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2673 - in dreams - dokuro - 3" cdr - 6$

"In dreams" is a new great "alpha-wave stimulating" drone piece on Dokuro, released by the hermetic monicker 2673.
The track evolve from a pileup of deep bass overtones to a rebounding aphex of noisy waves via calibrated permutations of sound colours. In dreams is a truly deep listening experience that will leave you disconnected from reality.
A fascinating masterpiece of this New Jersey sound artist who mix perfectly opposite aspects of sound like pure tones and noise textures.
2673 aka Kevin Winter have on his shoulder an impressive discography and many collaborations with other key figures of the american undergroud scene.
DK012 is released as a ltd. 70 copies.
Artwork by Merlo.

4000 islands mixtape - compiled by dj ketamine - why so serious - cass - 7$

contemporary lao pop madness

500mg – apocatastisis – three lobed – lp - 18$

performed and recorded by michael gibbons (bardo pond) over the course of 2006 in the lemur house, "apocatastisis" is a meditation on restoration and awakening. an inner voyage in seven parts consisting of guitars, effects, sitar, tabla and violin. a truly special record. from a one-time pressing of 677 hand-numbered copies. housed within sleeves that were individually silk-screened by alan sherry
-threelobed

6majik9 - solid space – tape drift – cdr – 7$

A lovely, meandering psychedelic record from mysterious Aussie collective headed by Michael Donnelly of the Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. Grounded in the blues, but as filtered through a totally weirded out shamanistic sensibility, this one is a grower and a keeper. If you allow yourself into its world, it will work a magical sort of hypnotism, and unlock multiple secrets of the universe.
-td

6majik9 – ritualisimo putrido - mymwly – cdr - 10$

Gathering around a glowing moment…intent on discovery but distracted by the glorious light that seeps from the merging…so a record is kept to remind of the things thought seen, seen heard. Employing something closer to the sound as it grew, avoiding the clamor of the magnetics and spools…now a binary specter from a mirrored laugh…wasted but prettyComes in a hard card gatefold with hand painted (by the band) canvas stick on.
-mymwly

78 grave & the rocket 88s – i love the life at the door -mad monk–cdr – 12$

Brand new on James Toth’s MAD MONK ANNEX CDR imprint. Title taken from a poem by Poetry Out Loud guru Klyd Watkins. From the artist: "On hold with the Tennessee Department of Human Services for over 36 minutes, the initially innocuous 'hold music' - which resembled two bars of "The Way We Were" repeated ad infinitum - began to mesmerize / hypnotize, as my impatience slowly melted to peace, lulled as I was by this 16 second loop of muzak, which would cut off and repeat at random intervals. After finally getting through and dealing with my business, I decided to call back and record the music, which I was now obsessed with (possessed by?). This time I was only on hold for 21 minutes. I took what I had, doubled it, and did some very basic edits / treatments." Imagine a punk rock Distintegration Loops or a drug withdrawal-plagued take on some of The Caretaker's recent ballroom music. An unusually provocative and mysterious tablet of high audio doggerel. Fans of narcosynthesis, rejoice!
-mm

a man and his guitar - hate me tender - dust wind tales - cdr- 10$

When all around us are trying to sound like someone else Bruno Duplant sounds like no-one but himself. Haunting melodies & dark lyrics feature throughout this album & a feeling of being in France, late at night, looking over the river Seine, bleeds from the music.

Spray painted cdr packaged in a clear pvc case together with a cover featuring artwork by Amelie Vidgrain. Includes a small insert with words by Bruno. (Edition of 50)
-dustwind

abe vigoda - skeleton - nnf - cass -7$

Shit is cliché, but ya can’t fight the fact that time changes EVERYTHING (or wait, maybe it's money?). Either way: we’re pretty old but not so old we’ve forgotten the cradle days of early Abe Vigoda shows when they only liked Smashing Pumpkins, short shorts, and boating shoes, and their sets were short spiky blasts of post-Unwound lo-fi outsider-punk (a la the Sky Route/Star Roof LP). That was a long time ago. But like all good bands the Vigodans have re-invented themselves a half dozen times over since then, and it’s been a totally rad ride to witness the evolution/transformation, especially since their journey’s culminated in the total sparkling tropic magic sunbath of Skeleton, the best AV record ever. Years of fiddling with delay pedal settings and intricate bass/drums equations somehow resulted in a weird, bright, upbeat island punk sound that’s as catchy and life-affirming as it is tripped-out and overwhelming. Who knew? Catch these die-hards at a show in yr neck of the woods any day now; they are now on PERMA-TOUR. Pro-dubbed cassettes in a “Columbia Records”-style super legit J-card. Edition of 200.
-nnf

abolicao - flowring judas - cabin floor esoterica - cass - 7$

Debut no-zone strings project from Housecraft head honcho Jeff Astin. Blooming drifts through yellowed old photos, the buzzing hum of the old family car, nightmarishly beautiful and relaxing. Slow-motion super 8 films. Foreign strings pulling their way through and the faint rumble of night. The sounds of being trapped in the attic for days with nothing to eat but old camping photos and dust. In wrap-around sleeves with an insert, painted labels, and a winter leaf from Hanley Rd. Edition of 50.
-cabinfloor

abyss whispers - the eye - soundholes – cass – 8$

New recordings straight from the GLASSHOUSE last heard on the split with NACKT INSECTEN released last year..... new direction (ish) synth patterns/loops interlaced with fragments of damaged keyboards/retaining that "full on drenched sound".....
"without her the world will simply stop and time will slow down to nothing and life itself will find its conclusion in the gaze and breath of a ravaged winter sky"
Edition of 53.... black and white covers.... regular tape boxx... red or yellow tapes.... colour spray
-soundholes

accident child - into the gorge - dontrustheruin – cdr - 8$

acre - bleeding - i just live here - cass - 6$

ACRE - "BLEEDING" - C-30 6$
Pure solid tones on a slow drift.
Thick and spongy sound.
Space encompassing and crevasse filling drone.
Yellow and brown silkscreens on white paper.
-ijlh

acre / pariah veil - oms-b - cass - 7$

aea / phosphene form - cry havoc... - myiasis tapes - cass - 7$

A side a piece from two former fellow jammers. AeA takes things uncharacteristically soft, trading off a bit of the angst and aggression for eeriness and disturbing atmosphere with a foundation of heavily reverb saturated drones and screams, low end tone crust featuring one of Hydeman’s old toys, and fluctuant skulk of high end bliss. Phosphene Form takes it up a notch with an implacable track of furious swirling loops via no input feedback. Rhythmic chaos oiled with delayed synth sputter and elevated drones. Potent, tormented and at the same time catchy.
Limited to 40.
-myiasis

aethr myth'd - the eight - spirit of orr - cdr - 11$

A new collection of material culled from recordings made in 2004 through 2007, mostly at the BLUEBERRY STUDIO space in Brattleboro VT. AETHR MYTH’D members and some local guests in a sprawling unformed free process. This disc was made to be available on the band’s recent east coast usa ‘tour’, limited to 200 hand assembled copies. Next planned shows will be at various random stops in EUROPE.
-spirit of orr

ajilvsga - white crow - blackest rainbow - cass - 8$

The consistently mind numbing crushing noise project from Nathan Young and Brad Rose (The North Sea, Digitalis) tears apart this cassette release, a black swarm of god knows what tearing your mind apart. If you dug the North Sea cassette we released last year, you should def check this shit out. Limited to 100 pro dubbed white cassettes with white cases.
-blackest

ajilvsga / blue sabbath black fiji- split - digitalis recordings - cass - 7$

it's 4 am, it's time to sober up and there's no black coffee to be found. cold shower? not an option either. so what's left? blue sabbath black fiji and their mind-warp shotgun electronics and percussive blasts. your girlfriend might be passed out on some other dude's house, but don't worry about it, this mix of raging electronics, sludge guitars and soft, sweet crooning will make it all okay.
ajilvsga? we'll keep drinking blackened mud until the cows come home. limited to 85 copies, handstamped zoo-in-suits theme.
-digitalis

ajilvsga / sean mccann - skull bundle - digitalis recordings - cass - 7$

ajilvsga / pete swanson - skull bundle - digitalis recordings - cass - 7$

ajilvsga / the unholy warlock - skull bundle - digitalis recordings - cass - 7$

ajilvsga / uton - skull bundle - digitalis recordings - cass - 7$

ajilvsga / super minerals - skull bundle - digitalis recordings - cass - 7$

ajilvsga / taiga remains - skull bundle - digitalis recordings - cass - 7$

ajilvsga / hairmaiden of the totem robe - skull bundle - digitalis recordings - cass - 7$

ajilvsga / andrew coltrane - skull bundle - digitalis recordings - cass - 7$

The procession was timed so that she would be left alone on the scaffold at the moment the morning star rose. When the morning star appeared, two men came from the east with flaming brands and touched her lightly in the arm pits and groins. Four other men then touched her with war clubs. The man who had captured her then ran forward with the bow from the Skull bundle and a sacred arrow and shot her through the heart while another man struck her on the head with the war club from the Morning Star bundle. The officiating priest then opened her breast with a flint knife and smeared his face with the blood while her captor caught the falling blood on dried meat. All the male members of the tribe then pressed forward and shot arrows into the body. They then circled the scaffold four times and dispersed
-digitalis

tetuzi akiyama + kevin corcoran + christian kiefer - low cloud means death - digitalis recordings - cdr & 3"cdr - 16$

For years I've counted Tetuzi Akiyama as one of my absolute favorite guitarists. He's been cranking out great records for ages, honing his style and skill in every possible way. Add in Christian Kiefer, who has also put out a string of magnificent releases, and a talented drummer/percussionist in Kevin Corcoran (who has appeared on releases on Weird Forest and played in Antennas Erupt!) and you've got a recipe for something magical.

"Low Cloud Means Death" is a series of sea-inspired improvisations that are fighting a continual battle with the silence between each note. This is sparse music at its finest. Minimal notes float in the air as Corcoran lays a web of various percussion beneath the organic layer Akiyama and Kiefer weave. The instrumentation is varied - Akiyama sticks to acoustic guitar while Kiefer splits time on accordian, piano, and other vices. What the trio produces ends up coming off like an all-improvised Morton Feldman or something of the like.

This is a journey on salt-encrusted waves, traipsing through empty spaces in search of whatever aural mystery can be found. It goes something like this: Thump. Quiet again. Twang thump. Quiet. Quiet. Still quiet. Distant blap. And let me tell you, it is one fantastic voyage.

Limited to 500 copies. Artwork by Eden Hemming Rose.

Special edition limited to 100 copies includes bonus 3" CDR, "The Old Language," featuring a live performance by the trio. Hand-stamped covers.
-digitalis

susan alcorn - curandera - majmua music - cdr - 8$

A curandera is a Latin American traditional folk healer or shaman, dedicated to healing physical and spiritual ailments. The musical balm to be found here offers a similar result for those who will listen and surrender themselves to its deep well of sound.

Susan Alcorn is a composer, improvisor, and pedal steel guitarist active in contemporary music and free improvisation. She combines the techniques of country-western pedal steel with her own extended techniques to form a personal style influenced by free jazz, avant-garde classical music, Indian ragas, Indigenous traditions, and various folk musics of the world.

Though mostly a solo performer, she has collaborated with numerous artists including Pauline Oliveros, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Kowald, Chris Cutler, Joe Giardullo, Caroline Kraabel, Le Quan Ninh, Sean Meehan, Joe McPhee, LaDonna Smith, Mike Cooper, Misha Feigin, Ellen Fullman, and Johanna Varner. She currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
-majmua

jamie allen - circuitMusic - anathema sound - cass - 6$

Jamie Allen is a Canadian artist currently residing in the UK. With circuitMusic, he uses raw op amp components with minimal effects to experiment and revel in the sound of pure, electric signals. Allen’s compositions are streamlined, yet remarkably varied with harsh walls of static, dense drones, and playful rhythms all vying for the listener’s headspace. This piece has been performed at venues throughout North America including Tonic (NYC), Galapagos (NYC), Eyebeam (NYC), SAT (MTL), and the S.S. Marie Antoinette (WA). Be prepared to turn this one up extra loud and get lost in it. Full color artwork, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub.
-anathema

altar of flies - flying over- foxglove - cdr -7$

altar of flies hails from the snowy world of mjölby, sweden. this moniker of mattias gustafsson (not to be confused with the broken face's mats gustafsson, or the saxophonist of the same name), and throughout "trapped under watter," this swede swims in metallic waves of ecstatic drones. gustaffson concocts washes of noise and feedback and bends them into shape, stretching the limits of each stolen note. this music is as thick like syrup, and just as fucken sweet.
-foxglove

altar of flies - consequences - husk records - cass - 5$

altar of flies / sewer election - loco hills - release the bats – lp – 17$

Two of the best acts currently dwelling in the depths of the Swedish underground scene. Sewer Election should be well-known by now, previous releases includes a split 12" with Incapacitants, cds on Troniks and Chondritic Sound and the amazing Killing-tapes. Altar Of Flies has created quite a buzz over the last year with a huge amount of very limited tape/cd-r releases. On this split LP, Sewer Election contributes with the nasty Rotten Corpse. A crude and disgusting piece. Monotonous, freezing coldness. Altar Of Flies continues with his dark and eerie forest rumblings. Buried claustrophobic lo-fi insanity straight from hell. Heavy outbursts of feedback. Could've been outtakes from an old Dario Argento soundtrack. Mean-spirited ugliness from both bands.
-rtb

altar of flies - the funeral tapes - 905 tapes - cass - 6$

originally released as a very private press on swedish imprint ksp, the material on "the funeral tapes" was just far to emphatic to stay hidden. mattias gustafsson, the whiz behind the altar of flies moniker, spends about a half an hour conjuring up narcotic vibes and sickly tantrums that boil down to some truly eerie sermons. everything from the layers of creep synth, the dense beats, even the sporadic moments of silence between stabs of feedback all manage to sound abnormal and perfect at the same time. the final track plays like a john carpenter tune (think escape from new york, not ghost of mars) with moments where you could imagine carpenter is attempting to teach free jazz to martians.
-905

a.m. - rag red reverie –pseudo arcana– cd – 12$

Full on over-the-top psychedelic noise guitar assault from Antony Miltons A.M project. With beats!
Eschewing the last vestiges of embarrassment at several years 'lost' to rave culture in the late 90s A.M channels the furious ecstasies of phasing tones and pounding beats through electric guitar lined red hot into an ancient tape recorder to produce a riff driven avant-party album... With its endless driving riffs and noise incursions ascending to ever higher levels of intensity the sudden free falls into sudden deep ambient bliss are like the first glimpses of dawn on a mountain top on acid..
And then the beats kick in again.
A 'wave your arms in the air' boogie noise record? Who would have thought?
CD.
-pa

a.m. shiner - the sunny hour - housecraft - cass - 5$

Through a narrow slant in a cobwebbed shanty, A.M. stares hypnotically at a rising sun whilst sanding electronics in a neo-ritualistic haze of sawdust and smoldering vegetation.
-housecraft

