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PÆCES - otherwordly soundtrack - inverted crux – cdr – 9$

Four pæces recorded as a sound
componant to Sean Bailey’s “Astral Village” exhibit held on 04/05/06 at West Space, Melbourne.
Players : Bianca Hester (Bohemian Knights, Manthrax)Sean Bailey
(Lakes, Astral Village, Bohemian Knights, Omen Compass) Josh Petherick (Bohemian Knights, Slotholith)
Chris Hill (Moffarfarrah, Bohemian Knights, Slotholith, Castle Mice)

paeces - live - inverted crux -cassette - $7

live at gertrude st. comtemporary art space december 2006

petals

Painting petals on ghost planet - s/t - time lag records - lp - 24$

debut recording from italy 's opalio brothers (my cat is an alien) and ramona ponzini. an esoteric and mesmerizing trip through space, minimalism, and emotion. each track recorded at a different mystical location in the western alps, and centered around ramona 's beautiful vocals, all of which are sung in traditional japanese. maurizio & roberto add sparse accompaniment by means of toy piano, alien keyboard tones, antique accordion, percussion, tape effects, and some particularly evocative acoustic guitar. the whole thing comes off alternately as deeply meditative or chillingly haunted, depending on your attention & mood. silence, space & ritual are hugely important here, with notes & words hovering frozen in time... while the my cat is alien moniker might leave some folks scratching their heads, here the painting petals on plant ghost name nails it : fragile, beautiful, cosmically isolationist, and totally spooked... pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl, and lushly packaged with letterpress printed cover & insert. printed with copper ink on exquisite & massively thick handmade ivory art paper, each sheet cast one at a time & air dried. hand numbered edition of 560 copies.

päivänsäde - s/t - peippo – cass – 11$

shares members of Rauhan Orkesteri, Lauhkeat Lampaat, and
Kiila, and their flowing group interaction shares elements of
all three: from RO comes an openness, LL a global influence and
Kiila a pointillistic density
-peippo

palamaitoa - puuteriaika - labelle dame sans merci - cdr - 9$

method-olo-gical un-controlled collages of lo-fi-folk and melancholic handmade party for this admirators of marguerite duras - clap your hand and don't say yeah. burning chants, toys, piano & violin troubles - acoustics percussions that gives a floating sound and help the rest to result to a graphic/caustic music with elect - ro/nic & acoustic(s) manipulations and aero-hip - notic/tonic destination - words by ville moskiitto : "palamaitoa kuvaa musiikkiaan oikeastaan paremmin kuin itse osaisinkaan. "puuteriaika", "pienet muusikot", "jännittävä matka", "kaihoissa tyvenyys". nämä nimet kertovat paljon ja samalla eivät tietenkään yhtään mitään, ainakaan niille jotka eivät ole sitä musiikkia kuulleet. se on tuttua ja tuntematonta. akustisia ja elektronisia instrumentteja, improvisaatiota, sekamelskaa, tyyntä, sen sellaista. onhan näitä kuultu, voisi sanoa, mutta ihan omanlaiseltaan tämä kuulostaa. vaski-introsta akkarin rämpyttelyyn, "jännittävä matka" on pop-entropiaa. levyn jonkinlainen pääteos, 20-minuuttinen "vaippa", on koko matkansa ajan kiinnostava äänimaisema ja jo sellaisenaan, ihan yksinään olisi julkaisun arvoinen. kaikki hajoaa ja sitten pitää taas koota palaset yhteen."

jaakko pallasvuo – the history of the world– sloow tapes – book/zine –11$

Drawings, paintings and photographs by Finnish artist Jaakko Pallasvuo. Black & white xerox on paper of different colors and very nice silkscreened cover. 66 pages.
-sloow

panicsville/oubliette - split - hung like a horse - cass – 6$

panopticon eyelids - glitter vomit -abandon ship records – cass - 5$

Glitter Vomit was recorded on Mini-Disc at The Pines during the phantom power sabotage incident, winter 2007. The Alien Altars (rival gang) hijacked the sessions, stole our booze and beanies, drugged us and forced us at gunpoint to sonically wear boogie boots and glitter pants. Unphased and deep-zoned, we ripped through their inspirational cue cards like "Thin Testicles", "Free Boogie, White Boy" and "Fuck You! No! Not You! You! - Fela Kuti"... They kidnapped our bassist that night, too!
c43 edition of 100
-asr

panther modern - salem -at war with false noise – cdr – 6$

First release (hopefully of many!) by this amazing new band from the US. I got this through the door one day a few months ago and was utterly blown away by how totally powerful and blistering it was. Three tracks of completely bleak, unrelenting and totally innovative harsh black noise! There are some terrific moments of tension as everything boils down to a low simmer, before once again the high- end kicks in and pummels yer napper into submission. There's a rather ambiguous Satanic theme running through this and there's a genuinely weird and truly unsettling undercurrent to the whole thing. Bang on the second track and you'll see what I mean: distorted synth (?!) tones, echoed, unintelligible samples, cut through with the odd "Erector"-style ultra high-frequency laser blast. Properly disturbing music. In keeping with the tone of the piece, image for the front artwork taken from "Cthulu" by Austin Spare (the original of which I had the pleasure of viewing a couple of months ago in Glasgow!); wrap-around black half-sleeve, back parchment insert, fully printed CDr. 100 copies.
-awwfn

paper wings - ash field –pseudo arcana / black petal – cd – 12.50$

Paper Wings is the electric guitar duo of Australian Anthony Guerra and New Zealander Antony Milton.
Recorded in a small room on a winters day in Sydney in 2005 Paper Wings full-length debut drifts through beautiful bowed drones, tender melodic excursions and harsher sonic adventures. Four pieces that find these two guitarists at the top of their game.
(Paper Wings previously appeared on the Last Visible Dog compilation 'Crows of the World (Volume 1)' with the track "Horse Lattitudes'.Reviews said:
".. The real reason to pick this [compilation] up, though, is to hear Paper Wings' "Horse Lattitudes", an extended twin guitar dirge layered with whispered and wailing vocals. Beginning slowly and chaotically, it unfolds into a colossal mesh of The Velvet Underground at their most primal and Earth at 16rpm. Just when it threatens to peak, the duo fall back into another bout of feedback induced guitar meltdown, wringing every amplified note out of their instruments until the bones of the piece have been picked clean"
Edwin Pouncey, The Wire
"A masterclass in free improv that is even better at ear-splitting volume"
Simon Lewis, Terrascope.
CD in hand painted Japanese artpaper sleeve.
-pseudo arcana

