cooper jones / cars - split - is night people – cass - 6$
This split cassette captures just a little slice of the Manchester/Nottingham/Sheffield area young improv scene. Got the pleasure of meeting and performing on the same bill with some of these folks back in March and recognized right away that something interesting was brewing there. Total duo action going on with this release, Sophie and Kelly kick out some epic intricate folky guitar action as Cooper Jones, and on the flip side Patrick and Pascal break on some sprawling percussion and drum storms as Cars. Lots of movement here, this is a long document, capturing the flow of what these two groups do. Silkscreened artwork by Ryan Garbage.
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subterranean league - is night people – cass - 6$
This one is total damage, psychic vampires spinning around on their heads slathering a bunch of gross cut up pedal wreckage out of maxed out PA's. SL comes straight out of Iowa City's most moist basement corners, anonymous, cult vibe, Asian twins, ready for wreckage. Dynamic, fast, psychedelic harshness, for underground lurking and poisonous raptures of the heart. Re-release of ultra limited Eager Mother cass. Silkscreened artwork by SDReed.
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trash dog - wasted gift - is night people – cass - 6$
The name says it all, annihilated, fucked up, hardcore damage from Witcher, Drip, and Garbage, Iowa City underground punk filth. Manic deranged vocals over primitive punk trash. Includes special bonus addition of the ultra limited and out of print Garbage Eater cass. Killer Double sided fold out cover and mini zine artwork by Ryan Garbes.
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weirding module - timew33d - is night people – cass - 6$
Much in line with the weapon Weirding Module references in its name this cassette TIMEW33D attacks with varying sonic textures and sounds with a specificity that seems quite distinct. As strange as anything Night-People has ever released, this cassette of out world synth pulse, subtle interplays of heavy electronics, and queasy trance oscillations, is as spaced out as it gets. Peel the skin back something else is inside of us, speaking through the mind to the deep lost universe. Artwork by SDReed.
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baronic wall -the golden sword / in granite parlor - is night people – cass - 6$
Baronic Wall is former Iowa City resident Jack Gilbert who recently moved back to his home turf in the Welsh countryside. This cassette is a re-release of the ultra limited self released “Golden Sword” cassette and the Agents of Chaos issued “In Granite Parlor”. After a series of destructive freak out prone live shows Baronic Wall was put to tape with help from Jeff Witscher and what found its way onto those tapes is a fucking weird stew of sci fi synth punk and sordid artistry. Dry as hell poetically fucked British ranting over torched keyboard sludge, the mannerism of this music are obessesion with detritus. There is a Lambkin/ vintage Fazzini vibe here, and the far out heights of this spaceship see no bounds. Art by SDReed.
dunebuggy -suck me through a flavor straw - is night people – cass - 6$
New DuneBuggy via the Garbes/Taterbug axis, two longer jammers. A side is DeNudes loner guitar vibes transitioning into a short garage punk stomper. B side is Dunebuggys best moment yet, a long upbeat organ ripper, raw and on the spot, hazed, sad and heartfelt. Art by RGarbes.
wild safari -cave sequins - is night people – cass - 6$
Wild Safari is a mystery synth/electronics duo with connections to Pink Priest who record shimmering walls of atmospheric dream time music. The kind of jams that are perfect for headphone headspace, late night time spent in mind jungles and deep space orbits around tropical new planets. Isolating lush and uplifting. Art by SDReed.
tee pee - s/t - is night people – cass - 6$
Tee Pee, prolific one man recording project from Miami is at it again after a bunch of tapes and singles from labels like Florida is Dying, Hozac, and Jerkwave. This one is pretty different though, the eclectic aspects of Tee Pee seem to be kind of spread out on these songs, spaced out, given time to stand on there own, a more minimal, darker, more atmospheric vibe prevails here that hints a bit more towards loner psychedelic guitar and improv then any prior Tee Pee recordings have. Still present is the punchy, noisy psychedelic synth punk of Tee Pees beginnings here and there, but its fused with an almost worldy sound, something really eclectic and unknown. A progression for sure.
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the polyps - the gong is the moon - is night people – cass - 6$
smycken - video haze - is night people – cass - 6$
Smycken are from Goteborg Sweden, they inhabit the same type of unpredictable sonic and musical realms that alot of there more Northern neighbors from the Fonal Finnish family of bands seem to inhabit. A sort of collage aesthetic binds together the unhinged synth pop sensibilities of Smycken with forays into field recordings, vocal freakouts, psychedelic electronics, and woodsy folk eruptions. Something shinny, cosmic, and glacial is always ridding over the sounds, mutating them together through weaving synth oscillations and vocal mantras, that seem to highlight the pop sensibilities of this recording as much as they blur them.
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tyvek - blunt instrumental - is night people – one sided 12" silkscreened picture disc- 15$
Tyvek don't need much introduction, Detroit area art punk garage rockers, who have a bunch of killer prior material on labels like Siltbreeze, Subpop, M'Ladys, X, Whats Your Rupture etc. Absolutely killer stuff here on this delux arted out vinyl reissue of a limited tour cassette. Blunt Intsturmental isn't all insturmental but there is a focus on letting the rythms and noise play out a bit. Whats interesting is that while the sound and insturmentation jam out a bit more it feels even more raw and stripped down then the recent full length LP. A sort of step forward into a more groove oreinted, noisy jammy territory while simultaniously returning to the sound of the early singles. A real raw art punk feel like early Swell Maps or The Fall etc. One of the great bands of these times.
