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DateAdded	Artist	Title	Format	Price	Label	Description
	M.N.S.	Incredible Noise Guitar	CD	$14.99		Solo recordings from M.N.S. (Naoki Miyamoto) who has a collaborative cd with Kawabata Makoto on the Acid Mothers Temple label. Two tracks ('Incredible Noise Guitar' and 'Dedicated to Motoharu Yoshizawa')
2/4/2007	Machine Gun TV, The	Go	CDR	$8.99	Public Eyesore	"First there is The Machine Gun TV, a trio from Japan. They are Jun Masumizo, Hidekazu Miyano and TV - let's safely assume that the latter is a real TV as this six pack (although the cover lists only five tracks) of madness contains many samples sounds from the (idiot) box. Regular, but Japanese pop-music, and on top the other two members play their brand of heavy guitar sounds, rhythms and other madness. Crazy wild high adrenaline music is what the Machine Gun TV is all about. Play this after a hard day's work and you feel reborn - at least I felt like that." - Franz de Waard (Vital Weekly No. 520)
3/5/2003	Maclise, Angus	Astral Collapse	CD	$14.99	Quakebasket	"Volume 3 of Quakebasket's Angus MacLise series. At this point, you probably sleep a little better having been exposed to the obvert psychedelia and commune-esque bump and grind of Angus' previous releases. Well, here is an exploration into the genius of Angus MacLise that will throw you back into that insomniatic haze you truly enjoy. There are no large ensemble of New York's who's who here. Instead, the focus is just on Angus and his compositions, some of which are the last things he ever recorded. Even though there is a piece for hand drum and prepared tape on this record, this is not an Angus drum record. In the 70's, Angus' interest in tape music, noise, and the extreme gradualisms of music had reached its appex, and these pieces were born. Nowhere else will you hear Angus shredding apart the circuits of an Arp synthesizer, or the powerful undertow of his shimmering organ waves."
5/14/2007	Macrodot	untitled	CDR	$12.99	Manhand	New solo recordings from Sunburned's John Moloney. Fucked up sounds - intense shit. Recommended!
5/14/2007	Madame P	Spellbound	CDR	$8.99	Curor	"Incredible vocal layering and magical glossolalia from Italian Patrizia Oliva, like a fabulously eccentric mix of Diamanda Galas and an unaccompanied Larkin Grimm. Soon to release an LP on Qbico ... I, for one, can't wait." - Gayle Boa Melody Bar
2/16/2003	Madder / Stylianos Tziritas	Rabbitspeech	CD	$9.99	Absurd	"Rabbitspeech is the name of the s/t theatrical performance that Stylianos Tziritas (member of the Greek avant rock group ‘Kopsokephaloi’) handled in small music theatre in Athens last April. Being though a performance that wasn't lasting for long he wanted a group to play a live set afterwards. For the occasion Madder jumped on the idea and did 2 live sets within the 2 days that the performance took place. On this cdr is the documentation of these 2 live improvised electronics (utilizing electronics, an amplified toy typewriter, objects, turntable) sets plus as bonus the little experimental miniatures Stylianos Tziritas did for his theatrical piece." Edition of 155 copies.
7/30/2006	Maggoted	Maggoted	CDR	$8.99	Jyrk	"Aside from Gabe and Liz, I've probably spent as much time with Robert Mayson from Grey Daturas in the last year as I have with anyone. I feel totally honored to have had time with the dude.... I can't think of a better dude to be trapped in a sweaty van with or out exploring odd aussie beach towns... No matter where you're at with the dude, he's always down for whatever trouble needs to happen. So.. when he and I were both camping at the old Huffin House in Oakland, where I was at the end of one tour, and he was at the beginning of his, we decided that we would form a band... Now.. there ARE plans for us to record in the future, I'm not sure if it'll be later this year or in ten years, I don't really care... that's all besides the point.. what does matter is that we slammed our skulls together for just about 30 minutes and dropped this egg out of the cracks... This is the entire recording history of the group thus far. the music is totally dense, repetitive and dark.. I think we were both listening to mirror a lot around then, but I can also hear heaps of early MAIN in there too.. Anyway, I felt great during this sesh and I'm always stoked to listen to this thing.. I hope ya'll are too. edition of 150." - label
7/8/2003	Magic Band	Back To The Front	CD	$14.99	All Tomorrow's Parties	"After twenty years of dormancy, Captain Beefheart's legendary group the Magic Band have reunited to play some shows and bend some minds. Key members John ‘Drumbo’ French, Gary ‘Mantis’ Lucas, Denny ‘Feelers Reebo’ Walley, and Mark ‘Rockette Morton’ Boston deliver seventeen classic Beefheart tracks, originally recorded for such albums as Safe As Milk, Trout Mask Replica, Lick My Decals Off Baby, and Clearspot, and get 'em sounding as fresh as ever."
	Magic Carpathians	Book Of Utopia	CD	$13.99	Obuh	"Second album of ex-Atman Marek Styczynski and Anna Nacher project with friends. Flocks of acoustic instruments from all over the world in airy ethno-psychedelic dance. Refined spaces and moonlight trance. Music from the spectacle of Theatre of Dreams (other music for the same theatre was released on Atman: Soundreams CD)." Highly recommended.
6/9/2003	Magic Carpathians	Euscorpius Carpathicus	CD	$12.99	Obuh	"The psychedelic opus magnum from one of the most interesting Eastern European projects. From the dreamy, visionary 'Fat Moon,' through the climbing walls of acoustic-electric noise on 'Amp Ass' to the energetic pulsing from cosmic electronics bubbles of 'Fishyfish,' it's high time to get inside. Absolutely recommended, absolutely."
12/23/2003	Magic Carpathians	Euscorpius Carpathicus	LP	$29.99	Obuh	"Grand psychedelia from one of the most interesting Eastern projects. From dreamy, visionary ‘Fat Moon’, through climbing the walls of acoustic-electric noise at ‘Amp Ass’, till energetic, pulsing from cosmic electronics bubbles ‘Fishyfish’. Recorded at our new vintage studio with old electronics weirdo Wojcek from ZSG . Fresh as milk and a must. Analog version in a completely different super solid cover reminiscent of classic vinyl LP’s of the 50's and early 60's. Sounding deeper and warmer. Limited to 350 copies." Limited stock.
	Magic Carpathians / Nimbus 2000	split	7"	$5.99	Oggum	Numbered edition of 500 copies on red vinyl. Magic Carpathians recorded live in 1998.
6/5/2005	Magic Carpathians Project	Sonic Suicide Ethnoise Vol. 1	CD	$17.99	Vivo	Magic Carpathians Project's new release, Sonic Suicide, is as surprising and as challenging as every one of their previous albums. The figure of suicide designates the moment of closure and transformation, not far from orgasmic density and bodily pleasures of sounds on the album. The music here creates intense, vibrating, rhizomatic field of electric pulsations, drones and irregularities. This time Magic Carpathians Project's line up has been scaled down to just two of core members who have been establishing the name since 1998: Anna Nacher (mistreated electric guitars, voice, lyrics, media manipulation and bastardization, loops, field recordings) and Marek Styczynski (homemade analog sound modulator, field recordings, saxophone, clarinet, flutes, gongs, percussions). A prototype version of analog sound modulator-called badoog-which emits soundwaves of sinusoidal amplitude and frequencies reaching out beyond the standard range audible to human ear has been designed and built especially for this session. Anna Nacher sings, screams and soars both in English and Polish, occasionally inhabiting the space between languages or mixing up the dialects, idioms and pronunciations. Field recordings taken by the duo during their travels across Himalaya, Carpathians and Balkans are employed as signs of hybridic soundscape of cultural nomads, far from overproduced and colonized idioms of 'world music'. Only for the bravest of the bravest!"
4/16/2003	Magical Power Mako	Blue Dot	CD	$14.99	Atavistic	"A penultimately psych-drenched trio recording...very much in the Amon Duul II / Ash Ra Tempel style of 70s Krautrock jamming, Blue Dot's powerful, relentless excursions pulse outward and ebb & flow into the ether, each sonic missive disintegrating into the next organically-soaked instrumental passage. Definitely one of Mako's most rock-oriented efforts." From 1995.
