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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
2/9/2002	L. Stinkbug	The Allure of Roadside Curios	CD	$12.99	Starlight Furniture Co.	"Formed in 1997 by guitarist G.E. Stinson with bassist Steuart Liebig and guitarist Nels Cline, L.Stinkbug consciously chose to complete their line-up with a drummer who could groove - percussionist Scott Amendola. Both Stinson and Cline prepare their guitars with an assortment of springs, toys, paint brushes, an electric drink stirrer, enough clips to make a beautician queasy, an egg whisk (that's right - an egg whisk) and numerous other custom-made objects, and run them through a variety of effects, harmonizers and looping devices; same goes for Liebig - chopsticks between the strings, looping devices, extended technique, the works. L.Stinkbug traffics in 'instant compositions' packed with dynamics, textures and virtuosity. The Allure of Roadside Curios opens with an electro-orchestral prelude worthy of Sonic Youth on an exceptional night, building to a roaring, Boredoms-like overture that capsizes into some heavy grind familiar to fans of Lark's Tongue in Aspic-era King Crimson. Yet throughout the album's four tracks (plus a secret fifth one), all recorded live at Bruno's in San Francisco, the quartet's unpitched, heavily electronically altered wakajawaka sprawls like a spacy, permafrost delta in which an electric Miles Davis influence lurks at all times. Because everyone in L.Stinkbug is involved with numerous other groups, they play together in this configuration infrequently and never tour (their handful of live appearances to date have occurred solely in California - Los Angeles, Ventura, San Francisco, and Berkeley). The Allure of Roadside Curios is a rare opportunity to hear world-class improvisors together at their best."
7/10/2008	La Banda's	La Banda's	LP	$23.99	Pastabase	"In 1996 in Santiago de Chile some friends started jamming at Diego's - one of the members of the group - workshop as a way of doing music by non musicians, absolutely free with any goals in mind like releasing music and even forming a band. They just recorded these jams a pile of cassettes in an old four tracks tape recorder. In the early 2000's La Banda's were reduced to members Diego, Salmón and JM. They did their first concert at an independent festival hosted by Hoffmans's House Art Gallery. In 2006 Álvaro joined the group that met the duo The Cindy Sisters with whom they played several sessions and now also belong to La Banda's, a seven piece band nowadays. But I would say that there is an occasional member who is soul support for the group, Mr Hugo Chávez, a well known music fan and promoter of underground Chilean bands. This Chilean psychedelic improv collective just released their first self titled album on the Pastabase label based in Santiago and New York. 'La Banda's' album consists in seven tracks that combine psychedelia, noise and folk. The sound is dirty and with the hiss of a cassette and taken just as it came out of the tape recorder. The first song which is recorded in backwards recalls the sound of Sonic Boom, deep and hypnothic. It is the only track of the album that has a more electronic sound On 'La Banda's' there is a permanent clatter percussion, melodic keyboards, guitar and analogue synthesizer alongside some voices in the background as well, a real improv session with no direction of what's coming next. The tracks are unpredictable and evolves to a fresh sound that this band unfolds." - Guillermo Escudero, April 2008 - www.loop.cl
	La Gloria	Jeremiad	CD	$12.99	Furry Bear/Freedom From	"Eleven tracks of Marcel Bear (Empirical, ex-Thela) and David Coventry (ex-Clay, ex-Cattle) playing a variety of experimental instruments and guitar respectively. Very 'nice' clean recording, and similar to Coventry's engineering of the Thela debut makes it more easy to access the music without betraying its intent."
2/12/2008	La Otracina	Crystal Wizards of the Cosmic Weird (Live in Bologna)	CDR	$12.99	Ski-Fi	"It all began with some kind of lunar roadhouse kosmische showdown scene on some rickety bar on the moon, with all kinds of fucked up looking creatures, with scales or tails and multiple eyes and all that, all lookin grimey, just making a stop on their way to proxima centauri, coming down off a fistful of Benzedrine, tired and disgruntled, chainsmoking and drinking neon green booze, spurs on their space boots and all that. You know, cacophony and then some jiving band of lizards was taking the stage and laying down a sick cosmic sludge, from a skronk ruckus, into the depths of some eerie zero gravity subconscious neu transmutations, to some sonification of sun ra nightmares. la otracina live in Bologna, Italy November 10.2007. absolutely drunk and stoned to an absolutely oblivious and nearly empty room, save the fellow who walked into the microphone during the recording. First release from Sky-Fi". Edition of 100 copies.
11/15/2008	La Otracina	Gardens of Blackness	cassette	$8.99	Digitalis Limited	"Pretty stoked to finally be dropping a bomb from la otracina, one of my absolute faves from the past few years. these brooklynites know how to bring in it in all forms from all directions. "gardens of blackness" is everything you'd hope it was: heady dark drones that flirt with the world of metal more than ever. drummer/vocalist adam kriney let's go on the a-side, hollering and wailing like tomorrow's nothing but a distant dream. other times you end up dredging up some serious murk from the bottom of the pool. hints of tape collage come out of nowhere and eventually it mellows out for a pretty even high. it's cohesive and all over the map all at the same time, definitely showcasing their new direction since their last record on holy mountain. limited to 55 blackest black copies."
11/17/2007	La Otracina	Love Love Love	DBL CDR	$10.99	Colur Sound Recordings	"Fresh off the heals of the recent "Tonal Ellipse Of The One" CD on Holy Mountain, the La Otracina back catalog is now fully available again! Now in its 4th pressing, "Love Love Love" is a crushing 2xCD-R of blissed psychedelic rock overload, scorching freak improvisations, prog/jazz/rock sorcery, and all sortsa space-rock hybrid magic all led by Colour Sounds Recordings label-head and Owl Xounds drummer Adam Kriney. Features over two hours of early jams, basement tapes, and epic live recordings. Features early members now playing in Titan (on Tee Pee Records)."
7/10/2008	La Otracina	The Risk Of Gravitation	CDR	$8.99	Colour Sound Recordings	"The Risk Of Gravitation" is the stunning new Summer 08 Tour mini-album by Brooklyn's La Otracina, who have long wandered and forged sounds in the hidden lands of heavy psychedelia and progressive space music. This 7 track 32+ minute excursion is a major paradigm shift for the group as drummer Adam Kriney is now on vocal duties as well, adding yet another layer of epic intensity to the swirling chaos of Evan Sobel's Fender Bass VI low-end destruction and new guitarist Philippe Ortanez's ecstatically angular bliss-out. This disc shifts between tracks of classic La Otracina free-form freakout brilliance and their current vocal-heavy jams, which put the progressive psych back into early heavy metal while exploring realms of dark doom-sludge thunder and the graceful complexity of early Canterbury jazz-rock. Refusing to be quantified, it is clear that La Otracina remain in an orbit of their own, seeking out the cosmic weird and channeling it through hard rock power! First press limited edition of 100 numbered copies."
11/17/2007	La Otracina	The Silence Dimension	CDR	$6.99	Colour Sound Recordings	"When their recent "Tonal Ellipse Of The One" CD came out on Holy Mountain, the boys hit the road and created this limited tour EP to bathe the masses in astral jelly! Three tracks featuring extensive collage work and new music by new bassist Evan Sobel. Source material includes new/unreleased recordings of trio improvisations during the Adam Kriney/Ninni Morgia/Jordon Schranz period as well as some material from earlier out-of-print EPs. A brilliant mix of acid-rock blowout, early electronic Kraut innovations, and lush drones/tones."
6/19/2007	La Otracina	Tonal Ellipse of the One	CD	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"La Otracina was formed in Brooklyn, NY, in the summer of 2003 by drummer ADAM KRINEY and guitarist JOSHUA ANZANO (now of Tee Pee Records' TITAN) to penetrate the deepest and most surreal realms of psychedelia, prog, and krautrock, with an emphasis on exploration. Taking heavy nods from psychedelic forefathers (Flower Travelin' Band, Guru Guru, King Crimson, Neu!, Yes, Agitation Free, Blue Cheer, Amon Duul, etc.), their music is also rooted in a deep understanding and appreciation of free-jazz / improvisation and the wizardry of minimalism-not to mention the extreme sounds of the Japanese underground. La Otracina's brew of cosmic music is a ride across the galaxy, a slice of magical lemon wedges, a rainbow of crystallized comet dust. KindaMusik listed La Otracina's Love Love Love 2 CD as one of the top 20 best psychedelic albums of the new millennium, along with releases by Six Organs of Admittance, Bardo Pond, Ghost, and Tower Recordings."