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yves/son/ace - parade of thoughts/can't sleep - is night people – lp - 15$
Yves/Son/Ace is a solo outlet from the Factums/Love Tan camp out of Seattle. Less an experiment in synth noise and drone then the"Cold Showers" Night-People cassette, Parade of Thoughts/Can't Sleep evokes a sort of deconstructed synth pop aesthetic. Druggy, hushed vocals float over vintage rhythm machines, synth noise goop, and lost world music radio tones. Minimal, isolated, deranged, and savage, Yves/Son/Ace is junk pop music for a disconnected world full of detritus and longing. A subtle sound that grows in your skull like fungus on rotting wood. LISTEN
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sewn leather - s/t - is night people – cass - 6$
Sewn Leather is scum anthem, beat heavy, new wave trash. Dance party tunes for dead beat punks, dirty weirdos, and those who aspire to morbid underground lifestyles. Essentially the wrong kind of party jams for the wrong kind of party. Mixed by Ryan Garbes for maximum crusty fidelity, the closest recorded document thus far to hit as hard as the raw live shows. Always on tour or sleeping on your friends couch. Artwork by SDReed.
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ryan garbes - born under the sun - is night people – cass - 6$
Ryan Garbes returns to his solo recordings after spending heavy time playing in Wet Hair and working on his Exterminator remix series. Some things have changed for sure, on this tape of Spectrum/Spacemen 3/ VU inspired tunes, Ryan drops head first into a sticky pool of reverb drenched burnt electric instrumentation. Its not as if the sensibilities of past solo recordings are gone, its as if the noisy rhythms have been refined and perfected, distilled into full on drone pop perfection. Ryan's keyboard and synth playing really flow on this one, leaving his gooey melodic pop centric vocals to be the big surprise. Great stuff. Expect a 7" from Arbor soon.
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meth teeth - s/t - is night people – cass - 5$
This is a re release of Meth Teeth's Indian Spirits Demo from last summer's nationwide tour. Long time Night-People pals, Meth Teeth reside in Portland OR. and in some ways embody the rainy day big country vibe of the city with its youth culture dreamers, old druggies, and rustic history. There is something that is really hard to pin down about Meth Teeth, the songs rely on simple ramshackle rhythms, upbeat shinny guitar interplay, and big fat chord churners, and alot of tambourine banging away on the snare drum. Ultra catchy summertime rockers keep you sad and lonely, and upbeat and hopeful all at once. LP on Woodsist soon. Artwork by SDReed.
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trash dog - namaste - is night people – cass -5$
Another blast of scummy low fi thrash/hardcore sludge from Iowa City’s Trash Dog, definitely there best release to date. The quality on this one is an all around step up, short and brutal, with some drifting riff driven annihilation feedback purge finding its way onto the B side. Rolling with a deep lineup of Gretchen, Witscher, Garbes, and Miller, this ultra limited release from fall of 08 needed to find its way around again. Lost mind, fucked life, void gang, shit and failure anthems. Artwork by RGarbes.
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kites / earth crown - split - is night people – lp - 14$sold out
This is a cold vision of a dark trash covered future full of Sci Fi nightmares and strange out of body experiences. This is the final Kites recording and is perhaps the strangest and most chaotic piece in the prolific discography. Annihilation synth and tape collage, cut up, sped up and dialed to oblivion. Earth Crown steps it back, slows down the pulse, lets the edges of the static curl around the drone to the breaking point, where the damage is let loose, purged out and built again. This LP is a reminder of how cold, desolate, and haunting life can be. Silkscreened by Shawn Reed, Art by Kites and Earth Crown.
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xray eyeballs - s/t - is night people – cass -5$sold out
XRay Eyeballs is OJ and Carly (from NYC rockers Golden Triangle) new drum machine driven dark punk project. Bathed in reverb, low fi sheen, and weirdo grit, XRay Eyeballs sounds like two drifter kids covered in makeup and glitter trying to escape a dead city skyline proclaiming there love for each other as the world just passes them by. Creeped out and charming all at once. If the world died but the songs kept playing. Artwork by SDREED.
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neon tempal - midnight moods - is night people – cass -5$sold out
Neon Tempal is Pascal Nicholas solo project, currently centered in Lyon France, this central England transplant spent times in groups like Stuckometer, Cars etc. Midnight Moods is centered around Pascal’s intimate, intense, and immediate drumming, and improvised percussion generated soundscapes. Occasional vocals and an assortment of other instruments come into the mix, but the feeling of live immediate playing is always at the forefront. Fans of the Actual Series of BYG LP’s take note.
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russian tsarlag - community death tube - is night people – lp -12$sold out
Night-People is excited to present the first full length LP by Russian Tsaralg, long running solo performance and recording outlet of Tampa born Providence based creep crooner Carlos Gonzalez. Russian Tsaralag infuses sci-fi and horror movie aesthetics with strange loner punk minimalism. Tsarlags sparse, savage, downer, aesthetics, and strange audio skits, are the perfect soundtrack to the declining age.
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wet hair - the beach - is night people – cass -5$sold out
Tape from most recent west coast tour, features different versions of songs that will be released on a forthcoming lp and cd, plus some songs that will not.