5/12/2003	Magical Power Mako	Jump	CD	$31.99	Hagakure	"3rd & final Polydor album for Mako, from 1977. A little more prog, a lot more face-paint." - FE
4/16/2003	Magical Power Mako	Lo Pop Diamonds	CD	$14.99	Atavistic	"Lo Pop is truly a radical departure from the main body of his ultra-galactic guitar works. Steeped in a homemade brew of off-kilter folk pop, Lo Pop is endearingly naive to the end. Featuring performances by underground 'stars' Reira & Asuka, plus strange takes on two traditional Japanese tunes, this will appeal to fans who succumbed to the charms of early Shonen Knife, the pop theatricality of the Red Krayola, the clandestine spell of Beat Happening...and maybe even the Shaggs."
4/16/2003	Magical Power Mako	Music From Heaven	CD	$14.99	Atavistic	"Magical Power Mako is already legendary in Japan; he's flourished for over two decades as an elusive, yet central figure in a complex music underground. 'Psychedelic guitar genius' barely begins to describe Mako & his music...a stunning collection of alien guitar transmissions from the outer reaches of the galaxy. Music... is abstract & demanding, yet simultaneously charming & curious listening, much like the majority of Mako's recordings. Recorded in his private studio in the early 80s...the sound of a truly visionary artist informed by an uncompromised, purely personal culture." From 1981.
4/16/2003	Magical Power Mako	Trance Resonance	CD	$14.99	Atavistic	"A performance document originally recorded in 6/94, during a multi-media celebration of music, dance & the machinations of 'breathing artist' Tetsuaki Hirata. Mako leads an armada of 12 performers through what can only be described as his most organic work to date, incorporating acoustic & electric guitars, keys, multiple samplers, cello, bass, 'high tone' vocals and Bolivian, Kena & Bari style dance. Not tranquil enough to be meditative in nature, the goal of Trance Resonance is to create 'trance-vision' in both the performers and the audience: a blissful, cogent state of human open mindedness, which is surely achieved here."
10/6/2007	Magik Markers	Boss	CD	$11.99	Ecstatic Peace	"A formality and restraint the Markers have never exerted on their previously recorded material is present on Boss. Now the Markers are Jainists, with their mouths masked so as to not inhale even one tiny insect, here pursuing the killer gentle with a vengeance. Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West, with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, Boss documents the Markers with a previously unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. Mixing a gentle vulnerability with a winded egomania, the Markers have always had a musical tunnel vision; Boss is that vision made manifest."
11/25/2007	Magik Markers	Boss	LP	$16.99	Arbitrary Signs	Edition of 500 copies with hand screened covers - also includes poster. "A formality and restraint the Markers have never exerted on their previously recorded material is present on Boss. Now the Markers are Jainists, with their mouths masked so as to not inhale even one tiny insect, here pursuing the killer gentle with a vengeance. Recorded in the cavernous dark of Echo Canyon West, with producer Lee Ranaldo working the boards like a diviner, Boss documents the Markers with a previously unheard fidelity and orchestration. Idiosyncratic song structure and melodies interspersed with a destructive drum stomp are reminiscent of the early electrified blues of Junior Kimbrough, or the black hole rhythms of Kousokuya. Mixing a gentle vulnerability with a winded egomania, the Markers have always had a musical tunnel vision; Boss is that vision made manifest."
9/18/2006	Magik Markers	Feel the Crayon	LP	$14.99	Not Not Fun	"This is a moment of heavy honor dudes. Magick Markers scrawled a permanent place in NNF's heart the first time we jammed their deranged-shaman society-ripper 'White Bikini' at max volume. Instantly became a total dream to carve that magik on sike-adelic vinyl. This IS that dream. Originally released as a limited-run 7-song CDR by the awesome east coasters, Apostasy Recordings, the wax edition of Feel the Crayon shaves 2 of the emptier tracks (for length/sound quality purposes), creating a harsher, denser document of their ecstatic feedback questing. Pressed on purple-haze vinyl, in color-washed hand-screened jackets with lunatic utopia artwork by George W. Myers of Grey Skull. Also comes with an insert." This is the final repress - full color jackets, purple vinyl, color printed labels - killer!
11/4/2006	Magik Markers	For Sada Jane	CD	$16.99	Textile	This is another monument to the Markers ability to evade any kind of long-term definition by busting out two serene and dark, trickling lullabies alongside two more “recognizable” blasts of live guitar/drum anarchy. The whole thing, recorded in different places, sounds awesome and this is basically some of the best-captured Markers yet…again. There’s whole slabs of weirdness throughout - bits of old records slip in with the static, the disparity of all the different line-ups and locations, and the record is tinged with that beautifully understated awkwardness, that shy and shifting broken fumbling that make this band one of the most truly human groups to listen to on record (or see in the full sweaty flesh for that matter)…“Blind White Alligators”, a duet piece by Elisa and Pete, begins tremendously nervously with plucked, hollow notes bouncing off the indifferent air, until Nolan’s roaring patterns finally get a chance to cling onto something and the guitar is carried off on the train ride. Total blitz drums man…and they’re recorded brilliantly, all the drive and rip captured underneath the flailing, berated guitar. “Dance Upon the Steam”, the first of two “curveballs” that aren’t really curveballs because every aspect of the Magik Markers’ approach to music is a fucking “curveball”, lingers on the edge of sinister and is numbing…easily accepted but almost impossible to grasp fully, and there’s a ghostly vocal line that shimmers in the background and barely makes its own presence felt. The only track on the LP featuring the original line-up, Elisa, Pete and Leah, “Infinite Regress” is not only representative of the wall of clawing luminosity that the band portrays live, it also contains some of the most killer lyrics they’ve put out on record yet…“what do you wanna be?!”, begs Elisa, “the creator? or WHAT HE CREATES?!”, diving into the crowd to forcibly ransack someone’s devotion. I love watching videos of the crowds at Magik Markers shows, there’s always one dude in the front row who’s about to let himself go at any moment, he’s just waiting for the jam to REALLY kick in, and then he’s promised himself he’s gonna go nuts, shaking his head and arms every now and then to convince himself, and then the band just keep up the unbreakable tension for ever, keeping themselves caught in the middle of confusion and catharsis. The wonderfully delicate drawing of the eponymous baby by Pete Nolan echoes the final track, “Shabbetai Tzevi/1666”, an obscurely beautiful poem and the best song on the album by a million miles. The vocals are trapped behind this thin wall of static that twists and breaks with the vocal inflection, humming over Joshua Burkett and John Shaw’s innocent, rambling and resigned acoustic and bass. It’s the frailest, most naked song I’ve heard by the band on record, the false glory and the bitter road…“the city steals your body baby” bemoans the character who’s possessed Elisa…her lyricism is desperately truthful and possesses a weary, sickly empathy, and her lyrics, whether they’re a panic-stricken wail or an almost silent drone seem to totally overwhelm her to the point of physical possession. This song alone is worth getting the album for, and the lyrics/poem is re-produced on the back of the dust sleeve of the LP. Totally great."- Joe Luna, Foxy Digitalis.
4/24/2006	Magik Markers	Inverted Belgium	LP	$17.99	Hospital	"one sided lp of the infamous bloody face cutting show in beligium.. instrumental noise assult edited and remastered to slow motion shit attack"
12/24/2005	Magik Markers	NxCxHxC Vol. 1	LP	$18.99		"Early Markers compiled here in sort of a 'best-of' retrospective. This band has won more than it has lost playing with Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth and Sunburned Hand Of The Man. Chaotic, joyful, moving and stunning, the Markers are really one of the best outfits of the 21st Century thus far."
8/28/2007	Magik Markers	Redux aka The Real McCoy	CDR	$11.99	Arbitrary Signs	"Described by the band as their "lost studio album", Redux aka The Real McCoy is a limited self-released CD-R that features a few tracks that already appeared on the amazing Road Pussey disc alongside a ton of new damage and makes for their most consistently fucked and stylistically mind-boggling release to date, with nine tracks that combine pummelling wah-wah bolstered motorik No Wave, streams of post-Horses improvised vocalese, minimal avant garde blurp, primitive garage rock that references The Shaggs as much as early Pere Ubu and elegiac piano-led abstractions. Comes in oversized silkscreened enevlopes with inserts." Previously offered here in July as 'untitled' cdr.
