| DateAdded | Artist | Title | Format | Price | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/1/2009 | D!O!D!O!D! | Ghost Temple | CD | $15.99 | PSF | "Fantastic album of pure guitar and drums brutality (and the first non-Japanese release for PSF in several years) from the greatest noise musician in China, Li Jianhong. Long resident in Hangzhou, Li has released several records on his own 2pi label, including solo noise work for TV monitors and an album by his avant-rock unit, Second Skin. He also curates the annual 2pi noise festival in Hangzhou. He played at the Nuit Blanche festival in Paris in 2004, and this will be his second non-Chinese release. It is kind of amazing to think that China has already managed to produce a musician as au fait as Li Jianhong obviously is with the whole free noise aesthetic. D!O!D!O!D! is a full-on duo with drummer Huang Jin that mines the rich seams previously explored by Munehiro Narita's Kyoaku no Intention and Rudolph Grey's Blue Humans. Endlessly thrilling free psych-noise guitar blurt that bundles up enough flailing electric energy to illuminate half of Shanghai." - Alan Cummings. |
| 11/21/2009 | D. Charles Speer & The Helix | Distillation | LP + download + bonus CD | $22.99 | Three Lobed Recordings | "it is a tremendous understatement to say that it is with grand excitement that three lobed recordings is proud to announce the release of distillation by d. charles speer & the helix. for the last couple of years we have been continually excited by each of the fruits that have resulted from speer/helix collaboration. for our money, last year's after hours album was one of the best released by anyone. distillation only ups the ante from that prior full length by elaborating upon some of the musical themes from the late 2008 "in madagascar" 7". the resulting album presents a tightly focused modern honky tonk quintet more than happy to blur the lines between country, psychedelia and the overall american musical tradition. consisting on this album of d. charles speer (aka dave shuford from the no neck blues band and enos slaughter), hans chew (last seen providing some ripping piano accompaniment on "fishtown flower" from jack rose's the black dirt sessions), marc orleans (enos slaughter, sunburned hand of the man), jason meagher (no neck blues band, coachfingers) and rob gregory (the suntanama), the helix are a seriously experienced and talented crew. distillation was recorded over time between the winter and summer of 2008 at the band's home away from home, meagher's black dirt studios in westtown, new york. margot bianca guests on backing vocals on a few of the album's tracks. the album starts off in monstrously infectious form with the leadoff track, "mason dixon crime" (a downloadable MP3 of which can be found here). the track's propulsive, rolling rhythm, dueling guitars and soaring chorus offer the perfect foil to speer's ever-present baritone vocals. to those new to the band, "mason dixon crime" provides the perfect introduction to speer's captivating narrative gift. he is a singer who is capable of simultaneously spinning a masterful tale using a delivery that leaves the listener feeling like there is something hidden and secret being held just out of sight. other prime examples of this gift are evident throughout "open season" and its soaring climax, the plaintive "time changes things" and the swaggering album-closing "shorty (a bastard cat)." while speer's vocal range is one of the band's calling cards, the helix also features the unique voice of hans chew's blazing piano. while chew aims for the fences throughout the rollicking "hardwood floors", he really gets cut loose (and to spend some time on lead vocal duty) on the seriously jamming "life insurance." one would be remiss to think that the helix is a one (or two) voice affair though - it is a totally solid full ensemble presentation as is evidenced by the jaunty full band workouts presented within both the instrumental "helical" and the rockin', rollin' and beer swillin' "gravedigger." distillation is pressed on 180g rti vinyl and housed within an old-style stoughton gatefold sleeve bearing new artwork from both turner williams and the band. as a bit of a first for three lobed, the album will be accompanied by a download coupon for DRM-free MP3s of the album." These copies of Distillation include a glass-mastered CD (TLR-073) presenting a full, killer live set from the full band recorded on April 25, 2008 at the Turf Club in St. Paul (MN) that is not available separately." |
| 8/23/2009 | D.A. | Odeon | LP | $17.99 | Olde English Spelling Bee | "Debut album by sci-fi oriented vintage synth duo who recently relocated to Los Angeles from Texas. Very outsider in that they were completely unaware of the current synth revival going on in the American underground (Emeralds, OPN, Caboladies, et al). D.A. began recording after being commissioned to make soundtracks for floatation tanks at a new age center in Texas. A chance meeting at a cafe led to the duo handing dozens of hours of these sessions to OESB. This album features some standouts from those early recordings. Their time in Los Angeles has been highlighted by a series of private rooftop concerts that overlook training grounds for the L.A.P.D. riot squads - the scrambling helicopters and practice gun battles below adding to the sinister dystopian vibe of their compositions. Limited numbered run of 400 copies, silkscreened by Monoroid on heavy duty chipboard jackets." |
| 1/1/2008 | Dadge, Chris | I'd Drive Your Ass Across the World If I Had To | CDR | $9.99 | Bug Incision | "crystalline solo percussion (with occasional amplifications) recordings from september 2006. debut solo recordings from bent spoon trio, musk cup, and malleagle percussionist." |
| 10/31/2009 | Dadge, Chris | I'd Drive Your Ass Across the World, If I Had To | CDR | $9.99 | Brokenresearch | "There is a reason that drums are typically used in a certain way, in certain settings; been a hundred or so years since Edison [or de Martinville if yr so inclined] and few solo percussion records worth mentioning. Do the math. I’d Drive Your Ass Across The World, If I Had To is a reboot of a cd-r that Dadge himself put out and sent in to brokenresearch and we we’re really taken. It is a totally facile use of rudiments, sound and electronics. It’s clear, articulate and undeniably inventive. When we first cked it it had a stamp of Cyrille’s “What About”-which when mentioned to Dadge he readily admitted to owning and knowing. Over time that stamp has faded and what is left is one of the better improvised percussion records ever released. Worlds ahead of most of any “brainy” approach to drums and much more restrained and clear than George Stone acolytes and more temporal than the chest-beaters." Edition of 100 copies. |
| 10/22/2009 | Dadge, Chris | The Tangled Woof of Fact | CDR | $8.99 | Bug Incision | "Recorded to two tracks of a Tascam 246, fall 2008. Follow-up to 2006's I'd Drive Your Ass Across The World, If I Had To. Shorter tracks, much less contained than that album, though similar in its simplicity and intent. Second solo drums album from Dadge, who's played with Bent Spoon Duo, Raw Kites, Musk Cup, Eric Chenaux, Mats Gustafsson & Christian Munthe, and Peter Evans. Edition of 50 copies, color covers in plastic sleeves, insert." |
| 1/1/2008 | Dadge, Chris & Rachael Wadham | 100 Silk Buttons From the Room Upstairs | CDR | $9.99 | Bug Incision | "recorded in vancouver fall 2006. sparkling piano / percussion / violin / junk improvisations with two of western canada's most original improvisors." Limited edition of 150 copies. |
| 2/1/2005 | Dadson, Phil | Sound Tracks | CD | $14.99 | Atoll | "Phil Dadson was a member of the foundation group for Scratch Orchestra in London with Corneluis Cardew, Michael Parsons and others. In 1970, he founded the New Zealand Scratch Orchestra and later founded the percussion group ‘From Scratch’ who have an international reputation for their innovative, energetic and compelling style of music/sound performance owing to their rhythmic invention, experimental instruments (including different sets of tuned and un-tuned percussion) and original methods of percussion playing. He is an intermedia artist/composer whose solo work takes many forms including performances (solo and with ‘From Scratch’), videos, installations, radio works, sound sculptures, compositions, graphic scores, sound stories & his own hand made experimental musical instruments. ‘Sound Tracks’ maps a sequence of solo improvisations on a range of Dadson’s invented instruments, with track titles; Gloop, Peel the Unseen, To a Circular Mirror, Laced Cool, etc; as intriguing and evocative as the names of his instruments; longstring Zitherum (3 metre long zither / drum combination), Gloopdrum (single string & drum-membrane resonator), Nundrum (modified bass-drum resonator with threaded rods & spring-drums), song/stones, overtone-vocals, headrush pedal and ostifans." "This set of solo improvisations could well be sub-titled 'From Scratch to Outer Space': anyone familiar with Dadson's celebrated From Scratch ensemble will be familiar with the general terrain of the sound world here, while the cover etching commemorates a star in the Eridanus constellation named after our most famous experimental composer. Invented instruments abound, with fetching names like Gloopdrum, Numdrum and Zitherum. Understandably less rhythmically focussed than much of his prior work, these pieces encompass overtone singing, and a veritable magic bag of odd sounds which evoke everything from native bird song to battling rubber bands. Top 10 material, then." - Gary Steel. METRO Magazine, NZ. Sept 2004 |
| 12/25/2005 | Dale, Jon | Rotten Sun | CDR EP | $7.99 | Rhizome | "Massed lag accumulation from guitars, cymbals, and hand held fans. Jittery, spooked dronology. Ltd to 50." |
| 4/10/2005 | Dale, Jon | Son d’Or | CDR-EP | $7.99 | Rhizome | "Organs and guitars, playing themselves: minimal interjection from human hands. The distorted splatter of a malfunctioning speaker-box, vibrato drawn from the air, guitars and hand-held fans, amps set to 1. The klang of drumstick on string as guest (and informant) Kynan Lawlor steps into the fray, arms akimbo." |
| 4/10/2005 | Dale, Jon / Kynan Lawlor | I've got a tiger in my tank | CDR | $6.99 | Fuckin Stoner Records | "Look if for some strange reason you have a desire to hear the sound of two blokes mucking about with an electric guitar and drum kit, go no further. If you want to hear the best punk album of the year so far, you have also come to the right place." - Mark Groves, Ujaku. 2002 release - two copies available. |
| 3/2/2005 | Damon & Naomi | The Earth is Blue | CD | $13.99 | 202020 | "A year in the making, The Earth Is Blue is Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang's most intimate and accomplished record to date. Delicate harmonies and intricate melodic lines dominate the album's ten tracks, all of which were recorded in the duo's home studio. Michio Kurihara flew in from Japan, where he provides the guitar playing for the genius psych-folk of Ghost, and added another layer of inspiration to the songs. Also contributing are trumpeter Greg Kelley and soprano saxophonist Bhob Rainey of Boston's nmperign. Along with eight original songs, the group beautifully interprets 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' by George Harrison and 'Araca Azul' by Caetano Veloso. The Earth Is Blue marks the first release on Damon & Naomi's record label, 20/20/20." |
| 1/30/2010 | Dan, Nick | Love Songs Part 3 | CDR | $10.99 | Black Petal | "Nick is the drummer for Siltbreeze guys xNoBBQx.. this is his solo debut, where he plays guitar and sings!" |
| Dara | Dara | LP | $9.99 | Ecstatic Peace | “DARA plays guitar, keyboards, and sings. DARA sang for a band called His Name Is Alive a few years ago. DARA also played in a band called Nunsex (which featured Ron Asheton of Stooges fame on lead guitar). They are now called ‘Laudanum’ sans Asheton. DARA also does a lot of home recording of which this one-sided LP is representative of. True sounds from the underground - spirit, soul and the heat of whispered telepathy. Rock n roll heart. Leaves Lou Reed in the dust.” – T. Moore | |
| 6/4/2010 | Dara Puspita | Dara Puspita 1966-1968 | CD | $16.99 | Sublime Frequencies | "Dara Puspita (trans. "Flower Girls") was arguably the world's greatest all-female garage rock band. The reason you've probably never heard of them was that they came from Indonesia where they were extremely popular during the 1960s. Their career spanned from 1965 until 1973 including 3 years (1969-1971) living and touring in Europe. The four albums recorded by the original members between 1966 and 1968 (the material represented on this CD) is one of the great chapters of 1960s popular music history never to be reissued, let alone recognized beyond a few tuned-in souls and adventurous record collectors in the Western world. Twenty-six of their most spectacular tracks (from the albums Jang Pertama, Special Edition, Green Green Grass, and A-Go-Go) are now finally available to hear in this essential release. Dara Puspita formed in their hometown of Surabaya in 1964. After relocating to Jakarta, the group began to create quite a stir with their wild stage shows. Their local performances were attended by teenagers grooving to the band's raw garage rock sound. The first all-female Indonesian pop group that could play their instruments and sing, Dara Puspita also attracted the attention of Indonesian president Sukarno who labeled Western rock music "a form of mental disease." In 1965 (an eventful and critical year for the group), the girls endured a month-long interrogation by the government for performing "outlawed" rock and roll music, became the house band in a Bangkok nightclub for three months, and were introduced to Dick Tamimi of Mesra records, the man who would launch their recording career. The tracks featured on this compilation were recorded at the height of Dara Puspita's popularity during the immediate post-Communist era of General Suharto's new order; a time when Indonesia's musicians and artists were finally capable of launching their own creative renaissance. This collection is guaranteed to appeal to all fans of the beat a-go-go era of the mid-late 1960s and is a significant missing piece of the global pop music history puzzle. Every single track is a classic, the sound quality is superb, and it should only take one listen to become completely addicted to and charmed by this legendary Indonesian group. Tri-fold digipack CD with 20-page booklet featuring rare & unseen photos provided by Dara Puspita for this specific reissue project and extensive liner notes of the band's phenomenal history by Alan Bishop. |
| 9/10/2003 | Dare Devil Band | Inomusha | CD | $15.99 | PSF | "The Dare Devil Band moniker first showed up in the early nineties on a duo album by German sax titan Peter Brotzmann and master drummer Shoji Hano. Hano obviously has a soft spot for the name, as he has resurrected it for this new project a hardcore improvised rock trio, consisting of Hano with Makoto Kawabata and Atsushi Tsuyama from acid-freak commune Acid Mothers Temple. Hano made his name as an intensely physical free drummer who draws upon a multitude of esoteric physical practices to energize his playing. He’s recorded with Peter Brotzmann, Derek Bailey, Werner Ludi, William Parker, Keiji Haino and a host of other leading free improvisers as well as proving his rock credentials on two albums with the legendary High Rise. Inomusha was recorded live earlier this year in Osaka and Kyoto, with the trio locking down into some seriously wired and sprawling rock craziness. Comes in a gorgeous mini-LP style gatefold jacket with English liner notes by Hano. The group will be commemorating this release with three dates in Osaka (Hard Rain), Nagoya (Tokuzo), and Tokyo (Super Deluxe) on September 9th, 10th and 11th." |
| 2/2/2002 | Dark Revolution Collective | s/t | LP | $79.99 | Qbico | Features Makoto Kawabata (hand-made percussion, synth), Tetsushi Kawagishi (hand-made percussion), Yasuo Iwaki (hand-made percussion). Recorded at the Dark Store Room, Nara, Japan, 1978. "The only recording of the first group I formed with two friends. At that time we didn't own any instruments. The only things we had was a synthesizer that we had borrowed from another friend. As a result, our first musical forays were played on that one synth and some home-made percussion. We laid down the basic tracks in the dark store room adjoining the science laboratory at our junior high school, under the light of a single red lightbulb. We used some of the beakers and instruments from the store room as our percussion, breaking several of them in the process. Needless to say, this episode got us into a heap of trouble later."- Makoto Kawabata. Originally issued on cassette on the R.E.P. (Revolutionary Extrication Project) label in the 80's in very limited quantities, then re-issued on a 10 CD-R box set entitled 'Makoto Kawabata Early Works 1978-1981' (ltd. ed. 100 copies only, numbered). Dark, hypnotic, pulsating home-made vibes. Edition of 300 copies on picture disc vinyl. |
| 5/14/2007 | Darksmith | Darksmith | cassette | $6.99 | Hanson | "First release from this KILLER new project. Tom Darksmith is from California and has been ruling my head. Great organic sound collage/Vaccuum cleaner shit.. Fans of Hands To, Yeast Culture, etc.. Need to wake up to this dude NOW... More tapes coming soon on Hanson as well. Keep ears PEELED OPEN." |
| 3/6/2010 | Darksmith | Total Vacuum | LP | $16.99 | Hanson | "Debut vinyl from California sound artist Tom Darksmith. Crude musique concrète made using tapes, voice, records, radio, guitar, drums, objects, domestic and field recordings. Assembled on cassette four track 2008-2009. A disturbing collection of sounds...lots of sounds...unknown sounds...I have no clue what is going on on this record....Tom says there is guitar, drums, etc on this...but I don't hear them...what I hear is: The sound of my neighbor weedwacking, the sound of being zipped into a suitcase then shipped via train, ghost voices roaming in sewers, the sound of riding in a helicopter with mid-grade noise reduction earmuffs on, a shitty metal door being locked on a crew of mumbling idiots...and every now and again...a garbage disposal....this is what I hear....no clue what you will hear. A total mystery of perfectly paced organization of dirt sound...not harsh...not mellow...just dirty, weird, and confusing...and to quote the sleevenotes of the first few Queen LP's....'No Synthesizers!'. Recommended for fans of Yeast Culture, Agog, Joe Colley, Graham Lambkin, Jason Lescalleet, Hands To, etc... Limited to 300 copies with hand-stamped labels, heavy duty two color silkscreened sleeves with the classic 'Hanson Droll Flaps' featuring hilariously dark artwork by the man himself, Tom Darksmith." |
| 12/13/2008 | Darwinsbitch | Steel Hum | cassette | $8.99 | Digitalis Limited | "Finally, the bitch is here. marielle v. jakobsons is the brilliant mind behind the elusive darwinsbitch. her music is rich in texture and portrays an aural depth that you can't quite pierce. "steel hum" is an introduction, an effort to bring you into the fold in anticipation of her spellbinding debut full-length, "ore." but what "steel hum" has is an organic sense of place and a path forward. jakobsons employs numerous methods with a focus on synths, tapes, and violin. what she creates is a slightly-uneasy soundworld, constantly teetering on the edge of collapse. these sides are like a rocking ship drifting back & forth in deep grey seas. you're not sure if you should just enjoy the view or vomit your dinner over the side. "steel hum" is caught in the space between. limited to 99 copies w/ custom stamped art." |
| 11/21/2009 | Das Synthetische Mischegewebe | Frequency Conquistadors | LP | $26.99 | Pan | "Words are more often then not the point of departure for many works of Das Synthetische Mischegewebe. The track - titles here stem from 'El Mundo Alucinante' de Reinaldo Arenas, which itself is inspired by François-René de Chateaubriand's 'Mémoires d'outre-tombe'. It is about time rather than history and about being in history. Having lost the war of time, the only thing that remains to do is being, and here we go, 'being infiniment exigent' in it's means of expression. DSM began in Berlin armed with a visual education from the early 80's. They quickly became part of the international industrial cassette scene. Composing for light installations with open-reel machines, cassette recorders, microphone and guitar fuzz boxes with both loud, quiet, occasionally full blast and frequently sneaking in little sounds, all alternating within a few seconds, create an electroacoustic anti-music. With unusual concerts in the underground network as well as in high art institutions and museums (such as Centre Pompidou) and later on with performances for mixed media installation, exhibitions and conferences on cognitive science and neurologic research related topics, the group toured with changing casts since the early 80's, and participated in international festivals throughout Europe and the US. Since 1982 they continue to produce vinyls, CD's and tapes on many international labels: Discos Esplendor Geometrico, RRRecords, Hypnagogia, Vinyl-on-Demand, Auf Abwegen, Harsh Reality Music, Equation Records, Das Cassetten Combinat and many others. Live and recording collaborations with musicians such as: The New Blockaders, Ralf Wehowsky, Frans de Waard, Ios Smolders, Zeitkratzer Ensemble, Artificial Memory Trace, ERG, MSBR, Toy Bizarre, Roel Meelkop and others. The Lp is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 330 hand-numbered copies, pressed on 140g vinyl and comes in a poly-lined inner sleeve. It is packaged in a pro-press jacket which itself is housed in a two-tone silk screened pvc sleeve with interweaving geometric designs." - label. |
| 6/30/2010 | Dashpi | untitled | 7" | $7.99 | Feeding Tube Records | "Yah, yah, yah, yah. Don't give up the ship". These are some seriously weird bedroom reggae jams, made on a dare nearly a decade ago. Pitch-shifted vocals, primitive music and surreal lyrics regarding "the aqua hole" and "the flaming room". The artist, who prefers to remain anonymous, has made a number of amazing archival recordings since this one was laid to tape in the early part of the century, but none of them are as focused as this one here. Beautiful silk screened art on thick paper, folded in four, full color labels and one of the thickest 7"s you've ever held await you." |
| 1/24/2009 | Datashock | Datashock | cassette | $6.99 | Oms-b | "A forever changing line up of German musicians including members of SHIVERS, CONES, TOBERT KNOPP etc. a few tracks from previously recorded (now out of print) CDRs and one previously unreleased track." Edition of 60 copies. |
| 2/25/2008 | Datashock & Shivers | Vol IV | LP | $15.99 | Textile | "Textile Rds presents Datashock a ritualistic "Neo -- Hippie -- Spook -- Folk collective from Germany - the new 12" in our Textile Vinyl Series. There is no constant line-up, as the group is joined by new members every now and then. Their music is defined almost entirely by psychedelic multidimensional live-improvisations stemming from 70ies Kraut-rock influenced by contemporary electronic music and psychotic dronescapes. As a result we find complex layers of sultry muffled vibrations met by heavy waves of electronic sound experiments and strangely disfigured images. Here and there reality-distorting bits of whispers and cut-up voices are woven into the texture of these alien patterns of sound. Every step here is like nervously stumbling through the swampy ground of a jungle. Here every look is like a secret glimpse at a hidden ghost-train world. If, however, you would want to use other bands from past and present as a reference, names like Tangerine Dream or Sunburned might come to mind. Datashock's music has a similarly warm and organic feel to it. Labels like 'spooky Psychedelic-Post-Krautfolk' are at the same time graphic description as well as missing the point altogether. During the band's four-year history one of the highlights has been this year's (2007) release of a live-collaboration picture-LP with Nadja, also known as Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff. Founding member Pascal Hector is also running Meudiademorte Recs, known for releases of Noise- and Improv-music by artists such as Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Sunburned, Vanishing Voice and many others. Ulf Schütte also plays in Aosuke, works as a solo-artist as Shivers and Diamond Lemonade and is running the Tape Tektoniks-label. The collective's newest member is Marcel Türkowsky who besides his work as a solo artist is involved in Cones, UUHUU w/ Andrew Cvar (ex jackie o'motherfucker) , Wooden Veil, Leo Mars and Kinn." |
| 11/2/2008 | Datashock / Jettatura | split | cassette | $7.99 | Archivo de Sangre de Dios | "New split from Saarlouis freewheeling collective Datashock and Brightons Jettatura (featuring members of Polly Shang Kuan Band). Datashock's spaced out clank,clatter and drone bringing sunlight and calm in advance of Jettatura's darkness and confusion. Doom bass,thud,wail and hum amidst ancient ritual chant........Maureen of the band couldn't listen to it on her own in the house....uuuggghh." |
| 4/10/2009 | Datashock / Time Life | Alle in Einem Bus | CD | $12.99 | Textile | "Live documentation of the sonic communion of the German gruselkraut drone collective Datashock and the American space music duo Time Life. (Time Life aka Lucas Nonhorse Crane and Heidi Diehl of the Vanishing Voice / Wooden Wand). This album presents two transatlantic collaborations performed in European cultural capitals during a March 2008 joint tour, mirroring the planned congregation of the old country and the new world. These lightning in a bottle recordings distill the individual psychedelic gestures of each player as they together forge the crypto-mythical group mind. This release is a limited CD with a great a5 (5.8" ? 8.3") cover folder silkscreened by j. kauth. First 200 in a different colour!" |
| 10/1/2002 | Dave Dove Paul Duo | A | CD | $10.99 | Tempo Kannan Bail | "Incredible trombone/bass-triggered synthesizer duo that Muckracker calls ‘unlike any other improv based groups.’ A huge influence on Houston's ‘free’ scene. Ltd. edition of 500, hand-painted covers." |
| 12/24/2005 | Davenport | Push em Back | cassette | $6.99 | Skullfucking Tapes | "Reissue of cdr featuring live muscular drone workout in the cathartic heat of a new England sweatlodge." |
| 12/24/2005 | Davenport | Rabbit's Foot Propeller | CD | $12.99 | Three Lobed | "The extended Davenport family has been producing their unique flavor of free-form and exultant improvisational folk since 2001. Operating out of Madison, Wisconsin, their music has taken on an open joviality that reflects the spirit of their hometown and the natural world that resides just outside its borders. Respectful and observant of all things natural, Davenport has focused on their organic sound over a long string of CDR and cassette releases for a number of different labels. Rabbit's Foot Propeller is simultaneously a natural extension of their prior work and a confident step into a new and different direction. Taken as a whole or as its component tracks, the album is a solid continuation of the Davenport aim to bring light into all dark corners. Rabbit's Foot Propeller is all about the juxtaposition of varying sounds and musical textures against one another. Over the course of the album's thirteen tracks, the listener is presented with numerous playful improvisations, tones generated from various instruments and lilting melodies (both guitar and vocal). Unconventionally captured to tape by the band through the use of a handheld recording device lacking an erase head, the recordings allowed for an infinite amount of overdubs confined only by the fact that it was impossible to simultaneously monitor all of the previously recorded progress. This technique allowed for a high degree of experimentation with results that range from pensive and calm to miniature folk masterpieces." |
| 12/24/2005 | Davenport | Sun Your Open Mouth | cassette | $6.99 | Skullfucking Tapes | "Bare chested barbarians attack the studio with massive one-take hexing. The children of the sun begin to awake, watch out. Reissue of cdr." |
| 12/24/2005 | Davenport | The Weakest Link Can Pull the Heavy Load out of the Blues and onto the Road | cassette | $6.99 | Skullfucking Tapes | "Reissue of cdr featuring two live sets from the beginning of the first Davenport tour. Includes live fantasy soul version of "Country Blues" on the B side. and a deep explorative environmental psyche freakscene on the A side, recorded at the Million Tongues Festival." |
| 12/24/2005 | Davenport / Son of Earth | split | cassette | $6.99 | Skullfucking Tapes | Reissue of cdr featuring Davenport as duo singing hymns to the dead. Son of Earth give dark out of body stillness and shudder. Don't Shudder." |
| 4/16/2007 | Davenport Family | At the Foot of Zodiac Mountain | one-sided cassette | $9.99 | Meudiademorte Records | "One sided 35minutes long jam. their very last jam withmask of the davenport clan on their faces, free-form improvisational folk performed on walpurgis, clay rubys brithday by clay ruby, t endless, woodman, johnny d, billy lee, nico kain, aaron laurant, tyler olson.limited to 230 copies." |