paranoid time - pass out or die trying - monorail trespassing - cass - 6$

raw, harsh grits, beyond the trite wall followers; a
distinctive sound amongst blatant, heartless poseurs.
burrowing electronics, feedback, and junk metal abuse
for drinking binges into unconsciousness, plus the
morning after. edition of 100, full color covers and
glossy labels.
-mt

patron saints - FOHHOH BOHOB - time lag records - lp & 7"- 25$

deluxe and exact official reissue of one of the rarest & most unique gems of the 60s private press psychedelic underground. home recorded in a suburban new york living room over just a couple weeks in 1969 by three enthused teenagers, and then self released by the band in an edition of only 100 copies complete with hand assembled covers and booklet insert. dreams of rock stardom may have faded quickly, but from such humble beginnings these kids totally transcended their limited resources… an album overflowing with naive creativity, huge ideas, deep bedroom mysticism, and more then a hint of stoned teenage humor, not to mention a rather unusual assortment of instruments and some very unconventional but brilliant "studio" maneuvering. two singers/songwriters both with wonderfully deep, poetic & introspective lyrics and unique voices, chiming 12 string & electric guitars, unusually cool use of piano, crude drum kit, autoharp, banjo, tambourine, subtle bursts of fuzz bass, off kilter unison vocals, washes of reverb modulation, weird tape edits, and a seriously one-of-a-kind vibration. there's truly been nothing like it before or since… highest quality production throughout with better then ever master tape sounds and warm analog mastering, audiophile 180gm vinyl, exact reproduction of the original heavy weight cover with front & back mind-blowingly cool crude black & white art just like the original, exact reproduction of the thick insert booklet with gold printed covers on multiple colors of construction paper. plus a bonus 7inch of two essential tracks intended for the original lp but left off due to time restrictions, complete with colored construction paper picture sleeve and lyric insert. without a doubt, the definitive reissue of this lost masterpiece. released in full cooperation with founding member eric bergman. strictly limited to 1000 copies.
-time lag

pax titania / family battle snake - soundholes – cass – 8$

2 sides of analogue synth to get you in the vibe for staying in.... PAX TITANIA is becoming a force in modern progressive synth music, using a vast array of homemade synths / modules / <><><>.... the 4 cycles presented here are truly mesmerising.... FAMILY BATTLE SNAKE breaks from his usual drone mastery and using only analogue synths and feedback creates a side so full of sound it shimmers, total energy moving forward ....

Edition of 99...black and white covers + insert.... regular tape boxx... blue tapes.... purple spray
-soundholes

pelerine / grasslung- power visions - phaserprone - cass - 7$

Yet, when they entered the corridor, there was only darkness with no hope for light. So we looked one handed with unpleasant concept for an area of permanence. Unpopular schizms supplied a flimsy insulation, and then a spark. The pursuit of construction with a deathly chill in its veins, and all will be destroyed by fire of its own dynamism. Modular constructs of raw synthesis by Jonas Asher and John McCusker
Hand dubbed C-30 with letterpressed wrap-around cover.
-pp

pengo - counterfeit memories - nashazphone - lp - 25$

Rochesters PENGO is John Schoen, R. Nuuja and Jason Finkbeiner. 2/3 of them have previously played with Arthur Doyle. Hailed as the worlds most psychedelic band, they come back with "Counterfeit Memories" which could be their darkest statement so far. A departure from 1970s Ugandan extravaganza into possibly the synapses of its then leader.
- nashazphone

peonies - the echo of trodden on twig – blackest rainbow – cdr - 10$

Deep psychedelic folk drone rock emerging deep from Southern England. Layering tranced psychedlic doom tapping, hazy drones, and melancholy soaked sparse vocal humming. Previously had a superb (and now out of print) CDR on Time Lag.
-br

people’s parties -cut hands - cdr - 11$

Solo outing by Mark McGuire who, as one of the Emeralds boyz, is causing a righteous fuss in the minds of many stoned headz in the worldwide underground. People’s Parties offers 4 space huffin’ guitartrips through hostile ground, thorny fields and fuzz solo’s buried underneath thick layers of kosmische drone. The real scorcher though is the gorgeous 5th track, floating back down to earth with some of the most delicate guitarplaying I’ve heard this year, alongside melancholic spoken word samples which makes these 90 kgs al woozy and sentimental. Like watching an aged slideshow from some deceased family and feeling it, totally.
75 handnumbered copies in slimline dvd cases with colour art and insert.
-ch

pewt'r jjjjj - byens lys 06-12-17 - there is no trouble in denmark – cd - 12.50$

he joint forces of 3/4 of local stone rock favourites causa sui (jonas (manual), jakob (syntaks), and jess), also local, high-spirited avant-gardist jørgen teller (… & the empty stairs) and loud folk classicist ron joel schneiderman (sunburned hand of the man, aethr myth’d et al) is pewt’r jjjjj.

they played a one-time-only show at the magical christiania venue byens lys 06-12-17 and, luckily, it was recorded. though, for reasons still mysterious, the soundboard recording only contained jørgen and ron’s guitars. an audience recording was done, too, which captured everything, but lacked the sound quality of a proper soundboard recording.

many a sleepless night were spent brooding over how this fine material could best be presented to the public. renowned electronica artist manual took it upon himself to tie a knot, wherein the loose ends could meet. in addition to re-editing the entire audience recording, he threw a few drones and spacey sounds that he created from playing around with the recording of ron and jørgen’s guitars into the mix. a bit of extra guitar was laid down as well. the result is an interesting combination of ‘dirty’ stereo recording and post-production. it bears some resemblance to the way miles davis made records in the early 1970s or the early grateful dead’s more acidy records.