7/31/2006	Magik Markers	Road Pussey	CDR	$11.99	Arbitrary Signs	July 2006 release featuring 7 tracks clocking in around 43 minutes. Includes a killer 10+ minute track titled Brooklyn Sweat which is the highlight on the album for me.
3/21/2007	Magik Markers	The Volodor Dance	CD	$13.99	Latitudes	"The Volodor Dance contains four frantic pieces of primitive expressionism, and was recorded live to tape, with no overdubs, and no re-takes. Three of the songs are deeply instinctive and rattle and holler along the free rock tradition, the fourth is an energetic assault on a three chord punk song. All in all the session was a total success, with the engineer bottling the explosive spirit of the band's phenomenal live performance with skill. Words don't do justice to a band as important as this one and this session is the closest thing you'll hear to actually witnessing their frantic live show."
2/12/2008	Magik Markers	Volodor Dance	LP	$15.99	Southern Latitudes	"A trio capable of throwing out No-Wave noise rock of mammoth proportions, Magik Markers' debut recordings for Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label garnered national attention, building a dedicated fan base in the process. This special, limited edition Latitudes recording features 3 frantic tracks that were recorded live to tape at Southern Studios in London." Limited edition of 1000 copies.
11/23/2004	Magnetize	Biome	CD	$12.99	Rimbaud Records	"Biome has been vaguely described as 'ambient-oriented noise music' and was inspired by the work of among others - John Balance, Robert Hampson, Martin Rev, Laurie Anderson and Conny Plank. It is made up of a layered tapestry of textures, ranging from drones and soundscapes to looped guitar sounds and radio-wave static." From Ireland.
	Magnog	More Weather	DBL CD	$15.99	kranky	Awesome collection of home recordings recorded from 9/94-10/96
7/16/2006	Maher Shalal Hash Baz	Faux Départ	CD	$8.99	Yik Yak	"JEWEL CASE REISSUE! Originally released as a limited edition souvenir of their 2003 west coast tour, Faux Départ remains one of the strongest releases in the Maher Shalal Hash Baz catalog. Recorded at Dub Narcotic with help from an all-star cast featuring Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) on synthesizer, Chris Cohen (ex-Deerhoof, Curtains) on guitar, Arrington De Dionyso (Old Time Relijun) on bass clarinet, McCloud Zicmuse (Le Ton Mité) on bassoon, and Andrew Maxwell (Open City) on drums, Faux Départ captures the Japanese shambolic-pop legends performing material inspired by the palm trees in L.A., seals & seagulls in Olympia, and the long trek up Route 5 as well as thunderstorms, clouds, wind, and lightning. Recommended for fans of the Raincoats, Belle & Sebastian, and Neutral Milk Hotel."
12/10/2003	Maher Shalal Hash Baz	Open Field	CD EP	$8.99	Geographic	"Taken from Maher Shalal Hash Baz's forthcoming album, Blues du Jour, Open Field E.P features some beautiful new compositions from Tori Kudo with Maher creating some of their warmest, most accessible music to date. The title track is a true avant-pop masterpiece with its reflective and melancholy tone conjuring up images of a long car journey through Tori Kudo's homeland and an immediate, simple and soulful refrain. Appearing on 'Open Field' are Bill Wells and The Pastels - whose piano part led to Tori's idea of the conceptual 'Next Field Mix', also included."
8/27/2003	Maher Shalal Hash Baz / The Curtains	Make Us Two Crayons On The Floor	CD	$12.99	Yik Yak	"Split cd coinciding with the arrival of legendary Japanese underground music collective MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ who have come to the United States for the first time to tour the west coast with California music maestros THE CURTAINS (members of DEERHOOF, OPEN CITY). Features recordings from MAHER'S highly-acclaimed performance at Le Weekend in Stirling, Scotland 2002."
12/24/2005	Mahogany Brain	Some Cocktail Suggestions	LP	$27.99	Fractal	"Brand new and third album by the '70s French underground free-rock cult band Mahogany Brain. Some Cocktail Suggestions (March 2005) is the logical and inevitable prolongation of the first two albums, With (Junk-Saucepan) When (Spoon-Trigger) (December 1970 - released in 1971) and Smooth Sick Lights (June 1972 - released in 1977), all in all the third shutter of a trilogy and which could be entitled: 'Mahogany Brain or how to play Russian roulette in the artificial paradises.' Thirty-five years for an unexplainable trilogy. However, if one symbolically looks at the first album on Futura as 'the injection of drugs' (the true original record cover was a photograph showing an arm with a syringe and following the stop to publish the famous stereotype for reason of censure of the time, the group chose an entirely black cover as a mourning). The second on Pôle (with the title wink in 'Sister Ray') would be rather 'the action' as if the track headlight suggests which opens the album Green Winter of Revolvers which is the soundtrack of the crazy short film of Michel Bulteau 'Main Line.' Mahogany Brain always developed a music radical, unforeseeable, hard, voluntarily unfinished, and with this album, they continue the adventure even further: decomposition of the music, recomposition of the juxtaposed voices, artistic blur, collages, mad guitars, all very amalgamated in a magma broken rock'n'roll. Mahogany Brain was created during the summer 1970, and was composed by two central personalities, the alter ego Michel Bulteau (leader and founder of the group) and Patrick Geoffrois (the man without whom Mahogany Brain could never have existed). Writer, film maker, Bulteau also carried out five albums in solo (whose Rinçures on Fractal in 1999) he's the last of the electric poets and his meeting with Geoffrois was also electric - Bulteau created a rock band but it is Geoffrois which created the dynamics of the group. Geoffrois was a sharp sectional view, and he recall a little the revolted and destroying spirit of a certain Peter Laughner (Rocket From The Tombs), he will join later the group of James Chance & the Contortions in New York at the end of the '70s or he will sow the discord besides! Two complementary strong energies and spontaneousness, the process was engaged. Mahogany Brain is an atypical group in the Parisian underground, they play with their tripes and as with their veins, it is an experience out of the limit, not-conventional, with only one concert in all their history, and probably the most subversive formation as there was to see in France! Some Cocktail Suggestions is incontestably matter dangerous? To taste with great whiskeys."
4/24/2006	Major Stars	Syntoptikon	CD	$13.99	Important Records	"Syntoptikon features the new lineup of the Major Stars now with a third guitarist added for extra heaviness. Syntoptikon is the newer, heavier Major Stars who have been dumping amp loads of heft upon Boston stages and now they're bringing it to your home audio system."
4/24/2006	Major Stars	Syntoptikon	LP	$13.99	Twisted Village	"Back? Indeed. Technically speaking this is the Major Stars fifth album in their nine year career, but it's also the debut full length by the new expanded lineup. Kate Village and Wayne Rogers still hold down double guitar duty, but now are joined in the frontline guitar assault by ex-bassist Tom Leonard. Casey Keenan and Dave Dougan are the scrappy new rhythm section, and Sandra Barrett their bat-head biting lead singer. Heavier in number and in sound, the 6-strong Stars have already made waves with last year's debut single Black Road and a handful of piledriving shows (one of which was cited as one of Time Out NY's Best of 2005). This LP and the forthcoming US tour seal the deal. Get under or stay clear."
6/11/2006	Malcolm, Greg	Hung	CD	$14.99	Celebrate / Psi / Phenomenon	"Hooray! Boy am I happy to be putting this cracker out. Recorded live, without the cumbersome weight of newfangled techniques such as 'overdubs' (gee-whiz!) which may seem a little commonplace for you hip-to-be-square cats until you realise that the good Mr Malcolm plays two guitars and percussion with his feet. His third guitar, the guitar he actually holds in his hands, has about half a million strings and a number of contact mics imbedded where the sun-don't-shine to amplify a host of springs, triangles, and other junkyard ephemera. This is a second-to-none ride through a world of sunshine, as viewed through net curtains from a darkened room in suburban New Zealand. Charming, stupifying, and profoundly accomplished. The noise of music."