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teeth mountain - s/t - is night people – cass -5$sold out
Teeth Mountain are a heavy hitting drone and percussion unit from Baltimore. On this tape of hard hitting jams dense walls of cello, guitar, electronics and feedback glide along with an upbeat wave of percussion and drum pummel, a sound that would seem to fill the loftiest of churches, temples or gymnasiums. Featuring a revolving cast of Baltimore's finest, Teeth Mountain collage together some of there best live spills on this cassette of epic endless burners. Art by SDREED.
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earth crown - say fuck you to the beast - is night people – cass5$sold out
Earth Crown is Door, and Door is Earth Crown, Door moved down to Baltimore's annihilated warehouse district a few months ago from his legendary former address Castle Puppy in New Brunswick NJ and the change seems to make sense, the sound collected on this tape relates to the deserted post apocalyptic feel of the cities most lost inhabitants and streets. Sci Fi sythy feedback fuckers, crust nihilism, industrial pulse wars, termination soundtracks, ultra control feeding into chaotic electronic spew, dystopian rules. Door is dialed into a dark cold future. Ragging and minimal, music for replicant dreams. Art by Door.
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peaking lights - clearvoiant - is night people – cass -5$sold out
Peaking Lights is Aaron and Indra (also of Numbers) from Rah Dunes new duo project recently relocated to rural Wisconsin from the Bay Area. Floating electronic pulses, controlled feedback, tape loops, organ, snyth, guitar, and vocal harmonies layered into waves of four track noise pop goodness. The perfect soundtrack to walking in mysterious places, haunted neighborhoods, lost river banks, and bike rides at night. This release really glows and grows. Silkscreened artwork by SDREED.
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evan miller - s/t - is night people – cass - 5$sold out
Miller is back at it with a new tape for Night-People. This one cuts real deep, Miller at his most epic. The A side starts things up with deep echo's swimming around cut up tape manipulations, leading into chambers of drone with Miller's characteristic tonal vocals transitioning into a kind of finger picked sentimental raga. The B side offers up a real burner, perhaps Millers best straight acoustic number, a real beautiful complex side that plays between minimalistic somber portions and upbeat workouts. Artwork by SDReed.
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wet hair - 08 tour tape - is night people – cass -5$sold out
First document of Wet Hair as a 2 piece band, shows this quickly evolving project at its best thus far. Cult electric gospel burning, flowing over layers of analog synth atmosphere and industrial trance punk. More focused around distinctive vocal, organ and synth arrangements, with touches of live drumming giving way to drum machine pulse and electronic spew. Melodic, upbeat, focused, dark, warm, cold, catchy, and confusing, Wet Hair is just beginning to grow into its own possibilities. Art by SDREED.
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talk normal - s/t - is night people – cass -5$sold out
Talk Normal is a new 2 piece from Brooklyn NY consisting of members Andrya Ambro and Sarah Register. Disjointed angular structures contrast dense waves of percussion, found sounds, and melodic vocals, totally minimal and maximal all at once. Ridding out post punk creep jams and collage numbers reminiscent of This Heat,Talk Normal is a fresh one, lacking any kind of easy pigeon holing bullshit. This is really considered stuff. Very recommended. Art by SDREED.
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black vatican - zed omega - is night people – cass -5$sold out
Black Vatican is Andy Roche and Owen Gardner, two dudes who grew up in Iowa and live in Chicago and Baltimore respectively. Black Vatican jam out some killer tracks on Zed Omega traveling the distance between blown out psych pop, junk garage rock, spaced out synth, and weirdo falsetto harmonies. Zed Omega is a catchy, but destroyed album falling someplace between art pop appropriation and science fiction exploration feeling familiar and classic despite all its noise and weirdness.
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binges - flame of the millenium - is night people – cdr -5$sold out
Finally a release on Night-People from Raccoo-oo-oon tour mates and Chicago's best basement improv unit Binges. Killer drums, percussion, electronics, saxophone, guitar, and bass from these two dudes Chris and Anthony. Binges are ultra focused and tight, Chris glides around on his kit with supreme precision with Anythony juggles a bunch of loops, noises, and instruments all at once. One of the most solid and exciting underground bands around right now. Artwork by the band printing by SDRreed.
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changeling - beyond the edge of dreams - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Changeling is Roy Tatum, LA based multi-instrumentalist and Buried Valley Cass. Label head, who has spent time in such groups as Black Monk and Quintana Roo, while periodically providing drum duties for other LA bands. Changeling is focused around lush ambient guitar drones that provide a lot of layered feeling in their presence. "Beyond the Edge of Dreams" has a lot of duality and contrasts in its sounds. Moving from beautiful cascades that evoke ecstatic ponderance and a life spent looking to distant peaks or shores breaks way into persistent smothering washes of synth like uneasiness leaving this listener feeling quite isolated. Either way, this is a rich listen, cinematic and airy, like early Popul Vuh at its most sorrowful. Silkscreened artwork by SDReed.
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pukers - dead dog - is night people – cass - 5$sold out
New Iowa City hardrock duo Pukers resurrect Yoko Ono and John Bonham only to literally kill them once more. Distorted drums and fucking distorted vocals battle to occupy the same oversaturated space on 1/4 inch tape. The result: catchy tunes, pumping beats, wounded crooning, and a little guest guitar and harmonica to boot. Produced by the golden child: Ryan Garbage. Real deal shit.
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evan miller / twelve canons - split - is night people – cass - 5$sold out
On Evan Miller's second release for Night People, he brings out some intimate low key stunners that don't lack on the details and bring out just as much contemplation in the listener while feeling just a little sad in their tune. Iowa City's long time dark folk ramblers Twelve Canons change things up a bit by moving into some lighter territory, referencing the same kind of slightly sad, ecstatic, but light and airy tunes Evan creats on this release. Perfect late night summer time jams.