a.m. shiner - good cop - stunned records - cdr - 7$

Andrew Michael Shithead heaves bad-mannered molotovs of juvenile delinquency & stolen wattage back into the city grid, intent on waking at least one other dreamer for the fight. A post-urban portrait painted in hot shades of shrapnel and puke that is not fit for those with heart conditions, children under 13, or reptilian politicians (and their good cops). Hand numbered edition of 100 painted cdrs in color slipsleeve w/ transparent overlay in vinyl jacket; designed in energy of FIRE.
-stunned

a.m. shiner — bananarchy - stunned records - cass - 7$

Sulfuric post-music debut by the young & troubled Andrew Michael Shiner, whose sonic vernacular on this special edition long playing cassette never strays far from snotty concrete chomping noise. Side A is seven widely varied attempts at funneling assaultive energy thru a black hole in the hopes of its emergence as a pure & beautiful force of healing through the white hole on the other side. Just barely making it there and catching glimpses of the toxic information field being refined in the analog shitstorm is enough to let this single side roll out the length of a full album. Side B matches the first fifty minutes with two more minimally-oriented pieces that include Andrew’s first ever “metahistoric live performance” (were you there? probably!). All is finally capped by a half hour time-freezing monolith wash guaranteed to mellow any harsh incurred by contact with the bananarchic agenda. Also look out for new chapters of the A.M.S. crisis to unfold soon on Housecraft and Sound Holes. Hand numbered edition of 80 pro-dubbed black & white c100 tapes in vinyl album with cover collage compiled from a year’s worth of strung out doodles from A.M. Shiner’s old bummer-job phone log.
-stunned

amanaguitar - winter's peices –akoustic disease- cdr - 12$

..winter's tales and slant guitar from the north of France..
aManAguitar "Winter's Pieces" is music that seems like an little private portrait..
handmade hard cardboard limited to 107 copies.
-ad

elisa ambrogio & axolotl - s/t - spirit of orr - 7" - 5$

Explosive subtle motion and jarring delicateness collide and co-mingle
through these two long sides of classic colored seven inch vinyl. Here
we find much more than just a single demonstration of West Coast melding
of East Coast minds, there is something else in the water… Full color
covers in shiny plastic sleeves, limited and color vinyl.
-spiritoforr

aminome – blue fishes –sloow tapes – cass – 9$

Akiko Terashima (Doodles) and Masayuki Toshimitsu letting loose some classic mindbending baked goods. Part psychedelic guitar duets, part guitar/drums duels: these melodies are ripping the high mountain of vocal buzz apart. Artwork by the band, edition of 70.
-sloow

ammonites - 33.3 - reverb worship – cdr –11$

This is the debut recording by Ammonites and called "33.3".The band
comes from Whitby in North Yorkshire.They have created five tracks of
wonderful music which shows off how truly talented and creative they
are.The music has a meandering ambient drone like quality which
utilizes field recordings of streams,childrens voices and what sounds
like a marching band playing in a procession.

The cdr is available in a limited edition of 50 copies with hand
numbered insert.

amolvacy – ho-ho-kus –black velvet fuckere - lp -14$

"at least pray God to give me patience in my suffering.."

So concludes "Lover Go From Hence", a tale of tumultuous romantic
upheaval on the new Amolvacy record Ho Ho Kus. Here we have hearts
wrenched from guts and firmly planted in the dirt; but also sprouting new

romance, seduction, and... the Church?

And the French???

Francois Rabelais wrote Garantua and Pantagruel - a major influence on

this album - in the early 16th c. to caricature the faux morality of his time.
Amolvacy offer Ho Ho Kus in
the same cantankerous spirit, but this time
perhaps to parody their own morality. Love, marriage, sex, affairs, betrayal,

and loneliness are all exposed in naked vulnerability and placed on the
chopping block for emotional dissection. Lead vocalist Sheila Donovan
(ex-Tall Boys) is a longstanding member of the Laboratory Theater Company

in NYC, and her partners are Aaron Moore of Volcano the Bear and Dave
Nuss of the No-Neck Blues Band. Together they are the Amolvacy Family.
All things were shared in the making of this record, nothing hidden, no secrets
left untold.
-blackvelvetfuckere

anakrid - joyfear -stereonucleosis –1 sided lp – 14$

Hand numbered, hand painted covers, limited to 100 copies.
sold out from source

anakrid - crash your putrid minds - black horizons – cass - 7$

"Confused alien clockwork music on this release". Thick and strange beats fill both sides of this tape, always floating in a thick synth syrup and filled with finely crafted loops. Squeaky doors and backwards footsteps. Upcoming releases that are sure to impress. Hand made j-card in the same style as the previous Anakrid tape, color labels in an edition of 100 on hi-bias chrome tapes.
-bh

anemones - s/t - the great pop supplement - 7" - 7$

a debut by canadian band anemones. a slight departure perhaps from recent stuff, think 70s new york jonathan richman / television with a hint of velvets done lo-fi style... limited to 300 in ace A3 full colour double sided ferris wheel posters, with stickers, numbered inserts etc etc...
-gps

anemone lodge - s/t - bezoar formations - cdr - 8$

a chance meeting between number none (chris miller and jeremy bushnell), the opera glove sinks in the sea (gwyneth merner) and radiant husk (matthew erickson), recorded over the course of an afternoon in chicago in the fall of 2006. a nice piece of group-think, lovingly designed and assembled.
-bf

anika - a:05-07 - pan / hanido sounds - lp - 24$

aNIKA is helmed by Greek artist A.G. Drawing influences from the likes of Chrome, Neu, Suicide and Brian Eno, ANIKA creates an amalgam of analogue and digital synthesis, fusing the experimental/avant garde of the late 20th century with cyberpunk and contemporary electronics.

A:05-07, featuring 16 maniacally cut-up, brooding soundscapes, is ANIKA's first full-length, self-released as a vinyl Lp limited to 300 copies in the last days of 2008. It is preceded by A:03-04, a 12" vinyl Ep, released in 2005.
-

theo angell - first recordings - really coastal - cass - 5$

Unearthed recordings from 1994/1995 featuring Theo solo except for a few
sampled answering machine messages. Recorded before Theo was in Hall of
Fame/Jackie O Motherfucker. Lost first solo recordings that have not been
distributed in any way prior to this release (the only other person, other
than myself and Theo, to hear them has since passed away). Program repeats
on both sides. Creepy how contemporary this sounds.
-rc

annapurna illusion - matins of the twelve passion - reverb worship – cdr –10$

50 Copies

Im really delighted to tell you that the Annapurna Illusion "Matins Of The Twelve Passion" cd is now finally available.This cd features just two long tracks, "Cannnibal Girls Mantra (Parts I-III) and "You Never See The Sun In Your Dreams (Parts I & II).The front cover features a skeleton of a snake.The reverse is a menacing human skeleton with mandala patterned eye sockets.The analogue psychedelics of the music on this cd reminds me of early Tangerine Dream with pulsing rhythms, buzzing and humming electronics and voices.
-reverbworship

another enough chairs - bring that voice to state - dead sea liner – cdr – 4$

antennaboy - a deep breathe only lasts so long - epicene sound systems – cdr - 5$

Antennaeboy is matthew (yes,collapse, teeth collection, epicene/esr founder) and elisha (small life, original tongues). during the course of a deep breath you go on a journey that takes you from a sad lonely guitar to mad laught´r to pounding, endless shards of rotten percussion falling from a dead sky. josh fink (yes,collapse, plasmic formations) joins in on some tracks. in dvd case with block print on packing paper and transparency. ltd to 75 copies.
-epicene

antique brothers - sons of winter - abandon ship records – cdr - 6$

"This album was conceived in the cold unforgiving days between the end
of 2006 and the start of 2007. My brother and I were together in the
land we grew up in for the first time in almost a year. We improvised
acoustic duets, and over the next year, built a record around them. I
like to think the spirit of our Mother was present during these
sessions. Our Father was present in body as well as spirit. We thank
him for opening his doors and heart to us, as he has done time after
time since we have both left home on our own roads." - Cy Gengras

antler piss - ancestral feedings - peasant magik - cass - 6$

Every time I listen to this I am left with an overwhelmingly
uncomfortable feeling. Like I just witnessed someone drowning a
squirrel in a trash can full of rain water. Number one in the leftover
cassette series.
-pm

antlerpiss / knox mitchel - deep fried - cass - 5$

antler piss - body jar - phase!– cass – 5$

antler piss (marc zajack, also of sharks with wings, etc.) has a quite impressive back-catalog of a wide range of sounds, w/ limited releases on deepfried tapes, breathmint and other fine labels. body jar is the deep organic sound of the machine - slowly evolving, thick and fluffy. digestion + the birth of the rusted alcaline fecal. now machines get cancer, too.
hand-numbered edition of 52, full-color prints + egg-colored "dirty" tapes.
-phase

antoine chessex – silences – tanzprocesz – cdr – 9$

vocals, sax, tapes, mics, 4-track manipulations by monno's saxophonist and dave phillips collaborator.
drone sax vs sound poetry vs ritualistic invocations vs electricity.
120 copies.
-tanzprocesz

anvil dome - in the eyewall - multiverse recordings - cass - 6$

" Beau Devereaux of Second Family brings a solo project that is like being left in the atmosphere to soar through the skies with eyes closed, ears open, and free thoughts roaming. Twenty two min of trance inducing minimal texture drone"
-multiverse

anvil dome - within huron - earjerk - cass - 6$

The latest from Object Tapes. Two spacers... thick, fuzzy, dark age drones from this contender. We actually try to avoid releasing drone based material around here since everyone's "doin it doin it doin it"...but let's be up front. There is nothing average about this drowner... channeling the dark lake deepness. Bright orange cassettes / lake muck green insert / etched plastic case.
-earjerk

aosuke / black to comm - split - dekorder – lp – 17$

this vinyl-only split-lp release is a meeting of two of the most interesting bands coming out of hamburg, germany at this moment, both continuing the long tradition of both challenging and explorative music coming from this city in the last decades. from krautrock to the origins of the so-called neue deutsche welle from experimental sound artists to some of the finest pop ambient, hamburg is regularly spitting out some of the most singular artists on this planet. both aosuke and black to comm have absorbed influences from all these sources (and a million others) while working towards their very own individual vision.
the two brand new tracks by black to comm are continuing the massive organ/voice drone alchemy of the last double-lp while refining and personalizing his sound, reaching new heights of blazing sonic mysticism.
aosuke have decided to home-record their new material, continuing their loop-oriented, monotone yet highly melodic ambient journeys. working with repetition and small abstractions, all instrumental "loops" are played by hand and recorded live without overdubs (one of the main principles of the guitar/electronics duo), creating surprisingly concrete dormant and somnambulistic soundscapes while fortunately completely lacking the washy and drowsy effects of most ambient music.
-dekord er

uton / aosuke -split – ikuisuus – cass - 7$

Aosuke's "Pancaked" was recorded live at The Avantgarde Festival, 2007 in Schiphorst, Germany resembling Aosuke's 2 piece pagodas peak with Ulf Schütte on tapes and tech and Tobert Knopp on guitar + electronics.
It displays Aosuke's most sincere attempt at sounding like freshly baked cookies, occuring pregnant women, snoring dogs, a swine and a wireless full sleeve mic presentation from Faust and avant-festivals c.e.o. Jean Hervé.
-ikuisuus

apalusa- obadiah -low point– cdr – 12$

Following on from his warmly received cdr releases of 2007, ‘Obadiah’ is the second full length album by Apalusa, aka Nottingham based musician Dan Layton.

Over the course of 50 minutes, these three long-form tracks focus on darker territory than previous releases, with sub-bass rumbles and minor-key chord progressions augmenting the multiple layers of Apalusa’s trademark processed guitar drones and field recordings to form an all-encompassing listening environment.

With Layton’s use of raw sounds and processing techniques now forging an identity for himself which is very much his own, the end result is the most focused and realised Apalusa release to date.

CD packaged in a letter-pressed 'Arigato Pak' card sleeve courtesy of Stumptown Printers of Portland, Oregon. Ltd edition of 300 copies.
-low point

apples and milk - master of disguise -interregnum records – cd – 16$

Apples and milk. Bittersweet, cozy and mild. That's also the way Apples & Milk sounds on this debut, the six-song EP Master of Disguise...Apples & Milk's careful yet assured approach to acoustic folk-pop, his well-crafted songwriting, tasteful arrangements and warm vocals make Master of Disguise a multifaceted and mature debut, where one after many listens keeps gliding into a soft and welcoming universe. These six songs are the first but certainly not the last we'll hear from Apples & Milk, and the continuation promises to be an exciting one. Like he sings himself: «One can barely see/See that I'm a master of disguise».
-interregnum

apple snails - only on a macadam road - foxglove - cdr -7$

following up releases on crocomodile and an exquisite split cassette w/ the mighty acts of god on DNT, jeffrey mitchell's apple snails take a whole new approach on "only a macadam road," and the results are stunning. it's full of ambient drones that sound like they were born in the northern lights. the road is bathed in darkness, but tiny fragments of light seep through the murk every so often in the form of acoustic melodies and glockenspiel bursts. it's music that transports you far, far away. we've been working on this one for what seems like forever... so long in the making that the inserts actually say foxglove132, but good things certainly come to those who have waited for this apple-eyed gem.
-digitalis

ara - toxic mutations - rampart tapes - cass - 5$

Miniature soundworlds summoned by horns, drums, electronics, and voices. Featuring 2/3 of Eyes and Arms of Smoke, and it shows.
-rampart

arabian blade - s/t - 905 tapes - cass - 6$

the stay-blazed team up of conneticut's chris donofrio and donovan fazzino get up in them guts with some comatose low blows spread out over twenty minutes. tones get deep in the earth, take a nap in the crust, and are discovered years later when they forget to wake up. bring a blanket and maybe a few coffin nails.
-905

arabian blade - II - 905 tapes - cass - 6$

more beyond low-end bone crunchers from conneticut chem brothers christopher donofrio and donovan fazzino. these dude's put in the overtime to keep the out-of-body experiences in the news and the sports bloopers in the vhs. (edition of 38)
-905

area c - darkens the mind – sloow tapes – cass – 11$

A fountain of sounds opening a gateway beyond the mist of time and most likely not going to bring you back home before dark. 100 copies.
-sloow

area c - sea of rains - handmd - cdr - 12$

in April of 2008, AREA C was commissioned by the NASA RI Space Grant Consortium and the Museum of Natural History in Providence, RI to compose an original score for their "Mission Moon: past, present, future" exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. SEA of RAINS is the resulting 55-minute soundscape, inspired by the names, colors, history and otherworldliness of this still-strange fixture in our sky
-handmd

area c - charmed birds against sorcery -students of decay – cd – 11$

"Charmed Birds Against Sorcery" is the third studio album by New
England-based musician Erik Carlson, and constitutes a startling
development in his sound. The first Area C record, 2006's "Traffics
+ Discoveries," was a small marvel of whirring loops sourced primarily
from processed guitars. Last year's "Haunt," Carlson's second record
for Last Visible Dog, was a different affair entirely, investigating the
provocative drone capabilites of farfisa organs. The compositions which
constitute "Charmed Birds..." develop and, often, transcend the motifs
found on these prior albums, with Carlson revealing an astonishingly
refined and singular approach to guitar-based composition.