3/26/2006	Malcolm, Greg	Swimming In It	LP	$15.99	k-raa-k	"Swimming In It is Greg Malcolms first solo vinyl releases and he continues walking the same path were The Homesick For Nowhere ended. Again he reaches the borders of what one can do with a guitar and shows the multiple ways of how one can play his favorite instrument. Everything was recorded in one take without overdubs. And again the result is pure Greg Malcolm. The melodies utilise a variety of tones and sounds created by his unusually amplified acoustic guitar. Other than the e-bow and fuzz box all sounds are created live and organically by string manipulation techniques. Influences of primitive folksongs can be heard, but Malcolms songconstructions are more complex then first meets the ear. He's a model for all the experimental guitarists out there and a perfect example of a travelling troubadour who stands with one foot in the past and one foot in the present."
	Malcolm, Greg	What Is It Keith?	CD	$12.99	Proper Music	"Prize for one of the straight out weirdest recordings you'll hear in a while. GM is a long-time NZ guitar figure, who covers a lot of ground. This 'radio opera' is themed around the media controversy ignited by his earlier composition examining the death of an S&M-fancying cricket umpire (I'm not making this up). Recorded in Berlin, it features a top-chop improv. Jazz ensemble (inc Tony Buck), recordings of actual players and radio commentators in the media-fest which inspired this. Great instrumental work, inspired studio-construction of tapes into a seamless whole, like listening to a berserk radio show. Hear the artist actually threatened with litigation! Great." Corpus Hermeticum
	Mali Rain	...We Shall Return To the Sea	CD	$17.99	Third Stone	Ambient/Trance
	Mali Rain	Forecast For Storms	CD	$10.99	Third Stone	Full length release from 1996
2/21/2007	Mammal	Double Nature	CD	$7.99	SNSE	"Really, this is an intensely unpleasurable record. When the beats do emerge in these four long tracks, they are sick, withered, fried, dead. I don't mean all of these adjectives in a negative sense." - Blastitude 16
2/11/2006	Mammal	Let Me Die	LP	$10.99	Animal Disguise	"HERE IT IS, THE NEWEST PROPER FULL LENGTH BY MAMMAL IN OVER 2 YEARS. THIS IS THE DARKEST, MOST POWERFUL MAMMAL RELEASE YET FEATURING 6 SONGS OF COMPLETE ELECTRONIC DISGUST. THIS IS THE TRUE SOUND OF 'DUNGEON ELECTRONICS'. FIRST PRESSING OF 500 ON BLACK VINYL."
3/21/2007	Mammal	No Hope / In the Mood	7"	$5.99	Chondritic Sound	"One hateful, hopeless music from Detroit's least favorite artist (next to white devil). The a-side is a machined bass churner reminding of Thrones, while the b-side is a venomous cover of Bloodyminded's classic song "In the Mood". i hope you're not!" Edition of 333 copies, silkscreened covers.
3/26/2006	Mammatus	Mammatus	CD	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"Named for the ominous clouds that are usually seen after the worst of a thunderstorm has passed, Mammatus is a lean sludge machine that shoots giant burritos (carne asada) from their instruments. They have no known enemies in the natural world and share symbiotic relationships with hamburgers, sub-goths and dragons. Their album was mastered by a wizard so mighty he has no name. They assure you that his abilities far exceed those of any 'terrestrial' engineer, for they send the tapes back in time to be woven with spells of the nameless ones that were spoken of before rock could speak. So, what was the last record you bought that was recorded in 'Dragonfidelity' or 'Drag-Fi'?"
5/14/2007	Mammatus	The Coast Explodes	CD	$13.99	Holy Mountain	"Mammatus' second album The Coast Explodes straddles the line between psychedelia and hard rock while introducing more progressive aspects. The music is heavily influenced by both the power and complexity of the natural world and the ongoing battles of light and darkness. "Excellent Swordfight" is a continuation of the same story told in the debut's epic "Dragon of the Deep." "Pierce the Darkness" explores being a light in a dark world. "The Changing Wind" is a pipe-led psychedelic folk tune that could have been sited by Ghost's Second Time Around and the shanga vibes of the forest in the Autumn. It unfurls into the title track which encapsulates the massive fury of the ocean. For fans of similar Holy Mountain artists Om, Lesbian, or Residual Echoes. "The same heavy, spastic psych as Acid Mothers Temple, Psychic Paramount, Comets on Fire and Green Milk from the Planet Orange." - Dusted Magazine
10/6/2007	Mammatus	The Coast Explodes	LP	$14.99	Holy Mountain	"Mammatus' second album The Coast Explodes straddles the line between psychedelia and hard rock while introducing more progressive aspects. The music is heavily influenced by both the power and complexity of the natural world and the ongoing battles of light and darkness. "Excellent Swordfight" is a continuation of the same story told in the debut's epic "Dragon of the Deep." "Pierce the Darkness" explores being a light in a dark world. "The Changing Wind" is a pipe-led psychedelic folk tune that could have been sited by Ghost's Second Time Around and the shanga vibes of the forest in the Autumn. It unfurls into the title track which encapsulates the massive fury of the ocean. For fans of similar Holy Mountain artists Om, Lesbian, or Residual Echoes. "The same heavy, spastic psych as Acid Mothers Temple, Psychic Paramount, Comets on Fire and Green Milk from the Planet Orange."-Dusted Magazine
4/24/2006	Manaia	Faith	CDR	$14.99		"Beautiful self-released cdr by Jen Strickland (previous outings limited to reviewing music for popwatch or promoting shows in portland, maine, in the mid-90's; terrible stage fright kept her from pursuing her true passion, until _inspired_ by nemo's work to overcome). overall the sound comes off something like early pj harvey or sandra bell... emotionally taught female vocals accompanied by often chugging/chrunchy electric guitars, as well as occasional optigan, drums, synth, slide guitar & electronics. a power dose of soul... features 2 way-out cover versions of buffy sainte-marie's "he's a keeper of the fire" and a creepy a capella translation of townes van zandt's "if i needed you". amazing hand-assembled packaging ó screenprinted silver ink on deep blue metallic-infused paper. limited edition of 100 copies."
11/9/2004	Mandrake Memorial	Mandrake Memorial	LP	$12.99	Poppy Records	“US pressing. Exact repro of their self-titled debut from 1968. Formed in 1967 in Philadelphia, Mandrake Memorial was a progressive-rock quartet which helped pioneer the use of electronics in rock music. The group consisted of guitarist Craig Anderton, keyboardist/vocalist Michael Katz, bassist Randy Monaco and drummer Kevin Lally. Using such psychedelic music techniques as feedback, sitars, orchestras and backwards tape loops, the group added the sound of synthesizers, one of the first bands to do so on a regular basis.”
10/16/2003	Maniacs Dream	Maniacs Dream	cassette	$6.99	LalLalLal	"This wild group is a distant relative of Avarus. Maniacs Dream think they are playing punk rock but all they can catch on tape is dizzying, swirling and tumbling lunacy. They don't know how some of the sounds ended up on tape, the sounds have just somehow emerged from somewhere. But still there is a logic deep in all this. Relentless energy and a constant flow of ideas, some of them good, some of them something else. And these are hi-fi 4-track recordings. This is the fresh and exciting sound of the 21st century!"
2/12/2008	Maniacs Dream	Turku Hold 'em	CD	$16.99	Lal Lal Lal	"A 66 minute excerpt from a 2 hour session from 2005. Recorded in the middle of the night after christmas - the result being the most detailed mess this trio has ever made. Bella is banging the drums naked, releasing lots of skin power. Fricara is giving the bass some feedback and Hesedelic is playing guitar very, very fast."
11/4/2006	Maniacs Dream	Zanzibar	cassette	$7.99	LalLalLal	"New album by the most relentless free-rockers in the solar system. Recorded after Maniacs Dream's trip to Zanzibar, where they succeeded to find the beauty of antiquity. How beautiful! Like in the Homeric times! Bella Blossa said of the harem that inspired him to write the last song on side A. The song is a speed of light free fall into the orange hole, like the whole album! In time! Comes with beautiful psychedelic covers by Bema Bergman!"
