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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
11/17/2007	H.E.R.	Songs About the Mysteries of Housework and Nature	CD	$12.99	Persian Cardinal Recordings	"Songstress Yvette Perez (songwriter/vocalist for the NYC avant-garde quintet Birdbrain) plays keyboards and sings about the conflicts of domestic habits with the outer world while trombonist Peter Zummo (who's worked with Arthur Russell, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Teo Macero) rambles through a thicket of electronic ambience in an experiment of memory and obsession. Vibraphonist / percussionist Danny Tunick (who has recorded for Ecstatic Peace, Tzadik and Bang On a Can All Stars) adds delicate vibes and sensuous beats. The beautiful and haunting songs of H.E.R. blend pop and minimalism while blurring the line between improv and song; between prismatic recollection and blighted reality."
7/1/2004	H.P. Lovecraft	H.P. Lovecraft II	LP	$25.99	Radioactive Records	"Having relocated to Marin County in Northern California in the spring of 1968, H.P. Lovecraft's second, and it must be said, superior album, appeared later that same year. Moving south to LA later that year, the band recorded their 2nd eponymous album that contained some fine moments of sheer artistry. The sleepiness of tracks like 'Spin, Spin, Spin,' 'Mobius Trip' and 'Electrallentando' was reminiscent of It's A Beautiful Day's first album, and there was a fine version of 'High Flying Bird', a song which had become a favourite amongst West Coast groups and At The Mountains Of Madness captured the band's outstanding vocal style, very much the hallmark of their first album, to perfection. H.P. Lovecraft II was reputedly the first major label album (both records were originally released on the Philips label) where all those involved in the recording were actually high on acid!" Nice full color gatefold sleeve houses this record.
3/24/2008	Habitat Sound System	Zebras in the Dubhall	7"	$4.99	Gematria Records	"'Zebras in the Dancehall' is Habitat Sound's take on the classic 'Diseases' rhythm complete with carnaval whistles, hand percussion, and ecstatic dubbed out vocals. HSS takes this dancehall anthem and turns it on its head with a fresh twist. 'Zebras in the Dubhall' is Dub Traffik Control's fresh and grimy B-side re-fix of the tune with a hard-edged dancefloor beat and irresistible flavor turned out by General Poeta and Captain Turbo. Prince Zohar gives it 2 big spliffs up! The whole package is designed in a popping old-skool style with deluxe artwork on thick jackets by RE:UP magazine creative director Joshua Lynne; check the big hole 45rpm vinyl with the largest sound!"
10/25/2008	Haemorrhaging Fetus	Procreation: A Disease / Tangled Desires	LP	$14.99	SNSE	"There are just a handful of newer, contemporary harsh noise artists in this day and age that have a firm grasp of the structures within the genre and how that can be manipulated to exert force upon the listener.... Anthony Shaw has a firm grasp of the harsh noise canvas and knows how to manipulate the listener with different bombardments and heavily timed lines of crashing, crunching, feed backing, and crumbling. All classic staples of the harsh noise entity, but not always executed today with such power and force; ultimately defining thunderous 'harsh noise' for the avid listener." - Sam McKinlay (excerpt from liner notes). Haemorrhaging Fetus' first LP is a fresh working on the rough stylings of classic acts such as Incapacitants and OVMN and compares favorably to contemporary peers The Cherry Point and The Rita. Transcending the staid boundaries of contemporary "wall" noise, this record offers a deftly layered construction of harsh, considered composition. An edition of 250 copies reissuing two now out-of-print Gaping Hole cassettes."
	Hagstrom, Emil	cs wks 87-97 vol. I	CD	$10.99	Freedom From	"Reworkings and old cassette material by the guy who does Cock E.S.P. Droning, fluttering guitar and ambiguous computer effects spindled with non-time collaborations. Features Erik Wivinus (Salamander/Skye Klad), Jeremy Day (Energy Park) Paul Hammerlinck (Cock E.S.P.) Matt St-Germain (late, New Port) and more."
7/5/2011	Hahn Kult	Across Ashen Faces and Leaden Gazes	cassette	$8.99	Golem Tapes	"Across Ashen Faces and Leaden Gazes was recorded in 2009, and has been on its way out ever since, finally ending up here. It is the first release by Hahn Kult since 2007, and is very different from their old experimental black metal-output. The sound will be recognizable for people who have experienced them live the last couple of years, as it consists of a studio-versions of this set. The sound of the A-side is that of complexly collaged and constantly evolving drone-rock soundscapes with a cinematic feel, the B-side features one 24-minute droning organ-based soundscape." Edition of 50 copies.
3/25/2008	Haino Keiji & Yoshida Tatsuya	Houenfiomiume	CD	$17.99	Magaibutsu Limited	"The controversial work which stepped into the forbidden territory of editing of the performance of Haino Keiji. Yoshida breaks up their studio session boldly, and restructures it from The unacceptable tune reproduced by extreme editing to The pop song thing that it is surprised. From the Irregular hard core to Heavy tune. From the modern music short piece, to the lyricism acoustic number.This album shows new possibility with union/condensing the music of Haino & Yoshida. this time they made 2 different (but similar) albums and another one will be released on TZADIK in May." 16 tracks 50 min.
6/19/2002	Haino, Keiji	Percussion Solo Video	Video	$37.99	PSF	"Solo performances for percussion have always been at the centre of Keiji Haino's art. In them, Haino deploys a huge variety of handheld percussion, from tiny cymbals, bells and gongs, to tambourines, jagged pieces of metal and Harry Bertoia-esque specially-made resonating sculptures. These performances, legendarily intense present the crystallization of the physicality of Haino’s music, his attitude to rhythm, to the persistence of sound itself. Though relatively rare now, these solo percussion concerts always have a special hushed atmosphere of concentration, silent communion, and mystery. Although several releases in Haino's extensive discography have already showcased elements from these percussion performances, the intensely visual nature of what occurs has rendered them little more than shadowy traces of the actual event. Haino has long talked about releasing one of these performances on video, and now that wish has become reality. Coming a week after Haino's 50th birthday, this is a unique and new chapter in the continuing documentation of one of the most compelling and unique performers of our, or any other, age." Only 1 copy available.
12/20/2008	Haino, Keiji / Kawabata Makoto / Yoshida Tatsuya	Ichi to Ichi ga Kasanatte Shimaumade	DVD	$17.99	Magaibutsu	Live recording from August 18, 2008 at After Beat, in Tokyo. Features Haino (guitar), Kawabata (guitar), & Yoshida (drums). NTSC, region free. Also includes two mp3's. 76 minutes in length (video & audio combined). Highly recommended!
12/12/2009	Hair Police	Certainty of Swarms	LP	$14.99	No Fun	"The fusion of metal, noise rock, free jazz, industrial, and harsh electronics that makes up The Certainty of Swarms is the rare kind of heterogeneous concoction that is carefully matured, but never lost in pedestrian calculation. A blistering onslaught of metallic-fused noise-murk, Swarms is considered by the band to be one of their most complete statements to date, an aptly blindsiding and developed work drawing from all quarters of their craft. Lp Version of this classic is finally here! limited to 500 copies."
6/5/2005	Hair Police	Constantly Terrified	CD	$11.99	Troubleman Unlimited	"The latest from Kentucky overpower trio Hair Police. Four tracks of all-consuming sensory attack that can run from absolute crushing destruction to subtle beauty at the drop of an axe. For fans of Black Dice, Wolf Eyes, Animal Collective, Lightening Bolt, etc." Recommended!
6/5/2005	Hair Police	Constantly Terrified	LP	$11.99	Troubleman Unlimited	"The latest from Kentucky overpower trio Hair Police. Four tracks of all-consuming sensory attack that can run from absolute crushing destruction to subtle beauty at the drop of an axe. For fans of Black Dice, Wolf Eyes, Animal Collective, Lightening Bolt, etc." Recommended!
5/8/2005	Hair Police	Drawn Dead	CD	$12.99	Hanson	"Drawn Dead is the sound of a burning human body. The sound of a boiling kneecap microwave marshmallow popping and then sliding down the leg like jellied pulp. This record is so dark, you can smell the burning flesh and will have to shake the human ash from your clothes after each listen. From the second this record starts, you're in for total oppressive heaviness, a slow suffocation of sick tones and blunt shrapnel. Hair Police have taken sound to the sickest realms possible, with guitar, drums, and electronics. With serious overwhelming grit, and shadowy fuzz, the four untitled pieces on this downer disc never reach a rock pace, instead choosing to lumber through some of the meanest tones ever laid down. Industrial in the truest sense - factory ambience and disembodied moans in absolute darkness. This is the time for America to burn its face, and Hair Police know it. They are handing you the torch."
6/19/2007	Hair Police	Empty Quarter	CD	$13.99	Harbinger Sound	"Recorded in Ypsilanti, MI, Jan/March 2007 by MIKE CONNELLY (WOLF EYES), TREVOR TREMAINE (DEATH UNIT) AND ROBERT BEATTY (BURNING STAR CORE). No drums. All electronics. Gristle-esque walls of sound and normality-disrupting electronic oscillations for fans of Wolf Eyes, and early Black Dice. Limited edition of 1,000 copies."
2/4/2007	Hair Police	Prescribed Burning	LP	$15.99	Hospital Productions	"Arising from the smoldering ashes of early morning fallout settles six reverberated blackened altars settled in the embers of industrial noise. slow motion feedback dissolve and dance macabre with raped guitar entanglement and roving percussive loops. scathing hard noise eruptions like drool through the hounds teeth that hold tight and lets loose the bizarre ordeal that is hair police. prescribed burning worships wet atmosphere and tape cut obsessive noise with raw chaos! always away from the pack yet defines the cult. limited to 600 copies with the traditional silk screened 2 sided fold out cover."
5/14/2007	Hair Police	Strict	7"	$5.99	Troubleman Unlimited	"A limited edition teaser single from the upcoming full-length, due in the spring. Contains two exclusive songs that won't be on the full-length. Hair Police's music has been called "soundtrack to a nightmare" and "the sound of an elongated car crash." It's progressed over the years, taking on hardcore punk aggression and black metal ambience. Vocalist Mike Connelly also plays in Wolf Eyes."
7/10/2008	Hair Police	The Empty Quarter	LP	$12.99	Troubleman Unlimited	"2007 recordings from this fearsome/fearless trio: mike connelly (wolf eyes), trevor tremaine (death unit) and robert beatty (burning star core, amongst others..) 750 copies only. 'the empty quarter' is a maelstrom of gristle-esque walls of sound electronic oscillation to disrupt normality and shredded shards of rock to dislodge mountains.... for fans of wolf eyes, early black dice, etc"
2/21/2009	Hair Police	Totaled and Stranded	one-sided LP	$18.99	Hundebiss	"Recorded in a hotel room after we totaled out tour vehicle and became stranded in the worst snowstorm in Ohio history." Features Beatty, Connelly, Tremaine. Limited edition of 500 copies - no repress. Beautiful artwork: hand cut black cardboard, Xeroxed recycled paper, raw paper inner sleeve.
2/4/2007	Hair Police / Pengo	Virus Thoughts	one sided LP	$11.99	Gods of Tundra	"The most rotten collaboration. A murderous endeavor that took place a few years ago, the tapes were burned, raped, spit on, mocked and ridiculed. What we have now is the tattered results. And they are not pretty....at all. Full color front and back."
2/11/2006	Hair Police / Viki	split	CD	$9.99	Load	"Number Three in the Load Split Series. A standoff match up between Dearborn, Michigan's pride Viki and Lexington, Kentucky's offspring, Hair Police. Viki brings a free range roving donkey ride with squeaky beats, microphones up mouths and zooming crunch. Prepare to be astounded with sounds that make the goose loose. Viki's dates with Adult., are proof that she brings the cars with boom. Think Viki in the same fresh breath as lo-fi speaker technicians like Suicide and Wolf Eyes' minimal electronic splurt. For those not afraid to get their sneakers dirty. Hair Police are another side of this silver coin that channel classic crunch climbers like Throbbing Gristle. Hair Police have been known to expend thousands of calories during their live sets, amounts not seen since Black Flag's heydey."
10/28/2003	Hair Police / Viki	split	LP	$11.99	SNSE	"On this split, Viki continues to forge new sonic ground by battering her clattering buzzboxes of noize into submission, resulting in her most hott and raw trax to date. Hair Police are embarking down a darker, though no less harshly compelling, path than their previous releases. Beats are chopped and fragmented, pulverized to dust under the raw, scraping, undefineable vocals and squeal-sqwuall electronics - most definitely a journey for the sonically adventurous."
4/20/2008	Hala Strana	Heave the Gambrel Roof	CD	$12.99	Music Fellowship	"Steven R. Smith began recording music under the Hala Strana moniker in 2002 as a way to further explore his interest in traditional Eastern European folk music, apart from his solo releases under his own name and collaborative work in Thuja, Mirza, and other Jewelled Antler creations. Heave the Gambrel Roof is Smith's fourth full length album under the Hala Strana name. The album is a return to the shorter, more song-based form of Fielding and Hala Strana and includes reworks of four traditional Albanian tunes as well as seven original tracks. As with all Hala Strana releases, Heave the Gambrel Roof contains a wide variety of instruments (many built by Smith himself) such as the hurdy gurdy, spike fiddle, gourd guitar, bowed baritone psaltery, bouzouki, xaphoon, and the more common electric guitar, organ, cello, and harmonium. The album includes musical contributions from Loren Chasse (Blithe Sons, Franciscan Hobbies, Of) on one track."
11/16/2004	Hala Strana	These Villages	CD	$11.99	Soft Abuse	“Steven R. Smith's third album as Hala Strana presents the culmination of his musical interests throughout his rather prolific career. These Villages is clearly Smith's grandest effort yet; a seamless whole built on layers of sustained drone & delicately plucked and bowed strings. It's a dark record, a definite work of beauty, and a perfect soundtrack for Autumn's changing leaves and howling winds.” Recommended!
2/26/2011	Half Case	Joe Hammer Nights	CDR	$4.99	American Tapes	"Recent Joe Hammer Sq. Pre gig jamming chaos with Half Nelson and Stare Case from the last tour. Me & Natas showed up early and set up, jammed, the Half Nelson boyz did the same and we cut loose together in the basement for a while two dudes watched. Heres the evidence & Nelsons gig from that show. Half Case only means you gotta glare at the cheap mugs who always grip them cans but dont show up stacked! B & W cover edition of 50."
5/14/2007	Halibet Tin Metal Sewage Band	Halibet Tin Metal Sewage Band	cassette	$7.99	Fag Tapes	"man! amazing all male/female vocal group. jamie easter [of the parahnas] a.k.a. germaine shepard pulled together a bunch of wierdos along with his main shorty to create this.....recorded in a huge, freazing dark hall by warren defever yo. amazing sounds!"
6/5/2005	Hall of Fame	Cannibal / Superstring Theory	7"	$6.99	Lal Lal Lal	"Two gems by the amazing and magical Hall of Fame (Samara Lubelski, Dan Brown and Theo Angell), both recorded as early as 1997. 'Cannibal' presents a fluent storm of electric aces and aural snakes. It offers a short moment in the galaxy of fantastic rainbows of sound. 'Superstring Theory' is definitely among the most danceable free folk pieces ever. It's a marriage of repetitive acoustic groove and a fan of colorful strong noises. Edition of 525."
6/1/2002	Hall of Fame	Hall of Fame	CD	$12.99	Amish Records	This is their first CD not to be confused with the self-titled third CD on Siltbreeze. “New York City’s Hall of Fame tread similar aesthetic waters as the psyche folk of Tower Recordings and the improvised partially composed music of the Dead C. Their debut is filled with primitive rhythms, droning violin, skipping records, unplugged electric guitars, bowed cymbals, violin, drums, bass and a wealth of found sounds. Especially beautiful is the Dada inspired sound collage of ’78 Expansion’ which randomly juxtaposes live and recorded sounds. This record also documents improvised songs, which were later covered as part of their live set (‘Sunset Spiral’ and ‘I Woke Up Today’). Hall of Fame consists of multi-instrumentalist Dan Brown (ex-Salmon Skin, God is my Co-pilot), Samara Lubelski (ex-Salmon Skin, and current Sonora Pine) and artist Theo Angel.”
11/3/2004	Hall Of Fame	Paradise Now	CD	$12.99	The Social Registry	“Hall Of Fame is a trio out of NYC comprised of Samara Lubelski, Dan Brown & Theo Angel. Paradise Now is their fourth full length album since their inception in 1995. Carefully sculpting not only the inherent energies of the compositions but also drawing every audible element into the fold whether it be a slow drawn violin scrap, fluttering percussion or the slow echo of a vintage Ampeg Amplifier. This record exemplifies the kind of precision and subtle craftsmanship that exemplifies the honing of their abilities and the furthering of their artistic vision. Members of Hall Of Fame have collaborated with the likes of, The Sonora Pine, Jackie O-Motherfucker, Tower Recordings, Tara Jane O'Neil, Thalia Zedek, David Grubbs, Tony Conrad, Metabolismus,…the list goes on and on.” Recommended!
11/3/2004	Hall Of Fame	Paradise Now	LP	$12.99	The Social Registry	“Hall Of Fame is a trio out of NYC comprised of Samara Lubelski, Dan Brown & Theo Angel. Paradise Now is their fourth full length album since their inception in 1995. Carefully sculpting not only the inherent energies of the compositions but also drawing every audible element into the fold whether it be a slow drawn violin scrap, fluttering percussion or the slow echo of a vintage Ampeg Amplifier. This record exemplifies the kind of precision and subtle craftsmanship that exemplifies the honing of their abilities and the furthering of their artistic vision. Members of Hall Of Fame have collaborated with the likes of, The Sonora Pine, Jackie O-Motherfucker, Tower Recordings, Tara Jane O'Neil, Thalia Zedek, David Grubbs, Tony Conrad, Metabolismus,…the list goes on and on.” Recommended!
1/15/2005	Halliwell, Graham / Matt Davis	untitled	CDR	$10.99	Absurd	“Utilizing amplified sax, sax feedback, trumpet and field recordings Matt Davis and Graham Halliwell create a unique atmosphere, utilising stuctures which give you the feeling that you are inside a silent universe wherebizzare worlds of activity are woven around you.” Edition of 111 copies.
8/1/2006	Hamilton Yarns	The Show-Boat, Over	LP	$19.99	Hark!	"This sixth release from Hamilton Yarns is a musical story set somewhere between town and countryside, told through the sounds of piano, cornet, balophone, violin, triangle, accordion, metronome and narrator, this cycle of parlour folk fables takes the listener through scenes of windy hillsides, unlit footpaths and sheer drops to traffic jams, bus rumbles and the hypnotic chatter of the pavement. Carried along by an array of clunking, clattering percussion, minimal melodic lines, field recordings, dead pan vocals and campfire choirs, Hamilton Yarns create a two-sided journey that is spooky, comic and hypnotically compelling." - Strange Attractor. "Distressed parlour music" - The Wire
	Hamilton, Sam	Low Hill	3" CDR	$7.99	Claudia	"Low Hill's a mini-compendium of Sam's various sonic directions - glitch and hiss, acoustic improv, minimal tones. For me, being inclined in my listening to seek signs of organisation and intention, it's a complete winner. The whole piece is built on a theme of a select few tones and crackling loops that are insistently re-ordered and gnawed away at. The interludes of live drum textures provide a breathy layer - like someone has opened a window in a murky room. On first listen, the drums came across as a bit too grafted, but as part of the whole its sunk in as just one of several inspired choices of elements that come together to make a composite of much more than the individual parts. Not really menacing, not simply ambient, not quite a song, almost a story; and all of the above." - John Kennedy / www.audiofoundation.org.nz/
9/17/2006	Hamilton, Sam	The Borders of the Garden Paths Are Overgrown	CDR	$9.99	Transient Recordings	"The unofficial Mayor of Auckland City has created a real pleasure garden of the mind with this new work (co-released with the artist's own Tumbling Strain label). Sam is one of the most gifted sound artists working in New Zealand today and this is yet another fascinating example of the eclectic, restless approach and extraordinary sense of structure that made the "Low Hill" 3" such a stunner. At once highly personal and earth-bound, yet totally out of its skull in the most magical way, at times this sounds as if the guitar, piano and electronics are gently playing themselves while the composer is off sleeping under a tree somewhere. Dreamy and joyous!"
1/1/2008	Hamilton, Sam	Tropics	lathe cut 7"	$13.99	CMR	"two lovely looping tracks made from electric guitar, sampler pedal, spring reverb, computer and lathe. Music that's perfectly suited to the format, loops that shift and change over the 4 mins or so per side. When the records came back I wasn't sure if my old Garrard was sticking on a groove or playing the piece. It was playing, nice..." Edition of 45 copies.
1/1/2008	Hanage Youchien	The Children of Ganja	CDR	$9.99	Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam Recordings	"Uton meets the young couple from Osaka, Japan in Laxman Jhula, Rishikesh, next to the holy river Ganga, playing together in the roof of the hotel, in the room and in the rocks next to the river (and one confused young saddhu watching this rattle). Childish psychedelic folk improv using violin, ravanhattha (trad Rajasthani instrument), frame drum, maracas, mouth-organ, flutes and voices." First edition of 40 copies on Jani's/Uton label.
11/10/2003	Hancock, Herbie	Blow Up (Original Sound Track)	LP	$14.99	4 Men With Beards	"In late 1966, Herbie Hancock with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette entered a New York studio to capture the vibe of 'swinging London' in a jazz mode - with grooves that create effective bluesy moods on the slow pieces and funky ones on the up-tempo tracks. Meanwhile in London, the Yardbirds (with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page) were recording additional material for use in the Blow-Up movie soundtrack. Liner notes by maverick journalist Steve Dollar. Superb audiophile remastering. 180 gram HQ vinyl. Gatefold sleeve."
5/14/2007	Handicapper Horns	Handicapper Horns	cassette	$6.99	Hanson	"Weird as shit older Olson project resurrected. Handicap - Retard - Slow - Horns..... Slow Bassy Horns... Rules. Alien music made on Saxophone."
1/22/2011	Hank IV	III	LP	$15.99	Siltbreeze	"I don't care how many goddamn cute hobo bands there are out there right now. Not two runny shits. There's something Hank IV knows that few other current "of interest" bands realize, and it's a painfully simple thing: guitars were meant to sound like this, not that (pick something). That's as plainly as it can be put. This is twin-guitar punk rock in a class of its own, driving more than dueling and hot-sauce-free. I'd say "power with taste" but then I'd have to kill myself. I will say that III is Hank Baby's third and finest album yet and they are, in short, a band whose every move is worthy of your utmost attention. "For this record (their second for Siltbreeze), Thee Hanks opted to spend zero dollars and buried themselves deep inside their very own Shill Building studio for a good, long while. Sightings became scarce. Promises of "work" being "done" were made but who really knew what was going on? To be fair, The Shill has its fair share of distractions. Imagine Plato's Retreat, except like a basement in the Tenderloin. I think they only went outside for sandwiches from the East Coast West Deli on Polk Street, like that one time in the street when Bob McDonald told me about that Venom single he owns for the seventeenth time. Pffft... Bob, playboy, inventor (of "The Full Compliment") and as powerful and confounding a front-man as you're likely to find ambulating in today's scene. Hawnk Quatre (as they're called in France) is both an exercise and exorcism for this hardcore guy from Bum Kon all grown-up. "Anyway, the result of their self-imposed exile is this album bearing the aroma of fuck you coupled with a faint flutter of fuck me. It's eight songs in 25 minutes of loud, angry, intelligent, rock 'n' roll punk and it's from San Francisco. Beyond that, the rhythms actually have a rhythm--a loud, all-rock rhythm, in fact. It's shocking and practically akin to reinventing the wheel 'round these un-rocking parts. Great--and now the world'll probably explode. Do I gotta pick a cut to exalt? "Down in the Dumps" springs forth. Hopefully the punks follow suit. Portfolio played it for me when I visited and he just sat back, smiling. I was too. It was creepy." --Mitch Cardwell "Hank IV plays desperate man-style punk in the vein of Minute to Pray-era Flesheaters. Throw in some of the sociopathic scorch of The Pagans and touches of earlier Siltbreeze satellites like Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments and you got a great pro-rock primitive, one that combines accelerated jams with gut-busting vocals and the kinda furious delivery that makes it sound totally non-contemporary." --Volcanic Tongue
1/24/2009	Hans Grüsel's Kränkenkabinet	Blaue Blooded Türen	CDR	$10.99	Resipiscent	"Stare too long at Moog-master candymaker Hans Grüsel (his moustache a pair of clockhands!) and your seconds could be up. Return a smile from Gretel, you'll end up in a grin that never fades! Safer to listen from here as the Kränkenkabinet chugs away, spawning a trap door here, slamming a finger there, daring consciousness to believe the clarity of a thousand simultaneous sound crevices. Here appears an unnatural "Blue Blooded Door" to the infernal heart of the contraption, handcarved with all new compositions including "Sturm and Drang [at sea] plus Grüsel's live accompaniment to Dallas Bower's film Alice in Wonderland. Artwork by Loachfillet in his hall of all wood mirrors!"