3/21/2007	La Planete Sauvage	Original Soundtrack	LP	$18.99	Fan Club	"Loving fan club limited vinyl release of the film soundtrack from 1973 (released in the US as Fantastic Planet). The album creates an interesting marijuana-induced sci-fi floating mood, blending psychedelia, jazz and funk, and as recently been sampled by quite a few hip hop acts."
12/24/2005	La Revolucion de Emiliano Zapata	Hoy	LP	$29.99	Hoy	"Exact repro of the legendary 2nd album by this Mexican crew. Fuzzy psychedelia, one of the most desired South American albums, originally released in 1971. Gatefold cover like the original, 500 copies."
	Labradford	A Stable Reference	CD	$12.99	Kranky	2nd release featuring bass guitar. Recommended
	Laconic Chamber	A History Of Epidemics	CD	$14.99	Camera Obscura	"Camera Obscura is proud to announce the second new act on the label this year, Laconic Chamber, who hail from Washington, DC and specialise in a particularly compelling brand of haunted, post-everything chamber rock. Aside from a single track ('Ink-Blots') on a 7" compilation via local DC indie label Nightshade, this is their first release. Throughout the twelve tracks there is plenty to captivate lovers of The Raincoats, Mazzy Star, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, and the whole Drag City post-rock contingent."
11/26/2003	Lacy, Steve	Plays Monk	LP	$16.99	Get Back	"Recorded on September 23, 1969 and originally released on BYG as Epistrophy, this classic Lacy LP - featuring Jean Francois Jenny-Clark (bass), Aldo Romano (drums) and Michel Graillier (piano) - was Lacy's first recording in Paris (his newly adopted city). Here Lacy, a longtime Monk disciple, takes listeners on a journey through some of Monk's most complex compositions, leaving his own inspired and instantly recognizable thumbprint on these timeless originals."
	Lacy, Steve	The Forest And The Zoo	LP	$15.99	Get Back / ESP Disk	"Lacy's profound influence on the avant-garde can be traced back to this phenomenal session with Enrico Rava (trumpet), Johnny Dyani (bass), and Louis T. Moholo (drums) which is a pivotal recording in the career of the master soprano saxophonist. Steve Lacy's involvement in avant garde jazz began with this historical recording date for ESP-Disk' recorded live in Buenos Aires in 1966. Original artwork... 180 gram HQ vinyl."
11/23/2004	Laghonia	EtCetera	LP + 7"	$49.99	World in Sound	"Both Laghonia albums, Glue and EtCetera belong to most legendary and best South American psychedelic collectors albums, besides La Revolucion de Emiliano Zapata, Modulo 1000, Toncho Pilatos, Traffic Sound. The core of Laghonia, post 'New Juggler Sound' is a combination of Peruvian and US members, Saul Cornejo Vocals, Guitar, Manuel Cornejo on Drums, and David Levene on Lead Guitar and Vocals. The sound is catchy psychedelic Rock´n´Roll stuff, with English vocals, intense Fuzz Wah-Wah Guitars, and Hammond B-2 Organ.” “The EtCetera album originally released in 1971, one of South Americas greatest. It comes with outstanding original artwork, a true psychedelic painting by M. Cornejo, in a foldout cover, and extra 7" 4 track EP with 2 never released songs.”
3/3/2005	Laghonia	Glue	LP + 7"	$36.99	World In Sound	"Both Laghonia albums, Glue and EtCetera belong to most legendary and best South American psychedelic collectors albums, besides La Revolucion de Emiliano Zapata, Modulo 1000, Toncho Pilatos, Traffic Sound. The core of Laghonia, post 'New Juggler Sound' is a combination of Peruvian and US members, Saul Cornejo Vocals, Guitar, Manuel Cornejo on Drums, and David Levene on Lead Guitar and Vocals. All eight album tunes are catchy psychedelic Rock´n´Roll stuff, with English vocals, intense Fuzz Wah-Wah Guitars, Hammond B-2 Organ and a massive, variative percussion set. The songwriting is Beatles/Yardbirds-influenced and the music goes into Santana, Cream, Hendrix and other different directions. The original artwork used, is by M. Cornejo, a 7" 4 track EP and a poster includes bio rounds this masterpiece perfectly off."
7/30/2006	Lambs Gamble	Memory Collapse	CDR	$8.99	Evolving Ear	"Dub impov? Lowercase doom? Total garbage? Lambs Gamble is peeesseye founder and scraper and pounder of objects Fritz Welch and veteran Bay Area double bassist George Cremaschi. This is what happens when people aim beyond the horizon of free improvisation, both as a practice and as a style, in order to take a hacksaw to serious music with their sounds." - label
6/11/2006	Lambsbread	Coptic Crusade	CDR	$8.99	Main & Disfigure	"Coptic Crusade = live show and a few home recordings.... has a bit more balance between total blown out blue humans style shredding to really scratchy clean guitar but still wasted sounding improv"
10/25/2008	Lambsbread	Could You Be Loved?	LP	$19.99	Old English Spelling Bee	Limited & numbered edition of 200 copies, paste-on covers, aka "Shit Gays".
2/4/2007	Lambsbread	Drowned at the Harbor	CDR	$9.99	Maim & Disfigure	"2 live shows and one home recording all from handheld tapedeck..... ltd to 60"
2/4/2007	Lambsbread	Fentynal Transdermal System	CDR	$9.99	Maim & Disfigure	"again 2 gigs with one older home recording, this time also features the 'planning' of one of the sets in the car ride on the way to show..... lots of talk about drugs and mel gibson.... cover has aaron carter and travis barker.... ltd to 60"
6/11/2006	Lambsbread	Greasy Channel	CDR	$8.99	Maim & Disfigure	"Greasy Channel = first release from us, 6 songs, 20 minutes.... a bit more straightforward / "hardcore" then the rest of the stuff, but not really.... real blown out recording, lots of free guitars and drums.... someone said it sounds like 3 people running as fast as they can in totally different directions." Limited to 60 copies.
2/24/2007	Lambsbread	Live From Yard	CDR	$9.99	Maim & Disfigure	"Some live shows and a bunch of home shit recorded in the early weeks of december.... ... recorded straight to handheld, sounds totally raw.... edition of 75."
2/24/2007	Lambsbread	Moving Units	cassette	$7.99	Maim & Disfigure	"On this one shane fell asleep in 4 out of the 5 songs.... this one is a bit different than any previous releases, shorter songs, all kind of revolve around one remote sort of part that is also completely ignored... some slow ones, some fast ones.... whatever.... ltd to 50."
2/4/2007	Lambsbread	Paid in Full	CDR	$9.99	Maim & Disfigure	"extremely mucky, hissy, sharp newer recordings.... has some reggae records playing on it..... cover featrues lebron james, carmelo anthony, dwayne wade and diddy.... ltd to 60"
2/24/2007	Lambsbread	Rodney King Was on PCP That Night	CDR	$9.99	Maim & Disfigure	"CD of newest lambsbread recordings, going deeper into sub-sab repeition territory, holding off for a long time before the blast..... willie d says "fuck rodney king", and while i dont agree, its cool he was dusted.... edition of 100."
2/24/2007	Lambsbread	Sugar Tits	CDR	$9.99	Maim & Disfigure	"When mel gibson got arrested this summer, it all started with him saying to a female cop staring at him "what are you looking at sugar tits?"..... through all the controversy mel is still a hero..... best movie star ever.... classics include: lethal weapon 4, what women want, bird on a wire, ransom, payback etc...... the cover of this has real sugar on it.... that fun dip crap..... edition of 60."
3/26/2006	Lamp of the Universe	Earth, Spirit, & Sky	CD	$14.99	Dark Holler	"New Zealander, Craig Williamson's Lamp of the Universe project has brought forth two albums since its inception in 1999, "The Cosmic Union" and "Echo in Light" (three albums if you count his first solo album, "Lotus of a Thousand Petas" released under his own name). However, "Earth, Spirit, and Sky" finds the Lamp of the Universe shining brightly in a more heartfelt, song-oriented, and stripped back effort. "Earth, Spirit, and Sky" reaches the heights of psychedelic folk - driven by sitar, acoustic and electric guitars, flute, and voice into epic zones inhabited by the likes of The Incredible String Band and Fit & Limo. "Earth, Spirit, and Sky" is beyond "new weird america" or some 60's nostalgia - it lies within the heart of timeless psychedelia and explorative music. Wonderfully packaged in 100% recycled cardstock 'arigato pak.'"