| 6/5/2005 | Davenport Family, The | Field Tales | DBL CDR | $15.99 | 23 Productions | "The Davenport Family jams in the woods, in the barn, on the trail, in the pasture, around the campfire, and before the altar. This two cdr set also features several excerpts from their three hour ritual held in Central Park this past fall. Featuring a few special guest stars and the usual fire that is always smoldering, this collection of moving snap shots is by far the most eclectic offering of Davenport's live improvisations to date. Limited edition of 123." |
| 5/1/2009 | Davis, Gareth & Steven R. Smith | Westering | LP | $19.99 | Important | "Limited edition of 500 copies. Packaged in deluxe screen printed ultra heavy board stock. In May of 2008, Amsterdam-based clarinetist Gareth Davis and American guitarist Steven R. Smith convened at Worstward Studios in Los Angeles to collaborate and create music together, the results of which have been titled Westering. Gareth Davis is a dedicated performer of contemporary music who works with improvising musicians such as Jon Balke and Terje Rypdal as well as electronic artists including Machinefabriek and Ryan Teague (Type Records) and has completed the Rabbit At The Airport series of LPs with Martin Stig Andersen and Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner). Steven R. Smith has been releasing a steady stream of solo records for over the last decade as well as playing in various improvisational groups including Thuja, Hala Strana and most recently Ulaan Khol. This fruitful collaboration has created the perfect meeting place between the scrapings and various layers of musical detritus Steven R. Smith has been known for and the textural, guttural and almost feedback laden bass clarinet of Gareth Davis to create a delicate and abstract musical language of shifting moods and textures." |
| 5/8/2005 | Davis, Greg | Gather / Scatter | 7" | $6.99 | Tonschacht | "This record was created entirely from a casio sk1 drum machine sample. This sample was then processed in real-time using a custom-built max/msp sound environment. 'Scatter' was created by subtracting (or scattering) these sounds, processing them further and adding silences until I achieved a desired lesser density. 'Gather' was created by adding (or gathering) these sounds, processing them further and overlaying them until i achieved a desired greater density. All of these sounds were then carefully arranged with soundedit16 to create the finished pieces. 'Two Skylines' was created by taking the processed source sample and processing it further with sonicworx powerbundle. Then the waveforms of the left and right channels were rectified in such a way as to resemble two city skylines. These pieces were created between the late winter of 2001 and the early fall of 2002. This record is dedicated to John Cage." - Greg Davis) |
| 5/29/2008 | Davis, John | The Gold Hooped Nature | CD | $12.99 | Rot Strata | "'The Gold Hooped Nature' is the debut long player by California dreamer John Davis. Picking up where his 3" CD-R 'At Home And Afeild' left off, this disc is a scenic set of audio drift that easily zigzags dense passages of analog crunch as well as blank vistas of crystalline tones via guitars, found sounds, contact microphones, tape speed oscillations, field recordings and a small battery of effects. John's study as a Filmmaker & Photographer definitely plays some roll here, with any number of landscapes (real or imagined, inner or outer) being brought to mind. Way less head than heart though, with plenty of these tracks dipped in a romantic glaze that betrays any tendency to over conceptualize drone / ambient / whatever music. It's more wide-eyed sunset, lost west coast stargazing than that. And I suspect the endless Midwest horizons of John's youth are in there as well. Gold & white offset print covers." Edition of 300 copies. |
| 6/27/2009 | Davis, John | Vines Go Roaming | c49 cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "This one has been a long-time coming and only i am to blame for the slowness in which it has FINALLY appeared. but patience is a virtue and all that biz, so just be happy its here now because SF-drone king john davis has crafted an absolute doozy. "vines go roaming" features two immense, side-long pieces. davis takes simple ingredients and puts them through god only knows only to have something beautiful and stunning float out the other side. side a features guitar, field recordings and electronics where side b is simply accordian and electronics. it's stripped bare before he makes it whole again. the subtle shifts in tone radiate through the air expanding toward the heavens on a cloud of molasses. this is epic music. edition of 90, pro-dubbed and houses in hand-stamped 'pillow boxes.'" |
| 6/30/2010 | Davis, John & Maxwell August Croy | Halides | DVD-R | $11.99 | Root Strata | "A document of a live set from the On Land festival in San Francisco, September 2009. Home solarized Super8 film shot by Davis in the placid green places of Northern California. The Duo's lush soundtrack is bowed, scraped & plucked out on koto, electric guitar & other electronic detritus. Covers designed and silk-screened by Bay Area artist Chris Thorson." |
| 11/4/2006 | Davis, Zac | Full of Holes | CDR | $8.99 | Maim & Disfigure | Lambsbread dude's solo shit |
| 6/11/2006 | Davis, Zac | Menstrual Milkshake | CDR | $9.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "Solo guitar... theres one part where theres a "hotel california" style riff for a few seconds that sounds real nasty... hear me cough while i play guitar...edition of 40/hand drawn covers" |
| 2/24/2007 | Davis, Zac | No Vaginas and No Black People (for Hell Hall) | CDR | $9.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "When making hell hall disc last summer, homeboy was like "i like your cover art, but no vaginas and no black people on mine"..... i kept to his wishes, but like he said this weekend "i knew the second i uttered that it would come back to haunt me"...... solo guitar recordings, some of the most "song"oriented jams so far, and some more just typical trashy sounding ones..... edition of 60." |
| 3/26/2006 | Davolinas | Edge of a New Day | LP | $24.99 | Nasoni | "First album by Copenhagen based danish power trio. The Davolinas group around foxy female guitar player and singer Lene Kjær Hvillum, along with bass player Torben from Magnified Eye. They take simple guitar riffs, basic heavy bass and powerful drums to create a cool and rockin' mix of songs with elements of stoner, progressive, psychedelic, garage rock. If you ever have enjoyed a Davolinas live performance, you've probably noticed that Lene's voice sounds a bit like Janis Joplin." Edition of 500 copies - 100 on colored vinyl - which these are. |
| 4/5/2010 | Daymoon | From The Living Tomorrow | 3" CDR | $4.99 | Majmua Music | "Sister release to mm 17, You Start Fights by Shitty Listener. What Happens when seven musicians & artists of different backgrounds walk into a room together with the goal of making music happen? In this instance, a 3” ep emerged from the experience, opening a window on the proceedings. Some of the names involved may be familiar to those of you who have made the acquaintance of micro-labels like Majmua Music, but I’m going to venture a guess and state this isn’t what you would expect, which is how it should be." Edition of 75 copies. |
| 8/2/2008 | DDAA | Action and Japanese Demonstration | CD | $27.99 | Fractal | "There were bands like CAN in Germany, NURSE WITH WOUND in UK, THE RESIDENTS in USA, and there were DEFICIT DES ANNEES ANTERIEURES in France. Formed in 1979 by 3 artists from the Beaux-Arts of Caen : Jean-Luc André, Sylvie Martineau-Fée, Jean-Philippe Fée ; DDAA is one of the leader of all the independent, experimental, industrial 80's French scene and also with their highly artistic, peculiar and thoughtful vision which is brilliantly illustrated by their own label ILLUSION PRODUCTION (more than 40 references published). This undoubtedly makes DDAA as one of the most outstanding band of the French underground since the last thirty years ! Behind this radical and utopian group are three self-taught musicians of high creativity with a surprising and rich discography, around thirty titles released under all formats : vinyls LP, singles, 10 inch, tapes, CDs and many compilations (some deleted titles are still very collectable today). From a post-punk/avant-garde/surrealistic music made by improvisations and collages, DDAA created an odd and captivating world, somehow naive but truly emotional. Eternal travellers from the imaginary (into space and time), after they ventured in Africa (1980), in the Maracayace land (2000), in the Russia of the Tsars from the 19th century ("Les Ambulants" 1984) or even with the French poets from the 16th century ("Ronsard" 1988), DDAA goes to Japan with "Action and Japanese Demonstration" in 1982. And they will be well inspired by the land of the rising sun, so it's no surprise to see them, the next year, on the "Paris-Tokyo" compilation and also in the PASCAL COMELADE album "Detail Monochrome" (1984) on the track "Pluie Japonaise". First full-length vinyl album (Illusion Production - IP010) and a cornerstone in their history, "Action and Japanese Demonstration" is considered by many fans as one of the best DDAA's works to date. A fascinating album ! 10 actions and poetic demonstrations like japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e), refined and entrancing atmospheres, drew and played by the 3 dadaïsts with synths, vocals, chorus, crazy guitars, percussions, rhythms box, flutes and noises + Bernard C and Marcel Kanche on sax. For a long time unavailable, this album is finally reissued on CD for the first time with 2 unreleased tracks from the same recording session + 18 minutes bonus "Musique et Bruits du Bas Pa-Tât", a collection of 7 rare tracks from 1985 originally released on tape for the very limited Jean-Luc André's comic strip titled "Mutants du Kwantung".This is a dark ethnic report which brings you in the primitive southern China before Jesus-Christ. This CD reissue is an exact reproduction of the vinyl LP, and is packaged like the original in an heavy card sleeve hand fold + 16 pages color booklet with all inserts, texts and unreleased pictures (DDAA live in 1979 !). Remixed and remastered from the master tapes, this gem is now available again after more than 25 years. "Action and Japanese Demonstration" is a pure delight, a kind of improbable meeting between the famous artist JOSEPH BEUYS and the master of the ceremony SEN NO RIKYU. Splendid!" |
| 8/2/2008 | de Deyster, Edmond | Selectie 02 | LP | $27.99 | Ultra Eczema | "This is the second in a series of Edmond de Deyster (who sadly died in '99) archival lp's. Edmond de Deyster left an incredible amount of reel tapes behind full of beautiful analog synthesizer music. his family was kind enough to share this archive with us. it took me way longer to get this second instalment together, partly because i wanted to interview his relatives and other people who knew him during the years these tapes were made. frankly time flies by too quick and i decided to first release this second lp and do the interview for the third release in this series. this second lp got selected from 2 reel tapes that were in the same box as the ones from the first lp. one of them mentions the same info as those first ones, "1975", the fourth tape didnt mention any information. i'm not entirely sure if these recordings were made in the same period, though they sound more like the previous stuff then like the upcoming releases; incredibly sad and lonely synth tunes! comes in a duo coloured cover with photo's of edmond de deyster and a insert with liner notes and another picture. limited to 500 copies." |
| 4/20/2008 | de Jesus, Eric | Cult Of The Moon | zine | $7.99 | Sloow Tapes | "Drawings, photo's and lunar stories by Eric de Jesus. Half black & white, half full-color. Let your moustache grow easy. Bound together by the hand." |
| 12/12/2009 | De Kift | Krakenhaus | LP | $14.99 | Domino Sound | "De Kift's second album, Krankenhaus, originally a 1993 compact disc, is released for the first time ever on vinyl. The music on the album is difficult to describe, there simply aren't the reference points to make it easily classifiable. Thematically, Krankenhaus is a guided tour through the terror and tedium of war and its effects. Musically, it does have guitar, bass, and drums, but there is also a brass section, scrappy and heartfelt, making plenty of appearances throughout, and some woodwinds, an accordion, piano, violin, and hand clapping show up here and there. Imagine a scene from a Berlin cabaret of the 30s as written by the New Deal's Federal Theater Project. But, in, well, Dutch. And using World War authors and poets as lyricists, but seen through the lens of the Dutch squatters movement that De Kift and The Ex came up through. If Hanns Eisler had been a collaborator with The Ex, you'd be close, but still not quite there. De Kift sets their music to the stories and poems of authors Jan Arends, Erich M. Remarque and Wolfgang Borchert and comes up with an album that brings a new beauty to the words and a remarkably original amalgamation. This release comes in a tip-on sleeve with original artwork and is accompanied by a 16-page booklet with lyrics in Dutch, English and German." |
| 6/27/2009 | Dead at 24 | Blast Off Motherfucker | LP | $9.99 | Ride The Snake | "Dead at 24 blazed a unique and noisy path through the post industrial wasteland of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1990's. Standing in opposition to the post Don Cabellero math rock musical environment that prevailed in the city at the time, their performances left audiences scratching their heads in confusion and vacating venues in horror. "Let's get the fuck out of here!" was a common reaction of those who witnessed one of the band's live shows cum spontaneous combustions. No one was prepared for what they were seeing in Dead at 24, and that's because they were being given a glimpse into the future. Dead at 24 were the inadvertent pioneers of what would become a thriving underground "weird punk" scene twelve years later. What makes them truly exceptional, though, is the fact that their songs and style persist as standouts years after their intended relevance. Beneath the saturated mid fi recording, dissonant guitars and wailing synths that are their "sound", there was an attention to crafting off handed hooks and a musical fight for space between players that almost no band before or since has been able to match. Dead at 24 released two cassettes and appeared on a Pittsburgh band compilation 7" during their existence but disbanded before they could release anything of their own on vinyl. In late 2008, two ex Pittsburghers met at a club in Boston and started discussing their favorite local bands of the 90s. The guys shared not only a mutual love for Dead at 24 but also that they had both been listening to the band's "Blast Off, Motherfucker!" cassette regularly over the past twelve years. They decided that this music had to reach a bigger audience and lucky for us all here it is." |
| 6/4/2010 | Dead C | Clyma Est Mort / Tentative Power | double LP + CD | $22.99 | Ba Da Bing | "Following the 2008 release of a pair of double-LPs, Ba Da Bing and Jagjaguwar continue their Dead C reissue project with two new records. Relegated to expensive fodder for eBay bidders until now, Clyma Est Mort can be considered The Dead C's "Ed Sullivan moment," except it wasn't performed live on network TV--it was recorded in a practice room in Port Chalmers, NZ, in 1992 with the inestimable Tom Lax of Siltbreeze as the sole member of the audience. Since the goal was to make a "fake bootleg" album for release on the mythical Proletariat Idiots Productions label--and in honor of the 13th Floor Elevators (often overlooked as an influence)--the band dubbed in fake audience noise from a gig by the Renderers. Despite the deliberate incompetence with which this was accomplished, Clyma is often touted as a "live album." This is only true in the sense that the band members were alive when they made it. This double-LP reissue includes Tentative Power, a collection of non-album tracks many consider among the band's best moments." |
| 11/2/2008 | Dead C | Eusa Kills + Helen Said This 12" | Double LP | $21.99 | Ba Da Bing / Jagjaguwar | "The second in a series of Dead C reissue collaborations between Jagjaguwar and Ba Da Bing, Eusa Kills has been pressed on vinyl for the first time in years, along with the Helen Said This 12-inch as a bonus record. Eusa Kills is The Dead C's second album from 1989, released by Flying Nun, the arbiter of the time for all that mattered in New Zealand rock. Considered by many to be their "songs" record, Eusa Kills adds ominous aggression to the abstract sounds of their time. One can hear the direct influence The Dead C had on Sonic Youth at the time--mining deep into the underbelly of music to yield a truly intense and unparalleled sound. This reissue also contains as a bonus record the rare Helen Said This 12-inch from the same recording period. Originally released by Siltbreeze at 33 rpm, this is the first vinyl reprint, and will display improved sound quality at 45 rpm. Packaged in beautiful gatefold Stoughton jackets." |
| 6/19/2007 | Dead C | Future Artists | CD | $10.99 | Ba Da Bing | "In their first new album since 2003's The Damned and last year's double-CD greatest hits behemoth, Vain, Erudite and Stupid, New Zealand's The Dead C return with another uncompromising realization of the finest rock improvisation you'll ever hear. Future Artists contains five tracks of genius drone and barbarous clashing sounds. From the first track, 'The AMM of Punk Rock' through to the last, 'Garage,' their intensity is unyielding, their inventiveness jaw-dropping. It's been twenty years, and The Dead C show no sign of losing their ability to express the surreal and undefined. Long may they prosper." |
| 11/17/2007 | Dead C | Future Artists | DBL LP | $19.99 | Ba Da Bing! | "In their first new album since 2003's The Damned and last year's two-CD greatest hits behemoth, Vain, Erudite & Stupid, New Zealand's The Dead C return with another uncompromising realization of the finest rock improvisation you'll ever hear. Future Artists contains five tracks of genius drone and barbarous clashing sounds. From the first track, "The AMM of Punk Rock" through to the last, "Garage," their intensity is unyielding, their inventiveness jaw-dropping. It's been twenty years, and The Dead C show no sign of losing their ability to express the surreal and undefined. Long may they prosper. Features a bonus track-12:30 song called "The Prisoners." |
| Dead C | Harsh 70's Reality | CD | $13.99 | Siltbreeze | Reissue of the double album on CD minus two tracks from Michael Morley, Bruce Russell and Robert Yeats from 1992. | |
| 6/4/2010 | Dead C | Max Harris | LP | $14.99 | Ba Da Bing | "Max Harris captures the first recordings The Dead C ever made, back in January 1987. Each side displays a different and uniquely raw version of "Max Harris"--reinterpreted both times by a group who can truly say they have never played the same song in any form the same way twice. Anyone who doesn't own one of the original 21 cassette tapes made of these recordings will be hearing them together for the first time. Yes, they've never been on vinyl before, so maybe one can even say this is the tracks' first "real" release. You will be able to feel the slicing tension and drive right through your bones." |
| 12/13/2008 | Dead C | Secret Earth | LP | $15.99 | Ba Da Bing | "The elegance of howling guitar noise was fully realized when The Dead C appeared. For over twenty years now, the trio has continually redefined what rock music is and can sound like, and have inspired Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Wolf Eyes, and Comets On Fire, not to mention the current fertile underground noise scene. The Dead C is the ultimate blues band. But rather than departing from the heartfelt singing of the African-American South, they express the tenants of alienation in society with unrelenting force-a focused soundtrack to accompany Knut Hamsun novels, Samuel Beckett plays, and Ingmar Bergman films. Michael Morley's monotonic vocal moan anchors the inherent isolation of our modern world--nothing is more earnest, nothing sounds so lost. Along the axis of The Dead C's recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh '70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius." |
| Dead C | The White House | CD | $131.99 | Siltbreeze | “Dead C hail from Auckland, New Zealand, which is appropriate since they sound like noise from the edge of the world. The Village Voice has described them as sounding ‘like a garbage truck backing over the abyss’ The White House, their tenth album (the group has been going since 1987) is from the tradition of Lou Reed's 1975 anti-classic Metal Machine Music. More contemporary reference points would have to include Royal Trux's impenetrably weird Twin lnfinitives, or loft primitivist Jad Fair's Half Japanese at their most deviant. ‘Your Hand’ is Dead C's sole concession to anything resembling pop conventions. A stumbling. awkward neoballad, its their only song featuring a 'vocal', or rather a heavily distorted and buried voice mumbling 'Won't you come hold my hand". The rest is an unhinged skree of white nose, as if the group is paying tribute to the feedback on the end of The Velvet Underground's 'European Son’. Dead C have likened themselves to a jazz ensemble, and there's certainly an element of improvisational, freeform jazz at work here, as well as a late 70s No Wave noise aesthetic combined with a harsher take on the current American lo-fi sensibility, There's also a hermetic, insular rural-basement feel that is completely Dead C's own. The White House should warm the hearts of noise advocates everywhere.” – Bruce Tiffee |
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| Dead C | Tusk | CD | $13.99 | Siltbreeze | "There is no mistaking the Dead C's Tusk with the Fleetw`ood Mac album of the same title. Although both sound like experimental magnum opuses, the Dead C is merely doing its usual business. Even so, the standard issue Dead C cuts through the warm experimental arrangements of the Big Mac's Tusk like a wolverine tearing through a pack of poodles. Michael Morley (guitar, feedback), Bruce Russell (guitar, feedback) and Robbie Yeats (drums, guitar, feedback) have stripped most everything musical from their music, leaving a difficult but opaque sound: guitars roar and snarl indecipherably, punctuated by simple, but ever-shifting, drum beats. Vocals occasionally make an appearance, but they are usually buried amidst the fray. The Dead C's music is more a visceral attack upon convention than something to shake your rump to, even when the band plays quietly (as on 'Plane'). Capable of causing headaches, scaring listeners, annoying your annoying neighbors and redefining your threshold for pain, this record is only for the intrepid. Nevertheless, it is this edge that makes the band so loved among the small but loyal group of listeners that buy everything the band releases. The band's tenth full-length, Tusk once again delivers salvation to the faithful. Looking for a thrill? Check out the stupendous 'Head' (10:55) or the more time-friendly 'Half' (5:15)." - CMJ | |
| 9/17/2006 | Dead C | Vain, Erudite and Stupid: Selected Works 1987-2005 | DBL CD | $10.99 | BaDaBing | "There's no 'correct' way to respond to The Dead C's music. With a catalogue that oscillates between subverting traditional song structures and stomping out and obliterating the very notion, New Zealand's Michael Morley, Bruce Russell and Robbie Yeats have continually made the most crushing, expansive and intelligent rock noise ever to be heard. The number of their peers who are also fans -- Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, Comets On Fire, Black Dice -- shows the league in which they play. The Dead C have been creating the greatest of squalls for twenty years now, and to mark the anniversary, Ba Da Bing is proud to present this double CD retrospective, with tracks hand-picked by the band members themselves, collecting old and new faves and out-of-print rarities. All this at a price so nice, you'd think you were picking up a ten-song Supertramp greatest hits package. This release serves long-time fans and the curious alike, as chances are few people have heard everything on these discs. The band chose critical highlights as well as material they felt deserved wider exposure. While classics like "Constellation," "Power," and "Bitcher" are present, so are obscurities like "Mighty" from their Forced Exposure 7-inch, "All Channels Open" from the limited, double-disc DC record and "3 Years" from the Xpressway Pile-Up compilation. The real thrill is listening to the band's development over time, from the deconstructed skeletal rock of their early output to the eventual, cosmic marriage of reason and squalor that is as crushing as it is indescribable." |
| 10/25/2008 | Dead C, The | Secret Earth | CD | $10.99 | Ba Da Bing | "The elegance of howling guitar noise was fully realized when THE DEAD C appeared. For over twenty years now, the trio has continually redefined what rock music is and can sound like, and have inspired Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Wolf Eyes, and Comets On Fire, not to mention the current fertile underground noise scene. The Dead C is the ultimate blues band. But rather than departing from the heartfelt singing of the African-American South, they express the tenants of alienation in society with unrelenting force-a focused soundtrack to accompany Knut Hamsun novels, Samuel Beckett plays, and Ingmar Bergman films. MICHAEL MORLEY's monotonic vocal moan anchors the inherent isolation of our modern world--nothing is more earnest, nothing sounds so lost. Along the axis of The Dead C's recordings, Secret Earth sounds like it was created between Eusa Kills and Harsh '70s Reality. It contains a straightforward (for them) expression of sound, while continually pushing their vast improvisational techniques into a realm of subconscious genius. Ba Da Bing is teaming up this fall with Jagjaguwar to reissue their two essential Flying Nun albums from the eighties-DR503 and Eusa Kills." |
| 2/7/2009 | Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words | Lost in Reflections | LP + 7" | $17.99 | Release the Bats | "As Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, Gothenburg based composer and sound artist Thomas Ekelund has delved into a time-consuming investigation of the complex, multi-faceted world of solitude and introspective darkness. His pallet is strictly greyscale, but the tones he uses are deeper, more honest and more heartfelt than anything else out there. 'Lost in Reflections' is Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words' fourth main album and his definite masterpiece so far. Here, hurt is transformed into absolute beauty. And here, dampened drones make pop art. This, in the words of Thomas Ekelund himself, is how the album came about: 'Eighteen months ago I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, a both vile and many-faced disease that inevitably drapes every aspect of life in shadows that range from shades of grey to coal black. It causes a polarity of mind, everything is either or, never in between. It makes you feel isolated and alone even in the most crowded rooms. Slowly this imagined isolation becomes a real isolation. You do not allow anyone inside the carefully constructed walls, built stone by stone by a mind so completely preoccupied with guilt and shame that you in fact become unhuman (sic). An empty shell containing oozing, black bile and nothing else. You become the disease. I never look into mirrors unless it's absolutely necessary. Because I don't see the reflection of man, I see a specter, a phantasm, a distorted human-like figure to which I can't relate. I never look into the eyes of anyone I talk to because I am terrified that they will see the same apparition. I try to achieve invisibility, but in lack of that I hide my true appearance behind meticulously molded masks. Eighteen months ago, 'Lost in Reflections' was already half a year old. Still it deals with the above mentioned disease and some of the aspects of it. Its strange how the mind can be so aware and unaware at the same time. Now it's two years later. And though I in some ways have a better grasp of my ailment I am nowhere near being rid of it. Most of the time I feel suspended, as if I was waiting for some great revelation of thruth, a stroke of magic that will transform me into someone like you. The person you see in the mirror. A human. It has taken me two years to come to terms with this album. It's in many ways my most accessible work to date, but in other ways my most difficult and demanding. I can't listen to it objectively. In fact I have a hard time listening to it at all.' Split release with iDEAL, When Skies Are Grey and Fang Bomb. Edition of 500 copies. Pro-printed sleeves with printed insides and black innersleeves. Heavy weight vinyl." |
| 7/16/2006 | Dead Machines | Dead End at Olson St. | LP | $13.99 | Ypsilanti Records | "New full-length of Ypsi-electronics... Slick fucking cover on this thing...literally...Full color Olson collage-art w/ a slick coating over it...weird as hell.. Clear vinyl, full color labels. Sounds amazing...looks amazing! RULES!" - Hanson |
| 12/25/2005 | Dead Machines | Futures | 10" | $11.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "Dead Machines is the married duo of John Olsen (Wolf Eyes) and Tova O'Rourke (Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice). Together-with the use of handmade electronics, tape manipulation, and blistering volume-they deliver two squirming heaps of drone and moan that is more restrained than Wolf Eyes though less folked-out than Wooden Wand." |
