a hardcore
record but through free jazz idioms. I played my tenor
through a rat pedal and kevin got in touch with his
inner hardcore monster for the drums. Chris Woodhouse
(engineer extraordinare of A-frames, Hospitals,
Coachwhips) recorded for maximum potency. This is a
seven inch of loud whirlwind sudden blasts of howling,
house-flattening, molten melt-down compression chamber
free core. Im VERY happy with this record. It came out
just like i wanted. Limited to 300 copies on yellow
vinyl with fantastic see through cover art. Play at
33rpms!
*STRATEGY - Strut CD (Outward Music Company) $10
Kranky/Tigerbeat6 artist Paul Dickow jams out the dub. Paul also played in Nudge and Emergency.
*PETER SWANSON - cassette (Corporate Sports) $6.50
Pete from Yellow Swans, Collective Jyrk, MurDer, Reagan's Dead.
*TENDER BUTTONS - CD (Deathbombarc) $9
zack and k8 of kill me tomorrow
*THIS INVITATION - Skin of Light CD (Helio) $9
Very pretty debut release from NYC duo, now a trio with the drumemr of Aa. Warren Ng and Casey Farnum have played in numerous groups (Aggregates, Calculators) in guitar drum formation.
Here they have 6 tracks of pretty indie rock drone stuff. Above yet intertwined with whatever your idea of NY hipster inbreeding might be, the group is fluid, improv-heavy, and not at all interested in freaking out your personal space.
*THIS ROBOT KILLS - Over the Phone Lie Detector Test Live
With Jesus Christ LP (Corleone) $10
only three left of these michigan miscreants' recording (their last?).
*TRES QUATRO LP (Nothing Gets Worse Than This) $10
*URBANA YOUTH OUTREACH - No War 12" (Eupholus) $8
*USAISAMONSTER - Masonic Chronic 12" (Infrasound)
$10
An unexpected stew of basement punk
meets heavy psych, seemingly powered on hours worth of rocking out on trashed
equipment in someone's too hot/cold garage.
They have a proper sense of locking onto a phrase and riding it for
all it's worth, some good and stoned head nodding to be sure. Sounds very
east coast to my ears, unpretentious and done for the sheer love of the
noise. A pleasant surprise of a record, RECOMMENDED." Hagan
*V/A - DIFFICULT FUN 7" $6
the only west coast distribution for the difficult fun label from the uk. lo-fi tracks by antifamily, philosophy queen, Heliogabalus, Asja Auf Capri.
*V/A - SOLO SHOW SOLO SOUL SOUNDS OF SOULS SHARE cassette (Folding) $8
*Compiled by Chris Johanson and Mike Donovan
*Features 20 exclusive tracks by Gerald Hawk, Learning to Love You More, Kit Clayton,
Metalux, Badwaste, Goofice, Child Abuse,
BARR, Freedom Jazz, The Sic Alps, Del Yellow Swans,
Lionheart Mirth, Aleister, Octis, Panther, S.S.I.,
Rabbles, Tender Morsels, OCS, Douglas Armour.
*64 minutes
*Released as part of the current Vendanta Gallery,
Chicago exhibition 'Solo Show Solo Show'
organized by Chris Johanson and featuring art by
Douglas Anson, Chris Corales, Learning to Love You
More, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Jim Schatz and Marie
Lorenz.
*Hand screened covers by Chris Johanson and friends.
*Limited to 120 copies
*V/A - LA BANDS 2004 (Deathbombarc) $4
a 4 way split 7" of 4 great LA bands. The bands are The Sharp Ease, Child Pornography, Rose For Bohdan, and Rainbow Blanket
*V/A Murder Was the Case CD (Eupholus) $7
compilation cd with all remixes of snoop dogg! tracks from deucalion, semiomime, kalaturru, rabbits, kevin parish & tommy the rabbit dissector
, hari punani, 13th hour, noizecreator, selector catalogue, adjust, eye-d, exsckreahmeanth
*V/A Protracted Birth Paine cassette (Rodent) $7
compilation cassette of new young noise amerikkka. tracks from stabbed in the penis, pig shit, ska peterson, ruptured penis blood clot cum splotch (?!), thou shalt kill, shat upon, tangerine vomit police, projetile anal vomit, and cobra flaps.