3/20/2010	Hanson, J.	Boolean Blues	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"Josh Hanson is another of Portland, Oregon's underappreciated sons. Having come up through the ranks of long-time, long-forgotten faves Hochenkeit, he also spent time as a member of The Davis Redford Trio. But Hanson's path diverges into a totally different sphere nowadays, spinning solo modular synth exploits to the stars. Influenced not just by the likes of Subotnick and Cluster but also various types of Eastern sounds, Hanson is looking forward, trying to find new pathways in electronic music. Using a homebuilt synth, Hanson is like a magician that keeps you looking one direction while he's cooking up something special from out of left-field. "Boolean Blues" is psychedelic and mathematical all once Starting with the pulsing and surprisingly catchy "Shut Your Fucking Krout," you are instantly sucked in as a listener. The revolving synth melodies are in your face, never trying to hide behind a veil of reverb of fuzz. "Catshit and Sandalwood" works as two separate tracks, conjoined at birth and held together through piercing synthetic bleeps. Again, there's a softness and melody here that hook you straight off, but the heavy doses of electronic mayhem that go along with it are what keep things uneasy. It's like a warning bell going off so often you have no idea if there's hell on the way. That feeling comes to a head on the centerpiece, "Swat Valley Driver." This is where the psychedelia really kicks in. After a methodic exercise in control backed by a minimal, analog beat, you are greeted with heavy Indian influences. No, of course there's no sitars or tanpuras, but Hanson twists his synth into spitting out racing analog ragas. It's fucking exquisite, all the while backed by black bass lines. "Peace in Sumeria" continues the theme but moves a little bit West, getting lost in translation all the way. What is perhaps most amazing about "Boolean Blues" is that even though at its heart it's a synth album, wholly electronic, it feels like so much more. It's full of warm tones and rich visions. It's a trip in every sense of the word. Edition of 500 in gatefold jackets printed by Stumptown, designed by Brad Rose."
2/20/2010	Hanson, Sten	The Sonosopher Retrospective	CDR + heavy cardboard book	$69.99	Alga Margen	"This edition is the digital version of the LP issued some years ago in the VocSon series and is only available with the alga marghen copies of Sten Hanson's heavy carboard luxury book titled "Works / Oeuvres / Werke /Arbeten". The cd contains works from more than three decades, thus covering almost the entire career of Sten Hanson as a sound artist. All these works were previously released on record by alga marghen on the now sold out LP with the same title, as well as in various "Text Sound Composition" rare LP anthologies issued in Sweden between 1968 and 1970. The oldest work on the record is "Danse figure (for EP)" which was first performed at the Pistol Theatre, Stockholm in 1965. The work is inspired by a poem by Ezra Pound with the same title and is made out of recording of the first two lines in that poem. This work is followed by three examples of Hanson's "shamanistic" poems: "Hermetic Back Piece", "The New York Lament" and "Skärp dig, för fan!". "Lettre d'un etranger" deals with the problems of communication between people close to one other and was first performed in the framwork of Polyphonix 13, Paris in 1988. "Am strengsten verboten" is the contribution to an intermedia event by Charlie Morrow, Carles Santos and Sten Hanson himself performed in two boxing rings at Bobby Gleasons Gym, in the shadow of Madison Square Garden, New York in 1981. "Les Martyrs" was a part of the intermedia opera "Robespierre's Last Night", first performed in Hudiksvall, Sweden in 1975. "Les sabots de bouc" is a poem without words telling a story like a medieval morality from the times when the cathedrals were built and the devil was a force to be reckoned with. "Che" is a pamphlet based on a speech by Ernesto Che Guevara, while "Coucher et soufler" is a play on the problems of human communication. "Western Europe 1969" is a satire on superficiality. "The Destruction of Your Genetical Code by Drugs, Poisons and Radiation" is based on a visual poem already conceived in 1960, when the idea that genetic damage could affect man's offspring for coming generations was a fairly new and shocking one. "Au 197.0" was composed at the request of choreographer Susanne Valentin, who wanted a piece for a work on rites; as rite demands religion and it seemed clear to the composer that materialism is the only real living religion of our time. "Finale", a piece to end with, was first performed in Annecy, France in 1995. Edition limited to 90 copies, including a 12 page booklet with liner notes, photos as well as concrete and visual poems."
8/7/2003	Happy Hour Band, The	Happy Now	CD	$17.99	Splash 2 Records	2003 release from the band fronted by Sky Sunlight Saxon (Seeds) and featuring Djin Aquarian (YaHoWha). Featuring the sixteen minute ‘In The Cradle Of Love/Freeway’ as well as the hypnotic Seeds-y ‘Dogs Cruisin/Wild Child’. Long spacey jams with guitars and psychedelic keyboard sounds battling it out over hypnotic rhythms/chants. Strictly limited to 500 copies. "If you are down with the Sky/Djin vibe, these songs are great! Nice long jams...in fact the last song reminded me a lot of Djin and Sky (and band) covering a lost song from the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat album." – Andy Perseponko
11/15/2008	Hardwick, Gareth / Eyeballs	split	cassette	$9.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Gareth Hardwick's steady stream of quality releases is gathering to be one of the UK's best current minimal drone catalogues around... here he gives us a 3 part trip of pure slow motions... Flip the tape and you have Richard Dawson's Eyeballs project, whose debut on Blackest Rainbow caused a stir with the few people who managed to lay their hands on it. Here Dawson's side is bleaker and darker than expected, gives me the full on feel of the Twin Peaks woods... feels like the vast emptiness of that claustrophobic wooded area. Low and lulling. Pro dubbed cassettes, limited to 150 copies."
8/1/2006	Harper, T.	The Hitcher	cassette	$8.99	AA Records	"Twig Harper's house burns down so he decides to hitchhike across the US. He gets as far as Michigan, records a little, and then heads to the Badlands to star in a western as a shaman - no shit. Field recordings from Baltimore thru Michigan to the Badlands and back." - label
5/16/2011	Harper, Twig	Twig Harper	CD	$7.99	Hanson	"First proper CD release from NAUTICAL ALMANAC's TWIG HARPER. Twig was a big part in HANSON RECORDS getting off the ground back in the mid-90's, so I'm very excited to release his debut solo glass mastered CD! Hot off the barefoot of his collaboration release with DANIEL HIGGS on THRILL JOCKEYŠ "TWIG HARPER" continues in the alternate universe tradition of his three volume "Intuitive American Esoteric" LP series, with 43 minutes psychedelic tape manipulations and droning synthesizer... electronic and organic sound mixed to brain warping perfection. Bell's, homemade electronics, synth, piano, strings, junk, horns and voice treated with tape for "full-on" musique concrete / sound poetry / electronic trance inducing confusion." Recommended for fans of Albert Hoffmann, Smegma, Pierre Henry, The Butthole Surfers, Maria Sabina, Dylan Nyoukis, Tobe Hooper, Criswell, Tod Dockstader, Sirhan Sirhan, The 13th Floor Elevators, Aliens, Humans, Jokes, and OBE's. 500 copies packaged in black poly jewel cases."
9/25/2010	Harper, Twig & Daniel Higgs	Clairaudience Fellowship	LP	$13.99	Thrill Jockey	"Twig Harper has been a force in the noise/experimental scene since the mid '90s with his group Nautical Almanac, touring worldwide and releasing recordings on Hanson, Load, and Heresee. He also runs Tarantula Hill in Baltimore - a space that includes a performance area, recording studio, esoteric library, and rooftop beehives & gardens. Daniel Higgs is best known for his work as the lyricist and frontman of Lungfish, whose work on Dischord Records has spanned 3 decades. He is also a very prolific solo artist with works on Thrill Jockey, Holy Mountain, Northern Liberties, Open Mouth, and Ideal Recordings. Clairaudience Fellowship is released on LP-only in an edition of 1,000 copies housed in full-color jackets with a coupon for DRM-free MP3 download. The download coupon includes one additional bonus track that is not on the LP."
5/31/2009	Harps Of Fuchsia Kalmia	Fractal Psych-Obsessions for Rural Chaos	CDR	$7.99	267 Lattajjaa	"Subversive psychedelic strumming" Harps of Fuchsia kalmia is Salvatore Borrelli who plays Max/Msp processing, Balalaika, Banjo, Ogororo, Cymbals, Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Egyptian Harp, Tampura Swarmanthal, Drums, Violin, Esraj, Sansula. On the last track also Valerio Cosi (sax), Francesco Gregoretti (second drums), Siddhi (drone) and Federica R. (voice). This work is recorded in four "private live sessions" without editing and mixing.
2/2/2011	Harris, Liz	Divide	Book + DVD	$42.99	Root Strata	"Divide is a book of drawings and an accompanying video by Liz Harris. Harris' visual work runs in parallel to her music as Grouper, and often times overlaps into the same vision. Divide maps out dense organic patterns, passages filled to the edges with overgrowth and fractured geometry. Minimal strokes are taken to maximal repetitions to form complex mazes in high contrast. Other images float in space like hex symbols from prehistory, portals to some other place & time. The accompanying video (with soundtrack) of black & white Rorschach voids should be familiar to anyone who has seen a recent Grouper show." Book is 7" by 7", 60 pages, soft cover with a color cover & black and white images. DVDR is all regions. Edition of 500.
	Harry Pussy	untitled	7"	$19.99	Planet Records	6 song EP.
7/14/2007	Hassara	Backyard I-III	CD	$12.99	Three Lobed Recordings	"Originally issued as a series of three micro-edition CDRs by Wooden Wand Hassara, "Backyard I-III" presents the majority of this scarce material in one easily handled package. Since no more than 100 copies exist of any of the individual original issue CDRs, there are a lot of folks who have not yet been blown away by Hassara's largely instrumental electric guitar blues drone. Spin this disc, grab a cold one and let the good times flow. This CD is from a one-time pressing of 500 copies and features some super-intense new artwork by Robert Beatty (Hair Police)."
5/16/2010	Haswell, Russell	VALUE + BONUS	double CD	$13.99	No Fun	"Combining CD player demonstration test signals, 24 bit digitally recorded improvised freeform analog pedal/electronic nO!se, direct to HD computer generated and recorded nO!se, flashbacks from the 1980s of 303 and 909 nO!se assaults including free-style repeat and reverse editing, a frog call editing experiment, finishing off the second disc is a unedited long-form radio de-tuning session! VALUE + BONUS is the sixth solo album release by Russell Haswell. It comes in deluxe no fun gatefold jacket and is limited to 1000."
	Hat City Intuitive	/....//../..//	CDR	$12.99	Hat City Sounds	"Evolving over 18 years ago from the equally fertile and toxic fields of Western Connecticut / Westchester, NY that spawned such acts as Tower Recordings, Bunnybrains, and Cro-Magnon, The Hat City Intuitive (aka HCI) have been experimenting with the purest forms of improvisation, dabbling in free jazz, noise-rock, and just - sounds as sounds. The band released their 2 latest albums simultaneously in 2006 on their own Hat City Sounds label following the snails pace release schedule of 1995's Superlux Records "Happiness Is A One Trick Pony/Crying Is Shaped Like A Seahorse" and 2000's Crank Automotive "They Must be Clapping For...Me". The two newest albums "Narrow Miss On The Chamber Pot" and "/....//../..// (grey goose & a whole lotta hydro)" are of various studio sessions over the past 5 years, which represent the full range of this unique band: the clatter, the clang, the noise, the serious, and the fun.."
	Hat City Intuitive	Narrow Miss On The Chamber Pot	CDR	$12.99	Hat City Sounds	"Evolving over 18 years ago from the equally fertile and toxic fields of Western Connecticut / Westchester, NY that spawned such acts as Tower Recordings, Bunnybrains, and Cro-Magnon, The Hat City Intuitive (aka HCI) have been experimenting with the purest forms of improvisation, dabbling in free jazz, noise-rock, and just - sounds as sounds. The band released their 2 latest albums simultaneously in 2006 on their own Hat City Sounds label following the snails pace release schedule of 1995's Superlux Records "Happiness Is A One Trick Pony/Crying Is Shaped Like A Seahorse" and 2000's Crank Automotive "They Must be Clapping For...Me". The two newest albums "Narrow Miss On The Chamber Pot" and "/....//../..// (grey goose & a whole lotta hydro)" are of various studio sessions over the past 5 years, which represent the full range of this unique band: the clatter, the clang, the noise, the serious, and the fun.."
	Hat City Intuitive	They Must Be Clapping For...Me!	CD	$10.99	Crank Automotive	"Sifted from a phalanx of searing live performances, They Must Be Clapping For...Me! is the band's second album, a cell-rearranging collection of free-form sun-chasing. Exploding the walls between rhythm and chaos, texture and blare, and repetition and invention, the HCI mix horn-shaped fire-breathing, blurry-handed guitar-strangling, rubber-wristed drum-shining, and continent-sized noise-scapes into a mind-stirring stew that, while not without some worthy referents, really has no current equivalent. At times sounding like the Sun City Girls covering the ESP-Disk catalogue, at others like the Dead C. auditioning for a role in Space Is The Place, They Must Be Clapping For...Me! is a pulse-enhancing experience - a place where sliding beats, ambient waves, religious honks, and electric burps are simply different ways of saying one amazing Truth."
10/17/2009	Haters, The	In The Shade of Fire	CD	$9.99	Hanson	"HANSON RECORDS is proud to present the first LP from THE HATERS, 'IN THE SHADE OF FIRE' reissued for the first time on the CD format AND for the first time in it's original ENTIRETY. Originally released on LP by SILENT RECORDS in 1986, this digipak CD edition has been remastered by Warn Defever from the original master reels, and includes the full COMPLETE ALBUM as two of the tracks had to be shortened to fit on the original LP issue."
	Haugan, Dag-Are	s/t	7"	$4.99	Myke Droner	"Side one is a long mysterious ambient-drone-outer limit work with layers of guitars and tapes(?), that reminds of a very deep sound from the icy north, but still warm inside. Side 2 is collaboration with Espen Sommer Eide (who also form the duo ALOG with Dag-Are). Fit well in the new Norwegian improv scene, and also familiar to the New Zealand scene we like so well. Nice full-colour sleeve picture from the Northern Sea."
2/4/2007	Haunted Castle	Dust Tombs	cassette	$7.99	American Grizzly	"Filthy feedback-drenched Michigan dust scrape."
11/2/2011	Haunted House	Blue Ghost Blues	LP	$14.99	Northern Spy	"The blues has grown up a lot in the last ten years, since guitarist Andrew Burnes left New York for Georgia, bringing a de facto end to the powerful abstract blues of Haunted House. In the time since, a new generation - sometimes referred to as Freak Folk or New Weird America and spearheaded by Tom Carter, Jack Rose and Ben Chasny - has followed in the footsteps of Loren Connors, John Fahey and a handful of others who have long maintained that the blues is something more than 12 bars and a backbeat. After the demise of Haunted House, Connors continued preaching the gospel, often with his wife - the enigmatic singer Suzanne Langille - to anyone who would listen, playing a slow, distorted, reverb-drenched blues as slowly the world began to come around. Then, in the summer of 2010, the stars aligned just so: Burnes was in town for a few days, percussionist Neel Murgai was available, and the Brooklyn's Issue Project Room was booking matinee concerts in their courtyard. The band had only existed for a brief two years and had been absent for a decade, but they picked up right where they left off with only a brief soundcheck as rehearsal. Another matter of months, and they were in the studio, recording at long last the follow-up to their 1999 Erstwhile release Up in Flames. Looking back, maybe it isn't that the blues has grown up. Maybe it has reverted to its youth. After all, John Lee Hooker, Son House and Mississippi Fred McDowell weren't beholden to any 12-bar fixity. Nor was Lonnie Johnson, whose song "Haunted House" gave the band its name. They all played it how they felt it. It wasn't until the 1960s and the British blues revival (its champion, ironically perhaps, being Connors' beloved Eric Clapton) that the blues was codified into its current formula. Haunted House is an unusual band. With Indian hand percussion and no bass, they don't look like a blues band - and maybe they're not. But they play it how they feel it. What more could you ask for?"
5/16/2010	Haunting, The	Chamber Maid	cassette	$5.99	Gods of Tundra	"First utterance of 2010 from the coffin lid couple. New worn sounds completely opposed to the modern world. The dread continues..."
4/16/2007	Haunting, The	Feeding Chamber	cassette	$7.99	Gods of Tundra	"Maybe the roughest Haunt jam to date. Sounds come and go like gashes on skin. This tape is like living under ice for 60 years, then dying.
7/5/2011	Haunting, The	Psychic Interference	cassette + zine	$11.99	Gods of Tundra	"New images and sounds simmer in dream corridors. Interference is the only thing that is consistent in the lifeforce. What comes after interference ends up on the astral plane. The cove couple lingers in all planes on this one. Color and black & white collaboration art zine, lo fi and ancient cassette."
9/29/2003	Havergal	Trash	10"	$7.99	Elevator Bath	"The five instrumental compositions, which comprise this EP from 1999, are contemplative and melodic sound experiments. Traditional instrumentation (guitar, percussion, etc.) mixes with found sounds and samples to create wisely restrained, yet emotional music. The material occasionally approaches ‘post rock,’ but, instead, opts for something far more relevant. On transparent vinyl with clear plastic sleeves, in an edition of 550 copies."
10/19/2003	Hawk, Gerald	King of River Canoe	CD	$11.99	Abduction	"Debut release by this obscure filmmaker (?). The last non-member of the Sun City Girls to release something on their Abduction label (Hal Russell) didn't live long to tell about it, but Gerald evidently thinks he's made of tougher stuff. This recording features acoustic muddle and the whispered rants of somebody with no fear of waking up in a bunker. A certain amount of Jandekian idolation/emulation/ass-ination raises the intrigue and as for the wind, it continues to blow. Don't be afraid to jump, straight down."- FE
2/10/2004	Hawk, Gerald	The Honey Guide Bird	CD	$12.99	Abduction	"The second CD from obscure artist Gerald Hawk, The Honey Guide, is the music of opposites: laughter and misery, crazy and the grim, toytown and the city of fear. This curious recording is filled with hypnotic sound-fields and a queer feeling of humility. Stories of giants and witches are embedded in an outerworldly atmosphere. The music betrays an ability to enter into the supernatural space of abstract hoverings. Is he communicating with the dead, performing underwater rituals, or sketching a lush photographic awareness of the world?"
1/1/2008	Hawkwind	Hawkwind	LP	$20.99		"A reissue of their 1970 classic first album, this is where the long interplanetary journey began. Sometimes compared to early PINK FLOYD, it's bluesy spacerock defined by a unique, sci-fi approach to guitar, sax and electronics. Original artwork, Euro import."
4/24/2006	Hay, Emily / Marcos Fernandes	We Are	CD	$10.99	Public Eyesore	"Folks, I couldn't begin to know how to properly express what I think is going on with this album. Marcos Fernandes is the percussion, field recordings, and electronic noise man. Emily Hay is the voice artist, flute, piccolo, piano, and electronic noise lady. Now that information came by easy with help from the album booklet. What is a bit more difficult is knowing how to explain what you will hear on We Are. There are quiet moments, the noisy moments, and then there are the what exactly am I listening to moments. Ok, ... I am aware that this review isn't shedding too much light on the album. You know that funny sound when you twiddle your lips with your fingers and go bbbvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv? Well, nobody does it better than Emily Hay." - Cameron Deyhle
4/3/2011	Hayden, Bridget	An Indifferent Ocean	LP	$19.99	Kraak	"Previously found prizing atom splitting feedback through a horizontal guitar, Bridget Hayden's solo experiments have more lately sought the brooding, layered blues that we find resonating in "An Indifferent Ocean". A stripped down set up, featuring an out of tune, hand me down guitar, two pedals of similar origin - no delays - and a donated fourtrack port-a-studio found on the street, has converged to form a crafted storm of abyss kicking improvisation. Best known for her involvement with the hypnotic, shambollic and critically acclaimed drone band Vibracathedral Orchestra, Hayden split in 2006, desiring change and a new vein to hone. She toured solo with kindred freaks such as The Aethr Method, Melanie Crowley-Delaney, Marcia Bassett and Sunburned Hand of the Man, later teaming up with The Telescopes' henchman Stephen Lawrie to begin a noisy collaboration that continues to confuse and electrify. Here, in her first official and long awaited solo release, you will find a spectrum of somnambulist trances that seamlessly conjoin dense and frantic depth with delicate fracture. Relentless guitar shredding epics are interspersed with graceful, drifting melancholia that lull the listener back to shore with a warm, whispered dream after being crashed mercilessly against the rocks." Edition of 500 copies.
10/21/2009	Hayden, Bridget	Bridget Hayden	CDR	$8.99	Golden Lab Records	"Recorded at The Bowling Green pub in Manchester on 17th November 2008, when Bridget was on tour with Marcia Bassett, this is a maximal 25-minute set of epic guitar brutalising and deep, moaned vocal incantations. Employing a bow and 'metal' effects pedals, the resulting cacophony is orchestral in scope, rendering almost unreliable the memory of one woman and her instrument. Somewhat akin to Bassett's duo with Matthew Bower, Hototogisu, the deeply layered tones created by Hayden offer, upon first exposure, a somewhat icy auditory experience, but as the recording settles in, the richness and sheer breadth of sound wraps around you like a feather quilt and shifts your perception almost 180 degrees. A truly magnificent set from this former Vibracathedral Orchestra member that cements her reputation as far more than that alone. Limited to 80 copies with sleeves printed on recycled paper using soya based ink."
7/16/2009	Haymarket Square	Magic Lantern	LP	$15.99	Void	"The legendary, one and only Chicago psychedelic garage sounds of Haymarket Square come to the Void. Just a 700 press on black vinyl, glossy pink cover and insert, unseen in any other reissue before this. 'Elevator,' 'Train Kept a Rollin' and many more, this LP has become a scarce collector's item today. Originally released in 1968, the Void issue will become the standard for listeners of Haymarket Square."
4/7/2011	Hayvanlar Alemi	Guarana Superpower	CD	$16.99	Sublime Frequencies	"Hailing from the Turkish capital of Ankara, Hayvanlar Alemi is a group of contemporary players steeped in the art of psychedelics, surf, and expansive rock instrumental grandeur. Formed in 1999, the band is led by Ozum Itez (electric guitar) and Isik Sarihan (percussion) and they've released a variety of CDs and mp3 tracks in Turkey and beyond leading up to this, Guarana Superpower, their first official release outside their home country. The tracks drift from majestic beauty to blazing delirium with itez etching his manifesto for electric guitar every step of the way backed by Sarihan's wide variety of percussion styles. Although the group is rooted in classical and modern Turkish psych-rock in spirit, they draw on a large range of sounds and influences, and traces of Turkish styles are hard to pin down. Two of the tracks, "MEGA Lambada" and "Guarana Superpower," are more reminiscent of late '80s post-punk experimental mind-melting, referencing Torch Of The Mystics-era Sun City Girls in grand fashion. Other cuts expand on a diversity of areas including tripped-out surf, retro Cambodian rock, electrified Thai Mor Lam and Saharan guitar music. Every single track is memorable and the incredible variety helps confirm the fact that Hayvanlar Alemi is one of today's great rock instrumental combos. CD version features two bonus tracks and includes an 8-page color insert with photos of the group."