| 9/30/2005 | Dead Machines | Futures | CD | $11.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "DEAD MACHINES is the duo of JOHN OLSON (WOLF EYES, American Tapes, a million other bands) and TOVA OLSON (ex WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE, also a million other bands). Together--with the use of handmade instruments and electronics, tape manipulation, sax, gong, and loud volume--deliver music by insaniacs for insaniacs." One time pressing of 750 copies. |
| 7/16/2006 | Dead Machines | Live at Tzompantli | LP | $12.99 | Eclipse | The a side was recorded at the first No Fun Festival in March 2004 (Brooklyn) and features a little comedy to start with and then things get heavy...and the second side is the very first VG Kids/Wolf Den Ypsi Street Level throwdown....our set was live on a 6 color shirt screen press and Nate brought a fog machine that blasted out the room and into the parking lot night of the VG complex...near the end you can hear people chucklin cause its absurd..that night was also the first "offical" Sick Llama, and MI debut of Failing Lights...great night....DM had a weird 7 small speaker set up on the heads of the press and spun it slighty for that dead-universe dying electronic creeping blast sound....." Printed covers with the back cover featuring a demented John Olson collage - killer! |
| 7/16/2006 | Dead Machines | Live Dead | CDR | $12.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "Live in columbus early 05, olson on drums and vocals, tovah on drunk junk box/j-tar destroying.... like no dead machines youve heard... imagine the drums from the negative approach 7" being played under some weird synth tape being slowly mangled and eaten with the sound of one bass string being detuned and abused and you're somewhat close to what it sounds like.... one part everything cuts out and both get into some seriously twisted screaming type shit, sounds like they were killing each other up there..... olson in fine mode talking some punk talk.... rumor in town for a while was they had a bunch of LSD in their car on the way to the gig and got pulled over so they had to eat it all, and i hearing this you could believe it.... if youre under 18 we need a letter from your parents to buy this one, lots of anti-cop talk...don't want another "cop killer" on our hands.....edition of 100." |
| 12/25/2005 | Dead Machines | Minister To A Mind Diseased | cassette | $6.99 | Hanson | "Hub and wife deliver another assault of fluttering dead electronics... Moving more quickly than most DM releases...Gutted Horrorbleness sketched by psychic sickness. Could be the soundtrack to Harry Harrison's DEATHWORLD if they ever made it into a movie. Sick Sci-Fi horror nastiness!" Edition of 100 copies. |
| 2/21/2009 | Dead Machines | Plays Invasion of the Body Snatchers | one-sided LP | $10.99 | Arbor | "Michigan heavy domestic-electronic couple Dead Machines always create records that confuse and intrigue. They are the forefathers of broken gear / appliance / wind instrument basement jamming and have their niche dug deep. "Invasion" exists on the borders of existence- room ambiance is present, but the sounds are totally alien. Twisting mixer feedback and found sound source into a twisted collage of life outside the "Pod": harsh and awakening, but at times giving way to the trance of the machine lull. Don't fall asleep. In an edition of 450 LPs with full color pro-printed cardboard sleeves with art by John Olson." |
| 11/21/2009 | Dead Machines | Superstitions of the Sea | CDR | $9.99 | American Tapes | "New duo recordings, new raw horrible minimal instruments, recorded in the late evening, together in like minded waves of pulsing and cut up tangles of personal electric machine speak. Lots of short tracks, all strange. IF this was a poem inside the pages of the amazing NOT ONE OF US dark fiction zine from the 80s, a "manuscript" poem would read like this: "ONION MAN" Skin Unveiling like ribbons of a mummy he scrawls his poems of an inner self that still glows like the light of a lampshade delaminating page by page in the lazaretto....... either that or the illustration to BALD MOUNTAIN DEMON....amazing zine...Color covers, edition of 40." |
| 6/11/2006 | Dead Machines | The Last Pallbearer | cassette | $9.99 | Heavy Tapes | |
| 7/16/2006 | Dead Machines | The Night Callers | LP | $15.99 | Blossoming Noise | "Brand new LP from husband-and-wife duo John (Wolf Eyes) & Tovah Olson (Wooden Wand...) left field horror drone, flutes and garbage electronics. Cover art by John Olson. Limited to 500 hand numbered copies on 140gram pink marbled vinyl." Out of print. |
| 3/20/2007 | Dead Machines | The Night Terrors Vol. 2 | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Chondritic Sound | "Second installment in this not-so-nice series of explorations by this husband & wife duo. Starts with cavernous howl and quickly moves into a series of sputtering and chirping tones mixed with split action reverberations. Painted 24 minute cdr, color art & spraypaint on colored paper." Edition of 140 copies. |
| 3/20/2007 | Dead Machines | The Night Terrors vol. 3 | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Chondritic Sound | "Third split spunk and reverb junk disc from inzane studios. More churning, thumping tonal grit but mixed throughout with blown-out organ blasts and absolutely decayed ambience. nighttime interruptions. Painted 24 minute cdr, color art & spraypaint on colored paper." Edition of 140 copies. |
| 2/26/2006 | Dead Machines | untitled | 7" | $25.99 | AA | One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. Cool art on the record. |
| 2/11/2006 | Dead Machines & Double Leopards | Fuck Victoriaville | one-sided LP | $49.99 | American Tapes / Heavy Tapes | "This one-side slab of vinyl document the meeting of the Double Leopards and the Dead Machines, two noise spewing heavy weights, at a concert in the great white north. In their previous collaborations the Double Leopards sound has seemed to overpower the sound of their sparring partner. This has left other group in question accenting the Double Leopards unfolding composition instead of influencing it's direction. Upon first listen one may think the Double Leopards collaborative history has repeated itself. The first few minutes of the collaborative jam are undoubtedly the trademark sound of the Double Leopards. Slowly a menacing tone begins to creep in, a green noxious gas seeping under the door of the Double Leopards pulsating haze of moaning bass. This slasher movie creep is undoubtedly and influence of the Dead Machines, who exhibit the utmost patients with their ability to gradually assert their presence in this track. From this introduction, the track is a true collaborations, seeing the two groups join to form a unique sound which can't be pinned to either. An eruption of clattering percussion breaks out, creating a sound whose closest comparison could be the darkest NNCK invocation you could conjure. By the end, it does not even enter the listener's mind that they are listening to collaboration, and one can only hope that more material documenting meetings of these six individuals is made available in the future." (RB) - indieworkshop.com |
| 12/24/2005 | Dead Machines / Scientific Explanation of Despair | split | CDR | $15.99 | "Limited to 167 copies. The cdr is housed in a hand screened, machine sewn leather pouch designed and painstakingly made by Larry Hernandez. If you have ever gotten some weird tapes or cds with awesome handmade packaging its probably from Larry. Dead Machines is John Olson from Wolf Eyes with his wife Tovah rocking out on home made electronics if you didn't already know." | |
| 2/26/2006 | Dead Machines / The Haunting | Private Live | LP | $13.99 | Gods of Tundra | "Red vinyl, edition of 300. One night last winter, Dead Machines and The Haunting performed a gig where the sole audience was the other band (and not cause no one showed up..no one else was invitied). This split LP is a document of this cold night of Distant Sound. Dead Machines began the night with possibly their strangest, most obscure set to date. The two players are Sound and No Sound. More accurately: what I have always thought the sound of a dying machine would be. The Haunting's set is equally as slow. Haze fades in and out. Talk about living rooms and fields and things that are far. Haunting gigs are very few and far inbetween and this happens to be their first. We all felt kinda weird afterwords, but it also totally ruled. Like we all had sex or something. Ewww." |
| 10/12/2004 | Dead Machines, The | Human Brain Wasting | LP | $14.99 | Ecstatic Peace | “Dead Machines is the Ypsilanti lovecore of Tovah O¹Rourke (Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice, Golden Calves Money Band) and John Olson (Wolf Eyes, Sweepers, Violent Ramp). Human Brain Wasting Syndrome is two sides of sick-bliss junk machine improv counterplaying a feminized Black Vomit vibe with a gonad butter dish of bohunk. Olson is insane with stapled skull O-rot and Tovah is resplendent in natural delecta-noise. This is ‘fuck the cops’ at the center of the universe. Packaged betwixt cardboard sleeves w/ melting psychosis Olson art. Buried...alive.” |
| 3/20/2007 | Dead Moon | Unknown Passage: Dead Moon Story | DVD | $20.99 | Magic Umbrella | "This dual layer NTSC dvd includes the 88-minute "theatrical version" of the film and an additional 90 minutes of live performances, interviews, deleted scenes and archival footage. A fascinating documentary glimpse at the lives of these reclusive underground legends. Utterly unpretentious, organically wayward, homespun, and purposeful without being overly sentimental, this film fits its subject perfectly. Documenting the trajectory of the Portland trio Dead Moon (including the prior solo and garage-rock careers of Fred Cole), Unknown Passage is the ultimate punk-rock feel-good flick; there isn't a band that better embodies the sounds and ideals of its genre." |
| 1/1/2008 | Dead Peach | Psycle | LP | $29.99 | Nasoni | "Heavy Fuzz Psych and Stoner Rock from Italy. Seven acid-dripping tracks with loads of late 60s sonic Detroit garage rock influences, prominent early 70s psychedelic Space sound escapades and sluggish Stoner Rock feel. Blue Cheer & The Stooges meet Mudhoney & Spacemen 3 meet The Heads & Dead Meadow. The artwork is another amazing work by Mallues art labs." |
| 1/30/2010 | Dead Peasant Insurance | Cleveland Scum Skulls | c35 cassette | $7.99 | Pizza Night | "DPI is one of Cleveland's most long standing noise-rock bands. Young Sibling Veterans of Ohio Sludge, Amanda and Wyatt Howland shred guitars in the same no rules exploratory fashion as they have been since the 1995. In fact, Wyatt explained that they didn't even begin "tuning" until 2001 ( which I don't believe they really do at all to this day). Amanda also provides stream of conciousness vocal battering which rounds out the full blasting quartet. The guitar's pair up against walls of electronics from Ryan Kuehn (Dr. Quinn, Hot Air Balloon Ride, Jesus Kills) and Jguy Laughlin's one man blasted free-jazz drum olympiad style. Absolutely head-spinning gunk. This tape features recordings with collaborator, Ben Osborne (Rot Ton Bone, Silver Pearl and Tusco Terror). Pro dubbed. Edition of 60." |
| 8/2/2008 | Dead Raven Choir | Cask Strength Black Metal | DBL CD | $17.99 | Supernal Music | "Reissue of the Sheath And Knife, Grand Ravishing Extravaganza, Sevenfold Songs Of Death and Sturmfuckinglieder CD-R EPs. Remastered by Weasel Walter. Released in two formats: as a triple LP box set on Weird Forest and as a double CD on Supernal Music. This collects all the black metal recordings of DEAD RAVEN CHOIR from 2001 through 2004. Here's Weird Forest's description: The most insane black metal release ever !!! Three, yes three vinyl lps of the harshest sounding evil, atmospheric off-kilter black metal. Call it black metal folk. The loudest noisest crazy insane sounding blasts of skree with strange folky melodic undertones of banjo, cello, mandolin, and percussions and the most frightening vocals ever dared to be recorded. Many traditional folk songs shrouded in blasts of white noise armageddon. For fans of twisted, unique, raw black metal with a very bent edge. Pray (no, commit ritual sacrifice) to the underworld that your stereo survives! This release compiles the "Sturmfucklinglieder", "Grand Ravishing Extravaganza", "Sevenfold Songs Of Death", and "Sheath And Knife" EPs, all previously released in very small pressings and all long, long gone!" Triple lp box still available, too. |
| 2/11/2004 | Dead Raven Choir | Goating Shapelessness Theatrical Wolves | 3" CDR | $8.99 | Pseudoarcana | "Goating[...] is sort of controversial in its contents - the first track is a manifesto written by a Futurist poet on the beauty of war, which is bad enough, but it was written in the 1930s in Italy which makes it Fascist. (Even if Mussolini himself would think that manifesto goes entirely too far.) Not anything I agree with, but I couldn't pass it up - I came across it in an old book on international relations and found it fascinatingly creepy and bizarre. The last track is even worse, being a jazzy cover of an early 1900s neoclassical song. It's really normal and melodic and all that. Pretty lousy by either jazz or classical standards - It should frighten avant-garde people, though". - Smolken |
| 2/12/2008 | Dead Raven Choir | My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind | CD | $15.99 | Aurora Borealis | "D. Smolken's (Wolfmangler, Garlic Yarg) most notorious alias, Dead Raven Choir has built a veritable army of fans through innumerable CD-R and micro label re-leases. Blending everything from folk to noise on top of a solid foundation of double-bass-driven metal, this new release features covers of songs by Townes Van Zandt, Cole Porter, and Richard Thompson. If you can get your mind squarely around that, you've taken the first step toward understanding why Dead Raven Choir's ever-growing legion of fans have remained so loyal." |
| 8/2/2008 | Dead Raven Choir | Selenoclast Wolves | CD | $13.99 | God is Myth | "The final acoustic recordings of DEAD RAVEN CHOIR released by God Is Myth Records on CD and distributed by Cold Spring Records. Some tracks feature instrumental or vocal contributions by Matt Rosin. Each poem by a different poet. The earlier album Lesbian Corpse Wolves (with contributions by Matt Rosin and Emily Salvatierra) is included as bonus tracks. Everything has been remastered by Frederic Arbour (Cyclic Law)." "Though Dead Raven Choir manoeuvres here within the more restrained corners of the BM spectrum, the spirit that pervades ?Selenoclast Wolves? is undeniably black. This long-awaited album from the enigmatic, ethereal conjurer Smolken comprises six brand new odes as well as the entire nine-track ?Lesbian Corpse Wolves? album reworked as a generous bonus. The latter was originally released on CDr in 2003, limited to a mere 30 copies so all 15 tracks hereon will represent a new experience to most listeners. For those who don?t know, the individual behind DRC - Smolken - is a schizoid performer, alternating between raw black metal and avant-garde, neo-folk. 'Selenoclast Wolves' focuses on the latter facet of his muse, with lyrics borrowed from a host of eclectic poets, including pugilist and ear-biter extraordinaire Mike Tyson ('I am Not a Recluse'). You should know already that you are in the realm of the truly bizarre Residing once more in his native Poland after spending some time in Texas, Smolken is one of the underground's most prolific creators. He allegedly recorded about ten albums in the four years leading up to 2004, all of which had the word 'Wolves' included somewhere in the title and most of which were available only on CDr, that mainstay of non-commerciality. DRC also released a triple vinyl retrospective collection of its entire black metal catalogue last year but this vanished quicker than a condom in a whorehouse. Eerier than Mick Jagger's pulling power and creepier than a paedophile's smile, the ghostly rumblings of 'Selenoclast Wolves' are designed to fuck with your mind. Deceptively accessible, this is nonetheless as unique a dosage of extreme dementia as you could wish to encounter. The promotional jargon stresses folk influences and the presence of acoustic guitars, bass fiddle, troll cittern, cello banjo, mandolin and piano (as well as many spoken passages and the overall earthy vibe) backs this up emphatically - but another accurate description of DRC's bewitching output as evidenced here might be Unplugged Black or Acoustic Black. It's (I refer generally to the first six songs) definitely got the cold dirty heart of black metal but without any emphasis on electrics, pounding percussion or aggression, leading to a bizarre mix of pagan tunes, laid-back sensibilities and naked angst. Delightfully understated and carefree, opening shots 'The Silence' and 'January' work subtly at the emotions, setting a surreal tone that magnifies and amplifies the further we venture into the myriad chambers of Smolken's mind. Though the waters are calm, a sense of menace lurks close to the surface - not unlike the movie 'Deliverance' - and there is a foreboding feeling that all is genuinely not well. Closer to Nick Cave than Darkthrone, 'Selenoclast Wolves' possesses a seedy, slimy underbelly that erupts during the disturbing Tyson-inspired rant that ends the first movement of this release. Like Iron Mike in his physical prime, this one will lay you out cold. There's a clear change of tact for the nine bonus tracks, which are even more subdued. With abundant female vocals, some of these songs remind me of PJ Harvey, or Bjork perhaps. Antimatter or The Gathering even... There are also strong hints of William Blake-era Ulver perceptible in both male and female deliveries. As the pace drops close to that of a snail's funeral, a multifaceted volume shows its two faces. That's Smolken for you. Quite the trickster." - Gerald Robinson, Vampire Magazine |
| 8/4/2007 | Dead Traveller | Outside My Window Vol.1 | CDR | $7.99 | editions_zero | "which are the tamest sounds you might have ever heard? at least that was the question a friend was asking in an email totally bored from his daily routine.. don't really know i said... suddenly one day i woke up from a drone coming from the opposite block of flats. in the beginning i thought it must have been jason of 1000+1 tilt visiting his parents who live nearby and found the time to practise a p.s. stamps back set. it turned out to be the workers & machines who were working on a newly built block of flats.. still sleepy, turned on my tape recorder and started recording the drones that were in the air. a couple of days earlier i had found myself wiling to record new sounds to use as background noises for upcoming 'aux' sets so the march of the 25th of march sounded a cool idea. however accidentally i had my sony's tape recorder voice activation system on so the result was more of a crappy cut up bullshit that the march itself... to make things worse while being at mecha/orga's place to cdr transfer the tapes was carrying a cdr too w/ sounds recorded in my olympus w-10 recorder. accidentally in it also were some field recordings done back in 09/05 when we did a couple live sets in skopje. one of them including a short walk i did on one bridge of vardar river under which a mini fest was set, that time 'ps stamps back' playing so you can hear his drones while am walking from to the other side of the bridge. 'hey motherfucker, actually this recording is a ps stamps back as he's playing and you simply recorded him during your walk'... 'naw! its neither ps stamps back nor dead traveller sucker. if there's someone to be asked for possible crappy 'rights' then that one is the bridge and no one else as both we were hosted on it playing & recording...' .. and ends w/ an extract of another walk in a park in my town after our return sometime in mid september 05... probably to those who besides their routine wanna listen to more tame, tedius, crappy phonographies... or kinda like that..." |
| 7/16/2009 | Dead Wafer | Bionic Lawn Vol. 1 | CDR | $10.99 | High Spirits | "Wafey jams alone in the basement. Mostly electronic instrument minupulatuions with some drum machines. Psychedelic." |
| 2/4/2007 | Dead Wafer | New | CDR | $9.99 | Maim & Disfigure | "a bit thicker and more expansive than the 'ass wipe' c20, the new dead wafer has more of the sound of being extremely high in the early AM instead of being completely brain dead and in subtle, barely moving pain.... ltd to 50" |
| 2/4/2007 | Dead White | Holy Deprivation | CDR | $8.99 | Arbor | "Dead White is a one-man dream team comprised of drone maker/dreamscaper, Andy Brack. Whirling loops of sound bounce off of the walls this dude creates with his voice and guitar. Too many muted fire alarms must blare through Andy’s hallway while he is snoozing. Three tracks and just short of forty minutes, this recording splatters the sound canvas with aural landscapes; evoking images of really big bird cages and sacred Tibetan caves. Comes in six color silkscreened fold out posters by Belgian wizard Jelle Crama. Keep (dead) noise alive(in an edition of 130)." |
| 2/4/2007 | Deadnotes | Deadnotes | CDR | $13.99 | Kindling | "Busby/Carchesio/Craig kick out 18 fractured circus tunes and 1 death funk jam with barely a breath taken. Trained in the school of error and coursing with electric energy - instantly hummable miniatures for post-punk moondogs." “Fabulously jerky bursts of jagged guitar, drums and trumpet - imagine if Maher Shalal Hash Baz tried to make mariachi music with only half their band members. Other tracks recall Morricone in miniature. Rough and utterly great - actually, post-punk mariachi ain't a bad idea!” – Gayle Brogan, Melody Bar. |
| 9/17/2009 | Deadnotes, The | Orange Trumpet | LP | $13.99 | Soft Abuse | "The Deadnotes are Eugene Carchesio, Stuart Busby and Leighton Craig, from Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. Armed with an arsenal of trumpet, guitar, drums and casio, the trio make a glorious, semi-spontaneous sort of eccentric pop music that’s drawn comparisons (rightly or wrongly) to the likes of Ennio Morricone, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, The Magic Band, Moondog and even The Minutemen. Since their formation in 2005, the band has written and recorded hundreds of miniature odes to this & that, some of which have seen release in limited CDR editions on Craig’s Kindling imprint. The 30 tracks that comprise Orange Trumpet, the trio's defining statement, are amongst their earliest creations. Trained in the 'school of error,' The Deadnotes’ fractured take on pop form touches upon the sounds of their brethren in Brisbane, from the experimental (The Lost Domain, et al.), to skewed pop (Small World Experience, et al.), to the city’s moody punk past (The Five Minutes, et al.). More accurately, Orange Trumpet plays like a minimalist, mariachi-informed version of Grow-Up’s The Best Thing; it’s brimming with ideas & presented with loose abandon. A jaunty melancholy that echoes Tori Kudo and Tenniscoats, is present throughout, regardless if the boys are shuffling thru haunted dirges, garage-y workouts, or other points in between. Carshesio's classic recordings as DNE are undeniably a touchtone here as well...Orange Trumpet is released in an edition of 400 numbered LP copies with full color jackets." - label. |
| dEALERS | s/t | CD | $10.99 | low orbit | "A lofi-improv-psych-drone romp through the world of thc and red wine" | |
| 5/16/2010 | Deas & Denton | Deas & Denton | CDR | $10.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "I'm excited to be releasing this debut of thorbbing feedback and riff based destruction from this new duo of Cameron Deas and Adam Denton. This is one long dark 32 minute nightmare with some serious guitar and feedback abuse... I guess this will be pretty unexpected for some of Cam's fans, but its a good insight into the ever changing ventures and willingness to explore sound from this young artist. Professionally manufactured CDRs, limited to 100 copies with cover artwork by Adrianne Neil." |
| 4/10/2010 | Deas, Cam | Blind Chance | LP | $20.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Fantastic new LP from Cam Deas, which was issued in a tiny run CDR for his recent euro tour with Jack Allett earlier this year. This is a slightly different release from the previous LP and split LP with Spoono, essentially this one long improvised acoustic freak-out. Loose frequent and infrequent twangs to pure whirlwinds of aggressive string assaults and finger shredding plucking. This still retains Cam's signature traditional playing somehow, especially the more intense heavier moments. A solid recording. Limited to 500 copies on heavyweight vinyl in pro-printed fold over covers with photography by Cam and printed labels. Pressed at the superb Record Industry in the Netherlands." |
| 6/27/2009 | Deas, Cam | Untitled Blues pts.1 and 2 | 7" | $6.99 | Great Pop Supplement | "Stunning 45 from Sheffield based Cam Deas- a debut 45 on wax. 2 heavy strummed blues across 2 sides of vinyl- best approached as 1 long piece. Sure, the names of Fahey, Basho, Blackshaw, Rose etc spring to mind, but this has a raw, slow building presence and an expressive approach all of it's own. A potent brew- perhaps a departure from recent work on labels like Blackest Rainbow and Dead Pilot, released as a pressing of 300 numbered, date stamped copies in linen card, fine art sleeves with sticker." |
| 4/10/2009 | Deas, Cam / Spoono | split | LP | $17.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Limited edition tour LP for their upcoming joint tour across Europe. One side for each of these amazing UK guitarists. Cam has two tracks, one beautiful long guitar piece followed by an insane electronics track, that sounds almost like Autechre's more weird static work. Spoono is Jack Allett who is also half of Towering Breaker. His side consists of three incredible tracks that will no doubt prick up the ears of fans of Jack Rose. Limited to 350." |
| 2/4/2007 | Death Chants | Valley of Light | CDR | $10.99 | Cauliflower Dreams | "this disc will send you to the moon and back. 2 loooong tracks that sing about the deepest river on earth, your mind." Maryanne Amacher plays piano on the first track. |
| 7/14/2007 | Deathroes | Final Expense | LP | $15.99 | No Fun Productions | "Deathroes is Gerritt and Sixes. Total Auditory destruction by these west coast veterans debut collaboration LP. Dark psychedelic drone, walls of sounds, electronic impossibility. Tectonic plates shift and rain of lava annihilates ones own soul along with everyone else's. Enligthment and new death-born feelings combined with hallucinations so sharp and vivid that they lead to the disintegration of all senses. Salvation, elation, Truth?-no, only the final expense! Split Release with Misanthropic Agenda. Limited to 500 copies." |
| Debris’ | Static Disposal | LP | $19.99 | Anopheles Records | "High quality clear vinyl, thick jacket limited to 1000 copy reissue of the 1976 LP, featuring original artwork, new notes and one previously unreleased cut exclusive to this edition, a stunning echo-plex fueled take of the Stooges’ ‘Real Cool Time’ that is radically different to the version included on the Anopheles 004 CD." | |
| Decaer Pinga | Green Conclussion | CDR | $12.99 | U-Sound | “Dora Doll & Dylan Nyoukis start this volume off with a fine round of Scottish ping-pong or maybe just Pong in the Stereo Scope. Layers of magnetic refuse slide in once and awhile reminded you to dub this fucker to tape when you're through. Next we move into the kitchen rattlesnake dishes and some queer boys enjoying each other. This amazing audio collage has sneaky sound imbedded within. Live excerpts, guests like Rat Bastard, Jeff Fuccillo, Neil Campbell, and sharp-witted humor. Some of which may have to be decoded by prolonged exposure. Essential so step on up!” | |
| 3/26/2006 | Decaer Pinga | Plate Of Failure | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "2 tracks. 1 is a high orbit clutter mong out with DP joined by Sticky Foster, the whole touchy/feely racket is mixed into putrid mindloaf by one Bad Ronald. Track 2 is a twilight gurner, lubricated sound collage with guests voices (including Hitomi Arimoto broadcasting truth!)." |
| 3/26/2006 | Decaer Pinga | The Brown Mouth Downer | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "DP 5tet of Dylan Nyoukis & Dora Doll with Karen Constance (smack music 7), Rhian Thompson (ckdh) and Drew Demeter (withdrawal method) recorded in Edinburgh in 2004. A snippet from a sweaty ear rot session rescued from Demeter's erase button finger." |
| 9/29/2003 | Decaer Pinga / Monotract | split | 7" | $4.99 | Gameboy | "When the junk noise of crank sturgeon manages to collide with noise-rocking of a load records band, it's pretty hard to do any wrong. for the unknowing, that is just a description, not what monotract actually is. whatever that may be is still unknown. one known thing is their side of this split was recorded live in japan and it is awesome. decaer's side is a little slower and more psychedelic than the other releases I have of their's. doesn't sound out of place compared to any of them though. another fine british export. this is co-released with breathmint and take me to my car records. i have no idea what they are doing with them, but all gameboy copies are officially photocopied on yellow paper. limited to 300. here's to hoping monotract gets signed to load and invites sturgeon to be their fourth member…" |