11/17/2007	Manpack Variant	Sticky Wickets	CD	$12.99	Digitalis	"Manpack Variant is the persistently intermittent commingling of electronicists Jaime Fennelly (Peeesseye, peeinmyfacewithsurgery, Phantom Limb & Bison) and Chris Peck, resulting in transcendent sound rituals and unexplainable detritus such as the recent "Flash Vault" 7" split with Gerritt on Misanthropic Agenda and now "Sticky Wickets," the bands first full-length CD. "Sticky Wickets" will take the paint off your walls. Bone-crunching noises fly in an analog heaven, short on altitude but high on fire? Insanity? Asylums? Try it all on for size. Manpack Variant are bringing barrels of concrete to the show, ready to build a scuzzed-out monument complete with skeleton electronics and bags of fuzz. And to add even more sparkle, "Sticky Wickets" features original artwork by Jason McLean. Entranced by latent characteristics of military-industrial sound hardware, Manpack Variant has laid audiences from Vienna to Vancouver (to waste) with there own special bland of ecstatic nose drool. Ambient ambient ambient!"
6/18/2002	Maquiladora	Ritual Of Hearts	CD	$12.99	Better Looking	"The second album from mutant-country, Americana roots twisters Maquiladora. A dirgey blend of droning and wheezing countrified rock tunes, rusted-in-the-yard with dying accordian, distorted piano, and Ribot-nucleic guitar acid drenching." Previous release on Acid Mothers Temple label and they played several shows with AMT back in March of 2002.
9/14/2004	Maquiladora with Kawabata Makoto	Kiss Over	DBL CD	$17.99	Acid Mothers Temple	Summer 2002 recordings made in San Diego by the three piece Maquiladora with Kawabata Makoto and Cotton Casino assisting. Maquiladora : Phil Beaumont (vocal, bass, piano, hammond organ, korg analog synthesizer), Eric Nielsen (vocal, acoustic & electric guitar, bass, piano, hammond organ, korg analog synthesizer), and Bruce Mckenzie (vocal, electric guitar, slide guitar, harp, hammond organ, piano) with Kawabata Makoto (electric guitar, bowed glissando guitar, vibraphone) and additional musician Cotton Casino (synthesizer). Limited edition of 500 copies – don’t wait too long if you want this as these will be gone very soon.
2/11/2006	Marble Sheep & The Run-Down Sun's Children	Recorded in June 1988	7" flexi disc	$19.99	Captain Trip	Released in 1994 - long out of print - only a few copies available.
	Marchetti, Lionel, Jerome Noetinger and Mathieu Werchowski	s/t	CD	$16.99	Corpus Hermeticum	"This CD documents some of the considerable body of live work undertaken singly and together by these associates of the Metamkine group Lionel Marchetti, Jerome Noetinger and Mathieu Werchowski. All three of the participants have worked as part of the Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine, as well as in other settings as live electronic improvisers. In addition Werchowski, a conservatory trained violinist, has performed extensively in various groups involved in multimedia work, dance, as well as electroacoustic music. Marchetti and Noetinger are well known as electroacoustic composers as well as improvisers, and Noetinger runs the Metamkine distribution and label, has a hand in the journal Revue & Corrigee, and has recently performed with MIMEO. Despite all this, recordings have tended to focus on the studio work they have been involved in, and it was not until a bootleg cassette reached HermesCorp HQ that the idea of proposing a live recording was conceived. By great good fortune this was already a topic of conversation among the performers, so a deal was readily struck. This disc consists of two half-hour performances from a European tour undertaken in November 1998, Lille and Turin. It documents the collision between the 'electroacoustic devices' of Marchetti and Noetinger, and the violin of Werchowski. The frisson of timbres both acoustic and electronic, and the juxtaposition of traditions (modern and ancient), provides a charge of excitement to the proceedings, and anchors it in a genealogy of improvisation stretching back to the 1960s. All this is discussed in depth in the accompanying essay by Michel Henritzi, which situates their endeavours within the underlying social infrastructure as well as the cultural superstructure. Corpus Hermeticum is delighted to announce this ground-breaking collaboration with the shock-troops of the el-ac/improv [electroacoustic/improvisational] frontier. No matter what the press are calling it this month, it is where the exciting and progressive work is being done to drag 'modern music' kicking and shrieking into the 21st century. Hopefully these are merely first fruits of this Franco/Neo Zelandaise alliance."
7/29/2004	Marchetti, Walter	De Musicorum Infelicitate	DBL LP	$37.99	Alga Marghen	"After the edition of Walter Marchetti 'De Musicorum Infelicitate' book + 2LP quickly sold out (there is a copy still availbable here), Alga Marghen decided to make the double LP itself available as an official edition. Three years ago Alga Marghen issued the third compact disc by Walter Marchetti, the mysterious and inaccessible 'De Musicorum Infelicitate'. The edition included a folded poster with the presentation written by Gabriele Bonomo, a series of aphorisms to introduce the listeners to this work. The composer had then decided to let this edition circulate with no extra information looking at it as a perfect final statement! Music! Deadly dust for the mind. The world as music: a cosmic catastrophe! At this point, music remains in possession of only a single sound; all the others have been discarted. The last sound is recorded on the double-LP, as well as the complete painful variations of musical unhappiness. Edition limited to 90 numbered copies."
	Marchetti, Walter	In Terra Utopicam	LP	$15.99	Get Back	“This rare album (originally released in 1977 by Cramps) contains 3 compositions by Italian avant-garde composer. His astonishing largely conceptual and political works align Walter Marchetti with the Fluxus art movement. Original artwork. Gatefold sleeve. 180 gram HQ vinyl.”
9/17/2006	Marchetti, Walter	Utopia Andata e Ritorno	DBL CD	$35.99	Alga Marghen	"Music: the foundation of that presence in which we find ourselves shows itself as pure negative. Everything is founded on a demonstration of its own negativity: as awareness of its being negative, and does not look for an escape into a future presence, that is an objective future. But, accepting its negativity, makes of this self-negation the real act, the true reality -- the true foundation, the real and actual continuity: this is music's sense. Utopia Andata e Ritorno is the title of the new composition by Walter Marchetti, recorded in Milano in 2005. It has two parts, each one CD long. The first part, 'L'Andata,' puts together two former recordings of Marchetti. The recording of a real storm and a recital for solo piano. This is not the first time that Marchetti mixes a piano solo recital with the recording of a natural live event, thus creating a 'piano concert'. The second CD, 'Il Ritorno', reverses the direction of the first record and literally destroys itself. In the first part of this work, Marchetti puts music successfully in the place it has to have today: on the road to renewal in contact with reality, a reality that is a synonym for vacuity, that is the interdependence of phenomena, music, reality, technology. There is nothing mimetic or anecdotal in this work. The storm is a real storm and the solo piano recital is a modern work of pure music, without the excesses that the society expects of a piano recital from composer and virtuoso player. Pure music, in the best sense of the word. 'L'Andata' is one of the great works of music of our time, or, as José Luis Castillejo remarked, 'it may be the best modern piano concert since Brahms.' In the second part, 'Il Ritorno,' sound waves are deformed when one tries a reverse hearing and the turn around trip becomes an aural nightmare. Of course, avant-gardism has made us accustomed to noises and silences and to the arbitrary idea that anything is music. 'Il Ritorno' announces the end of musical avant-gardism and its technocratic aspirations. It points to the end of music avant-gardism because it exposes the technological manipulation not only of technology beyond its powers, but also the manipulation of both music and sound. 'Il Ritorno' is such a problematic work also because its subject is failure and impossibility. Three-folded digipack 2CD edition. It includes a 32-page booklet with essays by Water Marchetti, Gabriele Bonomo and José Luis Castillejo. First edition limited to 500 copies."
	Marginal Consort	Collective Improvisation	CD	$16.99	PSF	"Gorgeous extended drone-n-clatter collective improvisation recorded live on 10/18/97 at Asahi Square in Tokyo. Excerpted from a four-hour performance. Marginal Consort was the name chose for the reformed version of the East Bionic Symphony, yet another 'legendary' lost Japanese improvisation collective. The original group was a class project formed by students of the minimal violinist and multi-media guru Tkahisa Kosugi (of Taj Mahal Travellers fame). They released one rare record of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink ambient fug at the time (in 1976). This version of the group features a lot of names that may be familiar to PSF obsessives - Kazuo Imai has had a great solo record on the label, and was a pupil of both Kosugi and freeform guitar-god Masayuki Takayanagi. Masami Tada is a sound-sculptor of some note who has many solo documents 'available'. Yasushi Ozawa is of course better known as the bassist with Fushitsusha. Chie Mukai is the leader of dream-psych group Che-Shizu and a solo performer in her own right." - Alan Cummings.