byens lys 061217 is an imposing mixture of mind-altering, trippy, instrumental, psych, spacerock, freakout, fuzz guitar mayhem. a hawkwind circa ‘brainstorm’ groove with avant-garde overlayering á la early sunburned hand turned into an amon düül II/can krautrock kinda feel.
-tintid

phantom family halo - the legend of black six - black velvet fuckere - lp -10.50$

phoenix cube - walking the shore - barl fire - cdr - 11$

With the enviable role as the reviews editor for The Ptolemaic Terrascope online, it's not surprising that Simon Lewis aka The Phoenix Cube has spent the last few years soaking up a multitude of influences from the cream of the current psychedelic underground. His passion for electronica, space rock and psychedelia from the likes of Gong and the Aphex Twin, that were notable on his previous albums as The Phoenix Cube and as part of his band Phorum, although evident on "Walking The Shore", this time round place the emphasis on bedroom recorded psych-folk and dronescapes. The album features cover art by Lewis himself, is housed in vinyl slip cases, contains an insert and is limited to 100 copies.
-barl fire

soup horrific / phosphene form - terror tapes vol 27 - mjc - cass - 6$

side a = Soup Horrific "Melting Streets vol 1"
~from Spain: Stephane Kerandel, the man behind the TerrorTank project
and Spread The Disease label, we have this strange piece.
Field recordings of streets actually melting?!? Voices, traffic,
footsteps and the hum of urban hauntings-
howling as they burn to the ground.
A feeling of nausea builds.
side b = Phosphene Form "Ghetto Mechanism"
Hamilton's own Kenny G (Rocket Pony) with bedroom synth jams.
This side is split into two loop-based tracks-
first builts around an almost dub-step noddin in alien waves
lanes & conversation~
the second is a 3-D FX journey of a spacecraft, a crashlanding,
equipment malfunction, recharging.
hear him
limited to 27
-mjc

phosphene form - decayed inferno - cut hands - 3" cdr - 9$

Sick collection of mangled Industrial soundscapes by this new Canadian cat with ties to the Hamilton, Fossils crew. There’s a sense of downright eerie frustration running through this album, twisted electronics mixed with thick, thudding blurts of frontal noise. Like a stack of heavy labour machines on the verge of breaking down. 40 copies in mini dvd cases. Artwerk by fartjerk.
-ch

stefano pilia - haikustrings – sloow tapes – cass – 12$

Haikustrings is a "work in progress" diary composition began in 2004. The tape consists of 111 sound miniatures divided into 3 sequences, at once random and simultaneous. On side a and side b are recorded 2 of the possible cycles of the 3 sequences and of the infinitely possible versions of this piece. This was presented earlier this year at Turin's Silence festival as a sound installation. Paste-on cover art by Andrew Hooker. 100 copies.
-sloow

pillars of heaven - breeding moths - 905 tapes - cass - 6$

light bending, guitar gush from philadelphia peasant magician salvatore giorgi. side a, "the old ways", plays like newton's law of reciprocal actions laid onto magnetic tape. like levitating above overgrown fields until the skies fill with ash and everything is laid baron. side b, "gallows weed", is a (impressively recorded) live track from a house show in 2007. this should prove for once and all that even socially awkward, home-schooled hermits can emit feeling.|
-905

duncan pinhas-belzebukatmandu - split - palustre - cass - 8$

To coincide with his latest appearance in Italy, the French/Swedish sound manipulator Duncan Pinhas sent us a long crushing track of doom/noise guitar mud; the other side is 17 min-pure absurd analog noise by BelzebuKatmandu, a sort of Vibracathedral Orchestra-meets-Miles Davis impro set by Dona Ferentes and Sethevoltracks.
-palustre

pink buffalo - tassili plateau - scumbag relations - cass - 7$

monstrous cubical crystals

polly shang kuan band / pink buffalo - scumbag relations - cass - 7$

pink desert - the room is alive - cloud valley recordings - cass - 5$

abolutely intense outer space guru landscapes from the absolutely
amazing melodic drone manifestation that is pink desert...including
a changeling/mindmeld dreamweaver side A and and a chilling image in
the walls and the portal is for your eyes only side B...a pleasure
for a fan to release, double sided j-card pattern art and insert
courtesy of pink desert brian, copied with 3 different
types/coloured cardstock|
-cv

placenta popeye / fabstre – tanzprocesz – cdr – 9$

improv free rock trio << noise rock disto combo

placenta popeye - fosse speed - scumbag relations - cass - 7$

two headed french dog puking hard on the cosmic pole
-scumbag

placenta popeye - yellow - phase!– cdr – 6$

Reissue of "The Yellow Tape", an astonishing release by the always challenging French duo Placenta Popeye which came out last year in a ridiculously limited edition of 30 copies. Some of their most intense recordings pushing the feedback poetry real forward along with the sickened throat use and random string abuse. One of our favorite bands in the house. CDR comes w/ a killer bonus long track from the same session!
Edition of 70 copies in an amazingly printed fold out A4 poster.
-phase!

placenta popeye – the yellow tape –tanzprocesz – cass – 8$

larsening screaming freerock duet. celebration of dead rock stars.
C-20 packaged in totally homosexual cardboard handmade box.
limited to 30 copies.
-tanzprocesz

placenta popeye - self titled - phase!– cdr – 6$

French noisestars Placenta Popeye offer 8 tracks of total demolition and breakdown overdose. Using guitars, basses and percussion in the tradition of early Neubauten, demented vox a la Whitehouse and a unique blend of all the above, bathed in fear and desperate madness.
Spraypainted xerox printing on color paper. Limited to 70 w/ numbered outers.
"Great looking Placenta Popeye release, with its coloured half-eaten xerox scrawl echoing the chaos of the music inside. The tracks here consist of neat bronchially challenged guitar action that coughs n splutters in broken lines of angular expectorant. The vox follows suit seemingly on the verge of asphyxiation, yelling its message out in a conked out pitch that sounds like the mutant offspring of Beefheart in places. Smashed and gloriously askew, like a wino support band from hell, they force their music into a space too small to contain it, the listener getting covered in the toxic overspill. I've been listening to this on my commute to Oxford, and its sonic charms have been a great in-car deterrent to road rage not to mention the classic looks I get from passers by as I'm stuck in traffic on baking hot days. (Cloudboy)" - Rottenmeats