| 8/30/2009 | Deceh | Deceh | LP | $20.99 | Important | "Limited edition of 400. Handmade letterpressed covers. Deceh is a fine drone quartet utilizing traditional ethnic drone instruments as well as vintage analog synthesizers. This record was recorded on a centered room microphone as the group sat in a perfect square around it. This method of recording perfectly captured the focused intimacy of the moment, complete with the crackling bellows of an ancient harmonium. Bringing strict discipline, control and patience, they're able to achieve densely transcendental focus in their work. Imagine taking three notes from Terry Riley and stretching them out into pulsating 20 minute sublime pieces. An obvious reference point might be the Yoshi Wada Earth Drones reissues but somehow even more transcendent. Fine drone. Acoustic & analogue. Deceh." |
| 6/30/2010 | Deep Magic | Soul Vibration | cassette | $5.99 | DNT | "This ambient voyage will take you through time and space, float you past the constellations, and softly place you on a far distant planet where all of your troubles & worries are easily forgotten and every muscle in your body begins to slowly relax. Your only concern is for the moment the music stops, as you know it will catapult you back into reality. Edition of 100 pro-dubbed blue-shelled cassettes with cardstock covers designed by Mr. Gray." |
| 7/10/2008 | Deep, The | Psychedelic Moods | DBL LP | $34.99 | Fall Out | "Previously reissued on CD by Fallout, now issued on deluxe LP format as well; 180 gram virgin vinyl. The Deep were a Philadelphia-based studio-only band whose one and only album, Psychedelic Moods was released to critical acclaim in 1966. Recorded in a darkened Philadelphia studio one night, this pioneering album was the first album ever to have the word "psychedelic" in its title and is well-established as an acid classic. Invented and produced by Mark Barkan and Rusty Evans and the legendary David Bromberg, whose playing credits include just about everybody from Bob Dylan to Jerry Jeff Walker, Psychedelic Moods is hailed as the very first album with a consistent psychedelic theme running throughout. Presented here in both its mono and stereo mixes (which have fascinating differences), it still sounds truly unique and is a must for all fans of true American psychedelia." - FE |
| 2/28/2006 | Deepkiss 720 | Assembled by… | CDR | $8.99 | Curor Recordings | "Jason Williams (aka Deepkiss 720) is one of UK noise music’s best-kept secrets. By his own admission, he tries not to record or play live, 'but things happen.' His recent discography includes a sold-out picture-disc LP for Harbinger Sound, but Curor can boast his debut release, the 'Arse Decks Barry White w/ Sludgehammer' cassette from way back in 1997. (Look out for a limited reissue soon.) We’re pretty chuffed to welcome him back to the label. 'Assembled by...' is typically eclectic and terminally unclassifiable: a single 54-minute track of genre-bending plunderphonics, noise guitar jam and general sonic mayhem. High point for us are the two live sets with operatic soprano Madam Velia, recorded at Brighton’s Start Gallery, which push the levels of distortion on Jessica Rylan and Josh Hydeman's 'Thrasher/Princess' cassette even further into the red. (What do they teach them at opera school these days?) Shamefully we weren't there, but we understand that most gallery-goers preferred to experience proceedings from a safe distance on the other side of the window. CD-R comes in a white-tray slimline jewelcase that sets off Jase’s garish artwork a treat. Deepkiss 720 will be embarking on a US tour this spring with Putrefier, Smell & Quim and Onomatopoeia." |
| 10/9/2003 | Del | Der Lehnstuhl Sagt Alles | CDR | $12.99 | Pseudoarcana | "A re-release of the limited edition LP on Ohm, ‘Der Lehnstuhl Sagt Alles’ features 3 epic live tracks from Norway’s Del. Drums, guitars, and electronics create an edgy and exciting racket that is up towards the ecstatic end of the ‘free’ drone-rock spectrum." |
| 1/17/2010 | Del | Grim Ace | c30 cassette | $9.99 | Gold Soundz | "A live recording streched over 2 sides from Lasse Marhaug & cohorts, no rest for the wicked here.. Sprawling, octane-fueled sludgy noiserock and there's no room for air.. A relentless attack on the senses, I have rarely heard them as full-on as this. Punk rock like nothing else, this recording from 2006 blackens all frequencies and leaves no room for thought, not that you need any either... File alongside Hototogisu, Skullflower and dictaphone tapes of Sunn O)) at double speed...Edition of 50 copies in standard cassette cases." |
| 9/24/2002 | Delcloo, Claude & Arthur Jones | Africanasia | LP | $16.99 | Get Back / BYG Actuel | "Drummer Claude Delcloo and alto sax player Arthur Jones focus on the fusion of Asian melodies and African rhythms with the help of giants Kenneth Tercade, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Clifford Thornton, Malachai Favors, and Earl Freeman. Recorded on August 22nd, 1969 at Studio Saravah in Paris. Packaged in a gatefold sleeve with the original artwork, and pressed on 180-gram HQ vinyl." |
| 8/9/2003 | Dellaria, Sam / Adam Sonderberg | Fold Your Arms and the World Will Stop | CD | $9.99 | Absurd | "Fold Your Arms and the World Will Stop sounds, as its title suggest, like a bizarre game scored by Sam Dellaria and Adam Sonderberg and is their third encounter (personally in consider it as their most intense) since their 'signal hill' debut back in 1998 and 2000's '64 Squares' (both were issued on Sonderberg's Longbox Recordings - scored & assembled out of various recordings the duo extensively did within late 2002 the stunning result is giving you the feeling that slowly folding arms move like the soundscapes presented on this cdr, intense ambiences that slowly vary in mood & lower while listening in density & intensity to stop while arms have folded. A really frenetic trip through Dellaria's & Sonderberg's visionary world. Limited edition of 141 copies. |
| 11/2/2008 | Deluxx | Zwanolski | CDR | $7.99 | Blueberry Honey | "Over an hour of recordings from 1993, the earliest moments of this astounding Boston duo featuring MARK PERRETTA (Subskin Cables) and Bob Fay (Sebadoh). This record brings up fond memories of everything from MONTEZUMA BABY DUCK to the massively predictive and overlooked GOLDEN AXES II album. And perhaps there could be some influence of these two masterpieces on ZWALNOSKI if not for the fact that IT WAS RECORDED THREE YEARS EARLIER!! This CDR serves as evidence of just how deep the waters of the early 1990s greater BOSTON ran. Catch the virus you already been sucking on." |
| 4/22/2009 | Demons | Frozen Fog | CD | $9.99 | AA Records | "In the winter of 2005 Steve Kenney (Isis and the Werewolves, Pterodactyls) and myself (Nate Young - Wolf Eyes) began Demons. Steve rescued his Pro One from New Orleans Katrina aftermath. The synthesizer was moldy, had a bad power cord and a horrible buzz (I broke it after our first gig). I played various homemade electronic devices, rewired radios, feedback, etc. Later that week I bought a Pro One as well. Mine had no working keyboard and, of course, a horrible buzz (a grounding issue). What we found ourselves doing was not so much making music with the Pro One but rather just turning them on and listening to the synthesizer play itself. I recorded our sessions and we called it Demons. Our synthesizers are still some what broke." CD version of sold out lp. |
| 11/21/2009 | Demons | Untitled | 8" lathe | $20.99 | Alt.Vinyl | "2 cuts from the unreleased soundtrack to some colour-saturated 70's Italian horror movie. Extended Ligeti-esque tones and sparse pulses of electric breath. Think Life Destroyer meets Hatred." 8" clear square uncut peter king lathe, limited to 100 copies only! |
| 5/29/2008 | Demons / Hatred | split | LP | $11.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | "A split album featuring two NATE YOUNG (WOLF EYES) projects. DEMONS features Young along with STEVE KENNEY (PTERODACTYLS, WEREWOLVES). HATRED features Young, Kenney and SPENCE BRYANT." |
| 7/14/2007 | Demons / Vertonen | split | LP | $11.99 | SNSE | Edition of 500 copies. "Here we have a straight-up SYNTH RECORD. The Demons duo of Nate Young (Wolf Eyes) and Steve Kenney contirbute a side recorded live in Chicago in the late winter of '07. And it sounds very much like late winter in Chicago of 2007 - psychedelic and grey. Vertonen's side doesn't fuck around at all, what with all this aggressive harshness and shit. Really never heard the dude like this before. It's like he's all pissed off that, after seven years of trying, he still hasn't contracted AIDS.... sheesh! Co-released with the saintly C.I.P. record label." |
| 3/20/2007 | Demoon Skirt | Fag Tapes Style | cassette | $8.99 | Fag Tapes | "J. Coorz Olson with something melted in his silverware trap rat brain. recorded through a refrigerator and toster oven. amazing sounds! edition 77." |
| 1/24/2009 | Dendoshi | Dendoshi 2 | LP | $25.99 | Planam | "Dendoshi is Keith Connolly (No Neck Blues Band), Raymond Dijkstra (Asra), Dave Nuss (No Neck Blues Band) and Timo Van Luyk (Af Ursin, In Camera). Dendoshi: 'he who comes to propagate the ceremony' or 'missionary' (Japanese). There had actually been a previous incarnation of Dendoshi (hence Dendoshi 2), which was a large group performance in New York which concentrated on elucidating the memories of a dead tree which had been re-contextualized as a sculptural exhibit. Some thematic reference: The name Dendoshi originates from the work of Japanese filmmaker Kyoshi Kurosowa, whose films also inspired the content of the first performance. When the opportunity presented itself for Connolly, Dijkstra, Nuss and Van Luyk to come together to make a session, it was the perfect opportunity to realize Dendoshi not as a one-off performance on a theme, but as a recurring ritual in development. The resulting music widened the conceptual reflection of the band, bringing to mind the history and ideas of Franz Mesmer. Mesmer, the eighteenth century Austrian spiritualist healer, was among the first to put forth the theory of what he termed 'animal magnetism,' regarding a universal fluid which permeates all matter and can be influenced by the will, not dissimilar to some of Eliphas Levi's concepts. What seemed to set Mesmer apart was an attention to mood and atmosphere, an aesthetic component to what were scientifically quite dubious theories, which lent to his work an aura of portent - thus the parallel with the music captured as Dendoshi 2. Reflecting the qualities that all four musical sensibilities had in common, the album is a statement upon the ephemeral nature of atmosphere and will, and the relation of reverie to oblivion as opposed to ecstasy. The symbol, or mark on the front cover created by Connolly came intuitively and without revision. Its applied function is that of distinction rather than that of protection or as a seal. It was first applied to the photograph by Clarence H. White form 1904, where the first resona oblivion as applied to Dendoshi was found. By applying the mark Connolly is ceremonializing the image, thus rendering it distinct from its original form, not as an appropriation, but as a recognition. The other images followed, and each of them was recognized instantly without having to search. The last was Vermeer's image from Van Luyk's basement, and upon receiving this, the series of 4 inserts was complete. There is a trace of fear and a sensation of suspended time in these images which suits the music very well. Edition limited to 300 copies with gold cover." |
| DeNunzio, Rob | Window Music | CD | $8.99 | Public Eyesore | Recorded 1.31.00 - 2.10.00 | |
| 12/24/2005 | Der Draaigitaar | Der FeuerwehrschlauchanschluB Ist Kaputt CDR | CDR | $12.99 | Audiobot | "Der Draaigitaar's demonic mission is to ride the neck of a four headed guitar serpent and drag it's collosal weight down under into a slow motion void of dizzying feedback and thick drone fog. Once the mesmersing creature starts to rotate. no escape route is safe. Seriously dark guitar ritual as in dead birds on stick. drenched in reverb. No riffs getting stuck in your head. just a pure beam of creeping ambience. Just never give the wood wizard to the toy seller. First chapter in Audiobot's on-going Improvised Music series. Start to deal with it... Limited to only 100 copies. packaged in silkscreened A5 cardboard covers by Iris Rombouts." |
| 12/13/2008 | Der TPK (Teenage Panzercorps) | Games for Slaves | LP | $16.99 | Siltbreeze | "Der TPK liken the sound of their second aural onslaught to "[The battle of] Kursk, second day." Who among us cannot relate to the largest tank battle in history? While the comparison may not be an easy nut to crack, the reference, specifically to the second day, is telling: the wonton destruction that unfolded on that field of battle in an attempt to break the Soviet bulge cannot be overstated. For the Germans, it was unmitigated tragedy. So by comparing Games for Slaves to this particular point in the offensive, Der TPK makes clear that album number two is more brooding and melancholy than Harmful Emotions. Bunker Wolf's menacing lupine-schrei is as formidable as ever, but the band has moved from the blitzkreig, almost hardcore-like pace of their Siltbreeze debut to a more Mancunian post-punk sound (angular guitars, rhythmic dirges), crossed with the luftschutszbunker psychedelia of German Oak (especially on the organ-laden tracks). No one does it in 2008 like Teenage Panzercorps. Games for Slaves is more beauteous gas on an already raging and spectacular fire. Edition of 500 with insert and single-sided, silk-screened, black-and-white cover." |
| 4/29/2004 | Destroy All Monsters | Backyard Monster Tube & Pig | CD | $12.99 | End is Here | 68 minute remix of the BACKYARD MONSTER TUBE cassette release from 1995 with a 22 minute bonus track recorded live in Tokyo Japan at the DEEP Gallery, 1996. CD in a 3 color folder, packaged in plastic resealing 'virtual jap-pak' The text of PIG is included taken from an anti-religious rant found on the streets of LA. Time Stereo packaging - one of the best DAM recordings, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, edition of 1000." "PIG is a world turned upside down…. They've discarded melody, structure, pacing and (sob) Niagara, for a bout of free instrumental amnesia…they reveal a liking for atonal lurch, metallic scrape and largely unknown samples…" - THE PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE, #33 |
| 5/14/2004 | Destroy All Monsters | Detroit Oratorio | CD | $12.99 | End is Here | "The Destroy All Monsters art collective present a new CD of their work recorded live in Rotterdam, Holland and Vienna, Austria. Entitled the Detroit Oratorio, it collects works with a cultural bias and homage toward their homeland, Detroit. This is the group's seventh full length release. The first track features a twenty minute ambient opening duet performed by Charlemagne Palestine and Scanner (Robin Rimbaud). The CD is full length, with 11 tracks. The front and back cover feature two of the Detroit culture banners designed by the collective for their Strange FrÜt installation, and feature portraits of: Soupy Sales, Stooges, MC5, Sun Ra, Grand Funk, Morgus the Magnificent, The Vernor's Gnome, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Ginger, Lester Bangs, George Clinton, Milky the Clown, Pat Oleszko, The Up, the FrÜt, Captain Jolly and George 'the Animal' Steele." |
| 2/12/2008 | Destroy All Monsters | Live in Tokyo & Osaka 1996 | CD | $15.99 | Compound Annex Records | More insanity for you and all your friends. Art Byington, Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Dave Muller and Jim Shaw wreak havoc in Japan! |
| 5/14/2004 | Destroy All Monsters | Radio Teardrop | CD | $15.99 | End is Here | "45 minute one track produced from tapes 1973-1995 CD, stereo sound collage by Destroy All Monsters, mixed with random radio noise, Japanese noise samples( Violent Onsen Geisha, Otomo Yoshihide) old DAM riffs and spine-tingling artwork. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies, with artwork by DAM. (This audio CD is also an interactive CD-ROM playable on the computer with random artwork and texts by artist Dennis Summers.) 1997 release." |
| 5/14/2004 | Destroy All Monsters | Silver Wedding Anniversary | CD | $12.99 | End is Here | "Full length CD originally released on Sympathy For The Record Industry in 1996. 15 song selections from the 1995 DAM reunion tour. Of original line-up: Kelley, Loren, Shaw and Niagara. Contains early work redone (You Can't Kill Kill, That's My Ideal, Take Me With You, TH Queen, I Love You But You're Dead) + added newer work arranged for their first reunion tour. Long full length (over 60 minutes) re-released 1998 now on bands label End is Here." "The Reunion Tour CD is collected from Detroit, LA and San Diego gigs and is a gloriously sickly cocktail of ennui and punked-out decadence, coming atcha all heavy lidded and sleazy…cool titles like 'You Can't Kill Kill' and 'I Love You, But You're Dead' - are both bulked up with anti-torch singer Niagara'semotional ground zero, while the band coils around - you like a love-sick Boa Constrictor." - THE PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE #33 |
| 5/14/2004 | Destroy All Monsters | Swamp Gas | CD | $12.99 | End is Here | "Recorded by Destroy All Monsters in Detroit, this studio recording contains vocals by Sun Ra re-mixed from the original tapes, also samples supplied by Japanese Noise group Violent Onsen Geisha (Nakahara), and Mike Kelley's UFO rant Swamp Gas. Special packaging of the CD is to include a psuedo-newspaper called the SWAMP GAS GAZETTE, with various UFO articles and rants, and cosmic blob stickers. This project draws its inspiration from the great Dexter, Michigan UFO chase of 1966. CD comes folded in newspaper and inserted into a plastic 7" sleeve." "Swamp Gas itself is an eruption of babbling electronics, Stoogeian guitar strokes, and psychotronic psychedelia, Sun Ra's presence adds further cosmic mysticism…" - THE WIRE #222 08/2002 |
| 4/3/2010 | Detroit, Eddie | Immortal Gods | LP | $15.99 | Assophon | "LP release. Eddy Detroit is an underground legend. He was a key fixture in the fertile Phoenix, AZ scene of the early '80s (that included such luminaries as the Meat Puppets, Sun City Girls, Maybe Mental, Feederz, JFA etc.). Immortal Gods was the first release on his Pan Records label (his second LP, Philosopher's Journey would be the only other). Both records were privately released in miniscule editions, are now and have been rather difficult to obtain for many years, ensuring them as holy grails for collectors of the exotic, cult, folk, beat, punk, and outsider rock musical canon. Immortal Gods was recorded and released in 1982. It features Alan Bishop and Charles Gocher (Sun City Girls), Dan and Mary Clark (Feederz/Victory Acres), Jesse Srgoncik (aka James Verlaine aka J. Akkari from Paris 1942, which featured the Velvet Underground's drummer Moe Tucker), and Brandon and Audrey Curtis backing Eddy and his African, voodoo, Hitchcock musical vision. It is a timeless masterpiece. The LP jacket cover is quite possibly the apex in outsider photography and demented vision. It features Eddy and a lady friend (a woman he picked up for the cover shot because she had the bone structure he was looking for) on horseback with Eddy holding his head in his outstretched hand. A perfect vision for the music contained within. Assophon Records is proud to present this album in its original format for the current generation to tango with." |
| Detroit, Eddie | Jungle Captive | LP | $19.99 | Majora | 3rd release from Phoenix native. Hard to describe - I guess exotic folk might work? Pretty cool. | |
| 3/20/2007 | Devillock | Rotten Creatures | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Chondritic Sound | "Another killing side from the Devillock/Panther Skull axis that builds a whole lot of tactile sound forms from variously junked and hi-jacked gadgets in a beautiful, pulse-stilling style. Parts of this have that hovering high end feedback feel that characterised Whitehouse circa Peter Kurten while the rest feels a bit more handmade and personal. Either way, it's a beauty. Numbered edition of 121 copies." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 2/21/2007 | Devillock | These Graves | CD | $7.99 | SNSE | "Devillock is Justin Chris Meyers on organ, tapes and electronics. He also runs the Tone Filth label and also plays as Panther Skull. 'These Graves' is his debut on a real CD, but he has released handmade tapes and CDRs. He offers four tracks of densely layered sound, knitting all the sounds he can find together. Slowing down old reel to reel tapes on the title track provide another dark gesture in this music. Devillock doesn't play harsh noise as such, but he provides a pretty noise related drone sound. Minimal piercing sounds, mainly the lower region of the sound spectrum, making this quite a menacing affair. Noise as it's supposed to be: menacing, not by the harshness of it's sound, but by the content of what its sound has to offer. Despite it's title and bandname, I think it's a much more serious affair than the average noise attack. Great stuff." - Frans DeWard, Vital Weekly No. 494. Edition of 1000 copies in printed slipcase. |
| 2/11/2006 | Devillock | These Graves | LP | $12.99 | Tone Filth | "This will hurt your feelings. Edition of 333 with hand screened and inked textured cardstock covers. It's all in stop motion. It's all real. Up, out from under all places molded and GUNKED. Slithering spool tapes sliding like thin brown snakes under, amongst, and finally overtop and around. They overtake the crumbling corpsed-up organ grinder. He, with his grin full of rot and fingers of stank, is ever so pleased to allow the decayed magnetics to engulf his skeletal frame, it is how his power is attained (maintained). Only when wrapped tightly and over his entire torso and head (a tape mummy!) will he begin to play. Quietly at first, as if from a distance - but he is there, RIGHT THERE GODDAMIT - and then the groan and the moaning howl and the static insects all begin to draw near, an orchestra of loneliness. Can you still feel your legs? As your head is slowly filled with ants, you are posed a question: "What do you make?" he is asking. "What do make... of THESE GRAVES?" - SNSE |
| 3/20/2007 | Devillock / Yellow Swans | split | 7" | $5.99 | Modern Radio Recordings | "Yellow Swans create their recordings with a variety of instruments including 1/4" tape, guitar, voice, drum machines, microphones and mixer feedback. The band has a large collection of releases on their own Collective Jyrk Label, and have recently have released full-lengths on Load and Narnack Records. Devillock is the project of Justin Meyers, owner of the Tonefilth record label. He is responsible for dozens of small pressing, noise recordings. Tonefilth has put out releases by the likes of Hive Mind, Burning Star Core and the Cherry Point. His releases are known for their handmade packaging and artwork which includes this 7-inch and such projects as the recent Yellow Swans' Psychic Sessions CD out on Load Records." |
| 6/19/2007 | Devoid of All Mercy | Your Children Left With the Stranger | CD | $14.99 | Battlecruiser | "EEeew. As the positively revolting title might suggest to some of you who are alert and paying attention, this release is a veritable shrine to perverted, in-bred, hillbilly atrocity. Misanthropic to a degree I previously thought impossible, this is quite simply the BLACKEST of folk/horror-inspired black metal with an unbelievably high 'Deliverance' factor. Think rusty pickup trucks and cages in the basement. Think pathetic whimpering death. Sounds like the house in 'The Blair Witch Project' or the forest in 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' or maybe the sledgehammer in 'Misery'... I feel strangely compelled to shower. Again and again." |
| 2/11/2006 | Diagram A | Diagram A | cassette | $5.99 | Open Mouth | "Diagram A is Dan Greenwood who's based in the Providence / MA area, makes all his own electronics and use to do a label called sound probe...most recently he was on the RRR New England noise box set." |
| 1/27/2004 | Dial | Live at the Meteor Theatre | CDR | $12.99 | Pseudoarcana | "Dial is an improvising group established obstensibly to explore the textures/interference patterns that occur between electronic devices (in this case 'controlled electronic feedback' and processed violin) and radios...Recorded in 2002 this disk captures an extended ensemble (5 players this time around, including some of NZ free musics biggest 'stars'). Extended improvisations with some surprisingly melodic periods arising in between the deep listening hiss and hum." |
| 7/30/2006 | Dialing In | Cows In Lye | CD | $12.99 | Pseudoarcana | "Dialing In is the ecstatic roaring psychedelic drone project of Seattle based sound artist Reita Piecuch. Utilising the natural acoustics of a series of reverberant spaces she weaves together super saturated soundscapes by recording in one environment, playing back in another, and then re-recording this recording playing back in yet another environment (etc..)." - label |
| 5/23/2009 | Diamondhead | Corrective Action | cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "Junkyard strolls through the outskirts of rock n roll find a home with austin's most underrated jewels, diamondhead. after releases on russ waterhouse's white tapes and bryan day's eh?, this collection of songs from l.e. methe, r.j. reynolds & company are dinner scraps that have been rehashed and reformed into a total gourmet experience. guitars and piano knock each other over, trying to get to the foreront while methe belts it out. scarred, angular riffs fall deep into the dirt at times, leafing around for one last morsel of sanity. some songs include flute and vocals, sounding like a lounge band on a drunken voyage to west africa. this is the full package. everything on "corrective action" feels like it could implode at any moment. it's that last-thread mentality that pushes diamondhead's boundaries. there's good times and bad all laced-up and ready go into a pit of magnetic glory. edition of 70 pro-dubbed & snubbed. |
| 7/16/2006 | Diamonte, Herb | May I Light Your Cigarette? | CD | $14.99 | Abduction | "This debut release from the mysterious Herb Diamante will transport you on a naughty journey through his speakeasy of debauchery and sin. These eleven tracks of alcohol, tobacco, and desire are driven by his rich, golden voice atop a psychedelic showroom of sound. Herb Diamante is perhaps the most unique lounge singer around. He sings songs about eggplants, yellow kazoos, and delicate stilettos. Then, he'll "hail the fish-king" and finish you off with "a wasp in a jam jar." The elusive Englishman has finally allowed himself to be documented amidst a career built of legendary "word of mouth" appearances on both sides of the Atlantic. A long, tragic set of strange circumstances and sporadic insanity has somehow combined to create Herb's extended and sometimes frighteningly vivid hallucinatory universe. However, he remains a hopeless romantic and will forever pursue his difficult and evasive vision." |
| 3/3/2005 | Diaz, Kubero | Y La Pesada | CD | $19.99 | Music Hall | "The only album (Music Hall, 1973) by superb Argentinian guitarist Diaz and the rest of the members of La Cofradia de la Flor Solar; really psychotic stuff—heavy grunge riffs and emotional approach to all the songs; extremely rare album features Argentine legends Billy Bond on vocals, Claudio Gabis on guitar, Alejandro Medina on bass, and Jorge Pinchevsky on violin; has three bonus tracks from La Cofradia—two are from their album, but the last one, 'La Palida Ciudad', from 1972, is previously unavailable on compact disc." |
| 9/30/2005 | Diaz-Infante, Ernesto & Chris Forsyth | (as is stated....before known) | CD | $11.99 | Evolving Ear | "Four years of collaboration by east/west coast guitarists results in this document of song structures swathed in suspended disbelief, old timey acoustics, and electronic texture." "A very attractive balance achieved between pastoral, acoustic ruminations and granular, 'a-musical' electronics. (as is stated...before known) is a fine, understated album." Squid's Ear www.squidsear.com "inspired nonidiomatic playing and dreamy song-inducing themes, as fragile and fugitive they might be. This is the strangest album this pair has released yet, but perhaps the easiest to listen to." All Music Guide, www.allmusic.com |
| 6/25/2004 | Dick the Phone | Dick the Phone | 3" CDR | $7.99 | Pseudoarcana | “Punky damaged rawk and scrawl from Futurians cohorts Dick the Phone. Disk journeys from epic garage guitar histrionics through to almost pretty percussive rambling.” |
| 3/11/2005 | Diehl, Heidi | Old Times / Year of the Stone: Videos by Heidi Diehl | VHS Video | $13.99 | Polyamory | “Polyamory is proud to announce it's first-ever video release, a collection of amateur films by Hiedi Diehl, one of the 'core' members of the Vanishing Voice band. Included is Heidi's college documentary on dumpster diving, a 'found' shockumentary on would-be pop sensations Busted Bracelet, and a brand new film featuring new music by Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice.” Limited edition of 150 copies. |
| 8/27/2003 | Dietrich, Don | Dietrich | LP | $19.99 | Elevage De Poussiere | "I don't like noise. It's all the same and everything seems to be repeated all the time. Boring, tedious, pathetic. I do like noise. The loudness, apparent aggression, the live situation. Merzbow, Emil Beaulieu and Borbetomagus. They all capture that feeling. When I saw Borbetomagus live, they were the best noise act I ever heard/saw/experienced. It's quite around the two saxophone players and guitarist, but out of the blue this solo LP by saxophone player Don Dietrich appears. You may recall my aversion against saxophones? Alright, that does not include such crazy playing at Don Dietrich does. Six tracks, recorded live in his bedroom, on July 14th, 2002. The cover lists tenor, gadgets and peavey. So I know what the first and last are, but gadgets? What gadgets? Effect pedals maybe? There are moments on this record where his saxophone sounds like the rewinding of poorly recorded cassettes with the playback heads against the tape. A dirty sound. A loud sound. This is a loud and obnoxious record." - Staalplaat |