Soundwise, the album recalls more the crystalline, kaleidoscopic webworks
of the first Area C record than the ragged organ workouts of "Haunt."
Glacial harmonics drift in and out of each channel, skittering, modulated
notes pulse and surge, sputtering suddenly to luminescent manifestation
before disappearing just as quickly. Many of the compositions here are in
fact more remniscient of the ambient side of Wolfgang Voigt's work
in Gas, or perhaps the less beat driven aspects of "94 Diskont"-era Oval
than what we've come to expect from what is ostensibly a 'guitar and
electronics' based project. An almost kraut-like rhythm subtends the
topography of "Composition Journal," the album's stunning opener, its
low throb punctuated by brittle shocks from deconstructed drum
machines over which Carlson weaves a spiralling lattice of bowed and
picked notes. Later, on "Sleeping Birds," we're presented with a lulling
idyll concocted by way of flute-like tones and languid note clusters, a
shorter piece which dissolves seemlessly into modulating static at the
onset of the pointillist microcosm that is "Spell of Resistance." The title
track is without question the album's apex and constitutes a formal peak
in Carlson's discography, as brilliant, bright guitar lines tread effortlessly
in a sea of tranquil pulses and disembodied percussive elements.

It should come as no surprise that, by day, Carlson works in the field of
architecture. For with "Charmed Birds..." he has constructed an edifice
of stunning complexity, originality and beauty.
-sod

argumentix – beyond party destruction time – tanzprocesz – cdr – 9$

loops, tapes, beats, samples, vocals.
evil post-apocalyptic songs for post-apocalyptic 24-hour party people.
recycled 12" packaging. cdr + anti-12"
100 copies.

argumentix - actor out alone - american grizzly – cass – 5$

layers upon layers of looped source tapes and schizo vocal croons. wide range of moods/vibes...some good, some evil.
-ag

argumentix - catapult tongue- together tapes – cass – 6$

Sound poetry meets high school poetry on my favorite recordings from my man James Squeaky. Offered to do this tape after hearing some of his older karaoke machine experiments and asked if he would be into doing an all vocal source tape. Gross throat sounds to him talking in his sleep. No beats. Come packaged w/ a mini painting in a resealable sleeve. Ltd. to 40
-together

arklight - seventh seal - abandon ship records – cdr - 5$

"Aesthetic-less crud matrons Arklight are a sometimes duo/trio/quartet who here try to cobble together a personality from guitar improvs, electronic beats and multi-layered recording techniques. Formed in 2003, Arklight dance along the Digital/Analog, Postmodern/Existential Divide, much as the dancers in The Seventh Seal dance on the line between Life and Death. They Are Contradictory In Tone (T.A.C.I.T.)."|
- Daniel Kolm

arklight - nolo contendre – ruralfaune– 3" cdr - 10$

Blasted beatbox beats and damaged electronics that sounds a bit like a really mangled Suicide
-ruralfaune

arklight - aphasia- grimeology - cdr - 6$

Long awaited disc from Queens, NY quartet Arklight. Gritty and blasted freeform rock with angular dance trance un-fusion. Pounding rhythms and psychedelic futureprimitive axe shred coming out of a maxed-out boombox inside of a trashcan.
White cd-rs with xerox inserts inside a yellow cardstock sleeve with milk-to-dark-chocolate split fountain screenprint. Numbered edition of 50.
-grimeology

armpit – whiskey dr - root don lonie for cash – cdr – 7$

arnau sala - per sempre - faux paux recordings - 3" cdr - 4$

A nice little nugget of chug from OZONOKIDS proprietor Arnau Sala, Spanish noise heartthrob. Seriously, listen to it, and you're bound to experience some kind of palpitations. Comes with B&W tri-fold insert featuring incredible drawings by the man himself.
-fp

arts & crafts building - vol. 4 - fag tapes- cass - 8$

the latest winter-bleak
field recordings Sick Llama style. outdoor / indoor recordings.
messed-up machinery. frozen tape decks. edition 50.
-ft

ashtray navigations - animalineroir -memoirs of an aesthete - cdr - 9$

solo Phil Todd guitar/voice interweaving with additional electronic interior design and rainbow overtones. One long and heavy one which just oozed from the amps one day. It tasted good so we served it up for you in pink art paper covers, numbered edition of 100.
-moa

ashtray navigations - 1995-1997 hands under water reaching for nothing - self released – cdr – 12$

astral blessing - s/t - mad monk – lp – 14$

This vital release documenting the near-mythological Astral Blessing is, quite plainly, one of the reasons we started Mad Monk. Astral Blessing are / were a Northeastern ‘supergroup’ of sorts featuring renaissance man Paul LeBreque (Sunburned Hand of The Man, Trees Chants & Hollers, Aeth’r Myth’d, The Other Method, Soil Sing Through Me) and Daniel Presnell (Hildegard, Feed and Seed Records) along with drummer Marcus DeMaio. Sporadic gigs, often with fucking years in between them, left more than one trainspotter wondering if the band existed at all. This LP lays the whispers and rumors to rest once and for all. Totally crushing modern psych splatter, referencing the Theater of Eternal Music one minute and Oblivians the next. In total bootleg-style jacket so you can pretend you’re the only one who’s lucky enough to be in on this. Recorded entirely live. Obscenely limited.
- mad monk

astral blessing - st roch - feed and seed records – cdr – 10$

The final recording of this so-called “legendary” group, finds the band holed up in a New Orleans shotgun shack (before the flood), playing banjos, droning guitars and singing in a folk fervor, largely enabled by copious amounts of Chartreuse from the Saturn Bar.
-feedandseed

astral social club - #17 - self released - cdr - 12$

Taking time out from the works-in-progress schtick, this collection centres around most of an unreleased LP from 2006 (left in limbo due to label never quite getting off the ground) that makes formative excursions into the more phased looping beat aspects of the ASC that have come very much to the forefront in the intervening time. Three of the four more recent tracks that fill this one out take a different tack, and upturn the applecart with beatless overload, bells, multi-speed concussion and the like. The closing track is all handclaps and technoid blats, but reconfigured through a miasma of tone skroink and delay so you'd be hard pressed to get your freak on in any civilised way.

astral social club - #15 - self released - cdr - 12$

11 tracks, 45 minutes, 11/07

astral social club - #14 - self released - cdr - 12$

recorded live in paris and london, may 2007

astronaut/bee mask - the world is transformed and all the heavens sing for joy!/will they remember f-zero? - deception island - cass - 5$

"A fat streak of grease on the wall while the room turns itself inside out. Post-kundalini awakening pissing words in the proverbial horse ear. Fucked Lee Perry-style deep tape scum/shimmer-oriented reworking of live sessions from WCSB. On the reverse, the late Massachusetts synth trio Astronaut, featuring Daniel "Oneohtrix Point Never" Lopatin, reach dizzying extremes of paranoia and lfo-heavy entheogenic ritual dread/churn in shadowy "final" sessions, coming on in a more blown out and breathless fashion than on any side to date. Full black light trails/campfire mode, complete with appropriately face-melting peaks.All BASF chrome tapes in polyboxes, featuring cardstock inserts and full-color labels. Every tape in these editions is a first-generation dub. No high-speed duplication, no spray pain"
-di

astronaut / 1994 - split - housecraft - cass - 5$

Sega synth pulses go 4/4 directly into Sirius, eventually freeing all momentum on side: Astronaut. Astin and Nicolaus crackle in liquified guitar and mic feedback anxieties via 1994.
edition of 48
-hsecraft

aswara- s/t – sloow tapes – cass – 10$

Space hymns echoing in swirling psychedelic synth patterns, zoned guitartones and out-there primitive percussion. Featuring members of Death Chants and Muntjac. Devotional raga wrapped in appropriate silkscreened offering. 80 copies.
-sloow

at jennie richie - cathedral of erotic misery - scumbag relations - cass - 7$

Heavy flow from Seattle....cover art by Bonnie Banks...edition of 100

at jennie richie / plethora - split - scumbag relations - cass - 7$

Heavy zone out from two Seattle weed eaters.
-scumbag

attar cups - untitled - blackest rainbow – lp - 20$

We hit up our fourth vinyl release with this beauty which was originally intended to be a cassette only release (it still will be available on cassette, but only in a tiny run). This Maine based crew features a host of psychedelic jam talent... Nemo of Drona Parva and head honcho of Time-Lag Records, Sparrow Wildchild of The Bummer Road, and the three members of Visitations, whose record on Time-Lag last year was one of 2007's best! So this is the second recording from this crew, the first being last years Sloow Tape. This beast is different to the Sloow vibe, still with a super nice jam band sound, but projecting to a maybe more 'song' (in the loosest possible way) based plane, a little like Visitations. Edition of 299 hand numbered copies with zero info and 11" x 11" stickers on the front and back of black sleeves.
-br

attar cups - untitled - blackest rainbow – cass - 11$

Cassette version of the above LP! This Maine based crew features a host of psychedelic jam talent... Nemo of Drona Parva and head honcho of Time-Lag Records, Sparrow WIldchild of The Bummer Road, and the three members of Visitations, whose record on Time-Lag last year was one of 2007's best! So this is the second recording from this crew, the first being last years Sloow Tape. This beast is different to the Sloow vibe, still with a super nice jam band sound, but projecting to a maybe more 'song' (in the loosest possible way) based plane, a little like Visitations. Limited to 60 copies with colour transparency sleeves and no info.
-br

au / stuckometer - split - rayon records – cdr – 9$

"A split between this two cricked and obtuse noise bands. In one hand AU from the spanish city of Madrid, a band that forces their aggression thru drum-machine programming, and blending analog modified electronic with smart sick rock guitar riffs. STUCKOMETER grew ip in the city of Manchester in the U.K. and comes up to be this insanely ill improv music that moves from the minimalistic tune-up kind of click, click silence to this falling down the hill-hit by a car LOUD, mindblowing noise jams. Banging art by Pascal Nichols, two ink, silk-screened with different colour inks on different colour paper. Deluxe shit.
-rayon

aughra - proof of dark matter / light the lights - 905 tapes - cass - 6$

this is the cassette version of aughra's new full length that was released on lp and cd by magic bullet. aughra is the instrumental solo effort of brent eyestone, who makes up half (the chinese half) of big china & little trouble. "proof of dark matter | light the lights" is equal parts of both eerie, creeping horror-movie-inspired isolationist chillers and soaring, feel-good, dynamic melody. the end result is an engrossing foray into a world of instant nostalgia, hautning instrospection, and intangible inspiration from shadowy sources.
-905

auk theatre - the collection of the late howell bend - taped sounds –cass – 8$

an expanded listening session that breaths towards visions of KORLA PANDIT, TOM DISSEVELT, and early 1900's fair / carnival folklore.
two tracks contain the aural documentation of the wanderers of the AUK THEATRE. check out their beautiful visions of the parallel continent on the Ubu Web archives (http://www.ubuweb.com/film/moon.html). two tracks from the COLLECTION, another project of Auk Theatre mind IRENE MOON. a beautiful blend of organ tunes and more introspective signals.
-bread

autoerotic asphyxiation / vestigial limb - split - housecraft - cass -5$

Controlled burning. All you can do is destroy the things around you; blistering, mortally damaged. Liberation is imminent.
edition of 40
-hsecraft

avarus -iv - secret eye - lp- 22$

limited to 200 copies,

All-new exclusive Avarus! Fourth Secret Eye full-length and tenth
release overall from this incredible Finnish band that pretty much
defines modern psychedelic kraut improv. Primitive, primal and tribal,
desolate and mournful, dreamy and pastoral, motorik and hypnotic.
Buzzing, clattery, droning, stumbling Krautrock flecked with
shimmering free-noise, avant ambience, delicate folk fuckery, and
chaotic caveman psychedelic space rock.

Avarus IV starts where the Rasvaaja LP ended. The IV, too, consists of
Tomas Regan's careful high-quality recordings. On the IV Avarus makes
and even longer dive in the warm and clear pond, into which the water
is poured from both kraut and space rock, and from micro music and
slapstick. The recording was made after the US tour, which guarantees
the firm harmony satisfying the most demanding listeners. The delicate
talent and the hilarious team spirit guarantee a recordful of
heart-warming harmonies and surprising turns delighting an
unprejudiced mind. The wondrous adult rock of Avarus is born from an
uncompromising love for music. The finished recording deserved a
fantastic cover, too. This in mind, the graphic visionaries Amanda
Vähämäki and Pauliina Mäkelä spent their summer holidays swimming,
drinking beer, and drawing their kaleidoscopic Davy Crockett epos
inspired by music.
-secret eye

axolotl & eskimo king - dualdrift - our mouth – cdr –8$

axolotl - prophetic ass - chocolate monk - cdr -10$

New psych damaged batch of nocturnal hookum from Karl Bauer. Zoned out crackling, tones and sweet SK-1 blowout all brewed up into a sweet load of tingling psychic non-songs and grot beats.
-cm

axolotl - of bonds in general - loci - cdr - 8$

a cdr pre-issue limited to 200 copies 3 tracks, 31 minutes
LP to follow on catsup plate this summer

axolotl - the sad hotel -23 productions - 3" cdr - 6$

Karl Bauer is the lone wizard behind this outfit transplanted from Brooklyn to Oakland. This disc is material from a more recent move between Oakland to San Francisco, during which there was a period of isolation and homelessness. For some of this time Karl managed to stay in a hotel where these pieces were recorded. Using his ritual tools of violin and decayed electronics, Karl elicits a new level of emotional psychedelia, of which this disc reveals captivating snapshots of these workings.
-23 productions

ayal senior - space cakes - bennifer editions - cdr - 12$

Incredible-sounding records that are far too short are extremely frustrating. A prime example is the solo debut from former Herschel Savage and the American Flag member, Ayal Senior. At less than 20 minutes, ?Space Cakes? contains only enough gorgeous guitar/keyboard melodies to merely whet the appetite. If it weren?t for the ?repeat? setting on my CD player, I think I?d lose my mind!!