plains - underground - CLaudia - 3" cdr - 10$

Plains live at the Underground Bar, Auckland, NZ, 5th June 2006.
Recorded opening a show for Birchville Cat Motel and Sam Hamilton. This was Plains last performance before Mark moved to Tokyo, and it turns out quite a bit more energetic than the first album "Into Tone" on Scarcelight. Here the improvised soundscapes are a bit more fragmented, with melodic rumbles through the background, and a surface bubbling of psychedelic noise.
-claudia

plankton wat - alchemy of darkness - dnt records - cass - 6$

Solo project of Dewey Mahood of Eternal Tapestry. "Plankton Wat is a beautiful, graceful thing of looped and picked acoustic guitar, following a wander-glimmer-drone structure that psych fans in Portland should be well aquainted with. With barely any of the cacophony or aggression Eternal Tapestry sometimes builds to...[this album] beckons us to fall back into our own head. Not the busy part–the worry and chaos cortex–but, the part that I’ve had a hell of a time finding lately, the pocket where our thoughts go when we’re perfectly happy to just drift and stare." (Willamette Week description of PW). Edition of 100 on pro-dubbed red tapes, with art by Dewey Mahood.
-dnt

plants - 12/15/93 - killertree - lp - 14$

Jeff Dunn/John Olson/Bryan Ramirez

plastobeton - glam mort + the lost tapes – tanzprocesz – cdr – 8$

French act including members of AH Kraken, Feeling Of Love, The Dreams, Facteur Kamikaze and more from the always challenging Centre D'Hygiene De L'Est / Do You Like Sushi ? collective.
This edition includes their only release "Glam Mort" + some forgotten bunker tracks.
Rythm box + guitar + synthesizer + vocals.
Desperate energy from postindustrial area.
Emergency, martial law.
Fuckin great.
You just need it.
The cd is coming in a 7" rigid sleeve with a bunch of flyers, miniposters, lyrics.
50 copies.
-tanz

pocahaunted / christina carter - nnf - lp -12$

Been beautifully blissed on this pairing for months now and we’re amped it’s finally public unveiling time. Christina Carter has trekked around this country (and planet) countless times in the past decade plus, both by herself and with Tom Carter in Charalambides, and the constant gypsy-drifting has weathered her song-stories down into spare, spiral reflections on life, death, and afterlife. Here she lays down four perfect vignettes of acoustic guitar pattern, softly sung desperation, and dangerous intimacy. A beatific bring-down. Sisters-with-voices Pocahaunted handle the B side wax, and their two tracks span the psych-ward spectrum from doomy warpath exile (“Sweat Lodge”) to octave-climbing estrogen ecstasy cloud-tripping (“Silk Fog Traveler”). Both were recorded by Bobb Bruno at Eagle Rock HQ across summer ’07 and cling like cotton to the memory banks. Edition of 500.
-black vinyl-
-nnf

pocahaunted & robedoor - hunted gathering - digitalis - cd -20$

"Hunted Gathering" is both a split release and a collaboration. Each band offers up their own malfeasance while collaborating on the epic final eponymous track. The union of these two groups is a natural combination. Two members are married and run the Not Not Fun label together and they share amps and practice space, for example. But there's also something about both that is visceral and raw. Robedoor's subsonic doom is washed down with a smooth chaser of Pocahaunted's reverberating soul sounds.

Recorded by the inimitable Bobb Bruno at the NNF/Bored Fortress studio space across many moons in 2007 and mastered by Yellow Swans' Pete Swanson, "Hunted Gathering" is an essential feast for fans of doom-infused drones and Stevie Nicks. These hunting & gathering songs from the Eagle Rock air also feature appearances by the aforementioned Bruno as well as Changeling mastermind, Roy Tatum.

Climb the totem pole and let these mutant beasts put you under their psychosis spell. "Hunted Gathering" is full of antiquated sounds soaked in electric mud. Robedoor and Pocahaunted are your brothers and sisters in conjuring and the gatekeepers to a lost universe of sonic enchantment.
-digitalis

pofi / enough - onyx - rayon records – cdr – 6$

latest from the legendary Joincey(COITS,INCA EYEBALL,STUCKOMETER) oppresive insect drones and gritty shadow vocals. edition of 30

polly shang kuan bandh / hockyfrilla- split - sick head - cass – 8$

polly shang kuan band / pink buffalo - scumbag relations - cass - 7$

poochlatz- thanks for giving in - something on the road – cd – 7.50$

Combining elements of primitive power electronics and their explorations into contemporary drone-metal territories, "Thanks for Giving in" is the new live album from Israel's Poochlatz.

Recorded in July 2006, when opening to the Grave Temple Trio, Poochlatz are bleak, sinister and iconoclastic than ever, mending and molding moral conventions, slaughtering holy cows and questioning the truth only to make it more vague and unreachable than it already is.

poor school –voor niets in zijn –cut hands - cdr - 10$

Brand new improvised trash from Killertree label boss/guitarist Bryan Ramirez (also known as one half of Ex-Cocaine) with his peers Nathan Hoyme on sax and John Niekrasz on drums. Poor School got that mean mug fistfight thing going on. With Hoyme’s sax skronking deeply and uncomforting throughout the trio unleash a uncompromising wave of freerock/freejazz/no wave/impro sludge. Last Exit style. Comes in a square dvd box with black and white cover art and glossy insert, all by Jason Rohm. 62 made.
-cuthands

the pope - do you wanna boggie - dnt records - cass - 6$

The duo of Paul Kneejie and Brian Watson are American popular musicians known collectively as The Pope. They met in elementary school in 1953, when they both appeared in the school play Alice in Wonderland (Kneejie as the Dodo, Watson as Dweedle Dum). They formed the group Tom and Jerry in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey Schoolgirl... Boogie". As The Pope, the duo rose to fame in 1965 backed by the hit single "The Sound of Silence Boogie Woogie". Their music was almost featured on the landmark film Star Wars, propelling them further into the public consciousness. They are well known for their close harmonies and sometimes unstable relationship. Their last album, Boogie Over Troubled Water, was marked with several delays caused by artistic differences. Kneejie and Watson were among the most popular recording artists of the 1960s, and are perhaps best known for their songs "The Sound of Silence Boogie", "Mrs. Robinson Boogie", "Boogie over Troubled Water" and "The Boxer Boogie". They have almost received several Grammys and are hoping to be inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2007). In 2004, Rolling Stoned ranked The Pope #420 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Boogie. Hand-numbered edition of 40 on blue cassettes. Cover photo by Macklin Vietor
-dnt