6/19/2002	Lamp of the Universe	Echo In Light	CD	$14.99	Cranium Music	"Echo In Light continues, and builds, on the eastern flavoured psych/folk that won The Cosmic Union Psychedelic Album Of The Year in the UK . The new album opens with an acoustic guitar driven number (Freedom to Godliness) that has tabla's laying down the beat moves into keyboard spacyness on ‘Resonance’ and into ‘Our Celestial Flow’ which brings forth some of the most laid back exquisite wah wah guitar playing your ears are ever likely to hear. The track ‘Love’ introduces flute like keyboards and could be the theme tune for the elves at the bottom of your garden. ‘Pyramids Of Sun’ reintroduces the spacy keyboards but this time with sitar added while the last track (‘Dream Sequence’) at just on 17 minutes is a blissed out instrumental keyboard and guitar jam that will take your mind to a place of tranquil peace. In a time of turmoil, greed, violence and fear Echo In Light is just what your mind needs to take time out from all the stresses of today's world."
11/17/2007	Lamp of the Universe	Heru	CD	$14.99	Astral Projection	"Opening with the eastern drone of the sitar, this is a beautiful and mesmerising album filled with gentle and drifting music that relaxes and energises the listener simultaneously. Split into seven sections, that gently merge together, the album is an hour long trip into a state of bliss sounding like a long lost kraut rock dream sequence, or some of the finer moments from Quintessence. After the sublime opening drone, the music is filled out with softly pulsing tabla and bird-like synthesisers, which add a hypnotic tinge to the piece, something that is reinforced as more and more layers of sound are introduced until everything else becomes irrelevant, the drones shaping time itself. Heru is the follow up to Echo In Light, itself a fine album, on which you can hear the seeds of Heru being sown. As the album moves forward, the guitar takes over leading us through the landscape with some exquisite playing that complements the atmospheric backdrop perfectly, and is as relaxing as it is emotional, creating some truly psychedelic music that is essential headphone listening. In these stress filled times, this album offers sanctuary, a place to hide when life is too much. One man sonic universe, Craig Williamson employs: electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, tablas, choir-like layers of voice, sitar, bowed guitar & sitar, tamboura, tapes, rain pipe, effects, and keyboards to weave the single piece that is Heru. Though it is discreetly divided into seven tracks (Heru parts 1-7) , they all flow into one another so as not to interupt the dream or the dreamer." - Simon Lewis
12/24/2005	Landing	Brocade	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Dreamcore vets Landing have come back to roost at Strange Attractors after a couple of amazing space-gaze albums on K Records. Since the release of 2004's somnolent pop masterpiece Sphere, a shift in personnel occurred when founding member Dick Baldwin moved on. Recruiting longtime friend and frequent tour mate Peter Baumann to fill the gap on synthesizer, the shift in chemistry incited a turn in the band's overall perspective and approach to their music. Eschewing their time-tested songwriting method, Landing allowed a confluence of textures and influences to flow outward from each member, and after many rehearsals, a common interplay previously forged in the studio was left to blossom organically on its own accord. Compositionally, the end result is elaborately textured, patient, and hypnotic music of profound intimacy. Their seventh full length album in seven years, Brocade is a turning point for Landing, one that simultaneously harkens back to their roots as hushed drone rockers while journeying onwards into starkly minimalist, utterly cosmic terrain. Reverting inward after some of their sunny travels into headspace, Brocade touches on early Krautrock rhythms while delving into traditional psychedelic ambient music. Barring a few instrumental overdubs, Brocade was performed live in the studio, resulting in an airy sort of freedom not felt since the gauzy bliss-out improvisation captured on Fade In/Fade Out or moments from their second album Oceanless. In every manifestation, it is a tour-de-force of minimalism, utilizing repeating patters that slowly and steadily develop shape as they float in and out of a barbiturate fog. In the early moments of the album, as fireballs of feedback and effects unfurl into the exquisitely Faust-like drum and bass repetitions of opener "Loft", it would seem that rock and roll would prevail even as the tune winds through increasingly lush terrain, swelling in size as more instrumental streams enter the flow. Placid waters emerge, however, as the drums drop out and Brocade turns into a study in atmospherics with the swelling pulse-and-drone of "Yon" and the shimmering, wispy ripples of "Spiral Arms". After the hazy overdrive of "How to Be Clear", Landing immerse themselves in sparse ambience as conjured by Eno's On Land or Harold Budd's glistening works, floating away with the aptly-named closer "Music For Three Synthesizer". With five compositions stretching out to form 54 minutes of music, Brocade is an elegiac lament for Landing's past, and an introspective yearning towards a glistening new phase in their career."
10/1/2002	Landing	Fade In / Fade Out	CDEP	$9.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Stretching 5 songs over 37 minutes, Fade In/Fade Out encapsulates all points possible along Landing's glistening trajectory of beauty. Bridging their droned-immaculate works (Oceanless) and concise tunesmith shimmer (Seasons, Circuit) with mystifying exactitude, the scope of the EP is immense, complex and composed... astonishing, when you learn that the music on Fade In/Fade Out was completely improvised on the spot!"
	Landing	Oceanless	CD	$12.99	Strange Attractors Audio House	"Landing is a truly vibrant, celestial-minded quartet of sound painters from Connecticut (via-Utah!). Oceanless, their simply amazing second full length CD, is a dense canvas capturing graceful instrumental brushstrokes, lush audio pigments, and vivid surrealist portraits. Featuring six compositions and clocking in at over 63 minutes, Oceanless is absolutely the most dazzling prism of sound Landing has produced thus far. Inebriating and intricately textured, the plodding mallet driven rhythms, keyboard oscillations, wavering guitar afterburn and distant reverb-drenched vocals could be likened to a Prazison LP-era Labradford that has melted all over the easel."
	Landing	Seasons	CD	$12.99	Ba Da Bing	“While Landing is one of the country's top drone groups, creating long ambient instrumentals with sudden eruptions of intensity, Seasons shows off their previously unexplored songwriting flair. The record conceives of movement through four seasons with a breathtaking beauty and sincerity (Vivaldi would no doubt smile, then say something incoherent but pleasing in his archaic native tongue). For the first time, the band sings, and the soft fluidity of their voices perfectly matches their trademark delicate playing. The drama unfolds with a gentle minimalism, striking at beauty through impressionism, and reaching their goal with a whisper.”
9/4/2004	Landing	Sphere	CD	$12.99	K Records	“Cycling past the deep trips of previous Landing outings, Sphere settles into a gently rock-y world. Landing are known for dishing up a mildly psychedelic mindscape; with their new album they have reconfigured their oeuvre to include the traditional tools of psychedelic rock: more drums, more rhythm, more ‘songs’. Recorded at their own Hi Mid studio, Landing have crafted a softly vacillating sound, a rippling set of tones, a feeling that is akin to their Vessyl brethren Yume Bitsu, Version and Surface of Eceon. The Vessyl is a loose collection of abstract collaborations between like-minded psychedelic legionnaires. Landing has been the flagship combo of the Vessyl, a champion launching uncounted voyages through light.”
9/4/2004	Landing	Sphere	LP	$11.99	K Records	“Cycling past the deep trips of previous Landing outings, Sphere settles into a gently rock-y world. Landing are known for dishing up a mildly psychedelic mindscape; with their new album they have reconfigured their oeuvre to include the traditional tools of psychedelic rock: more drums, more rhythm, more ‘songs’. Recorded at their own Hi Mid studio, Landing have crafted a softly vacillating sound, a rippling set of tones, a feeling that is akin to their Vessyl brethren Yume Bitsu, Version and Surface of Eceon. The Vessyl is a loose collection of abstract collaborations between like-minded psychedelic legionnaires. Landing has been the flagship combo of the Vessyl, a champion launching uncounted voyages through light.”
7/16/2004	Langtry	As Upon The Road Thereto	CD	$10.99	Soft Abuse	"Patrick McKinney has chosen the moniker Langtry for his solo work, based in part on his fascination with the folklore and legend surrounding the Texas town of the same name. On his solo debut, Patrick is alone with his guitar, cranking out loose, yet mind bogglingly technical instrumentals that are equally rooted in American musics of the past (folk blues & jazz, mainly) and avant sounds of the present (Sun City Girls, Pelt). In this fashion he's sure to garner comparisons to the Takoma Records heydey; Robbie Basho, Leo Kottke and especially John Fahey are all valid points of reference. Aside from his solo work, Patrick can also be seen and heard as a member of Iron & Wine (to which he contributes guitar and banjo)."