| 9/17/2006 | Diguitras | Diguitras | 5xCDR | $19.99 | No Coast Records/Lost Treasures of the Underworld | "Essential new 5 disc mega-blaster from the dudes down at No Coast and Lost Treasures . This is a follow-up to the 9 disc CupTent set that came out no too long ago.This time they bring to you Diguitras . Lo - fi sonic soundscapes recorded live.Features Adam Fleischer , Tom Derwent , Ryan McAuley and w/ special guest appearances by Mark VanFleet (SWORDHEAVEN , SCRAPER) ,Doug Jonston ( SKYLAB ) and Josh Coffman (Hard Black Thing) .Highly recommended for ambient guitar enthusiasts.Comes in killer custom airbrushed box w/ paste on cover.limited to less than 100 copies." |
| 6/25/2004 | Dijkstra, Raymond | Untermensch Leider | 7" | $17.99 | Le Souffleur | "The name Raymond Dijkstra may not be sparkling alive, but the man has been around for some time, and he has released many works, under his own name, aswell as Dadaphon, Razoul Uzlu, Ki Sync Pulse, Asra (a duo with Af Ursin) and at one point one-third Indra Karmuka. On this 7" he doesnt return to the noise work he released before under his own name, but rather continues paths taken by the work as Dadaphon: amplifying objects, layering them and making a collage out of it. On the a-side there is the scratch of glass on metal sound in the foreground and osbscure, semi-percussive rumbling in the back. Similar scratch is on the b-side but the percussive element is louder here. Not dissimilar to Organum, Raymond Dijkstra however likes his sounds to be free of any electronic treatment, rather keeping in close contact with the original sounds. The treatments are played and not generated. A rather solitary voice in this kind of music. Should appeal to more people than it does by the name and thats a pity. Check it out, will ya?" - Frans de Waard, Vital. Out of print - limited edition of 100 copies. |
| 9/17/2006 | Dilloway, Aaron | Asset Stripping | LP | $15.99 | Chondritic Sound / Hanson | 'Sometime in 2004 I was asked to contribute a track to the The New Blockaders Viva Negativa! tribute. While working on this I ended up recording a 20 minute track using 20 8-track loops of 20 years of material from The New Blockaders. The day after this was recorded, I was to play a gig in Detroit w/ Emil Beaulieau. I decided to keep the TNB loops and use them for the show. I gave the recordings to Rupenus, who suggested the release of this LP. Side 1 = Studio track, Side 2 = Live track.' AARON DILLOWAY, April 2006. Edition of 300 copies - recommended! |
| 2/1/2005 | Dilloway, Aaron | Boggs Vol.2 | CD | $12.99 | Hanson | “Boggs Volume 2 is a collection of two long out of print CDR's from Wolf Eyes member, Aaron Dilloway. This new release contains, in their original entirety, the Seizure CDR released by Hanson and the Appalling & Alive 3 CDR released by Chondritic Sound. ‘Hound Dog Guy Still Alive’ Boggs? What the fuck is that? It's a lake filled with witch urine, the real scary type. Three parts expired turpentine, two parts glow-in-the-dark ghost pee & the murky rest filled the reel to reel scrape dust from a light-free candled basement. The soundtrack? This Brighton-born-alien-bird-celled-creature, Aaron Dilloway. Dude's intense, but drunk in a moldy cellar you can tip him upside down to get the change he owes you. Awesome sounds/primitive shit that smart types try to capture in academic wooden hideaways but end up sounding like Paul K & Weathermen. He is for real. These tracks lead to goblin hell that is a broken train built on years of instinct, beer, horror & intimacy. His tape & electronic work is nearly peerless, save for Santa Claus' Black Gnome label cassette catalog. Pumping this serious Michigan shit on a half-mooned night will result in your blood planning a meeting to infect your brain with a mock party of jellied-filled balloons that when popped, turn your sanity into a maggot feeding frenzy while singing backwards to a Pepsi half-time ad. Seriously! These transparent audio diaries have been originally released in different forms. Who cares? Count your fingers instead. In life you have two choices: Stop and Be Rad or Stop Being Rad. Aaron ‘Night Fighter’ Dills been doing his own thing since shorts were baggy & Stephen King was the master musician of horror. Be happy you have two rare boys in one bomb package. Spend the rest of your heart-blood pumping time searching for the third Los Tammies wax while getting to the bottom of Boggs Vol. 2 human tape message time eating symphonies. A one-man stereo Desert Barn Stormer. The only & best ‘people person’ of horrible noise. I should know, I have been in nearly every possible good & bad situation with him from rock fights, underage beer blowouts, and 13 years in basements. A mangy man of many talents, hear the one in your claw-fist then check out our funk band Stupid Goose. You can wave at the UPS guy but he is still gonna deliver a box of razor babis to you. Local hip hop? Will take Rock Bottom over Slum Village any day of the week, he's just .. I dunno ... harder....” - John Olson, Wolf Eyes / American Tapes |
| 5/9/2009 | Dilloway, Aaron | Chain Shot | CD | $9.99 | Hanson | LP review: 'With only tape loops, metal, and horns (and sometimes, it seems, metal on horns) the two side long pieces, 'Chain Shot' and 'Execution Dock' respectively, explore the ugly underbelly of noise before just scraping right through and aiming for the insides. In a genre that has quickly turned into a broad and often inaccurate description of a certain breed of every-man experimental music, Dilloway sticks to the old-fashioned definition of noise, doing battle with the materials in front of him as he continues the construction of his impressive body of work. Dilloway, a former member of noise-titans Wolf Eyes, has recently been releasing solo work that explores much more abstract and thoughtful terrain than his previous group's onslaughts. 'Chain Shot' is more a sound collage than anything, and while it is a heaping glob of muddled debris, it is also a highly controlled one. Looping samples on top of samples, Dilloway builds a slowly encroaching beast before slowly disintegrating it, bone by bone. This is some highly textural and immediately emotive soundscape work. 'Execution Dock' begins with a repeating loop of what sounds like the beginning and the end syllables of some nut's conversation with a lamppost. In the distance sounds a pained song of sorts, like a rodent's death cry, or maybe its birth one. I'm guessing maybe this is the horn, though it would be tough to be certain about much of anything here. Delayed creaks and groans float in and around as the vocal sample dissipates, leaving you sloshing through the mud puddle only to realize that its a tar pit the size of La Brea." - Henry Smith, http://earconditionednightmare.blogspot.com. Digipak CD reissue of CHAIN SHOT LP which was originally released on LP by THRONE HEAP. Contains a 28 minute bonus track not on vinyl version. |
| 10/17/2009 | Dilloway, Aaron | Corpse on Horseback | cassette | $5.99 | Hanson | "Reissue of this absolutely CLASSIC cassette by Dilloway. total loop brutality that reminds of The New Blockaders. harsh and minimal and totally fucking UGLY. this edition features a painful remix of the original tape via Hive Mind. hissy and gross and just plain not fun." |
| 5/11/2009 | Dilloway, Aaron | Face Mask | 7" | $10.99 | Turgid Animal | "A 7-inch EP released for the AARON DILLOWAY/NATE YOUNG UK Tour in the Spring of 2009. More looping hell recorded in a hotel room in Brighton after the Colour Out Of Space Festival." Edition of 100 copies - one copy available. |
| 4/24/2006 | Dilloway, Aaron | untitled | 7" | $25.99 | AA Records | One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. |
| 3/27/2008 | Dilloway, Aaron & C Spencer Yeh | The Squid | CD | $11.99 | Hanson Records | "Dilloway & Yeh recorded live to 4-track cassette Summer 2006 in Ann Arbor. Yeh on violin, Dilloway on Tape loops of Yeh’s Violin. Originally released on LP, this Digipak CD version includes a bonus track collage of the 3 tracks from the duo’s out of print FALSE SPEECH cassette." "Collaboration from Dilloway of Wolf Eyes et al and C Spencer Yeh of Burning Star Core etc. Dilloway uses tape loops, tape delay, bowed tape and vocals and Yeh uses violin, voice and electronics. Recorded in 2006 in Ann Arbor, The Squid has a heavy Takehisa Kosugi/Taj Mahal Travellers feel, with a headier, more expansive psychedelic brainwave style than is usually associated with Dilloway. Yeh’s violin flutters on phased waves of F/X while Dilloway lets off tiny looped depth-charges, exploding Yeh’s elegiac drones with chattering, circular vocals, unidentifiable noise scree and long corridors of breath." - David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue |
| 12/24/2005 | Dilloway, Aaron & Hive Mind | Forgotten Thirst | 3" CDR | $19.99 | Chondritic Sound | "minimal tape terror and groan frenzy mangling of a hive mind piece originally released on gods of tundra. the sounds from inside a fish gasping in open air for 3 minutes straight, but then slowed down to a 15 minute creepy-crawl. green art on blue paper, slippery painted cdrs." Edition of 134 copies. |
| 6/5/2005 | Dilloway, Aaron & John Wiese | Total Eclipse | 7" | $5.99 | Kitty Play Records | Edition of 525 copies on white vinyl. "Aaron Dilloway and John Weise combine to create a track of soft atmospherical noise entitled 'Total Eclipse' which is split between two sides of this 7”." |
| 10/17/2009 | Dilloway, Aaron / Robert Turman | split | cassette | $5.99 | Hanson | "Split release between myself and Robert Turman. Robert was an original member of NON back in the late 1970's appearing on the first 7-inch MODE OF INFECTION. He released a number of very limited solo cassettes throughout the 80's, including the monster 8-cassette box set CHAPTER ELEVEN (1976-1987). He and I have been working on remastering his old tapes over the last year, and Robert has also starting recording and performing again. His side of this cassette is just a taste of what is to become an onslaught of new recordings and unearthed classic industrial RT material to be released on HANSON. Twisted voices, waves of static hiss, disorienting and bizarre horn and string melodies, looped and delayed into a perfectly paced piece of surreal sound. My side is influenced by my recent collaboration recordings with Cleveland scumbag Wyatt Howland aka SKIN GRAFT. A confusing meld of organic and electronic sounds recorded using 8-track loops of synth, metal percussion, and radio static." - Aaron Dilloway. |
| 4/10/2009 | Dim Holys | Is There Heat Rising in Your Neck | cassette | $6.99 | Oms-B | "Brian Mumferd from Dragging An Ox Though Waters brings a tonal deep sleep." Edition of 60 copies. |
| 10/21/2009 | Dimmer | Remissions | double LP | $21.99 | Isounderscore | "Dimmer's "Remissions" is the second full-length album from longtime sonic architects of interactive feedback circuits, Thomas Dimuzio and Joseph Hammer. This 2xLP effectively represents four side-long pieces from their live shows throughout California taken place between 2006 and 2007. Essentially a follow-up to their 2007 album on Los Angeles‚ Melon Expander, "Remissions" expands upon the immense recursive tape looping and resampling that is found inherent in their work but achieves a weight and time displacement that greatly overshadows their dark preceding full-lengh. All four pieces were recorded at: Norcal Noisefest in Sacramento (2006, "Sky Wire"), The Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco (2006, "Sun Dog"), The Smell in Los Angeles (2006, "Gases That Emit Light"), and ArtSF's Noise Pancakes Series (2007, "Giant Eagle"). Live sampling, processing, feedback, looping by Thomas Dimuzio. Tape manipulation and processing by Joseph Hammer. Design and layout by Thomas Dimuzio, Joseph Hammer and Brandon Nickell. Limited to 500 copies on full-color sleeves with cover photography by John Dalton." |
| 3/20/2007 | Dimmick, Mikel Spiral Joy Band | Floating Seer | CDR | $10.99 | "From Pelt-associated Spiral Joy Band. Featuring Mikel Dimmick, Mike Gangloff, Amy Shea and Nathan Bowles joined by John Fail on one track. There are some home-recorded solo and duo tracks on here and a couple of live outings. The wheezy buzz of the opening drone piece is sure to burn a hole straight through your head. Elsewhere there's a cacophony of string-sawing, hypnotic drum-beating and a beautiful piece of organ / bowed string drone with the subdued weight of winter fog. Lovely." Recommended! | |
| 7/30/2006 | Dinmuck #f | The Old is New, Know Eyes Old | CDR | $7.99 | Foxglove | "Underneath the dirt lies the roadmap to ancient civilization. the world before the fall. dinmuck #f (aka eon) comes from toowoomba and is enlisted as an intergral part of the musicyourmindwillloveyou collective. "the old is new" is a psychic brainfuck, like calloused skin baking under the scorching summer sun. imagine cave paintings singing about the third eye, caked in mud and eating the soil. this music, in all it's scattered glory, is totally, 100% fried." - label |
| 7/23/2003 | Dio Daga | Magic Steps | CDR | $7.99 | Haamumaa | 9 tracks – 55 minutes of "free acid jazz doom noise guitar improvisations" |
| 11/19/2003 | Dipsomaniacs | Praying Winter | CD | $14.99 | Camera Obscura | "Camera Obscura is pleased to announce the release of the fifth full-length release of song-bliss from Norwegian psychedelic-pop wizards the Dipsomaniacs, who rejoin their arc of previous releases with their finest collection of songs to date. (Various fine side dishes were served up on Free City Media's 'The Tremolo Of Her Mind/The Strings Of Her Soul' but 'Praying Winter' is the continuation of the song and studio craft established with increasing authority on earliest albums.) 'Praying Winter' is naked, personal and staggeringly beautiful - the band's most intimate and open work to date. Psychedelic flourishes have been toned down to pull the focus of the songs back onto the emotional weight of Holm's melodies, words and vocals. Fans of the swirl of vintage psych-pop need not fear though - here is band that seems to sound psychedelic no matter what they do. Art and craft collide everywhere - each song perfectly arranged to suit its needs, whether this involves the addition of a George Martinesque string quartet arrangement here, strategic use of brass there, or in one case Håkon Gebhardt from Motorpsycho contributing banjo to "No. 2 Ventricle Road". The opener 'Dear Mrs Widdercombe', title track, and Norwegian hit single 'Read My Mind' are surely modern pop classics, but perhaps the darker tones of 'How to Fall' and 'Caught By This Feeling' linger longest in the mind. They bless us with undying echoes." |
| 2/18/2003 | Dipsomaniacs | Reverb No Hollowness | LP | $14.99 | Apartment Records | "With influences ranging from 1967 to 1998, ‘Reverb No Hollowness’ contains everything from straight-forward ‘rock’ to dreamlike, psychedelic tracks of epic proportions. Based on a strong melodic ground and well-digested arrangements wrapped in a cultivated retro-sound, the contour of Lennon, Barrett, Clark et al is to be seen dimly more distinct. ‘Reverb...’ has achieved great reviews in Norwegian press." |
| Dipsomaniacs | Stethoscopic Notion | CD | $14.99 | Camera Obscura | "Camera Obscura Records is very pleased to be able to present the latest Dipsomaniacs CD to you. Although this is their fourth full-length release, it is the first that will be widely available outside Europe. After the almost 'concept album' feel of predecessor 'Braid of Knees' this latest album returns to the pure song focus of the earlier 'Reverb No Hollowness' album. This means that it can be firmly placed on a continuum of modern but 60s-influenced paisley pop, which started with bands like The Rain Parade and Dream Syndicate and continued on to bands like Green Pajamas, Olivia Tremor Control and The Photon Band. In fact, two tracks were co-written with the Photon Band's Art Di Furia ('Of Reaching Out' and 'Bring Flowers to the Courthouse'), and the result is pure Transatlantic pop bliss. Di Furia also contributes vocals to the latter track. Aside from the songs, the key to the Dipsomaniacs sound is the extraordinary Lennon-on-Nitrous-Oxide vocal work of Holm. His voice is an instrument as instantly psychedelic as the sound of the backward-masked guitar or the sitar. The studio work on the album strikes a superb contrast between the immediate and the baroque, by recording songs as a band live in the studio, then over-dubbing strings and horns at subsequent sessions." | |
| 2/18/2003 | Dipsomaniacs | Stethoscopic Notion | LP | $14.99 | Apartment Records | "After the almost ‘concept album’ feel of predecessor ‘Braid of Knees’ this latest album returns to the pure song focus of the earlier ‘Reverb No Hollowness’ album. This means that it can be firmly placed on a continuum of modern but 60s-influenced paisley pop, which started with bands like The Rain Parade and Dream Syndicate and continued on to bands like Green Pajamas, Olivia Tremor Control and The Photon Band. In fact, two tracks were co-written with the Photon Band's Art Di Furia (‘Of Reaching Out’ and ‘Bring Flowers to the Courthouse’), and the result is pure Transatlantic pop bliss. Di Furia also contributes vocals to the latter track. Aside from the songs, the key to the Dipsomaniacs sound is the extraordinary Lennon-on-Nitrous-Oxide vocal work of Holm. His voice is an instrument as instantly psychedelic as the sound of the backward-masked guitar or the sitar. The studio work on the album strikes a superb contrast between the immediate and the baroque, by recording songs as a band live in the studio, then over-dubbing strings and horns at subsequent sessions. A delicious winner." |
| 7/23/2003 | Dipsomaniacs | The Tremolo of Her Mind…The Strings of Her Soul | LP | $22.99 | Apartment | "Kicking off with the cool 4:35 instrumental Miles Away, that feels like some methodical epic climbing hymn to clear horizons and hope; given a blind test drive I'd guess it was Cerberus Shoal in a very good mood, in part due to the gratuitous and lovely employment of brass. Flowing beautifully (the segue works without the following track feeling clipped if started separately) into the country flavored Before Painting Your Murals and it's a Norwegian mirror of American western mythos in a certain Byrds-Burrito sorta way that feels utterly natural and of a warm songlike fullness that rivals any previous Dipso's pop outing; with lyrics, and melodic structure and all. Next is the quarter of an hour of Dipso Raga #1 (for George) which lives up to the title by its structure and sitar like pluck and strum, but soon the tidal sway is rolling and reeling into slightly free jazzy territory, and again I'm reminded more of Cerberus Shoal or JOMF than anything I'd have previously associated with these guys. Hear Me, Take Me is a gentle acoustic lullaby of nearly wordless vocals, guitar, pump organ and chimes that feels like utter bliss for almost four minutes. The staggering twenty minute In Syd's Garden, is the one that gonna make all space rock fans froth at the mouth. Good and thick with lots of glowing keyboards and extra-terrestrial instrumental wigging, this builds to a climactic plateau and then surveys the scene, the camera turning sweeping 360 degree views at the summit, crowning yet another creative milestone for this stellar outfit." - George Parsons, Dream Magazine. The artwork is much different than the cd version with really cool artwork. |
| 3/6/2010 | Dire Wolves | Magickal Mayan Age Of Musick | cassette | $5.99 | Dynamo Sound Collective | "[Dire Wolves] play witchy overblown cosmic improv for fans of Pharoah Overlord, George RR Martin, Can, Trad Gras Och Stenar and twenty-sided dice. This brand-new band is made up of 20-year indie touring artists including folks from Natura Nasa, Arco Flute Foundation, Sagas, Forest Dweller, Black Forest/Black Sea, Dark Yoga, Manbeard, The Iditarod, etc. Members previously lived in Portland Or, Providence RI, Baltimore MD, New Haven CT, Indiana PA - they own several record labels, venues and have been known to organize tours and festivals as well. Dire Wolves have played shows in the last few months with Black Pus, Subarachnoid Space, Midnite Snake, Plastic Crimewave Sound, OvO, Marble Sheep, Romance of Young Tigers and others. Upcoming West Coast tour with Eternal Tapestry." - from www.phillyvenues.org. Edition of 50 copies. |
| 3/6/2010 | Direct Current | featuring Atiba N. Kwabena and Dave Nuss | LP | $40.99 | QBICO | Black vinyl, cover Aki Goto/Sound @ One; 99 copies ONLY. "the original music was rec. @ the qbico u-nite XIII which took place @ Issue Project Room in NYC back in Feb. 2009. for sure the opening set by Atiba & Dave Nuss was one of the most original live set i had the pleasure to... see i remember talking with Dave, trying to set up this gig... he came out with this duo, saying that Atiba is the best well kept secret in the NYC... he spotted him playing in Harlem Clubs... nobody knows him, Andrew Barker or Steve... nobody ?! time to hear his message, jah hh music music steps music steps right on in right ooon ! afrodelic voodoo hip jazz for the next generation..." "it's a kind of psychedelic african record filled with beautiful layers of traditional rhythms and has a sort of hypno trance vibe, with Atiba's odd loop pedals and voice/flute jazziness/poetry. atiba is really the MASTER of the african percussion and i learned so much working with him in the studio. i think it's a one-of-a-kind record for sure !" dave nuss Atiba - flutes, percussion, voice, effects Dave Nuss - percussion Rec. live @ the Qbico U-nite XIII, realized @ RAW Studios, August 2009; NYC side A from one dream to.... rainforest rag (for Scott Joplin) if i smile side B Olatunji's Kirk works the word |
| 3/26/2006 | Directing Hand | A Old Soul At The Helm | CDR | $9.99 | Chocolate Monk | "Alex Neilson is the UKs kid thunder, who may be known to you for playing drums in Jandeks band or being one half of Beating Stars with Richard Youngs, but Directing Hand is his own free form handshake. All kinds of joyous clatter in this baby. Guests players include Christina Carter." |
| 4/24/2006 | Directing Hand | Bells for Augustin Lesage | CD | $12.99 | Secret Eye | "Alex Neilson has been getting so much loving recently he better hold tight to what flesh he has left. Although there has been little recorded evidence to date, Neilson is actually a profoundly inventive thinker across a wide assortment of instruments, from bells and bongs through electronics, traditional acoustic git-fiddles and pure throat joy. Directing Hand is his new solo project. Here Neilson applies an orchestral armoury to the bent of his own brainwaves and the results are fucking gorgeous. Parts of this sound like early Japanese freak-out ensembles like Group Ongaku and East Bionic Symphonia, while others take up the kind of mediaeval horse-hair folk of groups like Third Ear Band, Nijiumu or even Vibracathedral Orchestra at their creakiest and most nocturnal." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 11/21/2008 | Directing Hand | Songs From the Red House | LP | $27.99 | Singing Knives | "Only a few months ago the UK music underground was blown apart with the disruptive yet fragile LP "What Put The Blood" from vocal drum duo Directing Hand. Now we are graced with the equally mind boggling "Songs From The Red House" LP, available on limited vinyl through the wonderful Singing Knives. This is the second LP (under the current line up) from this outfit comprising Alex Neilson and Lavinia Blackwall. Housed in exquisite artwork courtesy of Blackwell, and limited to a mere 250 copies, this 12" slab of freeform experimentation, folk and jazz operatics is a handsome menace for both the ears and eyes. Also included within the package is a wonderful poem by Oliver Neilson. The album opens with the now familiar aggressive collaborative tone, as set on the previous LP. Scattered beats tumble in a ferocious battle with wailing cries that veer between pain, anger and tranquillity. Vocally unmatched in her ability to bravely execute piercingly uncomfortable shrills with untempered ferocity, Blackwell adds a chaotic dimension to Neilson's drumming. This onslaught of ritualistic humanity is powered with such force that one becomes both consumed and agitated. The second track takes on a quiet approach, swelling soft longing vocals over varying instrumentation and percussion. This exquisite vocal scaling and twinkling percussion drifts with hypnotic madness that erupts with fireworks and foam. You could truss-up this collective with extensive comparisons, yet I feel it's a duty to convey their sound in its intimate originality, rather than place historic references. There is an unusual traditional British folk heart to what is predominantly an overpowering free jazz affair. The heart of the album seems bloody and exposed as they lament with the final track of side A, 'My Lagan Love'. This is the only track to be repeated from the last LP. It is handled with a substantial difference incorporating the rock-out explosion that empowers the opening track of "What Put The Blood". This closes the side beautifully and with confidence. Side B creeps into life with an expressive and frightening rendition of 'Golden Hair', then continues into the lunacy that is 'In Elysium'. The latter traverses a plain of absolute vocal agitation over some truly inspired drumming. The final outpour 'The Third Temptation' has a mammoth sound with alien plucked strings that crash with pastoral eruptions. Two tracks were recorded by the wonderful Ben Nash, who apart from being a great musician has put down some awesome live shows, namely the recent MV & EE live album "Meet Snake Pass" (also Singing Knives). Most tracks are recorded live at the Heeley Institute, Sheffield and it's this freedom of performance that makes this record a welcome edition so soon after the recent LP. The Directing Hand project is an inspiration to the UK underground and suggests a new landscape for future musicians. I think there is a long way for this collective to journey before they find their ultimate stride, and upon this journey I plan to follow with eager ears. This is difficult, consuming and most definitely important." 8/10 -- Peter Taylor, 20th August 2008, Foxy Digitalis |
| DiS | Earth/Clasm | CD | $12.99 | kRkRkRk | ||
| DiS | Inferno | CD | $12.99 | kRkRkRk | "An expressive, performance-art-oriented trio featuring David Khan, Justine Sharp & Peter Wright, DiS is one of the most challenging & experimental projects currently associated with the kRkRkRk kollectiv. A quick examination of the components of the group's sound seems to bear out this interpretation for, in addition to unearthly, chanted vocals performed by David & Justine, DiS utilize heavily treated string instruments (guitars, violins etc...), analogue synthesizers, various electronic devices & electro-acoustic percussion (incorporating a variety of metal implements), samples, drones & loops. welding these instrumental elements into long, memsmerizing soundscapes (in which conventional song/lyric structures are almost entirely dissolved), DiS create music containing moments of both pulverizing aggression & delicate minimalism." | |
| 11/21/2009 | Disappears | Live Over The Rainbo | LP | $12.99 | Rococo Records | "Drawing on a combined reverence for reverb, heavy tremolo, delay and repetition, Disappears play minimal rock music inspired by everything from Krautrock to The Staples Singers to punk to CCR. Originally started as a recording project, Disappears quickly evolved into a live band, spending 2008/09 supporting diverse acts such as Wire, Cluster, Deerhunter, Black Angels and Obits as well as landing a spot at the 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival. Recorded by drummer Graeme Gibson over Chicago's historic Rainbo Club during October 2008 "Live Over The Rainbo" was intended as a tour-only CD-R. Chicago cult label Plus Tapes picked it up and it sold out soon after and now this definitive edition on Rococo Records. Newly mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, pressed on "Rainbow" colored vinyl and limited to 500 copies. This is the way "Live Over The Rainbo" was meant to be issued. Limited edition of 500 on rainbow-colored vinyl. Comes with a link to a free mp3 download. Features members of 90 Day Men and The Ponys." |
| 6/27/2009 | Disguises | Aeolian Hookers | c40 cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "Let the insanity begin! these beasts from toronto follow-up their mind-melting LP from last year, "post-mortem depression," with absolute avalanche of hell. jagged guitar swirls get the beat down from a pommel horse of drum bombs. screams escape from the abyss only to be sucked back under by crawling basslines. and then the guitars come at you again and again and again. there's no avoiding this minefield - you're gonna lose a leg. this is clusterfuck city folks and disguises are your tour guides. these jagged excursions will cut your face open and make you want to apologize for bleeding all over the brand new carpet. edition of 80, pro-dubbed with broken golden fairy art and smeared labels." |