2/23/2007	Marhaug, Lasse / Carlos Giffoni	Lesbian Brunch	CD	$13.99	Archive	"Collaborative disc feature a pairing of two vets of the genre documenting electronic destruction recorded at Lasse's studio in 2006. Single pressing of 500 copies, comes packed in a center fold sleeve featuring graphic work from Lasse."
2/28/2006	Mark, The	History of Dance Music	3 x 3" CDR	$11.99	Curor Recordings	"He's a master at coaxing small, unexpected sounds from his array of cheap electronics and toy instruments and organizing them into fragmented compositions, this time with the addition of various bits of percussion. there's a nice track with guitar on it as well, though they don't credit it. deluxe packaging!"
4/24/2006	Markku Lahtelan Sirkus	Vol. 1	CD	$13.99	Kevyt Nostalgia	"Markku Lahtelan Sirkus is the product of a long-time collaboration between two visionary minds, namely Mikko Nenonen and Tomi Pekkola. Taking their name from a Finnish postmodernist writer, and his main work from the 1970's, their aim is to attain equilibrium between experimentation and discipline. They want to avoid the dead ends of gratuitous improvisation as well as virtuoso showmanship. They really succeed in this: Their music dances the thin line between chaos and control, sound and noise, construction and destruction. It constantly moves to unseen directions, though never losing sight of the whole. The music is almost impossible to categorize, but some comparisons to progressive/kraut rock, free jazz and even experimental electronic music in style of Pan Sonic may be done. The musicians themselves have used terms like "punk-progressive rock", referring to their Do-It-Yourself attitude. The debut album Vol. 1 contains seven fairly different pieces, which nevertheless form a coherent whole. The music moves through different landscapes and moods. It offers a unique and rewarding experience for a music lover with open ears and mind. This is music that follows the logic of poetry. - Matti Rautaniemi
10/23/2003	Markley	A Group	CD	$15.99	Acid Symposium	Reissue of 1970 release. "Final recordings by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (WCPAEB) are a showcase for the various dementias of vocalist Bob Markley (paranoia and a very keen interest in young ‹emphasis on young‹ women), and the electric shock treatment of guitarist/vocalist Dan Harris; the album's rich harmonies and full, delicate arrangements show the abundant influence of Michael Lloyd, who co-produced the album with Markley; tracks such as 'Elegant Ellen', 'Sweet Lady Eleven' and 'Magic Cat' are nearly as good as some of the highlights from the WCPAEB catalog; a surprisingly consistent and accomplished album for a band about to collapse under the collective weight of it's own insanity."
	Markley	A Group	LP	$15.99	Forward Records	"'Markley, A Group' released on the obscure Forward label, was effectively the fifth West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band album; the personnel was the same and indeed, the music too was an extension of 'Where's My Daddy'. Once again it lacked the heady atmosphere of say 'Smell Of Incense', but it was by no means indispensable. 'A Group' did, however, mark the end of the collaboration between Markley and the two Harrises and they each went their separate ways." Reissue.
2/12/2008	Marsh, Bob	Viovox	CD	$9.99	Public Eyesore	"Bob Marsh who has appeared a few times on the label with a solo album. And another where liner notes can be a distraction. Marsh calls these 'rantings, ravings, sermons, scenes, little operas and whatever they might be' which leads you to expect a spoken word album. Reading on you see he plays (and processes) his violin and cello, messes around with sampled loops and some electropercussion and processes his voice. The result is a series of weird radio transmissions from another dimension - the voice shifts in and out of meaningfullness, instruments call and deconstruct and repeat, percussion weaves in and out, and the mind tries to build something from the words, grasping at interpretation as actual statements fly pass. The musical looping playfulness scraping and scattering around in the background echoes into darkness. Some titles are metonymic - the Amerindian feel to Indian summer, the tumbling Ready to roll, watery Oh bouy as waves drift and whispers whistle. Others reflect their 'text' I'm a sucka or Bring out the dead. Forest for the trees voice keens wordlessly over a twittering of birds and insects. Most tracks are relatively Short, but the final Calm down is extended and provides an opportunity for some lovely extended violin loops. This is haunting as its phantasmal verbal tangets tantalise your desire to find meaning. The music fractures dissolving melodic meaning as well - creating an album of drama and fascination." - Jeremy Keens, Ampersand Etcetera
5/29/2008	Martens, Jef	Dronevolk (A Film By Jef Martens)	DVD-R	$12.99		"Between March and October 2007 Jef Mertens hung out with some of Belgiums finest weirdo folk and drone artists IGNATZ, SILVESTER ANFANG, BEAR BONES LAY LOW and KISS THE ANUS OF A BLACK CAT. The quality of the material on the footage on this is awesome... you got interviews, live footage, random conversations and anecdotes... including a pretty funny one from Ernesto of Bear Bones about his sisters meeting with Haino, a killer street jam from funeral folk crew Silvester Anfang who are consistenly one of my favourite straight out jam bands in some time, a sweet bit of footage of Igantz and some interesting interviews.. All in all, this is one fine piece of work! I have copies of both NTSC and PAL...sweet slimline dvd case with full colour artwork. Plus, stick it in your computer and there's an MP3 from each band... total killer and highly recommended. NTSC come with english subtitles and PAL version with both English and Danish subtitles. You turn the subtitles on using your dvd player remote or menu on your computer, there isn't a menu on the screen, just in case you wondering. Initial pressing of 100 copies." - Blackest Rainbow. Both NTSC and PAL versions available.
7/16/2006	Mason, K.	kmason1	CDR	$11.99	Spanish Magic	"First out is a limited reissue of Tasmanian Keith Masons debut album K Mason 1 on the amazing Spanish Magic imprint. We get five rough outsider folk-blues mysteries all delivered with some sort of immediacy and raw tone that make them difficult to escape. The skeletal sonic qualities and loner/oddball characteristics that overflows this disc has me thinking about equal parts Pumice and Jandek, and that is indeed high praise folks." - Mats Gustafson (Broken Face)
7/7/2003	Mass	Mixed Media	CD	$13.99	Paratactile	Third album by this trio led by UK guitarist Gary Smith, with Lou Ciccotelli (drums; previously associated with Laika, Spleen, God, Ice) and Gary Jeff (bass, electronics, samples). "Latest release is another step on from the last, very listenable improvised rock..."
3/27/2008	Master Musicians of Hop-Frog, The / San Kazakgascar	split	7"	$4.99	Lather Records / URCK Records	Side A: San Kazakgascar "Planet Dog" / Side B: The Master Musicians of Hop-Frog: "Song of the South" "It is of the highest honor that the Master Musicians’ get to share wax with the amazing San Kazakgascar!!! Song of the South, finds its roots as a ’Song for the East’ yet the ironic wordplay shines a dark light on what is seen as a new generation of American racism. Song of the South features the Hop-Frog Kollectiv’s E.loi, Hermit the Flog and Carl F. Off and was recorded by Stane Hubert at IL Corral for URCK Records. Following up the recently released Greetings From Beautiful..., San Kazakgascar offers up "Planet Dog." Like a giant science-fiction movie cobra weaving slowly across the sands, this song is the soundtrack to the desperate and final dogfight over Mideast oil." Edition of 300 copies.
10/16/2003	Master QSH	Master QSH	cassette	$6.99	LalLalLal	"Side A was captured live outdoors in northern Finland, during the season of the midnight sun. Reminds you of an Ocora field recording from Xxxzazazastan. But that doesn't really mean anything. On the B-side, there's a mellow 9-piece percussion workout from the catacombs of Turku, Finland. Believe me, this is unbelievably satisfying free ethnic hippie music."
3/26/2006	Maths Balance Volumes	Cattle Skulls & Railroad Tracks	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"Demented basement hollering and white spirituals delivered from Mankato, Minneapolis. The sound of young America stirring up their own cult and aural confussion." "Gut-busting loner folk with passages of brain-hoovering drone and pure prairie howl."- Volcanic Tongue
4/16/2007	Maths Balance Volumes	Hospital Dubs From 128 Satanical Square	CDR	$9.99	Chocolate Monk	"More complex ear debris from these Minnesota heathens. Out in the woods weirdness with dirty hands put to all types of eerie jobs. Narcotic basement yammerin', viloin & guitar stutterin', reed wailin' and general tape damage. Very fucking 'out'."
