UUHUU - oak gamelan - beyond repair records – cass - 7$
UUHUU - memory leier - beyond repair records – cass - 7$
UUHUU - palais de ilil - beyond repair records – cass - 7$
In a series of 3 c20's Marcel Turkowsky (man behind Cones, a player in Datashock and who just recently did the sound for La-Monte Young student Arnold Dreyblatt at a show in berlin) and Andrew Cvar (ex Jackie-o Motherfucker) unravel new territories in their expanding UUHUU universe. With a previous release on Tape Tektoniks and numerous self-releases Andrew and Marcel are back in full force surfing waves of some of the very best parallel sound layers out there, almost industrial in their sound but still suprisingly jungle-like, lively, organic, trancendental and constantly blooming.
-brr
uboat - condor song - chocolate monk - cdr - 10$
All out goof/guru vocal & drum guff from Ben Knight (towering breaker) and Pascal Nicols (stuckometer). Tired of attempting to ignite yr third eye? then why not open yr second anus, and fill your empty head with this exotic homebaked doughnut. And please, resist the temptation to run.
-cm
kevin greenspon / uggamugga- split - bridgetown records – 3" cdr – 4$
4 lo-fi folky songs about skateboarding, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, crazy moms and an AKON cover from Phoenix, Arizona's Uggamugga. 5 new tragic comedies/comic tragedies by Kevin Greenspon that jump between precise fingerpicking and broken chords and harmonics. Packaged in a sewn pouch and includes an insert.
-bridgetown
uke of spaces corners- so far on the way - tr w/d - lp - 10$
“Accompanied by Amy Moon O.S. and a host of other NEO-HICKS, Ukes create wildly interesting tableau recalling early Michael Hurley a bit in terms of pure backwoods falsetto/ stumble madness. “ byron coley
-tr w/d
uke of phillips(uke of spaces corners)-peppermint birdhouse tea shanty shack - tr w/d - lp - 10$
Peppermint Birdhouse Tea Shanty Shack is Uke’s second full length release with more true GUTTER COUNTRY originals about food, animals, friends and Fambly.
Electro acoustic guitars are plunked by bumbling fingers to the tune of a shrill yet comforting troubadourish croon, but the real treat of this effort lies in the accompaniment, all played by a rotating cast band. Recorded all analog onto 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch tape.
-tr w/d
unchained - problems – beyond repair records – cass - 9$
I cannot believe this, Unchained is such a chiller dude.. in 2005 he put together these amazing tracks which will come to you like an endless vararity of refreshments.
Its like this; you've just realised that while you were sleeping late cos of last nights partying Nate(Unchained) got up earlier to mix a lovely fruit salad and picked up fresh bread from the italian bakery. He is getting ready to jam a bit and the weather is really really good and hot, it might turn a bit rainy but in a good summer-rain way where it will pass really quick and the whole thing is really cool. The sunbeams are coming through the windows filling the room with an awesome light. Eventually the tape runs out and the two of you decide to hit the streets hanging out in the cool shade drinking ice-cold lemonade.
I cannot believe this release, it's so freaking awesome.
Comes with full color artwork by Nate and yellow tapes with pro print.
-beyond repair
unicorn hard on - sweet teeth – procession tapes – cass – 8$
Dance music for noise people.
Repetitive moving beats.
6 lovely tracks.
Digital drift.
50 copies
-tanzprocesz
united bible studies – the shore that fears the sea – deserted village – cd - 12$
Long-awaited (by us at least) studio album from UBS. This album is comprised of crafted songs and soundscapes with little emphasis on improvisation. It's like a hybrid of The Solar Observatory and Huntly Town 3".
-dv
united bible studies – live at the warehouse – leaf trail – cdr - 11$
The second live album by the Irish collective brings together 3 concerts performed in a past Dublin DIY venue "The Warehouse". On this release the Bible Students fully embrace their "anything goes" philosophy and create a truly unique record in their discography. This release terrificly captures the spontaneity and changing nature of the group's live approach over a sea of strange and familiar sounds that mesh together to form some truly imaginative and enjoyable music.
-leaftrail
Usputuspud - disco - caligulan - cass - 7$
Usputuspud is the solo tone-drift of Matthew J Rogers, whom, when not caterwauling as the guitard-god in Crucial Blasters Wildildlife, makes some truly blissed-out tape tide pools. Harmonica swells processed through banks of cloud hiss, then rained into the reverb bubbles off the LEFT COAST, and strewn along the California shores like wet dreams of driftwood!! All anchored by an ebbing pulse of minimal beeps of beats. Total San Francissy spun pysch inflection, but not of the boring guitar-that-wants-to-be-a-sitar, lotus-eating, lyrics full of meta-ph(f)aux kind you've been hearing too much about. No, what we have here (hear!) is the hum of Posedion, loner drives down 101, sweat and sunglasses. A Tr00 Sunny-Delite!! Bryon and Thurston just gave their grizzly snouts a nod towards the U-Pud in the recent edition of BULL TONGUE. Packaged with photos of Matticus emerging from the swirls of the Alter-Beach, bearing gifts of course.
-caligulan
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uton - straight edge- dekorder – lp – 18$
"Straight Edge XXS" is the 2nd vinyl album by Finland's Uton released in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies on the Dekorder label. It comes in a gorgeous full-colour collage sleeve assembled by Hirvonen himself.
While Uton's last Dekorder album "Alitaju Ylimina" (and most of his other recorded works respectively) are hazy lo-fi drone masterpieces for the most part, this is a completely diffferent affair. Recorded straight to tape within one month, right after returning from a 6-month trip to India, these songs (if you could call them songs) are completely out-of-this-world; very short and crazed sketch-like pieces sounding like a Nonesuch Explorer LP of long lost field recordings from an as yet unexplored continent. Or is it World Music from an unknown planet recorded by those Sublime Frequencies guys from mysterious short wave transmissions?
Well, it is all that and more. It is pure ecstatic expression channelized through Psychedelia, Free Jazz, Noise and rural ancient Folk Music from all over the world in a completely naked, predominantly acoustic setting. One of the purest forms of music you could imagine; while all the familiar Uton elements remain evident in a hazy backcloth.
Uton is the one-man project of Jani Hirvonen originally hailing from Tampere. Hirvonen is one of the most active musicians of the Finnish underground scene that has recently presented us the likes of Kuupuu, Kemialliset Ystävät, Islaja, Paavoharju and Lau Nau and a seemingly never-ending stream of beautiful and highly original record releases.
Uton has previously released dozens of CD's, CD-R's and Cassettes on a myriad of labels including Jewelled Antler, Pseudo Arcana, Last Visible Dog, Digitalis, Ruralfauna and his own Ikuisuus. He has collaborated with Amon Dude (Avarus), Anla Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Phil Todd (Ashtray Navigations) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystävät) among others. The latter collaboration (under the Hevoset moniker) is released on LP by Dekorder simultaneously.
-dekorder
uton - suoniin, luihin, ytimiin (live) – ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
Live at Mental Alaska / Tampere, 25th september 2005. Ancient drones meets the ground. Performed by Uton & Kulkija, using synth, effects, electric guitar (bowed & without), recorder, tape recorder & radio-noises, violin, voices....
- ikuisuus
uton - xxx - gold soundz – cdr – 9$
A new great album from the Tampere, Finland psych-noise favourites.
Quite a bit more intense and claustophobic than many of his previous
albums. Perhaps somebody's put something funny in the drinking
water... Uton has released many albums the last 2-3 years on Pseudo
Arcana, Jewelled Antler and his own imprint Haamumaa. Edition of 100
copies.
-gold soundz
uton- live in the center of the world - black horizons – cass - 7$
Double A-side tape, played in reverse on the B, this documents an Uton live show. More abrasive than recorded output. Acoustics, vocal mantras, and pulsating drone that leave you confused when it is all over with. Offset printed gold on platinum vellum, clear labels "touched by the golden hand" in an edition of 100 copies on hi-bias chrome tapes.
-bh
uton - amoeba illusions - american grizzly – cdr - 7$
uton -no one here - firstperson – 3" cdr - 5$
Deep Drone of the highest order from Jani Hirvonen.