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tent city - cascade trinkets - is night people – cdr - 6$sold out
Tent City are a band of Arizona desert punks, who create organic improvised sets and compositions. Cascade trinkets breaths out some Don Cherry like world jazz fusion, while remaining folky, focused and tight. These 3 tracks move along smooth with a meaty percussive underbelly, and melodic sax lines that bring everything present into focus, reflecting the kind of beautifully dry and sandy cactus country you would envision Tent City living in
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evan miller - three spells for six string guitar - is night people – cass - 5$sold out
Evan Miller is an Iowa City 6-string slinger who grew up in dusty Oklahoma. Over the last couple years he has devoted himself to the craft of his instrument, honing his songwriting and perfecting his playing. He's studied the greats and shows it on this release, with a nod and an ode to the late great John Fahey. Evan toils in the dirt of rural Americana and blues, but keeps his sound fresh and original at the surface. This cassette is just a glimpse of what Evan has up his sleeve, and with his mesmerizing live show and flawless playing, he's just getting started.Evan Miller is an Iowa City 6-string slinger who grew up in dusty Oklahoma. Over the last couple years he has devoted himself to the craft of his instrument, honing his songwriting and perfecting his playing. He's studied the greats and shows it on this release, with a nod and an ode to the late great John Fahey. Evan toils in the dirt of rural Americana and blues, but keeps his sound fresh and original at the surface. This cassette is just a glimpse of what Evan has up his sleeve, and with his mesmerizing live show and flawless playing, he's just getting started.
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mef teef - implied brain-flex - is night people – cass - 5$sold out
Debut transmission from this Iowa City based Free Music group. Rolling piano lines and crisp rhythmic drumming hold the backdrop for trumpet and saxophone spazz and howl. Before you know it everything breaks down into mush before instantly reforming into perfect hard-bop catchiness, swing cheesiness, or carnivalesque creepiness… but only for a measure… and then who knows what comes next.
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raccoo-oo-oon – behold secret kingdom – nnf / is night people - lp 11$ sold out
You know what they say: beautiful tribal spirit psych lies in the eyes of the beholder. So enter the kingdom and hold the secret in your hands. Iowa City’s prodigal sun-starers offer up the fruits of their deepest inquest yet into the heart of the heart of the country. Eight wilderness rituals of swirling percussion, mossy guitar noise, forest howls, and animal instincts that unfold and erupt with more focus, intensity, and complexity than anything else in Raccoo-oo-oon’s discography thus far. The songs were tracked in the studio with warmth and power by Mike Dixon and then given a heavy mastering job by Pete Swanson, so sonically the vinyl shines and burns and explodes in all the right places. A crushing statement of electric alchemy by one of our favorite bands in the world. Black vinyl LPs in awesome pro-printed jackets, plus an insert, with Midwestern magick color visions/nature photography art by the band.
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evan miller - three spells for six string guitar - is night people – cass - 5$ sold out
Evan Miller is an Iowa City 6-string slinger who grew up in dusty Oklahoma. Over the last couple years he has devoted himself to the craft of his instrument, honing his songwriting and perfecting his playing. He's studied the greats and shows it on this release, with a nod and an ode to the late great John Fahey. Evan toils in the dirt of rural Americana and blues, but keeps his sound fresh and original at the surface. This cassette is just a glimpse of what Evan has up his sleeve, and with his mesmerizing live show and flawless playing, he's just getting started.
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youth of the beast - white cat - is night people – cass - 5$ sold out
Andy Spore of Raccoo-oo-oon sings, drums, and screeches, stacking sounds up to their breaking point, calling all youth to follow down the black magic trail.
pocahaunted - beast that you are - is night people – cass -5$ sold out
This Los Angeles based duo needs no introduction, emails have been flowing in about this tape before Night People even had them assembled. Psychedelic sisters of an ancient Californian apocalypse, Pocahuanted call out some hazy echoes over the valley on this tape of blown out guitar jamming, pre-american vocal serenity, and saxophone wash and skronk (provided by Andy Spore). Another killer outing from this prolific left coast institution. Artwork by SDReed.
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drip house - 2 - is night people – cass - 5$ sold out
social junk - champs - is night people – cass - 5$sold out
Met this group of West Virginians down in Miami at INC back in Feb. I was instantly siked on there sound and live show. Total wreckage, throwing drums around the room, yelling into broken mics, four track warble, guitar feedback, totally unhinged damage but focused and intense. Comparisons to Sword Heaven, Savage Republic, The Dead C, etc. might be accurate but overall Social Junk is really hard to pin down. Haunted electronics, floating on an endless barrage of pissed vocals and repetitive drum jams. Silkscreened Artwork by SDREED. Social Junk full length LP coming soon on Not Not Fun.
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raccoo-oo-oon - mythos folkways vol iv, future vision - is night people – cass - 5$sold out
New live Raccoo-oo-oon document, recorded one early Jan. winter afternoon at the Cave of Spirits in Iowa City by Ryan Garbes to stereo cassette deck. A side is groovy future fusion scramble, melodic vocal chants rolling over tight percussion flows that ride like kenetic energy blasting into the atmosphere. B side is blown out guitar burners giving way to dark night ride vibes. In general think about starring out of your sunglasses at the end of the world and thinking this is alright. Artwork by SDReed and RGarbes.