12/24/2005	Maths Balance Volumes / Davenport	split	cassette	$6.99	Skullfucking Tapes	"Reissue of cdr. Maths Balance Volumes are a black-clad congregation scattered around Minnesota. Their track is incredible noise monster destroyed by wailing passion dances and teenage evangelists. Davenport contributes a hypnotic mumble and then falls asleep."
12/24/2005	Maths Balance Volumes and friends	1.1.2005	cassette	$6.99	Skullfucking Tapes	"The Maths Balance Volumes cult planned and executed an explosive musical happening at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. This cassette is a document of roughly what occurred there."
2/4/2007	Matta Llama	Matta Llama	LP	$15.99	Mad Monk	"This group has been called Mountains of Matallama, Mountains of Matalama, Mountains of Mata Llama, Mountains of Mattallama, Mountains of Mata Lama, Mountains of Mattalama, Mountains of Mattalamma, and on down the line. For the record, this record, and the rest to come this is Matta Llama. Residing in NY Matta Llama have been playing together longer than they would like to admit. What do they play? Blood music. The music works like that of the circulatory system chugging and pounding. At other times it can turn out a wispy, crispy tune of flickering light. All of this delivered via drums, keys, guitar, and bass with the occasional seasoning of vocalizations and in/organic dripping. With this, their first record, they offer 5 cuts culled from years of rehearsals at the Hint House. These impromptu rock excursions gleam with but a taste of their musical existence, and with that expect more to come. Matta Llama. With deluxe foldout poster and fancy matte cover art! 500 copies."
6/11/2006	Mattin	Songbook Vol. 3	CDR	$12.99	Black Petal	"improvised-on-the-spot guitar, cello and vocals songs by London-based Basque artist Mattin (also a member of Sakada, along with Eddie Prevost)." - Boa Melody Bar
11/4/2006	Mattin / Alex Dörner	Berlin	CD	$10.99	Absurd	The three pieces on Axel Dörner and Mattin's Berlin are less easy to fathom. The CD comes with a liner note consisting of the first tow verses of the tilte song from Lou Reed's Berlin, and the sleeve and on-body artwork are a degraded, monochrome version of Reed's album sleeve. Whatever significance this my have, it doesn't seem to be reflected in the music. Amidst the electroacoustic clamour, a ringtone comprising a phrase from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony keeps popping up in the first tracks infrequently quiet moments. Dörner's trumpet, which eirther he or Mattin seems to have subjected to digital treatments and edits in post-production, can be heard throughout all three tracks and provides a strong dialogue with Mattin's computer feedback. The pieces consist of snippets of material butted together to provide jumpcut contrasts and unexpected continuities, and as such they work well, constantly surprisingly the listener, thought some of the surprises are more pleasant than others." - Brian Marley, The Wire
11/4/2006	Mattin, Lasse Marhaug, Lucio Capece, Harald Fetvelt & Lene Grenager	'CDR'	CDR	$10.99	Seedy R!	"Characteristically droll humour from Mattin in both the cover and the title here... Improvised electronics from Euro noise-Gods. Largely 'lowercase' with the occasional noise bomb this disk documents 2 real time improvisations that kick off all abstract and minimal before cohering into lush electro-reveries..." Mattin (gnu/linux computer feedback) - Lasse Marhaug (electronics) - Lene Grenager (electric cello) - Harald Fetvelt (turntable + microphones + effect boxes) - Lucio Capece (sax + mixing board)
5/1/2003	Matz, Dan	Carry Me Over	CD	$12.99	Amish Records	"Dan Matz's (Windsor from the Derby / The Birdwatcher) solo album titled Carry Me Over is now available. Dan presents a much more intimate and bit more subdued look at his songwriting skills. The new album was written and then recorded in an upstate New York farmhouse during a winter storm with Anna Neighbor and unlike previous work with The Birdwatcher, Windsor for the Derby, and Michael Gira which have taken on average of two years to record and mix, Carry Me Over was tracked and mixed during a two week period in Dan Matz's Hope Union Studio. From the spark and jangle of the title track to the folk-pop of ‘Possessions in a Nest’ Matz captures a spontaneity and energy that can be so hard to find in the sterility of the typical studio setting. Matz continues the more traditional songwriting approach he first began with the aforementioned Birdwatcher project from the Germanic waltz ‘To Know My Song’ which depicts Matz's recent move from New York City to the pastoral hills of Boston Township, New York to ‘Bearcat Blues’ and ‘Matthew’ that are stripped down cathartic odes to love lost and longed for. A beautifully spare and personal album, Carry Me Over promises to appeal both old supporters and new fans of this gentle pop music."
12/29/2001	mausim	mausim	CD	$9.99	hp cycle	"Blistering CD of fuzz/wah guitar intertwining from Canada, a bit like Vermonster without the songs or the rhythm section. Dense, psychedelic and incredibly beautiful. In elaborate wooden package too. Can't recommend this highly enough." Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers catalog
3/20/2008	Mayet, Hisham (Director)	Musical Brotherhoods from the Trans-Saharan Highway	DVD	$21.99	Sublime Frequencies	"Filmed in 2005 by Hisham Mayet, predominately at the Jemaa Al Fna in Marrakesh, Morocco, Musical Brotherhoods from the Trans-Saharan Highway captures an assortment of spectacular musical dramas presented live and unfiltered on the home turf of the world’s most dynamic string and drum specialists performing and manifesting the ecstatic truth. Ancient mystical brotherhoods have been flourishing for centuries in and around the cities of Marrakesh and Essaouira in Morocco where the trade caravans have gathered from their long journeys across the Trans-Saharan Highway. This is some of the last great street music on Earth. A must-see for string aficionados looking for inspiration as electric ouds, banjos, mandolins and the Gnawa sentir peel flesh from bone right before your eyes! Color; 60 minutes; digipak; all-region DVD; NTSC format." - FE
5/8/2005	MC Trachiotomy / Occasional Detroit	split	12"	$10.99	Ignivomous	"A mess-up-your-mind new LP split between two outside-the-norm screwballers. New Orleans' MC Trachiotomy scores with some more of his patented, deep-in-the-game experimental hip hop stylings (including some Drum Buddy work from fellow Marginy mate Quintron), while Michigan freak sound motherhumpers Occasional Detroit just get fucked. Packaged with cover art by Devin Flynn." - Revolver
12/24/2005	MC5	1965-1968	DBL LP	$16.99	Get Back	"This compilation of MC5's outtakes on Get Back presents 18 tracks from their early period, long before the release of their breakthrough manifesto, 1969's famed Kick Out The Jams. 1965-1968 includes basement rehearsals and early studio sessions that already witnessed the power of Wayne Kramer and Fred 'Sonic' Smith's guitars in a furious attack to the sound establishment."
12/24/2005	MC5	Are You Ready To Testify? (Part 1)	LP	$17.99	Earmark	The Live Bootleg Anthology. Recorded at Sturgis Armoury 27 June 1968. "It's hard to tell whether MC5 are more important for their musical influences on a certain part of the late 70s punk rock scene or for their extreme political views which were unheard of in white America at the time the band had its maximum exposure (1968-70). Inspired by White Panthers founder John Sinclair, Detroit's MC5 were essentially a live band, as their breakthrough Kick Out The Jams LP clearly demonstrates. This 1968 live album is the proof of their mesmerizing live talent which still shakes whoever approaches the history of hard rock and roll."
9/17/2006	MC5	Kick Out the Jams	DVD	$14.99	MVD	"To be sure, Detroit's MC5 were some bad mofos. With their hard-edged take on psychedelia, radical politics and personal liberation, the Five's cultural vibrations were so profound they're still being felt today. Conceptual artist and Destroy All Monsters co-founder Cary Loren has assembled rare late-1960s footage of the band shot by Leni Sinclair into a swirling psychedelic art piece. This film features much never-before-seen footage of the MC5 during the peak of the band's creativity, with audio performances selected to compliment the visuals. The result is an exploding kaleidoscopic mind-trip filled with sparkling surrealism that cuts to the heart of the musical-mystical-political-chemical nexus of the MC5 experience (which Norman Mailer referred to as the 'electro-mechanical climax of the age')."