-frstprsn
uton - shiva blues -om ha sva ha ksha ma la va ra yam recordings – cdr –10$
free-drone-trance-noise guitar feedback improv. using couple of distrortions and echo chamber effect pedal, and an old radio/tape-recorder as an amplifier. no overdubs here, three tracks, pure sound. kind of dance music.'
uw owl - new birth of old death - phaserprone - cass - 7$
First in a four-part series of recordings based on Gene Wolfe's four-part "Book of the New Sun" series. Torture-meditation drones, spatial field recordings, acoustic guitar, gothic synthesizer washes, fragmented spoken-word, and a deeper investigation into the longer format.
Hand dubbed C-36 with letterpressed wrap-around cover in metallic gold ink. Edition of 100.
-pp
v - the chanting path - blackest rainbow – cdr - 11$
Whilst chilling on a train I got an email from this guy Vincent who is "V" about maybe doing a release for him and I checked it out and damn it sounded good... folk-spectral-ether drone... A real nice blur of field recordings, various instruments and far out vocal... after many disasters with masters and file downloads, and months on this is finally coming out... its one helluva hazy starry summer night trip. Limited to 50 copies in envelopes with pasted on paisley embossed paper, and insert.
-br
v - choisinet - feathered spirit of mother - cdr - 8$
Seven tracks of celestial folk and ethereal hymns by french dude "V" or rather, Vincent, also one half of french weird folk duo Monks of the Balhill. Guitar mantras and field recordings abound.
-fsom
v - standing still in the celestial sphere - peasant magik - cdr - 7$
First solo statement from Monks of The Balhill member, Vincent Caylet. Found within are pink guitars, accordion dreams, smoke, and ash. Songs move in an almost airy, whimsical fashion, while occasionally hinting at the black within. 2007 might have been the year of the French Psychedelic Underground, 2008 will be the year of the Monks. Black CDs housed in white cardboard sleeve with full color wrap around art and handmade marble paper. Hand stamped and numbered.
-pm
mv&eee - meet snake pass & other human conditions - singing knives – lp - 27$
recorded at the Heeley Institute in Sheffield in 2007 by ben nash
mv+ee - the best it ever was - the great pop supplement - 7 " - 9.50$ out of stock
another winner from matt and erika with 'the golden road', chunky double bass led, summer psych slow burner in cool linen card sleeves, limited to 500 and the second of this year's 2 x mv+ee GPS 45s, the first came and went in 72 hours!
-gps
mv ee - ragas of the culvert – three lobed – lp+cd - 19$
agas of the culvert, previously self-released as a CD-R in an edition of less than 50 copies as well as a quickly sold out cassette on fuck it tapes, is a glorious revisiting of the lunar raga style that created so much of MV+EE's past. this meditative and purely instrumental six track voyage is guaranteed to transport you to distant worlds.
ragas of the culvert will be from an edition of 840 copies pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. the record will be housed within "old style" stoughton LP sleeves bearing a new design by both matt and erika
accompanied by a bonus CD, total loss songs (TLR-063), featuring 50 minutes of previously unreleased and newly recorded material.
MVEE total loss songs CD
released june, 2008. performed and recorded by matt valentine, erika elder and the golden road in late 2007 and early 2008. from a limited edition of 480 copies.
-tl
mv/ee with the golden road - gettin' gone - ecstatic peace - 2xlp - 16$
mv ee medicine show - uranian ray - spirit of orr - lp - 15$
This beautiful vinyl LP edition MV & EE MEDICINE SHOW's 'URANIAN RAY', originally released on the legendary CHILD OF MICROTONES label in 2004, is a stunning 'get-hi-fidelity' remastered reissue prepared on the spirited channels of the SPECTRASOUND mastering system developed by MATT VALENTINE himself. Therefore a fresh take on a previous favorite, the lunar brother to 'MOON JOOK" hand picked from their catalog by SPIRIT OF ORR, capable of achieving a glorious exit velocity, and slightly rearranged for the time limits & opportunities vinyl provides. Limited single pressing on black vinyl.
-spiritoforr
valentine, matt & erika elder with the bummer road - wo do you love - modern containment series – three lobed – cd - 12$
van the van - the road to kyogle - seedy r – cdr – 9.50$
In September 2005 Antony Milton shared a van with the band '6Majik9' (of the Musicyourmindwillloveyou collective) on a mortifyingly hairy psychedelic road trip from Sydney to Kyogle up Australias east coast. Distance 900 km. The van was crammed to the gunwales with musical instruments, sleeping bags, sweating food, and stoned musicians. There was also a taperecorder...
The legacy of this 'trip' is a surprisingly cohesive album of epic jams, cosmic shifts(...) and ecstatic psyche that will put the fear of God into nervous drivers everywhere.
-pseduo arcana
vanishing voice - the morning after - oscillation III series – three lobed – cd - 10$
vapaa - se soi, soi! – ikuisuus – cass - 10$
Live recordings from :
18.11.2005 Rauhanasema, Helsinki, Finland
17.11.2005 Vastavirta, Tampere, Finland
10.04.2005 Telakka, Tampere, Finland
vertonen/ demons - split - snse - lp - 15 $
LAST COPIES. The Demons duo of Nate Young (Wolf Eyes, Hatred) and Steve Kenney contribute a side recorded live in Chicago in the late winter of '07. Psychedelic and grey like a Tangerine Dream underwater. Vertonen's track is aggressive and harsh synth noise, not unlike the works of Inhalant or the extreme side of M.B.
-snse
vestigial limb - lung fluid - 905 tapes - cass - 6$
true story: the exact second i popped the master for "lung fluid" into my stereo my entire block lost power, which stayed off for just over twelve hours. now maybe the cause was the huge storm raging outside, i don't know, i'm not a scientist. all i'm saying is that i wouldn't be surprised if vestigial limb blacked out the town. ray shinn continues his slow motion menacing with two more tracks of rumbling taunts. both sides keep a similar audio aesthetic, haunting and crackling their way through a grey mess, while keeping separate moods. side a focuses on a total bleak atmosphere. the flip side drools out shards of panning waves and thick static. utterly sick.
-905
viki / hair police - split - snse - lp - 12$
villa valley - bedienungsanleitung - curor - cdr - 9$
Semi-archival release from Royal Oak, Michigan stunt duo. VV trade their customary primitive electronics aggro for a dual guitar feedback squall that recalls a more closely mic’d Dead C or the noisiest bits of Red Crayola’s 1967 festival appearances. Numbered edition of 50 copies in paste-up card wallets.
-curor
villa valley / fossils - terror tapes vol 28 - mjc - deluxxe edition cass & cdr - 11$
c90
str8 outta the junkyard~ 2 units school'd in lofi WTF garbage can jams
side a = Villa Valley
Michigan noise madness team featuring brain behind rather rad
noise/thrash tape label Nurse Etiquette
http://nursetapes.net/
here the boys fully deliver chucking fiery junk hunks
crunching feedback burning tapes of siren songs
a full dose of rattle crackle scrap scrape
side b = Fossils
monster-child line-up of Johnson, Payne and Smith (1000yrFrog)
recorded dec 27 2007 at the Frog's Stoney Creek lilypad
click of the broken tapeplayer becomes metronome-like
marching us thru the animal hospital with amplified heartbeats
strange sick creatures grumble and howl from cages
a chorus of malfunctioning transistor radios and general malfunction
blown broken electronics and space invader vibes mixed with
monk chants from a digital dimension
limited to 33
cdr
2 tracks brutal & bleeding
10 minutes of mayhem from the Villa Valley crew.
Heavy tear head-first thru wet feedback walls.