11/20/2010	Hayvanlar Alemi	Guarana Superpower	LP	$29.99	Sublime Frequencies	"Hailing from the Turkish capital of Ankara, Hayvanlar Alemi is a group of contemporary players steeped in the art of psychedelics, surf, and expansive rock instrumental grandeur. Formed in 1999, the band is led by Özüm ?tez (electric guitar) and I?žk Saržhan (percussion) and they've released a variety of CDs and mp3 tracks in Turkey and beyond leading up to this, Guarana Superpower, their first-ever vinyl LP. The tracks drift from majestic beauty to blazing delirium with ?tez etching his manifesto for electric guitar every step of the way backed by Sarihan's wide variety of percussion styles. Although the group is rooted in classical and modern Turkish psych-rock in spirit, they draw on a large range of sounds and influences, and traces of Turkish styles are hard to pin down. Two of the tracks, "MEGA Lambada" and "Guarana Superpower," are more reminiscent of late '80s post-punk experimental mind-melting, referencing Torch Of The Mystics-era Sun City Girls in grand fashion. Other cuts expand on a diversity of areas including tripped-out surf, retro Cambodian rock, electrified Thai Mor Lam and Saharan guitar music. Every single track is memorable and the incredible variety helps confirm the fact that Hayvanlar Alemi is one of today's great rock instrumental combos. This extremely limited one-time LP pressing comes in a full color heavy-duty tip-on jacket."
1/25/2011	Head Boggle	Unsounds and Domo Live	c35 cassette	$6.99	NNA Tapes	"Derek Gedalecia's latest creation brings us mutated electronic music from the extreme far out. A seemingly endless stream of synthetic gurgles, gulping, and goop in chaotic bursts of unpredictability. Includes a live audience/soundboard recording that delivers in the masterful live HB style."
7/14/2010	Head Of Wantastiquet	18.02.2010	CDR	$16.99	Unsound	"Edition of 120 copies CD-R documenting a live performance from Paul Labrecque (Sunburned Hand Of The Man/Trees Chants And Hollers/The Other Method et al). Labrecque's string work makes reference to the lonesome sound of Sandy Bull and John Fahey while connecting with the experiments in contemporary American Primitive drone of Paul Metzger and Matthew Valentine. Quietly psychedelic and spellbindingly intimate. In full colour gatefold card sleeve." - Volcanic Tongue
10/25/2008	Head of Wantastiquet	Mortagne	LP	$29.99	Ecstatic Yod	"Head of Wantastiquet is the solo project of Sunburned Hand of the Man's Paul Labrecque. This is the long awaited follow-up to Paul's debut cassette release on Open Mouth. This LP is luscious and layered with psych banjo based pieces spread over 12 tracks. I'd compare it to a cross between Daniel Higgs and Doc Boggs sans vocals. A truly beautiful record which comes in a VG Kids screenprinted double sided sleeve sleeve in a one time edition of 500." Highly recommended!!
8/31/2010	Headboggle	Banjo Signal Generator As Advertised	c29 cassette	$7.99	Digitalis Limited	"The boggling continues fresh out of the bowels of the san francisco space program. "banjo signal generator as advertised" keeps the psychedelic synth scrapes brewing and brewing until everyone is buried underneath his electronic portal clouds. inside this howling vortex of bubbling electronics come unexpected shifts of composed guitar melodies that fade away as quickly as they arrived. in its wake, the synth waves dial it in and intensify until petering out into a sample of your favorite piano spooks of all time. but as i've come to expect, headboggle shows up for a live rendition next making me jones heavy to see this spectacle in person. minimalist electronic sculptures battle it out with the crowd's voices, the latter adding an unexpected bonus to the proceedings. it's some haunted spliff. headboggle never sounds like anything but headboggle and ends up stuck in your skull for days on end. you just have to keep going back to it, trying to figure out what the hell happened while you were out. edition of 75, pro-dubbed.
4/10/2009	HeadBoggleD	rchive # 3	cassette	$4.99	Anathema Sound	"In a universe of incredible synth jammers that grows more crowded by the second, Bay Area's Derek Gedalecia is truly a standout. Eschewing pleasant melodies and anything even remotely new age, Gedalecia uses his analog gear to disorient, discombobulate, and deteriorate. The third part in Head Boggle's ongoing rchive series buzzes through your cranium in so many different ways: sharp beams of sound, rumbling oscillations, and plenty of bizarro, brain-bending field recordings from who-knows-where. Side B is an entire live set that throws a hand-cranked music box in the middle of the synth storm. To say "it works" would be an understatement. Draw the wildcard and unleash the madness. With full color art, inserts, and labels by Matt Yacoub." Edition of 50 copies.
6/27/2009	Headdress	Lunes	CD	$13.99	No Quarter	"Lunes is the second album by the Texas psychedelic duo Headdress. Written in the desert but recorded during an endless New York City winter, the album is a dark meditation on Americana. Guitarist Caleb Coy and organist Ethan Cook sculpt a cold, expansive sound made ripe for these turbulent times. It's the blues shaped by the avant-compositions of La Monte Young and Dylan Carlson. It's drone rooted deep in the American tradition."
6/27/2009	Headdress	Lunes	LP	$13.99	No Quarter	"Lunes is the second album by the Texas psychedelic duo Headdress. Written in the desert but recorded during an endless New York City winter, the album is a dark meditation on Americana. Guitarist Caleb Coy and organist Ethan Cook sculpt a cold, expansive sound made ripe for these turbulent times. It's the blues shaped by the avant-compositions of La Monte Young and Dylan Carlson. It's drone rooted deep in the American tradition." Includes MP3 download code.
3/5/2009	Heatsick	Dubbed Sunshine	cassette	$9.99	Searching Records	"2008's most beautiful egotriptic colorful dervish from Steven Warwick (from Birds of Delay). All-pro recorded and printed chrome tape with beautiful art and insert by Steven." Pro Tape in hand sprayed case - limited edition of 100 copies.
11/17/2007	Heatsick	Muddy Paw	CDR	$12.99	Trans-Dimensional Sushi	"New solo jams from Steve Warwick of Birds Of Delay, with eternally singing reeds and alien breath tones combined in forests of wonked tape and DIY bedroom hypnosis. Three tracks. Edition of 100 copies." - Volcanic Tongue. "This, the first in a trilogy of dewy perfume sunrise, waking up naked in wet grass and the smile of a deer. consciously pop, day after memory distortion. overloading the senses in drunk ecstasy tracks progress to casual blur into cruise down the river densities. Dedicated to Oliver Reed and Tess..."
5/14/2007	Heatsick	Pre-Cum Fog Ballet	cassette	$14.99	Alcoholic Narcolepsy	"Although this Heatsick release starts out nice and normal, it doesn't take that long before it gets taken over by the warped half of sole member Steven Warwick's brain; melodic acoustic guitar work gets layered and then drowned. This c30 release (in vampiric black and red) layers acoustic details on top of each other, all the while preparing the listener for the inevitable absorption into Heatsick world. These simply layered parts keep their backbone for a while, refusing to urn to liquid, landing in clockwork patterns of strums. The magic of this single piece is the way the mechanical mouse organ styled build of notes begins to take on a sort of halo. The chimes set in motion droney moving rings which in turn heralds circling whistles appear along with freer pitches around the song. This other world begins to try and steal the song's focus creating an intentionally glorious coming together of two teased-out worlds. When the second side picks up the hard to hold thread of "Pre-Cum Fog Ballet," the guitar parts have been lost. The mazes of drones have guzzled this instrument down in murmuring hums, a disintegrating swarm of Möbius Strips. Listening to the second side of this cassette is like arriving at the fairground on expensive glue and having to choose which half-broken fairground attraction to ride on. The sounds spin just below the point of overwhelming, like a séance that only attracts pissed-up drunken spirits that all want to talking at the same time. The gap between side one and two feels like a part of this buckled metamorphosis has been lost, but that's probably partially my fault for having equipment that requires me to get up to flip the tape. Despite the sometime insanity of the music, Heatsick's explorations are never mentally wearing; god only knows what it's doing to my ears though." - Scott McKeating, Brainwashed
5/14/2007	Heatsick	Searing Light Of Glue Prisms	cassette	$14.99	Alcoholic Narcolepsy	"New jams recorded over the last few months. Yellow tar visions... more trickly... cavernous. Honey comb like fly visions slow motion ascent flying into a candle..." Heatsick is Steven Warwick of Birds of Delay. Edition of 100 copies.
5/14/2007	Heatsick	Total Afternoon Sundae	cassette	$14.99	Alcoholic Narcolepsy	"Steven Warwick, half of the up-and-coming sound abusers Birds of Delay, has been using his own Alcoholic Narcolepsy label to spread his solo Heatsick project. Any more releases like this one and it's only a matter of time before the bigger underground indies come calling. This cassette might look like the label's most professional looking release yet, but the project's roots still sound resolutely lo-fidelity. But where in the past Heatsick required some effort on the listeners behalf, meeting the music halfway, Total Afternoon Sundae comes running with open arms and a doped-up grin. As good as those previous efforts have been, this one feels like it's cleared out some blockage between the music and listener, the hurdle of formlessness, hurtling it up to the next level. The opening piece, which takes up the whole first side, is thick and sweetly queasy, like too much lukewarm ice cream. Its tides of short-wave radio rise and fall on top of other sounds, melting into each other like a gelatinous mass of sugar. There's a dash of arresting Spacemen 3 style drone laid in there too, swirling like tangible energy at the piece's edges. The pulpy mash of organ and synth guts seems to be rotting and blossoming at the same time within the magnetic tape. There are touches of beauty on the rest of the tape, too, a little less thick perhaps, but no less explicit. Even the bent pitches of "Later Mirror" and its broken game show vibe can't hide the song's silvery splendour. "Exactly, Exactly" takes this idea further again, creating a ever-moving rush of gorgeous sounds, the constantly rolling and peripatetic blooming tones reproducing without assistance. The closing "Unspent Realisation of Dawning Release" sees Warwick performing the same kind of magic that Richard D. James did with soldering irons on Selected Ambient Works II. The cut-price ambience of the keyboard's melody is easy to get lost in; the sound quality and tape hiss just adds to the charm. The cassette format is endearing, but when you run into a great release like, the inadequacies become more inconvenience than charm. It's very probable that each listen to Total Afternoon Sundae is minutely degrading this recording; its brilliance, and the need for repeated listens, gradually destroying the music. This is a release already in dire need of a CD reissue." - Scott McKeating, Dusted Magazine
2/7/2009	Heaven People	Sewn Eyes	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"Heaven People is like finding pastel puke on the floor. like a multi-color mess that you can't look away from cause it's so mesmerizing, but you know you gotta clean it up cause it's gonna be sewage sooner or later. maybe a week goes by and you start seeing different images in the stain it left. like a cloud eating a reindeer. i don't know, something fucked up. heaven people are kinda like anti-psych psych. the liquid bricks of a water city. bells and whistles with no bells and whistles. hands floating away from your arms. eyes on the cover are punched out with yarn keeping em sewn."
11/17/2007	Heavy Winged	Feel Inside	CD	$13.99	Archive	"Brand new three trax release from Portland/ Brooklyn based unit which comes on the heels of the bands recently re-issue disc, and highly excellent three lobed release "blacc lust", comes three long playing journeys into psych noise dronedom. I'm not a huge fan of the press release description game where the label goes on to babble and make absurd quotes like "sounds like every band that has sold a shit load of records this past month if you combine sunno))) with your mamma then you know exactly how great this record is". I'd just like to humbly state to me it comes off like the Bardo Pond brothers recording in the lo-fi high fuzz induced kitchen of the Goslings. All label claims aside listen to the clip!! PACKAGE comes packed in a double cover center opening sleeves with the outer shell being a vellum overlay wonderfully executed graphically by Chase Middaugh. Single pressing of 600 copies."
10/17/2009	Heavy Winged	Heavy Winged	cassette	$9.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Very pleased to announce that after much ongoing talk between me and the band, Blackest Rainbow will be issuing the very first Heavy Winged cassette. A total beast from this cross country American trio of Ryan, Jed and Brady recorded just after a 4 day east coast tour in November 2007 at Ryan's house in Vermont. The music switches between pure heavy repetitive riffing, drum kit massacre and shredding bass to more melancholy weird minimal bits, which actually co-inside with the last jam the band did before parting ways across the map. Nevertheless, this is another totally amazing and essential release from one of my favourite bands around right now. Limited to 200. Pro-dubbed cassettes."
6/27/2009	Heavy Winged	Shaking, Waking	LP	$16.99	Aurora Borealis	"Aurora Borealis is proud to present long-time faves HEAVY WINGED on limited vinyl with the 'Shaking, waking' LP. The band have been consistently impressing us since we first heard them back in 2006 and we are very happy to have snagged them for this release before tagging them and releasing them back into the wild. The 'Shaking, waking' LP consists of two lengthy tracks: 'Tidal Blackness' is a 23 minute cloud of improvised guitar and bass drone, underpinned with sparse percussive elements and dappled with the rays of ethereal melodies. This track, recorded live in Oakland in 2008, represents the more gentle side of HEAVY WINGED in some ways and is largely soothing. The second side harbours 'Morning Flesh', 18 minutes that veer towards the caveman Krautrock of the recent 'Alive in my mouth' LP, drums pounding, Neanderthal guitar chugging, though with a melodic haze drifting across the musical landscape like a lysergic mistral, leading the listener ever further into the shifting sands of the forbidden zone. HEAVY WINGED have set the controls for the heart of the unknown. Two track LP - a VINYL ONLY release, on 180g transparent pale grey vinyl, limited to 500 pieces in a heavyweight matte sleeve."
4/22/2009	Heavy Winged	Spreading Center	CD	$13.99	Release The Bats	"Two new long tracks from Heavy Winged, following up releases on Three Lobed, Archive, Not Not Fun etc. Massive and big-sounding stuff, but with more subtle and quiet openings and endings, and without ever loosing the abrasive feeling of being dragged in grit and dirt forever and ever. Driving and powerful proto-psych-metal that manages to sound very much improvised and extremely focused and precise at the same time. Both tracks recorded live, Loudun recorded in Davis, California on 6/30/08. Strigoi recorded in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York on 11/2/07. Limited one-time pressing of 500 copies. Dual Plover gatefold sleeve with black felt and artwork by Twin Vixen. Play it loud."
5/31/2009	Heavy Winged & Inca Ore	Ring Mining	LP	$15.99	Not Not Fun	"Wild collaborative LP by these 2 deep psych visionaries. One side is a studio collab merging HW's pummeling psych-frenzy with cascading waves of IO-keyboard bliss. The other side is a rare, unhinged live recording of the single time these outfits ever performing together...imagine HW with a freaked out lead singer. Strange and great." "A stunning, crazy, radical joining-of-forces between our favorite instrumental psych-light power trio and our favorite west coast private voice dreamer, a full 3 years in the making. one side is a wild live collab from a 2006 brooklyn performance, the other is a 2008 studio creation. the best of both worlds. mastered by james plotkin."
	Heazlewood	Introducing the Ron Asheton Club	7"	$5.99	Crawlspace	"Chris Heazlewood (Sferic Experiment, Olla, King Loser) is one of New Zealand's best & most innovative guitarists & this is his personal tribute to the Stooges' best guitarist. Four tracks of layered riffs, samples, bass & backwards guitar."
9/25/2010	Hedonic Islands	Hedonic Islands	7" + download	$5.99	Gematria Records	Track listing A1: Alien Abduction feat. Dudley Perkins and Georgia Anne Muldrow B1: Cavaco Da Mangueira feat. Bani Silva B2: Hedonic Islands Dub Plate feat. Prince Zohar BONUS DIGITAL TRACK: Unnatural Ways feat. Addiquit "Gematria Records brings you a slab of tropical murder with Ilya Monosov at the controls. "Alien Abduction" features former Stones Throw artists Dudley Perkins & Georgia Anne Muldrow channeling Sun Ra for an outer space party rap over a beat that swaggers like Dilla with original instrumentation giving it a sample-free feel. On the flip, Rio De Janeiro's Bani Silva (kabopro.com) hosts a favela dancehall sweat box and Habitat Sound System's Preston Swirnoff a.k.a. Prince Zohar contributes an analog dubplate on the "Tempo" riddim dripping with bass and cough syrup. Monosov has collaborated with Swirnoff in the psych-rock project Shining Path (Holy Mountain Records) while Swirnoff's work with Habitat Sound System and Dub Traffik Control has produced several coveted vinyl releases on Gematria & Brookyln's BSTRD Boots. Gematria Records is run by San Diego's Prince Zohar & Eddie Turbo. Gematria's catalog includes the smoky analog dub of Habitat Sound System and the airhorn-worthy dancehall of Dub Traffik Control. Upcoming releases include Habitat Sound vs. Dub Traffik Control 'Murder On Golden Hill' 10" vinyl dub clash and a limited edition cassette series. Zohar & Turbo host the ¡GEMATRIA! night in San Diego, bringing in top international purveyors of tropical bass."
7/16/2009	Heidsieck, Bernard	Poème-Partition X	Book + CD	$59.99	Alga Marghen	*"Poème-Partition X" was created by Bernard Heidsieck during 1960 and recorded in October the same year. A few excerpts of the 1st and 4th movements were performed on November 22nd, 1960 at the Quatre Saisons Gallery in Paris, during the Festival of Avant-Garde Art. "Poème-Partition X" might be considered Heidsieck's first major work, whose duration (more than 40 minutes long) never allowed the author to give a public reading of it. Its destination was a record (released by alga marghen in 1996, starting the VocSon LP series, 36 years after its creation)! Alga Marghen is proud to now present this new edition of "Poème-Partition X", extended to the CD format and included in a luxury 96 pages hardbound book, limited to 350 numbered copies. The book reproduces for the first time the complete score, a visual wonder and a major experimental printed work. Bernard Heidsieck memories of an historic lecture at the Jean Tinguely atelier is included as an introduction, as well as his testimony on Ian Sommerville and Brion Gysin's "Dream Machine". Also on the CD is a lecture of extracts of "Poème-Partition X" accompanied by the saxophone of the American painter Larry Rivers. This recording from 1962 was not included in the LP edition and is here presented for the first time. In August 1962, Bernard Heidsieck went with John Ashberry, the American poet, to dinner at the studio of Jean Tinguely and Niky de Saint Phalle. Larry Rivers had a studio in the same place and was also there. Tinguely prepared grilled meat, akewered on one of his rotating sculptures. After dinner Rivers returned to his studio and began to play, alone and for himself. He earned his living, at the time, by playing sax at an after-hours jazz club. So, while he was playing Bernard Heidsieck joined him in his studio and suggested that they do an improvisation together. Something that Heidsieck had never done before, and have never done since! Larry Rivers immediately accepted, and an appointment was set up at Heidsieck home, for a few days later. August 6th, 1962. A dinner party was organised for the same guests who had been at Tinguely's place and this unique 17 minutes improvisation was recorded, but untill now never released. It was, however, presented at the first Fylkingen Text-Sound Composition Festival in Stockholm in 1968. Luxury hardbound edition limited to 350 numbered copies."
7/11/2011	Heinz Hopf	Heinz Hopf	LP	$19.99	A Dear Called Wendy	"There are no words to say how amazing the Heinz Hopf's debut album is. They are a harsh noise duo consisting of Matthias Andersson and Dan Johansson. The first is the mind behind the label Release the Bats, and the second is the man behind the moniker Sewer Election. The result is 32 minutes of pure, brutal and uncompromising harsh noise. Comparisons with Incapacitants is too easy, their love of the Japanese noise is too evident. Comparisons that do not lead to the cloning of a sound. Their sound is personal, powerful, brutal, but in the end is only joyous. The joy of playing together. The joy of composing together. The joy of creating together. In the end is what noise should be. Is what noise must be. In short, simply beautiful." Edition of 200 copies.
4/10/2010	Heitkotter, David	Heitkotter	LP	$29.99	Time-Lag Records	Reissue of this legendary super-rare private press. A three-piece band plays sprawling, inept baked blues led by a mysterious mental patient. Housed in an ultra heavy cardboard sleeve on 180 gram vinyl, with an insert of insightful and speculative liner notes -- the most information you'll ever find about this mythic record. Truly one of the great outsider creations ever spawned under a full moon. "The circumstances behind Heitkotter are obscure and confusing: all that is known for certain is that Steve Heitkotter recorded the LP sometime before 1971, when he and his reluctant brother Bill took unsolicited promotional copies to eight local FM station in California's San Joaquin Valley. Whoever else may have participated is a mystery: Steven had spent the mid '60s drumming for Fresno garage mainstays the Road Runners, so he had some connections left, but the time after the Runners had reportedly brought him to psychotropic drugs and mental instability, and his family doubts that he was on good terms with enough musicians even to organize a drag jam of 'messed up desert loner westcoast churning and meandering, like a Magic Band gig falling apart' (Paul Major). The LP's murky sound and symbiotically disintegrating musicianship do seem to suggest that the session was cut live to four track, but Bill Heikotter swears that Steve was a loner at the time, alienated from his former bandmates, and that he recorded the album entirely by himself. That makes the amnesia of the musicians, who intermittently forget how to play their instruments, all the more curious, as Steve himself was a good guitarist and quasi-professional drummer, though the influence of drugs, fatigue, or apathy seems plausible enough."
8/8/2009	Helhesten	A Day Moth Cling	CDR	$9.99	Chironex	"The microphone was poised, held in hands and rested on the tops of tables in Antwerp, Paris and Clermont Ferrand to collect these webs of clarinet, voice, autoharp, and field recordings. Two pieces balanced between spaced-out and tightly-stretched interjections which culminate in swamped-out tonal structures, which close listening builds as well as unpicking, mutating or smashing to pieces. This is a trio recording made on tour with Chora and Lanterns, both of whom might have held the microphone too."
4/16/2007	Hell & Bunny	Better Eulogies Are On Their Way	cassette	$9.99	Tape Tektoniks	"30 minutes of creepy and jazzy improvisations by ben (percussion) and hans (cello) of graveyards and melee fame."
	Hell Mach Four	Hell Mach Four	12" EP	$8.99	Mood Swing Records	Chaotic guitar driven psych
4/21/2008	Hell Raiders, The	The Hell Raiders	cassette	$5.99	Bread and Animals	"Spaced out synth tunes. electronic grooves. gunshots. mood setting ambience. and random conversations about freedom and beyond. THE HELL RAIDERS is a tribute to nature, freedom, sweet synth sounds, vhs messages and photoshop thinkers. this is part of our ongoing CULTURAL SERIES."
5/29/2008	Hello, Blue Roses	The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty	LP	$16.99	Locust	"The sweetheart duo of Dan Bejar (Destroyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) & Sydney Vermont (visual artist, former Toronto Children's Choir kid singer) have tied the knot around an infectious readymade classic with their 14-track self-titled debut. The Portrait Is Finished folds the last few decades of pop music together, drawing on everything from an unabashed love of '80s AOR (Prefab Sprout & Kate Bush) to the cheery mysticism of young Scotland (Orange Juice & Felt) to prime Aquarian age femme folk of the '60s & '70s." Pressed on blue vinyl.
1/1/2009	Helloween Holocausts	Helloween Holocausts	double CDR & double cassette Box Set	$59.99	American Tapes	"AM 490 2 CDs, C60, C5. Man... Halloween rules, touring around Halloween, even better. This set consists of various scary audio scaretracks gripped from stores around the US, some big names, some screaming garbage never to be seen again, all raw and intense. Set consists of some straight-up booted material and some remixed, can't tell which is which cause its all totally hell -- frightening!!! -- how you gonna make it even scarier? Just in time for the holiday! Shiver while screaming, chains, horrors, ghosts, metal, steps, ghouls, rain, thunder, knives, torture and general nightmare soundtracks close in on you. Contains material so close to Wolf Guys action that you will completely confused / stoked. Killer stolen graphics as well packaged in a helloween box. Get ready for sudden death!!! Numbered Edition of 25." 2005 release.