the pope - do you wanna boogie - abandon ship records – 3" cdr - 5$

"The duo of Paul Kneejie and Brian Watson are American popular musicians known collectively as The Pope. They met in elementary school in 1953, when they both appeared in the school play Alice in Wonderland (Kneejie as the Dodo, Watson as Dweedle Dum). They formed the group Tom and Jerry in 1957, and had their first taste of success with the minor hit "Hey Schoolgirl... Boogie". As The Pope, the duo rose to fame in 1965 backed by the hit single "The Sound of Silence Boogie Woogie". Their music was almost featured on the landmark film Star Wars, propelling them further into the public consciousness. They are well known for their close harmonies and sometimes unstable relationship. Their last album, Boogie Over Troubled Water, was marked with several delays caused by artistic differences. Kneejie and Watson were among the most popular recording artists of the 1960s, and are perhaps best known for their songs "The Sound of Silence Boogie", "Mrs. Robinson Boogie", "Boogie over Troubled Water" and "The Boxer Boogie". They have almost received several Grammys and are hoping to be inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2007). In 2004, Rolling Stoned ranked The Pope #420 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Boogie.
abandon ship

portland bike ensemble – s/t – oesb - lp - 14$
"Debut release on Olde English Spelling Bee by Portland (Oregons) Bike Ensemble. Released Summer 2004. Consists of recordings from their first two performances and a side-long piece that originally appeared (in different form) on a limited cd-r released by the Yellow Swans Jyrk label. Limited pressing of 500, each with unique handpainted/silkscreened/scrawled/scribbled cover art." - OESB.

postblue - hunger - phase!– cdr – 7$

4-song release from the Postblue archives for all of you demanding fans. So limited as pregnant sea tortoise blooded urine. Raw!
Packaged in a cd-sized DVD-style soft case w/ color artwork + handpainted bullshit.
-phase

predator vision - s/t - ducktails- cass - 5$
Influenced by watching the movie Predator while listening to soft rock records of Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, and Todd Rundgren. This documents an acid- drenched jam recorded in the basement of Skylight Horizon Studio in Northampton, MA. Featuring Matt Mondanile and Ben Daly on guitars and Etienne Duguay on drums. Mixture of Neil Young amped guitar lines with krauty Guru Guru progressive feel. Definite on the beach zoner Yahowa 13 style. 60 minute dual guitar and drum slayer. Full color covers with color sticker on tape.

procer veneficus - deathwanderings - students of decay – cdr –8$

On "Deathwanderings," Procer Veneficus appropriates
drifting fugues from Chopin, Satie and Schubert and
distorts them into beautiful smears of wistful
ambience. These are pieces that, Derek notes, have
" been examined, assembled, and deconstructed into
cavernous resonance. Originally intended for use as
a soporific, this is music for worlds of ice constructed
in the deepest recesses of the mind, and for wanderings
at the threshold of death." Not a million miles off from
recent Andrew Chalk recordings, and gorgeous as all hell.
-sod

przewalski's horses - mendota hotel – ruralfaune – cdr - 11$

Very first music ever recorded by the Horses, before the releases on the reliable
Phantom Limb, Ikuisuus, Foxglove labels.
Less abstract this time - more organic and intime, the music reverberates in the echo of
the raindrops of the rising spring. ruralfaune tapestry cover
-ruralfaune

przewalski's horses - bulbs - nothing out there- cdr – 12$

Przewalski's Horses 5th output as a full-lenght CD-r, showing this time a more drowned-drone dimension of their ever-improvised attempts...
|n.o.t.#7's artwork will feature a serie of different macro photos of a flashbulb, in black and white silver-emulsion ; and an actual, burned out tiny flashbulb.
limited to 30
-not

haunted castle / puffy areolas - inverted ancients - excite bike tapes - cass - 6$

Another "Catch-up" series tape! A pairing of like-minded zoners with totally different approaches. Haunted Castle side is a side-long low end mud gurgle suite. Black clouds of muck that are only around YOU!! Puffy Areolas serve up one blown-zone guitar blaster and one total noise killer. Recorded before the Puffy's full-band psych explosion phase, and well before Damon lent his amazing guitar tactics to the amazing TYVEK. Both sides are good for midnight chillin or daytime head-shredding!! Edition of 60 tapes, wrapped in strange / downer art. EXBX-011
-exbx

pukers - live in minneapolis - neon commune - nnf - cs - 7$

Iowa City-turned-LA miscreants took their sneering, conceptual punk puke (plus renegade guitarist/corn farmer Will Kapp) on the road last winter for a whirlwind pillaging of living rooms and art dives and one of the dates best caught on tape was this Minnesota gig. Chaos meets content meets a ten-man mosh pit. Future cops beware. In pirated Pukers/peace-logo silkscreened cardstock cases. Edition of 50.
-nnf

pukers / lifers - scumbag relations - cass - 7$

pulse emitter - progression to desolation - black horizons – lp - 12$

Finally Pulse Emitter gets the treatment he deserves, a full 12" of vinyl to lay down two prog flavoured tracks of synth drone. Created using home-built synth modules, and meticulously contructed into a sci fi storyline, this could be a soundtrack. Suffocating layered heaviness, dry synth hiss, oscillator click terror meets equally with beauty, a quality rare among Pulse Emitter's peers. Each cover and insert is a unique paint marbled design, silkscreened / designed over by Nick of Seizure Palace. Edition of 300 copies on black vinyl.
-blackhorizons

pulse emitter / envenomist - split - black horizons – cass - 7$

Two side-long tracks occupy this release. Both artists here move through dark immersing synthesized environments. Pulse Emitter provides a more barren yet varied track that has movement. Also of note to fans of Daryl's "Meditative Music" release, this has similar yet more ominous tones that create a slowly moving melody. Envenomist's side hits with his longest released track, an ebbing and flowing sea of organic synth waves. J-card is a 3-panel horizontal folding affair, offset printed silver on black linen paper, clear labels. Edition of 150 on hi-bias chrome tapes.
-bh

pulse emitter - meditative music - self released – cdr – 7$

use this CD for sleep, massage, or any activity where a peaceful and balanced sound environment is desired... recorded with Yamaha FM and analog modular synthesizers