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subterranean league - is night people – cass - 5$sold out
This one is total damage, psychic vampires spinning around on their heads slathering a bunch of gross cut up pedal wreckage out of maxed out PA's. SL comes straight out of Iowa City's most moist basement corners, anonymous, cult vibe, Asian twins, ready for wreckage. Dynamic, fast, psychedelic harshness, for underground lurking and poisonous raptures of the heart. Re-release of ultra limited Eager Mother cass. Silkscreened artwork by SDReed.
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wet hair - s/t - is night people –1 Sided 12" (silkscreened picture disc.) - 10$sold out
This is the first solo work of Shawn Reed as Wet Hair, recorded during late fall of 07. On this LP we find Wet Hair discovering its attitude, its approach, its dark underworld aesthetic, of cult zone dub, blasted vocal purge, trance snyth uneasiness. More direct, focused, and eclectic then the Irifi cass. this one burns blown out and electric, amplified to the point of breaking and then subtle and brooding once more. Play it loud. Ultra deluxe silkscreened artwork by SDREED. As much of a visual artifact as a medium of sound. Click image to see full artwork.
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caethua - the pleasure of manhood - is night people – cass -5$sold out
Caethua is Clare Hubbard, traveling songstress, multi-instrumentalist, and general exceptional artist and person. On the Pleasures of Manhood Clare gives tribute to her stepfather poet Robley Conant Wilson on this elegant tape of reverb soaked folk gems. One of Night-Peoples highest fidelity and most considered releases yet, The Pleasures of Manhood, has an uplifting but somber side that allows the feeling of Clare’s excellent vocals and playing to shine through.
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ryan garbes - shit education - is night people – cass -5$sold out
Garbes is back at it, blown over saturated tape punk psychosis, harsh head psych fusion rippers, another slab of destroyed rock greatness. This one even more catchy then the last. Like listening to your guts fall out on the floor while some rockers annihilate a house party in the background. Totally a sound of its own, influenced by all the greats with deluxe double sided silkscreened fold out covers by the man himself.
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shv- s/t - is night people – cass - 5$sold out
Ali formerly of the excellent Boston act Dreamhouse is SHV (Superior Human Vomit). I first got turned onto SHV via Ali playing in the basement here at Night People HQ. After that night Ali gave me a copy of her killer first SHV tape - Endless Love, on the Rare Youth label. SHV is never the same thing twice, always performative, always sitting on the edge of failure and greatness, always pushing the boundary. I've seen SHV jump through a ceiling to start a set, tie up a whole audience, stick a dude in an oven, and generally just rock the fuck out always. This tape doesn't disappoint either, blown out synth and drum machine burners, catchy post punk hypnosis, cultist weirdo gestures , something new on every listen of this especially hard to pin down puke punk project. Art by SHV, Printing by SDREED, with fold out double sided covers.
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raccoo-oo-oon - mythos folkways 5 - future fusion - is night people – cass - 5$sold out
Final installment in the Mythos Fokways series, recorded late summer 07 by Mike Dixon in Chicago, mastered by Pete Swanson, the companion piece to the epic final double LP on NNF/RTB. Dark drifting psych rock, circular and uplifting, guitars weave around atmospheric electronics and R. Garbes signature propulsive drumming. Late dead encrusted shrine rock for the end times. Art by Garbes/Reed.
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jeans wilder - antiques - is night people – cass - 5$ sold out
Jeans Wilder is new loner fuzz under the rug bedroom pop from San Diego that sits both on the sunny side and under the night time. Nostalgic, hazy, real pretty and low key, this one shines when it needs to for sure. Hushed melodies abound and peak through the weird fog for a little bit of glory in the sun when the feeling is suited. Play at night on your headphones, thinking about lost love, abandoned dreams, and what’s next. Artwork by SDREED.
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peaking lights - two for ceremony - is night people – cass -5$ sold out
Another killer release by Night-People's favorite group, Madison WI's Peaking Lights. Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis cut this session for a late 08 west coast tour with Wet Hair, and it rips on in that beautifully dreamy, sparkling synth layered style of haunted electronics, dubed out organ beats, and cascading washes of psych blown guitar fuzz that is only Peaking Lights. Art by SDReed.
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eternal tapestry - the declining star - is night people – cass -5$ sold out
A real beast of a psych rock band, Eternal Tapestry (members of Heavy Winged, JOMF, Tunnels etc) kick it in the red with their melodic instrumental blasts of post PSF atmospheric epics and power trio freak outs. Ultra tight driving propulsive rhythm section work out provide the backdrop for layers of intricate guitar fuzz. Just the right amount of letting it rip and holding it back. Art by SDReed.
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the savage young taterbug - boys of the feather - is night people – cass - 6$ sold out
Couldn't be more excited about this one, first offering from the smoked out styles of Iowa City's very own Savage Young Taterbug. Teenage road warrior, dead head punk, perma triped wanderer, Taterbug lays down his tape collaged world of free flowing Americana psych bliss. Little bells, dustbowl ballad guitars, stand by me youth cult dreams, and Manson family mind fucks, its all here, even hope for a better tomorrow and a positive spirit for today which can say alot in these droned out wasted times. Let the light inside yr skull. Artwork by SDREED.