| 4/22/2009 | Disguises | Post-Mortem Depression | LP | $16.99 | Winatge Records & Tapes | "Fuck yes!! A total 10 out of 10... Wow! This is what I call visceral adhocism!! An album of noised-out vocal punishments and rhythmic ecstatic scuzz pushing out on all sides... blastings of cathartic psychical release spitting blood and spluttering cranial abuses... shake your fist in the air and fall back into the sweat and bruisings... a splatterfuck of mesmerizing mess and near reckless actions and collisions... rippers, creepers, the fucking lot; it's all here. This is an album that you not only want to play over and over again, but also as loud as fuck. As listeners, we should demand more jammers out there to make music with this kind of intensity. People who don't half-ass their shit, but fucking make it happen; people who put it all out there and bring it every time. Every broken sound is executed with passionate brutal unprecision and raw expression. Hailing from Toronto this 4-piece made up of Kevin Crump, Kevin Hainey, Jon Shapiro, and Randy Gagne are turning heads with their own brand of psychotic-scuzz and night-terror brashings. What can I say, this record will definitely need to be repressed and hopefully will ignite another wave of artists to step up, raise the bar, and make some solid fucking records. Say no to mediocrity. Grab one of these. Hand-screened and hand-numbered, DIY as fuck; limited 300. 10/10" -- Foxy Digitalis |
| 2/26/2006 | Disguises / 13 Moons | Splitsville vol.1 | CDR | $8.99 | Beniffer Editions | "Disguises is a treasure-trove of vintage fur-lined scruzz from the canonized bowels of toronto. they're self-stylized evolutionary path is of no forward trajectory or logical progression but a befuddled stammer blind-folded through psychedelia and other forms of spazz-induced alchemy making them one of the more confounding units in the scene. their first cdr finds them in full on enormity, lacerating the thick with a heavy-as-fuck masala effluvium all grinding with cantilevers of noise that promise to sheer the cerebral cortex right from the pink of your head's innards. 3 tracks of joyful tone extinction from this fine smoked-out opperation. 13 moons is the arryhthmic menstrual off-shoot of disguises and the love-child of jon shapiro and his table-top guitar. jon is the league of their own era-geena davis with a pair of hands for misanthropic atonal throwdowns. jon is our favorite noise-scenester and queen video employee. check out his staff picks, man!" |
| Dissolve | Third Album For The Sun | CD | $12.99 | kranky | 2nd release from Roy Montgomery and Chris Heaphy | |
| 9/23/2004 | Dive | Freeze Frame EP ++ | CD | $15.99 | Mova Discs | "A perfect wall of guitars, drifting melodies. The ‘freeze frame e.p.++’ is the first album-length recording from Japanese shoegazers Dive. It is a compilation of the well-received ‘freeze frame ep’ with the remastered version of ‘reverberation’ and previously-unreleased tracks. Their sound is often classified as shoegazer guitar music, but on this album, you will know why their sound is automatically distanced from many other guitar bands in the Japanese shoegazer scene. You will be hearing the chemistry of their brilliant and dreamy songs, shimmering metallic sound layers with a deep dub approach, taking you away to distant lands in your head.” |
| 4/5/2008 | Divine Coils | Coadjutor | CDR | $11.99 | Blackest Rainbow | "Brand new CDR from UK duo of Joe and Harry. Far out scratchy textural sounds that lie somewhere between Usurper and Jazzfinger perhaps... real nice, real minimal, with classy and sassy traditional BR style double fold sleeve. Limited to 50 copies." |
| 5/31/2009 | Divine Coils and Lanterns | Easy Hours | c40 cassette | $8.99 | Lotus Birth | "A sonic mind uniting collabortion between Leeds and Glasgow astral drone duo Lanterns and Oxford laminal improvising duo Divine Coils. Side A: A side long jam uniting threads of mirco tonal speaker feedback, ebowed snare, glimmers of submerged guitar vibrations, & metalaphone reverberations. Side B: One track of gentle bells, found percussion, & shimmering single note guitar, and a second of fog shrouded ambient tones and metallic whir. Limited to 80 boxed sprayed blue tapes w/ found photo negitive colour printed on card." |
| 6/3/2009 | Diza Star | Blues Reason To Live | 7" EP | $8.99 | Fractal | "Our Legs Are Our Car, Our Legs Are Our Freedom / We Are Living In The Ice Age / The Disa-Ster World Is By Definition Vertical, Dizzy Sound / An Exciting Up And Down Where Nothing Is Sure, Anytime / Two Left Hand Guitarists, The Good And The Bad Player / Dig Up Three Unreleased Tracks From Our Archive / Our Electric Free Blues Music / We Knew Well That It Should Be Released Properly / The Blues Reason To Live / Love Your Devil Side And Your Enemy" - Diza Star. |
| 8/2/2008 | Diza Star | Contact High Diza Star | CD | $19.99 | Fractal | "Yea, the Japanese Underground Punk Blues Band continue more deeper his own psychedelic experience! Diza Star 5th album is the last branch of the star after 4 titles released on Fractal Records. This toxic parfume is a direct wink to the 60's rebel spirit like The Godz, Amon Düül and Les Rallizes Dénudés. A unique example in this new century of a broken music in a perpetual movement...Limited numbered edition 100 copies, comes with 2 inserts stamped and each copies is unique. JAPANESE PRESSING ONLY with OBI" |
| 8/2/2008 | Diza Star & The Pink Ladies Blues | 3 | LP | $24.99 | Fractal | "Early in this year, Acid Mothers Temple & The Pink Ladies Blues has slightly changed their name into : Diza Star & The Pink Ladies Blues. A short biography and all reasons of this change are well explained and detailed in the liner notes includes in this album. Following to their short second "The Soul of a Mountain Wolf" released 6 months ago, this new one is simply and logically titled "3". It's quite obvious that this japanese "Underground Punk Blues" trio has focused on this recording at their most political orientation as state the thema on each vinyl side : Utopia/Anarchy. The band made indisputable a strong reference, ideologicaly, to some underground 70's group like Amon Düül, Checkpoint Charlie, Ton Steine Scherben, Red Noise etc.... The result is 5 tracks, all instrumental, with 2 sides musically opposite : the first one has a groovy sound, psychedelic and folky flavor (with Mani Neumeier from Guru Guru as guest on one track) and the other brings differents collages (including various natural sound sources, from insects to human walk...) and put the band at the peak of their crazyness on the final track "Diza Star". Limited numbered vinyl edition to 197 ex. (comes with 2 inserts)." |
| 8/2/2008 | Diza Star & The Pink Ladies Blues | Featuring Mani Neumeier | CD | $23.99 | Fractal | "Diza Star 4th, a special album (the trio + 1) featuring the unique and exceptional participation by the legendary Krautrock drummer Mani Neumeier. An astonishing meeting between 4 'psychedelic ethnic punk'! The long career of the Star Neumeier, first in the 60's jazz sphere with Alexander von Schlippenbach big band Globe Unity or with Irène Schweizer, before switched for the well-known freak-out psychedelic rock experience Guru Guru, then followed by other project (Tier der Nacht etc...), collaborations, and many trips around the world (especially India, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan) revealed today - and rare nowadays - an extraordinary talented musician emotionally and spiritualy. A motley album, from where all the 10 tracks came naturally in one day studio session, and the music range many differents directions from ethnic ballads to psychedelic jam rock, from exotic ambiant excursion to funny folkloric sequences, or just pure instant rock'n'roll. Various and tasty, this album is like a dessert surprise : a maelström of sugar in it's form with it's acid and salty feeling on it's occasion under a deep powerful rhythmic section and leads by free (no 4 !) humour mind. NB : Track n°8, show Mani Neumeier on guitar (notable & rare). CD edition, jewel case, booklet 28 pages full color." |
| 11/21/2008 | Dlx Othr | Nineties Youth Experience | cassette | $6.99 | Deception Island | "Controls more or less permanently set for cat shit and a hammer. Gutter-sourced and wooden-fingered collage of twin guitar assault from the latest iteration of the ongoing Bee Mask/Skin Graft collab. Disgusting patinas on elaborate bronze machines. Hot coals/black holes uneasy contemplation energy, with an unexpectedly quiet/majestic finish. Mark McGuire (Emeralds) and Nate Scheible make cameo appearances, amid fragments culled from wasted home jams and performances at the Tower2012 in Cleveland." |
| 11/2/2008 | DNA | DNA on DNA | Double LP | $24.99 | No More Records | "Previously released on CD by No More Records, now issued on a limited edition double-LP featuring newly-discovered songs exclusive to this LP: "Pompeii," "Shrinking Thing," "Drinking Water," plus two encores from DNA's final performance at CBGB's. A definitive collection of studio and live recordings. Formed in 1978 by Brazilian-raised singer/guitarist ARTO LINDSAY, the band featured two different lineups in their brief four year career, including stints by ROBIN CRUTCHFIELD, IKUE MORI, and TIM WRIGHT (PERE UBU). This CD compiles all the band's studio and a few choice live recordings, including the original lineup's early versions of "Detached," "5:30," and "Low," as well as the unreleased studio cuts "Grapefruit," "Police Chase," and "Young Teenagers Talk Sex." Packaged with liner notes by BYRON COLEY, JASON GROSS, and GLENN O'BRIEN, alongside many unseen photos and flyers housed in a gatefold sleeve." |
| 4/10/2009 | DOA | Hardcore '81 | LP | $15.99 | Sudden Death | "A massive 30th Anniversary reissue of the classic second album from Canadian hardcore pioneers DOA. Includes all eleven lash-out-at-you tracks from the original release-including the awesome "DOA," "Slumlord," "Unknown," "Waiting For You," "Smash the State," and "Race Riot." On red vinyl. |
| 6/17/2004 | Doerner, Axel / Greg Kelley / Andrea Neumann / Bhob Rainey | Thanks, Cash | CD | $12.99 | Sedimental | "This long-awaited document of an historic tour marrying two of Berlin's finest improvisers with Boston's hometown sluggers has finally been released, and is sounding luscious. At the end of August, 2001, Doerner and Neumann arrived at Boston's Logan airport for a tour that would cover the continental United States and take up the entire month of September. They started by recording with Boston's BSC (released on Grob Records as 'Good'), and then, faced with the challenge of how to fit all of their stuff into a luxury Hyundai (courtesy of a free upgrade coupon from Hertz), they embarked, with Rainey and Kelley, on what would normally be a significantly perception-altering tour of the U.S. It turned out to be more literally mind-melting, which brought out the bottomless magnaminity of each player and all of the characters encountered from New York to San Francisco to Bloomington to Birmingham. The music lets light in through dark slats, and is filled with the richness of sound these musicians bring to their best projects. It retains a 'live' feel while apparently derived from a tattered, ancient score, reserved for especially confounding times." |
| 12/14/2003 | Does, The / Breathe Stone | Sleep Deprivation Blues | split CD EP | $6.99 | Hand / Eye | "The Does (as in female deer, pl.) play music that is dirty, dark, and hazy. Singer Carol Anne and guitar player Neddal were brought together by their shared love of sleaze, sloppy rock ´n roll, and feedback. Originally, the idea was to sound ‘something like a cross between the Rolling Stones and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.’ Things didn´t work out as planned. Carol couldn´t quite shake her goth background. (She refers to herself as a ‘recovering goth.’ Neddal says there´s no such thing.) Neddal couldn´t quite get the sludge out of his system. They wrote some songs. They went into the studio. When they came out they had three songs that didn´t sound anything the songs they´d been rehearsing. On the way to the studio they´d shanghaied Carol´s band mate Jim (Carol and Jim play in Toronto´s Nice Cat. Check them out, they are sludgilicious!) to sit in on drums. What started out as moody, minimal blues/punk ended up as a brooding, psychedelic, not-quite-so-minimal mix of Pussy Galore, ZZ Top, the Melvins, and My Bloody Valentine. Breathe Stone come with an impressive pedigree. Formed on October 31, 2002 by Mr. Timothy Renner, Breathe Stone is an extension of well-known acid/psych/wyrd-folks Stone Breath. Breathe Stone´s mandate is to take the dark, haunting, acoustic folk of Stone Breath in a more electric (literally), experimental direction. Timothy is joined on these recordings by his Stone Breath band mate Sarada, Alicia of Funeral, and guitarist RA Campbell. Using such instruments as electric banjo, slide banjo, glasstamboura, dumbek, and squeezebox, along with the electric guitar, Breathe Stone conjure images of crumbling farmhouses, empty glades, overgrown paths, and lonely silhouettes in the moonlight." Track listing: the does 1. four am 2. five over three 3. sleep deprivation blues - Breathe Stone 4. Rara Avis 5.Crow Omens 6. Maria Walks Amid The Thorn |
| 1/17/2010 | Dog Lady | Live | cassette | $6.99 | Fag Tapes | "woof woof woof! kakaw kakaw! a bunch of live recordings. violin and reel-to-reel and ain't nothing but a dawg up in this dawg up in this dawg in here! just like a dawg rollin' up to the dawg and actin' a dawg up in the dawg! a dawg is off the leash and is loose up in this dawg! Michigan dawg! hand-painted / numbered sealed edition 35." |
| 6/6/2009 | Doktor Kettu | Soft Delirium | CD | $14.99 | Super Metsä | "Doktor Kettu sounds like a rock'n'roll band being thrown down a well in low gravity. Years ago they hid themselves in a small cottage by the sea, only to emerge later as a stream of CD-R releases documenting their slow rituals. Today all of these recordings are desperately sought-after collector's items, but the band itself has carefully stayed away from sight. Now Ektro's Super Metsä imprint is releasing the first "proper" Doktor Kettu offering ever - Soft Delirium is music that is so disconnected from time that its notes are only now just about to reach us, two years after the recording session. Doktor Kettu is Petri Hagner, Jussi Lehtisalo, Tuomas Niskanen, Alpo Nummelin and Jouko Salenius." 3 tracks 41 minutes. |
| Doldrums | Secret Life Of Machines | CD | $12.99 | Vhf | Dronedronedrone | |
| 2/23/2004 | Domestic Purpose | Tschuman Behaviour | CDR | $8.99 | Humbug | “Domestic Purpose is duo of Sindre Andersen (of the sadly defunct Duo Kanel, and TV5 label man) and Andre Borgen (who records under own name and/or as AHB). Besides these substantial claims to fame we've now got this fresh evidence of ‘tschuman behaviour’ which combines music, action sports (maybe) and drama (for sure) in a wholly confused and deliciously psychedelic manner. The fist review delivered a dead-pan comparison to Merzbow. Domestic Purpose is surfing the foamy crest of the last wave of norwegian noise waters (those in the kitchen sink maybe). How apocalyptic is that? Comes in startling & colourful artwork featuring a Witcyst machine collage - nice. Edition of 80 copies.” |
| 6/4/2010 | Donoso, Ricardo | Deterrence | c34 cassette | $7.99 | Digitalis Limited | "i think ricardo donoso has to be one of boston's best-kept secrets. when he's not performing as 1/2 of perispirit (recent tape on hospital) or in the avant black metal outfit, ehnare, he runs his semate productions label. in other words, donoso is busy and responsible for a lot of excellent things. his solo work is no exception. on "deterrence," donoso finds his peak. generated with guitar, analog synth, piano, tapes & contact mics, this is an album of layers. each repeat listen finds new elements and new sounds floating deep in the mix. donoso's interest in game theory and behavioral psychology are the theme to which the music wraps itself around. by the time the final pieace, "mutually assured destruction," reaches its inevitable climax, the listener is left to pick up the pieces. in these slow-decaying sounds are the roots of introspection. listen closely and make your own choices. edition of 80." |
| 2/19/2007 | Door | Destroy All | cassette | $5.99 | Arbor | "New Jersey is like the gloomiest place in the country. Daniel La Porte (aka Door) tries to rep the 732's as gloomy as possible. The dude's jams are like an onslaught of machine smog; a march through grey streets. Door rips through the air with the hypnotic and concrete progression of a helicopter. A close dude of the Nautical Almanac crew, Door has the similarly sparse but tortured vocals emanating every once and a while through the clink-clanking of the machine hum and mixer destruction. Featuring art by Daniel on minimally stamped tapes in a numbered edition of 100 copies." |
| Doramaar | Terra Incognita | LP | $8.99 | Fusetron | "Fine free-rock garage-drone from New Zealanders Kim Pieters, Adria Morgan, and Sara Stephenson. Guitars feedback strum clang - drums pound freely - an occasional melody blossoms and quickly wilts a few other sounds are employed. This music is noisy in its imprecision, but not really 'noise.' It's full of focused energy and grace, feels good, a nice play to visit." -Eddie Flowers | |
| 5/16/2010 | Doronco Gumo | Old Punks | CD | $15.99 | Fuyusouri Music Publishing | "Doronco is a bass player who is most well known for his stints in Les Rallizes Dénudés, Suishou no Fune and with Keiji Haino. Here he is joined by members of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, a Frenchman and an additional female vocalist who have made an album of sophisticated 70s style downer pop. The band uses vocals, bassoon and trumpet over a see-sawing battle of piano / guitar shrill balanced against warm rhythms that sound suspiciously close to how you want them to. Translated as "Mud Cloud," the name is actually poetic in a Zen beggar wandering monk kind of way. Their avant bar-rock style is not unlike Cinderella's Revenge recorded in the same studio as "Vintage Violence" with the conscious heartbreak of something like "Even Serpents Shine." A bright to bummer, and back to bright narrative flows throughout the album's nine songs. "Old Punks" will nail down something for you that you didn't know needed to be nailed down." - review of vinyl version on Holy Mountain. This cd version has a different mix and is limited to 500 copies. Recommended! |
| 2/20/2010 | Doronco Gumo | Old Punks | LP | $14.99 | Holy Mountain | "Doronco Gumo is led by Doronco, a bass player most well known for his stints with Les Rallizes Dénudés, Suishou no Fune, and Keiji Haino. Translated as 'Mud Cloud,' the name is actually poetic in a Zen beggar / wandering monk kind of way. On Old Punks, Doronco is joined by members of Maher Shalal Hash Baz, a Frenchman, and an additional female vocalist. The band uses vocals, bassoon, and trumpet over a seesawing battle of piano / guitar shrill balanced against warm rhythms. Their avant bar-rock style is not unlike Cinderella's Revenge recorded in the same studio as Vintage Violence with the conscious heartbreak of something like Even Serpents Shine. A bright-to-bummer-and-back-to-bright narrative flows throughout the album's nine songs. Resequenced to include an additional track not on the Japanese CD version, Old Punks nails down something you didn't know needed to be nailed down." |
| 12/24/2005 | Double Leopards | A Hole Is True | CD | $12.99 | Troubleman | "Brand new Double Leopards album on Troubleman, recorded at the Tar Pit, Brooklyn, New York. First track, 'Inmost Light', starts with a Pendereckian pit of tortured vox before being slowly eviscerated by flashing blades of analog ghosts and high, almost Whitehouse-style, alarm tones. This feels like one of the bleakest, sparsely populated obliterations from Double Leopards to date, and makes for a supremely ominous slow-motion lurk. Second track, 'Chemical Wedding', is even colder, a hurricane of static tone with just a ghost of electricity and a corona of barely-decipherable, overtone-heavy melodies. Third track, 'White Cadillacs' is a 21-minute vocal heavy monster that sounds like a numbers station beaming from somewhere beyond. Gotta be the most painstakingly minimal and evocatively fucked Double Leopards set to date, a perfect companion spin to their Out Of One, Through One And To One LP on Eclipse. All artwork by the band too. Highest recommendation." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 12/24/2005 | Double Leopards | A Hole Is True | LP | $12.99 | Troubleman | "Brand new Double Leopards album on Troubleman, recorded at the Tar Pit, Brooklyn, New York. First track, 'Inmost Light', starts with a Pendereckian pit of tortured vox before being slowly eviscerated by flashing blades of analog ghosts and high, almost Whitehouse-style, alarm tones. This feels like one of the bleakest, sparsely populated obliterations from Double Leopards to date, and makes for a supremely ominous slow-motion lurk. Second track, 'Chemical Wedding', is even colder, a hurricane of static tone with just a ghost of electricity and a corona of barely-decipherable, overtone-heavy melodies. Third track, 'White Cadillacs' is a 21-minute vocal heavy monster that sounds like a numbers station beaming from somewhere beyond. Gotta be the most painstakingly minimal and evocatively fucked Double Leopards set to date, a perfect companion spin to their Out Of One, Through One And To One LP on Eclipse. All artwork by the band too. Highest recommendation." - Volcanic Tongue |
| 1/15/2005 | Double Leopards | Halve Maen | DBL CD | $14.99 | Eclipse | At long last (and I really mean it - this has been 9 months since the dbl cd project started) and after numerous delays and manufacturing errors this dbl cd has seen the light of day! And it was worth the wait after I was finally able to hold one of these. This digital version contains the exact same tracks as the dbl lp (now out of print) and is a mini-replica of the gatefold lp version. This gatefold cd package came out real nice and even has an insert with it (like the vinyl version, too). If you're not familiar with this release, read this great review Pitchfork gave it (an 8.2 rating): "Nigh on a decade, I have been trying to figure out what the fuck I took that fateful night. Cloyingly labeled as a 'pharmaceutical hallucinogen,' a handful of pills opened portals to the most intense, frighteningly realistic phantasms I've ever experienced. One symptom of overdose, as the Pharmaceutical Handbook explained so succinctly the morning after, was that every electrical appliance malfunctioned in my presence: the LCD displays on my watch and alarm clock were helpless brambles of blinking bars of broken time. The carpet breathed and rippled its fibers. The walls sweated. I continually had the physical sensation of having something clenched in my grip, yet looking down, my hands were always empty. I bring this trip up because I think the Double Leopards (Mike, Maya, Marcia, and Chris) might have ingested the same shit. At the very least, they show similar symptoms on their second album for Eclipse. Housed in a dark and heavy sleeve, replete with an Indian skull and foreboding forest branches, it opens into a gatefold that evokes a satellite dish-addicted Bridget Riley illusion. Halve Maen is sprawled across two heavy discs, the only format through which the finest, most oblique musical messages can properly be conveyed. I am tempted to shove this in alongside such shadowy double albums as Wickham & Young's Lake, The Dead C's Harsh 70s Reality, Charalambides' Market Square, and Twenty-Six's This Skin Is Rust, but even those gave you a little breathing room now and then; Halve Maen smothers all light from the get-go as it burrows into the bowels of the earth below. Very tactile from the first needle-drop, the everyday objects at the old loft space move of their own volition, at the edges of the feverish eyes. Household items like chord organs, plastic toys, and wind chimes suddenly lurch to the fore during 'The Fatal Affront', before all the room's paraphernalia disintegrates into the more solemn and murky affair, 'Druid Spectre'. Here appears a drum more akin to the undead pounding at a cardboard door, somehow thudding along from beyond the grave with an elongated guitar. Side B gets swallowed by 'A Hemisphere in Your Hair', which is time enough for a perm or other long scalp treatment. On this track, time is stretched and lulled until finally being rendered meaningless, and the listening brain is melted in slow undulations of sinewaves, primitive swirls of effects, bowed strings, prayer bowls, Melodica, and otherworldly drones. Small shivers of cricket-like feedback rise and fall with the slow, labored breathing of the beast, as if the inhaled pink goo from The Abyss were replaced with Graffix bong scrapings. The rattles that arise nearer the center of the spindle give the proceedings the woozy feel of an ancient ceremony coming to an end. Turns out we're only halfway there, though, and from this point forth, the travail gets veritably muddy, the group dynamic verging on unconsciousness. Discombobulation and a heavy, pervasive dread of being very lost permeates this record. 'The Forest Outlaws' spins the tape, mid-séance, into a paralyzing bout of self-inflicted ether damage. A blustery white-noise wind blows through the bundled layers of guitar and organ, freezing up the gears on the Leopards' zamboni right at the inner-circle of the inferno, where it's always most frigid and frightening. The last side is given over to 'The Secret Correspondence 1 & 2', plopping us into the vertiginous tides of the Dead Sea, where the silty, unseen bottom is stirred up something fierce. Cymbals are struck but quickly sink below the briny waters. Tremors of ghostly orchestras are constantly conjured by the guitars, a mass grave of vindicative strings that howl and die only to be resurrected for the finale. The instruments and processed moans of the group commune with a far more surly and slurred spiritual world than previously glimpsed, heavily sedated and hovering with a menacing glint just at the threshold of sanity. As it all slips away at record's end, I'm left questioning the mental stability and half-life of this trip. What I believed to be firmly in my grasp slithered away, a disquieting residue left behind on my hands and in my eyes and ears. Overwhelming in its morose synesthesia and downright bleary at times, Halve Maen is like those little yellow pills I popped so long ago: Ingestion will definitely fuck you up." - Andy Beta, September 16th, 2003. |
| 9/30/2005 | Double Leopards | Savage Summer Sun | CD | $12.99 | Hospital | "Savage Summer Sun captures two live shows on back-to-back days in March during their Spring West Coast tour. I heard great things about this tour, but I heard just as much about the great West Coast opening acts, Skaters and Axolotl, as I heard about the East Coast touring acts, Mouthus and Double Leopards. Double Leopards must have been similarly enthusiastic about the West Coast contingent, as they invited Skaters to tour the East Coast with them - a tour that is going on right now. Before opening up the CD, the natural question is, why wasn't this done as an LP with one show on each side? However each recording is about 37 minutes long, and to cut them down would have been a disservice, as the building up and tearing down of the group's sound is one of the most interesting parts of this release and something you don't always get from their studio recordings. The first recording is from the March 22nd show at Il Corral in Los Angeles. The Far East (the hemisphere of the world, not the coast of the US) treats music as a living, breathing entity. Creating music is less about technical execution as much as it is connecting as a group and giving life to something metaphysical, and this style of music creation, in the spirit of Taj Mahal Travellers, is captured excellently in this first show's recording. You get a great sense of the band coming together, starting with a few bellows of guitar feedback and a whirring bit of distortion, which slowly builds into a swarm of locusts. The dissolution is interesting too, as processed vocals cause all the instruments to drop out, leaving just hand drums and a few eeks and irrs. While it's a very interesting show, it's not a very effective drone; it's just a big whoosh. Despite some subtle added texture, once it reaches its apex, it's somewhat monotonous. Having listened to this track a half dozen times, I haven't gotten lost in it yet. The next day's show, a radio performance on KDVS of Davis, California, is a much better drone; it's positively overpowering. Distorted guitar is thrown through another layer of distortion, and then another, creating a dizzying siren call that floats around digital satellite blips and harshly distorted radio signals. My sinuses block up, and my head feels light. As one layer of distortion drops open, leaving some room to breathe, the guitar becomes a spinning maelstrom, sucking in energy, building back up again in power, but burning out quickly like a supernova. After it burns out, we're left to recover in a ten minute long bath of roughly textured digital distortion, the temperature building to a nice warmth with an added swell of processed vocals." - fakejazz.com. Highly recommended! |
| 5/14/2004 | Double Leopards | Urban Concussion | LP | $79.99 | QBICO | "Picture disk, artwork by Graham Lambkin (who also did the cover for Coffee- Destination Moon LP), 350 copies only. Soundtrack for deep space journeys.... if you get lost, hold yr breath..." Highly recommended! |
| 9/30/2005 | Double Leopards / Mouthus | Tour | LP | $29.99 | Troubleman Unlimited | Very limited edition tour lp release. You'll only find this with the bands, through Troubleman, or here. Killer jams housed in a silkscreened jacket. |
