second family band - dream release - earjerk - lp - 14$
Announcing the Family's vinyl debut! On multi-coloured vinyl with hand-printed covers. Every copy is unique! So what does it sound like? Well it's a reissue of the 2009 Dream Release cassette on Bum Tapes, only sounding freakier than ever. Pristine all-analog mastering (no digital nuthin'!)
drunjus - thorn shield - earjerk - lp - 16$
... too killer journeys... Dremcrom and Relax, Hunter. Both recorded live. One side completely in the analog realm; from the boys' cassette deck straight to 180 gram black wax. Strictly limited to 300 copies. Hand screened on thrifted album covers turned inside out. No two alike. Side A - 'Dremcrom' is a sideways drift through the earths crust which confirms that the core truly is molten. Drunjus bore a hole straight to the center of your brain. Live at the infamous Wisco Biker Bar... Side B - 'Relax Hunter' is a more galactic affair. With enough molten fuel to get their ship airborn, Drunjus escape the atmosphere and enter a 300 year cryogenic sleep... co-released with Tree Tapes...
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gitchi-anahmi-bezheu - wonder - earjerk - cass - 7$
I was lucky enough to hang out with this cat and do a few live shows with him out on the East Coast, and man... I gotta say, dude delivers! I actually saw Ian perform as Dream Safari but, if anything, this new incarnation just turns everything up a notch... or down...however you wanna look at it! I guess down would be more appropriate. Cause this is deep, deep stuff! Fantastic Underwater Panther Music! The two times I saw Ian play live (and on all the cassette releases I have encountered) there is a definite progression that his pieces live through. This is something that is missing in many (MANY!) drone projects you might encounter, in which most finished pieces sound like they were chopped out of some large sprawling jam. Not with Gitchi. You can tell these pieces were self contained. A definite beginning, middle and end, you know? You can easily imagine these creations as living things as you listen to them originate, grow and die. Fleshy pink tapes. Individually hand-stamped covers on beautiful vintage paper. Limited to 99 copies.
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enfer boreal / drunjus - climate change / ranking charioteer - earjerk - cass - 6$
Some of the headiest material ever from both of these projects. Enfer Boreal starts from a deep bell toned pulse and as soon as you have locked on he tosses you into space. You bounce off various soft, rubbery astroids and UFO's. You will have to re-enter the Earths atmosphere without burning up and these cold drones won't leave you hangin. Drunjus... Awww, you know what to expect. Anyway, how many times can I use the words heavy and deep and cosmic when describing drones. I mean this is heavy, deep, cosmic and COSMIC, but I have used all those descriptions before. Throbbing? Pulsing? Alive? Yes. All that. A definite buzz enhancer. Blue tapes with carefully applied green spray. Collage artwork by Woodman. Limited to 45 copies.
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second family band - street weaver - earjerk - cass - 6$
Making the rounds called Streetweaver. Side A is a weirdo dime and dollar synth wheeze called Dirty Dimensions and the flip is the title track, an acoustic porch stomp with a touch of twang.
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second family band - get me by - earjerk - cass - 6$
Two more twangers. (that's a hard G in twangers) This short stomp will elasticize yer joints. And do NOT remain seated. You'll need to flip that tape soon. The back porch is still saggin' from it's pounding. Two WTF?, hillbilly, snake handlin, tent revival jams commited to crumbling, recycled cassettes. Comes in an abused (though functional) case with insert. Did somebody say joints?
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the big drum in the sky religion - sha^ri va’ri - earjerk - cass - 7$
The Big Drum in the Sky Religion has patched together a story quilt of 69 short minutes. Documenting a foray into their world. Several primal live events are blended seamlessly. Humans scream. Ancestors laugh. And they all dance and sing too the steadily unsteady drum. Infinite and eternal jams pound on through an air thick with sweat and electric hum. A fresh of breath air. To find even more simply fucked cd-rs, (as well as the cd-r version of 'Sha^ri Va'ri' with some extra music) check out their myspce your damn self. If you dare. Expect some exclusive T.B.D.I.T.S.R. tracks on the earjek label soon. http://www.myspace.com/bigdrumskyreligion
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guzzo pinc - the sea - earjerk - cass - 7$
Another reissue of sorts. In my earlier description, which I admit, was not accurate at all, and mostly involved me waxing on about this dude, Guzzo Pinc. I described this as lo-fi pop. Truly, I apologize. Though some of these tunes are amazingly catchy and engaging tunes, pop was the wrong word for sure. I am just not exposed to ‘catchy’ enough. These tunes lodge in my brain and engage the repeat function but it never bothers me. I don't know Guzzo's influences but I hear a little Lou Barlow in here and I don't think Guzzo knows who that is. Definitely a place here for the fans of recent neofolkies like Caethua, Uke of Spaces Corners and Woods. (And I can GUARANTEE you that he doesn't know any of those...sorry guys! I still love you!) Obvious influences like Neil Young, Hank Williams and Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk music show through but I also hear shit in here that I just can't place. I feel like I have heard it before. Something very familiar here. Like a lullaby man, like a lullaby. True bedroom folk, intimately recorded in analog warmth and with a sincere delivery. This won't make you cringe! It's that good!