3/6/2010	Hellvete	De Gek	LP	$16.99	Kraak	"Hellvete is one of the three members who founded the Flemish Funeral Folk collective and a key figure of the satanadelic combo Sylvester Anfang II. Similar to the mothership, his solo work spans from folk-inspired guitar drones to minimalist keyboard esoterica. The significant difference is that his solo songs are more composed and less improvised. "De Gek" (meaning "The Fool") is an epic trip through the different zones of the Hellvete Empire: layered guitar eruptions mix in with modern classical orchestration and dark folk tales. Influences such as Stephen R. Smith and Manuel Göttsching result in abstract sound narrations, that might just as well make one think of medieval folk or Rock In Opposition. On this debut LP all the aspects of what has been baptized the "Belgian dronevolkscene" culminate in an extraordinary exploration of the Self: a sonic exorcization of old demons and a return to the nostalgic peace of the country side. "De Gek" is a new interpretation of the modern psychedelic idylle. The Rochefort 10 of the new Belgian guitar folk tradition."
8/22/2008	Helm	Chrysalis	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"Three solo offerings from half of the birds of delay unit, luke younger. everything comes together in a sort of calming yet virulent way, like rivers of red and black filled with dead birds falling from the sky. chrysalis is sort of like a anodynic end to all things. one quick bite of the apocolypse that makes everything feel good. black on black covers."
6/25/2011	Helm	Cryptography	LP	$13.99	Kye	"Helm is the ambiguous solo moniker of London-based sound architect Luke Younger. Although, perhaps best known as one half of the pioneering avant-drone outfit Birds of Delay, it is in the more esoteric work of Helm that Luke's art takes on its most radical shape. 2010's debut LP To An End confirmed that in an age of fleeting trends and fly-by-night fancies, there were still a few old souls prepared to knuckle down and deliver the goods that people want to receive. Cryptography carries forward that noble mindset, presenting a new five-part suite of expertly rendered electro-acoustic study. Using processed piano, Casio MT-40, cymbal and guitar strings Cryptography steers the Helm sound through a melange of fringe territories: glacial drone meditations, reconfigured gamelan clusters, and howling walls of organized feedback, all coalesced in classic UK post-industrial fashion. Indeed, had it been conceived of 30 years prior, it would be easy to imagine Cryptography winning a seat in the United Dairies, or Dom America catalog, such is its commitment to homemade exploratory zeal. Cryptography was recorded at Highams Park, London 2009, with additional recording at No Recording Studios, London. Co-mixed, edited and mastered by John Hannon at No Recording, 2010. Cryptography arrives in a full color sleeve, with insert, in a hand-numbered edition of 400 copies."
	Henderson, Jeff / Nick Hodgson / Richard Neave	Live At The Shirley Community Centre	CD	$12.99	CMP	Jeff Henderson (alto sax), Nick Hodgson (drums), and Richard Neave (guitars) recorded live on August 21, 1998.
4/9/2011	Henneman, Simon	Black Magic & Mustache	LP	$15.99	Assophon	"Seattle-based Simon Henneman's first solo vinyl release is here. Mr. Henneman has worn many hats in the musical vortex of the Seattle sub-underground, most "famously" as one of the Diminished Men, who released an LP on the Sun City Girls Abduction label in 2009. That LP gave the lucky few who procured a copy an idea of the talents of that great band. Here, Mr. Henneman strikes out on his own and creates a solo journey of a much more intimate palette. Playing every instrument on the record (guitars, bass, saxophones, clarinet, percussion, keys), Mr. Henneman evokes a mood and mystery unmatched. From the ethno jazz/noir played in a Turkish harem vibe to the soundtrack for flipping through a Raymond Carver novella illustrated by Raymond Pettibon, this LP slithers into the subconscious and throws you against a back alley wall to seduce you into making a real bad decision seem OK! Limited edition of 300 copies only."
8/20/2011	Henry and Hazel Slaughter	Demo	CDR	$5.99	American Tapes	"New PRIMITIVE TECHNO unit. Been touring all summer, minimal electronics and maracas over a repetitive primal pulse. LOUD. Unnerving supreme. LP soon. Playing Chicago & Hopefully kzoo in july. Mathematical slow burning memorizing chaos. Was around briefly as a LIVE FRYING now here's the real deal. Numbered edition of 40, color covers." AM 903
5/28/2011	Henryspencer	To The Timeless Valley	CDR	$14.99	Bookmaker Records	"Henryspenncer's music is marked by the confrontation of psychedelic guitars and industrial percussions, folk sounds and drone atmospheres, coexisting in long progressive compositions. "To The Timeless Valley", Henryspenncer's second album, invites you to get lost in an unseen musical world evocative of large imaginary deserts, beyond time and the world." Heavy digifile + insert card. Edition of 150 copies.
10/13/2010	Herb Diamante	A Spoonful of Yeast	CD	$12.99	No-Fi	"NO-FI are delighted to announce the release of the cd 'A Spoonful Of Yeast' by lysergic torch singer Herb Diamante and an all-star cast of backing bands that reads like a Who's Who of alt-rock luminaries. As well as featuring his heart-rending version of Bobby Vinton's 'Mr Lonely' in the company of the legendary Sun City Girls, 'A Spoonful Of Yeast' also sees Herb front Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Climax Golden Twins, Dialing In, Diatric Puds and At Jenny Richie. The cd comes in a beautifully designed card gatefold sleeve adorned with collage designs by Herb himself, and is a limited run of 500 copies for the world." Highly recommended!
6/9/2011	Herbcraft	Ashram To The Stars	LP	$13.99	Hello Sunshine	"One of the most gifted abstract sonic pilots from the Vacationland stable, Portland, Maine, artist Matt Lajoie enjoys a larger-than-Sasquatch reputation for his free folk personality and unpredictable takes on Spectrasound techniques. Although he and his merry band are one of the most charismatic tribes of the New England underground-you gotta see them live-they blossom from psychedelic occurrences that lead to bursts of pacifist oblivion which can only be redeemed inside their studio output. The momentum Lajoie deploys in his polar expressions indicates a supply of time-manipulated balance. An accretion of bucket brigades warping wildly at first breath, generally considered a condition of primitivism, this is searchlight abandonment with purely spirited jams more akin to the tapers pit than slam continuance. In fact, the only thing slammed here (other than the muted poetry echoing like buoys in Golowin's harbor) are the 'in the red' meters on fire signs from fire music providing ease with earth, wind and air. Long may we inhale." "This is a heady atmosphere, an atmosphere for heads, and it not only delivers the contempo dreamlike aspect at the apex of its form, but transcends it to those revolving with them. Take this fucker for a spin." - Matt Valentine, Vermont, 2011
6/9/2011	Herbcraft	Discovers The Bitter World Of Agartha	LP	$13.99	Hello Sunshine	"December 2009: Days after returning to Maine following three heavy months on the road, Blows Against the Empire in one hand, Admiral Richard Byrd's secret diary in the other, Matthew Lajoie (Cursillistas) awoke one morning having dreamt the existence of a lost 1973 concept record about the exploration of inner Earth and the advanced civilization thriving at its center--Agartha, the domain of the Arianni. Using Byrd's account as the thematic framework for the album, he feverishly poured forth a representation of the imagined record, writing and recording the entire LP in a single 24-hour period--guided by sonic Ouija. The result is a cosmic antenna with dials tuned to the Planet Earth Rock 'n' Roll Orchestra, obscure psych-prog spacecasts, and classic rock radio, all refracted through the dusty, cracked and scratched Cursillistas prism. Performed entirely on a borrowed thrift store electric guitar and broken microphone, Herbcraft Discovers the Bitter Water of Agartha was birthed in the Now to scatter the seeds of Agartha's message in our Aquarian Dark Age. Limited to 500 copies."
1/25/2011	Hering und seine sieben Sachen	Nautical Twilight	c47 cassette	$5.99	//cae-sur-a//	"Hering und seine sieben Sachen is the kosmisch solo vehicle of one Daniel Voigt (Autistic Argonauts, Pawned Pajamas, Horzes, Phantom Limbo). Nautical Twilight is five compositions submerged under a deep gauzy surface of rippling bass frequencies and shimmering pulses that float their way to the ear as if transmitted from the dark recesses of the ocean thousands of miles away. Recorded in July 2010. Hand numbered edition of 100."
11/10/2011	Herman, Gerard	Fêta Justice	LP	$15.99	Kraak	"Listen, Feta is the Greek traditional goat cheese. That's a fact that is right. And that again is a tautology, a style figure derived from the Greek 'tauto logos'. The record itself is not that complicated though. Musically Gerard Herman started his career with a noise cd-r that he couldn't sell, dropped his carreer and picked it up as the sax and found objects player in Belgium's youngest and most extraordinary free jazz combo Sheldon Siegel. With a combination of off the hook poetry, Suicide beats, field recordings, home made instruments, excerpts from his radio shows and other musique concrète Herman gave us the weirdest, funniest and most arty KRAAK debut till today. This year the man with two first names will graduate from Ghent Art Academy as a master in the Graphic Arts. This limited edition LP is a part of his graduation project. All art, including an offset printed poster, is made by Herman himself. The cover photos are by Sine Van Menxel. Fêta Justice is a great portrait of the artist as a young man, exploring new avant-garde territories in an uncomplexed Flemish fashion." Edition of 300 copies.
5/28/2011	Herman, Gerard	I Read Somewhere It Is Not A Fable After All	cassette	$10.99	No Basement Is Deep Enough	"Bright green. That is the color of the cassette Gerald Herman are two new sound sculptures caught. Two tracks of unspecified length because the Gauge is damaged and the tape no further technical information. Each track its own side. Interchangeable. Side A is hopefully Side A and Side B. Side B hopefully The only difference, the work piece. Chaos and quietly disturbing noise on side A, a voice slightly distorted sound on Side B. Or vice versa. Gerard Herman is an Antwerp artist of all forms of media taste. He draws and paints, writes books too thin, will give performances and occasional music, sometimes with Sheldon Shiegel. This, you realize that "I read somewhere it is not a fable after all" not just as music can be heard. It is only a small part of Gerard Herman, who is unperturbed that he likes. One moment results in a contract MuHKA, then colored in a cassette in a limited edition. With the absolute pinnacle of idiosyncratic behavior on the weekly Radio Centraal "The birds of the field ', an injection of nature study and garden construction. "I read somewhere it is not a fable after all 'can therefore not easily grasp. "Side A" is a collection of noises that only the challenged recognize a sound. It's hipster food for daredevils willing to do that unworldly. But it is also a sonic experiment that you can not wash spirited but is forced to listen to that piece of disjointed sounds different. You look for the link with the recognizable and wanders further into the strange world of Gerard Herman. That sounds less strange world of 'B Side'. A cinematic, covered with a menacing sound cutting (by a voting computer?) Nominated Dutch interview with a writer that the time between the sentences, and the noise, tension is built. "Look, it's true that I have planted a seed in people's heads, which may necessitate a major problem worldwide reality." Sentences run wrong, wrong and intonations sound occasionally sounds too weird a word spoken or written by a man to be. This will help to not know the story, which sounds like an eerie introduction to the world of a madman. How healthy the brain of Gerard Herman, since you guessing. It's nice to be able to get lost in it, but the redeeming click of the tape is "the redemptive click of the tape." - Katrina Schuermans, Cutting Edge (translated from Belgian to English by google!) Edition of 41.
6/27/2011	Hertta Lussu Ässä	Hertta Lussu Ässä	LP	$15.99	De Stijl	"Gnomic no-fi plunk, wheeze, rattle and moan courtesy of an unfortunately monikered (well... at least to English language readers anyway...it probably means something just lovely in Finnish...) supergroup comprised of Jonna Karanka aka Kuupuu, Laura Naukkarinen aka Lau Nau and Merja Kokkonen aka Islaja that draws from the seemingly eternal well of stoned detuned mischief that feeds the viaducts of the Finnish underground. The sheer density of acts positing variants on this same post-Amon Duul/Siloah-like freakout stylee there gives rise to questions of bandwagon hopping, but that's a discussion for another time. For the here and now, this first release of theirs is a choice manifestation of heavy-lidded third-mind acoustic weirdity that's as ungainly as it is mystically/chemically blasted." This should be great!!
2/23/2007	Hetero Skeleton	En La Sombra Del Pajaro Velludo	CD	$14.99	Load	"Five unholy speaker cone movers from Finland choke up a hairball of churning sax-driven mayhem. In between the notes, crinkle-cut sax spuzz links rude-itude of the highest order. Fans of Avarus will find the same disconnected fuckery pulsing through this disc. For fans of Flying Luttenbachers, Fat Worm Of Error, Butthole Surfers, and Blue Humans."
11/17/2007	Hetero Skeleton	Kryptos Orchis	cassette	$5.99	American Grizzly	"noisy free jazz punk wankery, load records...members of avarus."
9/23/2004	Heule, Jacob Felix	Dog Days	CDR	$9.99	23 Productions	“Stuttering lo fi noise madness from Jacob Felix Huele on his cdr debut. Plenty of shredding noise sections with fucked up tape edits, looped rhythms, and mangled song parts in between. Highly recommended!”
4/22/2009	Hexlove	Es Nunar Covencha	3" CDR	$4.99	Majmua Music	"Majmua Music presents our first ever CD-R EP release, a curious little 3" disc by Hexlove. The full title of this release is "Music From the Film Es Noonar Covencha (Music for Unmade Films)". Eleven songs in just under 21 minutes, this is the new punk! Hexlove (previous releases on Holy Mountain, Weird Forest, and Dreamsheep Records) is the project of Zac Nelson, who also played in Who's Your Favorite Son, God? and Prints. A few years ago there was a soundtrack that needed making, for a film that needed imagining. Well, at long last you can hear the results - the film will have to be of your own creation. These songs are short sonic sunbursts of collage pop experimentalism. Don't believe me? Then find out for yourself..."
2/7/2009	Hexlove	Pijà Z Bogiem	double CD	$14.99	Dreamsheep Records	"Beefheart or Eno? Magnetic Fields or Tricky? - Zac Nelson (see his releases on Holy Mountain and Temporary Residence...) comes from Illinois and his way to create music is pretty unique. Divived between impressive instrumental sections, gorgeous almost-feminine vocal parts, explosive drum skills and beautiful melodic inventions, Nelson shows the widest musical range and the best inspiration we ever tasted recently in the underground/indie scene. This is the second CD release from him - a wonderful collection of songs, drum-obsessed jams and crazy pop sketches. Here is an absolutely brilliant manifesto of his art. 2xCD wrapped in clear jewel case - 4-panel booklet - SIAE stickers - some copies come with "Hexlove" sticker on shrinkwrap." Edition of 500.
9/30/2005	Hey Colossus	II	LP	$15.99	Wakuserie Records	"While hardcore rock can be restricted by the taut, angry insularity of it's own logic, and stoner rock can often be too out of it to understand the meaning of the term, London five piece Hey Colossus synthesize the best of both genres. 'Hey Colossus II', the follow up to their mini-album debut 'Hey Colossus Hates You And You And You', doesn't summon up the obliterating void of the blackest Metal (the cover is grey with delicate chalk sketching). Instead, they craft space around their monolithic assault, aiming for the precise balance of mass and space of Shellac or Fugazi. It's paradoxical that while the heaviest blackest rock relies on the primal immediacy of the riff, many of it's strongest moments emerge in the most epic symphonic works - notably Sleep's 60 minute 'Jerusalem', more or less constructed from several distinct movements. Similarly, each headlong assault on 'Hey Colossus II' is followed by an intermission of sensuous feedback. The ten minute assault of 'Take It' is a carefully calibrated exercise in electrical overload, where the warm riffage slowly begins to arc and crackle like a pylon in a storm. 'Hey Colossus II's' egalitarian interchanges between three guitarists finally resolve into the long-anticipated Sabbath hammer blows of 'Raise The Flag (This Planet's Ours)'. Hey Colossus's brand of metal attempts a restrained aggression that, over the length of an album, attains a satisfying architectural symmetry. At their zenith, in the midst of the longform workouts, they come close to touching simultaneous blisspoints of Neu!'s motorik momentum and Bardo Pond's fathomless well of distortion." - The Wire, April 2005
5/29/2008	Hi-God People / Zond	split	LP	$21.99	Spanish Magic	"Melbourne, Australia's experimental rock underbelly gives birth to a baby that stumbles and screams. The Hi-God People side was recorded around the same time as their recent split 12' with New Zealanders the Dead C. It has live snippets from their show at the Palace whilst supporting Sonic Youth and recordings from a radio 3CR session. Their live shows vary from cosmic rock jams to evolution performance art epics. Pop stars doing the tango with some psychedelic monk. On the flip side is Zond! Zond are a rock group from Melbourne, Australia. They are named after a satellite of the USSR. But Zond are broadcasting dark ecstasy, not from space but from a place far below. They are a Rorschach blot, or a Freudian analysis gone wrong. Their live shows vary from a screaming psychedelic car crash to ambient metal: all that can be known in advance is the intensity of the performance. Zond include members of past and present groups: On, Fong, Library Punks, Mum Smokes, Ned & the Meds, The Stabs. This is Zond's first release." Limited edition of 300 copies - the covers and labels are completely handmade utilizing multiple screenprints, stencils, and hand carved stamps.
11/2/2011	Hideous Uno / Bank of Christ	split	c44 cassette	$10.99	No Basement Is Deep Enough	"Still no clue how the fake dolphin grin graciously slipped away from the more populist aspects of the animal canon. Maybe this fragmented Shanti temple chant of an abstract and intellectually ignorant nature, sent to me by the original KLS doctorandus Waylon Nietsche, will clear out some oceanic disputes : "It was here.. // appears to follow a uniform set of measures to the most vulnerable..-- at least // is part of life's work and learn at the conference, which was created by a lack of human resources..-- typical moody-- and integration of all functions without the need to eliminate possible audio (more songs to appeal) // barren in the design-- eat less, the rate of return and-- mixed with pity. Or rather a number of imitations.. increased tonic Morton, Leroy Jenkins, random phrases and melodies from the emptiness empty gallery, Howard Jones, the wide availability of consumer boredom-- recognition pub cavernosal solid building blocks because of no need-- things like music "whallah"-- if you can get a transfer.. of Publication.. // gold shell penetrated the field of wood covered with sweet.. the number of daily devotion and etomine not found, not far from the convention showed clearly in the form-- to believe and understand, I do not think the question that we do-- .. image at all, is not always meant to be a reward success". Hideous Uno is the in- and exhaling sound of Grady Runyan (Monoshock, Liquorball, The Bad Trips, Crawlspace, etc.) trying to sound 'new age'; Bank Of Christ the cacophonic freak-rawk omelette by Kreamy 'Lectric Santas Robert & Pria (www.kreamy.org) and Marlon Kassberg of Liquorball fame, plus a bunch of not so color-deaf guests. Ltd. to 53 hand-numbered copies -- comes in a sown-together carton cover, designed by Bart De Paepe a.k.a. Father Sloow & screen printed by Fanzin Ceger."
4/3/2011	Higgins, Gary	A Dream A While Back	12"	$12.99	Drag City	"Gary Higgins is back from the time-space continuum with previously unheard moments from his storied past. Way back in 2005, Drag City reintroduced his 1974 psych-folk classic Red Hash to listeners around the world, who were acutely touched by Gary's carefully-arranged, darkly utopian songs. Since then, Red Hash has been widely recognized as a classic of its time. Fresh from his trip to the present, Gary is back in the past for this EP of songs, all of which were written and recorded circa '70-'71 , in the same time that the songs that would form Red Hash took shape. The songs reveal the deep strain in Gary's songwriting: bittersweet but playful, pointed but impressionistic, eerie and insistent. Vocal-and-guitar recordings present the songs humbly, but before long the lyrics and melodic changes are drifting like smoke into the listener's mind, clouding simplicity with paradox while pointing towards inevitable truth."
9/29/2009	Higgins, Gary	Seconds	CD	$14.99	Drag City	"A beautiful acoustic-based record featuring careful, melancholy arrangements in the tradition set by Gary's famous 1974 masterpiece 'Red Hash', but with a few unpredictable musical touches. Gary Higgins is a monumental figure in the folk-psych cult. 'Seconds.' strings together moments of life, working through regrets and reflections on fallibility, the odd flashback, and a few hopes for the future over the course of seven deep songs. 'Seconds.' weaves black threads of lyrical reflection into its sleeve in the shortlived Higgins tradition. Gary is accompanied on 'Seconds.' by The Random Concept, comprised of his musical companions through the years, several of whom played on 'Red Hash', including Dave Beaujon, Terry Fenton, Graham Higgins and Dave VandeBogart."
9/29/2009	Higgins, Gary	Seconds	LP	$19.99	Drag City	"A beautiful acoustic-based record featuring careful, melancholy arrangements in the tradition set by Gary's famous 1974 masterpiece 'Red Hash', but with a few unpredictable musical touches. Gary Higgins is a monumental figure in the folk-psych cult. 'Seconds.' strings together moments of life, working through regrets and reflections on fallibility, the odd flashback, and a few hopes for the future over the course of seven deep songs. 'Seconds.' weaves black threads of lyrical reflection into its sleeve in the shortlived Higgins tradition. Gary is accompanied on 'Seconds.' by The Random Concept, comprised of his musical companions through the years, several of whom played on 'Red Hash', including Dave Beaujon, Terry Fenton, Graham Higgins and Dave VandeBogart."
4/3/2010	Higgs, Daniel	Magic Alphabet	CD	$12.99	Northern Liberties	Packaged in hand letter-pressed 4 panel miniLP style package. "On "Magic Alphabet" Daniel presents 17 instrumental Jews harp improvisations recorded in 2003 by Chad Clark at Silver Sonya. These improvisations are spare and hypnotic, some with sparse beats, most naked and self apparent. This is not pop music by any stretch of the imagination, rather it's an invitation to explore and meditate on the purity, simplicity and range of a singular organic instrument."
6/4/2010	Higgs, Daniel	Say God	double CD	$14.99	Thrill Jockey	"In recent years, Higgs has released a number of solo outings that can only be described as the ultimate in isolation, worlds away from the hypnotic, communal rock of his band, Lungfish. Higgs follows up the 2007 album/book release Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot with his new double album Say God. Say God is an album of gospel songs and poems as presently received by this Daniel Higgs. Recorded with the help and enthusiasm of David Andrew Sitek, who graciously provided this Daniel Higgs with an environment in which to prosper and enjoy the adventure of recording, or, if you will, the ensnaring of songs as they migrate through time and mind, that they might be heard many places at once, with the singer absent. Song seeds cast abroad, that their message, The Advent Of The Songway, the Way Across, might take root, twist and fruit, light for all. It is the simple hope of this Daniel Higgs that the album Say God may be of any use to the listener, may serve the listener, may accompany the listener in clairaudient fellowship." 4-panel gatefold mini-LP style package with 8"x10" insert.
6/4/2010	Higgs, Daniel	Say God	double LP	$17.99	Thrill Jockey	Gatefold 2LP version with insert. "In recent years, Higgs has released a number of solo outings that can only be described as the ultimate in isolation, worlds away from the hypnotic, communal rock of his band, Lungfish. Higgs follows up the 2007 album/book release Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot with his new double album Say God. Say God is an album of gospel songs and poems as presently received by this Daniel Higgs. Recorded with the help and enthusiasm of David Andrew Sitek, who graciously provided this Daniel Higgs with an environment in which to prosper and enjoy the adventure of recording, or, if you will, the ensnaring of songs as they migrate through time and mind, that they might be heard many places at once, with the singer absent. Song seeds cast abroad, that their message, The Advent Of The Songway, the Way Across, might take root, twist and fruit, light for all. It is the simple hope of this Daniel Higgs that the album Say God may be of any use to the listener, may serve the listener, may accompany the listener in clairaudient fellowship."
7/14/2010	Higgs, Daniel	Unrock Instore Gig Series Vol. 18	CDR	$16.99	Unsound	"The fascinating artwork is made by Daniel Higgs himself, a silkscreened print in a edition of 150 handnumbered copies. "Hoofprints On The Ceiling Of Your Mind" from his new album "Hey God" released on Thrill Jockey Records recently, was taken from his live performance at Unrock. More than 70 minutes of pure magic in a perfect recording quality.