pulse emitter - meditative music 2 - self released – cdr – 7$

pumice - quo - tipped bowler tapes - lp - 14$

As the title self-effacingly implies, Quo proffers a triumphant, primo slice of past Pumiceisms: uncertain progressions, anomalous structure, inimitable guitar buzz, sublime melancholy, and distorted vocals (crooned, spoken & moaned). Quo once more finds Pumice cruising the convergence of pop, folk and noise strains with bona fide inner mystique. Sputtering sub-underground skiffle aims for outer zones, diamond cuts of nervous guitar with pesky hooks that sting and tickle tread rough hewn punk turf, pop tangents charm with echoes of Kilgour or Knox, and woozy synth blurts & drones thread the patchwork patterns with Hulk-like grace. With Quo, Neville's palette has shifted to include traces of useless hardcore, doo wop, and modern loner/lunar blues.

Stefan Neville, shamblin' on unhinged like a modern day Hasil Adkins, has been making music as Pumice now for most of his life. Through a steadily spewed stream of unique DIY thud & ooze, mostly created on his insular own, Neville has burrowed an incomparable place in the post-everything New Zealand landscape, all the while making music that's his.
-tippedbowler

quetzolcoatl - up and down dream valley thruway - blackest rainbow – cass - 10$

Cassette reissue of a cdr that come out a while back on American Grizzly, slightly re-edited for this tape version... Quetzolcoatl is the solo project of Timothy Hurley who runs the awesome Leaf Trail label, and also plays in another two great bands Bonecloud and Ixchel... Previous Quetzolcoatl releases have been on Ikuisuus and (VxPxC)'s Phanto Limb Recordings. Awesome almost tribal drone blurring almost in a kinda folk vibe... very psychedelic... and damn good! Limited to 50 copies, Lilac tapes, and beautiful full colour sleeves designed by Tim.
-br

quetzolcoatl - where are we going sister - ikuisuus – cdr – 8$

quetzocoatl – living – leaf trail – cdr - 9$

quilts – acid flower – ruralfaune – 3" cdr - 9$

4 petals fallen from a crimson acid sky.
Coloured by the endless echo of the crawling roots, it is certainly one of the best new flowering sound from les Ameriques.
Oscillating sounds, inexplicable melodies, these are the rhythms for the psychedelic trip that build the patchwork of a life.
-ruralfaune

quilts - crystal field - american grizzly – cdr - 7$

quttinirpaaq - dragged throught the streets - blackest rainbow – cdr - 11$

Quttinirpaaq is multi instrumentalist Texan Matt Turner, and Dragged Through The Streets sounds to me like what last years weak ass Transformers movie should have looked like... Doom ridden feedback and thundering percussion, weirdo electronics with walls of harsh feedback, screech and squelch lined crust invested sludge, bleak tribal drums with repetetive piano and metallic feedback shuffles, all across 6 tracks. Further releases will soon be seen on Ruralfaune, Reverb Worship, Epicene ESR and more!
-br

quttinirpaaq - quttinirpaaq - faunasabbatha– cdr - 11$

white as the bone of a dead musk ox, heavy as the skull of the beast, the monolithic guitars of quttinirpaaq take your breath away. lost in the glaciiial islands, you will face the blizzard. massive.
-faunasabbatha

racoo-oo-oon - s/t - gilongo records - 7" 5$

Released along side their newest full length, "Behold Secret Kingdom", Iowa City's Raccoo-oo-oon's self
titled 7" has three new and exclusive songs, going from dark, erie broken layers of cello, vocals and
percussion (Mud Mound), to the precise, triumphant and uplifting, post-everything feelings of the actual song,
"Behold Secret Kingdom".
-gilgongo

raccoo-oo-oon - behold secret kingdom - release the bats – cd – 11$

You know what they say: beautiful tribal spirit psych lies in the eyes of the beholder. So enter the kingdom and hold the secret in your hands. Iowa City’s prodigal sun-starers offer up the fruits of their deepest inquest yet into the heart of the heart of the country. Eight wilderness rituals of swirling percussion, mossy guitar noise, forest howls, and animal instincts that unfold and erupt with more focus, intensity, and complexity than anything else in Raccoo-oo-oon’s discography thus far. The songs were tracked in the studio with warmth and power by Mike Dixon and then given a heavy mastering job by Pete Swanson, so sonically the vinyl shines and burns and explodes in all the right places. A crushing statement of electric alchemy by one of our favorite bands in the world. Black vinyl LPs in awesome pro-printed jackets, plus an insert, with Midwestern magick color visions/nature photography art by the band.
-nnf

raccoo-oo-oon - mythos folkways vol iv, future vision - is night people – cass - 5$

New live Raccoo-oo-oon document, recorded one early Jan. winter afternoon at the Cave of Spirits in Iowa City by Ryan Garbes to stereo cassette deck. A side is groovy future fusion scramble, melodic vocal chants rolling over tight percussion flows that ride like kenetic energy blasting into the atmosphere. B side is blown out guitar burners giving way to dark night ride vibes. In general think about starring out of your sunglasses at the end of the world and thinking this is alright. Artwork by SDReed and RGarbes.
-inp

radiant husk - several potem - bezoar formations – cdr – 6$

sax/tapes/keyboards, all swirled together into a steady stream

rahdunes- alive in 07 – blackest rainbow – cdr - 11$

Tumbling weirdness of noise from this San Francisco based duo of Nate Archer and Aaron Coyes. Fuzzing feedback walls of metallic drone stabbing at your ears making them bleed, and the sound of the blood trickles into the recording of these recordings or something? But in a more documentation descriptive approach, this is a bunch of live recordings from a bunch of recent shows. Fully doom drone scapes... somewhere between Black Boned Angel and Mouthus maybe? They got an LP on Emporer Jones out now, and a LP coming on Qbico in the new year along with a LP on Ecstatic Yod. Ripping stuff. 3 panel wrap around cover designed by the band. Limited to 80 copies.
-br

rahdunes – qbico - picture lp- 23$

"Originally from San Francisco, CA this is a rude boy duo. the record begin with some of the most crude and rough guitar/drums duo mu ever !
then you'll drift toward a far away place... to be finally hypnotized for 25 minutes by a side long track... derailing !"
-qbico