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lens - chant down babylon / chant up babylon - earjerk - cass - 6$
Dark Age Kassettes No. 4!!! Two medieval devotionals from the solo project of Drunjus's Dan Woodman. Lens throws an enigma in the dungeon to wait out the dark age. First 27 copies come with an actual lens. Purple Tapes. Limited to 45 copies.
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second family band - the eternal lag pt. 3- earjerk - cass - 6$
The Quest continues! If 'Our Way Is The Right Way' is the prequal. And Eternal Lag Pt.2 is 'The Two Towers'. Then this is 'The Return of the King'. Killer, blown-out, science fantasy, noise epic. Trbal drums, buried synth etc... Standard Dark Age Kassettes packaging. Purple Tapes. Limited to 45 copies.
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various - bright and dark light - the eternal lag - earjerk - 4xcass - 16$
4 cassette compilation (EJK-016) (4xc20+ in box) Sidelong pieces by 8 artists.
Burial Hex, Sorc'henn, Drunjus, Crystal Dragon, Teeth collection, Black Sparrow, Pan to Scratch, Taikuri Tali.
Each artist was asked to contribute a side long piece representing light or darkness. I gotta say, this one is heavy on the darkside... Sorc'henn – A Dozen Moons against the Sun - This is a soundtrack to a haunting. A wandering ghost floating through streets of drizzling rain. The groans of the not quite dead. A distant rumble of thunder is heard through a haze of lamentation. Regret, misery, and abandonment.. Teeth Collection - untitled - A metallic (in the literal sense) symphony starts out this piece. Activated and bowed metal sounds build to a frenzy as a bed of noise creeeeps in behind and gradually envelops the metal sounds creating a cold fog of swirling texture that is truly entrancing. Drunjus - Silo (version) - A deep gutteral drone created in a silo (designed by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright) and pitched down. Waaaay down. While we weren't looking Pat Best of Pelt sneeked in and contributed gong flourishes. That didn't make it in the liner notes, but it's true! Thanks Patrick! Crystal Dragon - Sirens of Hyperspace - A total space odyssey! This is some dreamy analog synth action from the Dragon. Someone needed to shed a little light, so the Dragon steps up. Amethyst mountains rising from a pink bubbling haze of 50's science fiction soundtrack sounds. Black Sparrow - untitled - A bit lighter now. Black Sparrow takes us on a flight above the clouds. As our shadow passes the moon we can hear below us a howling wolf chorus of analog synth. Burial Hex - untitled - A dark journey through scraping cemetery gates with rolling sarcophagi stones and bones Pan to Scratch - August 2008 V - Pan to Scratch presents us with another organic cassette composition. A true 'Sound Sculpture', this piece is a layering of tones upon tones. The original tone being inspired by a captured environmental ambiance and then enhanced with several moog drones. Once the initial drones were laid out, (layered over) a loose pattern began to emerge. This pattern was then used as a skeleton to build the piece, each successive layer adding to and changing the course of the pattern. This was repeated until the piece was 'finished', the tones gradually fading out and leaving only the original ambiance. Taikuri Tali - untitled - Spectacular contribution from these Finnish freakers! Taikuri Tali (here composed of Antti Tolvi, Peko Kappi and Niko-matti Ahti) contribute a piece so out there that I have No idea whats happening on this recording. What I Imagine: A weird squeak-toy, spring peeper drone with AM frequency fiddle and electronic bull roarer/Goose duo...then the elf dervishes start in and it just gets weirder from there...".