| 6/11/2006 | Double Leopards / Mouthus / Sunroof! | Crippled Rosebud Binding | DBL LP | $24.99 | Music Fellowship | "The 5th installment in the Music Fellowshipís triptych has finally arrived!! This release brings together two Brooklyn bands, Mouthus and Double Leopards, and the sonically entwined Sunroof! of England. While each band contributes a side to this two-LP set, the artists are brought together not just figuratively on wax, but literally, as the fourth side features all seven musicians playing together. Double LP Gatefold artwork and design by Mouthus." |
| Dowser | Mumusic | CD | $18.99 | Pataphysique | "'Welcome to the hypno party', the last track of Dowser's latest album is not an invitation to somnolence, but instead it induces a feeling of deep isolation and assimilation into the world. Playing with rhythm, now fast, now slow, and with vocal proximity, now close, now distant, Dowser are representing the fragmentation of the people of the world, the widening fissures emanating from the ending of Showa and from the lifting of the lid of Socialism. In the damaged area, there is collapse; at its very epicentre, you can hear Dowser. Here, you might also encounter Louis-Ferdinand Celine heading north from Baden Baden, with a heavy grudge against the world, a man of the '68 generation now driving a red Porsche and mumbling 'Forget the car stereo, the engine is music enough', or the actor in Philippe Garrell's 'Le vent de la nuit (Night Wind)'. They must still be on that road, some in contentment, some in silence but all caught up in memories with little care for the present, and yet an electronic sound keeps buzzing in their heads; Dowser! Drive on, the journey to the end of the night continues. Dowser is a duo of the two electro-musicians Nagashima Hiroyuki and Terai Masateru. Since their musical approach varies with every piece, their music cannot be described in short, however, it always evokes visual images. Using vintage synthesizers such as EMS, Buchla and latest DSP, the music they produce has sometimes barbaric and sometimes vulnerable feel. They have been working with several leading film directors, including Fukui Shoujin, Ishii Sogo, and Otomo Katsuhiro. Music for Ishii's 'Angel Dust' was reviewed 'The return of Telemusik (Stockhausen )' on Wire magazine. Nagashima ( prepared sampler ) and Terai (electronics ) are also the members of Big Picture, a project by Phew, legendary Japanese female vocalist." | |
| 2/11/2006 | Doyle, Arthur | No More Evil Women Tour | CDR | $12.99 | Carbon Records | "20 minutes of Arthur Doyle's trademark vocalizations. recorded direct to cassette, this is a great vocal only recording from Arthur, to celebrate his recent mini-tour of the NorthEast US. Limited edition. packaging started as 3 4'x4' paintings on 1/4" plywood. the pieces were then cut into 6"x6" boards that serve as the cover/carrier for the release." |
| 1/24/2009 | Dr Quinn Medicine Woman | Land o Lakes | cassette | $7.99 | Archivo De Sangre De Dios | "Spazz electrocutionist Ryan Kuehn best known as Pedophile/Thursday club/Hot Air Balloon Ride returns to the mire as Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. Blocky gurgling noise clonks will rattle your skull a bit, but then comes the liquid metal esophagus coating ailment. Claustrophobia replaced with straight up choking. Dr. Quinn plays a modified/bent vocoder type device, a homebuilt multi-oscillator setup, and a bent/destroyed keyboard. The end result is Robotussin slathered jackhammer noise for the Revver in each of us." Edition of 75 copies. |
| 3/5/2009 | Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman | Wolfenstein 3D | cassette | $8.99 | Pizza Night | "It's hard to ever take Ryan aka Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman too seriously. In fact, he calls Wolfenstein 3d his "new age" album. It's not all that new agey but it's definitely new territory. He brings a stellar focus to his usual barrage of bizarre electronics and droning that will make you sea sick and in awe of his mixing mastery. Full Color art + comes with 3D GLASSES!" |
| 7/16/2009 | Drafted by Minotaurs | Aversion Therapy | LP | $27.99 | Infraction | "Drafted by Minotaurs mainstays are guitarist Ryan Wilson and Ian Fulcher, who contributes trumpet and glockenspiel. Meanwhile members of a floating cast chip in with added textures from cello and violin. Opener "Blueprints for Sunbuilding" spools out a hail of plucked and bowed strings, webs of sound solidifying then melting into steely flow, stall set out somewhere around cultivated Constellation post-rockeries, a mood and sound that may feel familiar to those acquainted with the new backwoods chamberisms and neo-folk drone of UK cottage industrialites such as Richard Skelton (aka A Broken Consort/Clouwbeck) and Seasons (Pre-din). "Sault Locks" proposes cyclical patterns of stringed things that seem to hover shyly apart, before swarming to swell and billow over the listener - not so much a Storm of Drones as a squall of tones. "Skin the Night and Fog," a more veiled sister of the previous pluckings and bowings, plays out a psych-infused dream sequence. These three tracks forming Side A work with their own distinct harmonic and textural patterns, while seeming like movements of something overarching. Miasmic minor chord tidal flow abounds, the music's motion determined by languorous bow-strokes, its textures by warm-prickly needles of guitar pizzicatos. Side B's single extended track, "Sunday's Morning Ghost," is wrought from similar materials, but aspires to more transcendant levels, led by the celestial harmonics of Fulcher's treated trumpet. It takes on atavistic echoes redolent of some distant Miles Davis or Jon Hassell blowback, as if viewing In a Silent Way through a post-Kosmische kaleidoscope, or channeled through Eno/Budd cathedrals to meet today's psych-drone and ambient trajectories. Overall, Aversion Therapy thrives on such productive tensions between genres and eras, as it does between live and recorded, spontaneous and pre-structured, making for engaging, at times thrillingly psychotropic, listening." - alan lockett. "The outer sleeve is a Stoughton printing tip-on style gatefold. 'Tip-on' is a separate matte sheet that is applied to thick board stock. Like LPs from the '70's, only thicker. Or 'old school' if you prefer. There is also a sort of OBI strip, or j-card that lies on the spine of the gatefold sleeves. Similar to the Japanese import vinyls - which is a nice touch (I'm biased) that gives some additional info. Then there is the vinyl itself - a slab of 180 gram virgin vinyl pressed at the vinyl pressing mecca that is RTI. The inner sleeves are audiophile grade anti-static triple layer sleeves. Lastly, the outer sleeves are resealable 4 mil plastic sleeves with flap...and they actually reseal. Mastered by Carl Saff. This LP pressing is limited to 489 copies. |
| 4/29/2008 | Dragonfrynd | Smoke Ring Mandala | CDR | $13.99 | Cut Hands | "Terrific new project by Adam Kriney (La Otracina, Owl Xounds et al) ..board and effects and Clinton Wilkins on electric guitar. It's actually the first Kriney release that doesn't feature him on drums, in fact, there's no drums at all here. Just the thrill of entrancing guitarfeedback, kosmische tone workouts, touches of swirling Japanese psychrock and amplified Ash Ra Tempel meditations. A new and exciting direction for one of the most busy and promising talents in the NYC underground. Full colour covers, in slimline dvd cases, edition of 75." |
| 11/23/2004 | Dragonwyck | Dragonwyck | LP + 10" | $49.99 | World In Sound | "The group from Cleveland (OH) was one of the most promising bands in that area, opened shows for bands as Foghat, Golden Earring, Edgar Winter Group etc. The mood of the music is dark, mystic and strong influenced of the times' spirit, the hippie age - anything goes. Shortly after highschool in 1970, the 5 guys recorded 7 tracks, released a test pressing on Pama Records in an edition of only 85 copies. It was reissued in the 1990's by Rockadelic Records as limited edition on LP and CD, since then this band is a milestone for all heavy / psychedelic music collectors. Jim Morrison and The Doors brought main inspiration to Dragonwyck´s music, with the small difference; the songs are heavier and more progressive; the sound is not just dominated by great vocals, there are lots of freaked out heavy guitar solos and swirling Hammond B3 organ, which brings the individual note to the music. The core of musicians started as Sunrise in 1968 and released one 45 record. This is from the mastertape which seemed to be lost, contains 5 bonus tracks (3 unreleased) on the 10” record and also includes a poster." Limited stock. |
| 3/20/2007 | Draheim, Charlie | Choose To Lose | 7" | $6.99 | BloodLust! | "This is the first release on BloodLust! by Detroit's Charlie Draheim, and I could not be happier. Draheim has been a major figure in both my social and my musical cosmologies during the last few years, and his recordings and his live shows have reached such a peak- state that I could not hold off any longer in releasing some of his intense, blasting electronic noise. The choice is yours... win or lose? Private series number twelve." Edition of 300 copies pressed on white vinyl with black and white insert. |
| 9/17/2006 | Draheim, Charlie | Possession | LP | $15.99 | Tone Filth | "Pressure. Steam. Scrapyard drainage, leaking into the corners. Mold and mildew - seepage. Cracks, crevices containing black days and red nights. The infection is spreading. False and forgotten. The Butcher, as he's known amongst friends and enemies, slices his way though flesh and bone on his first vinyl appearance and his finest moment to date. Contaminating the a-side with sick tones, nauseating hiss and whine, the rumble and wet sadism of clogged sinuses led to climax in an orgy of rotten magnetic tape. Mongrel howls and junkyard threats make up the unhealthy flip of this record - the slowest of rhythmic thump wrought in contrast to relentless clang reminding of the new, no, The OLD Blockaders. It ends the second you wake up. Throw your vacant body in the gutter." - Greh Holger (Hive Mind, Chondritic Sound) Edition of 320 with hand screened textured card stock covers. |
| 2/26/2006 | Draheim, Charlie | untitled | 7" | $25.99 | AA | One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. |
| 9/17/2006 | Draheim, Charlie & Devillock | Total Horror | DBL Cassette | $12.99 | Tone Filth | "A re-issue of what I beleive to be a Tone Filth classic. One tape is a split, the second a mail collaboration. Recorded Spring/Summer 2004, first edition released Fall 2004 in an edition of 45. Lo-Fi guitar vomit and organ hallucinations for decaying magnetic tape. Second Edition of 100 with hand screened covers and tapes in a slim white vinyl double cassette case." |
| Dream Magazine | Issue #1 | magazine | $4.99 | From the Summer of 2000: "The debut issue features exclusive interviews with: Slapp Happy daddy Peter Blegvad, NZ music legend David Kilgour, Barbara Manning, Glen Johnson of Piano Magic, Yo La Tengo, Cake Like, Jonathan Richman, Jeff Hoke (of ‘Guide to Lost Wonder’), Japan's dreamy Sugar Plant, Kate Kane (Co-Editor of ‘Dori Stories’) and Terry Jones of Monty Python. There are also exclusive articles and elements of; Mail Art, Tim Buckley, Dreams, Bill Fox, Holiday Flyer, Zines, Townes Van Zandt, Shoplifting, Found Art, Hell, Dance Lessons, Ghosts, Videos and more. It's packed to the rafters with exclusive photographs, comics, artwork, and stories. The fat review section covers artists like: Angus MacLise, The Spacious Mind, Pelt, Sun City Girls, H.P. Lovecraft, Jason Crest, Damo Suzuki, Essex Green, Skip Spence, Jeff Kelly, Ivor Cutler, Spacious Mind, Alan R. Splet, XTC, Atman, Lambchop, Firesign Theatre, Rachel's, Sun Ra, Nightmares On Wax, The Bonzo Dog Band, Syd Barrett, Robert Wyatt, Eden Ahbez, DJ Spooky, Hood, The Poets, Archer Prewitt, Bert Jansch, Stuart Moxham, The Choir, Joe Meek, Steven Roden, Huon, Tape-Beatles, Michael Hurley, Novy Svet, Solex, Magnetic Fields, Monks, Kid Silver, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Pop-Off Tuesday, Tom Rapp, Harpo Marx, Tarentel, The Mekons, Lucky Bishops, Tall Dwarfs, Calla, Giant Sand, eX-Girl, Broadcast, The Pretty Things, Nick Drake, The Yind, Holger Czukay, Alvin Lucier, Sorrow, The Iditarod, Creation, The Left Banke, The Flaming Lips, Go-Betweens, Pantaleimon, Eyeless In Gaza, Green Pajamas, Virgineers, The Misunderstood, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Elf Power, Abunai!, Kak, Tomorrow, Magical Power Mako, and many, many others." Nicely done. | ||
| Dream Magazine | Issue #2 | magazine with CD | $7.99 | From March 2002: "This issue features a free CD of unreleased or otherwise unavailable material by Magical Power Mako, Timothy Renner, Missy Roback, Ring, Magic Carpathians, Kiila, Greg Weeks, Abunai!, Glen Johnson (of Piano Magic), Tim Bowness, es, Mandible Chatter, Tanakh, Alan Jenkins, Jeffrey Lewis, and Norway's Dipsomaniacs as well. The magazine features interviews with; Jim Woodring, Magical Power Mako, Hood, Holger Czukay, Bid (of Monochrome Set and Scarlet's Well), Timothy Renner, Tony Dale (of Camera Obscura Records), Rapoon, Greg Weeks, Mandible Chatter, Filip "Ring" Andersen, John Duncan, Abunai!, Magic Carpathians, and more. As well as fiction by Peter Blegvad, Top 5 Record Labels, Dandelion Wine, The Relax-Acizor, and a focus piece on Terrastock 4 with exclusive photos. With reviews of music by: Diasuke Tobari, Dipsomaniacs, Fit & Limo, Tinsel, The Soft Boys, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Aix Em Klemm, Alastair Galbraith, Volcano the Bear, The Third Eye Foundation, Tim Buckley, Dunlavy, Bablicon, Summer Hymns, Kinski, Abunai!, Ladybug Transistor, Sigur Ros, Mark Eitzel, Red House Painters, Bevis Frond, The Chills, Aspera, The Tyde, Tanakh, Vic Chesnutt, The Sixth Great Lake, Pat Orchard, arco, Dump, The Eyesores, Tonton Macoute, Reao, Circus 2000, Ring, Christina Rosenvinge, Bardo Pond, Delicate AWOL, Ultrasound, Client/Server, Boredoms, OOIOO, Aarktica, Rollerball, The Black Sun Ensemble, Goblin Market, Motorpsycho, Monroe Mustang, etc." Very nice! | ||
| 9/30/2005 | Dream Magazine | Issue #5 | Magazine with CD | $8.99 | "This huge 128 page issue features exclusive interviews with: Robert Wyatt and his wife, illustrator, lyricist, and muse Alfreda Benge, Masaki Batoh of legendary Japanese band Ghost, Tom Rapp of Pearls Before Swine, part two of our talk with Terry Riley, an extensive chat with Pat Thomas of San Francisco band Mushroom, the singular John Trubee, our pal Jose Marmeleira talks to Sun City Girls, we talk to Marissa Nadler, Elf Power, Bipolaroid, there's a long lost phone call to the late great illustrator Rick Griffin, Jonny Trunk of Trunk Records, longtime contributor Sasa Rakezic aka Aleksandar Zograf talks to illustrating icon Gary Panter, Lee Jackson delivers his estimation of the most harrowing baker's dozen recordings ever with his 13 Nightmares, we talk to Mats Gustafsson about the late lamented Swedish 'zine The Broken Face, and he delivers a whole section of his inimitable record reviews, he also conducts interviews with Ed Hardy of Eclipse Records, Finnish explorers Kemialliset Ysävät, and Australian band the Lost Domain, our friend Nuno Robles talks to Donovan Quinn of Verdure, we also talk to Crashing Dreams, Swedish band Testbild!, Russian singer Julia Vorontsova, Tinsel, and as always there are an excess of record reviews, as well as DVD and publication reviews. The complimentary CD included with issue #5 features excellent previously unreleased material by: Piano Magic, Volcano the Bear, Bipolaroid, Verdure, Mushroom, Julia Vorontsova, the Lost Domain, Jack Rose, AqPop, Testbild!, there's also a great out of print John Trubee instrumental and Bob Moss lets us use a brilliant previously unrecorded Tom Rapp song from Bob's album "Folknik II" on Soundcore/ Woods Cross." | |
| 9/17/2006 | Dream Magazine | Issue #6 | magazine with CD | $8.99 | "This 112 page issue features exclusive interviews with and articles on: orchestral rock wizard Eric Matthews, George Kinney of legendary Texan psychedelic band the Golden Dawn, the wonderful British singer/songwriter Bridget St. John, Michael Gira of Swans, Angels of Light and Young God Records, sonic explorer and artist Steven Roden, Jeremy Barnes of A Hawk and a Hacksaw (and Bablicon, Neutral Milk Hotel, etc.), Utah-based folk singer and artist Bob Moss with a short introduction by Tom Rapp, Ben Chasny of Six Organs of Admittance, new music vocalist pioneer Joan La Barbara, Robert Lowe of Lichens, the lushly psychedelic sounds of Nick Castro, superb singer songwriter Alela Menig, Irish singer songwriter Adrian Crowley, Brad Rose of Digitalis Industries and the North Sea, dreamy droning duo Windy & Carl, Italian brother improvisational duo My Cat Is An Alien, the sainted noise of the UK's Vibracathedral Orchestra, the songcraft of Nick Bensen and his Free City Media projects, the incredible Baby Dee, improvisational musician Keenan Lawler, Phil Elverum of the Microphones and Mt. Eerie, Lee Jackson provides a guide to and overview of Current 93, Scottish folk artist Alasdair Roberts, the five musicians originally from Mohacs in Hungary, Strasbourg in France and the suburbs of West Bridgford in Nottingham, England of Saint Joan, Aleksandar Zograf (aka Sasa Rakezic) interviews Jonathan Richman in Belgrade in comix form, Santa Cruz deep forest folkies Whysp, electronic pop/dance artist Nicolette born in Glasgow, Scotland (Her first language was Ibo, as her parents were Nigerian), a rather extreme true fishing story, previously unpublished comix by George Parsons. A bumper crop of great ghost stories and much more. The complimentary CD features previously unreleased material by many of the artists covered. Including: Windy & Carl, Steven Roden, Bridget St. John (doing Devendra Banhart's "The Body Breaks"), Absalom, Alela Menig, The North Sea, Black Forest/Black Sea, Donovan's Brain, Nick Bensen, Nick Castro, My Cat Is An Alien, Nick Bensen, Vibracathedral Orchestra, and Saint Joan. There's also a rare song by Michael Gira." | |
| 6/19/2007 | Dream Magazine | Issue #7 | magazine with CD | $8.99 | The seventh issue of this magazine dedicated to the creative music community. You get features on ABSALOM, BEEQUEEN, LOREN CONNORS, JOSEPHINE FOSTER, BERT JANSCH, LANTERNS, P.G. SIX, MAYO THOMPSON, and many others. Includes a CD with unreleased tracks from FUNCTION, SHARRON KRAUS, KEENAN LAWLER, FARINA, many of the above, and more. | |
| 4/29/2008 | Dream Magazine | Issue #8 | magazine with CD | $8.99 | "Issue eight has longtime contributor Mats Gustafsson (late of The Broken Face) doing his inimitable interviewing journalistic thing on Los Angeles brotherly duo Antique Brothers, and New Zealand's singular Rory Storm. Ned Raggett talked to guitar genius Ilyas Ahmed. Steve Sawada interviewed Portland, Oregon's Plants. Brian Faulkner talked to Tom and Christina of the Charalambides, Mark Dagley chatted with Natalie Rose LeBrecht aka Greenpot Bluepot. I interviewed: The very wonderful Damon & Naomi, tripped-out vocal adventurer Dredd Foole, great guitarist Sir Richard Bishop of the late lamented Sun City Girls, legendary Japanese guitarist Michio Kurihara with translation by Alan Cummings, the deeply beguiling husband and wife acid folk duo Arborea, American singer songwriter Stephen Yerkey of the late great Nonfiction, Argentinian sonic explorer Anla Courtis late of Reynols, the great Swedish psychedelic band The Spacious Mind, the unique and brilliant British composer and vocalist Johnny Parry, I talked to Myc James lead vocalist of Nevada City band of yore Absalom, psychedelic home-recording Brit madman Reefus Moons, singer songwriter Lys Guillorn, ambient masters Stars of the Lid, Sacramento Valley's own psych-pop wizard Anton Barbeau, and the truly wonderful The Handsome Family. We also feature artwork by the stalwart Peter Blegvad, the charming Andrew Goldfarb, and myself. We received exceptional pieces for this issue's complimentary CD from: Arborea, Rory Storm, Anton Barbeau, the Slow Poisoner, Natalie Rose LeBrecht, Rory Storm, Lys Guillorn, Reefus Moons, Absalom, Anla Courtis, Antique Brothers, M. Jarvis / A. Jarvis, Powell St. John, The Spacious Mind, and Ilyas Ahmed." - George Parsons | |
| 9/18/2006 | Dream/Aktion Unit | Blood Shadow Rampage | CD | $15.99 | VolcanicTongue | "Volcanic Tongue is proud to present the first ever release by the Dream/Aktion Unit, a free-thinking avant garage Ur-kestra based around the central kernel of guitarist Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), saxophonist Paul Flaherty and drummer Chris Corsano (Six Organs Of Admittance, Sunburned Hand Of The Man et al) and featuring Heather Leigh Murray (Taurpis Tula / Jandek / Charalambides) on pedal steel and vocals and Matt Heyner (No-Neck Blues Band / Test / Angelblood) on upright bass. The Dream/Aktion Unit were originally birthed as a side-project to allow Thurston Moore and Jim O'Rourke to fully explore the kind of ecstatic power blues that their work in Sonic Youth repeatedly implied. The addition of legendary New England saxophonist Paul Flaherty and powerhouse drummer Chris Corsano provided them with an umbilical connection straight to the source of modern musical freedom, while working to liberate them from previously articulated modes of known rock-speak. As a quartet, the group tore through a bunch of the USA's most winning festival spaces – their ground-levelling F/X pedal assault at the De Stijl/Freedom From bash in Minneapolis in 2004 being a particular landmark - with both guitarists drawing creative sustenance from the kind of ego-obliterating drums/horn interaction previously articulated by players like The Reverend Frank Wright, Glenn Spearman, Denis Charles and Albert Ayler. Come 2005 – with sub-underground modes enjoying a particularly unlikely shot in the sun – The Dream/Aktion unit began to take on role of some kind spontaneous think-tank, with a revolving door policy towards membership and a commitment to the demands of the moment resulting in almost orchestral incarnations featuring members of Burning Star Core, Hair Police and Vampire Belt all pushing the hell out of the envelope. In May 2005 Moore, Flaherty and Corsano brought the Dream/Aktion Unit to Stirling, Scotland, for the final Le Weekend festival to be curated by David Keenan/Volcanic Tongue. With O’Rourke permanently out of the picture due to various film and musical commitments, Matt Heyner aka Count Heynowski of NNCK and Heather Leigh of Taurpis Tula stepped up. The results were mind-blowing, with the quintet tearing through a non-stop gush of energy/ideas without resorting to base musical concerns like dialogue or listening with your ears. This was pure simultaneity at some kind of peak of flux. Moore's role was key. He would move from these kind of suggestive, shepherding chords that would work lubes of motion into the back line, where Corsano and Heyner hooked up to such a degree that it was hard to separate their individual tonal and percussive points. They sounded like a friggin combine harvester. Murray and Flaherty were floating on their own particular plane, one that worked to reconcile the insane pulse of blood from the base of their spine with the juice of pure vision. Flaherty’s sound touches on a whole bunch of jazz modes while re-situating the tradition somewhere way upwind of contemporary sound-as-thought while Heather Leigh's exquisitely violent pedal steel stylings and free vocal improvisations seemed to touch on aspects of both Patty Waters, Lydia Lunch and Keiji Haino's flesh-extensions while resolutely refusing anything approaching previously-articulated tongue. The whole thing was recorded and mixed straight to 24 track and the results are what you have in your hands. The first ever document of the collective thought of what’s easily the cream of the subterranean cup. Packaged in deluxe hard card gatefold sleeves with specially-commissioned eye-gouging video nasty-style artwork from Miss Karen Constance of Brighton aka Karen Lollypop of Blood Stereo/Smack Music 7/Chocolate Monk this is the first ever 'real' CD release from Volcanic Tongue after a run of limited and highly collectable art-edition CD-Rs." |
| 5/31/2008 | Dreamer's Cloth | Total Descent To Mind Beach | cassette | $10.99 | Sloow Tapes | "New Age meditation dance party on tropical beach, getting one with nature under a relaxing shower of multi-colored fractals and shining keys. It's only the dreamer who moves mountains. 70 copies." |
| 4/22/2009 | Dreamers Cloth | Marble Halls / Endlos Reichenberger Schorle Pool | cassette | $6.99 | Future Sound | Jonas Frederikson from Denmark |
| 7/16/2006 | Dreams | Dreams | CDR | $12.99 | New Age Cassettes | "Intense, allusive shot of free-associating brains beams, vox, percussion and fertility ritual from one of the most beautiful thinkers the current scene has produced, Mr James Ferraro of The Skaters et al. Parts of this make me think of a more ecstatic take on HNAS’s Abwassermusik ritual with the sounds of water, hand-percussion and peyote guzzling mixed into a soup of extremely potent dimensions. Sub-spatial poetry at its most liminal and disorientating. Highly recommended, as is every flash of his fingers." - Volcanic Tongue. Recommended here, too. |
| 3/2/2005 | Dreams of Tall Buildings | Nothing Hurt and Everything Was Beautiful | CDR | $12.99 | Pseudoarcana | "Dreams of Tall Buildings craft a lush, almost decadent series of loop-based washes on this disk. The title certainly sets the scene but, although predominantly electronic, acoustic and electric percussion and instruments make occasional and surprising interjections." |
| 3/2/2005 | Dredd Foole | A Long, Losing Battle with Eloquence and Intimance | LP | $11.99 | Ecstatic Yod | "7 songs of studio-recorded solo Dredd Foole on vocals and acoustic guitar, in a totally different vein than the last Dredd Foole & the Din record with Pelt & Thurston Moore (The Whys of Fire).’For years and years (maybe about 17 or so), people have been pleading with Dan Ireton to record an album of his songs, as they are here, ‘mostly in one take’. That has, almost unbelievably at this point, finally been taken care of. Not necessarily ‘new’ or particularly ‘weird’, this is unquestionably (for lack of better terminology), ‘American’. And when was the last time you could admit to that? In front of a crackling fire, it could perhaps sound good enough to melt into the floor, but even those illuminated by mere fluorescence will find pure captivation. Words, voice, guitar, culturally-informed emotional expression. Printed inner sleeve with lyrics, just like the old days. Great Kim Gordon cover.” – FE. Highly recommended! |
| 11/9/2004 | Dredd Foole | Daze On The Mounts | CDR | $12.99 | COM Relics | "The silver king of Ashram hum returns to the people after lighting up Maximum Arousal Farm and his very own room with 6 songs of total blue afternoon freedom in a mesmerizing rustic ramble that is the true follow up to ‘In Quest Of Tense’. Post Ra & Buk never sounded like such sweet earth." Extraordinary reissue on the fine COM Relics label (a division of Child of Microtones). This disc features Dan ‘Dredd Foole’ Ireton (voice, acoustic guitar, spectrasynth, moon drum, kalimba, ceramic drum) performing 5 cuts with Matt Valentine (acoustic guitar, telecaster, silvertone 6, harmonica, moon flute, backing vocals) and Erika Elder (tamboura, trumpet, bells on 4 of the tracks) and Dredd is solo on the last track recorded in the Winter of 2003. |
| 11/9/2004 | Dredd Foole | Heroine Celestial Agriculture 'Digital 78's' Series: Vol. 1 - Mist-O-Ray > Above Ground Friend (23:24) b/w It’s Old But It’s Good (6:14) | CDR | $19.99 | Child of Microtones | All analog recorded cdr's with unreleased b-sides not available elsewhere. These are scarce so don’t wait too long if you want one! |
| 11/9/2004 | Dredd Foole | Heroine Celestial Agriculture 'Digital 78's' Series: Vol. 2 - Sister Ray (featuring Dr. E’Weerd Yijji) (12:13) b/w Foole’s Night Train (7:34) | CDR | $19.99 | Child of Microtones | All analog recorded cdr's with unreleased b-sides not available elsewhere. These are scarce so don’t wait too long if you want one! |
| 11/9/2004 | Dredd Foole | Heroine Celestial Agriculture 'Digital 78's' Series: Vol. 3 - Jungle Nigh High > Jungle Allah (13:59) b/w Oro is God (featuring Christiina Madoniia) (6:57) | CDR | $19.99 | Child of Microtones | All analog recorded cdr's with unreleased b-sides not available elsewhere. These are scarce so don’t wait too long if you want one! |
| 11/9/2004 | Dredd Foole | Heroine Celestial Agriculture 'Digital 78's' Series: Vol. 4 - Light At The Ditch Of A Spoonful > Mystery Beuys (18:13) b/w Stones In My Passway (4:41) | CDR | $19.99 | Child of Microtones | All analog recorded cdr's with unreleased b-sides not available elsewhere. These are scarce so don’t wait too long if you want one! |
| 11/9/2004 | Dredd Foole | Heroine Celestial Agriculture 'Digital 78's' Series: Vol. 5 - LTD Hydroponic Jug Band > The Old Rugged Cross (featuring featuring Dr. E’Weerd Yijji) (18:31) b/w Waiting For My Fubar (7:50) | CDR | $19.99 | Child of Microtones | All analog recorded cdr's with unreleased b-sides not available elsewhere. These are scarce so don’t wait too long if you want one! |