Senior is a veteran of Toronto?s growing freak scene, playing in the aforementioned HSAF, collaborating with a number of likeminded Torontonian weirdos, and ? oddly enough ? writing the introduction to ?Vampire Vultures,? John Fahey?s posthumous follow-up to ?How Bluegrass Destroyed my Life.? As a solo artist, he combines idiosyncratic synth-pop with rollicking folk guitar to craft a distinctive sound: bedroom psych for extraterrestrial loners. ?Space Cakes? is primarily an instruments-only affair. It isn?t until the closing track, a pure gem of a song, that Senior unveils his soft, mellifluous voice. Perhaps if the album were longer, we?d get to hear more of his gentle crooning. I guess we?ll have to wait for the next one... 9/10
- Bryon Hayes

the bad statistics - lucky town gone –pseudo arcana– cd – 12$

On the follow up to last years debut "Static" LP ((Kr-aa-k)3) The Bad Statistics have set about laying waste to the New Zealand suburban dream with this album, a much darker and heavier affair than their debut. Led by a bald suit clad psychopath named Thebis Mutante (rumoured to be the alter-ego of NZ improv/fire music impressario Jeff Henderson) who chants and howls and grunts throughout their doom laden droning rock mantra the closest comparison I have been able to come up with is some sort of hybrid of The Birthday Party, Circle, and The Reynols.
If the debut LP were to be regarded as the Mission Statement of Bad Statistics Great Annual Report in the Sky, "Lucky Town Gone" is not the Business Highlights chapter to be expected next, but a sideways lurch straight to Appendix 17: Corrupted Data.
Recorded onto degraded old cassette tape, "Lucky Town Gone" is a collection of mean-spirited practice room jams that sees the core four-piece of BAD STATISTICS further embracing the stoner doom drone rock that already defined large parts of "Static".
The seven tracks of "Lucky Town Gone" are again spearheaded by the abrasive, sense-eluding vocal emissions of Thebis Mutante. Critical response to Mutante¹s contributions on "Static" was deeply divided, and the new album is expected to further polarise opinions. Mutante is backed by Mark Williams (Marineville, Idle Suite, Cookie Brooklyn) on guitar, Justin Barr (Raskolnikovs, Users, Wrongdoings, Delaney Ghost Orchestra) on bass, and Johannes Contag (Jay Clarkson, Cloudboy, Sleepytime) on drums and production.
CD.
-pa

jessica bailiff / annelies monseré -morc records -cd - 10$

while jessica bailiff was in europe last fall, she recorded a couple of tracks with annelies monseré - tracks by both artists, in arrangements by the other. the four song gem is about to be released in a couple of weeks. it's limited to 310 handnumbered copies, with partially handwritten linernotes by annelies monseré, and comes in a very stylish, lp-alike sleeve.
-morc

aidan baker - gathering blue - equation records - 2lp - 27$

On blue-colored vinyl. "A work of blissful delight. Aidan Baker provides four sides of enchantment in this long-in-the-making 2LP set. Gathering Blue provides new original material plus a stunning cover of the Joy Division track '24 Hours' as well as an extended work-out of the amazing remix of 'The Cicada Sings Our Love Song' by Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks, which was originally released in 2005 on the ultra-limited and long-deleted Arcolepsy Records CD Remixes. This really is Aidan Baker at his very best and a record that is sure to charm. Comes in a gatefold sleeve, numbered card insert and pressed on heavy 180g virgin vinyl.
-equation

barbarians - rayon records – dvdr – 8$

legendary performance at Levenshulme's Klondyke Club by the pinnacle of gang culture in South Manchester, BARBARIANS. these dudes operate a shifting lineup of projectiles/injuries/urban waste/behaviour. Edition of 30 with individual artwork by Pascal. (7 minutes, its all you need)
-rayon

bardo pond - peri – three lobed – lp+2xcd - 21$

LP released 10 april 2009 from a limited edition of 1640 copies. $21.00. \

in early 2008, bardo pond and three lobed recordings teamed up to assemble batholith, a collection of tracks that were close to the band's heart but for various reasons had never been released. the result was an extremely cohesive and vital statement that was positively received by both old and new bardo pond fans. during the compilation of batholith the band had to agonize over the wealth of material that they were sitting on in constructing the ultimate tracklisting - there were too many good songs! the band approached this "problem" by structuring two sister albums, batholith and peri, each possessing their own musical themes and each fully capable of standing independent from the other. For this reason, peri is every bit as potent as its predecessor.

the meticulous sequencing of peri's five tracks provides a classic bardo pond experience. while the initial description of the material might lead one to think that these tracks are "outtakes" or cutting-room floor type material, neither conclusion could be further from the truth. the band is quite excited to finally see all of the material on peri venture into the public. for example, "chicken gun" will be recognizable to the band's longtime fans. a former live staple from 1996 through 1998 (even making an appearance in the band's set at the first terrastock festival), it is a propulsive and fiery rocker every bit as monumental as some of the band's classics such as "lb." and "tommy gun angel." "the path" is a subtle number featuring floating flute work from isobel sollenberger (click here for a downloadable preview). the album-closing "silver pavilion" is the sort of meditative psychedelia that has been bardo pond's calling card over their lengthy career. the track dates to the band's extremely fertile, yet barely documented, period between the release of "dilate" and "on the ellipse." "silver pavilion's" slow, enveloping build properly see the listener to the door and is reminiscent of such flawless bardo closing tracks as "rm," "aldrin" and "night of frogs."

peri is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl and is housed within heavy "old-style" one-pocket stoughton gatefold jackets bearing new collage work from michael gibbons. the record is from a one-time pressing of 1640 copies and, as an added convenience for our vinyl-loving friends,

comes packaged with a glass-mastered CD (not CD-R) of the material present on the wax and a bonus CD (TLR-068) of previously unreleased bardo pond material.
-threelobed

bark haze - one for merz - oscillation III series – three lobed – cd - 10$

our love will Destroy the world / bark haze - split - krayon recordings - 7" - 9$

Campbell Kneale moves ever closer to the glistening, levitation altar, with backwards bliss-shimmer, spooked chant and analogue squawk and squeal, kaleidoscoping around triumphant snare punctuation. Bark Haze (Andrew MacGregor and Thurston Moore duo) hit back with focused power-drone guitar duelling from the heart of the bong, smoking out into tunnel-visoned, crumbled-amp chunder. Art by Campbell Kneale/Kim Gordon.
-krayon

barn owl / tom carter - split - blackest rainbow – lp -20$

Newest Blackest Rainbow hot on the heels of some truly killer releases from the artists involved, both who seem to have really pushed there sounds and vibes to new levels this year... Barn Owl's side has been mastered by local jammer Ben Nash, and its three tracks of sparse drone layered with bleak guitar epic-ness, tingling chimes and dark mountainous whispers. The guitars here sound delicate and beautiful, but it remains bleak and empty, if you enjoyed their LP on Not Not Fun then this is a real treat. Tom Carter's 16 minute 'Train Kept' follows pretty damn nicely from his recent 'Shots At Infinity' releases on Important, a far cry from his more psychedelic folk experimentations, here he slashes and riffs like many a legend, and maybe, just maybe, it's a slight tribute to a certain band too? This is a fully wild piece of work. Black sleeves, pasted stark landscape cover, with a insert of liner notes. Limited to 380 copies.
-br

eric barnett - all the way, here and back - reverb worship – cdr – 11$

Eric Barnett has recorded this piece of music especially for me.He
plays acoustic and lap steel guitars using as many effects pedals as
possible.Its a 30 minute plus shimmering,ambient,glissy dronework which
is totally "live".
The cdr is available in an edition of 50 hand numbered copies in a pale
orange and white marbled paper sleeve with a metallic stencilled
triangle design.
-rw

mariska baars, robert deters, rutger zuydervelt - gris gris - low point– cdr – 8$

‘Gris Gris’ is a collaborative release between Dutch musicians Mariska Baars (who also writes and performs as soccer Committee) Robert Deters (of Vance Orchestra) and Rutger Zuydervelt (also known as the highly prolific Machinefabriek).

The material for ‘Gris Gris’ (named after Robert’s cat and also the term for a Voodoo amulet that protects the wearer from evil or brings luck) was recorded during a single day in late August 2008. The session consisted of using Mariska’s voice as source material with Robert and Rutger adding further processing, field recordings and electronics.
Whereas previous collaborations between Machinefabriek and soccer Committee used processing principally to supplement the minimal framework of Mariska’s songs, here her voice is used to generate a whole spectrum of different pitches and timbres. At times the source material is almost unrecognisable, transformed and buried under layers of manipulation, whilst at other moments slithers of untreated tones appear as if they’re part of some vaporous radio broadcast.
The end result is some of the three artists most minimal, slow and eerie music to date.
Cd packaged in a matt two-tone folding card wallet featuring illustrations by Mariska Baars. Ltd edition of 500 copies.
-lp

basalt fingers – three lobed – lp - 18$

released around 8 october 2007. performed by elisa ambrogio, ben chasny and brian sullivan at the tar pit in brooklyn in january 2007. three guitars were plugged in - no walls or neighbors were left standing once the trio's performance was complete. recorded by brian sullivan. mastered by patrick klem. pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. housed within hand-numbered multi-color wraparound sleeves silkscreened by alan sherry (SIWA).
-threelobed

basement life - typical living - 905 tapes - cass - 6$

sprawling layers of damp static decay and paper thin walls of white noise muck making bad weather even worse. it's like trying to find a radio station in a snow storm with no radio and zero visibility. a soundtrack to the rest of your life in the basement!
-905

Bastard Noise + Antennacle - split - kittyplay records –7" – 5$

Recorded in a multiple exchange mail session in 2005, this glorious document now sees the light of day. Featuring the classic line up of ERIC WOODS and JOHN WIESE, BASTARD NOISE has teamed up with relative newcomers to the scene ANTENNACLE for an amazing collaboration. Antennacle features ex-CREATION IS CRUCIFIXION member NATHAN MARTIN, as well as RICK GRIBENAS. This record features an awesome array of custom build electronics along with bizarre found audio. It is a must have for everyone from the most experienced experimental junkies to those just becoming familiar it. The lush purple covers were all painstakingly hand-assembled. They are silk-screened and a laser etched stamp of the Bastard Noise skull logo was created to stamp each cover. Limited to 600 copies on multicolored vinyl
-kittyplay

bad boy butch batson - spare parts - bennifer editions - lp - 14$

from 88-98 totally weird studio idiocy delusions of grandeur funk meets tape collage
-bennifer

aidan baker - thoughtspan - blackest rainbow –lp - 17$

Aidan Baker is one of the most interesting genre defying solo experimentalists around right now... Aidan also plays in the mind melting shoegaze doom duo of Nadja. This release reissues two tracks from a very limited CDR release entitled Thoughtforms, the original issue was on Tosom and is now long sold out, the LP collects two tracks from this release Thoughtspan and Thought Climate... Two long form tracks of genre blending shoegaze, post rock, krautrock and almost free jazz clatter at times... this is some very beautifully crafted music. Limited to 350 copies.
-blackest rainbow

tom baxendale - her ghost - the great pop supplement - 7 " - 9$

beautiful debut 45 from london singer songwriter tom baxendale. ace blend of alt. country, folk and americana, with an ‘a’ side rush of acoustic guitar and mandolin recalling atmospheric odes to love and loss.
the ‘b’ side lowers the tempo and is way more gentle, recalling perhaps, ‘gosdin brothers’ era gene clark.
regular gigging partner to previous gps debutant pete greenwood.

a pressing of 300 copies in gorgeously cool orange and green tracing paper booklets, again, not expected to sit around for long…
-gps

BBBlood/green mist - turgid animal - cass - 6$

Re-issue of this Eurotrash tour split. 30 minutes of tape fuckey from two of my favourite acts and tour buddies. BBBlood attacks his 15 minutes in a slightly more flowing style to his usual cut up madness. Harsh noise with some dark ambient moments and sonic thrash. Canada's Green Mist hits back with tape walkman destruction from the bottom of the ocean crafting nice tonal harsh noise and high pitched hell. Great tape and I am more than happy for it to see the light of day once again (this time in a package you can actual open! - Normal Jewel case...)
-turgidanimal

bbblood - experiment 50 - tds -cdr - 5$

bbblood - cough , spit, splutter ep - tds -3" cdr - 4$

beach fuzz w/dave jackson -nosferatu hex - golden lab records - cdr - 8$

. It's the final Beach Fuzz recording made with Barry Dean on drums and also features the eyeball-melting saxophonic skree of Solar Fire Trio's Dave Jackson. It was recorded in Warrington on 29th Oct '08 and is a more melodic yet typically cacophonous jam than previous releases. We hope you dig. Ltd to 80 copies, sleeves printed on recycled card w/soya based ink, no less
-GL

beach fuzz - hole of hellos - blackest rainbow – one sided cass - 10$

Manchester has some crazy scene going on, so many bands/artists keep coming out of there its insane... so here's a nearly 20 minute document from one of these bands, Beach Fuzz. This trio features members of Stuckometer, Axis Mundi, EYEHAI, and Manccc's Golden Lab Records head honcho himself, Nick Mitchell. Wild shit goes on here, kinda space drone rock or something. Double sided artwork, for a one sided tape... first time we jammed that, looks real sweet though. Limited to 64 copies.
-br

beach fuzz - triumvirate bird's eye view of range road - scumbag relations - one sided cass - 6$

three piece from manchester jams the dripping sunset path with bloated pupils and swaying breath
-scumbag

beach fuzz - untitled I & untitled II - the great pop supplement - 7 " - 8$

5 minutes pulled from 2 epic, cacophonous jams make up both sides of this first beach fuzz 45. following on a slew of home spun cassette and CDR releases on their own golden lab label as well as blackest rainbow, lotus birth and others. insistent, narcotic drone pieces featuring bowed, scraped lap steel, wailing echo drenched synth wash with occasional mo-esque, circling percussion. 300 only in cool, fliptop, yearling lined card fliptop sleeves.
-gps

bear bones, lay low - djids hum - gipsy sphinx - lp - 20$

Devastating psych noise power drones by Ernesto González, an 18 year old kid from Venezuela who moved to Belgium with his family 3 years ago. Thick layers of Hototogisu-like guitar drones interfere with endless tape loops and warm washes of analogue jungle color tone to work up to an overwhelming fuzz guitar climax, leaving listeners helpless, ecstatic, puzzled and bemused. Ernesto has been making music for over three years now, has various solo as well as collaboration projects going on, has released a slew of amazing selfmade cdr's and has recently also become a full time member of Belgium's finest: freefolk/krautrock outfit Silvester Anfang, who've got an LP coming out on Eclipse later this month. A promising new star in the psych drone skies…
-gipsy sphinx

bee mask - hyperborean trenchtown - weird forest - lp -16$

I think Chris Madak was born after impact in a car crash, and his "Hyperborean Trenchtown" will enter the world in a similar fashion. The album resonates a future sound vision that can only come from an old soul destined to further pave the paths laid by electronic and minimalist pioneers. Thorough audio examinations covering every facet of sound/tone property as a whole will reveal astonishing new layers listen after listen. Undeniably pure processes of creating and sustaining sound visually, sonically and otherwise brings a mathematical and scientific accuracy that hasnt been seen since the days of lovely music ltd. or GRM. The album's two side long cuts are divided into two displays of versatility with varied sound sources including amplified acoustic instruments, hand made electronics, phonography, and more. Brilliant textures and audio hallucinogenic time/space wormholes create infinite listening possibilities for this album. Few albums can create such a disorienting tunnel that is sounds as if the record has multiple albums locked within itself - you can hear these sounds and interpret them in so many ways that only time can unlock its many possibilities. Great albums only gain significance and this is surely no exception. Listen to this record on your turntable and stop time completely or melt into the past or the future with it - your choice. -John Elliott