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ophibre - approaching the ionized piezo kiosk - earjerk - cdr- 5$
Drone that decimates! "Stone Gon' Drone". A constantly phasing, shimmering cloud of color that shifts and morphs, yet maintains a cohesiveness throughout that will continually make you drift and forget you are listening. The really great stuff you just can't describe. Ophibre already stumped me with his self-released 'Compositions For Disassembled Cassette", which was comprised of all the little things you need to make a cassette. The reels, the screws (in a little ziplock coin baggie taped to the side of the case), the tape, the shell.. If you want to hear it your gonna learn to put together the cassette! I havent remembered to ask him, but I think the sound source for the composition in Ophibre taking apart all the cassettes! Luckily this cdr will come fully assembled, although we could make you design your own case...nah!
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annapurna iIlusion - heat of the fire, heat of the sun - earjerk - cdr - 7$
Expansive, mountainous waves of drone roll, creating a beautiful backdrop to the intricate organic noises that float on the surface. The debut release of Annapurna iIlusion, presents us with four tracks of woven electric breath which can either lull you into a dreamstate or pummel your head against the shore, depending upon how loud you play it. Brings to mind those times when The Beastmaster would like, have his bird fly way up in the air and then he could like, see through the birds eyes and stuff..oh man! ..I'll change that tomorrow. Want to write more but need sleep! Just believe me, This Slays!.. More info here: myspace.com/annapurnaillusions
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varlet tarsod - s/t - earjerk - cass - 6$
Killer Kraut voyages from this weird Wisconsin Mind ... Absinthe that is. Push play and you're locked in to this swirling world of rythyms, heavy riffing and shifting shred with a definite dark, desert vibe. ($6)
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e.c. brown and i'diamond - gothick reforme - earjerk - cass - 6$
Everything just keeps getting darker and darker... It just must be time for this lost treasure to be unearthed. In 2001 someone gave me a cd-r. They said they knew I liked "strange music" and they thought I should have this. The cover art was a robed figure with a golden mask and the back of the cd-r had a similar female figure, posing with similar robes and a different mask. Both figures were set against a background of neon pink and yellow forest leaves. Somehow, despite the colors, there was something distinctly ominous about the artwork for this cd-r. And the same can be said of the sounds within. Truly ahead of it's time, I had no frame of reference for this at this point in my life. I kept the cd-r mostly to myself; a secret revealed only to some. Very few were ready to except it's slimy, sometimes oppressive atmospheres. It's jarring, film score "scene changes". And it's mixture of Free(k) Folk, Noise and even Black Metal tendencies. Earjerk tracked down Mr. Brown and was stupified to learn that a mere 35 copies of this cd-r exsist! Well, no longer will this linger in dark corners of cardboard boxes and basement floors, subject to CD rot and digital decay. Earjerk has re-issued this wonder for all the world to hear. The original artwork has been lovingly re-formatted for cassette. Puke pink or yellow cassettes with two different covers. Buy this. Be the first to say you weren't there. ($6)
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pan to scratch - with happiness - earjerk - cass - 6$
Spring time in a can. Banjo, bouzouki melodica, cassette and sounds captured live, outside. 7/1/09 through 7/11/09. Variant color tape, insert and case with hand carved text. Limited.
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neon shit - more neon shit - treetapes - cass - 6$
Continuing where the first sensory defying Neon Shit Tape left off. Phasing vortex! 8-bit shit storm! Mind Erase! Scientology Weapon! Get this now!
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lens - surveyor - treetapes - cass - 6$
The first release from Woodman's new solo project, Lens and the third release in the Tree Tapes 'Too Heavy Cassette' series. These heavy lead tones will sonically map the exact expanses of your skull. First 23 copies or so come with an actual lens insert.
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neon shit - neon shit b/w life jam neon shit - treetapes - cass - 6$
second family band - the eternal pt. 2 - earjerk - cass - 6$
Murky. The newest Dark Age Kassette!
The latest addition in our subscription series... (Also available through Tomentosa and Eclipse). Even more selections from a never ending pile of super blown drum and synth dirges. You Cannot Kill The Family!
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pan to scratch - the sourcerer - earjerk - cass - 6$
Daily, solitary, outdoor rituals documented over two months time in the Fall of 2008. Field recordings and multi-layer melodica musings crumble and decay over the 15 meditative minutes comprising side A of the latest Object Tapes release. Side B is a version on this number, with the drifting melodica drone having a bit more presence this time and taking on a pensive contemplative mood, punctuated with bells and minimal instrumentation. As with the release on Cabin Floor Esoterica, this is dedicated to the great Olivier Messiaen.
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circulation of light - earjerk - cass - 6$
Magic material here. Gnostic Audio. A stillness pervades. Liquid piano. Transcendental Medication. Solo Project of Nathan Ritter of Kinither
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