| 8/21/2003 | Dredd Foole | In Quest Of Tense | CD | $12.99 | Forced Exposure | "Dredd Foole is the name used to designate the music of Boston-area vocal/guitar artist Dan Ireton. He used to lead a band under the name Dredd Foole & the Din, recording two great, mostly neglected albums in the 80s for labels known as Homestead and PVC. It was commonly known that his band was one of the only Boston bands worth seeing post-Mission of Burma (who backed him up actually, as the original Din, on his debut single in 1982). Those records were fine for the time, but they hardly captured the full intensity-scope of the 1st-gen post-VU/Stooges blare of that band in their prime. In the late 80s Dan wisely abandoned the rock band format and has sporadically been performing a series of breathtaking shows in the otherwise ready-to-be-nuked-today local ‘club scene’ ever since. Sometimes solo acoustic, sometimes with percussion, electric slide guitar or violin accompaniment, he sings with one of the most electrifying post-Tim Buckley vocal chords ever heard, and his concept of multiphonic non-traditional folk music with apocalyptic come-down power-appeal has finally been documented with this long overdue release. A masterpiece of personal trance-sound-vision & legitimate psychedelic space-whisper revelations, at your command." |
| 11/2/2008 | Dredd Foole | Kissing The Contemporary Bliss | Double CD | $15.99 | Family Vineyard | "For over 30 years troubadour wailer Dan Ireton, aka Dredd Foole, has called upon the spirit of 78 shellac blues n' psychedelic Stooges n' Velvets to fuel his guttural, pure soul ethos of the song. Whether solo or leading mass, Foole hints at the classic forms of Blood On The Tracks and the celestial fug of Sun Ra's third-eye vision to create an approach untraveled yet increasingly influential (see: Six Organs of Admittance, Sunburned Hand of the Man). Produced in multi-dimensional spectrasound by Matt "MV" Valentine (Bummer Road, Tower Recordings), Kissing The Contemporary Bliss spans 50 miles of elbow room (it's a double CD) and kicks up the most outward bound and staggering approaches to Gus Cannon's "Walk Right In" and Robert Johnson's "Stones In My Passway" while offering ear-popping originals colored by Erika Elder's jug blowin' and Coot Moon's ecstatic, reverb dosed banjo. You'll hear nothing like this in 2008 or beyond. Packaged in a mini-LP-styled gatefold book with full color photos of The Foole in action. This is the Foole's fourth solo album since 1994's In Quest of Tense and part of an American musical evolution that began with his debut 45 single leading The Din in 1982. Kissing... was originally released in an extremely limited edition by Valentine's Child of Microtones imprint in 2005. This reissue contains superior remastered sound and radically reworked design and cover art." |
| 5/1/2009 | Dredd Foole | Songs To Despond Ya | LP | $13.99 | Apostasy Recordings | "The Dredd Foole catalog is wide (and deep) and yet this new release manages to carve another distinct tributary into the swamped landscape. As the title implies, Songs To Despond Ya falls on the songwriting end of the Foole Spectrum, and he takes full advantage of the opportunity to flesh out his bardic impulse. The results are raw and immediate, devoid of electronic effects, and all the more timeless for it. Of course, whether he's offering up ballads or free-hootin' and -hollerin', Dredd Foole always tugs at the heart and mind of anyone receptive enough to leave those doors open just a crack." |
| 5/1/2009 | Dredd Foole & Ed Yazijian | That Lonesome Road Between Hurt And Soul | CD | $16.99 | Bo' Weavil | "Dredd Foole (Dan Ireton) and Ed Yazijian met while wandering the shadowy corners of the Boston '80s post-punk scene. Ed was playing in such avant-rock combos as High Risk Group and 7 or 8 Wormhearts (and the original pre-LP Cul de Sac). Dan had just dissolved Dredd Foole & The Din, tired of rock as a form and the extraordinary loudness of the group. He wanted a chance to do some real singing. Ed was feeling a need for something more subtle and embraced the idea of actually being able to hear what he played. They set out to turn the world onto the largely acoustic folk and free-improv stew they had cooked up. Boston rock audiences were not impressed. Indifference and downright hostility were the norm. There was talk of an LP, and some tentative recordings were done. But before anything could materialize, frustration took over and Dan decided to retire from performing music altogether. Ed went back to rock music with Kustomized. And eventually, Dan bought a four-track and recorded the LP In Quest of Tense (which some consider the opening salvo of the free-folk movement) with Ed appearing on one track. But by the time it was released, they had gone their separate ways. Years later, by a series of coincidences, they reconnected, and they found that when they played together again, it seemed nothing had been lost. They did a short tour with comrades and friends Damon & Naomi and eventually played the now-legendary Brattleboro Free Folk Festival. They found that audiences were now more open to their efforts. A couple of years passed during which Dan released three solo records and a record with a new improvisational Din (which included Chris Corsano, Thurston Moore and the members of Pelt). Ed recorded and released his brilliant solo record, Six Ways To Avoid The Evil Eye and was even caught playing live with folks like Richard Bishop and Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Then, against all odds, February 2008 found Ed & Dan recording, with Ed at the helm in Foole's Ashram in Brattleboro for the better part of a week. Some improvisations are built on Dan's songs played in a totally unfettered manner. One is based on a tune by J. Mascis, and some were recorded as they were created. Long talked about, long awaited, years in the making -- the Dredd Foole & Ed Yazijian recordings are finally here." |
| 6/4/2010 | Drekka | Collected Works Volume 1 | double CD | $15.99 | Morc Records | "1996Š Michael Anderson takes on a new moniker for himself as he loses a friend, gains another and and decides to pack up and move from Boston to Chicago. Drekka produces it's first fruits, two very differenty cassettes entitled 'Grieve' (in august) and 'windowframe EP/ Hermitage one EP' (in December. The first captures the grief of loss, the hope of love and the sounds of a vast empty New England house. The second captures a cramped, but cozy apartment and the first Chicago winter. 2009Š 13 winters later, Morc Records out of Gent, Belgium, issues a 2cd set entitled 'Drekka - "Someday I will be called upon regarding matters of tone - Collected Works - Volume One", containing both cassettes in their entirety, plus all extant Drekka recordings from 1996..." |
| Drekka / Fuscillage | split | 7" | $4.99 | BlueSanct | Drekka-lowfi bedroom psych. Fuscillage-bent pop songs | |
| 4/29/2008 | Drenches | Holy Dread | CDR | $13.99 | Cut Hands | "Holy Dread, man, holy SHIT. This record is fierce. Heavy nature. Electronic bullying, raining down and piercing right through your balding scalp. The title track opens this monster and when I said raining down I meant it literally like that. Amazing effects that sound like you're in the midst of heavy heavy rainstorms….inside a tent. Ever been there? It ain't nice! This might just be the toughest harsh noise rec you have yet to hear this year. Stay proud, play loud. Black and white cover art by Branden Divens himself, in slimline dvd cases. Edition of 60." |
| 1/19/2004 | Dreyblatt, Arnold | Point Source / Lapse | LP | $14.99 | Table of the Elements | "As one of the most engaging of the second generation of New York minimal composers, Arnold Dreyblatt has developed a distinctive--And delightfully accessible--approach to composition and performance. Employing modified and invented instruments and a unique tuning system, his music is a vigorously rhythmic and richly textured romp through the natural overtone series. These two outstanding pieces for just-intoned electric guitar, bass violin, cimbalom, percussion and brass emphasize dynamics and sonorities, to stunning acoustical effect." Table of the Elements presents the Lanthanides, a series of 14 single-sided, limited edition LPs. Each disk is pressed on clear or transparent vinyl, silk-screened on the reverse in glow-in-the-dark ink, and packaged in a clear vinyl sleeve. |
| 1/17/2010 | Drifts | Future Light Cone | 3" CDR | $8.99 | Ruralfaune | "Econo-synth action unit. Claustrophobic space jams and post-urban sounds. 2/3rds of Bladder Stalks / Scumbag Relations related." Edition of 60 copies - part of Synth Series. |
| 6/27/2009 | Drifts | Volute & Turreted | double cassette | $8.99 | Scumbag Relations | "Double econo-synth action unit. 2/3rds of Bladder Stalks (of Louisville Castle). Recorded to 4-track one evening December 2008. One 32 minute cassette featuring the original mix down with shorter, more concise tracks. One 90 minute cassette of much longer, more open-ended jams. Outtakes, false stops & starts...whatever....all included." |
| 12/31/2003 | Drona Parva | Loop Phase For the White Sphere | 3" CDR | $12.99 | Time-Lag Records | “Second pressing. a single 20 minute track of hovering drones, created by letting the machines self-compose by their own (un)logic... a series of tones created by running a single hammond organ note through an old minimoog, looping and recombining it with the organ tone, and playing it all back through the moog again... or something like that... the result being a self-propelled and constantly evolving warm gauze of subtly shifting/lifting tones... packaged in semi-transparent screenprinted vellum, with screenprinted disc. Edition of 100 copies.” |
| 5/14/2007 | Drona Parva | untitled | CDR | $9.99 | Fag Tapes | "h. moerland and jimbo easter are on some sci-fi martian landing shit. blasting away aliens from the outer limits. the first release. playing their first gig on April, Friday 13th. sonic ray tweak and alien keys. edition 77." No relation to Time-Lag / Nemo Bidstrup. |
| 3/2/2005 | Drop The Fear | Drop The Fear | CD | $10.99 | Helmet Room Recordings | “Drop the Fear fuses the sounds of electronic rock with the lushness of shoegazer, and an atmosphere much like something out of a Tim Burton flick. Utilizing many sounds much like a symphony would, the work itself draws many comparisons to artists such as Cocteau Twins, but with a fresh approach similar in nature to Massive Attack. Sexy, mood driven, and deep in layers, their sound is hard to categorize, but somehow comforting and familiar.” |
| 3/2/2005 | Drop The Fear | Drop The Fear | CD & DVD | $14.99 | Helmet Room Recordings | “Drop the Fear fuses the sounds of electronic rock with the lushness of shoegazer, and an atmosphere much like something out of a Tim Burton flick. Utilizing many sounds much like a symphony would, the work itself draws many comparisons to artists such as Cocteau Twins, but with a fresh approach similar in nature to Massive Attack. Sexy, mood driven, and deep in layers, their sound is hard to categorize, but somehow comforting and familiar.” |
| 1/24/2009 | Droughter | Roar Maker | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "Second 905 offering from heavy psych head honcho kevin mceleney. can't praise this dude enough. ten tracks (ranging from 30 seconds to 6 minutes) of brilliant scum fuckery make up this thirty minute death trip. fierce throat slashers to a relentless degree. rub your face along the sidewalk teeth are going to be missing in the morning." |
| 7/10/2008 | Droughter + Gnarly Sheen | split | cassette | $5.99 | 905 Tapes | "Two heads of the same beast, breathing fire and shitting smoke. droughter devours minds with a vocal shredding, feedback fucked wall of power that is hope enveloping and overloaded with eruptive hysteria. gnarly sheen changes things up with a dilated dronescape utilizing layers of lethargic currents. two reasons to put the entire ward on suicide watch." |
| 6/9/2010 | Drumm, Kevin | Kevin Drumm | double LP + Digital Download | $22.99 | Thin Wrist | "The expanded and definitive double LP edition of Kevin Drumm's groundbreaking first album, originally released in 1997. Featuring some of the most fiercely abstract and organic guitar work ever heard, Drumm's debut is both jarring and completely alien. Dubbed by some as the greatest prepared guitar record ever recorded it prefigured (and continues to trump) almost an entire decade or so of contemporary "out" music that would follow. Beautiful and completely essential. This edition includes an entire fourth side of previously unreleased recordings from Drumm's personal archive, all recorded in the same era as the original album. It also includes entirely new artwork featuring the body of the actual guitar used to record the album. "Looking back at Kevin through his formidably individual tunnel of works, it's hard to remember that his first official recorded statement would be caught sneaking into bed alongside history's milestones of "solo instrument improvisation." Or that, in turn, it also would be caught trying to sneak out of the house built by Father Jazz, into a backyard that still hasn't quite been fenced off yet. Those running around Chicago chasing down the sound in the mid-90's should've already known about this guy and his contributions both in and out of the relative spotlight. For those far from the city winds, thankfully they might've gotten the message in the form of this missive. In the afterglow of later love letters titled "Sheer Hellish Miasma" and "Imperial Distortion", it's absolutely overdue that this first musty green postcard be dug out, polished off, and framed. Judged by its understated title, "Self-Titled" aka "Guitar" is incredibly literal -- what you hear is what you get. In the simplest considerations, the ensuing connotations and possibilities are wide open; the real-time velocity of urgent decision and movement are wrapped in a clearly-mapped compositional endurance that continues to stand firmly in the relative spotlights of this day. No surprise then, that even all these years later, we would still be trying to figure out exactly at which table Kevin should squarely sit. They say that every kid who heard this record immediately went out and grabbed a busted guitar with a scratchy selector switch, ready to subject their friends to fuzzy pauses of amp hum. I know of at least four." -- C. Spencer Yeh, spring 2010, Brooklyn NY. RELEASE INFORMATION: Kevin Drumm: guitar recorded directly to tape in fall, 1996 Tracks A1-C1 first issued in 1997 (Perdition Plastics CD, per007) Tracks: Disc One (45 RPM) - A1...7:36, A2...3:03, A3...9:57, B1...5:28, B2...9:47, B3...3:41 Disc Two (33RPM) - C1...17:09, D1...8:24 (Previously Unreleased), D2...11:17 (Previously Unreleased) Mastered by Rashad Becker, D&M Berlin, August 2009 Pressed at Pallas Germany 2 x 180 Gram Vinyl with Digital Download, Heavy "Tip-On" Gatefold Jacket with spot gloss & matte finishes and textured de-bossing. Two full color inserts. A real beauty! |
| 12/25/2005 | Drumm, Kevin / 2673 | split | LP | $15.99 | Kitty Play | "Abrasive noise giant Kevin Drumm returns with his first vinyl appearance in years. He has issued a series of sold out critically acclaimed cassette tapes. Previous releases include the monumental "Land of Lurches" on Aaron Dilloways Hanson label. New Brunswick hero 2673 has recently released splits with Cherry Point, Jessica Rylan and Unicorn (Bill Nelson of Man Is The Bastard / Bastard Noise). This split marks his vinyl debut. Packaged in lush Steve OMalley (Sunn O))), Khanate, Burning Witch) artwork, this record is limited to a one time pressing of 500 copies." |
| 7/10/2008 | Drunjus | Enceladus | CDR | $7.99 | Peasant Magik | "Madison, WI, two long tracks (40+), members of davenport, grass magic, etc. Limited to 100 copies, hand numbered / stamped. Black cdrs with full color labels, packaged with hand-made paper and full color wrap around art." |
| 9/30/2005 | Drunjus | Thick Winds Off The Sargasso | 3" CDR | $7.99 | 267 Lattajjaa | "A brilliant 21-minute drone piece from this Davenport side project, thick watery drones, absolutely wonderful!! this is also some kind of sister release to the forthcoming double-cdr on Foxglove." "It's great to finally see Drunjus return with some new recordings. This duo (mainly) consists of Clay Ruby and Dan Woodman from the 23 Productions/Davenport gang. Drunjus delve into the world of thick, insular drones, but avoid heading into stark and glacial tones. In fact, on their debut and even more-so on this new 3", they utilize the sounds of nature to great effect. On this 21 minute piece, the sounds of cicadas chirping and wind blowing exists just under the surface, enough to add a truly earthy feel to the proceedings. With dense hums and slowly unfolding dronescapes, Drunjus create a world within the aural boundaries of the song. They seek to completely envelope the listener in this world. It is an attempt to make you forget where you are. And in the end, it's successful. I am reminded of the hottest, most humid days of the Oklahoma summer. This music is like the air on those days: so thick you feel as though you're swimming through it, gasping for breath. "Thick Winds of the Sargasso" is dense in the same way. Once it's all around you, you can barely move. It's impressive and beautiful. Thank god Drunjus has returned. 8/10" Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis |
| 9/30/2008 | Drunjus | Thorn Shield | LP | $19.99 | Earjerk | "too killer journeys... Dremcrom and Relax, Hunter. Both recorded live. One side completely in the analog realm; from the boys cassette deck straight to 180 gram black wax. Strictly limited to 300 copies. Hand screened on thrifted album covers turned inside out. No two alike. Side A - Dremcrom is a sideways drift through the earths crust which confirms that the core truly is molten. Drunjus bore a hole straight to the center of your brain. Live at the infamous Wisco Biker Bar... Side B - Relax Hunter is a more galactic affair. With enough molten fuel to get their ship airborn, Drunjus escape the atmosphere and enter a 300 year cryogenic sleep... co-released with Tree Tapes..." |
| 2/7/2009 | Drunjus | Zone Grown | cassette | $8.99 | Pizza Night | "Well baked dronings and weird feedbackish muddy synth ... parts sounds like the tropics meet wisconsin....weird" Edition of 100. |
| 4/10/2009 | Drunjus / Anvil Dome | Dawn of Dark Age | cassette | $5.99 | Earjerk | "Kicking off our new subscription series is a killer split cassette with Drunjus and Anvil Dome. Both contribute their live sets from a January 08 gig in Milwaukee set up by Mike of Black Eagle Child and Ghost Whale. Field Recordings, weighted bass lines, starry synth washes and positive karma." |
| 9/17/2006 | Dry Tribes | Live in Tempe, AZ | CDR | $6.99 | Not Not Fun | "Live document of a mid-summer house party show with Tent City (communal rural free- clatter), Quintana Roo, Black Monk (low-end drone with free drumming), and Haunted Castle (heavy suitcase noise, Detroit-style)." |
| 10/25/2008 | DS Hastings & DL Savings Time | 95 Flashblack Attack | one-sided LP | $11.99 | American Tapes | "Last but no least. Oldest recording here, 13 years!!!. DS Hastings man...what can you say? Well,...how about: A: Fresh B: Old School C: Waaay Underground IF you heard his totally obscure output on S.F.C.R in France or Square D recordings from Detroit all before 1995 then you know Hastings has his pulse on some raw, environmental, weirdo, static, fluxus style non-sound. Its like what Captain Crunch listens to before Tony The Tiger walks the plank into a boiling sea of washing-machine chewing sharks. Dude is a HUUGE influence from his like three releases. But you aint gonna see him around live anytime soon......underground..... SO: the record....some label...I forget who/what was gonna do an OG 7" Waaay black in 1995 between DS and DL Savings Time...it never saw light....UNTIL GNAW!!! Here is the original recordings and two new Collab tracks. This thing is as raw as chewing on a thirty foot tree with cement teeth while wearing a basement rug as a crotch-cloth. The DL Savings Time track for the 7"is an early reel to reel tape cut up of crude electronics and a crazed instructor yelling at a class, the Hastings track sounds like what the amazing TOM GRIMLEY covered in the basement of the COCK PIT when he took a bunch of broken glass and let it spin in a dryer whilst the crew stage dived off said appliance. Really strange. The new Collab tracks sound like amplified LICE. Just too stoked on this platter. Grip this mug and grin ear to blown out ear for WEAKZ!!!! Inzane art, numbered edition of 100." |
| 9/30/2005 | Duck | Pass the Spoon | DVD-R | $11.99 | Spirit of Orr | "Recorded live at the Carhole in Belchertown, MA on February 25, 2005. Though no one knew it at the time, this was to be the final show at the Carhole, a, well loved gathering place in the Pioneer Valley, a ranch house feeling the pressure of exurban sprawl, the home of Paul Labrecque, Valerie Webb (your hosts and suspicious revelations of the just what magiks happened at the Carhole in it's short lifespan will be surfaced over the coming years. Among the long list of mind crumbling sessions there, came this appearance by the band Duck, two people able to spread the wings of feedback and extreme reverb into waves of acid soaked dust. Duck is Jessi Swenson and Matt Krefting (half of The Believers). This video runs just over 24 minutes, no apologies for rough edits or spaced out effects in fact, we think they are right on! Limited to 100 hand assembled, numbered copies." |
| 10/25/2008 | Dugoutcanoe | Demonstration | CDR | $12.99 | Reverb Worship | "Dugoutcanoe is a one man project in the form of Jacob Isaacs from Denver, Colorado,USA.We struck up a friendship via email over the last two or three months.Jacob eventually sent me his "Demonstration" cdr which I really liked.He plays freaky multitracked electric guitar, tape loop effects,a horn and percussion... and sings all at the same time.If you dig the No Neck Blues Band and Sunburned Hand Of The Man this is for you. This cdr is available now in an edition of 48 copies with numbered brown paper insert.The covers are made from thick heavy material sourced from India.They have all been hand stitched by myself and are all different.They come packaged in a resealable cellophane wrapper." |
| 2/7/2009 | Dukkha | Hail and Farewell | cassette | $5.99 | Peasant Magik | "Endless repetition. Keys spin over down tuned sludge, FX ridden guitars suffocate themselves, and utterly massive swells consume all laid before. TRUE SHEFFIELD BLACK PSYCHEDELIA." Edition of 100. |
| 10/31/2009 | Duncan, John | The Nazca Transmissions | LP | $22.99 | Planam | "On Christmas Eve, 2004, John Duncan received a mysterious email from an archaeologist working at the site of the Nazca Lines in Peru. He claimed to have discovered, and over time recorded, a variety of sounds actually generated by the enigmatic lines themselves. Familiar with Duncan's "Infrasound-Tidal", composed from source recordings taken from tides, seismic activity and barometric data from the Australian coastline, he suggested to Duncan the composition of a piece with these sources. All of the sources were modified in the studio of John Duncan, some radically, to bring out an unsettling, haunting quality. In mid-June 2005, the glorious 5-track piece was finally ready. John Duncan sent several messages to the archaeologist, none of them ever answered or returned. A hard disk crash effectively destroyed all of the email correspondence between them. What remains are the notes he sent that ostensibly describe the details of sites and times for the source recordings. Those notes have been reproduced on the insert included in this edition, also presenting John Duncan liner notes. First pressing limited to 380 copies, with embossed total-black cover, insert and full-color inner sleeve with wonderful space images of the Nazca Lines." |
| 12/21/2004 | Dungen | Ta Det Lugnt | DBL LP | $29.99 | Subliminal Sounds | "The 3rd and most astounding album from the young and talented Swedish multi-instrumentalist Gustav Ejstes aka Dungen. Ta Det Lugnt is a beautiful multifaceted musical trip straight into your head and deep out in the Swedish forests. It offers Dungens most exciting and adventurous recordings and features stunning musicmanship, stellar vocals, Hammond B-3 organ, flute, violin, groovy bass, swinging drums, electric and acoustic guitars and screaming fuzz, spellbinding Swedish folkrock pop psych." “Accomplished beyond his years, 24-year-old Swedish multi-instrumentalist Gustav Ejstes is the pin-up mastermind behind Dungen's vibrant polish. For the full duration of his third album's 13 bracing tracks, he perfectly inhabits-- and then expands upon-- his homeland's late-60s/early-70s acid-rock scene. Ta Det Lugnt particularly taps into the expansiveness of his Swedish psych predecessors, Pärson Sound, while maintaining a murky rocker edge: Imagine that band colliding with The Kinks, or Amon Düül II with Olivia Tremor Control, or Comets on Fire with The Zombies on their way to Terrastock....Indeed, as the summer finally turns to dying leaves, Dungen's lush palette of mystical earth tones and trade winds seems the ideal soundscape. This has been one hell of a year for psych, folk, et. al., but even with such fine releases as Animal Collective's Sung Tongs and Comets on Fire's Blue Cathedral, I doubt 2004 will birth a more blissful sonic encounter than Ta Det Lugnt." - Brandon Stosuy, Pitchfork. Limited edition of 500 copies. Now out of print. |
| Dunlavy | I Ruined America | LP | $16.99 | September Gurls | Band's debut LP from 1995 edition of 550 numbered copies. | |
| 10/1/2002 | Dunlavy | Thaumatricon 2 | CD | $10.99 | Fleece Records | "Third album, and first to be released in the U.S. from ex–THE MIKE GUNN member Scott Grimm. Mantric hard psych and blissful, shape-shifting drones. A potent slice of crushing fuzzed out riffs, deep and heavily wasted vocal effects and sublimely introspective chord deconstruction that drift and slide into a truly psyched-out whirlpool of eyeball sweating sound." |
| Dunlavy | The Spinning Dog | LP | $16.99 | September Gurls | "2nd album by Houston, TX based solo project of The Mike Gunn's Scott Grimm. Heavy space rock thunder, harder than the debut 'I Ruined America'. At times exploring parallel worlds to Wayne Rogers' guitar outbursts. LP is limited to 550 copies w. silkscreened sleeves similar to 'I Ruined America'". | |
| 5/16/2010 | Dunmall, Paul & Chris Corsano | Identical Sunsets | LP | $19.99 | ESP-Disk | "Best known for his collaborations with Paul Flaherty, Michael Flower and Thurston Moore as well as a year-and-a-half stint as the drummer for Björk's Volta tour, Chris Corsano is widely considered to be one of the most adaptive drummers of his generation. Equally prolific is UK saxophone giant, Paul Dunmall, who has worked disparately with jazz greats like Alice Coltrane and Evan Parker as well as funk and folk acts like Johnny Guitar Watson and Dando Shaft. After a chance meeting in a taxi line at Lisbon Airport, a surreal intertwining of tours emanated. In between the lasers, confetti and face-painted fans at Plymouth Pavillions and Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Chris left the Björk mega-tour to get down to business alongside the imaginative Dunmall for some vital improvisation at Slak Bar in Cheltenham, England. This wonderfully recorded live set begins with Dunmall swirling away on the border pipes (he may be the preeminent improvisor using bagpipes). What follows is an impulsive and lyrical improvisation, alternatingly sparse and impossibly textured. Corsano's skittering marries perfectly with Dunmall's rapid-fire lines. The melodies are expertly uncoiled so that they remain charged whether the tempo is at full speed or crawling. The set ends furiously, leaving no doubt that this duo was fated to work together." 140 gram high-quality black vinyl. Limited edition of 500. |
| 12/24/2005 | Dunn, Trevor / Brett Larner / Shelley Burgon | At Blim | CDR | $12.99 | Audiobot | "Incredible improvised live energy displayed here by Trevor Dunn (refresh your memory and think Mr. Bungle or Fântomas). Brett Larner and Shelley Burgon. recorded at Blim Vancouver. Canada. They deftly explore the structure of a song and dismantle it's core. only to make the rough pieces resurface in a delicate blanket of sonic debt. Brett Larner's strong musical relationship to Japanese improv players as Toshimaru Nakamura and Taku Sugimoto. has undoubltly left a mark on his focussed style of space. Dunn's sharp and perfectly on point contrabass playing leaves open rooms and doors for Burgon's semi-dramatic build-ups. A wild but precise improvisation that seems equally rooted in fertile jazz ground and electro-acoustic insight. Second chapter in Audiobot's on-going Improvised Music series. Limited to only 150 copies. packaged in silkscreened A5 cardboard covers by Iris Rombouts." |
| 2/23/2004 | Dustbreeders and Junko | Mommy Close the Door | CD | $13.99 | Starlight Furniture | "The three tracks on Mommy Close The Door were all recorded live in France in late 2002 by Japanese vocalist Junko Hiroshige, whose murderous wail hypercubes Patty Waters, Yoko Ono, and the titular victim in Olivia de Havilland's 1972 crime flick The Screaming Woman, in collaboration with Yves Botz, Thierry Delles, Michel Henritzi, who extend the trad power trio into a Marclay mash with brutal rock'n'roll energies." |
| Dworzec | Dworzec | CD | $16.99 | MPS | Beautiful drone from Australia. This cd was released in 1999 and features four tracks (over 50 minutes) recorded live. This is their only release currently available as their 7" and lathe 10" sold out relatively quick. | |
| Dylan, Bob | Highway 61 Revisited | LP | $17.99 | Sundazed | "Highway 61 Revisited is a landmark album. For the first time, Bob Dylan goes electric, backboned by the studio prowess of Al Kooper, Michael Bloomfield and others on such classics as the epochal 'Like A Rolling Stone.' This Sundazed edition is an exact reproduction of the rare original 1965 mono album, featuring the original sleeve-notes and photos, and all-analog mastering from the absolute original source tapes." |