Illustration and design by Aaron Winters of Abide Visuals
Limited to 400 copies on black vinyl with gold inserts.
Amazing silk-screened jackets by VGKids
-weird forest

bee mask / skin graft - split - teen action - cass - 8$

one side each from this pair of young Cleveland noise masters. the Bee Mask side features sporadic appearances by Nate Scheible on drums, taking Bee Mask's usual shimmering sheets of sound to exciting new worlds. Skin Graft's side delivers, with all the crackling pulsations, burnt drifts, and shattered voices this dude evokes so well.
-ta

bee mask/astronaut - the world is transformed and all the heavens sing for joy!/will they remember f-zero? - deception island - cass - 5$

bee mask - neurasthenia - deception island - cass - 5$

Gross cold war-era peeling lead paint/submarine death downer vibes warped/wrapped into lo-fi cassingle-sized epiphany. First up is a handmade electronics side, in which something is totally going to shit at the end of the hall, like taking a circular saw to a bank of test equpiment in reverse, perhaps. On the flip is the tabletop guitar blissout that's going down as your lungs fill with water.
edition of 99
-di

bee mask - honey and salt - deception island - cass -5$

More homebrew synth damage from Bee Mask, this time featuring legendary Cleveland-area free drummer Nate Scheible. Side A's culled from profoundly fried spring sessions at Scheible's Zombie Proof studios, in which both parties exhale a massive, sustained sound like the interior of a giant bell and proceed to stagger about, running into walls and vomiting corrosive fluid and at least one pause-button suckerpunch. Side B returns to solo territory with a crucial collage of crusty/cranky improv blasts recorded live on WCSB. Lumbering, bleary, and pissed.
-di

bee mask - no mutant enemy - pizza night - cass - 7$

If you keep your ears to the ground, you most likely have already gripped his latest LP on Weird Forest, "Hyperbolean Trenchtown". If not, then consider yourself the last to know about Bee Mask. He's been a staple in the midwest/east coast for years now. With a wide array of set-ups and an endless amount of sonic possibilities, it's hard to tell what's next with him. The two sides flow together like one dense piece using heavy mind warping drones and hazey bells that chime in to relieve some of the tension. The tape offers an alternate universe that is neither dark nor light, ugly or beautiful. Neither sounds of love or of hate.
-pizzanight

beggin' your pardon miss joan - dear nautilus - reverb worship – cdr –11$

This little beauty is called "Dear Nautilus" and its by Beggin' Your
Pardon Miss Joan.Its a really gorgeous seven track EP available in a
limited edition of 50 hand numbered copies.It is available now.The
covers and cds are spray stencilled with the same bright blue design.

Beggin' Your Pardon Miss Joan play lovely thoughtful, reflective and
mostly acoustic based songs filled with multitracked
harmonies,acoustic and electric guitars and drifting shimmering
soundscapes.If you like Low's music you will really love this cd.
-reverb worship

being / villa valley- split - community college - cass - 5$

being & body collector - guile in white heat -skeleton dust – cd – 7$

Gripped this one in a trade with Being at the 517 noisfest 4, the day it was released.
I find myself wondering sometimes if I enjoy harsh noise or not. Alot of times it chan just depend onf how it is presented. Well, this is some really harsh stuff, and I love it.
First of all, the concept to this one is simple, yet awesome. Each artist has a solo track. The artists remix the other artist's track. Then they collaborate on one track at the end. This makes for some great pieces.The packing is simple and straight to the point. Recording info, track names, you know, the essentials. Also has one of those pure black back cases, I rarely see those anymore. The disc is really cool, it is red, and has a very nice texture to it, I wonder what type of paints were used. I really dig the front cover. The only problem I have with the artwork is that it might be TOO minimal. The inside of the cover is totally blank, I think that space could've been utilized to include some more graphics similar to the front cover graphics and really bring the art alive. But other than that, I really enjoy the way this is presented, and the red theme is really cool.
Before hearing this album, i'd never heard or even heard of either artist, so I had no clue what to expect. I like that when listening to an album, no prior knowledge to base an opinion off of, just what I feel when listening. When I put it in, I was genuinly interested in the textures and sounds I was hearing. The original tracks were great, Being's had some of the best work on the album, and Body Collector's included some very great scremaing (hard to identify, but it does sound ike it) and high pitched noises that really lent themselves to the track. I didn't enjoy the remixes as much. Being's remix of Body Collector's "Rotting & Unkept" was alright, but Body Collector's remix of Being "Cold Hands Gripping" seemed to tone down the great song. The collaboration track is a great one, some really great frequencies and textures throughout.
Overall, I really enjoyed this one, I look forward to hearing more from both artists.
- Green reviews

max bellancourt - the stone tape - dead sea liner – cdr – 5$

Glitchy textures, abstract field recordings and Jules Verne noise combine in a vaguely conceptual album from the elusive French experimentalist Max Bellancourt
-deadsealiner

bob bellerue & telecut powers - baked in the kitchen - baked tapes - cass - 6$

---> (Cleveland-via-)Brooklyn's Telecult Powers join forces with Portland transplant Bob Bellerue (Halfnormal, Redglaer) for an all out assault on the mind, body and soul, captured live, after hours @ Manhattan's aptly named Kitchen earlier this season with the PA set to 11.
-baked

benjamin franklin – spitsing –sloow tapes – cass – 9 $

A dark trip in the neither world of Benjamin Franklin (Buffle, R.O.T.) sleepwalking along deep low humming casio rumblings and floating urban soundscapes. 70 copies.
-sloow

benjamin franklin - takes time - bread and animals –cass – 8$

this dreamer is making his total unique music since the 90's and still sounds as fresh as wooow. guitar and synth, played by a rainbow mind. first three tracks are of a tremendous sweetness. fourth track is a long live recording. this cassette comes with a purple insert and a full color picture of his recently crashed car. watch out for the upcoming boxset collection that will be brought to you by J CRAMA's world. Benjamin also plays in R.O.T. and BUFFLE.
-breadandanimals

benjamin franklin - la Pente / loupiotes (christmans edition) - lexidisques - 7" - 7$

7’’ with silkscreen cover designed by Serena Emiliani
They said about this record:
“When listening to "La Pente", these doubts were confirmed.”
“The website for Benjamin Franklin doesn't tell us much about him, just mostly where we can see him perform. But perform doing what? I don't know.”
“Side B takes me back in time, to the period that we first got to know Benjamin Franklin, as the uncrowned king of casio-bebop”
“A soundtrack for a sad/drunk smurfs film!”
Released Autumn 2008
-lexi

bengeorge / buffle - split - breaking world records - cass - 6$

international piss! this thing has taken forever to come together. a stellar showing on both sides. buffle with a long form creeper, chock full o' thuds and grunts, not evil, but not a babysitter. "takes you there." bengeorge7 side is a return to form of sorts. USA songs, fake versions of original songs, songs about police i think? it's like being on aspirin, only better. $6
also released on bread and animals with different artwork
-bwr

jerusalem and the starbaskets / bengal traitors - split - the great pop supplement - 7 " - 9.50$

urgent split 45 on clear vinyl in gorgeous op-art acetate sheet sleeves. JATS offer up the mighty "everybody's dig accounted for" (check out the video on youtube!) while the bengal traitors is a part time project for james and jessica toth (wooden wand etc). a psych monster, with label art and op-art sleeve to match...!
-gps

bestia ferida - live wounded - scumbag relations - cass - 6$

3 piece from barcelona Bèstia Ferida (means "wounded beast" in catalan)....Arnau Sala of OZONOKIDS and Adrian De Alfonso with Marc Cunningham of MARS...playing something that simultaneously touches on past/current free mind melt and focused blistering stumble and then shreds all of that for crackling-pure sound...This release is a compilation of different live acts around Barcelona, all of them during year 2008 at places like la Pedrera, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Convent de Sant Agustí, Sala Apolo or Sala Big Bang. **this is the AMERIKA USA FOREVER VERSION...OZONOKIDS has released a SPANISH VERSION that is available now direct from them.
-scumbag

big whiskey -semi brown music - our mouth – cdr – 8$

binges – return to whatever – arbor - cdr – 6$

Binges are a hometown favorite here in Chicago. Up until this point their music has existed to the public in one form: the live set. For the benefit of those outside of Chicago, the duo, comprised of drummer Chris Robert and guitar/bass/drum/mic/tape dude Anthony Decanini, recently teamed up with Midwestern Raccoo-oo-oon to cover the west coast with their syncopated improvisations. It is only fitting that their first release be made up of live material(recorded to DAT tape and mastered with the utmost care). Decanini creates a vast number of growing and receding loops from his guitar, bass, contact mic, tapes, and other sources which act as the perfect foil to Robert’s percussion(a serious thing to behold). It isn’t so much one person acting as the leader as much as the two creating an absolute sonic union of sounds blurring the line between free jazz and noise. In an edition of 200 screened CDRs in screened sleeves.
-arbor

birchville cat motel - summers seething pulse - elsie and jack – cd – 10$

new version with a little different packaging but otherwise the same

"I can hear things.

"Late at night, if not sufficiently drained from the day, I hear things. Walking to work I hear them too. Increasingly I find that in the fragments of existence that aren't filled to capacity resides a sound, a noise, or perhaps a sensation, and if you can tune out the myriad of competing frequencies, you'll hear it too.

"To describe this sound is a fearsome task indeed. It can rattle like a dish-rack before an approaching earthquake, it buzzes similar to your annoying refridgerator, and sometimes it's the frail squeals of amplifier-damaged ears. But inevitably, its lithe form shifts and avoids apprehension leaving me with a heart-bursting sense of having not quite grasped something of great interest."

>> campbell kneale >> birchville cat motel

bird by snow - songbread & another ocean - gnome life records – lp & cd & more - 15$

A new calf sparkles in the field at dawn with after-birth upon her. Standing strong and brave with wobbly legs in a precarious world. With totally fearless surrender she steps forward, still wet from the inner universe of the before birth being. With the same naked abandon we offer this 3rd long-player by Bird By Snow. Ten free-pop-mantras, ancient-babies of modern song.

The most fertile Bird By Snow record (so far) each side of this album has its own name, in order to give the tunes more mind-space to flourish and expand… Side A is “Songbread” and side B is “Another Ocean.” In this record-world we find BBS harvesting perspectives in an old-growth forest of ontology & swimming joyfully in wide-wonder-waters of multi-instrumentalism. Cellos, drones, pianos, field-recordings, tape-collage & all manner of drumming, strumming & singing confer and conspire here. Many of these songs have been two years in the making, grown and regrown on musical tours through the generous world. Songs with fresh-washed faces, and crow’s feet in the corners of their eyes.

“Songbread/Another Ocean” is also some of Gnome Life’s most beautiful and ambitious packaging! The cover is a color lithograph poster, and the LP also includes a deluxe handmade booklet of literature, lyrics, ideas, and points of entry. AND a second semi-transparant poster of poetry called: "SLOW POEMS" by Fletcher Tucker (a.k.a. Bird By Snow). This edition is limited to 550 copies, and is on completely clear vinyl, and comes with a CD!

{recorded at home on 8-track cassette tape, mastered by John Golden.}
-gnome life

birdcatcher - live at valve bar / hearts blood - tavarnkeben - cass - 6$

60 copies. Anthony Milton & Bill Wood & the ornithologic hordes transport us into a strange, unearthly, travel. 6$
-tk

birmingham drains – mutator beach - excite bike tapes - cass - 6$|

More new strangeness! BD is Milo aka the Zone and Mossy Throats, both on heavy, deep electronics. Pushes into completely strange territory, alien communication through the sun’s rays. A language that only gets weirder the more you learn. What washed up on Mutator Beach? Edition of 40 with full-color, fold out art. C30.
-eb

b.i.s. – bicephlae–ruralfaune– cdr - 10$

ltd50

sir richard bishop - improvika - locust - lp - 17$

180 gram vinyl, packaged in deluxe silkscreened art paper. "By trade Sir Richard Bishop is a dealer of rare occult books and fine paper ephemera. For many in the musical cosmos, he has occasion to travel the smoke filled carnie circuit as 1/3 of the Sun City Girls medicine show. But in the twilight hours of a shadow world once sensed only by few, Bishop is a dazzling unaccompanied guitarist. On Improvika, Bishop rides a very tall horse through a surrealist's cowboy set that's 1 part bruit Peckinpah muscularity & 2 parts illuminated Jodorowskian symbolism.. A very strange place, indeed. Armed only with a single steel string wooden guitar, bare-knuckled Bishop fends off the horrors & dangers of the night with ease as he spits out glorious white robed Arabesques, Django-inspired gypsy arcs, & Latin terracotta flourishes like so many spinning tumbleweeds in a one horse town that is his alone. Improvika is Sir Richard's solo installment for locust's long running Wooden Guitar series."
-locust

harbinger (dave bixby) - second coming - guerssen records - lp - ~~23$~~ out of stock - more soon

Unknown to most '60s/'70s collectors until its discovery a few years ago, this is the beyond rare second album released by loner/downer folk legend Dave Bixby, recorded around 1969, the same year as his first one, the now-famous Ode To Quetzalcoatl. Musically, Second Coming is equally as good and very similar to the first one, but this time the recording took place in a professional studio, so the sound is improved. Bixby is joined by Brian MacInness on guitar, Sandy Johnson on vocals and Don DeGraaf on bass and production duties. Don was in fact leader of the, in the end, destructive religious cult known as "The Group" or "The Movement," of which Bixby and Brian were part of. The sound is more up-front and the songs are slightly optimistic compared to the ones on Ode To Quetzalcoatl, and there's plenty of acoustic 12-string raga guitars and harmony male/female vocals. The lyrics deal with cosmic imagery, psychedelics and religious/biblical references, but this goes much deeper than any Xian record you've ever heard -- titles such as "Cosmic Energy," "Time To Clear Your Mind," "Rainbow," and "Circus World" point towards some sort of New Age/post-Revelations utopian consciousness. Reissued for the first time under license from Dave Bixby himself, and carefully remastered from a clean vinyl (no master tapes exist) at Shadoks Music Studios. Includes an insert with extensive and detailed liner notes by Matvei Procak -- the guy who found Bixby in 2006 -- plus some rare pictures. Also includes a free mp3 download code.
-guerssen

sindre bjerga - stray bullet - soundholes – cass – 9$

Bleak and minimal (industrial) drone from Bjerga. Both sides of this release are taken from live sets recorded late in 2007 whilst in the UK... during a tour when he was meant to play the GlassHouse (RIP) but unfortunately did not happen... On the B-Side additional sound is provided by Elektrodiesel... Play this loud...
-soundholes

bjerga/iversen –electron– blackest rainbow – cass - 9$

Norwegian drone duo with releases on Gold Soundz, Time Lag and Barl Fire to name a few... This is a pretty intense live recording that is more of a layered dense noise soundscape than drone. Two sides totally in at about 27 minutes. Edition of only 50 cassette. Sprayed cassettes and cases with handnumbered insert.
-blackest rainbow

bjerga / iversen – drawn to the light like moths to the flame – phantom limb recordings - cdr - 6$