9/30/2008	Lanterns	Harpooned	CDR	$10.99	Chironex	"5 jams collected over the last couple of years, ranging from cosmic keyboards to more delicate guitars and what-not, real happy with this one." - band's myspace page. Numbered edition of 80 copies.
11/2/2008	Larkin Grimm	Parplar	CD	$14.99	Young God	"Larkin Grimm is a force of nature, a self-made woman with an elemental voice from somewhere under the earth. Depending on her mood, she moans like a woman-in-full, wails like a banshee, or coos like a crazed little girl. While at Yale university, she was a member of DIRTY PROJECTORS for a while. Upon graduation, she moved to Providence, where she was an active participant in the city's noise scene and made a few albums of improv/free-form songs for Secret Eye Records. Grimm's taste for music comes from her old-time fiddler and singer father and her folksinger mother. She naturally developed into an absolutely gifted singer, fingerpicker, and multi-instrumentalist. She's shared bills with Devendra Banhart, Spires That In The Sunset Rise, Espers and others. Parplar was co-produced by MICHAEL GIRA. Grimm truly rises to the occasion on the album, which features absolutely stellar vocal performances of songs that are soulful, whimsical, sensual, and bizarre. The production is as varied and unpredictable as Grimm herself. The list of guest musicians includes Young God's new luminaries FIRE ON FIRE, members of Boston's BEAT CIRCUS, and OLD TIME RELIJUN, as well as various revolving members of ANGELS OF LIGHT."
2/4/2007	Larkin Grimm	The Last Tree	CD	$12.99	Secret Eye	"Larkin Grimm abducts you into her dreamscape/homeland, hidden behind veils of kudzu and falling water, populated by old friends and deadly monsters. Urgently direct, she is offering us a New World couched in old Georgia sounds: thunderstorms, dulcimers, footstomps, handclaps, and pleading soul-blues. This is not precious forest-pixie music; this is the beautifully flawed sound of the force of Nature, a Siren call to bind all souls and draw them into the deep Woods."
	Last Days Of May	Radiant Black Mind	CD	$11.99	Squealer	"This is the second album from Last Days of May, the augmented 'power trio' led by legendary guitarist Karl Precoda. An instrumental combo of stately depth, LDOM react to each other with astounding musical telepathy: the 'ghost' notes and splintered synaptic abstractions slowly develop into musical storm systems, frosted with peaks of intensity. Theirs is a soulful and menacing monolith of sound; a seismic wave of low-end rumble and high-end concentration. The band rides the crests like high desert surfers, channeling the currents atop a ten foot Dick Brewer. Brand new music soon to become timeless."
	late / Reynols	Live in Houston	CD	$10.99	Freedom From	l"Well, if you were there, we of course know we’ll be hearing from you immediately. Yes, this epic night of the Reynols/late US Tour 00 is now available. Get it before were told to stop making anymore copies. The most rocking late set ever. The most ‘other-wordly’ Reynols set ever. See why Reynols loves Houston so much."
2/15/2005	Lau Nau	Kuutarha	CD	$12.99	Locust	"Last year saw an explosion & all too welcome interest in a vital, tightly knit scene of artists from Finland. Out of the communal circle of prodigious Finnish musicians comes this lovely 10 song debut solo outing of abstract folk, stray kiss lullaby & plucked blues by Laura Naukkarinen (vocalist in Kiila, Päivänsäde, The Anaksimandros). Sung in her native tongue, Kuutarha intimates a secret language outside traditional word speak into something utterly beautiful & unrestrained. Melody is suggested through the contours of voice, guitar & violin and arrangement has less to do with the placement of things than with Lau's comfort in letting sounds fall where they may. Line up: Laura Naukkarinen (acoustic bass, bass recorder, five-stringed kantele, acoustic guitar, tenor recorder, violin, bamboo flute, colorful juice glasses, mortar, mandolin, witch laugh megaphone, baby's rattle, bike bells, banjo, cowbells, electric guitar, organ, willow whistle, tablas, percussion, cymbals, comb, beer cans); Pekko Käppi (tamboura, jouhikko).” Highly recommended! I love this album so much that I wanted to release it myself but I was too late. Very limited vinyl version (300 copies) due in a few weeks.
5/29/2008	Lau Nau	Nukkuu	CD	$12.99	Locust	"Naukkarinen manages to take a million-and-one risks while keeping things subtle, understated, aesthetically intriguing, and emotionally resonant." —Pitchfork (8.0). "Nukkuu (Finnish for 'Sleeps') is the long-awaited sophomore album by celebrated Finnish femme folk fave, Lau Nau. Nukkuu is psychedelic, abstract and emotionally captivating. Nukkuu is an album of changes. In the years since her debut album Kuutarha, Laura became a mother, moved to the Finnish countryside and took valuable time to carve out a space for her enchanted art in the new-found tranquility of her remote surroundings. Conceived in tight attics and vacant dens on off-hours when her young son Nuutti was fast asleep, this is an intimately-crafted nine-song collection that unfolds like dreamlike musical ribbons for the senses and delivers the listener to a place of unhurried contentedness."
3/2/2004	Lauhkeat Lampaat	Lauhkeat Lampaat	7"	$7.99	Pohjoisten Kukkaiten Äänet	It's a duo of bass recorder and tablas plus small percussion.. Music is like very mystic and quite free. You can feel the mother earth, and smell the fog of deep, green forest......yes. The brothers Tolvi, Antti and Jaako, from Rauhan Orkesteri, weave a meditative tapestry that blends their passions: free jazz and Eastern musics. On the B-side Jaako first lays down a bubbling tabla groove while Antti uses the deep tones of his bass recorder as both rhythm and melody, until they culminate in a free, cluttered dialogue of vocal spasms, shakers and tiny tabla bursts. They stay reflective on the A-side, Anti blowing long, vocalized tones over bells, slides on the tabla?s bass drum and rapid comments from the treble. LL refracts world music through the brothers? own ecstatic, idiosyncratic communication. - Matthew Wuethrich. Recommended!
9/16/2007	Lauhkeat Lampaat	Taikaa takataskussa	CD	$16.99	Peippo	"Once upon a time there was a world famous free jazz band Rauhan Orkesteri. All their instruments and half of the players were taken away, leaving only two peasant brothers and a pile of garbage. They abandoned melody, rhythm and the shine of chrome and started to build from the garbage the Stormy Temple of All Miniatures, which they open for You right now. This is the top peak of Lauhkeat Lampaat's work."
6/11/2006	Lauhkeat Lampaat	The Most Pollo	LP	$21.99	QBICO	black vinyl, cover by Jaakko Tolvi. Features Antti Tolvi, Jaakko Tolvi + special guest Lau Nau on side A. Recorded March 2006 in Kiila, Finland. "focus on sound, very delicate and alien improvisations... see you in the weird forest with never heards before little birds/little creatures..."
3/2/2007	Lawler, Keenan	A Ghost of A Plane of Air	CD	$12.99	Music Fellowship	"R.Keenan Lawler has spent the last 25 years developing his own personal sound world, constantly pushing himself in new directions and developing new techniques, while remaining completely focused on his vision. His experiments on 1930 National Resonator guitar are the stuff of legend you sometimes hear from town to town by someone who may have had the good fortune to witness one of his performances. In 1999 he self released The Ghost of a Plane of Air, it quickly went out of print and has since been heralded by many as a minimalist masterpiece. It is now available for a larger audience. Lawler here pushes the bounds and very definition of the resonator guitar: bowing, picking, scraping, knocking and combining it with electro-acoustic manipulations and on site recordings. The sound that pours from the speakers is dense, affecting, cavernous and like no other, often delving from delicate picking into a flurry of notes and ecstatic drones. A Ghost of a Plane of Air is the sound of a man looking deep into his soul and coming out the other side changed, scarred and poetic. This reissue has been remastered, and includes one new additional track recorded during the same time period. Co-Released with New American Folk Hero."
8/31/2008	Lay, Josh	All of My Dreams Are Dead	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"this is a second edition of a josh lay cassette i released in 2006 on the now defunct no horse shit imprint. only 29 copies were made the first time around, all which disappeared in a flash, so it seemed appropriate to breath new life into this beast. choleric filth from cadaver in drag member josh lay. side a of starts off with some minacious moans accompanied by the sound of rats crawling over single-stringed guitars and gnawing at instrument cables. this is soon done away with by a blowout of obese feedback and contorted shouts. the b side is no less distraught, as josh unlearns everything he doesn't know about music in the most grim of fashions. a tedious build up of clicks and pops covered in pus."