rale - nightside / shadeup - peasant magik - cass - 7$

Dark tunnels of sound and cracked drones hiding under a bed of mircotonal details. Black, green, and gold at a glacial pace. Total focus and totally alone. Photos by Jon Borges. Black, high bias chrome tapes.
-pm

bryan ramirez / pete nolan- collab - killertree - cdr - 6$

ramses III – matanuska – music fellowship – cd - 12$

During the quiet nights of winter while the snow gently falls outside, the fireplace offers warmth and light. The UK's Rameses III hail from a place where subtle drifts are priceless. These insular drones are highlighted by rich acoustic depths, adding so much contrast that it's heartbreaking. Recordings of birds add a natural grace, and in the context, this trio is freed. Within these digital walls rises something majestic, extracted from the soil. With their latest full-length release, Rameses III build upon their burgeoning reputation as architects of some of the most beautifully striking soundscapes around. Matanuska invites metaphor, conjures atmosphere and envelopes the listener in its shroud. Glistening waves of string and keyboard hum and shimmer to create wondrous ambient sculptures that eventually find release in a blossom of bucolic folk. Matanuska will appeal to fans of Stars Of The Lid, Eyvind Kang, Brian Eno, Thomas Koner and Richard Youngs.
-music fellowship

lee ranaldo - maelstrom from drift - oscillation III series – three lobed – cd - 10$

the reggaee - balthar -tipped bowler tapes – cass – 5$

"Fifteen-plus minutes of astral debris from the Reggaee, aka Florian Tositti of Angers, France. With previous releases on Ruralfaune and his own Vilaaaviivivi imprint, Tosittiti has mapped a space of eternal-drone now sound channeled through a roomful of instruments and old tape decks. Balthar’s two side-long tracks of blissful whirring and buried, distant percussion catch the Reggaee at his best. The A-side is lodged inside a dream of vocal clouds and scattered bells, with the nocturnal kicking of the dreamer audible in the fog. The B-side ebbs to nightmare, ending in bleak tonal decay. Full-color cardstock covers with two inserts and sprayed tapes." Edition of 68.

ressu - Sirpaleet tuottavat ropinaa - 267 lattajja – cdr – 8$

"naïve paralysing melodies" from a new finnish talent, released 19.6.2006.

reverse mouth - gay control icon - phase!– 3" cdr – 5$

Three of the most intense tracks (Little Bodie, Fashion Blog Whatevah, Go Out w/ Crap In Your Pants) Reverse Mouth ever jammed gathered in this *fancy* 3", if you panzies can call that. Gross vocal vomitings and hi-end feedback dance along w/ garbage percussion and lo-fi fx. It's so much black trance, as Stalone never was gay in "Lock Up" or any other tender movie.
Stenciled grass pattern + rubber stamp on 10cm x 20cm color heavy paper, spraypainted label and xerox insert, numbered to 50.
-phase!

reverse mouth –ballades pour un patriote–tanzprocesz – cdr – 9$

guitars - electronics.... aerian ethereal blues of the 3017 year .
duet imported from greece.
limited to 60 copies.
-tanzprocesz

reynols –rampotanza protdogo pupulods' triangle – root don lonie for cash – lathe 8 " – 22$

ben reynolds / john w. fail - uncabineted -sharks & pfennings –cdr - 7$

Reynolds and John W. Fail collated several recordings to compile Uncabineted, covering the period between September 2005 (when they met) and March 2006. Reynolds work is well-documented on labels such as Ikuisuss, Memoirs of an Aesthete, Time-Lag and 267 Lattajjaa while Fail has dabbled in myriad projects including Lied Music, Intro to Pterodactyl and Land. Ranging from screaming acoustics to dirgy fuzzfests, the real document is that of experience, joy and camaraderie.
-s&p

ben reynolds / john w. fail - uncabineted’ duo II - sharks & pfennings –cdr - 7$

The follow up to last year’s Uncabineted collaboration was recorded in preparation for an appearance at the Hard Gaan festival in Belgium and Holland last October. Fail’s interest in tape work finds a welcome complement in Reynolds’ electric guitar wanderings; the pieces are all atmosphere, recording both the sounds and the sounds’ interaction with thin walls.
-s&p

ben reynolds - book of beyond - last visible dog – cd – 10$

Ashtray Navigations collaborator gives us his own solo take on things. Noisy and at times out-right strange (just the way we like it!) Perhaps a somewhat more cosmic sunroof?
-lvd

the rita with impregnable - collab - callow god - cass - 6$

c20. edition of 90. conceived after a tour to japan where black stockings were ripe for the picking this mail collaboration is blistering and a proper statement of uncompromising harsh noise. crackle and crumble, filthy samples.
-callow

robe - star form - peasant magik - cdr - 7$

With only guitar and trombone Robe. create haunted, drifting melodies buried under deep, narcotic wells of sound. Dark, horror movie style murk. Sounds as if a victrola is dying downstairs while construction workers are ripping up a street across town in slow motion. Black CDs housed in black cardboard sleeve with full color wrap around art and printed vellum. Hand stamped and numbered.
-pm

robe - self titled - cloud valley recordings - cass - 5$

long hidden recordings from back in 2006. dark and broody creepshow. Cavernous chamber fidelities and heavy engine bass frequencies fuel this 6 track 70+ minute monster and make for one heavy trip to headspaces-unknown...at times its like a black cloud orchestra when the bass, guitar, and trombone are all chugging and motoring at once...you think you're in a cave...but its actually a mouth.
-cv

robedoor - pained transformations - house of alchemy – cdr – 9$

This disc is both new and old. It features tracks from two long gone cassette releases and one massive new track to burn yr skull. If you missed the Pained Seer or Hopeless Transformation cassettes, now is yr chance to grab those jams plus something new! Heavy yeah.
CD-R edition of 200
-house of alchemy

robedoor – shapeshifter slave – oesb - lp - 15$

Shapeshifters are messengers and imitators of the gods. Shapeshifters can be divine or
human. Crossing boundaries between sacred and evil, they often bring messages, power or
punishment from the gods. Shapeshifting is used to gain access to the tower.