15 minutes of monstermash from Fossils.
weirdo field records random cut-ups
-mjc
villa valley / being - split - community college - cass - 5$
ville moskiitto - thousands fall every day - labelle dame sans merci - cdr - 9$
loud from turku, finland, ville run the curious harha-askel label. he releases numberous things on the pretty good barl fire, foxglove and 267 lattajjaa, many compilation contributions and doing a collaboration with brad rose in the excellent 'autumn galaxy' project. he offer us ten new songs of mixing minimalist and repetitive electronics treatments, guitar, jew's harp, toy melodica and flutes playing. his more electronics effort at the frontier of granular/lunar subtleties "almost" electronic-a in the precious glitch on certain pieces and of the organic drone/folk of the deep finnish forest. the winter continues us. this chamanic ghostly voices transport us in beyond. the mysterious bells, flutes and percussions resound and transcend us in the too ignored wind of desolation. a voodoo experience. the reality is : "my death isn't extraordinary, and no one should feel sorry for me, for thousands fall every day..." - robert wichitz -
ville moskiitto - retkikertomuksia - barl fire - cdr - 11$
Ville Forss' Moskiitto alter-ego returns with his most acoustic based opus to date. Out go the prepared electric-guitar and cavernous organ drones, to be replaced by creaking bowed and scraped strings, taking the listener out of the caves and into dark snow-clad forests, with a sawing and clattering free-folk sound closer in spirit to his fellow countrymen Anaksimandros and Vapaa. The album features cover art by Forss himself, is housed in vinyl slip cases and is limited to 100 copies.
-barl fire
ville moskiitto / crow feathers - soundholes – cass – 8$
CF hits with one side long piece of electronic weirdness and blown guitar playing.... totally hard to pin down whats going on next.....
VM drops 2 pieces of beautiful tones generated in the far out reaches of Finland.....
edition of 98..... black, white and grey covers / b/w gold painted tape labels PURPLE tapes
visitations - untitled - time lag
records - lp -20$
well, here you have it. maine's cosmic mystery trio captured in vinyl for eternity, just for you… while everyone & their mother seems to have some sort of bedroom folk/psych project going these days, you'd be hard pressed to find another unit as pure in spirit & process as these here bodies/buddies. one of those rare vortexes of creation existing totally apart from all hype, pressure or pretense; in other words, timeless. always balanced on that fine and beautiful line between cosmic joke & aching depth. a simple & unadorned unfurling of strummed & fingered instruments, heartaching female vocals, woodland creatures, earthy male vocals, contrasting half written & totally spontaneous songs, twisting lyrics, haunted melancholy, lysergic joy, and a heavy dose of spooked new england lore. in a way, the recording scene itself is an almost perfect parallel to the sounds & vibes captured here: three shadowy figures laugh & sing around a dim campfire. no ones slept in days. they're nestled amidst ancient stone buildings, creeping foliage, and mounds of exotic flowers. the sun is setting over the mountains. but its all frozen in time. the clouds aren't moving. and that campfire, it's a microphone, isn't it? and all those flowers: plastic. the stone: paint. is it all fake? well, it is an ancient stone church. and those three really are making some very sweet sounds. in fact, its almost hyper real. almost impossibly so… is that reel-to-reel rolling? yes, it sure is… exquisitely packaged with a fold out double thick duotone art paper cover. outside is white paper with edge to edge antique letterpress printed eyeball melting hyper detailed art by the band. inside is black paper with red/orange screen printing. 180gm virgin vinyl. numbered edition of 500 copies. zero info of course, but take a peak at the cover in total darkness for a special surprise!
-time lag
vlubä - the green lion great tapes vol. 4 – ikuisuus – cdr - 10$
vlubä - josue o salvador em busca da perdicao- scumbag relations - cass - 7$
fungus brains from Portugal
-scumbag
(((vlubä))) - eternal magical music for the high king from the high spheres - majmua music - cdr - 8$
Born on the lovely chrome moon and currently residing in Buenos Aires, Argentina; (((vlubä))) come down from the High Spheres to bring you some of their Eternal Magical Music.
Weird psychedelica, drone rock, free(ak) rock, no music, harsh acid noise, long distant folk, electronic noise; cosmic kingdom music, conceptual art music, free improvisation… all these labels have been used in an attempt to convey what it is that (((vlubä))) are bringing out in their spirited onslaught of sound . Never staying in one place for too long, let’s say that this release is indeed eternal magical music and leave it at that shall we?
-majmua
vluba - oh[m] s[o]un[d] [t[h]ree] angles - mymwly –cdr - $10
carbon inanimations throw vast music zones of sounds clawed from space and marked like dark matter unconsciousnessed and glowing
-mymwly
(vluba) - the first cosmosis artchestra on vlubaland – cokmok – ruralfaune – cdr - 10$
Vluba's parallel project, the TFCAOV recording is on astral silence. A silence certainly so silently as the sound of the edges of the planet. For this occasion they went to record it to a cave/cavern placed under the "Invisible Mountain" that they constructed and adapted as study of recording several years before the session i last about six night and in the seventh one, under a brilliant moon it was born "cokmok"... This is one of seven magic squares of the planetary geniuses. listening no clothes, no lights, no words and with incenses
-ruralfaune
vluba - the pyramid album - tanzprocesz – cdr –9$ sold out
psychedelic freak noise from argentina. comes in an evil pyramid packaging. limited to 50
-tanzprocesz
vodka soap - oceansion island – pacific city studios -cdr - 10$
(vxpxc) - xbxfxf - self released - cdr - 10$
fifty minutes of long form jams, live performances, and closed sets with some of our favorite people
friends like
Theo Angell (Hall of Fame)
Marty Bilben (Marty's Sexual Organs)
Jon Isaacs (Lateral Hyethography)
Ged Gengras (Antique Brothers, Thousands, Fantastic Ego)
Cy Gengras (Antique Brothers, Sleepy Demons, Night Goat Records)
Rafi Bookstaber (Aswara, Death Chants)
Caitlin C Mitchell (Thousands)
and possibly more in the creeps and cracks of the tape
-vxpxc
vxpxc - dead right there - sky fi transmissions – cass – 8$
"90 minute document of two live events culled from the vaults of the early years of VxPxC. From delicate sprawling drone to outright tonal murkitude, this is guaranteed to melt ur brainstem. A lullaby for a nuclear winter. limited to 60 copies.
-skyfi
VxPxC- reticent to manifest -abandon ship records – cass - 6$
Reticent to Manifest was made on a cold summer's night in Los Angeles... High on salsa verde and the thick brown air, three men went in and one long string of sound came out. (VxPxC) has been known for pulling some legs and some hair in the past, but this tape is the start of a very long apology of sorts... a way to say "Hey, we like music too... maybe just not the same stuff as you, but you know..." Not a particularly heart-felt apology, mind you, but a start...
(VxPxC) - chinatown nose-cut - dead sea liner – cdr – 6$
(VxPxC)– lizard in the spring – tape drift – cdr – 7$
Sets the standard for beautiful and varied improv psychedelia. This one's a stunner - a stoned, hazy bliss of sound that wraps the listener up in its soundworld and then zooms right in for total mind-melt. You may know their work for many other amazing labels. Their Tape Drift debut charts new territory for them, and is definitely a keeper. Los Angeles has never sounded murkier and more mysterious than this, and we love it.
-tape drift
(VxPxC)- porchmass - digitalis - cd -12$
In the past two years, (VxPxC) has grown from a Golden State oddity to a Los Angeles institution. The trio of Grant Capes, Tim Goodwillie, and Justin McInteer have churned out an entire catalog of blissed-out improvisations that range from the organic and melodic to overblown chaos. There's never a dirth of new ideas flowing out of their collective minds, and on "Porchmass," their first proper CD release after a slew of CDRs and cassettes, they push the envelope into a whole new realm.
-digitalis
(VxPxC) – stoned to death – leaf trail – cdr - 9$
(VxPxC)– of indeterminate age – phantom limb recordings - cdr - 7$
The richest hues, soaked in heavy decay. The brightest tones, steeped in analog fuzz and digital fog. The sound of one
hand waving away the smoke from a burning bush. This new cd-r from (VxPxC) stacks layers of analog and digital
keyboards with looping guitars and voices, and peppers the whole mix with a slew of acoustic instruments (from banjos to
accordions to violins).
This cd-r is protected from the forces of nature by a black plastic clamshell perfectly matched with
industrial photos by Andrew Smrz.
-phantom limb
(VxPxC) - devoid of karma - musicyourmindwillloveyou – cdr – 10$
pace cosmic whisperings , prog spirals and sonic exorcisms minced into a dense narcotic fog of melodic guitars , bowed strings , keyboard mutilations and spectral murmurs, slowly creepy from the speakers to flood the room with trance vibrations , occasionally lifting itself up into clatterings of drum and bone , or prayer like voicings . there is a visual quality to this music , a narrative flow , like bearing witness to strange events , creepy and portentous .