10/25/2008	Lay, Josh	Asphyxiation Worship	7"	$6.99	Black Horizons	"Half of Candaver in Drag gets his first shot at vinyl by way of a single. Two tracks, rather different from each other, and much of the artist's other releases. Overall a cleaner, and more realized sound. Vocals come to the front, with lyrical structure on the first track, the b-side is a journey into the darkest of swamps, yet it still retains the feeling of being a beautiful yet frightening collage of sound with a higher degree of fidelity than what is usually associated with similar efforts. Black vinyl with an offset printed 3-panel sleeve, copper ink on either black or cream stock, printed in roughly a 50/50 ratio, pick which color you like more! Edition of 350 copies."
	Lazerboy	A Scan For Life	7"	$3.99	Vespertine	Sort of Flaming Lips/Mercury Rev hybrid
	Le Forte Four	Boris The Spider/Priceless	CD+7"	$33.99	Cortical Foundation	"This edit of Le-Forte Four is wedged between their former incarnation as The Patients and their debut LP that was put together in the electronic music studio at Cal Arts in 1974. Edited by Rick Potts in 1973. All the references made in their debut Bikini Tennis Shoes LP, from Speed Racer to Zappa to Looneytoons to the Moog, is very clearly foretold in the 'Boris The Spider/Priceless' edit. Includes Extended Grunge and Arguments From The Patients reworking of The Who's 'Boris The Spider' that was later submitted to the Norwegian Electronic Music Festival and rejected. First time available. The release includes: a 7" repro of the very rare Slimey Adenoid and the Pablums 'The Residents' b/w Joe Potts 'Mother Daughter', CD of Le Forte Four Boris The Spider/Priceless. Hand numbered edition of 700 copies." This is a reissue of extremely rare and unreleased material from original LAFMS (Los Angeles Free Music Society). Comes in a heavy duty full color gatefold 7" jacket, with inserts, etc.
12/21/2004	Le Ton Mité	We Need to Grow to Giant Size	CD	$9.99	Yik Yak / Zicmuse	"Baptized in the flames of the music world as openers for the likes of Deerhoof, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and Calvin Johnson, Le Ton Mite’s ‘off hand influences simmer amid a mire of Morse-code tones resulting in the spirit of the guitar being thrown to the ground if not the actual instrument itself’ (LA Weekly). Based in Olympia, Washington, Le Ton Mité takes its cues from broken folk to reinvent the wheels of rock. The trio of vocalists, duo of guitars and solo keyboard play songs based on group improvisation and the boiled down compositions of ringleader McCloud Zicmuse. ‘We Need to Grow to Giant Size’ documents the seed from which the band has indeed grown. This recording is a limited edition of 500 numbered copies in handmade letterpressed packaging designed and printed by Zicmuse."
3/21/2007	Leafy Green	Songs	CDR	$8.99	267 Lattajjaa	"Ten songs from an American summer, stripped down and slowed down to the bare bones. Ten pieces about lost friends, angels, ghosts, and mountain gods. Recorded in a cool room during a hot week in a southern town."
7/10/2008	Leavenworth	Retention, Reunion	cassette	$5.99	905 Tapes	"Leavenworth, one of the most under-worshiped noize headz around, has been laying tracks of poison for a couple of years now in virtual secret. hailing from fly over country usa, this dude hovers blankets of paint stripping, bong ripping clamor on top of you until a rush of warmth and awkwardness flows through your veins. utilizing a blend of mixer feedback, pedal tickling, and radio transmissions, leavenworth blazes the room thoroughly."
7/16/2006	LeBrecque, Paul & Valerie Webb	Trees, Chants and Hollers	LP	$12.99	Eclipse	"Duo weaves a cautious, dreamy folk spell, reminiscent of the vocal impressionism and effected acoustic sonics of Charalambides, beautiful stuff charged with a sense of desperation and love lingering on the edge of loss. Ties to Sunburned Hand of the Man and other Boston area ensembles, like Bright." - Lee Jackson. "Cold nights roll in during the early parts of spring, reminding us that we're not quite out of the woods yet; there is still work to be done. The contrast of warm, sun-filled days and nights where you can still see your breath is a microcosm for what we all consistently feel in our lives. It's the temporary gratification and beauty that keeps us hopeful, but the desolate darkness that keeps us honest. Valerie Webb and Paul Lebrecque offer up ten meditations on this consciousness divided. 'Trees, Chants, & Hollers' is a magical ride through thick and thin. It's the culmination of knowing that in order to reach the place you long for, you have to do the dirty work first. Webb's angelic voice lifts the spirits of the record, offering a delicate balance to some of the more workmanlike music. These two forces work as a brilliant partnership as a banjo that finds itself high in the leaves of majestic oaks, searching for the haunted flute squeals that float overhead. This is embodied perfectly in 'High Country Jig,' where Webb's voice seems just out of reach, but always present. It reminds me of the days when I was a kid and I would spend the entire day, dawn until dusk, outside in the warmth of Mother Nature's arms. But these moments don't last forever. This much we should have learned by now. On 'The Valley,' the warmhearted kindness is replaced with fear and despair. Lebrecque joins Webb on vocal duties, and in conjunction with his great banjo playing, I am reminded of the mighty Timothy, Revelator. There is a distinct connection between Timothy, Revelator's music and Paul and Valerie's. 'The Valley' is like the journey down; down to where exactly, remains to be seen. But with recorder notes changing from pleasant to disdainful, and the pace of the song seemingly getting more rapid, it is like an aural snowball effect. By the time you realize the downward velocity, it's too late to stop. As you continue picking up speed, the skies darken and you fall directly into the 7 1/2 minute rumination, 'An Acre of Stone (for Rachel Corrie).' 'An Acre of Stone' is the highlight of 'Trees, Chants, & Hollers.' Dense, low-end drones for the basic foundation of the track, while a solemn drum keeps a slow, steady beat. Spiritual graces flicker in the distance, but this night will be spent fending off your own personal demons. This track is the full embrace of the above prescribed scenario: hope trying to abstain from being done in by darkness. Lebrecque and Webb are in full-flight on 'An Acre of Stone,' and it segues into 'Amish Nights' wonderfully. That is a reoccurring theme on 'Trees, Chants, & Hollers': all of these songs melt perfectly into each other. 'Trees, Chants, & Hollers' has cohesion that most albums only dream of. By the time you reach the lost edges of 'Swift River Blues,' you are spent. You've been on a long journey, searching for yourself within the confines of light and dark. 'Trees, Chants, & Hollers' offers up a spiritual journey intended to explore differences within a strict set of confines. Like Timothy, Revelator, this album uses banjo as its main instrument of choice. That gives it an organic feeling that pervades each rift and crevice. This is a beautiful, dense album in so many ways; it offers up something new with every listen.- Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis. Originally self-released in a deluxe edition of 100 copies.
5/29/2008	Ledergerber, Alan George	The Young Invincibles	CDR	$11.99	The Lotus Sound	"Alan George Ledergerber (www.myspace.com/alangeorgeledergerber) just recently celebrated the release of his first full-length CD, The Young Invincibles, on The Lotus Sound. He works almost exclusively with effects pedals and other electronic gadgets strung together, though he's been incorporating guitar back into the mix lately. Hunched over this gear with his back to the crowd like some mad scientist, Alan produces a series of "spacey" and "trippy" sounds interspersed with disorienting noise. "The AGL", as he is also known, is definitely part of a new wave of modern electronic psychedelia." Limited edition of 100 copies.
9/29/2005	Lee Miller	The Futility of Language	CD	$14.99	Musically Incorrect Records	Late November 2004: After working on assignment in Helsinki, New York-based journalist Jordan Mamone traveled to the village of Inari, Lapland, to clear his head and to write some song lyrics. During his time in the Arctic, he hiked for 14 km. in ˆ30 degree weather, slept in a roadhouse full of wasted truckers and reindeer herders, fraternized with mysterious women and criminals, and tore apart a tendon in his left hand. Nice vacation. Armed with a notebook full of strange riffs and words, he returned to southern Finland and recovered in the musically fertile city of Pori. This was the backdrop for The Futility of Language, the first proper CD release from Turku's Musically Incorrect Records and the remarkable debut by the Finnish-American power trio Lee Miller. Named for one of the Twentieth Century‚s sexiest photographers, Lee Miller formed several years after Mamone first met Jyrki Laiho and Janne Peltomäki, both of whom played in the acclaimed hypno-rock group Circle before founding the harder, even more explosive Stalwart. Produced by local legend Aki Peltonen, the Futility of Language sessions were even stronger than anyone expected: repetitive Pori-style riffs crash into untamed New York noise rock with enough sideways metal swagger and angst-ridden melody to keep the cute, fashionable girls interested. Peltomäki's crisp, steady drumbeats immaculately anchor grinding, atonal chords topped by Laiho's berserk, psychedelic solos. As a comment on the limits of verbal communication, Mamone keeps his vocals to a minimum, occasionally muttering or screaming cryptic abstractions inspired by his experiences in Lapland. Equal parts brutal cock rock and cerebral avant-garde, this music speaks for itself. You‚ve been warned."