They are able to turn any situation around. Nothing is too much or too little. The shapeshifter
can invert a life-threatening situation into one where he triumphs. This form of shapeshifting
is most commonly painless but can be traumatic if the change was unintentional; clothing is
rarely lost in this process.

Edited, assembled, and mastered with assistance from Pete Swanson of the Yellow Swans.
Ectoplasmic cover art conjured by France's Parisse Bruno. Pro-printed black and white
covers and insert. Limited edition of 425 copies.
-oesb

robedoor - shrine to the possessor - music fellowship - lp - 14$

New batch of brutal minimalism from Robedoor on their first vinyl full length, Shrine to the Possessor. This one is pure darkness - no light, no air, just tortured souls and echoed cries. Three epic droning processionals built from the heaviest, thickest low-end tones. The sound of indentured servants from a scorched dustbowl wasteland. Caveman aesthetic pushed to its limits by recording to eight analog channels.

Robedoor's storied back catalog includes full length CDs on Release the Bats and Interregnum, collaborative albums with their sisters-in-arms Pocahaunted on Digitalis, Ecstatic Peace, and Blackest Rainbow, and countless other long sold-out CDRs and tapes, several on the band's own label, the undeniably prodigious Not Not Fun, as well as on Ruralfaune, Chocolate Monk, Chondritic Sound, and many others.

Recorded by Bobb Bruno at Bored Fortress HQ in Eagle Rock, CA. Artwork by Andy Spore. Includes silkscreened 11x17 poster. Limited and numbered to 500.
-music fellowship

robedoor christ vipers - chocolate monk - cdr - 10$

Slow smoke jams from Californian sloth worshipers. Total monochrome lurches into the feedback hole. Like a mouthful of black strawberries. Great dementia. “Voices, confusion, poisons. An endless fade to grey.” - Not Not Fun

Robedoor - faded crusade / pitiless messiah - alt.vinyl - 8" lathe - 25$

Limited edition of 100, clear, square, hand-cut by peter king 8" lathe

robedoor & pocahaunted - hunted gathering - digitalis - cd -20$

robedoor- closer to the cliff - interregnum records – cd – 17$

robert stillman's horses - three early maine films - l'animaux tryst recordings – cdr & dvdr - 12$

in which nostalgia is gleaned from the parlour and the ocean; the fairground and the midnight air, in the form of moving postcards and one-man piano rags. using just two hands and two feet to play electric piano, a complete drumkit, nylon-stringed guitar, and tape fragments as though he were a full whiskey-soaked turn-of-the-20th-century band, robert stillman's music is transportive and transformative in any setting, but perhaps most effective as presented here: as the thoughtful soundtrack to archival silent documentary film footage of early 1900's maine loggers, fishermen, and lobstermen. the films and musical accompaniment are suspenseful, reverent, and playful - stillman's score perfectly matching the documentation of maine worklives with a veritable documentary of the american parlour sound.

cd
01 - 08. logging in maine
09. trout fishing, rangeley lakes
10. glorious (drawing a lobster pot)
11. fox n me
12. dmp chorale

dvd
01. logging in maine
02. trout fishing, rangeley lakes
03. drawing a lobster pot
-lt

claudio rocchetti - davidleeroth - long long chaney – cass - 6$

"prepared turntables and mixer destruction, first tape for this italian metalhead with previous works on barlamuerte and hapna." edition of 70

rokkiryhmä - maailmanvoitto - 267 lattajjaa – 3" cdr – 7$

"Musically challenged teenagers dreaming of world domination. Faux-naive pop songs and formless folk recorded with a microphone."
lo-fi pop-folk, released 28.2.2007, features an insert.
-267 lattajjaa

rokkiryhmä - toiseus - labelledamesansmerci - cdr - 9$

R.O.T. - ceci n'est plus avioth/ils chantent pour vous - morc records -one sided lp -14$

the most minimal work of this acoustic noise bigband thusfar. two long tracks of slightly melodic analog sounds. comes in a beautiful silkscreened sleeve.
-morc

rot ton bone - where'd ya get all those rotton tones? -mistake by the lake – cass – 7$

stoney from tusco terror solo. super grimey.. a noise rollercoastr if you will. tons of feedback and junk. he plays everything on this thing probably including the kitchen sink. amazing art by nathan bowers of tuscos.
-mbtl

roxanne jean polise - burn chicago to th' ground - fag tapes - cass - 8$

r.s.r - black box - dead sea liner – 3" cdr – 4$

rst - axes - last visible dog – cd – 10$

"From the vantage of 2007 it is easy to forget the conceptual and aesthetic leap represented by the work of rst. I was amazed when I heard his first lathe-cut LP Event Horizon in early 1995, because there was really nothing like it before.
    While clearly responding to the same imperatives as the nearly-contemporary Surface of the Earth, his sound effectively came out of nowhere. Indeed, at that point, one of the few things I’d heard operating in the same area was Earth itself. While now the plague of black metallers and second-rate ‘drone-istas’ have made this seem like a starting-point obvious to the point of being passé, 12 years ago that was far from true.
    So it’s easy now to listen to the new rst album, his third in the last decade after releases on Ecstatic Peace! and Corpus Hermeticum, and think – I’ve heard that before. But in fact, all you’ve heard is everyone who copped this shit from the originators. This immaculate blend of scrubbed and polished metallic tones, layered and sculpted like automotive bodywork of the first order, is in fact the real deal. rst had this first, and remains best at doing it, because he’s kept his head down, kept off bad drugs, and continued to refine his work in relative obscurity – not caring    whether or not you know about it.
    It’s hard not to lose yourself in this because for me it sounds like the operation of the cosmos, amplified to audibility. This is electric guitar sound with all the extraneous ‘music’ stripped out. Electricity in action: natural like electro-magnetism, and devotional like the wind from the sun."
--Bruce Russell, Lyttelton NZ, June 2007

decaer pinga / runzestirn&gurgelstock - omitting the troll - chocolate monk - cdr - 10$

rhythm kingz of bushel finland - s/t - majmua music - cdr - 8$

The Rhythm Kingz of Bushel Finland are a new trio of Keijo Virtanen (best known as Keijo to those familiar with the Finnish underground music world), Hanu Pelkonen & Jarmo Saarti (with special guest Tero Nieminen on the song "Down Home").
-majmua

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