-mymwly
(VxPxC) - at moodys skidrow beanery - 5nakefork – cass - 7$
yet again, quite a departure for this trio. clean recording, as opposed to the blown out murk of other great work on JK tapes and burial mound. perhaps more conventional than porchmass as well, 2 songs on side A and one on B. banjo, recorder, guitar, drums, vocals, all over the place here. screened tape labels, photocopy art on cardstock by 5fork, screened text on cover as well. c24s also wound here in town. edition of 50
-5nakefork
(VxPxC) - struggling with heavy clouds - blackest rainbow – cdr - 11$
Brand new CDR from the trio of Grant Capes, Justin McInteer and Tim
Goodwillie recorded in LA. Wavering multi instrumental
folk-psyche-drone-blues lulling jams/songs across 4 tracks, total
bliss-heaven-hell-blurgh. Comes in the same lightweight paper as the
WWVV with fold out all over artwork by Darryl Norsen. Limited to 110
handnumbered copies.
-br
vulture club –live young, die fast and leave an exquisite corpse– utech - cd –12$
"The guitar is not dead. It is still humming and I believe in it. Copper wound is copper wound, today and yesterday. Magnets are magnetic, today and yesterday. Wood is wooden, today and yesterday. Electricity is electric, today and yesterday. These things shift in their own time and on their own basis. They are not forced and in my own capacity, I do not force them. The editor's role is Advocate. The rattle you hear, that is the energy and the idea. It is not all mine and it is not all theirs and it is not all yours. But it is all ours."
"There was darkness before there was light, I guess. We live in between. Name is Thomas Lee // borne somewhere and will die somewhere too // currently living in Lawrence, Kansas. I reside here because neighbors are not so close and most of them are old and deaf already. Downtown where the hipsters are, I can walk amongst them and no one knows about the amps and guitars. No need to scream about the weirdness because I am invisible and alive // they let me walk fast and away. These are my people is one way or another and I refuse to belong to them. Live Young, Die Fast and Leave an Exquisite Corpse. I can't explain it any better than that."
-TL
ian w - oslo solo - blackest rainbow – cdr - 11$
Ian W is Ian Wadley. He was in an Austrailian band that came over here and played shows a few years ago, total gutter garage rock. Here Ian perfroms in Oslo solo, hence the title, improvisational guitar, bluesy and bleaky soundtrack music, this reminds me of a ton of stuff, even Haino, at his most pluckery. Limited to 60 copies.
-br
wand and princess - soundholes – cdr – 8$
Dreamy tone float from these Greek misfits.... hanging together staring into the seven suns.... millionz of lightyears away.... gonna float forever...no gravity...never coming back....edition of 53
-soundholes
warm climate - circle dub / regrettable form – phantom limb recordings - cdr - 6$
Never judge a book by its cover. A simple adage, but very appropriate in this case. Warm Climate's Seth Kasselman
might not seem like the most forceful and intense guy, but this orchestrator of chaos has created one of the most
brutal works of music to date.
"Circle Dub / Regrettable Form" is a concerto in 3 parts for the noise set, taking clarinets and shimmering guitars and
laying them alongside found sound and heavy doses of raging deep static. A profound and mind-altering experience,
to be sure.
-phantom limb
warmer milks / collection of the late howell bend - split -begonia society – lp – 12$
Recorded in 2006 in Lexington Kentucky. This version of the Collection is songs composed by Irene Moon with viola and sax talents Ellen Molle and Sara Okeefe who played with Eyes and Arms of Smoke and Burning Star Core. Warmer Milks recorded from the basement with the 2006 psychedelic lineup. Cover drawing by Matthew Minter.
-begonia society
warmer milks - massive dreadlock - every label ever - 2xcass - 10$
2x90 min cassette
all music written, performed and recorded by Michael Turner except for:
Side B:
live tracks were performed by Michael Turner on vox and guitar, Travis Shelton on guitar, Christopher Cprek on electronics, Thad Watson on bass guitar, Greg Backus and Michael Laugherty on percussion...recorded by Steve Good.
Side C:
Colburn II and like a bird- Turner/Shelton/Backus/Watson/Cprek/Laugherty...recorded by Paul Puckett / Convincing hand- Michael Turner and Trevor Tremaine- percussion
Side D:
Leslia sang harmony on Don't put me down / Lawn boys- Trevor Tremaine- guitar, Michael Turner- percussion and vocals / Compassionate distance I and II- Amber Kingsley- guitar and voice, Michael Turner- guitar / Another image recorded by Paul Puckett
edition of 100
warmth - paradise found in dirt - abandon ship records – cass - 5$
These are the sounds of desolation. Imagery of a sweltering, barren desert comes to mind. Riding a dying camel, with an empty canteen dangling from your neck, the future seems bleak. You notice a glimmer on the horizon. Hope is momentarily restored. Warmth (aka Steev Thompson) evokes this type of scenario with his latest release. Before it's over, he gives you one last taste of hope before laying you down for eternal rest. The ever elusive paradise we've all been looking for. Now gone, just as quick as it arrived. There is no hope. Only Warmth.
c21 edition of 100
-asr
warmth- debbie downer and we all follow - monorail trespassing - cass - 6$
warmth / medroxy progesterone acetate - split - dosenine / phage tapes – 7" – 6$
warmth - leave you wet brain in the hot sun - digitalis - cd -12$
Warmth has undergrone plastic surgery since this album was originally released as a criminally limited CDR on Belgium's best scuzz label, Audiobot. Back then Warmth was known as Roxanne Jean Polise. The name may have changed, but the sounds are still the same dense electronic forest fog that set Michigan-native Steev Thompson's music apart from most of his compatriots. "Leave Your Wet Brain in the Hot Sun" is Warmth's finest hour. It's his hypnotic, marrow-sucking opus.
warmth – arbor - lp – 12$
Even though Warmth main man Steev Thompson still appears to be incommunicado totally epic recordings continue to surface. Before Roxanne Jean Police was officially over and Steev still lived in Chicago, he joined up with another then Chicago resident Branden Diven of Quilts/American Grizzly Records. The jams that were created filled a couple of cdrs and the Warmth side of the split with Quintana Roo on Not Not Fun. This LP consists of a remixed and edited version of the original cdr running at just under 45 minutes. Forgotten smog floats through a Northside basement. Sounds emanate but their source is totally unrecognizable. Quiet growing tonal blobs erupt into washes of aural color. A complete union of samplers, synths, vocals, guitar, organs, percussion, and electronics merge to create the sounds contained within; a loss of individual existence. Completely serene. In an edition of 300 LPs on creamy yellow vinyl with hand stamped labels in pro-printed and screened fold over sleeves with art by Roy Tatum and an insert by Steev.
-arbor
warmth / robe - split - black horizons – 7" - 7$
Warmth offers a hollow, swaying and moody piece that is probably as heavy as he has ever gone, ending in subtle ringing. Guitar and trombone bleak ambiance from Robe., would work perfect in a horror film. Offset printed silver on black linen paper sleeves, hand-cut into a cross shape, folded and sealed with a wax stamp in an edition of 300 copies on black vinyl.
-bh
waste - lack of interest - tapeworm tapes - cass - 6$
evolution of this negative electronics outfit.
limited to 37.
-tapeworm
torturing nurse / wasteland jazz unit - split - 905 tapes - cass - 6$
a merciless, bi-continental team up of two horribly unyielding units. representing china is torturing nurse in the three piece form of jiadie, youki, and junky. anyone familiar with tn's mangled gerogerigegege meets a meat grinder style knows what they are in for. a non-stop, pounding, fucked up back alley ballad complete with violent as hell screams and amplified vomit. it's gonna get everywhere, i promise. wasteland jazz unit hail from the good old usa (cincinnati, oh if you want to get technical) and somehow manage to pull off the same ferocious carnage while using a saxophone and clarinet? what!? yes! overly abused wind instruments intentionally doing what was never intended. a piercing and harsh masterpiece.
-905
wave rave pt 1 skeles xtra-earth morph – pacific city studios -cdr - 10$
the ways of god to man – as far as anything, nothing – root don lonie for cash– cdr – 7$
we have heaven - s/t – sloow tapes – cass – 11$
Dreamy music for lazy hot summer afternoons flowing down weaving paths through the forest while laughing hyenas take a shortcut through the valley. 70 copies.