9/16/2004	Legendary Pink Dots	All The King's Men	CD	$15.99	Roir	"The first of two new albums inspired and affected by the events of September 11th from these long-running whimsical psych madcaps led by Edward Ka-Spel. Ten tracks done in classic LPD form, using a nursery rhyme to evoke both the apocalyptic events of a year ago, and the hope that has arisen from them. Paradoxical and provocative."
	Legendary Pink Dots	Ancient Daze	CD	$21.99	Beta-lactam Ring/Terminal Kaleidoscope	Recordings from 1980-1981. Track listing: Violence / Thursday Night Fever / O(ri)fice / The Chemical Playschool / Voices / Break Day / Only Dreaming / It Rots Your Liver / Black Highway / Phallus Dei / Game / Guess the Politician / Dolls' House / Louder After 6 / Spaced Out / Amphitheatre
	Legendary Pink Dots	Live '85-'88	CD	$21.99	Beta-lactam Ring/Terminal Kaleidoscope	Track listing: Regression / True Love / A Strychnine Kiss / Neon Mariners / A Lust For Powder / MMMMMMMMMMMMM / The Gallery / Curious Guy / I Am The Way, The Truth, The Light / Neon Gladiators / Mezhanyne (extract
	Legendary Pink Dots	Live '89	CD	$21.99	Beta-lactam Ring/Terminal Kaleidoscope	Track listing: Intro / Casting the Runes / Maniac / Black Zone / The Talent Contest / 8 Minutes to Live / Blacklist / Princess Coldheart / Pleasure Palace / Der Schrei / I Dream of Jeannie
	Legendary Pink Dots with friends and relations	Kollabris	CD	$21.99	Beta-lactam Ring/TeKa	Unreleased tracks from LPD and related bands. Track listing: 1.Artwork (LPD plus Jochen Schoberth on acoustic guitar -Bring the rain 2.Karolinek (Edward Ka-spel plus Karolina Rozycka)- A small swan song 3. The Tear Garden - Bump (version 2) 4. The Tear Garden Georgie (version 2) 5. The Tear Garden - Extract from the Empathy session 6. The Legendary Pink Dots - Super 7. Lydia Tomkiw (Lydia w/ LPD) Pretty Something 8. Mimir Catchy tune 9. The Tear Garden Message 3 10. The Legendary Pink Dots - The Bomb bomb Loopapa tribe go to Swansea (and eat it
4/20/2008	Lemieux, Thomas James	Wake Up, Dead Man	CDR	$8.99	Elyk	"An album of unrelenting sorrow and beauty, "Wake Up, Dead Man" is a eulogy for the living. Thomas James Lemieux's bold, smooth voice compliments his folk/country guitar picking skills which delivers an album that both taunts and seduces you down the dark, dusty alley of the soul. Produced by Samuel Banuelos and Thomas James Lemieux. Mixed by Tom Biller (Jon Brion, Elliott Smith, Yeah Yeah Yeahs). Vertically oriented, gatefold packaging made from 100% recycled material. Limited to 100 hand numbered/assembled copies."
5/8/2005	Leprechaun Catering	Kumquats and Lychees	LP	$12.99	Heresee	"'Kumquats and Lychees' by Baltimore, Maryland's Leprechaun Catering, a.k.a. Tom Boram and Jason Willett, is a much-welcomed blast of trout-masked madness. This shameless and unrestrained duo whip up an improvisational whirlwind of ramshackle rhythms, chunky be-bopped chops, and wild electronic spasms. Their music convokes a kind of chaos that always sounds as if it's about to reel out of control. The two abuse their electronic gadgets and stab at their instruments the way hyenas tear into a fresh-killed fawn. If Leon Theremin knew how Boram defiled his electromagnetic invention he'd breakdance and backspin in his grave. In a live setting, the duo is a tornado of flailing limbs and twisting torsos, projectile drumsticks and flying fingers. 'Lychees' - a vinyl-only release - is the sound of band struggling to stay one step ahead of its craft. In this time of tight-lipped talk and repressed dissent, Leprechaun Catering's debut release of untangled tension and slippery slobber is sure to unleash a primal scream from even the most rigid of hipsters." - John Rickman
3/21/2007	Leprechaun Catering	Male Plummage	LP	$12.99	White Denim	"Limited to 326 copies with pasted-on sleeves of the full color cover art. Orange splattered vinyl, recommended for fans of Mammal, Mark Mothersbaugh, Nautical Almanac, Harry Partsch, etc."
9/30/2008	Les Beyond	Privacy Act	CDR	$13.99	Reverb Worship	"Les Beyond is the solo guise of Erin Ward from the US band Shearing Pinx.Her latest solo recording is entitled "Privacy Act" and recorded specially for Reverb Worship. Erin has created six lovely instrumental solo pieces for electric guitar. Her technique involves looped repetative guitar passages which evoke the solitary thought provoking feel of drifting. This feel is continued in the cover design which depicts sand dunes from high above. This cd is available in an edition of 50 hand numbered copies with an insert."
3/4/2005	Lescaleet, Jason	Pilgrim	picture disc LP & CD	$38.99	Glistening Examples	"An audio documentation of this electronics-and-tape artists coming to terms with the death of his father. The LP documents a performance Jason Lescaleet gave after discovering his father had terminal cancer; its floor-rattling flux of abrasive, low tones invokes the purr of a Chevys engine Lescalleets father discusses in a letter reproduced on the record jacket. A snippet of the final conversation he had with his father is buried in a heat-haze of tape hiss and air conditioner hum. The CD further extrapolates on Lescalleets fathers email; its 74 minutes move from dreamlike bell tones, through abraded, metallic hum, escalating into fierce, brutalizing waves of noise which then cut to a recording of Lescalleets daughter singing the Irish folk song "Molly Malone" at her grandfathers request. The book in which the CD is mounted has plenty more text and images. If you arent staggered by The Pilgrim, theres something wrong with you."
7/10/2008	Leukers, Antonia	Hasenlove	picture disc LP	$24.99	Dekorder	"Hasenlove" is the debut musical release of Hamburg visual artist Antonia Leukers. She's a founding member of "Institut Hasenbart", a 10-piece artist collective dedicated to a meta-scientific research of hares and related social, zoological and aesthetical phenomena in reference to the art world and pop culture. Leukers has previously created stitched, sewed and animated sculptures while casually growing cucumbers, working for a local in-vitro fertilization hospital and advising young people on erotic issues as a German Dr. Ruth for a popular Online magazine. Inspired by a journey to Island, hearing local travel guides spontaneously interweaving their narrations with sudden outbursts of folklore chanting and an encounter with Wolfgang Müller's (Die Tödliche Doris) strategy of transforming and combining his (pseudo-)scientific, documentary and social research into a musical and artistic performance she started to elaborate her fellow artist's lectures with musical renditions. As a passionate DIY home-recording artist she has soldered her own microphones, used cheap toy instruments, gameboys and minidisc recordings of kitchen sounds to create her very own bricolage comic universe. By recycling corny AOR mainstream Rock/Pop songs into some oddly disturbing and wonderfully weird rabbit love songs with newly-made German lyrics and combining these with some truly strange original compositions (ranging from freeform collage to distorted techno to deranged singer/songwriter stuff), she has created a musical love story in 7 parts. Spiritually influenced by (though not really sounding alike) German "Neue Deutsche Welle" artists such as Der Plan and theatrical and surreal performance bands like The Residents her versions of popular love songs sound like a teenage/female Andrew Lloyd Webber on bad acid. This 1-sided vinyl-only picture-disc LP is a strictly limited edtion of 300 copies. Both the gorgeous design and ornamental etching on the b-side have been done by fellow Hasenbart founding member Renate Nikolaus."