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blessure grave - unknown blessure - is night people – cass -5$ sold out
Blessure Grave is new blood San Diego folk, goth, post punk, drawing resonance to alot that has come before but they keep it fresh and interesting. A lot of good repetitive hooks on this one with some bleak winter hell, frozen world, dead heart vibes makes for a dark listen. Blessure Grave must have spent some time in the colder northern wastes of the American vastness before ending up in Southern Cal. Tons of output from this prolific group on the horizon, keep yr ears open. Artwork by SDREED.
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yves / son / ace - cold showers - is night people – cass -5$ sold out
Yves/Son/Ace is a weird loner vibe (mem. of Factums, Love Tan etc), this cassette rips alot different then the upcomming LP on Night-People which is focused way more around the deconstruction of punked out drum machine pop, and drugged out psych electronics. Cold Showers is a return to a premordial place, dark caverns of synth muck, cold feelings, and drugged hulicinations. One of the strangest releases Night-People has released, which has us siked for sure. Deep and lost. Art by SDReed and Yves.
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nautilus - big shadow - is night people – cass - 5$ sold out
Nautilus is NYC based muscian and artist Heidi Diehl's (Time-Life, WWVV etc) solo musical outlet. Airy landscapes of droning, vibranting, glacial subtlety, and atmopsheric instuermantls blend with decaying walls of sounds, none harsh or overpowering, all flowing in and out of each other in harmony. Voiced over the land, a symetry and wide vision of an endless horizon, drifting, falling and climbing, finding the way and loosing it again. Art by SDReed.
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hanging coffins - s/t - is night people – cass - 5$ sold out
Hanging Coffins are a strange new pysch punk band from Eugene OR. Night-People got exposed to these dudes Chrome esque, creeped out, dark, druggy jams via there cassette on Madison's Jerkwave Tapes, and this new cassette is just as good, and maybe even weirder. This is a stark album not in its lack of fullness of instrumentation or composition but in its isolated downer feelings and mood, there are times when something brighter and slightly uplifting shines through the fog of the menacing psychedelic guitar grit, but for the most part this is damaged primordial alien rock and it rips. Artwork by SDreed.
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dunebuggy - s/t - is night people – cass - 5$ sold out
Dune Buggy is Ryan Garbes and Charles "Taterbug" Free, expanding on both members obsessions with classic garage, punk, and pysch rock tunes and images. Dune Buggy is the pop realization of these obsessions. 20 minutes of catchy organ, guitar, and drum driven punkers delivered in Iowa City basement scum style haze. Cleaner then you think it will sound but with enough grit to keep it grimey, who new these two could play it this cool? Teeny bop, youth cult Armageddon rockers. Expect more on NP and Gel by Dunebuggy in the future. Artwork by RGarbes.
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terror bird - sociopaths are glam - is night people – cass - 5$ sold out
Terror Bird is Nikki Never from Vancouver's Modern Creatures solo outlet. One of the finest recordings released in any format on Night-People, Terror Bird is honest, heartfelt, nostalgic pop music, layered in touches of dark ambiance and glittery sheen. Centered around Nikki's amazing voice and dirgey piano arrangements, Sociopaths are Glam references classic 80's and 90's dark pop without any historic worshiping or posturing. Couldn't be more excited to just sit around and listen to this amazing album. Artwork by SDReed.
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earth station - control belief - is night people – cass - 5$ sold out
Earth Station is Mike Pollard (Abror Rec./Treetops etc.) and Peter Friel (Young tapes) new now age, space suit, field studies in the deep trenches of mars, power ambient band. Tidal waves of glacial synth murmur, the kind of intentionally epic stuff that you can't help but like if you let yourself truly drift off. The end is coming and this what it might sound like. Space music for earthlings. Total harmony, total control. Artwork by SDReed
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hochman & hopkins - live nye - is night people – cass - 5$ sold out
Jonathan Hochman (Holy Balm, Pagan Dawn) and Matthew Hopkins (Naked on the Vague, Near Tapes etc.) are from Sydney AU and this is there live Synthesizer project focused around otherworldly tonal eruptions, trance inducing electronics washes, science fiction fucked vocal sludge, and generally weird psych synth vibes. Lost mind submarine rides, drifting sitting at the point where the desert meets the sky, volcanoes erupting onto cities, all moving along past out of your control in your ears and across your mind. Artwork by SDReed.
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california son - california sun - is night people – cass - - 6$ sold out
California Son is mystery music played by Iowa native weirdo clown of reknown, Charles Free aka the Savage Young Taterbug. Pure California dreaming on this one, songs for shitty headphone jammin while working the nine to five at the upstate pot plantation. Sleep on your drug rug under the sun, and let the weird vibes creep in. Lost mind time for sure, the sound of the 60's played warped speed slow for golblin ears and dogs.
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time life - gripstone - is night people – cass -
shearing pinx - s/t - is night people – cass - 5$ sold out
truth syrum - the taker's mistake - is night people – cass - 5$ sold out
hell & bunny w/ mike khoury - restitution - is night people – cass -6$ sold out
raccoo-oo-oon – behold secret kingdom – nnf / is night people - lp -6$ sold out
You know what they say: beautiful tribal spirit psych lies in the eyes of the beholder. So enter the kingdom and hold the secret in your hands. Iowa City’s prodigal sun-starers offer up the fruits of their deepest inquest yet into the heart of the heart of the country. Eight wilderness rituals of swirling percussion, mossy guitar noise, forest howls, and animal instincts that unfold and erupt with more focus, intensity, and complexity than anything else in Raccoo-oo-oon’s discography thus far. The songs were tracked in the studio with warmth and power by Mike Dixon and then given a heavy mastering job by Pete Swanson, so sonically the vinyl shines and burns and explodes in all the right places. A crushing statement of electric alchemy by one of our favorite bands in the world. Black vinyl LPs in awesome pro-printed jackets, plus an insert, with Midwestern magick color visions/nature photography art by the band.