-sloow
wet hair - s/t - is night people –1 Sided 12" (silkscreened picture disc.) - 10$
This is the first solo work of Shawn Reed as Wet Hair, recorded during late fall of 07. On this LP we find Wet Hair discovering its attitude, its approach, its dark underworld aesthetic, of cult zone dub, blasted vocal purge, trance snyth uneasiness. More direct, focused, and eclectic then the Irifi cass. this one burns blown out and electric, amplified to the point of breaking and then subtle and brooding once more. Play it loud. Ultra deluxe silkscreened artwork by SDREED. As much of a visual artifact as a medium of sound. Click image to see full artwork.
-inp
wether - post-cave music - 905 tapes - cass - 6$
the first wether material to arise from the new homestead. side a is one looping burner focusing mainly on a steady cycle of decaying loops. the b side is split up into two feedback laden, rotten drone plagues. everything was recorded straight to tape with no "post-production" taking place.
-905
tusco terror & wether - giver - 905 tapes - cass - 6$
on new years day i made a 400+ mile trek to cleveland, oh in which moods were low, weather was shitty, and i only had one pair of socks and some canvas shoes, which don't do shit to protect your feet in mounds of snow. in a couple of hours snot was pouring out of my face and I felt like dying right where i stood. by midnight or so tusco terror was ripping it and i thought "yeah, this is exactly what should be happening right now". dudes were spilling themselves over a mess of cables and semi-functional equipment. just pure blown out destruction. not sure how long it was before i asked them to do this split, but here it is. kind of like a documentation of falling down, getting up, and stumbling through the haze. disgruntled material from both parties.
-905
wether / pink desert - the uncommon ingestion of... - nail in the coffin – cdr – 4$
weirding module - peaking man - scumbag relations - cass - 7$
Bubbling galactic frequencies from the vegetable mind of Michael Troutman
bass dude in Awesome Color also runs the Senseless Empire label.
-scumbag
weirdo/begeirdo - live in LA & Goleta - sycophanticide - cdr - 6$
kurt weisman - more is more -mad monk– 7" – 5$
We were crazy about the music of Kurt Weisman from the first second we heard it. You can Google at least two or three examples of us publicly gushing over “Past The Moon,” one of Kurt’s songs played with his band Feathers. It’s probably our single favorite song of last year. Needless to say we are overjoyed to release Kurt’s debut on vinyl, following an excellent self-released CD-R. Possessed with the rare talent of writing tunes that are at once whimsical and strangely ominous, Kurt’s music is reverential without being anachronistic. His solo work is even more far-reaching, adding electronic elements without sacrificing the charisma and charm inherent to the songs. While somewhat poppier than his work with Feathers, don’t worry - Kurt’s solo vinyl debut is just as possessed with the spirits of Canterbury. Fans of Les Maledictus Sound’s cut up / collage work, (not to mention their affinity for speeding up vocals) will be delighted, as will those who can’t understand why the Beach Boys didn’t make “Vegetables” a sidelong jam. Elsewhere, Kurt conjures Comus as remixed by Otto Von Schirach. He also writes some of the most compelling melodies we’ve heard in a long time – timeless, beautiful ones. Remember the feeling you got when you were a kid and you first saw that last scene in Over The Edge, where they play Valerie Carter‘s version of “Ooh Child” as the kids head off to juvie? Kurt’s single gives you that kinda feeling. Your life totally needs this
- mad monk
wet hair - irifi - is night people – cass - 5$
Wet Hair is the new solo outing of Raccoo-oo-oon member Shawn Reed. Cult vibe organ drone, slowed down tape hiss percussion warble, and chanted vocal bathed in echo, provide the basics for Irifi, a lone march across a desert, these are droney reverberations tinted with pop influence cloaked in the dark , music for vampires. Recorded by Ryan Garbes for maximal blow out. Expect more from this quickly evolving project soon. Artwork by SDReed.
-inp
wether - y - jk tapes - cass - 5$
Atmospheric abundance must discharge itself from Mike's homestead with
regularity; the sticky dense distortion most likely liquidates the
surrounding landscape, the rodents probably dig it, though. Hypnotic
timber's build upon each other, working together to fill whatever
atmosphere this 'j' is presented in. This atmosphere progressively
begins to blow minds, totally psych, totally in the bad-trip type of
way, though--it's unnerving how much sense this recording makes.
Collaborative art, again, this time, double drawing, in an edition
numbered to fifty.
-jk
wether / gallows / pillars of heaven / deerstalker– 4 way split - peasant magik - 2xcass - 10$
One fifteen minute side long track from each, with collabrative effort on 4th side. Released to coincide with a Pillars of Heaven and Heat Conference (Wether + Gallows) weekend outing. Wether pumped the gas, Pillars of Heaven navigated, and Gallows brought the pillows and sleeping bags. Hi-bias chrome tapes with pro-printed covers. Co-released with No Horse Shit.
-pm
wether + a snake in the garden - split - 905 tapes - cass - 6$
head to head harshness from two solo east coasters. this split is kind of like a replay of a show in hartford, ct many moons ago. snake killed the dining room, then wether immediatly brawled the living quarters. if i could remember anything from that night, i would share it here, but it's all pretty much a brain musher. one burner a piece, both 10 minutes of steady pedal pummeling. three different covers.
-905
weyes bluhd - strange chalices of seeing - self released - cdr - 8$
weyes bluhd - evacuating zombie milk - self released - cdr - 8$
Live blown out grunge excursions
white mice - live at as220 - ohnonoise - cdr -10$
this chunk of plastic vividly reproduces the white mice live experience. that is to say the recording includes each of the following: a life changing sermon, a stupidly annoying wind instrument, raucous audience participation and a thorough thrashing of ear drums and minds alike. this is headbanging music to kill by, perfect for the rotting bastard that festers in the collective conscience of modern man. woah, deep. professionally recorded by christopher rabbit (an albatross live 12") and packed in a stunning three color silkscreened / hand sewn cd case with artwork by the lovely and talented montreal artist leyla majeri. the cd faces are spray painted + hand numbered out of 200 copies. produced on taiyo yuden professional grade CDR for superior quality.
-ohnonoise
widening horizon – 10000 ft above us, 100 years behind us – arbor / jk tapes - cass – 5$
This collaborative project of Treetops and Laissez Faire, expands itself beyond the constraints of a roster, opening the doors to all psyched youth(in particular, on this tape: Z.Z. and L.S.). The battling acoustic/electric vibes of the last tape are lost, traded in for an entirely communal psychic journey propelled by multiple guitars, horns, keyboards, drums, recorder, loops, and vocals. Spiritually united youth create a pure and uncompromising 20 minute soirée travelling in and out of styles like clouds through the sky. You are now free… In a numbered edition of 50 full sleeve wrap around double sided vellum prints, co-released with bro label JKTAPES.
-arbor
wigwam – monolith – fuck it tapes – cass –8$
psychedelic basement scum duo from kalamazoo, mi featuring miles haney(tapeworm
tapes/ evenings) limited to 100.
-fuckit
wild gunmen –end ov the world -mad monk–cdr – 12$
We're pretty thrilled to offer up the third volume in this series of CDRs by Wild Gunmen. End Ov the World is our favorite of the bunch, because it offers the expected - chaotic wastoid jams, cacaphonous raging, and crude acoustic punk ditties - along with the entirely unexpected - essentially, the album's untitled 12 minute closer, which is by far the best thing the band has ever done. "12" is a monstrous piece of low bass tones, disembodied vocal samples, ominous cascading noise, spooky backward effects, and singer Kristy's deadpan voice (sample lyric: "I hate being raped every day / every day that I live I am raped / Everybody rapes me every day / do you know what it's like to be raped every day?"). Scary shit. This track is unlike anything else in the WG discography, sounding like a cross between Consumer Electronics' Teenage Nuremberg and "Revolution 9" for a post-Mullholland Drive world. There are other highlights as well, like the Godz-style punk of "Up Your Ass" (featuring rare lead vocals by either Ron or Witt), and a nearly lucid cover of "Folsom Prison Blues," complete with train whistle sound effects. Elsewhere, banjos collide with saxophones, guitars feed back mercilessly against found audio, chaos reigns. If you're new to Wild Gunmen, this is the place to start.