First group that I wanted to release a cd-r for that wasn't friends of mine... and
now I have the chance... And "Drawn to the light" is a doozy. One monumental
track of hiss and spark and growing tension, a vector dance through the eye
of a needle or an eye of the hurricane. If you know these two mens' work, then
you will realize this is essential... If you don't, this is a damn fine place to start.
-phantom limb

bjerga/iverson - the sea is near you can taste the salt in the air - foxglove - cdr - 7$

two giants of norwegian noise put their droning heads together for an excursion by the sea. this release (vol. 1 in their lighthouse tapes series) finds gold soundz honcho sindre bjerga joining forces with tibprod master, jan iversen. this one long track unfolds at snail speed, leaving the listener gasping for air before being submerged, once again, into icy depths. electric guitar drone and howl that melts under overcast skies weaves a dark, intricate web of sound. bjerga & iversen show that destruction is beautiful. 90 copies (foxglove/digitalis)

bjerga/iversen - earth pit- barl fire - cdr - 11$

After their six volume "Lighthouse Tapes" series the Norwegian noise/drone duo Bjerga/Iversen head inland to offer up this mud-spattered sonic dichotomy that blurs the boundaries between what is considered organic- and machine-driven music. Metallic squeal, electronic collages and earthy drones sit side by side and find their co-resonant frequencies lending "Earth Pit" a life-pulse to its soiled and rusted tones. "Earth Pit" comes housed in vinyl slipcases with coverart featuring the mudpools at Rotorua New Zealand by Richard Seaman, and is limited to 100 copies(barl fire)

sindre bjerga & ben morris - auto-immune drone syndrome - phase!– cdr – 6$

Live collaboration between the two active european sons (Sindre of Goldsoundz and Iversen duo, Ben of Chora) which took place in Utrophia, London. Half an hour of dark load and intimate touches. They've found the cure... now let's find the disease.
Limited to 60, with fine print on recycled paper + hand-stained Winsor Blue Acrylic discs.
-phase

black eagle child - kite excursions - blackest rainbow – cdr - 9$

Mike Jantz from Milwaukee has been laying down some seriously amazing far out folk inspired drone dreams recently with some damn fine tapes split with Sean McCann and Pistil Cosmos (formerly 'V'), and here is a collection of drones weaved with field recordings and meandering guitar meditation. Super blissful! Limited to 75 copies packaged in a stamped purple envelope with paste on cut out art, and a hand numbered insert.
-br

michael michael - self released - cass - 4$

short run self released split cassette with Michael Jantz/Black Eagle Child
c40 in handmade cloth packages made by Jantz, edition of 20 tapes.

black eagle child // oh be joyful - split- tired trails - cass - 6$

no one knows why black eagle child sprung
out of his little midwestern nest, but we're all
sure as hell happy he did. cause he came out
spitting out one prolific sound scape after another.

his brilliant side of the tape features guitar,
accordion, road noise and rainstorms. all 3 tracks
are strung together with bliss wire, static and deep
low voice choir drones. a delicate riff arises, repeats.
mimicking itself and branching off into skeletal
sculptures. the sounds sink into the wind wallowing
restlessly, as city buses from the street creep in and
swallow. this is a meditative piece. sitting on the side
of a mountain with kind buds and no-mind. examine.

B side features oh be joyful, who begins an improvised
guitar piece with the sound of the wind sailing over sea
glass, an embrace of the earth and its movement.
recorded in a tent, this first piece reflects the intimacy of
living in that small space. with "ghost ride side car," this
side continues down a bleak path with what sounds like
the rumble of a motorcycle making its way through
a deserted town at night. goosebumps and sightings.
the last track, 'thunder hills chorus,' ends the cycle with
some deep deep bass and a chorus loop resounding,
raw gurgly murk getting spit out of the polluted earth.
beware. hand numbered blue tapes,
housed in blue & green tie-dyed recycled handmade paper-
hand-sewed together. beautiful hand drawn art (drawn by bec,
altered by obj) on gold paper. each unique.
-tt

black guys - some of my best friends are... black guys - digitalis recordings - cass - 7$

now faux liberals around the world can feel better about their white, upper class lifestyles with the help of one simple and inspired drone cassette. you'll be all the rage at that next mixer or cocktail party when you can tell everyone about how some of your best friends are... black guys! little will they know that you're talking about this new mexico duo of alan george ledergerber and raven chacon (kilt, cobra//group, etc). "some of my best friends are..." stretches time out ad infinitum with piles of crusty drones and scabbed-over electronics that can only dream of breaking the skin.

you may not know black guys yet, but once you do, you're definitely going to love them. limited to 50 copies.
-digitalis

black guys - black history - sicksicksick / hype machine - cdr - 7$

A comprehensive compendium of the past works of this prolific New Mexican noise duo. This pro-pressed 75 minute disc chronicles of the band's 3"cdr and cassette releases thus far. Also includes a new bonus track!
If you missed any of the past releases on Sicksicksick or Hype Machine, do not miss this.
-sssk

black guys / yoda's house - split - sicksicksick / hype machine/featherspines - 7" - 6$

A split single of two bands from Albuquerque's experimental drone scene. Mellower than you would think,,,,not sure which speed is your poison, so you get a choice.
Limited to 300 copies/blue-marbled-pretty.
-sssk

black joker - watch out! – pacific city - cdr -11$

new project from spencer clark

black motor -vaarat vastukset - dreamsheep records - cd - 12$

They hark back to New Thing sounds and Organic Music Society with tons of intelligence and no bad revisionism. They are "black" in the ice. They are not free-folk. They are a trio from Tampere (Finland) comprised of Sami Sippola (saxophones), Ville Rauhala (double bass/electric bass) and Simo Laihonen (drums). They revealed their wonderful skills and jazz abilities through a QBICO vinyl in late 2007. They've made the second greatest album, a timeless jazz recording full of sensational moods. They won't let you escape from such tremendous beauty...
-dreamsheep

black motor - club el toro - ruby red – cd - 14$

Black Motor are a force of nature and that translates to their fierce JAZZ music.
-rr

black pus / foot village - split - dnt – 12" - 10$

Including the tracks from their split cassette released last year on DBA, this 12" adds 1 Foot Village bonus track and 2 Black Pus bonus tracks. This music is raw, distorted, and totally fucked up drum rock. Each 12" includes a 16" x 22" poster that is a full color animal photo with art by Brian Chippendale screened on top. Brian is the dude behind Black Pus and he is the drummer of Lightning Bolt. This release is all about drums being punk as fuck. Edition of 300. Co-released with Deathbomb Arc.
-dnt

black river error band -cosmic battles - 905 tapes - cass - 6$

mattias gustafsson is an early 905-cohort, with his altar of flies project filling the 905.4 slot. black river error band is another one of gustafsson's solo endeavors. b.r.e.b. brings the same complex crunch as a.o.f. but includes some black reed magic by way of alien sax vibes for a neurotic-cosmic mash. illuminated fluttering gripping onto dark sounds like mold on a butterfly. cosmic battles = phantom workshops.
-905

black sparrow - once i'm under a persons skin i'm like a splinter - gold soundz – cdr – 10$

Very well executed intimate drones from Mr. Sparrow, who also runs the
wonderful Curor recordings label out of Brighton, England. He manages to
pull off the jagged, tactile sound in his drones, not too unlike, say,
Jazzfinger.. And this is always a plus in my book (yes, I have a book..)
-gold soundz

black to comm/aosuke - split - dekorder – lp – 17$

black to comm / datashock - collaboration – ikuisuus – cdr - 7$

"Incredible, spooky-spiritual-drone masterpiece by the most hip German
experimentalists Black to Comm (Mark Richter) and the free-noise group
Datashock companied by new member Marcel Türkowsky. Here all together
creating a flavor of blissen alien soundscapes, whirling on, changing
and evolving all the time, generating hyperzonic tensions inside the
crown-chakra so long that the eyes start to see pulsating flames
inside and outside your imagination. Rich in Colour of sound and for
sure not a restless headfuck, but a stony stoned psychedelic vibration
of something spiritually exciting, something which reminds the outer
inner worlds, and how close they are. The fog of the lake & the ghosts
of the forgotten old new days. Recorded nearby Berlin's Goldmund
festival in August 2007, in a place which used to be a summercamp for
kids in the times of GDR the point which alone may cause the climbing
in such a mystical level. Peaceful & strange at the same time.
-i

black forest / black sea – s/t – music fellowship – cd - 12$

BLACK FOREST/BLACK SEA is the Providence duo of Jeffrey Alexander (mostly guitar) and Miriam Goldberg (mostly cello). They play free-form music that draws from folk traditions. The have toured extensively in the US and Europe, from Savonlinna to Sicily, Riga to Reykjavik and Portland to Portland. This is the fourth BF/BS full-length - recorded in Providence, RI, Portland, ME and Montague, MA with guest performances by Italian sound sculptor Stefano Pilia (guitar, tiny sounds) and Miriam's sister Margot Goldberg (phonorgan). Yet another sister - Gillian Goldberg - provides lyrics. Miriam and Jeffrey also incorporate voice, ur-pedal, casio, bul bul tarang and omnichord. "...a half-improvised framework of guitar, cello and sundry accented glitches...a magnificent patchwork tent of bark, calico fabric, twisted vines, and fallen stars...a gorgeous snapshot of the free psych underground, one of the purest spaces of otherworldly terrain in the current musical landscape." - ptchfork

black forest/black sea - forcefields & constellation- secret eye - cd[tour version] - 8$

black magic disco - s/t - a silent place - 2xlp - 21$

(mciaa and jackie-o motherfucker)

Black Magic Disco is the new all-star band featuring Tom Greenwood (Jackie-O Motherfucker), Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien) and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope). The project was born out of an idea from Tom Greenwood, founder leader of the avant-folk-blues ensemble Jackie-O Motherfucker, who invited Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka the Italian improv duo My Cat Is An Alien (MCIAA), and their close collaborator Ramona Ponzini (also involved with the two brothers in the projects named Painting Petals On Planet Ghost and Praxinoscope, as well as in the new collaboration with Z'ev) to perform with him for two months of touring throughout all Europe in May/ June 2005. As one can imagine, the result was killer. The music which came out of the live performances was totally explosive, combining Ramona's Japanese vocals & hypnotic chimes with Greenwood's psych-blues guitar attitude & wild turntablism, over MCIAA's alien cosmic flux of electric guitars, space toys & percussions, creating a still unheard mixture of sounds unifying archaic & post-modern, western & eastern, sky & earth. This debut CD represents a unique chance to experience almost 80 minutes of that pure and magic live action, divided in four long tracks taken from the original live recordings. BLACK MAGIC DISCO's logo comes from the pencil of Roberto Opalio; the gatefold jacket CD artwork, curated by MCIAA contains some band photos taken during the live performances included in the record.
-asp

bladder stalks - underwater croquet - scumbag relations - cass - 7$

floating in cerebral dissociation...splitting dxm hairs or champagne and severed hands...possessed to deflect
-scumbag

blakeelliswesterby - self released - cdr - 7$

Recorded in 2005/6 at home in and around Goodrich, Michigan. My first solo attempt after trying a few other musical experiments that either morphed or ended. Radio waves, heartbeats, clocks, breathing, free wilderness, and an array of instruments, people, and tape samples. Basically I was in a room recording for some odd months occasionally getting help from friends, mostly improvising each time. Thank you to all that helped, namely, Kelsey Rhea for everything I need, Jesse Kaczmarczyk for improv-ing V, Mike K. for screaming a lot on Can't Escape It (Dying), and to everyone who has especially supported this: Jocelyn (and anyone associated with A&B records), Jeffry Astin (xiphiidae, housecraft recordings), Kevin McEleney (Droughter, Heavy Psych), Johnathan Petit, Robert Bidder (Tea & Toast Band), Sean "Mucky" of KDVS 90.

blank dogs - the fields – fuck it tapes – 12" – 15$

7 song 12" Mini-LP.

"BlankDogs are actually singular: It's the insanely prolific one-man
Brooklyn-based band of Mr. Blank Dog. We don't know too much about the
biography of the guy behind the bedroom new-wave pop/punk and he's
usually covering his face with masks or bedspreads, but that's fine.
The aura of anonymity allows you to focus on the sounds -- and,
really, he might be releasing a ton of things, but there's definitely
a higher jam to crap ratio. It's like Joy Division vocal lines with
the Cure's synth and guitar melodies filtered through ancient
submerged keyboards and eroded recording equipment. And that voice?
All the feedback in the world can't hide his knack for melody." -stereogum

blank dogs - on two sides - troubleman unlimited - lp - 14$

blank dog's proposition does also contain a great deal of the otherworldly, I think you shall find the way in which they resonate uncertain and hazy like transmissions coming from the other side most appealing, like reliable messengers delivering a lost love letter across impossible distances with a fierce passion which reminds me of that most excellent Sir John Maus. Blank Dogs seem to have studied in the cadaverous school of German minimalism where thaumaturgs such as Grauzone excelled, but covered some of the piercing angles with the flesh and blood of the new wave that these Islands did bear, particularly Joy Division and even Young Marble Giants at certain moments of trembling melodic beauty. All laced with that distorted barbed wire one finds in so many promising new acts from the other side of the pond. Formidable material, I am sure you will agree, do purchase their album On Two Sides when it is made available and you shan't be disappointed.
-20 Jazz Funk Greats

blank dogs - diana(the herald) - sacred bones - lp - 14$

“For the quickly ascending ‘career’ of the BLANK DOGS, this 12-inch marks another ringer, and already their fourth release of 2007, clearly showing an impeccable work ethic with no signs of stopping. Each record sounding more unique and far out than the last, this brand new 12-inch EP on Sacred Bones shows the Blank Dogs evolving into a full-on goth-gone wrong killing machine, yet they don't need to get nasty. The effects the vocals reverberate through will cause instant nausea when exposed to the elderly and the weak, yet underneath lie those keenly disguised pop hooks that stick with you long after the record stops. If 'Death Pop' was ever really a term, the Blank Dogs now own it, yet their wrong wave wanderings can entertain fringe psych-heads just the same, hence their growing appeal across genre boundaries.”
--Victim Of Time

blank realm - mind peril - nnf - cass - 6$

So many steaming heaps of uniquely fried brains litter the “down under” underground landscape (Australia, NZ) you begin to worry for their greater wellbeing, health, sanity. But, at the same time, it’s hard to complain ‘cause those same forces have done wonders for the world’s weirdo CDR collections. Paeces, Lakes, all the Bros ‘o’ The Occult Sisterhood shit, Castings, Terracid, xNoBBQx (most of those Breakdance The Dawn bands, actually), Naked On The Vague, etc. – there’s a damn ARMY of Australasian gangs throwing up freaky signs and bizarre strains of audio consciousness, and we are all the richer for it. But our favorite such clan for the past year plus is Blank Realm, outta Brisbane. They’ve been emitting a steady smokestack of work-in-progress documents showcasing their pan-genre collective symbiosis the last couple years and each new cloud they puff out is a headier, heavier beast than the one before it – and Mind Peril shows they’ve yet to even fucking plateau. Self-released by the band early in ’08 in a micro-edition of a few dozen, we were fairly floored by it, and offered to spread the gospel a bit more. Listen up. Crouched hermetic energies arc upwards into unified spirals of electric heavens, animal clatter, basement trance, and zoner drums. 8-limbed songs grapple up from 4-track floors. Rituals retch into wrecked rock songs. Vertical motion for formless heights. This is Blank Realm at their blankest and best. NNF edition has a new track sequence, and is pro-dubbed on high-quality chrome cassettes, as befits this sprawling C54 classic. In oversized, hand-stamped, spray-painted cardstock sleeves with hand-ripped rainbow-tissue collage artwork. Edition of 100.
-nnf

blank realm - street bananas - digitalis recordings - cass - 7$

blank realm has evolved over the past few years from some of the best droners in the land of oz to doing something far more disjointed, original, catch, and honestly, fucking genius. they exist in the same zone as their breakdance the dawn brethren, but have easily etched their own fractals in the sand. everything is played and sung like it's being drawn out of a thick haze. you can never quite see it, but bits and pieces slowly reveal themselves so you can connect the sparkling dots.