*V/A - NFJM 10 BAND 7" (NFJM) $5
Erase Errata - I Don't Know,
The Sissies - Lamp Party (Yeah),
Missing Tooth - Eagle Eyes,
Bebe & Serge - Quantegy Asi,
Zeek Sheck - Saltmine Worker,
M.C. Trachiotomy w/ XBXRX - Myths,
Tracy & The Plastics - Dead Face,
Panty Raid - Don't Make Me Touch It,
Chromatics - Fork Your Tongue,
Peaches - Tour Too Much.
*V/A - SECRETS AND SOUNDS CD (Animal Disguise) $10
3 YEARS IN THE MAKING, THESE ARE THE SECRETS AND SOUNDS OF ANIMAL DISGUISE RECORDINGS. THE DEFINITIVE SOUNDTRACK TO ADR
PACKED FULL WITH 22 TRACKS AND 74 MINUTES. FEATURING PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS FROM OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS: ARNOUX, CHARLES LAREAU, CIPHER FOX,
FEROX HEAD, FOOTBALL RABBIT, GROWING, HAIR POLICE, LIBYTHTH, LIGER, MAMMAL, MEERK PUFFY, NAUTICAL ALMANAC, NEON HUNK, PANAMA, PRURIENT, ROTFLOL, SINKING BODY, SMASHED FEMUR DANCE PARTY, THE LOWDOWN, TON B / TON B, VIKI, ZOMBI right now
*V/A - Why is Anything Forbidden? CD (Deathbombarc) $11
this noise tribute to no limit records is finally here. be afraid. Contributions from cock esp, david figurine, squab, radio vago, books on tape, meths (mike donovan) among others.
*WARBLER - CD (DoggPony / No Format / Mutant) $10
Debut from the posi-prom couple ST (Snowsuit*, XBXRX) and KG (Lil Pocketknife, DJ Shitbird and the Ultimate Party Machine) 14 tracks of fractured beats, sneaky melodies, chanting!
*WHYSP - LP (Yik Yak) $11
HUGH HOLDEN and JOSH ALPER play the Renaissance Faire, as these former LOWDOWN members befriend gnomes and play some impish faerie-and-unicorn folk inspired by the Incredible String Band, Forest, etc. Limited edition 300 green vinyl. Recorded by PHIL ELVRUM.
*JOHN WIESE - Magical Crystal Blah CD (Helicopter / Kitty Play) $10
Live recordings from west coast 2003 tour.
*WOLF EYES - Dead Hills CD (Troubleman) $10
*DEMOS YELLOW SWANS - Live in the Police State Capitol LP (Weird Forest) $10
Single-sided live record from Sacramento and Arcata, Fall/Winter 2003
*ZEEK SHECK - Good Luck Remix LP (Skin Graft/Freeland) $11
The vinyl differs radically from the Good Luck CD release (GR#53) with new tracks and innovative remixes. Imagine a GRRRL Renaldo And The Loaf. Reach over the rainbow and you might feel up a cloud person. History is subject to an astonishing pro-tooling at the click of Rose Perkin Meyers. This No Wave Computer remix of "Good Luck Suckers" tells an unfamiliar story from a completely different perspective. This isn't Lucas adding a bunch of Lizards to an old print, this is a recipe for confusion. Awe-inspiring cover art by Rose & lots of exclusive tracks! Band includes Bobby Conn, Liam of Plush, Fred Lonberg Holm, etc.
SONGS:
Wowy 2, Waken, Cyclotonic Gliders,
Seizure, Hate,
Victory, Celebrate, Real Live,
All The Chrystals In The Land , Burnt
2XcommandZ, Slayer 2000
LINE UP:
Zeek Sheck: vox, drums, harmonica, recorder,
tuba, etc,
Solly: standup bass,
Thymme Jones: organ, trumpet,
Liam Hayes: organ,
Michael Colligan: clarinet,
Bobby Conn: vocals,
Mr. 6-J-10: makeup,
Monica Bou Bou: violin, viola,
Fred Lonberg-Holm: cello,
Nate Young: organ
*ZEEK SHECK - Hot Lines for Children CD (Skin Graft) $9
I only have one copy of these left, so email first
25 SUAVES - 1938 LP (Bulb) $10
ABCS CD (Troubleman) $10 members of the rapture and orthrelm
JIM YOSHII PILE UP Homemade Drugs CD (Absolutely Kosher) $10
*ZEIGENBOCK KOPF - IDM LP CD (Kimosciotic) $10
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box 4449 berkeley, ca 94704
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2/1/2005