12/29/2001	High Rise	Desperado	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Long awaited sixth album from 1998 for PSF (following the epics II, Dispersion, Live, and Disallow) by this time-honored post-motor-city rave up clan, featuring Nanjo Asahito on bass/vox, Munehiro Narita on 'motor-cycle-guitar' and Shoji Hano on drums. Phrases like 'in the red' or 'amped-up' don't even begin to relate present levels of near-fatal voltage abuse. Contains some off-kilter exploratory cuts that don't veer to far from paths cut by sister ensemble Musica Transonic, which I suppose could be determined as a 'new direction'. Still, a ridiculous display of caffeine/sugar energy converted into audible wavelengths by Tokyo's premiere baff-rock scuzz-manics."
6/19/2002	High Rise	Destination (Best of)	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Unbelievably, High Rise are celebrating their twentieth anniversary this year. Strictly speaking, they started out as Psychedelic Speed Freaks, only taking the High Rise name in 1983. But, whatever - the will to a state where uber-heaviness and uber-speed merge into one all-enveloping bliss haze has been their one shining goal for a full two decades now. Acceleration, motor-burn, and blinding forward motion encapsulated through guitar, bass and drums. What you get is twelve remastered tracks of totally thrilling, full on, heads down, speed-psych-metal mayhem taken from their classic PSF releases. The album also includes two previously unreleased tracks: a studio version of live favourite 'Ikon', and a new piece called 'Heavenly Power'. For once the superlatives are fully deserved. High Rise are the band that kick-started a label and a scene. They're the power-trio to end all power-trios." - Alan Cummings
	High Rise	Disallow	CD	$12.99	Squealer	CD version.
6/5/2009	High Rise	Disallow	CD	$15.99	PSF	"This High Rise album [Disallow] will need no recommending to anyone who has already heard and liked the band. For what it's worth, though, this is as impressive as any other (despite the super stupid Ninja-chrome writing and Carcass-style 'art' on the cover). So for the most part (for four five-minute parts) a selection of change-our-minds-as-we-go punk rock riffs (check out, for instance, the better part of the Electric Prunes' mighty 'You Never Had it Better' as it's driven so fast it shakes itself nearly to pieces under the name 'Ikon') get blown up large through a thick and thunderous magnifying lens of loud fuzz and wah and the real-as-you-like feel of live jamming. What's different (from II and Dispersion, anyway), is that you can hear the drums a little better than usual, and that they sound a little worse than usual (less Stoogely, more hardcore), played this time by one PILL; and there's a longer piece of doodle-to-climax free form stuff at the end which seems a bit of a distraction from what they do best, especially when the CD is only half full. It's generally intenser, though, and closer to the punch of II than anything. They've been boiling down Vincebus Eruptum and No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith with Live Dead and a few Buffalo LP's for over a decade now, and that the tarry goo at the bottom of the pan tastes this good might just make them the heaviest power trio of all time". -Jon Bywater, Opprobrium #3, 1996
6/5/2009	High Rise	Dispersion	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Their 3rd release. Killer-Fuzz-Wah-Wah psychedelic heaven! Excellent stuff-must for every speed-fuzz-freak!"
6/5/2009	High Rise	II	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Monumental performance by Japanese psychedelic garage masters. Incredibly wild and tough guitar sound." "Reissue of the 2nd High Rise LP, with 2 bonus tracks. Ultimate all-in-the-red distortion-psych monster. Blew away the few who heard it on first release in the mid '80s and continues to convert people along the way." - FE
6/5/2009	High Rise	Live	CD	$15.99	PSF	"Their 1st live CD. Naked madness of Japanese psychedelic. Great performance!" "Trio heavy fuzz blasts of near speaker blowing proportions. Their third CD (fourth album overall) and possibly their most flat out insane." - FE
5/20/2009	High Rise	Psychedelic Speed Freaks Live 1986	DVD	$19.99	PSF	"First DVD by the kings of speed garage psychedelia, High Rise! Recorded live in Osaka in 1986, around the time of their second album by the all-time classic line-up of Nanjo (bass, vocals), Narita (guitar) and Ujiie (drums). Suitably grainy and colour-saturated visuals capture the group laying down their staggering brand of intense garage-psych with Narita's guitar ripping weird, devastating solo holes in the songs, and Ujiie and Nanjo laying down that exhilarating sense of reckless acceleration. Still some of the most effective rock qua rock ever recorded. Just unbelievable. Six tracks, 25 minutes." - Alan Cummings.
	High Rise	Psychobomb - US Tour 2000	CD	$15.99	PSF	"First live High Rise album on PSF since the still astounding peak of 'Live' (PSFD-48). Seven tracks, fifty-two minutes. If there's anyone that doesn't already know, High Rise were where it all started. A group that boiled down improv, the hardest psych, the fastest punk into an injectable shot of accelerated adrenaline. The group were source of the first psych-ic rumbles to reach the West, indicating that something quite remarkable was happening in the Tokyo underground. Without High Rise there would have been no PSF (the acronym stands for Psychedelic Speed Freaks - the group's early moniker and the title of their debut album), no Musica Transonic, no Mainliner... This latest release features the group live in New York and Seattle on their most recent US tour, before an adoring audience of speedfreak boneheads (maybe you'll even hear yourself hollering 'louder' or 'faster'). Surprisingly, the trademark Nanjo production aesthetic has been toned down a notch, leaving the splattered acid genius and tonal control (!) of Narita's solos the most evident they've ever been. Nanjo and ex-White Heaven drummer Koji Shimura are as poundingly heavy a rhythm section as you could wish for. But it's the guitar where it is at: there's still nothing quite like Narita kicking open the throttle and tearing into a manic solo, leaving shit-eating grins to eat dust in his wake..."
3/2/2008	High Speed Recording Complex, The	Featuring Michael Yonkers & GR	CDR	$13.99	Lesdisques Blasphematoires Du Palatin	"The complex handmade cdr edition / including psycho cover-case--ltd collectors run of 100 copies." - label. "5 tracks are the result of this distant collaboration process. GR playing drums & drumming feedback from France and Michael Yonkers adding guitar wall of noise & vocals from Minneapolis." - liner notes. Out of print.
4/9/2011	High Wolf	A Guide To Healing	7"	$5.99	Bathetic Records	33 RPM 7" A1. Free Your Energy Field B1. Swallow Pills with Ganga River Water "If you dive into the Ganges River - the purest water on earth according to the Hindus, the most polluted and unhealthy according to science - hold your breath and open your ears, this music is what you'll hear." Edition of 300.
7/8/2010	High Wolf	Ascension	LP	$12.99	Not Not Fun	"Pyramidal meditationist High Wolf has been highly active since last summer's Animal Totem tape dropped on NNF: he's released three full-length CDRs, started his own record label (Winged Sun), begun a mail-collab with Astral Social Club (as Iibiis Rooge), embarked on two UK/Euro tours (one with heavyweights Gnod), plus trekked out on a month-long solo journey through India to collect field recordings and get deep. Whoa! Makes you feel lazy right? Well actually that's not all, as he also spent a few months somewhere in there recording, mixing, and re-recording the five multifaceted ethno-flux odysseys that comprise Ascension, his debut vinyl full-length. Utilizing his usual toolbag of looped tablas, fuzz guitar leads, chiming white light guitar, synth swells, and cloud-climbing electronics, the album safaris through a host of ecstatic ritual landscapes with more focus and magic than any other High Wolf hunt to date. A beautiful album for dissolving, dreaming, dancing (in a certain way). Been spinning this one weekly, share the flight. Black vinyl LPs mastered by Pete Swanson and housed in jackets with artwork by Kaugummi Magazine captain Bartolome Sanson. Edition of 400."
9/24/2009	High Wolf	Incapulco	CDR	$9.99	Winged Sun	2nd edition. "New Cdr only release. Random jams recorded after those releases you enjoyed (animal totem on Not Not Fun / gabon on Winged Sun / digital heaven on Stunned) . Expect some fuzzy wah guitars, trancey keyboards, delayed vocals, groovy percussions and jungle spirit! Artwork by Skyler Hitchcox." Edition of 99 copies.
1/17/2010	High Wolf	Supermodern Temple	c28 cassette	$9.99	Krayon Recordings	"Seriously high-level, horizontal Sun-traveller vibes on these sides from the French hero of plantain based smoke-magic. Whale visions of the future-now seen via wound up wind chime ellipses and air bubble hypnosis. Gradual, ecstatic plateaus of inter-special communication around dawning, jungle-island horizon keyboards and euphoric ocean-floor dance-party trance-outs. Loops of shore-dwelling guitar and hand percussion rituals usher in ancient, paradise island phazer goddesses, wordless conversations and electronic transmissions between the beached tribesmen and the spirits of the spheres, bouncing universal mind-rays off shiny, green dolphin fins. Art by Jason Kerley, pro dubbed cassettes."
5/13/2011	High Wolf / Annapurna Illusion	split	LP	$15.99	Group Tightener	"France's High Wolf previous released records on Not Not Fun, Bathetic and his own Winged Sun imprint. This is his second 12-inch, a 23 minute, five part epic journey through psych-loop trance heaven on the A-side. The B-side is a two track heavy trip through the temple of doom by Annapurna Illusion. Original art by Japan's Ryo. Limited to 500 w/ insert."
11/17/2007	Higuchi, Hisato	Butterfly Horse Street	CD	$12.99	Family Vineyard	"Tokyo-based guitarist/singer Hisato Higuchi has shaped an inimitable sound sphere of solitary electric notes that drape across his unearthly moan during the course of two full-lengths and an EP. Channeling loneliness and desire as elegant six-string tone poems, Higuchi has reached the heights of fellow travelers from Meredith Monk to Charalambides. Though Butterfly Horse Street adds an unexpected snarl as Higuchi erupts into a free/noise, wall of sound guitar style that echoes the most ecstatic string manipulation of Masayuki Takayanagi or Donald Miller (Borbetomagus). Ferocious and howling, Higuchi still paints desolation whether bleeding into the red or as hushed beauty."
11/4/2006	Higuchi, Hisato	Dialogue	CD	$12.99	Family Vineyard	"Dialogue is the first American release by Tokyo's new rising power Hisato Higuchi. Originally a puppeteer, Higuchi has transformed his glacial, shadow-box inspired hand movements to the twilight theater of electric guitar. His six-string tones and hushed vocals fan out from these haunted torch songs and burning embers of Patty Waters and Keiji Haino's quieter, introspective work. Overall, a beautiful meditation and entirely new vision of celestial blues. His seemingly wordless Japanese croon is a smoky, after-hours call of loss or spectral introspection. "Higuchi's music manifests a unique and singular conception. It breathes slowly, almost to the point of stillness, an eerie voice and flinty guitar searching for quiet revelation." -- Jon Dale, The Wire
1/22/2011	Higuchi, Hisato	Henzai	LP	$13.99	Family Vineyard	"Tokyo-based guitarist/singer Hisato Higuchi presents his fourth full-length and first LP release. Henzai is Higuchi at his most bare. Each song appears like a spectral poem -- sewn together with hushed electricity and whispers. This recording is wholly intimate, recorded in seclusion, and washes over the listener like a hazy, day-break dream. Higuchi splits these 12 torch-songs between slow-motion improvisations and the composed, yet each is sung with a mix of beautiful wordless/Japanese language moans that appears to have no beginning or end. The electric guitar catches the fainest of blue melodies and single note trances before flickering into black nothingness. The disparate touchstones for the emotional weight waged across this LP range from Blind Willie Johnson to The Cure's Pornography. Higuchi first embarked on his artistic travels as a puppeteer for a theater company. In 1990 he started creating music in his home studio and eventually self-released his debut CD EP She in 2003. Soon after he appeared on PSF's famed Tokyo Flashback compilation series, and Family Vineyard released the full-lengths Dialogue (2006) and Butterfly Horse Street (2007). Higuchi will be featured on an upcoming installment of Root Strata's Tsuki No Seika 7-inch series. Higuchi recorded, produced and shot the cover art for this 550 edition LP."
7/14/2011	Higuchi, Hisato	Makanashi	CD	$8.99	Ghost Disc	"Hisato Higuchi is seriously quiet, probably the only electric guitarist who could record a song in your bedroom without waking you up. Yet there's a fullness about his sound, consisting of gasping, end-of-tether vocals and overripe guitar. His songs are wraiths of forgotten jazz standards, with proper form and structure, but the tonality is ambiguous, as if voice and guitar have disagreed about the key; and his performance is stricken, haunted, like the mumbling ghost of a musician in a Kurosawa film. These two self-released EP's ('Mudai' and 'Makanashi') feature three tracks and a running total of around 14 minutes. On Makanashi the guitar is calmer and less distorted (than on Mudai), but the voice is still stranded in a zone where lyrics once existed but have burned away, leaving just vocal gestures. Originally a puppeteer in Nagoya, Higuchi now lives in Tokyo, His embrace of his own patch of pianissimo chaos is complete." - Clive Bell, The Wire
7/14/2011	Higuchi, Hisato	Mudai	CD	$8.99	Ghost Disc	"Hisato Higuchi is seriously quiet, probably the only electric guitarist who could record a song in your bedroom without waking you up. Yet there's a fullness about his sound, consisting of gasping, end-of-tether vocals and overripe guitar. His songs are wraiths of forgotten jazz standards, with proper form and structure, but the tonality is ambiguous, as if voice and guitar have disagreed about the key; and his performance is stricken, haunted, like the mumbling ghost of a musician in a Kurosawa film. These two self-released EP's ('Mudai' and 'Makanashi') feature three tracks and a running total of around 14 minutes. Mudai commences with 'Nidome Wa Mado O Akete' ('Opening The Windows For The Second Time), but don't worry about language, Higuchi's vocals are almost entirely worless. At two minutes in, the guitar blurts and heaves - a problem with pedal, perhaps - but he carries right on, developing a very strange solo full of distortion and interference. It's a wonderful moment: the music's proportions blur, making it hard to work out whether Higuchi is playing very loud or somehow making his sound bleed at low volume. Mudai continues in this vein, a voice of quivering melancholia accompanied by surprisingly dirty guitar." - Clive Bell, The Wire
4/24/2006	Hirvileuka	I	CDR	$9.99	Outa	"Improvised music with nice melodies and rhythms. Nicely done - it does not slip into chaos."
2/1/2005	Hive Mind	Death Tone	CD	$12.99	Hanson	“’I'll trade my Cinnamon Twists for a third of that Nuclear Bombast. Weird dudes jamming synths. Alone. Social Problems. Problems. Recorded late into the night. Fucking A. That is the business, right there. Check ‘Ze Wormnest’ or Matthew Young for bleary eyed-no-fan sound destruction. Shit is just creepy-gets under your skin. While most noise youth get their chocolate fingers lost in gadgetry and posturing-something about a synth jam that's just.... Human ... humanly wrong. But fucking right. Right on Hive Mind. Out of some strange comic miasma emerged this hulking thing known for playing in corners or under black sheets with short fingers churning out cosmic tales of bass heavy sheets of molten alien sound cut with xray pirate eyes. Dude is some serious Michigan shit. This sound-injecting terrorist is crew to all the like minded and total jag-off MI underground weirdo brethren's. I think he soaked his pyramid genitals in ice cold antifreeze to get where ‘Death Tone’ lives in underwater-cave life. Jamz are just lurking around your chest buzzing like a Mike Tyson bee until a nuclear war-spear goes directly into your chest leaving your breath exchanged for Korean X-Files future creature Autopsy scenes. I've been to Roswell, shit is creepy, even at Pizza Hut, mid day. None of my crew jamz synths, some dabble but don't have the slomo overbite terror vision of my man Hive Mind. Isn't your jellied brain a fucking hive? Mine has a really big queen in the center telling me to keep watching ‘The Thing’ (remake) with the sound off in a super warm birth room while listening to ‘Death Tone’ on a dying Walkman. I don't listen to the queen, or take advice. Me and my man the Kid thought all Hive Mind needed to hone in his awesome social synth prowess was to be locked in a room with Richard Pinhas for a year on a diet of nothing but snake burritos-but again-no one listens to advice, especially a homeboy. Psychotic drugs, cheap beer, shorties, the Roach, assholes, hung over at work... yesss, heroes to the High Life.” - John Olson, Wolf Eyes / American Tapes
2/7/2009	Hive Mind	Eidolic & Opaque	cassette	$8.99	Tone Filth	"Densely layered pulsing synth static and loops evolving over the course of 20 minutes. If I were to compare this to any Hive Mind release you may I have heard I would mention Writhing Flesh, but if every sound became a part of the whole. Edition of 100 with screen printed insert/case and professional printed chrome cassettes."
11/10/2011	Hive Mind	Elemental Disgrace	LP	$20.99	Spectrum Spools	"Elemental Disgrace is an album many years in the works. An album recorded and edited over a number of years and tediously mixed into a stunning double side-long record of some of the U.S.' best underground synthesizer music. Whatever rise to the synthesizer came later on in the '00s is hardly of any concern to Greh Holger and his Hive Mind project. Having released private press cassettes of solo synth works as far back as 2002, Hive Mind exists as enigmatic in the world of new-jack synth-heads and the tidal wave of "neo kosmische" flying far under the radar. The silence is now broken and here we are treated to some of the most unique sounds Spectrum Spools has yet presented. No blisscapes to be found here. No soaring latched arpeggios, no cosmic vistas. Not a single melody. This is two sides of ancestral ruin in its clearest presentation. The brutality of the Earth and the harsh reality of all that it holds. Unknowable sounds -- that of the dawn of Earth, or perhaps its demise. A swamp of chemicals and creatures left behind long after man has wiped himself away for good. Field recordings from the end. While others are racing for the stars, Hive Mind's tectonic plate-shifting and brutal rumble will give you a brand new way to look at modern synthesizer composition. It's worth noting that Spectrum Spools as a label would not exist without Hive Mind. An inspiration and a pioneer in the U.S. synthesizer circuit, it's with pleasure and honor that they release Elemental Disgrace into the world."
2/26/2006	Hive Mind	untitled	7"	$25.99	AA	One-sided square lathe cut 7" from Nate Young's (Wolf Eyes) AA label. Nice Hive Mind artwork on the record.
11/21/2009	Hive Mind	Untitled	8" lathe	$20.99	Alt.Vinyl	"Classsic Hive Mind action from Chondritic Sounds main man Greh Holger. Side A could be igneous recordings of granite mantle motors powering lichen-slow tectonic shifts within the crust of some ancient moon. The flip side has a slightly more organic feel... the heartbeat of a dying whale as heard by the ocean floor..."
2/28/2006	Hive Mind	Writhing Flesh	LP	$19.99	Tone Filth	"Writhing Flesh" was originally issued as a cassette on Chondritic Sound in a small hand-numbered edition of 35 copies. It documents two very early Hive Mind live shows. The sound contained on this cassette was unique in the Hive Mind discography, although it still has the throbbing bass tones and bleak resonance, it contains more raw aggression. It was the first Hive Mind recording I had heard and to this day remains one of my favorite tapes. Edition of 300 copies with hand-screened and painted covers by the artist himself." Highly recommended!
3/21/2007	Hive Mind & Aaron Dilloway	Forgotten Thrist	one-sided LP	$14.99	Chondritic Sound / Hanson	"Reissue of the 3" of the same name, 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. One sided clear blue slab with circle of fish screenprinted on the b-side. watch 'em swim while it plays! Screenprinted 12x12 insert in picture LP sleeve." Edition of 500 copies.
9/29/2005	Hive Mind & Luasa Raelon	Night Maintenance	CD	$12.99	Chondritic Sound	"one 20 minute track from Hive Mind, 35 mniutes across 4 tracks from Luasa Raelon (including a cover version of Sand Beasts) and one 20 minute collaborative piece! all packaged nicely in a jewelcase with silkscreened artwork, comes packaged in a jewelcase. co-released with snip-snip!" Recommended!
3/21/2007	Hive Mind + John Wiese	It's Exactly What You Think it is / Trick Satanism	10"	$13.99	Chondritic Sound	"Spooked space collab recorded in LA at Terror House in late Summer 2004 used as source sounds reprocessed by Wiese to merge this mutant. Full-color pro-printed 10" sleeve with cover art by John Olson (American Tapes / Wolf Eyes / Dead Machines / etc)." Edition of 500 copies, color covers.
12/25/2005	Hive Mind / Workbench	Flashflood	LP	$19.99	Chondritic / Heavy Tapes	Killer lp finally here after long delays. Definitely worth the wait but I'd like to slash the tires of the postal employee who treated the box these arrived in very badly. All the vinyl is fine but each and every jacket has a badly bent corner - nothing I can do about it but warn you now. Anyway, its a killer record and the artwork on the front cover is really cool and not damaged. Highly recommended!
2/26/2006	Hive Mind / Workbench	Permanence	LP	$15.99	Chondritic Sound / Heavy Tapes	"All new double-downer split between me and my man bernstein. My side is a slow motion throwdown of pure symmetry, neither starting nor stopping and leaving you confused. Workbench transcends time and space with a synth/chant piece hot on the heels of synapse transit. comes in silkscreened chipboard jacket with artwork by Maya Miller." Edition of 300 copies.
3/21/2007	Hive Mind, Cadaver in Drag, Charle Draheim, Moth Drakula	Tour	CDR	$10.99	Chondritic Sound	"4 band hellride prepared for our midwest tour. A track from each project and one nasty collaborative track pegged on the end. a sick, heavy mix of noise, drone and sludge. Painted cdr in digipak with paste-on art." Edition of 200 copies.
9/30/2005	HL	Broken	3" CDR	$7.99	Firstperson	"Film maker, Curator, Site Specific artist, musician. Dan Hopkins tells tales of regret, loss and hopelessness between finely crafted, shifting electronic landscapes. The cold digital hand is thawed by the heart of one who has loved and lost..."
8/20/2011	Hobo Cubes	Morphing Nature	c30 cassette	$8.99	D'Artagnan	"this second offering from hobo cubes kicks the project off in a whole new and amazing direction. armed with a brand new setup the sound has morphed into much weirder states than past outputs - and that's saying a lot - constantly taking the listener to new unpredictable places. this tape is the most definite evidence of a confident and skilled musician behind the knobs, and a must grip for any fan of experimental synth work. jelly yellow tapes w/ two-sided full-color j-card. edition of 40."
5/19/2011	Hobo Cubes	Timeless / Mindless	CDR	$7.49	Debacle Records	"Frank Ouellette offers up a synth soundtrack to a forgotten X-Files episode, where Mulder and Scully laze around the Area-51 am/pm and talk backwards about dolphins. Fantastic display of synth control by this modern master."
8/20/2011	Hoff, James	How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away	LP	$29.99	PAN	"James Hoff's "How Wheeling Feels when the Ground Walks Away" presents an audio landscape comprised of various historic riots, from the concert hall and music venue to the sounds of modern warfare. Presented in surround sound, the work relentlessly envelops the audience as the tumultuous panorama of over-layered riots travel around the gallery. Part of Riot Radio Ballad, which explores the performative and futurist aspects of spoken word, audio, and radio material. Curated by Mark Beasley. Commissioned by Performa. Co-presented by Performa and Artists Space. Produced by Mike Skinner and James Hoff - sound design Mike Skinner and James Hoff. James Hoff is an artist, editor and art curator living in New York City. He has been working with sound and performance since 2003. He is also co-founder and editor of Primary Information- an organization devoted to publishing lost works of the avant-garde and artists publications vital to discussions in contemporary artistic practice. The Lp is mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, in a limited edition of 200 copies, pressed on a 140g one-sided picture disc, housed in a silk-screened pvc sleeve with artwork by Kathryn Politis & Bill Kouligas."
3/6/2010	Hoffman, Nick	Silent Island	CDR	$8.99	House of Alchemy	"Loner electronic compositions. Heavy and claustrophobic. Is/was Katchmare. Here we cut down to the surface. A modern voice in composing, bare and challenging. Get engulfed. 60 copies."
5/9/2009	Hole Class	Hole Class	LP	$11.99	Meds	"Mostly recorded on a farm in Ohio in 2006 by Beth Murphy (Times New Viking) & Rob Enbom (Eat Skull). Great pop songs from this duo with a "gothic country" vibe that vaguely calls to mind an interpretation of Nancy & Lee by Neil & Jennifer. There is a stripped down feel and intimacy to everything here. From roadtrip singalongs to true heartbreakers, a perfect album."
5/14/2007	Holger, Greh	Paralysis	cassette	$6.99	Hanson	"Breaking my recent c-30 rule to release this intense c-60 of Hive Mind's main man Greh Holger. Two 30 minute sides of motionless, uneffected modular synth. Slow as hell modulations, which take a full side to change and I think the tape runs out before that even happens.. For fans of SUPER EIGHT LOOP."