12/24/2005	MC5	Rehearsals	DBL LP	$16.99	Get Back	1969-1972. "From the archives of one of the most politically involved rock'n'roll bands (ever heard of John Sinclair's White Panthers?), here's the first of two double albums of rarities and outtakes that will amaze all the band's fans and encourage new adepts to review the torrid years of repression in America through the original cries of freedom from Detroit's working class homes and garages. This collection presents 22 tracks as they were conceived before they ended up on the three MC5 classic official releases."
6/9/2003	MC5, The	Motorcity Is Burning	DBL LP	$21.99	Earmark	"If metal and punk could claim one common ancestor then the MC5 would definitely be it. Distorted guitars and ear-shattering feedback matched by epileptic stage antics and anti-establishment ethics - these Motor City natives had unwittingly broken the code to the future. Although this unbridled high volume approach, backed by the guitar wizardry of Fred 'Sonic' Smith and Wayne Kramer, earned the band a contract with Elektra for their 1968 debut LP Kick Out The Jams, they were soon dropped by the label. John Sinclair's (the group's manager) 'White Panther Party' (which condemned the draft and supported the Black Panthers) apparently didn't go over too well with the moms and dads of America, and the 5 soon found themselves under FBI surveillance accused them of being part of the ever-popular 'Communist Conspiracy' to corrupt the youth of America. This collection of rare live recordings dates back to these dangerous early days and includes several rare tracks."
9/23/2003	McCord, Kirsten	Kirsten McCord	LP	$12.99	Ecstatic Peace	"A very difficult to peg mix of vocal-less sounds, textures and gestures, with equal debts to the original Philip Glass Ensemble, early OMD, and the glass harmonica compositions of Benjamin Franklin. We couldn't have been more surprised if you stuck some turkey bones up our collective ass. With the visions of a better (stricter) tomorrow, Kirsten McCord herewith allows us the opportunity to advance our own causes into the softness of the future's folds. Where a rumble was, it is no longer. Not that kind of rumble anyway. Enjoy yrself. Be patient. Life is short. Art is long." - Byron Coley
2/15/2005	McGee, Hal / Albert Casias	New Forms For Piano and Prepared Guitar	CDR	$7.99	Shadow Puppet Recording Co.	“Albert plays in a free-improv style that concentrates on the sounds and percussives that result from various string manipulation techniques. With Hal handling the melody and ‘musical’ aspect of the recording, Albert adds the avant-garde sonics to produce an interesting and enjoyable combination. I’d be very interested in playing this album for a traditional orchestra fan and see their reaction. On the one hand, there’s a high degree of accessibility to the music. On the other you have Albert’s jagged sound creations that are sometimes quietly but busily working away and other times wrenching and intense. But it’s the combination of piano and guitar, which are occupying such radically different worlds, yet seeming to travel so comfortably in the same space, that really held my interest and attention for an hour. Much to enjoy here for avant-garde free-improv fans, and definitely recommended to seasoned Hal fans who are open to hearing him doing something different.” - excerpt of review by Jerry Kranitz or Aural Innovations.
4/5/2008	McMillen, Shawn David	Catfish	CD	$12.99	Tompkins Square	"Guitarist and composer Shawn David McMillen is a native of the East Texas town of Lake Jackson, known as the 'Cancer Capitol of America' due to its large concentration of chemical plants. In the early '90s, Shawn met Tom and Christina Carter (Charlambides) - now considered early pioneers of the present avant-folk movement - as well as Heather Leigh Murray. Heather and Shawn moved to Galveston where she attended Texas A & M/Galveston while 'working at an animal clinic, recording music constantly and having cataclysmic experiences on acid together at the beach.' Shawn and Heather recorded as Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast. Catfish is acoustic-based only because Shawn had no electric guitar at the time. Other instruments include autoharp, Roland keyboard, Indian goat bell, Indonesian gongs, bowed electric bass, African kalimba (thumb piano) and shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). Cited influences at the time include American Indian lore, music from the Middle East and India, Phil Yost, Robbie Basho and Malachi Favors. A recent Wire review noted that Catfish 'shares the peculiar sense of temporal and topographical resonance that exemplifies the soporific, glazed music created by artists from Texas. Though their music references psychedelia (a notionally placeless aesthetic), there is something very specific about the manifestations of place and space in Texas psych...'."
	MCMS	MCMS 4	CDR	$3.99	Last Visible Dog	“Hands raised immediately in a gesture of warning. Lincoln, Nebraska's MCMS are friends of ours. But does that fact stop us from digging the fourth enigmatic and extremely varied outing from this psychoactive group consisting of Broken Face contributor Chris Moon, Matt Silcock, Kris Lapke, and Steve Rolfsmeier? Hardly, and I doubt that it will stop you either. Simply because this is such a fine set and such a weird amalgam of psychedelic drone rock, Krautrock, stoner folk and even free jazz that it fulfills every whim of what you might want to listen to at any moment in a foreseeable future. This is like going into a musical library, and having the ability to explore all the 'weird' shelves simultaneously. The opening 'Prelude To the MCMS Album of Love' is to say the least a surprise: a beautiful instrumental folk number sounding like the crossed-legged hippie's wettest dream. The following 'Dean Thompson, Killer of the Living' wins me over with completely different features, 11 minutes of swirling masses of scorching guitar workouts that quietly scream to be treasured and played to death. I doubt that'll happen but I sense that any fans of the acid-drenched beauty of Major Stars or Bardo Pond really would dig this. The despairing ‘Bruce Has Gone To The Great Bong In The Sky’ ornamented with dark and vulnerable vocals is a fantastic folk gem that hovers like the morning mist over a mountain lake. The gentle windstorm of 'The One Broken In Two' whispers its way to bliss-out spectrum before the free prog number ‘it's Raining Rye Loaves And Cookies' barely keeps us afloat in deeply hallucinogenic waters. Then things take a decidedly more electronic turn on 'The Midwest Center For Marsupial Simulation' which gives way for the mystic avant-garde jazz of 'Bleak Beach Blues.' On 'The Two Broken Into One," MCMS unleash a wash fo chiming drones set for inner mind exploration in a way that very few except Pelt and perhaps a handful of New Zealanders can do as well. The closing ‘Theme of Love’ give us more of the same but also with plenty of space left for the occasional guitar burst that threatens to cause severe brain damage. Although spanning over an incredibly large musical map this record holds together amazingly well. If you ever looked for the lost link between Ghost, Don Cherry and Pelt you may very well have found it.” - Mats Gustafsson, The Broken Face #9.
	MCMS	MCMS3	CDR	$3.99	Last Visible Dog	"Starting with the evocatively (and appropriately) titled ‘Lemmy Kilminster Getting Kicked out of Hawkwind,’ Nebraska's MCMS continue in a rather disturbed communal rock freak-out style. By disturbed, I mean there's more impassioned screaming than enlightened moaning, and more harsh feedback than hovering cumulous feedback. Other tracks, like ‘Beloit vs. Mingo,’ carry a late-night malevolence, and the percussion throughout sounds like someone pounding a table covered with coins. The more austere moments, such as ‘MCMS vs. Brain Damage,’ and the untitled third track suggest what might have happened if, while opening for Pink Floyd, AMM had actually let some of that group's influence seep in." - Chris Sienko
6/5/2005	McPhee, Joe	Everything Happens For A Reason	LP	$16.99	Roartorio	"In the ever-growing discography of master musician Joe McPhee, his solo albums have stood out as supreme ur-texts of his consummate improvising and compositional skills. Joining the ranks of such landmark records as Tenor, Graphics, and As Serious As Your Life, Everything Happens For A Reason is an unadorned showcase of this influential pioneer in the world of creative improvised music. Recorded live in Austria in November of 2003, Everything Happens For A Reason features McPhee on pocket trumpet, soprano and alto saxophones. A limited edition of 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl, with a Judith Lindbloom silkscreen print on rice paper and liner notes by McPhee." Very nice.
3/21/2007	Mecha / Orga	56.24	CD	$8.99	Absurd	"As if a garden being planted and you are watching all the process from the bare earth to the colourful result, comes 56:24... generating a drone layer which slowly starts the cultivation process where layers upon layers slowly build a delicate atmosphere and the way they e