-mm
issac willow - pressed amphibian - housecraft - cass - 5$
swamp gas from the life shack
edition of 23
-housecraft
The Wire Thicket. -s/t –pseudo arcana– cdr – 11$
The Wire Thicket is the swirling shimmering US power-drone duo of Alex Cobb (Taiga Remains/ Students of Decay label) and David Kirby.
Processed acoustic(!) guitars and voice etc are layered and sculpted to construct dense spine-tinglingly intense edifaces
that soar ecstatically high above the plebian mire.
The best of this disk is reminiscent of Simon Wickham Smiths great tearing epic 'Katotohanan' (from Dyro), and the more God-fearing of Birchvilles bliss explosions.
wire thicket - dust, static - students of decay –– 3" cd –6$
In describing the debut Wire Thicket album, released on Pseudoarcana in 2006,
Antony Milton applied to the duo the term "power-drone." On their second outing,
the pair have fully embraced this label and taken it to new, delirious peaks. The
title track is a fifteen minute blast of singing, celestial metal; an impassioned,
deeply meditative flight into the starry night conjured from guitar, electronics and
field recordings. Characteristic of the duo's prior work together, the piece is an
excercise in accretion -- with layers and layers of meticulously detailed sound
arranged into a furious, beautiful blanket of howling drone. Emerging from
the tonal rubble is a second, shorter piece: a reworking of Taiga Remains'
"Brilliant Dead Highways" (a piece featured previously on a split 7'' with CJA) -
akin to a delicate, drifting calm at the end of an immense storn.
-sod
witcyst – 22:22 – root don lonie for cash– 3" cdr – 6$
Voicing frustrations with the govenment and world politics that can still be echoed today.
-rdlfc
with throats as fine as needles - digitalis / students of decay -cd -12$
Deep inside an abandoned bunker on New Zealand's north island, With Throats as Fine as Needles have perfected their craft. On this, their debut CD release, the group has expanded to a quartet. Birchville Cat Motel's Campell Kneale and Pseudoarcana chief, Antony Milton, have joined forces with James Kirk (Sandoz Lab Technicians, Gate) and Richard Francis (Eso Steel) to create a claustrophobic, organic web of massive drones. Everything on this CD was recorded outdoors with battery-powered instruments. Underneath the ground, the quartet burrows out their own cavern, bouncing sounds off the walls until it becomes a singular, solid mass. Each gently sculpted tone floats in humid air. The music is saturated with the dirt and grime from a million a years of human history, wailing out in unison like an excavation turned exorcism. With Throats as Fine as Needles are your guides through this aural fog.
Co-released with Ohio's Students of Decay imprint. (digitalis)
wolfskull- black uhura –200mg – cdr - 8$
wolf mangler - hungry hungry wolves - short forest - 7' - 6$
fter several months in the making, this EP is finally available. This is some of the best material yet and is the perfect companion to last year's "Dwelling in a Dead Raven..." full length. Total black age doom! One classical piece, one jazz standard and one original song.
-short forest
wolfmangler - cooking with wolves - black horizons – lp - 16$
This is the vinyl edition of Wolfmangler's CD release on Digitalis Industries, minus the bonus tracks. The core tracks of the release make for a perfect LP. This has been extensively written up all over the place, so I won't go into detail, expect avant folk by way of doom metal depression. All acoustic. Packaged in a silkscreened glue pocket sleeve, red and silver on black stock, same as the CD version, but with expanded art. Includes 3 inserts, screened in the same colors with printed labels. Edition of 500, 250 on black and 250 on red.
-black horizons
wolfskull - bibi bibi bibi - insult recordings - cdr - 10$
wolf tracks - dart and a drum kit- undereducated records – cdr – 11$
tracks are
eyes of a girl ... waves play with boats ... commander in a battlefield ... long drives at night ... from nothing came everything ... being a child is the earth ... electronic leaf rustle ... make what you have last ... eyes in the morning ... birds in the tree tops ... sparrow over the sea ... sea of fields ... how i feel about going on stage ... in the day
wolf tracks / end springs - peace paws - nnf - cass - 7$
Even though most bands sing and ALL bands have songs, the "singer-songwriter" vibe still makes us barf. Hard. Which is what's so rare/special about these two United Kingdom acousticks. Both fingerpick into pensive drift zones and solitary mumble rumination, but neither steps near the shit poet pulpit of fake public heartbreak. The End Springs spins six-string patterns like spider webs, all quiet bossa-nova wanderings and neo-Fahey dusty landscapes, spruced with poignant sunrise/sunset delay and subtle sampled naturalism. Total tranquility base. The Wolf Tracks hunts a more feral, wall-of-the-wild vein. Clawed guitar leads and chord organ drones collide with forest-wind flutes and hairy wolfpack percussion clatter while vague voices mutter in the dirt. Campfire songs for after the fire goes out. Hand-stenciled and twine-tied with a talisman of palm tree-shrapnel. (not not fun)
women in tragedy – the shame – ruralfaune – cdr - 10$
[From the North came the plague... Drifted noises,distorted voices & murky electronics in the land of the spectral moose.
The ghost of the beast whistles in the tunnel of dark forest. You are lost in the woods ? it will find you , it will come to teach you
the music of the damned souls..
No shame, no tragedy, just another obscure and brilliant tale.
- Hidden behind a granulous veined green paper cover -
wooden wand & the omen bones band -horus of the horizon - modern containment series – three lobed – cd - 12$
wooden wand and the omen bones band (satya sai and hush arbors' keith wood) on a fabulous 6 trk 10" of a previously mailorder only cd (on three lobed recordings). total classic and amongst the very best in the mighty wand canon
-gps
wooden wand / hush arbors - split - the great pop supplement - 7" - 8$
never one to go overboard with wildly overblown statements, the gps *thinks* it is about to unleash the first uk release by the greatest singer
songwriter in the world. james jackson toth aka wooden wand shares a mighty split single with the equally great keith wood aka hush arbors. the single has an overall title "swappin'" and it is pretty much essential if we may say so. cunningly sleeved with each others' other halves in "swappin'" guise and with a picture of a neatly made bed on it's insert!
-gps
wooden wand & the vanishing voice - sunset sleeves - weird forest - lp - 14$
Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice command you to dissolve caps in Grandma Moses kool-aid and seep deep into a genuine American-psychedelic-industrial gospel — languid repetition of mechanical percussion, rural disrupted electronic meandering, haunting altruistic guitar melodies, hymns guided by deceased maritime constellations sucking life from borrowed resin — the sum of all parts is an exact, chance ability of preordained primitive precision: The way Metal Box/Second Edition should've sounded if the Godz weren't so crazy. Travel north archaic gypsies, gather desert sustenance — keep praying!!!
-weird forest
wooden wand - james & the quiet - ecstatic peace - lp - 11$
James Jackson Toth - Vocals + Guitar + Bass
Jessica Toth - Vocals
DM Seidel - Piano + Organ + Bass + Vocals
Lee Ranaldo – Electric Guitar + Piano + Vocals
Jarvis Taveniere – Electric Guitar + Bass
Jeremy Earl - Drums
Steve Shelley - Drums + Percussion
Produced By Lee Ranaldo
Arranged by Lee Ranaldo and Jessica Toth
Recorded at SY Studios, December '06
Mixed by TJ Doherty and Lee Ranaldo, January '06
-ep
woods – from the horn b/w to see – fuck it tapes – cass – 8$
both woods tracks from the religious knives split tour tape. limited press for march tour.
workbench & black quarter / cornucopia - live in san juan - heavy tapes - cass- 9.50$
the trip from the western part of the island to san juan is smooth and dramatic -- the trees melt away and a metropolitan bulb protrudes. right in the shadow of the bulb is santurce, where the cubo space is a jagged realm of concrete and hyper productive thought and action.
workbench and black quarter were lucky enough to be invited to play in the san juan noise fest and this is a partial document of the evening -- our live set on one side, and puerto rican noise mainstay cornucopia on the other. a small slice of a magical evening in puerto rico.