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peaking lights - imaginary falcons - is night people – lp -14$ sold out
This is the debut full length LP by Madison Wisconsin's Peaking Lights. Members Indra Dunis (Numbers/Rah Dunes) and Aaron Coyes (Rah Dunes) created a stunner that's full of hypnotic analog electronics, pulsing drum sounds, perfectly somber pop layered keys, blown psych guitar, and Indra's warm drifting vocals. This record is all its own, everything it needs to be, and it won't disappoint any expectations of its harmony and beauty. Groovy, spacey, heartfelt music for a new age. Art work and silkscreen by Shawn Reed.
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the savage young taterbug - river mortis - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Well Taterbug is back with another release for Night-People. Even more dust and grime this time around, even more Americana smoke collecting in the recesses of your brain while you soak up these torched tunes. The dirtiest heartfelt heartland music you will ever hear... played by Taterbug... teenage wastoid mother fucker... Huckleberry Finn/ Peter Pan creep... lost in a cornfield for life searching for that mystic tee pee in the sky filled with pretty young boys and drugs.
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dead luke - cosmic meltdown - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Dead Luke’s Cosmic Meltdown is a full length album full of disenchanted wandering, psychedelic annihilation, working man blues, and torched pop mysticism. Some great stuff here from this prolific Madison WI resident. With previous releases on Sacred Bones and an upcoming LP on Floridas Dying this tape is a great primer for the newer more psych rock influenced songs Luke has been crafting. Cosmic Meltdown has a bit of a bitter broken heart vibe, and it fits really nicely with the blasted reverb soaked approach. Art by SDReed.
tracey trance - fountain - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
We first came across Tracey out on the road, passing through Bloomington Indiana. His organ with a big Dutch Hex painted on the back and keyboards piled up in a corner looked liked an interesting mess. The live result was a weird stunning mix of drum machine baked psychedelic zydeco, Tiny Tim like vocals, and sunny pop goop. The music was really fun, people danced, and Tracey turned out to be just as charming and interesting as his music. With a recent tape on El Tule and more to come on Not Not Fun, expect more from Tracey soon. Art by SDReed.
faceplant - s/t - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Faceplant is Aaron Coyes from Peaking Lights solo recordings generated from his distinct home built pile of electronics and hand-made modular synths. Rhythmically propulsive space tones glide over a broken landscape of fractured cut up noise bursts and dystopian uneasiness. Faceplant sounds like the dark corners of Peaking Lights dreamy ethereal world. There is sometimes something nice to uneasy listening. Artwork by RGarbes.
the pheromoans - s/t - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
The Pheromoans are from the UK and poses some of the best forward potential in contemporary artsy garage punk. With prior 7inches out on Savory Days, Convulsive, and Yakisakana, a prolific discography is already in the works. Comparisons have been made to the Fall, the Shadow Ring, the Scrotum Poles etc. and that all fits well and good, but this cassette even further highlights The Pheromoans distinct collage inspired mess of lo fi spoken word junk, savage riffing, and pop tinted abandon. Really great stuff. Art by SDReed.
pink priest - gulls diving into the ocean - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Pink Priest is Arkansas resident William Cody Watson, who also spends time co-running the Bathetic Label, and playing with Wild Safari. Real deep loner zone feelings on this cassette. Low rumbling synth and electronics blowing over a windswept landscape by the sea. Isolating, atmospheric and gloomy but with subtle touches of light almost airy tones floating in and out to create a deeper more dynamic composition. New LP out on La Station Radar as well, and more on the horizon for sure. Art by SDReed.
knitted abyss - winter barn - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Knitted Abyss is Lucy Phelan (1/2 of Naked on the Vague) and Anna John two Sydney AU. Residents and staple down under weirdo makers. Winter Barn is like a dark reverberation of down tuned psychedelic guitar murmur and gothy drum machine rhythm, backed by ghostly vocals and doomy echoes. This is a real hazy, foggy, nocturnal set of sounds for a new mutant world. Art by SDreed.
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nimby - s/t - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Nimby is Brenden O'Keefe, Iowa City long time resident, local train hopping ripper, and general super enthusiastic supporter of the local weirdo scene. Nimby as a project is focused around a home made Tupperware trash bin synth drum kit with some pedals to back it up. This is Nimby's fist release, and features big damaged beats, blasted vocals, and a whole slew of destroyed loops and distortion, totally killer. silkscreened artwork by SDReed.
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dan friel - obsoleter - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Obsoleter features the solo work of Dan Friel from Brooklyn's Parts and Labor. Fuzzy beats, distorted synth washes, and catchy keyboard riffs deconstructed into very active evolved compositions that will make you feel perfect about zoning out to these upbeat jams. Silkscreened artwork by Shawn Reed
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Ryan Garbes - Endless Bummer - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
New garbage from the young musical genious Ryan Garbes (perhaps best known for his drum and percussion contributions to Raccoo-oo-oon). Side A revels in redlined blown out drumming, finding eventual accompaniment from a drunken slide guitar fury, resulting in what can be properly described as the fucked blues. Side B brings together the holy trinity of drums, guitar and more guitar into a kind of distorted raga with each element taking turns, trading fours, evoking an eternity of summer fun in the mouth of inevitable oblivion. Sleeve and label screenprinted by Ryan.