2/11/2006	Holiday Stabbings	Buried in Edmund	CDR	$10.99		"Buried in Edmunds" live bootleg June 2005. This bootleg was recorded whilst on tour in summer '05 in Bury St. Edmunds, England. It was captured on dictaphone by our dear friend and spiritual leader, Joey Chainsaw. All credit goes to him for remembering to press record. Order of tracks: 1. Untitled improv. 2. Bellyache 3. Arteries & Veins 4. I am the trainwreck "Now THIS is fucking killer. The best band you've never heard of (yet) rips your brain out, get totally mad-scientist on that shit, then slop it back in all fucked with some staples or something. Another review done while pleasantly shrooming and paying extra-close attention while the music blares from my stereo... this release literally SOUNDS like it is trying to bury you. The band gets into some real rocking moments at points, but knows how to control their chaos and revel in the feedback and madness. I would've been freaking out if I was in the crowd at this show... some parts sound like they're walking on their instruments and howling or something. Truly rad shit." - Dillon Tulk, www.monotremata.com
2/11/2006	Holiday Stabbings	Run Your Fingers Through the Grooves in My Skull	CDR	$10.99	Umbilical	Part of a week's august heat summer recording under the gaze of the sun gods at City Farm, middle of the fields and middle of space. Totally improvised, 42-minute departure into the void, recorded on cassette 4-track at the culmination of tape-loop brain-spill and morning mist inflorescence. Regular contributors joined by our good friend Robbie Dawson. All hand-made packaging w/photo cover, insert. "Oh how sweet. A new Holiday Stabbings release! This is a fucking stoned-out feeling jam featuring traditional instruments, electronics, bells, TV, etc... some improvised trippiness that ends a bit too soon for me. You have to play it ultra loud to hear everything, and then when you do other parts become overbearing and it really shakes things up! Solid release in my opinion, except I personally could listen to this for an hour and it kinda halts after some killer parts leave you salivating, wanting more Holiday Stabbings. I guess thats the point? You bastards!" - Dillon Tulk, www.monotremata.com
9/17/2006	Hollow Bush	Negative Line	cassette	$6.99	Hansom	"TOTAL SHIT-FI BRUTALITY from the new project of RODGER STELLA of MACRONYMPHA ...Sickening walls of full blown scummy psychedelic HARSH NOISE! This shit is some live SCUM recorded by STELLA and BUSH partner BRYAN MARTIN."
10/25/2008	Hollow Bush + Sick Llama	Wavering Uncertainty	cassette	$6.99	Fag Tapes	"This collab. took place earlier this summer in the Bama. so hot in the South that yer brain is boiling and melting. top that with road trippin' and partying. WEIRD recordings! we played a house gig (watch out for Super Street 22) and the second we ended the set Roger Stella's pants fell down and the multiple beer cans dropped all somehow landed up-right not spilling a drop. then a cookoo clock went off, a car crashed into a tree out front and my phone rang. i answered and it was some guy asking if i knew anything about theremin, clarinet and tape bounce? edition 50."
1/16/2003	Hollydrift	This Way to Escape	CD	$8.99	Public Eyesore	"New works by Middleton Wisconin's Mathias Anderson. Subtle and secluded compositions incorporating gently flowing mechanical noises, drifting whines & drones, slowly evolving loops, and highly processed found and incidental recordings."
7/16/2004	Hollydrift	Waiting For The Tiller	CD	$11.99	Parasomnic Records	"Hollydrift is me, Mathias Anderson, working from a studio in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin with a battery of captured sounds, tape recorders, signal receivers, and effects. This music comes from an old world. I use captured sound as main source material and amalgamate these sounds with other divergent forms of aural matter. My creations depart for lands unknown and arrive on the other side. I offer my music for your own interpretation. I cannot explain it. Many people call Hollydrift difficult listening. If you don't like where you are, let the sounds take you somewhere else. The music of Hollydrift is non-confrontational in sound or philosophy. I'm not here to convince you of anything or eradicate any barricades you may have built. You will not be challenged to endure walls of noise or some arcane sonic agenda while listening to Hollydrift. Art is for everyone. That is, after all, the whole point. From Parasomnic Records: Hollydrift's sound art appeals to fans of dark ambient, space music, noise, musique concrete, field recording and even more traditional styles of electronic music. Anderson manages to do this without the predictable pounding, screaming or screeching that has become much too common within the currently expanding ocean of 'experimental' and 'noise' artists. The result is a Janusian portrait: a fleeting glance at days gone by alongside a glimpse into an uncertain future. It is the soundtrack to a journey both beautiful and terrifying."
9/30/2005	Holm, Øyvind	The Vanishing Act	CD	$13.99	Camera Obscura	"The somewhat ironically titled "The Vanishing Act" finds the leader of Norwegian psychedelic pop band Dipsomaniacs stepping out from underneath the band's symbiotic umbrella. It's an act Øyvind Holm has nearly performed before (only not as visibly), having masterminded and executed the debut Dipsomaniacs release "Bumble-Bee Eyes" solo in 1997. Holm then recruited three gifted musicians to fill out the band's sound and five true Dipsomaniacs band efforts followed, each achieving more international critical acclaim than its predecessor, most recently with "Praying Winter" (Camera Obscura 2003). Whether with his band or as a solo artist, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Holm makes no effort to hide his passion for the clever lyric, melodic beauty and sonic innovation that characterized the music of the mid to late '60s, as well the artists since who have followed in those hazy, flowery paths. With "The Vanishing Act", Holm layers his Lennonesque vocals over sweet melodies that often conceal a bitterness buried within the poetic lyrics. Like those classic albums from psychedelic pop's Golden Age, The Vanishing Act celebrates psychedelia, pure folk, buoyant pop, melodic surf rock and blues forms simultaneously as if they were never meant to be parsed into distinct genres. The Eastern nuances of the title track (one of two co-written with fellow Norwegian Bent Sæther of Motorpsycho) mingle seamlessly with chiming 12-string. Lap steel and piano lend ethereal and jazzy overtones respectively to "Cut Me Loose". Surf rocker "Seven Years" pulses furiously over gentle backing vocal waves. Given Holm's well-known affinity for those most notable'60s mop tops, it's not surprising that his solo debut carries a few nods to the fabs as they split off into their own directions - The effortless bounce and handmade percussion of "Neighborhood Watch Parole", the acrimony of "(A Good Taste of) Everything," and the Harrison-worthy spirituality which saturates both "The Skeleton Key Pt. 2" and the title track. Throw in a reverence for the mad genius of Syd Barrett, the social commentary of Ray Davies and the innovative West Coast fusions concocted by Love and the Byrds and you have an inkling of Holm's muse. With melody and poetry the primary characters and inspired arrangements the supporting cast, Øyvind Holm's The Vanishing Act more than merits a the attention of both fans of vintage psychedelia and the best in modern pop song-craft."
3/20/2010	Holy Family	Anoint	c25 cassette	$7.99	Digitalis Limited	"This one is for the gold, all the way and all the time. holy family is the modular synth duo of lawrence english and john chantler (room40 extraordinaires). and you know what's coming. it opens onto a putrid, rotting corpse hanging from the bedchamber. chantler & english aren't fuckign around. their synths sound like they're dying, every note stretched to the point of breaking oscillating into the ground. this is not child's play. before you know it your blood stops flowing, turned into a molasses. faint echoes try to scratch their way to the surface, totally buried alive. every so often you think you hear a melody whirring from behind, but everything gets swallowed back down into this deep, dark pit. intense. incredible. edition of 125." Sold out at label.
2/10/2004	Holy Ghost Reception Committee No. 9	Collected Works	CD	$18.99	Void	“Both albums by Holy Ghost Reception Committee – now on 1 CD. Originally they are from 1968 and 1969. Ultra rare albums containing some amazing acid garage / psychedelia loaded with mystic messages from the Lord. Taken from the original masters.”
2/10/2004	Holy Ghost Reception Committee No. 9	Songs For Liturgical Worship	LP	$21.99	Void	"Very limited reissue of only 500 copies. Originally this, their debut album, was released in 1968. Ultra rare album containing some amazing acid garage / psychedelia loaded with mystic messages from the Lord. Taken from the original masters."
12/24/2005	Holy McGrail	Collective Earthquakes	CD	$15.99	Head Heritage	"Here at last, COLLECTING EARTHQUAKES is Holy McGrail's heavy-breathing and Yggdrasil-riding debut album. Clad in a faux-Armenian sleeve to die for, this is Doomsday's year zero for all you trudge metal outlaws. McGrail here presents us with 3 outrageously strung-out underworld rides into the dying embers of the West with the pride of Woden's Wild Hunt as his homeboys. Massive contributions by Brain Donor's Doggen, plus an all-inspiring collaboration with Sunn 0)))'s Stephen O'Malley."
12/21/2004	Holy Modal Rounders	Indian War Whoop	LP	$10.99	Get Back	"The Rounders first electric outing from '67, and the only one to feature their most cosmos-expanding lineup (including playwright Sam Shephard). This is the sound of speed-shooting hillbillies discovering the secrets of life in the sewers below the Peace Eye Bookstore. Loose, psych-out, folkish stumble, a perfect period piece. Peter Stampfel (electric fiddle, vocals), Steve Weber (gtr, vocals), Lee Crabtree (p, org), Shephard (d), Antonia, Barbara & Wendy (vocals)." - FE. 140 gram red vinyl version.
	Holy Modal Rounders, The	Indian War Whoop	LP	$15.99	Get Back	Reissue of ESP-Disk LP from 1967. Acid folk from Peter Stampfel (electric fiddle, vocals), Steve Weber (guitar, vocals), Lee Crabtree (piano, organ), Sam Shepard (drums), Antonia, Barbara, and Wendy (vocals).
12/5/2002	Holy River Family Band	Trio	CD	$19.99		3 track cd (Bear Mountain, Dream Passage, & The Force Comes From the Strength of a Horse) - limited edition of 200 copies.
11/25/2007	Home Blitz	Home Blitz	CD	$10.99	Gulcher Records	"Home Blitz is 21-year-old Daniel DiMaggio from Princeton, New Jersey. He recorded and released his first two singles on his own. When the first one showed up in my mailbox in '05, it was just what I was waiting to hear. The underground had drifted so far into abstract space that I was longing for something direct and simple. That first record was a magic whirl of early Modern Lovers, Big Star, and Flamin' Groovies circa '72 . . . but with a casual no-fi vibe that sounded closer to the first couple Harry Pussy singles. Huh?! Yeah. Just about (non-)perfect!On this new Home Blitz CD release, Gulcher Records has collected those first two singles (way out of print), material from a cassette release, a new HB 12" EP, and two otherwise unavailable tracks. From the first single, "Apocalyptic Grades 2005" is a powerpop/postpunk hybrid with guitars that sound like the Fall circa '78 covering the Flamin' Groovies. On the very bratty "AC S.S.," it sounds to me like early Screamin' Mee-Mees crossed with early Modern Lovers. But my favorite from that first 7" is "Hey!" It comes on as if Big Star's Radio City had been recorded under the more addled conditions of Alex Chilton's Like Flies On Sherbert. It starts like a great noise-drenched powerpop anthem . . . "I got the gift that keeps on givin'/It's called electric guitar!" . . . but soon stops midstream. "I gotta get some gum," the singer complains. It picks up again after the song's imaginary bridge. A second guitar comes in . . . melodic and overloaded like a perfect 1969 Lou Reed guitar fill. The second HB 7" was Live Outside, released in '06. On this one, Daniel dragged his instruments and battery-powered amps onto the street in front of his house and "performed live w/o audience on the corner of Mercer and Hibben Streets, Princeton, NJ." Is it the first powerpop field recording?! "Stupid Street" has Daniel narrating his own song, describing his surroundings, before he suddenly spits out the first line of the song, "Hey girl, I'm gonna cut your spine!" So sweetly vicious. "Feeling Cold" again documents the Home Blitz street scene, this time purely in song. Like, it's November in Jersey, and yer freezin' yer ass off recording on the sidewalk! It's a perfect Modern Lovers/Half Japanese-style pop tune, with maybe one of the all-time great fallen-apart guitar solos. "I feel like ridin' bikes tonight/But mine's been in the shop all day." The next Home Blitz release was a 2006 split cassette (with Friends & Family), which shows Daniel's interest in more overt "experimental" sounds: de-tuned guitars, ambient rumbles, electronic squiggles, free clatter, instrumental introspection. But even in this setting, he comes up with a tune like "Benches" . . . just acoustic guitar and vocals, with a bit of overdubbed electric leads . . . which reminds me of Big Star's version of Loudon Wainwright's "Motel Blues." There's also a cover of Public Disturbance's "Bored" (don't know the original), which sounds nothing like the punk-rock I expected. Instead, it comes across like a darkly shimmering psychedelic ballad. And "GT Performers" is a frantic punkrocker (no noise) about "takin' chances and makin' friends." From the upcoming 12" EP on Parts Unknown come five more winners. "Right Cut Even" (Rick Derringer having a powerpop breakdown), "Little League" (autobiographical angst hammered home by verses of Beefheartian power blues and a couple choruses of powerpop explosion), "Flying" (with cool bursts of mid-70s double-lead unison guitars), "Something 2 Do" (more Beefheartian angles + L.A. hardcore circa '81 + Pistols-influenced UK powerpop), and a cover of Slade's "My Town" (whacky!). Rounding out this CD collection is a much wilder 4-track version of "Little League" and the otherwise unreleased "A.F.F.," one of the best tracks here. Again defying logic, Daniel turns a very personal tale into an excellent blast of powerpop/punkrock with stuttering freejazz sax and several odd time changes. The story itself seems like a mystical revelation from younger years or maybe just an imaginary childhood friend: "Well, there's an actual physical feeling living in the air/And I'd like to make it feel at home but you know I'm scared" . . .Eddie Flowers, Slippy Town, August 2007
4/19/2004	Hooker, William	Complexity #2	CD	$12.99	KOS Recordings	"Having led groups with a wide variety of players such as David Murray, David S. Ware, Thurston Moore, Zeena Parkins just to name a few it is no wonder the playing on this recording has enough aggression to by pass any gap while at the same time remains fluid and conscious. Complexity #2 elaborates on Hooker's past works of free improvisation of a hybrid nature. Solidifying himself as a driving drumming force to a continues shape shifting electronic wall. Recorded at the NYC Knitting factory on 9/20/03 featuring a line up of Electric violinist Eyvind Kang (who has multiple recordings available on Tzadik and has played with the likes of Bill Frissel), D.J. Olive (who has worked with Kim Gordon) and Ikue Mori arms the turntables with Doug Walker taking up synthesizer duties."
2/7/2009	Hoor-paar-Kraat	Graduating from Clocks to Watches (Eureka Tapes Vol. II)	cassette	$5.99	Peasant Magik	"The sound world that Anthony Mangicapra inhabits is totally unlike any other. Each listen reveals hidden elements and previously unheard sounds. Singular drones conceal a fragile universe of manipulated field recordings and mangled reverb. Meticulously constructed and skillfully executed, Hoor-paar-kraat displays a serious mastery of craft, frequently unheard of in an over saturated scene." Edition of 200
5/16/2010	Hoorebke, Ada Van & L.R.J. Martens	De Eeuwige Jachtvelden	c40 cassette	$7.99	Taped Sounds	"Ada asked me to compose music by one of her great batik works. that composition was used as an "eternal loop tape" that supplied the sound environment during the exposition of Ada's "eternal hunting grounds" at the Croxhapox Gallery in Ghent, Belgium. this cassette release is the remembrance artifact. a 40 minutes cassette of eternal sound, housed in a beautiful cover (being a small reproduction of the original artpiece) by Ada. http://adavanhoorebeke.blogspot.com."
10/20/2011	Hoot Owl	untitled	c30 cassette	$6.99	Azriel	"treetop moon hollers and american primitive star gobbling, bedroom gagaku and cold hardy foole-jazz techniques. folk music for wherever arthur doyle or little howlin wolf were the 'new' pete seeger. bongos, voice, wood flute, triangle. screen printed nightime covers with hand lettered text, numbered edition of 112."
	Hopewell / Planetarium	One-sided Split	12"	$7.99	Priapus	"Here is Hopewell's re-mix of Anthema (Coincidental Gospel version) in which the band and recording engineer find a used reel of tape to record the song onto. After Anthema had been completed, an unused track was lifted and the gospel singer you hear on this version was found. Amazingly, the Hopewell tracks and the gospel singer's track fit together almost perfectly without any such intention or manipulation of the songs. Because of the nature of such a phenomenon, this record is dedicated to Carl Jung. Hopewell's longtime mates, Planetarium contribute a blurry eyed cover of The Church's ‘Lullaby’, drifting and pulling you out to sea. Only 500 made."
2/15/2011	Horrid Red	Pink Flowers EP	cassette + download	$6.49	Soft Abuse	"Horrid Red is an offshoot of ex-Siltbreeze creeps Teenage Panzerkorps (DER TPK). While DER TPK stirs a blown-out post-punk frenzy, Horrid Red takes a slightly more delicate approach. The first 12", Empty Lungs, on Holidays Records dealt in dark, depressive synth-punk, but the Pink Flowers EP is far more pop-oriented, though in the way Can's Future Days or mid-80's Fall records are pop. German-born vocalist Bunker Wolf remains as disturbing as ever & almost more bizarre when set against these melodic guitars & synth-drenched propulsive rhythms. Pink Flowers EP is available as a 7" single in a edition of 300 copies, and as a cassette in an edition of 50. Both include a digital download code with extra tracks, one of which created in collaboration with Clay Ruby (Burial Hex)."
11/20/2010	Horsehead Nebula	untitled	lathe cut 7"	$12.99	Root Don Lonie For Cash	"2 songs of deconstructed rock, sometimes its in, sometimes its out, sped along by justins sci fi drumming, jimis angular downtrodden guitar, richards icing-like pincers of hi-fi noise, & my own untuned strumming. some vocals, artwork by justin."
9/17/2006	Horton, Robert	First Light	CDR	$8.99	Onomato	"Robert founded the Appliances, part of SF's first wave of punk bands in 1979. Then later formed the Plateau Ensemble in 1983, a tribal noise drone group who played in the Bay Area until 1987. From the early 90's until 2004 Horton continued to compose and record, but didn't release any of it publicly until 2005, when he put together First Light. Originally released on the Finish label Outta (now defunct), in a tiny edition of 50 copies. Anyways we're all glad Robert has opened up the floodgates, and I'm pretty excited to get to re-issue this thing in a slightly larger edition. Edition of 100, photo/screen-print cover, inserts, black cds, heavy vinyl sleeves."
3/21/2009	Horton, Robert	Interdigitate	CDR	$13.99	Anti-Guru Recordings	"Robert Horton has released an impressive body of work with releases on foxglove, digitalis recordings, important, JYRK, 267-lattajjaa, New American Folk Hero, three lobed and many others. Robert founded the appliances, part of sf's first wave of punk bands in 1979, and formed the tribal noise drone group plateau ensemble in 1983. 'interdigitate' is the latest addition the the horton canon and features special guest tom carter as well as robert's home-made guitar, the boot, and the usual and slightly less usual horton artillery which includes: bells, xylophone, tambura, 78's, piano, cds, gongs, trumpet, field recordings, guitar, music box, computer and casio keyboards. Hand-made gatefold sprayed sleeves with cloth seams limited to 50 copies." Features Tom Carter on one track.
12/24/2005	Horton, Robert	Just Before Setting The Sky On Fire	CDR	$12.99	Barl Fire	"Hot on the heels of Robert Horton's recent album of Free Jazz Haunted Drone, 'Washed Out Headspace' on 267 Lattajjaa, comes 'Just Before Setting The Sky On Fire'. Clocking in at just over 70 minutes, 'Just Before Setting The Sky On Fire' is a free-folk close encounter of an entheogenic kind. Tangles of bowed and shimmering strings, theremin, doctored bagpipes, tape cut-ups and malfunctioning electronics offer up ragas and droning devotionals to non-earthbound deities. This is the sound of the space between stars in the garden of celestial delights that teems with comet-borne spores and seeds. New American Folk Hero's Mike Tamburo once said of Horton "is he an alien? i have a sneeking suspicion that no human could make this music". So is it really just coincidence that sightings of lights in the sky above New Mexico, peak just before each new Horton release, who knows?, although the answer may lie here... 'Just Before Setting The Sky On Fire' comes dressed in Horton's stunning psychedelic cover art housed in vinyl sleeves and is limited to 120 copies."
5/14/2007	Horton, Robert	Sleep, Wake, Hope, and Then	CD	$12.99	Music Fellowship	"Sleep, Wake, Hope, and Then are the most recent pieces by Robert Horton, striving to create an album full of recordings that shimmer and change the light. Horton has performed and recorded for almost 30 years in a variety of outlets. He founded the Appliances, part of SF's first wave of punk bands in 1979, and formed the tribal noise drone group Plateau Ensemble in 1983. Since then, he has been a prominent contributor to the last two revolutions in home recording, both the cassette culture of the 80s and 90s and the CDR zeitgeist of the 00s. Robert records under his own name, Egghatcher, and Future Ears. He is currently a member of Kyrgyz, Beautiful Friend, Infinite Article, Broken Mask, and a duo with Tom Carter. Co-released with New American Folk Hero."
11/4/2006	Horton, Robert	Warmth 1987	CDR	$7.99	Foxglove	"Warmth is the fourth volume in robert horton's archives series of releases (previous volumes on 23 productions, sloow tapes, & jyrk). this single, monolithic piece unfolds at snailspeed, but succeeds in wrapping itself around you like an old, familiar blanket. "warmth" is the most appropriate title, as these drones emit sonic beams of silver light. using only two reel-to-reel tape recordings and a loop, horton's artistry is on full display. the fact he was doing this 20 years ago is a testament to his immeasurable talent. 100 copies."
9/30/2005	Horton, Robert	Washed Out Headspace	CDR	$8.99	267 Lattajjaa	"I got off the sight seeing bus near the ruins to the church of anthrax. I thought I heard a pounding piano and a repeating organ riff but it was only the wind. I listened to it blow for a while. Hannu asked me for some kind of description of the music on this cdr. Shit, I don't know. I woke up one night recently and scribbled "free jazz haunted drone" on the cover of the latest Wire. When I woke that morning, it seemed like a good description. The collection got its name from Brad Rose, who seems to be quite poetic. I also took him literally and threw some broken binaural microphones into the bathtub to record some feedback from underwater, thus washed out headspace. Misty Leader was the name of a horse running at the track in Tacoma, Washington. Wes McIntosh, who is into the horses, found me the name in the paper. He's my nephew and is 16 years old and open minded enough to join me with his sax in the backyard for a drone-a drone with his weird uncle playing guitar with a vibrator with a bobby pin duck-taped to it."
6/27/2009	Horton, Robert & Sindre Bjerga	Can't Go Fast Enough To Get There Early	CD	$14.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Wild and eclectic mail collaborations from one of America's most recently on fire jammers Robert Horton, and Norway's drone master Sindre Bjerga. Both have incredibly solid resumes of collaborations and releases, what with Sindre's ongoing collaboration with Jan Iversen, and Robert's collaborations with Tom Carter and the Mudsuckers crew of Pete and Gabe (of Yellow Swans), which also includes Carter. Can't Go Faster Enough to Get There Early features a massive range of instruments and sounds, from multiple instrument based layered drone to down right weirdness, and total outsider vibes. Also features Hal Hughes, Lisa Graves and Jan Iversen. Glass mastered CDs, limited to 500 in white digipaks with stickered covers and a small 4 page insert of liner notes."
2/4/2007	Horton, Robert / Michael Shannon	Broken Mask	CDR	$12.99	musicyourmindwillloveyou	"The wildly prolific Mr Horton is joined here by multi instrumentalist , Michael Shannon. . the result is a journey into a sonic world both beautiful and dark . dronescapes and formless clouds of enveloping sound , time altering and sacred , drift apart to reveal a minute world of incremental sonic gestures , distant krautrock echoes , and broken landscape crackle , falling away again to lay bare an ocean of seamless , organic shimmer."