-heavy tapes
wormsblood - in the stars - faunasabbatha– cass - 10$
tape version of the album released on 23 productions last year. bloods and fire from the fields of wisconsin. wormsblood create disgusting black metal attack. this is the first full lenght from this terrifying horde spewing astral pirate songs and gnoctural tape worms. including a manilla road cover. clay ruby (davenport, zodiacs, burial hex...) 's bm project
-faunasabbatha
worm hands / druids of huge - split - catholic tapes - cdr - 6$
wovoka - pasite de -self released – cdr – 12$
his is the absolute pinnacle of the wovoka
family jams with spaced chanted voice, melted
down mountains of rippling and snarling electric
guitars, waves of sweet strummed acoustic guitars
and galloping hand percussion torching us all to
join them in their journey to the outer limits of
time and space, there are massive heavy vibes on
this one, supreme paste on packaging with "vinyl"
cdrs in a numbered edition of 199 copies
-wovoka
peter wright - pretty mushroom cloud - archive - cd - 14$
five track droner from this new zealander via london. a mix of ambient guitar work, field recordings, and soundscapes recorded between 2005-2006. housed in a double sleeve with outer sleeve being semi transparent vellum, all graphic work by mr. wright.
single pressing of 500 copies.
-archive
peter wright - at last a new dawn- students of decay – 2xcd – 18$
"At Last a New Dawn" is a double disc set of truly epic proportions. It constitutes
the first new recordings by Peter Wright released to CD since 2004's "Yellow
Horizon," and is, without a doubt, a radiant high point, perhaps even the
pinnacle, of his distinguished and exceptional discography. All of the familiar
and wonderous Wright touchstones are present here in pristine form: a wealth
of gorgeous, ghostly guitar drones and swells, and impeccably employed
field recordings from manifold fascinating sources. Also worth noting is the
emergence of some slightly harsher sounds found here, a divergence from the
traditionally pastoral nature of much of Wright's catalog. This is reflective of
Peter's current live setup, which employs increased overdrive and distortion.
The album's title is, Peter asserts, a 'vauge reference to undying optimism in the
face of gloom.' Many of the track titles too reflect a contemplation of death, pain,
loss and tragedy. In fact, one of the tracks, 'Blue Light District,' was recorded on
July 7th, 2005, the morning of the London terrorist attacks, its title referencing the
rash of emergency vehicles swarming throughout the city in the wake of the violence.
This is the sound of misery and death, and ultimately, of hope and redemption.
-studentsofdecay
peter wright - unvarnished, untreated, unzipped - seedy r – cdr – 9$
incredible live trks recorded during Peter Wrights 2005 UK tour. Perhaps nothing more needs to be said?
Well, ok then... The 1st trk was recorded in London and is built up from field recs and guitar loops in an ocean of reverb and is reminiscent of his work on Yellow Horizon and Desolation Beauty Violence. The 2nd trk was recorded in Aberdeen and features feed back loops and delayed strumming patterns that get more and more intense until they reach a truely spinetingling crescendo.
Essential!
-pseduo arcana
peter wright -yellow horizons –pseudo arcana– cd – 14$
New Zealand guitarist and sound-artist Peter Wrights back catalogue stretches to something like 30 releases over the last dozen years. 'Yellow Horizons' is the most recent of these and follows on from 2004's 'Distant Bombs' (Last Visible Dog), and 'Desolation Beauty Violence' (Digitalis). This CD finds him relocated to dirty old London town from where he has written a series of love-drones to the wild South Island of his homeland.
Wrights guitar craft opens vistas that are as contemplative as they are emotionally engaging. Periods of preperatory silence awaken into long slow shifting drones; layered 'folk' patterns build to an almost psychotropic intensity before being subsumed once more within the drone... These scenes are as varied as the South Island itself. There are glaciers as well as sunburnt plains.
wyrm - aaf - black horizons – cass - 7$
Sparse is about the best adjective one could use to sum up this release from Allan Zane's Wyrm. Much is occupied by wind sound and silence, broken up by abrupt tones, repetitive treated industrial loops, slowly swirling electronic pools, and hollow vacuums, but somewhere hidden among all of this there is a joyous kind of beauty and celebration that will bring you back for repeated listens. Deluxe packaging, comes inside a jewelery box with a white feather, all silver paper with digital black printing for the paste on, insert, and a cross-shaped tape wrap that is tied up in a black ribbon. Stamped a-side labels by the artist, with b-side abstraction. Edition of 93 on hi-bias chrome tapes.
-bh
xenis emputae travelling band - suffolk workings - larkfall - cdr - 7$
Atmospheric psychogeographic experiments partly recorded in Suffolk during the summer of 2002, at Blythburgh church, Southwold and Dunwich beach. A trip through primitive drones, Cabaret Voltaire-esque monologue and broken accordions on the beach.
xenis emputae travelling band - new etheric muse - larkfall - cdr - 7$
First new XETB recording of 2003, more slowly unfolding ether-folk recorded around the spring equinox in North Yorkshire,
at Crimple Valley and Brimham Rocks
xenis emputae travelling band – gamaaea – beyond repair records – cass - 11$
xiphiidae - star dive - cloud valley recordings - cass - 5$
Slight of hand, never shy of light. Side A: Levitation is created by the omnipresent force of light, metaphysical prowess and awareness channelled from warmth and embrace. Side B: The overwealming truth, in our present existance the answer to the nature of all is always too hard to fathom-its frightening, but in the afterlife its all we have...thus it really is a wonderfull thing, the kindest thing..the honest arms of light itself
47 copies
-cv
the xul people - bread and animals –cass – 8$
the XUL PEOPLE are a tribe of people who developed a higher form of self
and inteligence. it is believed that this tribe communicates with "higer
lifeforms" or e.t. lifeforms... XUL PEOPLE allways have been a big
mystery for both outhoroties and antropologists. maybe this tape hold
some of the secrets and facts?! this is a rare aural document of their
songs, language, communication, coded messages and dance heritage.
Cultural Series pt2.
-- full color cover.
-breadandanimals
yamashirube - akaki yume no naka - cauliflower dreams –cass – 8$
Tokyo damaged psych vibes from Hide Uchida, the brain behind the SUBJECTIVE SPIRIT SOUND imprint. nice acidloops and dusty downervibes. a truly trip in space that sometimes walks pretty closely next to the tape and electronic experimentspectrum of ANGUS MACLISE... YAMASHIRUBE will issue some players on the upcoming volume of the classic series TOKYO FLASHBACK on PSF. xerox cover, painted tapecase
-cauliflower
yeast curd - and then came eve - scumbag relations - cass - 7$
A young girl with the aid of an oversexed girlfriend discovers her sexuality... previously released on LoveLess now reissued/expanded
-scumbag
spencer yeh - solo violin vol. 1-10 - tone filth -lp -14$
Minimal & tense recordings from the man behind Burning Star Core. Made up of 10 unprocessed live to tape violin experiments edited from the original tapes issued on Spencer's Drone Disco imprint. The sounds on this record range from tense scrapes to minimal textural drones. A beautiful statement. Edition of 400 copies with 2 color screen print on front, one color on back.
-tonefilth
An inevitable match made in Hades. Four titans workin' it out in the primordial mulch and all the gods are cowering in their presence. The dual intertwining guitar-attack impacts and fragments into the dense concrete percussion forest surrounded by a shroud of pulsing caterwauling skree. A harum-scarum locomotive ride of thick, bombastic & heavy proportions..just like you want it to be. Play loud for optimum effect! Cover art by Brian Sullivan.
-wf
yellow swans - at all ends - weird forest - lp - 14$
At All Ends is the third major record in the Yellow Swans vast body of work. This record is an assured record of chiming drone and heady pelvic sky fuckery. New sounds emerge from the Yellow Swans camp that are more hushed, and whisper with the logic of deep space. Whereas the last record was a laser beam guided minimal transmission with dark overtones, this new release injects sonic clouds full of pink oxycontin. Guitar lines sketch out a melodic vision that stupifies with hypnotic repetition with layer upon layer of rich and dense guitar chug build into multi-orgasm songscapes that leave the loins sore and the mind spent. An exhausting journey into pleasure and single-mindedness. Elements of lush drone stretch the proceedings in vast strokes. Yellow Swans veer towards krautrock territory with this new record, and it will go down in the big books as their most beautiful and vibrant record thus far.