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chris cooper bill nace duo - i'm fucking in a sitting room - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Bill Nace (Vampire Belt, X.O.4 etc.) and Chris Cooper (Fat Worm of Error etc.) kick it real dense and noisy on this cassette of Buddies guitar duo action. The Night-People crew got a chance to check these dudes out live in London back in March and where totally inspired and impressed by their feedback-drenched pedal fest, string shredding, approach to complex noise composition, and creation. All sorts of tools are used, all sorts of sounds are generated, but what really makes it stick is the variety and the rhythmic patterns that prevail from quiet to loud throughout. Dynamic, tense, and tenuous guitar slaying.
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blue shift - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Providence's own Cybele Collins brings a maelstrom of solo improvisations shredding the strings of her violin furiously, building dense walls that crest only to reveal quiet beautiful melodies underneath. Filled out with loose poignant drumming, and housed in dense drawings by the artist, the tape is made up of many short songs, always changing, never dwelling too long on any given theme. The result: a catchy and complex release, that over time one comes to realize has been created with the utmost love and care.
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youth of the beast - white cat - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Andy Spore of Raccoo-oo-oon sings, drums, and screeches, stacking sounds up to their breaking point, calling all youth to follow down the black magic trail.
wet hair - irifi - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Wet Hair is the new solo outing of Raccoo-oo-oon member Shawn Reed. Cult vibe organ drone, slowed down tape hiss percussion warble, and chanted vocal bathed in echo, provide the basics for Irifi, a lone march across a desert, these are droney reverberations tinted with pop influence cloaked in the dark , music for vampires. Recorded by Ryan Garbes for maximal blow out. Expect more from this quickly evolving project soon. Artwork by SDReed.
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koi pond - volcano - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Koi Pond is a three piece from NYC made up of some generally awesome dudes. Erik Roper plays bass and is a legendary artist/illustrator who does work for numerous bands, labels and publications such as Arthur, Southern Lord etc. while also playing in other bands such as Under Satans Sun and Mattalama. Pete Vogal plays synth while also jamming in Bow Ribbons, and designs arwork for clothes, David Aron plays drums, is the perpetrator for Little Cakes Gallery, used to skateboard alot, makes rad visual artwork, and jams in USUN with Mark Borthwick and Hisham Bharoocha. Despite these dudes epic resumes, Koi Pond is epic all on its own. Volcano is all about cosmic grooves, deep often minimal, endless repetitions that slowly evolve into more psyched out blissed out trances. Roper and Arons tight rhythmic foundations create the perfect backdrop for Vogal's synth improvisations. This is a meditative listen that never gets old, it just keeps grooving on and on forever. Like Neu covering Dark Magus in a Tibetan Monastery. Artwork by Dave Aron, printing by SDReed.
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flak mask - uncle henry's ecco duplex - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
A half hour of new music from this New Orleans based duo featuring members of Impractical Cockpit. Combining impoverished electronics and deconstructed analog instrumentation, grating rhythms meet soothing echos in these long-burning trance-inducers that always leave you wondering, what am I actually listening to here?
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fnu ronnies - s/t - is night people – 1 sided 12" (silkscreened picture disc) - 12$sold out
This record has been in the works for a little while now and we couldn't be more happy to see it finally out. FNU Ronnies find home turf in both Philly and Oakland and have a previous 7inch on Richie Records. This 12" contains the same material as the recent cassette/CD on Denmark's Skrot Up label but we think you'll find the reissue well worth it. Deluxe art work by band member Jim Vail with silkscreening by Shawn Reed, FNU Ronnies are a weird almost indescribable mix of fucked up hardcore propulsion, industrial heaviness, electronics thrashing, and punked out cyborg nihilism. Aesthetic themes elude to psychedelic nightmares, Middle Earth monsters, and generally dark times. Seeing this band live last summer was a revelation into how musical genres could be mutated into something truly unpredictable and inspiring.
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dirty beaches - s/t - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
Dirty Beaches is Alex Zhang Hungtai who has been living in Montreal for the last few years but has spent time in California, Hawaii and China and has plans to move to Vancouver soon. The aspect of distance, moving, upheaval seems significant to Dirty Beaches sound and aesthetic, drifting, weaving, pulsing... somber droney garage pop tunes, that seem to float off in some distant geography. Sonically there in your head but out of touch. the sound has a disconnected but beautiful feeling, a series of mental refractions going on, like looking into the infinity mirror at a packed night club from some old technicolor movie while good looking people from some other uknown lands dance around you. Strange stuff that feels right in its strangeness.
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hell & bunny w/ mike khoury - restitution - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
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the twerps - s/t - is night people – cass - 6$sold out
The Twerps from Melbourne Australia are one of the best indie/guitar pop bands I have heard in a long time, and there is alot of good lo fi pop floating around right now. Its surprising more attention hasn't been allotted them already. Comparisons to prior down under bands from Australia and New Zealand from the 80's and 90's come to mind, but the Twerps rock in there own contemporary way evoking a real tasteful and straightforward approach that just hits the nail on the head. The approach is totally dynamic uplifting, and well composed... low key rock music with hints at 60's garage rock and pysch pop that doesn't rely on blown out production to create atmosphere, its already there in the song writing, in the reverb soaked guitars, in the contemplative vocals. Killer stuff from this new band just getting going.
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