2/12/2008	Li Jiahong	San Sheng Shi	CD	$13.99	Archive	"An incredible focused and formidable fifty something min. single track solo electric guitar wall of noise work from new face from the Chinese music scene. A release that will be sure to make more then a few people scramble to dig up Li's back catalog of work on his own 2pi imprint. Comes packed in a double sleeve with the outer sleeve being a semi transparent vellum fold around. Graphic work by Chase Middaugh. Single pressing of 500 copies."
12/24/2005	Lichens	Psychic Nature of Being	LP	$16.99	Holy Mountain	"Lichens is Rob Lowe's (90 Day Men, TV on the Radio) vehicle for performance and recording solo and with collaborators. Lichens is a transfixing experience that loops wordless vocals into curtains of ghostly drone which Lowe makes witchier with the addition of both acoustic and electric guitars, percussion and other effects. Recorded live as a one-time improvisation without overdubs, the three tracks on The Psychic Nature of Being reveal and extend already mesmerizing Lichens live performances. Holy Mountain's deluxe vinyl edition of The Psychic Nature of Being comes housed in a sturdy old-style tip-on jacket that features original artwork by Mr. Lowe not available on the CD version. Catch it!"
5/29/2008	Licht, Alan & Aki Onda	Everydays	CD	$12.99	Family Vineyard	"Debut collaboration of New York artists and long-time duo partners Alan Licht and Aki Onda, whose combined history connects artists straddling the pop and experimental worlds, including Fennesz, Loren Connors, Takemura Nobukazu, Lee Ranaldo, and Toriko Nujiko. In the past decade their montage-inspired solo work—Licht's permutational guitar and tape pieces on Rabbi Sky and A New York Minute, Onda's field recording recontextualizations on Bon Voyage! and Ancient & Modern—has co-existed with their experimental sound/visual projects Text of Light (Licht) and Cinemage (Onda). Everydays is five grandly formed soundscapes that mix Onda's poetic/textural cassette sounds and the rhythmic/lyrical pull of Licht's guitar. Morphing from recognizable structures to dissonant hammered chunks and rapid cut-ups, the album perfectly weaves their signature applications of sound diaries, minimalism, grainy fidelity, looping and free blues into a dynamic and ambitious statement."
3/26/2006	Lied Music vs Boy-Band Tax Returns	Lied Music vs Boy-Band Tax Returns	LP	$22.99	Ultra Eczema	"Lied Music is the strange musique concrète improv project of the us neurotic sound artist JOHN FAIL and the glasgow based trash film maker LUKE FOWLER, they had a tape on trevor tremaine's RAMPART label, but i actually found out about them through the great 4x tape box that SPENCER YEH did on his DRONE DISCO imprint, i was immediately blown away by the beauty of this electro acoustic clean noise styled turbulence, the dudes also build up a long time colab scene of glasgow inprov colaborations with people like daniel padden of volcano the bear and ben reynolds! this lp is a colab with BOY-BAND TAX RETURNS from glasgow, who did a great lp as VERNON AND BURNS on FELIX KUBINS GAGARIN records, pfff, what a strange name dropping round is this actually.. this music is fucking beautiful, strangest combination of musique concrète and sampled field recordings. crude use of the indian string instrument esraj and violin, a lot of tascam tape machine cuttings, keyboards, home built instruments, samples etc.. very weird rhythmic stuff (spazz dancing is possible, straight dancing will be hard..), brutal drunk english hooligans, ambiental soundscapes, heavy frequencies.. as with a lot of ultra eczema releases i feel this music tastes very much like early nurse with wound, the new blockaders and other collage related soundart. the cover design is a drawing of a puking linx and a drawing of a dog on a shaved pukish body form by dennis tyfus."
9/29/2005	Liettterschpich	Quasi	3" CD	$7.99	Fact Records (Israel)	"There's nothing more subhuman than taking things out of their original context. Lietterschpich manage to turn this natural weakness into a visionary and breathtaking framework of noisy doom ? dub ? drone. On Quasi,they confront noise reductions with a handful of buzz and frantic fury,giving Pixies' classic Monkey Gone to Heaven the fanatic boost it never had,deliver a sound that brings to mind the sinister power electronics of Whitehouse, the apocalyptic delusions of Khanate and the viscid anxiety of Wolf Eyes. Quasi will saturate savage ears and leave them puzzled and confused. Released in collaboration with Woolwung Records."
12/5/2002	Life	Spring	CD	$17.99	Long Hair	"Original album was released on German CBS 1971, produced by Julius Schittenhelm (worked also for OHR Records). Two of the musicians were American Germans, the other 2 guys came from Munich. They sound between jamming Westcoast and raw Krautrock, with a bit of Edgar Boughton. Spacey flute, trippy guitars and very mystical long tracks - a great experience with an unknown album on a high level of proficiency. Informative booklet and 3 bonus tracks (59 mins)."
10/6/2007	Life Pardoner / Sick Llama	split	cassette	$7.99	Fag Tapes	"Side A. = prov. RI Life Pardoner ??? bunch of trax. def. not ham studios style recording. this actually sounds mastered. a fag tapes first! strings, vocals, reeds who knows??? soundtrack style, not boring, hands-on drone, percussion. tonz of sounds, mug just handed me this tape at a gig, then sent th artwork. side B. = Sick Llama. sick llama style. mess of trax. black hole speakers. die-cut, printed, stickered sleeves. cool as a dawg edition 47."
11/15/2008	Life Partners	Aids of Spades / Teenager In Trouble	7"	$4.99	Ride The Snake	"Simultaneously vulgar and compelling. Naughty yet persuasive. Catchy! Etc! At its core, this record contains various takes on CLASSIC ROCK as performed by four freaks with an affinity for punk, metal riffs and 60s soul /R&B.To be more specific, Aids of Spades and Teenager In Trouble are two patently offensive, back to back bangers that defy genre while also undeniably expressing the best facets of noisy Rock N' Roll. This is music spawned from the mind of a questionably-heterosexual Jew from New Jersey, as refined through the company of a Flying V-wielding platonic life mate, an internationally acclaimed avant-garde trumpeter, and a polyester-clad stoner pounding his drums in good time to keep it all together. If it helps, you can think of this as a tribute to Gordon Lightfoot played by disgruntled, bi-curious aliens. On the right day, it could also be a cross between The Electric Eels and Eddie Money dished out as fun propaganda to an eager crowd of closeted maniacs looking to be saved from Bostons nightlife.Whatever works. Offered here is a truly unique experience: the opportunity to live through a beautifully tragic and serendipitous series of events over and over again without having to get too personally involved. Based out of Somerville, MA,The Life Partners have existed in various forms since the dawn of the new millennium. Dave and Mike first began to take themselves seriously as both a novelty punk act and a musical couple after making a post-collegiate Thelma and Louise style journey to Americas Southwest in 2002.Though line-ups and likenesses have come and gone out the window over the years, the band solidified itself as the current quartet after adding Greg Kelley and Paul Guercio in 2006. Its casual! Their official releases include Partners Forever (CD,Twisted Village, 2003) and Back 2 Life(LP, Partnership Records, 2005).This new single (Ride The Snake, 2008) marks the recorded debut of the ensemble listed below. A full length LP is scheduled to drop in the spring of 2009." Features: Dave Dougan (Major Stars) - Vocals, Keyboards, Cowbell, Bass -- Mike Pedals Dupuy (XTHESWEATERX) - Flying V Guitars, Keyboards -- Greg Kelley (nmperign, Heathen Shame) - Trumpet -- Paul Guercio (ex-Ganja, ex-LA Drugs) - Drums
	Light	Turning	LP	$14.99	Wurlitzer Jukebox	Much confusion about this - is Dave (FSA) on this or not?
11/15/2008	Lilypad	Capacitor	cassette	$9.99	Wagon	Out of print - Emeralds related.
2/11/2006	Limburger 64	Ergot Fetus	CDR	$7.99	Nauscopy	"Maybe if the Residents and the Screamers got ahold of some really really bad drugs. Like some PCP with a "best used by" date of 1907. More of a fucking illness than a band. Pat Yankee of SNSE said "reminiscent of 'Machine Cuisine'-era Six Finger Satellite".
11/17/2007	Liquid Turtle	Ocean Phenomena	CDR	$13.99	Alcoholic Narcolepsy	"New jams from Steve Warwick of Birds Of Delay's newly-minted 'fake psychedelic group' Liquid Turtle. Limited pressing on his own label." - Volcanic Tongue. "Composed of three meditations of water /dream refraction. water being akin to dreaming states of floating. deep sea trickles, swirling current and fear of the deep. influenced by summer dipping and not being able to see your feet. Joined by Bram "Miles" Devens, Amy Backler and Rowan."