-weird forest
yellow swans / devillock - split - modern radio – 7" – 6$
dove yellow swans - live during war crimes vol 2 - release the bats – cd – 11$
The second volume, this time a collection of darker and more sinister live recordings taken from their tour in Europe early 2006. 42 black minutes of creepy soundscapes painting a depressive picture of a world going down in dust and ashes. The 5 songs all has a weird desperate and dense apocalyptic feel to them, making this a haunting and very bleak experience. Trashy dark rumblings and total coldness. Again very well-edited stuff by Pete Swanson, works more like a full proper album than just a collection of random recordings. Amazing.
Comes packaged in a Dual Plover full color sleeve with black felt. Cover drawings by Liz Harris of Grouper.
-release the bats
A vinyl reissue of this massive collaborative set from Australia's GREY DATURAS and Portland, Oregon’s YELLOW SWANS released last year in a small double CDR edition on the Jyrk label. These sessions feature each group their most abstract and heavily expansive with the absence of drums allowing for an intuitive & organic flow. This is psychedelic industrial doom drone of the highest order. Recorded at the Huffin House in Oakland, California during Grey Daturas' 2005 Summer Tour.
yo mi me conmigo - detrivore - cass - 5$
Josh Harringa's solo device is all over the place just like his resume.
Drum intensive 'loveless' sectors blown onto recycled tapes. Full length fits on side A, side B is a mystery major label artist from
the 80s-90s.
-detrivore
yuma nora - jewels in the snakepit - not not fun - cd - 8$
This is like free jazz soulful sex scattered beat noise brass explosion meets the nicest, quirkiest minds from the dreary Portland streets. We’ve been screaming about them for months as the stupid ass world finally wakes up to their “genius” (-Wire fucking Magazine !). Amy’s sultry as hell, Aaron’s got tribal blues, and Jake’s guitar is barely-there perfection. And thus, the Oregon rain clouds parted to reveal Yuma Nora, brewing up their own storm. (not not fun)
zaimph - mirage of the other - gipsy sphinx - lp - 20$
a full LP from Marcia Bassetts solo project Zaïmph. Marcia is well known for her leading role in freefolk/improv groups such as Double Leopards and GHQ, as well as for her groundbreaking work with free guitar/flesh metal duo Hototogisu. With her solo project Zaïmph she starts off from the base these groups laid out and takes things to another level, shredding boundaries between dark noise, drone and psych music. Its deeply meditative yet darkly disturbing and emotionally touching music. The LP, Zaïmphs vinyl debut, is pressed in a one-time edition of 525 copies on 180g vinyl with paste-on artwork on thick black jackets, full color 2-sided art paper insert, resealable plastic sleeve; etc
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Gipsy Sphinx.
zaimph – arbor - 7" – 6$
In the past Marcia Bassett(of Double Leopards, GHQ) has proved her versaitility under the Zaimph name; from the depraved feedback and tone fury of her “Sexual Infinity” CD on Hospital Productions to her delicate electric guitar and vocals waves on the “Mirage of The Other” LP on Gypsy Sphinx. This untitled 7” release further proves this fact by recalling her earliest roots in the Siltbreeze band UN: vocal mantras and delicate strumming are placed over a hypnotically evolving base of looped piano, feedback, and strings. The end result is something beautiful that twists the lines of classification, picking up little points of reference from her past bands and laying out a path towards the future. In an edition of 500 7”s in proprinted full color foldover sleeves with art by Marcia. Mastered by Josh Stevenson.
-arbor
zaimph – la nuit electrique– utech - cd –12$
Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Hototogisu) rears Zaimph's vile head once again on La Nuit Electrique. A raspy, delicate instrumental passage begins like a crippled music box. Elegant and soporose. Blackened guitar and amplification apprise the rest. Acrid feedback hangs in the air and vocal modulations clot inside dark rivers of current. The night electric.
-utech
zanzibar snails - brown dwarf -mayyrh – cdr – 7$
A power drone odyssey featuring the strings of Josh McWhirter gone Conrad, wrapped around staticky innerspace implosions, ebbs & flows of decay and release, meditative balms and disorienting headfuck. Peppered with disembodied voices, haywire electronics, and introspective cadences. Five tracks, 35 minutes.
-mayyrh
zashiki warashi - fog fluid - chironex - cdr - 10$
carter thornton from enos slaughter, izititiz, pigeons, soundatone
zebulon - spatterdock and muminchogs - housecraft - cass - 5$
out of fun jail and straight to brain camp. features s&m ouiji readings by guest entity
-housecraft
trash dog / zero agression - fuck you / anti-life equation - cassingle - detrivore - cass - 4$
Iowa City super group TD features Daren ho, Jeff Witscher, Ryan Garbes, and sometimes Evan Miller. Some have described this song
'shitgaze' its a beautiful meditation on life's decisions.
ZA is Witscher and Cole of Deep Jew and Jack a Wales transplant to Iowa. Keyboard, Accents, Fruity Loops, and guitar.
A really uplifting track engaging the listener into life affirming realizations. Remix included.
ziamaluch - V8- flipped out records – 1 sided lp – 14$
it’s back to the bathroom for another twenty minute slice.…this time four cellos zone and drone around the tiled walls (my bathroom, your brain).…light’s out, goodnight
-flipped out records
zodiac mountain - butte des morte -skulls of heaven - cdr - 8$
Joined by the Reverend Karen Eliot, Zodiac Speedcreep and his crew take to the unlikely task of covering songs by Kendra Smith and Brainbombs... Not for the light hearted, the A-side features a white-boy-Soul-fried Acid Rock version of "Ass Fucking Murder". The B-side is a jarring compilation of all the mysterious tapes reels recently found containing outtakes from the infamous "Wheel of the Law" sessions. Love it or hate it, this is a record you will never forget.
-skulls
zombie brown - mjc - cass - 6$
what happens after the end of music?
brown bird wings risin from the mud
brown phoenix
this tape is death
this tape is birth
limited to 27
-mjc
zonderland - oidipus: motherfucker - self released – cdr – 12$
A new band, but with one person who we met before: Orphax' own Sietse is part of Zonderland, together with one Bart and Michel. There are no credits towards the instruments, but we hear drums, guitars and electronics (Orphax is known to play laptop, but who knows what else he has mastered?), but perhaps it's all pre-programmed on laptops? Who can tell in the digital age? A two hour session was recorded in a studio in Utrecht which was edited down to this one hour release in three lengthy pieces of music. There is an element of improvisation to be detected in this music - obviously, I should add - which could have perhaps needed a bit further trimming, but I must say hats off for this. Post rock may be well over its height but that should not stop people from creating music like that. Themselves give references to Godspeed, Subarachnoid Space, Tarentel and Arvo Part - who am I to add more names to that list. They took their references very well and play music that is very much alike that. Pieces are built up slowly and over the course of many minutes it grows and grows, like a cascading wave (the Godspeed approach I would call this), but then it breaks down as such as things started only to built new theme upon new theme. Head space music, post space rock, gravel noise or such things like. Dark, of course, but taken with all the right substances (more smoke than alcohol) you could easily be lost in this trip. I think Zonderland holds many promises and are perhaps unprecedented in The Netherlands. They should shop around for a real CD release and start touring: they can be big. (FdW)
zs - arms - gilgongo records - lp - 11$
Simultaneously complex and minimal, avant-garde
post-jazz compositionists, ZS new full length "Arms" offers nearly 50 minutes of insane new studio recordings.
"Brooklyn quartet Zs play the real hard, real minimal, real painstakingly worked-out rock etudes that kids with beards
and concentrated stares prick up their ears for. However, the real news is, this stuff actually does rock, though
perhaps not as ragingly as bands to who they're likely to be compared (Orthrelm, Don Caballero, Flying Luttenbachers).
It helps that I first heard Zs live: four guys (drums, guitar, guitar+keyboard, saxophone) seated facing each other,
sheet music and stand-lights illuminating some very focused faces, and playing stuff that pounded a lot more than you
might think given the monkish air of the room". - Dominique Leone / pitchforkmedia.com. Vinyl version of the new full
length studio recording, an initial run of 500 on opaque white.
-gilgongo
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