5/9/2009	Hospitals, The	Hairdryer Peace	CD	$9.99	Meds	"Finally available on cd. Ranked 3rd best album of 2008 in The Wire magazine. Intensely psychedelic and mixed for maximum hallucinations, this marks a pretty heavy departure from the Hospitals of old. Heavy tranced out riffs, weird pop, cracked folk, disorienting noise, paranoid vibes...Main Hospital Adam Stonehouse with Rob Enbom & Rod Meyer from Eat Skull and Chris Gunn from The Hunches. The most forward thinking album of 2008 but also an album of songs with actual emotional intensity. Not a party record and definitely not background music. Best listened to loud, alone and with herbal assistance."
5/29/2008	Hospitals, The	Hairdryer Peace	LP	$19.99		"Staggering new LP from this San Francisco-based group previously associated with a more classically greasy garage rock sound. Dunno quite what they have been ingesting of late but this massively damaged LP touches on a host of gloriously fucked totemic underground sources while sounding unlike any of them. The overall arc of the attack combines the kind of avant-garage destructo fury of Jim Shepard's Vertical Slit with explosive Our Solar System-era Half Japanese avant disobedience, mainlined Royal Trux-esque blown-out blues and a production ethos that reconciles insanely detailed laminal cut-ups of sudden guitar voltage and cranky layers of fuzz on fuzz in a way that feels like an ultra crude take on Bowie's hallucinatory Raw Power mix. The lead guitars have a classic cranky sound that almost exactly matches Pussy Galore circa Alright/Right Now while the combinations of electro spuzz, psychotically dark environs and sudden eruptions of rock fury evoke the more malevolent modes of early Chrome. One of the best even remotely rock-related records in a fucking age and already a sure contender for album of the year. Highly recommended." - Volcanic Tongue. 2nd pressing - black vinyl.
12/24/2005	Hotguitars	Confessions	CD	$10.99	BV Produktions	"The dynamic duo of Jyrki Laiho & T-mu Korpipää of Circle background manages to convince even BV that noise guitar improvisation can produce some severely hard-hitting (instead of 'noodling', y'know) results. 4 tracks, 18+ mins that'll make you wonder what it would be like if Raoul Björkenheim went Jap-noise..."
12/24/2005	Hotguitars with Santtu Puukka	Hierarkia	CD	$13.99	Karkia Mistika	"Experimental guitar/electronics with lunatic ranting (in Finnish) on top of that. Keuhkot goes free improv?"
11/4/2006	Hototogisu	Chimarendammerung	CD	$13.99	DeStijl	Hototogisu are Marcia Bassett and Matthew Bower, and they dwell upon two continents (Marcia in brooklyn NY and matthew in leeds UK). Bothshare rich discographical heritage. Marcia has recorded with numerous labels (siltbreeze, time-lag, eclipse, troubleman unlimited, etc.) with UN, GHQ and the Double Leopards, and Matthew with Total, Skullflower, Sunroof!, Vibracathedral Orchestra and more. A Wikipedia entry in his name clearly (sic) illustrates his cultural heft: "Bower's huge discography of visceral, free drone-rock is probably the most formidable of its kind and he was rightly considered in 2005 by The Wire to be one of the map co-ordinates for much of what passed for a post-punk UK underground during most of the 80s and 90s" (issue 259). Chimarendammerung is the 3rd Hototogisu release on Destijl and the 5 untitled walls of vertical viola drone / overtone, lapped by shifting electronic waves of feedback, blackened guitars, rhinegold cast deep into dying rivers, an instrumental cycle of conflict, of the birth of a supreme aristocratic beauty into a fallen world, and its inevitable conflagration, then a glimmer of hope of escape from the cycle, in tune w/ the breath of the cosmos, like a glacial reimagining of van der graafs 'a plague of lighthouse keepers', and it represents a current plateau for the duo."
12/24/2005	Hototogisu	Ghosts of the Sun	DBL CD	$15.99	Important Records	"The Hototogisu masterfully create a dense sediment of tetonic drone with the thickest layers of guitar, vocals and electronics. The Hototogisu are obviously seasoned sonic travelers, featuring the seminal legend Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Sunroof!) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards). Ghosts Of The Sun is one enormous composition, nearing two hours in length, unfolded and nailed together in seven movements. Starting with a slow drone electronic crawl and climaxing with crackling bone percussion buried howls of haunted minds, Ghosts Of The Sun cries out from beneath an earthquake of guitar feedback and distortion. Ghosts Of The Sun compresses eternity, from the creation of humanity to its own destruction, into seven parts on one double album. This is epic and total sonic overload, by way of The Hototogisu."
4/10/2005	Hototogisu	Green	CD	$12.99	Heavy Blossom	“'Green' metal music, decanted collage of fuzzy scream vocal loops and mangled buried riffing, bursting w/ vivid colour power electronics and chilly black metal soundscaping. Studio prototyping of the hg signature sound, shorter pieces than the usual jams, even denser than the live version, with blatant referencing of the black metal/ tibetan devotional strands that run like veins of lightning through the dense mesh of noise.” Edition of 1000 copies with 8 page booklet – swank! Recommended!
10/25/2008	Hototogisu	Pale Fatal Sister	Double LP	$27.99	Important Records	"Limited edition of 700 copies. Double LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl. The sound is conjured forth from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds. Recorded at Black Dirt Studios, over an intensive three-day period of hermetic isolation, while snow blanketed the surrounding fields, this work is both more detailed and conjures a heavier, more brooding occult atmosphere and sound, than any previous Hototogisu release."
12/25/2005	Hototogisu	Prayer Rug Exorcism	CD	$12.99	Heavy Blossom	"Most barbaric installment yet in the blood n' groan saga initiated with 'Ghost From The Sun'; Prayer Rug Exorcism is a monolithic single disc in four parts. Opening with a brooding nocturnal labyrinth, and ascending through a dark power-drone into sky-high ribbons of blasphemous feedback traceries, and the annihilating ghostly machine clank of part 4, like TG's old analog set up, running freeform and haunted in a hermetically sealed bunker. Recorded: The Black Chapel, Leeds; CCA, Glasgow; Holy Trinity Church, Leeds, and Brudenell Social Club, Leeds in 2005. Full color deluxe artwork delineates the unusual arcana, and some new clues for the pictorially fetishistic. Edition of 1000 copies."
10/6/2007	Hototogisu	Robed in Verdigris	LP	$19.99	Nashazphone	"Hototogisu is the duo of Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, GHQ, UN) and Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Sunroof!, Total). For the past few years, they have been delivering intense guitar / electronics based drones of gargantuesque scales. Robed in Verdigris is their 16th release and only the third on vinyl. 3 tracks spread over both sides of extreme sunshine and ecstasy. A total assault of metaphysical vibrations. Limited to 500. Sold out at source." Highly recommended!
3/5/2009	Hototogisu	Some Blood Will Stick	CD	$12.99	Important	"Hototogisu is Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Sunroof!) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards). Theyve been laying down billowing sheets of Teutonic guitar drone-noise since 2003 with the thickest possible helpings of vocals and electronics. Some Blood Will Stick is a collection of tracks from their ultra-limited self produced label Heavy Blossom. Songs were taken from Swoon Scream (2004) and Awful Symmetry (2005) with one additional track."
4/16/2007	Hototogisu	Spooked Summer	CDR	$11.99	Heavy Blossom	"Four pieces of spooked/skewed piebald beauty, singing the praises of the hot season, trails of bubbles, fireworks fizzing, strange meat on the barbecue. the hototogisu captured in an intimate, quieter setting, beauty and brightness comingling. includes a very spooked 16 minute live track from 06s smegma support spots, live in nottamun town, where the vocalese ribbons unwind in rococo and baroque finery and odd percussive concussions percolate thru the brew. a sweet forty three minutes, packed in some radiant colours and a very spooked flyingfox."
2/14/2008	Hototogisu	Under the Rose	LP	$22.99	Heavy Blossom	"Hototogisu's first LP release on their own imprint Heavy Blossom! Under the Rose is a pair of incantations for the dark and vengeful animal spirits. Sung in two parts Malignant Coronation and Origami Skulls are blackened arias, dizzying vortexes and canyons of screams, guitars and chaotic rhythms. Arising from this richly recorded and mastered vinyl slab come black tarpits of malevolence and savage beauty, harking back to a pre-Christian universe of animating spirits and tutelary daemons . Comes in black jacket with a full color photograph attached to the front cover and thickly inked silk-screened backs. Edition of 600." Recommended!
11/4/2006	Hototogisu & Prurient	Snail on a Razor	CD	$12.99	Hospital Productions	"live in person collaboration of mid ranged feedback hell laden with raw human drones of cosmic existential turbulence from from matthew bower (legend of total, skullflower, ramleh etc) marcia bassett (double leopards, zaimph, ghq etc.) and dominick fernow (vegas martyrs, nihilist assault group, ash pool, etc)."
11/15/2008	Hototogisu + Burning Star Core	Hototogisu + Burning Star Core	LP	$14.99	Yik Yak	"Hototogisu -- the duo of UK experimentalist Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Sunroof et al) and New York-based-guitarist Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards/Zaimph/GHQ) -- are all about impact, about taking the physical aspect of sound and hallucinating it to the point of abstraction, so much so that for all of the complexity of their music it often sounds like it's standing still, simply hanging in the air and vibrating without anything approaching a 'plot' to bring it to a point. By contrast, Burning Star Core, the trio of drummer Trevor Tremaine, Robert Beatty on electronics (both of whom also play in Hair Police alongside Mike Connelly of Wolf Eyes) and C.Spencer Yeh on violin and electronics, are more overtly propulsive, usurping 'classic' rock form via electronics and drums but still focused on momentum, on the jam as a form of structural gravity, on the unfolding of action via development over time. This all-improvised studio meeting is the perfect reconciliation of both tendencies, of Hototogisu's obsessive layering of strata after strata of violently conceived noise and of Burning Star Core's epic, post-Kraut thunder-punk style. Bower has long been on record about his opposition to anything approaching 'dialogue' in improvised music, favouring a senses-devouring simultaneity over anything that might pass for actual exchange, so it's no surprise that there is little on this new record that sounds even close to conventionally improvised music. Instead, it feels more focused towards the zone where energy begins to spontaneously birth form, where the monomaniacal pursuit of the nowhere zone bears fruit in the shape of a music that transcends its constituent parts while being totally based around ? and rooted in - the individual response to the moment. BXC play it ginchy and garage-pop right from the start, simultaneously inverting and amplifying Bower and Bassett's vertical constructs with drums that sound like they might have been lifted straight from the most flower-power parts of the Silver Apples' back catalogue patterns that are as tactile and rock-anchored as Can's Holger Czukay. To hear Hototogisu's music given this kind of injection of dynamic energy makes them seem more obviously sourced in 'classic' rock music than you might otherwise have guessed, with a dense, implosive sound that feels like a hyper-distilled take on all of rock's most outlaw aspects, the feedback that makes you feel like you could explode in a ball of electricity, the anti-gravity effect of heavy fuzz, the seductive, alien tongues. It's certainly the most 'garage band' side that either of the groups have cut to date, albeit in the form of a Gnostic, post-acid re-think where the vibration is more important than the outer forms, where energized enthusiasm makes for a more fundamental guiding principle than verse/chorus/verse and where the only direction left is out. Which is another way of saying it feels genuinely bad-ass. In an era where even the best groups seem polite, pro, participatory, democratic, this is music that is disregarding in its overwhelming power, exhilarating in it irresponsible spontaneity. And in an underground scene where self-conscious notions of avant-garde and 'free improvisation' have long displaced any concept of an intuitive rocks off-style, well, it feels like a re-connection to the source. So file this one closer to Kill City or Sticky Fingers than Persian Surgery Dervishes or The Black Album and feel the gravity of your whole record collection shift." --David Keenan, Glasgow, November 2008. Recommended!
11/4/2006	Hototogisu + Burning Star Core	Volume 1	CD	$11.99	Dronedisco	"Live in-person" collaborations between Hototogisu and the BxC. Hototogisu, as you know, are the time-defying duo of Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Ramleh, Sunroof!, Total, etc.) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, GHQ, Zaimph, etc.). For these sessions, Burning Star Core was C. Spencer Yeh, Robert Beatty, and Trevor Tremaine (the latter two being of Hair Police, Eyes and Arms of Smoke, Sick Hour, etc.). Note that the music on this disc is different material from the Heavy Blossom companion volume "HG/BxC II" released earlier this year. Five tracks, totalling approximately fifty minutes. Packed into the small Horrible Room (RIP) inside the Cedar House (RIP) down in Lexington KY (still alive), individuals huddled in every corner, painting the room in colored cables, glossy wood and metal boxes. Deafness and disorientation was administered through the afternoon on into the night. Summoning over two hours of recorded tape, it was decided to cut the baby in half for adoption between two imprints. Heavy Blossom ferried away the long thick sides of torso, and Dronedisco seized the hooves, antlers, and jaw. The disc starts off with an appropriate invocation; from there punches blindly through one stone cloud after another, coughs and gasps from exhaustion, stumbles and lies motionless. The ritual concludes with a moment of naked acoustic/instinctual spasm, then a cut-off. Originally released in a very small quantity on CD-R as merchandise during various US and UK spring tours, the Dronedisco half of these sessions has been edited and resequenced for this release in the autumn. The pro-pressed disc comes in a black polycase with black and white inserts and a special randomly-selected 1" button (there are five button variations in all).
9/16/2007	Howard, Noah	The Black Ark	LP	$24.99	Bo' Weavil	Numbered edition of 1000 copies. "It's no understatement that The Black Arc is one of the most sought-after underground free jazz releases of all time. This record simply is THE BOMB - a perfect combination of Noah's soulful compositions and playing, infused with plenty of sweet/sour/in/out forms and shapes from the incredible line-up assembled for this release." - Oren Ambarchi
1/24/2009	Howlin Rain	Wild Life	LP	$20.99	Three Lobed Recordings	"Howlin Rain's "Wild Life" consists of two fifteen minute plus monster jams. The first is an amazingly inspired and completely improvised wailing twin guitar, rock meditation on Paul McCartney's "Wild Life." "Black Sangria" rounds out the disc with a completely improvised piece covered in heavy jazz fusion and free, latin jazz rock overtones. The band featured a slightly different lineup for these session (as compared to the band's current touring setup), a lineup that in part feels like a Comets on Fire mini-reunion (above and beyond Ethan Miller on guitar/vocals is Ben Chasny [Six Organs of Admittance] on guitar, Utrillo Kushner on drums, Ian Gradek on bass and Joel Robinow on Wurlitzer electric piano/Nord keyboard). Wrapped delicately in two paintings by Raeni Miller (Ethan's wife). This was previously available only in CD form (available directly from the band at live performances as well as a part of our Oscillation III CD series). The release has made the jump to vinyl and looks shockingly similar to the CD issue (albeit larger). The vinyl pressing of "Wild Life" will be from an edition of just under 1000 copies pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. It will be housed in a heavy, "old style" LP sleeve." - label.
11/4/2006	Howlin' Ghost Proletarians	The Singer	CDR	$10.99	Phase / Absurd	"summer melancholy... nearly 35C outside, both panagiotis and me have freaked working... we meet late @ night at his place to work on some stuff and after it we relax listening to 'the singer' enjoying our drinks... 'it's a more conceptual bluesey work' panagiotis says... 'more somber compared to 'dead roads' i add... ' the johny cash design on the black cover gives it a more gloomy touch'... 'man thanks to 'dead roads' i found myself listening again after a decade to rowland s.howard&lydia lunch, lee hazelwood... even tracked down peggy lee's 'johny guitar' and purchased nicolas ray's classic 'johny guitar' film needles to refer to 'the night of the hunter' one of robert mitchum's spookiest roles i think... what the fuck will the future bring with this one?'.. 'who knows perhaps live sets of howlin' ghost proletarians & old fashioned donkeys sets in prisons, sanatoriums, etc..." - label. "Sadly I missed the Howlin' Ghost Proletarians when they played my neighborhood, but upon hearing this, I know I would have enjoyed it. Just as with Bruce Russell's recent CDR release, this deals with blues music. Despite the title there is no singer on it, but just a duo of utter black blues music, played by Fabrice Eglin on guitars, slide guitar and amp and Michel Henritzi on guitars, slide guitar, amp and harmonica. Feedback, slow picked notes, noise from the amps, and an utter feel of desolation breaths throughout these nine tracks. Certainly not pleasant music at all, but essential for any darker mind indeed. Music that perhaps fits the mood of a hot summer day, when one is sweating even doing nothing than sitting back in front of the ventilator. That kind of music." - (FdW), Vital Weekly
4/29/2008	Howlin' Magic	A New Reality Now	cassette	$7.99	Yodtapes	"A new reality now! was created during the period of the autumn of 2007 and primarily in the beginning months of 2008. some of the instruments used in the recording were, the mind, the guitar, fuzz, drums, gongs, mushrooms, marijuana, native american rattles, the br-1200, belief (as an interface to communicate with the mind that is all). the title is inspired by the ability of the mind to awaken to the reality that all is one. connected. mind. that time is an illusion, and that only the moment is... it also is meant as a call for a revolution of thought, a change in the perception of the concensus reality, a new paradigm of being" - Howlin' Magic. Edition of 100 copies.
2/12/2008	Howlin' Magic	The Dreaming	CD	$16.99	Lal Lal Lal	"Fascinating psychedelic noisy blues by Jesse Rakusin from Santa Cruz, USA. This is what you have been waiting for if you have been waiting for the sound of shit being beaten out of a drumkit. Also in the mix: delicate keyboard studies about freedom, warped guitar melodies, solar-powered chord slamming and fuzzed out blues solo-madness. Comparable to Blue Cheer. Includes the hit 'Mac and Bloo'"
12/24/2005	Hrvatski / Sightings	split	7"	$6.99	Ache	The third installment in Ache's Divorce series features the sounds of ear-challengers HRVATSKI and SIGHTINGS. Features the intricacies of the Sightings' repetitive, rumbling drone on the song "Back To Back," followed with a tapestry of skittery elastic percussion woven by HRVATSKI on "Une Drôle De Journée."
9/17/2006	HsDOM	VOMC	CD	$12.99	Phaserprone	"12 tracks about excursions to lakes, the apartment at the canal, owls, branches on the shore and other subjects. 125 copies, packaged in a self assembled dye-cut and letterpressed CD Gatefold." - label. "HsDOM's VOMC CD is UW Owl's Jochen Hartmann. I expected more dark, throbbing mutant techno like the "Rotlicht" track on UUAR's They Keep Me Smiling compilation, but it ends up that these tracks are earlier jams that are a little less 'reined-in,' with more variety, and the also have a bit more 'rabies'. Think of a one-man Black Dice boiling and troubling in a huge, cast iron cauldron ("Wohnung am Kanal"), or at times an analog, exploratory, sci-fi IDM sound probing through a dark cave ("Finnen Siedlung")." - Scott Mou / Other Music
7/10/2008	Hum of the Druid	Raising the New Wing / Braided Industry	LP	$13.99	SNSE	"Eric Stonefelt returns with another meticulously crafted album of crunching, crumbling, crackling modern industrial music. The sounds of metal and machinery and vocal vomit. HOTD constructs audio works of intricacy with such careful attention paid to timbre and texture, each repeat listen revealing a heretofore unnoticed detail or ten. For fans of Daniel Menche, Small Cruel Party, The New Blockaders, Einleitungzeit, Linija Mass...Additional Information: Edition of 400; black vinyl w/ printed label; pro-printed cover on cardstock, pasted-on matte white LP jackets; pro-printed cardstock insert; pro-printed 11x17 glossy poster."
6/27/2009	Human Adult Band	Mugwort And Sage	one-sided LP	$12.99	Scumbag Relations	"Human Adult Band is from New Jersey. Since 2003, they've released numerous handmade tapes and cd-rs on their own DIHD label, as well as Phase! Records and Bone Tooth Horn....and they have played countless shows alongside tons of amazing bands like... The Usaisamonster, Lazy Magnet, Byron House, King Darves (who has also contributed drums for HAB), Blues Control, Ducktails, Mouthus, Panopticon Eyelids, Drums Like Machine Guns, Car Commercials, Blastocyst, Earth Crown, Slasher Risk ....just to name a few...This is a 4 song one-sided vinyl EP limited to 250 copies." "Sludgy goodness abounds, festers really, with a lo-fi hangover ala Melvins or what Godflesh might have sounded like if they were American." - music emissions
10/23/2003	Human Beast	Volume One	CD	$17.99	Polydor Japan	"Rare, sought after, and absolutely excellent heavy UK psychedelic album from 1970 (Decca); alternately hypnotic and hard-driving, with intense guitar workouts in a classic psych mould; much high-caliber Eastern-influenced guitar work and cracking drums - highly recommended, although those of you who know this album will need no encouragement, I am certain; historical buffs note that David McNiven from Bread, Love and Dreams contributed the few lyrics (strange as they are) on this mostly instrumental album."
3/26/2006	Human Bell	Human Bell	CDR	$12.99	U-Sound Records	"Deep ellum. morning dooo. dead on clawhammer banjo treatments from guitar duo... from the hills of baltimore- down in the holler...."
5/16/2010	Human Liberation Technology	Fair Game	one sided LP	$13.99	Gods of Tundra	"Penalties for lower conditions. Any suppressive person is Fair Game. A dirty grey rag on the left arm. Black mark on left cheek. Minimal electronic noise for both organizations. Hand painted and torn covers. Edition of 100."
3/6/2010	Human Liberation Technology	Sea Organization	cassette	$5.99	Gods Of Tundra	"The elite of Scientology's workers, at least 3,000 of them, belong to a zealous faction known as the Sea Organization and are given room, board and a small weekly allowance. They sign contracts to serve Scientology in this and future lifetimes--for a billion years. Their motto is: 'We come back.' Dressed in mock navy uniforms adorned with ribbons, they bark orders with a clipped, military cadence. They hold ranks such as captain, lieutenant and ensign. Officers, including women, are addressed as 'Sir.'"
8/23/2009	Human Liberation Technology	Success Thru Communication	cassette	$5.99	Gods of Tundra	"Debut release. Minimal electronics for this battlefield earth."
1/27/2004	Human Neutron Missile Squad, The	Knut - Rip-off Edition	CDR	$8.99	Musically Incorrect Records	"Knut was originally self-released by the band back in 2000. This re-release features the original recording minus some useless tracks plus some unreleased masterpieces from the group's archives. The music? Well, it's totally tasteless no-wave experimental trash'n'splash, some tracks have been compared for example to Dead C. and the Ex! Limited edition of 50 copies."
2/20/2010	Human Skab	Thunder Hips & Saddle Bags	CD	$12.99	Family Vineyard	"Human Skab was a 10-year old boy from Elma, Washington who played African music with buckets and spoons. Thunder Hips and Saddle Bags is a 1986 cassette recorded by young Travis Roberts with his neighborhood pals and siblings. It was injected into the underground network of tape traders, zine scribes, college DJs, and freak seekers who were universally bowled over by its bewildering and utterly poignant snapshot of the mid-1980s. Skab's music -- an orchestration of pots n' pans, three string guitar, poorly-tuned upright piano, broken bottles, toy guns, a garden rake, and a "Snake Mountain" microphone -- is a response to fear of nuclear war with the Soviet Union, He-Man cartoons, Twisted Sister, the coolness of dinosaurs, the uncoolness of John Wayne, and Ronald Reagan. Roberts captures the fervor of do-it yourself ethos, punk energy and the rawness of early American folk by acting on his wild child imagination and enigmatic sense of song. These rare recordings have never been made widely available until now. This reissue includes the complete 1986 cassette. The CD and MP3 version contain a bonus 1987 radio interview. The 16-page booklet in the 500 edition LP and CD contains liner notes by Roberts and Cousin Franky along with many full-color photographs and news clippings. As Bruce Pavitt wrote in the 1986 Sub Pop zine: the Skab zips around the living room shooting toy guns. He hits the family piano with his fists. He tries real hard to play guitar. He makes up songs about terrorism and radiation and throwing rocks at windows. Cool! This reissue "restores a really obscure real people/disobedient kid/nascent punk rocker cassette that was issued as part of a prodigious run of weirdo documents recorded by an out-of-control 10 year old in Elma, Washington in the mid to late 80s. This is the first full release of his best known cassette, Thunder Hips And Saddle Bags, the release that put him on the weirdo radar after it made it through to tastemakers like Bruce Pavitt of Sub Pop. The Skab recordings are much more interesting than just some maniac kid goofing off. His lyrics are funny, sharp and often inspired and there's a precocious confidence and energy to the tracks, with inventive non-musical settings and primitive interventions on various instruments and household appliances." - David Kennan, Volcanic Tongue
3/6/2010	Hunted Creatures / D/S/Miller	split	cassette	$5.99	Dynamo Sound Collective	"Hunted Creatures is Ryan Emmett from Pittsburgh, PA. d/s/miller is also from Pittsburgh. They both make extended layering sound, music compositions."