11/17/2007	Liquid Turtle	Plays "Cool Breeze"	CDR	$13.99	Alcoholic Narcolepsy	"Second installment of hallucinated psychedelic ritual from Steve Warwick of Birds Of Delay's imaginary rock group. Limited pressing on his own label." - Volcanic Tongue. "Is composed of five meditations influenced by sinotey (sic) programmes of passing through different deep sea waters passing through different gaseous exchanges and a hallucination from a forest viewing tower of magic eye forest. the silver birches played with my senses. based on a dream of 'Ocean Phenomena'"
6/19/2007	Liquid Visions	The Lost Recordings	DBL LP	$40.99	Nasoni	"Great collection of prev. unreleased live and studio recordings from 2000. Follow the Liquid Visions' journey from the shores of deeply 60's influenced Garage Fuzz'n'Psych Rock to the endless skies of long, spaced out soundscapes with loads of great sound effects and beautiful patches of eastern vibes. The entire album is full of incredible guitar works that ranges from sometimes soulful wah-wah grooves to acid-drippin' heaviness, backed by a virtuous and skillful rhythm section. A great legacy this is!" Edition of 500 copies - all copies here are on black vinyl.
4/10/2005	Living Breathing Music	Happiness Is Fabulous	CDR	$8.99	Weird Forest	"What would the soil say? A fair speculation from the land's oldest apostle...'God made the Earth and the Earth was round and the Earth stood still in it's roundness... thus gave rise to 'the color green'...the amorphic quality of this color sprang life ... the first sounds involved gurggling 'Cro-magnon' hemorages ... the rest is adequate history ... hamburgers hotdogs hermaphrodites haunted house huge hard hair ... this is my recollection, I am soil!' A true testament of Northern Californian 4:20-vibe/freak-out unfurled for the rest of the world ... a live non-stop excavation of classic Impulse! ether fused a la' Cro-Magnon(artists alone decide ...) with a utilitarian nod to 'New Weird-ness' and Finnish-psych-spooge... recorded in Davis, CA 'Live in Studio A' Sept. 2004 ... 4 colors, 500 copies, collaborative artwork... why does acid cost so much? Features members of Klondike & York, Antennas Erupt, My Whole Hand Was Wet, Tally Band, and Black Bottles."
	Lobdell, Steven Wray	Automatic Writing By The Moon	CD	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"Recorded and slowly tweaked in late 1999, these melodic compositions for acoustic guitar and ring modulator are the first true solo recordings by Steve Lobdell (Baseball Astrologer collaborator, leader of both Davis Redford Triad and Sufi Mind Game). Automatic Writing by the Moon's 13 tracks are a mixture of massive overdubbing, wondrous cinematic composition, folksy improvisation and studio experimentation. The backwards feedback of "Astral Projection" is vibrantly illuminating, while the instrumental arrangement of Chilean folksinger Victor Jara's "The Departure" evokes a cosmic western scene."
9/23/2004	Lobdell, Steven Wray	Live At Club Donut	LP	$14.99	Holy Mountain	“Steven Wray Lobdell's second full-length solo album for Holy Mountain was recorded live in December in a small Portland, Oregon, donut shop (actually on a loft above the toilet), Live at Club Donut unleashes some of Lobdell's most over-the-top torrents of Echoplexed guitar frenzy. Elliptical, psychedelic rhythms merge with his trademark fat guitar signal to produce intense leads that demand comparison to an ocean on fire or planet-sized sunspots. John McLaughlin meets Wolf Eyes. Amazing stuff.”
10/25/2008	Locrian	Exhuming the Carnival / Burying the Carnival	cassette	$5.99		"Like a raven perched on an electrical transformer, Locrian summon elemental human dread, the type hinted at in medieval passion plays and Shakespearean dramatic interludes, but do so electrically, without the pretense of ancient wisdom or nostalgia-laden "spectral folk." The duo of Andre Foisy and Terrence Hannum stalk the vacant drossscapes with delay-laden guitars and round, full, low-end synth textures. On this cassette outing, in an edition of 200, they present a single idea modulated two different ways in a live radio setting, "Exhuming the Carnival" is a throbbing tense journey through fields of guitar and analogue synth punctuated by howling haunted vocals. On the other side of the tape, "Burying the Carnival" brandishes an icepick through the ear that owes more to their metal and power-electronics influences utilizing searing feedback, massive crumbling synths, and blistering guitars."
6/5/2005	Long Live Death	Bound to the Wheel	CD	$12.99	Secret Eye	This is the follow-up to Long Live Death's 2003 Secret Eye debut, 'To do more than god... To die.' "Mesmerising and psychedelic throughout, this is an album for full-moon nights, which has immense power and a fragile beauty in equal measures and will transport you into the timeless realms of the imagination." - Simon Lewis for the Ptolemaic Terrascope
9/23/2003	Long Live Death	To Do More Than God...To Die	CD	$12.99	Secret Eye	"Psych, folk and twisted dark spirituals from this communal Baltimore outfit who recently toured as the opening band for Will Oldham in 2003 (Mr. Oldham says ‘thank you to the incantation factory that is LONG LIVE DEATH’). Gong, musical saw and cello figure prominently in these spooky, gospel flavored hymns. Let your freak flag fly! Two of the members of LLD are also in the popular Baltimore band OXES. ‘Whether it's the kitchen-sink surrealism inspired by the Fernando Arrabal movie from which it stole its name or the ebb-and-flow psych of Father Yod and the Yahowa 13 that it seems poised to become, Baltimore's Long Live Death is an obtuse band that seamlessly intertwines its own bizarro-world ideas with folk-rock's crusty musk. Onstage the band unrolls a long and winding goad that isn't going to be every longhair's bag, but anybody who ever held even the slightest of thangs for love beads and nudie pics shouldn't miss.’" Bret McCabe, Baltimore City Paper
6/5/2005	Loop Retard	Mom Say I Make Special Music + Dad Says Keep the Bass Turned Down	DBL CDR + mini comic book	$12.99	23 Productions	"After two incredible and dynamic 3" cdrs and a slew of highly limited cassette, Loop Retard finally throws down his first full length, readily availabe to the masses. This is noise loop pool of filth. Broken hip beats, snot nosed electronics and ackward delirium make up each disc, one dedicated to Mom and the other to Dad. Each disc has it's own special message and reward. Includes and screwed up comic by the master retard himself. Limited edition of 106."
11/3/2004	Looper	Squarehorse	CD	$9.99	Absurd / Utan Titel	“When Nikos Veliotis (cello) forwarded the mail around the first Looper Scandinavian tour back in 2003 w/ Ingar Zach (percussion) & Martin Kuechen (sax) I was expecting them to sound more like a 'classic' free improv combo... however things worked completely different this time, ... this trio turned to a very minimal (& dense) drone like one and 'squarehorse' is the point where their sonic dialogues are crafted into soundscapes of sheer beauty where each of the trio adds his own colours (in a trully superb way!) in order to make a picturesque sonic canvas that will appeal to all the lovers of minimal improvised musics but also to all those who seek soundscapes in the vein of obscure dense musics projects as well, as is a record hard to be scored under any label... co-produced w/ the Swedish 'utan titel' project which is run by members of the Greek collective 'editions_zero' and work under the flag of 'research center for the definition of happiness's Scandinavian branch...”
9/17/2006	Loopool	Useless Unless	CDR	$8.99	Arbor	"jean-paul garnier does it again. this ever changing artists comes at us with a lagrely vocal oriented album. free rock guitar jams and synth explorations. sewer pipe drones with beutifully placed vocals. this is another album that has been in the works for far too long, but it is finally here for you to hear. every song sounds differents as this urban chamelon of an artist approaches new terrain. some of these songs totally rock(in the rock and roll type of way), some of these songsrock(in the garage punk type of way), and some of these songs rock(in the noise drone type of way). these lyrics are there to make you think. think about your friends and think about the world. the lyrics are collected in a scrawled out sheet which folded up fits like a nice book in the purple clam shell case. the clam shell case is then put in a full color sike-out drawn custom envelope. in a numbered edition of 50 copies."
1/1/2008	Loosers	Logic on it's Head	10"	$10.99	Not Not Fun / Woodsist	"Portuguese sidelights seekers finally unveil this thick black dinner plate of drums and mosque smoke. 2-color silkscreen of a jeremy earl drawing on a textile-photocopied sleeve. edition of 340." Recommended!
9/30/2008	Loosers	Love Has Come Around	one sided LP	$29.99	Troglosound<