"street bananas" finds its groove right away, and at times will have you wanting to shake your ass out on that stretch of empty highway that leads straight to the fucken moon. hell, blank realm even through a few pop missives out of nowhere that you'll hum until the day you implode. i think i'm ready to move down under where everything... everything is baked and/or fried. limited to 77 copies that give homage to 1983.
-digitalis

bleaks - haste, error- wodger -lp - 17$

Steve from Christmas Decorations teams up with old friends Kyle Bruckmann and Jeremy Lemos, who both sometimes work on famous records and often make obscure ones of their own. Driving rhythms and evolving drones. Electronic mayhem collides with clanging metal and a mijwiz
-wodger

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blessure grave - unknown blessure - is night people – cass -5$

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.
-np

blessure grave - learn to love the rope - captured tracks - lp - 14$

Ex-NIGHT WOUNDS members getting busy with some Death In June/Christian Death-styled death rock. Expect a zillion future releases.

blithe sons - rooms - chocolate monk - cdr - 9$

blood! - evacuated materials - skrot up - cassette with screenprint - 7$

Evacuated Materials is the follow-up to Love in Vein - BLOOD!’s debut on Jerkwave Tapes from 2008. Ominous sounds buzz, grate, oscillate, and take on a life of their own, while bizarre 911-calls mixed with minimal waveforms tell stories about things growing in your mouth and other disruptive phenomena. Nine tracks of heavy synth breathing, bursting drones and electronic pulses rubbing and burning against your skin. Meticulously composed and grippingly sinister, it is sure to keep you cold at night and looking paranoid over your shoulder by day.
-skrotup

blood stereo + pod blotz - s/t - bennifer editions - art book + cass - 14$

blood stereo - little creeper - chocolate monk - cdr - 10$

Recorded live at Resonance FM. Full on duo in kick back mode, trying to burrow out of the airwaves into the listeners spine via tapes, voice, violin, oscillators, percussion and various other junk. A very pleasant magnetic headache. "Constantly engaging, and almost OCD in its search for new sounds, it runs a pretty slick roller coaster from meditative drone to looped rhythm to random samples to vocal exhumations, all inextricably connected and mystically-timed, as if these two have some secret key to the sweet spot at which to stop hammering a sound and transform it into something new." - Noiseweek

blood stereo & ludo mich - from tapes and throats - giant tank - lp - 19$

Heavy duty collaboration LP by Blood Stereo and Belgian artist/gurner Ludo Mich. Side A documents the 2006 live appearance at Instal. A great crystal clear desk recording which puts you within feet of the saliva and sweat drench. While side B is a three piece electro-accoustic, smoked out, brain workover. Some of our most outthere stuff. Edition of 250 so get moving, nerdass.
- Dylan Nyoukis.

blown doors - into light - no horse shit – cass – 5$

http://www.myspace.com/blowndoors

blown doors - crystal myths / crystal paths - 905 tapes - cass - 6$

third 905 effort to date. recorded a month ago while rains came down outside. walls melted and all the paint was lead. connolly's strings and effects played his fingers and vocal chords while haley 360'd the synths and delay. got diseased and mutated into moisture. (edition of 33)
-905

blown doors - drug punishment- 905 tapes - cass - 6$

sean and i lived together for a year, and within that time we recorded exactly zero seconds of blown doors material. maybe it was the cramped, suburban townhousery that kept the jams contained, that I don't know. either way, now that we are separated by a few miles the tones are blooming. the latest is this barn burner, a 92 minute cassette loaded from start to finish with heaps of static infused scorchers. recorded direct to tape in two back to back sessions. punishment. mics, electronics, and cell phones.
-905

blows - sixteenz - fag tapes- cdr - 7$

blue sabbath black cheer - crows eat the eyes from the leviathans carcass - release the bats – cd – 12$

Blackened mayhem from Seattles Blue Sabbath Black Cheer. 'Crows Eat The Eyes From The Leviathans Carcass' is a collection of several older, long out of print cuts and included is also two unreleased tracks. Mastered by Hans Grüsel. Limited to 500 copies in a Stumptown Printers cardboard sleeve with artwork/design by FEEDING. Black on black print both on the cover and the disc.

Blue Sabbath Black Cheer formed in late 2005, in Seattle, WA, USA, and is centered around the duo of wm.Rage: guitar, vocals, electronics and tapes - and Stan Reed: vocals, electronics, tapes and bass. The sound of BSBC is dark and heavy, violently bleak horror-noise: “a demon network of scraping nails.”
-rtb

blue sabbath black fiji / ajilvsga - split - digitalis recordings - cass - 7$

it's 4 am, it's time to sober up and there's no black coffee to be found. cold shower? not an option either. so what's left? blue sabbath black fiji and their mind-warp shotgun electronics and percussive blasts. your girlfriend might be passed out on some other dude's house, but don't worry about it, this mix of raging electronics, sludge guitars and soft, sweet crooning will make it all okay.
ajilvsga? we'll keep drinking blackened mud until the cows come home. limited to 85 copies, handstamped zoo-in-suits theme.
-digitalis

blue sabbath black fiji - splash - oms-b - cass - 6$

the guitar duo from Paris (now relocated in Glasgow) present 30 minutes of noise and beats. a great cassette for after all the harsh noise girls and guys have played their sets and no one wants to go home.
pressing of 40
-oms-b

blue sabbath black fiji - stamini stamina - blackest rainbow – cass - 8$

French duo of Charles and Janin, totally wild I don't really know what to say about it... crazy jams and total insanity, i'm not sure these guys sound like anyone else right now... like some kinda kraut noise destruction... Limited to 100 pro dubbed cassettes.
-br

blue shift - untitled - blackest rainbow – cass - 11$

New tape from my buddy Cybele who's based in Providence... total free violin slashes and carves busted out, then dropping right off to some super quiet and minimal experimentations... one to shred your speakers! Awesome stuff, previously had tape on Raccoo-oo-oon's Night People label. Limited to 60 hand numbered copies with stamped labels and colour covers!
-br

blurred visions - weekend at timber lee - avocado jungle - cassette - 7$

body collector / mossy throats - modern punk teaches communism- excite bike tapes - cass - 6$

edition of 50

body collector - ov obsess - nurse ettiquete - cass - 6$

a new stage in this ongoing michigan-based project; unlike any previous B.C. title, and a taste of what can be expected for 2008. Straight metal clatter & abuse with short tape manipulations. no processing, no effects, no editing. raw and real sounds of basement clatter addiction. dedicated to regressive obsession and private strain. edition of 55 hand-numbered copies.
-ne

body collector - acidic maze b/w cold bred scum - excite bike tapes - cass - 6$

tape Long-form metal morphing and tape-loop slime from Body Collector. For his sophomore EXBX release, we see a more warped side of the Body Collector spectrum of black cloud sound walls. Raw, unsettling sound worlds stretched and destroyed. Edition of 70 with full-color, fold-out art. C45.
-eb

body collector & taskmaster - gun metal black - nurse ettiquete - cass - 8$

body collector - six gutters - excite bike tapes - cass - 6$

body morph - centipedes - excite bike tapes - cass - 6$

Lush reed, tape, and electronics moves cascade over your brain like the oppressive, humid air of the rainforest. Damp and slow slime mediation with centipedes on sax. A second edition of 30 with full-color, fold-out art. C47.
-eb

body morph - negative face– arbor - cass – 6$

Dan Dlugosielski (of Uneven Universe, Mossy Throats, etc) has kept his Body Morph project relatively wrapped up until recently with only a few limited releases on his own Excitebike as well as stellar appearances American Tapes and Gods of Tundra. Body Morph finds Dan at his simplest; a minimal take on strange-fidelity. Smooth saxophone waves wash over a dense bed of electronic warmth, mirroring the ambience of the ocean. Sonic contortions from a willing pallet; a fresh sense of control. In an edition of 100 tapes with textured cardstock covers and printed labels.
-arbor

samuel goldberg v. body morph - soundesign recordings - cass - 6$

The second tape in the ASR "versus" series pairs up Cleveland luminary Samuel Goldberg with Michigan skronker Body Morph (1/2 of Uneven Universe). Sam gets back to basics on side A, with a cascading synth piece seered in nightshade. Then, Body Morph squeals and burns his way through the atmosphere with some intense noise-sax. >> Black tapes with various color spraypaint stencils, xeroxed insert on a variety of art paper in various colors.
sdr

body vehicle - being being - black horizons – 2xcass - 12$

65 minutes spread out over 4 sides. Presented as a retrospective, including some previously released select tracks, and some not heard before. The style can vary from track to track, some dominated by small sounds and buzzing loops, to epic and beautiful drone pieces, and electro-acoustic improv fused with noise. Instruments that are audible include saxophone, guitar, and drum machine. Bodyvehicle manages to keep the avant garde classics in mind while still looking forward in a way that few acts can. Presented in a black vinyl album, with color art on blue/gold shimmer vellum cover and color on transparent labels. Tracks listing is printed on blue shimmer paper, which is glued to the inside. Edition of 50 hand stamp #'ed copies on hi-bias chrome tapes. Click here to see more detailed images of the packaging.
-black horizons

bonecloud –teenage lycanthropy– leaf trail – cdr - 9$

Over 70 minutes of beautiful white light healing vibes spread out over 5 songs. All music recorded in the summer of two thousand and six in the "frozen earth cabin" in Dublin, except "sea cave" which was recorded live to cassette at Lazybird.
-lt

bone rattle - which toyz - tr w/d - lp - 10$

Tie yourself on a feedbag of slightly decayed dog bones and crushed plastic kids toys you found in a cheeze whiz dumpster, throw you inhabitations out the window and dance your ass off to these highly damaged, anthemic, home made synth and drum songs.

This is analog plunger punk at its best!!!! FEATURING: members of CHILD BRIDE, DREAMHOUSE, BLUE SHIFT and RIDDLIN'.
tr w/d

bones of seabirds - subterranean lightsource - small doses - cdr - 8$

it seems that ryan mcgill is complete unable to cover the same ground twice. this is the fourth (i believe) bones seabirds release, and it sounds nothing like any of the others. this one foregoes the guitars (for the most part) and relies on ryan's handmade voice of saturn synth.the first nearly 35 minute track is intense and brutal - like being strapped into some sort of machine that's boring deeper and deeper into the earth only to slowly burn you alive. the second gives a bit of respite, but leaves you lost in a dark cave drone. it's not to be missed. packaged in a folded artwork by matt yacoub, with an obi and an insert. edition of 129 copies.
-sd

bongo - live at sleazy's - future sounds - cdr - 7$

"All star cast featuring members of real estate, ducktails, julian lynch, brittany botz, miami heat, cave of time, lese majesty, paperface, etc. Sleazy's Mom thought we were ripping off Yoko Ono"
-future sounds

book of shadows & lead sister – ikuisuus – cass - 8$

Cathedral of Junk - Austin, Texas March 16, 2008 CS

"The Cathedral of Junk was started in 1988 in Austin Texas as a
backyard art project and has continually grown ever since. Brett
Humphrey of the band X=X set up this show and when one of the bands
backed out at the last moment I asked the band Lead Sister II (Joshua
Hume) to play even though I had never met him. I saw that Lead Sister
II was on the Ikuisuus label, liked his music, and figured since we
both lived in Austin we should play a show together!! It turned out
that it was his last day in Austin before moving to Japan. He was a
very thoughtful polite young guy who played very intriguing music so
now we have this cassette release on Ikuisuus of two great Austin
Texas bands meeting each other and playing together for the first
time!!! Enjoy."
- Carlton Crutcher, Book of Shadows

book of shadows - secregarden - folkwaste - cdr - 7$

Medicinal plants, strange berries, thick pollen, and brown dirt. Hailing from Texas, the Book of Shadows live in the soil trodden on by Jandek and Charalambides, sprouting from those voices, those guitar sounds. This secretgarden will grow on you, it's roots will envelope you, it's beauty overwelm you. Alternating between composition and improvisation the guitars echo down like the rain, drones warm the ground, thorny notes scrape up against the fragile skin of Sharon Crutcher's voice. Water your minds, shine from behind your eyes. Block printed book style packaging, super deluxe, and limited to 55 copies. send $7 for US or Canada or $8 for Rest of World : send paypal to individual6079 {at} yahoo {dot} com.
-fw

boughner michalchuk duo / rob michalchuk - mjc/terror tapes - cass - 7$

side a= BOUGHNER MICHALCHUK DUO "War Dogs"
live improvisations between Matthew Boughner (guitar) &
Rob Michalchuk (sax) recorded in the casbah jassbah lounge
=hammertown hammersound~ this tape captures the duos
1st performance June 13 + 2 sets from July 27~
Boughner's total non-guitar & Michalchuk's stream rays of hot pink raw alto sax
create a universe where mental breakdown is a reality NOW!
hear freedom madness HAPPENING...
side b=ROB MICHALCHUK "Let The Dogs Be Wars"
solo work from Rob of Ghostfood and the Poor Little Music label
wailing outta Brantford, Ontario with treated sax exhales
shifted sifted stuffed thru time/space.
limited to 23
-mjc

boris morgana – rotti frutti – ikuisuus – cdr - 10$

I gave a kiss to a giant leech. It sucked me in. With a little effort, I wriggled to its opposite end and out into a different world, but I can't say how it differed from the one before. Likewise, all the atoms and other bits of matter that pass through us - that we swallow and transform - bear more or less fresh fruit, as they are reborn through us. Boris Morgana's Rotti Frutti is not just an oral delight, it's aimed at the whole organism. It percolates, hisses, comes and goes: gently as well. Furtively it infiltrates the brain through the ears and causes reactions. And maybe these inner oscillations move on to the hands, feet and other organs: maybe they carry the germ of a wholly new fruit. When it comes about, it's too late: everything has changed and one can't but accept it - allow the rotten fruit to issue forth.