8/31/2010	Hunter Gracchus, The / Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau	split	LP	$21.99	Blackest Rainbow	"Meeting of melted minds on this split LP featuring Sheffield based long time local buddies Hunter Gracchus and Germany based performance and musicial duo of Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau (aka Mama Baer). The Hunter Gracchus have released an ever growing catalogue of super well received releases for the likes of Chironex, Golden Lab, Recollections of Knulp and Chocolate Monk. They also collaborated with Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides and Chora as Le Drapeau Noir, as well as performing solo and in other fantastic far out acts such as Vampire Blues, Harappian Night Recordings and Blue Yodel, as well as two thirds of the trio running the excellent Singing Knives label and all working full time. I have to admit, I have no idea how they can manage to do all this, pretty damn impressive. Their side is an amazing live recording from La Planta, Argentina entitled 'Mujeres De La Boca', and if you've ever been to their Furniture Makers practice space, it sounds like Hunter Gracchus somehow managed to transport its entire contents of obscure musical objects over there with their perculiar brains to record some of the best live shit they've produced so far... a really great side long free playing improvised weird out with screwed up voices, skronky blurts and freestyle tribal percussion. Kommissar Hjuler Und Frau have been releasing material for quite some time on their own Der Schöne Hjuler-Memorial-Fond label, including a host of obscenely limited CDRs, cassettes and records. On top of that they've found the time release some truly astounding genre blending avant craziness on Ultra Eczema, Scumbag and Blossoming Noise. For this split LP KHJ & F's 'Zwei Einenperson (Pt. 2)', is a manic 22 minute side of avant garde experi-mentalism, with Kommissar Hjuler shredding electric guitar strings and destroying tapes while Mama Baer's insane vocal fluctuate between the erotic and pure demonic screaming. This recording of Kommissar Hjuler und Frau was made in March 2009 when working on the set for the performance of Zwei Eineperson. This was presented live at the vernissage of Mama Baer's and Kommissar Hjuler's exhibition Geteilter Raum at Kunstraum Winterthur, Switzerland on 2nd April 2009. A CD-R with several parts from their work on this set was previously released on their SHMF label in a very small edition. This is the re-issue of part 2 from their recordings, live in their living room. The full performance has been released as a CD-R and DVD in small edition as well. Edition of 500 on heavyweight vinyl with pro printed jackets, and insert."
9/17/2009	Hunter Grachhus, The	The Bolsheviks Shat In My Brain	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"New hydroponic sketches of freakdom from Sheffield that should satisfy those of you with that roaring appetite for freedumb jams and methnic drone-outs. I hear delerious barkings of glue factory workers, the hanging heaviness of the local nut houses 'drum and squal' therapy sessions, pockmarked harmonium hymns to Harry Pussy, and whole bunch of giblets that I can't quite put my fingers in, but it sure does make one of my eyes twitch, so I say let the sweltering fog descend, we don't need no torch." - label.
10/1/2011	Hunting Rituals	Brooding Forest	LP	$17.99	Ecstatic Peace	"Hunting Rituals is the moniker of Scott Johnson (also Scott Cloud, Thoughts On Air) which was inspired from many impromptu collaborations with other weirdo musicians within the city limits of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Brooding Forest was the first recording to feature a second member, a fellow collaborator Jeremiah Buchan from Bottom Feeder who was also a main influence on the overall ritual sound process. This recording fuses Scott's focus of feral improv with Jeremy's premeditated landscapes of organic creep sound. Brooding Forest was recorded in Sonic Unyon's basement, originally released as a cassette on Myiasis Tapes. This is the true underground shadow music of Ontario improv/drone/outsider accidentalia. Startling and hypnotic. Limited pressing."
11/21/2009	Hunting Rituals / Rambutan	Spirit Wok	CDR	$7.99	Tape Drift	"Canada meets the US in this split pairing from Ontario's Scott Cloud (Hunting Rituals) and upstate New York's Eric Hardiman (Rambutan). Hunting Rituals have demonstrated over the last few years a creative and aesthetic consistency near unmatched in the underground noise/psych/diy scene. Each release Cloud drops into the aether is a gift from some warped and beautiful planet outside of our solar system, and the HR track here is a prime example. Rambutan follows up on recent releases on Digitalis and Stunned with 3 tracks inspired by Cloud's example. Taken together as one dose of aural medicine, the two sides of this split add up to a massive, spacious, and blurry juggernaut of sound that will both heal and transport."
11/21/2009	Hurley, Michael	Ida Con Snock	LP	$13.99	Gnomonsong	"Michael Hurley is one of the last remaining ramblin' American folk troubadours. Hobo-ing around the country, making music since the days Bob Dylan first set foot in New York City's Gaslight club, Hurley recorded his first album for Moses Ash's legendary Folkways label in 1964 and continued to release albums for both Warner Brothers and Rounder. His mid-'70s Have Moicy album was among the top ten for the decade selected by Rolling Stone magazine. While many of his contemporaries are long past their prime (or deceased), Hurley's muse is still intact. Hurley's songwriting talent hasn't gone unnoticed by a new generation of musicians. In recent years, he was invited to tour with alt-country heroes Son Volt and Lucinda Williams. He's also shared bills with Smog and Palace Brothers, played with the Giant Sand rhythm section, and has of course appeared with (and been covered by) Vetiver and appeared on their records. His songs have also been covered by indie stars Cat Power and Yo La Tengo, among others. So, the matter at hand, a new album of recordings sung and played by Hurley, backed by Ida, appropriately titled Ida Con Snock: Snock himself marvels at this 21st studio album, recorded at Levon Helms' studio in Woodstock, NY. Ida's less-is-more finesse shines on these rich recordings, melding perfectly with Hurley's playing and singing. Many of these songs are already well familiar to Hurley's devotees. There are seven originals and five loving covers of '50s rock 'n' roll, C&W, and vintage folk, each tune capturing Hurley and band at peak performance levels."
10/31/2009	Hurley, Michael	Parsnip Snips	LP	$15.99	Mississippi Records	"Originally released in 1997 in Germany in a press size of 500. These original copies were seized by the government shortly after the record's release. Only 150 or so were sold before the seizing, but since then copies have leaked out of whatever dank German bureaucratic basement they were relegated to. Still, a very hard record to find for years, now back in print. Our current reissue was re-mastered from the original tapes and has superior sound quality to the original. Culled from Michael's unreleased output between his First songs LP from 1964 and Armchair Boogie in 1972. All tracks feature just Michael and guitar. Absolutely beautiful folk music by the singular Snock - in our opinion, one of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time."
2/28/2006	Hurray	Dreams, Not Soft Illusion	LP	$17.99	Fusetron	"Hurray is Zak Prekop, Josh Brand, Pete Mandradjieff & Rich Aldrich. They hail from the hidden sectors of New York City. This is their first full length recording and is a must for fans of ambiguous, anomalous, and unobtrusive sound creation whose mystery is not invoked by hyperbole, pseudo-mythology or fake histories, but by giving full allowance to otherness and seeking beauty by allowing it to happen, which often means allowing it not to happen. Mishandled guitars, unknown electronics, amplified percussives and various layers of buzz coagulate and dissipate in measured restraint. I hesitate to use blighted terms like 'lowercase' music, as Hurray shies not from some harsher territories and melodic (if emaciated and ghostly) material sometimes drifts into consciousness; two things I think of as contrasting w/ the more didactic, 'European' music associated w/ said term. So, I'll avoid terminology and just say I'm very glad to know this record." - Greg Kelley
6/11/2006	Hurray	Treasure Chest	LP	$12.99	galerie paolo bonzano	Recorded between 2002 and 2005, if "hurray hands" is the jazz album, and "dreams not soft illusion" the minimal concrete album, then this would be the noisey folk album. released in italy by galerie paolo bonzano & produced by cecilia canziani. "I think both possible cover images have good internal puzzles. The stick drawing looks like a person trying to imagine or remember or depict nature from their desk -- some model of nature that uses bits of stuff from actual nature to make a map of some second faulty nature, or the thought of it. So you could say this is a parallel to when we have these things (instruments, amps, band) to make music and instead make silence, or models of nature, or imitations of sparse conversation. And the microphone stand looks like a modest flag or attempt at formal communication, but in a domestic setting instead of public, so it won't quite come across, and who can see what it was supposed to stand for. . . Like making records for any public out of these things that are essentially private, obscure documents." - hurray
6/27/2009	Husband & Knife	More of Them (Than Us)	c30 cassette	$6.99	Divorce	"Husband & Knife recently became a duo with the addition of multi-instrumentalist Evan Cardwell. Evan's electronic dreamscapes and backwards guitars have helped KC realize his ambitions for tripped-out space in which to lay his songs. To celebrate the new marriage, Evan and KC decided to release this cassette only EP. The album is a deep listen, utilising a wild mix of sound and classic song writing. Limited to 140 copies."
5/16/2010	Husere Grav	Husere Grav	c37 cassette	$6.99	Stunned	"Following up recent stunning releases on Anathema Sound and a killer split tape with Robedoor, Texas black metal/drone lord Husere Grav now burns another 37 minutes on his electrified altar and the thick, humid vapor releases ancient memories of equinox rituals. Entreaties are made into nine realms of the unknown, each a masterfully shaped atmosphere pregnant with expectation; none dare breathe in a place so still. Austere tectonic frequencies permeate like dense clouds of incense until all fades in ash-raining guitar haze, and catharsis reigns. Limited edition of 111 pro-dubbed & imprinted c37 tapes with double-sided color jcard and insert."
10/20/2011	Husere Grav	Untitled	cassette	$9.99	Blackest Rainbow	"A desolate and bleak new 30 minutes from Husere Grav, following on from releases on Not Not Fun, Stunned and Small Doses. 8 tracks of stark drifting blackened tones, claustrophobic tension building throughout each untitled track. The opening track opens with a empty repeated riff, shrouded in a thick electric drone and perhaps a drum beat crushed to the very edge of recognition, followed by a piece that engulfs the listener in a plague of blackened sounds working against one another. The sounds continue with static organic zone outs and soundtrack-style compositions. Husere Grav's newest release showcases a host of influences from dark ambient, black metal and power electronics but unlike the latter genres, never sounds harsh, the sound is just dark, brooding doom. The lack of any information and titles enhance the somewhat mysterious artist behind this excellent bleak sound project. Limited to 100, pro-dubbed with black and white covers printed on parchment paper."
7/5/2011	Hush Arbors	Alive	double LP	$29.99	Blackest Rainbow	"'Alive' is the first vinyl outing from Keith Wood's Hush Arbors since his split 7" with Jerusalem and the Starbaskets on The Great Pop Supplement back in 2008. This double LP set comprises of two live recordings from Hush Arbors, the first being 'Live, Heeley Institute, Sheffield, England' which was infact the first release on Blackest Rainbow back in 2007, it was released in an edition of 101 copies on CDR. Finally this is out on vinyl, as it really is a fantastic set of Keith and his acoustic guitar playing what was one of the best venues that was frequently used here in Sheffield, so many great performances went down there (remember MV & EE's set from there that Singing Knives released?), and Keith's really was a great night. The second LP is 'Live from Kittery, Maine', a set from 12th February 2011. A whole different sound to Hush Arbors with this one. Keith is joined by Jason Ajemian and John Moloney (Sunburned Hand of the Man). Keith's sound has developed from the loner psyche folk of his earlier records and 'Heeley' to a more bourbon soaked country rock out vibe. 'Alive' is a fantastic example of two great, yet very different, performances the ever changing Hush Arbors. Pressed on heavyweight virgin vinyl and housed in a gatefold jacket, edition of 350 copies."
9/17/2006	Hush Arbors	Cleaning the Bone	3" CDR	$7.99	267 Lattajjaa	"One-man folk/psych/drone ensemble Hush Arbors AKA Keith Wood was unquestionably my favorite sonic discovery of 2004, so it's with great pleasure that I announce the arrival of Cleaning the Bone, a brand new 3" CD-R on the Finnish 267 Lattajjaa imprint. It's quite different from his two most recent Digitalis releases since this highly organic, folk-tinged drone affair is allowed to spread out over a little more than twenty minutes. But despite the fact that we get music rather than songs this time out, it's still very much gentle free folk bristling with rare invention and spirit. The beautiful improvisations hold the regenerative powers of the Appalachians; somehow hosting the energy that has been hiding under logs and rocks for decades just waiting for the right man to come along and pick it up." "This strangely beautiful document takes as much from the rich history of American folk as it does from ancient drones and psychedelic primitivism. But most of all it's an unhurried and slowly unfolding wave of folk/drone bliss that evoke a pastoral atmosphere so strong that it's perfectly suited for inner mind expansion or as the cheapest way to transport you to the most beautiful parts of the Appalachians." - Mats Gustafsson
2/28/2006	Hush Arbors	Hush Arbors	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"Hush Arbors is the brainchild of Keith Wood. After years of self-released and small-run CDRs, Wood's debut release is finally available in a wider format. This CD sees the nine tracks of his first CDR remastered and reborn. These 43 minutes of blissed out forest folk also finds itself knee-deep in organic drones. Wood's high-pitched voice is the focal point which the music swirls around, and these songs emanate from the cosmos like a cathartic release from the sky. But don't be fooled, despite these cosmic aspirations this is music straight from the earth, covered in bark and soaked in soil. Hush Arbors is a relic. Or perhaps you should just take it from Ben Chasny from Six Organs of Admittance who wrote the liner notes for this reissue: 'The difference between "a scientist" and "scientists" is the difference between speaking to one lonely dude collecting his records from the mail and speaking to humanity. That is a little funny thing. This music is for you who love your perfect clothes caked in mud. This music is for you who could have been scientists but realized that most scientists are thrown into the back of an anonymous van and sold into slavery for their government. And at that point, you said, "Fuck it. I love the stars and germs and shit, but I'd rather not have a gun to my head.'"
10/31/2009	Hush Arbors	Yankee Reality	CD	$10.99	Ecstatic Peace	"Yankee Reality. What does it mean? Does it portend that there is some unique, other plain of existence for northerners and/or city folk? Something perhaps alien to, well, everybody else? Virginia cum citizen of London/rambling man Keith Wood knows all about it. Several years ago, he relocated to the city of crumpets and tea, where he, among other things, secured a gig playing guitar for notoriously intense death folk legends Current 93. In the midst of all this excitement, he has managed to write and record a brand new Hush Arbors album, his second for Ecstatic Peace!, and it's his finest to date. With a full band in tow -- multi instrumentalist Leon Dufficy, bassist Jason Ajemian, and drummer Ryan Sawyer -- and none other than J Mascis in the producer's chair, Yankee Reality continues Wood's winning streak while introducing an embarrassment of riches in the way of surprises and curveballs along the way. Yankee Reality is a credit to Keith Wood's vast talents as a songwriter and performer, but also, stands as a shining example of his breadth of focus and versatility. How many fools out there love Merle Haggard, The Dead and Dinosaur, Jr equally? I know one." - James Jackson Toth, Nashville, TN, August 2009.
5/16/2010	Huur Is Duur	Huur Is Duur	c40 cassette	$8.99	Taped Sounds	"All acoustic minimal soundwaves and tickles by actor / musician Christophe Piette (of R.O.T., Ysengrinus, etc) and cook / musician Wietske Van Gils (of Zim Zim Zim, Pulsating In The Eye Of Vision, etc). strange nostalgic sound stories, created by two singular beings of the Belgian jam-out scene. side a is a liveshow recorded during the "Los Van Woorden" series in The Hague, the monthly gatherings into sound poetry and similar modes. side b are three short radiosessions, recorded live on our inhouse "De Oceaan Der Geluid" radioshow. the album reminds me a bit of a weird lost episode of the Slowscan catalogue."
1/22/2011	Hype Williams	Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite And Start Gettin Reel	LP	$14.99	DeStijl	"Hype Williams may or may not consist of two people named D. Blunt and Inga Copeland, it may or may not still be part of an 18 year relay project thought up by a lady named Denna Frances Glass. Lately there has also been rumor that it is the side project of singer Joss Stone (she evidently financed the making of it). Either way, when asked for a statement concerning Find Out What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, And Start Gettin Reel, we've been informed via email from Inga Copeland only these words: ritolin (sic) and rama lama 555 (sic)."
9/23/2003	Hyun & Donkies, Shin Joong	In-A-Kadda-Da-Vida	LP	$24.99	Beatball	"Reissue of this Korean underground album, originally issued in 1970. Packaged in heavy duty LP jacket, with giant poster & insert. Limited-numbered edition 1000 copies. Yes, it includes a ‘side-long’ version of a convienently re-named ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’. Plus a bonus track."
10/1/2011	Hyun, Shin Joong	Beautiful Rivers and Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-74	CD	$15.99	Light In The Attic	"Shin Joong Hyun's tale is personal, spiritual, and deep, not only reflecting the full spectrum of human emotions, but one that produced reverberating echoes of sound, some beautiful and life-giving, others restless and ungovernable. For the first time outside of Korea, Shin's music will be readily available to music lovers the world over. Light In The Attic are thrilled to release Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974, a career spanning CD, 2xLP, and digital download compilation of the diminutive guitarist, songwriter, producer, arranger, and talent developer. Inspired by jazz, soul, and traditional Korean music, Shin started his career in the mid-1950s, performing for US troops stationed locally after the Korean War armistice of 1953. While his English language skills were limited, the young player had no trouble communicating through his trusty electric guitar, but Shin was no mere 6-string slinger for hire, he was able to communicate something far beyond your average professional musician. Production work and extensive songwriting followed, not to mention a steady stream of electrifying performances. Gaining momentum by the moment, Shin developed popular success across South Korea molding proteges like singing duo the Pearl Sisters and folk-psych songbird Kim Jung Mi into top pop stars. From there it was hit after hit. The late 1960s rock explosion and an influx of imported music from The Beatles, Jimmy Smith, and The Jefferson Airplane all informed and inspired Mr. Shin to elevate his own craft. Even experimental trips via a crew of local hippies also took the music man to new heights despite Korean law forbidding such rebellion. Drug use was illegal and punishable as a serious offence. Park Chung-hee, then President of South Korea began to closely monitor Shin's 'subversive' activities. After refusing to write a song in praise of the political leader, the musician was labeled unpatriotic and his career was instantly snuffed-out through a series of surveillance, torture, and institutional confinement. While this was not the end of Shin's musical story, for an all-too-brief moment in Korean cultural history, Shin Joong Hyun and his talented accomplices laid down a trove of recordings that have slowly reverberated far from their native land. Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974 features Korean/English lyric translations, unseen pictures, beautiful graphic design, and extensive liner notes with Shin Joong Hyun."
9/14/2011	Hyun, Shin Joong	Beautiful Rivers and Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-74	double LP	$24.99	Light In The Attic	"Shin Joong Hyun's tale is personal, spiritual, and deep, not only reflecting the full spectrum of human emotions, but one that produced reverberating echoes of sound, some beautiful and life-giving, others restless and ungovernable. For the first time outside of Korea, Shin's music will be readily available to music lovers the world over. Light In The Attic are thrilled to release Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974, a career spanning CD, 2xLP, and digital download compilation of the diminutive guitarist, songwriter, producer, arranger, and talent developer. Inspired by jazz, soul, and traditional Korean music, Shin started his career in the mid-1950s, performing for US troops stationed locally after the Korean War armistice of 1953. While his English language skills were limited, the young player had no trouble communicating through his trusty electric guitar, but Shin was no mere 6-string slinger for hire, he was able to communicate something far beyond your average professional musician. Production work and extensive songwriting followed, not to mention a steady stream of electrifying performances. Gaining momentum by the moment, Shin developed popular success across South Korea molding proteges like singing duo the Pearl Sisters and folk-psych songbird Kim Jung Mi into top pop stars. From there it was hit after hit. The late 1960s rock explosion and an influx of imported music from The Beatles, Jimmy Smith, and The Jefferson Airplane all informed and inspired Mr. Shin to elevate his own craft. Even experimental trips via a crew of local hippies also took the music man to new heights despite Korean law forbidding such rebellion. Drug use was illegal and punishable as a serious offence. Park Chung-hee, then President of South Korea began to closely monitor Shin's 'subversive' activities. After refusing to write a song in praise of the political leader, the musician was labeled unpatriotic and his career was instantly snuffed-out through a series of surveillance, torture, and institutional confinement. While this was not the end of Shin's musical story, for an all-too-brief moment in Korean cultural history, Shin Joong Hyun and his talented accomplices laid down a trove of recordings that have slowly reverberated far from their native land. Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974 features Korean/English lyric translations, unseen pictures, beautiful graphic design, and extensive liner notes with Shin Joong Hyun."
12/29/2004	Hyun, Shin Joong & Donkies	In-A-Kadda-Da-Vida	CD	$20.99	MVD	Reissue of this Korean underground album, originally issued in 1970. Packaged in a psychedelic heavy duty mini-LP jacket and includes about an 18 minute version of a conveniently re-named ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida’. Features some killer guitar from Shin Joong Hyun – the so-called Jimi Hendrix of Korea.
12/29/2004	Hyun, Shin Joong & The Men	It's A Lie!	CD	$20.99	MVD	1974 release from Shin Joong Hyun - the guitar god from Korea who formed this legendary psychedelic band! “Musical performance by The Men. This record reissued on LP in 2003. From this record only one SideB song was reissued by The Men on the compilation CD album in 2002. Side A contains popular short songs with guest singer Yoon Young Kyun. Side B has long tracks, psychedelic songs by The Men. So you must pay attention to the psychedelic Side B songS!! This song reminded me of the Doors and Hawkwind. Very progressive and really psychedelic. You can hear nice oboe, keyboards, guitar, drum solo's. Their best psychedelic Gem!” - Folkie Jin
12/29/2004	Hyun, Shin Joong and Yeop Jeon Deul	Vol. 1	CD	$18.99	Jigu Records	"This record was reissued only CD format in 2003. A Korean psychedelic rock masterpiece!! Only this album released about 500 copies (this was the cd issued by MVD which is now out of print - Jigu has reissued this)!! It is a great eastern pyschedelia!! Only I just can say that 'He almost completed his hope (to combine Western music with Korean traditional rhythm) at this album.' Just you must feel it!!" - Folkie Jin
12/29/2004	Hyun, Shin Joong and Yeop Jeon Deul	Vol. 2	CD	$18.99	Jigu Records	"This record reissued on CD format in 1994. Shin Joong Hyun wrote very wholesome lyrics on this album. The government restricted the songs at the first album as being immoral song lyrics. This album is a great Korean hard rock styled music." - Folkie Jin
4/10/2005	Hyun, Shin Jung and The Men	Shin Jung Hyun and The Men	CD	$17.99	World Psychedelia	"It’s difficult to unravel the deep historical mystery of these recordings (Korean-only text not helpful), so I don’t know exactly when these tracks were recorded, although the date 1972 appears at the start of the booklet; having said that, there’s no mystery about the greatness of the three long tracks on this disc! minimal moody vocals don’t interfere in the slightest with the incredible fuzz and wah-wah guitar solos, the groovy and weird keyboards, the monster drum solos, or the oboe (yep, the oboe); truly psychedelic songs with all the strangeness that a non-Anglo approach to trippy music seems to engender, with touches of the Doors and early Hawkwind, if you need non-Asian reference points; I now fully comprehend why Koreans call this Shin Jung Hyun’s best record, and 'a psychedelic gem'. Colossal." - Lion Productions. Appears to to the same release as one I have listed as 'It's A Lie' on Korea's MVD label - recommended!