boris morgana – liquid child – qbico - lp- 23$

"When i went in Finland for the 1st qbico u-nite in Turku, i met Taneli (sax player) who gave me this strong rec. of his group Boris Morgana... after hearing few sec. of it, i immediatly thought that it was alone worth the trip up North: heavy stuff and pretty unique in his kind !"
-qbico

Bottom Feeder / Graveyards - terror tapes vol 27 - mjc - cass - 6$

captures 2 live sets from 2 great acts
recorded to tape december 2 2007 Toronto
side a= BOTTOM FEEDER
bros Jeremiah & Johnson of Fossils bringing the goon good Hamilton-
style...2nd live set ever takes ya to the ocean bottom
cold where new lifeforms transluscent skin
smashing lowend crunch earth rumble & horn de-composings
sucks you deep in the mud..immobile..wait to be devoured
rest of side includes studio tracks cut from ScoJo hands
thunder sessions at Cloud Valley HQ
loops & horny feedback messiness coffin scrape
side b= GRAVEYARDS
trio of Olson (sax, tapes, tronics), Hall (percussion) & Buetow
(cello) from Michigan~end of the world band playin your funeral
with a intense heavy jazzjammer that goes all over and gives
everything ultra cello driven drone drags with cracked digital
smokesignals drum & cymbal stomp with wet sax feedback freak outs
cemetary blues to brew to~
limited to 43
-mjc

bottoms of black lakes - enlightenment vs. brain surgery - why so serious - cass - 7$

Dark dungeon electronics for freaks that light fags with a blowtorch and dream about mutant invasions. A dreaded morbid vision of so called better times. Bottoms Of Black Lakes is a creature that operates from a couch, west of heaven and close to a magical fountain of intoxication. Not aware of his own minimalist influences, he chops time in half and drags it across a burned wasteland of roaches, crackles and sonic despair.
-wss

mark bradley - shimmer - dust wind tales - 3" cdr - 6$

There was a time when the blues music started the journey, when rock 'n' roll changed the world & when folk music spoke out. Now there is drone....now there is Mark Bradley. Five atmospheric pieces that make you feel like a stone skimming across a forest pond. Pure drone...

Spray painted 3" cdr packaged in a clear pvc case together with a cover featuring one of five different cross pictures taken by Mark. Includes a small hand numbered insert. (Edition of 40)
-dwt

andreas brandal - disturbance - myiasis tapes - cass - 6$

Four nice and long blats from my favorite Norwegian import. Andreas finds a wonderful medium between synth and grey-area harshness, and delicate sheets of field recordings and ea junk noise, make for some absolutly beautiful and murky layers, with some fabulous loops and builds. There's so much going on at times I have trouble keeping up with what he's using, but he never over does it, and has a great understanding of space, and on occasion lets it fall into an overwhelming sparse eerie darkness.
Limited to 30.
-myiasis

brave priest - precious summers - stunned records - cass - 6$

these portland bud-n-beard powered bros absolutely shred their way through the most killer motor-psych sessions of the year! the night we first heard brave priest's "no blood" single which kicks off this tape was admittedly some sort of epiphany, and got our total attention for sure. dudes-in-mention matt mcdowell, dan barone, and brain thackeray (all formerly of the excellent dark yoga) perfectly nail us with serotonin rushed northwest grunge-fried vibes that remind everyone to just relax & rock. the troupe rips through a trio of gnarly jams on side a, ranging from drowsy garage-prog slowburnin' to quaking metal spinouts. side b is a single 12-minute epic that twists and arcs toward a pinnacle of hot psych purity. hit play and pump yer fists to the dawn of a new day. hand numbered edition of 100 pro dubbed c30 tapes in logo-imprinted yellow shells with 3rd eye cover art by cameron stallones.
-stunned

joe breitenbach - sing it from the mountain top - 905 tapes - cass - 6$

ditching his street names (methadrone, gallows, etc...) for the one his moms gave em, joe breitenbach finds the time to construct seven tracks sprawling 92 minutes. seven light-infused abstraction, hand crafted with unlimited layers of subtle motion and ultra-delicate logic. time-stretching and beyond hypnotic, to the point where the hands of the clocks are just going to melt off. definitely joe's most impressive work to date and an amazing sign of what is to come. top shelf 905. (edition of 50)
-905

joe breitenbach - frigid waters - peasant magik - cass - 6$

Abstract oceans of majestic drones and hyper color rhythms.
-pm

bright duplex - strawberry trust - thor's rubber hammer - cdr - 6$

Vanessa Rossetto first knocked us out with a trio of CDrs on her own Music Appreciation label. Her violin/viola improvisations and compositions saw through drones in the way Tony Conrad conjures multiple waves of sound just from one instrument. And when accompanied by electronics, Rossetto uses feedback as a terrifying weapon. Her duo with fellow Austinite Matthew Armistead (drums, percussion, clarinet) is an exercise in taut communication. Bright Duplex delights in little percussion clatters, hiccuping gongs, snares rubbed raw, wild reed melodies and strings bowed hard against the wood. When the duo reaches a climactic paramount, the drones thunder from temples like Taj Mahal Travellers. Pro-printed CDr comes in a mylar sleeve with artwork by Matthew Armistead printed on heavy cardstock and a vellum wrap-around. Edition of 100.
-trh

broken spirits - steam and undergrowth - smokeland studios - cdr - 10$

collaborative project by Byung Yoon and Murray Lotnicz. melancholy atmospheres and drones.
instrumentation: analog synth, clarinet, organ, metal, piezos, tape loops, strings etc.
-smokeland

bromp treb - twins - breaking world records - 7" - 5$

Bromp Treb "Twins" 7" co released w/ Apostasy and Yeay!æ it's a great slab of wax, all drum source material played on an open face reel to reel.æ Absolutely loose and free percussion rainstorm that remains structured and composed enough to slap you silly, kind of drunken style!æ full color cover by george w. myers
cover
-bw

bronze float - no sung words - rc legacy – 3" cdr – 4$

Here’s an assemblage of seemingly disparate recordings, including one tale of selling clam chowder to the Russians. It’s not instrumental per se, but, as the title suggests, contains 'no sung words.' Think of it as the appetizer for what David Brant (you’ve seen him playing bass in Vollmar) has up his sleeve with this exciting new project.
-lrrc

brothers of the occult sisterhood - odalisque at secret vortex –akoustic disease- cdr -12$

Botos like this..flaming tunes catching with angels chants..we accept the bet
for the winner!!another 9 crazy trip from the massive band from Blissland
handmade HARD cardboard limited to 116 copies.
-akd

brothers of the occult sisterhood - eje - folkwaste - cdr -7$

This is it. Smoke inhaled and blown out into the wide oceania sky. The moon just became brighter. Pathways revealed by songlines through high planes, drifting inward through oblivion. Ancestral footsteps, creaking cellos, smeared brown analogue electronics, alchemy rising, drums expanding, tied together by a delicate web of guitars... mere words fail the dark beauty of the Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. In its invocation "Eye Joy Event" blinds the nonbeliever... converts the reverted. 7 tracks ensure you'll never be the same again. Musicyourmindwillloveyou forever.
Mystic woodcut prints on ouija board sleeves. Edition of 66
-fw

brothers of the occult sisterhood - suppress (detached) orchestra - students of decay – lp – 14$

"Suppress (Detached) Orchestra" is the vinyl debut for Australia's
Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood. BOTOS is centered around
Michael Donnelly and a revolving cast of free thinkers who exist
collectively as musicyourmindwillloveyou and have released a myriad
of post-psychedelic free drone action on a wide variety of formats,
culminating with "Goodbye," released in 2006 by Digitalis.

The LP consists of two side-long freakouts, the first recorded in
2006 by the latest incarnation of the group, and the second by the
original duo lineup of Michael and his sister Kristina, recorded in 2004.
Because of this difference, both temporal and in personnel, each side
is immediately distinct in sound. Lurching, shamanistic percussion,
sonorous cello, snarling, blistering psych guitar, shambling piano,
and a wealth of other heaving, joyous sounds congeal and morph
in this fascinating journey through the minds of Australia's most
wrecked sons and daughters.
-sod

bOTOs – chimes against reality - mymwly – cdr - 10$

Second breath of the occultists. alchemical dispersal and hex dilution. Features one member each from brothers of the occult sisterhood, terracid and 6majik9…formation like a triangle but with fewer angles, a single point.
Drifting outsider strum and trance while watching the suns light fade and the colors shift…then inside amongst the cables and fields, under a flowers thought…free jizz?
-mymwly

bruant des marais - swamps - 905 tapes - cass - 6$

kevin mceleney of drougther and scott miller of al qaeda team up and set loose four eerily dense abstractions. cold, ocean drainers toppled with metal on metal crashes and what sounds like tightly shuddering vocal tarps. peel back your face, man. peel it back.
-905

emil brynge - ep #2 - self released –cdr – 7$

5 track ep from sweden. mellow loner folk, heavy nick drake influence

buck paco - ive wasted my breath - abandon ship records – 3" cdr - 5$

"Over the last ten or so years, Buckland Oswald Paco and company have amassed a collection of recorded material in excess of 100 songs (for lack of a better word).
About 95 percent of which have never been released. Falling short of wasting no part of the animal, the band have done their best to whittle down their portfolio small enough to fit the three-inch format.

Clocking in at somewhere in the 20+ minute range, "I've Wasted my Breath" is a rather abridged, but cherry-picked survey of The Buck Paco Band's catalogue.

All the slag has been neatly scraped away, leaving five solid gems on which to ruminate just long enough to realize the disc is already over and you need to start it up again."
- Eric McDade

budweiser sprite - trash on the grass - 905 tapes - cass - 6$

reiser pumps out another overdose of ocd constructed feedback and sonic warble specifically for those living outside of shadows. this is as legit as legit mangling can get. crashes and dashes leaving trash on the grasses.
-905

budweiser sprite - marble barbarian - archivo de sangre de dios - cass - 10$

budweiser sprite - dandruff massage - soundholes – cass – 8$

New release from the mind behind Together Tapes. A blast of loops all competing but never resulting in total clarity. Each individual strand demands your attention as they build to an intense creschendo of cacpohony! Daniel Rizer seems to utilise an array of sound sources and directs them all everywhere.
-sndholes

bulbs - light ships - freedom to spend - cd - 12$

Anyone familiar with the CDR label, JYRK, that I ran from 2001-2006, would know that I have long been a fan of William Sabiston’s music. As a member of Axolotl, as a filmmaker, or on his own, as ball lightning, he’s delivered the goods.
William formed Bulbs with Jon Almaraz in 2005, shortly after his leaving Axolotl and shortly following Jon’s move from Bakersfield to San Fran. Jon was a younger, ambitious guitarist just hitting the big city. Apparently the pairing was destiny, William’s beating-around-the-bush electronic drum styles mesh perfectly with Jon’s ultra-processed minute guitar jabs.
Bulbs hovered around the SF underground for a few years, only occasionally releasing hints at what they were capable of. I received a cassette, “Anela Of Tailoo Too,” which left me feeling like I had been punched in the gut. The music was light years away from anything else in the underground scenes they were occupying.
Light Ships finds bulbs at their most psychedelic and pointillistic. They occupy an odd space between the gloss of Kompakt records minimalism, the glue huff ambiguity of a band like Mouthus, and the stuttering clicks and confusion of a Han Bennik/Derek Bailey duo. There’s a lot of movement from more acoustic to more electronic sounds, from more straight rhythmic patterns to totally elliptical percussive gurgling, from understanding what’s going on to not having any sort of idea who is doing what to whom. Despite all these shifts and potential contradictions, the music manages to be entirely cohesive and the record is surprisingly easy on the ears. Everything here has its place.
-pete swanson

bulls blood - mondyeth- foxglove -cdr -7$

transplanted from omaha to korea via minneapolis, bull's blood's quiet compositions come from the mind of charles lareau (who also records as das torpedos). stuck in a canvas bag and beaten to smithereens, bull's blood reconstructs these soggy pieces into a ramshackle house of cards. a sense of urgency plagues each of these 11 songs. armed with varying tape loops, acoustic guitars, shambolic percussion, vocals, and god knows what else, "mondyeth" is drenched in the earth's turf. it's as though lareau's spirit is singing like a masked heathen from the grave. 100 copies (foxglove/digitalis)

bunnybrains – wave farm ’05 - mymwly – cdr - 10$

there is weird and then there is weird…and this is weird. Radio transmission pop songs as insane singalongs…song fragments and subliminal cultural decay…a strange head room with friends and strangers acting friendy giving a collage and readymade soundtrack to you.
-mymwly

josh burke /spirals - split - midori - cass - 6$

Josh Burke (sky limousine, futuresport, avocado jungle etc.) delivers
pristine minimal guitar based drone recorded live to tape. Total
ethereal winter music. Spirals
side features “different tracks flowing into each other: acoustic
guitar, sitar, oscillators, tape delay and synthesizer were used”. An hour of dark, psychedelic folk music/// ed.30 color
-midori

burmese yangoon - tassili plateau - scumbag relations - one sided cass - 6$

Recorded live in the sticks, in the future.
-scumbag

hototogisu + burning star core- yik yak – lp – 14$

burnt hills - microburst - flipped out records – lp – 14$

shred your head as five blistering guitars rage with wah wah fury, a blown out bass drops the heavy anchor, an eight armed drummer pummels through the basement night and an amplified xylophone sprays broken glass into the clouds....reissue of the yod tapes cdr....edition of 99 copies....
-flipped out

burnt hills - holy fires – ruralfaune– cdr - 10$

"Psych jam captured in the wild, settled on a massive mesmerizing buzz, A new chaotic offering by the freaked out, damaged and deranged Albany ensemble. Collapsing blitzkrieg music !" ltd80
-ruralfaune

burnt hills - amphipacifica - house of alchemy – cdr – 9$

What can I say? BURNT HILLS. Stripped down to a quartet here, Burnt Hills actually play louder than ever before. You want heavy? You want merciless, unflinching, guitar-wielding thug-beauty? Look no further. Cd-r edition of 123 with spray-stenciled vellum envelopes and mad-dog insert.
-HofA

burnt hills - morning glory - ruby red – cd - 14$

Psych trip genius, Burnt Hills drop a 57 min wild wild ride to the best possible place. Truly Albanys greatest! Play it loud and you will find all sorts of lost zones there. Play it very loud and you will be re-born."

burnt hills - microburst - yodtapes - cdr - 9$

~shred your head as five blistering guitars rage with wah wah fury, a blown out bass drops the heavy anchor, an eight armed drummer pummels through the basement night and an amplified xylophone sprays broken glass into the clouds
-yod

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